The Rhythm + Flow alum fully steps into the spotlight with her Crybaby, her major label debut LP. Read the Billboard interview.
Releasing a debut album is understandably daunting, but releasing your first album on a major label is a much different ball game. Not many people can say that their major label debut LP follows a head-turning stint on a Netflix hip-hop reality competition show (Crybaby –
How has it been for you suffering these kinds of losses, but also rolling out this project which obviously marks a major moment in your career?Life will always happen, and it’s up to us to figure out how we are going to endure and persevere. I do think that there’s some type of poetic thing happening with losing people were in my life and shaped my ideology. That chapter of my life is now closed, and so many new opportunities, especially in my career.
I just recently met Khal!l through Instagram, and he sent me a collection of songs, and “Come Home” was one of them. I went to the studio the next day and I made that song in three hours. I love that song so much. “Hot Track” is my favorite song, and Shid is a mentor of mine, a very good friend and spiritual adviser. He just loves me. Obviously, I listen to Griselda, I’m a big fan — but a friend of mine would talk to me about his lectures.
Jared didn’t even know any of this! Out of all the songs he could have sampled, it’s this song by this guy who was very close to my family. It was so reaffirming and reassuring that this is exactly what I’m supposed to be doing. That song means so much to me, especially now that my grandmother has passed. She had the opportunity to hear the song, and she really loved it. Cisco Swank! He’s a super-talented multi-instrumentalist, a Berkeley grad, who makes his own music.
He kept telling me, “Every time I play it for other people, they’re like, ‘This one’s my favorite.’” I had to really prove my worth in a very humorous, sibling-like way. We have a lot of demos together; there’s a version of “Lockdown” somewhere that I have a verse on. I’m just happy that I got to be on such an iconic album. I’ve been singing since I was five, so I just wanted to be considered as good a rapper as I’m a singer.
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