"Do my ladies run this mother*#$!"

What is happening to the female hip hop game?
written by Dot

Missy's new single "Ching-Ching" is very stereotypical of what's popular in hip hop (Money, Jewelry, and the exploitation of women) right now but I at least respect that she is keeping her music hip-hop with the beats and dance flavor. In the female rap world sex has been what has catapulted artists like Lil Kim, Jackie-O, Foxy Brown, and many others. Lyrical MC's like MC Lyte and Salt and Pepa even took their sexual routes but at least they were trying to educate people about sex to some extent with songs like "Let's talk about Sex" and "Georgie-Poorgie".

With lyrics from Missy on "Ching-Ching" like, "Talk like exlax, if ya game wack, /Then you ain't sayin' jack, /Just like that, ya, ya, to get axed, /Cause I got more hits than you can get out of a bat" I wouldn't say Missy is crazy lyrical but she gets the job done in a day and age where people don't get caught up in actual alliteration and poetry when it comes to music. Back in the day women artists had to fight just to be heard. Missy is extremely successful and lucrative in the music industry and she is hardly what I would call a lyrical genius but she is definitely a musical genius. Is that enough, or should we expect more from the new age of female rappers.

Kid Sister is a fairly new rapper from Chicago who I believe to be lyrical in an old school sense. Hip Hop and rap was founded on the beat, and the ability of the MC to move the crowd to the beat with they're lyrical ability. When any rapper can pull that off they get props as a real MC. Many people may think that Kid Sisters single "Pro Nails" is cheesy and that she can't rap because she's rapping fast on the track but with lyrics like "I aint rockin' stupid bapes/ I aint trippin'/ I juke all day!" and "Girls be so thirsty thirsty/Fast forward to the end of my song/And say third verse me verse me/Whenever I hit block I see/Tricks try to rehearse me hearse me /From manicure sets to silky weaves/They be so grimey, nasty,/bogus/Germy, dirty/Uh oh/Shol did/you ain't slick/Naw, let the pioneer blast my ****" Kid sister is telling men what they "gotta" do if they wanna get that girl they're after and she's telling the ladies they can hate but she's still the sh*t! I can't knock that especially when the beat is knocking and Kid Sister is going her hardest.

If the future of hip hop lies with artists like Kid Sister and Lil Mamma I think we'll be ok. They bring innovation and freshness to the game for the ladies while still keeping it lyrical. If Missy is gonna keep us dancing at least we have Kid Sister spittin' something worth analyzing…simply because it's different. And she's cute too! Haha…

… And if you still don't respect kid sister check out her backstage pass on MTV.com and I guarantee you'll have a different respect for her as an artist.