Album Review: Can I Keep This Pen? by Northern State

Review Summary: White, female, co-ed hip-hop. But it's good!Whether by accident or design, every kind of music that produces a 'scene' will generate exclusivity. It's true of all the trance producers worldwide who remain secretive about their methods and aloof towards more inexperienced people in the genre, true of the lack of women found in first-wave punk bands and the alarming experiences the likes of Siouxie went through at the hands of the men dominating the genre, and true of reggae, where white people still experience great difficulty when it comes to being taken seriously.

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