A lot of people will try to box me into this idea that I’m making hip-hop music. I’ve had people call me a rapper. And I feel that a lot of those designations come from me being a black woman and the automatic conditioned associations that come with that. A lot of people have been like: ‘You’re a black person, you’re making hip hop music, you’re a rapper.’ And it’s like, you’re not actually listening then.
I would not consider myself a rapper. I play with hip-hop influences, definitely, and I play around with words in similar ways to a rapper, but I wouldn’t consider myself a rapper. I wouldn’t feel authentic calling myself that. It’s just not accurate. That’s what I mean when I say ‘punk.’ I see it in this kind of new definition where myself and lot of people I know are making this music that really defies convention. I think ‘punk’ is the perfect way to summarize that. That’s what punk was originally all about.