Having Our Method
Two of the baddest girls in hip-hop throw every numerous different some Qs and As.
Assembly: GloRilla and Sexyy Pink
Pictures: Travis Shinn
Editor’s Be aware: This story exhibits up within the Wintertime 2024 concern of XXL Publication, on newsstands in January of 2025 and readily that can be purchased on the XXL web website at present.
Memphian Gloria Woods and St. Louisan Janae Wherry might by no means ever have really gone throughout programs if they’d not entered the exact same occupation. At the moment, each girls, significantly better referred to as GloRilla and Sexyy Pink, particularly, are shut mates, colleagues and rap celebrities.
Each femme fatales managed hip-hop this yr with giant songs and unabridged launches. Sexyy, 26, struck followers along with her third mixtape, In Sexyy We Trust, that included most popular paperwork “Get It Sexyy” and “U My Everything” together with Drake. The duty appeared 3 months after deliver to life her 2nd teenager, a little bit lady referred to as Chyna. Sexyy was at present a mommy to youngster Chuckyy, 4.
Glo started the yr along with her 2nd mixtape, Ehhthang Ehhthang, which provided the hit songs “Wanna Be” together with Megan Thee Stallion and “Yeah Glo!.” The monitor has really contemplating that been chosen for two Grammys: Best Rap Effectivity and Best Rap Observe.
Halfway with the yr, GloRilla signed up with pressures with Megan for the North American leg of the Sizzling Lady Summertime Tour, an affidavit to Glo’s increasing influence available in the market. Driving on the vitality, she launched her launching cd, Glorious, on CMG/Interscope. The cd generated the hit paperwork “TGIF” and “Hollon,” but the best doc off Superb is “Whatchu Kno About Me” together with Sexyy. With Glo’s deep, contagious circulation and Sexyy’s x-rated verses, the monitor supplies quite of a girls flip to the well-known Southern anthem “Clear Me Down” by Trill Members of the family together with Foxx, Boosie BadAzz and Webbie.
GloRilla and Sexyy Pink’s cooperations have really considerably influenced the songs market. Their customer seems on Tyler, The Creator’s “Sticky,” off his No. 1 cd, Chromakopia, and their joint monitor “Whatchu Kno Relating to Me” have really been climbing up the Signboard Sizzling 100 and moving into the Main 20. These successes are an affidavit to their curiosity the plenty and their increasing influence.
Will they make a joint job? Simply how does Sexyy handle 2 kids and a blowing up occupation? Is Glo really solitary and celibate? That has supplied the easiest steering? What minutes are they shocked they’ve turn into a part of? These are a number of of the considerations addressed once they took a seat to talk with every numerous different on an extended, Manhattan day in late November. Each curtained in developer white apparel, Sexyy places on a Gucci high, Amiri jeans, Tom Ford heels and a Daniel’s Pure leather-based layer and Glo rocks Dolce & & Gabbana underwear, Thom Solo boots and a Retrofete layer, each females presently controling hip-hop sling considerations back-and-forth and alternate small discuss with a typical sociability and regard. It is the brand-new girls operating the online game.
Sexyy Pink: OK, so, GloRilla, if that is your precise identify …
GloRilla: GloRilla. Glo The P.
Sexyy Pink: Glo The P, period.
GloRilla: Uh-huh.
Sexyy Pink: So it state you was chosen for two Grammys [for] “Yeah Glo!” Simply how did that make you actually really feel?
GloRilla: I actually felt nice. I used to be delighted, and also you acknowledge I am continuously honored with each little factor.
Sexyy Pink: Yeah. That is what’s up.
GloRilla: Yeah. I am so thrilled.
Sexyy Pink: Yeah, that is what’s up. Congratulations, my girl.
GloRilla: Thanks.
Sexyy Pink: Length. And OK, and afterwards it state, we noticed you accessible singing Jennifer Hudson, and also you moreover sang in church. Do you plan on vocal singing in your songs?
