She was an integral part of albums from several Death Row Records artists, including Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg on their seminal albums, The Chronic and Doggystyle. Her off-the-cuff remarks on the now-viral video known as the pickle juice clip were an astute and poignant distillation of the absurdity of double standards in the music industry but really in any workplace and her comments about a culture that chastised women for the same behavior it encourages in men feels eerily prescient. The answer is probably Yes. When it comes to accolades alone, he has pretty much won them all: Grammy Awards, American Music Awards, Billboard Awards, Brit Awards etc the list goes on and on. Mixing neo-soul sounds with powerful feminist lyrics, Hill delved deep into the complications inherent in womanhood, motherhood, black femininity, and the music business. Trina 12. In the first track, "2 Minutes," cupcakKe's. Queen Latifah. The woman who rapped got buffoons eatin my pu__y while I watch cartoons needs no introduction. After rubbing shoulders with the likes of 90's New York hip-hop elites like Q-Tip and Busta Rhymes, the New Jersey rapper dropped her debut album Dirty Harriet in 2000. Throughout, Ajikawo, who'd come to be known as Little Simz, always hated being a "female rapper". 1, about which Complexwrote: Cardi stands up for women to be themselves in a mans world filled with double standards., Chicago rapper cupcaKkes third and most recent album is appropriately called Audaciousshe tackles raunchy content in a feverish register (her voice is almost shaking) in songs with titles ranging from Spider-Man Dick to Keep Hoes Alive. Given her sexually-charged lyrics, it may come as a surprise that the rapper got her start rhyming by writing Christian poetry as a teenager, and toldThe FADERthat she associates with few people aside from her childhood best friend and her mom. From the start, hip-hop was about storytelling. M.I.A. Before November 8, I was angry with the media for capitalizing on our collective anxieties, terrifying us into thinking we were nearing political apocalypse. Moving to Atlanta at the age of eight, Abra felt like a misfit with her British accent; she found solace in music and in writing fantasy novels. I hated myself. If alleged sexual abuser Woody Allen still gets to open Cannes, if Kanye can steal an award out of Taylor Swifts hand, we have to give Azealia her artistic due. Those . Pitchforkdeemed L.A. duo Cam & Chinas self-titled debut EP to be among this years fiercest, most viscerally exciting rap music. The artists hail from L.A.s Inglewood neighborhoodand their ability to seamlessly meld their voices into one another has spawned comparisons to Mobb Deep, Clipse, andOutKast. Blaze a 50. About the track, the Bronx rapper toldMass Appeal: I am one captivating son a bitch, and Tomboy is about that juice. Setup File Name: Adobe_Premiere_Pro_v23.2..69.rar. . The Garbage Factory is not what it sounds like. Much of her music touches on a need for female empowerment and denouncing the frequent sexism and misogyny in rap. Lumidee (female rapper) Lumidee - Never Leave You (Uh Oh) Lil Tay Little Simz Left-Eye M Makiin (female rapper) Mia X Missy Elliott MC Lyte Ms. Toi Monalisa (female rapper) Monate Q Monie Love Mulatto Medusa Megan Thee Stallion N Nefertiti Nikki D. Noni Zondi (female rapper) Nicki Minaj Nitty Scott O P Porche' 9-11 PoppinCid Porche' 9-11 Q He enjoys traveling, fine dining, original style and good music. MC ZAVARECH PLAYWRIGHT LARRY MYR HAS An AFP collaborator poses a TikTok on . I am mourning for her, for myself, and all my fellow alpha women who are just tired. Yo-Yo is one of the first female rappers to openly advocate and be a staunch advocate for the feminism movement in the industry. Kind of that. There may have been times when promoters didnt want to pay me what I deserved. She released her debut LP, Da Baddest Bitch, two years later, and would forge a career celebrated for its consistency and longevity. Back in her early days, Grae built a large, worldwide fanbase thanks to her clever bars and unique delivery. So yes, the music does consist of poetry and deep, piercing themes, but dont expect to be serenaded by sweet loving verses and romantic haikus. Fellow Fugee Wyclef Jean acknowledged it himself in a verse on 1996s The Score: The magazine said the girl shoulda went solo/The guys should stop rapping/Vanish like Menudo. Hill did go solo, releasing The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill in 1998 to public and critical acclaim. Despitelyrics detailing a party lifestyle that would make Lindsay Lohan jealous, she tells me on the phone that her favorite leisure activity is drinking green tea and reading. I aint got s to do either. 