ATLANTA — Rasheeda Frost’s relationship with hip-hop started in 1981. She was a kindergartener when her mother gave her a record player, and she would continuously spin it, not knowing what it was.

A couple years ago, the Kennedy Center (before the name change and subsequent performance cancellations) put a spotlight on ...

Kierna Mayo, a media maverick and an original staffer for groundbreaking hip-hop magazine The Source, has been one of the premier record-keepers of rap music. With an especial focus on the women of ...

*Hip-Hop is mostly considered a male-dominated field. One can surmise this by taking a glance at the people who occupy it. The male-centricity of the field even extends to the journalists who cover it ...

The 18th annual Ladies of Hip-Hop Festival brings the global Hip-Hop dance community to New York City for a five-day Festival co-produced by Ladies of Hip-Hop and Gibney. One of the most anticipated ...

Author Raquel Cepeda once said, "The role of hip-hop journalists is to document hip-hop with integrity." Fifty years ago, that esteemed role did not yet exist, for the culture was too young and too ...

Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop is a documentary from 2023 highlighting the significant impact of women in the hip-hop industry. It delves into the narratives of esteemed rappers and R&B ...

All four episodes of Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop debut on Netflix in both the US and UK on Wednesday, August 9. Here is the official synopsis from Netflix: "This timely limited doc ...

“We’ll always be stronger together than we are apart,” Queen Latifah explains in the brief clip. “That’s just how it is.” Through insight and commentary from artists, label executives, journalists, ...

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 TRL and their interviews with Big Tigger on Rap City and listening to ...

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