Editor’s note: This story is part of That’s My Word, KQED’s year-long exploration of Bay Area hip-hop history, with new content dropping all throughout 2023. Women’s contributions to the Bay Area ...

Launching the Spring 2026 semester, the Ivy League university will introduce the course highlighting how women emcees ...

In 1973, 25 dollars and a mission to go back-to-school shopping pushed adolescent Cindy Campbell to host an event that would inadvertently lead to the genesis of hip-hop. Campbell planned and hosted ...

Women have always been a part of hip-hop history — from the culture's B-girl days to its birth in the Bronx, NY, to today's era that sees femcees putting rap on their backs. The culture doesn't move ...

Foxy Brown, Lil’ Kim, Missy Elliott, Lauryn Hill, Eve—these are the women of hip-hop that I grew up with, watching their videos on TRL and their interviews with Big Tigger on Rap City and listening to ...