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"I am an album, the def man's never outdone!"

Call me Defmatic, a Kenyan emcee, poet, songwriter and producer. Ergo, this blog is dedicated to the arts and looking at life through the eyes of a Hip Hop artist.

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Rap: Prejudices, Phobias and Misogyny

"I can’t believe you’re listening to that!" That’s what a friend of mine once said when he heard me listening to Snoop Dogg’s Doggystyle album. The lyrics talked of a man who killed with no remorse, hated weak men, glorified gang violence and treated women with such disregard that it would make your toes curl. But why do most rappers sound so violent yet in real life are just as calm and reasonable as any ordinary person? Many reasons have been placed to explain the contradictions that appear in the genre. One says that rappers are merely reflecting a world they reside in, while others say that they are perpetuating what others have perfected to earn the same financial success. But a more alarming reason claims that they are desperately masking inadequacies and personal fears. Before I dive back into the topic let’s look at what misogyny is. Misogyny is defined as the glorifying, justifying, normalizing, objectifying, exploitation and victimization of women. Most

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In the beginning 'they say' the universe was a void, a dark and formless vacuum (depending on whichever theory you ascribe to) and out of it a spontaneous explosion occurred and elements came forth. From the very onset we have something coming out of what appears to be nothing, light coming from dark. I’m not a big fun of dualism though sometimes I may be accused of such (haha) but I think matter and nature have an incessant need to balance out or build a reverse of what exists. But to bring it back home, lets go back to the beginning, that dark or black place. Black is a familiar color to most and depending on your cultural background, it has meaning when used in different circumstances be it in words or matter. I know you may be curious to ask then, what does black mean to me? From the word itself I ascribe a cultural connotation to it and thus we may need to rephrase the question to be; what does blackness mean to me? Well, blackness ties back to the fir

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