We all know that I love and adore women … and I love Hip Hop …so of course I love female emcees so allow me to wax randomly about them…

Roxanne Shante is my favorite femcee of all time … part of the reason I love Hip Hop so much, she killed it with Roxanne’s revenge the voice; The battles
And she sparked the single greatest answer/battle string of recordings in the history of song … Wiki Roxanne Wars

For whatever reason Female lyricists started to become only popular if/when brought out by a male emcee:

Lil Kim (B.I.G)
Foxy Brown (LL – Jay-Z – Nas)
Rah Digga (Busta)
Eve (DMX)
Da Brat (JD)
Nicki Minaj (Wayne)
Charlie Baltimore (Cam’ron)
Rage (Snoop)
Free (Canibus)

…never use to be like that; Shante, Lyte, Latifah, Monie, Sweet Tee just came out and dropped like what?

Femcees use to go WAY harder back in the 80s
Women that rhymed might not have gotten the same pay or shows as the males back in the day BUT they were respected by the males (esp the male fans) as being peers and on the same level as the male emcees

They battled the guys … did Answer Records

UTFO made Roxanne Roxanne … Shante came with Roxanne’s Revenge
Doug E. Fresh made The Show … Super Nature came with “The Showstoppa”
LL made Dear Yvette … then E-vette Money came out with Dear LL
The Boogie Boys made “Fly Girl” Pebbly Poo made “Fly Guy”

I remember the first time I heard “The Showstoppa” by Super Nature I was like WOW!

Salt n Pepa’s “Hot Cool and Vicious” was one of the greatest Hip Hop releases by male OR female … it was SOLID (not the remastered crap with Push it on it … the original)

What happened to female rap groups?
You had:
JJ Fad:
…Who did NOT have a crush on Baby D?
Salt N Pepa:
…The original Spin was a fool to leave
The Cookie Crew:
…I remember their video rocked the ill Triple FAT Goose coats
Body and Soul:
…Shout outs to Dee and Pump it up
Wee Papa Girls:
…England femcees were featured on the Skinny boys 2nd joint
Sylk tymes Leather:
…The West coast SnP
Oaktown’s 357:
…The Original group had that banger!
BWP and HWA:
…Bitches with Problems and Hoes with Attitudes lol -Hey Rick James’ daughter was in HWA)
L’Trimm:
…Tigra and Bunny … mannn listen

#trueconfession I use to LOVE L’Trimm (I bought BOTH of their albums) and Lady T is still making music
… And looking damn good whilst doing so

Do you realize how BIG Deadly Venoms could’ve been? What a concept! Someone should bring that back

Eve has always been awful to me … physically and lyrically …and as an actress lol

Sha Rock caught wreck back in the day … her verse on “Rappin and Rockin the House” is a beast

In some respects I think lyte is overrated though … her first 2 Tapes were bangers but that was really it. That Roughneck mess and that pop mess was the awful

All underrated Femcee first team

Charli Baltimore
Bahamadia
Rah Digga
Lady Luck
Lin Que
Shorty No Mas

Love Shorty no Mas

Lady Luck is a cutie too

You know who gets NO love as one of the “Godmothers of Hip Hop”? Angie Stone
… She rocked it out in 1979! With Funk you up … when she came out singing people thought she was new; I was like MANNN She use to be on Sugar Hill!

She is NOT the youngest woman lol

Greatest femcees of all-time Top 5

1. Roxanne Shante
2. MC Lyte
3. Sha Rock
4. Jean Grae
5. Foxy Brown
…not counting Lauryn Hill till she makes a Rap album
I put Foxy Brown because Ill Na na and Broken Silence are better than everyone else’s albums

That’s it … I got more in the chamber though; I love women so more to come ’till then…

“I’m Calm with my business yet I do things on the double, you I’m out like Buster Douglass, I say Peace to MC Trouble … Rest in Peace”