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Bebe Rexha: "As a child I was always so scared, bullied"
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I think it was really built inside of me as a kid and I think it also comes from, like, a place of fear. As a child I was always so scared. Both my parents had to work and I grew up pretty quickly. I'd have to watch my younger brother and take the bus in New York at a very young age. And I was bullied for a while, so I think it comes from that too. I was just an anxious kid, a kid who was kind of scared of the world.
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No, I was never a pop punk girl. I was a dance girl and an urban-rhythmic girl. I'm from New York City; I listened to Jay Z and hung out in Harlem. My best friends were all, like, mixed Italian or Albanian, or Spanish or Puerto Rican. It was very diverse. When I met Pete, I had to transition because I felt like I needed to fit in with his aesthetic. It was basically an experimental project that didn’t really pan out to what he saw in his head. And I became a chameleon to fit that. I was 18 and I wanted to be accepted and have Pete think I was cool, so I wore a lot of black and ended up becoming this emo kid. It was weird.
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It's basically finished. It's just a matter of going to LA and finishing it "officially." But actually, I just went into the studio with Timbaland and played him the album and he was like, "No wait, I really wanna get on this album, and I bet you I can beat these songs." He was like, "I've done it really well before with Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado." You know, he’s worked with a lot of artists who like me touch on pop and rhythmic. But he actually said to me I should keep my record completely urban-rhythmic, which was interesting to hear. And then my manager got to play Kanye some songs, and Kanye kept on saying, "Easy, easy. These songs are easy." But I don't know what that means!"
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