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Akbar V performs onstage during the 2019 BET Social Awards at Tyler Perry Studio on March 3, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images for BET) In further tweets, Akbar says she just wants to win and calls herself the female rapper Whitney Houston. I donât hate nobody Iâm just trying to win, she said, adding, all the money in the world canât bring you joy if your soul not right. She continued, Iâm not a bully . truth is i donât care who come to Atlanta to pursue they dreams . hell Iâm a dollar and a prayer from moving from Atlanta to California... loveandhiphop help me out a lot and i thank God for vh1,Mona Scott, and Stepheny.it donât be them itâs the people. ....
- - - Have you seen any peers, or friends, chewed up and spat out by the machine, that maybe got in with a major when they’d have been better off sticking to an indie label? J: Maybe. T: There was a time when a lot of bands, like Jawbox and Jawbreaker, got signed and they put one record out and that was it. Rocket From The Crypt, too. J: I don’t know how much of that is down to the label though and how much comes down to internal band decisions. Just getting a record deal isn’t going to solve anyone’s problems. ....