Directed and Produced by Ava Duveray, an inside look on the women who made hip hop. I've been searching for this documentary for a minute, so I decided to upload it. Enjoy, discuss, subscribe. I own no rights to the video.
Lauryn Hill is clearly the standout in this entire doc, for reasons mentioned by everyone and then some. AS she is currently coming back, she is coming back with the same 2 projects that are literally more talent than many lifetime careers. She did all of this barely out of her 20s. Queen Lauryn indeed.
I love this documentary 💗 tbh I think it's a big cop out to say that female rappers were more expensive because of the glam. The other genres have the same requirements and the difference in how many female to male artists probably isn't as drastic. Don't most pop/rock/hell even CLASSICAL need glam squads and tour accommodations. Smh
Well female artists in other genres are also expensive to maintain according to industry people. It’s because it requires more to maintain and sell the image of a female artist but I do agree that it’s a cop out. I think the male powers in charge in the industry just didn’t have interesting in promoting black female hip hop artists. They were more interested in trying to find a Fergie or Gwen Stefani or Nelly Furtardo to do Pop/Hip Hop records.
I completely agree, I mean throughout the 90s and early 2000s there was R&B music, which many times crossed over with hip hop. hell Missy Elliot for all the marketing around her being rapper, anyone who has 3 or 4 cds of Missy knows she waay more of an R&B singer than an MC. that was a major cop out, female rappers more expensive pff! I think just lack of interest and sexist blindspots plays a more and laziness on the part of the big companies who just don't want to invest in the craft of female rappers.
Amazing documentary! I pray that we can get back to the female MCs who are about women empowerment. I miss Lauren, Left eye, Missy, Eve, Brat, etc. I was soooo happy to see Remy Ma but I hope she get hip hop to where it once was along with other artist.
Not that the GRAMMYs ever really respected hip hop but damn I didn't realize they dropped the whole female rapper category...matter fact nvm i don't remember that ever BEING a category
I saw this yrs ago like in 2008 or 09 on Bet so happy I found this, I am reading a lot of comments it’s sad so many negative comments I am grateful for this Doc they couldn’t put all the female emcees on the Doc it’s not that long but it’s a blessing to have a Doc based solely on female emcees it’s the only one of its kind and females are barely mentioned in the numerous Hip Hop Docs out here
From the mainstream, MC Lyte is all time tops for me. But that underground rap (any genre really) is the truth!! Jean Grae is too dope for words!! Nothing against major label-assisted female MCs but there are STILL so many undiscovered gems. Big props to the ones who refuse to assimilate or hate on other MCs just because they can. I have to also give it to those female MCs who have listeners and admirers worldwide through painstaking self promotion and constant belief in themselves👏👏👏
It’s quite pleasing to see how this documentary has aged .. as a Nicki fan i was always disappointed in the fact that the old heads shunned her when she came in the game and discredited a lot of the work she really put into her craft . To see them question whether she’d be around long and THEN to see her reigning in mainstream culture for 11+ years is amazing, it’s proof and ammunition to stay on your grind no matter WHO gives a damn, Nicki Minaj is bigger than most of these female artist featured
