Hip-Hop can be a complicated culture; it has a reputation of being a source of influence or destruction.  Hip-hop has been the source of building both love and hate simultaneously. Hip-hop gets a bad wrap and at the same time has been applauded as being one of the most significant musical genres the world has ever seen.  This month, we are focusing on the love that can be found in hip-hop; not just any love, but the love and honor that men of hip-hop have shown to women.

It’s Women’s History Month, and what a perfect time to use this month to honor women from across the globe. This month we are sharing hip-hop tributes (from men) to women everywhere. Some claim that hip-hop is a genre that doesn’t respect women, and that our culture and our music doesn’t honor women. However, this month, we are focused on all the men in hip-hop who have used their creativity, hearts, and souls to dedicate their music to women everywhere!

Fly Medium – Benny Star

Fly Medium, isn’t just hip-hop, it isn’t just rap – its prose, its art, and it is a testament to the beauty of black women and all the “fly mediums” everywhere.  It’s dope…check it out below:

“They call her radical , I call her magical

Perceptive

Seated at her feet and she lectures

She told me poetry is more than text is textures

So even when equating her to art

Overstand  that her black back’s arch is as hers as

As her heart and a part of her stark architecture…”