Tinashe Talks Blending Genres, Love for Missy Elliott & More | R&B Hip-Hop Power Players & Live 2023 - video Dailymotion

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Tinashe chatted with Billboard on the red carpet of Billboard's 2023 R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players & Live.

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00:00 - Hi, my name is Michael, I'm from Compton,

00:02 from Centennial High School,

00:03 and on behalf of Billboard and Save the Music,

00:06 I would like to ask you a few questions.

00:07 - Absolutely.

00:08 - And I'm here with?

00:09 - I'm Tinashe.

00:10 - So I know you released a new song, Talk to Me Nice.

00:14 - Yes.

00:15 - How, like, what inspired you,

00:18 or how did you come up with wanting to take out that song?

00:22 - I really felt that I wanted to create something

00:25 that kind of felt like it could blend different genres.

00:28 I took a lot of inspiration from electronic music

00:31 and blended it with a lot of hip hop elements,

00:32 which I really love.

00:33 I worked with No Saj Thing on this one,

00:36 which I really love working with him.

00:37 He's a really great collaborator,

00:39 and so I think it came out really nicely,

00:40 and my core fans are really gonna love it.

00:43 - That's great.

00:44 And for somebody that's trying to,

00:47 for a kid that's trying to get into the music industry,

00:49 what would you say?

00:50 - My biggest piece of advice would be

00:53 to have a really strong sense of self,

00:55 because there's gonna be a lot of opinions,

00:57 a lot of people are gonna tell you,

00:58 you know, you should do this, you should do that,

01:00 but I think when you're authentic to who you are

01:02 and what you wanna do,

01:03 that's when you really break through,

01:04 so definitely have a strong sense of what you wanna do,

01:06 and also don't take no for an answer.

01:08 Don't let anybody tell you, you know, like, you can't do it.

01:11 All that it takes is, like, hard work, perseverance,

01:13 and, like, a little bit of luck, maybe.

01:15 - That's great.

01:17 What does hip hop mean to you?

01:20 - Hip hop, I mean, hip hop is one of my favorite genres,

01:23 probably my favorite genre.

01:25 I think it encompasses so many of the things that I love,

01:28 about culture, about black culture,

01:29 about music, about dance,

01:31 so I'm just really excited to be able

01:32 to celebrate hip hop this month.

01:34 - And for our final question,

01:37 who was your favorite hip hop artist from the past 50 years?

01:42 - Oh my gosh, that's such a hard question.

01:44 There are so many amazing ones, that's nearly impossible.

01:47 I don't think I can decide.

01:53 Okay, I'm gonna have to give it to the ladies.

01:57 I'm gonna give it to Missy Elliott.

01:58 - Okay.

02:00 - I love Missy.

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Tinashe Talks Blending Genres, Love for Missy Elliott & More | R&B Hip-Hop Power Players & Live 2023

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