The Sex Issue

Volume 4, Issue 2

“One of the things that I’ve always been drawn to in hip-hop culture, and rap music specifically, is its unapologetic, blunt- and often explicit - stance. Growing up with hip-hop I have many memories of encountering its raw statements about sex. Like being 13 and coming how to watch reruns of Star Trek, and stumbling on The Box playing an endless loop of the video for 2 Live Crew’s “Pop That Coochie.” Or debating the merits of Kool Keither’s Sex Styles in a dingy, basement college radio station at 4.a.m. with my duns Aerolex, DJ Rodno and Krawl. Or changing along with the classic lyric, “And I love hip-hop like Madonna loves ****,” on early morning drives to haggle with recorded dealers at the flea market.”

- Graham Eng-Wilmot, Editor-in-Chief

Founder/Executive Director: Mazi Mutafa

Cipher Director: Simone Jacobson

Editor-in-Chief: Graham Eng-Wilmot

Managing Editor: Shonda Goward, MA

Literary Editor: Fred L. Joiner

Art Director: Cory L Stowers

Art & Culture Editor: Nick Schonberger

Contributing Editors: Zaynab Aden, Marilyn Alexis Braxton, Frank Talk, Alexander Haddad, Nate Mathews, Thomas Nehemaiah Wilson

Editors: Yashmin Mayaan Binti Bobo, Jason Nichols

Copy Editor: Fatma

Graphic Designer: Katrina Paz-Stowers, Asad “Ultra” Walker

Book Review Editor: Rob Jackson, Bomani Armah

Photography: Jati Lindsay, Rosina Teri Memelo, Josk Sisk

Illustrations: Elizabeth Blackford, Emek, Cita Sadeli

All proceeds fuel the work we put it in for those in need of safe spaces to express themselves through and experience Hip-Hop in its purest form.

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