GloRilla: Sure. I’ ma take me some singing programs, receive me a lil’ singing teacher.
Sexyy Pink: Why I said the exact same level?
GloRilla: Real?
Sexyy Pink: Yeah, I intend to sing.
GloRilla: I’ve really been seeing. You be doing all your Auto-Tune.
Sexyy Pink: I be trying.
GloRilla: I see you. I be showing a large number on Auto-Tune. I tape one thing and nobody’ll by no means ever hear it.
Sexyy Pink: Real? Yeah. You be taking part in. You ain’t additionally permitting me hear it.
GloRilla: Yeah, the workshop. OK, so Sexyy. Janae.
Sexyy Pink: Oh, dangle on at present.
GloRilla: Nae-Nae. Nae-Nae.
Sexyy Pink: Grasp on at present. Hallelujah. Gloria. OK, see, at present she lowering up.
GloRilla: OK, so we each on Tyler, The Maker’s tune, “Sticky.” What response have you ever reached the tune?
Sexyy Pink: Everybody like it. They get pleasure from it. We on another tune with one another, and I don’t acknowledge,
I imagine they fu * ok maintaining that. Most of us on that individual tune.
GloRilla: I noticed y’ all twerking on part with one another and sh * t.
Sexyy Pink: We continuously twerk with one another. Each time we see him. We continuously twerk.
GloRilla: Y’ all foolish.
Sexyy Pink: He amusing.
GloRilla: OK, so do you’ve got methods to launch any sort of non-rap tunes on future jobs?
Sexyy Pink: Like vocal singing and issues?
GloRilla: I presume.
Sexyy Pink: I indicate, I at present did that. I get on some practical sh * t. I can do something. I will do a rock-star tune. I get on just a few different sh * t.
GloRilla: ALRIGHT.
Sexyy Pink: Yeah. So, I have to know simply how did it actually really feel to take heed to Beyoncé and Rihanna state that you simply amongst they favored younger musicians?
GloRilla: I seem to be cannot nobody inform me sh * t at present.
Sexyy Pink: Oh!
GloRilla: Like, nobody cannot inform me sh * t. I seem to be that bi ** h.
Sexyy Pink: Yeah, real, although. That’s important, although. I ain’t gon’ exist.
GloRilla: Yeah, them 2 of my faves.
Sexyy Pink: Yeah, I said I wanted to take care of them, additionally.
GloRilla: That gon’ be legendary.
Sexyy Pink: Yeah. OK, that have you ever obtained the easiest steering from within the online game to date and what was it?
GloRilla: [Yo] Gotti? I am gon na state Gotti provided me the easiest steering. He be informing me … for sure he inform me financial … an excessive amount of financial steering and he merely present me an excessive amount of supervisor steering. He continuously inform me, “Don’t receive careless” and issues.
Sexyy Pink: On God.
GloRilla: And don’t shed my self-confidence.
Sexyy Pink: Yeah.
GloRilla: That is what I extracted from him.
Sexyy Pink: Length. That is what’s up.
GloRilla: OK, so that you a mama. And also you merely had your 2nd teenager. Simply how have you ever been stabilizing each little factor?
Sexyy Pink: Umm, I stabilize it ‘trigger I obtained my mother to help me out. She be helping me see my kids after I obtained ta job. Nonetheless as rapidly as I depart job, she like, “Proper right here go your kids.” So yeah, that is simply how I stabilize it.
GloRilla: So, is it exhausting? Like, with you getting on the roadway having a new child?
Sexyy Pink: It isn’t powerful ‘trigger I obtained assist. Though I am a solitary mothers and pop, I obtained my mother to help me, so it stabilizes it out real, real.
GloRilla: OK. Yeah. What’s the best possible merchandise of steering you have obtained concerning managing being a mom and an occupation, and that was it from?