6. August Brown covers pop music, the music industry and nightlife policy at the Los Angeles Times. WireImage / Getty Images. She was the first female rappers to get a contract with Master Ps No Limit Records, and subsequently, started being called the Mother of Southern Gangsta Rap. While it may be hard to take seriously someone whose debut album was called Cum Cake (in fact, the rapper once considered quitting because people saw her as no more than a meme), MTV Newsdetailed the importance of cupcakKes point of view in the wake of Donald Trumps presidential candidacy, at a time where it is horrifying to live in a womans body. MTV continued: Its not that CupcakKe is devoid of insecurities or unafraid of how she will be received; its that her work does not indulge those fears in the slightest.. Ppcocaine says that shes more of an artist that uses TikTok, not a TikToker made into an artist., Im an attention seeker, it makes me feel good, says ppcocaine. TLC, obviously, went on to enormous fame, one of the biggest hip-hop and R&B groups on Earth, but Lopes deft lyricism as an MC is celebrated by rap aficionados everywhere. This thread is archived. The girls channel. Photo Credit: Artist Signed to Griselda, fans may expect Armani Caesar to deliver gritty rhymes. From there, Baltimore became a fixture in the rap scene, releasing her stellar lone studio album, Cold As Ice, in 1999. She followed up with her debut mixtape, Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. Her debut solo album, Dirty Harriet, was released in 2000 and featured Busta Rhymes and Eve. Stinky! Edit Edit source History Talk (0) Trending pages. But whatever fame has turned into today, ppcocaine has it. My grandparents kept telling me boys to marry and stuff. Lauryn Hill 5. Foxy Brown 8. Im used to people hating me. The crew was tough-talking and wouldnt take slander from anyone, and over the course of the groups existence, the crew produced many answer records in response to disses and engaged in numerous beefs. To Noisey, they spoke of a phenomenon that continues to surface as I write about fierce female musicianswhenever they enter a studio or venue, the men assume they sing. The first person I let hear it was Cardi. 1,870 listeners. Eve, Trina, Foxy Brown and the classic rap beauty Lauryn Hill all fit that category. Rah Digga Cardi B did her best to break the Internet last week with the release of her sexually explicit single WAP. 2020 Was The Year Female Rappers Dominated To know what tomorrow sounds like, one need only listen to the women in rap today. Were also partial to Miamis City Girls (Yung Miami and JT), who create dancefloor anthems at every opportunity, and Tierra Whack who has melded the avant-garde and mainstream in a thrilling and fascinating way. Shes what happens when 90s predecessors feed your already-sharp tongue, drawling delivery, and the kind of syllable-stacking honed-blade verbal dexterity that forces Kanye to let you show him up on his own track. Angel Haze ($500,000) Angel Haze is one of the richest female rappers in 2022, with a net worth of about $500 thousand. Over the years, Waynes lyrical content has been known to get him in some tight spots. Melle Mel (rapper) Grandmaster Caz (rapper) . The feature essentially kickstarted Trinas rap career, leading to a record deal with Slip-n-Slide Records with distribution from Atlantic Records. Obe 1 Kanobe feat. Like, yes, I get my music is not for everybody, but bitch, keep your opinion to yourself, she said, about anyone taken aback by her style. Feminist icon Ilana Glazer, afervent Hillary supporter, perfectly articulated the reason Im drawn to female rappers in an Esquire interview last year. At this point, hes in his late forties but has still managed to say relevant. 'WAP' by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion is a joyful role reversal. Lil' Kim. The likes of Too Short, Afroman, Three 6 Mafia, D4L and many others have released singles and complete albums with filthy lyrics. Top 20 Memphis Rappers 1. If you want to know what the soils like, look at whats grown on it: Nicki Minaj, Queens native. Pusha Ts Nosetalgia is perfection. Diamond and Princess were members of the Atlanta-based crew Crime Mob. They introduced her to their producer, Jermaine Dupri, who signed Da Brat to his So So Def label. The album featured the surprise massive hit Where Dem Dollas At! Theres rarely a genre that cant find a home on one of her tracks. Listen to 'P- Monster'. Her reward? Parental advisory indeed. Lytes flow, lyrical precision, and refusal to self-censor gained her industry attention quickly. Linda Mkhize (aka 'Pro formerly known as ProKid) born 25 June 1981, is a Hip Hop artist from Soweto, South Africa. One of the most distinctive female rappers of the 90s, Foxy Brown entered the scene at a mere 15 years old, and first appeared on LL Cool Js album Mr. Smith , rapping over the remix for I Shot Ya. She was signed to Def Jam in 96, the same year she appeared with Lil Kim, Total, and Da Brat on the Bad Boy Remix of No One Else. It was also the year her debut album, Ill Na Na, dropped. It (actually) sucks for Macklemore. Fatha Dom 380 listeners Fatha Dom (Father Dom) (real name Damani M. Khaleel) - rapper from Oakland, Bay Area, California. Despite a great deal of backlash from conservative critics and angry parents who hated the vulgar language, the group continued to pave the way and the genre of dirty rap was born. Presently Ice Cube is a hugely popular movie actor, Dr. Dre is an extremely wealthy music and tech mogul and the groups founder Eazy-E passed away from AIDS in 1995. In the last few years, Nicki Minaj has