Thursday 8 December 2011

quotes from books

conffessions of a video vixen


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Representations-Female-Images-Womens-Magazines/dp/3639093844/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323349895&sr=1-1


cant stop , wont stop by Jeff Chang
they have a right to speak in the way its coming up. Hip hop is the voice of the generation. Even if you didnt grow up in the bronx in the 1970 its still there for you.


" Rappers want to be so bling bling . Are you really living a luxury life ? dont you have other issues?
‘’It brings white kids together with black kids with yellow kids, they all have something in common that they love.’’
Check the technique

Hip hop models (alternatively: hip hop honeys; video girls[1]) are female models who appear in hip-hop-oriented music videos and related men's magazines, calendars, award shows, beauty pageants, or live performances. Many video models are aspiring actors, singers, dancers, or professional models. Their reasons for appearing in rap videos can vary, with most hip hop models hoping to gain commercial exposure and make a living. Other video models work for free and have a brief moment in the limelight.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Female_rappers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicki_Minaj
Onika Tanya Maraj, known by her stage name Nicki Minaj, (pronounced /mɪˈnɑːʒ/; born December 8, 1982) is a Trinidadian-born American recording artist. She was born in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago, and moved to the Queens borough of New York City when she was five years old.
After releasing three mixtapes between 2007 and 2009 and being signed to Young Money Entertainment in August 2009, Minaj released her debut album, Pink Friday in November 2010. It quickly became a commercial success, peaking at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 and being certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) a month after its release.[2][3] She became the first artist to have seven singles on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time.[4] Her second single, "Your Love", reached #1 on the Billboard Hot Rap Songs chart, making Minaj the first female artist to top the chart unaccompanied since Missy Elliott accomplished it with Work It in 2002.[5] She also became the first female artist to be included on MTV's Annual Hottest MC List.[6] Minaj was named the 2011 Rising Star by Billboard.[7]
Minaj released her first mixtape in 2007 after releasing Playtime Is Over with Dirty Money Records. She released another mixtape on July 7, 2008, titled Sucka Free, under the label Be.


Misogyny in hip hop culture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misogyny_in_hip_hop_culture
Misogyny in hip hop culture refers to lyrics, videos or other aspects of hip hop culture that support, glorify, justify, or normalize the objectification, exploitation, or victimization of women.[1] Misogyny in rap music instills and perpetuates negative stereotypes about women. It can range from innuendoes to stereotypical characterizations and defamations.[2] Overt misogyny in rap music emerged in the late 1980s, and has since then defined the music of numerous hip hop artists.[2]
Hip hop has had a tremendous influence on modern popular culture, saturating mass media through music videos, radio broadcasts, and a variety of other mediums. Rap music is by far the most popular music genre for 8- to-18-year-olds.[3] Gangsta rap, the most commercially successful subgenre of hip hop,[4] has been particularly criticized and associated with misogyny.[5

Bitches ain’t shit but hoes and tricks / Lick on these nuts and suck the dick / Get’s the fuck out after you’re done / And I hops in my ride to make a quick run.
  1. ^ Weitzer & Kubrin 2009, p. 10.
  2. ^ a b c d e Adams, Terri M. and Douglas B. Fuller (2006). "The Words Have Changed but the Ideology Remains the Same: Misogynistic Lyrics in Rap Music". Journal of Black Studies 36 (6): 938-957. DOI: 10.1177/0021934704274072.
http://www.electricprint.com/edu4/classes/readings/depository/gender/misogyny_music1.pdf
Music historically has been a medium for human social expression.This social expression can take many forms, from trimph and hope to utter fraustarion and despair

Misoygynitic lyrics of gansgsta raps are hateful indeed , but they do not represent black culuture nor do they fundementally from women hatingdiscoureses that are common amounsgt white men. The danger of this insight is that it might be read as a black migosny.
Johnson 1996
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Monday 5 December 2011

5 more guardian quotes , 5 book titles and 5 quotes from a broadsheet newspaper

Nicki Minaj and the rise of the titillating female rapper
"The female body is rarely a site of empowerment except when it is being objectified to define female strength through heterosexist sexiness, which, displayed for male satisfaction, creates little real power for women. Because female rappers' value lies in their ability to perform masculinity as well as be sexually objectified, when a femcee is not performing the role of the sexually available coquette nor the female thug, her power and agency are nonexistent.""

