Why are there still relatively few female songwriter/producers?
There are women who are writing and producing: Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Gwen Stefani and Missy Elliott. Then there are my friends who are dope-ass writers -- like Cri$tyle, Priscilla Renea, Makeba Riddick, Traci Hale and Ericka Coulter. A woman has to step out and take away the limitations. I make myself heard because I let people know when I walk in the room that we are equal. We are human, so nobody is better than or less than me. We're coming in here to do the same thing and split the percent 50-50. I only work with people who feel the same way.
I'm not walking into a sexist room. You can have it. Write the song yourself, you know? You give something, I give something. You get paid, I get paid. The day you get paid and I don't is the day that we don't work. My advice to women trying to break into this end of the business is to stand up for yourself and keep your skirt down. Know how much you're worth. This is very much like working a regular job. You're not going to give the McDonald's manager some ass to get a burger, right?
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poor girls that still try to come for her writing