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In the latest issue of Music Week, hip-hop legend Eve talks all about her striking new memoir, Who’s That Girl?
Out now via Hanover Square Press, the book sees the star reflect on breaking into the industry, the fall out of being dropped by Dr. Dre’s Aftermath label early on in her career and, of course, transforming the sound of hip-hop forever with Ruff Ryders. Hers is a story riddled with incredible highs (working with DMX, Prince and Gwen Stefani) and desperate lows (a struggle with alcohol addiction that resulted in a DUI charge in 2007 and a court-ordered ankle bracelet, something she credits with “saving” her life).
“I wrote the autobiography now because the 25th anniversary of my first album has just gone and it felt like a good opportunity to shed some things that I’m truly over, but also to dive in a bit deeper,” Eve told us about her trip down memory lane. “I’m talking about things I never spoke about before… It was a lot! When I read it for the Audible version, I was like, ‘Wow, I’ve gone through some really dark stuff,’ but I always believed in myself so much. I’m really proud.”
Here, in an unread extract of our Aftershow interview, you can read more about her journey, from breaking through the glass ceilings imposed on her as a female rapper in the late ’90s to recruiting notorious Death Row Records co-founder Suge Knight to help her with her label contract negotiations when they weren’t going her way…
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Part of your book deals with some really difficult things you’ve been through, particularly your struggles with mental health and alcohol when you were touring 24/7. How hard was it for you to revisit some of that? “It’s crazy, because during the first part of the writing process, I was definitely thought I had already dealt with it all. So I was like, ‘Yeah, sure, this happened and that happened.’ My co-writer [Kathy Landoli] was like, ‘I don’t want to take you back to the trauma, but you have to go a bit deeper – if people are reading this or listening, they need to feel that emotion.’ And I have to say, a lot of the revelations that happen in this book happened as we were writing it. I was definitely, like, ‘Wow, I didn’t know I still felt like that about certain things.’”
You talk a lot about the double standards women go through in the music industry. One part that really sticks out is when you talk about being in a rap cypher in the early days and feeling like you weren’t just representing yourself, you also had “a whole gender on your back”. Was that pressure real at the time, or were you more putting that on yourself? “It could have been me putting it on myself, especially back then in the cyphers. I think I felt like that because anytime I showed up to one, there were no other girls. And when girls saw me in the cypher, they’d come around and be like, ‘Yes, that’s right!’ I had hype women. But before then, I was the one girl in the cypher all the time. So I think it probably was a pressure that I took on, in a way, because I was like, ‘Why aren’t there more girls rapping?’ But it was also, ‘Okay, well, if I gotta show up I’m gonna represent.’ When I got in the industry, I felt like I was the voice of many girls, specifically the voice of girls where I came from. That’s how I started to look at myself, like, ‘Yeah, I’m representing the Philly girls now.”
They can call you whatever names they want, but if you truly believe in something for yourself as an artist, it’s your right to fight for that
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Throughout the book you talk about how music executives only cared about the bars coming out of your mouth and not your actual thoughts and feelings. So much so that at one point you drafted in Suge Knight to help with your contract renegotiations…“Not many people knew that I got Suge Knight to help me [with executives]… It was insane. I was very frustrated. I felt very back against the wall in a way which is why I went so extreme. It just was one of those things that kind of happened, like, ‘Well, ask a gangsta [to help]…’”
And that’s at a time after all the documentaries and books had long since been written about his unique approach to things…“Yeah, but I’m very much the person that’s like Bart Simpson with the fire – like ‘Ow, quit it!’ I have to touch it to see if it’s hot. And I’m also just a curious person. That was just one of those decisions: young, dumb, crazy! It was a, ‘What the hell were you thinking?’ decision. I’ve said this, and will continue to say it, I was very lucky that Ruff Ryders was the crew I came from. Suge truly understood the conversation I eventually had to have with him when I said, ‘Listen, my brothers are saying, ‘We don’t think you should be hanging out with him.’ And Suge was totally like, ‘I get it, if you were my little sister, I would totally do the same thing. All good.’ And that was it. Ruff Ryders came from the streets, and so did Suge. There is a street code, and he respects it. Ultimately, that’s all it was. He was like, ‘All good, I get it. You need to listen to them.’ So, yeah!”
