“I’m not trying to be no damn sex symbol. Lady Twist is not here to be sexy, let the record reflect that. Lady Twist is here to entertain.” And so she does. Below the rapper-cum-soon-to-graduate journalism student (commencement’s on Friday — congratulate her!) talks about being gay, being big and being unwilling to let anything get in the way of her career.
After the jump, the twice-booted Miss Rap Supreme contestant talks about her difficulty with English, the homoerotic adventures of some of the girls in the house and why it’s so hard for a woman to make connections in the field of hip-hop (hint: it has to do with sex).
In this episode, the girls take out their frustration on male domination…
…with sexy results!
Chiba and Byata, you’re excused from answering the question above.
You too, 2States.
“If I had a Britney machine or a Rihanna machine, I woulda been the beautifulest thing in the world, too,” says the just-disqualified Miss Rap Supreme contestant Khia. Below, she talks about why an established rapper would go on a reality show like this, her relationship with Lil’ Wayne and beef…just don’t tell her we called it that.
“I’m all about upright and upliftin’ the woman,” announced YoYo on her signature hit, 1991′s “You Can’t Play With My YoYo.” She does just that as hostess of egotrip’s Miss Rap Supreme, a gig that finds her schooling budding female rappers on the trials and tribulations she faced coming up in the industry.
Below, the Queen of West Coast Rap talks about the show, coping when her rap career stalled, hip-hops prevailing misogyny, her relationship with 2Pac and what it was like coming face-to-face on the set of Miss Rap Supreme with one of her biggest adversaries on wax: Roxanne Shanté.
Foxy Brown’s in jail, Remy Ma’s headed there and Lil’ Kim recently got out. Lauryn’s crazy, Eve’s in limbo and Missy can only cross her fingers and hope that her upcoming album hits as big as her music once did. The state of female rap is in such shambles that in ’07, Salt-N-Pepa were the most visible female rappers without having released an album in a decade. They turned to reality TV, and now, so are others — egotrip, the guys behind The White Rapper Show, now bring you the search for the next great female rapper, egotrip’s Miss Rap Supreme (which debuts tonight at 10/9c).
Below, two of egotrip’s founding members, the veritable doctors of street science Sascha Jenkins and Jefferson “Chairman” Mao, talk about the show and the decrepit state of female rap. What this show represents to its budding femcees is hope, and that makes it vital to an industry that’s almost entirely lacking in opportunity. This is not a game, ma.
The most amazing thing about covering egotrip’s The White Rapper Show when it aired last year was that each and every contestant that I talked to had nothing but praise for the show’s host (and 3rd Bass frontman) MC Serch. No matter how hard on a given contestant he was, there was nothing but love. Can Serch’s tough-love finesse translate from white rappers to female ones? We’ll find out Monday when The White Rapper Show spin-off of sorts egotrip’s Miss Rap Supreme debuts at 10/9c on VH1 (though you can get a head start and watch the first episode online now).
Below, Serch talks about the differences between working with the White Rapper kids and the latest crop. He also discusses the dearth of opportunities for female MCs in 2008 and the need for a show to emphasize the role of women in hip-hop. Much like the last time around, THIS IS NOT A GAME, PEOPLE.
Above, a Hitchcockian tour of the house used on ego trip’s Miss Rap Supreme, as guided by one of the show’s hosts, MC Serch.
Below, a close-up look at all the rhyme-slinging women who will compete for the title of Miss Rap Supreme, starting April 14, when the elimination-based reality series debuts on VH1. It’s gonna be an iambic-pentameter-heavy spring. Trust!
