Queen Pen

Lynise Walters (born September 24, 1972), known professionally as Queen Pen, is an American rapper. Born in Brooklyn, New York City, she was discovered by producer Teddy Riley at an IHOP restaurant in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Quotes He got a phone call. Someone told him I was messing around with someone and he snapped. When the police department broke down my door, I was unconscious. My son’s father was on the run from that incident for 1 ½ years. He said, ‘I’m going to kill you and I’m going to jail for murder. For 1 ½ years, I lived in fear. I had two children with this man, but that was not enough to stop the abuse. I’ve had my teeth knocked out, gotten stitches, jumped out of cars on the parkway and jumped into stranger’s cars. I’ve run out into the hallways in my underwear banging on neighbor’s doors QUEEN PEN USES PERSONAL EXPERIENCES TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE;By Sarie The game is so different now. I would just tell them ‘Don’t stop’. It’s kind of a blessing in disguise that things are tougher for females in this industry whether it may be the artist side, business side, or magazine side. It just makes you fight harder. Women period, I think we have a lot more on our plates. We’re not as respected but we’re the reflection of what the dudes is talking about on the record…’You know my mom raised me on her own.’ We are the struggle. I guess what people always expect, just me and whatever I’m going through at the time. I’ve gone through a lot. People who didn’t know me on the music side, these past years they’ve gotten to know me through the publishing side, through the book. I only can write what I know and what I feel. A verse here or there may be painful, but life has been painful and that’s how it’s been for millions and millions of women. That is not my single. People have made that my single. When I go down to Atlanta to do this show with Blackstreet, I’m in the studio with Teddy to do these three records. Nobody has singles these days. Right now is the time to get in where you fit in and do what the hell you want to do. For me it’s the mix show djs, the djs in the club who say this should be the single. When I come, I’m coming and I’m flooding the market. But people like “Please Forgive Me”. I don’t know why. It’s a very truthful song. I cried in the booth doing that song. An honest woman who’s comfortable in her skin. You ain’t comfortable in your skin you can’t be no diva at all. "Queen Pen:THEHIPHOPDIVA" External links Category:Rappers from New York City Category:Living people Category:1972 births Category:Women from the United States Category:Women born in the 1970s Category:People from Brooklyn