Cara Talks About The Ruff London Streets , Why Its So Important To Make a Name For Herself In The US & More .....
1) Where are you from and how old are you?
NORTH LONDON UK & IM 22
2) When did you start rapping?
I STARTED RAPPING AT DA AGE OF 12, JUST ME AND MY OLDER COUSIN MESSING AROUND
3) Is it hard being a female rapper?
DEFINALTEY, YA GOTTA WORK
TWICE AS HARD AS DA MALES JUST FOR PEOPLE TO RESPECT YA CRAFT AND NOT
JUST TAKE YOU FOR A PRETTY FACE,
4) What's different about USA HipHop and London. HipHop?
THERES NOT REALLY MUCH DIFFERENCE ITS STILL DA SAME STUGGLE, SAME
HUSTLE, PEOPLE CAN STILL RELATE TO MUSIC NO MATTER WHERE YOUR FROM IN DA
WORLD
5) Why would you wanna become big in the USA?
I FEEL ITS A
WIDER AUDIENCE ,MORE OPPORTUNTIES , MORE MONEY LOL AND YOU HAVE MORE
FREEDOM TO MAKE HIPHOP RECORDS WITH IT BEING A WORLDWIDE HIT, I FEEL IF I
WENT OVER AMERICIA I WOULD BRING A NEW TWIST TO THE HIPHOP SCENE
6) What does HipHop mean to you?
ITS A CULTURE FOR US, A WAY
OF LIVING ON A DAY TO DAY BASIS , EVERYTHING I WRITE COMES FROM
EXPERIENCE , WHETHER ITS ABOUT LOVE, PAIN, BETRAYAL, WRITING SONGS FOR
ME ITS LIKE THERAPY HELPS ME GET THROUGH STAGES OF MY LIFE AND WHAT I GO
THROUGH
7) How Ruff are the streets of London?
I MEAN ITS DA SAME
STREETCRIME, CRIMANALS, DRUG DEALERS YA KNOW HOW THE STORY GOES, ENGLAND
ALWAYS GETS PORTRAYEDTO BE TEA & CRUMPETS BUT IS FAR FROM THAT,
THERES STILL PEOPLE DYING ON THE STREETS, ITS STILL A STUGGLE. JUST NOT
NOT TO LONG AGO A INNOCENT MAN FROM OUR COMMUNITY GOT SHOT DEAD BY
POLICE FOR NO REASON, BUT THEY TRIED TO FOOL EVERYONE SAYING HE WAS
ARMED TO PAINT A STATISTIC GANGSTA IMAGE TO THE MEDIA , WHEN DA TRUTH IS
HE WAS NOT ARMED AND WAS INNOCENT NOW HIS KIDS HAS LOST THEIR DAD,
WHICH SPRAKED A RIOT ACROSS LONDON BECAUSE THE PEOPLE HAVE HAD ENOUGH
8) Where do you wanna be in five years?
TO CRACK AMERICA DEFINATELY THATS MY ULTIMATE GOAL, BE A GLOBAL SUPERSTAR
9) Are their revolutionary rappers in London, like Tupac, KRS
ONE, MC LiTE?
YEAH THERES A FEW, BUT THEY DONT GET THE RECOGNITION THEY
DESERVE COMPARED TO A MAINSTREAM ARTIST
10) How did HipHop change your life?
WHEN I HEARD TUPAC CHANGES
FROM THEN EVERYTHING THAT I GO THROUGH IN LIFE ITS BEEN ON THERE ON
PAPER, KINDA LIKE A DAIRY
11) Any favorite rappers?
TUPAC STRAIGHT, MY FAVOURITE RAPPER OF ALL TIME
12) What motivates you to continue pursuring a rap career?
MAKING A BETTER LIFE FOR ME & MY PEOPLES, RISING FROM THE BOTTOM TO
THE TOP
13) What mixtape do you have out?
I CURRENTLY HAVE A MIXTAPE
OUT 'IN A FEMALES MIND' MOST OF THE SONGS ON THERE ARE ABOUT
RELATIONSHIPS BECAUSE I WAS CREATING MATERIAL FOR THE GIRLS TO RELATE
TO. MY NEW MIXTAPE CALLED 'THE BLACKOUT/A WOMAN SCORNED VOL.1 IS ALOT
MORE DIFFERENT FROM DA 1ST ONE , MORE AGGRESSIVE SUTTIN FOR DA STREETS
14) Are you working on an album?
NOT RIGHT NOW, IM JUST PUTTING IN THE GROUND WORK FIRST, BUT DEFINALTEY IN 2013
15) Where can people find your music?
16) Any other rapper you would like to work with?
THERES TOO MANY TO NAME, NAS BE COOL
17) Any other Passions besides Rap?
ERMM, NAH NOT REALLY DIS DA ONLY THING I HAVE A PASSION FOR
18) Shout Outs and Thankyous?
TO ALL THE SUPPORTERS THATS
HOLDING ME DOWN, SUPPORTING MY MUSIC, SHOUT OUT RARE Tv, BANG EM SMURF, DA WHOLE
FEED DA WOLVES MOVEMENT THERE SHOWING ALOT LOVE
19) HipHopOnDeck.com means what to you?
A PLATFORM TO SHOW REAL, RAW UNDERGROUND TALNET, ITS A GOOD LOOK!
20) Anything else you want the people to know before we rap
this interview up!
YEAH MY NEW MIXTAPE THE BLACKOUT WILL BE OUT FOR FREE
DOWNLOAD ONLINE AT THE END OF AUGUST SO BE SURE TO DOWNLOAD
It's been my pleasure interviewing you! We wish you success? NifNDaStreet!!! HipHopOnDeck.com
@CaraArtist @NifNDaStreetz #HHOD247
