Queen Latifah's All Hail the Queen
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Queen Latifah's All Hail the Queen
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- “Dance for Me”
- “Ladies First (feat. Monie Love)”
- “Wrath of My Madness”
- “Come Into My House (with Quasar)”
35 years ago, hip-hop got a new queen.
Queen Latifah released her debut album, All Hail the Queenin November 1989, and today, World Cafe Correspondent John Morrison talks about how that album shook things up.
“Rap music historically has, of course, been a male-dominated space — not just demographically but, like, in perspective. Queen Latifah, with this record, really came onto the scene and challenged that.”
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Morrison talks about how Queen Latifah carved out a space for women in hip-hop and changed the way women were seen by men in the industry. Plus, he'll go into the legacy of that debut album.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kimberly Junod. The web story was created by Miguel Perez. Our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and booking coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.
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