Nicki Minaj and Feminist Contradictions in Hardcore Female Rap

As much potential as there is for female empowerment in hardcore rap through women rappers’ embrace of the erotic, given the restrictive conventions of the genre, which force female artists to straddle identities of heterosexist sexiness and simultaneous masculinity, its full potential is rarely ever realized. In Minaj’s embrace of Lil Kim’s pussy power politics, she is also inevitably embracing, regardless of her actual intent and/or acceptance of rejection of the label, a controversial and rather contradictory ideology of feminism.

Original source http://www.racialicious.com/2010/04/08/quoted-menda-francois-on-nicki-minaj-and-feminist-contradictions-in-hardcore-female-rap/

Nicki Minaj, does her music and values empower women or is it another false dawn of yet another female artist selling out to teenage male’s fantasies?

Tell me what you think.

Posted 04:42 PM on Sun Feb 06 2011

By Single Minded

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