An illustrious career, music true to her New Orleans roots, Grammy-nominated artist Ledisi is all of herself with her newest release, “The Wild Card”. Ledisi has long been one of my favorite voices in the music industry. With her effortless fusing of Soul, Rock, Blues, and Jazz genres, it comes as no surprise to me...
Tag: Megan Thee Stallion
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Black Women Have Long Celebrated Their Sexuality Through Music
From Lucille Bogan in the 1930s to Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion today, Black women have long celebrated their sexuality. Hess Love’s “Heauxin’ Blues” playlist proves this. Black sexuality has been celebrated in song for generations. Suffice it to say, we been talking about, singing about, rapping about fucking. However, many “respectable” Black folks...
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Kill Your Idols Before Empty Platitudes and Capitalism Kill You
The cults of personality that surround our “faves”— political, entertainment, or otherwise — are a result of misguided worship of wealth and status. By Adrie Rose Once again, Nancy Pelosi did something entirely boring, commonplace, and—frankly—insignificant that has white liberals frothing at the mouth. Nancy Pelosi has had a career characterised by violent indifference to...
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A Reminder For Black Women: You Don’t Owe The World A Damn Thing
Black women owe no explanations for blocking, muting, restricting, and reporting anyone that threatens the sanctity of the spaces you carve out for yourself. TW/CW: racism, sexism, misogynoir, eating disorders, mental illness, r/pe By Adrie Rose I haven’t been kicked out of anything in years. I haven’t been told not to come back to a...
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Harley Quinn Doesn’t Need You When She’s Got the Girls and the Gays
Cishet men aren’t mad that Harley Quinn doesn’t have “sex appeal”. They’re mad that the characters of Birds of Prey have “sex appeal” that isn’t catering to them. When some painfully arrogant critic logs onto Twitter to rant about why a particular movie is SURE to bomb in theaters, I always notice two very important...
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DaBaby Is Having The Time of His Goddamn Life And We Love to See It
DaBaby represents a departure from the era of the self-serious, brooding, and borderline self-righteous rapper to something more, well, fun. This past weekend, North Carolina rapper DaBaby finally made his long-awaited debut on Saturday Night Live and boy… what a debut it was. On top of the social media reception being overwhelmingly positive, most of...
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Hot Girl Summer is a Declaration of Unconditional Self-Love
Hot Girl Summer is a body-positive call to be proud of the skin you’re in and live your best life, a movement rooted in unapologetic confidence. By Alie Jones Megan Thee Stallion’s Hot Girl Summer has been deeply misinterpreted by her loving fans, her detractors, and media outlets alike, often wrongly thought of as a...
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It’s MY Pussy, I’ll Rap About It If I Want To!
Megan Thee Stallion challenges the notion that womxn who rap can only express themselves in one way, be one thing, and that must be approved of by men working in the music industry. By Ro Carson Multi-hyphenate rapper Jermaine Dupri recently expressed disillusion with the current state of Hip Hop, particularly with womxn in the...