Artist: Jean Grae
Best Album: Attack of the Attacking Things
Best Song: Hater’s Anthem
This Letter Could Have Been About: Jay-Z, Jurassic 5, Jin, Jungle Brothers

Why I’m Writing About This Artist: Because she’s a black female nerd rapper who named herself after an X-Man and the refrain of her song Hater’s Anthem is just her chanting “Fuck You” over and over again which I’ve always found weirdly endearing for some reason, especially since the rest of the song really does feature a lot of clever wordplay.  Women are vastly underrepresented in hiphop (and I’ve unfortunately squeezed some good examples out in a few places in favor of male artists who I was just flat more fond of for one reason or another) and Jean Grae is absolutely the real thing.  Plus she didn’t get started in the 1980s and pretty much every person I’ve talked about since the very first entry on this list has been someone I was listening to in middle school, so… yeah.

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