“When I signed to Interscope everything was already, like, whatever I wanted to do. Nobody really told me what direction to go in, nobody said to be 'this' kind of person, I never was a packaged album, so I felt like from the beginning, this is all my ideas, it's all who I am. I'm true to who I am so I want to control it. Why not?”

American singer, songwriter, and television personality

Keyshia Cole is an American singer, songwriter, and television personality. She is known for contemporary R&B and hip hop soul, and for a voice that critics have described as both raspy and emotionally expressive. Her songs often draw on relationships and personal experience, which gives her work a personal, confessional tone. Music critics have also referred to her as the "Princess of Hip-Hop Soul," a label that reflects her place in that style of music.