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Originally Posted by Cajun_dee
Good points, well taken, thank you.
i remember her as this bad ass rapping butch whom i actually had a crush on. i have no idea why and i don't know her personally. i just got that energy from her. She seemed different from the rest. i liked that.
i do still like her as the evolved woman she is today.
i definitely can see a comparison to you, Snow. The different energies. 
i do think it's a wonderful thing that a woman can go from point A to point B in her lifetime and not have to answer to, or conform to society's stereotypical woman of today.
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Latifah came out in the late 80's, I remember going to a store on Mission St and buying her LP
"Hail to the Queen"
She was AMAZING, she not only wore traditional garb with confidence she wore it with pride.
Her style was hard and her rhymes are about strength and perseverance, in her single "Ladies First" :
This particular song is a Feminist anthem.
"Come to My House" - pens with the ultra-diva line, "Welcome into my Queendom..."
It wasn't until the movie "Set It Off" that the assumption and assignment of butch was placed on her because of the look she portrayed in the movie as a matter of fact all four of the women in the movie had "masculine energies"
The Queen was a continuous movement by the women of color in the hip hop/urban/rap culture women were claiming their space, they did it hard, they did it strong and it SCARED people and changed the music scene and opened it so women like MIA, Nicki Minage.
Missy Elliot is a great example of masculinity and femininity being fluid in a woman she could go from hard to soft real easy and not skip a beat.
If I was more comfortable pulling out old pictures, I can show you in *chola* clothing how I can easily convert my appearance from feminine to hard masculine with just a few accessories.