Your music isn't just straight rap music, obviously. It sounds like there's a lot of jazz influence in what you do, as well as a lot of pop and experimental flair. What's the scene like in Taiwan? Are you part of a rap scene or something broader?



In the beginning, when I started to make music, for maybe one or two years I was part of [the rap scene], but after that I think I just wasn't part of that. I wanted to do my own thing. My style has changed. Now I’m part of the electronic and a broad scene. I don't really like the rap scene here. Because it's very rare to have girls, I don't really feel comfortable being with them. I think their music, mostly, is not my type.



When you say that you don't feel comfortable in that scene, is that a musical thing or a social thing? How do you think they view you?

It’s both. They think my music is weird and no one is going to listen to it [laughs]. Even my friend told me, "You're doing very strange things, you need to change to more hip-hop or nobody will listen to your music."

But you do consider what you do to be rap, right? Do you consider what you do to be anything other than rap?



Yes, I think it’s rap. But it's more like some experimental, jazz, is more my flow. It's more like that sometimes.

It's also very poetic. What kind of stuff was really formative for you musically?

Sainkho, Out of Tuva— it's very free jazz and electronic. I think she makes really great music and she does some improvisations. It changed some of my ideas of recording and performing. I also really like Jean Grae's flow, she influenced my flow very much. I heard her maybe three or four years ago and I was like, "Wow, her flow's sick." I'm really inspired by Erykah Badu’s delivery and lyrics. Sometimes she's the hero, sometimes she's like a little girl lonely for love. And I thought, "Wow, that's very different." As a female MC, at first I wanted myself to do better than male MCs, but [now] I think it's okay for me to be more girly and sexy. She inspired me to think so.

