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What's really going on: entertainment insiders, thinkers and consumers candidly discuss hip-hop's outlook on Black women's sexuality
We are mothers, sisters, daughters and lovers of hip-hop. We've emulated the sexy confidence of Salt-N-Pepa and the toughness of MC Lyte. We've wept ......(Continue Reading) And the salsa beat goes on: salsa is dead. Gone. Kaput. Forget about it. A comatose genre swallowed alive by other styles of Latin music: rock en espanol
(First printed in The Chicago Tribune on December 21, 2004) For the last few years, the alleged death of salsa has been morbidly discussed in publications ......(Continue Reading)Gay hip-hop comes out; with a brand-new record deal, Brooklyn rapper Caushun is gay hip-hop's first mainstream hope—but he doesn't speak for the movement,
Is hip-hop ready for a gay rap superstar? That's a big question, and here's a bigger one: Are we? For a generation of gays and lesbians raised on disco, ......(Continue Reading)OutKast: they've gone from hip-hop fringe dwellers to mavens of the mainstream. But how far can OutKast's journey to the center of pop music go?
Their Grammy-winning, multiplatinum, double-concept album, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (Arista), did for hip-hop what the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely ......(Continue Reading)Beastie boys: they were once a band of rhyming hopefuls who were dismissed as a novelty act. But two decades later, and with a new album, they're at the
Nearly 20 years ago, three hip-hop-obsessed Jewish teenagers from New York City--Adam "Adrock" Horovitz, Michael "Mike D" Diamond, ......(Continue Reading)
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