Tone Stith chatted with Billboard on the red carpet of Billboard's 2023 R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players & Live.
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00:00 Hi, I'm Zaria and I'm here with Billboard and Save the Music.
00:04 I'm from Compton, California and I attend Dominguez High.
00:08 And I'm here with?
00:09 - Tone Stith.
00:10 - Oh.
00:11 I have a question.
00:14 - Yes.
00:15 - So tell me about your song, Girls Like You.
00:18 - All right, so listen, it's a true story,
00:20 real life experience.
00:22 It's about this girl that broke my heart
00:23 and really messed it up for the rest of the girls out there.
00:26 Now I got trust issues, now I gotta come with some baggage.
00:29 You know what I'm saying?
00:30 But I just wanted to make that song,
00:31 not only for the men, but for everybody
00:34 that's been in a situation like that.
00:35 Yeah, yeah.
00:37 - Can I ask you another question?
00:38 What's your favorite hip hop song?
00:41 - So I was just talking to a bro over there.
00:43 The first song that made me fall in love with hip hop
00:46 was Hip Hop Hooray by Naughty by Nature, ironically.
00:50 But then I'll say A Tribe Called Quest took it from there.
00:53 Electric Relaxation, I think that's the best one.
00:56 - You got time for one more question?
00:58 - Yeah, of course.
00:59 - What advice would you give to a kid
01:01 who's trying to get into music?
01:04 - I would say just really keep going.
01:06 Just don't stop, don't look at anybody
01:08 and try to get, I don't know, I guess,
01:12 just keep going and don't let anybody
01:15 take that dream away from you.
01:16 Because as long as you keep going and don't stop,
01:18 you're gonna get there.
01:19 There's the finish line, so.
01:21 Yeah.
01:23 - Thank you. - Thank you.
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