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The Hip-Hop Queens Oracle Deck
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The Hip-Hop Queens Oracle Deck

A 52-Card Deck and Guidebook: Oracle Cards

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A stunningly illustrated oracle deck featuring 52 of hip-hop’s most influential queens (from Lauryn Hill to Megan Thee Stallion) serving as compass points for spiritual growth and portals to guidance and meditation—from the author of God Save the Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop

Women have been the backbone of hip-hop since its earliest inception. Along with perseverance and creativity, they possess a spiritual and metaphysical presence. These female creators have a profound potency that makes them the perfect symbols for an oracle deck to help you address a question or set your intention for the day.
 
The fifty-two artists included—from MC Lyte, Salt-N-Pepa, Queen Latifah, and Lil’ Kim to Beyoncé, Missy Elliott, Cardi B, and Nicki Minaj—are hip-hop’s oracles, now immortalized from tape deck to card deck. Veteran music journalist and certified oracle reader Kathy Iandoli matched each queen with an appropriate symbol, based on her decades of experience interviewing (and befriending) iconic artists, past and present. Rendered in the bold, colorful, pop art–style portraiture of artist Monica Ahanonu on sturdy, oversized cards with rounded corners, these DJs, MCs, and singers will guide you the same way they’ve blazed trails from the underground to the mainstream since day one.
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The Hip-Hop Queens Oracle Deck

You could have chosen to throw any oracle cards in the world, but you’re here with these. And what a special deck this is. Why, you ask? Because Hip-Hop Queens reign supreme (over nearly everyone).

Women have been the backbone of hip-hop since its earliest inception. They have weathered storms, reinvented the wheel, found love (and heartache), birthed a new generation of children and artists. Beneath all their perseverance and creativity lies a spiritual and metaphysical presence. Call it what you want—lightning in a bottle, Black girl magic—but these female creators have a potency that transcends the lyrics on a page or spins of a record on a turntable. Their emotion, insight, foresight, hindsight, and of course strength and resilience make them the perfect symbols for an oracle deck.

The 52 artists you’ll see here are hip-hop’s oracles, now immortalized from tape deck to card deck. We hope they guide you the way they’ve blazed trails from the underground to the mainstream since day one.

About the Author

Kathy Iandoli
Kathy Iandoli is a critically acclaimed journalist and the author of God Save the Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop, Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah, The Hip-Hop Queens Oracle Deck (illustrated by Monica Ahanonu), and co-author of Eve's forthcoming Who's That Girl, Lil' Kim's forthcoming The Queen Bee, and Prodigy's Commissary Kitchen. She has written for VIBE, The Source, XXL, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Pitchfork, Playboy, PAPER, Cosmopolitan, Maxim, The Guardian, and VICE and held editorial positions at AllHipHop, HipHopDX, and BET online. Iandoli is a Professor of Music Business and Writing at New York University and has appeared on television, radio, and panels discussing hip-hop and gender. She is also the premier Media Coach for both up-and-coming musicians and Billboard chart-topping superstars, incorporating elements of Life Coaching and Mental Health Wellness into her coaching programs. More by Kathy Iandoli
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About the Author

Monica Ahanonu
Kathy Iandoli is a critically acclaimed journalist and the author of God Save the Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop, Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah, The Hip-Hop Queens Oracle Deck (illustrated by Monica Ahanonu), and co-author of Eve's forthcoming Who's That Girl, Lil' Kim's forthcoming The Queen Bee, and Prodigy's Commissary Kitchen. She has written for VIBE, The Source, XXL, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Pitchfork, Playboy, PAPER, Cosmopolitan, Maxim, The Guardian, and VICE and held editorial positions at AllHipHop, HipHopDX, and BET online. Iandoli is a Professor of Music Business and Writing at New York University and has appeared on television, radio, and panels discussing hip-hop and gender. She is also the premier Media Coach for both up-and-coming musicians and Billboard chart-topping superstars, incorporating elements of Life Coaching and Mental Health Wellness into her coaching programs. More by Monica Ahanonu
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