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Actress Naturi Naughton plays Jill "Da Thrill" on the ABC series "Queens." On the show, she is a part of a rap group that is trying to pick up the pieces after falling out years ago. As an artist herself, she shares her favorite female rappers but also questions whether the industry is overly sexualizing women.
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00:00you know, how women in hip hop have really taken over the genre in a way by storm.
00:05Megan Thee Stallion is one of my favorites, Cardi B, Nicki Minaj.
00:09I mean, and even looking at how Lil' Kim laid down the foundation for all of these
00:14current rappers to even be in existence.
00:18And people like Eve, for example, I mean, she paved the way in a lot of ways.
00:22I can't believe I'm on a show with Eve, you guys.
00:25What?
00:26And Brittany, hello.
00:27So it's pretty amazing.
00:30But I do feel like the industry still has work to do.
00:34And it has to do with more imaging and how we project women as an image.
00:40Even we do it to ourselves, that the only way we can be loved or liked or get the audience
00:46is if we over-sexualize our female entertainers.
00:50Because what happened to the Lauryn Hills and the Erykah Badus and the people that could
00:55be dope as hell, but still be classy and still be strong and represent the motherland and
01:01represent Black women in a way that doesn't mean you have to assimilate to another culture.
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