Reviewed by Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Transfer

It actually sucks when your dad is absent.

Mother stands out as the driving power in younger Jules’ life, however she actually needs to attach together with her dad and make him proud.  He he ignores her although. On a regular basis!  Because the little one of divorced dad and mom, Jules will get shipped off to the Valley for weekends with a intentionally silent and emotionally neglectful father who leaves her to her personal units in a quiet bed room.  Whereas he’s not talking to Jules, he’s paying lots of consideration to his new girlfriend and it doesn’t take lengthy for Jules to determine that he most likely needs she wasn’t even born.  

However there may be salvation to loneliness.  Jules connects with the style, figures and spoken phrase fusion of hip hop throughout its Golden Period, and the music finally ends up being the opposite mum or dad elevating her shallowness and educating her on independence till when college-bound, she lastly has the braveness to not want her absentee dad.

90s HIP HOP RAISED ME is a candy, albeit, barely one-note, one-woman, present written by solo performer Malaika Jules who presents a reasonably quiet however deep viewpoint of a lonely child residing within the fantasy of “what it might be like, if”.  Though, barely inhibited by sluggish course her narrative is insightful into the thoughts and emotional lifetime of a younger lady surviving on cultural affect to reply the necessary questions on herself as she navigates friendships, heartbreaks, entrepreneurship, and observes the follies of everybody else on this planet round her; and surprisingly, seems okay.  

Whereas 90s HIP HOP RAISED ME doesn’t essentially have a very blissful ending.  It’s the one Jules wants and deserves.  

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