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Hip-hop.

It's how we know what bottles to pop and what luxury items we can't afford.

And we've been living in a golden era of female rappers with legends like Missy Elliott,

Lil' Kim and Lauren Hill.

Not to mention Megan the Stallion and Cardi B dancing with a certain African who misplaced

my ticket to the Grammys.

But did you know that female rappers have been huge in every era?

Every era?

Every era?

That didn't work.

It's true.

Rap's history is full of women who have largely been forgotten, like Sylvia Robinson,

the woman who helped create hip-hop.

Sylvia was a singer, record producer, label executive, and the first person to rock the

feral hat.

She took rap from little-known basement parties in the Bronx to worldwide commercial success

in 1979 by conceiving and producing rap's first hit record, Rapper's Delight.

Not only was it the first rap single to conquer the charts, it also sold over a million

copies.

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