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Never a significant superstar, Redman was non-etheless probably one of the most off-the-wall, beloved, and enduring rappers from the ’90s and 2000s. Blessed Reginald Noble in Newark, NJ, he produced his initial effect on EPMD’s 1990 record Business as Normal and stepped out being a single musician with 1992’s Whut? …

Queen Latifah was definitely not the first feminine rapper, but she was the initial one to be a bona fide superstar. She had even more charisma than her predecessors, and her solid, smart, no-nonsense persona produced her arguably the very first MC who could correctly be referred to as feminist. …