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.
KEHLANISometimes 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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Everybody is on the ‘I’ll cross the bridge when it comes’ conversation. I don’t think anybody truly knows.
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Motherhood, building character one day at a time.
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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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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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New flame, I’m blowin out matches.
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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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Love is sight, sight is love. Stay where you’re seen, it’s where you’re loved.
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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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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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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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Vocally, I’m always listening to Brandy. As a writer, I’m always listening to India Arie and Drake.
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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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I’ve always been a very young person with a very old soul.
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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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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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