Ashnikko on celebrating sexuality and loving yourself

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She rose to fame on TikTok, an unapologetic artist taking the rap world by storm.   This is Ashnikko.

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00:00Wanted to take some power back in my life. So I started writing these really

00:05powerful boss ass songs to help myself

00:10become that person

00:12The boss of my business I shouldn't voice and one strike two. I'm self-employed where my blue vibrator brings me more joy

00:42Stupid boy think that I need him. I go cold like changes seasons. I know you think about me in the shower

00:56Porn up in your browser fantasize about the power. It was really heartbroken and I was like

01:03This boy. I think he had texted me something stupid and I went into the booth and just started screaming

01:10I was so mad. There were some demons that needed

01:15exercising and

01:17They did

01:32Rabbit I need a new toy just to cleanse my palate big bad. I'm the baddest

01:38I think it's

01:41important

01:42that

01:44Vagina having people know about our own pleasure and our own bodies and

01:51It is something that is so often overlooked in

01:56movies and just media in general and in actual sex education in

02:02School I didn't even really know about the clitoris until I learned out of school and honestly, I

02:11Shouldn't be putting a condom on a banana and not learning about my own

02:18Clitoris, you know, like why did I put a condom on a banana? I want to learn about my clitoris

02:24I think it's very important to learn about your own pleasure and

02:29Take that control a little bit

02:32I

02:43Was like so

02:46so insecure

02:47My self-esteem was really low, but I think that's kind of just what happens when you're a teenager

02:53I am I think that I definitely write my songs for my teenage self and

03:02for my adult self

03:04They're like little love letters little pep talks to myself

03:10To boost my own confidence, and I'm so honored that other people find confidence in my songs

03:17I want people to feel empowered. I want people to feel feel good and

03:23Bossy yeah, I just want people to enjoy it

03:26I want them to sing it with their friends in their bedrooms into a hairbrush like I have

03:33Sang into my hairbrush to all of my favorite songs

03:45She is me, but not me like I don't have that much energy on a day-to-day basis

03:50I don't think I could it's a little bit psycho

03:54If I did it would be really annoying my friends and my family would be like shut the up

04:01But yeah, it's definitely like a

04:06Defense mechanism a coping mechanism to deal with other people having opinions about my art

04:12Like if I can be like well, they don't hate me. They hate Ash Niko like I'm not trying to make like

04:20Melissa

04:22Melissa from Wisconsin

04:24like understand my music

04:27Melissa's like her children are listening to my music, and she thinks I'm like a

04:32Satan worshiper, and she hates me, and I can't I can't even like be bothered by what she thinks about me

04:39I'm not for her and that's okay

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