Tems Talks Music, Success And More With Kendrick Lamar: ‘I Was Prepared To Die’

“I used to listen to a lot of Nigerian music and I wasn’t getting a lot of spiritual — I love Celine Dion, so, I love that intense feeling of, I’m about to jump off a cliff. That’s how I want my music to feel all the time, and Afrobeats wasn’t necessarily giving me that type of stimulation,” she explained.
“I want to make music that makes me pull my heart out, and if I can’t do that, I don’t want anything. I would rather do that and be broke than compromise. I didn’t really care about the money. It’s not that money is bad. Money is very good. But for me, even right now, I’m chasing a frequency,” Tems added.