Rappers Wild Wild Women use their searing lyrics to highlight the treatment of their sisters in a socially conservative country
It’s not easy being a wild woman inThe eight members of the Wild Wild Women collective have had to deal with knockbacks from the men who dominate the music industry and press. They have had to cajole and fight their parents for permission to play and travel to gigs – once they’ve convinced them that hip-hop is suitable for women to perform. And they have to juggle full-time jobs with their music.
“We wanted to speak up, as women in a country where women have been kept down and forced to be silent,” says Pratika Prabhune, who struggled to win over her father who has a background in classical music. “When I was 12, I got a bass guitar and played in a heavy metal band. He didn’t approve of my rapping initially, but now he boasts about my success to his friends.”it’s all up to women
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