Women's History Month: Northern State

Hesta Prynn, Spero, and DJ Sprout form the hip-hop trio known as Northern State, the female's answer to the Beastie Boys. The Beastie Boys are the reigning force for a certain type of hip-hop that revolves around a dope series of pop culture allusions spit over a phat beat and conjuring up a vague sense of political awareness, if not activism. The only reason the Beastie Boys reign still is that not more people know about Northern State. They bring not only the pop culture allusion, but a slew of literary allusions, lines randomly stolen out of folk songs, and a sharp enough political focus to articulate their enemies with style.