My hope is that 'Blk Girl Soldier' is a freedom song for black women today who are fighting the macro- and microaggressions of daily life in our city/country/world.

In some ways, I value specificity. I think that there's power in, once you know who your fan base is, being able to speak to them. I hope to cultivate a fan base of black girls and black people and people of color, women of color, queer people, people who are are marginalized in general.

Sometimes we get so busy with our daily lives we do not take the steps and time necessary to be introspective.

It's important to me that there's not just one story told about our city. 'LSD' is an ode to Chicago, a song for the complicated love I have for my city.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

I'm not an exhibitionist; I don't have a compulsion to share the ins and outs of my daily life with a public audience.