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Madame Rap presents the track “Univers’Elles” with 6 international female rappers.

Sorah (UK/France/Germany)

Sorah is an Algerian/English/French and Berlin-based artist who raps and sings in English, French and German. Her music mixes old school hip hop with grime and drill and her antiracist, antipatriarcal and anticapitalistic texts always convey strong political messages against any kind of oppression.

Instagram – Spotify

Justina (Iran)

A major rap artist in Iran, Justina  has been active in hip hop since the age of 16. Through her texts, she documents her daily life and struggles in a country skahen by protests, where women who sing alone in public face jail time.

Instagram – YouTube

Yacko (Indonesia)

 

A renowned rapper in Indonesia, Yacko also teaches commerce to college students in Jakarta and uses rap as an educational tool in her classes. As a feminist activist, she likes to write about sexism, male domination and gender violence.

Instagram –YouTube

Asma Ramirez (Chile/Spain)

Chilean and Spain-based rapper Asma Ramirez (or La Asma) is very active on the Barcelona scene. She collaborates with many local and Spanish-speaking female rappers, as on the track “Dinero” with fellow MC Mackiu and on the cypher of international femcees “UNITY Vol. 1” released at the end of 2021.

Instagram – YouTube

addeN (Iran/Germany)

Born in Iran and raised in Hamburg, addeN spent her teens in the Neukölln neighborhood in Berlin where she still lives today. Active in hip hop since the age of 15, she mixes gangsta rap, ego trip and explicit lyrics and has become a leading figure on the German scene.

Instagram –YouTube

RMBO (France)

She is the starting point of the project! In 2022, RMBO, an emerging rapper of Algerian descent based in Chelles (Seine-et-Marne), contacted Madame Rap with an idea: recording a track with several international female rappers. A few months later, “Univers’Elles” was born. Meanwhile, and after releasing her first album at the end of 2021, the artist has been working on another upcoming project.

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Check out our selection of 6 tracks to listen to this week!

 

With:

• Maïcee – Crack ( Montpellier, France)
• Turtle White – Clean Up (Meaux, France)
• Anier – Vuelve (Spain)
• Eno Barony – Don’t Judge Me ft. Dee Wills (Ghana)
• Alice Dee – F CK IT UP (Germany)
• Shelly Quest – Protocols (USA/Germany)

The first rap artists emerged in Brazil at the end of the 1970s, thanks to baile funk parties. Like ballrooms in New York, these electro parties organized in favelas were a place of expression, resistance and artistic turmoil for Black poor and queer populations.

From pionners Sharylaine, Dina Di, Flora Matos and Karol Conka to contemporary artists, women have always played a central role on the rap scene and offer a wide musical diversity ranging from funk carioca to pop, punk and reggaeton.

Meanwhile, LGBTQIA MCs never stopped expressing themselves through rap, that they often use as a political tool and response to a violent social context. Brazil holds the world’s highest LGBTQIA murder rate. There, a LGBTQIA person is brutally murdered or commits suicide every 19 hours (UN). Moreover, almost 1,500 trans people were murdered in the country during the past decade, that is one homicide every three days, according to the Associação Nacional de Travestis e Transexuais (ANTRA).

To discover some major figures of Brazilian rap, here are 15 female and LGBTQIA rappers you should know, selected among the 87 artists listed on Madame Rap.

 

With:

• Ajuliacosta
• MC Carol
• Killa Bi
• Cristal
• Mina Criis
• MC Luanna
• Lary Go & Strela
• Bivolt
• Karol Conka
• Linn da Quebrada
• Quebrada Queer
• Rafa Militão
• Laysa
• MC Soffia
• Fenda

Check out our selection of 6 tracks to listen to this week!

 

With:

• Shy’an G – Holla (Oakland, USA)
• 021G – In Dafe (Iran/UK)
• Qiyah Abdul – Eve Gene (Live Performance) (Chicago, USA)
• Isabella Lovestory (Honduras/Canada) & Ms Nina (Argentina/Spain) – Gateo
• Sasha Sathya – Interludio : La Torre (Argentina)
• Eva B – Living In Blues (Pakistan)