Meet Awkwafina: an Asian Female Rapper on Vaginas, Tackling Racism & More
Videos and the text excerpt below are NSFW.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/14/meet-awkwafina-an-asian-female-rapper-on-vaginas-tackling-racism-more.html
By Jean Trinh
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Hailing from Queens, New York, the Asian female rapper—who prefers to go by just the one-word moniker—flows the lyrics “My vag a chrome Range Rover/Your vag hatchback ’81 Toyota” in her ode to her female bits, aptly titled “My Vag.” She proceeds to compare her vagina—in a style similar to female hip-hop contemporary Kreayshawn—to Harvard Law School and Beyoncé’s weave, all references held in high esteem, in her comedic rap.
“It’s a celebration of women,” Awkwafina tells The Daily Beast. “There aren’t a lot of songs out there talking about vaginas in an in-your-face kind of way.”
The song was a direct response to prurient rapper Mickey Avalon’s track “My Dick” from a few years earlier, when he rapped about his genitals in a similar fashion, boasting about his machismo and belittling other penises by calling them munchkins and saying they look like “Macaulay Culkin.” Although Awkwafina, 24, hasn’t heard what Avalon thinks of her song yet, she felt that as a woman she had to respond to it.
Even though she wrote the lyrics for “My Vag” a few years ago, she released a music video for it just late last year. Before then, she had been working a corporate job and rapped Def Jam–esque renditions of Shakespeare’s Othello to her friends for fun, until her friend and music-video director, Court Dunn, convinced her that “My Vag” was too good of a song not to share with the public. Now Awkwafina is making music full time and is working on a mixtape of her songs to be released later this month.
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Good article about this artist, what she is hoping to do, how she is doing it, etc.
Videos released so far are (and again, lyrics are very NSFW):
"My Vag" from the article linked above
"Yellow Ranger" about challenging the rap world (and expectations in general) as an Asian woman
"NYC B*tche$" (Her title, as is) which is essentially a 4 minute take down of hipsters