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I use Ecoco EcoStyler gel, but the alcohol-free protein one. That's the key.
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I feel like every outfit I have ever planned ahead is trash.
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I wasn't popular in high school; I had no friends.
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I just think I have too much anxiety to listen to music. Sometimes it feels like noise, and sometimes it's so affecting that I can't recover from it.
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I live in my imagination, so sometimes movies help me get lost. I feel like I'm in it.
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It starts with trusting yourself, even if people are telling you you're too young to trust yourself.
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I'm a visual learner, so film is a huge inspiration to me.
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I definitely get inspiration from the 'gram. I mean, Instagram is Google, essentially. I love looking at pictures of beautiful women.
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I'm a Scorpio with a Pisces moon. I am very critical of myself. I'm actually way less critical of others than I am of myself. I'm in my own head a lot. It's hard and really discouraging.
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So many people meet and become friends at my shows that didn't know each other before.
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I don't listen to my own music, so to me, it's awesome that people really like it. I was afraid that it wouldn't connect with everyone. I'm more appreciative than anything.
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I want to excel at something, to follow through, to not be afraid.
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I was a funky kid.
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I was raised orthodox Muslim. Very sheltered, very conservative.
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Reading makes me so sleepy. Honestly, I'm a visual learner.
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I was born in St. Louis, but I'm from Maplewood, New Jersey. Maplewood is completely different than the rest of New Jersey. It's very small. It's quietly affluent but more low-key. Lauryn Hill is from my town, though.
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I just make music however I feel and pray that it connects, and if it does, I'm super thankful. I think genres are more for other people, not for yourself.
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There's something different about growing up black and Muslim, especially in New Jersey. It's like when I left the mosque and I left my dad, I felt unprotected, but I also felt a weird sense of pride, like I was involved in this other way of living that was cool to me.
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I love the comparison with Aaliyah and Timbaland, because Aaliyah is a legend, and there is a large cinematic feel to Timbaland's sound, but what I do is different.
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People grapple with labeling me as hip-hop, R&B, or pop, and it's interesting to me. I'm just making music.
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I learned everything the hard way - like, literally, everything. I know that God does that to people that he has lessons for. I just wish that I had learned less extreme lessons.
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I feel like when you say 'activist,' you have to have so much clarity, and I don't always necessarily have so much clarity on how I want to help others, I just have this weird, deep urge to help other people. I'm trying to let God guide my body and use it as whatever kind of vehicle or vessel it needs to be.
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When I sing full voice, I get nervous because I get nasal and abrasive and a little scratchy.
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We're changing little girls' lives across the world, and we didn't even know what we were doing when we started.