Rapper Eno Barony has complained once again about the title ‘female rapper’.
According to her, categorizing artistes by sex only put the females in a box since all artistes use the same microphone.
In an interview with Arnold Mensah Elavanyo on Vibes in 5, she stated that “In as much as I’m female, I feel when they come calculating female artistes, they are putting us in a box because if you want to talk about artistes, since we’re all using the same microphones and the same stages and everything, you should count artistes. Don’t come and say artistes and say guys and then come and say, female artiste”
She explained that equal opportunity should be given all artistes and the name artiste should stand for all and not differentiate the women in the music scene with the tag ‘female artiste’.
“If you want to categorize it then male, female but once you’re talking about artistes, we’re all artistes” adding that “I feel that whatever the man can do, I can also do because if you put it in the head of a girl that you’re weak and so you have to be this, that is when girls want to lie low and anything just happens to girls and we come back blaming that much attention is not given to girls”
She said if there was an opportunity to help artistes, the categorization should work both ways.
“We need to be treated special because we are women but that doesn’t mean we don’t have to work as hard as equal as the men are doing. I feel like if the government is going to do anything for us and its artistes, yes then it’s artistes but at the end of the day they should actually know that there are female and male artistes so they spread it amongst us equally.”
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By: Hajia Lamy Gates |ghanaweekend.com