The artist that I selected to choose a track from this week is Dope Saint Jude and the track is named “Maintain Your Head Up”. Dope Saint Jude is a rapper from South Africa. She additionally is part of the LGBTQ+ neighborhood. She expresses herself on this approach in her music. One line says ” My ladies are black, queer, trans standing beside us, and we’re in every single place you look don’t attempt to disguise us.” additional on she says ” My ladies are black, queer, trans, don’t ever doubt us, and we don’t care if they are saying sure or don’t enable us.” These are each daring statements that rise up for what she believes in. Particular strains on this track stick out to me. For instance, she says “Hey lady preserve your head up, Don’t give a fuck in regards to the system that was arrange, You’re the boss, you’re the king, you’re the sheriff.” Dope Saint Jude is a feminist, so what I obtained from that was that the system that’s arrange by males doesn’t matter as a result of a girl can do something and all the pieces. Dope Saint Jude is a feminine artist who exhibits that she will go towards the stereotype of ladies in hip-hop. In most Hip Hop movies ladies are used as props to point out off their our bodies and if they’re rappers are all the time set to be sporting garments that hardly cowl them up. Together with her music, she breaks down obstacles from LGBTQ+, to standing up for girls, and establishing herself via lyrics and never only a common idea to maintain ladies in a field. She exhibits that there’s extra to Hip Hop than the over-sexualization of ladies and which you could make clear completely different subjects via lyrics. I want there was a video for this track, however there isn’t. For extra Dope Saint Jude her Instagram is @dopesaintjude
