Gwendolyn Blondy Chisolm, Founding Member of The Sequence, Passes Away

0:00On April 9th, Gwendolyn Blondy Chisholm, a founding member of the trailblazing hip-hop group, The Sequence, passed away at 66. She was part of the first all-female rap crew, signed to Sugar Hill Records back in the late 1970s alongside Cheryl the Pearl Cook, and Angie Stone, who died in a car crash last year. The sequence dropped their massive hit, FUNCUE UP in 1979, one of the earliest big rap records by women, and it's been sampled by giants like Dr. Dre, Dela Soule, Erica Badu, and even Katy Perry. News hit social media when Cook posted about losing her sister Blondy, saying she was in shock after just talking to her. Tributes poured in from the Furious 5, calling her a forever icon, and Sugar Hill's Leland Robinson praised her as a storyteller and trailblazer. Whose voice shaped their sound. Billboard reports Blondy died on April 6th in Atlanta after a short illness, with no other details released yet. At the time, she was finishing her memoir and teaming up

1:02with Nashville's National Museum of African American Music for Permanent Exhibit on the best. Sequence, her legacy lives on in those beats and lyrics that change the game for women in rap, and a private memorial is planned down the line.