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Overall, I just wanted to release music that would take people through life’s different emotions.
Even if a song has shallow lyrics, there’s something that you feel, regardless of what their lyrics are.
I say that I do soul, R&B music. I have so many influences, from Billie Holiday, Nina Simone to Stevie Wonder and Prince and even Al Green and Bjork. And a lot of hip hop music has influenced me a lot – you know – De La Soul and Digital Underground and A Tribe Called Quest.
I tend to write a lot of love songs, but I always want there to be something real and authentic that people can connect to, and I want to not just do it in a stereotypical way.
I want to create a different kind of legacy.
Get a good lawyer because sometimes it’s hard to understand what you might or might not be agreeing to.
How I started my musical career, officially, was really, like, my family and I deciding to put out, you know, the ‘Closer’ album that started really small, you know, with a vision that we’d make it pass there.
Good soul music should make you feel something in your heart, in your body, and in your spirit. That’s what I try to do both in the studio and on stage.
As I get older, my perspective changes, and I just see how relationships aren’t always what they appear to be. It’s one of those sad but true things. We can see sometimes when people are becoming distant in all the things that create breaking apart, as painful as it is, and at the same time, still appreciating that person.
Mos is a true artist who has a story to tell and gives back through his music. He remixed my song ‘Different’ in 2005, and the song we’re working on now will be one of my future projects.
Whenever I have short ,it’s important for me to be inspired by people with short hair.
‘Stay’ is all about how to stay in a relationship past the newness and love stronger.
Women, goals, empowerment, well-being, and women’s health has always been important to me.
Sometimes it’s isolating, but just being in the music industry that is just dominated by men, I think it means I have to be comfortable and confident in myself and not really care that people think I’m bossy and opinionated and also try and balance that energy.
I think police brutality has been going on since – I don’t know – ever since I can remember and, you know, hearing about it in my childhood.
I’m extremely proud I was born and raised in the Bay Area and loved representing Oakland. I started recording in the Bay Area and worked with a lot of different producers. But I always wanted to collaborate with different writers and get different perspectives.
In high school, I started training, singing with choirs, and getting voice lessons and doing a lot of creative writing and decided that that’s really what I wanted to pursue as a career, and that’s what I was going to study.
It’s always liberating to feel like I’m changing my hair and know that my fans are supporting that. I like to feel like I’m really expressing myself, and when people embrace it, it feels like an authentic connection.
I’d been doing shows, but I slowed down because I had a daughter and got to spend some time having more of a family life.
I enjoy being able to do different kinds of music, not just to be eclectic but because those are all a part of me.
My hair story has been unique because my mom’s a German Jew, so her hair is way different than my hair. She was always learning on my hair growing up, but I would sit there for hours, and she did learn how to braid hair. Early on, it was a lot of tears while my mom was braiding my hair.
Kanye and I spoke of working together and started an idea that we didn’t get to finish.
I understand it for marketing purposes, but I’ve always hated defining myself with a genre. Nothing feels broad enough.
I’ve experienced a lot of creative freedom because I’m on a family label. It was nice to put out what I wanted to say and do what I wanted to do.
I think it’s possible to be a great mother and have a successful career. I like that more women are doing this.
I wash and moisturize my face in the morning and at night. If I have a show, I may even wash before and after the show. I never go to sleep with makeup on my face. At the minimum, I’m at least going to use makeup wipes to take my makeup off.
I did struggle with what I want to say socially, but it’s important to reflect where I’m at mentally.
I feel happy with myself when I go to the steam room and steam my face. But truth be told, my ultimate beauty indulgence is lip balm – I can’t go an hour without lip balm.
TV is something that I’ve been interested in for a while. It’s a new experience, but I’m excited about it.
Africa doesn’t look like it’s changed that much to me since I first went in ’94. There is still a major economic divide, but the rights of Africans have changed and progressed.
