NipplesAndToes23
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Female Emcees have always been underappreciated in the rap community and music industry. It doesn't matter how dope she is some people will dismiss her just because she's a woman. I remember showing some lyrics to a friend when I was in school from a song I played in his presence before and he said it was dope and I was like "you know that's the song I was playing the other day right?" and he was like "I wasn't paying attention. I don't like female rappers."
The situation with female rappers seem to even got worse. Nobody really prominent other than Nicki Minaj.This thread is just share some genuinely good rappers you like who happen to be female.
Here are some of my favorites:
AKUA NARU
A jazz rapper/spoken word artist from Connecticut that I found through YouTube recommendations all the way back in 2012. Her flow is impeccable and always in sync with the instrumentals. She also does her own production as well which is a plus. One of my favorite lyrics by her is "kidnap your sentence and watch your paragraph catch feelings" I don't know why I like it so much, but I do. She's a very conscious rapper with many of her songs revolving around social issues or love. Her discography isn't all that big, but all of it is quality. She became my second favorite rapper just behind Nas.
Recommended track: Nag Champa Gold
Recommended album: The Journey Aflame
LIL' KIM
My second favorite rapper at one point and time, Lil' Kim was a beast in the 90s and was looking flawless in "Crush on You" which was still banging in parties when I left college in 2014. There were always rumors that Kim didn't write Hardcore and that explains her shift in style going into Notorious K.I.M., but I believe the artist when she said she writes her shit. I think Kim might've been the first female rapper to talk about her sexuality so often and this was back then when dudes turned their heads on the thought of going down on a woman. Hardcore is still her best album to me with Labella Mafia as 2nd. I have not listened to any others that came after and by the impressions of other people I don't think I'm missing much. Also was Lil' Shanice just Kim on Helium?
Favorite lyrics: Queen bitch, supreme bitch
Kill a nigga for my nigga by any means bitch
Murder scene bitch
Clean bitch, disease free bitch
Check it, I write a rhyme, melt in your mouth like M&M's
Roll with the M.A.F.I.A. remember them?
Tell em when I used to mess with gentlemen
Straight up apostles, now strictly niggaz that jostle
Kill a nigga for the figure, how you figure?
Your cheddar would be better, Beretta inside of Beretta
Nobody do it better
Bet I wet cha like hurricanes and typhoons
Got buffoons eatin my pussy while I watch cartoons
Sleep 'til noon, this rap Pam Grier's here
Baby drinkers beware, mostly Dolce wear
from Queen Bitch
Recommended track: Crush on You ft. Lil Cease
Recommended album: Hardcore
GAVLYN
I also ran into her on YouTube in 2012 with her "What I Do" music video which blew me away and was my start getting back into rap when I stopped listening to new shit around 2007. This west coast emcee was a part of a group called Organized Threat which I stopped following sometime in 2015. Gavlyn had a 90s feel to her music. There was some boom bap, a little jazz, and something else I can't describe. I recall being very hype for her album Modest Confidence and even downloaded iTunes just to buy it, but was disappointed because that was not good. Her singles "Guilty Pleasure" and "All Too Well" made me think it was going to be hot, but those pretty much the only ones worth listening to on it. She's released more music since then, but it became more mainstream and her flow and writing started to suffer. I just stopped following her, but I still bump those first two albums.
Favorite lyrics:Why hesitate when you got something to say
Keep it moving who cares if the cops invade, shit
Im living life with no worries
Being free vibrations shooting straight to me
Cause I feel my conscience as well as my purpose
To highlight the streets with a capital G
I used to put my head down when people asked me to free style
But then I felt wrong cause I knew I could get it right
So say fuck it no hiding behind a mic
Don't strike a pose shit im blooming like a rose
from No Worries
Recommended track: What I Do
Recommended Album: From the Art
BAHAMADIA
I'm still not sure if I found her via the internet or if she actually played on the radio back in the day, but "3 The Hard Way" and Unknowhowwedu" some vaguely familiar. In any case I'm glad I did run into her music in 2013. She is one of the dopest rappers period! Her flow and wordplay are not to be fucked with. Like Akua Naru, or Akua Naru like her have such a soothing flow in their delivery that's accompanied by the jazz beats. So far I've only listened to her debut album Kollage, but I'm planning to look into her others. She's definitely slept on whenever I see a list of best rappers of all time. She stands to any rapper male or female.
