Who Run This Motha? Girls!

We all love singing along to great music. Even more when the songs we love stand for something. We love to sing along to lyrics that make us feel good! Here are some songs that you might have not realized bring forth women empowerment, along with some favorite lyrics. And guess what? Male artist are proud of strong women as well!

Can’t Hold Us Down (Feat. Lil’ Kim) – Christina Aguilera

“So what am I not supposed to have an opinion

Should I be quiet just because I’m a woman

Call me a bitch cos’ I speak what’s on my mind

Guess it’s easier for you to swallow if I sat and smiled”

Miss Independent – Ne-Yo

“Cause she work like a boss

Play like a boss

Car and the crib she ’bout to pay ’em both off

And bills are payed on time, yeah

She made for a boss

Only a boss

Anything less she telling them to get lost

That’s the girl that’s on my mind”

*** Flawless (Feat. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) – Beyoncé

“We raise girls to each other as competitors

Not for jobs or for accomplishments

Which I think can be a good thing

But for the attention of men

We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings

In the way that boys are

Feminist: the person who believes in the social

Political, and economic equality of the sexes”

Video – India.Arie

“I’m not the average girl from your video

And I ain’t built like a supermodel

But I learned to love myself unconditionally

Because I am a queen”

Run The World (Girls) – Beyoncé

“I’m repping for the girls that’s

Taking over the world

Help me raise a glass for the college grads.

Forty-one roll and to let you know what time it is, cheque!

You can’t hold me!

I work my nine to five, better cut my check!

This goes out to all the women

Getting it in you on your grind”

All About That Bass – Meghan Trainor

“I see the magazine workin’ that Photoshop

We know that shit ain’t real, come on now, make it stop

If you got beauty, beauty, just raise ’em up

‘Cause every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top”

Doo Wop (That Thing) – Lauren Hill

“Girls you know you’d better, watch out

Some guys, some guys are only about

That thing, that thing, that thing

That thing, that thing, that thing”

Keep Ya Head Up – 2Pac

“And since we all came from a woman

Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman

I wonder why we take from our women

Why we rape our women, do we hate our women?

I think it’s time to kill for our women

Time to heal our women, be real to our women

And if we don’t we’ll have a race of babies

That will hate the ladies, that make the babies

And since a man can’t make one

He has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one”

Independent Women, Pt. 1 – Destiny’s Child

“Question: How’d you like this knowledge that I brought

Braggin’ on that cash that he gave you is to front

If you’re gonna brag make sure it’s your money you flaunt

Depend on no one else to give you what you want”

U + Ur Hand – P!nk

“In the corner with your boys you bet ’em five bucks

You’d get the girl that just walked in but she thinks you suck

We didn’t get all dressed up just for you to see

So quit spilling your drinks on me yeah”

Respect – Aretha Franklin

“(Ooh) All I’m askin’

(Ooh) Is for a little respect when you come home (just a little bit)”

Just a Girl – No Doubt

(Sarcastic Tone)

“’Cause I’m just a girl, a little ‘ol me

Well don’t let me out of your sight

Oh I’m just a girl, all pretty and petite

So don’t let me have any rights”

(Beyoncé Voice)

Who Run The World?

Girls!

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