00:00Penny for a thought, but we gave them dimes because all my sisters fine.
00:04And at that moment, like, everybody's like, ohhhh!
00:13You think about women in hip-hop today, they're very overly sexualized, um, you know, they
00:20might stick to subject matters when I feel like women come in a wide range and diversity
00:26and, you know, in a time where they feel like you have to be this supermodel, you know, and
00:32I'm the tomboy, so my whole thing is to make a space for the everyday homegirl.
00:38Your sister, the homegirl next door that you hang with, the big sister, the little sister,
00:42whatever that looks like for you, um, I feel like that was always my space.
00:46When I think about women in hip-hop like, you know, Queen Latifah, MC Lyke, Lauryn Hill,
00:52I was drawn to them, just their style, their story, you know, you could look at them and
00:57listen to their music and tell the love they have for themselves, for their culture, for
01:03their race, you know, for the sisterhood that they had, and I just thought it was dope.
01:08Um, I remember seeing Queen's UNITYY video, and it was just so powerful, like, you know,
01:15she comes out, who you calling her?
01:17UNITYY!
01:18UNITYY!
01:19UNITYY!
01:20UNITYY!
01:21UNITYY!
01:22There was just all these women in this video, and it was just strong, and it was just like,
01:27nah, you're gonna respect me.
01:29I demand my respect.
01:31With MC Lyke, you know, she was just hard, and she had this tomboy, you know, style to
01:36her, and she was the first female.
01:38For me, I saw that rap the way she did, and it made me, as a young girl, say that.
01:43I can do that.
01:45Lauren, Lauren had this different type of honesty in her music, you know.
01:51Lauren really went naked for everybody, you know, and just gave it all, and I appreciated
01:56that as a woman.
01:58I could relate to everything she was talking about, whether it was on the Fuji's score,
02:02but especially on the Miseducation, like, she really got deep into it, but to be in
02:07a group with two other guys and to be the best by far, and even in that time she was
02:14out, Lauren was top five, dead or alive.
02:16Still today, you could say she's top five, dead or alive, you know, depending on your
02:20preference, you know, that's different for everybody, but that's what I appreciated.
02:24It's like, there's nothing that you can say that holds us down.
02:31You can't say my gender holds me where I'm from, nothing.
02:35It's just, just go be dope, and that's what I appreciated about women like them, you know,
02:41Missy Elliott, Rod Digger, you know, Roxanne Chante.
02:47Like, I watched the Roxanne Chante biopic on Netflix, and her story was just crazy, just
02:54how she'd just be out in the park battling dudes, like nobody could beat her, and most
03:00guys, you know, today, they think women don't rhyme, and they don't know these stories.
03:05So, you know, that's what I drew from those women.
03:08My music has, you know, the power to change or inspire people, you know, in some shape,
03:13form, or fashion.
03:14You know, the stories that I tell, you know, even pushing the idea of a woman that can rap
03:23just as well, if not better than some of the greatest MCs that have ever lived, you know,
03:30to be on a track with a J. Cole or a Kendrick Lamar, and, you know, which I'm not surprised,
03:35but to hang with them, but everybody's like, yo, you didn't get Ada Live?
03:39No, I'm hard.
03:41I work too hard at this too, like, you know.
03:45Even to be the fifth woman ever nominated for Rap Album of the Year in history, it's like
03:53a bittersweet moment to have, because it's amazing to do that, but it's like, why am
03:57I only the fifth, you know?
04:01So in that aspect, I've already made a little of history.
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