I'm A Fan Of Hip-hop

I Really Don't Listen To Anyone That I'm Not Proud Of Saying That I Listen To. Even If It's Something A Little Bit More Unexpected, I Didn't Get Too Deep Into The Waka, Gucci Records, But I Like Those With Pride.

There Were Things That Had Been Weighing Heavy On Me For Quite Some Time. And I Went Into This Hole, Trying To Work Through Some Of These Things So That I Could Be A Better Me And Be A Better Mom To Julez And Be A Better Wife And A Better Friend And A Better Sister.

I Remember Being Really Young And Having This Voice Inside That Told Me To Trust My Gut. And My Gut Has Been Really, Really Strong In My Life. It's Pretty Vocal And It Leads Me.

Our Mother Always Taught Us To Be In Control Of Our Voice And Our Bodies And Our Work, And She Showed Us That Through Her Example. If She Conjured Up An Idea, There Was Not One Element Of That Idea That She Was Not Going To Have Her Hand In. She Was Not Going To Hand That Over To Someone. And I Think It's Been An Interesting Thing To Navigate, Especially Watching You Do The Same In All Aspects Of Your Work: Society Labels That A Control Freak, An Obsessive Woman, Or Someone Who Has An Inability To Trust Her Team Or To Empower Other People To Do The Work, Which Is Completely Untrue.

I Actually Produced Other People's Vocals For A Long Time When I First Signed My Publishing Deal And I Had Just Sort Of Decided That I Only Wanted To Be A Writer. I Would Be In All Of These Writing Sessions, And A Lot Of Times My Publisher Would Say, "you Should Get A Demo Singer To Sing It Because Then It Doesn't Identify As A Solange Song."