New flame, I’m blowin out matches.
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.
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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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Love is sight, sight is love. Stay where you’re seen, it’s where you’re loved.
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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’ve always been a very young person with a very old soul.
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Stardom is a crazy thought. If that’s what my path is, then that’s where I’m excited to be headed towards.
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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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You are anything but conventional, baby, did ya know?
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I always wanted to date me.
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It don’t take a whole day to recognize sunshine.
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Focused on fire. Bringing the heat.
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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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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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Vocally, I’m always listening to Brandy. As a writer, I’m always listening to India Arie and Drake.
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We can be your distraction.
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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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There is nothing I would trade in this world for being a mommy.
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I ain’t the passenger I’m the pilot.
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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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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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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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Love my small team, proud of our sweet beginnings, every step feels so rewarding.
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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.
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I feel like I don’t really care about impressing other people. I thoroughly enjoy impressing myself.
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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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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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