While hip-hop is known as a boys' club — especially when it comes to the freestyle battles where she honed her skills — Tia has had no problem earning respect. In person she's warm and charismatic, but her sense of humor is filled with a youthful honesty that often verges on bluntness. She amplifies this take-no-shit quality of her personality in her rhymes, with stinging punchlines aplenty. Yet her messages are also uplifting: In her songs and on Twitter, she frequently touts female friendship and self-confidence. - Noisey.