Once NWA proclaimed that “Life ain’t nothin’ but bitches and money” two decades ago, misogyny has been, unfortunately, a major player in the hip-hop industry. But a group of female hip-hop artists will come together at Columbia College to counter these offensive tones in popular rap music by highlighting feminist musicians through a concert and panel series titled “Women in Hip-Hop.” This Thursday marks the third year of the panel organized by the university’s Ellen Stone Belic Institute and will be headlined by some big names of the emerging underground hip-hop feminist movement. Detroit-based recording artist Invincible says Columbia College is the first institution she’s seen take an interest in gender misrepresentations in the music industry—by which she started her own record label to escape—and that both men and women need to band together to shatter them. Performer Moon of the spoken word/hip-hop duo AquaMoon & Tha Crew says, “[The panel] is important to us because it’s something positive, and we get tired of having the conversation about misogyny and hip-hop and my hip-hop is not that—that’s not the hip-hop that I love.”
A Positive Light: The Soul Children of Chicago Sing "O-o-h Child" at Chicago Live! The Chicago Live! concerts coincide with the last weekend of “State of Sound: A World of Music from Illinois” music exhibit. As a sendoff, the Soul Children of Chicago will sing “O-o-h Child” in tribute to this socially significant Chicago song. The thirty-piece choir has been rehearsing the song for a month and the pier audience will be encouraged to…
Cool Aid: A Review of Situation Chicago 2 The album does an outstanding job of bringing home the staggering sonic and stylistic range we deny ourselves when we return too often to the same genre well.
Wholly Holly: Christmas Music Blankets Chicago Pretty much every Blind Boys of Alabama gig feels like Christmas, so their holiday show at City Winery should pretty much tear the joint down.
