"For my exhibition, I decided to focus on how women in hip-hop are excluded from the me-too movement. I decided to do this when I found an interview with Cardi B where she explained that people within her industry aren’t taken seriously when they talk about their experiences because they are “video vixens” so it’s not seen as important. When she said this, as well as detailing her own experience, I was shocked. I wanted to expose this through my own art. The writing along the top is a quote from Cardi B during her interview, it serves as a backdrop for the different narratives I wanted to portray. In the first image I drew Cardi B as a “video vixen” in her most recent song WAP along with another quote from her interview. The next picture is an image of Drew Dixon, she was music producer in hip-hop, she openly and successfully accused Music Mogul Russell Simone of sexual assault and rape. So far this is the only case where someone one in the hip-hop industry has been accused and it wasn’t ‘snuffed out’. Surrounding Dixon are the accusations she made and an empowering message as to why she didn’t quit. The third picture is a drawing of Candace Owens, an American politician and Trump supporter. Owens has been heavily critical of the BLM movement, and more recently, of Cardi B and her public endorsement of president elect Joe Biden. I felt shocked by her unkind comments, so I used her image to juxtapose the message and give an example and reflect about the type of commentary that women in hip-hop will receive if they open up about experiences. For the final image I used a picture of mainstream rapper Princess Nokia, with some lyrics from her song “I like him” and a reaction to them, I felt that they blended nicely with the end message for the final line of Cardi B’s quote."