the Bilingual MC Making Waves in the Rap World

So we just heard you EP, so many different influences that we picked up on. Who inspires you? Lauryn Hill, Big Pun, Eminem, Missy Elliott, Gloria Trevi, and Alejandra Guzman. It's mostly them, but there are a few others.

You reference your family members a lot in your tracks, how big of a role do they play in your life? They're very important. I've always been very close to my brother, he does my tour managing, he does a bunch of things—my cousin does my merch. My family has been super involved in my career. My mom is one of the main reasons why I want to be successful, so I want to show her that I didn't chose the wrong route in life. She didn't want me to rap, so I really took a gamble on doing this genre of music. I've always wanted to prove it to her, I took her on tour and she really loved it. I feel really happy and having my family around is just everything to me. If I couldn't do that and have them around, I just wouldn't be doing this.

Since you've been doing this for a while, where do you want to be five years from now? I just want to be established as an artist. I want to be one of those people that can have a personal life and also have a career and be able to cycle through things. Right now, my whole life has revolved around music. I just want to be established, I don't want to stay being the underdog that has been fighting for so long to get here. I just want people to listen to my music, respect it and like it.

There are a lot of messages in your music; quickly I picked up on a sense of female empowerment. What is the most important message that you're trying to deliver? I think overall, that I do think that you could be hot and sexy, but the biggest thing that makes you is your confidence. I think you need to be a boss and do things on your own terms. Especially being Latina, I feel like Latinas are oversexualized—it's always about that. I just want to be known for the music, and talk about my feelings and emotions. I'm not knocking any one that does it, but I want to show the option of not having to do that.

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