"Never once acknowledged, not a spotlight, nothing came in our direction," says Angie Stone of her experience attending the 2016 VH1 Hip-Hop Honors. "I just was so embarrassed."
The event, held at New York's Lincoln Center and broadcast on the network last summer, was subtitled "All Hail the Queens," a ladies-first tribute to the female pioneers of hip-hop. Honorees included
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: The Sequence: The Funked-Up Legacy of Hip-Hop's First Ladies
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