When I put up a tweet I say what I want to say! whomever doesnโt like it or has an issue with it oh well Deal with it!!
I donโt mention particular names because I let my feelings Marinate & they are usually for more than one person.
The beauty of it is It usually finds its way to the Rightful owner.
My interview times & my social media platforms are to talk about myself & my doings, I will Never use it to mention others names time after time again.
Although I appreciate how much Iโm mentioned by some All the time.
I feel SO SPECIAL ๐
Have a Blessed & Beautiful Day
MUAH ๐
MC Lyte was a teenager when she started proving women could rap with the same weight as men, and had no female blueprint to follow, because none existed.
At just 16, she released โI Cram to Understand U (Sam),โ a record about addiction that showed she wasnโt here to be treated like a gimmick. She had something to say, and she said it with the confidence of someone twice her age.
Then came Lyte as a Rock in 1988.
That album made history as the first full solo rap album released by a woman, and it helped prove that female MCs didnโt need to be side characters in hip hop.
Every woman who came after her in this genre walked through a door MC Lyte had to build herself. Missy. Lauryn. Nicki. Cardi. All of them.
They could lead.
Years later, โRuffneckโ made her the first woman rapper nominated for a Grammy, and one of the first to score a gold-certified rap single.
So when people talk about women in rap today, MC Lyteโs name should never be treated like a footnote. She never got a Super Bowl halftime. Never got a diamond plaque. But in a genre that told women to stay on the hook and off the mic, she showed up anyway and did it first.
She helped build the door.