Mainstream hip-hop music has tended to be male dominated, with some notable exceptions. Despite what we might see on the surface, the hip-hop community is in fact filled with amazing female artists from all over. If you are asking "where are all the female MCs at?", then you just aren't looking.
World Hip Hop Women: From The Sound Up is the latest mixtape project from Nomadic Wax and World Hip Hop Market. The new mixtape, which is available for free download, seeks to highlight the female voices and causes that are always present but less often heard. It is the brainchild of Detroit's DJ LaJedi and World Hip Hop Market founder Greg Schick, and features artists from 15 countries – joining Iranian MCs living in Washington DC to Zimbabwean artists in the "Sunshine City", Harare. It celebrates both Cuban heritage and the Palestinian struggle, alongside exclusive Spanish dancehall, and new dubstep sounds of South Africa. World Hip Hop Women are fierce emcees spittin' bars that transcend language barriers, cultural differences, and gender bias, expertly mixed together by DJ LaJedi.
"I salute every artist who contributed to the mixtape," said LaJedi, "for their courage and commitment to the spirit of creativity. Many of these women are carving paths where there are none. They embody 'firsts' of all kinds: MC Black Bird – first female to release a hip-hop record in Zimbabwe; Soultana – member of Tigress Flow, first all-female hip-hop crew in Morocco; Masia One – first female to be nominated for Canada's Much Music Award; Shadia Mansour – the first lady of Arab hip-hop; MC Melodee – Holland's leading lady in hip-hop; DJ Naida – Zimbabwe's #1 female DJ, and on and on. They are assuming leadership roles in their native communities and beyond through endeavours that prove their conscious attitudes regarding love, truth, peace, freedom of expression and social justice."..........
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2013/jan/24/hip-hop-woman-world?INTCMP=SRCH
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