Female Rap Alliances: A Look into Iconic Cases of Sisterhood in Hip-Hop Culture

Entering Hip-Hop culture has been a deviant journey for women in comparison to their fellow spitters of the male sex. This is a fact in Hip-Hop history that is pretty difficult to ignore when the subject matter is at the mercy of bodies of the female sex and Hip-Hop. The trivial profile of the young male MC was the primary demand throughout the culture’s earliest eras including the golden era. As the genre emerged, several young women were spotted on the scene dominating divergent elements. The dominant profile of the young male MC certainly made way to endow a few challenges for young women who decided to practice Hip-Hop art forms. This silently secured a space for visibility and burgeoned the need for some type of solidarity.

Sisterhood is the leading force of survival for women in the Hip-Hop community and fortunately, not foreign to the culture. Amid the coming of Hip-Hop, most of the crews were male-dominated and habitually showcased a sense of brotherhood. As early as 1976, young women who were moved by the beats and breaks of their nearby park jam also held their own just like their male counterparts. While “true school” acts such as…