Solange has recently released her new album ‘A Seat at the Table’ and everyone is going crazy. Master P and Solange actually have been working together on music. Master P is now speaking on the album, comparing it to his own rise to stardom and doing it independently.
Complex got a chance to speak with P about how the whole thing came about. He was asked how the whole album came about. P says,
[Solange] reached out to me. She’s been a big fan of my music even when she was younger and she was like, “I’m doing this project, I want to make it different, I want to make it special. Would you come say a couple words on it, narrate a couple songs on it?” It was all love.
[This album] happened the way it was supposed to happen because she’s a star and it’s her time. Like I told her, I said, a lot of people looking at Beyoncé, and Beyoncé is a superstar, she deserves that. But Solange has always been different, and if you’re persistent, and you keep believing in something, then you’re gonna create your own fanbase. And she [did that] outside of being in the shadow of her sister.
That’s what I love about her, she’s always been independent, she don’t care about what people say, what people think about her, you know, she’s a fighter. She got that same spirit, reminds me of my daughter, Cymphonique. Certain people, especially women, when you see that, you root for them, and you wanna be there for them and you wanna help them and you just want to see them win. Solange spent a lot of time in New Orleans, so we got a lot in common. She’s about helping the people and the community, after Hurricane Katrina. I saw that stardom in her and I just wanted to help her bring that out and let the world see that and notice it.
He says Solange described the album to him as being very soulful.
She told me it’s gonna be soulful. There’s a lot of things going on [in the country], a lot of injustice, women not believing in their beauty and who they are. She told me that she was going doing her, she was sticking by what
SHE’S A FIGHTER. SHE GOT THAT SAME SPIRIT, REMINDS ME OF MY DAUGHTER.
she believes in—she wasn’t trying to make a record for everybody, she was trying to make a record for her fans and also make music that the world could relate to and for people to understand that we are kings and queens.That’s what I brought to the project, to let the world know that we brought a lot of this gold and diamonds and stones over here to America, so we came here as kings and queens. Look at our cultures—they brought us over here and turned us into slaves but a lot of these African-Americans were kings and queens, and I understood what the movement was with the project she was making and with the police brutality and the African American people that are dying in our culture, she’s about our people and using her voice and standing out and being different. I applaud that.
The album is unique, and I feel like it’s gonna make a difference in a lot of young girls’ lives. Whether you’re white, black, Asian, you know, it don’t matter. I feel like this project is gonna be motivation to women all across the world and also men are gonna like it too.
This album was absolutely worth the listen. Solange defintely did her thing on this one. P proceeded to speak on the music game today, whats going on between Wayne and Birdman, and more.
You can check out the full interview here.
Source: Complex
