Tam (Tamela/Ms. Tam)

Yeah, no, I support all female rap and Nicki Minaj definitely had her era.

But I always felt like people give her too much because she had no competition during that time.

I grew up in the Foxy and Kim times.

And with everybody else, Vita Star, Charlie Baltimore, Missy Elliott, Remy Ma.

DTP, right?

Yeah, like all those ladies.

Crazy, crazy.

So I grew up in a time with all of those ladies where you really had to be hard, come out with your different look.

and be consistent to get respect, because we had a lot of one-hit wonders, or a lot of girls that came and went on a song with a popular man.

She comes out, it's nobody else, and I was alive during the Lil' Kim time, so I can't look at you at any point and not see Kim.

Your whole entire aesthetic, your whole mixtape shit when you first came out, it was Lil' Kim, Lil' Kim, Lil' Kim, but for my time period, I guess.

I was like, okay, cool, I can see that this is derivative.

I understand that.

But you wanting respect like you're Lauryn Hill or somebody...

For coming out and being the 2010 Lil' Kim is not admirable.

her and Mary J. Blige both they got that little Kim just being an icon being the first rap fashion girl for real and opening that lane up like Cardi would not have all the opportunities that she has to be at fashion week and

be in pride of placement, be in the face of Balenciaga, even maybe Zendaya, be in the face of Louis Vuitton now.

And being best friends with Marc Jacobs and having all those clothes and putting that shit on the map in hip-hop.

1,000.

I don't know.