Lost In Angel Haze (interview with female hip-hop artist)

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"I sucked for the first three years," she said of her first steps into music. "I liked the idea of hip-hop and rap because it was challenging - it's tough to talk about subjects that are diverse and meaningful. I love to push boundaries. There aren't that many female rappers and it's amazing to have the opportunity to do this."

Her music is brutal, personal, intelligent and honest. The powerful and evocative Suicide was written as a letter to those suffering from dark thoughts, its YouTube video prompting a host of heartbreakingly thankful comments from people who feel that her music talks directly to them. Her adaptation of Eminem's Cleaning Out My Closet references her difficult upbringing at rapid fire pace, with jaw-dropping graphic frankness. Her most recent tracks, Werkin' Girls and New York, have cumulatively been watched by over a million people, proving her a rap force to be reckoned with.


"In certain ways, I am a feminist, in others I am a radical," she said. "It's important for women to feel empowered - no woman should ever feel lesser than a man. I have a little sister who I would kill for. I do everything to make her feel strong. I still feel this weird stigma with male rappers. They say to me, 'Wow, I didn't expect you to be so good.' And I think, 'What you're surprised because I'm a girl? Well, thanks very much.'"

http://www.vogue.co.uk/blogs/the-culture-edit/2013/05/angel-haze-interview---music-tour--background