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Maria Isa, off her new album Street Politics.

On being a woman in hip-hip:

I always see these hip-hop bills and they always have like 10 men and one female. So, I knew I had to rep hard, because you have three men and one female and you’re going on first, and you’re just a little girl in a skirt who raps. And I really wanted their respect.

Cool Video Time

So this video has been on some of the feminist blogs that I read daily. It is Jay Smooth talking about homophobia in hip-hop, and manhood more generally. I really think you should watch it. It is short and awesome.

"When we find ourselves believing that killing a man makes us more of a man, but loving a man makes us less of a man, it’s probably time to reexamine our criteria for manhood."