Favorite lyrics:Da Youngstas be makin' Crewz Pop
Divine Beings got the true Sound of Hip-hop
Man called Lux flipped on the boom box
Mad propz to ruggedness lyrical terrorists
from Uknowhowwedu
Recommended track: Uknowhowwedu
Recommended Album: Kollage
ROXANNE SHANTE
One of the earlier ones from the 80s Roxanne showed off some true talent at a young age. From what I read she wrote "Have a Nice Day" at the age of thirteen. Her style is nothing but delivering hard cold rhymes and she beat a grown woman in a rap battle in "Wars" vs Sparky Dee. I honestly haven't listened to much of her because until last month I didn't think she even had an album, but "Have a Nice Day" was good enough for me to put her as one of her favorites.
Recommended Track: Have a Nice Day
Recommended Album: Bad Sister
SΔMMUS
I understand why people typically don't like Nerdcore. It's full of a bunch of cats with weak voice and delivery and not effectively making rhymes centering around geekish hobbies. After looking up a bunch I thought there was no good to be found until I came onto Sammus. She takes her name from the Nintendo mascot of the Metroid franchise. Initially, I didn't like her. Her voice reminded me more of the tone or inflection of modern rappers, but after some time, going back to it, and realizing one of my GOATs rhymed similarly, I actually ended up liking her. She isn't a great rapper, but decent. The themes and messages of her lyrics stick out to me more than other rappers and I feel a personal connection with her especially in "Perfect Dark" where she relays her experience growing up as a black woman and how the media portrayals of the white image affected her subconscious. The last verse of that song is chilling, though I think she should've ended it with just perfect dark and not added the cheesy bits at the end.
In terms of being a nerdcore rapper she doesn't rap about games all the time, but her album Another M is rapped from the perspective of Sammus and it doesn't come across as cheesy at all. Now her downside is that I find her hooks to be the weakest part of her songs and sometimes almost ruins the song. She has received props from other artists, notably of which is Jean Grae which hopped on her 1080p track. She also makes the beats to all her songs which is a plus.
Favorite lyrics:She got a poppa from Jamaica
And a crib he bought in Queens
All of the shottas tryna take her virginity every week
On her way to class
Grabbing at her cake while she walking passed
Finally couldn't take it had to clock 'em
That's how she got a rep for being crazy
On the daily thugs would chase her
They tried intimidation
Then one day her neighbors raped her
They said it had occurred because she never dated men
Though she had never said a word her father hated lesbians
She faked it for a minute with the brother of her friend
Then he started catching feelings said he couldn't just pretend
He begged to make it physical -- she wouldn't so he let her know
That he would show her father things she tried to make invisible
So she let him smash
Sometimes he even taped it
And as the months would pass
He started looking like her rapist
She finally snapped and stabbed his body with a knife
But her daddy died the day before she got 40 to life
from DL
Recommended Track: 1080p feat. Jean Grae
Recommended Album: PRIME
TRINA
Sometimes I just want to listen to some ratchet shit and Trina offers that. First saw her in Trick Daddy's "Nann Nigga" and when "Pull Over" came out I was a fan. She bad as fuck and her songs are just good party material. She does rap about serious stuff from time to time, but I come for the raunch.
Favorite lyrics:The good dick had me falling out
And I love the freaky things he be saying
And the names he be calling out
Yeah and he knows how to treat me
Eats me when he freaks me
The real one and his cum tastes so sweet
from "I'll Always"
Recommended Track: Pull Over
Recommended Album: Da Baddest Bitch
check page 3 for the rest. All the links and text couldn't fit in the first post.
