2018 has been and is the year of the Black woman. There is no arguing this. No debating this. This is a fact. In fact, you could try to debate this with me about this and you will find that I would be winning the debate. I thought this to myself at the start of this year and I can’t remember exactly why, but as August begins, I only feel stronger about my claim. These past months has provided me with so much evidence to support my statement. In no way am I trying to slight women of other races, I am simply uplifting black women. Women who look like me. Women who identify the way I do. When 2018 began, I had a feeling that this particular demographic, black women, would reach new heights. My theory was proved true, literally , when Therese Patricia Okoumou, a black immigrant woman, climbed The Statue of Liberty on Independence Day, to protest immigrant children being torn away from their parents. Upon her release, she wore a black t-shirt that read “White Supremacy is Terrorism.” ...
There is an abundance of female rappers, each with their own unique style, sound, and subject matter, who have made 2020 a notable year for women in rap. Hit songs, debut albums and mixtapes, popular TikTok challenges, creative music videos, and outstanding live performances from a number of them, helped document the successful year it has been. As 2020 comes to an end, it would be a true disservice to these women, to not mention their achievements and successes, both individual and collaborative. These successes should be highlighted and acknowledged because for the first time in a long time multiple women are dominating in hip hop which has been a predominantly male genre since its inception. Hip hop is also a genre that is constantly expanding and creating subgenres, those include socially conscious rap or “woke rap,” gangsta rap, and more popular these days mumble rap, and drill. It is important to understand that female rappers are not a subgenre themselves, as not all...
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