She then completed her doctorate in 2012 with a dissertation on "Die Bedeutung des muslimischen Kopftuchs in Deutschland" (The Meaning of the Muslim Hijab in Germany).

[15] Subsequently, Şahin released the track Ich hasse dich (I hate you), in which she makes insulting remarks about pop stars Jeanette Biedermann, Sarah Connor and music producer Melbeatz.

The first releases, distributed exclusively on the internet, were the EP Vorhang auf on 30 March and the single Mein Weg (My Way) on 7 December 2007.

[19] As Lady Bitch Ray, Şahin was a guest on an edition of the Austrian late-night show Willkommen Österreich, which aired on January 10, 2008.

[20] At the time of the elections in Hessen, Şahin wrote an article for the Spiegel Online site on the controversy over juvenile delinquency that had been initiated by Prime Minister Roland Koch in January 2008.

Spiegel Online suspected the reason for this cancellation was the artist's scandalous choice of language and subject matter: Şahin gave Pocher a can in the broadcast that allegedly contained her vaginal secretions.

[29] Şahin is received differently in the mass media: the Turkish Daily News characterizes her as "controversial";[30] Bettina Lehnert said on Rundfunk Berlin-Branderburg online that she "provokes" with "pornographic" texts.

According to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, guestbook entries on her website range from "You're a disgrace for every Turkish woman" to "She's full of power, sexy, I'm scared of her.

The Bremen city magazine citybeat attests that she is a woman who "suffers from a penetrating urge to present herself and [...] desperately wants to make a career, no matter what the price.

"[31] The Hamburger Abendblatt criticized her internet broadcast as "tasteless," and the taz objected that her "coarse, revealing appearance [...] hardly triggers discussions about integrations" but "rather about emancipation and taste."

Sonja Pohlmann and Caroline Fetscher from the Tagesspiegel agree with her insofar as they see Lady Bitch Ray as a representative of the "alpha girls," a new generation of hedonistic feminists.

Peer Schader of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, on the other hand, described Şahin in the arts section as a "poor provocative sausage in a golden glittery bowel" with "poisonous narrow-mindedness."

Alexander Rudolph complained in the Tages-Anzeiger that Şahin's academic career meant that her appearance as a gangsta rapper was inauthentic.

[32] In 2008, rapper Schwartz released an album called Lady Bitch Gay, which contains several diss tracks against Şahin.