Amil

stars  In 2008, she released her mixtape Amil Az Iz.

stars  When asked in a 2006 interview if female MCs are forced to meet standards that male MCs are not, Amil stated, “Oh, yeah. Definitely. You have to be picture-perfect and you have to meet the standards of the perfect woman. That’s unreal to me. Real women do not have plastic-looking bodies. The average woman is not a size 0. You can do what you have to do to keep yourself looking like that or you could just be you. Me, I choose to just be me.”

stars  In 2002, she made her first theatrical film appearance as Boss’ Assassin in the crime film State Property, starring Beanie Sigel, Omillio Sparks, Memphis Bleek, and Damon Dash.

stars  Soon after the release of her debut album, Amil was dropped from Jay-Z’s Roc-A-Fella Records and it was rumored that her departure resulted from her personal conflict with Jay-Z as well as his disapproval of her (reported) weight gain. However, in a 2011 interview with Vibe, Amil addressed the rumors about her and Jay-Z and stated, “People think there was bad blood between us, but there never was any bad blood. Things happen and I wasn’t ready for where my career was going at that time. It was really overwhelming.”

stars  On August 29, 2000, she released her debut studio album All Money Is Legal (also known as A.M.I.L.: (All Money Is Legal)) via Roc-A-Fella, Columbia, and Sony Music and it included songs like All Money Is Legal (A.M.I.L.), I Got That (ft. Beyoncé), Raw, Girlfriend, That’s Right (ft. Jay-Z), and Ya’ll Dead Wrong. The album peaked at #12 on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) chart and at #45 on the US Billboard 200 chart.