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This category is for female rappers. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Rappers . It includes rappers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Lana Michele Moorer (born October 11, 1970), better known by her stage name MC Lyte, is an American rapper.Considered one of the pioneers of female rap, [5] [6] [7] MC Lyte first gained fame in the late 1980s, becoming the first female rapper to release a full solo album with 1988's critically acclaimed Lyte as a Rock.
Madonna ranked as the most successful female artist of the 1980s, with 7 songs and 15 weeks atop the chart. Whitney Houston scored seven consecutive number-one singles during the 1980s, becoming the only artist in the chart's history to achieve this feat.
In the late ‘80s, hip-hop had begun shifting from groups to solo artists. ... The Funky 4 + 1 was a Bronx group comprised of four men and the female rapper Sha-Rock, whose style of “echoing ...
Jackson is also the first female MC to sign to a record label (Sugar Hill Records in 1979), a participant in the first rap world tour (in 1981) and the first female rapper to perform hip-hop on ...
As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, we’re taking a moment to honor some of our favorite women rappers, from Lil’ Kim and Missy Elliott to Megan Thee Stallion and Cupcakke.
Antoinette Lovell Patterson (born May 4, 1969 [2]), known simply by the mononym Antoinette, is an American rapper from Bronx, New York, who released two albums, during the late 1980s and early 1990s. She is mainly remembered for her beef with MC Lyte .
[25] Consequence considered her "a mentor for generations of female MCs, and an early advocate in rap for female empowerment." [26] In 1989, The Christian Science Monitor stated that the popularity of rappers like Roxanne Shante, Salt-N-Pepa, and MC Lyte created a path for the next generation of female hip hop artists. [27]