Is Lil Kim the most influential female rapper of all time?
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So Kim had no bars? Biggie wasn't around after 1997 and she still was making hits
mryounggun
OG
I thought this was common knowledge.
Lisa Lee wasn't the first female MC, Sha Rock from Funky 4+1 was first. But Lisa Lee was doin it before Rapper's Delight. Her career never took off but she was featured in Beat Street. Her scene in Wild Style got cut.
But here's the thing, she still rhymes and she can go on forever If you give Lisa Lee the mic don't expect to get it back.
But here's the thing, she still rhymes and she can go on forever If you give Lisa Lee the mic don't expect to get it back.
RozayTabernacle
The Bawse
I seen that tweet on twitter. some of the artists they put don't make sense. Missy Elliott? Rihanna?
RozayTabernacle
The Bawse
bet the southern rappers like Meg and the City Girls were inspired more by Trina than Kim
K
King Freeman
Guest
She influenced missy and da brat and made them have to cross over and try to be sexy. That's a fact.
They all followed behind her one way or another.
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King Freeman
Guest
Trina was inspired by kim tho. All leads back to lil kim.
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King Freeman
Guest
Lil kim was the prototype.
roi baptiste
Active Member
Kim was the most copied female rapper out here but imo the most influential was Roxanne Shante & MC Lyte.
RozayTabernacle
The Bawse
made who try to be sexy?
I don't disagree that Kim influenced some female rappers, but just because she debuted earlier than some doesn't mean she influenced them.
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grYmes
The price of a brick goin up…
made who try to be sexy?
I don't disagree that Kim influenced some female rappers, but just because she debuted earlier than some doesn't mean she influenced them.
I mean, Da Brat from what I recall did have some promo pics come out a while back that showed her in a... feminine light. By then tho her career was an afterthought & she established herself before Lil Kim was even thought of. Regardless of that tho, I think Missy the only one that’s came up without really being looked at as a sex object by Lil Kim standards.
grYmes
The price of a brick goin up…
Lauryn was around before Lil Kim was a thing. I’m talking since then.
If you wanna get technical that first Fugees album came out in 1993, but it was a dud. Praswell said the album sold 12 copies in its first week.
That Junior Mafia album came out in 1995. Lil Kim was on Player's Anthem and Get Money, which were both singles that did well commercially.
Lil Kim's debut album Hardcore came out in 1996, in the same year The Score came out. The Score outsold Hardcore
Lauryn didn't really become a thing until Killing Me Softly, which was the summer of 96.
I guess you could say they came out around the same time.
Don’t forget Sister Act 2