As Beyonce gears up for the monumental world tour for the brand new album titled Renaissance, the place she is predicted to make “north of $500 million” from tickets gross sales alone, and Ticketmaster greedily anticipates the income from their “dynamic pricing” scheme, I wish to share this publish about a bit recognized Hip Hop documentary about girls, gender, and energy in Hip Hop from Rachel Raimist launched in 1999, No one Know’s My Title.

Earlier than immensely proficient capitalist energy {couples} began promoting Hip Hop to the globe, there have been (and nonetheless are) cadres of underground, community-based artists who knowledgeable and conditioned the potential for the emergence of world feminist musical super-stars.

No one Is aware of My Title tells the story of ladies in Hip Hop that navigated the business, relationships, and their inventive inclinations in distinctive and provoking methods in the course of the Nineteen Nineties. Award-winning filmmaker Rachel Raimist’s ground-breaking documentary affords a distinct family tree of underground Hip Hop, Phat Beats, and political ethics based mostly on equality and wrestle moderately than illustration and market share.

The trailer on Vimeo is accessible right here. The complete documentary is accessible at Kanopy.

Dr. Raimist has written books and articles, produced movies, and directed movies, and was honored with a media middle named after her by the college’s Division of Gender, Girls, and Sexuality Research.