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Chuck D encourages women rappers
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 12 January 2009
Veteran hip hopper and activist, and former CMU columnist, Chuck D has declared a 2009 resolution to support women in hip hop.
The former Public Enemy star says that the fact that there aren’t enough prominent women in the genre is making it regressive, and that advances made by female pioneers in the eighties and nineties have been rendered irrelevant in the current climate.
He told AllHipHop.com: “In 09, my fighting the power is for women in hip hop, especially groups, producers, songwriters, and label heads. There are very, very few all women rap groups. Less than we had 25 years ago. I feel it is the next revolution in this ‘same dude, same idea, same voice genre’. I personally feel that the lack of groups on the male side has hurt, as well as production teams for the sake of soloists, across the board”.
Chuck D’s label SLAMjamz is currently promoting all-girl hip hop trio Crew Grrl Order, who are currently working on their second album, ‘All Bets Are Off’, which is set for release to coincide with the US’s National Women’s History Month in March.
