H.W.A. - Livin' in a Hoe House

In 1996, Lil' Kim's Hardcore demonstrated that a female rapper could be every bit as X-rated as 2 Live Crew or Too Short. But she wasn't the first. In the early '90s, female rap groups H.W.A. (Hoes Wit' Attitude) and B.W.P. (Bytches With Problems) went out of their way to be as offensive and sexually explicit as possible. Released in 1990, Livin' in a Hoe House is hardly the first example of women talking dirty. Vanity and other Prince disciples did it in the '80s, and Lucille Bogan's '30s blues classic "Shave 'Em Dry" is as X-rated as anything that H.W.A., B.W.P., or Lil' Kim ever recorded. Read More