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As hip-hop moved further into the mainstream, older Americans from both white and black backgrounds often viewed it as a symbol of the wrongs in Black working-class communities. This negative association affected all aspects of Black America, with much of the animosity towards hip-hop in the 1990s stemming from its controversial lyrics that painted an explicit picture of what many people called Ghetto Life. This included hypersexuality, violence, and misogyny that denigrated women while glorifying the image of gang life. One of the strongest opponents of rap music was C Dolores Tucker, a long-standing civil rights activist and politician, who campaigned against what she saw as the threat of hip-hop music to Black communities.
The lyrical use of the n-word also caused discomfort, an unrestrained profanity in hip-hop songs. Hip-hop artists attempted to reclaim and repurpose the n-word in their songs by replacing the ER at the end of the word with an a as an act of rebellion against the racial slur, but this wasn’t always persuasive, particularly to older black communities who had witnessed its use as a much more common slur in the early half of the 20th century. In 2007, the NAACP even staged an actual funeral for the n-word, pushing to eliminate it from the American lexicon altogether.
While rap and hip-hop in the 90s wasn’t entirely focused on battles of the Coast or hyper masculinity of male MCS, it also saw significant output and Innovation from black women MCs. Black women stepped into the male dominated genre and offered fresh perspectives and musical Revolutions of their own, shifting the tone of rap music away from antagonizing and objectifying women to foregrounding Black feminist messaging and bringing those revolutionary politics to a broader audience. Female rappers like MC Lyte, Yo-Yo, Queen Latifah, De Brat, and Eve all evolved as artists by refuting and denying the sexist and misogynistic scripts offered to them by their male counterparts. They articulated fresh perspectives on sexual, racial, and class politics through their music. For example, Queen Latifah’s 1993 single, “U.N.I.T.Y.”, was a commentary on the state of black women in society and gender Politics, while Sister Soldiers’ “The Hate That Hate Produced” in 1992 evoked black power rhetoric and called for the eradication of white supremacy.
Some black women rappers focused on a radical politics of unity and community engagement, while others revolutionized the way that black women were viewed as sexual objects by taking control of their own hypersexualized representation in popular media. Rappers like Lil Kim and Foxy Brown focused on a more sexualized feminine image but projected an aura of dominance, control, and lyrical prowess that flipped the script of black women being passive receivers of the male gaze and into one of being in control of how that gaze was directed and deployed. An artist like Missy Elliott offered an even more complex and queered image of black Womanhood at the turn of the 21st century.
Like their male counterparts, black women MCS also garnered widespread commercial and critical Acclaim. Hip-hop artist Lauren Hill, formerly of the rap group Fuji’s, became one of the most well-known examples of hip-hop and black feminism’s wide reach. Her first solo album, The Miseducation of Lauren Hill, released in 1998, won critical Acclaim worldwide, sales, and five Grammy Awards.
From the coastal Wars to the cultural Wars of the 1990s, hip-hop and rap had a lasting influence on American popular culture and music, as well as on diasporic expressions of Blackness throughout the world. As hip-hop and rap evolved to encompass other demographics outside of the black community in New York City, the art form became an expansive language that encompassed a variety of cultural critiques and shapeshifting identities. around the world
Today, as hip-hop becomes even more mainstream, it’s important to remember its cultural roots as a method of self-exploration, rebellion, and anti-white supremacist advocacy. While the genre continues to grow and evolve, we shouldn’t forget its origins and how black rappers use the art form to fight against social ills and racism, all while highlighting the creativity, innovation, and activism within the black community. It’s these lessons and forms of self-expression that still carry over to many artists today who explicitly see themselves as a part of that revolutionary hip-hop lineage.
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