The contributions of women in hip-hop (aside from a few exceptions) are often undervalued. This made writer and digital content creator Nadirah Simmons want to write her debut book, First Things First: Hip-Hop Ladies Who Changed the Game.
made it to the number seven spot. Out of 23 hip-hop albums in the top 100, only two are by Black women:. It’s fitting that a Black woman in hip-hop actually earned the crown atop a list like this, but the validity of this list is being debated all over our timelines, and Hill’s album is garnering undeserved hate for its top billing.
After 2023’s history-filled hip-hop 50 celebrations, Simmons knew her material needed to honor the women she held such deep reverence for and the culture they shared a love for, but with a different approach.reads more like a memoir coupled with an abundance of intriguing hip-hop facts and offers hits, deep cuts, and even interludes that educate readers on the need-to-know info about some of their favorite artists and unearth the names of women overlooked in hip-hop’s multifaceted history.
“I wanted to make sure it was personal,” Simmons tells me over an afternoon Zoom call. “I love history, but I also know I have memories, especially with hip-hop, connected to very specific moments, very specific conversations, very specific people. And I wanted to bring that out of the person when they were reading . I wanted them to feel like, ‘Oh my God, I might have a moment like this in my life where I heard this song, and it made me feel this way.
It's so funny because I started coming up with ideas for the book prior to hip-hop 50 and wrote it all throughout . But even thinking about the fact that we saw so many great people highlighted, I also thought, there's always going to be more people to highlight. Even I said that in my book, like, I couldn't put everyone in here. It's just not possible.
Another thing I love about the book is that there are direct quotes from interviews you conducted with some of your subjects . How many people did you contact for interviews?busy, and I understood that. But that's also what influenced me to stick to the approach that I had for the book.
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