Clover Hope
{{short description|Guyanese-American music journalist}}
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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.{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/698589756|title=Best Music Writing 2010|date=2010|publisher=Da Capo|others=Carr, Daphne., Powers, Ann, 1964-|isbn=978-0-306-81935-3|location=Cambridge, MA|pages=|oclc=698589756}} 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.{{cite web|last1=Arnold|first1=Chuck|title=Clover Hope's 'The Motherlode' Puts Women In Rap First|url=https://www.essence.com/entertainment/the-motherlode/|access-date=4 February 2021|website=Essence}}{{cite web|last1=Stewart|first1=Alison|title=Cheerleading Discrimination, Hip Hop Fashion and Pioneers, Book Club, 'Palmer'|url=https://www.wnyc.org/story/all-of-it-2021-02-04/|access-date=4 February 2021|website=WNYC}}
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.{{Cite web|last=Tabor|first=Nick|date=2016-07-24|title=Jezebel's Clover Hope on What's Wrong (and Right) With the Media|url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/07/clover-hope-problem-with-media.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120103842/http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/07/clover-hope-problem-with-media.html |archive-date=2018-11-20 |access-date=2021-02-04|website=New York Magazine|language=en-us}} 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.{{Cite web|last=Sterne|first=Peter|date=2014-10-03|title=Dodai Stewart leaves Jezebel for Fusion|url=http://politi.co/1PxdkUb|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-02-04|website=Politico|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Farewell to Clover Hope, Jezebel's Unroastable Silent Killer|url=https://jezebel.com/farewell-to-clover-hope-jezebels-unroastable-silent-ki-1844991402|access-date=2021-02-04|website=Jezebel|language=en-us}} 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.{{cite web |last1=Bossi |first1=Andrea |title=This New Book On The 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop Is Revolutionary |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/andreabossi/2021/01/31/how-this-new-book-on-the-100-women-who-made-hip-hop-is-revolutionary/?sh=7f4540271f11 |website=Forbes |access-date=4 February 2021}}
Beyoncé's featured September 2018 Vogue editorial included an as-told-to interview with Hope.{{Cite web|last=Petrarca|first=Emilia|date=2018-08-06|title=What to Know About the 23-Year-Old Who Photographed Beyoncé for Vogue|url=https://www.thecut.com/2018/08/tyler-mitchell-photographer.html|access-date=2021-02-04|website=The Cut|language=en-us}} The writer again collaborated with Beyoncé as a co-writer on Black Is King (2020).{{Cite web|last=McKinney|first=Jessica|date=2020-08-31|title=7 First Impressions from Beyoncé's 'Black Is King' Film|url=https://www.complex.com/music/2020/07/beyonce-black-is-king-first-impressions|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801231706/https://www.complex.com/music/2020/07/beyonce-black-is-king-first-impressions |archive-date=2020-08-01 |access-date=2021-02-05|website=Complex|language=en}}
= Other work =
She is a co-executive producer for Black Renaissance, a Black arts and culture YouTube Originals special that premiered February 26, 2021.{{Cite web|last=Grant|first=Shawn|date=2021-01-28|title=YouTube Originals Announces 'Black Renaissance' Featuring President and Mrs. Obama|url=https://thesource.com/2021/01/28/black-renaissance-youtube-originals/|access-date=2021-02-05|website=The Source|language=en-US}}
Hope is an adjunct professor at New York University.
Her debut book The Motherlode: 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop was released in 2021.{{Cite news|last=Gaffney|first=Adrienne|date=2021-01-31|title=Honor and Learn This Black History Month|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/30/at-home/honor-black-history-month.html|access-date=2021-02-04|issn=0362-4331}} 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
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External links
- [http://www.cloverhope.com/ Official website]
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Category:American women journalists
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Category:American music journalists
Category:American people of Guyanese descent