God Save The Queens: The Essential History Of Women In Hip-Hop

"God Save the Queens lives up to its subtitle: It is an “essential history.” Men have long dominated hip-hop’s origin stories, and music journalist Kathy Iandoli answers that imbalance with a vital history of the genre’s founding women. Hip-hop fans will be delighted to hear from Missy Elliott, Queen Latifah, Nicki Minaj, Monie Mon and more but may find themselves asking: “Why did we have to wait so long for this?”"