Media mogul Queen Latifah has really made herself into something. We’re just waiting for her calling to Broadway, but whatever she chooses, she cannot –and refuses– to fail!

When she first came on the music scene, she was often overlooked, and like most rappers who are female, pushed into the background of a “crew” of rapping men and booty-shaking women.

Call it timing mixed with skill, but Queen “Dana Owens” Latifah was able to maneuver the rap field by keeping it real smart. She didn’t buckle under the narrow definition of a “female rapper,” and she, and a battalion of other vanguard women, took rap over with pure beats and rhymes. Riding the wave of “conscious rap,” she was a regular in the Native Tongues group, along with Monie Love, a Tribe Called Quest, Jungle Brothers, De la Soul and others.

Queen Latifah took her skills to another level and went into producing, heading her own label (The Flava Unit), singing, acting (she starred in the Academy Award®-winning musical “Chicago”), and starring on the hit television comedy “Living Single.”

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Read her interview on HipHopDX.com!