While promoting her new daytime talk show ‘The Queen Latifah Show’ during the Rickey Smiley Morning Show, Queen Latifah took some time to speak on the female rap game.
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Queen Latifah, who last released a studio album in 2009, was asked to share the names of the female emcees she’s been most impressed by over the past 15 years. In response, the rapper/actress expressed her belief that artists like Lil Kim, Missy Elliott, and Foxy Brown have yet to be topped.
Additionally, Queen Latifah spoke on the need for there to be room for numerous female lyricists as opposed to there being only one rapper or a handful of rappers who remain the focus of each era.
“I still think some of the best ones that have done it have yet to be topped. I still don’t think anybody has topped the whole era of Foxy, Kim, Missy, Eve, me on the tail end kinda things. I’m still looking forward to it not just being a one-at-a-time female rapper thing. I mean, I think Nicki Minaj is great, but I think we definitely need to blow up some of the other females that are out there.”
She didn't lie, I don't think any crop of female rappers will top that era that's when female rap was at it's peak and we had multiple female rappers winning TOGETHER
She's trying to say the era of female rappers that she was in is the best there was (no lies spotted). She's not trying to be specifically shady towards anyone.
If anything, it's more of shade towards the girls that are still struggling to break through and be on a mainstream level like Iggy, Azealia, Honey C and Angel Haze.
Your Oscar will come soon, girl.
