Priority Male ; in Hip-Hop Circles, Good Gals Finish Last
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › January 11, 2005
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It's 1989. Kente cloth and door-knocker earrings were the couture du jour. And flickering on BET - MTV was just getting hip to black folks - was Queen Latifah, looking every inch the Afrocentric diva, posing against a backdrop of warrior women: Harriet Tubman. Sojourner Truth. Winnie Mandela. Angela Davis. She's trading lines with her partner in rhyme, Brit rapper Monie Love, in "Ladies First":
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Priority Male ; in Hip-Hop Circles, Good Gals Finish Last
Those who don't know how to be pros get evicted
A woman can bear you, break you, take youNow it's time to rhyme, can you relate toA sister dope enough to make you holler and scream?Back then, the ladies claimed their place: Roxanne Shante, MC Lyte, Yo-Yo, Sister Souljah,...See the full content of this document
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