![]() There are certain moments difficult to justify. This might sound as far-fetched as Kanye doing an album about rectal sensuality, but there are multiple moments throughout ‘Ready to Die’ that stand out for the fact they don’t fall into the typical misogynist discourse in hip-hop. What I heard was something quite different and far more original-a partial new-wave feminist piece. I recently heard the album ‘Ready to Die’ for the first time, expecting exactly the kind of subject matter that is so often condemned as sexist. ![]() Amongst the genre’s icons that are held up as examples of this is Biggie Smalls. There’s been much written about the role of hip-hop as a cultural obstacle to feminism a globally favoured genre that advocates misogyny verse after verse, rapper after rapper.
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