Younger girls especially need to know about Millie Jackson.
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She doesn't have the mainstream appeal, voice or the legendary hits of Diana Ross or Aretha from those years, but imho she should be regarded as equal to them in terms of her influence on future generations of female artists. The first black woman in music that didn't give a F.
She was the original bad girl that was the predecessor to rappers like Lil Kim n' Foxy, Trina in the 90s and even Nicki Minaj today. Mary J influenced by her. Shirley Murdock probably doesn't make those hits about sleeping with someone elses man either w/o her.
Raw, vulgar, outspoken, rebellious and unapologetic. She was revolutionary and ahead of her time, there was no female remotely like her when he she first started in the 70s.
I always remember that album cover pops'd play showing her in a back alley way with a bunch of guys about to beat her with bottles n' bats, lol.
