Siya’s fame increased a lot due to her involvement with the television show Sisterhood of Hip Hop and like most females, she’s had to make the decision between being true to herself or stepping out of the box to create hit singles.
The Brooklyn-raised rapper recently sat down with HipHopDX’s Editor-in-Chief, Justin Hunte and explained that her fans want to hear her more lyrical side rather than attempt to make numerous club bangers/radio-friendly singles.
“Tank always wants me to get on something like, well his thing is ‘Dumb it down Siya, dumb your lyrics down, you’re too lyrical, people don’t want to hear that shit.’ I’m like ‘Yeah, ok… but yeah they do,'” she said in a segment via today’s (June 3) DX Daily. “I still have a very big fan base of people who want to hear me talk about shit with substance. That’s because I’m just a lyrical artist. I’m a wordsmith. If I put out a song and I’m rapping like motherfucking Rick Ross, that’s the way Rick Ross rap. Let that man do his thing [laughs].”
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Siya also spoke about the dynamic of separating her musical and television careers. She says that they’re interchangeable but a lot of her notoriety came before the TV cameras.
“My music is always going to be my music,” she explained. “Television and my music are like this [clasps hands] but they’re also very, very separated. I have a fan base because of music first, and then television. I was already moving before the show. I don’t think the show has anything to do with the type of music I’m making. It’s just me maturing more and more as an artist, honestly.”
The season premiere of the second season of the Sisterhood of Hip Hop is slated to air on June 9 at 9 pm EST on Oxygen.
Watch the full DX Daily segment below:
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