DX: You’re a boss lady on the independent level, in which you said a lot of females don’t handle their business and let a lot of males control them. What advice would you give to a lot of female upcoming artist out there?
Khia: If music is what you love and that’s what your supposed to be doing being involved and handling your own business is a part of your job description. If you want to rap and you think it’s all about being on TV and playing dress-up like Trina you got the wrong idea, because you don’t make your money like that. You make your money with your publishing, owning your masters, and being in control of your situation. The bottom line is that everything that glitters ain’t gold. "The Diamond Princess" is really the rhinestone princess, you ain’t really getting no money like that. You definitely have to take control of your situation and be a boss bitch.

DX: Oh so that’s what Khia is, a “Boss Bitch” huh?
Khia: Yes, yes!

DX: With you being a women in the music industry what made you come with the idea “Hey I ain’t letting no dudes takeover me”?
Khia: You know what [laughs], once I dropped “My Neck, My Back” on my first album I learned early that it just was harder. It was just harder for me to get on BET, get on MTV, get on the radio. You know a lot of them was about payola, a lot of people don’t see what goes on underneath the surface. I seen all of the politics, all of the snakes early on and was like, “You know what I got to take it from the streets and direct from fan to artist.” From me to them, I got to put it under their heads, because other than that me being the queen, me having my dreads, me being beautiful and me loving my blackness. A lot of people want you to have the weave down your back, blonde hair and blue eyes, and getting injections in your cheek bones and ass. That’s what they considered beautiful so seeing me coming through the door they didn’t consider me beautiful, but I considered myself beautiful so it was time for me to take it through the streets. My fans in the streets embraced, welcomed me, and supported me. For me to be myself I had to do it myself and a lot of people sell they soul. Don’t go that route, so for me, I’m glad that I didn’t.

DX: How you feel about the media when they say Hip Hop degrades women being a female artist yourself?
Khia: You know what it’s so many things that the media say it’s like come on. You have people that write movies, killer movies, scary movies, nobody don’t say, “They this and they that,” so it’s like whatever.

DX: Back to “My Neck, My Back” people would like to know you still freaky like that?
Khia: The song was freaky to you? The song for me was niggas be hollering [to] suck they dick, so for me it was like, "Fuck what you got, I got my own money, I ride my own Benz, so lick my ass, nigga. I didn’t feel like it was freaky I feel like it was fuck what you got, I love myself, I got myself, now please me, it’s not always about pleasing you. It wasn’t freaky it was just love me, it’s not all about you."

DX: Oh so it goes back to what you were saying “Snatch the cat back” or something like that.
Khia: Yeah, see it’s a different for thug misses. I’m not gonna say, "I’ma fuck you and your homeboy over there tryin' to fuck me in my ass and I’m rob you and set you up." I’ma say, "Fuck what you got, respect me because I hustle like you do. I’ma help you, we gonna help each other." Thug misses is a difference and my fan-base were like family so they know what it is. It’s either you’re a fan or your not.

Additional Reporting by Aliya Ewing.