established herself as the premier female rapper in the music industry. You know when you smile, your brain feels you smiling and starts emitting happiness, you know, serotonin? The 23-year-olds once belonged to all-female rap group Pink Dollaz, whose track Tasty appeared in my favorite movie no one sawStarlet, by Sean Baker of Tangerine fame. For true followers of rap, Too Short is known as the dirty old man of the industry, and hes never shy to talk about his pimp lifestyle and his countless sexual encounters. The project reached No.1 on the Billboard 200, making her (at the time) the third female rapper to accomplish this feat. The American rapper and singer grew up in Detroit, Michigan, and released her first album 'Dirty Gold' in 2013 and remains a well-known . Her third album, "Black Reign," became the first by a female emcee to be certified gold. They all had distinct variations in style, flow, and lyrical content, but what each woman had in common was a fiercely independent voice and the power to remain consistently and resoundingly herself. Two decades of underground hats and notable features - for Fugees . Idk why the get paid so much. I mean they're all terrible. 20. Da Brat 11. Part of the New York areas storied Native Tongues crew, along with the likes of Jungle Brothers, De La Soul, and A Tribe Called Quest, Queen Latifah was one of the earliest female rappers in hip-hop. Whether youre looki, Read the digital edition of the newspaper. Shant was also a frequent collaborator of Marley Marl. He's been writing professionally for ten years, and has contributed to nationally distributed publications like Nylon, The Source, Bullett and Man of the World magazine. Remy Ma 16. If her talent werent enough, her insight makes her additionally formidable. That's not to mention that they are also many of the best female rappers of all time. Sonic mastery aside, Raphael Saadiq toldThe FADER that the album is a true testament of healing. Solange conveys her intensely personal, black American experience in a voice that is melancholic, but not bleak; angry, but not hopeless. Outside of her work as a member of Three 6 which is as impactful as any rap group from the 90s Boos first solo album, Enquiring Minds, was released in 1998 and reached No.15 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and No.46 on the Billboard 200. In celebration of women's history month, we're. Loaded with deceptively simple beats that reveal their complexity as they weave over, under, around, and through textured melodies, the album is both warm and fresh, full of the jazz and soul influences that have become synonymous with the Philadelphia sound. With songs such as Push It, Do You Really Want Me, Lets Talk About Sex, and Shoop, Salt-N-Pepa were frank and outspoken about their desires and their sexuality, while simultaneously demanding respect, preaching feminist values and speaking out against assault and discrimination. A former stripper, the 23-year-old Bronx rapper got her start on Love & Hip Hop: New York and became visible when she was featured on Shaggys Boom Boom" remixwith Popcaan last November. Like Lil Kim, Foxy was frank and outspoken about her sexuality and her desire while still commanding and demanding respect. Years later, she had another song with popular rapper 50 Cent called Magic Stick that was quite crude too. Saweetie 15. Too Short actually got into a media controversy in 2012, when in a video with XXL magazine, he offered fatherly advice that included teaching middle-school aged boys how to turn girls out the video caused a major public outcry, and needless to say, the magazine took the video down promptly. I had the pleasure of interviewing Kamaiyah this year, shortly before AGood Night in The Ghetto dropped, propelling the 24-year-old from the first lady of Oaklands Big Money Gang to a semi-household name. Teaming with rising Texan rapper Megan Thee Stallion, WAP is a filthy three-minute celebration of women's sexuality with a star-studded film clip sure to give anyone with a pulse major heart palpitations. After years of collaboration with the likes of Jodeci, Ginuwine, and Aaliyah, Elliott headed into the studio with childhood friend and longtime collaborator Timbaland to work on her debut album. When Cheryl James and Sandra Denton joined forces in 1985, much of the record industry still believed hip-hop was a fad. Yes, it's deliciously filthy. Lil' Kim comes at number twenty on our list of richest female rappers in 2022. Just last year he was involved in a controversy when he used a crude sexual metaphor that involved the name of Black Civil rights martyr, Emmett Till. Cardi B The reigning Queen of Rap has been fairly quiet on the music front this year. The rise of streaming . To keep up a street image and not sound like she was just the cute little sister of the crew, she relied on a sexed-up persona and some pretty raw lyrics. Who I am and what makes me me, the New York City project rat; the messy but beautiful; the sloppy but still sexy. She unapologetically embraces her whole self, the good with the bad, concluding that her goal is to manipulate the male gaze. She addresses serious subject matter, such as police brutality and her own diasporic identity, with a playfulness and charm that makes her music truly addictive. Coming out as gay wasnt too much of a struggle, relatively. