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"Though she only released one album, Anquette remains a curious footnote in early hip-hop history. She was a feminist who rapped about Janet Reno and fought to earn women respect in the public arena. The surprising thing is she was carried on the Luke label, started by 2 Live Crew's foul-mouthed Luther Campbell. Anquette even spoofed 2 Live Crew's racy and controversial ""Throw the D"" by writing her own gentalia-related song, ""Throw the P.""""All the ladies in the house, listen to me. Grab your man by the hand and say, ‘Throw that P!'"" Anquette said on that song. The Miami-based rapper had a high-pitched voice that made her especially distinctive. ""Throw the P"" was released in 1986, earning her some acclaim and the notice of female hip-hop fans who, up until then, did not have much of a voice in the culture. Two years later, Anquette came up with another surprising track, ""Janet Reno.""Opening with the theme from Dragnet, Anquette rapped, ""In our town we have a State Attorney by the name of Janet Reno/She locks brothers up for not paying their child support/In your town you may have someone just like her/You think you're so slick, that you won't have to pay/You slay, get a baby, then run away/Oh, but I got a trick for your monkey ass/The boys that don't pay get cased up fast/You answer to Janet Reno and she lays the law/And when she's through with you, you'll wish you never saw/Me or the baby or the place where we met.""It stands to date as the best known and probably only rap song about Janet Reno.Anquette eventually got a record deal with Luke, releasing her debut, Respect, in 1989. Sadly, it drew little notice and even less praise. The artist faded into obscurity after that."

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    "Reach back-way back-into your memory banks and you may be able to recall the high-pitched vocals of Anquette, one of hip-hop's first feminists and certainly one of the first well-known female rappers. Not willing to settle for the degrading rhymes being spit by other hip-hop groups, she took one such song (2 Live Crew's ""Throw the D"") and turned it on its head (""Throw the P""). She only released one record during her brief career-1989's Respect-and it didn't do terribly well, peaking at 41 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-hop Albums chart.One of her best tracks, however, is the party song ""Shake It Do the 61st."" It's got a great beat and some fun samples throughout it, which has made it a classic over time with aficionados of old school hip-hop. Nowadays, it's so old school the song itself is dusty, but now's the time to dust it off and take it with you. Playphone is offering this great song as a downloadable cell phone ringtone. Go ahead and click on play and you can hear this fantastic ringtone in music tone format. Then download it to your phone!"