How Tonya Pinkins Turned a Campy Rap Battle Against Herself Into Subversive Performance Art
You shouldn’t dish it out if you can’t take it, and make no mistake: Tonya Pinkins can take it. The Tony winner recently released a music video in which she engages in a verbal brawl with herself. But while the video is wacky (the backing track samples her Caroline, or Change 11 o’clock number “Lot’s Wife”; Pinkins plays a Rastafarian referee; there are multiple shots of her inexpl…