Making a career off of hits alone seems like an isolating experience. People have a certain expectation of the music, that it can only exist a certain kind of way. There’s no room for flexibility or experimentation because they don’t engage with the person as an artist. Or, worse, they don’t respect them enough at all to even consider it. Consequently, they leave in an artifice, where music becomes a job of check boxes, making hits Correctly and chasing the stardom and validation. Saweetie has felt in this trapping before. Now, she wants to take agency over her career.

Recently, the Bay Area bred rapper spoke to Billboard about her latest EP, HELLA PRESSURE. There, she tinkers around in different sounds that differ from records like “My Type.” Saweetie could go from a production from Lunc

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