Are female DJs and performers under-represented in hip-hop?
Well, yes and no. There is a misconception that females can’t play the drums as men can, that “it is better to get into popping and locking” than breaking, that females can’t demonstrate the rawest of all forms in breaking on the floor as men can. There is this wide notion that only men can have “real” love for hip-hop, just like only men can have “real” rapping skills. You generally see one female MC on a hip-hop collaboration mix tape, and the rest of the hip-hop artists tend to be male. In a way, this is not because of under-representation, but more because there are fewer women in hip-hop than men, period. I must say that women do get more attention than men in hip-hop due to the fact that there is a limited few representing, and when I [say] representing, I don’t mean those women who fulfill the roles of video vixens. MC Lyte and Queen Latifah were holding it down before Salt N Pepa took over the spotlight and changed the scene with all that sex talk. I believe this was the beginn
