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The hip-hop world has seen a handful of superstar female MCs – but where’s this decade’s Missy Elliott? At the SXSW music festival in Austin last month, Studio 360’s Leital Molad met some artists ready to break through the boys’ club. “We’re waking people up to show them we’re here,” says Detroit rapper Invincible.

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