Nicki Minaj is no stranger to being the lone female rapper in some of the most noted “best-ever” lists from big publications like Billboard, Rolling Stone, and others.

As such, it should come as little surprise the Rap Queen found herself crowned the “best female rapper of all time” on Billboard’s femcee-forward countdown published on Monday (April 7).

And while the staunchest supporters of femcees like Cardi B, Missy Elliott, Megan Thee Stallion, Doja Cat, Lauryn Hill, and Lil Kim definitely launched all-out campaigns on social media about why their respective favorites deserved higher rankings, the music Bible spelled out in no uncertain terms why Minaj made the top spot.

See what they said inside.

Via their latest list, Billboard staff joined forces to compile a ranking of rapstresses based on their body of work, Billboard stats, Recording Industry Association of America (RIAAA) achievements and certifications, cultural impact, influence, longevity, flow, and lyrics.

And though the expected names like Kim, Brown, Elliott, MC Lyte, Queen Latifah, and Lauryn Hill all made the top 10, it was Nicki who emerged the leader.

“Who else did you expect to see at No. 1 on this list?,” Billboard staff quipped in the associated write-up. “Fifteen years after she left earth with her godly verse on Kanye West’s ‘Monster’ and delivered her seminal ‘Pink Friday’ debut album, the First Lady of Young Money is still running laps around the competition.”

The high praise didn’t stop there.

“Minaj quickly usurped the throne and stylistically rewrote the playbook for female rappers, while becoming an architect of pop music in the process,” they relayed before saying, “the story of rap can’t be told without Minaj – and she’s got plenty of ‘sons’ around the industry running through the doors she busted down.”

The adulation is certainly due for the woman who not only sits in Billboard history books as the most-decorated female rapper, but she’s also the highest-certified femcee at the RIAA and owns the highest-grossing female Rap tour ever launched.

See Billboard’s full “greatest female rappers of all time” list here.

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