VMAs 2023: Kaliii

Rolling Stone

Kaliii talks with Rolling Stone’s Delisa Shannon at the 2023 VMAs

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00:00 I am here with Kali and that's with three I's in case you didn't know, okay?

00:04 And you were nominated for Best New Artist tonight.

00:06 Tell me about that feeling and what was it like to get that notification like,

00:10 "That's me. That's my name."

00:11 Honestly, it just feels good. I'm working hard and I'm manifesting and God is listening, okay?

00:16 You know, it just, it feels good, honestly. Yeah.

00:19 What else are we manifesting? Because you said we got the orange.

00:21 What are we bringing in to your year in 2024 and beyond?

00:26 Honestly, we need to heal.

00:28 I'm manifesting healing and just decompressing and just feeling good and calm

00:35 and just making great music all the time. Yes.

00:39 And we're going to do that. Yeah, we are.

00:41 We already live it. That's how everything happens.

00:43 You got to live it. You got to step into it. You're already doing it.

00:46 That's a word. We are healed.

00:48 We are healed. We are decompressed.

00:50 See, we need to speak of the past.

00:52 Exactly, because it's already happening to us. Exactly.

00:56 She ain't never told a single lie.

00:58 She might have told a lie. I told a couple.

01:03 What lies you been telling?

01:05 You know, I got to get the men to spend their coins.

01:08 So you got to make them feel like they in love.

01:11 How do you do that? Can you tell me?

01:14 I need to know your lie.

01:16 Okay, give me a lie. Give me one good lie.

01:19 What always works?

01:21 Let me see.

01:25 I'm not giving away the coins.

01:27 That's secrets. That's secrets.

01:28 You know, because then the men going to start paying attention and notice when I'm lying.

01:31 That's not good. You're so right.

01:33 We're going to do it telepathically. Actually, no, no. I don't be lying.

01:36 I'm always honest to you, bae. Period.

01:39 That was a lie. That was cute, though.

01:41 The way you switched up.

01:43 I'm taking notes. Yeah.

01:45 Now, let me know.

01:47 What does it take to be on Kali's roster?

01:49 Because right now, seemingly, they ain't doing what they need to do.

01:53 The roster is not rostering right now, but it's all right.

01:56 I would say good hygiene, look good, smell good.

01:59 Got to have that, can I say, big D energy?

02:02 Because you got to have that for sure.

02:04 And you got to be generous for sure.

02:08 I don't care if a man is rich for real, because if you're rich and you don't spend it,

02:12 like, what does that do for me?

02:14 I need you to be generous.

02:16 Okay. Yes.

02:17 Stingy hoes to the left.

02:19 Actually, like, far over there, like, straight to the back.

02:23 Bye.

02:24 Straight to the back. You heard it here first.

02:26 And now you are performing tonight.

02:28 What can we expect from your performance?

02:31 Dancing and just having fun.

02:33 The looks is there and the dancing is killing it, okay?

02:36 I'm ready to see it.

02:37 And before we get you out of here, I want to know, you just collaborated with Missy Elliott and Flyin' A Boss.

02:42 Tell me how that collaboration came together and what was it like to get on that song?

02:46 They hit me up. It was like, "We need Kali on the track."

02:48 I'm like, "I love y'all. I see y'all everywhere, and I love a girl that stays in my face."

02:52 You know what I'm saying?

02:53 Because that's what I like to do to folks, okay?

02:55 But I've always wanted to collab with Missy Elliott and to honestly get on a track that I feel like was been going up.

03:01 And then for her to be a part of it, it just seems right.

03:04 Yeah.

03:05 It's like you said, manifesting, divinely timed.

03:08 That's you. That's Kali.

03:09 Exactly.

03:10 Right on time.

03:11 So thank you so much for chatting, and good luck tonight.

03:13 Thank you so much.

03:14 [MUSIC PLAYING]

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