Eve’s resume in Hip Hop is undeniable. She has a Grammy win, five total nominations, and she was the third woman in rap history to see her album hit number one on the Billboard 200. Still, when asked about her place in the culture, Eve kept it straight up: “I don’t think about it. I just, it’s not something that comes to my mind, it is not something I think about,” she told the Associated Press in a recent interview.
The Philly-born star explained that she does not spend time wondering whether people give her enough credit because she already knows what she has accomplished. As she put it, “that’s something no one could ever take” away from her.
Fans have long credited Eve with inspiring them, and she admits she did not fully grasp the weight of her own career until she put together her 2024 memoir Who’s That Girl?. Eve reflected, “I think the only time I kind of allowed myself to really reflect on it is after I finished my book and I did the audiobook. And literally, as soon as I got in the car, I called Cathy, my co-writer, and was like, ‘Yo, I did a lot, like, and I’m proud of myself, you know!’”
Beyond her legacy talk, Eve is still active and recently chopped it up with Fat Joe and Jadakiss on the Joe and Jada podcast. When the hosts pressed her on what motivates her to keep touring, considering she has a billionaire husband waiting at home, Eve laughed it off and made her stance clear. “The tour’s good. So far we, um, we’ve only done three, four, we’ve done four shows. I did Europe first.”
Jadakiss asked how the grind was feeling, and Fat Joe followed up with why this “Rich Girl” still hits the stage. Eve responded without hesitation: “I like money. Okay? I like checks. So if there’s, I wouldn’t be doing it if it wasn’t a check involved, I wouldn’t be doing it if the check wasn’t right.”
The “Let Me Blow Your Mind” hitmaker also reminded everyone that she has always been her own boss. “First of all, nobody ever saved me. I saved myself. I got my own money. If I wanted to stop working, my man wouldn’t care. But why would I not do something that I love?”