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Millie Jackson: The Mother of Hip-Hop

July 1, 2004 by: Geraldine Wyckoff

Millie Jackson is kicks. She’s all one would expect from a woman who built a reputation on X-rated lyrics and suggestive themes and whose latest album boasts the title Not For Church Folk. Oh, yeah, the disc is on her label, Weird Wreckuds. At 60, the vocalist claims to be the first woman to release a hip-hop record and as she says, rappers have donned her the “mother of hip-hop.”

Born in Georgia, Jackson grew up in New Yor...

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