Despite hip-hop's historical mistreatment of women, women have always been present and contributed to the genre. The chapter highlights the significance of a woman hosting the first hip-hop party and explores the marginalization and policing of women in hip-hop. It also acknowledges the current explosion of female hip-hop artists who are breaking barriers.
So much of the coverage of hip-hop’s 50th birthday has been congratulatory, in spite of its record of misogyny and anti-LGBTQ sentiment. In this episode of Into It, host Sam Sanders talks to journalist Kiana Fitzgerald about how the women of hip-hop are leading the way today, and he catches up with hip-hop scholar Jason England, who argues hip-hop's midlife crisis has left an empty shell of what the genre once was.
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