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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
But yeah, so many people are just not very genuine online. I caught myself looking for my ex, and a lot of these people that I would swipe right on, I'm meeting them in real life and they're just not that guy at all.
- Nov 07, 2020
I really think only Erykah Badu can be Erykah Badu.
- Melody
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world likes trap and EDM unless it's a fire melody.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to solo at the church and they didn't ever give it to me. But eventually they did and I froze. But then I killed it.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old friends call me Sea Salt, because my last name is Salter. Or Cocoa, cause my real first name is Courtney.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, I believe in all the wild, witchcraft stuff. I don't like to dabble in that, but I believe they all know something.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Could I be a good mom? That's a dream, I pray that I'll be the best mom ever. But I don't know. It's so important to me.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Howard University - HoChi - they make the best Philly cheesesteak I've ever had - way better than Philly.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life would’ve been so different if my parents listened to Korn. That would’ve been fire!
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Something about Mariah Carey’s songs really had me wanting to sing high like her.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grandma Holly told me at three years old that I had a voice of an angel, and I just never stopped singing.
- Chill
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always imagined having so much energy on stage, versus me being somewhat chill, soulful R&B.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
My best writing is not outside of the beat. I'm 99 percent influenced by the beat first, and then the words just flow.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
Artists tend to get this thing called demo-itis, and I'm extremely guilty of that.
- Cards
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- Nov 07, 2020
I’d be at these different clubs passing out my business cards and fliers. Then the club would end, the light would come on and all my business cards would be on the floor.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, I was getting really close to quitting. I was starting to accept that maybe I’m just going to be a SoundCloud singer, and that’s when Dreamville came and saved me.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know it may come off cheesy, but if somebody's going to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars, even more into you, you want to make sure you can return that; you want to make sure they feel good about their investment.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm so thankful for 'Backseat' because it's doing so much. It's almost at two million listens on Spotify. It's changed my life. It was the song that Dreamville really pushed and they just really made it explode, and I'm just so thankful.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad would always play Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, and Anita Baker, so I fell in love with them. I would try to make my voice sound like theirs.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Academically I was never that great and I was not really into school. I don’t know, I just really had a problem focusing but singing always came naturally.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew I wanted to sing and maybe I had a chance at it, so I just started recording myself maybe five or six times a week and putting them on YouTube as much as I could with hopes that someone would recognize me.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to creativity, or my artistry, when it comes to how I wear my hair and what I’m dressing like, some things I’m going to fight for; and it’s really about picking the battles, but usually I’m not backing down.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
I’m going to fight for what I want.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can’t believe people love my music. It just feels like a dream because that is all I ever wanted.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just feel Black women, we get slept on a lot and people don’t recognize our greatness in our curls and in chocolate skin.
- Hustle
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started gravitating towards Soundcloud. So, that was my hustle and then I met my manager Justin in 2012 and we were just grinding it out in New York.
- Grumble
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came across this guy named DJ Grumble and I just really liked his beats because they were different. I felt like they spoke to me.
- Frankness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I’m hoping to bring some raunchy, risky, soulful frankness to the stage, really.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just was always singing. I didn't know if it was good or not, but my grandma, she told me that I sounded like an angel.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like, even going to Duke Ellington School of the Arts, like, they slept on me. I think they thought I was talented, but for whatever reason, they didn't want to give me a lot of solos or any type of just love like that. But I don't know. I think that's what encouraged me to grind so hard.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never had an apartment before, so just finally having my own place. And it was magical. It was gorgeous - beautiful tub. I never could use the tub because I was afraid of the roaches.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was scared of planes and then also just got this job. It was $10 an hour. To me, that was way more important than meeting J. Cole.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I always was getting fired and quitting jobs, so I was not going to ruin Public Storage, and I was excited about Public Storage because I knew eventually I could be one of those property manager people that had their own apartment on site. So I had these big dreams for Public Storage.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, the first contract I signed, that was the first time I realized, Oh man, never mind, I don’t want to do this anymore, but it was too late. I realized it was a bad thing because I wanted to try out for 'American Idol' and all these different things couldn’t do that because I was in this contract.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always going to take an experience and a fire beat and marry it all together with adult melodies. I try to paint, just like Frank Ocean paints with his lyrics. I try in similar ways to paint my life into these songs.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been trying to be a singer ever since I was 2 years old and I'm a whole 27 years old now so it's like, things can happen or they can't. It's a humbling experience every year, every day.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
It’s just really hard to commit to clean eating, and then sometimes you don’t want to eat cold salads. Sometimes you want that warm comfort food.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020