Eve recently chopped it up with The Women Of Hip Hop. During the interview the rapper reveled that she is currently getting ready to drop her sophomore album “Lip Lock.” She also talked about her dream collaboration, her thoughts on Nicki Minaj and Lil Kim beef, and female rappers in the industry.
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On her new music:
“I’m gonna throw out a viral single at the end of this month before the official single. I’m probably gonna throw out a couple records before the radio single. My whole goal for this record, since it’s been so long, I wanted to make sure that my core audience didn’t feel like Eve completely forgot about us and went to another side. Musically, I’ve grown and I think I feel like people will feel like they won’t recognize the stuff that they loved of me from before, you know all of the Ruff Ryders [stuff]. That’s my core, that’s where I come from and I wanted to make sure I did some tracks like that but I also wanted to do tracks that showed my growth.. I feel like this record is well rounded. It has enough of the hard street stuff, it has some radio stuff, but it also has some stuff that people can listen to when they’re feeling down.”
On Azealia Banks and Iggy Azalea:
“I like Azealia Banks. I think her style is dope. If you listen to her lyrics, she knows how to wordplay and I think that’s cute. I’m not really into the Iggy Azalea chick. I can’t really f-ck with her music, but her look is crazy. I just can’t believe it.”
On Nicki Minaj:
“I know a lot of people are mad at her. But I get it, I get the whole sh*t, I know she’s going crazy. I know she’s going crazy at the mouth. Until somebody mentions me by name, I don’t care, do you – because all I can do is me. Even going back, Foxy and Kim both came at me in songs a long time ago, and I was like ‘Whoa, are you serious?’ If you want to come see me, come see me for real – I’m not that girl. I will never forget, Foxy made a record about me and was talking about me on Hot 97 on the radio, talking wild craziness, but to me it makes me feel like, ‘If you’re thinking about me that much, thinking about me everyday, I’m ‘f-ckin up your life, so, oh well’.
On Lil Kim vs. Nicki Minaj:
First of all, there needs to be a level of respect. I feel like a lot of people who are from the past generation trying to get at the new generation, it’s not about publicity. It’s about wanting that respect. I think maybe that’s where Kim is coming from, like, you’re doing your thing right now and no one can take that away from you, Nicki – we all see it — but at the end of the day, if it wasn’t for Kim, she wouldn’t be here and that sh-t is real. And if it wasn’t for Latifah, and if it wasn’t for Foxy and Lyte, I wouldn’t be here. Yes, Nicki is doing her thing and she’s maximizing the market but that’s because there is no one else out. She’s the only female. She came in at a time when music was so different. She’s doing stuff now that we couldn’t do – well we could do it – I did the collaboration with Gwen, but it’s at a different place. It’s so different and it’s an unfair comparison sometimes for Nicki to say Kim is washed up. Kim is Kim, point blank period. Kim is doing her thing and Nicki is doing her thing.”
On 5 female MCs she would put a record out:
“I would definitely have to get Missy [Elliott]. I would definitely have to do Kim ’cause I never got to do a record with Kim. Azealia Banks, I like her. A lot of people want me to hate on Nicki and say crazy things about her. I ain’t got nothing to say about her. Until somebody names me by name, then I don’t feel like nobody [is talking] about me. I wouldn’t have a problem putting her on a record.”
On her dream collaboration:
“Lauryn Hill has always been my one dream collaboration. She to me is so dope lyrically. Unfortunately, she’s just in a place right now mentally, but that would be a dream come true.”