Danielle Brooks From "OITNB" Dropped A New Single And This Song Slaps
She acts! She sings! She can do anything!
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BuzzFeed Staff
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BuzzFeed Staff
This is Danielle Brooks. You may know her from her iconic role as Taystee on Netflix's Orange Is The New Black – the best character on the show, in my humble opinion.
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She recently joined Cocoa Butter to talk about her new single "Black Woman" and what inspired her to make such a bop.
What inspired you to write this song?
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Danielle Brooks: "So, I wrote this with two of my friends and one of them asked me if I could talk about anything I wanted to without a filter, what would that be? And, for me, it was the experience of being a black woman. I decided to write this song, without any filters, of my journey as a black woman in America. "
What do you want people to get out of this song?
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DB: "I want black women to feel empowered by this song; I want them to feel on top of the world. I want them – when they're home, and they just had the worst day of their life, or just had the best day of their life – to play this song and feel like they could take over the world."