I made record labels so much money off my buddy. I made a lot of people so much money off my buddy and I got the smallest cut off my own fucking body and my own work and my own ideas and I don't

think I have to say sorry about the fact that I want to commodify my own shit. It's been commodified and I wasn't even the main fucking benefactor of it. So fuck this.

Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of Highlo with Emrata. Highlo is a podcast where we talk about lowbrow things and highbrow way and vice versa.

Today we have on someone who really honestly embodies Highlo. It is Alia. She is an incredible rapper and musician and started her career that way. If you don't know her hit song that kind of put her on the map like you should look it up.

It's one of my favorites. There's iconic walk-a-mile and these are the batons. Some of my favorite lyrics. I love Aguizalia and I'm really excited that she's here because she just started only fans and I want to talk to her about the stigma behind commodifying your image and your body, behind cosmetic surgery and about really doing whatever the fuck you want and not worrying about people's perception of you. So let's get into it.

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Welcome back to Highlo with Emrata.

A year's alia is here. I was sitting next to her. I met her last night, randomly, coincidentally, the basketball.

Yeah, I looked over and I was like, wait, what? I'm meeting you tomorrow. So it was kind of nice. No, it was good. I think it was good to break the ice.

Yeah, I know you just launched the only fans and there's a lot of like hustling, but I also read that you made a shit down the money last year. God bless.

Thank you. Love that so much for you.

It was funny because when I did do the only fans thing, everyone was like, she must be doing show bad down bad.

And I was like, definitely not down. Definitely not doing bad, but it's funny to me. I thought that was so funny seeing that reaction.

And I knew I would obviously get that reaction, but it just was funny to me because I was like, oh, you can't possibly conceive the notion that a woman would want to do this of her own volition and not because it's out of necessity.

That's interesting. Right. There immediately were calling you desperate. Yeah, and I'm like, it's funny to me that you view sexuality that way. That's not my take.

So why did you why did you decide to sign up for only fans and like you're launching like a whole project? It's not just like you.

Yeah. The project came first and then the platform for it made sense, I guess. I really for years, I've wanted to do like a big visual kind of like a, I hate just calling things a coffee tablebook, but I guess that's where books like that live.

I felt that there were so many different sides to me or the creative things that I wanted to do that I just knew didn't really lend themselves necessarily to music or my direction.

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