Crystal and Rapsody discuss the emcee’s creative evolution, her love languages, where sisterhood in hip-hop stands and the mystique behind the woman who’s heart and soul is found inside every verse and around each beat.
Chapter 1: What is Rapsody's journey to finding her purpose?
Coming up on Keep It Positive, Sweetie. My question was like, what is my real purpose? Same thing, like, you know, with the talent and everything that I pour in to be the best that I could be, why aren't I put up here in the light? And then, you know, for me, the clarity was, you know, sometimes you're not supposed to be in the light because you are the light. You know what I'm saying?
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With a style all of her own and a flow draped in the essence of true hip hop, Rhapsody has evolved into one of the genre's most important voices. With 20 years in the hip-hop game and lyrics that reached the soul, Rapsy has cemented her place atop hip-hop's most elite. I'm so grateful to spend some time with her today and talk to her about where she's come from and where she's going.
Raph, thank you so much for coming. I'm happy to be here. Listen, no, seriously, like I just had you write. Y'all, she was my ghostwriter for the BET Cypher. So that was my first time getting to meet you. Been a huge fan. And then I got to come to one of your shows recently here in Atlanta.
I was so happy to see you.
Girl, that was my first time seeing you live.
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Chapter 2: How does therapy influence personal growth?
On top of that, yeah.
It's a lot. You know... They tell you, make you think these things are real, but you realize that's not the reality of the world. So I was just sitting with a lot and shitting with a lot and I had to learn my own truth and reality.
Yeah. Wow. I love that because so many times like we see, I see you on stage, you wouldn't even know that you had to deal with something like that. And we all have our own journeys, things that we're trying to figure out, shit we're trying to work through. Like me, like I know myself, like people look at me, oh, she's got it all together. No, I don't.
And my brother can tell you, because he helped me hold it together, because I'd be like, ah! You know, it's like those times, and there's times where they don't understand when you're in the light and you're pushed out there so much, you need those moments by yourself. You have to. Yeah.
I want to ask you, as your stardom and your star continued to rise, did that play a part in, like, this is a lot, I need to figure this out? Did you feel that heaviness and that weight?
Not so much. I was talking about this earlier. I'm still, I don't feel like I'm that famous where it's that much pressure for me. I put more pressure. London may know who you are. You worldwide. What are you talking about?
She's worldwide, okay?
Day one is worldwide.
But I can move around. They was like, you came here by yourself? I was like, yeah. I travel by myself a lot. That's amazing. I think I put more pressure on myself than anything because I feel like I have to check all these boxes off to be successful. It's really not that. It's like I wake up and I get to do what I love every day. I'm happy. I'm at peace. I can eat. I like food. Me too.
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