Tossing verbal grenades back and forth with Roxanne Shanté, she helped establish a lasting hip-hop truism: Bad blood is good business. Tossing verbal grenades back and forth with Roxanne Shanté, she ...

Hip-Hop has lost one of its earliest female trailblazers with the death of Sparky D, born Doreen Broadnax, a pioneering MC whose fearless performances helped establish women as a formidable force ...

West Coast rap has a rich history of female artists who pushed the sound forward. Women on the West Coast brought a range of styles, from lyricism to party anthems. These artists left an indelible ...