Jessi Talks 'Girls Like Me,' Controversy, Marriage, and New EP ‘P.M.S.’
Zach Sang Show
Sangasong, LLC
4.6 • 687 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Jessi’s back! It’s been a minute since we last talked to her and about a year since she was in the public eye in a serious way. She had to take a break, the situation got cleared up, but she’s still clearly feeling the repercussions — and here, for the first time, she sets the record straight. Now she’s back with her new EP P.M.S., kicking off with her addictive new single ‘Newsflash’ with Jadakiss.
She’s as fiery, funny, and unconventional as ever, but for all her feistyness the 36-year-old is vulnerable too and she’s keen to show this side of herself, not only in music, but in conversation. We talk about her childhood in Jersey, getting bullied and her subsequent glow up. Moving to Korea to make outside of the idol system, and winding up on reality show Unpretty Rapstar! She also discusses working with PSY (and other different labels), trying to make space for love (we fill her in on the existence of Raya and her brain is blown), plus so much more!
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| 0:37.1 | Oh, Lord. Why is it like, why are they |
| 0:39.6 | locking us in here? What are you talking about? It's just us. Oh. Oh, shit. Hello, beautiful |
| 0:46.2 | human. Hello, guys. We are here with the CEO, Jesse. Yo. I finally here. And you are a CEO. |
| 0:55.3 | I am. I am. But you know what? I've always felt like I was a CEO. You're a boss. You know what I mean? Like I've been, I've been a boss. Explain, does that manifest in a way of like you fighting the system? Because the truth is like. No, no. It's just I feel like ever since I was young I always I was so independent like always |
| 1:13.7 | Going up even when I was young. Like I had older brothers. I moved out here when I was like, moved to Korea when I was like 14. So I had to like kind of discipline myself like at a young age. So like, I don't know. I just, I had to like mature faster. So I just kind of like, |
| 1:29.8 | yeah, in a sense, I kind of like like, you know, you know, in Korean labels like, well, not |
| 1:35.0 | just Korean labels. In labels in general, like no one knows my brand. You know what I'm saying? |
| 1:41.4 | So I was just authentically myself. And then when I kind of got my break, I just kind of figured it all out because I was just myself. So it's just like, I don't know. Like, I'm not as, I mean, it sounds weird when I say, people say, I'm going to see it. I just feel like a me. You got me? Totally. But you have many sides of you? It makes me feel weird when people think that. I just rather just be like an artist. Yeah. Was there a defining moment though where you were like, I need to take control of my career and I can't leave it up to anybody else? I mean, my whole life was like that, to be honest. To be fair, like shout out to Sai, but like he's really like taught me a lot but I've kind of always kind of like learn from everybody |
| 2:19.9 | and I'm a learner so when I see something |
| 2:22.5 | like say that you're sitting on this mic right now |
| 2:24.9 | I would kind of figure out how you're doing all this |
| 2:27.9 | and like just how you speak to people |
| 2:30.0 | and just stuff like that so I'm like a fast learner |
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