3D Na'Tee Wants Rap's Top Spot, Regardless Of Gender

Each time a new female MC comes into play, she's expected to stand in some girly rap niche, spitting estrogen-pumped bars. New Orleans native 3D Na'Tee, however, is looking to fill in a bigger void — the one left by lyrically deficient rappers.

"There's no gender to real hip-hop. For the past couple of years, there's been a lack of female lyricists," she told Mixtape Daily. "I'ma be the best and when I ask who is someone's top five rappers, usually they name five male rappers, I wanna go down as one of the best period."

3D Na'Tee Wants To Be One Of Your Top 5 Rappers

Na'Tee is well on her way. While she has been grinding in New Orleans for years, the nimble-tongued lyricist turned heads with her 2011 self-directed music video for "Switch," a freestyle rhyme where she ran through a number of different Timbaland instrumentals, using three-different personalities in a creative one-woman rap cypher. The video was so impressive that it immediately caught the attention of Timbo, who began working with 3D on her 2012 mixtape The Coronation. Eventually Na'Tee and Tim would amicably part ways. She also turned down a deal with Def Jam Records.

"I did turn down a deal. I turned down a few deals actually," she said. "It wasn't me trying to be hard-headed or want this amount of money, or these demands. It was me looking for the right type of situation for me."