Young M.A. is making it clear that she’s more than a label. On the heels of her debut studio album, the Brooklyn native sat with Hollywood Unlocked UNCENSORED’s Jason Lee, Mylissa Ford, and DJ Damage for a candid interview in New York City.
During the extensive interview, the rapper spoke candidly about heartbreak, the pressure of delivering another hit after her chart-climbing single, “Ooouuu,” and why she doesn’t consider herself a lesbian despite the politically correct names under the LGBTQ+ umbrella.”
“No, just Young M.A….No, I don’t do [those] labels.” When asked to clarify if that means she’s into men, she candidly said, “Absolutely not. That’s it. I just wouldn’t date a guy….I’m just Young M.A., man. I just don’t dig dudes. I love women.”
Young M.A. took it even further when the topic of pronouns/titles and sexual orientation came up and took it a step further, saying, “Not even with the ‘female rapper’ thing, I don’t buy into that. I’m just a rapper. I’m Young M.A.”
When asked why she’s against being put in the box of a female rapper, the music artist started by saying, “First of all, female rappers alone seem to be the only ones in a box because you don’t say ‘male rapper.'” She added, “You really don’t…When you see a male rapper you don’t call him a “male rapper,” you call him a rapper. And with the female rapper, it seems like the female rap thing is more glorified.
“And then the gay rapper thing, I feel like if we don’t want to be separated. If we’re uniting and we’re doing all this type of thing where we want people to accept us for us, and stuff like that. Then as people, just like you’re a human and I’m a human, why still separate yourself? To me, it just doesn’t make sense. If you just want to be accepted for who you are, just say, ‘I am me’…I just came in the game being me.”
During the sitdown, Young M.A. touched on why she decided to respond to Kodak Black’s comment, the importance of nurturing your fanbase as an independent artist, and her KWEENZ Foundation’s mission to help those in East New York, Brooklyn who’ve experienced grief and trauma after the loss of a loved one.
Watch the full interview above.
