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African Diaspora Blackness Hip Hop

Black hair is beauty, we get to choose our daily crown.

Two years ago, I wrote to this very same topic, read more at: Emotional Strands. I remember my first relaxer, I was probably somewhere around the age of 9 and I begged my Moma to “Let me try it.” At that time, I didn’t quite grasp the theory of Black hair vs. European standards and […]

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Hip Hop PhD Journey

Academically Ghetto? Trueeee! – Courtney’s Reality

This piece composed and published as a guest blog February 2018 Ghetto!? I “ain’t” never been Ghetto! The word Ghetto for generations has had a negative connotation. The word’s origin rises from the Blacks and Jews being pushed into one area of a city, thus creating projects, which then resulted in whites fleeing the city, […]

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Blog Hip Hop

Definition of Urban Legend: When it’s bigger than Rap.

Some of us were very familiar with his story, his grind, and the come up regarding his music. While some of us recently became hip with his latest album “Victory Lap” (2018). What we all know for sure is that the community – our community, Hip Hop and many of our hoods around the way […]