Life in Pink

  There is an abundance of female rappers, each with their own unique style, sound, and subject matter, who have made 2020 a notable year for women in rap. Hit songs, debut albums and mixtapes, popular TikTok challenges, creative music videos, and outstanding live performances from a number of them, helped document the successful year it has been. As 2020 comes to an end, it would be a true disservice to these women, to not mention their achievements and successes, both individual and collaborative. These successes should be highlighted and acknowledged because for the first time in a long time multiple women are dominating in hip hop which has been a predominantly male genre since its inception.  Hip hop is also a genre that is constantly expanding and creating subgenres, those include socially conscious rap or “woke rap,” gangsta rap, and more popular these days mumble rap, and drill. It is important to understand that female rappers are not a subgenre themselves, as not all female r

“Count on me through thick and thin,  a friendship that will never end When you are weak I will be strong Helping you to carry on Call on me I will be there, don’t be afraid Please believe me when I say,  Count on.” Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds wrote this song and many others for the soundtrack of one of my favorite movies, Waiting to Exhale. I wrote those lyrics in my best friend’s yearbook in 2014, about 19 years after it was recorded. Today we are still best friends and not to brag but I have kept my word, or Babyface’s words, from then til now. The song itself is a promise between two friends that no matter what they may be going through, they will be there for one another. Whenever one is lacking, the other will pick up the slack. Their friendship will never end because they can depend on each other and they love each other. It’s the last song of the album and the song that plays at the end of the movie when the credits are rolling. At the end of the film, the four friends, Bernadin