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Born Lana Moorer c. 1971 in Queens, NY; raised in Brooklyn, NY; daughter of a recording executive and a hospital rehabilitation program supervisor. Addresses: Record company-- First Priority Music, P.O.

Box 004-537, Staten Island, NY 10304-0010; or Atlantic Records, 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10019.

In the early days of rap--the late 1970s and the first half of the 1980s--male rappers and deejays dominated the scene.

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Women rappers, wrote Dominique Di Prima in Mother Jones, were "the underground of the underground." Then, in the latter half of the decade, a wave of fierce, independent women took up microphones and turntables. Salt-n-Pepa, Roxanne Shante, Queen Latifah, Monie Love, and MC Lyte demonstrated clearly that women could not only rap as hard and as entertainingly as their male counterparts, but that they could achieve real commercial success in the burgeoning rap music industry.

In addition, as David Thigpen wrote in Time, "Women have shown that rap can be far