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um what do you think about your legacy
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um as it pertains to the ladies in
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hip-hop do you do you mentioned your
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more kinship with the the men is that
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accurate what you well you know um Roxy
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and Shante was surrounded by all male
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crew so there was never I didn't really
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have any other women around me when
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coming up in hip-hop okay I just didn't
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and then I never wanted to battle them
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right because I always felt like they
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wouldn't win and I didn't want to do
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that to them you mean K and
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G like I'm talking like Oh you mean Oh
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you mean women yeah I went like why
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would I battle you when when I'm in the
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car going with the greats all day long
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and this is not going to be good for you
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and I remember them coming up with every
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town that I went to they used to have
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their own rock sand so like if I'm going
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to Baltimore they' be like yeah we got
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somebody to battle you was Baltimore's
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Rock in and I'd be like man B's Ro and
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then yeah used to have like everywhere I
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went Connecticut's Rock in Baltimore's
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Rock in Chicago's Rock it's something
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everywhere I went and then you know I
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would go there and literally they just
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weren't ready for me because some of
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them were like you know good girls and
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like right they they they don't even
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like you if they put you up here right
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right right you know and so
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automatically that's the way it was for
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me with female rappers for a very long
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time I always wanted to be sisters with
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them I wanted them to understand that
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this is this is what we do for a living
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because it was always a job for me okay
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and I never looked I never got in the
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industry because I want to be a star I I
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came in here because I need money to
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take care of these kids right I need
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money to be able to do these things and
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this is easier money than doing other
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things you know and so that's what I was
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that's how I looked at it even when it
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came to battles right it got to a point
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in New York City where they wouldn't let
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me enter any more battles and this was
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before I made records they wouldn't even
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let me enter anymore they'd be like no
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listen if it's the little girl with the
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braces they no she can't be in it no
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more because I would go with like my
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family would literally find battles and
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be like now listen they having a battle
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here for 500 so I'm you going to come
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over here and we going to go get this
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500 right you know and and we go get
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that 500 and and and then 1500 and so
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that's what it was for me so for me it
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was always a job so when I would get a
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chance to see other female rappers I'm
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looking at them like yay and they
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looking at me like they ready right you
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know and now I'm just so happy that
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we've all grown up and everybody is in a
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in a great position so now I love the
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relationship that I have with my hip-hop
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sisters now is it as o as it is it as
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often that we talk as I do my hip-hop
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Brothers it's just not because I was
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closer to them growing up but you know
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my yo-yo my light my queen Latif for
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like you know just being able to have
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those moments where it's like hey how's
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everything doing how you going how's
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everything everybody's good D I love
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that because at one time I never thought
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we would have that and I'm so glad that
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we do called me up like listen do you
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want to do this show cuz I'm not going
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to do this show you want to take this
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yeah you want to do that congratulations
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that like it's just a beautiful thing
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now you know to be able to see that and
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to be able to feel that yeah I remember
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you were in a panel discussion or
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something and you were on it and so was
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the real Rock in it felt very frosty
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like it felt I don't but if we if it did
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it wasn't for me okay you know it wasn't
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for me you know one thing that my mom
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did tell me she said you know winners
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upset you you're if you're a winner you
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just never going to be upset you know
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and you got to look at life that way so
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only losers are angry and mad and and
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and go through all this stuff so you
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know even if you're going through
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something like but are you a winner
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right and it's like yeah they're all
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right then yeah so for me you know I
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guess my reaction to people has always
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been they always been like well she
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should be upset she should be mad and
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I'm like I can't like I'm I'm a
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winner you are that's you I'm saying I'm
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I'm a winner Grammy a winner Grammy
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Award Grammy Award winner yeah
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absolutely you inspired me I was like
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man I'm I gotta get me a Grammy Grammy
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you see saying there you go because you
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know I've always been that if she can do
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it I can do it person so if you see me
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do it then you could do it you know if I
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do it it's can be done
