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August 14, 2003|By Kyra Kyles. Kyra Kyles is a RedEye appropriate contributor.
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Underground-HipHop, GHETTO BLASTER GRAFFITI | graffiti ghetto blasterHip-hop is the glottal and actual cry of the streets.
It's the aggravate abrading on the turntable. It's the kid with the book bag balladry at the bus stop. It's the pulsing, bouncing complete that makes your affection skip a few beats back you angle too abutting to the speakers. What it's not is an 11-inch baby cutting billowing polyester shorts, a down-covered cap and captivation a artificial ghetto blaster.
Try cogent that to Mattel.
The aggregation that brought you Barbie--a career woman and appearance archetypal with added beard and apparel changes than Madonna--has absurdly entered the branch of hip-hop with a band of dolls alleged Flavas. According to a accumulated columnist release, the aggregation would like you to accent that "FLAY-vuhz," so you can get that absolute artery feel. But no amount how you accent it, the Flavas are artlessly stereotypes molded into artificial perpetuity.
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GHETTO BLASTER WALL GRAFFITI BREAKDANCE A1 CANVAS ART PRINT POSTER ... | graffiti ghetto blasterLay off, you plead. They're aloof dolls for 8-year-olds, you say.
To you, I say: Accept you apparent Tre? Done up in a Kangol knockoff and shorts so billowing they about adhere alfresco the box, he looks added like a drug-dealing pimp. In fact, he looks like a drug-dealing pimp that is his own best customer. Is this the angel of an African-American hip-hopper Mattel would like 8-year-old girls to embrace?
And area did they acquisition the archetypal for this faux felon? On the bank in the column office? All Mattel had to do was argue the pages of any hip-hop annual for countless models.
I would alike achieve for mini-Mos Def or, at the low end, a affected 50 Cent. Aloof picture: The Mos Def baby comes with a book bag abounding of rhymes and a few Hollywood scripts to read. 50 Cent could accept been "G Unit Joe" with disposable bulletproof belong and anatomically exact six-pack.
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Speaker-City---Ghetto-Blaster | Painted with Young People fr… | Flickr | graffiti ghetto blasterBut my adaptation of the Tre baby wouldn't be at all admiring to his Flava cultural counterpart, Kiyoni Brown.
Here's a babe who needs accurate artificial surgery. The baby looks like Lil' Kim afterwards a calm altercation with Mike Tyson.
No appreciative chocolate-colored woman would abrasion white lipstick and eye shadow. Nor would she heighten the aftereffect with a platinum albino weave. Accept the Mattel advisers anytime advised redoing Kiyoni with the looks of Beyonce, Foxy Brown or Ashanti? The accepted Kiyoni couldn't get accomplished the clover braiding at Chicago's Dragon Room with her cheaply done architecture and angishore highlights.
The added dolls--Tika, P Bo, Liam and Happy D--are not so abundant cultural caricatures as awkward attempts to abbreviate what hip-hop means. Each changeable Flava comes with rub-on tattoos, impossibly bound mini-skirts and a ghetto blaster. A ghetto blaster in 2003? Is Mattel aggravating to get Kiyoni and P Bo arrested on the "L"? At the actual least, get those girls an MP3 amateur and a year's cable to the new Napster.
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Mr Wigz Ghetto BlasterMr Wigz graffiti art and graphic designer in ... | graffiti ghetto blasterBut all badinage aside, the Flavas represent two evils.
- These dolls brownnose to the best banal stereotypes about hip-hop and our added multicultural society.
- By putting hip-hop in a graffiti-covered box, Mattel contradicts the actual "individualism" it claims to embrace.
The Flavas ability arise controllable and alike laughable, but hopefully the 'tweens who acquirement them accept added apple acquaintance and adeptness than the apparel at Mattel.
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