I been wondering this for a while, but it's crazy that when Nicki came out it was like....legit no other female rappers to even come across as competition.

And not like "nicki was just that much better than the rest it didn't even matter" I'm saying, there was literally none. Which does make it that much harder she came out against pretty much a bunch of niggas.

But I'm thinking bout it. Missy Elliot was dealing with Graves disease, Remy Ma was in jail, Foxy Brown kept going in and out of jail, Eve was dealing with label problems + getting into acting, and more. It just seemed like a lot of up and coming female rappers in the 00s just...vanished.

Just kinda made for this deep void in female rap that Nicki was able to fill at the right time.

I'm not really saying this to say "Nicki got lucky" cause she deserves all the credit she gets (Dropped one of the greatest features ever on one of the greatest hip hop albums ever) but mostly to ask, why was there literally NOBODY else female rapper wise around when Nicki jumped on the scene?

Search what academy Nicki attended between 2002 - 2007 and you’ll have your answer.

Not a lot of female rappers that were lyrical enough to hang with the big boys like Nicki.

Careers got Sacrificed for her

Eve and Missy were very good/lyrical in their own right imo.

But also, that's weird how that changed cause in the 80s and 90s, all the female rappers were lyrical like crazy.

Lauryn Hill AND Ladybug Mecca both were the stars of their respective rap groups because of it.

@user @Daveacee9 @SlapFiend need my fellow historians on this case cause I'm deadass lost lol

1.she dropped arguably the greatest female rap mixtape of all time

2.she was in the crew with the hottest rapper at the time

3.with the south takeover their weren’t many female rappers from the south

4.let’s not front like there was unity in female rap eve had beef with foxy who had beef with kim who had beef with remy before she got locked up

5. Female rap died because of kim beefing with everybody nicki saved that s***

6. Even if there was other female rappers at the she still would’ve been at the top

that's funny you mention eve and Lil Kim because Eve said in an interview she thought when she first got in the game it was a camaraderie around the women, but she would see Kim and say hi and kim would just say "get the f*** away from me" lmfao.

And I aint sayin they had to be unity. I'm just saying NOBODY else was outside? lmfao

Late 00’s period was such an awkward time for rap

There was some underground female rappers but they just never hit that breakthrough

Like Sophia Fresh with their radio friendly sound

Or Nitty Scott MC with her more traditional approach

It’s almost like no one was reaching the middle ground between these two sides. Which is exactly what Nicki did. She brought the raps and the sound to blow up

Cause no label pushed one what you mean

Yeah definitely i just feel like female rap was dead mainstream wise till nicki came in the game….instead of us looking at it like their wasn’t no competition for her we should look at it as her paving the way with her early 10s run

I forgot about Nitty scott!

Damn I aint know she been in the game THAT long.

Nicki competin with the men which is why yall so shook

You said it, by time Nicki came out Kim was washed and too surgically disfigured for a label to back her, Remy was in jail, Eve was stuck in Dr Dres aftermath dungeon. Ludacris was blackmailing Shawnna, female rap was kinda dead

Nah lmao I just remembered who was the biggest female MC in this transitional period…..

Why couldn’t Lil Mama blow up?

her antics.

I mean investing, she coulda ate good off her Lip Gloss money

Lip gloss was a gimmicky song she was lucky to get a second hit, she was never gonna have staying power

Was it really a gimmick?

OK novelty song