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🗣Finally someone👈🏾 knows the truth I really 🎯 Appreciate you And Thanks for the info Also Every male🎙 or female🎙 rapper Once had their time⏰️ in Hiphop Being on top of the game until they took a nap 🛌 Went to sleep 😴 and got lazy and got comfortable. Female rap were worse than the 🏀 WNBA👈🏾 until NickiMinaj👑 arrived and saved the Female rap game Without being controlled and pimped out by a lot of male LEGENDS and young rappers NICKIMINAJ is a combination👈🏾 of all the GREATS that came before her. She's the female Jay Z overall. She's the female Lil Wayne with her bars She's the female Drake breaking all 📊 the records. She got that f*** the music industry / me against the world And I don't give a f*** attitude just Like 50 cent Kanye West and the one and only tupac. Nicki Minaj👑 had the longest run in female rap 😱 HISTORY📊🏆👈🏾 And The music industry is using grammys and number one's against nicki Minaj. But NickiMinaj is the Only female on the top 10 all time best selling rappers list. And she's the first female to finally sell more units than tupac And no one ever gives her, Her credit for it. TOP 10 BEST-SELLING RAPPERS / HIP HOP ARTISTS OF ALL TIME: 1. EMINEM 227 million units sold 2. DRAKE 152 million units sold 3. KANYE WEST 140 million units sold 4. JAY-Z 125 million units sold 5. LIL WAYNE 110 million units sold 6. NICKI MINAJ✔️ 106 million units sold 7. FLO RIDA 102 million units sold 8. TUPAC SHAKUR 75 million units sold 9. SNOOP DOGG 40 million units sold 10. DMX NickiMinaj is the Only Artist To Score A Top 10 for 9 Years⏰️ Straight.😱 Hip Hop By The Numbers📊 The top Legendary Complex VERZUZ 🎙🔥 power rankings - worthy😱 1. Jay-Z 2. Drake 3. Lil Wayne 4. Kanye West 5. Snoop 6. 50 Cent 7. Nicki Minaj👑👈🏾 8. Future 9. LL Cool J 10. Missy 11. Busta 12. Kendrick 13. Eminem 14. Rick Ross 15. T.I. Nicki Minaj officially takes the CROWN as the BEST female rapper of ALL TIME according to Billboard & Vibe’s Top 50 rappers list! Queen Nicki is the ONLY female rapper in the top 10! 🔥👑🦄 1Jayz 2 Kendrick lamar 3 Nas 4 2pac 5 Eminem 6 Biggie 7 LilWayne 8 DRAKE 9 SnoopDogg 10 ❤NICKIMINAJ👑👈🏾 NickiMinaj Iconic Monster verse She out rapped 3 Legends Nicki Isn’t Afraid To Take Chances…Win Or Fail NickiMinaj👑👈🏾 “Monster” verse was ranked Number 1st Over Jay-Z Rick Ross and Kanye west. NickiMinaj Monster 👻 🎙🔥 stands the test of time⏰️ as the single best verse💣🎙🔥 of the 2010s.📊 Please do a video explaining how she's the overall Greatest female rapper ever. I honestly feel like she checks ✔️ all the boxes For the most complete artist / female rapper 🗣EVER. Again Thanks for the Love and the info Please Help explain👈🏾 More 🗣PLEASE!!👈🏾 🎯RESPECT👑👈🏾 (KingRayArtKing)🎨👑
Them blaming the lack for female Rappers On upkeep is BULLSHIT especially when the industry is filled with female pop acts that require the same damn thing.
There needs to be a part 2 because since this has aired hip hop has more female mc's now and the Grammy's need to put the best female hip hop back in the category Trina is the most consistent female mc of all time
A lot of people didn't know that it was not Lauryn Hill choice to not make a second album, it was the industry/record company not wanting to push her positive influence they wanted a more common sexual album and she would not bow down to their agenda.
I don’t know if that’s the case cause why would they abandon that formula of positivity if the miseducation won a lot of Grammies and sold 10 million. Maybe it was more so she went too hard too soon.
Inspiring documentary and interesting to look at considering the female mc renaissance that is currently happening now. I remember watching this on BET when I was like 14. I also love that Ava Duvernay directed and executive produced this piece.
Ava was an underground emcee before becoming a famous movie director. Check out "This is The Life", about "The Good Life" health food spot in LA, that became an open mic joint for Leimert Park locals way back in the day. She's in it as an MC, and directed that one too.
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The way they tried to dismiss Nicki Minaj presence… I guess they didn’t know she would take female rap to superstar levels. And she single handily ushered in the new female rap artists. Not to mention introduce the pop world to female rap. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Nobody dismissed her presence at all. Some people praised her and other people just didn’t get the lyrics which is their right. She literally is a mix of several people so she didn’t do anything special, she’s good but let’s not act like the ladies are dogging her.
