“We were set up on a friend date,” says the producer Carri Twigg of how she first met her future film-making partner Raeshem Nijhon. “We got to talking and she mentioned she always wanted to do a project about women in hip-hop, but in a way that was contemporary and different.”
Such are the roots of Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop, a four-part docuseries that chronicles the trailblazing, underdog story of how women shaped the genre, from breaking down its doors during the genre’s infancy and the rampant sexism they faced leading up to their present-day status as some of music’s most influential voices. It premieres to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the genre on 11 August.
