When speaking of her rise in the male-dominated rap industry, Lyte says that she realizes the danger of being the only female in a basement full of males at the start of her career, and she is thankful that the gentlemen didn't have ill intentions. She called her actions a "recipe for disaster."
"I would never tell someone to go into a basement of a house where they know absolutely no one except the guy that brought them there," she said. The Brooklyn wordsmith was recently celebrated by the RIAA along with Grandmaster Flash for her successful recording career that spanned well into the 1990s. MC Lyte's Partners In Rhyme, which airs on AllBLK, just started its second season.