Latto is already a Hip-Hop veteran at 24, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t willing to take advice. The award-winning rapper is heading into a new career chapter with her heart and ears open.
“The older I get, the more mature ear I have,” she told ESSENCE.
The Rap Game winner has gone from a talented and defiant teen to an experienced adult “more open to criticism.” She clarifies that she is only interested in “healthy criticism,” something hard to extract from the cloud of noise hurled at celebrities.
“Now everybody don’t be trying to give you healthy criticism,” she declares. “They definitely be hating, but I know how to distinguish.”
Latto cultivated a spirit of discernment in the public eye, dropping her previous controversial moniker and acknowledging her reasons for doing so publicly.
“I think it really started with my name change because I learned where being stubborn can get you and how misinterpreted you could be,” she says. She describes her journey to arriving at the decision to change her stage name in her song “The Biggest,” a vulnerable but feisty track featuring a young woman heading towards the best version of herself.
Even Hip-Hop legends can sense her growing self-assuredness.
She recently worked with Rakim and Nas on a Sprite campaign dedicated to celebrating the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop. Latto initially found it “nerve-wracking” to be tapped to
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