And then you start to think, ‘Well, what if people don’t like what I do? Then what?’” So then, when it came time to do it again, for the first time in my life, I had been exposed to what it feels like when people like what you do. I was having experiences that I would never have experienced before. And they were telling me things I never heard before. I had never been successful before and everybody was there, and I was going places I’d never been before, and I was meeting people I never met before. Don’t bring me no flower dresses and shit. I’m not trying to be all pretty and girly. Although I was unsure of this crazy world that I was in and I definitely didn’t know the rules or how to do it or exactly what I was doing, I was very sure of myself. Because I feel like I have, for the first time, been most fully myself now.”ĬHECK OUT: TEKASHI 6IX9INE – TATTLETALES And that’s why I feel so strongly about calling this work Alicia. I specifically think about this a lot with the Alicia album. This is so deep,” she told Zane Lowe, when asked why she named the album after herself.
