'God Save The Queens' - a new book about women in hip-hop

"I learned a lot of random things putting this book together and just how many women were in the room, how many women pioneered so much. And then, you know, it's always just kind of passed off to a guy and then, you know, he'll run with it" - author Kathy Iandoli says about her book God Save The Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop in an extensive All Hip Hop interview. The book is, as she says, "an exploration of these kind of pivotal moments that were happening for women in hip hop and how they contributed to the larger just culture", seen from her perspective, but she also made interviews with Nicki Minaj, Lil Kim, Monie Love, Rah Digga, Debbie Dee, Bahamadia, Gangsta Boo, Mia X, Le Chat, Megan Thee Stallion...