00:00For those of you who don't know me, my name is Seven Streeter. I am a singer-songwriter.
00:15I've been very fortunate, very blessed to be able to write records for Chris Brown and Ariana Grande.
00:22I wrote The Wave for Ariana. I wrote All the Way Home for Tamar Brackson. I wrote Fine China for
00:26Chris Brown. And it's really nice when I get to merge my writing life and my artist life
00:32and put them together because then I come out with records like It Won't Stop, which was
00:36number one for nine weeks straight.
00:38The way that my sessions work, right, I would get to the studio and, you know, just vibe out
00:45with my producers and my writers and I make everybody take shots and everybody to loosen
00:51up. I go through tracks and kind of just pick which one speaks to me for the day.
00:56Once I pick the beats and I go in, I go in and I lay down melodies, I come back out and
01:02I listen to the mumbo jumbo. And I pick it, I pick my melodies in sections like what's
01:08going to be my first verse melody, what's going to be my B section, what's going to be my hook.
01:12I just, you know, I just write line by line, line by line. I'm really big on challenging things.
01:17Like, even if a record is good or a line is good, I'm always the person in the room that goes,
01:25OK, you guys, it's good. How do we make it great?
01:28When I first started writing, I used to be nervous, like, oh my God, I hope they like it.
01:37Oh my God, I hope they like it now. I'm just free. Your first thought is usually the right
01:44one. So, yeah, now I just, I don't kill my ideas before I allow them to grow.
01:49Being a black woman in the music industry and being a singer and a songwriter and a producer,
02:00I mean, it definitely can come with its challenges at times, only because you may sometimes walk into
02:08a room that is not really open to, you know, hearing all of your ideas and you have to put
02:14your foot down and say, no, that chord is wrong or no, that snare is really weak. You need to find
02:20another one. The more you know and the more experience you have, just the better it is.
02:26I remember my dad used to always tell me, all right, when you go on these sessions, be like Missy.
02:30You know, she was in there doing it all. And I'm like, OK, daddy, I'm going to try to do it all like Missy.
02:34I really want to start, you know, diving into making beats and recording myself and knowing
02:41I know a lot, but there's always more that I can learn. I just try to be the best version of myself
02:45in that setting or the best creative I can be.
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