- 5 months ago
It's been a year since Ravyn Lenae first gave us her album 'Bird's Eye,' and the world still can't get enough of the lead single, "Love Me Not." The rising songstress joins us for an Audacy Check In at the Hard Rock Hotel.
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00:00all right this is your odyssey check-in at the hard rock hotel new york in the rock star suite
00:07with a rock star raven lanae hi so happy you're here congrats on everything um thank you i'm
00:14playing love me not like every other song just non-stop um did you know did you have a feeling
00:20that that song would kind of be the one to take things to the next level yeah i think as soon as
00:26i cut that song and i heard it and i shared it with my team we all knew there was something
00:31magical about it and i feel like that's a very rare feeling to have and like feel it so intensely
00:37yeah so i felt so special about it but it's one thing for you know the world to agree with that
00:42and to push it in that way so it's been pretty rewarding and i know sometimes like you know
00:48how it sounds in the studio versus outside so what was like the test were you were you in a 99 honda
00:54civic bumping or like what what was the test i think what's funny is when i first cut this song
01:00i remember leaving the studio and being like i don't like it okay something with it isn't right
01:04something is too different from what i've done in the past it just wasn't right to me yeah yeah and
01:09then i listened to it i think um on the way to the studio a few weeks later in my car and that's that's
01:15usually my listening test when i'm driving to the studio um and that's when i was like oh something
01:20is crazy about this yeah yeah dahi the producer i worked on the song with he called me and said
01:26oh this is we got one yeah yeah yeah i love it so obviously uh music is the full-time thing
01:34now but when it was still part-time and you weren't able to uh make that transition what was like the
01:40last crap job you were holding down while you know making that transition i do not have that
01:47interesting of a story when it comes to that right out of high school is is really where i started to
01:52do music and i decided not to go to college um i started touring like almost at the end of high
01:58school into you know my early my late teens early 20s so i didn't have a job you never had a crap
02:04you went from high school to i know but i can't say i know but i can't say my dream at 17 was to work
02:12at american apparel so we come a long way yeah yeah oh that's crazy so now you're i mean you're so
02:20busy you're you're seeing all this newfound fame how do you uh manage to make your mental health a
02:27priority still with all this going on yeah i think that's probably the the biggest challenge for me
02:33especially with the shift of rhythm you know from my normal day to day so making the music that's easy
02:39you know doing the shows that's easy but really finding that balance amongst you know like you
02:45said mental health personal time physical health family friends that's the thing i'm trying to juggle
02:51but i think it's making sure i i carve out moments for myself even if it's just my shower at the end of
02:57the night to really just think and and and thank you know myself thank god for the day for um i don't
03:06know the things i'm able to accomplish and think about the next day so yeah um you said something
03:11i saw in like another interview or whatever and i loved it because i agree with it sometimes you have
03:16to look at something bigger than yourself to uh just you know make you feel like your uh problems
03:23aren't that big and like looking out at the ocean and stuff and now that you're in la california you
03:29have access to this nature where you could just you know yeah kind of go out and and literally touch
03:35grass you know um so but is writing enough of a creative outlet for you or do you have other
03:42hobbies that also put you in a good mental space um so right now it's music for me that's what takes
03:49up majority of my time i think in the future i would i would love to pick up some other hobbies but
03:54for right now it's music and it's binging um the bear right now so is it is it uh as authentic as
04:04it comes off as to because you could tell us you're a chicago native i mean i think that's a
04:08great representation of that part of chicago for sure yeah yeah um i'm gonna get a little deep with
04:14you if you're okay with it you know i love your song one wish and um how you open up about your
04:19father yeah um my dad actually left when i was young and it's i'm i'm interested because even when
04:26my son was born i didn't feel an urge to seek him out or anything so i i know every situation is
04:34different but what made you feel like that relationship was worth repairing yeah i think
04:41there just came a point where um my mentality shifted about a lot of different things in my life
04:49including how i deal with um how i deal with uncertainty or maybe uh controversy in in my
04:58life or between you know the people i love so i just wanted to think about you know what life means
05:05and how we're treating it and also how much empathy and grace i'm extending to the people in my life
05:11um and he was the main sore spot um and i think for me i um i was carrying the burden and carrying
05:21the hurt and that didn't feel good anymore and i knew that i wanted to give it at least one more try
05:27um also i think something happens when you start turning the ages that your parents were when they had
05:33you and you start to really think about oh they were 19 when they i wouldn't have known what to do and i
05:40wouldn't have maybe made the right decision so just really thinking about them as people and
05:46teenagers in 20 somethings allow me to empathize oh i love that beautiful um so you got these amazing
05:55amazing shows coming up you know you're going to be supporting sabrina carpenter you're going to be
05:59supporting renee rap um how does that were those like arranged marriages how did they slide into the
06:07dms how did that come about yeah so with sabrina obviously a huge fan of both of them yeah sabrina
06:13um dm me one day randomly and was like i love bird's eye my best friend put me on yeah um i can't
06:21stop listening to it and like i thought that was so sweet but i didn't think anything would really come
06:25of that and then i remember thinking oh i think she's going on tour we should you know my team should
06:30hit her and see what the deal is but as soon as we hear her she was already in the process of hitting us
06:36so it was kind of this perfect mutual marriage of wanting to work together in that way so i'm so
06:42excited to support her on tour support renee i think they're two women who are killing it right
06:47now and i can't wait and have you met both of them yet or i haven't met renee yet we've been like
06:53playing this with each other yeah yeah um but hopefully soon she seems so sweet we you know share
06:59texts sabrina i just met for the first time a few weeks ago in london so that was sweet oh good
07:05you know i love that you're being embraced by so many different um genres uh soul r&b pop because
07:13i feel like your music represents that it is very eclectic so that's awesome uh before we wrap i'm
07:20gonna put you in the hot seat a little bit for this last one um you know coming from chicago i want
07:25you to give me i i have two artists that i'm gonna share with you but i want you to give me two
07:30artists that are your favorite one being you know chicago born one being like a og legend yeah and
07:38then another being a personal favorite that maybe is even a bit underrated okay do it oh gee that is
07:46hard um i would consider lupe fiasco og at this point
07:53underrated um underrated i love kara jackson she's a folk artist from chicago who i adore
08:06okay so if you haven't heard of her please check her out oh man so i was just gonna say sam cook
08:11because sam cook right and then i was gonna say lupe fiasco i guess i could go with like i don't know
08:17that she's underrated but jennifer hudson what yeah jennifer you know her voice is just so beautiful
08:21and i feel like sometimes she doesn't get the credit she deserves but that's crazy yeah lupe fiasco
08:28so you had him in your head yeah that is look but you know what he don't get he don't get the love
08:33he deserves he does not yeah he is one of the best lyricists in hip-hop music and i agree he just
08:39doesn't get that that love i agree we vibe we vibe well thank you so much for spending the time
08:45congrats on everything you're killing it thank you so much
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