JT is gracing the duvet of Cosmopolitan as she prepares to launch new music this summer season.
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JT first stepped onto the scene as one half of the rap duo Metropolis Ladies, however since then, lots has modified. Now, the rapper is making her identify as a solo artist, proving she has the vary to make songs no person expects from her.
With new music on the horizon, JT is able to embrace a softer, extra grounded model of herself, one which’s deeply aligned together with her true targets. Whether or not it’s attaining solo stardom or getting engaged to her longtime associate, she believes that what’s meant to be will unfold in its personal time. In Cosmopolitan’s newest digital cowl story, JT opens up about navigating fan expectations, staying genuine, and her relationship with Lil Uzi Vert—from their modern-day love story to the proposal she’s been dreaming of.
The rapper commented on the Metropolis Ladies’ break up in her cowl story, insisting that whereas it’s not the route she wished to go in, she has no regrets.
“It’s not what I wished, nevertheless it was what was destined to occur,” she informed the magazine. “However I don’t really feel regretful about it. I really feel comfortable, in management, and like I’m the place I’m alleged to be….Anyone who was ever in a gaggle will say how arduous it’s to enter a solo profession. I really feel like we had been doing our personal factor for therefore lengthy and it was like—and I don’t imply this harshly—nevertheless it was certain to occur.”
JT additionally talked about her new period, admitting she needs her followers to see the brand new softer, steadier facet of her: “I’m actually able to push myself to take them into one other world. We’ve been on the membership collectively—let’s go some place else.”
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With reference to being softer, she additionally gushed over her longtime boyfriend, Lil Uzi Vert. The pair have been courting for six years, with the rapper saying, “I’m not married but, however we positively are going to marry one another. That’s my greatest buddy. That’s my canine.”
“Uzi is such a cool individual. We’ve been collectively since 2019, so we’ve been rising collectively,” she continued. “We simply have a look at one another and are like, Rattling, we actually cool. We actually know one another. We actually can exist and nonetheless like one another. It’s past love.”
The “Act Up” artist was an admirer of Uzi earlier than they even met, saying: “I bear in mind I had {a magazine} of Uzi after I was in jail. I beloved this journal. I wish to say it was Rolling Stone, however he was in a grocery retailer and he had these two braids going to the again. I assumed he was the best individual ever, however did I feel that six years later I might be courting him? No.”
JT went on to explain her dream proposal, insisting that Uzi already is aware of what he has to do.
“My man is aware of me like a guide. It can’t be no person with no ugly outfits. It could possibly’t be no person standing in the best way with too many telephones. It must be very elegant,” she informed Cosmo. “I must have smooth glam, brief nails. I sort of don’t need it to be on Instagram after. I don’t need my engagement to be introduced on The Shade Room. Oh my god, I might die. ‘Uzi proposed to JT,’ and the folks come. This isn’t for y’all….I need it to be how Beyoncé did it, with somewhat video of it and the folks see it years later. Let’s maintain some issues to ourselves.”
