Queen Latifah - All Hail the Queen

I always liked early hip hop as a kid but this wasn't cool in my home town - it was all about Cypress Hill and Tupac etc. Hip hop in my growing suburban town had a racist, class bias and narrative around it - particularly if you were a young woman. That's a long-complicated story.

Skip forward to 2007 and I first heard MIA Karla and that blew my mind. I thrashed that CD and reconnected with my interest in hip hop - particularly female artists. Shortly after I picked up an excellent cd comp by Soul Jazz records "fly girls" - all female fronted hip hop from 80s & 90s. I was re enjoying tunes from my youth and new discoveries with a shame free experience. Sounds crazy but it was liberating. Funny how music and time / place can do that. It's one of my favourite compilations still this day.

I picked up this repress today which has been on my want list for years. I didn't specifically want a colour pressing, it's just what was available.

This album is killer from start to finish and feels good to finally own a copy on vinyl. I heard my neighbour who was out the back give a cheer when Ladies First came on.

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