American - Musician | June 6, 1983 -
Popular music was this abstraction - an abstraction that I was relating to immensely but was ultimately far away.
Kelela
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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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I'm just tryna be honest about all the things that I dig in my music. It's not just this over here, it's also that over there.
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As it pertains to my black womanhood, there's just a lot of ground to cover. There's a lot of stuff to say.
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When I called 'Cut 4 Me' a mixtape, I was thinking about a few elements: One is used instrumentals. The project is more centered around introducing you to an artist; it's not meant to be seminal. It's 'Hi,' 'Hello,' a thing that you first hear.
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I spent a lot of time in college. I was just being academic and discovering myself through reason and analysis.
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I would love to do an album of standards!
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Most of my friends, growing up, were upper-middle-class white kids, so it was a different reality at home both culturally and linguistically. It created a lot of insecurities for me, but it also did a lot of amazing things that I didn't know were happening at the time.
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I was in school studying International Studies and Sociology. I was really into what was going on in school. I was affected by the ideas and engaged as a student, but not disciplined or motivated enough to do the work. That was a fear of mine for a while, that nothing was motivating.
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Growing up, Missy Elliot and Janet Jackson were definitely major references.
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There is this feeling among black artists that you have to be really careful. We're not inclined to talk about this stuff because, if we do, we put ourselves in a position where we're not marketable or where we can't win.
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We are - as artists, we are racialized through genre and called black - without being called black - through genre.
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