“This is gonna be my first album,” Stefflon Don explained to Hunger magazine. “All the other stuff that I made like Secure and Real Ting, were just mixtapes. So, with this project, I’m taking it a lot more seriously.”
The MOBO award winner revealed that she drew inspiration from her family and friends throughout the two years she’s been working on the project.
“I just spent more time on it and thought, what do I really love?” she continued. And what do my family and friends really love the most? We’ve been working on this for a good two years so I can’t wait to let it out to the world. It’s just a vibe.”
She also said her Jamaican roots helped her to become one of the few U.K. artists to break into the U.S. market.
“Jamaican music travels very far outside of the UK,” Stefflon Don explained. “I feel like with the UK sound before it was very niche unless you’re a fan of grime but the sound has changed a lot since then. When I go to different countries, I now hear a lot of UK rappers, more than I used to before, I think it’s a good time. I think TikTok has had a big part to play in that.”
Back in June, Stefflon Don revealed that she explores a more vulnerable side of herself in her upcoming project.
“You know I can rap, you know I can sing, but how hard can I really go?” she teased. “It’s definitely showing even more versatility and making you know who I am from a vulnerability standpoint.”
The American rapper hosted a ‘Passa Passa’ themed birthday party last October in Los Angeles where Spice among other dancehall artists performed. She recently Angela Yee on her Lip Service podcast, that dancehall might be ‘out of her lane.’
Yee prompted her by saying that she saw a Dancehall collaboration in the “I Like It Like That” rapper’s future. “I’m really nervous to do something like that,” Cardi quipped.
“Because it’s just like…it would be natural, but it’s just like it’s certain things that you just not gonna do because it’s like you not like that great or that at it. Not great at it, but it’s just a little bit out of my lane,” she said.
“I always told Spice like when I was 13-years-old I told her that I like made my dad buy me a Ed Hardy shirt because I saw her wear it,” she said on the podcast.
Boo’ed Up singer Ella Mai also said she would want Spice and Vybz Kartel at her own Dancehall party.
