Awkwafina Quotes

Unfortunately, we have very few female composers in our country, but Sneha Khanwalkar, Alokananda Dasgupta, and Jasleen Royal are forces to reckon with.

I think women gravitate toward me because I am a woman producing and songwriting, and there's none out there. There really isn't.

To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.

Women's music is underrepresented.

Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before that, it was a standing joke that it was more like we had 'pretty little girl singers' opening for a male headliner.

Growing up, I'd never heard of any female producers or songwriters. I didn't know you could be a girl and produce, which is terrible.

There was a time when we had a nice little run: Eve, Lil' Kim, Queen Latifah, Missy Elliott, Lauryn Hill, Remy Ma, Da Brat - it goes on. But what I noticed is that a lot of talented females in hip-hop came out of a male camp.

We opened the door for women rappers.

Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.

Queen Latifah was the first time I had ever professionally written with another woman of any color.

There are still so few female directors. There are far fewer writers than we'd like to see.

When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.

Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.

I don't like the fact that there are so few women in rap.

All rappers are princesses like me.

There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.

There have always been female artists and singers putting bands together all the time. But we were not always getting credit for that because we didn't know any better.

I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable.

Music is a male-dominated field.

I believe there are talented female rappers out there that aren't one-dimensional. It's OK to be one-dimensional, by the way.

I have been the only female minister in every government department I've worked in.

I believe in female rap.

A lot of times when I play a show, I'm the only girl on the bill. We're a minority, for sure.

I was lucky to grow up in the '90s, when we had just as many strong female artists as male artists. That's a world I would like to live in again.

It's very tough to give advice because it's tough out there for everybody but for a girl it's even tougher, because I don't think the glass ceiling has changed at all in the past 30 years. Otherwise the radio would be covered with girl bands, or girls in bands, so I don't think much has changed on that level. But I think that bands can still have a lot of success trying to go another route.