"For 7 years in a row, 2010 to 2016, Nicki won the BET Award for Best Female Hip Hop Artist."
"Sandy Denny represents one of the most important female singer-songwriters to have graced British music."
"Women ran rap again this year—they killed it."
"Lady B released the first hip-hop recording ever by a female rapper."
"She has shown that she's willing to push the boundaries and push the envelope and just be innovative and do things that other women in hip-hop haven't done."
"This will determine how much people really give a [ __ ] about female rappers."
"It’s no coincidence that two of last year’s biggest female rap songs used samples."
"Female rap is thriving right now all these new rappers are paying tribute and showing homage."
"Selena Gomez's experience resonates with countless women in the entertainment industry."
"Nikki's impact on female hip-hop is undeniable."
"But understand, Nicki more than any female rapper at the time made hip-hop about the ladies for real."
"Female rap was down bad, like the BT Hip Hop Awards in 2009 can only muster three women to be nominated."
"The album sold over 19 million records worldwide, making it the highest-selling album from a female rapper ever."
"She joins a stacked lineup of female mangaka."
"Did BBL culture hurt the female rap industry? Yes, it did."
"It feels like a lot of times people be like girls are taking over and it's like who like you're talking about like a couple of chicks who have a couple of popular songs doesn't really feel like it's that real right."
"If it weren't for Christina Aguilera, if it weren't for Madonna and all those women who put themselves out there, we wouldn't have people like Miley Cyrus."
"Female singers are doing a lot of the heavy lifting lately."
"We need more variety in the female rapper conversation."
"The teenager with the heavy-lidded eyes and baggy clothes doesn’t conform to our usual expectations for female singers."
"It should never be a time where women in music are not talked about or not being highlighted."
"For the entire 2010s, pop music has been dominated by big-name female solo acts."
"Rest in peace to The Gangsta Boo. I thoroughly, thoroughly, as a brother from down south, you know, it's hard to explain, you know what female MCs like Gangsta Boo or Mia X meant."
"She will be remembered for her pioneering role as a female rapper."
"If you said women are running music, I'd get you there. You know why? Taylor Swift been giving Drake the beats for like a couple weeks."
"We're in a dope age for the best time right now for female MCs."
"Women rappers right now are doing better than they ever have."
"She's the first female solo artist to hit number one at rock radio since Alanis Morissette."
"The city girls need more respect on their name."
"Without her, a lot of your favorite artists, not even just female rappers, would be in the industry right now."
"Female rap is one of the most interesting and always evolving aspects of hip-hop in recent times."
"...figures like Nicki Minaj and Cardi B are the two largest new school female rappers..."
"I feel like we're in the greatest era of female emcees ever. Now it's just like there's just so much energy that I feel like we've never witnessed."
"While graffiti and the world of street art has traditionally been seen as male dominated, thousands of female yarn bombing artists gave the scene a much needed facelift."
"I feel women been carrying hip-hop the last two years. The last two years, women been holding hip-hop down."
"We need more female MC's in the game."
"I think she's one of the greatest female singers in the world."
"I love the fact that there are more female rappers now, 100% love it."
"I am here tonight to celebrate women, women in music."
"I have a very huge soft spot in my heart for powerful female singers."
"The female artists that I know of have reinvented themselves 20 times more than the male artists."
"Stepping up and also stepping aside, women owned music this year. They've been killing it."
"We're here to announce the Billboard Music Award finalist for top country females."
"Beyoncé, Rihanna, and Nicki Minaj, the holy trinity of music."
"It was just an exciting summer... Latifah was the first that kind of strong, pro-female, militant kind of artist holding her own."
"Here's the story of the funky divas who were born to sing."
"She was thrilled that all the spectators finally acclaimed them as the two most famous female artists in Europe."
"I feel like after me, it's kind of like easier for a lot of these female artists."
"We're toasting to women in country music and Dolly Parton for getting me here."
"We got Dolly Parton here, we got Reba, we got Carrie Underwood."
"I'm toasting to country damn music and female country music."
"Mixtape tour, female group, Salt-N-Pepa."
"R&B music has produced some of the greatest female groups to ever step on stage."
"Female rap is more, there are more people involved now."
"It's a beautiful way of dwelling into that whole spectrum of female singers."
"Shout out to all the female rappers in the game, it's a lot of them doing their thing right now."
"There's so much room at the top in the female rap world."
"Female tattoo artists do have it quite hard... support them, share their work, get tattooed by them, post about them on social media."
"I enjoy female rappers way more than male rappers."
"Cardi starts collabing with everybody. This opens the door for way more female hip hop artists to come out."
"I'm probably the only female artist that's always shown love to all female artists."
"Lil Kim was and still is a very successful artist to help pave the way for the upcoming generations of female rappers."
"As we reflect on the incredible legacies of Pat Benatar, Debbie Harry, Joan Jett, and Stevie Nicks, it's evident that their impact on music transcends generations."
"Nicki Minaj is undoubtedly taking many arrows for a lot of these new age female rappers to be able to do their thing."
"Brandy set a path for all of the female young R&B artists that came after her."
"Flowers and girls, girls with flowers, volume one, this is by Yon Yeon, I think, I'm keeping this, it's a gorgeous book."
"We have Rhapsody, we have Tierra Whack... why aren't we supporting those women more?"
"There's so many female rap artists that have a different vibe."
"There is no Megan Thee Stallion without Salt-N-Pepa, Queen Latifah, Trina, Gangsta Boo, Missy Elliott, Lil' Kim, Eve, and so many others."
"Congratulations to Lizzo, congratulations to Adele, congratulations to Beyoncé."
"I love the fact that female rappers right now are coming out."