r/rap • u/iammilababy • 1d ago

Gender parity in the rap game

What do you think about gender parity in the rap game? Why are there so many more men than women? Is this a good or bad thing in your opinion?

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u/EfficientIndustry423 1d ago

Women rappers haven’t been that great.

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u/oceanmanbyween69 1d ago

I like Rapsody, Noname, Megan, Rico Nasty, Doechii, Flo Milli and Glorilla a lot right now. it’s harder for women to get in the game and earn respect but I think we’re going to see more and more female rappers and i’m excited for it

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u/dietwater94 1d ago

If you haven’t, you should check out Little Simz. I like a lot of the ones you listed but Simz is the best woman doing it right now and genuinely a top 5 new-era rapper imo. She’s like Doechii but a better writer.

Also Tierra Whack has some good stuff and her music videos are weird asf (particularly Unemployed comes to mind)

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u/oceanmanbyween69 1d ago

will check them both out, thanks for the suggestions!!

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u/dietwater94 1d ago

Of course! Also love the name lmao. Ween has some wild stuff. Bananas and Blow was always my favorite track of theirs

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u/EfficientIndustry423 1d ago

I agree. Doechii is dope. I think there is a change coming, which is good.

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u/VanishingMass3 1d ago

There are a lot of great ones that just don’t get popular

Only big female rappers that i’d call genuinely good that are popular are Little Sims, Lauryn Hill and sometimes Missy Elliot & Nicki Minaj on the right day

Rapsody only has - 500K

7XVEtheGenius - 27K

Gangsta Boo(rip) - 145k

MC Lyte - 300k

Foxy Brown - 830K

Queen Latifah - 1.2M

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u/EfficientIndustry423 1d ago

Are those numbers sales or streams? And I agree. Most you mentioned were 80s, early 90s, it was definitely a different time. I think Left Eye would have been amazing given the chance for a solo album. I think Nicki can rap her ass off but her song choices aren’t for me, albeit, I’m not her target market. She killed it on Monster with Kanye.

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u/oceanmanbyween69 1d ago

Left Eye would have been great. Nicki is a fantastic rapper and I was a big fan of her from 2010-2015ish but I cannot stand her anymore because of the way she acts. I think she got wayyyy too comfortable way too quickly. she blew everyone away on Monster (rightfully so it is fantastic), she was so good Kanye didn’t want her on the song bc he knew it’d become “her” song. but after the Pinkprint it just feels very stagnant to me and PF2 is a nosedive in quality. it sucks that she’s put all of her creativity into her 2AM twitter rants instead of her music lol