The show itself was like a kind of glam-rock eighties "Hee Haw," with vaudevillian characters, corny jokes, skits, songs, and, because it was the eighties, rapping, by a mostly white cast — "a bunch of girls rapping in these little short costumes," Roxy Astor says.
There's nothing more emasculating than a hundred girls rapping the windows calling you an ugly ginger.
Finally it was Trixie's turn and she tentatively delivered her lines in the sadly familiar cadence of white girls rapping.
LUNA LOUNGE 361 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn (718-384-7112) — Aug. 29: The all-girl rap trio Northern State.
Until, that is, your first single is leaked and everyone slags it off because it fuses angry white girl rap with a chorus of "Oh my darlin' Clementine".
(Sinagra) THE GO! TEAM (Monday) This British group brilliantly merges the wistful nostalgic wing of sample-based post-rock with live junkyard bash, the sassy girl rap of MC Ninja, and cheerleader chants.
How come there haven't been any UK female rappers as high profile as Dynamite in years, I ask her, despite the fact we're supposed to be in a "golden age" of girl rap? "I don't know," she says, "but I want one so much I don't even care if it's not me".
(As a gay, I'm pretty certain that "Know Your Chicken" is a cool-girl rap take on chicken-hawking, and I'm waiting to be convinced otherwise).
Like many dark-skinned women of color, I have sadly grown accustomed to phrases like "you're pretty for a dark-skinned girl," rap lyrics exalting "red bones," and an overall society that privileges light-skinned African Americans -- from the media and corporate offices to the criminal justice system and elective office.
A video of a 5-year-old girl rapping about Kaepernick and sporting similar body art was posted to YouTube last month and has more than 580,000 views.
Kesha also uses a trademark talky "white-girl" rapping style with exaggerated discordant phrasing and enunciation.
