So your projects came out as a trilogy in your universe, what made you want to release your music in that way?
I always felt like, it was an everlasting story unfolding. From the beginning, when I put “Galactica out, that’s where Fantasy Soul started. Then all of a sudden, “Dreamgirl came out, and I’m like, ‘Oh, this is a compilation of cute love songs! Who knew I had that inside?!” Then it clicked for me that the next project had to be “Lucid,” because “Dreamgirl” and “Lucid” go together. Then I started seeing the story form. This story is making itself, and it's just reminding me of what's always been. I'm just kind of following the way of my imagination.
How did you come up with your universe “Fantasy Soul?”
I came up with it out of convenience. Everyone's like, “What kind of music do you make?” I was saying it's a little bit of this. It's a little bit of that. I was done with the adjectives. I was done with explaining too much. So, I started checking in with myself, and I'm like, I just need one thing, and that was my prayer for a while. It just dropped from the sky, and it was like, “You make fantasy soul music.” And I was like, ‘Yes, ma'am.’ You know, so then somebody happened to ask me, what do you do? I'm like, ‘I make music.’ and he's like, ‘Oh, what kind’ and I was like, ‘This is your moment. And you got to say it confidently.’ I was like, Fantasy Soul. And he's like, “Oh, I get that.” And immediately that sparked something in his imagination So, that's where Fantasy Soul came from. It came from me not being able to identify with just one genre and needing to find a way to explain myself in a really simple and direct, and confident way, and lately it’s been expanding into so much more where I’m like, ‘Oh, this is bigger than me.’
How would you describe your sound’s transformation currently and where do you see it going in the future?
My sounds transformation, first of all, you find your voice along the way. I feel like it also just has a lot to do with the producers that I work with. I do stick to the same guys mostly, so far, at least but, I like it like that. “Lucid” was the most hands-on I had in the production and I think I'm just getting into the world where I really expand on that, like really going in and producing with my friends more and more, so I think that, as a producer, I want to evolve the sound like that and just make it cinematic. I want you to listen front to back and have an experience. So, I think that in that way, it will expand with the experiences that I add to the listening, for example, SCORPIA, is a whole immersive exhibition. The experiences are going to evolve, and they’re going to be tangible, and full sensory. I love that cinematic shit, I want to make movies, you know?