PU$$Y P0PPIN is back! This quarter you can tune in from 6-7 p.m. on Tuesdays, starting next week.
(Also check out the sweet graphic I made for the show while I was bored last night)
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I'm Arielle, an aspiring writer from the Bay Area and student at UCSD. You can also find me on Twitter.
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A test: Which shot is from the Vampire Weekend lyric video for “Step” and which shot is from Woody Allen’s “Manhattan?”
This, instead of writing an essay right now.
Beyonce | Bow Down / I Been On
I HAVE BEEN SAYING the Bey was gonna get on the electronic shit….
Dead.
Dead.Dead.Dead.
LISTEN TO HER RAP WITHOUT THE PITCH, YO:
Twin Peaks, “May the Giant Be with You” (1990)
hahahaha holy shit arielle, you showed up on my dashboard.
-vanessa from skool
hahaha holy shit YES!
FYI, Internet: “Freudian Film” is part of a project of mine for an upper-division writing course at UCSD. Follow it, maybe.
“Punks scream oi, Jews scream oy,” he said. “In Yiddish it’s oy vey, oy this; in punk rock it’s oi, oi, oi. I saw it as a common ground for punks and Jews.”
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Moshiach Oi! Merges Orthodox Judaism and Punk Rock - NYTimes.com
Fascinating article.
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Tomorrow’s show is going to be “High on the Chill Factor,” meaning we don’t have any set theme. If you have recommendations or requests, this would be a great opportunity to share them with us!
Emphasis on the chill. And the high.
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Ladies, Keep Your PU$$Y P0PPIN
I wrote a column for the UCSD Guardian this week about the radio show. Check it out!
Here’s an excerpt:
“PU$$Y P0PPIN” is the name of a radio show on KSDT that I’m co-hosting with my friend Mina. We go by the names DJ Minamator and DJ Ari$ha, and play nothing but female hip hop from 4 to 5 p.m. every Friday.
Mina approached me with the idea for the show over winter break, and I couldn’t resist immediately making a sprawling Spotify playlist of lady MCs and agreeing to the gig. Since then, I’ve discovered more incredible artists than I could have possibly imagined. Last week’s theme of “up and comers” and this week’s theme of “female rappers from around the world,” forced me to delve deep into the pockets of the Internet to pull out women that I probably wouldn’t have been exposed to otherwise.
I see plenty of people who claim to be fans of rap who don’t listen to a single female, and those that do often pit them against each other, sexualize them or treat them like a gimmick. Let the following artists be a taste of what female rappers really have to offer, and listen to PU$$Y P0PPIN every Friday for even more girl power.
In which I discuss Kitty Pryde, the plethora of great female rappers from the UK and Iran’s Salome MC.
Teenage Girls, Rap Music and Why Kitty Pryde is the Savior
This excerpt sums up why I adore Kitty Pryde:
“But who speaks for teenage girls? Who tells the terrors of deciphering text messages from crushes, navigating sexual behavior and finding self-esteem in a world increasingly riddled with negative, harmful messages? Kitty once described her songs as diary entries, and they sound very much like confessionals. Her vocal curlicues feel like the doodles of a teenage girl’s handwriting, while her level of honesty is at times almost an affront to the unexpecting ear. But her rhymes are clever and original, and her songwriting is clear and concise even when centered on troubling topics. The production on D.A.I.S.Y. rage feels like a mix of floral frippery and some sort of concentrated hate. It’s the best of two diametrically oppositional themes.
It’s easy to see why older (and let’s keep it real, mostly male) critics are at odds with Kitty’s music. Many of them are rap traditionalists, and her music relates an experience they will never understand. Plus the flippancy with which she creates her musical pastiche upsets those with purist roots, because to them, hip-hop is still, well, hip-hop.”
