FIRST THINGS FIRST: HIP-HOP LADIES WHO CHANGED THE GAME - HARDCOVER - BOOK BONNIE RAITT

FIRST THINGS FIRST: HIP-HOP LADIES WHO CHANGED THE GAME - HARDCOVER - BOOK BONNIE RAITTThis enlightening book reframes the history of hip hopand this time, women are given credit for all their trailblazing achievements that have left an undeniable impact on music. FIRST THINGS FIRST, hip hop is not just the music, and women have played a big role in shaping the way it looks today. FIRST THINGS FIRST takes readers on a journey through some notable firsts by women in hip hop history and their importance. Factual firsts like Queen Latifah

an interactive duet with her father

After the massive success of Michael's 1987 Faith album

Smith's detailed narrative begins with Phillis Wheatley

John's microphone wasn't turned on

while Jimmy warns us to the pit falls of a big butt and a smile

12 Sad Beautiful Tragic

Unquantized: allows a smooth pitch change over the range of the Drag control

The Breeders' 1990 debut

from their early days as part of the Afrocentric rap collective known as the Native Tongues

they were discontinued in the 1990s

GBV’s latest batch of brilliant songs ride on colourful psychedelic flourishes and brash post-punk textures that make this ten-song album a one-of-a-kind head trip

It is a rock opera that follows Pink