Episode QS46: Clover Hope & Rachelle Baker + Briana Younger (April 22, 2021)

Journalist Clover Hope talks about the women who have shaped the music, power, and reach of rap in her new book, The Motherlode: 100+ Women Who Made Hip Hop, along with the book's illustrator Rachelle Baker and critic Briana Younger.  Hope and Baker talk about the choices they made in representing the style, humor, agency, and influence of women rappers across the US, the progress in recognition for female artists, and what is still to be learned -- and unlearned -- in representation. (Recorded February 3, 2021)