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We've posted about the lack of female rappers before, and yesterday, Jonah Weiner had a story on Slate in which he wrote, "Today, female rappers are flukes on the charts, and exactly zero women were nominated at this year's BET Hip-Hop Awards and VH1 Hip-Hop Honors. What happened?" Word. Sure, Queen Latifah has a CD coming out in the fall. But the rap charts are fueled by testosterone, and it wasn't always so. In the early days of hip-hop, there was room for female MCs; it wasn't such a boys club. Weiner argues that women have been so marginalized in rap music that they're basically a joke: More »
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