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Back To The Drawing Board (Kitchen?)

A while I back I stated how dark-skinned black women in black music are the new-millennia endangered species, not unlike the mountain gorilla and northern hairy-nosed wombat, due to the fact that their ancestors were not gang-raped by their slave owners, and thus denying them the opportunity to be doused with Ace Of Spades - or whatever ridiculously expensive firewater Grandpa Simpson drinks nowadays – by your favorite rapper’s favorite izm holder in music videos.

(If you want to take a trip down memory lane, you can do so here.)

Not to be discriminative to only my asphalt-colored queens, I also asserted that black women in general are having a great deal of difficulty keeping it together in music today, only to be constantly outdone by their paleface counterparts time and time again.

(For my special report, you can go here.)

As a side note, I’ve been told that rapper jaundice-toned rapper Jean Grae has been putting it down for quite some time now. Unfortunately, I read that she’s signed to Talib Kweli’s imaginary record label, so that pretty much means her album will come out Neverary 35th, which puts women back at square one. But I digress.

Anyways, all the rage on the Internets this week has been about lists of the greatest rap albums ever. Even my blogging brethren S.Y. Young got in on the action. But one trend I noticed is that not one list had any album by a female rap artist. I originally thought that this only confirmed my theory that black women couldn’t make it in black music, but now I’m beginning to see that it may just be rap.

Granted, there are female rappers who should be considered in the list of the greatest rappers of all time, but those come few and in between. And nowadays, female rappers seem more concerned with acting, singing or getting arrested by cops than making an actual rap album. The only “memorable” female rap albums that came out last year were Shawnna, Remy Ma and Missy Elliott, and only Missy’s earned a plaque. It’s gotten so bad that even the American Music Awards took out their Favorite Female Rap Artist category last year. Compare this to the 2000 incarnation, when The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill won an award, and that shit had been out for two years prior.

But you can’t blame them entirely. With rap grossly underperforming these days, hip-hop producers are trying to get that pop guap to keep their ribs from touching. And with rap losing its fan base every day that can only spell trouble for the female rapper.

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