Whether it’s Love & Hip Hop or in the booth, Sofi Green has always been a star in the making. She discusses her new single, Porn Star and its origins.
So, the beautiful thing is that my song, Porn Star, that’s out right now, thank you for everyone that’s listening to it and playing it. My producer just won a Grammy off the Chris Brown album last weekend. So, I’m super, super grateful about that.
I also co-produced the record with him. And all the records that I put out with Jonathan Watts, I co-produced. I also write everything.
And I am also signed to Concord Music Publishing. So, that right there, I’m super excited about. I’m super excited about the motion and record as well.
The video will be coming. Chris Lammy and I already have another single prepared that I co-produced. And it’s super dope.
It’s like an R&B kind of pop hip-hop record ready to go. And I’m in the middle of recording and I’m just super excited. I also wrote a jingle for 96.3 and I co-produced it and they love it as well.
So, it’s been a great start to the year to be honest.
And how’s the transition been like from going from a ballerina to an artist to a centerpiece?
Well, I think the transition has been actually incredible because I’ve always believed that for you to be a true artist, I think you have to have all the comments. Like for me, being a ballerina, I also have a degree in theater from Fordham University and for me studying at the Kennedy Center. I also wanted to just make sure that I was able to have every facet of artistry because in order to be a true artist, you have to have every facet.
Like if an artist drops a mic, you got to get on the mic and you got to be the semi artist as well. I just feel like in order to be great, you have to actually put in work to be great. And I think that if you can master or rather get in the process of mastering that the transition is not an issue because when you want to take it from, what can I say, just regular music to stadiums, you have to have different facets.
So for me, it wasn’t a hard transition whatsoever. It was just was, what else I gotta do? What else, you know, like let’s make it happen.
So I just always have been focused on knocking down other things so that I can be great.
What is your social handles?
Yes, my Instagram is the letter I is in ice green. M is in Mary, Sofi Green, S-O-F-I-G-R-E-E-N. And that is my Instagram.
My TikTok is IG underscore Sofi Green because, you know, I upload to that mommy band. So again, it’s IG underscore Sofi Green. And I am Sofi Green on Twitter.
My YouTube also is Sofi Green Music. And that’s all of my different handles. And I’m communicative, I’m not weird.
Oh, talking about the single, who produced the concept behind it. Like let us know how this one came together.
Oh, okay, great. Porn Star sounds like it’s about sex and actual porn, but it’s not. It’s about making sure you don’t let people exploit you.
You make sure that if anyone’s going to do the fucking, you already have a little fucking. So basically, porn stars like we not let nobody fuck me over. I’m going to be the one who I’m going to be the one that does the fucking.
So, Porn Star is created basically to be a song that makes the system, especially not to be political, especially with the political climate of the country. It just ain’t getting crazy. I was just like, no, we got to make sure we got a backbone right now.
Fuck that, stand the fuck up. So I really am an avid music listener and I love Led Zeppelin and I love rock songs. And I love the studies from me studying BC boys, you know, to be around producers and being in the studio.
I was just like, yo, it needs to have some edge. It needs to have edge. I said it needs to have some grip beyond just hip hop.
So I sent Beastie Boys Sabotage and a couple of the records to my producer, Yanneson, and then we collaborated and we co-produced the record, Porn Star, and then I wrote the record and then I recorded it. And Yanni, who did say-off for Trey Songz, he mixed and mastered it. And DJ Self and them, they premiered it.
So Yanni, he also just mixed and mastered the jingle that I did for 96.3. I gotta add like two more lines to make it perfect for them, but yeah, that’s my guy.
Sofi tell us her thoughts on other women in hip hop and their contributions to the industry.
I feel as if it’s not a lot of female hip-hop girls who are pushing the needle a little bit outside us, and she’s coming with pussy rap.
So I want to be able to do a little something. I think it’s, of course, it’s nothing wrong with talking about shaking your ass, get some money, broke n****, broke n****, but we have to also have different messages because if everybody sounds the same, what’s different? You know, I mean, like, if we, you know what I mean?
Nobody want to have cornflakes every day. Give me a little bit of, give me a little bit of fruity-o’s. .
So I definitely, I love Doechii, I love her, I love that the needle, it’s getting pushed, because I feel like brown people And I think people have kind of got in the box for so long. And I think now, because they’re seeing, they have an audience. I love the fact that the, you know, the stage is being, you know, present for people like me, who want to push the needle to, you know, have a voice.
And I’m, you know, I love the fact that I, like I’m the artist that sits in all my, like all of my studio sessions because I co-produce. So the music is always gonna be there. Like I sit there for everything.
I don’t play games.
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