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I want to be cutting-edge.
I'd stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans.
When you turn on your radio, you don't always want to hear about someone shootin' some person. Even if that's the lifestyle they live, people don't always want to hear it.
When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an artist, I went to get a record label started. And they said in order to have a label deal, I had to be an artist - so that's what I did.
Music Should Be Your Escape
Everybody is doing the same old thing.
I am very scared of wasps; my cousin was stung in the eye once.
No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.
My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.
Pop that, pop that, jiggle that fat
Don't stop, get it till ya clothes get wet
When it comes to size, most people don't want to see themselves looking bigger than what they are.
I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got.
What my home life is like now is great.
It's just that back then we didn't know that was considered being a coproducer. I would sit on the side and say what I wanted musically, but at the time we thought if you aren't the one playing it, you don't get the credit. Now you'll start seeing my name listed as producer.
I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.
You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time.
I want people to feel the heat while they walk down the street and they're just kickin' it.
I want to make something commercial that people can pick up on.
I used to put all my doll babies on my bed with their hands up and I would do full shows for them. I'd even do the screaming and clapping. I was bugging to be a singer.
I'm blessed to be living this dream of writing and singing, but that's not the real dream I had. The real dream was to make enough money to take care of all the pain and suffering that my mother has been through.
My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.
Now everybody's sampling.