"The opening shot of Minaj's face quickly cuts to her bouncing chest, while the camera pans slowly over Trina's exposed thighs as she struts around the set, proclaiming their five-star status.  "

"However, her image and positioning mark her out as different to her male counterparts. On theRhymesayer's artist page, Psalm One is surrounded by male artists in thoughtful, pensive, or playful poses. She is pictured in a shoulder-baring tube top, with one hand clasped across her throat – an image that positions her as feminine, vulnerable, and coquettish. "

A funky new era: why women MCs are ruling UK clubs again?
"British female rappers have always been a breed apart. While their male counterparts have tended to wear their debt to US hip-hop greats with pride, the likes of Ms Dynamite and Stush have shied away from the sexually explicit shock tactics employed by Americans such as Lil' Kim and Trina. "

"Stush, the chipmunk-voiced chatterbox who first came to prominence in 2002 with the grime classic Dollar Sign, laughs at the thought of copying the Americans. "Over here, if you came out with that talk, you'd just get people going, 'Oh, that girl's a slag, man!' All the guys would switch on you, you'd get no respect.""

"Chann, for example, made her name last year with the funky house/dancehall hybrid Your Eye Too Fast. Over garage producer Sticky's Fugitive Riddim, a bucking bronco of a beat, she delivers a rambunctious ­verbal whipping so ferocious that you fear for the poor, cowering man's life. "Me ah the Chris Brown! You ah the Rihanna!" she hollers. Chann is just as boisterous in ­person, her 19-to-the-dozen chatter punctuated only by the occasional uproarious laugh. "Hahahaaaa! Obviously, it wasn't funny as such, but I have to use metaphors!" she guffaws. "I just thought, I'm switching it! And yeah, if I was in that situation and Chris Brown tried to do that to me" – she smacks her fist into her palm – "Nah. I'd go Chris Brown on him."

'We can beatbox just as well as the boys'http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/nov/01/popandrock.urban?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

 "Being a woman in hip-hop isn't about wearing a little pair of shorts and shaking your arse for guys," she says. "It's about empowering yourself by performing something you believe in."



The first track on the album is called "I'm the Best" and, as opening salvos go, it's a pretty irrefutable claim. On it, she raps: "I'm fighting for the girls that never thought they could win" and: "I am here to reverse the curse that they lived in." Minaj is fully aware that "a lot is riding on this album".

But recently," as she says, "I've switched it up and just tried to show people a whole different bunch of sides to me. I would be lying if I said I don't like to look sexy. But then there are some days when I don't want to look or feel sexy. So it just plays into how women are so multifaceted. Men don't understand that because they wake up and they're the same person unless you're a KenBarb [a Nikki-ism for a gay guy] and you can understand the girls.







- GENDER IN TWENTIETH- 
CENTURY CHILDREN’S BOOKS
- Fashioning the feminine
- conffessions of a video vixen karrine stefens


the guardian
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Thursday 1 December 2011

Critial investiagte media article

http://www
.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/nov/28/nicki-minaj-interview-hermione-hoby?INTCMP=SRCH

Nicki Minaj: 'I want to get girls excited about being female rappers again.'
Name any current hip-hop artist and the chances are that 25-year-old Nicki Minaj, a woman repeatedly hailed as the future of female rap, has worked with them. Among her countless collaborators is Kanye West, a man so in awe that he's described her as "the scariest artist right now." She lent a now-celebrated rap to his track "Monster" which included the brilliant boast that she commands "50k for a verse no album out!" Now though, finally, her debut is out: Pink Friday has been so hyped and so long awaited that its release last week reached that curious status of an "event".