In one part of the book you say you want to be the “big sister for other women in the industry” that you never had yourself. What would be your advice to the next generation in terms of making their voice heard to executives in the music business?“Oh, my God, I haven’t been in those rooms in a long time, but I do hope things have changed. We see more females in the landscape, maybe that means certain things have. That being said, you just have to snatch and demand your respect. And they can call you whatever names they want to call you. They can tell you whatever, that you’re emotional, or you’re a bitch, or whatever it is. But if you truly believe in something for yourself as an artist, it’s your right to fight for that. And just do it. Because you’ll never regret fighting for yourself.”
Who’s That Girl? is out now via Hanover Square PressPhoto: John Russo
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Rajasthan: The International Pushkar Fair kicks off this Saturday, featuring unique events like a cow milking competition and a decorated camel rally, attracting tourists from around the globe | Representational Image
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The Joint Director of the animal husbandry department, Dr. Sunil Ghiya said ‘this time there will be two special events at the fair. For the first time, a camel rally will be taken out, in which decorated camels will participate. It is being organized to spread awareness about the save the camel campaign as the number of camels is decreasing every year. Besides this, there will be a competition of milking the cows in three minutes.’
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2-alarm fire breaks out at Sacramento County business
2-alarm fire breaks out at Sacramento County business
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SACRAMENTO – An insurance business building in south Sacramento went up in flames early Friday morning. Sacramento Fire crews responded to the scene on Valley Hi Drive, off of Mack Road, just after 5 a.m.Firefighters found heavy flames coming from the back of the LI Insurance building.
2-Alarm fire at LI Insurance building on Valley-Hi Dr in South Sacramento. No injuries in the fire, just heavy fire and smoke damage. @GoodDaySac @CBSSacramento pic.twitter.com/hWTO9uVNZA— DG (@CameraGuyDave1) November 1, 2024
A second alarm was called as the flames quickly spread, eventually shooting from the roof. Crews soon had to go on the defensive.No injuries have been reported in the incident. Exactly what started the fire is under investigation.
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It’s Homecoming, and thousands of alumni are traveling across state lines, but some simply walk out their door.Students typically attend OSU for four years, graduate and race out of town to start their new lives; others stay and build their futures in Stillwater.Take a walk down the famous, or infamous for some, Washington Street a.k.a. The Strip, and you’ll discover a family-owned and alumni-owned business, DuPree’s Sports & Screen Printing.The store is a staple of OSU and is recognizable by its iconic ducks adorned in OSU crewnecks, ready to cheer on the Cowboys. OSU alumnus Jeff Watkins and his brother, Chad Watkins, took over the store in 1998, 16 years after Watkins’ parents bought the store from the original owner, and former Cowboy football player, Gordon Dupree.For Watkins, taking over the family business meant staying close to home.“Being in Stillwater was important to us,” Watkins said. “My brother and I have lived here for most of our lives. It’s a pretty good-sized town, but if you take the college kids out of the equation, it’s a pretty small community.”Family is a common theme in Stillwater, and down the street from DuPree’s on Knoblock Street, sits another family owned shop and OSU classic, For Pete’s Sake.Once a bar, For Pete’s Sake, an apparel shop appeared on the scene when Mary Causley and her son saw an opportunity to go into business together. Causley attended OSU a little later in life as a mother of two OSU students, and wife to an OSU graduate, and she didn’t want to wait around to get the ball rolling on her career.“I just wanted the accomplishment of getting that (college) done, and then I realized, ‘I don’t want to go through all that interviewing; I don’t want to move; my family is here,’” Causley said.So Causley and her son, an artist for DuPree’s set out and opened their own store, For Pete’s Sake. Thirty-two years later, Causley is happy to be in Stillwater.