00:02I don't go into it thinking about like empowering women because I mean that's not why I make the music
00:09I'm all about the super confident like woman you feel me but it's like we also do other things besides
00:14take men and be sexy like let's talk 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
00:31was a shootout which at the time I thought was so cool I'm so happy I grew up my name
00:38is China
00:39I'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 bull
00:57thing so once they realize that you can hold your weight they either a get really intimidated and
01:01don't want to 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 is a really grimy very blue collar I
01:22just like the concept of hard work and how enforced that is and just your life all of that personality
01:28just showing 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
01:52this is the first home I ever had and I guess like this is where I did a lot of
01:56my growing up like I
01:57used to drink a lot but like all we could get was four locals right and I remember one time
02:01my mom like
02:02came home surprisingly so I had to hide in the facts that they are still here five years later is
02:10an issue
02:11but that means I'm a great hider of things always tell them always have something to fall back on
02:21right for a little bit me and my dad didn't really see eye to eye because he really didn't want
02:25me to
02:25do music like usually you need something that you can fall back when you need to be in college I'm
02:30proud
02:30of my baby so I think the music really brought us together when he saw that like he has influenced
02:36it
02:36in small ways he can appreciate it more my dad's been collecting shoes since before I was
02:48born once I graduated I was like you know what like let me try something that I wrote because
02:52I used to write lyrics all the time like from the time I was in maybe seventh or eighth grade
02:56so you
02:57know I just went in there and I recorded something and they were like like you should have been doing
03:01this like posted up anonymous sparking up the chronic third eye open with a lot of gin and tonic and
03:06you
03:06look at like a move if we're really being honest I see it all in your eyes the person who
03:11really
03:11inspired me to like keep pursuing it was um my friend yams going too soon musical genius to this day
03:26I just go to his
03:26Twitter just to read the stuff he said because it's motivational when you find someone like that and
03:31they believe in you and they have good things to say about you you run with it the filter of
03:41her
03:41perspective like the way she sees the world is very like I'm kind of like a headstrong female you have
03:46to respect me and you guys are like claiming like I'm some kind of fool but listen I like I'm
03:50smart and
03:52the song Andrew and I were working on today was something I had started a couple weeks ago with
03:57this producer named Suicide Year who's from Louisiana but uh it's something that I'm doing with my
04:03boyfriend actually. Straight on my way to the bank hey next show I get I'm gonna take that bread cop
04:09a cake
04:10I can't really classify her as just a female rapper anymore like a lot of men rappers ain't gonna keep
04:16up giving me a run for my money I would say all I need to feel accomplished is like my
04:29sanity but
04:30it's really not that deep I just always need to have some weed in my pocket and enough money to
04:37buy a
04:38ticket somewhere and I'll be okay I'll wing it after that
