. contributing editor Janell Hobson to discuss the upcoming 50th anniversary of hip-hop.Aisha Durham: ‘Women’s Voices Were Integral to the Expansion of Hip-Hop’I am a hip-hop scholar, and I say that I’m a hip-hop feminist scholar because I want to talk about women of color from what we call the ‘post-civil rights generation.’
Her uplifting, feminist-politicking track ‘Michelle’ is named for the former first lady. The track is featured on her critically-acclaimed concept album ,’ which names songs after influential Black women artists, activists and political figures from antiquity to the contemporary. The fly girl—in booty, beauty and ‘boss attitude’—is affirmed in ‘Michelle.’
I mean, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion are both college-educated, they are both entrepreneurs, so to think about their sexual representation requires an expansion in the ways that we talk about women in hip-hop. I look for those moments of rupture as radical possibility.: You mention how hip-hop is connected to power, specifically capitalism. Could you say more about that?I have issues, and this is one of the things that I bump up against more often than not.