Mariah the Scientist is back at Genius to discuss her new hit “From a Woman,” which has been streamed over two million times on Spotify to date. The track is from her most recent project To Be Eaten Alive. On today’s Verified, Mariah talks about why it was important for her and Young Thug to release their own separate but joint records.
“I just felt like it was really nice to do from an artistic standpoint and I would like to do that again with him.”
“I just felt like it was really nice to do from an artistic standpoint and I would like to do that again with him.”
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00:00 So I released from a woman and Thug released from a man.
00:02 I just feel like it was really nice to do from an artistic standpoint and I would like
00:06 to do that again with him for sure.
00:08 I want to be able to get on the same record and say how I feel and he says how he feels
00:13 on the same record and then you explore what that looks like.
00:25 At some point in time we had two separate video treatments that had pretty much the
00:29 exact same pretense.
00:32 It was just from a different perspective.
00:34 It's a good representation of how he feels probably and mine is a good representation
00:38 of how I'm feeling.
00:39 We're repeatedly like, "No one's ever done that.
00:41 We should do it."
00:42 You know like, they can't beat us there.
00:46 Honestly, I'm talking to Jesus Christ.
00:58 You know like, I'm talking to God in that first line and then I follow it up with "Won't
01:01 let no one force my hand."
01:02 As in, obviously there's a lot of outside noise about what I should or shouldn't be
01:06 doing or like, you know, lots of opinions but you have to stand on how you feel.
01:11 Otherwise, you might as well be somebody else.
01:15 I was just like done with relationships and I was not going to spend a block.
01:28 And then it was like, now that all the doors are closed, there's an open window there.
01:33 Still a possibility, you know?
01:36 Look at the trust closing in.
01:39 Is this someone I can depend on?
01:41 Yes.
01:42 Sent from above, I am convinced.
01:45 If it isn't love, I guess love exists.
01:48 Maybe there actually are people in the world who can be there for you in a way that you
01:54 didn't think anybody could be.
01:57 It's like, whatever claim they were making or whatever they were saying they could do,
02:02 they actually did it.
02:04 I was like, I could depend on you.
02:06 I don't know if I've had that before, but it's nice now, you know?
02:10 When a woman denies emotion from a man or denies a particular kind of intimacy, it makes
02:30 the man shut down and behave in different ways or it can make him overcompensate.
02:36 Once you let him into it, it can change his perspective on a lot of things.
02:40 Especially when it's real and genuine, I think it could really change a man.
02:55 My boyfriend, by close people to him or to other people around, they call each other
03:01 slime.
03:02 I just feel like it's more like a boy thing.
03:04 It's like a boys club thing.
03:05 I just see him as more than that.
03:07 I see him as more than just him and all his boys and his rap stuff.
03:11 It's cool, though.
03:12 It's cool, for sure, but I just see him as this nice family guy.
03:19 He's just so multifaceted.
03:21 It takes time to get to a place where you can see somebody for what they really are
03:27 and then not for what everyone sees them as.
03:30 It doesn't just come all at once, though.
03:33 It does take time to reveal those layers.
03:36 Like an onion.
03:37 I look around, it's like animals flying around with the birds and the bees.
03:51 They're always with a partner.
03:53 I know this sounds scientific, but it's like I think eventually you know what you
03:58 want, you know what you have to offer and what kind of person you are.
04:01 You meet someone who's also very ... knows who they are.
04:05 It makes it easier to assess the situation and move forward.
04:10 Yeah, I know that seems like a long-winded conversation, but that is how I found what
04:14 I was missing.
04:17 For me personally, I feel like it goes communication, understanding, trust, and then love.
04:21 I think when you skip any of those steps, you don't really get to the outcome you're
04:26 looking for.
04:27 It creates a barrier for whatever love you think you want or whatever intimacy you feel
04:31 like you deserve in a relationship.
04:33 It's like you don't have the foundation.