The official Female Rapper Cheat Sheet is live on https://t.co/t1s5SiE1cC.
The new edition includes:
• A list of 100+ female rap debut projects
• An In Memoriam section
• A Femcee Directory featuring 80+ female rappers - with more being added
A male rapper can be a gangster, a lover, a weirdo, a backpacker, a drug dealer, a poet, a clown, a mogul, a liar, preacher, scammer, sex addict, nerd, a killer, a philosopher, or all of the above. Nobody demands that he fix the reputation of men in rap before he drops a single.
The industry loved the “first lady of the crew” setup. That title sounds good until you realize how often it made women secondary inside their own stories.
Women in hip-hop came in all kinds of forms. They were party-rockers. Battle rappers. Fly girls. Street poets. Crew members. Singers. Dancers. Lyricists. Hood reporters. Pretty girls. Rough girls. Conscious girls. Nasty girls. Around-the-way girls.
Larry Hoover – founder of Chicago Gangster Disciples (GDs) – calls J Prince from prison and issues message to Yns
“Real gangsters go to the polls. …I’m telling these young boys to put them guns down, and pick up that Ballot.”