“One of the biggest misconceptions about me would have to be my skills. They try to compare me to other new female artists who may have been out in the past, who may have got a shot then flopped. Then they be like, ‘She’s gonna do the same thing. She’s not a real rapper. She can’t keep up with this person or that person.’ But if you put me in the ring with a lot of the top dudes in the spot right now, I’ll slaughter them.“I feel the need to put lyrical content in my songs,” she added. “That’s what I do. I’m an artist. I don’t sit in the studio and dance around. I love to dance. I wish I could go in a room and let somebody write my songs, and I come back and read it and record it. Artists that are out right now, that’s what they are doing. They come back in and say, ‘Oh, that’s it? What’s the melody? That’s how I sing it?’ Then they go in the booth and lay it down and go back to their own pretty life. Me, I’m different. When I write, my soul is into it. I need clarity. When I write, I’m not gonna write, ‘Nick nack, patty wack/ Give a dog a bone.’ ”

Lil Mama’s feels that when it comes to male and female rappers in the industry that there is definitely a double standard.

“For one, I’m a female,” she said about why she doesn’t get the accolades she thinks she deserves. “For two, they hear a song like ‘Lip Gloss.’ They feel, ‘It’s easy; it’s this, that.’ But if a man was to put out the same type of song — different concept, same type of flow on the hook, it’s: ‘Hot. He’s crazy!’ When it’s a female, never. Then you have people who want the chance to do what I’m doing and instead of giving it to me, they’d rather hate.”

With a track like “Lip Gloss” why would she expect anyone to take her ass seriously?