As my previous post had explained, there are usually two presentations of the female rapper. Interestingly enough, I decided to watch an older video by Lil Kim called "Lighters Up". While watching this video, I realized a major detail that one would almost not catch unless paying close attention to the singer rather than the whole video: she changes her outfit multiple times. The song is meant to create a unifying idea among anyone who is on the bottom-end of society and partially her clothing reflects this idea, but, simultaneously, she also varies her clothing between that which is more "masculinized" and that which is more "feminized". It's almost as if she subverts the idea that she has to rap under a specific image and can don whatever clothing and still be seen as a rapper. So, that leaves to question, is this the solution? Does a female rapper need to have constant changing, constant appearance modification to subvert the two identities that exist?
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