Women Empowerment Songs

Rwanda: Gender Equality Through Hip-Hop

Hip — Hip hop music was regarded as a man's thing. Today, women rap and sometimes do it better than their male competitors.

It all started as early as the 1980's when African-American diva, MC Lyte emerged as the first lady rapper. She was then signed to an upcoming label, 'Def Jam'. Then her hip-hop journey began.

She paved way for other sensational female hip-hop stars including Da Brat, Foxy Brown and Queen Latifah plus the super EVE in 2001.

Rwandan singers adopted the hip-hop genre as late as 2007 when 'Gangster G' recorded her first rap song. She was joined by Ado Pacifique (Paccy) in 2009 and then newcomers, like Young Grace, El-Poeta in 2010.

At 21 years Paccy inspires a growing number of younger rappers. One special thing about her is that she has a delightful singing voice, yet she prefers to sing in less smooth hip-hop, as a loyalty to the gender equality movement.

"I couldn't utilize politics to preach equality because I am not a politician. That's why I use my talent to try and inspire as many other women as I possibly can," she says.

Joyce Namande, commonly known as Kitty is also an upcoming singer and she is a fan of rapper Paccy. She is proud of how Rwandan girls rap.

"Though I sing R&B, I love hip-hop more than anything," she says. "I am inspired to work harder in my R&B by women rappers who have a successful hip-hop career."

Sebahire Severan (Seb's), an audio music producer says that he promotes women musicians in his 'One Way Studio', because he believes in women empowerment.

He explains: "Women have what it takes to speak to the public through their songs. That is why I give priority to women and encourage them to take up music as a career."

Seb's recorded songs for free, for many female upcoming rappers.

Paccy also uses hip-hop to spread practical message including the 'equality talk'. Unlike other music styles like Pop and Rock, Paccy says the message carried by hip-hop songs is easier to deliver. She exploits rap to maximum.

She is sometimes accused of using complicated lyrics. She defends herself by saying that the 'complicated' components are real life problems which some listeners are never willing to listen to.

"Sometimes people enjoy party or love songs. When you sing the sour reality of real life, only a few are willing to take in your message," she says. "As someone dedicated to delivering message, I am not scared of losing out on party or love songs.

Significance to theme of empowerment of women? : bird baths

In every place that it says “somewhere’ in the song, replace with “nowhere”: this entirely shows the polarized meaning.

Drifting along and expecting your life to turn out the way you want exemplifies the worst type of amotivational and dependency centered existence that could be. Rather than empowering, this is more like giving up.

For starters, you’re digging to deep on a song that’s meant to be ‘fun’; because it’s really not a women’s empowerment song, as much as it is a song about relaxation. She’s telling women (or girls) not to stress about life as we know it, and to just enjoy life, taking things one day at a time (dealing with both the good and the bad). The same lyrics that she wrong in this song can be applied to men. It’s more about facing the obstacles of life, taking disappoints, let downs and failures with a grain of salt.

These lyrics are pretty good. There is a theme of empowerment for women in this because she is saying accept yourself fully. Let your hair down, follow your dreams. Be happy and decide for yourself what you want to be, not what others tell you to be. You don’t have to be strong all the time, beauty can be found in vulnerability. It’s ok to be wrong.

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