Artist	Song
roxanne shante	roxanne's revenge
mc lyte	lyte as a rock
queen latifah	u-n-i-t-y
monie love	it's a shame (my sister)
me'shell ndegeocello	if that was your boyfriend (he wasn't last night)
salt-n-pepa	push it
rah digga	what they call me
foxy brown	hot spot
lil' kim	how many licks?
missy elliot	work it
m.i.a.	galang
lady sovereign	random
eve	who's that girl?
ms. dynamite	dy-na-mi-tee
lauren hill	everything is everythin
jean grae	love song
diggable planets (ladybug mecca)	rebirth of slick (cool like dat)

Comment:

this is my feeble attempt at a women in hip-hop mix. granted, i know considerably less than i should when it comes to hip-hop but i'm learning. like most other genres i've encountered, it's was the women that i was immediately drawn to. hip-hop women are in no way expected to be quiet and demure. how else would they survive in a genre that is often chastised for its misogyny? there's no wading through the dredges of flighty-voiced, sexually repressed women, like in rock. hip-hop women are brash and out there and you, in no way, shape, or form, want to fuck with them. i mean, the first truly important female rap recording (by ms. shante) was a diss track. they got right into the thick of things with guns blazing. and that's what truly makes me love them. this ends up being weirdly chronological but i guess that makes sense depending on what new production techniques were available at the time. i was a little afraid of putting the me'shell ndegeocello song on here because, well, she sang a duet with jouhn cougar mellencamp, possibly the most un-hip-hop man in the world but it's such a fierce song and that bassline is ridiculous. i had a problem with placing the queen latifah song (from which the title of this mix comes) because i love it and wanted to give it either the exhalted position of beginning or end to the mix. but there were problems. i love that simple beat at the beginning or "roxanne's revenge" (which is now often employed on songs like kelis' "milkshake") and the diggable planets (who are sadly too often seen as one hit wonders) song ends with the lyric "we out" and i couldn't resist putting that at the end. my friend matt also convinced me that "u-n-i-t-y" was neither a opener nor a closer and i caved. i still don't know whether i like it at track three but that's where it's staying for now. please feel free to make suggestions as i know this mix can be expanded or changed so it flows better.

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