MTV News caught up with Eve in New Orleans, where she put on a turned-up show at the Essence Music Festival over Fourth of July weekend. Eve explained her feelings on the current state of female rap, her opinion on a Nicki Minaj / Lil’ Kim collaboration and more!

On female rap : “It sucks ’cause it’s lacking. It really is, you know?” she said of the current female MC scene. “I mean, there are some dope females. Nicki is definitely holding it down. … Then obviously there are some dope females that are coming up. But I feel like when I was out and Missy [Elliott] was out, Kim, whatever, it was kind of shared in a sense and it’s not like that right now.”

On Lil’ Kim and Nicki Minaj possibly making a record together : “Well, you’d have to ask Nicki and Kim first.
It’s a good business move so, yeah, it’d be a dope record, but will it happen? Who knows?”