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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.

Kehlani

It’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.
KEHLANI

Choice Funny Listen Music Myself
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
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
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
Sex is biological, but gender is mental.
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Difference Mental Sex
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 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
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
Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability.
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Deep Happiness Myself Success
Love is sight, sight is love. Stay where you’re seen, it’s where you’re loved.
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Deep Love Philosophy Seen
I 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.
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Beginning Fame Family Friendship Myself People Right
As 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.
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Confidence Creation Thinking World
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
I ain’t the passenger I’m the pilot.
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Independent Instagram Captions Myself
Me being so open just helps other people. People feel like they know me so much that they can talk to me all of the time about really personal things. Sometimes it’s really nice and comforting. It depends on the person, whether they’re creepy or not.
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Comfortable Help Myself People Talk Time
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 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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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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