Some people observe life naturally and sometimes you just have to let things out and think about it later.

If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs - my first was at 15, at Burger King.

Roxanne Shanté was kind of the first female to really come out and get respected by dudes, because she went at dudes real hard and battled them and freestyled a lot, and really came off the head a lot.

I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom.

I feel like every woman is a queen, and we should be treated as such, and we should, you know, sort of request that sort of treatment from others.

To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.