WATCH: Eve on Being True To Herself Throughout Her Rap Career

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00:00And something I loved about when you first hit the scene,

00:03you know, with your first album and watching you as an artist

00:07was that you, I feel like you were the only MC that I saw

00:09at that time who had the look that you did.

00:11Like you kept your hair like about this long.

00:14You had the, you had the paw print like tattoos

00:17and everybody was like, I'm gonna do something

00:18like that too.

00:20You know, you know, you had a very just different,

00:23very bold appearance.

00:24And how did your, so I wanted to ask you,

00:26how did your label initially react to this look

00:28and what motivated you to introduce yourself to the world

00:32in this bold way at a time when everybody's got like

00:35the long hair, very, very over-sexualized,

00:38but not necessarily in a bad way,

00:39but just that was the style.

00:41Yeah, I really was, I just wanted to be me.

00:47Like I just, I wanted to just be me.

00:52And thankfully with the Rough Riders,

00:53they never tried to make me be anything other than who I was.

00:57They really celebrated and helped, you know,

01:01nurture the artists that I wanted to be.

01:04They never had opinions about what I wore

01:07or how I did my hair or anything.

01:09So I think I was very lucky with them because like you said,

01:15you know, at that time, that wasn't the norm.

01:17So for them not to kind of make me, so to speak,

01:20or, you know, or try to influence me in some way

01:23to try to be something else,

01:24I think I was really lucky with that.

01:25But I think with them as well,

01:27they kind of saw like, okay,

01:30I guess I was so strong in who I was, my filliness,

01:33I don't know, or like, this is the artist I want to be,

01:37this is the MC I want to be.

01:38They kind of, yeah, they kind of just let me do me.