No man will compare to that, because there's certain things that we just are going to relate to each other because we're related. We have the same blood, so it was an unspoken bond. My mistake in comparing guys to my brother was that a sibling, especially an older brother younger sister type of relationship, there's no stronger bond than that. Me and my brother were always very, very silly and inappropriate sense of humor where you can't joke like that with anyone 'cause they might be like, "Really?" It could be offensive at times, but we're super, super friendly like that and we love South Park and that type of humor. What traits were you trying to find in men that resembled your brother the most?
Throughout the album you were trying to find pieces of your brother through men that you've dated in the past. I always felt like he was more like my friend, you know what I mean? People in school would always be like, "You guys aren't twins?" So we went through middle school together and had a lot of the same friends. A lot of the time, it would be me and my brother or me and Miyagi because we were closest in age. My older sisters were always together, and then another brother who would pretty much be doing his own thing. I grew up in a house where it was five of us. We have the same mom and dad. We grew up in tight quarters as well, so we shared everything and everyone was like two years apart. So there's that two years, two years, two years and my brother, Miyagi. He was two years older than me, so we're the last two of the five. We pretty much did everything together. Since he passed, every day I've dedicated to him. How would you have described your relationship with him before he passed? In your mission statement, you also dedicated the album to your brother. I just thought he, with his wisdom, always saw our true essence, you know what I mean? And I feel the Jhenè today is more of Penny. I know I feel like you got my mission statement where I talked about being Penny - which is the nickname that my great-grandfather gave me when I was four - and I feel like that is really my true self. I felt like he looked at all of his great-grandkids and grandkids when they were born and just saw something in them and he gave us all a nickname. Jhené Aiko: Well, I'm almost 30, so that makes a big difference.
Billboard spoke with Aiko about her most honest work yet in Trip, her relationship with her late brother Miyagi, her evolution as a mother and why Big Sean is the love of her life.īillboard: Describe Jhené now versus Jhené when Souled Out came out in 2014. Laced with 22 tracks, Trip shreds the public's perception of Aiko and allows everyone to walk into the life of Penny, a nickname she was given by her great-grandfather when she was a child. For the first time, Aiko gives listeners a front row seat and allows them to watch her undergo a whirlwind of emotions, including love, pain, depression and, ultimately, triumph. Her journey sparked her creativity and enabled her to splash drops of candor onto the canvas like never before. With the loss of her brother weighing heavy on her spirit, Aiko ventured to Hawaii to seek liberation. Through records like "Lyin' King," "W.A.Y.S." and "Spotless Mind," Aiko's precociousness as a songwriter had listeners enthralled.
While she looked for fulfillment in the love department, on the music front, she bloomed into one of R&B's premier songstresses with her 2014 album, Souled Out. With each romantic encounter, she sought humor and soulful conversations as nourishment. "I'm a true hopeless romantic and I feel like you have to not be afraid of love," says 29-year-old singer Jhené Aiko.Īiko, an amorous soul who relishes the concept of love and the fruits that it bears, has admittedly found herself before on the short end of the stick in romance. After losing her brother, Miyagi, in 2012 to cancer, Aiko feverishly searched for a man who reminded her of her close friend.
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