Desperate Hip-Hop Wives: Married to the Game
SOHH spoke with The Source's former Editor-in-Chief Kim Osorio, artist manager El, former Aftermath executive Tashion Macon, promotions manager Kim Trick and Hip-Hop journalist and author Giselle Zado-Wasfie about their opinions on the real life treatment of women professionals in the male-dominated Hip-Hop industry.
These stories are raw...
We all know what happened with Kim, who vowed that she was telling the truth about the charges. But the good stuff comes with Tashion Macon -- former record exec at Laface and Aftermath -- talks about how she's heard women execs get cussed out:
"I've witnessed men cursing women," Tashion recalls. "Calling them 'bitches' to their faces. There was no reprimand. General Managers didn't put a letter in the file. And I'm talking about an artist could say it, a colleague could say it, a manager could say it," Tashion reveals. "Women have been cursed from one side of the table to the other. I've heard men say, 'She's not getting enough sex that's why she's bitchy' or ;'If you give her some of that dick, she'll get up off that budget.' Things like that have been said and I've heard them say it."
In another poignant segment, author/journalist Giselle Wasfie talks about how she was sexually touched by a southern rap mogul:
"If you're a female music journalist, you're interviewing guys and you're trying to engage their trust. But then at one point you'll see them looking at your legs a little long." Wasfie recalls one particular incident with a popular rapper who'll remain nameless. "I took a picture with a major southern mogul and he put his arm around me. But when I looked back at the picture, I noticed the position of his arm is a little to close to my breast."
These are just a couple of the highlights from the peice which is way overdue but well done by Jay Smooth. Personally, I know of a few woman who've been straight up groped -- one after an industry party on the way home in a company car. It's that hectic out there.
Ken Thompson -- attorney for Kim Osorio -- vows he's gonna change the game -- so much so that folks will be saying "remember The Source" b/4 they commit sexual violations at work. This could be the tsunami that finally turns the rap music industry -- including the titty videos and sex-charged lyrics -- upside down.