Angel Lola Luv doesn’t care what you say about her—just as long as you don’t call her fake. Though the Washington, DC resident with the Wonder Woman proportions won’t tell you whether or not everything on the outside of her is real, she’s certainly adamant that everything on the inside is 100% authentic. “I was out on my own at the age of 15,” says Angel. “And from that point on, it was the hood that embraced me. When I was coming up and had to support myself, it was the hood was there for me. So I’m not trying to just claim that I’m hood, I really am.” While her exterior may not scream “hood,” her hustler’s mentality certainly does. Throughout her two year career as perhaps the number one video chick in the game, Angel has definitely been aggressive and knows exactly how to attract attention. She’s had rumored relationships with everybody from Young Jeezy to Trey Songz, been accused of augmenting her ample apple (her measurements are an almost unnatural 36D-22-40!), and has changed names more times than Sean Combs. But through it all, Lola Luv has stayed relevant. Now known as Lola Monroe, the Ethiopian/ Trinidadian temptation is bringing it to the booth. Though she began rapping only recently, the 22-year-old has been writing poetry for years, and has already surprised many critics with her above-average flow. True to Angel Lola Luv Monroe fashion, the drama still follows, even in rap. Within the last few months, Miss Monroe has developed suspected beef with both Nicky Minaj and Karrine Steffans (more notably with the latter, whom she accused of giving video vixens a bad name), but regardless of whatever controversy she creates, the former model remains content. She enjoys the fact that so much attention is being focused on her and her debut mixtape Boss Bitches World. It’s good for business. As she preps the release of second mixtape, Lola Monroe is determined to succeed in rap. She hopes to one day become just as iconic as Marilyn—her inspiration and namesake, and at the rate she’s headed now, she just may.
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