This assignment is connected to a playlist that is part of the Black Women's Rhetoric Project (see http://blackwomenrhetproject.org). This particular assignment is for the second day of students' study on rhetoric and black women in Hip Hop (unit seven). On this second day of unit seven, students have THREE playlists to choose from. This is the SECOND playlist that features Female MCs through the lens of Marcyliena Morgan's and Gwendolyn Pough's writings. The list of artists corresponds with the class readings of Morgan's "Hip Hop Women Shredding the Veil: Race and Class in Popular Feminist Identity" and Pough's _Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip Hop, and the Public Sphere_ (with a focus on chapter three). Morgan and Pough take us on a journey of the key moments in Hip Hop history, as constructed by female MCs, so this assignment provides something like the soundtrack to the week's readings. As you will see, there was never a moment in Hip Hop where black women were not there (see playlist #1 for Unit Seven to see graf writers, bgirls, and DJs). The list of artists on the playlist starts with Sherri-Sher of the Mercedes Ladies and ends with two spoken word artists: jessica Care moore and Sarah Jones. Moore's poem challenges the misogyny of Hip Hop while claiming her full role as a hiphoppa; Jones is the infamous poet whose piece speaking out against sexist lyrics was played on college radio and flagged as inappropriate by the FCC.

1. Black Women’s Rhetoric Project
http:// blackwomenrhetproject.org
Unit Seven:
Hip Hop Women
For this
assignment, you
have THREE
playlists to
choose from.
This is the
playlist that
features Emcees.
Watch the entire playlist. Come to
class ready to discuss:
1. Which video on the playlist spoke
most to you and why?
2. How and why is this rhetoric?
How and why is this black
women’s rhetoric?
3. What connections can you make
to the rest of the semester?
No writing is due. Just come to class
ready to discuss your responses
to these three questions.

2. "Ladies First": A Sonic & Visual
History of Black Female MCs
This playlist opens with Sherri-
Sher of the Mercedes Ladies
and corresponds with the class
readings of Marcyliena
Morgan's "Hip Hop Women
Shredding the Veil: Race and
Class in Popular Feminist
Identity" and Gwendolyn
Pough'sCheck It While I Wreck
It: Black Womanhood, Hip Hop,
and the Public Sphere (with a
focus on chapter three).
Dr. Marcyliena Morgan

3. "Ladies First": A Sonic & Visual
History of Black Female MCs
Morgan and Pough take you on
a journey of the key
moments in Hip Hop history,
as constructed by female
MCs. This playlist is
something like the
soundtrack to the week's
readings so that we can
rightly place Hip Hop women
into our study of black
women's rhetoric.
Dr. Gwendolyn Pough

4. Sherri-Sher& Mercedes Ladies

5. US Girls

6. The Sequence

7. Finesse
&
Synquis

8. JJ Fad

9. Pebblee-Poo

10. Roxanne Shanté

11. Salt-n-Pepa

12. Sweet
Tee
&
Jazzy
Joyce

13. Queen Latifah …and Monie Love

14. MC Lyte

15. BWP

16. YO YO

17. Boss

18. Isis

19. Eve

20. Rah Digga

21. Missy
Elliot

22. Lady
of
Rage

23. Medusa

24. Da Brat

25. Lil Kim

26. Mystic

27. Lauryn
Hill

28. Foxy
Brown

29. And we end the the playlist with two spoken word performances:
Jessica Care moore
“I’m a Hip Hop Cheerleader”

30. Sarah Jones
“Your revolution will
not happen between
these thighs”

31. Black Women’s Rhetoric Project
http:// blackwomenrhetproject.org
Unit Seven:
Hip Hop Women
For this
assignment, you
have THREE
playlists to
choose from.
This is the
playlist that
features Emcees.
Watch the entire playlist. Come to
class ready to discuss:
1. Which video on the playlist spoke
most to you and why?
2. How and why is this rhetoric?
How and why is this black
women’s rhetoric?
3. What connections can you make
to the rest of the semester?
No writing is due. Just come to class
ready to discuss your responses
to these three questions.