Akil Houston
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The Dirty South
Hustle and Flow has always left me feeling some type a way as well. I think with you naming the restrictions placed on women and access to economies of creativity and performance as subjects names that feeling. I could not help but connect your last secti ... -
Sensory imagining
As much as music is an auditory experience there is something tangible about the taste of southern hip hop. Lauren, I appreciate your notion of what the South has to say and how it is said. Though we cannot actually taste the music it does engage our ‘sou ... -
The messy truth
Badu is indeed forgotten as a southern bred artist. She complicates easy readings of her in either or categories. Just when people have figured her out she is on something else. The videos other side of the game, window seat, next lifetime and that master ... -
Killer Mike
This video has a feel of a hip hop Persepolis. Not simply because of the use of animation but parallels with coming of age during a revolution. In this instance the post-industrial reality of Reganomics. I remember Mike from his open mic days and his repu ... -
Red Clay Scholar
Most certainly. Southern hip hop or hip hop period for that matter has been at its creative best when it engages in those counter narratives and flips expectations even for those hard core hip hop heads. I am very interested in the development of your lar ... -
Agreed
To engage the multiple identities in your scholarship is treason. It seems in many ways the expectation of the scholar is to cite the right sources, parrot the flavor of the month methodology and essentially say nothing through the skillful use of academi ...