High maintenance means a lot of care. My relationships are high maintenance, my body is high maintenance, and my soul is high maintenance.
SAWEETIEWith social media, the gatekeepers are our followers. It has opened so many doors for me not only musically, but fashion-wise as well.
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I went from being a hustler, working different jobs to renting rooms off Craigslist, and I just wasn’t happy.
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Hella dapper all summer.
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I’ve been wanting to do music since I was 14, but like I’ve really always enjoyed giving speeches and I enjoy talking to people, so I was like, maybe I can be a newscaster.
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I just like really expensive things.
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I want to encourage the artists that haven’t made it that social media is the truth. I made it from Instagram to having a most-added song to radio.
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I grew up dying my hair with Kool-Aid. I used to switch my hair up every day just to make myself look and feel good.
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I grew up listening to a lot of 2Pac and a lot of East Coast, West Coast rap; Bad Boy, Lil Kim, Foxy Brown, Biggie, 2Pac. Super hip-hop, super listening to that raw era of music.
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I was already writing poetry, so I transitioned from writing poetry a cappella to writing over beats, and I.
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A lot of women reach out to me and tell me my music has given them the courage and confidence to break up with not just any boyfriend, but an unhealthy relationship
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I just love seeing my audience live, and I also love to see my peers perform because it inspires me to be a better performer as well.
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Especially as an artist, the creative freedom we have makes us who we are. We’re human beings-we’re gonna mess up sometimes. I definitely feel like people should continue being who they are. As long as you’re staying true to who you are, that’s super important.
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I definitely come from a line of strong women. It’s not only like my mother and my grandmother, but my aunties too.
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I had to work a lot. I was doing YouTube videos, but I wasn’t getting a lot of love. How do I make a living off rapping when no one knows me? I got kind of discouraged. But hard work shuts people up.
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It used to take me a really long time, and I used to not be able to write in the studio because I felt there was a lot of pressure to be perfect. The more I’m collaborating with other artists, the more I realize being in the studio is about catching a vibe.
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I would describe my music as very honest. I just rap about myself, and not in a narcissistic way. I feel like I have a story to tell.
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It’s crazy because ‘Icy Girl’ came when I was in a dark place, but I made it to motivate myself. It was kind of like my anthem for lifting up my spirits.
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You have to be unapologetically yourself. Once I was able to be proud of myself, it came across in my music really clearly.
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I’m normally getting glammed for my events and when I can give my skin a break, I do.
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Around the time that I was in high school, a lot of rappers were coming out with mixtapes of them rapping over other people’s instrumentals, specifically Young Money.
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I like my visuals to feel like movies.
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How we grind make the weather change for us.
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I grew up all around the Bay, but I spent most of my time in Hayward and I loved it. It was a really big apartment community, there was a whole bunch of kids.
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I don’t want to be super serious but I want to have fun with my platform. I want to touch people, I want to be relatable and let girls know that you can go to college and still pursue what you want after that.
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I like it to look natural, to be smooth, dewy glowy. I like my eyebrows to look nice and I love lip gloss. That’s essential to the Saweetie look.
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What I love about my audience is it’s extremely diverse as far as the ethnicities and the ages that show up.
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I am the investment.
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