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.
SAWEETIEI’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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Everything expensive, everything exclusive.
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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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Don’t miss no meals & mind the business that pays you!
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I’m the type of person where I’ll take on anything because I like to work so much.
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I welcome criticism. I come from a – I wouldn’t say mean, but you’ve got to have tough skin to be in my family.
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Time is of the essence.
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The experiences I go through, everything you hear in my lyrics is real. Good or bad, I take it all in and put it all on the mic.
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When you’re a college student interested in music, you hear all these rappers talking about dropping out. For me, when I heard someone like J. Cole rapping about school and staying in school, it inspired me to keep going.
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I get extensions, but when they start to get spotty, I go buy wispy lashes and cut them up. I put them where the gaps are when I don’t have time to get a fill.
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It’s important for women to have each other’s backs. I’d like my label to give women the resources they need to flourish.
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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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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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Although I had the label of being the ‘pretty girl rapper with a lot of followers,’ I just broke the rules.
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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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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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