Playlist
Tracklist
1. The Sequence - Funk You Up.
2. MC Lyte - Brooklyn
3. Akua Naru - Canary Dreams
4. Lauryn Hill - Final Hour
5. Rapsody - NPR Performance
6. Eternia - To the Future
7. Lil' Kim - M.A.F.I.A. Land
8. Foxy Brown - The Chase
9. MC Melodee - Time
10. Jean Grae - 8
11. Trina - Pull Over
12. Sheba Shane - Oh Yeah
13. Missy - All N My Grill
14. Rocky Rivera - Daydream
15. Nitty Scott MC - The Unlearning
16. The Conscious Daughters - We Roll Deep
17. Nikki D - Daddy's Little Girl
18. Roxanne Shante - Have a Nice Day
19. Lil' Mama - Sausage
20. Vel the Wonder - Yellow Dress
21. Pumpkin - Bye Bye Madeline
22. Gavlyn - What I Do
23. Da Brat - Funkdafied
24. Reverie - Give It Time
25. Nefertiti - Visions of Nefertiti
26. StaHHr - Get Right
27. Patwa - How I Feel
28. Sugg Savage - Let'z
29. Rah Diggah - Tight
30. Akoko - Deadly Venom
31. Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing)
32. Klassy - Perfect Getaway
33. Sa-Roc - Hounds of Hell
34. Rita J- Body Rock
35. The Reminders if you Didn't Know
36. Soulcat E5 - To Be Fly
37. Rapsody - Ooh Wee ft. Anderson Paak
38. Sammus - DL
39. Ruby Ibarra - Who I Am
40. Lil' Kim - Drugs
41.Roxxxan - Ho3
42. Yugen Blakrok - House of Ravens
43. OneSelf - Bluebird
44. Princess Nokia- Green Line
45. N-Tyce - Sure Ya Right
46. Bahamadia - 3 The Hard Way
47. Bahamadia - Wordplay
48. Sammus - Mae Jemison
49. MC Lyte - Lyte as a Rock
50. Isis (Lin Que) - The Power of Myself Is Moving
The situation with female rappers seem to even got worse. Nobody really prominent other than Nicki Minaj.This thread is just share some genuinely good rappers you like who happen to be female.
Here are some of my favorites:
AKUA NARU
A jazz rapper/spoken word artist from Connecticut that I found through YouTube recommendations all the way back in 2012. Her flow is impeccable and always in sync with the instrumentals. She also does her own production as well which is a plus. One of my favorite lyrics by her is "kidnap your sentence and watch your paragraph catch feelings" I don't know why I like it so much, but I do. She's a very conscious rapper with many of her songs revolving around social issues or love. Her discography isn't all that big, but all of it is quality. She became my second favorite rapper just behind Nas.
Recommended track: Nag Champa Gold
Recommended album: The Journey Aflame
LIL' KIM
My second favorite rapper at one point and time, Lil' Kim was a beast in the 90s and was looking flawless in "Crush on You" which was still banging in parties when I left college in 2014. There were always rumors that Kim didn't write Hardcore and that explains her shift in style going into Notorious K.I.M., but I believe the artist when she said she writes her shit. I think Kim might've been the first female rapper to talk about her sexuality so often and this was back then when dudes turned their heads on the thought of going down on a woman. Hardcore is still her best album to me with Labella Mafia as 2nd. I have not listened to any others that came after and by the impressions of other people I don't think I'm missing much. Also was Lil' Shanice just Kim on Helium?
Favorite lyrics: Queen bitch, supreme bitch
Kill a nigga for my nigga by any means bitch
Murder scene bitch
Clean bitch, disease free bitch
Check it, I write a rhyme, melt in your mouth like M&M's
Roll with the M.A.F.I.A. remember them?
Tell em when I used to mess with gentlemen
Straight up apostles, now strictly niggaz that jostle
Kill a nigga for the figure, how you figure?
