God Save the Queens

Journalist Kathy Iandoli’s God Save the Queens is the “rigorous, insightful, and authoritative . . . [and] deadly personal”* history of women in hip-hop. An *NPR Best Book of the Year Every history of hip-hop focuses primarily on men, glaringly omitting a thorough and respectful examination of the presence and contribution of the genre’s female artists. For far too long, women in hip-hop have been relegated to the shadows, viewed as the designated “First Lady” thrown a contract, a pawn in some b