For many years and decades, the Hip-Hop world has been a male dominated field, it has been a form where males, could express who had the highest testosterone, who was the flyest, the meanest, and the coldest, on a track. Don’t get me wrong, there has been some females who have entered the hip hop world but many have never stuck around. In the present everyone, can’t stop talking about the vibrant and colorful Nikki Minja, the newest female hip-hop mc. Her metaphors, her delivery, her personalize sayings has had the hip-hop world going crazy. Through my 24 years of living I have yet to see a female mc who has gotten the respect and anticipation from male counter parts. For a minute it seemed that female emceeing was a thing of the past, that it was so gone that it could never return to what it was (Lauryn Hill, MC Lyte, Queen Latifia, Yo-Yo etc), which was the sport of emceeing. From the 90s to the earlier 00s female emcees was really a joke, a cute girl with a banging body who spit some lines that a male wrote for her about how great her sex was. Don’t get me wrong there were some that kept the authenticity of real emceeing, while others made it a walking gimmick or a soundtrack to the latest porn movie. Many awards shows, like the BET awards and the MTV awards even took out the category for best hip-hop female artist because there were hardly in existence. I must admit I wasn’t on the nikki band wagon, when she first came out, I really thought she was just another cute face that record companies would take advantage of, a cute face that wouldn’t write her own rhythms nor widen her lyrical content. To my surprise was a girl who could really spit, who went far left from what others were doing. I became impressed and just like the world I wanted to hear more. With her debut album “Pink Friday” hitting the selves last week and selling almost 400,000 copies its first week is very impressive, there has only been one female lyricist who has sold over 400,000 her first week (lauryn Hill) and even if your not really a true fan, or believe she’s just a copy cat, lets all celebrate that female lyrist is not dead.
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