00:00I feel like we have lost the spirit of art because we are competing so much.
00:04Art is objective, so like there shouldn't even be a list.
00:07If you have your top, you have your top.
00:09And if you have your bottom, you have your bottom.
00:12Um, shout out to the community.
00:13Anyway, I feel like...
00:14Wow, wait.
00:15Nope.
00:16Just, sorry.
00:17To my people.
00:18To my people.
00:19I'm leaving that in.
00:20You have to.
00:21What's up?
00:22I'm Chica, and I feel seen.
00:30I definitely feel seen in music.
00:33I feel like there was a period of time where I was kind of in limbo between both because
00:37it's like, is she an internet person?
00:39Is she someone who's really trying to take this seriously?
00:41And despite any talent, anyone that I had, it was more so up to me to prove to not them,
00:46but myself that I wanted to do this, do this.
00:50I was singing since I was like two.
00:52I saw Rudy on the Cosby show singing like a song one day and I was like, I could do that.
00:57Uh, and so I did, and apparently I was just so talented, I was just so good at it, which
01:02happens.
01:03Um, and my parents encouraged me and um, I did that throughout probably two to like high
01:09school.
01:10I have been doing music on the internet since I was probably 11.
01:13Uh, I started a YouTube channel and I would just like do covers here and there.
01:17I wanted to be able to incorporate poems into music, which you would think is just songs,
01:26but I wanted to speak them, spoken words.
01:29Eventually I wanted to play around with rhythm and like, you know, wordplay and speeding it
01:34up a little bit and it just became rap.
01:36If I was ever asking someone to listen to me and they enjoyed what I did, I internalized
01:42that and made it a thing that I wore as like an adornment and I began to love myself through
01:47my art.
01:48And then I blew up from a dumb video, like a viral video.
01:52It was really dumb.
01:53Sound quote me, even though I know you will.
01:56African-American, never felt that, never heard that, uh, never tasted that.
02:04Two days after that video is when I started really going in and posting like my rap videos
02:09because I knew that people had eyes on me at that time and I didn't want them to think
02:13I was a comedy page.
02:15And I wanted them to know like, hey, I've been posting like music forever.
02:18So this is what I'm here for.
02:19If you like it, stay.
02:20And you know, 800,000 people in and here we are.
02:24I share myself online because I feel like if I don't, ultimately I'm doing myself a
02:39disservice because I've always wanted to be felt.
02:42And so if I'm not felt for who I am, like this would have been all for nothing.
02:51Well, first of all, I would like to say whoever this young lady is, is real cute.
02:55Sorry to whoever doesn't feel that way.
02:57This is my Calvin Klein picture.
02:59And it's the main one from the shoot.
03:02The one that's had so much conversation about it.
03:04And I remember posting this the day that the shoot dropped.
03:07I don't have very many feelings about this picture from back then.
03:12I have a lot of feelings now.
03:13When I was taking the photo, it didn't really register to me that it would be a big deal.
03:18People are in their underwear all the time.
03:20This photo riled up a lot of people.
03:22And for what?
03:23I don't know.
03:24Like I don't, it makes no sense to me.
03:26There's one thing to be like, I have a quote unquote preference, which literally no one cares about.
03:32Get over yourself.
03:33But it's another thing to spew hatred towards someone because you just don't like how they look or you don't find them effable.
03:38It was very foreign to me to have to defend my existence.
03:42Because literally all I did was sit on the couch in my underwear like, wow, screw me, right?
03:46Um, but I don't know.
03:48This picture opened up a lot of doors for me and also gave me a Florida creative conversation.
03:53And I guess that's literally why I'm here.
03:54So if it came at my expense for that moment, cool.
03:57And now I'm chilling.
03:59I haven't even brushed the surface of what I'm here to do.
04:03I think that it's about to go crazy.
04:06And I think that as an artist and what I've always thought is my like goal to, you know, change the world and how people think and how people process emotion and how we digest music.
04:17I think that that's only just beginning.
04:20I feel great about my music.
04:21I feel like what I'm doing is different from what a lot of people are doing.
04:25Um, not even just in the product, but in the process.
04:28I think I put a lot more into, and I can't say that for a fact because I'm not in everybody's studio room,
04:33but I feel as I put a lot more into, um, what I do or what I create because it's been a journey and I want this journey to mean something.
04:43I hope you get your life for me.
04:45Because that's really all I'm here to bring.
04:47I'm just trying to speak life into y'all, okay?
04:48That's it.
04:51I think that's my second point.
04:52If in this point.
04:53Here's where you are, what I look for from you.
04:54If you, too.
04:55Obviously, the girl has a real life from that, I mean, particularly import of the time it might wait about the past.
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