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- “Dance for Me”
- “Girls First (feat. Monie Love)”
- “Wrath of My Insanity”
- “Come Into My Home (with Quasar)”
35 years in the past, hip-hop obtained a brand new queen.
Queen Latifah launched her debut album, All Hail the Queen, in November 1989, and at the moment, World Cafe correspondent John Morrison talks about how that album shook issues up.
“Rap music traditionally has, in fact, been a male-dominated house — not simply demographically however, like, in perspective. Queen Latifah, with this file, actually got here onto the scene and challenged that.”
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Morrison talks about how Queen Latifah carved out an area for ladies in hip-hop and altered the way in which ladies have been seen by the lads within the business. Plus, he’ll get into the legacy of that debut album.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kimberly Junod. The online story was created by Miguel Perez. Our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.