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13 Sep

Brews & Beats: This Music Lover Launched A Hip-Hop

Idiris Mohamed, Idreezus Studios You’d be hard-pressed to search out a link between tea drinking and hip-hop. But for Shanae Jones, the connection is obvious. It’s all about community. Because the first-born US American to British-Jamaican parents, tea was one other member of her family, Jones shared. “A few of our most significant moments happened over tea,” she said. “I didn’t even realize that individuals weren’t accustomed to waking up or going to bed with a cup of tea on this country until I used to be much older.” Although the drink was a staple in her household by the use of her parents’ British roots, Jones said she found her connection to American culture through music. “Hip hop taught...
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10 Sep

How Purse First Is Breaking Up The Boys Club

In the summertime of 2020, Sesali Bowen was working on her memoir Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist. As she reflected on her experiences growing up in what she calls “the bad b-tch era,” she realized that while queer and feminine rappers were having a moment in Hip-Hop, there have been no podcasts to capture it. So Bowen went in regards to the business of making one. She reached out to Pierre Phipps, one half of the rap duo Freaky Boiz, to assist her co-host and the show, Purse First, launched that following January.  The phrase comes from a Black colloquialism which Bowen believes originated from street-based, sex work culture. The total phrase, “Purse first, ass last” speaks to...
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