“Now (rap) is probably the least populated with females since I started. I don’t know what it is, I think it’s a myriad of things but I think definitely we need to look out for each other. Radio needs to give us that space, video needs to give us that space, because you can’t have rap music without female rappers. There has to be a balance. There has to be an answer to some of this. It can’t all be male-dominated, it gets boring.” — Queen Latifah on the state of Hip Hop in 2009.