I put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it
Music should be your escape.
Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.
If I didn't have some kind of education, then I wouldn't be able to count my money.
Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.
I'm not a prostitute but I can give you what you want
Boy lift it up, lets make a toasta Lets get drunk, its gon bring us closa Don't I look like a HalleBerry posta?
Every day is not a beautiful day for anybody, but I try to treat all my fans nice and all the interviewers nice.
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.
I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.
I wasn't born a superstar.
I'm not a person that's walkin' down the street looking mean all day.
Everybody is doing the same old thing.
When interviewers ask me who I'm sleeping with or if I don't like such-and-such or what is my sexuality, that's not beneficial to the world. They need to ask me about stuff that may help readers, like how my father abused my mother for many years. A lot of kids go through that and need to know what they should do.
I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.
The rapping is cool, but my lines aren't all that fly. People like Biggie Smalls or Jay-Z who say stuff that you have to rewind and listen to twice and be like, "Wow, what made them say that?" or "I would have never thought about saying that" - those are rappers I really look up to. As far as flows, I can give you flows all day.
I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool.
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.
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.
I want to be cutting-edge.
I'm close to my mother, and I could sit talking on the phone with her all day.
You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time.
When it comes to size, most people don't want to see themselves looking bigger than what they are.
I don't have time for lie-on-the-beach vacations. I'm a zoo person. There's one in New Jersey where animals actually come up to your car. I love the monkeys - I used to give them bubblegum to chew.
MC is a funny girl and always makes me laugh no matter what. I love her!