Your cheddar would be better, Beretta inside of Beretta
Nobody do it better
Bet I wet cha like hurricanes and typhoons
Got buffoons eatin my pussy while I watch cartoons
Sleep 'til noon, this rap Pam Grier's here
Baby drinkers beware, mostly Dolce wear
from Queen Bitch
Recommended track: Crush on You ft. Lil Cease
Recommended album: Hardcore
GAVLYN
I also ran into her on YouTube in 2012 with her "What I Do" music video which blew me away and was my start getting back into rap when I stopped listening to new shit around 2007. This west coast emcee was a part of a group called Organized Threat which I stopped following sometime in 2015. Gavlyn had a 90s feel to her music. There was some boom bap, a little jazz, and something else I can't describe. I recall being very hype for her album Modest Confidence and even downloaded iTunes just to buy it, but was disappointed because that was not good. Her singles "Guilty Pleasure" and "All Too Well" made me think it was going to be hot, but those pretty much the only ones worth listening to on it. She's released more music since then, but it became more mainstream and her flow and writing started to suffer. I just stopped following her, but I still bump those first two albums.
Favorite lyrics:Why hesitate when you got something to say
Keep it moving who cares if the cops invade, shit
Im living life with no worries
Being free vibrations shooting straight to me
Cause I feel my conscience as well as my purpose
To highlight the streets with a capital G
I used to put my head down when people asked me to free style
But then I felt wrong cause I knew I could get it right
So say fuck it no hiding behind a mic
Don't strike a pose shit im blooming like a rose
from No Worries
Recommended track: What I Do
Recommended Album: From the Art
BAHAMADIA
I'm still not sure if I found her via the internet or if she actually played on the radio back in the day, but "3 The Hard Way" and Unknowhowwedu" some vaguely familiar. In any case I'm glad I did run into her music in 2013. She is one of the dopest rappers period! Her flow and wordplay are not to be fucked with. Like Akua Naru, or Akua Naru like her have such a soothing flow in their delivery that's accompanied by the jazz beats. So far I've only listened to her debut album Kollage, but I'm planning to look into her others. She's definitely slept on whenever I see a list of best rappers of all time. She stands to any rapper male or female.
Favorite lyrics:Da Youngstas be makin' Crewz Pop
Divine Beings got the true Sound of Hip-hop
Man called Lux flipped on the boom box
Mad propz to ruggedness lyrical terrorists
from Uknowhowwedu
Recommended track: Uknowhowwedu
Recommended Album: Kollage
ROXANNE SHANTE
One of the earlier ones from the 80s Roxanne showed off some true talent at a young age. From what I read she wrote "Have a Nice Day" at the age of thirteen. Her style is nothing but delivering hard cold rhymes and she beat a grown woman in a rap battle in "Wars" vs Sparky Dee. I honestly haven't listened to much of her because until last month I didn't think she even had an album, but "Have a Nice Day" was good enough for me to put her as one of her favorites.
Recommended Track: Have a Nice Day
Recommended Album: Bad Sister
SΔMMUS
I understand why people typically don't like Nerdcore. It's full of a bunch of cats with weak voice and delivery and not effectively making rhymes centering around geekish hobbies. After looking up a bunch I thought there was no good to be found until I came onto Sammus. She takes her name from the Nintendo mascot of the Metroid franchise. Initially, I didn't like her. Her voice reminded me more of the tone or inflection of modern rappers, but after some time, going back to it, and realizing one of my GOATs rhymed similarly, I actually ended up liking her. She isn't a great rapper, but decent. The themes and messages of her lyrics stick out to me more than other rappers and I feel a personal connection with her especially in "Perfect Dark" where she relays her experience growing up as a black woman and how the media portrayals of the white image affected her subconscious. The last verse of that song is chilling, though I think she should've ended it with just perfect dark and not added the cheesy bits at the end.