Sexyy Pink: The perfect merchandise of steering, I ain’t gon’ lie. People continuously offer me steering on that individual sh * t. I be unlucky I reached depart your property, and [my kids] sobbing ‘trigger they don’t want me to go away ‘trigger they acknowledge I’ ma be gone a min. And afterwards [people] resemble, “Nonetheless you doing this for them.” I be sobbing. I weep with [my kids]. Yeah, everybody resemble, “Merely preserve doing what you doing. You doing this to allow them to stay a much better life than you probably did.” So, that is all I draw from that.
GloRilla: Proper. Length. OK, wouldn’t have enjoyable with you.
Sexyy Pink: Yeah. OK. So, we each went down a job this yr. What was your technique on producing your brand-new job?
GloRilla: , it jumped off my mixtape. On high of the yr, I resemble, “I’ ma produced a mixtape.” ‘Trigger I appeared like they had been trying to have enjoyable with me and issues.
Sexyy Pink: Length.
GloRilla: So, I said, “OK, I’ ma produced this mixtape.”
Sexyy Pink: Length.
GloRilla: ‘Trigger I had really been servicing my cd the yr previous to that, but I resemble, dangle on.
I had really scraped it. Like, an excessive amount of the tunes from the cd I been had, but I said I am gon na do the mixtape initially. And afterwards I said the mixtape gon’ assist me introduce the cd and the cd [is] mosting more likely to have an excessive amount of compound. I am discussing numerous issues.
Sexyy Pink: You most undoubtedly bulged along with your brand-new songs. Like, you merely coming back-to-back-to-back.
GloRilla: Thanks.
Sexyy Pink: That is what’s up. You doing all your level.
GloRilla: Thanks.
Sexyy Pink: OK. That haven’t you handled but that you’d actually take care of?
GloRilla: Beyoncé.
Sexyy Pink: Yeah, period.
GloRilla: OK, so existed a minute you’ve got belonged of that you can not assume you participated in?
Sexyy Pink: Yeah, an excessive amount of instances. I cannot specify and state, ‘trigger or not it’s so much happening in our lives. My life be relocating so rapidly, but it do be issues, and I’ll actually be needing to unwind like, “Dang, I coincide little Nae-Nae from the Northside, and I am resting proper under doing this sh * t.” I be merely in my head. I can’t state it aloud, but I will be resting there, like, I might be socializing with you and resemble, Dang, I am straight socializing with somebody from another metropolis. We each rap. I merely be believing all sort of sh * t.
GloRilla: See, I cannot conceal it. I merely attain performing prolonged. I don’t acknowledge simply how you can conceal it.
Sexyy Pink: You present for precise?
GloRilla: Lady, what? I weep every time I see Beyoncé, and I performed see her 3, 4 instances and I weep every time.
Sexyy Pink: You do extreme.
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GloRilla: OK, so what have you ever been one of the vital thrilled to be a part of this yr?
Sexyy Pink: Umm, what have I been one of the vital thrilled to be a part of? Sh * t. I presume merely the rap, the ladies rap society. I belong of that sh * t. To start with, I made use of to be outdoors looking in and like, Dang, I cannot wait ’til I am up and at present, I am with the massive pets. I am with them.
GloRilla: Length. Wouldn’t have enjoyable with you.
Sexyy Pink: “Whatchu Kno Relating to Me” is successful. Why do you imagine the followers get pleasure from it so much?
GloRilla: I imagine ‘trigger they wished to see me and also you on a tune with one another for as lengthy.
Sexyy Pink: Yeah.
GloRilla: Like, they wished to see us work together. And afterwards, with the instance, additionally, each little factor merely was accessible in space.
Sexyy Pink: Yeah, that is my sh * t. Lady, I stay listening to it down under, additionally.
GloRilla: Real?
Sexyy Pink: Previous to I merely turned up under, I remained within the car placing down. I ain’t state completely nothing, but I heard it on the radio. Usually, I will name like, “Y’ all heard it? Y’ all heard it?” Nonetheless I preserve listening to it, so it resembles I am not additionally finna preserve stating completely nothing. This muthafu * ka merely be taking part in.
