This week has seen Janelle Monae welcome the masses to ‘The Age of Pleasure’ with her like-titled new album.
And she’s hot on the promotional trail, with her latest stop being The Breakfast Club.
Chopping it up with Charlamagne Tha God and DJ Envy, the expansive conversion spanned the new project, Monar being non-binary, and LGBTQIA rights.
She also opened up about the discourse surrounding her liberated image – specifically the breast-baring cover of her LP. See what she had to say below…
Reflecting on double standards and how her previous suit-wearing aesthetic would be weaponized, Monae candidly quipped:
“They tried to use my image to defame, talk-down on other women who were expressing themselves and showing their skin. We all want autonomy. I wanted autonomy to wear my suit for 10 years without y’all telling me I look like the peanut man. And I did that. And I ain’t putting my t*tties up. Because did y’all ask D’Angelo to put his t*tties up when he did ‘Untitled’? Do y’all ask Rick Ross to put his t*tties up? C’mon now.”
Check out the full interview: