MTV ask if Female MC Niki Minaj opened the door for female emcees and its a good question,but in my opinion the door has always been open and was simply waiting for the right person to walk thru it.If you know anything about the entertainment business then you know timing is everything.But hey to be honest what Niki Minaj has been able to do is remarkable and record labels are already looking for the next female Mc to join her at the top of the charts.

Check out the mtv.com article below…..Tell us what you think and tell us a few female Mc’s that may be able to follow the path the has been laid before them.



By Alvin Blanco

Nicki Minaj
dropped her debut album Pink Friday
last November and it has already been certified
platinum. The colorfully wigged vixen from Queens is proof positive that
female rappers are still marketable and profitable in the rap game. But have
her peers, both old and new, taken advantage of the lane she has reopened?

“Female
MCs can definitely benefit from Nicki Minaj’s success,” Jill Strada, Music
Director and Assistant Program Director at New York’s Hot 97 radio station,
said. “It’s hard for females in hip-hop to appeal to both men and women,
but Nicki has accomplished that. People were hating — they’re still
hating — but she’s doing her thing. She rocked it on a lot of other people’s
songs, then she had to prove that she could smash on her own album and I’d say
she’s proven herself. But that’s the easy part, let’s see if she has what it
takes to stay.”

Maintaining
her reign means Minaj will soon contend with new female MCs prying open the
door she cracked along with female rap vets who aren’t ready to call it a day.
Both camps could stand to take notes on Minaj’s path to success.

“The
music game has changed, from music, presentation, and production,” Terri
Avery, Program Director of WPEG in Charlotte, NC, said. “I don’t think
other female MCs, old or new, will benefit as much as. Can they keep up with
today’s demands on music? Nicki Manaj’s success was a great marketing game. I
don’t think her music is any better than the other female MCs, it’s just Nicki
came with a better game plan. She lined up with the hottest male rappers, had
great production and marketed herself across music genres like pop and hip-hop.
She wasn’t out there, at first, beefing with others, she just had her game tight.”

Nevertheless,
beef has followed Barbie. Her tiff with Lil’ Kim is well documented while Foxy
Brown, who’s said she has no problems with the neophyte rapper, recently
delivered a dis song aimed at the Queen Bee. Ultimately, good or bad, the
attention brings more attention to Minaj and female MCs in general.

“People
were beginning to give up on female rappers,” DJ Diamond Kuts, Nicki’s
tour DJ and mixer at Power 99 radio station in Philadelphia, said. “Nicki
proved that there are still female rappers and, yes, they can succeed. Kim and
Fox did what they were supposed to do during their era and it worked. It’s a
new time and Nicki just came with another formula. She was able to have fun on
a track, mix in a little sex appeal and still turn around and do a really hard
track. She gave us so many styles, how can you not love her?”

Well,
Kim may not be her biggest of fan but judging by the Young Money MC’s sales,
there are a legion of Barbz that make moot any objections from the former rap
starlets. It also means that more music from women are surely on the way, along
with some savvy marketing.

“If
anything, the other female rappers need to take a look at her marketing game
and learn from that,” Avery said. “And most importantly, make some great hip-hop songs!”

“She’s
opened a lane for other female artists, both old and new, to do their
thing,” Strada added. “They just gotta come correct!”

Do you think Nicki’s success has opened a door for
female MCs? Tweet us at @MTVRapFix
or tell us in a comment below!