Inayah Grew Up With Studying Artists Like Mariah Carey | iHeartRadio Music Awards 2025 - video Dailymotion

Inayah caught up with Billboard’s Tetris Kelly on the red carpet at the iHeartRadio Music Awards 2025.

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00:00So my favorite thing to always ask new artists nominees is like, do you feel new?

00:03How long you been around?

00:04Oh, that's a good question, right?

00:07Um, I do still feel very new, though, in a sense of it's so many people that haven't met me yet.

00:13And I'm just I'm just grateful. I don't care how long it took to get here. I'm in here.

00:17And I like that this event is kind of like, the new and also celebrating a lot of legends

00:22like Mariah Carey that's being honored tonight. So how do you feel about her?

00:25I'm so excited. I grew up listening to and studying artists like Mariah Carey,

00:28so she deserves this too, by the way, I actually think it's long overdue. So congrats to her.

00:33But, um, again, just to be under the same roof as an artist as great as Mariah Carey just speaks

00:38volumes. We have Billboard Women in Music at the end of this month. We have some amazing girls that

00:46we are honoring Dolce, Gorilla, Money Long. So tell me what about those girls that you love?

00:51I love them. I love Dolce's creativity. She's so unique.

00:54Money Long can sing down, baby. And Gorilla get me in my act.

00:58There you go. Hey, acting up a little bit.

01:01I'm so proud of all of them.

01:02Well, you better go in there act up tonight.

01:04And I'm in.

01:04Okay, have a good time. Thank you so much.