This year you
attended
New York Fashion Week and were
interviewed
on The Breakfast Club. How does it feel to be in spaces like those, having a ball? What do you want to say to people as your platform grows?
Saucy Santana:
It hasn’t always been a normal thing, for a person who is out, loud, proud, gay, flamboyant, with lashes, beard, makeup, nails, to be on The Breakfast Club. We didn’t always see these kinds of artists in the rap field. But I’ve always been myself and authentically me, and I fight for my community. If there’s a day when I no longer wanna do music and somebody else comes in to do this behind me, I want no one to look at them like, “What’s going on?”
Thanks to people like Lil Kim, Nicki Minaj and Cardi B, it’s become normal to see women rap. There are thousands of female rappers now. I wanna leave a legacy where there’s many more LGBTQ+ rappers that are able to come in and do their thing, and everybody expects it.