I'm A Fan Of Hip-hop And I

Style Is The Way We Communicate Who We Are To People Before We Open Our Mouths.

I've Also Learned To Only Write Songs And Melodies That Really Work For My Voice And That I Won't Have Issues Doing Live. Because You Can Get Really, Really Comfortable In The Comping Process: Out Of Five Takes, Maybe One Of Those High Notes That You Struggled To Do, Nailed It, And Then Live You're Having That Challenge Of Really Having To Recreate That.

My Parents Only Played Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye. That's When New Kids Came Out, And We Wanted To Jam That. My Mom Was Like, "put That Thing Off And Put My Damn Record On". So From Old School To '90s To Recent, It's Just Always Been There.

I'm A Fan Of Hip-hop And I Love It, I By No Means Am An Expert On It.

I Actually Produced Other People's Vocals For A Long Time When I First Signed My Publishing Deal And I Had Just Sort Of Decided That I Only Wanted To Be A Writer. I Would Be In All Of These Writing Sessions, And A Lot Of Times My Publisher Would Say, "you Should Get A Demo Singer To Sing It Because Then It Doesn't Identify As A Solange Song."