Where are the women in hip-hop?

Stuff Mom Never Told You

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.2 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2014

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Since hip-hop was born in 1973, women have played important roles as emcees, b-girls and graffiti artists, but prominent female rappers have dwindled in recent years. Hip-hop journalist Christina Lee talks to Cristen and Caroline about where the women rap

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1:39.0	Welcome to Stuff Mom Never Told You, from houseofworks.com.
1:48.6	Hello and welcome to the podcast, I'm Caroline and I'm Kristen.
1:51.8	And today we're taking a look at Women in Hip Hop.
1:55.2	We're going to take you back and show you some of the pioneers in the field of hip hop.
2:02.0	And we're going to talk to a very special guest about the state of Women in Hip Hop today.
2:08.0	That's right, since Caroline and I are admittedly not hip hop aficionados,
2:13.2	we have with us today in the studio Christina Lee, who is a music journalist who has been
2:19.4	featured in Rolling Stone.com, MTV, BBC, all sorts of really cool places.
2:27.2	So first of all, Christina, thanks so much for coming on the show.
2:30.7	Thanks for having me.
2:32.1	So first off, let's just give a really brief synopsis of when hip hop started and just
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