Queen of Urban Prophecy by Aya de Leon

Author:Aya de Leon [Leon, Aya de]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-09-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

Chicago

Sometimes, Deza and Amaru would sleep at Tyesha’s dorm when their mom ghosted, chasing after their dad. Maybe that was when Deza’s greater love of hip hop really started, beyond just her own rhymes. It was Deza’s searches through Tyesha’s eclectic collection of hip hop that introduced her to Missy Elliott, OutKast, Lauryn Hill, Eve, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, and Lil’ Kim. In Deza’s teenage world, Drake and Nikki Minaj were always center stage, but Tyesha’s collection gave Deza some history and context.

One time, when Deza was in middle school, Tyesha took her and Amaru to a college party. It was like a magical place.The lights were low, and the music was loud, the rhythm hypnotic. Deza had grown up with hip hop as the soundscape to her life. Her mama played it in the house. Her dad played it in the car. On the street, it blasted from people’s windows. Or from speakers when they sat on their porches in the summertime.

But this was the first time that she was in the intimate dance space of it. Where it wasn’t diluted with the open air of a sidewalk or even a car. The room was the small common room of a dorm, but the crush of bodies left less room for the music, it was somehow concentrated. And it was the music, the puppet master in the room, making everyone dance on the same beat. It was a mass hypnosis. A tent revival. That voice.That voice that seemed to come from everywhere in the room, with the six speakers and the subwoofer pulsing below. But it was when the DJ put on Nicki Minaj’s “Super Bass” that something changed. All the previous voices had been male. Men bossing everyone around, especially the women. But suddenly, there was a woman pulling the strings. A female voice telling everyone what to do. Could women really have that much power? As she watched the college girls shaking and twerking on the dance floor, swinging their hair and laughing, watched the college boys swarm to them, transfixed, Deza wanted to pull those strings, wanted to hold that sway, wanted to be that voice.

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