- The inspiration for "Baby Mama" was, of course,
my daughter and just how she makes me a better person,
how she keeps me just on my grind.
And so I wanted to do a song about her
and just speak to all baby mamas out there
that may feel like they can't make it,
they can't push through.
If you use your child as an inspiration, you can do anything
and I wanted everyone to feel that.
Well, I actually came up with "Baby Mama" just in my room.
I was just sitting up in my room actually
and I was just singing like, "Baby mama, baby mama".
And I was like, "This would be a dope song song".
And so, when I heard the beat from Hit Boy,
I just, I started to sing what I was singing in my room.
It just, it worked out perfectly.
His beat is just, it's so fitting for the song.
It's upbeat and it's trumpets, it's horns.
It's so cool, I love it.
Chance the Rapper, I just have to give him a huge shout out
because he's just been a fan
and just been so supportive for so long.
He actually FaceTimed me and wanted to do
something with a song in the past called "I Wanna Be Down",
he wanted to use some samples from that
and I was like, "Well, if you're gonna use that,
"you gotta come and get on this song called 'Baby Mama'."
And he just loved the concept of it.
He loved that it was inspirational
and just changing the stigma of what baby mama means,
and he spit a really really dope verse on it
and I'm just so pleased with it.
My daughter and I, we have such a beautiful bond
and when you become a mother,
when you take that position on,
you just feel this unconditional love for your child
and I would do anything for my daughter.
I would die for her and live for her.
I wanted that to be expressed,
so I think "Only kind of first real love" was truly fitting.
Sometimes we think real love comes between two individuals
like man and woman or your lover,
but this was about my baby.
"It takes a village to raise 'em"
is one of the truest statements, being a mother,
because I've had so much support just from my mom,
my best friend and my dad of course.
Just my family has been there for me,
just helping me raise my daughter,
and I just make sure I have good people around me
because they watch.
They watch everything that you do
and you have to lead by example, so I wanted to make sure
I had people around me that whoever she watched
would be setting that great example.
I think being on stage and being in the public's eye
or just basically singing and doing what I love to do
has provided so many great opportunities.
I can provide for my daughter,
I can give her a great life by doing that.
It also, because she sings and she's so talented
and I just love the music that she writes
and just her trusting the process
of how she's coming into her own.
And she actually put out a song on YouTube
called "At Your Best", inspired by Aaliyah recently
and people are really loving it
and she's just loving the feedback,
so of course this is something that she wants to do.
It's speaking to everybody that goes through their comments,
if it's Instagram or any place that has comments,
YouTube, whatever.
You just scroll through and you sometimes see people
hating or whatever, and it's just opinions
because if you can't do it like me, I'm just different.
And I speak for everybody.
Everybody has their own unique passion,
their own unique personality where people don't do it
exactly the way they do it.
We don't even need to compete
because we're all in this together
and we're all unique and different in our own ways.
So I wanted to just point that out,
and it's just opinions, it's not facts.
Baby mama is usually a phrase that people use
for women that are not married, and I'm not married,
I'm single but I'm pushing through because I have a daughter
that's looking at me to set a bar, set an example.
So I'm a baby mama and I'm proud of it.
It's getting rid of that stigma that it's wrong
to be a baby mama or the baby mama drama.
I don't have any drama.
I take care of my daughter, provide for my daughter
and I love that.
And it's like Taraji P. Henson, she has in her bio,
I'm basically a baby mama, single mama
and I'm doing the damn thing.
She's poppin' and I wanna keep that same thing with me.
I wanna be poppin' no matter what.
I don't need anyone else to help me do that.
I have my daughter that inspires me.
There are women out there who get a phone call
from their significant other
or their, whoever they're dealing with,
and sometimes those people don't see you
for who you really are.
Sometimes they don't look at you like you mean something,
like you're somebody, and so that's my way of saying,
"I guess you didn't see or imagine me somebody,
"but I am somebody, I'm my daughter's mom
"and I'm out here doing my thing."
And that's basically what it means.
Well, right now, my chill nights
are what everybody's chill nights are.
I'm trying to see what's on live or what's going on
on the Internet because we can't do anything.
But basically, I like to go out sometimes
and have a good time.
Not a lot but I do sometimes.
So sometimes you wanna put on the heels,
sometimes you just wanna get out with your girls
and have a good time.
I gotta be honest with you, I don't really like heels
and if I'm in a heel, it's a shock because I don't wear them
but a nice pump from a Louboutin or a Jimmy Choo
if I need to wear a heel.
But I'll put on some nice makeup and just go out
in my Jordan's or something.
Well, I'm the kind of person, I'm very sensitive
so my feelings are everything.
They're like the language to the soul.
It's about love, it's about intimacy
and that has to be respected.
You can't just come up in here
thinking you can just have it whenever you want to
or just however you want to.
I'm not, I'm not like that.
My feelings matter to me and so you can't.