Women battle misogyny to send hip-hop spinning in a new direction
Associated PressATLANTA — Rasheeda Frost’s decades-long relationship with hip-hop started in 1981. “She must’ve just known hip-hop was embedded in me at such a young age,” the MTV “Love and Hip-Hop: Atlanta” reality star said. From The Sequence releasing the first rap record by an all-female group, called “Funk You Up” in 1979, to MC Sha-Rock’s iconic performance on “SNL” as a part of Funky 4+1, female rappers have been a part of hip-hop since its debut. Msia Kibona Clark, an African culture and feminist studies professor at Howard University, said women were “largely invisible” in hip-hop during the ‘80s and early ’90s. “To me those were the dark ages of hip-hop because it just wasn’t enough women voices,” Queen Latifah said during an interview with The Associated Press.
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