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BIANCA LAWSON EBONY Magazine | August 2022 photography by Keith Major

BIANCA LAWSON Ebony Magazine, August 2022

KOFI SIRIBOE The Next Come Up Interview (2019)

BIANCA LAWSON photography by Bonnie Nichoalds styled by Icon Billingsley.

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I would still give this same advice given to me by Courtney B. Vance. He said, “Listen. It’s a marathon. Not a sprint.” And I’ve told that to so many young artists. And “Be still.” Sometimes we have to be still. In December 2015, I was hit in a hit-and-run. I’m OK, I’m alive, I’m fine. I literally felt like it was the universe smacking me, saying, “Slow down!” And the minute I just sat with myself and was still, I tested for “Queen Sugar” and I met with Ava for 45 minutes. Ava calls me the day after my 37th birthday and she says, “I would love you to play Nova on ‘Queen Sugar.’

KOFI SIRIBOE in Doja Cat’s ‘Streets’ music video dir. Christian Breslauer