![]() Two months later, Wiz Khalifa used the term “mumble rap” on Hot 97 to describe “lil homies” who “don’t want to rap” as hip-hop’s dominant fad, prompted by an Ebro question regarding Lil Yachty and Lil Uzi Vert.īut it was Pete Rock who truly popularized the term in September when he criticized Yachty in a couple of Instagram captions, following the upstart’s comments on the Notorious B.I.G. 1 single, “Panda” - a song so wildly unintelligible that the rapper spent 90 percent of his video interviews last year repeating the lyrics slowly so that fans could understand what he’s even saying on it. The sentiment has been kicking around since last April, thanks largely to Desiigner’s no. Which brings us to the other way to think about “mumble rap” - as a reclaimed pejorative that fails as a musical description, and that gets trickier to define the more rappers it encompasses. They’re two very different personas who make very different rap music. I say “apparently” because - outside of being young, and being black, and being rappers - Lil Uzi Vert and 21 Savage don’t have much in common. There are two ways to think about “mumble rap.” First, as a loose contemporary hip-hop subgenre that apparently includes rappers such as Lil Uzi Vert and 21 Savage as well as the other, aforementioned examples. Most notably, 2023 marks her 20 th anniversary with her husband Antonio, their son Junior's first year at Morgan State University, a Historically Black University (HBCU), and their daughter Chase's journey toward an HBCU all her own.Kendrick Lamar Will Never Rap Harder Than He’s Rapping on ‘Damn.’ Last, but certainly not least, Lewis is most proud of and fulfilled by her personal life. For more information about her professional pursuits, please visit her FemGeniuseswebsite. Olympic Committee, the Kampagne für Opfer Rassistischer Polizeigewalt, and many other organizations in the U.S., Canada, and Berlin. Magazine, KRCC, Bitch, and Act Out and is the author of forthcoming essays that examine VH1's Love & Hip Hop, Bravo's Married to Medicine, and "expertise" Women's and Gender Studies. She has also given talks at Vanderbilt, the Gender and the Brain Conference, the University of Georgia, the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, Portland State, the U.S. She has also published articles and essays in The Cultural Impact of Kanye West, the Journal of Popular Culture, the Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships, and Unteilbar: Bündnisse gegen Rassismus contributed to NewBlackMan, NPR's "Here and Now," Ms. ![]() Previously, Lewis published In Audre's Footsteps: Transnational Kitchen Table Talk, co-edited with Dana Asbury and Jazlyn Andrews (Feminist & Gender Studies '17), for Ingeborg Bachmann Prize-winner Sharon Dodua Otoo's Witnessed Series. Lewis is also working on two documentaries focused on her work in Berlin and her experiences coming of age in northeast Ohio during the crack cocaine epidemic with Mae Eskenazi (Feminist & Gender Studies '19) and Lindumuzi Jabu Ndlovu (Feminist & Gender Studies minor '19), respectively. Finally, she calls for a reconsideration of Hip Hop’s commitment to situated analyses, a particularly opportune conversation as 2023 is the 30th anniversary of Hip Hop Studies and the 50th anniversary of Hip Hop. Third, she examines Mumble Rap on its own terms, especially the ways it challenges dominant narratives about Hip Hop masculinity and mumble rappers’ attention to mental and emotional health. Second, she examines habitus, situating Mumble Rap as southern and examining social media the institutional, commercial, and transnational contours of Hip Hop and Black politics. She also problematizes real Hip Hop norms for engaging with its origins and "old heads" demonstrates the ways most mumble rappers practice citational and collaborative politics congruent with real Hip Hop and the ways Mumble Rap is conversant with other, oft-ignored, Hip Hop cornerstones and takes a comprehensive approach to examining the Mumble Rap sound. The following year, she served as a Visiting Assistant Professor before entering the tenure track during the 2012-13 AY and earning tenure in 2018.Ĭurrently, Lewis is writing a single-authored manuscript entitled “ Make Rappers Rap Again!: Interrogating the Mumble Rap ‘Crisis.’” In it, she contends with the subjugation of mumble rappers, arguing Mumble Rap, which has galvanized the genre for over a decade, is real Hip Hop. First, she does so by recovering longstanding debates about what Hip Hop has been, is, and should be. Lewis joined the Colorado College faculty during the 2010-11 AY as a Riley Scholars-in-Residence Program Dissertation Fellow. ![]()
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