Interviews are just like dates. Before you meet an artist, you have to research them, listen to their music, and come up with questions, and before you meet a girl you have to Facebook-stalk her, determine her interests, and plan how you're going to weave them into the conversation. So when Jhen Aiko, whose stoner R&B flow has won her comparisons with Frank Ocean, came to play in London, it only made sense that we had a first date.
Yeah I like your lyrics from that song: "If the stars start falling to the ground/Roll them up and pass them all around." Do you write most of your own songs?
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"I wrote this at the height of a very public breakup, so I was feeling a way, for sure. And I'd just taken some mushrooms, so it was like an exaggerated feeling. I know that a lot of girls, or people, period, feel that way: 'Don't talk to other people about me; just talk to me. We're the ones that were supposed to be in this relationship. Now I'm hearing things and people are asking me what I want them to do. You need to call me because I can't control what my older homies are thinking of the situation.'
I love Aiko and Lee as artists, so I knew this would be a great song with them collaborating together. I also like how the producer, Brian Warfield, explained how he created each sound for the track while making it. I was surprised when Jhene said she had the song for about a year before actually going at it head on with Lee. I learned that Lee came to the studio and rapped three whole versions of the song off the top of his head and it was interesting to learn that not all artists work in the same way.
Maybe the first thing people notice about Jhen Aiko is her tattoos. She has a lot of them, but one, in particular, caught the internet's wandering eye in early October when Miryam Lumpini, a Los Angeles-based tattoo artist who works under the moniker The Witch Doctor," shared on Instagram the art she had inked just above Aiko's left elbow. It was an unmistakable portrait of Big Sean, the Detroit rapper that Aiko has been dating since last year. The tattoo features a stoic Sean, clad in a bow tie and tuxedo, and it caught my eye, too, when the 29-year-old singer arrived at The Forge studio in Cypress Park, Los Angeles, for her NYLON photo shoot. Enshrining a romantic partner's face on your skin is risky business, so when I sat down with Aiko to discuss her latest album, Trip, I had to know what compelled her. Well, I don't know if you noticed, but I have a lot of tattoos," she says, brushing her glossy black hair back behind both ears. I just love his face. I think his face is perfect."
At this point in her career, Aiko was just as well-known as a featured vocalist on songs by Drake and Big Sean as she was for her own work. After the release of Souled Out, Aiko was fielding offers of more features, remixes, and dance records, which at the time were beginning to take over pop radio. If she wanted, Aiko could have chased the superstardom tasted by peers like Rihanna and Nicki Minaj, but that's not what drew her to making music in the first place. Jhen doesn't try to imitate other artists or follow trends of what's hot at the moment," says Oliver, who was a fan of Aiko's music before the two of them met to discuss collaborating on the short film. She does her own thing, even if it's not commercial enough by someone else's standards," Oliver says. Aiko recalls being offered other people's songs, in the hopes of releasing a hit. People would say to me all the time, 'I have a great song for you, I have a smash No. 1 record,'" Aiko says of the pressure put on her. And I'm like, 'That's cool, but I write my own music. Give it to someone else who cares.'"
"Yeah, I do. I do. But I think that all throughout the world, there are women that are oppressed and really can't say how they feel or do the things that they want," Aiko replied. 'They don't have that freedom. I hope that my music allows people to feel like they can express themselves through me." 0852c4b9a8
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