Leikeli47

Leikeli47 (or Leikeli)[a] is an American rapper signed to RCA Records. In 2018, she released her second full-length album, Acrylic. Quotes That same kitchen. I’m there everyday rehearsing. Making sure you sharpen your sword and master the wonderful gift that the higher powers have created. I’m always in the kitchen, the studio – I’ll rehearse in front of my dog. It don’t matter to me. I used to never really talk about it but it’s really no big secret. ’47 was the year that Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and it also represents one of my favorite microphones – the Numan 47, a mic that a lot of legends have recorded some great masterpieces with. But that number was always present and important in my life, especially coming from the Jackie Robinson side, doing it his way. Breaking down barriers speaks to the artist I was coming into the game. Being a black girl coming in and trying to be different, outside of the norm – that number gives me power to keep pushing and challenging. I never put it out there like that, but that’s what it is. I’m not even gonna give the barriers power by pointing them out, I’m just gonna let you know all of them. It’s crazy - they are there but they are also something that I don’t see and I don’t dwell on. Because I don’t like to sit in that kind of space. I think that all things are possible. I can burn that barrier down, kick it down. They are there and new ones may appear. It is what it is but it’s sometimes fun like plucking them out of the way. That’s how I approach any kind of barrier and I strongly encourage anyone with whatever it is that they are facing to never look at the barrier, at what it looks like right now. Burn it. You got two feet – kick it. You got two hands – punch it. Elbow, whatever – just go. Balls to the wall. As artists and creatives we all have our own thing and I’ve always been this shy creative. I’ve always just wanted to be heard before I was seen. I’ve faced a lot of things with my appearance alone, just coming up being a black girl and this is outside of the industry, this is just in the world. It is what it is. The mask just always represented this freedom – every boy and every girl that’s like me – it represents humanity. It’s genderless, faceless. I want to be someone who just reaches people no matter where they are. That’s what my mask does. I wear different colours, types and shades and style and textures because as human beings that’s what makes us, us. My mask represents you. I want people to see themselves in that mask. It’s also fashion, darling, it’s fashion! Soldier of Love: An Interview with Leikeli47;By JOEL BISWAS on Apr 11, 2019 External links Category:Rappers from the United States Category:Women singers from the United States Category:Living people