God Save the Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop Audiobook (Free)

Can’t Stop Won’t Stop meets Girls to leading with this essential and longer overdue background of hip-hop’s feminine pioneers and its enduring stars.

Every history of hip-hop previously posted, from Jeff Chang’s Can’t Stop Won’t Stop to Shea Serrano’s The Rap Yearbook, focuses primarily on men, glaringly omitting an intensive and respectful study of the presence and contribution from the genre’s feminine artists.

For far too long, women in hip-hop have been relegated to the shadows, about God Save the Queens: THE FUNDAMENTAL History of Ladies in Hip-Hop considered the designated “1st Lady” thrown a agreement, a pawn in a few beef, or even worse. But mainly because Kathy Iandoli makes clear, the reality is completely different. Today, hip-hop is normally dominated by effective women such as for example Cardi B and Nicki Minaj, however there are ratings of female artists whose influence is constantly on the resonate.

God Save the Queens pays tribute to the women of hip-hop-from the first work of Roxanne Shante, to hitmakers like Queen Latifah and Missy Elliot, towards the superstars of today. Discovering issues of gender, cash, sexuality, assault, body image, feuds, objectification and more, God Save the Queens can be an essential and monumental work of music journalism that at last gives these influential female artists the respect they have long deserved.