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Today at Ms. | August 11, 2023
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Surviving Hip-Hop: The Ms. Q&A with Drew Dixon [[link removed]]
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BY JANELL HOBSON | Our hip-hop series “Turning 50” concludes this week just as the official anniversary of hip-hop’s 50th birthday kicks off the weekend.
Ms. ’ final conversation is with Drew Dixon—a producer, writer, activist, entrepreneur and former A&R executive. She’s been featured in multiple documentaries, including Max’s On the Record in 2020 and Ladies First this year on Netflix. The conversation featured here honors her role in U.S. culture: as a survivor of sexual harassment and assault, an activist, a truth-teller and a musical pioneer.
“A lot of records happened because I wanted to bring the magic of hip-hop genius into the mainstream of R&B and pop music,” Dixon tells Ms . “So, it’s nice that part of my story is being unearthed.”
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Turning 50: Writing Women into the Story of Hip-Hop, Five Decades After Its Founding [[link removed]]
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BY JANELL HOBSON | Fifty years ago, a new sound was born. On Aug. 11, 1973, hip-hop emerged from a party in the recreation room of a Bronx building at 1520 Sedgwick Ave. From that first party on, women—despite their marginalization in much of the music—have had a significant role to play.
“Women were there from the beginning,” said Dee Barnes, a hip-hop journalist and emcee who was part of the rap duo Body and Soul and a host of Fox’s late-night show Pump It Up! in the late ’80s and early ’90s. “Everybody talks about Kool Herc, but not enough people talk about his sister, Cindy. She was the catalyst for the party. She was part of the culture too.”
A feminist history of the past five decades of hip-hop ought to be told. Far from being secondary players, women and girls have been integral to this cultural phenomenon.
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Five Decades of Women in Hip-Hop: A Feminist Anthem Playlist [[link removed]]
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BY JANELL HOBSON | Explore 10 notable songs and five momentous albums from the last five decades, with in-text explainers from editor Janell Hobson.
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