MC Lyte, one of hip-hop’s pioneer emcees ... Missy Elliot, for example, was only just inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in May, becoming the first woman rapper to receive that ...

She became the first female MC to release an album, “Lyte as a Rock,” and one of the first hip-hop artists to play Carnegie Hall. “I would never say ‘go over on the Staten Island ferry on ...

Go: Dodge Poetry Festival Social Justice Through Spoken Word with MC Lyte, Rakim, Big Daddy Kane and more, 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, New Jersey Performing Arts Center Prudential Hall, One Center ...