MC Lyte

When MC Lyte emerged in the late '80s, one could rarely find a woman's perspective in hip-hop -- particularly a woman's point of view that was voiced in razor-sharp rhymes and didn't pander to the lovey-dovey R&B world. By the time Lyte dropped her finest full length, Act Like You Know, she had a few sisters on the radio with her, notably Queen Latifah, even if, by 1991, gangsta-rap bullshitters...