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her and others perform, which she said was rare because "up until that point since I had minimal eye-catching moves compared to the guys who were street performing." She has also commented that the hip hop scene is traditionally male dominated and that she and other women have received negativity from men who "find it hard to accept a woman's participation in a physically demanding genre", but that if women "stay in the game long enough the skills and the respect always come together."
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