In an industry that is ruthlessly dedicated to discovering the hot new thing, pastoral care can be nonexistent. Where were the people giving him direction? The role of management is also coming under scrutiny. McIlwee claims that Peep had a fight with his management shortly before he died.
McIlwee says that labels and management should give artists time to recover. There are signs that lessons are being learned. He ensures that Tecca has at least a day off between shows and that tours last no longer than five weeks. Sometimes he brings chefs on the road to ensure he is eating healthily. Sleep is another priority, although there is a limit to what Zappala can do, given that Tecca is a teenager. Rivals get created, enemies get created.
Wopo was allegedly a member of the Hill District gang 11 Hunnit, and was name-checked in a police indictment shortly after his death. He was generating money and notoriety. Earlier generations of rappers used drugs as a tool to accrue wealth, speaking about selling them as a way out of poverty, rather than using narcotics themselves bar weed and alcohol. The corresponding proliferation of Dracos in rap lyrics and videos is both cosmetic and pragmatic.
Secondly, there is a Malcolm X and Black Panther-inspired notion of guns as a community safeguard—an instrument of self-defense. From that same lineage, arguments for the importance of arming yourself found its way into the music of artists like N.
Rap does have a tendency to sensationalize, though, to magnify and display. I got this many shoes, this many rings, this much money, this many rhymes. I got this many people in my learn-to-read foundation. After picking up the obsession from Chief Keef, he has become the posterboy for all things Draco.
He claimed his next album would be called Draco , and went on a self-proclaimed Draco Tour. Why would you do that to a child? He was like 30 and he knew I looked up to him. Why would you do that to someone who looks up to you? His troubled and abusive childhood saw him living in children's homes and getting involved in violence and crime, leading to several run-ins with the police and his first arrest at Those experiences were later expressed in his tortured, candid lyrics about ghetto life.
DMX also learned to befriend stray dogs, developing a strong bond with his canine friends and later having his former pet, Boomer, tattooed on his back after the dog was struck and killed by a car. The song was a gold-selling smash on the rap and dance charts and paved the way for his full-length debut, It's Dark And Hell Is Hot, to enter the Billboard chart at number one.
The same year, his autobiographical single Slippin ' would recount the rapper's troubled life, and the track was played in federal court before the rapper's sentencing for tax evasion. DMX found his saving grace in hip-hop, starting out as a DJ and human beatbox, and later moving into rapping, taking his name from the DMX digital drum machine although some suggest it also stood for Dark Man X.
Still unknown when he signed to Columbia Records in , the rapper was given little attention from the label and his promotional single Born Loser came and went unnoticed. DMX complained about the label's neglect and was let out of his contract. He issued one further single in , Make A Move, but was convicted of drug possession that same year. Not long after the album's release, he was accused of rape, but was later cleared by DNA evidence.
He went on to make his feature film debut in Hype Williams' ambitious but unsuccessful Belly, which was criticised for its violence. It featured a controversial cover photo of the rapper covered in blood - but unfazed, fans pushed the album to the top of the chart. Like his debut, DMX said he wanted it to convey the raw, personal trials and obstacles of life.
So, how is it after almost a decade of not only being part of Kenya's musical cornerstone but also a cultural icon that Fena is still feeling slighted by the industry?
She says that for a long time, the word has been used in profanity, usually to portray some sort of weakness in someone or something. This has inadvertently and on a subconscious level manifested thoughts that women are weaklings or cannot be counted on to do major things.
We're not using the word in a profane way, our generation is past a point where we are apologetic about our womanhood and direct expression. Of course we'll have a censored version for the masses. Essentially, it's just to affirm our power," says Fena. Referring to them as her younger sisters, Fena partnered with Vallerie and Maandy for "having some of the tightest flows". It's her way of looking after them because of what she has had to go through.
Even her team is an all-women affair, saying the vibe of sisterhood that comes from how women work and move creates a feeling of safety. When I came in there weren't many female emcees in the game. But now we're having so many others coming through, and pushing very hard. They are dope and I believe we need that to balance out the scales of this once male-dominated industry," says Fena.
That domination is not only in form of artistes, it spreads out to event organisers, producers and promoters. This is where the disparity counts even more for female artistes.
The more things change, the more they stay the same has never been truer than when talking about equal pay for equal work between men and women. Female rappers who have "earned their stripes" are still finding themselves having to explain why they should be paid the amount they quote as their price for work rendered. They give excuses such as experience, so and so having been in the industry for longer than I have.
But if we're on the same banner or platform and you know what I bring and that's the reason you want my name on that , then why is there such a big gap between what you're paying him and me?
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