When you’re a college student interested in music, you hear all these rappers talking about dropping out. For me, when I heard someone like J. Cole rapping about school and staying in school, it inspired me to keep going.
SAWEETIEA lot of women reach out to me and tell me my music has given them the courage and confidence to break up with not just any boyfriend, but an unhealthy relationship
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Around the time that I was in high school, a lot of rappers were coming out with mixtapes of them rapping over other people’s instrumentals, specifically Young Money.
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I feel like an EP is for practice and an album is the game.
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Hella dapper all summer.
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I’m normally getting glammed for my events and when I can give my skin a break, I do.
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I grew up listening to a lot of 2Pac and a lot of East Coast, West Coast rap; Bad Boy, Lil Kim, Foxy Brown, Biggie, 2Pac. Super hip-hop, super listening to that raw era of music.
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It’s important for women to have each other’s backs. I’d like my label to give women the resources they need to flourish.
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High maintenance means a lot of care. My relationships are high maintenance, my body is high maintenance, and my soul is high maintenance.
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I grew up dying my hair with Kool-Aid. I used to switch my hair up every day just to make myself look and feel good.
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It used to take me a really long time, and I used to not be able to write in the studio because I felt there was a lot of pressure to be perfect. The more I’m collaborating with other artists, the more I realize being in the studio is about catching a vibe.
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If the public doesn’t receive what you say, people can start to build your brand for you.
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The experiences I go through, everything you hear in my lyrics is real. Good or bad, I take it all in and put it all on the mic.
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They hate me every season.
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I performed in high school for Black History Month at a talent show, but besides that, I didn’t have the resources to perform so I spent my time as a teenager writing music.
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I was already writing poetry, so I transitioned from writing poetry a cappella to writing over beats, and I.
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I would describe my music as very honest. I just rap about myself, and not in a narcissistic way. I feel like I have a story to tell.
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