It's crazy. She got her start with wu-tang and now we hear she went to school with Santigold and was a groupie on a de la album. Sometimes I think she downplays her history as to not show her age. She's gotta be pushing mid 40's at this point.
Wiki says she's 40, and I believe that because she went to college so it would be easy to fact check. But you hit the nail on the head with the history stuff. This just isn't the platform for that, most of her "fans" are 15-20 years younger, and she knows that.
I'm not too mad, if she were an Amanda Diva type who was overly thirsty to prove that she has she's so hip-hop I'd dislike her a lot more.