In “The Verse of the Godfather”, the third chapter in “Next of Kin” by Richard T. Rodríguez, there is an analysis of the Chicano hip hop scene and how it portrays La Raza. Hip hop is made up of many different elements which include “graffiti, urban aesthetics, break dancing, DJ technologies, and, particularly in a Chicano context, tattooing.” A lot of these elements focus on men. Women tend to be underrepresented in these elements. While they are underrepresented, women have and are still very involved in hip hop and it’s many elements.

One of the elements of hip hop that women are still very involved in is DJing. In the article “Meet the Latina DJ Crews Fighting Cultural Erasure, One 45 at a Time” by Michelle Threadgould, two all women DJ collectives are the focus. Chulitas Vinyl Club and The B-Side Brujitas are women’s DJ collectives that “are creating a positive space for their community to do the hard work of healing.” The healing the community is doing is against police brutality and gentrification. While the two collectives do not play hip hop music, they are spreading a message similar to that which many early hip hop DJs were putting across. Chulitas Vinyl Club and The B-Side Brujitas are two groups trying to bring notice to the issues their communities in the Bay Area face. These two groups relate to the reading because they show that women can actually represent and be a part of the hip hop movement. These groups show that women are able to get a message across similar to the way men do through rapping. Chulitas Vinyl Club and The B-Side Brujitas are two examples of how women can be part of hip hop and end the misrepresentation.

Article link:

https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/07/20/meet-the-latina-dj-crews-fighting-cultural-erasure-one-45-at-a-time/