12 May 06 in Roundup
Here’s an action-packed roundup of things I was too lazy to write about this week—y’know, me being a shiftless minority and all.
- Photographer Jonathan Taylor offers a chilling yet starkly beautiful look into the lives of Thai sex workers. [Flickr]
- If fatigues and pillow fights are your thing, here’s a gallery of Israeli women in uniform. [Serial No. 3817131]
- By the way, black folks can be racist fuckwads too. [HipHopMusic.com]
- But are you racist if you don’t like the hippity-hop? [Slate]
- Finally, from the TMI department, did we really need to know about Annie Cruz’s “loose ass”? Was that really necessary? [Fleshbot]
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Racism,
Thai,
Israeli,
Black,
Music,
Porn
28 April 06 in Media
Atlanta’s Hip-Hop scene revolves around the city’s major strip clubs:
Two decades ago, strip clubs were among the few places that would play the nastiest Southern rap records. As Southern rap went mainstream, the connection between club deejays and musicians has only grown stronger.
And so, Monday through Wednesday nights — when Atlanta’s professional class is most likely sleeping — undiscovered hopefuls descend on three of the city’s best-known strip clubs, promoting their dreams and demo CDs in the presence of live nude girls.
I’m not exactly surprised by this. Underground culture and sex go hand-in-hand. And while Rock-n-Roll was neutered around the mid 1990’s, descending into pussified ‘emo’ navel-gazing, urban music has continued to embrace strongly sexual themes.
[Via Los Angeles Times]
More: Music,
Sex,
Hip-Hop,
Atlanta,
Strippers
