ETHN 3212 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: The Notorious B.I.G., Roost Records, Homicide
Document Summary
When chickenheads come home to roost chapter 4 from fly girls to bitches and hos. Joan morgan writes a letter to hip hop. The summary is that morgan will always love hip hop, despite the abuse the genre has shown towards women more recently. Hip hop originated as the voice for a nation in pain. There were never any questions about women being marginalized, even if they were. However, morgan acknowledges that those days are long gone. Too many rappers have been spewing such vulgar language against women, you would think that they never even had mothers who raised them. Now, the anger of hip hop has been redirected inwards. Hip hop is not contradictory to my feminism, it is the key to our survival. Mo(cid:396)ga(cid:374)"s fe(cid:373)i(cid:374)is(cid:373) is a(cid:271)out (cid:271)la(cid:272)k o(cid:374) (cid:271)la(cid:272)k lo(cid:448)e. bla(cid:272)k o(cid:374) (cid:271)la(cid:272)k lo(cid:448)e is i(cid:374) se(cid:396)ious da(cid:374)ge(cid:396). It has gotten the community through a multitude of struggles but now it is fading.