Hip-Hop Wired: So, you must have a really good relationship with Tech.
Snow: He’s the homie. He calls me all the time. We’re trying to put together maybe a tour or something, a collaborative project. We’re going to figure it out. But definitely, I got love for Strange Music. They embraced me and pushed me when other people didn’t. A lot of people are intimated by a girl that raps like me.
Hip-Hop Wired: Going back to female rappers, have you gotten the opportunity to meet Iggy yet?
Snow: No. We briefly went back and forth about something. But no, I’ve never met her.
Hip-Hop Wired: How do you feel about her?
Snow: Look, it’s good that there are more females. For a while when it was just Nicki, it kinda felt like it was impossible. But now, with her and others following suit, it’s like ‘ok, this can be done’ we can have an era like in the ‘90s where you had Latinos, women, and everyone in the mix.
Hip-Hop Wired: Talk a little bit about the origin of your stage name, because it insinuates something that I’m thinking is not really who you are or what you’re about.
Snow: Right [laughs]. If it were up to me, my name would just be Snow, but there was this reggae rapper called Snow from a long time ago. It started off as Snow White and because of the whole Disney thing, I had to let that go.
For a Latin girl, I always looked really pale in all my pictures. If I were white and looked white, that’s not anything new. But I was this Latin chick–all my friends are darker in tone, it’s what stuck. And honestly, it’s just pretty stupid, I just didn’t have a name. My name is Claudia, that’s not a stage name [laughs]. It was something temporary that I guess ended up sticking.
Hip-Hop Wired: What’s a dream collaboration and why?
Snow: I would say Missy or Em. I mean would have loved to work with Aaliyah, but obviously I can’t. Or Shakira! That would be crazy. I used to pretend I was Shakira, all my life, when I was a little girl [laughs]. My mom has videos of me with the broom and the singing and my brothers in the background ruining my music videos, ‘cause I’m thinking I’m Shakira.
Hip-Hop Wired: Wow. So you can sing?
Snow: A little bit. Not all that great, I don’t think. If I could really sing, I’d do that instead, ‘cause this rap sh*t is hard [laughs].
