1. Lil’ KimHard Core

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Lil’ Kim was the first time I heard really explicit lyrics from a woman’s point of view, just straight out, no fall back on sexual acts. That was, like, 1996, I think the album came out. So it was really like, yes, Lil’ Kim let’s go!

I would say rap music and women in rap music, now they’re hitting it. It’s been really happening in the past five years. Of course, there’s always been that, but now it’s like a standard and it’s amazing. You see it culminating with, like, Doechii being a superstar, but also being super queer and super explicit and everything like that.