“It never occurred to me how this was going to be a problem,” she tells the mag. “I thought people were gonna be surprised that we finally did a record together, but I didn’t see how people could think it was a bad thing, you know? In my mind, it was just music . . . I could never see anything wrong with making music.”

“There’s a lot of shit y’all can’t get over. Y’all holding your breath on a lot of stuff that doesn’t matter,” she snipes. “When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it — and I lived it for me.”