I feel like I don’t really care about impressing other people. I thoroughly enjoy impressing myself.
KEHLANII 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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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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We can be your distraction.
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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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Motherhood, building character one day at a time.
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You are anything but conventional, baby, did ya know?
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Love my small team, proud of our sweet beginnings, every step feels so rewarding.
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I’ve always been a very young person with a very old soul.
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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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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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My lyrics are a complete 180 from what they used to be in terms of maturity. And I have a kid, so that changes everything.
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Choose yourself or lose yourself.
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I’m at that point where I was able to make a decision on if it was time to follow my goals that are bigger than music, which is service to the community.
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Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability.
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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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Vocally, I’m always listening to Brandy. As a writer, I’m always listening to India Arie and Drake.
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