00:00A lot of times people ask me like, why now? Why did you write this book? My book, Ride or Die, it is, I use hip-hop as a lens to have conversations that are specific about black womanhood. And the whole concept of this ride or die chick, we're going to be there, we're going to give our whole oil and pour from an empty cup, we're going to show off for people, sometimes we ride until we die. I want us to dismantle that whole ride or die history conversation. I want us to kill it.
00:25One of my favorite chapters of the book, it is a call-in to us cis-hetero black women about how we better show up for our queer sisters, right? And when we use hip-hop as the standard for a lot of things, but especially when we're talking about heteronormity, right?
00:41And if we use hip-hop as the standard for what's homophobia, then that means we're only defining it by violence in its worst culture, right? So then that means things like microaggressions towards our queer sisters don't get checked often.
00:53So what I wanted to do for my book is use it as a call-in to amplify that so that it can be amplified amongst us and God willing within hip-hop culture itself.
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