This assignment is based on the website by Eleadah Clack and Frewini Haile called "Ladies of Hip Hop: Female Rhetoricians." (http://hiphoprhetorics.portfoliovillage.com). The assignment is used for the Black Women's Rhetoric Project (see http://blackwomenrhetproject.org) on the second day of students' study on rhetoric and black women in Hip Hop (unit seven). Haile and Clack are students in the class. At their website, Haile and Clack describe black women's rhetoric "as a bold announcement of historical, social and personal consciousness. Through their words, actions and lived experiences, black women break down barriers, open doors and create change." Their website explores "the ways black women rhetors embody their words and create meanings beyond the barriers that they may have faced." Haile and Clack focus on hip-hop at their site "as a rhetorical form because of the impact of these women on [their] lives." They believe they've learned from Hip Hop women and intend to pay homage. The playlist that corresponds with this assignment features interviews and vlogs from both Haile and Clack as well as the perspectives of other women in Hip Hop today. On this second day of unit seven, students have THREE playlists to choose from for your assignment (you can watch/listen to all three playlists but come to class ready to talk about ONE of the playlists). This is the THIRD playlist that features the thoughts and ideas of WOMEN AUDIENCES as full PARTICIPANTS of Hip Hop.

1. Black Women’s Rhetoric Project
http:// blackwomenrhetproject.org
Unit Seven:
Watch the entire playlist. Come to class
Hip Hop Women ready to discuss:
1. Which video on the playlist spoke
For this assignment, most to you and why?
you have THREE 2. How and why is this rhetoric? How
and why is this black women’s
playlists to choose rhetoric?
from. This is the 3. What connections can you make to
playlist that the rest of the semester?
features Eleadah
Clack and No writing is due. Just come to class
FrewiniHaile’s ready to discuss your responses to
research with these three questions.
young women in
Hip Hop.

2. "Ladies of Hip Hop: Female Rhetoricians”
http://hiphoprhetorics.portfoliovillage.com
FrewiniHaile&Eleadah Clack choppin’ it up!

3. "Ladies of Hip Hop: Female Rhetoricians”
http://hiphoprhetorics.portfoliovillage.com
At their website, Haile and Clack
describe black women's rhetoric "as
a bold announcement of historical,
social and personal consciousness.
Through their words, actions and
lived experiences, black women
break down barriers, open doors
and create change.” Haileand Clack
focus on hip-hop at their site "as a
rhetorical form because of the
impact of these women on [their]
lives.” This playlist features
interviews and vlogs from both Haile
and Clack as well as the
perspectives of other women in Hip
Hop today.

4. "Ladies of Hip Hop: Female Rhetoricians”
http://hiphoprhetorics.portfoliovillage.com

5. "Ladies of Hip Hop: Female Rhetoricians”
http://hiphoprhetorics.portfoliovillage.com

6. "Ladies of Hip Hop: Female Rhetoricians”
http://hiphoprhetorics.portfoliovillage.com

7. Featuring
Discussions on:
Erykah
Badu

8. Featuring
Discussions on:
Missy
Elliot

9. Featuring
Discussions on:
Lauryn
Hill

10. Quotes brought to you by Frewini&Eleadah…
And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as
well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on
my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate
some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.
~Erykah Badu
I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that
there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's
really important to us, and music is all we've really got. ~Missy
Elliot
I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want
to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please
everybody. ~ Lauryn Hill

11. Stay tuned to…
"Ladies of Hip Hop: Female Rhetoricians” for more to come…
http://hiphoprhetorics.portfoliovillage.com
FrewiniHaile Eleadah Clack

12. Black Women’s Rhetoric Project
http:// blackwomenrhetproject.org
Unit Seven:
Watch the entire playlist. Come to class
Hip Hop Women ready to discuss:
1. Which video on the playlist spoke
For this assignment, most to you and why?
you have THREE 2. How and why is this rhetoric? How
and why is this black women’s
playlists to choose rhetoric?
from. This is the 3. What connections can you make to
playlist that the rest of the semester?
features Eleadah
Clack and No writing is due. Just come to class
FrewiniHaile’s ready to discuss your responses to
research with these three questions.
young women in
Hip Hop.