Janelle Monae on KUBE 93's Sound Session (Part 1 of 3)

The lovely Ms. Janelle Monae stopped by the Sunday Night Sound Session studio at KUBE 93 in Seattle on 8-23-08 to talk with DJ Hyphen and J. Moore. She discussed her background and inspirations growing up, how she linked up with Big Boi (of Outkast) and Diddy, the intricate storyline behind her "Metropolis" project, and much more.

In the first part of the interview, Janelle talked about her background, making the move to Atlanta to start her music career, and meeting Big Boi for the first time. Be sure to check out all 3 parts of the interview!

To download the broadcast audio of the interview and for more information on Sound Session, go here:
http://www.kube93.com/pages/sunday_night_sound_session_page.html

Also, check out Hyphen's blog:
http://www.theaudacityofdope.com/

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Hyphen
• Moore
• Session
• Kube
• Seattle
• Janelle
• Monae
• Atlanta
• Metropolis
• Outkast
• Big
• Boi
• Diddy
• bad
• boy
• idlewild

[HyphenTV]

@bottleracket in the entire interview, that's what you want to focus on? corny.

[Canm4]

Beautiful brown lady! Her music is awesome!

[jizzy2sexi]

"yo youknowwhatI'msayin nah mean" lol

[TheMvpgirl23]

"I signed their cd and they would cry and I I'm like.... Ooookaaay." She is awesome!

[damianpaz]

Do they have a printer printing shit in the background? JM is a real candy, in every sense that word could be applied.

[bottleracket]

"So when did you change your name to Monae?"

Great prep guys - don't even know that's the real name of the person you're interviewing.

[ho2cultcha]

i'm so crazy over this woman! what a future she's got ahead of her. another black woman hero.

from a gay, white, middle-aged man [who's kinda funky]

[ElJonorino]

Great interview guys!