In 2023, hip hop turns 50 years old. As in fiddy-leven. The Big 5-O. Hip hop is graying gracefully ‘in da club.’ But for some reason, we’re still qualifying emcees as “female rappers" with the hard -er, regarding some chart-topping albums as “girl records," clutching pearls over pronouns and hiding queer artists in a hook unless or until folks need a bop to sample.