As a female, we always have to be labeled this new female rapper. It's never like, 'I heard this rapper Tink.' It's always, 'I heard a female rapper.'
I don't mind being sexy, but on my terms. To this day, I love sexuality. I love the art of sexuality. I love Lady Gaga and the performance of sexuality. The mysterious, the artistic and the slightly perverse. I'm interested in all that.
I've never had a highly developed sense of being female. The sexuality has either been stopped, or else it's been an exaggerated P J Harvey kind of sexuality.
We are all people... don't label me as an LGBT rapper or a female rapper... I don't like to be labeled.
We live in an imbalanced society when it comes to encouraging male sexuality and discouraging female sexuality.
It's so rare to see a woman's sexuality, real female sexuality, either in the shows or in the clothes.
Female sexuality is presented in our culture as a male fantasy, which doesn't include the reality of the abuse, the pleasure, the pain, the power, the complexity of women's sexuality.
Coming up as a female rapper - well, a female artist in general - everything is just so black and white.
It's not that I'm playing a rapper. I definitely feel like I'm a legitimate rapper. I just think that, who I am, there's more to me than just being a rapper.
But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.
Laughing a lot is really good for you, embracing your children's future and embracing your grandchildren, and not having regrets and not being bitter and not being angry.
Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality.
Sexuality throws no light upon love, but only through love can we learn to understand sexuality.
Being a female director become as professional as your male colleagues and forget the whole question about being female. You are female anyway and it is going to work in your favor. The scope of female professional superiority can be understood by so few men that mostly they do not miss it.
I don't mind being called a weirdo. There are a lot of people in hip-hop who are probably never going to get what I do. But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.
I love Kanye for that. Being a producer, making beats, and being a rapper. He does it all.