Women & Hip Hop Culture : Then & Now

Join us tonight along with special guest Felicia Pride author of "The Message: 100 Life Lessons from Hip-Hop's Greatest Songs" as we dialgue during the last week of Women's Month about images of women in hip hop. Many focus on how the video lense captures the female anatomy or mysogonistic verbage spews across the airways ; leaving Karrine Stephens as the mst sought after feminine voice of hip hop. How soon we forget that women have had a voice and defined themselves not only within the confines of male dominated hip hop culture but carved new paths for themselves. From Sweet Tee to Roxanne Shante , MC Lyte blazing the trail...Salt N Pepa bring sexy to hip hop...Queen Latifah & Ms Melody bringing a female perspective to the the awaken consciousness Yo- Yo & Lady of Rage spoke for the west coast sistas...Lil Kim & Foxy Brown took female hustling to verse while Eve & Rah Digga put a little grit to it...Missy Elliot experiemented while Lauryn infused the heartbeat of the streets with poetry and scripture...where are we now?