Keke Palmer Reveals Why Oprah & Beyoncé Are Her Biggest Inspirations

Hey everybody. Welcome in to Young Hollywood. Look who I'm with today. Kiki Palmer. Oh, how are you? What's going on?

Oh my god, your teeth are so perfect. Oh, look at your teeth. Girl, stop.

Did you whiten them?

I have before. I'm not gonna lie. They look good.

I just whiten mine, too.

Yeah, you have to keep it up. That's why that's why we're like, Yeah, we're like.

Hi. I have to talk to you about your new single.

Yes. Bossy. Yes.

I saw a clip of it as it's performed on Fox's Star.

Yes.

Tell me about these shoes. Honey, those shoes are not for the faint of heart. Are these a belt? Is it shoes? What what's the situation?

Right, it's like, that's kind of like what it is. It's like shoes that turn into a belt.

So how do you put them on?

Girl, you have to put them on like shoes and then you have to loop them through the holes of your shorts, which was very a lot because my ratios were different.

You have to put them on like this.

Yes. Put them on like this. And then you And then you pull up from there. You have to make sure they're really high up, otherwise they won't sit on the belt.

And I've never seen anything. This look like a sexy cowboy.

Yes, very sexy cowboy. Yes.

Situation. The dancing is so great. I mean, you're an incredible dancer. You've danced for how many your whole life almost, right?

Yes. But shout out to Sean Bankhead because he gave me a different style of dance. I never usually do. I'm very kind of tomboy. I love street style. So I don't really do too much of the like, you know, kind of Burlesque-y. Yeah, I don't really do too much of that, but that's, I mean, Sean has worked with, of course, Fifth Harmony, tons of people. So he has a particular way of, you know, choreographing and it usually has like, you know, girl with a little songs, and a little swag, and a little sass. And it's different for me. But I was excited to to get that opportunity to work with him.

Aside from the bossy song,

Yes.

I believe you have an album.

Yes, I do. It's coming out. It's coming out this year. Um, it's titled The Boss. And so Bossy is just the first single off of it.

It's fitting.

Yes, you know. The Boss. Bossy. It's only right that we intro you to this project that way. You know, I had my EP that came out, I guess it was a year and a half ago, Lauren, which was just all about kind of the stripped down version of me. You know, people know me most as Kiki Palmer, but my real name is actually Lauren. You know, where I'm from, and just kind of how I came to be, and just that personal type of feeling. Exactly. That's what that project was about, whereas The Boss is all about Kiki Palmer. That brand, you know, the woman that's created that brand.

The confidence.

The confidence. Exactly. That That side of my persona. And so Bossy, of course, I felt was so fitting to intro them to that world.

Well, I love following all your boss moves. There's a trend here because you've started your own record label.

Yes, I have.

Congratulations. That's a big responsibility.

It's a huge responsibility. Not only to myself, but of course, you know, I want to start signing artists and finding people that, you know, want to be nurtured and and to help them on this journey because for me, with music, I've had I went through three record deals before realizing that the system didn't work for me, and that I didn't necessarily need to abide by it.

What do you look for in talent? If you're going to bring other people on,

Well, I look for sincerity. And then on top of that, I want somebody that is also a bit self-contained. Because again, I think there's a kind of misconception with the industry as if people assume that once they get in it, or if they get signed to a record label, that not everybody else does the work around them. And there's no work that they need to still do. And you have to, because the reality is, no one knows who you want to be or your vision for yourself more than you.

If you could choose three boss ladies that inspire you right now,

That's easy. Oh,

Everybody got it. Okay. Who are your three?

So, definitely Oprah. Of course. Because Oprah's work ethic is like, girl, you already got your own food. Then from there, I'd have to say Queen Latifah, because she's done everything. She's

And you're working with her now. For. Yes. Working with her for Scream.

Yes. I love her own. Yeah, she's um, executive producing on that. And then also working with her on Star. And then last, but of course not least, Beyoncé. Oh. Come on now. Beyoncé's work ethic. I mean, doing video shoots and pregnant. That's taking it to the next level, y'all. She's next level. She's not playing with these girls. She's not She said no days off. So, Beyoncé, and again, I'm always I will say this, I always say this. Virgos. Virgo, honey. Look at you. Yes. Honey, when I tell you Virgos, I really think that there was something sprinkled extra on us. Had to have been. A little a little um

A little bit more.

A little sparkle dust or something. Just a little bit of something. No offense to anybody else. No offense.

You need to get all these Virgos together. Mother Teresa and spiritual debt. Really? You didn't know that.

Girl, we've got them all in every category. You didn't know that. Excellence upon excellence. Oh,

Well, thank you so much for hanging out with us. So good to see you. You got to toss us out with the gag is.

Yes. So, man, so the gag is. Okay. I was trying to think of a joke, but the gag is I didn't have enough time. See you next time.