Let's Highlight A Few Women In Hip-Hop Who Changed The Game With the world in turmoil and Women’s History month drawing to a close, it’s important that we take a moment to highlight some of the women in hip-hop. Hip-hop has always been considered a boys’ club, with the marginalisation of the contributions of female MCs. However, the role that female MCs play in hip-hop should not be forgotten. Over […]
Red Bull Music Academy's hit us with this short documentary film Revolutions On Air, a celebration of just a few of the essential innovators of NYC mix show radio of the 1980s. This includes the icons of hip-hop radio such as Mr Magic, Marley Marl, and Kool DJ Red Alert, but also garage and house broadcast pioneers like Tony Humphries, and tape edit maestros the Latin Rascals and Shep Pettibone. Also features none […]
MC Lyte set up a non-profit organisation called the Hip Hop Sisters Network which promotes positive images of women of ethnic diversity, bringing figure heads together from the entertainment industry and the corporate world She recently stated in an interview with VladTV, "I’m putting all of my efforts to raise money to send kids to college,” MC Lyte says in the interview. “With education comes options. When you don’t have […]
