Saweetie pulled up to Genius to break down her latest single, ‘NANi.’ The infectious summer anthem is the perfect feel-good track. On today’s episode of Verified, Saweetie shares how she drew inspiration from icons like Foxy Brown and Lady Gaga, unpacks the meaning behind a “NANi Girl,” and more.
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00:00Keeping it cuntsy is just, it's really just an energy, you know, real cunt, real cute,
00:05you know?
00:06When you clocking a bitch or when you just serving something down.
00:17First it was body.
00:18Like, ooh, got that body, yaddy, yaddy.
00:21But when I was listening to it, I was like, you know what?
00:23I don't want to say a word that has the same type of meaning, but something that we haven't
00:31heard in a while or something that we're not using.
00:33So I thought of Foxy Brown.
00:35I thought of Miss Ilnana.
00:37I took the nana and then made it nani.
00:39I love paying tribute to my bad bitches who came before me.
00:43Foxy is that girl.
00:45She actually is one of my mom's most favorite rappers.
00:47Like as a child, we played that Ilnana album out.
00:50I love her.
00:51She's so bossy and just so fine.
00:54Pull the cameras out, a bitch be looking too good.
00:56My name in her mouth, I tell her how to chew up.
00:59Glam is a bad bitch sport.
01:01When the face is beat, the waist is snatched, and the hair is doing what it's supposed to
01:05do, pull the cameras out because a bitch is looking too good.
01:09You're proud of that beat and you want to like document that beat.
01:12So that's why I'm saying pull the cameras out.
01:19So interestingly for me, when you talk down, it inspires me to go harder.
01:23I played sports, so I'm no stranger to the criticism.
01:27There's a difference between a critic and a hater.
01:30Now a hater, you just on some bullshit, but that's okay because you're doing your job.
01:34And for me, I'd rather be me rather than be a hater, and I can never do that.
01:42I found a lot of my flows through just freestyling on the mic, and sometimes words don't have
01:48to come out.
01:49And in that moment, those were just sounds.
01:51I was like...
01:55And then I, of course, added some words and some context later, but I discover those flows
02:00when I'm just flowing on the mic and when I'm just being free.
02:09That definitely was a reference back to my Best Friend track.
02:12I realized the importance of Best Friend to the friendships, the family relationships
02:17between mothers and daughters and sisters.
02:20I always love hearing the stories that women tell me when it comes to being unified with
02:25their favorite person when that song comes on.
02:27So I feel like Best Friend was just that ride or die anthem.
02:46So what inspired the playing Sprinter Glam to the club?
02:49First of all, Lady Gaga.
02:50I got that from one of her interviews, one of her most iconic moments.
02:54And that was just me showing love, paying my respect to her.
02:58But I realized that my life is literally like that.
03:02There's just so many places I go and so many people that I meet, and it feels like that.
03:06Because after this, we gotta go here, then there, then there, then there.
03:09What a life.
03:10But this is what I signed up for, and I'm grateful that I'm booked and busy.
03:20Have you ever seen a bad bitch with a good walk?
03:28When you see a woman like that, the first thing I think of is how she walk through swinging
03:33that body.
03:34Because a walk is a walk.
03:35And I love me a girl with a mean walk.
03:37Just going back to the critics and the haters yelling, who gon' stop me?
03:40Y'all might say whatever you wanna say, but who gon' stop me?
03:43Y'all won't.
03:50Girl, yelling, who gon' stop me?
03:52You ain't got the time to clock me.
03:54It's so loaded, but it's so simple.
03:56You ain't got the time to clock me.
03:58It's just like, we looking at two different clocks.
04:00We're living in two different frequencies.
04:02We're living in two different levels, and baby, you don't got the time to clock me.
04:0790 good, 90 sweet, mention me, you'll get them retweets.
04:12I got that body, know I got that body, watch it tick, tick, you obsessing all about me.
04:17There's a lot of discourse that happens online sometimes, and I've noticed that when people
04:23attach my name to certain topics, they'll get them retweets.
04:29And I had to stop taking that personally, and it just made me realize how powerful my
04:33name was.
04:34I know, that's right.
04:36OMG, I look like money, could've been a Playboy Bunny, look at all this body on me, bad.
04:41That's an inner mirror, all a bitch can do is brag.
04:44Another day, another fucking bag, like.
04:46I think the Playboy Bunny girls are so cute.
04:48I was one four Halloweens ago, and I just felt like if I was alive during that era,
04:53I could've been a Playboy Bunny.
04:57You know a 90 girl, she just has that je n'en sais quoi.
05:01You can't put your finger on it, she just has it.
05:04It's indescribable.
05:05You gotta feel it, it's not something that you can really put words to it, it's a vibe
05:10that you have to catch in person.