Gentle Reminder to Support Your Female Rappers

A comprehensive list of all the female voices you need to add to your Spotify ASAP; (If you’re lazy, here’s the link to my own playlist “New Wave Feminism”).

Classics

Beyoncé / The Carters (Beyoncé & Jay-Z’s album EVERYTHING IS LOVE)

• Popular songs include: “***Flawless (ft. Chimamanda Adichie),” “Crazy in Love (ft. Jay-Z),” “Formation”
• Personal favs: “Hold Up,” “Partition, Sorry (Original Demo),” “BROWN SKIN GIRL (ft. Blue Ivy, SAINt JHN, and WizKid)”
• (The Carters) Popular songs include: “APESHIT,” “SUMMER”
• (The Carters) Personal favs: “LOVEHAPPY,” “NICE,” “HEARD ABOUT US”

Nicki Minaj

• Popular songs include: “Starships,” “Anaconda,” “Feeling Myself (ft. Beyoncé)”
• Personal favs: “Barbie Dreams,” “Right Thru Me,” “Moment 4 Life (ft. Drake),” “Bed of Lies (ft. Skylar Grey)”

Ms. Lauryn Hill

• Popular songs include: “Ex-Factor,” “Doo Wop (That Thing)”
• Personal favs: “Doo Wop (That Thing),” “I Used to Love Him (ft. Mary J. Blige),” “Can’t Take my Eyes Off of You – (I Love You Baby)”

Rihanna

• Popular songs include: “Love on the Brain,” “Needed Me,” “Work”
• Personal favs: “Needed Me,” “BELIEVE IT”

Personal Favorites

SZA

• Popular songs include: “All the Stars (ft. Kendrick Lamar),” “Love Galore (ft. Travis Scott),” “The Weekend,” “Drew Barrymore”
• Personal favs: “Go Gina,” “Garden (Say It Like Dat),” “Childs Play (ft. Chance the Rapper)”

Noname

• Popular songs include: “Diddy Bop (ft. Cam O’bi & Raury),” “Shadow Man (ft. Phoelix, Smino, & Saba)”
• Personal favs: “Self,” “Ace,” “Song 32”

Solange (yes, she is Beyoncé’s sister)

• Popular songs include: “Stay Flo,” “Cranes in the Sky”
• Personal favs: “Binz,” “Stay Flo”

Ari Lennox

• Popular songs include: “Shea Butter Baby (ft. J. Cole),” “BMO”
• Personal favs: “Whipped Cream,” “Shea Butter Baby (ft. J. Cole)”

Jhené Aiko

• Popular songs include: “Sativa (ft. Swae Lee),” “The Worst,” “While We’re Young”
• Personal favs: “While We’re Young,” “Triggered (freestyle)”

Up & Coming

Summer Walker

• Popular songs include: “Girls Need Love (ft. Drake),” “Playing Games (ft. Bryson Tiller)”
• Personal fav: “Playing Games”

WILLOW

• Popular songs include: “Wait a Minute!,” “Whip My Hair,” “Marceline”
• Personal favs: “9 (ft. SZA),” “Warm Honey”

Ella Mai

• Popular songs include: “Boo’d Up,” “Trip,” “She Don’t (ft. Ty Dolla $ign)”
• Personal fav: “Naked – Bonus Track”

H.E.R.

• Popular songs include: “Best Part (ft. Daniel Caesar),” “Slide”
• Personal favs: “2,” “This Way (ft. Khalid)”

Janelle Monáe

• Popular songs include: “Make Me Feel,” “I Like That, Pynk (ft. Grimes)”
• Personal favs: “I Like That”

Just for Fun

Cardi B

• Popular songs include: “WAP (ft. Megan Thee Stallion),” “I like it, Money, Ring (ft. Kehlani)”
• Personal fav: “Be Careful,” “Best Life (ft. Chance the Rapper)”

Megan Thee Stallion

• Popular songs include: “WAP (ft. Cardi B),” “Savage,” “Hot Girl Summer (ft. Nicki Minaj & Ty Dolla $ign)”
• Personal favs: “Cash Shit (ft. DaBaby),” “Girls in the Hood”

Lizzo

• Popular songs include: “Truth Hurts,” “Good as Hell,” “Tempo (ft. Missy Elliott)”
• Personal favs: “Cuz I Love You,” “Scuse Me,” “Juice”

City Girls (think Tik Tok)

• Popular songs include: “P*ssy Talk,” “Act Up,” “My Type (ft. Jhené Aiko, Saweetie)”
• Personal fav: “Twerk (ft. Cardi B),” “P*ssy Talk”

And that’s a wrap.