Hip-Hop

Mar 26, 2024

Female MC’s Comebacks

Image from Creative Commons Image of a microphone Comebacks from artists are big, but comebacks from female MCs are iconic. The history of female rappers taking shots at each other lyrically is astonishing. A comeback is “an attempt to become famous, powerful, or important again after a period of being much less famous.” Musicians usually…

Oct 20, 2023

JT, the Hood Alt Black Girl.

When JT said “hood b—h dressed like a weirdo” in her song, “No Bars,”, she meant it and her campaign with Mowalola x Beats by Dre delivered nothing short of that.  On Monday, Sept. 18, JT, the other half of the infamous rap group “City Girls,” dropped a seven-slide Instagram post of some photos from…

Sep 27, 2019

NC State Professors Discuss the Cultural Impact of Sneakerheads

Dr. Delisia Matthews, assistant professor of Fashion and Textile Management in the Wilson College of Textiles, and Dr. Qiana Cryer-Coupet, an assistant professor of Social Work in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences joined students at Witherspoon to present their research on the fashion community known as “sneakerheads.”

Oct 30, 2013

Pop-Hop: Ubiquitous Hip-Hop Presence in Pop Music

Aaron Jones | Correspondent  Ten years ago, rappers 50 Cent and Nelly were topping the charts alongside pop icons like Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera.  Hip hop and pop music were thriving, and while the two genres commonly had singles dominating Billboard’s Top 100 separately, some of the leading artists were blending their sounds to create…

Sep 19, 2012

Masculinty as Defined by Hip-Hop

Robert Marshall| Staff Writer  The Kappa Omicron chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. hosted a program entitled “Party Rock or Party Fail?” on Sept. 6. The program focused on the ideas of gender and sexuality, specifically in the entertainment industry, but expounded on how it affected the mentality and actions of society in a…