Article: In Celebration of Women's Month: Rapper Royalty -- Queen Latifah


New York Beacon, The
03-26-1997
In Celebration of Women's Month: Rapper Royalty--Queen Latifah.

Queen Latifah is one of the few women to make a mark in the male-dominated field of rap music, and she has done so by simply not imitating the men.

She has established a reputation as rap's first feminist. As a result, she is the first person in the field to have made a break-through into the over twenty-four-year-old market.

Not content with just making records and videos, Queen Latifah formed a record and management company specializing in rap artists.

Dana Owens, born in 1970 in Newark, New Jersey, was the second child of Lance and Rita Owens. Rita Owens was eighteen years old when she gave ...

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