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  Rap, Rape, and R&B: Battle of the Sexes, Round 2

  May 6, 2011 – My conversation with Latoya Peterson of Racialicious continues. …
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  Rap, Rape, and R&B: The Battle of the Sexes

  May 3, 2011 – To get a distinctly different take on all the talk in this space during the past few weeks about misogyny and sexual violence in rap and R&B, we've invited Latoya Peterson, owner and editor of the website Racialicious, "the intersection of race and pop culture," to join the discussion. …
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  The Debate About Rap, Misogyny, and Homophobia

  April 22, 2011 – The complex relationship between rap music, misogyny, and homophobia forever stays a talking point for hip-hop's chin-stroking faction. But in the past few weeks, such issues have crept into even the most casual discussions of the genre. …
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  Female Trouble: Is Rap More Mature than R&B?

  April 15, 2011 – Rap and R&B right now are, for the most part, interchangeable. That's not a complaint, it's a simple fact of contemporary urban music. …
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  Can Hip-Hop Man Up? Mr. Cee vs. Homophobia

  April 8, 2011 – The arrest of Calvin "DJ Mister Cee" LeBrun for public lewdness and indecent exposure is a sad, but unique opportunity to continue last week's discussion about gay hip-hop and rap's longstanding homophobia. For those who hide from SEO-obsessed gossip blogs and endlessly snarky morning-zoo radio, and as a result, haven't yet heard, around 4AM on March 30, police spotted Mister Cee in his car, allegedly receiving oral sex from a man. …
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  Hip-Hop's Great Gay Hope: Rainbow Noise

  April 1, 2011 – Last week, Rainbow Noise's frenetic, queer-friendly rap posse cut "Imma Homo" appeared on gay and GLBTQ-related blogs (the video currently has a respectable 68,000 views), and even sneaked onto a fewmainstream hip-hop venues like Bossip, Complex, and World Star Hip-Hop. Though posted on more mainstream sites primarily for its "WTF?" factor, it knocked over quite a few people for being, well, a pretty hot song. …
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  Free Lil Boosie's Lyrics! Rap On Trial, Again

  March 25, 2011 – One of the more ridiculous critiques lobbed at hip-hop, from both outsiders dismissive of the genre and old-head traditionalists upset at where the music's ended up, is that gangsta rappers rarely tell the truth in their rhymes. Besides just being irrelevant, it's one of those zingers that sounds good, but unravels the moment it's given any thought. …
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  Behind the Two Faces of the White Rapper

  March 21, 2011 – In the video for his song "Donald Trump," Mac Miller, a scruffy 19-year-old white kid from Pittsburgh who looks more like Agent Cody Banks than hip-hop's next big thing, bounces up and down, spitting well-worn boasts about bitches, partying, and his future success. Yet, people are actually listening to this guy. "Donald Trump" has more than one million views on YouTube. …
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  When Rap Rock Didn't Suck: Lil Jon's Crunk Rebellion

  March 11, 2011 – For the first half of the 2000s, crunk music was rap music. The production of Lil Jon -- the fight songs of Memphis' Three 6 Mafia by way of shiny, Atlanta pop-rap -- was a hybrid style technically "from Atlanta," but with roots extending across the South (some Miami Bass and a distinct, New Orleans-based Cash-Money/No Limit influence too), but it was never beholden to area code or region. …
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  The Rise of Rap's Regular Guys

  March 4, 2011 – A rapper's narrative is pretty much always the same: Enter the young, hungry wordsmith who has finally, gloriously, made it. …
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