Female rappers

influence they have on the younger generation. She is not afraid to be passionate while being blunt in her poetic terminology. The poem is about the female rapper Nicki Minaj. Mans is criticizing her plastic surgery and her music lyrics. All Dolls will evidentially malfunction (I don’t even know why you girls bother at this point like give it up, it’s me I win you lose) Nicki Minaj (It’s me) I must admit (Its, its me) I have always been intrigued by your ass I guess that’s what the world looked like after falling from your shoulders (Like give it up) You have the heartbeat of a suicide bomber A baseline breathing out of your pulse Your thighs play storage for the weight of…

Swag is a term heard far too often. I hear “Swag” on a daily basis, and that is because it is simply everywhere: in music, in day-to-day life, and even in sports. Rappers, athletes, and regular people alike use swag as a way of credibility. I, on the other hand, think the expression swag needs to come to an immediate end, and the reason for that is that there is an actual word that has the exact same connotation. That word is swagger. Swagger, unlike swag, could actually be found in the…

discusses the female influence in the Hip Hop industry. In the documentary, there were some things I observed which were new to me or had challenged what I knew about them earlier and this stemmed from the many stories I heard about females in the entertainment industry. In the documentary, the female rappers talked about how they were able to get into the industry. Most of them said it was their talent that got them into the field and not because of their bodies. This surprised me a bit because…

Young M.A., born Katorah Marrero, is Brooklyn-born female rapper who came onto the hip-hop scene with her 2016 hit single “Ooouuu”. In Young M.A.: The Most Visible Black Queer Woman in Hip-Hop Is a Misogynist, author Samantha Master writes “‘Ooouuu,’ her viral single, is the first mainstream hip-hop record by an out, masculine-presenting lesbian that contains explicit affirmations of queer and gender-nonconforming identities” (Master 1). In both a genre and culture with narrow views on what…

Rap has been rooted in these ideas for so long that there seems to be little motivation to change the way women are represented in the field. Yet, when artists like Minaj take to the industry, there is a sense of unity among women who understand Minaj’s motives and value her abstractness as a lone female artist. She shapes herself to be strong, independent, sexual women; all words which societal norms view as contradicting; however, “the ability of black women to define themselves individually…

Eroticism is slowly becoming the strongest commodity in the music business, probably because most eroticism in music videos, for example, portrays female bodies aimed to please the man and as we know we live in a male dominated world. Today, women are learning from their past counterparts how to use eroticism as a form of agency. This agency creates a form of empowerment in which they get to control their own ability to be desired and the rate at which they can be approached. Yet in today's…

The introduction of female emcees into hip hop masqueraded itself as a major paradigm shift in the world of hip hop. Finally, a male-dominated genre infamous for its misogynistic lyrics was being infiltrated by the very women the music affected the most. From MC Lyte, the first solo female rapper to release a full album in 1988, to today's female emcee megastars like Nicki Minaj, women in hip hop have been celebrated for breaking barriers and using the very genre that oppressed them to reclaim…

The topic being proposed is the portrayal of women in Hip Hop culture. This topic is interesting because a lot of people listen to hip hop and just ignore or do not think about how women are being portrayed. In my paper, I will discuss the disadvantages of being a female rapper, how male rappers talk about women in their music, and how women are used in hip hop music videos. What I know from this topic is solely based off experience and my personal life. I listen to hip hop music and some of…

Lauryn Hill’s masterpiece is incredibly in-depth. There is an abundance of ways to analyze this piece of work. From a gender standpoint, “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” is a metamorphic experience. Lauryn was one of the first female rappers to go above and beyond the norm of rap music, and transform the stigma surrounding the genre. She fused her rap music with elements of soul, R&B, and reggae. Lauryn Hill changed the rap game, especially for women, from this point forward. As I said before,…

because it broke many of the stereotypes that are usually associated with female superheroes. Unfortunately, there are a scarce amount of images in mass media today that allow people to view women in a positive light; in fact, most of the time it is quite the opposite. The image of a woman in the modern world is negatively influenced by advertisements, the music industry, and reality shows. Advertisements give society a negative perception of women. Ewen and Ewen, in their essay, “In the Shadow…