GRAMMYs 2024: Coi Leray

Rolling Stone

Coi Leray talks with Rolling Stone’s Ilana Woldenberg at the 2024 GRAMMYs.

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00:00 Let's go. I'm like, "Hey, hey, hey."

00:03 - 'Cause girls is playin' - Hey!

00:06 No, you don't understand. I play that song when I need to feel good about myself.

00:10 - Literally anything. - I love that.

00:12 Like, I'm doing my glam, my glam being me.

00:15 - Talk to me. - I love that.

00:16 Talk to me about how it feels to be nominated, not just for one, for two Grammys, your first time around.

00:21 My first time being nominated, two Grammys.

00:24 You know, I love... I don't want to ever be locked in a box.

00:28 And my versatility is something that I love when people admire and appreciate.

00:34 So to be nominated for, like, best pop and best rap with those two categories,

00:39 the versatility is there and it's getting appreciated.

00:44 I think that's so cool because we're hearing your rap and then your melodic sensibilities.

00:50 So I want to hear when you're writing, kind of, how you reconcile what's going to flow out

00:56 and what makes sense for what song or what story you're going to tell.

00:59 When I go in the studio, I don't think about what I'm about to do when I get in there.

01:04 I go through a lot. I'm still a human being and I feel like the best work is when you put

01:10 your heart and your soul and what you go through in it.

01:13 Even just, like, a painter, for example, or a producer.

01:16 I feel like a producer or painters or anyone that is an artist is able to just put whatever they're going through,

01:22 whether it's sadness and tribulations, whether it's happy moments, sad moments, sexy moments, into the music.

01:28 And talk to me about your collaboration with David Guetta and Anne-Marie,

01:32 because I feel like that's like the Avengers of music right now.

01:36 Just three individually cool artists that bring their own flavor.

01:40 What was the recording process like? How did you get involved? Tell me everything.

01:44 So David Guetta is incredible. He's actually one of the first EDM DJs to actually bring hip-hop and EDM together.

01:51 So I think that's iconic. Shout out Black History Month, yes. So we got to shout that out.

01:55 And David in the studio is a mastermind. You get in the studio with him, he knows his stuff.

02:05 Shout out A-Ton. He introduced me to David. So yeah, David Guetta.

02:09 We did a video with Anne-Marie. She's so sweet. Yeah, one of my favorite videos still to this day.

02:14 So I want to talk about you being here your first time.

02:18 It feels like you're kind of part of this next gen of like real music staples.

02:22 You know what I mean? You're making an impact on the scene.

02:25 Who are your mentors in the industry, if any? Because it feels like...

02:28 And then also, is there anyone you're watching out for? Like, "Hey, I see you and I want to be there for you."

02:33 You know what I mean? God is my biggest mentor. I always put him first.

02:37 I feel like spirituality is everything. Whether if you got Crystal's stage, I spoke about this the other day.

02:42 It's very important to tap into that because it can get crazy. You got to remind yourself that you are still human.

02:49 I want to be there for all the young women. I saw somebody tell me...

02:54 Someone... I saw yesterday or today they posted, "Koi has to realize, like, regardless of how she feels,

03:00 regardless if you don't want to be a role model or not, you're still a role model."

03:05 So I feel like my job is to just influence the young women out there and really just take this music to a whole nother level

03:11 and stand and be a proud, beautiful black woman, queen, here for the rest of the world to show them.

03:19 Thank you for doing that. Thank you for being you.

03:23 Thank you. Have the best time in there.

03:25 Rolling Stones!

03:26 (whooshing)

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