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  1. Buy the CD
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  4. Nicki Minaj
  5. Pink Friday
  6. Young Money
  7. 2010
As I wait to meet her at her label's New York office, there are at least six people engaged in frantic preparations. One is tasked with fetching drinks ("Not soda — juice!"). Another runs in bearing an icebox for the juice-not-soda. Someone else is on the phone urgently trying to sort out some honey. When the lady herself arrives, she's flanked by about 11 people and I'm kicked out until 15 minutes later the door is reopened by a woman filled with all the bonhomie of a prison warden. She jerks her head inside: "You ready?"
Inside, a petite and pinkified Minaj is perched in an armchair clutching a cup of tea. She's well wrapped up against a New York November but out from the swaddled layers peek two fluoro-fuchsia legs that end in silver stacked heels. Before moving to the borough of Queens at the age of five, she lived with her grandmother in Trinidad and Tobago, but now she speaks in a voice as honeyed as the tea she's sipping and keeps clearing her throat, a dainty little mannerism indicating a diva's concern for her pipes.
When I ask what it is about her that she thinks has got people so excited she answers immediately: "Daring to smile and have fun again in hip-hop." She goes on, warming: "Fresh, new, different, exciting… pink! Euphoria! Saying, you know what, this may be the most hideous outfit that you've ever seen but I don't care and I'm gonna wear it. People enjoy theatrics, they want a show, they want to be entertained."
And entertain she does. It's not often that a serious hip-hop artist makes you laugh, but Minaj's flourishes of operatic vibrato and her cartoonish, wide-eyed performance style are hilarious. But the excitement surrounding her album is also, no doubt, down to a paucity of young female MCs. That she should be both enormously talented as well as original and funny goes some way to explaining the Pink Friday mania.
The first track on the album is called "I'm the Best" and, as opening salvos go, it's a pretty irrefutable claim. On it, she raps: "I'm fighting for the girls that never thought they could win" and: "I am here to reverse the curse that they lived in." Minaj is fully aware that "a lot is riding on this album".
"I realise that when this album does well there are doors that will be kicked open for female rappers immediately. I always wanted to be someone who spearheaded a movement, not just did something that worked for me. I want to get girls excited about being female rappers again and knowing that they can be kooky, goofy, playful, serious, hardcore – whatever it is, but you have the choice now."
Does she think hip-hop is still a man's world? She takes a huge breath and then lets out a long sigh.
"I just want to be so careful in the way that I answer that question." She pauses. "I mean, statistically, maybe yes. But realistically, no. I feel that I am doing everything the boys can and have done, plus more. And so if I go ahead and say, 'Yeah, it's man's world', I feel like I would make young girls feel like, 'Oh God, well Nicki even said it's a man's world.' No, no: it's a leader's world. Doesn't matter if you're a man or woman."
She does concede, though, that female MCs have been, "a little lost for a few years. We just had to get back our footing, get back our confidence. Female rappers tend to have a lower self-esteem and they don't believe in themselves as much as they should."
Such sisterliness isn't felt by all parties. Recently, a video surfaced of her peer Lil' Kim performing in a club, declaring: "I will erase this bitch's social security number… I'd kill that bitch with my old shit." It's assumed that she was responding to Minaj's track "Roman's Revenge", a formidable and foul-mouthed collaboration with Eminem, in which Minaj spits the inimitable lines: "Word, that bitch mad 'cause I took the spot?/ Well, bitch, if you ain't shittin', then get off the pot."
The Roman of the title is one of Minaj's alter egos, Roman Zolanski. She seamlessly switches into a posh, vaguely British accent to introduce him to me.
"Roman's a little gay boy who lives in me. And every time I talk he sort of just appears and I tell him, 'Roman, you know, stop it, you've gone mad, I tell you, mad.' He's an outlet to say what I need to say but sometimes don't want to." Sure enough, the track ends with Nicki-as-Roman's mother, crying: "Stop it! Stop it!" and: "Wash your mouth out with soap, boys", a deft little feint towards self-censorship.
Now Minaj is on an alter-ego roll: "Then there's Barbie," she says, in a tiny, breathy voice. This, to honour her with her full name, is Harajuku Barbie; the epithet refers to the playful street fashions found around Harajuku station in Tokyo to which Minaj, with her pink-dipped, bright blond hair, seems indebted.
"She's innocent," explains Minaj-as-Barbie. "She lives in a fantasy land and she plays dress up. And she's really cutesy. And, you know, you can't be mad at her because she's sweet."
She has previously said that she adopted these fantasy identities to escape the sound of her parents fighting: according to Minaj, her father drank, took drugs and once tried to kill her mother by setting the house on fire. Snapping into a tougher twang now, she says: " Then you have Nicki who's straight out of the streets of Southside Jamaica, Queens, New York City, who has been working on her craft for seven, eight, nine years and is now ready to rule the world."
Minaj has already created a whole world, though. Her online Nictionary will tell you, for example, that "Alfred Bitchcock" is "a term of endearment from one bitchy Harajuku Barbie to another", while a "Strawberry Shortcake" is "one who loses sight of her goals and her CAKE by focusing on BEEF and negativity".
It's funny and engaging, but the point is that the idiolect and alter egos seem to keep her balanced as the pressure of her burgeoning fame builds. "They keep each other from being suicidal at times," she says. "And I hate to use that term loosely, but… you can tell people, 'Don't kill yourself, don't be weak', but until you walk a day in someone's shoes you don't know what that real pressure is. We're human. I create personalities to get through the day. It's like a defence mechanism for me so I don't have to deal with everything."
One of the things Minaj has had to deal with is that wearisome question of image. When she first started putting out mixtapes (the first was 2007's "Playtime Is Over"), most photoshoots she did were overtly sexual.
"But recently," as she says, "I've switched it up and just tried to show people a whole different bunch of sides to me. I would be lying if I said I don't like to look sexy. But then there are some days when I don't want to look or feel sexy. So it just plays into how women are so multifaceted. Men don't understand that because they wake up and they're the same person unless you're a KenBarb [a Nikki-ism for a gay guy] and you can understand the girls.
"All the leading women in pop and R&B are usually beautiful women wearing tiny outfits so if someone says, 'I don't feel the pressure', it's probably not true. But it's weird because I feel most comfortable when I'm covered up. I think that's the biggest misconception – that in order for me to be sexy I have to make sure my boobs are out."
Before I'm ushered away Minaj says: "I'm not superhuman. I go through what the girls go through; I cry and I scream and I huff and I puff and I blow the house down but eventually, it's just like a voice inside of me says, 'Bitch! You ain't done yet!' You know?"
Superhuman – perhaps not. But superstar – most certainly. And she ain't done yet
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