Ladies be your own mic

The hip hop industry can be very bias towards women that are trying to make a brand for themselves. Although there are women hip hop legends like Salt and Pepper, MC Lyte, Yo-Yo, and Queen Latifah who has set the standards for women to demand respect by the men who like to call women the B-word and her comeback with a strong lyricist voice "Who you calling a b***h". Women in the hip hop game always had to work 10 times harder mostly in that particular industry just to gain the respect by men that likes to try them and feel that "oh that's not women like" oh you should look like this and spit these type of lyrics. Women needs to have their own voice, their own image on how they would want to appear to the fans to establish their own brand and hustle for themselves just like the men in the industry does.

Lil Kim for example does very well in how she recites her lyrics she has that strong voice and how she projects will have people be attentive to what she is saying. But based off watching the Notorious movie; she kind of did anything just to make a name for herself in the industry. The people in the industry who she was associated with told her to spit these types of lyrics, you should look like this (raunchy image). Lil Kim was being controlled by someone who wanted to make a profit off of her; didn't have respect for her as a women, cared more about how she puts it down in the bed room and the vulgarity that comes out of her mouth. That person took advantage of her vulnerability just because she was desperate to have that stardom. Lil Kim is used as an example to show the mistake she made for not being true to herself. For the ladies who are inspired to be an respected hip hop artist needs to set the standards for themselves. Ladies you need to become that independent women; become your own executive/CEO/producer of your label for women that share that drive and ambition like you, brand yourself. Just be true to yourself and you will see who respects your talent.

Hedonis Da Amazon who is famously known from the reality show Miss Rap Supreme that premiered on Vh1 in the spring of 2008. Hedonis is an unsigned hip hop artist, very intelligent even though her presence come off as being "street" to others "ghetto"; her You Tube clip below explains her passion and how business minded she really is about the industry as a whole and how women should portray themselves. She also stated about the reality show Miss Rap Supreme how she felt that the show was exploiting the ladies in a negative manner by making them look stupid. Hedonis felt like the show shouldn't be about teaching women how to rap, in her eyes they already know how to rap. She felt that the show should of have been on some Trump show level; by teaching the women who inspired to be in the hip hop industry how to handle their business; in selling their own records,learning how to read contracts, how to dress and put on make-up and many more insightful value points Hedonis said on this YouTube clip below. Check out the clip below and I hope that the ladies that are reading this blog and viewing the clip will  inspire you to be your own mic.

Dr.Tererai words of wisdom from her mother

"Write those dreams down on paper and bury them and if you truly believe in those dreams, then you will see them grow and grow and grow. Cover those dreams with a rock because that rock will always call you were ever you are in the world".