So many female rappers have been creating music today and since the birth of hip hop. Still, a lot of people don’t mention a woman in their top five favorites or even have a favorite female rapper.
The world said its doleful, final goodbye to the awe-inspiring Toni Morrison, earlier this week. Most know Toni Morrison as an African-American novelist, the first ever to win a Nobel Prize in Literature.
Willow Smith continues the exploration of her sonic identity with her eponymous third studio album “Willow”. It’s a genre-bending and experimental affair, as Smith and producer Tyler Cole adopt dissonant acoustic guitars and spacey synths to drive forward a psychedelic, folk-leaning alternative R&B sound.
We have recently seen how much of a visionary she is with her self directed music videos for songs like “Issues/Hold On” and “Gonna Love Me (Remix)” but she really brought it with her latest video for “HYWI” ft. King Combs which is dripping in 90’s nostalgia.
The Somali-Canadian R&B songstress is evolving gloriously before our eyes, and with the release of “Black Dove” she details her nuanced plight towards black womanhood as the impetus for discovering a new artistic freedom – one that isn’t hinged on societal or cultural expectations.
If you don’t already know, HBO’s new series, Euphoria, is turning heads- for many reasons. The American adaptation of Israeli television show by the same name has already been green-lit for a second season and has already amassed a large cult following, most likely because of its authentic portrayal of generation Z teenagers in high school.
Our conversation began light-hearted and easy, full of laughs and thoughtful pauses on Tess’s part, and strained efforts to disguise the fact that I was sitting in a bathroom on my behalf.
