“The women of hip hop have given our culture a real, true, authentic voice." When Eve burst into the mainstream in the late 90s with her debut album ... Hip-hop has been standing up for ...

"They are being provocative,” said author and hip-hop ... are standing on the shoulders of women from decades ago who broke down barriers in the male dominated music genre. In her new book ...

The partnership between Justice For Women ... Hip Hop Alliance Coalition that will raise funds to help fight against the maltreatment of women and children. Tiffany Haddish further proclaimed her ...

It's a bad cliche about hip-hop that rings all too ... Jungle Pussy, on the other hand, is a female rapper who feels just as entitled to be her own pimp. Repurposing imagery usually designed ...

For many Black artists, a biopic places the national narrative into their hands ... Her point-blank discussion of issues faced by Black women earned her the status as one of hip-hop’s leading ...

Foxy Brown, Lil’ Kim, Missy Elliott, Lauryn Hill, Eve—these are the women of hip ... threw her support behind Megan Thee Stallion after the Houston rapper was shot by Tory Lanez, standing ...

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Some were forced to battle it out like gladiators until there was one woman barely standing ... her Miseducation album could be looked at as the greatest thing to happen to Hip-Hop for women ...

The embodiment of hip ... of women within hip hop.” MC Lyte and Queen Latifah Getty Images for Essence Lyte — who dropped her debut album, “Lyte as a Rock” in 1988 — knows first-hand ...

Do Black women ever get tired of seeing themselves portrayed this way in hip-hop? Despite this long-standing practice of ... Abney says about her art, “I probably would call my work colorfully ...