“It’s okay to express yourself, but be responsible and think about what you’re putting out there into the world,” Jhené Aiko tells Billboard.
debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, it became Aiko’s highest-peaking set on the tally, and went on to be nominated for album of the year at the Grammys in 2021. Aiko and Big Sean’sSix-time Grammy nominee Aiko has been named the Mental Health Is Health Ambassador by the City of Los Angeles and Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services. “I’m looking forward to spreading their message, and being a part of the conversation around eradicating the stigma surrounding mental health,” says Aiko.
In the past, I’ve made songs where I didn’t care about the person knowing the song is about them. I didn’t care how they were going to feel, or how it was going to affect them. But as I got older, I realized that’s important. You don’t realize it until you put music out and people jump to the conclusions [and think it’s] like, “Let’s hate our exes.” That’s not what I was saying. It was a moment, I expressed it and worked through it. Music is powerful medicine.
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