🗣Finally someone👈🏾 knows the truth I really 🎯 Appreciate you And Thanks for the info Also Every male🎙 or female🎙 rapper Once had their time⏰️ in Hiphop Being on top of the game until they took a nap 🛌 Went to sleep 😴 and got lazy and got comfortable. Female rap were worse than the 🏀 WNBA👈🏾 until NickiMinaj👑 arrived and saved the Female rap game Without being controlled and pimped out by a lot of male LEGENDS and young rappers NICKIMINAJ is a combination👈🏾 of all the GREATS that came before her. She's the female Jay Z overall. She's the female Lil Wayne with her bars She's the female Drake breaking all 📊 the records. She got that f*** the music industry / me against the world And I don't give a f*** attitude just Like 50 cent Kanye West and the one and only tupac. Nicki Minaj👑 had the longest run in female rap 😱 HISTORY📊🏆👈🏾 And The music industry is using grammys and number one's against nicki Minaj. But NickiMinaj is the Only female on the top 10 all time best selling rappers list. And she's the first female to finally sell more units than tupac And no one ever gives her, Her credit for it. TOP 10 BEST-SELLING RAPPERS / HIP HOP ARTISTS OF ALL TIME: 1. EMINEM 227 million units sold 2. DRAKE 152 million units sold 3. KANYE WEST 140 million units sold 4. JAY-Z 125 million units sold 5. LIL WAYNE 110 million units sold 6. NICKI MINAJ✔️ 106 million units sold 7. FLO RIDA 102 million units sold 8. TUPAC SHAKUR 75 million units sold 9. SNOOP DOGG 40 million units sold 10. DMX NickiMinaj is the Only Artist To Score A Top 10 for 9 Years⏰️ Straight.😱 Hip Hop By The Numbers📊 The top Legendary Complex VERZUZ 🎙🔥 power rankings - worthy😱 1. Jay-Z 2. Drake 3. Lil Wayne 4. Kanye West 5. Snoop 6. 50 Cent 7. Nicki Minaj👑👈🏾 8. Future 9. LL Cool J 10. Missy 11. Busta 12. Kendrick 13. Eminem 14. Rick Ross 15. T.I. Nicki Minaj officially takes the CROWN as the BEST female rapper of ALL TIME according to Billboard & Vibe’s Top 50 rappers list! Queen Nicki is the ONLY female rapper in the top 10! 🔥👑🦄 1Jayz 2 Kendrick lamar 3 Nas 4 2pac 5 Eminem 6 Biggie 7 LilWayne 8 DRAKE 9 SnoopDogg 10 ❤NICKIMINAJ👑👈🏾 NickiMinaj Iconic Monster verse She out rapped 3 Legends Nicki Isn’t Afraid To Take Chances…Win Or Fail NickiMinaj👑👈🏾 “Monster” verse was ranked Number 1st Over Jay-Z Rick Ross and Kanye west. NickiMinaj Monster 👻 🎙🔥 stands the test of time⏰️ as the single best verse💣🎙🔥 of the 2010s.📊 Please do a video explaining how she's the overall Greatest female rapper ever. I honestly feel like she checks ✔️ all the boxes For the most complete artist / female rapper 🗣EVER. Again Thanks for the Love and the info Please Help explain👈🏾 More 🗣PLEASE!!👈🏾 🎯RESPECT👑👈🏾 (KingRayArtKing)🎨👑
@@mielissa100ify The first girl literally called her Kim kardashian with a Mic and one said they didn’t see her lasting long, they were very dismissive and came off as haters! Only two ladies in the video where nice towards her. And if she wasn’t “special”, then why is she lasting so long where others before or after her have not had the same impact. She got the last laugh at the end of the day.
@33:33 We love #Trina, we do... she carries a sincere sweetness to her spirit... but don't forget #Khia too. Her creative abilities seemingly on a dime?? Stellar! @38:09... I knew a rapper with a similar name... "Bubz Rockwell,"... let me look up some of this music...thnx for telling us. This is a great doc!
The only thing that pissed me off about this Lauryn Hill got a whole tribute segment, but they did nothing to honor Lefteye. That was very disrespectful.
EmmanuelPierrePortraits my thoughts exactly people talk about best female rappers and leave her out she was so unique and her vocabulary was like one we never heard the way her words bounced around on any beat was amazing
WHAT do they MEAN they dont know WHY there aren't more Female rappers. just like the movie industry the music industry is next to get exposed. not everyone is bold as a lil kim or a eve or a nicki to do what has to be done to make it. come on now lets get real. THERE ARE tuns of TALENTED FEMALE rappers in the underground. Why do you think they aren't main stream?
Facts these female hip hop icons knew it wasn't easy to be a top MC.Trust me each one went through something to get to next level.Lady Of Rage should've blown up at Death Row she was blackballed by Suge Knight.I like her bars on Affropuffs.MC Lyte,Latifah,roxanne shante,Sparky D,Salt and Pepa all deserve their flowers
They need to revisit this documentary now...there is no balance regarding the representation of the female MC - it is very one sided and we need more variation.
underground female MC's could be discovered through unreleased demos and/or the "go-to" distribution of mixtapes; Amateur Night/Opening Act segments on "It's Showtime at the Apollo" and/or "Soul Train." This doc is still dope & fresh ! Word... Full Force: UTFO (the Real Roxanne vs. Roxanne Shante) and of course, a 1980's Latin freestyle artist, Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, who was straight outta, not Compton, but Hell's Kitchen, in New York. Sha-Rock : I was thinking about the Us Girls group from the classic breakin' (B-boy/B-girl) / graffiti artists / hip hop (or rap) New York-centric "Beat Street' film. J.J. Fad's "Supersonic" - That song was one of my favorite jams, back in the day. MC Lyte's real voice had to change when she was rapping; just like DMC (from Run DMC)...
