Ravyn Lenae

Yeah. Something about it felt like, oh, what they're doing is living in the world in a way that lives on beyond them. I don't know if I thought that as three-year-old. But something about it just felt... Like I wanted to be a part of it. Yeah, totally.

Yeah. Something about it felt like, oh, what they're doing is living in the world in a way that lives on beyond them. I don't know if I thought that as three-year-old. But something about it just felt... Like I wanted to be a part of it. Yeah, totally.

And then being around music growing up, like my dad would show me different artists and play different music and just seeing how it moved him and my mom. I just feel like songs and music albums live with us through like each section of our life. And I think that's so special that we can like associate different periods and different times and emotions and heartbreak and things.

And then being around music growing up, like my dad would show me different artists and play different music and just seeing how it moved him and my mom. I just feel like songs and music albums live with us through like each section of our life. And I think that's so special that we can like associate different periods and different times and emotions and heartbreak and things.

different moments yeah in life are like they can be earmarked by music like certain songs or albums exactly that's very true yeah so that's something that i i think that i wanted to be a part of totally my family recognized that in me early so my grandmother put me in guitar lessons and piano lessons love and then um that's when i started to sing with doing piano lessons and i was like oh

different moments yeah in life are like they can be earmarked by music like certain songs or albums exactly that's very true yeah so that's something that i i think that i wanted to be a part of totally my family recognized that in me early so my grandmother put me in guitar lessons and piano lessons love and then um that's when i started to sing with doing piano lessons and i was like oh

I like this.

I like this.

Oh, that's cool. Okay. So they noticed your musicality and then that's kind of how you found that you could sing too. Exactly. I love that. Yeah. I wish, I wish I woke up and I was like, Oh, I'm an amazing singer. I know everybody tells me that every time I have lots of friends who are singers and artists and they're like,

Oh, that's cool. Okay. So they noticed your musicality and then that's kind of how you found that you could sing too. Exactly. I love that. Yeah. I wish, I wish I woke up and I was like, Oh, I'm an amazing singer. I know everybody tells me that every time I have lots of friends who are singers and artists and they're like,

i bet if you practice i bet you could literally i mean maybe i mean i'm sure i feel like the ones like you or my friends who are also famous artists too like yeah god-given talent yeah like just given to you like you just woke up like you know what i'm saying there's like certain things i feel like you can't teach yeah because you're just born with it which i love and admire and you're one of them must be fucking nice whatever i told that's like i got hit with a funny stick and he said that's good enough

i bet if you practice i bet you could literally i mean maybe i mean i'm sure i feel like the ones like you or my friends who are also famous artists too like yeah god-given talent yeah like just given to you like you just woke up like you know what i'm saying there's like certain things i feel like you can't teach yeah because you're just born with it which i love and admire and you're one of them must be fucking nice whatever i told that's like i got hit with a funny stick and he said that's good enough

Send that bitch down. Good enough. Good enough. She's going to be funny for a living. And T, look at us. We're living in our purpose. We're walking in our purpose now.

Send that bitch down. Good enough. Good enough. She's going to be funny for a living. And T, look at us. We're living in our purpose. We're walking in our purpose now.

See? Okay. So I know the original music that you released was unsigned and then it was once you did get signed. So how did that process come about with getting signed?

See? Okay. So I know the original music that you released was unsigned and then it was once you did get signed. So how did that process come about with getting signed?

Yeah, so I was, honestly, so I met Monty Booker in Chicago when I was around 15. And that's when I started to make my own music. And with him, I kind of figured out what my style was and what I wanted to put out. So we put that out on SoundCloud. I didn't think anything of it. I just wanted to put music online.

Yeah, so I was, honestly, so I met Monty Booker in Chicago when I was around 15. And that's when I started to make my own music. And with him, I kind of figured out what my style was and what I wanted to put out. So we put that out on SoundCloud. I didn't think anything of it. I just wanted to put music online.

But then people really started to gravitate towards it in Chicago and liked it and labels were calling. It honestly happened really quickly. And me being 15 at the time, I don't think I got the full scope of what all of that meant and what that type of attention meant and how to go about it.

But then people really started to gravitate towards it in Chicago and liked it and labels were calling. It honestly happened really quickly. And me being 15 at the time, I don't think I got the full scope of what all of that meant and what that type of attention meant and how to go about it.