It’s been over 30 years since Queen Latifah and Monie Love unleashed their unapologetic anthem “Ladies First,” an Afrocentric plea for gender equality and respect. But Hip Hop’s relationship with women is still as convoluted as it’s ever been.

While female rappers such as Rapsody, Tierra Whack and Sa-Roc have continued some of the work MC Lyte, Bahamadia, Queen Latifah and Monie Love started in the 1980s and ’90s, women are consistently reduced to nothing more than sexual objects in video after video, and the word “bitch” is still tossed around as if Too $hort just made his debut.

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