I disagree with Swizz beatz there may be another Lauryn among us she might not be signed to a label just yet plus she might not want to be a star in the spotlight to make millions of dollars for a label maybe she wants to be indie instead on a smaller platform.
MY goodness! That Vibe Color with Missy, Kim, Foxx and Lauryn look white washed AF! I had that mag so I'm hoping its the lighting from RU-vid or something because all of these women are brown to cocoa, no one is light skin as this video depicts....they look ashy as hell. Let that beautiful brown shine!!!
I'm glad they mentioned TRINA'S Role in holding down Hip-hop. That Nicki Minaj narrative of "saving" hip-hop is garbage. Appropriating the 90s is a business plan...not a revolution. The only thing this doc is missing is a DEEP FOCUS on the underground MCs and ESPECIALLY GLOBAL femcees like MIA. I can't believe MIA was totally ignored in this doc. Nicki Minaj's shenanigans behind the scenes fucked over the sisterhood...only to proclaim HERSELF the only chick in the game. thank goodness that is played out now...and her musty spirit and unoriginality needs to exit faster.
@21:00... when a man like, no, actual #ChuckD calls *You* the gem of the 90s...then closed with *The Gem of Hip Hop* ... wow! Can you think of a compliment Higher! I luv Ms. Hill too.
I agree just a little about the “ high maintenance “ just a little because Singers are major divas and the labels work with them I think a lot has do with the audience change in Hip Hop , there are way more non black male hip hoppers who are fans and are either consumers or executives and they are not interested in black female emcees yes Nicki , Cardi etc but not the whole of a black female emcee just bits and pieces of the image of a female black emcee will they accept Vlad a white male hip hopper of Vlad tv said it interviewing a black female emcee I who asked why doesn’t he have more females on he told her because guys really aren’t interested and we need viewers
When they asked why females need a man to get into the game..it seems like that’s how it is in the world or at least America in general. The workforce is basically male dominated especially when looking at the lack of diversity in upper management....it’s always more men.
This was kinda disrespectful to Salt N Pepa, they didn’t spend much time on them when they were the ones who pushed females to the mainstream with there success
Sun Mont I understand that but no other female had the impact they had. Not to mention they are reason why artist like missy, kim and eve were able to crossover and have international success
I love all these girls but I can’t sit here and act like Nicki Minaj didn’t take the torch and hold for a whole decade and still right now In 2020. It’s very sad people really try to negate her legacy. Thankfully her fans will insure y’all never forget.
I agree but I think this documentary was filmed before her debut album so they had no idea how big she was because she didn't have a cultural impact yet.
@@itskyley sadly it doesn’t matter because they would still stand by their comments ... they’ll never admit that she surpassed everyone’s expectations.
I personally think it'd because of the way even post women rights attainment ,she / you girls / women struggle because the its both subtle and purposeful forces who don't want to see our women win
You can have *natural talent* and someone fosters it... #VisionCarrier #LifeCoaches #Motivators... No one can 'give a person' that *Dope* factor! No one. Either you possess *it* or you Don't.
great documentary. sad the state of affairs of female rap, and "them being more expensive due to accessories" that's some serious bullshit. I lke Cardi B as a rapper even though she's excessively hypersexualized but that aside the wider state of rap in general is not good apart from people like j-cole, kendrick lamar, the uniqueness that is kid cudi, and snoop drops a lot of great stuff. but there is an underground/indie rap that does more left-wing political rap but something in the mainstream needs to come with rap and r&b, and in the UK the grime scene and their hip/hop/r^B is coming up with lots good music. here's hoping a renaissance comes back with a vengeance for rap, R&B and female hip hop
Ps also it has alot to do with ego and fear some guys have against women owning her space be it at home / religious institutions eg church , mosque/ masjid and the workplace
Everybody saying lil Wayne found Nikki nope Bo Legged Lou from Full Force tried to sign her back in the day she was in a rap group with his son and Safaree Samuels
