Mia X Hip-Hop memorabilia and photographs
Content Description
This collection features stage memorabilia from New Orleans rapper Mia X, including a lace front wig on a head form draped with camo shirt, a yellow and white sequin top with letters "Unladylike", and yellow, white, and copper sequin pants. Photographs in the collection are from the Sept. 2024 event at Rice University honoring her archival donation to the university's Woodson Research Center, via the Center for Engaged Research and Learning (CERCL).
Dates
- Creation: 1990 - 2024
Conditions Governing Access
This material is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to publish from any copyrighted material in this collection must be facilitated through the copyright holder.
Biographical / Historical
Rapper and songwriter Mia Young was born in 1970 in New Orleans. As a performing artist in the 1990s, she claimed the stage name Mia X, and became known for bounce music. She collaborated with several No Limit Records artists, including Master P and Silkk the Shocker.
Extent
2 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection features stage memorabilia from New Orleans rapper Mia X, including a lace front wig on a head form draped with camo shirt, a yellow and white sequin top with letters "Unladylike", and yellow, white, and copper sequin pants. Photographs in the collection are from the Sept. 2024 event at Rice University honoring her archival donation to the university's Woodson Research Center, via the Center for Engaged Research and Learning (CERCL).
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Mia X, through the Rice University Center for Engaged Research and Collaboratove Learning (CERCL), 2024.
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Mia X Hip-Hop memorabilia and photographs
- Status
- In Progress
- Date
- 2026
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas Repository
Fondren Library MS-44, Rice University
6100 Main St.
Houston Texas 77005 USA
713-348-2586
woodson@rice.edu