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Akbar V performs onstage during the 2019 BET Social Awards at Tyler Perry Studio on March 3, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images for BET) In further tweets, Akbar says she just wants to "win" and calls herself "the female rapper Whitney Houston."  "I don’t hate nobody I’m just trying to win," she said, adding, "all the money in the world can’t bring you joy if your soul not right..." She continued, "I’m not a bully ... truth is i don’t care ...

- - - Have you seen any peers, or friends, chewed up and spat out by the machine, that maybe got in with a major when they’d have been better off sticking to an indie label? J: Maybe. T: There was a time when a lot of bands, like Jawbox and Jawbreaker, got signed and they put one record out and that was it. Rocket From The Crypt, too. J: I don’t know how much of that is down to the label though and how much comes down to internal band decisions. Just getting a record deal isn’t going to s...