Blog: AudioCred

Recently, there’s been a pretty noticeable lull in female rappers. The 2000s sort of just rolled on by without a great female MC to man (pun intended) the controls. Then, in 2010, Kanye West went and made himself a pretty much perfect album ( My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ), and decided to feature Nicki Minaj on “Monster.” Say what you want about Nicki and her tepid radio hits, but you sort of forgot that there was anyone else on that track as soon as she took over, spitting out “You can be the King/But watch the Queen conquer.” Just [...]