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Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Rapsody
 * Article Evaluation
 * - Style and philosophy section should include more about lyrics and specific topics she raps about in her songs
 * - The section style and philosophy section doesn't go into depth about how she created her style and how this philosophy of hers is truly shown in her music.
 * - This section needs more depth about her feelings a a black women in the rap game
 * - I think her personal life should also be placed before her style and philosophy. I also think it should explain more of her childhood.
 * - I think her personal life should also be placed before her style and philosophy. I also think it should explain more of her childhood.


 * Sources

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Love and Basketball
 * Article Evaluation
 * - The article is well developed for the plot section
 * - I would love to add more about the soundtrack and how it is essential to the development of the movie
 * - Also deconstructing the songs compared to the scene that it is playing over
 * - Also because most of the songs are well known in the black community
 * - I would also like to explain more about how the this movie can be seen developing toxic displaying of black love and how black women must endure hardship to reap the reward of having a family and happy ending
 * - I would also like to explain more about how the this movie can be seen developing toxic displaying of black love and how black women must endure hardship to reap the reward of having a family and happy ending


 * Sources
 * - https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2020-04-21/love-and-basketball-oral-history-20-year-anniversary
 * -   https://rtfgenderandmediaculture.wordpress.com/2020/07/02/analyzing-the-oppositional-relationship-between-monica-and-shawnee-in-love-basketball/
 * - https://xuengl359.wordpress.com/home/film-analysis-blog-posts/818-2/
 * - https://issuu.com/pynklmn/docs/the_squeeze_volume_3/s/10220341
 * - https://offscreen.com/view/on-african-american-women

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Video Vixen
 * Article Evaluation
 * - This article just gives basic information but isn't well developed.
 * - The article mentions books and articles written by video vixens but doesn't go into enough detail about them. I would like to use these sources to my advantage
 * - I would also like to use the words of more hip hop artist and their opinions on video vixens as we know they are often seen as sex symbols and just background dancers
 * - I would also like to explore more about how female rappers have taken on the image of video vixens in their own videos and explored their sexuality
 * - It is also important to explain how this could lead to the stereotype of black female rappers and black women as a whole(hypersexuality)
 * - Also he addition of the black women in hip hop subtitle is lacking the black women in hip hop honestly
 * - Also he addition of the black women in hip hop subtitle is lacking the black women in hip hop honestly


 * Sources
 * - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZgeDTVBMKc
 * - https://www.sohh.com/video-vixen-gloria-velez-passes-on-nicki-minaj-i-dont-believe-she-has-the-whole-package-video/
 * - https://videovixensubculture.wordpress.com/implications-negative-and-positive/
 * - https://www.complex.com/pigeons-and-planes/2013/10/interior-life-video-vixen/11-murder-inc
 * - https://womensmediacenter.com/fbomb/the-exploitation-of-women-in-color-in-music-videos-needs-to-end
 * - https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5251&context=masters_theses

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