THE DEATH OF THE FEMALE HIP HOP ARTIST
Missy does not approve
I realize the American Music Awards are only slightly more relevant than the Golden Space Needle Awards and the Little People's Choice Awards.
But today's list of AMA nominations reveals a startling fact.
In the categories of POP/ROCK, there are nominees for both Favorite Male Artist and Favorite Female Artist.
Same goes for the categories of COUNTRY MUSIC and SOUL/RHYTHM & BLUES.
But for RAP/HIP-HOP MUSIC, there is no Best Female Artist category this year. They only have three nominees for Best Male Artist. (They have had a Best Female Artist category in this genre before.)
Are you getting that? There were so few female hip hop artists worth recognizing this year that the American Music Awards -- whose standards are so low that Michael Jackson is a leading nominee this year -- didn't even bother to list three nominees.
Perhaps the problem is not an actual dearth of female hip hop artists, but the failure to recognize them. Or the failure of radio, magazines, tv, and other outlets to play and promote female hip hop artists.
No matter what, this is a pathetic development.
Labels: hip-hop
