With a banging groove, tight flow, and precision rhymes, Rainbow Noise, a collective of mostly lesbian LGBTQIA rappers, bursts onto the scene with their often-smart, catchy, and defiant single, "Imma Homo."
The song recalls the same sense of party, pride, and unity as Native Tongues on the classic hip-hop jam “Buddy.” All of members are talented wordsmiths—in particular, Loco Ninja. But none, in my opinion, come close to Aela, who is, quite frankly, a beast: all swagger and confidence and razor-sharp rhyming, a little bit Medusa and a little bit T.I.—a star in the making.
And there are some very important sociopolitical messages here, but one must wade through ridiculously ubiquitous rap misogyny to get to it. As it turns out, women—even amongst a group of strong ones—are still regarded as receptacles for sexual disrespect. "I get hoes" is not a sentiment limited to heterosexual men, apparently.
Rainbow Noise has the opportunity to do something I'm not certain they're even aware of: transform the world by evincing a powerful human rights movement that transcends gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity, and geographic boundaries.
If they could only get past the patriarchal, heteronormative, self-loathing trappings.
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