Artist: Queen Latifah
Best Album: All Hail the Queen
Best Song: Ladies First
This Letter Could Have Been About: Q-tip, A Tribe Called Quest
Why I’m Writing About This Artist: Honestly? Watch the video first. That’s why I’m writing about Queen Latifah. Queen Latifah wasn’t the first female rapper, or the most talented female rapper (she gets upstaged by Monie Love on Ladies First, her best song,) but what she indisputably was was rap’s first and most outspoken feminist. She may still be rap’s most outspoken feminist, actually. Throw in a heavy dose of pro-blackness and African nationalism (check out the cover for All Hail the Queen) and the lady would have been a force to be reckoned with even if she hadn’t had tons of talent. By now she’s got a Grammy and an Oscar or two and has taken over every medium she’s ever worked in, so she’s got nothing left to prove. But hiphop had her first.
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You’re right–that’s why she’s the queen.
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Wow. I guess I skipped her rapping and only saw her, as you say,taking over all the other mediums. As a writer I found her role in Stranger Than Fiction truly hysterical. I was probably the only writer in the movie theater and when she is on the floor storyboarding for Emma Thompsons character I burst out laughing and NO ONE ELSE including my roommates got why it was so funny. But this video is the bomb. It explains a lot. And I have even read her memoir…
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Queen Latifah was/is fantastic! There were female rappers I like more (Lisa Left Eye, Monie Love) but like you said none quite so outspoken. She was great.
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