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Originally posted by Cap10Planet
What do you mean?  You think female rappers like Nicki and Iggy being able speak up from a female standpoint lyrically in a male dominated genre/industry has nothing to do with impactful songs like "Lady's First" or "U.N.I.T.Y."?  Have you EVEN heard of these songs or know Hip Hop to even have this discussion or discredit Queen? Your argument is, "she didn't sell records." "She didn't have pop hits." Not realizing you're discrediting people like Rakim, KRS-One, Public Enemy, NWA and the like, who weren't necessarily huge sellers but had huge political/social influences on the music scene.
I'm not going to sit back and go back and forth with you. Iggy is a fad, not impactful to anybody outside of iTunes buyers who will move on to the next fad.
And the fact that people are even trying to discredit Nicki by using Iggy proves the whitewash. Ugh, stick with the pop girl vs. pop girl topics. |
1. There were plenty of female rappers at the time, Queen Latifiah was not only one. Again, the songs in if of themselves did not "open doors" anyone, those women then and now would have picked up a mic with or without Dana Owens.
2. You need to sell SOME records to have impact, sorry. All those people you listed other have huge albums or extremely long discographies. The queen got critical acclaim, that's it.
3. Little to no female rappers today even reference her. And you didn't reference any other songs in the "women's first movement".
4. Iggy and Queen have had impact in different ways, Iggy has reached farther audiences and had more success in the US and globally.
