"It's A Zulu Love" - Highlighting Efforts In Mainstream Hip Hop to Help the Black Woman's Image and Narrative
While mainstream hip hop has been flooded with degrading hip hop songs and videos that endorse the corruption of the image of Black women, there have been few attempts throughout the past 20 years that attempt to counter that. In the effort to raise consciousness of the distorted images it is important to highlight those attempts and celebrate them. It is equally important to bring awareness to the popular choice of misrepresenting of Black women, as it is to make sure contributions made to uplift Black women in hip hop aren't forgotten, ignored, and not cherished. It's important be aware of the warped images, but to remember and celebrate the positive changes hip hop brought to the Black community at large, and brought a voice, culture, unity, and joy to even impoverished neighborhoods. To shed light and call to recollection the songs and artists that share real experiences and the different shades to Black women through song without devaluing their image. This is a salute to the efforts already made to combat the distorted images and to the artists who saw straight in a crooked room.
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