[00:00.30]Flash flash flash,flashback, '88[00:03.86]Copped my first tape,third Grade[00:05.70]Young girl banking Roxanne Shante[00:07.95]Around my way[00:08.89]Called McKay[00:09.88]Disarray[00:10.81]Langston's a dark hues get bruised,stored away, hey[00:15.75]Caught in cage[00:16.89]Fought in the maze, gave up[00:18.37]And now I got dreams of being live on stage[00:20.93]What[00:21.43]Turn up the volume, me and my cousin[00:23.74]Doing the wop[00:24.41]Dreaming about the Salt-N-Pepa haircut[00:26.55]Speakers bump like the rock pumps[00:29.00]The rhythm of my next double-dutch jump.[00:31.06]What you want? At once[00:32.06]because we love the[00:33.74]We dreamed of ourselves[00:35.12]Knew when Latifah showed us what a queen was[00:37.66]Went from invisible to seen on the Smooth tip[00:40.00]Sweet Tee,[00:40.76]to follow Monie in the Middle on the scene[00:42.84]So then saw myself, I'll drop mics when I'm over[00:45.20]Pick up a pen and like Antoinette[00:47.46]"Lights Out, Party's Over"[00:48.24]This is for Latifah, for Lyte, for Shante[00:50.38]Bahamadia, Lauryn Hill, Heather B, for Jean Grae[00:53.64]E-V-E, Nikki D, Salt-N-Pepa, even me[00:56.35]Apani B, for Missy, for Kim, and Foxy[00:58.63]This is for, Rah Digga, Rage, Left Eye, for Yo-Yo[01:01.21]Paula Perry, Nonchalant, Da Brat, for Jane Doe[01:03.90]Rage, Mystic, BO$$, Sparky D[01:05.44]For those never seen[01:06.71]On the search for female emcees[01:08.55]The microphone fiends[01:09.81]Stomped in the '90s[01:10.75]After school you could find me[01:12.08]In the backyard begging for a beat box, rhyming[01:15.16]U-N-I-T-Y and Heather B Blues[01:16.57]Claim the news of the death of Phyllis Hymen[01:18.66]I rap to keep from crying[01:20.31]Taking Mine, now I'm the Bo$$[01:21.36]Recipe for a show[01:22.48]They say no girls in the cipher, so I rock solo[01:25.04]Then on the Blackstreet, Ill Na Na get me home, though[01:28.11]I rap along to every song[01:29.46]And ain't no playing with my Yo-Yo[01:31.02]Check, how I hit every note, though[01:32.85]Even sung along with patois[01:34.74]Like in the joint she did with Patra[01:36.36]I'm on a Romantic Call...[01:38.30](Talkin' to my baby Down ah mi yard)[01:39.06]Blank page calling, a ...[??][01:41.88]Nonchalantly in the trees at five o'clock in the morning[01:44.93]Sported he Kim hardcore wig, then came Lauryn[01:47.41]She showed me the beauty and the natural cut[01:49.74]Amplify my Rage, growing out my afro puffs[01:52.40]This is for Latifah, for Lyte, for Shante[01:54.78]Bahamadia, Lauryn Hill, Heather B, for Jean Grae[01:58.32]E-V-E, Nikki D, Salt-N-Pepa, even me[02:00.75]Apani B, for Missy, for Kim, and Foxy[02:03.71]This is for, Rah Digga, Rage, Left Eye, for Yo-Yo[02:05.95]Paula Perry, Nonchalant, Da Brat, for Jane Doe[02:08.78]Rage, Mystic, BO$$, Sparky D[02:10.15]For those never seen[02:10.90]On the search for female emcees[02:13.04]The microphone fiends[02:14.07]New millennium, came of age[02:15.63]While things stayed the same[02:16.72]Media forms changed[02:17.74]New name, from What-What? to Jean Grae[02:19.51]We bootlegged, the bootleg[02:20.55]Put away cassette and VHS tapes in vinyl crates[02:25.08]Fast forward album release dates[02:26.50]Hip-hopalizing what we buy or objectify[02:29.28]In these days[02:30.48]Tell me what's the plight of a female MC's fate?[02:32.85]Or what's the worth of a woman's story to a DJ?[02:35.45]Downloading everyone and now my heroes seemingly gone[02:38.36]Search and found Lauryn Hill Unplugged[02:40.16]Guess I lost one[02:40.85]Some come and go[02:41.88]Self-labeled bitch and ho[02:43.41]A heretic of discourse[02:44.98]I turn off the radio[02:46.03]I can't relate, nor can I hate[02:47.98]For the ways we negotiate[02:49.66]The sexist spaces we navigate[02:52.53]Vaunted by the crest of hip hop's crescent[02:54.44]It seems...[02:55.22]"Fantasy's what people want reality to be"[02:57.13]This is for Latifah, for Lyte, for Shante[02:59.32]Bahamadia, Lauryn Hill, Heather B, for Jean Grae[03:02.66]E-V-E, Nikki D, Salt-N-Pepa, even me[03:05.04]Apani B, for Missy, for Kim, and Foxy[03:07.37]This is for, Rah Digga, Rage, Left Eye, for Yo-Yo[03:10.04]Paula Perry, Nonchalant, Da Brat, for Jane Doe[03:12.75]Rage, Mystic, BO$$, Sparky D[03:14.39]For those never seen[03:15.92]On the search for female emcees[03:17.65]The microphone fiends[03:18.68]The world is listening[03:26.63]The world is listening[03:40.52]The world is listening