Hip-Hop Reader / May, 2014 13
…both women and men have participated in Hip Hop culture and rap music in ways that have been both oppressive and liberatory for women. To assume that men’s voice or influence in Hip Hop or rap music has been uniformly sexist and that women’s has uniformly opposed this sexism is to accept a false dichotomy that misrepresents the complexity of Hip Hop and rap with respect to gender. (Phillips et. al. 254)