celeb news Billboard: 2024 was a historic all-time touring year for women in hip-hop

[Feanor]

 

Nicki Minaj, Missy Elliott & More Lead Banner Touring Year for Women in Hip-Hop

 

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For the first time in Boxscore history, four female rappers land among the year's top 100 touring artists. Further, women rappers outnumber male rappers for the first time on the all-genre list. Nicki Minaj (No. 30), Doja Cat (No. 61), Missy Elliott (No. 70), and Megan Thee Stallion (No. 76) finish on the year-end Top Tours chart, while closing at Nos. 2, 5, 6, and 7, respectively, on Top Rap Tours.

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This year marks the first year with more than one female rapper among the top 100, let alone four. In fact, there had only been four instances of women in hip-hop ever making the all-genre list, dating back to the first year-end roundup in 1991.

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Nicki, Doja, Missy and Megan made that possible, not only disrupting hip-hop's gender monopoly — it's been nine years since a woman was among rap's top-100 finalists — but taking over and pushing hip-hop over the edge, outnumbering male rappers for the first time on the all-genre list. Travis Scott (No. 15), $uicideboy$ (No. 48) and 50 Cent (No. 49) round out rap's representation on the chart.

Billboard

 

For the first time ever there are multiple female rap tours among the top biggest tours of the year.

 

[50thStateofMind]

love to see female rappers winning

[Spicy Pisces]

Congrats, Onika

 

[kimberly]

women rappers outnumbering men in the Top 100 is crazy, we love to see it 

[Rigalo]

Glad to see Megan's tour did well when the certain group has been dragging it for months

[bielneira]

Well deserved!

 

[YourFavoriteWeapon]

Sexyy Red Stadium Tour next  

[Moonlight Nation]

2 hours ago, Feanor said:

Nicki, Doja, Missy and Megan made that possible, not only disrupting hip-hop's gender monopoly — it's been nine years since a woman was among rap's top-100 finalists — but taking over and pushing hip-hop over the edge, outnumbering male rappers for the first time on the all-genre list. Travis Scott (No. 15), $uicideboy$ (No. 48) and 50 Cent (No. 49) round out rap's representation on the chart.

This is beyond amazing to see! 

Congratulations to all four women for contributing to this historical achievement! And may we see even more positive developments moving forward!

[chaneloberlin]

Congratulations to all the women who toured this year despite the 'female rap is dead' narrative running rampant among hip-hop spaces  outdoing the men

 

[Alex]

As it should be, respect the craft of performance! Not everyone can say they have the ability to do so and I'm looking at a lot of their male counterparts when I say this 

 

[Taylor fanboy]

[Soda Pop Queen]

2 hours ago, Alex said:

As it should be, respect the craft of performance! Not everyone can say they have the ability to do so and I'm looking at a lot of their male counterparts when I say this 

 

Right? I can count on one hand the male rappers of this generation that are actually decent performers and know how to put on a show whereas the majority of the women are expected to be good on stage. Not that there isn't more to performing, but I've noticed this is the first era of female rap where almost everyone can or is doing choreography. Before, I believe it was only Salt-n-Pepa and Missy Elliott that were giving the girls 8 counts.