The miracles, the marvelettes, Gladys Knight, Martha and the Vandellas, the surpremes and many more. These female led groups have ruled the world at Forbes other female artist. For some artists females have had no influence on the music that we listen to today, but we know that that is not true with songs like dear momma fro. Tupac. In whic he raps about the tremendous effect of his mother had on his life. “There no way I can pay you back, but my plan is to show you that I understand you are appreciated. Another example is Kanye West songs “hey mama” whose mother had just passed from cancer. It tells the mental health of kayne,and shows his listeners how much he really loved his mother. “As we knelt in the kitchen floor, I said momma imma love you till it don’t hurt no more. 

In the music that I listen to. I see music and gender intersecting 2 different ways. The first way is when music and people come together just for the love of music. Many great female/male collars have happens just because of the love of music. For example method man and Mary js song I’ll be there for you talks about sticking together and being there for each other no matter the gender. Another current artist is bebe bexha and Florida Georgia like. Who come together to sing a powerful get through break up song, for both genders. 
The second way is he degradation and over sexulization of women. For example some songs refer to other women as bitches and hoes. For example in NWAS song easy duz it. Easy e tells a female  as a bitch and tells her to shut the F up. 

 -gender as a normality Gail Jolson woldu 

These songs say a lot about how gender and music work in our world because males usually get all the glory while females are usually on the back burner. Cynthia m long said in her paper women’s music is no longer a small private party she said that women music began to get their message to other women, onto the production said of business. As in engineering, recording, as musicians,distribution. While men on the other hand have more opportunities in the music industry than women. 

- these images are important to me because women are deemed less inferior to men. And when it comes to music they are used as mainly sex objects or to be the Instagram models instead but I’d true artists. Just like this photo below men are over sexualizing this women.

In an article called women in rap Daynel smith wrote an essay titled “ain’t a damn thing changed” this essay talks about women artists who don’t sell. The first reason that she says women versions of reality are perceived to be less than that ignorance a man.  The second reason she argues is that women try to be “too hard” and the last is that listeners prefer not to listen to aggressive sentiments from females. lol lol changed the game when she released “Queen B” lil Kim is one of the most popular female rappers of all time. Other groups and females like Trina and the brat tried to put do her song, and now referring to themselfs as the Queen B