Hip-hop revolution in the flesh
Subtitle: power, knowledge, and pleasure in Lil' Kim's lyricism
By: Greg Thomas.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780230611801
Subjects: Lil' Kim; African American women musicians -- Biography; Hip-hop -- Social aspects -- United States; Rap (Music) -- Social aspects -- United States
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-226) and index.
Table of contents: title: Orals, head, genius : the power, knowledge, and pleasure of Hard core; title: Sexual poetic justice : on African matriarchy, flexible gender systems, and The notorious K.I.M.; title: Mic "god/dess," Eshu-Elegba : signifying divine freedom, in the flesh; title: (Black) Consciousness (reprise) : neo-souls' "Baduizm," African cinema of liberation, and hip-hop's "QUEEN B@#$H"; title: "First female king" : the art of morph and monarchy in La bella mafia's beehive; title: It's the lyrical sex pistol : Or, A rebel music that rewrites anatomy, rhyme after fiery rhyme; title: The "sound clash" of The naked truth : erotic maroonage, public enemies, and "Rap COINTELPRO."