Karuna. Freeform.

11:20 8th Dec 2011

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Ice Cube on the Eames. Part of The Getty’s Pacific Standard Time arts initiative:

“…over 60 cultural institutions will make their contributions to this region-wide initiative encompassing every major L.A. art movement from 1945 to 1980.”

21:39 9th Jun 2011

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/// Wu.

16:53 1st Dec 2010

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Nitty Scott freestyle — “Deep Cover Freestyle”

I love her flow. “Viva La Boombox!”

22:11 29th Nov 2010

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"Nicki Minaj might be more aptly called Nicki Mirage -- peddling a false dream of female equality that will come not by reinventing oneself incessantly to meet the standards of the male-dominated hip-hop world, but from engaging a new space where standards of good hip-hop still apply, but casual and abundant misogyny is not the norm."

12:25 26th Oct 2010

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Nitty Scott MC, featuring Skyzoo -Bar Exam Radio Freestlye(Nicki Minaj shots FIRED!!!)

uh, shes tight as fuck.

I REALLY HOPE SHE BLOWS UP. haha

Son, she said “I’ma dictionary and you’re more like a flash card..”

dude…

she went hard as fuck. ayeee

“you tipsy off this INDUSTRY juice…” DAMN

“You deserve an Oscar, not a Grammy.” Mmmmhmmm.

09:42 21st Oct 2010

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Azealia Banks, L8R. My favorite new rapper.

17:07 19th Oct 2010

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Never whisper things with my name in the shadows. You will not trap me in their dark corners. I do not honor it.

— Jean Grae

22:50 14th Oct 2010

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Show Stoppa (excerpt)

Show Stoppa

Because they wore coordinating outfits three to four times a week for four straight years, Kenya and Shannon had to split the “Best Dressed” award in twelfth grade. In the back of the high school yearbook they are wearing twin outfits and posing in lunge positions with their hands on their hips. They’re each wearing gold chains that spell the other’s name. They didn’t know each other before freshman year, but they sort of fell in love in Spanish class and have been best friends ever since.

When U of M turned Kenya down, Shannon forfeited her own admission and they both went to Spelman. Shannon’s mom was so pissed. They pledged Delta together but their line was all fucked up when this girl died from a car crash. The school blamed it on relentless rushing. Kenya met this Morehouse boy from Queens and fell deeply in love. He spray-painted his tag on her dorm wall, then went to jail for two days when the campus guards caught him trying to sneak out of Kenya and Shannon’s room with Krylon and dirty fingers. On a trip to Lenox Mall Shannon saw Kenya’s boyfriend from Queens kissing this girl from Texas and walked right up to them both and slapped the shit out of the girl. Kenya dropped the boy two hours later. They had each other’s back like that.

When they attended the Al B. Sure! Concert Al himself had arena security invite them backstage. He asked Shannon straight out if she wanted to fuck and she really wanted to, but Kenya gave her a look that said, “We would be so over—so very over—if you played yourself right now.” They had each other’s back like that.

Before graduating they organized a talent bazaar/charity event for a shelter that housed runaway girls. They performed “Push It” and wore matching unitards and slid under each other’s legs just like Salt-N-Pepa did in their video. Shannon went to Parsons School of Design in New York for graduate school and because Kenya was unsure of her plans, she followed Shannon.

Kenya married a guy who played for the NBA a year later and Shannon designed fur coats for rappers and ball players. When Kenya’s husband got some cheerleader pregnant just three weeks before she was to deliver their first baby, Shannon drove to Jersey, packed her best friend’s things and moved her and her soon-to-come infant into her one bedroom. They have each other’s back like that.

- excerpt from Free The Girls by dream hampton (2001, Hip Hop Divas, Vibe Books, Three Rivers Press)