For filmmaker dream hampton, the story of women in hip-hop is not one of easily packaged girl power over tight beats. It’s the erasure of history that her and the other executive producers of “Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop” sought to correct.
This was about two decades ago. Before cellphones were a given. Before a celebrity run-in had to be documented or it didn’t happen. So hampton, whose latest docuseries “Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop” was just released on Netflix, wasn’t in fan mode. She clocked the female MC’s presence and prepared to move on. That’s when both women
On the 1987 track, a then 21-year-old KRS spends two minutes hurling schoolyard insults at the Juice Crew, the Queens collective founded by DJ Marley Marl which included Mr. Magic, MC Shan, and Shanté. A South Bronx rapper lyrically planting the flag in his borough, KRS calls into question the other crew’s cred, calling them boring, fake and gay. But what he said about Shanté sliced deeper, especially considering how many packed crowds screamed out the lyrics at the top of their lungs.
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