Gender and Sexuality in Hip Hop WOM324
Fall 2019 | 3 credits | Dr. Pabón
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“A prerequisite to America A disguised sin Where some brother from that closed southern shit Comes to some open northern shit” – “New York, New York,” The Last Poets “New York, New York” is a song that is featured on The Last Poets’ self-titled debut album. This song focuses on the many different experiences a… Continue reading Hernandez_The Last Poets/Forman
There are actually a few similarities between this poem by The Last Poets and the reading by Murray Foreman, one being that they both address racism in the city of Harlem. They also both discuss issues in the hood, it’s interesting how the reading speaks about how this effects artists and in this poem artists… Continue reading Fernandez_The Last Poets
https://genius.com/Nas-you-cant-stop-us-now-lyrics I chose this particular song by Nas featuring The Last Poets because I liked the specific lyric “I love y’all, pyramids to cotton fieldsTo Wrigley Fields, forgotten men who did get killed”. I liked this particular lyric because It made me think of the “where” emphasized in the Forman reading. The “where” always symbolized your… Continue reading Preston_LastPoets
https://genius.com/The-last-poets-white-mans-got-a-god-complex-lyrics I chose the song “White Man’s Got A God Complex” to relate to the reading because of what the song entails. The song speaks about how no matter what the white man does, they will always have a God complex in society’s eyes. In other words, the song speaks to how the white man… Continue reading Duncan_Forman/ The last poets
https://genius.com/The-last-poets-black-is-annotated I chose the Poem “Black Is” because I felt it connected to the entire reading, from the very beginning. On page 13 and 14 the author writes, “Rap’s young creators have located a cultural voice that is both an adaptation to and a departure from earlier voiced of nationalism and black unity politics.… Continue reading Knapp_The Last Poets
https://genius.com/The-last-poets-new-york-new-york-lyric Where freak looking freaky white rodents are running around Spreading new kinds of venereal diseases Talking about “we love everybody” “We love everybody” To connect race to space, as well as, privilege and perspective the song New York, New York relates to the chapter Space Matters. The song talks about New York and… Continue reading Balousek_Forman Chapter
What I took away from the reading was specific of page 23. Space is taken up by people of different backgrounds and sometimes we have to co-inhabit those spaces regardless of background or where we come from. Our background tends to determine where we fit into society and how we feel having a certain claim… Continue reading Montagnino_The Last Poets/Forman Reading
The poem “Before The White Man Came” by The Last Poets illustrates how the communities in which Africans lived in prior to the arrival of the White Man were in fact thriving and peaceful. This relates to Foreman’s idea that the area and space one lives in greatly influences their personal growth and well being.… Continue reading Opoku_TheLastPoets/Foreman
The poem “She Is” by the Last Poets relates to the reading because they both touch on identifying and claiming space. In the reading, the author mentioned that hip hop has provided “a distinctive understanding of the social terrains and conditions under which ‘real’ black cultural identities are formed and experienced” (9). The poem brings… Continue reading Ogando Aquino_The Last Poet/Forman
This is one my favorite poems I found from the Last Poets and I feel like it ties in with Foreman’s ideas of space being socially constructed; the lyricists use music as a means to create a place to escape to (and as a tool for thought as Foreman alludes to).