00:02I don't go into it thinking about like empowering women because I mean that's
00:06not why I make the music. I'm all about the super confident like woman you feel
00:12me but it's like we also do other things besides take men and be sexy like let's
00:16talk about that.
00:27I remember one time like we were up there I think we were chilling and then all of a sudden
00:31there was a shootout which at the time I thought was so cool. I'm so happy I grew up.
00:37My name is Chyna. I'm from West Philadelphia. I'm a musician who raps.
00:52I don't have the time to try to get your respect. I'm gonna get it just because I'm not bullshitting.
00:57So once they realize that you can hold your weight they either A get really intimidated and don't want to
01:02f*** you or they really want to work with you so it's like the right people come.
01:15The thing I love the most about Philly is the attitude. It's a really grimy very blue collar. I just
01:23like the concept of hard work and how enforced that is in just your life. All of that personality gesture
01:28in my music. I like having to work and I think Philly definitely taught me that early.
01:33Can I have a chicken cheese steak please? Everyone's lived there for a long time and I like that. It
01:40feels like you're going back in time. Every time I go I feel like I'm going back to being a
01:44kid.
01:44Thank you. How beautiful is that?
01:52This was the first home I ever had and I guess like this is where I did a lot of
01:56my growing up. Like I used to drink a lot but like all we could get was four locals right?
02:00And I remember one time my mom like came home surprisingly so I had to hide and the fact that
02:06they are still here five years later is an issue. But that means I'm a great hider of things.
02:17Always tell them. Always have something to fall back on.
02:21For a little bit me and my dad didn't really see eye to eye because he really didn't want me
02:25to do music. Like he was like you need something that you can fall back on. You need to be
02:28in college.
02:30I'm proud of my baby.
02:32So I think the music really brought us together and when he saw that like he has influenced it in
02:36small ways he can appreciate it more.
02:39My dad's been collecting shoes since before I was born.
02:42That's shoes involved. That's it. That's all I did.
02:45And kids.
02:48Once I graduated I was like you know what like let me try something that I wrote because I used
02:52to write lyrics all the time like from the time I was in maybe seventh or eighth grade.
02:56So you know I just went in there and I recorded something and they were like like you should have
03:01been doing this like.
03:02Posted up an audience. Sparking up the chronic. Third eye open with a lot of gin and tonic and you
03:06look at like the move if we really being honest. I see it all in your eyes.
03:10The person who really inspired me to like keep pursuing it was my friend Yams.
03:19Going too soon. Musical genius. To this day I just go to his Twitter just to read the stuff he
03:28said because it's motivational.
03:29When you find someone like that and they believe in you and they have good things to say about you,
03:34you run with it.
03:37I'm so inspired. I'm so inspired to go write a mixtape. I need my cheesesteak.
03:43I would say all I need to feel accomplished is like my sanity but it's really not that deep.
03:47I just always need to have some weed in my pocket and enough money to buy a ticket somewhere.
03:57And I'll be okay. I'll wing it after that.
