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MC Lyte Promotional Portrait
MC Lyte Promotional Portrait

MC Lyte Promotional Portrait

Visual image MC Lyte
Record company Atlantic Recording Corporation
Datec. 1991
Mediumpaper (fiber product)
DimensionsOverall (HWD): 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.32 cm)
Credit LineMoPOP permanent collection
Object number1998.827.372
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MC Lyte (Lana Michele Moorer, b. 1970) is a rapper, DJ, actress, and entrepreneur from Brooklyn, New York. Signed to First Priority, MC Lyte was the first solo female rapper to release a full album with her debut album Lyte as a Rock in 1988. MC Lyte is one of the many pioneers of female rap. Her lyrics and themes were socially conscious where she was one of the first female rappers to discuss sexism and misogyny found in Hip-Hop. 
 Black and white promotional portrait photo of MC Lyte.
CopyrightThis work is issued under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License. For more information, go to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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