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  VH1’s Miss Rap Supreme; A prototype for a working-class version of “The L Word”

  http://homoneurotic.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/vh1s-miss-rap-s...
  68 days ago in Protected Blog › Login · Authority: 12

  The Supremes — Salon.com dissects VH1’s new reality TV show, Miss Rap Supreme — and it’s not pretty. Following the footsteps of last year’s “The White Rapper Show,” this new countdown offers a glimpse into the world of women MC’s with an unexpected homoerotic angle. While the lesbian theme running through the first episodes of “Miss Rap” adds an unexpected level to the proceedings, it may do more to inflame the stereotype of female rappers, let alone lesbians, as coarse and unfeminine than it does to change any minds about the ability of women to rhyme with the swaggering boys. It turns out yet again that the price of craving representation is that no demographic can escape being reduced and degraded by the media. from www.vh1.com posted with vodpod
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  'Take This Cookie, Take My Mind'

  http://2000seasons.blogspot.com/2008/05/hannaham-nails-it.ht...
  69 days ago in 2000 Seasons · Authority: 3

  James Hannaham of Salon.com nails VH1's "Miss Rap Supreme"on the head: In moments like the rap drag-king show and the lesbian bar bump-and-grind, the cast's complete lack of homophobia flips the lack of a script on the producers and transforms the show into something like a prototype for a working-class version of "The L Word." While a couple of the women express surprise at having to shake their booties in a dyke bar, none of them balk at the prospect, and at least two, Bree and Lady Twist, who are openly lesbian, have most likely done so before. These aren't the gay-for-pay porno dykes you'd expect a team of male producers to encourage, either -- Lady Twist is a solid block of butch. video.vh1.com Outside the all-queer Logo Network, there's no other show that gives us even this much of a glimpse of working-class lesbians of any color, and even though both of the women who are out of the closet have now been eliminated from the show, the Sappho-friendly undertones of "Miss Rap Supreme" still represent a complete reversal from "The White Rapper Show," which had no sexual anything about it whatsoever -- homo, hetero or in between. While the lesbian theme running through the first episodes of "Miss Rap" adds an unexpected level to the proceedings, it may do more to inflame the stereotype of female rappers, let alone lesbians, as coarse and unfeminine than it does to change any minds about the ability of women to rhyme with the swaggering boys. It turns out yet again that the price of craving representation is that no demographic can escape being reduced and degraded by the media. When the women of "Miss Rap Supreme" have to come up with a 16-bar rhyme about what it would be like if women ruled the world, Bree's last line declares, "If women ruled the world, there'd be a lot of lesbians." While that's certainly debatable, "Miss Rap Supreme" could rack up even more subversion points -- and maybe even find a female rapper worth the world's time -- if women ruled Ego Trip.
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  Good Morning, Sunshine

  http://loveisdope.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/good-morning-suns...
  71 days ago in Love Is Dope · Authority: 18

  Makeda était reine, belle et puissante Salomon rêvait de sa peau noire Je chante pour raviver les mémoires Exhumer les connaissances Que la spirale du temps efface ~Les Nubians, Makeda~ In a surprise to no one, Clinton won big in West Virgina. ~~CNN~ Here’s a very interesting Einstein letter about religion. ~CBC~ I think this Salon article about “Miss Rap Supreme” kind of misses the point of the ridiculous aspects of the show. ~Salon~

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