Flashback Friday: Karyn White and Schoolly D
This Friday is dedicated to the 80s babies. Remember these?
Karyn White (1988)
2019 is filled with songs about women’s empowerment, but if you’re an 80s baby like me, the first empowerment song of our era was Karyn White’s “Superwoman.” Girls in my class would yell the lyrics all the time: “I’M NOT YOUR SUPERWOMAN! ImNotTheKindOfGirlThatYouCanLetDownAndThinkThatEverythingIsOK BOY I AM ONLY HUMANNNNNN!” White’s debut album was much more than that monstrous single, in fact, it’s one of the hidden gems of the late 80s and still worth a spin today.
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Schoolly D (1985)
Time for a little hip-hop education: Although some people regard Ice-T as the first gangsta rapper, even he says that’s untrue. Ice-T readily admits that his influence, and the true godfather of gangsta rap, is Schoolly D and his 1985 debut. It’s an album that’s rarely remembered today but paved the way for Ice-T, Public Enemy, the Beastie Boys and more.
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