Legendary rapper, Terry Tha Rapman, has urged content distributors to pay more attention to female rappers in the country. The rapper opines that no one is paying attention to them.
Joe Spazm told Filterfree in a chat recently that female rappers get frustrated out of the scene. He said female rap artists do not get the kind of support male rappers get from industry stakeholders.
Tha Rapman stated that a lot of female rappers in the country who had great rapping ability were often not given a chance because of their gender.
“Another aspect that a lot of people don’t shed light on; female rappers. There’s a lot of great female rappers but there’s this whole gender thing—nobody really sent them.”
“How many female rappers have you gone out of your way to say ‘let me just put this person on and review her [work]?’
The rapper said he has interacted with a some of the female rap artists from major towns in the country. He claimed that most of them gave up the craft because of the absolutely limited opportunity available to them.
“They give up!” Terry Tha Rapman insisted. “It’s not like men where we can take all the bullshit and everything. A lot of females give up.”
Terry said he is making conscious effort to put more female artists on his coming projects. He said in his previous work he took him extra work to get two female rappers on the project.
“I went out of my way and put two females—AT & Butafly—on this project.”
Tha Rapman maintained that there is a lot of work to do, if female rappers are going to get more representation in the Nigerian rap scene. Joe Spazm insisted that one artist cannot change what has already been the norm.
“There’s a lot of work to do. We need somebody that has money and power, because all this putting on on mixtapes and all can’t really do much. They [music audience] would know the person, but that’s where it stops.”