With their bold, empowering lyrics and infectious beats, they challenged stereotypes and helped pave the way for female artists in Hip-Hop. Their 1986 debut album, Hot, Cool & Vicious, featuring the ...

Cardi B‘s dominance of Billboard’s new female rap ranking proves women now control hip-hop’s biggest conversations and chart positions. Billboard dropped their top 10 hottest female rap artists of ...

Women’s History Month is a chance to celebrate women’s cultural, artistic, and societal contributions across all spectrums of society. While flowers have been (rightfully) given to today’s female ...

They were called sellouts, pop stars and a passing fad. Four decades on, Salt-N-Pepa are still having the last laugh.

Hip Hop has long been a male-dominated industry, where women have had to fight twice as hard for recognition—whether on the mic, behind the boards, or in the background shaping the culture. Yet, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chisolm died Monday in Atlanta following a brief illness, her sister told Billboard. "My sister gave a lot of herself to the music ...

Cardi B has become one of hip-hop’s most recognizable and influential figures, known for her sharp lyrical style, unapologetic personality, and chart-topping hits like Bodak Yellow and I Like It, ...

In 1981, after she had a hit song, Angie B was backstage at Disco Fever in the Bronx with the first female rapper, a young MC Sha-Rock. By this time, the pair are rap stars at the forefront of the ...

Cardi B has officially completed her massive Little Miss Drama Tour, delivering record-breaking numbers and redefining expectations for female rap artists in live touring. The Bronx rapper didn’t just ...

Women rappers were not really a feature of Tunisia’s typically masculine and chauvinist hip-hop scene until the revolution that overthrew Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011. Now there are several ...

The rap game is long overdue for an overhaul of talent, and female rappers are lining up in droves to even the score in the genre. For 2024 and Black Women’s History Month, Hip-Hop Wired has ...