Clover Hope

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.^[1]

Clover Hope
Born	Guyana
Occupation	Journalist
Language	English
Nationality	Guyanese-American
Alma mater	New York University (BA)
Subject	Pop music, hip hop, interview
Years active	2005 — present
Notable works	Black is King (co-writer)
Website
www.cloverhope.com

Early life and education

Hope was born in Guyana and immigrated to New York City when she was three years old.^[2] She was raised in both Brooklyn and Queens.^[2] 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.^[3][4]

Hope graduated magna cum laude from New York University with a bachelor's degree in journalism.^[2]

Career

Journalism

Hope's first job in journalism after college began in 2005 as an online editor at Billboard.^[5] She went on to work at XXL for three years and then moved on to be senior editor at Vibe.^[2] She was hired as a staff writer for Jezebel in 2014 and left in 2020.^[6][7] Her work has also appeared in outlets including The Village Voice, ESPN, GQ, and Harper's Bazaar.^[1][2] She has been a contributing editor at Pitchfork since 2020.^[1]

Beyoncé's featured September 2018 Vogue editorial included an as-told-to interview with Hope.^[8] The writer again collaborated with Beyoncé as a co-writer on Black Is King (2020).^[9]

Other work

She is a co-executive producer for Black Renaissance, a Black arts and culture YouTube Originals special that premiered February 26, 2021.^[10]

Hope is an adjunct professor at New York University.^[7]

Her debut book The Motherlode: 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop was released in 2021.^[11] 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.^[3]