{"id":1026,"date":"2014-03-05T08:56:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T13:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2014-03-05T09:01:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T14:01:51","slug":"where-are-the-women-rappers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/2014\/03\/05\/where-are-the-women-rappers\/","title":{"rendered":"Where are the women rappers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2014\/03\/Minaj2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1025\" title=\"Minaj2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2014\/03\/Minaj2-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2014\/03\/Minaj2-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2014\/03\/Minaj2.jpg 462w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, my latest piece, &#8220;<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/codeswitch\/2014\/03\/04\/285718351\/where-did-all-the-female-rappers-go\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Where Did All The Female Rappers Go?<\/span><\/a><\/span>&#8221; went live at NPR. \u00a0In this one, I look at the significant decline of women in mainstream rap music and consider some of the reasons for it. \u00a0I was fortunate enough to interview hip hop pioneer MC Lyte, who was very candid about her disappointment in the current industry climate for women.<\/p>\n<p>The piece ends with the upside: \u00a0the &#8220;underground.&#8221; \u00a0I&#8217;ve been listening to a lot of women who are far more talented than many of the artists (e.g., 2 Chainz, Waka Flocka Flame) who are on major labels. \u00a0There are a number of really skilled MCs out there, but check out Awkwafina, Ruby Ibarra, Nitty Scott MC, and Gifted Gab for some different styles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my latest piece, &#8220;Where Did All The Female Rappers Go?&#8221; went live at NPR. \u00a0In this one, I look at the significant decline of women in mainstream rap music and consider some of the reasons for it. \u00a0I was fortunate enough to interview hip hop pioneer MC Lyte, who was very candid about her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/2014\/03\/05\/where-are-the-women-rappers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where are the women rappers?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}