Fabolous has weighed in on the state of female rap, saying that he feels it’s too one-dimensional and wants to hear more “perspectives” from the ladies in Hip Hop.
Female rappers have been on a tear these past few years, with Ice Spice, Sexyy Red, GloRilla, Megan Thee Stallion, Latto, Coi Leray, Cardi B, City Girls, Scar Lip and numerous others making big moves for women in Hip Hop.
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Their male counterparts have recognized this trend over the years, with Lil Baby most recently claiming that female rappers are “running the game” right now.
However, Fab pushed back on some of this praise and said that while he’s happy to see so many women doing their thing in Hip Hop, he’d love it if some of these “strong” women chose to rap about their life experiences a little more.
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“I love hearing female rappers talking some real shit,” Fab wrote on his Instagram Story on Sunday (July 16). “Women are so strong. Have so many stories and perspectives that we need to hear in pure form.”
He continued: “No disrespect to any female rappers out there but I think there’s only one style of female rap/Hip Hop being promoted, programmed and looked at as successful now.”
Lil Durk recently praised female rappers too, crediting them for being competitive and focused on their love for Hip Hop rather than the business side.
“Make hip hop fun again we understand everybody got money but let’s fuck em up like we was doing s/o the females who been working salute keep going up,” he wrote on Instagram last month.
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Saweetie previously chimed in on the conversation last November, saying that women are running the rap game right now because of the prevalence of “violence and disrespect in male music.”
“I mean, L.A. and other cities, it just goes to show that this is the reason why women is running rap and Hip Hop,” she said in an interview with Bootleg Kev. “Because there’s just so much violence and disrespect in the male music. You gotta think, like, remember, what was it, like ’16/’17, remember when like YG, Tyga, Chris [Brown], Big Sean, TeeFlii was out? It was fun, party music.”
She added: “It wasn’t like, ‘I’ma do this to you, and this, and this,’ you know? I feel like we gotta raise the vibration with the music and get back to having a good time. [I feel like there’s definitely a lack of] empathy and love, for real.”
In other Fabolous news, the Street Dreams rapper will soon be a focal point of the upcoming documentary Mixtape: The Movie, which will also feature interviews with Lil Wayne and Jadakiss, among many others.
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Completed in honor of Hip Hop’s 50th birthday, the documentary focuses on rap’s mixtape era of the early 2000s.
The first official trailer was released in March 2022 and shows that in addition to the aforementioned names, DJ Green Lantern, A$AP Rocky, 2 Chainz, DJ Khaled, KRS-One, DJ Drama and Jeezy will also make appearances in the film.
