Kehlani’s Daughter Gets Their Mom to Spill New Album Details, Talk Cardi B Friendship: ‘She Knows How To Be Herself All the Time’

Sometimes the easiest mode to get quality retired of your ma is to acceptable up a multi-camera sprout and inquire the important questions connected camera. At slightest that’s the maneuver Kehlani‘s five-year-old daughter, Adeya Nomi Parrish Young-White (aka “Bear”) took erstwhile she sat down for a Billboard Family chat with the “You Know Wassup” singer.

Adeya got close to work, asking Kehlani however they cooked up their archetypal apical 10 deed connected Billboard‘s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs database earlier this summertime with “Folded,” which ran up to No. 9 connected the database portion besides peaking astatine No. 18 connected the Hot 100 singles chart. “I was moving with my friends. I was successful Miami connected a enactment travel and I heard the bushed and I loved the bushed and truthful I took it successful a country and maine and [some collaborators] made the opus together,” the vocalist explained successful the video interrogation you tin ticker successful afloat above.

Not contented with elemental answers, Adeya pressed heard, asking her ma wherefore they wanted to merchandise the opus successful the archetypal place.

“I conscionable truly thought it was a truly chill mode to travel backmost into euphony aft I hadn’t enactment euphony retired for a while,” said Kehlani. “I was beauteous assured astir it. I thought it was a bully song,” turning things astir connected Adeya and asking if she likes the song, with the kindergartner giving a precise emphatic yes.

Adeya was besides funny astir the viral TikTok challenge that the opus spawned, arsenic good arsenic Brandy dropping an impromptu mentation of the song successful September, successful which she added immoderate of her signature vocal powerfulness to the way by her “little sister.” Kehlani said it was “really crazy” to person their implicit favourite vocalist screen their song, counseling Adeya that 1 time erstwhile she’s grown she’ll recognize that Brandy is her favourite arsenic well.

The chat besides touched connected the champion portion of Kehlani’s job, her favourite singers increasing up (Stevie Wonder, Mariah Carey, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, India.Arie), what it was similar gathering Janet Jackson and wherefore it is amusive being friends with Cardi B.

“She’s truly herself and she knows however to beryllium herself each the time,” Kehlani said of the the rapper, whose 2018 opus “Ring” they jumped on; they besides look connected “Safe” from Cardi’s caller album, Am I the Drama? “And she’s not acrophobic of what the satellite is going to accidental astir her being herself. And she conscionable makes you privation to basal for her due to the fact that she’s truly loving and she doesn’t attraction what anybody thinks and I deliberation we could each usage a small spot of that,” Kehlani said.

The interrogation ended with Adeya doing what each bully newsman does: squeezing immoderate breaking quality retired of her subject. “You cognize I person much caller euphony coming due to the fact that you helped maine marque it,” Kehlani said, referring to their girl arsenic the unnamed project’s “creative director.”

Kehlani and Adeya did a “new medium dance” erstwhile the vocalist promised that the follow-up to their 2024 Crash LP is owed retired successful 2026. At property clip nary further accusation was disposable connected the unnamed album.