![]() ![]() It’s kinda cheating having the two names in the one spot, but you can’t have Salt without Pepa, and vice versa. Salt-N-Pepaĭiscography: Hot, Cool & Vicious (1986), A Salt with a Deadly Pepa (1988), Blacks’ Magic (1990), Very Necessary (1993), Brand New (1997) ![]() Though her sound usually leans toward a classic East Coast hip-hop groove, throughout her career the rapper has also experimented with EDM and funk. ![]() Two decades of underground hats and notable features – for Fugees, Talib Kweli, Wyclef Jean, Trina, RZA – followed.Ĭlassy, hard, confident and educated, Rah Digga’s music is defined by a literate lyrical style, raw beats and a razor sharp pen. After rubbing shoulders with the likes of 90’s New York hip-hop elites like Q-Tip and Busta Rhymes, the New Jersey rapper dropped her debut album Dirty Harriet in 2000. Rah Digga is cut from the cloth of golden age hip hop. Rah Diggaĭiscography: Dirty Harriet (2000), Classic (2010) More relevant now than ever, the rapper’s 2018 album Everything is Fine‘ was one of her most successful and proved that her lyrical talents haven’t skipped a beat for the past 20 years. Old-school boom-baps and breakbeats meet cool jazz vibes. She pairs her impressive freestyles with a distinctly NYC sound. With a verbose lyrical flow and strong feminist message, Jean Grae has been a defining force in hip-hop and a female icon in the genre. Both a skilled emcee and a groundbreaking producer, the classically trained musician brings a depth of musical and lyrical sophistication not often heard in popular music. Jean Grae has reigned as a leader of the East Coast underground scene since her 2002 debut Attack of Attacking Things. Jean Graeĭiscography: Attack of the Attacking Things (2002), This Week (2004), Jeanius (with 9th Wonder) (2008), Everything’s Fine (with Quelle Chris) (2018) Crossover collabs with artists like Gwen Stefani and DJ Paul Oakenfold have only further solidified her iconic status as one of the best female rappers to ever do it. She has done so through sheer artistic curiosity and fearless creativity.įrom her early days as the Ruff Ryders’ “First Lady” to her trading bars with Black Thought on the Grammy Award-winning “You Got Me” to her global smash hit, the Dre-produced “Let Me Blow Ya Mind”, Eve has kept her finger on the pulse of every phase of hip hophip-hop. The versatile rapper and singer has stayed relevant through every phase of hip-hop that has come along during her tenure. Eveĭiscography: Let There Be Eve…Ruff Ryders’ First Lady (1999), Scorpion (2001), Eve-Olution (2002), Lip Lock (2013)įor nearly a quarter of a century, Eve has reigned as a chart-topping rapper and crossover superstar. Underrated, yes, but absolutely one of the best female rappers of all time. With her old-school freestyle attack and effortless Afro-queen funk she made her mark on dozens of collaborations with legends of rap like Dre, Snoop, Gang Starr, MC Lyte and Salt-n-Pepa. Dre in the early 90’s who was impressed by her ability to lay down hard, rapid-fire freestyle rhymes and switch it up with soulful R&B melodies.Īlthough the LA MC has released only one solo album, she has inspired generations of female rappers. ![]() The Lady Of RageĬoming up at the height of DeathRow’s records’ reign over West Coast rap, The Lady Of Rage held her own alongside some of hip-hop’s luminaries – just peep her slinging bars right next to Kurupt and RBX on “Lyrical Gangbang” or stealing the show on “For All My Ni**az & Bitches.” She came under the wing of Dr. So to shout-out all of the dope female MCs who have stood toe-to-toe with their male counterparts (and at many times have out-rapped), we put together this list especially dedicated to them.įrom the old school pioneers like MC Lyte and Queen Latifah, to modern day rap queens like Rapsody and Nicki Minaj, here are the 15 best female rappers of all time. To be fair on our part, putting together such a list is tough no matter what angle you look at it, especially with the depth and breadth of talent through hip hop history. When we put together our list of the 50 greatest rappers of all time, we felt in hindsight that there was the female presence was severely lacking. ![]()
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