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Rochelle Ryndia Ray (Camden, New Jersey) [1] is an American rapper, singer, songwriter and music producer, better known as Lady Crush. She is recognized for being one of the youngest female rappers to be recorded on vinyl record towards the end of the Old-school hip-hop era. [ 2 ]
Born and raised in Jamaica, Queens, New York, Mathematics was introduced to hip hop by his brother who used to bring home recordings of the genre's pioneers like Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, Treacherous Three and Cold Crush Brothers. He began his career in 1987 DJing block parties and park jams in Baisley Projects, going by the name ...
A video vixen (also referred to as a hip hop honey or video girl [2]) is a woman who models and appears in hip hop-oriented music videos. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] From the 1990s to the early 2010s, the video vixen image was a staple in popular music, particularly within the genre of hip hop. [ 5 ]
Women have left an indelible imprint on hip-hop. They have been pioneers.They have been provocateurs.They have been unifiers.But in 2023, as the music birthed from the Bronx celebrates 50 years ...
The ‘girl math’ trend is the mental gymnastics women do to justify their purchases to themselves and to others. But Meredith Clark writes how the popular TikTok trend is perpetuating a ...
[1] Shelli Nicole wrote in a positive review for Vogue, "You don’t have to be familiar with the work of the women in Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop in order to watch the docuseries and find yourself in it. It’s a love letter, a sharing of history, and even a business plan by a group of Black women for the Black women—of all ...
Sophia Chang (born 1965) is a Canadian-Korean music director, producer, manager, TV producer and author.Widely recognized as the first Asian woman in hip hop, Chang managed A Tribe Called Quest, Raphael Saadiq, Q-Tip, and members of Wu-Tang Clan such as RZA, GZA, and Ol' Dirty Bastard.
Yo-Yo has been active in advocating for hip-hop artists to become involved within their community. Notably, she testified in 1994 for a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about whether the government should require rating labels on gangsta rap. [16] She also founded the Yo-Yo School of Hip-Hop to use hip-hop in curriculum for at-risk students. [17]