How Being A Woman ‘Absolutely Helped’ This Rap Icon In Her Career

After her debut album, MC Lyte continued to produce hits (like 1989’s “Cha Cha Cha,” which peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot Rap Singles chart) and later earned a Grammy nomination for one of her tracks. The success was amazing, MC Lyte says, but what she always cared about most was the music. “To have a number-one song on the Billboard charts? It never started out like that for me. That wasn’t the desire,” she explains. “The desire was to make a record.” 

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