Hip Hop Archives

February 10, 2016 4 min read

In 1993, Tommy Boy records released an album by a young female rapper from Brooklyn named LeShaun. It’s called 'Wide Open' Read More

Mykki Blanco Calls on Queer Academics for Inspiration

April 20, 2013 2 min read

Hip-Hop grenade Michael Quattlebaum, under alter-ego Mykki Blanco, exploits sexual ambiguity in her music and troubles the gender roles, refusing...

September 21, 2012 1 min read

Queer acceptance in the hip hop culture has been, as Details describes it, hard-won—“reggae, country, and metal, rap is responsible...

July 12, 2011 1 min read

The VIPs (Broadway Books/Random House), Scott Poulson-Bryant’s first novel, is no let-down. The author must have spent many a night...