9 Incredible Songs From Black Women

Black women are incredible and are responsible for some of the most amazing music that the world has ever known. There could be books written on how Nina Simone impacted the civil rights movement, or how Tina Turner changed how America thought about black women during her career.

Beyonce is one of the most influential artists on the planet, and Rihanna showed us that she was more than a hitmaker — she is a brilliant entrepreneur. The list goes on.

In 2020, the music industry is a lot different from decades ago. Now, some white women want desperately to be black (or, more accurately, appropriate a “black aesthetic”). Hip-hop, a genre dominated by black artists, is now the most popular genre in the United States. However, there are still some incredible songs from black women that are insanely underrated.

The following songs are not chart-toppers. None of them are lead singles. Many of the artists on this list haven’t created an album that has won a Grammy, or gone platinum — but I do feel like all of these songs are incredibly underrated. They were all also created in the past decade. Here are nine incredible songs by black women.

Che Noir, “Money Orientated” (2020)

If you are a lifelong hip-hop fan, you may know that the title of this song is a nod to AZ’s…