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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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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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Change Growth Myself
Make-up sex, as treacherous as it can be, becomes this fun and playful thing versus this really intense thing. To me the song feels playful.
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Feeling Fun Play Sex
I’ve always been a very young person with a very old soul.
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Character Myself Old Soul Young
I think, as musicians, our music should be who we are. Sometimes it’s not – it’s someone else’s. All heartfelt music and all honest music, it’s who we are. Of course, our upbringing has everything to do with it.
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Growth Heart Honesty Music Myself Ourselves Thinking
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 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
I’m frazzled, but I’m good.
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Goodness Instagram Captions Myself
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
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
Everybody is on the ‘I’ll cross the bridge when it comes’ conversation. I don’t think anybody truly knows.
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Myself Thinking True
I always wanted to date me.
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Instagram Captions Myself Self Love
I think, as musicians, our music should be who we are. Sometimes it’s not – it’s someone else’s. All heartfelt music and all honest music, it’s who we are. Of course, our upbringing has everything to do with it.
KEHLANI

Honesty Music Myself Thinking
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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Community Decision Goal Myself
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
There’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.
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Girl Grow Up Help Hope Music Myself Need People Worse

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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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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