MC Lyte and dream hampton talk to Vogue about “Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop,” now streaming on Netflix.
Foxy Brown, Lil’ Kim, Missy Elliott, Lauryn Hill, Eve—these are the women of hip-hop that I grew up with, watching their videos on; and listening to them on CDs I stole from my brother's bedroom. But I also knew about rappers like MC Lyte, Roxanne Shanté, Salt-N-Pepa, and JJ Fad because—similar to what Saweetie says in the four-part Netflix docuseries—I was a child of a hip-hop household. I grew up in Detroit with a father whose love language is music.
There is no hip-hop without Black women, and the series—released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of hip-hop—makes sure to remind you of that. It tells the story of Black women in hip-hop from the start—noting figures like Sha-Rock and Roxanne Shanté, who emerged on the scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s, respectively—until now, as women like Kash Doll, Tierra Whack, and Latto make their mark.
If you ask some people, sisterhood isn’t always the number-one priority between female rappers. Beefs between women in the genre have been legendary—from
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