Top 55 Saweetie Quotes

I’m super drawn to the high-end brands because they’re made with such care and great materials. I really love Chanel, it’s my favorite.

I enjoy the life I have now, but I also enjoy doing regular stuff. I can’t pull up to the club and stay outside no more. I can’t be at anybody’s table. A picture or video can go viral, and it can be misinterpreted.

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.

I performed in high school for Black History Month at a talent show, but besides that I didn’t have the resources to perform so I spent my time as a teenager writing music.

People had boxed me in as a ‘pretty girl with followers that’s rapping,’ but I think my project and the work speaks for itself.

I’m normally getting glammed for my events and when I can give my skin a break, I do.

I definitely come from a line of strong women. It’s not only like my mother and my grandmother, but my aunties too.

I was working three jobs and going to school full time. I was really unhappy and I told myself, You are not this girl. This sounds corny but I would tell myself, You are an Icy Girl. I’m a confident person, but that was the first time I experienced insecurity and low self-esteem.

If you’re really listening there are alot of hidden messages in my songs.

I feel like your partner should be supportive. The relationship should be healthy; it should be fun. For all my girls looking for their type, make sure it’s healthy and make sure that whoever it is, is making you a better you.

I feel like music is, you know, made to inspire, to heal, and to cope with. So, I hope that when my fans, or even just people who stumble across my music, I hope they get some type of feeling from it.

What I really love about the Bay area sound is that it’s very unique and that’s something I want to strive for, as an artist. It’s easy to get caught up in what’s trending, but Bay area rap stays true to the local sound.

Something will come to me in the middle of the day, and I’ll Voice Note it so I don’t forget how I felt when the idea came about. I can hear the feeling I had when I first recorded it.

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.

High maintenance means a lot of care. My relationships are high maintenance, my body is high maintenance, and my soul is high maintenance. I really care about my friends and my family; I eat good; I pray a lot. So it’s like, I really care about my relationships with my family, my friends, my body and my soul.

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.

I’m the type of person where I’ll take on anything because I like to work so much.

Y’all should be happy for me. It’s funny, compared to my peers, my catalog isn’t even that big, but I’m still getting a lot of notoriety because my songs do really well. I’m working hard and minding my own business and trying to do something I’m super passionate about.

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.

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.

What I love about my audience is it’s extremely diverse as far as the ethnicities and the ages that show up.

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.

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.

Being a woman in a male-dominated industry is difficult at times. I’ve had people offer to help me, but it’s hard to know who to trust.

Content is what’s super important and people want to see you performing your records. That has a stronger impact.

I went from being a hustler, working different jobs to renting rooms off Craigslist, and I just wasn’t happy.

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.

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.

Well, most of my sessions have been with Hit-Boy and London, so I haven’t had the opportunity to really vibe a lot in person with the other producers. But they’re super open to experimenting and taking direction really well and they have good energy.

When you’re normally networking, it’s with men. And they claim they want to help you and work with you, but when it comes down to it, they want to go on dates.

After I graduated, I didn’t have the resources to go to the studio, which is why I then went to social media.

My grandma told me that to be wealthy you need at least seven streams of income, so that’s my goal. I have a big family. I want to take care of everybody.

I’m not really into trends. I do like high fashion. I love my Chanel and my Louis, but I love my Forever 21 too.

I always wanted to bring something new to the table, and make clothes for women where they feel beautiful.

I know where I wanna end up. I’m ready to go, and I’m ready to learn. I’m ready to build, and I’m ready to establish my longevity.

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.

In order to be an icon, you need to be bold. How do I define boldness? Stepping outside of your comfort zone.

It’s cool to go into the simplicity of fashion, but I’m a very colorful person.

That’s what’s most annoying – when people in this industry act like they don’t know me. And they say it in a way where you can just feel that it’s shade.

I stopped listening to a lot of music because I wanted to become more comfortable with what I naturally sound like.

If the public doesn’t receive what you say, people can start to build your brand for you.

I encountered producers who wanted to hang out after we worked, and when I refused, they wouldn’t let me come back and work again… I would’ve have way more opportunities if I had succumbed. But it never felt right. I always felt like I was going to be successful, and I didn’t want to compromise my morals.

We all want to be identified as someone cool, and I have struggled with repping where I’m from and my heritage before. It’s part of growing pains. But when people see me being proud of what I am – and they are what I am too – it makes them proud. That’s why I try to represent my Asian and my black side.

I feel like it’s social media that’s opened that door. We’re able to accumulate and generate our own fan base. Once we do that and put our own work in, labels take notice that we have our own following.

Although I had the label of being the ‘pretty girl rapper with a lot of followers,’ I just broke the rules.

With social media, the gatekeepers are our followers. It has opened so many doors for me not only musically, but fashion-wise as well.

I finally decided to give music my all. If it didn’t work out and I had to move home, fine. I had to give it 100% first.

Fashion has always been important to me. I think style is important and what I love about my style is it’s all based on my mood.

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.

Freestyling helps me portray the emotion that I’m feeling right there instead of writing it at home and having to add to it.

I’m really good at football.

Growing up with a house full of women and seeing them look good no matter what they put on every morning just inspired me to look good myself.

I wish I could be more carefree. I grew up fast.

I have my Icy brand, so one day when I do have the time I’ll create my own fashion line.

I make music for people to relate to and to connect with me. I want to tap into different emotions.