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This year, we considered the most influential women and non-binary artists making music today. Now, we want to know what you think: Who deserves to be most acknowledged? Who makes your list?
Nicki Minaj performs during the 2017 Billboard Music Awards.

"I am a rap legend, just go ask the kings of rap," Nicki Minaj spat in her 2014 hit "Feelin' Myself," claiming her space within a rap patriarchy she altered simply by stepping a Manolo-clad toe into it. Beyoncé, her duet partner, expressed her power a different way. "Male or female, it make no difference,"

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