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American rapper (born 1970)

Lana Michele Moorer (born October 11, 1970), better known by her stage name MC Lyte, is an American rapper. Considered one of the pioneers of female rap,^[5][6][7] MC Lyte first gained fame in the late 1980s, becoming the first female rapper to release a full solo album with 1988's critically acclaimed Lyte as a Rock. The album spawned the singles "10% Dis" and "Paper Thin".^[8][9]

In 1989, she joined the supergroupStop the Violence Movement, and appeared on the single "Self Destruction", which was the inaugural number-one single on the Billboard Hot Rap Singles chart.

That same year, she released her second album Eyes on This, which became one of the first albums by a female solo rapper to chart on the Billboard 200.^[10][11] That album included the single "Cha Cha Cha".

In 1991, MC Lyte released the hit single "Poor Georgie", which marked her first appearance on