Hip Hop Divas

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Summary: about time!
Review: Finally someone decided to chronicle the important strides women have made in hip hop! This is so beautiful, the kind of book I will save for my daughter. It's just cool to see everything put into perspective. The writers did a great job. I am a huge TLC fan and the chapter here is the best I've ever read on the women. I love the Roxanne Shante chapter too. She's the original hip hop diva and finally I learned about her after all these years. Thank you Vibe for making this book.

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Summary: Phenomenal Literature
Review: The time has come for us to salute Hip Hop's hottest divas and groundbreaking female artists from the past 2 or 3 decades to present time. The depth of the life, trials, and experiences in the Hip Hop Music Industry lands in this book. From stunning photographs to hot articles and discographies, VIBE has done it very well. I recommend this book to all who have great interest in music. For those who aren't proficient in this aspect can still gain a lot of knowledge from this literature.

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Summary: How in the HELL??!!??
Review: This book does give in-depth information, timelines and editorials about many of the past and present women who molded hip-hop soul, but who let this book escape the presses with only scant mentions of the First Lady of Bad Boy, Faith Evans??!!?? She was down with Puffy from jump, dropping lyrics and backround vocals before jumping off to her own success in 1995. How DARE Vibe not acknowledge her contributions and her impact, overlooking her for fly-by-night, funky stank messes like Trina?? That made me, as a Faith Evans fan, very, very upset. Vibe commited a serious injustice by overlooking this diva on the rise.

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Summary: Talks about the new trendsetters in Hip-Hop
Review: This book show how women were always part of Hip-Hop. It tells how they had to struggle against sexism, disrepect from their male peers and other obstacles. Mary J. Blige is the First Lady of Hip-Hop as shown by the cover of the book. This simply means that she is the preeminent woman in hip-hop. The other bio that the reader will find interesting are those of TLC, Salt-N-Pepa, Queen Latifah, Lauryn Hill, Lil' Kim, Foxy Brown, Eve, Erykah Badu, Missy Elliot, and Trina. The other bios that will interest the reader are the info on The Mercedes Ladies, Sha Rock, The Funky Sequence, The Real Roxanne, and Roxanne Shante. The book lacks vital info on Lisa Velez of Lisa-Lisa and Cult Jam , and Faith Evans. Overall this is a quality book. The title of my review is just stating my opinion that many of the artists in this book such as Mary and Lil' Kim will overshadow the men in the next 10 years.