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Queen Latifah recently appeared on Ebro In The Morning. The MC-turned-actress-turned-producer reunited with the radio personality who says he once appeared on an episode of Living Single. In the candid conversation, Queen Latifah recalled some career highlights.

At 9:00 in, Latifah recalls forming Flavor Unit with her mentor/producer 45 King. She then discusses helping the clique, including Apache and others, improve their record contracts. That led her and business partner Shakim Compere to build a full-fledged management arm. After they took on Naughty By Nature, Monica, Faith Evans, and even Outkast, in their breakthrough days, as clients. Last year, Flavor Unit Entertainment produced The Art Of Organized Noize. While Latifah says her Summer Jam appearance alongside Remy Ma was not a symbolic stance against Nicki Minaj, the Newark, New Jersey mogul did not mince her words for today’s crop of MCs.

At 31:50, Latifah tells the hosts, “[Music] is also something that should be used to speak about what’s going on around you. I feel like a lot of rappers, they lost their balls. They got soft. They got soft. Like, when things are going on in the world, like with [Donald] Trump, or elections, or…this was the stuff [my generation of MCs] chewed on.”