Female Emcees

Micco · 03-11-2015, 10:45 PM

This is my reply to James in the Kanye West thread but I figured I'd delete that reply and rather make a thread on female emcees and hear your guy's opinions on the subject. Here's my opinion below, try and give a honest listen before you bank on your opinion of wackiness like Lil' Kim and Nicki Minaj.

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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth

i was going to make an exception for lauryn hill. her rapping on the fugees is the only female rap that i have enjoyed tbh

i think it has to do with what i was saying in the other thread... rap is sort of a man's sport. there are talented female mc's that i still can't really listen to cause their girly voice makes their hard posturing look silly

but lauryn hill has sort of a deep voice for a woman and manages to pull it off in a way that neither turns her into a sex object like lil kim/foxy/nicki minaj nor takes away her femininity/sex appeal

but to be those sex object type female rappers just seem like they belong dancing in the videos instead of rapping

Here's some of the dopest female Emcee cuts I can think of off the top of my head, you're absolutely right when saying sexual object female emcees are wack because they completely are, the dopest female emcees IMO do in many cases have that deeper voice, but the main element is they actual come with a cut that is hard, lyrical, or conscious, or has a combination of the elements listed before. Let me know what you think of these tracks.

-Bahamadia has extreme lyricism and her flow and beats make a extremely dope vibey cut
- Latifah has great flow, content, and another vibey beat and hook that you can't get out of your head
- MC Lyte is basically the Ice-T of female emcees, no one is more of an OG in her field
-Lady of Rage comes extremely hard with good lyrical content and productions
- Concious Daughters and Da Brat just come gangsta as hell and do it well

I think in all honesty the reason female emcees get a bad name is because the ones that actually get hits tend to be on the superficial "Hip-Pop" side of the music, once you look past mainstream names females tend to use just as many of the elements to create a dope emcee as their male counterparts do, the elements differ of course depending on which subgenre they go with. I.E. Gangsta rap doesn't have any lyrical quality to it.