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The most rewarding thing for someone like me is for someone else to find solace through my music.

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The whole thing about 'progressive R&B' blows my mind. Black music has always been progressive.

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I don't want you to feel defeated, like, 'Oh boy, why do you do this to me?' We have too many of those songs.

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I've always had this commitment to not being in one thing.

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To me, the best writing points to something literal or common but is also nuanced: The moment when somebody is telling you they love you while simultaneously disappointing you. Everybody's experienced that.

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I don't write lyrics. I hear the track and sing in gibberish over it, then I try and fit words into the phrasing and melody that I already have set. Everything is left to chance.

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I've grown up feeling very American but being constantly bothered by people - there's internalized racism and feeling weird about being second-generation.

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Popular music was this abstraction - an abstraction that I was relating to immensely but was ultimately far away.

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I'm just trying to soundtrack your real life. I'm just trying to give you a place to feel safe in all the parts of your experience.

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Anyone who understands anti-racist work, a white person specifically, understands that it is not black people's responsibility, or any person of color's responsibility, to dismantle the structures that keep white people in positions of power. We do our job to thrive, to survive. To protect ourselves, to sit together and feel better and to heal.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: June 6th, 1983

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