This timely limited doc series recontextualizes the role the irrepressible women of hip hop played throughout the revolutionary genre’s 50 years by reinserting them into the canon where they belong: at the center, from day one to present day. Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop premieres August 9th, only on Netflix.
Category
🎥
Short filmTranscript
00:00 Black women are crushing it in hip-hop right now.
00:02 Dominating the charts,
00:06 being the ultimate influences of the culture.
00:09 We are women at once in different aspects.
00:13 There's so many fire women right now, like what?
00:18 None of this came easy.
00:21 We have come through a lot.
00:23 We have stood back up.
00:26 And we'll always keep standing back up.
00:28 [music]
00:32 The beautiful thing about where we are right now,
00:35 black women in hip-hop are controlling their narrative
00:38 in a way we've never fathomed.
00:40 [music]
00:48 I celebrate all women because there's space for you.
00:51 We will always be stronger together than we are apart.
00:55 That's just how it is.
00:56 [music]
01:03 [music]
01:07 [music]
01:10 [music]
01:13 [music]