In terms of being a nerdcore rapper she doesn't rap about games all the time, but her album Another M is rapped from the perspective of Sammus and it doesn't come across as cheesy at all. Now her downside is that I find her hooks to be the weakest part of her songs and sometimes almost ruins the song. She has received props from other artists, notably of which is Jean Grae which hopped on her 1080p track. She also makes the beats to all her songs which is a plus.
Favorite lyrics:She got a poppa from Jamaica
And a crib he bought in Queens
All of the shottas tryna take her virginity every week
On her way to class
Grabbing at her cake while she walking passed
Finally couldn't take it had to clock 'em
That's how she got a rep for being crazy
On the daily thugs would chase her
They tried intimidation
Then one day her neighbors raped her
They said it had occurred because she never dated men
Though she had never said a word her father hated lesbians
She faked it for a minute with the brother of her friend
Then he started catching feelings said he couldn't just pretend
He begged to make it physical -- she wouldn't so he let her know
That he would show her father things she tried to make invisible
So she let him smash
Sometimes he even taped it
And as the months would pass
He started looking like her rapist
She finally snapped and stabbed his body with a knife
But her daddy died the day before she got 40 to life
from DL
Recommended Track: 1080p feat. Jean Grae
Recommended Album: PRIME
TRINA
Sometimes I just want to listen to some ratchet shit and Trina offers that. First saw her in Trick Daddy's "Nann Nigga" and when "Pull Over" came out I was a fan. She bad as fuck and her songs are just good party material. She does rap about serious stuff from time to time, but I come for the raunch.
Favorite lyrics:The good dick had me falling out
And I love the freaky things he be saying
And the names he be calling out
Yeah and he knows how to treat me
Eats me when he freaks me
The real one and his cum tastes so sweet
from "I'll Always"
Recommended Track: Pull Over
Recommended Album: Da Baddest Bitch
check page 3 for the rest. All the links and text couldn't fit in the first post.
Playlist
Tracklist
1. The Sequence - Funk You Up.
2. MC Lyte - Brooklyn
3. Akua Naru - Canary Dreams
4. Lauryn Hill - Final Hour
5. Rapsody - NPR Performance
6. Eternia - To the Future
7. Lil' Kim - M.A.F.I.A. Land
8. Foxy Brown - The Chase
9. MC Melodee - Time
10. Jean Grae - 8
11. Trina - Pull Over
12. Sheba Shane - Oh Yeah
13. Missy - All N My Grill
14. Rocky Rivera - Daydream
15. Nitty Scott MC - The Unlearning
16. The Conscious Daughters - We Roll Deep
17. Nikki D - Daddy's Little Girl
18. Roxanne Shante - Have a Nice Day
19. Lil' Mama - Sausage
20. Vel the Wonder - Yellow Dress
21. Pumpkin - Bye Bye Madeline
22. Gavlyn - What I Do
23. Da Brat - Funkdafied
24. Reverie - Give It Time
25. Nefertiti - Visions of Nefertiti
26. StaHHr - Get Right
27. Patwa - How I Feel
28. Sugg Savage - Let'z
29. Rah Diggah - Tight
30. Akoko - Deadly Venom
31. Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing)
32. Klassy - Perfect Getaway
33. Sa-Roc - Hounds of Hell
34. Rita J- Body Rock
35. The Reminders if you Didn't Know
36. Soulcat E5 - To Be Fly
37. Rapsody - Ooh Wee ft. Anderson Paak
38. Sammus - DL
39. Ruby Ibarra - Who I Am
40. Lil' Kim - Drugs
41.Roxxxan - Ho3
42. Yugen Blakrok - House of Ravens
43. OneSelf - Bluebird
44. Princess Nokia- Green Line
45. N-Tyce - Sure Ya Right
46. Bahamadia - 3 The Hard Way
47. Bahamadia - Wordplay
48. Sammus - Mae Jemison
49. MC Lyte - Lyte as a Rock
50. Isis (Lin Que) - The Power of Myself Is Moving
