The recording process was very difficult.
I normally like to rap really aggressive,
even when I'm doing my Genius "Verified," I'm kinda nervous,
'cause it's a different type of melody,
but I really wanted to challenge my artistry.
It's definitely a softer look, into the "ICY GRL."
Normally everything is just aggressive,
but I wanted to do something different.
For "Back to the Streets," I really pulled from
my experiences, my home girls', my cousins' experiences,
and I put 'em into one record.
And, for me, I think I deal with breakups differently,
it's like, I try not to be sad, and I wanted to take
a different approach to a breakup song,
so I wanted something to celebrate your independence,
getting back to self, self-love.
And if someone's toxic, throw him back to the streets.
So, if you're not paying attention to the words,
it definitely feels like a feel-good song,
but if you're paying attention, I'm telling you, girl,
if he's toxic, and if he's wasting your time,
send him back to the streets.
I feel like my style, fashion, is definitely bipolar.
I mean, sometimes, I'm a super-bad bitch,
and sometimes, I'm a tomboy.
It really just depends on my mood.
And when I say, "Pull up in my hood, best dressed,"
I always feel like I had fly fits.
On the first day of school,
to awards shows, red carpets, wherever I'm going.
So, for me, it was like an all-around thing
that I've been feeling since I was a little girl, okay?
'Cause on first day of school,
them clothes was laid out across my bed.
It's just boss talk.
I come from the Bay Area, they big on that pimp talk,
that boss talk, and I always love to empower women,
to make them feel like bosses,
to make them feel like they can make their own decisions.
So, hypothetically speaking, if it's not working out,
trade him in, girl, and exchange him in for a new car,
you feel me?
Me just saying, "I ride around town till I leave",
is just some flexin' shit.
Riding around your city in your car,
just enjoying life, appreciating life.
But then when I say, "I gave that boy a round,
and spit him back to the streets",
you know, if the D good, girl,
you gotta try this one more time,
and then you spit him back to the streets, okay?
When I say, "Big goals, and I put that on me,"
it just kinda reminds me of that, "Can't stop, won't stop,
get guap," that real "ICY GRL" shit,
'cause I'm all about poppin' my shit,
but also, inspiring at the same time.
A really big accomplishment that I had this year,
I don't really get excited about too many things,
but the fact that I made Forbes 30 Under 30 was just like,
I felt like I won an award.
That's just how I am in my world,
'cause, before I'm an artist, before I'm a fashion girl,
before I'm a beauty girl, I'm a businesswoman.
So, some big goals that I have for myself is dominating
the music industry, the beauty industry,
the fashion industry, but from a business standpoint,
because, you know, if I'm able to create and sustain
these businesses that I have up my sleeve,
then my career will be a very long-lasting,
lucrative career, and I'm all about
that seven streams of income, okay?
So I played powderpuff, I was a quarterback,
and, you know, hit the Heisman on that ho,
when you're running with the ball.
And that was like a sports reference, so I was like,
I don't even know if the girls gonna catch that,
but, hitting the Heisman is kinda like dodging somebody.
So, how to hit the Heisman on your homies is,
boy, I've been swerving your boys,
and you out here, still wasting my time,
and your homies want me.
And then when I say, "Steppin' in here, bad bitches only,"
I feel like all of my girls are bad bitches.
When we step out, it's a problem.
I don't like when you have absolutely nothing to hide,
but someone goes through your phone,
and they find the dumbest thing.
I mean, I don't even know,
someone who they can be intimidated by is a real friend,
and they're just saying hello,
but then they take it out of context,
so I was like, I wasn't hiding anything,
but then they create this false narrative in their head.
See, you should have just been minding your business,
but because you go into my business
and made it your own, you're making yourself mad.
I don't like when people try to make theirselves made.
So, for me, changing my password is for a
super-insecure dude who just looks for things to be mad at.
That's like, little dick energy.
So the collaboration with Jhené came about,
I'm really selfish with my songs,
'cause I feel like they're my babies,
but I really wanted to share this moment with another girl,
and Jhené made perfect sense with it because
I felt like the beat was definitely her melody,
and she's from the West Coast, and, like I said,
this is definitely a West Coast sound and beat.
But, besides that, I'm a huge fan of Jhené.
She has a lot of soundtracks to my experiences,
and situations in college, so the fact that
we were on set together, we made a song together,
it kind of like, I mean, we already had the "My Type" remix,
but this is our song, so it just felt very surreal,
and I feel like it was a really proud, fun moment for me.
I do all of my creative. I do all my treatments,
and when I bring in a director, I always sit down with him,
and we comb through every detail,
because I'm just tired of seeing the vision in my head,
and then it doesn't come across on screen,
so shout-out to Daniel Russell.
I stressed that boy out so bad.