Fader Magazine Interviews K. Michelle

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K. Michelle has a lot going on these days. Her own show "My Life" on VH1 as well as a new album on the way. In an interview with Fader Magazine she discusses her life and career struggles as the "underdog" and how her spirit won't allow her to give up!!!

Fader writes:

R&B, traditionally the genre of love and romance, never fails to mark Valentine's Day: themed mixtapes and EPs have become customary. But this year, between Ne-Yo's gentlemanly advice on 3 Simple Rules and JoJo's take on classic love songs on LoveJo, one release stood apart from the rest. Still No Fucks Given, screamed the title of K. Michelle's offering—and reverberated throughout as a vocal stamp—a blast of white-hot rage amidst all the soppy sentiment. "Fuck You," "Drink Bleach," and "She Can Have You" declared the songs therein.

"Around then I wasn't feeling very romantic," K. Michelle laughs today, over Skype from her base in downtown LA. "Roses, chocolate, candy, I wasn't feeling like that. And a lot of women weren't. A lot of women beat themselves up over the head over Valentine's Day, they go crazy over some flowers and shit. I was like, no way. It's just another day. And it's just another day when you realize men are NOT. GOOD."

A willful disregard for propriety, fighting talk at every turn and a healthy dose of misandry: these are the things that have characterized Kimberly Michelle Pate's circuitous and often traumatic rise to success. An early mixtape, 2010's What's The 901?, was a hard-hitting showcase of a vital voice in R&B, but a record deal with Jive fell through—K. Michelle would later allege abuse at the hands of her ex, who worked for the label—and the promised debut album proper, Pain Medicine, never materialized. As the decade progressed, K. Michelle's strong-voiced, confessional aesthetic fell out of fashion: in an era of soft-voiced cooing and submarine synths, where was the space for an artist whose dictionary had pages torn out in place of words like "restraint" and "subtlety"? Reality TV—specifically, Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta—it turned out, where a pugnacious K. Michelle's antics (up to and including throwing a lit candle at a rival's head) gained her an audience when she joined the show in 2012 and paved the way to a No. 1 R&B album with her belated debut, last year's Rebellious Soul. It seemed to open the floodgates for the singer, unleashing a year of unbridled creativity. There was the victory lap that was Still No Fucks Given, and then, just for the hell of it, as befitting a former R. Kelly protégée, K. Michelle persuaded Idris Elba to direct a half-hour musical version of the album, screened on VH1 in August. "I redid the album and I invited the label heads to hear it—they said, you must have too much time on your hands," she grins. It was more like making up for lost time, though—and now she's getting ready to release her second album, Anybody Wanna Buy A Heart?, on December 9th, via Atlantic Records.

I am rooting for K. Michelle. I've been a fan since "You Should Killed Me" feat. Rick Ross. I love her story. I love her personality. She's raw...she's real. I can respect that all day long. I've been listening to #AWBAH since she announced it's preview! Got a few tracks on repeat. Wishing her the best in success!

Please check out the rest of the interview via TheFader.com !