Quotes from Latto

I see myself getting into brand partnerships, acting, modeling, and just branching off. I feel like music is my way in the door. And then from there, it's up. I'm going to have so many different things going on. I definitely idolize Rihanna's career path.

When I walked into the RCA office, it felt like home. They didn't have any female rapper that I would be going toe-to-toe with or competing for attention with. I liked that.

Atlanta is home to so much Black entrepreneurship - there's no better place to grow up as a Black creative with a dream.

I used to do my own makeup for all my shows because I'm so picky with my face.

Everybody knows Nicki is my favorite, you can go look on the Internet, I got interviews talking about standing in line for 'Pink Friday.' I got a fake Barbie chain... I was obsessed with Nicki.

Being a part of this whole female rap movement, wave, whatever you want to call it, is so cool. You've got so many of us. There's like, different skin tones, different aesthetics, different accents, just like, a whole different style.

I been getting so much love I'm not gon' lie! Cardi posted that she had downloaded my album when it had dropped. Wayne DM'd me! It feel good because I really love what I do and I look up to these people and aspire to be like these people that's supporting me.

I think bullying is for insecure and weak people.

Working with Sprite is huge and one of the biggest platforms.

Music is not always going to be a mechanical math equation, where it's one plus one equals two. It's not always that simple.

I grew up on video shoots, in the studio, backstage at concerts.

I swear to God, you would think based on my aesthetic and my image and stuff I like to be glammed up. My favorite is sweats on, no nails.

I literally get dressed for Instagram to take pictures. I have sweats on every other hour of the day.

Little Latto would tell me now how proud she is because I'm doing all of these things that little Latto dreamed of. Big Latto sometimes gets consumed in everything to the point where I don't even realize I've been dreaming of doing the things that I'm doing now.

I bought my dad a bustdown Rolex for Christmas, and I had got my mama kitchen remodeled. My daddy cried, my mama cried, I cried.

I love the water, I love the sand, I love getting a good tan, leaving all golden.

I pray and I work hard - literally, that's it.

Both my parents really got it out of the mud. In our household, it was never a plan B, plan C, anything like that. It was plan A and we stick to it. You put in that work, and you pray hard to make sure that plan happens. I credit my parents for my ambition.

Being that I started so young and super independent from the ground up, talking to people in the same predicament that I once was in is humbling. It makes you appreciative of the come-up and how far I have come. It is inspiring.

My mom was pregnant with me when she was 15 years old. She went to a majority white school so of course her being 15 years old, pregnant by a Black man, that was just too much for them to handle.

Yeah, you can't discredit my come-up.

I've been playing in makeup and, like, wearing makeup since fifth grade - so the earlier you start, the more you know.

You know you might know your intentions, but these are strangers who don't know you, never even met you in person. So you gotta hear each other out, and if you know those aren't your intentions and that's how it's being perceived, it's like why not make a change or alter it? For me, it was the name.

I've been rapping since I was ten years old. So from 10 to 13 the subject matter has elevated or just changed period. And then 13 to 16, 16 to 18, 18 to 21, 21 is gonna be different than 25.