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Exclusive: The 24-year-old Latina rapper highlights work on "Good Nights & Bad Mornings," discovering her own lane outside that of the Nicki Minaj archetype, and respect for the Strange Music crew.

Rappers are quick to acknowledge their adversity as a means for motivation to succeed in an industry that today is otherwise built for failure and letdown. If that’s the case, then consider Snow Tha Product’s journey thus far a fairy tale story.

Born to illegal immigrants but a few shades paler than her ancestral peers, the Ft. Worth, Texas by-way-of California rapper has been dealing with adversity ever since she started taking her craft seriously at the age of 18. However, despite the conventional dismissal she has received through her travels, Snow Tha Product has time and again proven her skills far outweigh any critics’ external assessment.

2011 saw her turn that adversity into versatility with the release of Unorthodox 1.0, an impressive project that subsequently brought Atlantic Records to her doorstep. Alongside her grassroots movement of fans (who have appropriately been coined Product Pushas) and focused on her mixtape Good Nights & Bad Mornings, Snow (who initially went by the stage name "Snow White Tha Product" before Disney put the kibosh on it) is poised for a breakout year in 2013. If the fairy tale goes as written, this won’t be a surprise ending either.

Recently chopping it up with HipHopDX, Snow Tha Product explained the varietal approach she took with Good Nights & Bad Mornings, as well as her motivation behind narrowing the guest list on the mixtape. A fan and admirer of Strange Music, she also details her work with Tech N9ne and Krizz Kaliko and why she sees her own reflection in their movement.

HipHopDX: I want to start off by saying Disney definitely messed up when they didn't give you the rights to the name "Snow White Tha Product." I'm sure at this point they have to be kicking themselves for missing out on that. [Laughs]

Snow Tha Product: [Laughs] Thank you. Yeah, considering that they make kids movies they sure got some rough and tough fucking lawyers.