Eve Speaks On Women In Hip Hop

Ever so often, Eve pops up to remind everyone that she's still breathing. The Philly-born femcee spoke recently about the lack of female emcees in hip hop and who some of her favorite current artists right now. Still no word on if/when she will return to recording.

"People ask me [about females in rap] all the time. It’s weird. I don’t know where all the females are," she says. "By the way, I meet females all the time that tell me, “Yeah, I’m an MC,” and I’m always like, “Good luck, God bless. Make it happen. We need more females.”

"I still have people on my list who I’ve been wanting to work with forever like OutKast," she added. "Andre 3000, I think is amazing. Adele is amazing. Drake is dope, as far as hip-hop goes. So there’s a lot of different people, but nobody I’m loving at the top of my list right now, though."

Eve On Her Love Life

Eve recently revealed in an interview that she is looking forward to settling down, but the Philadelphia-born rapper wouldn't put a timetable on exactly when she was thinking of jumping the broom. She has been linked to racer Maximillion Cooper, but she wouldn't confirm nor deny that that's who she's head-over-heels in love with these days.

"I want marriage, I want babies, soon, but later," Eve said in an interview. "I'm seeing someone at the moment. I'm not saying [who it is], but it's been a year. It's not a secret. He's not a music celebrity."

Eve Has Advice For Lil Kim

Rapper Eve has some advice for her fellow 90s rap veteran femcee Lil Kim. The Philly native thinks Kim should stop with the melodramatics and the childish feuding with Nicki Minaj and get back to making great music. To Eve, the entire situation paints Kim in a negative light.

"I need her to stop. If I was Kim's friend, I'd be like, yo. Because she's Kim, period," Eve said in an interview. "So she never has to feed. She shouldn't. It's bad. It's not a good look. If I was her friend, I'd tell her, yo, just come back bigger and better. The best way to get at people is to do you better than you've ever done you. So that's it...I love it."

"You know, it's definitely a nice group of females that's out representing, but because I come from hip-hop, I need more females in hip-hop," she continued. "Nicki definitely is holding the flag down, and a lot of people be wanting me to hate just because that's how girls supposed to do in hip-hop, but I'm loving everything she does. But we need more females, man. There's too much testosterone in the hip-hop game."

Jill Scott Re-Connects With Hip Hop

Soul singer Jill Scott has gotten back in touch with her hip hop roots on her highly-anticipated upcoming album. The Light of the Sun features a bevy of hip hop collaborators. Scott, a native of Philadelphia, has never downplayed her connections to hip hop, with the Roots and DJ Jazzy Jeff playing prominent roles on her classic debut Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds, Vol. 1. But she has never had this many rappers on a project before.

Fellow Philly native Eve, hip hop legend Doug E. Fresh and Texas rapper Paul Wall all are among the guests on the album.

"I grew up on Eric B. and Rakim; I grew up on storytelling, on Big Daddy Kane, on flows, on KRS-One," Jill Scott told AllHipHop. "Giving some education and something to think about. You know, I went to what I love most about Hip-Hop and I will stay in that particular genre. And I used some incredibly, incredibly amazing musicians and we freestyle a lot."

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Swizz defines what it means to be classic, some classic Ruff Ryders songs, and what it takes to create classic music. Ruff Ryders First Lady Eve, also shares her experiences working with Swizz and explains why he is good at what he does.

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Jill Scott shot the video for her new single “Shame” in Philly a couple of weeks ago.

Since CNN had dibs on the behind the scenes footage, the pics were just released.

Jilly from Philly brought out hometown star power of every wattage for the occasion, from Eve and Black Thought to Maybach Signee Meek Mill, Peedi Peedi and Ms. Jade.