Produced by Kate LoPresti
Edited by Wendy Dorr
Engineered by Isaac Jones
Featuring Lindsay Zoladz
For Lindsay Zoladz, a pop music critic at The Times, one of the most notable trends in music lately has been the number of female rappers on the charts.
Up until now, the norm for most of rap history has been that only one woman could find success in the genre at a time. But over the past few years, an entire vanguard of female voices has emerged -- having hits, becoming household names and proving that more is more.
On this episode, Zoladz puts together a playlist of a few of the women dominating the rap game right now.
On today's episodeAdditional reading
The Amplifier: Hot Tracks From a New Generation of Female Rappers
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