GloRilla: That junt nonetheless rising at present.
Sexyy Pink: Precisely How will surely a Glo and Sexyy job audio to you?
GloRilla: Cog as fu * ok.
Sexyy Pink: Yeah.
GloRilla: It gon’ be some extremely cog sh * t. The ni ** as gon’ despise us. No, I indicate the males gon’ despise us.
Sexyy Pink: I imagine they will surely get pleasure from it.
GloRilla: You imagine so?
Sexyy Pink: Because of the truth that we each trench-certified, you acknowledge? 2 women.
GloRilla: You acknowledge simply how we chat our sh * t, although.
Sexyy Pink: That is what I am stating.
GloRilla: Once I initially introduced out “FNF” they resembled, “That’s this bi ** h discussing, ‘Fu * ok ni ** as’?”
Sexyy Pink: You acknowledge what I am stating? You broke out with “FNF.”
GloRilla: Nonetheless it is merely plenty of cog.
Sexyy Pink: You broke out maintaining that one.
GloRilla: You acknowledge we obtained ta do it.
Sexyy Pink: You acknowledge you probably did, proper?
GloRilla: You acknowledge.
Sexyy Pink: I ain’t gon’ lie. You most undoubtedly bulged with “FNF.” Everybody was remixing that muthafu * ka.
GloRilla: On God.
Sexyy Pink: That resembled among the many preliminary tunes I seen everybody tryna get on and remix.
GloRilla: They had been rapping out … they was doing that sh * t for therefore rattling prolonged.
Sexyy Pink: That is what I am stating.
GloRilla: We each sort of brand-new to this diploma of success in our songs professions. What has shocked you concerning the hip-hop online game to date?
Sexyy Pink: The chatter. The dramatization. Love dramatization. I am merely taking part in. Nah, real, nonetheless, because you acknowledge simply how to start with, we acquired on the outside, so we ain’t acknowledge completely nothing concerning the celeb tea. Immediately, we within the dramatization, we within the combine at present. So, I imagine that is restricted.
GloRilla: Yeah.
Sexyy Pink: Because of the truth that people from my metropolis, they be trying to ask me like, “Pink, like …” and I resemble, “Nope. Can’t inform you.”
GloRilla: And or not it’s so insane since once we acquired on the outside looking in, it resembled we merely thought something. At the moment I be seeing that so much sh * t be phony.
Sexyy Pink: I don’t assume each little factor I see.
GloRilla: I resemble, Wow. It is many lies they unfold out concerning us they usually merely be considering it. Sexyy Pink: Yeah, ‘trigger they be current concerning me, but I am not gon’ go clear it up. I’ ma permit y’ all positioned that coat on me. I don’t present a fu * ok.
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GloRilla: What do you imagine is the easiest part of getting all these lady rap artists out at present and controling?
Sexyy Pink: The perfect part … because it resembles the fellows be straight bumping our songs at present. That is most certainly the easiest. It is much more girls rap artists at present. It seems like the ladies surpassing the children at present. It is much more women and there is brand-new ones showing the woodworks each day. It is all numerous type of women showing.
GloRilla: Sho’ is. That run the globe? Ladies.
Sexyy Pink: Ladies. OK, so you recently uploaded a photograph expectant, having enjoyable with people extreme. That did you receive real once they resembled, “Glo, so that you really expectant?”
GloRilla: Everybody assumed that and everybody was calling. Everybody on my group. Everybody calling my family. They equivalent to, “Is she really expectant?” Y’ all merely noticed me on part with a six-pack.
Sexyy Pink: Proper.
GloRilla: When the fu * ok did I receive 8 months expectant?
Sexyy Pink: Is that this a trick? They insane.
GloRilla: They should have acknowledged that sh * t had not been precise. I don’t acknowledge why and afterwards I play extreme anyhow. People take me additionally main typically.
