I found this video just two nights ago from Rocky B, and I'll admit I clicked on it just because she was wearing the Guns 'n' Roses tshirt ...beautifully cut off above the navel...but I was quickly swept up into the story of a new, aspiring femme rapper from Detroit, Michigan, that I am already very interested in. I am sure I will keep following it if & when she keeps making moves.
I'm also sort of thinking that I want to perhaps start a Twitter account that will be dedicated to all the femme rappers; but I am not sure if that would be "appropriate" or not, since I'm a gay white boy and all. It would be fun though, I think, and it was certainly fun when I ran my Azealia Banks fan page on there. The only problem with the Azealia fan page was that I eventually got tired, since I wanted to occasionally rep other femme rappers on there and I felt it was inappropriate. So maybe I just need to start one dedicated to femme rappers in general and see what happens with it.....
One thing I have consistently noticed in the world of female rap is that many of the perfomers do not seem to cooperate with one another nearly as much as the performers in the world of male rap do. In the world of the male rappers, collaborations and "featurings" are a completely vital part of the game. New, unsigned rappers have been lifted completely out of obscurity on a number of occasions, just because a major artist like 50 Cent or Jadakiss, et cetera, decided to feature them on their record. In fact, the featuring, in my opinion, is one of the greatest things the rap world has going for it, in comparison to something like the rock world, where such a thing is unheard of. I have always felt that the featuring goes to show just how tight knit the black community often is, in truth....
Having said that, however, it still doesn't change the fact that the females don't seem to ever do it nearly as often. The chance that a young up and comer like Rocky B will be featured on a track by someone already established like, say, Nicki Minaj, or Azealia Banks, etc, literally seems slim to none. Most of the time the only people the major femme rappers feature are male rappers or a singer. For some reason the competition between all the women in this world is absolutely insane...and one thing -- one very sad thing -- that I have repeatedly read, is that "there can only ever be one female rapper at a time". So, for example, now that Nicki Minaj is basically the "Queen Bee" of this world (I don't much like her, by the way), they are all saying that she will essentially have to be totally overthrown, by whoever comes next, if whoever comes next wants to make it.
There is apparently "no way" that the American public can handle having 2 or 3, or 10, female rappers prominent, at one time. This is a travesty of course, because the number of prominent male rappers around right now, seems literally endless. So I do think it's a little boring , really, that the public should be "incapable" of dealing with a large number of female rappers. It's ridiculous.. For me it' always better "The more the merrier". If you ask me, I want to see a femme rapper coming out of every city and state one is able to find them in. I want to see girls like Rocky B coming from Detroit, others from Miami, from Dallas, from Tucson, from San Francisco, New York, the list goes on and on. I want to have so many of them that I don't know what to do with them! For I don't like it right now, as it is, just having these "few drops of rain". I don't like how women like Nicki Minaj and Lil Kim are just endlessly referenced here. A healthy artistic movement needs space for everyone. Of course, rock and roll falls prey to the same disease....which is probably why it eventually lost relevance. You can't just have 5 bands representing an entire movement and think it's going to last. It just can't work that way...especially in the Internet age. The Internet age is all about QUANTITY. And that isn't a bad thing.....
So, yea, Rocky B....
CHECK HER OUT! She's awesome.
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