00:00 When I wrote "On My Mama," I didn't feel like any of the lyrics.
00:04 To go into the studio with a mindset of self-doubt, self-judgment, and then for it to be one of
00:10 the biggest things to ever happen to me, it just shows me that God just laughs at you.
00:14 He's like, "You don't know anything.
00:16 Watch this."
00:16 "On My Mama" is really like a positive affirmation song that you can twerk to.
00:28 When I got pregnant, niggas was scared.
00:31 I was like, "What am I going to do?
00:32 What does it mean for my career?
00:33 What does it mean for my body, my lifestyle?"
00:36 It was like a godsend for that record to be about moms and celebrating my mom and then
00:42 hopefully one day my daughter was singing about me.
00:44 That lyric specifically is about everything that you can get genetically and mentally
00:57 from the way you were raised.
00:58 My mom instilled so many strong attributes in me, her being a single mom, taking care
01:05 of my crazy ass.
01:07 She just killed it.
01:09 We're going to go through the definition of humble.
01:17 It's having or showing a modest or low estimate of one's own importance.
01:22 Weak.
01:23 The way that we describe humble culturally is like, "Oh, they're just so nice."
01:27 They're nicer than they should be because at their success level, they should be kind
01:31 of mean, which I don't feel like I'll ever be.
01:33 But as far as humble and viewing myself as less than and lower than, none of that.
01:39 We can cut that out.
01:40 Just take the word humble and slap that shit out of here.
01:53 When I think of a fantasy, a waterfall is flowing, beautiful sunlight, lots of big asses
01:58 twerking ambiently in a jungle.
02:02 That's the world that we should try to create and live in.
02:04 I don't know if I'll ever get ambient twerking in a jungle, but we're going to try.
02:07 A lot of times when people think of the word pimp, they think of a male.
02:20 So I feel like it was important to try to change what the vision of pimp looks like.
02:25 Just like Jay-Z said, "Ladies is pimps too."
02:28 I don't necessarily mean getting money and heart breaking and slapping bitches, but I
02:33 do mean just doing what it is that we want to do, having autonomy, feeling like the boss
02:38 of this shit.
02:39 Probably not just tonight.
02:41 All nights.
02:42 I put that on my own mama, on my hood.
02:48 I look fly, I look good.
02:51 You can't touch my bag, wish you could.
02:55 I look fly, I look too good.
02:58 When you put something on your mom or somebody that you love, it means you're definitely
03:02 not lying.
03:03 If you put it on them and you're lying, something bad's going to happen to them and you don't
03:05 want that, right?
03:06 I'm so deep in my bag like a grandma with a peppermint.
03:11 They say, "Ooh, she smell good."
03:13 That's just because I'm heaven sent.
03:14 I grew up in church.
03:16 Sometimes it was so long that you get hungry.
03:18 If you asked for something to just help your blood sugar, grandma already always has it
03:25 in her bag.
03:26 It's a peppermint or one of those caramel candies and it's always at the bottom.
03:30 You know it's deep in there because it's covered by other shit.
03:32 So yeah, that's how deep in my bag I was.
03:36 Sex game go stupid, snapping like a toothpick.
03:40 If you're trying to consider what everybody else thinks before yourself, you're going
03:46 to go crazy.
03:47 It's almost like having a million voices in your head.
03:49 I feel like it's just super important to have one voice, the most important voice at the
03:55 top.
03:56 If you think you look fly and you look good, chances are that's what you're exuding.
03:59 But I, I know you think I'm fine, yawn, yawn.
04:02 My beat too fine to hit it from behind, yawn, yawn.
04:05 Reflection in the mirror, don't decline, yawn.
04:08 I can't even lie, lie, lie.
04:10 The crazy part about the second verse and the second pre-hook is that I wrote that part
04:17 long after I wrote the first part.
04:19 By then, I was in a better head space.
04:21 I was a bit over postpartum.
04:22 So I feel like maybe that's why you hear the difference between the first verse where I'm
04:26 trying to talk myself out of being humble and then the next verse is like, "I know you
04:30 think I'm fine."
04:31 Because after you come back from a pregnancy, there's no way you're not fine.
04:35 Even just because you're able to create life and still be sane.
04:39 That makes you so attractive.
04:40 Every mother is just so fine.
04:42 My mom loved the record since I played it for her, especially since the first line is
04:48 she get it from her mom and she was like, "This my favorite one."
04:52 She was in the video killing it.
04:54 When she first got on set, she was like, "Oh, I don't know.
04:56 What do you want me to do?"
04:58 I was like, "Just be you, mom."
05:00 So the director goes, "And go."
05:02 And she's all of a sudden a whole different mom.
05:06 Hazel was persuaded to be in the video by a lollipop.
05:08 It was great.
05:09 It was such a fun time.
05:10 It almost feels like a home video but shot by a professional.
05:14 Just like I'll always have that.
05:15 My mom and her granddaughter in the same visual.
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