Tangee is the name of this hot exotic looking babe. She was recently the XXL Magazine Eye Candy Model of March 2008. But this hip-hop honey isn't just another rap video hoe, as we found out in her recent interview in the Beauty and Brains section of HipHopDX.com.
Beauty & Brains: Can you sum up your experience as a model in one word?
Tangee: If I had to sum it all up in one word, then I’d have to say...interesting.
B&B: Why that word?
T: The experience was just that. It was one that I came away learning more about myself, if anything. As far as entertainment wise, it taught me about what I wanted and didn’t want as a person.
B&B: What did/didn’t you want?
T: I wanted privacy, honesty – those were the two things that I wanted. I thought I wanted the same as most girls, you know?
B&B: What’s that?
T: You know, people knowing you and all that. But that was the main thing that I don’t want. People get into the business to get the notoriety and I don’t want that at all. I didn’t like the lies or the games that were played in this business. It seemed like it was associated with it and I’m not with that. I’m more of an upfront, say-what-it-is type of person and I’ve met a lot of people who weren’t like that.
B&B: But New York seems like it’s that type of place to say what’s really on its mind – so what was the problem?
T: Sometimes. But in the industry that I’m in, people lie a lot and I do mean a lot. They hold things back and that’s not really how I am. I’m used to people being upfront and people who can talk to me.
B&B: So, why be a part of it?
T: It was something that I kind of fell into. I didn’t necessarily go after it, it just came to me. I just figured that it was something that God put into my life and it took me to different places. I’m not going as hard into it as I should or could be, but it’s because of all the negative things that I got from it that I haven’t had the time to really get myself deeply involved in it.
B&B: What were a few negative things that happened to you?
T: I was dealing with a few people, agent-wise, who told me anything that came to mind. They were holding money from me. They would tell me about castings that were different. I just didn’t want to be involved in one area of modeling, I wanted to have more than just that and it wasn’t. It was a little bit deeper than what I’m telling you now, but I’m not going to get into that.
B&B: But you have the right height to be a model outside of urban entertainment...
T: ...but I don’t have the right weight. I have to be a little bit slimmer to get into editorial work and runway work. There was a time when I was smaller and it was cool. I’d book jobs here and there, but I wasn’t comfortable. When I went into the urban place, it was different. I was always in-between.
B&B: So, are you in-between with your social life?
T: [Laughs] I’m not in-between now! I’m kind of urban now. [Laughs] At that time, it was cool. I got some mixed reviews. Friends and family didn’t like what I was doing. They thought I was too skinny and that it didn’t fit the person who I was. So, I just started to do me; I ended up gaining a few pounds, but at the end of the day, I was comfortable.
B&B: How easy/hard has it been for you to create these opportunities?
T: It’s been a little bit of both. I work two jobs and that hasn’t allowed me the time to be able to be booked for work or for whatever is out there. When I get off work, my time is really tight. I could be doing a lot more, but like I said before, I got a little bit lazy with it. There are women who are trying to do this full time and it’s just cool to me. I’ve learned a lot of life lessons from this, but it’s not what I want to be known as.
B&B: So, then aside from the modeling, what is your true passion? What else do you want to do?
T: Now, I’m getting into a lot of charity work. Obviously, I want to have my own businesses, but that’s what’s in my head for the next five years. I want to get involved with young women and I want to show them and myself that I can be my own boss. The urban world and the mainstream world are two different things. The mainstream requires a lot more work. My focus is different. I want to put that money in the savings and I want to build.
B&B: You were in the "Roc Boys" video, right?
T: Yeah, it was a lot of fun. Everyone was there and they were cool. I had a lot of fun doing it. I was very tired and I had a killer headache. When I’m on set, I always get a migraine. I don’t know why I do, I was trying to enjoy myself there, but I was not in a place where I want to be because of the migraine.
B&B: That’s a big celebratory record, right there... We know who Jay’s “boys” are, but who are a few of your “Roc Girls” in the game that you always kick it with?
T: I don’t really kick it with girls in the industry. I have my girlfriends who I’m close with; that I spend time with. It’s always the same group that I hang with. I have home girls in the game that I know. They’re cool. I wish them much success and give them plenty of respect. Right now, they’re going harder in being an actress/model and I applaud them. We all started around the same time.
B&B: It’s not hard to get along with women in this game?
T: No. I wouldn’t say that. You get the “I’m-the-shit girls,” but at the end of the day, there are a lot of girls that you can just talk to. It’s pretty much 50/50 what type of women you meet here. I’m cool. I can talk to anyone and will say hello to anyone. But people don’t want to get to know who I am, they just assume that they know me.
Read the rest of this interview at HipHopDX.
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