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I grew up in a city where hip-hop
especially which is done in such a
unique and raw way there's so much of
that DNA in me as an artist it just
feels very natural to tell some of those
stories in a place that is inspired so
many of them
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when I was writing the record I
basically was telling this story being
in a relationship right here happy with
this person in your shuttle but there's
just a side of you that wants to feel
experience to you and then taking that
risk in it not being a payoff and I
continuously draw from this beautiful
perspective and leaves like childhood
teenage adolescent moments so that was
like a landscape in my head already
whenever I'm in the process of making
the music I always have a visual
reference just as a writer
pretty much every face that I can think
of growing up there was something that
was always attracted me to Kingsley
market
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Kings very unique coming on my first car
and I wanted rims on it that's why I
went when I needed stereo system that's
why I went being in high school and
everyone kind of parking and chillin and
that's where you like met guys and it's
just by sort of a cultural hub of my
neighborhood so it's a really really
great space and visually I just thought
there was so much amazing about the
space it was just an idea that came to
me just doing like sort of musical s
dance over-the-top free-flowing journey
throughout the fifthly market for me you
know just finding a happy medium of
performance and highlighting the space
was sort of you know my goal to walk out
feeling like we did that and I do
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well I think from me in terms of the
choreography and the performance of the
video and the way that I wanted to
convey that performance was always to
have sort of a sense of humor and
dramatize and more and a quintessential
jazz type movement and then you know
actually saw a bun and a hotel he's a
friend of mine and forever UGK fan and
he is such an innovative artist and you
know he does a lot of things that push
the boundaries and we just happen to be
at the same place at the same time or
week staying in the same hotel and uh
ran into each other in the lobby and she
kind of like caught me as you're in it
and I remember specifically saying like
yeah you know like we should do like a
time type of movement and like doing it
for him and he was like sure I wasn't
plan it just kind of slowly put one foot
in the other I was like well what if we
do a little movement and he you know is
known for that move he's been doing it
forever but fun actually had some
choreography to learn which was pretty
impressive that he learned it so fast
without mirrors and the black boxes
later
you know I've known over the years for a
long time watched her mature into an
incredible recording artist and perform
I think she gets one of the best live
shows out there right now most people in
her position would probably go for a
more high-end type of look but being
from Houston I mean when you walk in and
you see Kingsley walk and you know you
ain't Euston and I think it's just
illness she's representing the city like
this and one of the realest ways you can
represent the sea
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I'd love the audience can leave sing the
video having a really good perspective
of a space in Houston and understanding
and appreciating all of the cultural
references and I also think that it
shouldn't be taken with a little sense
of humor I think just having fun be do
it to stuff should speak for itself
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