She is back, more fearless and fiercer than before. The self-proclaimed First Lady of Motswako music Refilwe "Fifi Cooper' Mooketsi (31) has made a comeback after her career dwindled following her exit from Ambitiouz Records. This year, she wants to open up more to her fans and show a different side to who she. She is starting this on the first season of reality show, Love and Hip Hop South Africa where people will get to see that she is not a push-over. "I am reserved and quiet, but I stand up for myself when provoked,' she tells ZiMoja. "There are a lot of things that people didn't know about me in the past and I wish to correct and share this time around,' Fifi says she is reinventing herself and re-introducing herself to her fans.

NEW MUSIC AND WOMEN EMPOWERMENT 

She recently released a single titled Ngeke featuring Lwah Ndlunkulu. "The song is from my upcoming album titled Chapters that I will be releasing this year,' she says. "I am very big on working with females because I believe that we are in a male-dominated industry and the more we put each other on, the better. The song will also inspire other young women to be open to collaborations and supporting each other. Lwah is a talented singer and the first lady of Nkabi Records. She sings in her own language of IsiZulu and so do I. The song is all about how people tried to sabotage me, but I am still standing,' she says. 

PUTTING THE PAST BEHIND HER

By people trying to sabotage her, Fifi is referring to her former record company, Ambitious Records who she has since left to open her own label titled Mo Cooper. "I don't talk too much about the sabotage and the negativity from the past. I don't want to open old wounds. I have outgrown what happened between me and the label. Right now, I am at a point where I am using what I learned in a positive light to teach others,' she says. Fifi left the label on a sour note but has since made peace with them but understands that she will not get back the money they allegedly owe her. "I never had beef. I was just fighting for what's mine. So, I would like to think we are cool. I don't care about the money; I doubt I'll ever get it. But the EFF helped me to get my freedom, which was the most important thing for me. I believe we have made peace,' she says. "I saw my former boss at Basadi Women In Music Awards, and we spoke briefly. I believe we are good. As much as I talk about what they did wrong to me, they also did right. A lot of people know me through the label. I will forever be grateful. But I just want my trophies which they took.'

WORKING ON HER MENTAL WELLNESS

Fifi says she wants to do things differently this time around. "I am fully back,' she says. "I feel like I never left the industry. Yes, they took my social media, and I was not able to update my fans and had to start from scratch, but I have always been working on myself as a business owner. Now I am ready to go out again as an artist,' she says. During her break and after her exit from Ambitious, Fifi says she became very frustrated. "I had to regain my confidence. I dropped a whole album, that people didn't know about. Mentally I was not okay and had to work on myself before I could fully come back. There was a time when I didn't want to get out of the house, I just wanted to be alone, at home. I went through a lot, but I stayed in Joburg and fought to keep my label going. I was not getting label money. I had performed for free for years before making money, so I felt like I was going back to that.' Now, she is in a good place again. "I am fully back. Mentally, I am 100 percent. I have been working on a new album for two years and I had to wait for the right moment, and this is it for me.'