These female stars prove that hip-hop isn’t a boys’ club anymore.
Hip-hop is no longer male -dominated. With superstars like Nicki Minaj blowing up in hip-hop, it’s inevitable that other female MC’s will start getting their due. These five artists prove that girls run the hip-hop world.
Azealia Banks
The Harlem rapper has created quite a buzz on the music scene. Her first single “212” is a fun and risqué single that has been viewed 17 million times on YouTube. Her 1991 EP will drop this summer. Banks’s full-length album, Broke with Expensive Taste will feature songs with Kanye West. Her hip-hop is influenced by house music and even rock groups like Bloc Party. Though she...
We all watched and fell in love with Tony award nominated actress Sanaa Lathan when her character struggled with the mountain highs and valley lows of a relationship in the epic romantic hit film ‘Love and Basketball’ in 2000, a role that she had to physically study for. “Girl, there were times when I didn’t think I was going to make it!” she told me describing the grueling basketball training she had to do in order to convince audiences that she was a true ‘ball playa’, a line...
Like her, love her or loathe her antics, Rihanna is on top of her game and, is arguably running the game. Rihanna is rapidly ascending into multiple-threat superstardom – now adding "Actress" to her already impressive repertoire. At age 16, Rihanna sauntered onto the music scene in 2005, with her infectious dancehall-tinged thumper, "Pon de Replay." Her first album, Music of the Sun, went Gold and Rihanna went back into the studio to begin work on her sophomore effort. Six albums later...
Talking with Ledisi, it was as if I were on a lunch date with a good girlfriend. Known for fan favorites such as "Alright", "Higher Than This" and "Goin' Thru Changes", now the seven time Grammy nominated vocalist is not only kicking off her headline tour called "Be Good To Yourself", but she penned her first book entitled "Better Than Alright: Finding Peace, Love and Power"—a 176 page masterpiece that was written to give fans a full scope into who she is and the life...
Whitney Houston was one of the most beautiful, talented and beloved women in the world. Her talent and beauty was so pure, and so authentic that much like a baby's laugh or church bells ringing, the feel and sound of it is seared into our cultural collective consciousness.
With her natural locks now replaced with a relaxed Rihanna-esque short do, a slimmed-down physique (she’s shed more than 60 pounds), and a new album with upbeat tracks featuring hip-hop heavyweights like Doug E. Fresh, fans of the neo-soul songstress Jill Scott may find themselves asking the same question she posed in her 2000 debut album, “Who Is Jill Scott?” 
The actress speaks with B.Couleur Magazine on the success of her two hit television series, self-enlightenment and the beauty of giving back.
Tracey E. Edmonds, President of Our Stories Films gives audiences a positive portrayal of black men with 'Jumping the Broom'.
Growing up my mother played a lot of what’s now referred to as “old school” music—Atlantic Starr, Luther Vandross, Patti LaBelle, Prince, and the like. But I recall being particularly enamored by the voice of the woman singing alongside Rick James in the classic R&B song, “Fire and Desire.” As a child, I thought, this lady can really sing, but I was shocked to learn some years later that this big “Black voice” belonged to a 5-foot White woman—Teena Marie.
