By day that gig was housekeeping; by night she’d take the 41 bus to sing at neighborhood spots like the Night Cap on Flatbush Avenue

"Is this art? It must be, no one seems to like it.”

Like all of the best rappers, indeed like all the best songwriters period, Banks is a storyteller

“I was like, I feel like a big thing that’s gonna get me goin’ is I need to get my sound into Atlanta.”

"Geminis can never coast easily down the road!"

"I frankly was surprised that there would be so many right-leaning people that like our band. I would have thought that we may have turned them off by now if they had paid attention."