I doubt we'd heard of either of them if it wasn't for something that sets them apart from most more talented MCs. And whoever claims I'm saying white women aren't allowed to rap (that too has been said by somebody in comments elsewhere), are they familiar with Dessa, or just these women packaged, sold out and promoted…
This is old, but it shows how the UK hip hop scene can have a rather different viewpoint compared to the US:
I haven't followed music that much recently, but Rinse FM started out as a London pirate radio, and has plenty of podcasts in addition to the possibility of listening to the station live worldwide. It is/was on the cutting edge of several genres in the UK.
My ideas on the English class system come mainly from the book Watching the English. Although I haven't lived there all my life, I'm from the promised land of equality (that's pretty much what they tell kids in school, and we've got one of the best educational systems in the world, in addition to eradicating sexism,…
I wasn't making that connection so much as the writer this blog post and M.I.A. herself possibly were. I was trying to ask is west London statistically brown skinned and/or middle class, and you cleared that up for me. Although I could have Googled it I guess [here's where an emoticon for being lazy would go]. The…
Middle class and/or brown skinned? Because she sounds like she's contrasting the two.
Slightly on-topic: Female rappers from grimey London for ya:
Also, grimey London is this:
Well she says in one of her songs "got brown skin, I'm a west Londoner".
If one is trying to make the point that one is part of a diverse community and is not shallow then yes, I would need for the writer to call out their privilege more explicitly — in the midst of complaining that they are making rich young white women look bad on TV — than she did to be convinced.
Her complaint about applying tropes to all women in New York seems to be more about the fact that unlike on TV, some privileged women have their shit together, rather than the fact that these shows are only about a privileged minority of women living in New York.
I started watching the show expecting it to maybe hit a little too home a little bit for certain reasons, but it was both a relief (I'm not that comfortable in my privilege) and a let down that it didn't. There are a lot of things on the show that I find commendable, but it doesn't engage me as a viewer. Hopefully…
Brooklyn didn't invent the Brooklyn Girl, the coincidence of socioeconomic conditions in 2013 America did. But that hasn't prevented slapping the "BROOKLYN" label on every pop culture depiction of young urban women whose silly hedonism gets in the way of their success.
I wish to send to these men a message of tolerance and hope—along with helpful information. Also, different types of condoms in different sizes can be ordered in bulk online for a reasonable price, although it may cost extra for them address the package (heh) to "THE GUY WITH THE MONSTER DONG".
I agreelange. People always talk about her awesome style, but even before she had that completely down, she had Cee-Lo Green as the band leader outsider her window in the video for this great song (she also takes a home pregnancy test in it):
Then there are techniques for three or more attackers, but at some point they start getting in each other's way... sorry for the cheesy music etc. , just been doing this stuff all week.
LogicIsGod, and I'm guessing he's an atheist.
I'd image she runs in a crowd where you'd be considered a blob of gross weirdo if you admitted your body did not violently reject the fast food you fed it like some Satanist driving a Humvee into a Buddhist temple. The stress of the situation alone could lead to gastric distress.
I maybe get some of the left-brain/analytic stuff as because I have Asperger's syndrome (not the Internet-kind, the extensive diagnostic tests -requiring kind). There is quite a bit of human interaction that I didn't really grasp for a very long time, I was only mimicking those around me in a way that would most…