“We came here to put my husband through college, and my kids were just babies then,” Causley said. “We moved away for a few years and we realized, it’s a good place to raise them so we came back and we’ve been here ever since.” Next door, nestled between Eskimo Joe’s and For Pete’s Sake is another alumni-owned business, The Endzone, an official OSU spirit store.Walk through the door and you’re greeted by a wave of orange and black and owner Garrett Shubert. At 21, Shubert dropped out of OSU to go into business, opening The Endzone in 2002 before returning to OSU in 2007 to finish out his degree.“I just wanted to open this business up,” Shubert said. “I didn’t want to leave, and I always liked Stillwater, and I always wanted to raise a family here. I just enjoyed Oklahoma State, the fans, everybody’s friendly, loyal and true.” Shubert and his wife, a teacher, stayed in Stillwater to run The Endzone and raise their three sons – potential future Cowboys and have witnessed the town change a lot in 22 years – but not the traditions. “I think it’s (traditions) continued to get stronger; the family is growing,” Shubert said. “It’s grown up a lot, just the tradition and the tailgating. I remember when we first opened up there being 10 tents outside for tailgating. Now each year it has continued to grow.”As the decades go by, things change and evolve, but the notion of the Cowboy family and Stillwater community stands strong in the face of progress. Causley said there has been a lot of innovation over the years, but Stillwater has never lost its charm.“Everything has changed, but the friendliness is still here,” Causley said. “When I first came on, we truly had never faxed something to somebody, and we were not computerized and all of that has changed.” Ever loyal and true, Homecoming is one of OSU’s biggest traditions, but change is inevitable. Watkins, a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity in the ‘90s, remembers pomping with multiple sororities.“It was fun. We did Homecoming with four different sororities at the time,” Watkins said. “One of my roommates was Homecoming director for two years, so he made sure I was out there working.” Today, Watkins is still helping the Greek community pomp. Dupree’s helps the Greek community in a symbiotic relationship, purchasing and delivering the pomp to the community at a lower price in exchange for apparel orders. “We put a lot of work into keeping the house dec cost down for them, and then we asked if they’ll do some apparel orders through us for Homecoming,” Watkins said. Watkins said he has noticed a change in the style of pomping and the amount of pomp needed by soriorites and fratenrites has increased. “From when I was in the Greek community, the house decs are getting smaller,” Watkins said. “But it seems like they’re having to order more pomps to get the details going.”OSU’s Homecoming theme is “Innovative Visions… Timeless Traditions” and Watkins, Causley and Shubert encapsulate tradition, but they are also innovators of their time. The trio worked hard to open and run their own business and are learning every day.“When you start your own business, you have to be prepared to work lots of hours, because no one’s going to care about the business as much as you,” Watkins said. “Lots of long hours, lots of stressful nights, but the good thing about my brother being down here is we employ a lot of college kids, so it keeps us young getting to work with them.” Causley said the key to starting a business is to get a good accountant, and Shubert believes that writing down a list of goals and working toward them is the recipe for success.“I just always go back to hard work, you know, just having the mentality to chase your goals and achieve them,” Shubert said.The business owners are excited, if not more than the student body, for Homecoming. In honor of the occasion, Dupree’s stays open late on Walkaround. The apparel store also has its own tradition made sweeter by the 6 p.m. kick off. DuPree’s, For Pete’s Sake and The Endzone are close to campus and the students are apart of their daily lives. For Causley, Homecoming means seeing her former employees.“I get to see old employees that worked for me 25 years ago, and they’ll come and say hi,” Causley said.Shubert is excited for his favorite tradition, the Sea Of Orange Parade, but his favorite part of Homecoming is reconnecting with friends and fans as alumni flock to Stillwater.“We get to see the fans that we have gotten to know and become friends with, you know, that eventually move away,” Shubert said. “It seems like this weekend everybody comes back and its great to see old friends and faces and seeing their kids getting older and coming to Oklahoma State.”These Cowboys of entrepreneurialism stayed in Stillwater and built on the tradition of OSU with each passing year. They took the idea of the Cowboy family to heart and made it their own. [email protected]