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.
KEHLANII 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.
KEHLANII 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.
KEHLANIMy 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.
KEHLANII just remember falling in love with the old Chris Brown music, where it was, like, that real R&B, and I love the radio smashes he’s put out since then, but I go back to his older music for that R&B.
KEHLANII 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.
KEHLANII hang out with the right people, my friends that I’ve had since the beginning. We go to the beach, take walks, paint, see our family – just normal things that people who become famous lose sight of.
KEHLANII’ve always been a very young person with a very old soul.
KEHLANILove my small team, proud of our sweet beginnings, every step feels so rewarding.
KEHLANII feel like I don’t really care about impressing other people. I thoroughly enjoy impressing myself.
KEHLANIThere’s girls that grew up like me and even worse, and they need to know that there is someone out there that can give them hope with my music. It’s about inspiring people and helping people.
KEHLANIEverybody is on the ‘I’ll cross the bridge when it comes’ conversation. I don’t think anybody truly knows.
KEHLANIIt’s funny: I don’t listen to too much rap. I don’t listen to too much older hip-hop. If I do, it’s Ja Rule.
KEHLANIWhen 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.
KEHLANII ain’t the passenger I’m the pilot.
KEHLANIAs far as creation goes, you just really have to not overthink and just create and be confident. If you think it’s tight, then the world is going to think it’s tight.
KEHLANII 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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