Female rappers
13 full profiles, sorted A to Z.
Women are badly under-covered on most rap reference sites, and this one is no exception yet. What follows are the full profiles written so far. The gap is not an accident of taste: it reflects which pages the site inherited, and it is the first thing being corrected.
The scene histories already carry more women than this index does. The Houston pages cover the women who shaped the screwed-and-chopped era, the Detroit history runs through the city's current wave, and the female rappers list ranks the artists with the widest reach. Those are the best starting points until this section fills out.
Each full profile here follows the same shape as the rest of the library: origin and upbringing, how the career actually started rather than the press-release version, label history, discography, and what the artist is doing now. If there is someone you want covered, the contact page is open.
- Cardi BBelcalis Almánzar went from stripping in New York, to a reality television cast, to the first solo female rapper in nearly two decades to to
- ChoiceChoice was the first woman signed to Rap-A-Lot Records, and made one of the earliest sexually explicit rap albums by a female artist — four
- DoechiiJaylah Hickmon won Best Rap Album at the 2025 Grammys for a mixtape, which had never been done, and became only the third woman to take the
- Doja CatAmala Dlamini has spent her career refusing to settle into a category, which is both the point of her and the recurring complaint about her.
- GloRillaGloria Woods brought a blunt, shouted, unmistakably Memphis style back to the charts at a point when rap's dominant female register was melo
- Kash DollIntroduction to Rapper Kash Doll Hailing from Detroit, Kash Doll has become one of hip hop's most popular new female rappers in recent years
- LattoAlyssa Stephens won a televised rap competition at sixteen, changed her stage name after sustained criticism of the original, and has since
- Lauryn HillLauryn Hill made one solo album and it is routinely named among the best records of the twentieth century in any genre. The four decades of
- Lil' KimKimberly Jones made explicit sexual writing by a woman commercially viable in rap, took an enormous amount of criticism for it, and watched
- Megan Thee StallionIntroduction to Rapper Megan Thee Stallion In only a few short years, Megan Thee Stallion has risen to become one of the most buzzworthy art
- Missy ElliottMelissa Elliott is the most inventive figure in rap's production and visual history, and the first female rapper inducted into the Rock and
- Nicki MinajOnika Maraj is the commercial benchmark every female rapper of the last fifteen years has been measured against, usually unfairly. She holds
- RapsodyMarlanna Evans is the most consistently praised female rapper of her generation among critics and other rappers, and among the least commerc
More women in the scene histories
- The most successful female rappersRanked by reach and chart record
- Houston69 artists across the screwed-and-chopped era
- DetroitThe current wave and the generation before it