This RSS feed includes featured items from all categories in this module. To subscribe to items from a specific category, just click on the RSS link while viewing that category. http://staybattlin.com/ All Material Copywrited StayBattlin http://staybattlin.com/blogs/the-breaks-with-kit-katvapid-feat-bboy-napalm Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:48:46 -0400   KitKat’s Word of the Day:  VAPID   Vapid adj. 1. Lacking liveliness 2. Lacking flavor   It should be common knowledge that parents and teachers are not solely responsible for imparting knowledge to the youth; ho... http://staybattlin.com/blogs/the-breaks-with-kit-katvapid-feat-bboy-napalm http://staybattlin.com/blogs/quanstars-the-underdog-review-by-angie-the-hiphop-angel-griffin Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:28:17 -0400 Review of Quanstar's "The Underdog" by Angie "The Hiphop Angel" Griffin As I listen to the abstract beats and refined rhyme of Quanstar in his latest debut, "The Underdog," the first thing that comes to mind is "Grown Folks" Hip Hop music. This ne... http://staybattlin.com/blogs/quanstars-the-underdog-review-by-angie-the-hiphop-angel-griffin http://staybattlin.com/blogs/the-breaks-with-kit-katbroken-wallz-savage-monsterz Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:57:49 -0400        Hit the road to Orlando with my son Elys, brother Bolo, brother Rizo and his daughter Atli at dark o’clock a.m. on Saturday, July 31 to attend For Your Soul 3 hosted by Lito! The underground scene of hip ho... http://staybattlin.com/blogs/the-breaks-with-kit-katbroken-wallz-savage-monsterz http://staybattlin.com/blogs/women-in-hip-hop-is-hip-hop-any-worse Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:07:48 -0400 Hip-hop gets a lot of bad press about the prevalence of sexually degrading content in many of its popular songs and music videos, and highly negative portrayal of women. Initially, the purpose of this article was to take a closer look at the degree t... http://staybattlin.com/blogs/women-in-hip-hop-is-hip-hop-any-worse http://staybattlin.com/blogs/women-in-hip-hop-vote-with-your-dollars Sat, 21 Apr 2007 02:13:24 -0400 What then is to be done? I seriously doubt that our society will change overnight on the principle of using sex to sell, but I do think that hip-hop has a responsibility to renew its focus on instilling not just an empowering and healthy sense of per... http://staybattlin.com/blogs/women-in-hip-hop-vote-with-your-dollars http://staybattlin.com/blogs/women-in-hip-hop-using-sex-to-sell Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:13:04 -0400 This will be short section, because it should come as no surprise to anyone out there. But the marketing departments in our society largely revolve around an almost timeless principle that using sex to sell will definitely help you get the attention... http://staybattlin.com/blogs/women-in-hip-hop-using-sex-to-sell http://staybattlin.com/blogs/women-in-hip-hop-the-wrong-kind-of-power Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:12:26 -0400 Admittedly, I am a newbie to the hip-hop game. Two years ago, the extent of my collection was basically some old school BEP and Blackalicious, as well as a slew of hip-hop influenced music like 311, Beck, or Rage Against the Machine (neither of these... http://staybattlin.com/blogs/women-in-hip-hop-the-wrong-kind-of-power