Vulnerable Mavericks Wreck Rap’s Conventions

Gender has certainly received a lot of play in hip hop studies, journalism, and documentary film; but by and large, the categories through which both men and women have been examined up to this point have been narrow, leading to a worldview governed by a restricted set of practices and tropes. Also, much of the formative scholarship that has addressed the intersections of Black feminist politics and hip hop cultural production has focused on the production and reception of women in the commercial hip hop arena. When one studies women who make hip hop in the underground a different, complex