On March 12, Red Bull Music released a mini documentary in their Momentum series titled Southern Rap Queens. The film stars southern female rappers Rico Nasty, bbymutha, Gangsta Boo (of Three 6 Mafia) and La Chat, and features interviews and live show footage, including footage from a bbymutha and La Chat show at Exit/In from last September.

The film allows each artist to not only discuss the origins of their respective careers, but also the growing number of female artists in hip-hop, the collaborative opportunities that presents and the struggles that they face. bbymutha, for example, describes how the beginning of her writing career grew out of her family struggles.

“I had my second set of twins, I moved into my grandmother’s house and my grandmother had dementia. And so I had to take care of her, and I was at home all the time, by myself, with my grandmother and two newborns and my older two kids. So I started writing and seeing what I could come with, and it was like the only thing keeping me from going crazy a little bit.”

The film also shows many of the artists discussing Southern rap in general and the influence that their respective hometowns had on them. La Chat and Gangsta Boo hail from Memphis, while bbymutha comes from Chattanooga and Rico Nasty from the DMV area. Gangsta Boo, the veteran of the bunch and the one with the most claim to the current Southern influence on modern rap/trap due to her work with Three 6 Mafia, discusses the Memphis sound and its use outside of the South.

“Memphis artists can ride the fuck out of a beat, and I studied that — I practice that all the time…No one even sounds like their own borough, their own city, state, whatever you choose to call it, because they adore and admire our sound. And instead of me being bitter about it like a weirdo, I embrace that shit because I’ve never changed my shit.”

Check out the video above.