Fewer Than 20 Female Rappers Have Gone Top 20 Since 2000
With her single “Bodak Yellow,” Cardi B has achieved the improbable—she has parlayed a reality TV career into a…
Rick Ross Doesn't Sign Women Because He Wants to Fuck Them and They're Too Expensive
Rapper Rick Ross went on Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club show recently and was asked why he has never signed a female…
Some Lessons Female Rappers Taught Me
As a teenager in the early ‘90s, I was exposed to a variety of messages through the hip-hop of the time, which was…
Nicki Minaj Meets Lauryn Hill And Adorably Loses Her Shit
On Saturday night, Nicki Minaj engaged in some extreme fangirling when she met someone who has long inspired her:…
Nicki Minaj And The Issue Of Female MCs
Rapper Nicki Minaj catapulted to popularity in a matter of months, going from virtual unknown to appearing on tracks…
Doesn't Anyone Miss Having Ladies In Hip-Hop?
We've posted about the lack of female rappers before, and yesterday, Jonah Weiner had a story on Slate in which he wrote
Boys Clubs
"Hair and makeup is killing female hip-hop. The grooming cost to break a female rapper versus a male rapper is 10 times…