Hey y'all, Russ here, just dropping a preview of this week's Pop Panther on All Access episode,

in which myself and returning Fave Clover Hope, author of The Motherload, 100 plus women who made

hip hop. We are doing a wrap-up of 24 in the Rap Girlie game. We are talking about all the female

emcees. Of course, Mike the Stallion, definitely Dochi, Glorilla,

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by clicking the link in the show notes of this episode, or you can subscribe for the audio only directly in the Apple podcast app. So McCarty and Megan broke out, I opened the door, and I think that today, basically, I guess I kind of see this year as a, yeah, it's kind of settling in, like, let's see where, you know, Cardi's second album, where are she going to go? Where's the album?

Right, exactly.

You know, like, it's kind of crazy to think about that she still only has one album.

Truly, yeah.

I appreciate that you're bringing it all the way back to Nikki because I think that some of the things that have been really exciting and how stuff has shaken out this year is that we have, as you're

pointing to, gotten to this space where there is space for more than one woman. I think in the 2010s,

there was this idea that there was one woman. She got to be at the top of the game, sit on the

throne, and that was sort of that. And then Cardi came in and Meg came in. But now there's this whole proliferation.

And we can see that there can be all different types of women doing slightly different things, serving slightly different audiences.

You have women in the South.

You have women on the coast.

And of course, that is how things always were in the 2010s too.

But there wasn't necessarily this space in the pop side of things

for their attention to those, for them to get magazine profiles, for them to have, yeah, you know,

Z-100, all of that. And now I think we're seeing a lot. And I saw a lot of parallels this year as well

with the pop girls. Over on the pop girls,. And I saw a lot of parallels this year as well with the pop

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