They've done most of this, if not all. I still remember the hype Wondagurl got from "Crown". She had interviews and everything off that one song. She's had big placements since then even produced "Betta Have My Money" for Rihanna.
Trakgirl
Music producer, songwriter and entrepreneur, TRAKGIRL transforms what it means to be an emerging woman producer within the industry. She’s passionate about encouraging women to gain access to expansive roles within the heavily male-dominated production and business aspects of the music industry.
www.forbes.com
^^^ speaking engagements, big placements, hit songs etc. and she's still not a household name.
ehh, forbes aint really the media "the culture" follows (ie i only found one mention of trakgirl on a song credit on complex, no story...wondegurl has a few articles tho) - have they done the popular podcasts and radio shows? they really working SM? how much they get in the mix with the industry - networking, socializing, etc?
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wondagurl's twitter (i assume)
https://twitter.com/WondaGurlBeats , don't even have a blue check, her IG has 120 posts. trakgirl has 70 IG posts and while she has a blue check on twitter and way more tweets than WG, her followers are down bad... WG in particular doesn't strike me as a producer who really wants to be listener famous, but she has clout with artists and engaged listeners who check for production. there's nothing wrong with that, in fact that's the route i'd take if i were a producer or writer, but you can't question why a profile hasn't risen if the person isn't trying to be that big.
i'll also say my personal experience with knowing producers today comes from their tags and them doing full mixtapes with artists. she may command too much money for that or she may approach her artistry different and not want to work like that, but linking with an artist for a project that resonates seems to be a big way producers have elevated themselves for the past decade or so. hit boy had his hits he produced for kanye and bey, etc, but his full projects with Nas have taken his name recognition amongst listeners much higher (tho hid project with dom made him a name to me).
lastly, there's going to be sexism and more ceilings female producers have to contend with, it is what it is in that they need to grind harder and be more deliberate about self promotion to be more known...or get into non stop fukkery.
edit: you also just need more of them, for every 100 male producers out there, you got maybe 10 making records the masses hear, and 1 of who becomes anything close to a HH name. with odds like that, if you only got 20 females producing, it's hard to expect that just from a crop of 20 one will become a hot name.
