PITTSBURGH — Monie Love grew up 3,500 miles from the center of hip-hop, but the message the South Bronx was putting out reached her as a 12-year-old kid in London.
It didn’t come via the Sugarhill Gang or Kurtis Blow or any of the seminal rappers. It came from an unlikely source — Malcolm McLaren, the British rock impresario who managed The Sex Pistols.
“The kids in London got hip-hop by way of movement,” says Love, who will headline The Legacy of Women in Hip Hop, a concert and panel discussion that is part of the Pittsburgh Humanities Festival on Friday.