Sexyy Pink: I understood you had not been since I had really merely seen you and we had merely did our shoot. So, I am questioning what she obtained. Is she doing a video clip, image shoot? I ain’t acknowledge. I resemble, is it Halloween?
GloRilla: That is what everybody was trying to state, additionally.
Sexyy Pink: Yeah, I resemble, Is it an outfit? OK, so it state you recently said you had been solitary and celibate up till God sends you an different half. What’s up maintaining that?
GloRilla: I ain’t fretted about no niggas at present.
Sexyy Pink: You celibate, otherwise you advertising it?
GloRilla: You acknowledge, I ain’t gon na state it. They gon’ … I ain’t additionally gon’ state completely nothing ‘trigger I acknowledge they gon’ take this clip and try to make it go viral. So, I’ ma depart it at, I am merely solitary and celibate.
Sexyy Pink: Solitary and celibate. The globe want to know! Is that they not together with the money, so that you not advertising it?
GloRilla: Uh-huh.
Sexyy Pink: Not advertising it.
GloRilla: Uh-huh. I ain’t advertising it.
Sexyy Pink: These ni ** as ain’t obtained no money. They ain’t obtained much more money than us.
GloRilla: By no means.
Sexyy Pink: OK, so she’s solitary and celibate. She had not been taking part in. You had not been taking part in once you said that?
GloRilla: No.
Sexyy Pink: Lady, you current. The size of time you been celibate?
GloRilla: Umm.
Sexyy Pink: A pair hours.
GloRilla: A pair days.
Sexyy Pink: OK, that is nice. You extra highly effective than me, sis.
GloRilla: Quite a lot of people will definitely present girls rap artists a troublesome time, stating we’re additionally sex-related or over the main with verses and video clip materials. What do you imagine once you take heed to that?
Sexyy Pink: I imagine y’ all some haters. I imagine y’ all don’t want y’ all bi ** h to beam as a result of y’ all unconfident and it ain’t a difficulty when y’ all obtained y’ all breast out, or y’ all little small d ** ok print revealing and all that along with your drawls drooping, your pungent a * s out, doo-doo tarnish. It isn’t a difficulty when y’ all do it, but y’ all taking our design. It is incorrect once we do it?
GloRilla: It is fashionable once they do it.
Sexyy Pink: It is incorrect after I do it? The fu * ok?
GloRilla: OK, final concern. Simply how do you plan to open the doorways for females in hip-hop?
Sexyy Pink: I seem to be we open ’em up for them as a result of, like, we from the trenches. They will hook up with us. I seem to be they grabbed an arbitrary girl from the hood, and easily provided her some money and positioned her on tv. That is simply how I actually really feel after I try myself. ‘Trigger I resemble, Ain’t no likelihood. Like, is that this a trick? I don’t acknowledge. It is insane.
GloRilla: I seem to be we introduced a brand-new, not exactly a brand-new audio, but sort of a brand-new audio.
Sexyy Pink: Is it referred to as “jenner?”
GloRilla: Class.
Sexyy Pink: Class? It don’t resemble it meant class. It state “jenner.” We the brand-new “jenner” and …
GloRilla: Nonetheless sure, prefer it had not been equivalent to, we what hip-hop was lacking out on. Know what I am stating? After that we each from like Down South. Is St. Louis Down South or Midwest?
Sexyy Pink: Midwest.
GloRilla: Rattling, real.
Sexyy Pink: Yeah, but I am stating it resembles they grabbed arbitrary women from the hood. You possibly can find women like us on the street, to make it possible for permit you acknowledge any individual could make it, real.
GloRilla: Yeah, I take satisfaction in us.
Sexyy Pink: I’m, additionally.
GloRilla: We did that.
Sexyy Pink: Length.
GloRilla: To the ghetto bi ** hes.
Sexyy Pink: Poor bi ** h sh * t. Northside sh * t.
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