Music has always been sort of this language that I spoke. Everything from, you know, the...

Music has always been sort of this language that I spoke. Everything from, you know, the Doors to the Beatles to Prince to jazz. You know, my mom was a big Billie Holiday fan, so I consumed Billie Holiday voraciously. I mean, I would stay up in the middle of the night and organize my mom's albums on the living room floor and I would just play the songs in order and I would chase the fades. I would turn it up to catch every last drop of the record because some of the best stuff was in the fade. Hip-hop then also had this additional appeal to me as this sort of black movement that was empowering people who were otherwise lost and overlooked, and I grew up feeling like that was my mission as the daughter of local politicians