{"id":3731,"date":"2014-03-18T13:53:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohsodj.com\/?p=3731"},"modified":"2014-03-18T13:53:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:53:21","slug":"remember-the-rocs-amil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=3731","title":{"rendered":"Remember the Roc’s Amil?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"amil\"<\/a>Remember Amil? The first lady of Roc-A-Fella? I’ve often wondered what happened to her. She was set up so nicely and then she just fell off the map.<\/p>\n

Well Billboard caught up with in the midst of their “Ladies First: 31 Female Rappers Who Changed Hip-Hop” series. She’s got new music and she’s opening up about her departure.<\/p>\n

On leaving the Roc<\/strong>: “I wasn’t there mentally. I was in my own world. Was I prepared? No. Did I realize what was happening right before my eyes? No.” …<\/p>\n

“I think they (Roc-A-Fella) knew through my actions that I wasn’t in it. I wasn’t the artist that was doing everything be No. 1. I wasn’t doing anything to make myself bigger than what I was. I wasn’t putting any effort in promotion. I wasn’t looking at it as a career. It’s not that I wasn’t doing it because I was stupid, it was because I didn’t want to be there anymore.”<\/p>\n

“There was never a conversation. He (Jay Z) knew that that’s not where I wanted to be. I told him that I couldn’t do it for another year. I think he understood, overall. He thought that as time went on I’d be ready, but later realized I wasn’t. I know he knew, ‘She don’t give a fuck about this shit.'”<\/p>\n

“I was fine being an around the way rapper. If I could go back in time and do it all over again, I wouldn’t have allowed myself to jump in the game. If I would have did it again, I would have left it alone. I wasn’t cut out for it. I probably would have stepped in as a writer.”<\/p>\n