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texting I’m really texting to me. It allows me
to focus and keep myself inspired.
MMIA: Can you give us an example of a
time when words have affected change in
your life? What was going on in your life
before you won the $100,000 competition
on Oxygen’s Hair Battle Spectacular?
Minista: Right at that time before in my
life I had moved out of my house, I was
homeless living in my car with my two
boys. I was about to go on the road with
KRS1 and then the opportunity came to
go on the TV show. So I was just in the
wind like what to do, what to do. So I
decided to go ahead and do the show and
while I was on the show I had a notebook.
On the show we weren’t allowed to speak
to each other. In reality TV they like you
to speak only when the cameras are on
so they can catch all the goodness. It’s
reality TV so you can’t like redo it so
they wanted us to just be quiet. So what
I would do in that time was write. And
I would write over, and over, and over
again ‘I am the winner of $100,000. I am
the winner of Hair Battle Spectacular. I
am the winner…’ I mean just pages and
pages and pages [over and over again].
And the reason why I feel liked it worked
at that particular time and maybe why it

might seem slow at other times is because
it was absolutely no distractions. There
was nothing else that was in my focus,
nothing else in my peripheral. That was
the only thing that was important at that
particular time. There were absolutely
no distractions… it was me and my
commitment. So what I learned from
that, even though that’s not the standard
environment, when you can just go
away in solitude and write and write and
write… The jewel in that is meditation.
The jewel in that is having single focus. So
knowing that it might be a little bit slower
from conception to manifestation but it’s
possible when you focus.
MMIA: How did your album HipNoticHop come about?
Minista: After my ex-husband and I
separated I was devastated because I didn’t
get married to get divorced. It was really
hard for me to wrap my mind around
what my life is without him and without
the family dynamic that we created. And
I drove myself crazy, honestly. I can’t say
it drove me crazy. I don’t blame anybody.
Just the thoughts that I was thinking…my
mind wasn’t right. I couldn’t get my mind
right to get back in alignment with ‘Jazz
you’re single again; you know this is the

way life goes.’ So I suffered. I suffered so
much and I realized that I caused my own
suffering because of the thoughts I was
thinking. I was not thinking my favorite
mantra: Everything in life is unfolding in
perfect order. I was thinking ]