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Ravyn Lenae Talks Doechii, Janet Jackson & Sleeper Hit ‘Love Me Not’: ‘I’m Trying Not to Get Ahead of Myself’
Ravyn Lenae talks to Billboard about "Love Me Not" as her first Hot 100 hit, TikTok success and drawing inspiration from Doechii and Janet Jackson.
Nearly a decade after indie R&B tastemakers and college students across the country first swooned over her self-released EPs and early collaborations with Monte Booker and Smino, Ravyn Lenae has earned her first Billboard Hot 100 hit with “Love Me Not” (chart dated April 12). Thanks to a wave of TikTok momentum — one that’s also benefitted Janet Jackson’s “Someone to Call My Lover,” a kind of foremother to “Love Me Not” — the single steadily grew throughout the late winter and early spring and now reaches a No. In a conversation with Billboard, Ravyn Lenae talks her slow-burning success, drawing inspiration from Janet Jackson, gracing the Hot 100 for the first time with “Love Me Not,” and witnessing the power of TikTok firsthand.
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