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Annette YOUNG

One beat at a time: Female rappers seek support

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It's the most popular genre of music for the under 35s yet why do so many female rappers have yet to get a break? We meet those in France seeking to make sure all have fair access to getting their music heard. Annette Young talks to Shakira Walters from Girls of Grime, an UK collective promoting the work of female rappers, about how the time has come to hand the mic over. Plus a safe space for Chinese female DJs, created by a woman in Shanghai in a country where anything seen as feminist is increasingly considered a challenge to authority.

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