Little Simz is the only women’s rapper in nomination at the Brit Awards

On the wave of the Sanremo Festival in Italy, in the light of the absence of women in the highest places in the final classification of the event, a debate on the gender difference in the world of music has been opened (In this regard, a first and second intervention of the editor of our magazine).

Not least happens even overseas. British women’s rappers have to face a disparity of success and consensus compared to the rappers men who for years) also reverberates on the victories and participations in the various prizes of the record industry of Great Britain.

At the next Brit Awards tonight, men dominate the Hip Hop/Grime/Rap Act category. Central EEC, Dave, Ghetts And Stormzy they got a nomination, with Little Simz The only women’s artist.

Little Simz is the only woman ever on that list. The London artist (Simbiatu Abisola ABIOLA AJIKAWO) boasts two nominations at the Brit Award 2022 as an album of the year with “Sometimes I Might BE INTEGRORT” and as a British artist of the year. Also in 2024 he was the only woman named in the hip hop/grime/rap category at the Brits. In 2023 and 2024, she became the only woman to win the Best Hip-Hop Act Award Ai Mobo Awards in the last decade. At the Brit Award 2023, in the hip hop/grime/rap category, no woman was present.

Little Simz started producing music in 2010 and released his first complete album, “A Curious Tale of Trials + Personis”, in 2015.

The woman’s gap is slightly less wide in the United States, where artists such as Nicki Minaj, Cardi B and others have dominated the rap scene in the last ten years.

On the wave of this only female presence three British rappers – Crystal, Ms Banks and Enny – They spoke of the difficulties of finding success in the United Kingdom rap scene and struggling to access the British industry awards for that musical genre.

In an interview with the Times, Ms Banks He stressed that: “There is a very male energy in rap. Sometimes women are made to hear as if it were not their place”. The thirty -year -old musician – whose real name is Thyra Kigho Deshaun Oji – he added: “You are not always seen as a colleague or a person with whom you can collaborate and work.”.

The other rapper Ennywhose real name is Enitan adipitan, underlined the disparity of talent and work between men and women in music. The thirty -year -old singer of “Take It Slow” said: “Men can be mediocre and thrive anyway. Women must be better, more different, more interesting”.

In the end Crystal23 years old, he appeared on the most recently British rap scene, with a series of popular individuals including “Vogue” and “Antisocial”. This year he was the only women’s artist named in the Hip-Hop category Ai Mobos, together with five men. For his part, the young rapper said: “As a woman, you have to work much harder”.