" We’ve sung along to My Melody, experienced Necessary Roughness and if you don’t know, You Better Ask Somebody.Īnd while all female rappers deserve their flowers for breaking barriers, there are a few women who deserve grandiose gardens dedicated to their accomplishments. We’ve been blessed with Da Baddest Bitch and even been " Conceited. Over the decades, audiences have been Funkdafied listening to Supersonic sounds, while still Down to Earth. If it weren’t for her party, we would have never experienced MCing over a song's breaks, which evolved into the cultural phenomenon we now know as rap.įemale MCs have been integral to hip-hop’s musical melange from its inception, beginning with pioneer (and Mother of the Mic) MC Sha-Rock. However, the event itself was the idea of his sister, Cindy Campbell. That now-infamous party is where hip-hop was fathered by trailblazing DJ Kool Herc, at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx. However, in the midst of the city’s tumult, the extended instrumental section of a song played at a back-to-school party forever changed the landscape of music. Gunshots, abandoned buildings and fires marred many New York City streets. By the 1970s, the dichotomies of opulence and post-industrial destitution were stark.
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