Laina Dawes is a freelance writer and music journalist from Toronto. You can check out her online portfolio and blog at: www.lainad.com.
Moya Bailey is a senior Comparative Women’s Studies Major at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia.
Jean Chen is the managing editor of PopandPolitics.com. She likes New York because of the thin crust pizza. She hates New York because of the humidity and the lack of free WiFi.
Dan Tres OMi is a contributing writer to VEBALISMS Magazine. You can reach him at dantresomi@msn.com or visit his site at: selfra.blogspot.com.
Hailing from NY but dislocated in a seemingly never-ending search for knowledge, Shawan is a grad student who is tired of reading bad scholarship on hip-hop.
With pipe dreams of saving the world, she’ll settle for making you think. It’s hip-hop that keeps her connected. Whether good or bad it never ceases to amaze [...]
Alfie Ebojo dislikes bios because she considers herself a work in progress. She is an artist, a graphic designer, an illustrator, a poet, a performance artist, a producer, a community builder, the female element of Poorhouse Projekts, an active souljah in Balagtasan Collective, one half of Crazy Smitten! Productions, servant to the people, village [...]
Raquel has been known as a renaissance b-girl. Coming of age during the time when hip-hop was beginning to grace our streets, she has seen its transformation through many generations.
VERBALISMS magazine grew out of her annoyance with the lack of coverage on women in the culture. Picking up magazine after magazine and seeing one or [...]
Disgustingly obsessed with KyotoMassive; Sound Clash that’ll make you go bump in the night and hurt your feet from dancing. Enjoys paper cuts because they encourage more typing and the usage of glow-in-the-dark Ninja Turtle bandaids. Video game fanatic who’s obsessed with only the ’secrets’.
Still bumps MF DOOM’s ‘Voices’ joints; both pt 0 & 1 [...]
Natalie Parales has been a hip-hop head from the get go. Back when she was in the 1st grade, her mommy bought her the “Fresh Rap” compilation tape. Ever since, she has been recording instrumentals from late night radio hip-hop shows and rhyming with her Fisher Price mic.
Then back in 1997 when rhyming [...]
Iman Saadiqa Abdul-Majid (a.k.a. Tori Baker) was born and raised in Detroit, MI. She became a fan of hip-hop early on listening to her aunts RunDMC, Beastie Boys and Ice-T vinyl. As she got older she got deeper into womens hip-hop, but as gangsta rap took hold and “good” hip-hop became lost in the undertow [...]
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