Clover Hope

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Clover Hope
BornGuyana
OccupationJournalist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityGuyanese-American
Alma materNew York University (BA)
SubjectPop music, hip hop, interview
Years active2005 — present
Notable worksBlack is King (co-writer)
Website
www.cloverhope.com

Clover Hope is a Guyanese-American music journalist. She was previously an editor at Billboard, XXL, and Jezebel. She is a contributing editor for Pitchfork as of 2020. Hope's debut book The Motherlode: 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop was released in 2021.

Early life and education

Hope was born in Guyana and immigrated to New York City when she was three years old. She was raised in both Brooklyn and Queens. She cited DMX's It's Dark and Hell is Hot and the work of Missy Elliott as two sources that cultivated her love for hip hop.

Hope graduated magna cum laude from New York University with a bachelor's degree in journalism.

Career

Journalism

Hope's first job in journalism after college began in 2005 as an online editor at Billboard. She went on to work at XXL for three years and then moved on to be senior editor at Vibe. She was hired as a staff writer for Jezebel in 2014 and left in 2020. Her work has also appeared in outlets including The Village Voice, ESPN, GQ, and Harper's Bazaar. She has been a contributing editor at Pitchfork since 2020.

Beyoncé's featured September 2018 Vogue editorial included an as-told-to interview with Hope. The writer again collaborated with Beyoncé as a co-writer on Black Is King (2020).

Other work

She is a co-executive producer for Black Renaissance, a Black arts and culture YouTube Originals special that premiered February 26, 2021.

Hope is an adjunct professor at New York University.

Her debut book The Motherlode: 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop was released in 2021. The book profiles iconic women in hip-hop like Roxanne Shanté and Nicki Minaj and provides historical context as well as the perspectives of the featured artists.

References

  1. ^ a b c Bossi, Andrea. "This New Book On The 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop Is Revolutionary". Forbes. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e Best Music Writing 2010. Carr, Daphne., Powers, Ann, 1964-. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo. 2010. ISBN 978-0-306-81935-3. OCLC 698589756.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. ^ a b Arnold, Chuck. "Clover Hope's 'The Motherlode' Puts Women In Rap First". Essence. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  4. ^ Stewart, Alison. "Cheerleading Discrimination, Hip Hop Fashion and Pioneers, Book Club, 'Palmer'". WNYC. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  5. ^ Tabor, Nick (2016-07-24). "Jezebel's Clover Hope on What's Wrong (and Right) With the Media". New York Magazine. Archived from the original on 2018-11-20. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  6. ^ Sterne, Peter (2014-10-03). "Dodai Stewart leaves Jezebel for Fusion". Politico. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  7. ^ a b "Farewell to Clover Hope, Jezebel's Unroastable Silent Killer". Jezebel. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  8. ^ Petrarca, Emilia (2018-08-06). "What to Know About the 23-Year-Old Who Photographed Beyoncé for Vogue". The Cut. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  9. ^ McKinney, Jessica (2020-08-31). "7 First Impressions from Beyoncé's 'Black Is King' Film". Complex. Archived from the original on 2020-08-01. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
  10. ^ Grant, Shawn (2021-01-28). "YouTube Originals Announces 'Black Renaissance' Featuring President and Mrs. Obama". The Source. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
  11. ^ Gaffney, Adrienne (2021-01-31). "Honor and Learn This Black History Month". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-02-04.

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