Megan Thee Stallion, Cardi B, Doja Cat and tens of other female rappers are
BREAKING through by embracing sisterhood and shaking off the prejudices of the past‘When a woman raps, she spitting!’ Megan Thee Stallion, the hot girl taking over hip-hopMuch like the rest of the
music industry, hip-hop, rap and grime have traditionally been male-dominated spaces. Finally, though, things are changing. Megan Thee Stallion’s rise – alongside US contemporaries such as City Girls and Doja Cat as well as
UK talent including Stefflon Don and Ms Banks – felt inconceivable even a few years ago. Now, however, we’re at a point where there are several successful female rappers who support, rather than compete with, one another.
Ever since Queens
Rapper Roxanne Chanté called out pretty much all of her contemporaries back in the mid-80s,
Women in hip-hop have been pitted against each other. Even as recently as 2018, when
Cardi B threw a shoe at
Nicki Minaj during a red carpet confrontation, they have been encouraged to tear their rivals down. Just two years later, however, the mood has changed and this kind of spat is rare and feels undignified. Now displays of friendship and support, along with in-jokes on
Social Media timelines are much more common.