MUSC 2018 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Tommy Boy Records, Dj Yella, Queen Latifah
16 Jan 2016
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Seeing women coming to the forefront of the music industry and expressing these desires not affiliating it with anything. Queen latifah with monie love, ladies first, 1989. Commercially strong voice assertive in her positions and views through her music and with her music. She participated in a group called native tongues (similar to zulu nation), kind of like a community affiliation. Imposed a strong counterpoint to the arrogance and sexism of male rappers at the time. This song is from her first album released through tommy boy records. Reasons for doing the backing music the way they did. These guys came to the forefront with the release of straight out of compton which was released in: the rap dealt with difficulties of inner city living. Nwa took it to the next level by relaying a more underground gangster kind of hardened lifestyle to their audience. One member not included arabian prince, on one of the tracks for.
