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I went from broke and homeless sleeping on couches. I couldn’t even figure out what I was doing in Los Angeles. Now, I’m paying my own bills. I’m about to move my mama in with me at 19. I’m on tour now, and this is all off of one mixtape.

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When you look at me, you can’t really tell what I am, but I’m black, white, Native, Spanish, and a little bit of Filipino.
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Identity Yourself
My pops passed when I was little. I didn’t have a dad around to tell me certain things. I didn’t have my biological mother.
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Death Father Loss Myself
My favorite person that I had been running everything by doesn’t even make music, but he is a genius. It’s Kerby [Jean-Raymond] from Pyer Moss. -Kehlani
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Genius Music Myself Person
Focused on fire. Bringing the heat.
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Focus Inspirational One Liner
Sometimes I make songs about girls, and I say ‘he,’ or I’ll make songs about guys, and I say ‘she,’ or sometimes they’re exactly what they’re about. I feel like it just allows me to get a lot more perspective.
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Feeling Girl Help Myself Perspective Song
Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability.
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Deep Happiness Myself Success
I think most people don’t know that I really write everything myself. No help. There’s nobody in the studio except for me and the engineer. A lot of people don’t think I’m a singer. They think I’m a rapper.
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Music Myself People Thinking Writing
I was writing with my homegirl who’s one of my favorite people to work with. We were just sitting in a studio and I said, I want to be able to talk about sex, but very specific kinds of sex.
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Favorite Myself Oneself Sex Writing
I really hate finding out people that show love really be talking crazy behind the scenes. Bitch buck up and hate me with your chest.
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Crazy Hate Love Myself People
Choose yourself or lose yourself.
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Lose Yourself
I used to think that love was giving up everything of yourself and giving it to the other person. Now, I’ve realized that love is when you have somebody that doesn’t make you give up half of yourself.
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Give Up Love Myself Person Thinking Yourself
Vocally, I’m always listening to Brandy. As a writer, I’m always listening to India Arie and Drake.
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Listening Music Writing
My brain kind of works in steps. I have to go through things and then process them and then write about them. I have to understand them first.
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Myself Understand Writing
My biggest role model right now is Beyonce, just ’cause she is a very, very strong, powerful woman, and that’s obviously the number one reason to be inspired by her. She is just killing every game there is to kill.
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Inspirational Kill Game Myself Powerful Reason Strong Woman Empowerment
I was seeing the effects of what music can do — how it can be healing and bring people joy, but on the flip side, there was this ugliness. I saw the greed and the He-Mans that were willing to f*ck over children.
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Beautiful Children Healing Man Music Myself Ugly
I write most of my songs to beats. I play around on guitar, but not enough to where I can compose my own stuff or play solos. Can accompany myself cause most songs are, like, four chords.
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Accompany Enough Myself Play Song Writing

I went from broke and homeless sleeping on couches. I couldn’t even figure out what I was doing in Los Angeles. Now, I’m paying my own bills. I’m about to move my mama in with me at 19. I’m on tour now, and this is all off of one mixtape.

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I went from broke and homeless sleeping on couches. I couldn’t even figure out what I was doing in Los Angeles. Now, I’m paying my own bills. I’m about to move my mama in with me at 19. I’m on tour now, and this is all off of one mixtape.

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