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If you check the archives you will see that I didn’t have such high hopes for the ego trip collective’s latest television endeavor ‘Miss Rap Supreme’. It wasn’t because I didn’t think that the ego trip team couldn’t produce compelling television since they did that with the (white) Rapper Show, but would anyone want to tune in to listen to women rap?

Rap music is so often contextualized next to professional wrestling. Mostly because the blood and beefs are faked and the rampant steroid use. I never found myself interested in women’s wrestling and I think that sentiment rings true for people listening to rap music in 2008. Rap music has shifted culturally from embodying art to representing sport, and not even graceful sports either. Most rap music nowadays grunts and bumps its head into the wall. Rightfully so too since most fans say they listen to rap in order NOT to have to think.

Where does that leave women in the creation of this music? Kudos to ego trip for trying to save Hip-Hop by injecting the female aspect back into the music. Boys kissing men on the the lips while closing their eyes was NOT the proper female aspect. The irreparable damage was already done. Jean Grae can’t do it all by herself and she rhymes better than 84.675% of the people I hear on the radio. ego trip needed to bring some futuristic female funk to the television. I’m still trying to find someone that effed with this program other than the hype machine.

Holler at me if you went in on the entire season of Miss Rap. Vh-1 needs to broadcast a bloc of the Miss Rap Supreme programs. They should do that this weekend after hours when I am home sitting on my ass looking for some shit to watch so I don’t have to think. That is how Adult Swim murders shit. The programming blocs also bring out the production narrative of the series. I don’t care anything about these broads for 30mins weekly, but for four hours on a weekend I can fuck with these bitches.

*Of course I say bitch in only the most respectful way*