00:04You are the queen.
00:06Shall I refer to you as queen?
00:09The only thing I will not do is drop to one knee.
00:11No, you don't have to.
00:13Latifah is fine.
00:14May I call you Latifah?
00:15Call me La.
00:16My mother raised me to believe that all women are queens
00:20and should be treated as such.
00:23The name Latifah means delicate, sensitive, kind, nice.
00:28And I always loved the meaning of that name,
00:31so I chose this as my rap name.
00:33You know, there's always an attempt to put a glass ceiling on a woman in general,
00:37but I think networking is the key.
00:40It's about working together.
00:42It's about connecting with people who don't look at you with limits.
00:46But then once I realized the power that you could have being a role model,
00:51whether you chose to or not,
00:53you could actually use that for your powers of good
00:55and really help affect people's life in a positive way,
00:59I just sort of embraced it.
01:04I think you're going to face obstacles no matter what you do,
01:07and you have to stay strong,
01:10and you have to decide what your priorities are.
01:13I think you have to be realistic.
01:15Some women can do the whole thing,
01:16and they can work the job, raise the babies,
01:18do all those things,
01:20but I think you have to be realistic,
01:21and some can't.
01:24Hell yeah!
01:26I was like, thank God for hip-hop!
01:28I was like, thank God for hip-hop!
01:30I was like, no!
01:31No!
