First Ladies of Hip Hop
9.35pm, BBC Two
“I set the standard” says MC Sha-Rock. “And not just as a female MC but as an MC full stop.” This jubilant history of the under-celebrated women of hip-hop starts in the Bronx in the 1970s. It’s an act of retrieval, giving props to the likes of MC Debbie D, self-described “Alpha Females” the Mercedes Ladies and the woman behind the Sugarhill Gang, Sylvia Robinson. Neneh Cherry – who will surely enter the story herself later in the series – narrates. Phil Harrison