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Our 23-song playlist represents but a handful of the many women . Her early works have been a proving ground and, with a new batch of singles under her belt (Changed It, No Frauds, Regret In Your Tears), Minaj seems in every way to be poised for long-term success. For every act like Roddy Ricch or Lil Nas X that uses the platform to help them vault into stable, artistically rewarding careers, countless more flicker and vanish in the digital ether. NWA was the group from Compton, Los Angeles which pretty much personified The Gangsta Rap era in Hip-Hop. Erykah Badu glided so smoothly onto the scene with 1997s Baduizm that you could be forgiven for failing to realize she was about to change the game. and they became involved in a romantic relationship. Each and every component every single choice and decision of a song matters when it comes to perfection. In granting How Does It Feel Pitchforks coveted Best New Track status (the resulting album was given Best New Album), hip-hop tastemaker Meaghan Garvey wrote: in a year dominated by paranoid, depressed rap anthems, this beat is pure ecstasy. Much like her catchy hit, which she told me she wrote in 15 minutes, Kamaiyah is high-spirited and, for lack of a better word, normal. Her WAP collab with Cardi B became an instant classic upon its release in 2020. The rappers with the dirtiest rhymes are renowned for spitting some of the most inappropriate, pornographic and dirty lyrics in all of rap. MC Lyte 3. They were also a major player in the rise of the posse cut, when each member would handle a verse on an extended song. Female rappers have historically used their sexuality in a way that reflects the misogynistic sentiments of the genre, resulting in notable commercial success. With just five deliriously crass and catchy solo singles all recorded no earlier than December ppcocaine (pronounced p-p-cocaine, though she goes by cocaine in conversation) has already made a huge impact on the popular social-media platform that drives much of the Hot 100. The first solo rapper to release her own, full-length album, MC Lytes Lyte As A Rock dropped in 1988. 50 Cent's "Candy Shop" and "Magic Stick" appear nearly innocent on the surface but think about it a bit more and the lyrics turn X-rated real fast. She got her start after Hova was looking for female vocalists on his album Vol. Every artist on this list has a rightful claim as a pioneer, but no one had the impact Sha-Rock had. Florida rapper Plies is another Hip-Hop personality with a dirty and lewd mind. Im clean now., Her lyrics, however, are almost competitively filthy. Long before artists like NLE Choppa and Moneybagg Yo were dominating the scene, Three 6 Mafia were the pioneers of horrorcore in town, and Gangsta Boo was the lone female rapper stealing the show alongside Project Pat and Juicy J. Learn when and why it makes sense for recording artists to hire a music publicist, including the cost, payment, and finding the right publicist for your needs. Solange toldNPR that the track F.U.B.U. is meant to counter the breaking down that people do on a daily basiswhen you exist as an unafraid and powerful black presence in this country, what happens as a result of that?. I feel like I spit her shit that was pumping in my ears for so long that I was able to feel that confident. The ink was barely dry on ppcocaines half-dozen new face tattoos this week when she walked into a session at Westlake Studios in West Hollywood, in the room where Michael Jackson recorded Thriller. In a monochrome pink leotard, with matching dyed hair and sunglasses, the biracial 19-year-old L.A. rapper and ace provocateur of lesbian TikTok walked a Times reporter through the brand-new work across her ears and eyes. On the Houston. Remember to keep your email concise and to the point, highlight your best work, and provide easily accessible smart links. Her debut album, 1996s Kollage was an instant classic, and the very first LP to be co-produced and entirely written by a female rapper. In the clip for her debut single, " These Heaux ," released in August of last year, 15-year-old rapper Bhad Bhabie, more famously known as Danielle Bregoli of viral "cash me ousside" fame, arrives at an apartment complex, where a group called "Moms Opposed to Bhad Bhabie" protests her music. Female rappers; 1970's rappers Category page. He was signed to Gallo Record. played a major role in raising awareness about women's rights worldwide.Dubbed Queen of Jazz-Rap, Latifah has influenced several soul, R&B, and hip-hop artists like Remy Ma, Lil' Kim, Ivy Queen, Missy Elliott, Lauryn Hill, and Eve among other artists.As an actress, Latifah has won several prestigious awards. Yale and Columbia reached out to the rapper this fall to speak on her womanist lyrics (JP prefers the term womanist to feminist because the former is a more embracing of diverse viewpoints) and commitment to healthy eating (I see you eating Mickey Ds / knew you didnt love yourself / Im up in Trader Joes / shopping cart full of health).