We have been in a female rap renaissance for at least the last decade, but this year has been particularly kind to Southern women in rap and their supporters. In June, I was standing in a sold-out ...

Throughout hip-hop’s history, women have been trendsetters and rule-breakers in the culture without being properly recognized as such. DJ Kool Herc is credited as hip-hop’s founding father for playing ...

new video loaded: Female Rappers Are Having All the Fun transcript Our critic’s latest Song of the Week, the Southern rap track “Whim Whamiee,” is just the latest example of a power shift in the genre ...

Houston rapper Monaleo, famous for her 2021 song “ Beating Down Yo Block ,” released her third studio album, “ Who Did the ...

From its earliest days, hip-hop has been fundamentally about storytelling, with artists repurposing existing sounds to create new forms of self-expression. While the genre is often perceived as ...

Just days before Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded was released, noted music writer Jon Caramanica wrote an op-ed in The New York Times calling Nicki Minaj “the most influential female rapper of all time.” ...

Legend is the word that comes to mind when discussing the countless women who had enough courage to enter into the male-dominated hip hop industry and flip it on its head. Female rappers climbing to ...