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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