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Lana Michele Moorer (born October 11, 1970), better known by her stage name MC Lyte, is an American rapper.Considered one of the pioneers of female rap, [5] [6] [7] MC Lyte first gained fame in the late 1980s, becoming the first female rapper to release a full solo album with 1988's critically acclaimed Lyte as a Rock.
Antoinette Lovell Patterson (born May 4, 1969 [2]), known simply by the mononym Antoinette, is an American rapper from Bronx, New York, who released two albums, during the late 1980s and early 1990s. She is mainly remembered for her beef with MC Lyte .
This category is for female rappers. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Rappers . It includes rappers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Jackson is also the first female MC to sign to a record label (Sugar Hill Records in 1979), a participant in the first rap world tour (in 1981) and the first female rapper to perform hip-hop on ...
In the late ‘80s, hip-hop had begun shifting from groups to solo artists. ... The Funky 4 + 1 was a Bronx group comprised of four men and the female rapper Sha-Rock, whose style of “echoing ...
Consequence considered her "a mentor for generations of female MCs, and an early advocate in rap for female empowerment." [27] In 1989, The Christian Science Monitor stated that the popularity of rappers like Roxanne Shante, Salt-N-Pepa, and MC Lyte created a path for the next generation of female hip hop artists. [28]
[1] [2] Prior to the addition of the chart, hip hop music had been profiled in the magazine's "The Rhythm & the Blues" column and disco-related sections, while some rap records made appearances on the related Hot Black Singles chart. [3] The inaugural number-one single on Hot Rap Singles was "Self Destruction" by the Stop the Violence Movement. [4]
This was the mid to late ’80s, early ’90s, and he used to give me the half-moon part.” ... The rapper has rocked every color in the book and inspired a generation of female rappers who carry ...