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Black women were doing the hard work of demanding respect in the rap game while MCA was still guzzling Budweiser and talking about his porno collection on wax. From Salt N Pepa to Lyte to Latifah to Monie to Miss Melody to Yo Yo to… I’ll just stop there, because all of them came up before Paul’s Boutique dropped. Nah, let’s go forward, mid-90s til inifinity: Missy, Lauren Hill (while with the Fugees and on her own), Foxy Brown, Lil Kim, Eve, and on and on.

That you looked to the Beastie Boys for a non-misogynistic voice in hip hop while it was there all along in the form of women rapping about and for themselves strikes me as incurious at best.

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   no surprise here, Jessica Valenti as usual

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    Seconding what the OP said. I remember the 90s pretty damn well, despite the fact I was a teenager at the time, and...

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