Women in Hip Hop: Full Body Flow.

I moved into the fraternity house some time during April or May 2016. B and I lived together for our freshman year, too. At the time, my best friends lived in that house— my moving in, after surviving through some of my lowest moments, was what I needed.

I remember being in the room with B when Queen B released lemonade; we listened on repeat. Around then, I was also obsessed with The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill x the one and only Ms. Lauryn Hill. I would play the album front to back side to side, stopping at To Zion, That Thing, Nothing Even Matters to repeat so much my housemates thought I was loosing it.

There was something soothing in the rhythms and rhymes of Ms. Lauryn Hill that left not only captivated but compelled to expand my palette with more women of hip hop from MC Sha-Rock to Queen Latifah, Mc Lyte and Lil’ Kim, Sista Soujah and Salt-N-Pepa.

Now we have many women rappers out here spittin’ truth and telling stories of men, love, lust, hate, revenge, getting paid. Music has always pushed the culture forward and there is no better evidence than women in rap. Nicki, Meg, Cardi, Doja to name a few, for better or not, have changed the music game for all to come.

For this last week of my music and movement program— I’m honored to flow to a playlist through the times honoring Women who Rap. This full body flow will build off of the last few weeks and empower us to find the layers where we are most free, healed, and whole.