Tag - hiphop

NASA Transmits Hip-Hop Song to Deep Space for First Time

The stars above and on Earth aligned as an inspirational message and lyrics from the song “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” by hip-hop artist Missy Elliott were beamed to Venus via NASA’s DSN (Deep Space Network). The agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California sent the transmission at 10:05 a.m. PDT on Friday, July 12. As the largest and most sensitive...

How Tina Turner’s abuse became a hip-hop trope – Scalawag

This essay is a part of pop justice, Scalawag’s newsletter exploring the intersection of popular culture and justice—namely through abolition. Sign up here. Content Warning: This piece discusses physical and verbal abuse. When I heard that superstar and “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll” Tina Turner passed away yesterday, the first thing I wanted...