we're too hard on rappers
or emcees or lyricists or whatever the hip-hopolitically correct term of the moment is.
"9th Wonder is so my boyfriend"
i said this in the car with my girls the other day.
"that's such a hip hop girl thing to say. Common is my MAN"
was the response from the backseat.
"hmm...let's not get started on Common. you know i have issues with him."
"uh-UH. Common is FINE. and he can dress too!"
chimes in the driver, who, to her credit, was bumpin' the Strange Fruit project (yes, i roll with amazing women all the damn time)
"SHE has issues with him. I have no issue."
about me.
but both of us chime in to say:
"and he can't really dress. he can dress NOW that he's in Kanye's camp and hired a stylist, but he was looking jacked before."
me alone: "too bad he dresses better than he writes these days."
driver: "MOS DEF is my boyfriend."
Common lover: "sometimes you have to let stuff go. we're too hard on them."
me: "that's because we expect our HEROES to adhere to a certain standard"
CL: "but they're not heroes. single moms, community workers, THOSE are heroes, they are just entertainers at the end of the day."
final thought: SEEN.
hip hop ain't dead, it's just human. so go on and rock your designer handkerchief hijabs, fellas, i ain't mad at 'cha.
"9th Wonder is so my boyfriend"
i said this in the car with my girls the other day.
"that's such a hip hop girl thing to say. Common is my MAN"
was the response from the backseat.
"hmm...let's not get started on Common. you know i have issues with him."
"uh-UH. Common is FINE. and he can dress too!"
chimes in the driver, who, to her credit, was bumpin' the Strange Fruit project (yes, i roll with amazing women all the damn time)
"SHE has issues with him. I have no issue."
about me.
but both of us chime in to say:
"and he can't really dress. he can dress NOW that he's in Kanye's camp and hired a stylist, but he was looking jacked before."
me alone: "too bad he dresses better than he writes these days."
driver: "MOS DEF is my boyfriend."
Common lover: "sometimes you have to let stuff go. we're too hard on them."
me: "that's because we expect our HEROES to adhere to a certain standard"
CL: "but they're not heroes. single moms, community workers, THOSE are heroes, they are just entertainers at the end of the day."
final thought: SEEN.
hip hop ain't dead, it's just human. so go on and rock your designer handkerchief hijabs, fellas, i ain't mad at 'cha.
