With her single “Bodak Yellow,” Cardi B has achieved the improbable—she has parlayed a reality TV career into a bonafide hit single. On the latest Billboard Hot 100 chart, “Yellow” leaps from No. 28 to No. 14. Apart from her reality TV roots, this is notable because she is one of three women rappers who have placed in…
Rapper Rick Ross went on Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club show recently and was asked why he has never signed a female rapper to his label Maybach Music Group. His excuse? It would just be too easy to have sex with them.
As a teenager in the early ‘90s, I was exposed to a variety of messages through the hip-hop of the time, which was often socially conscious, and in ways both militant and matter of fact. I just happened to pay special attention to the work of women in hip-hop, and thinking back, these are some of the things that I…
On Saturday night, Nicki Minaj engaged in some extreme fangirling when she met someone who has long inspired her: singer Lauryn Hill. The introduction resulted in a communion of immeasurable might and beauty.
Rapper Nicki Minaj catapulted to popularity in a matter of months, going from virtual unknown to appearing on tracks alongside Mariah Carey and Ludacris. Sadly, the shelf life for women in the hip-hop limelight is less than two years.
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…
"Hair and makeup is killing female hip-hop. The grooming cost to break a female rapper versus a male rapper is 10 times as much per appearance. That tends to have an adverse effect on a record company’s willingness to even entertain a female rapper." This is a quote from an industry insider, since neither the VH1…
