Verge to Emerge: Keke Palmer

Young Hollywood has selected you to be one of our top girls for Verge to merge to superstardom.

Thank you so much.

Because we have followed your career Kiki now for a while. We've done a set visit with you on True Jackson. So Kiki, this is where you get your makeup done. Tell me a little bit about it.

Oh yeah, this is where I get my makeup done by the ladies and they are the best makeup artists ever.

I did a photo shoot with you where you got to be the judge. We know that you're great on television, but you have some new movies coming up, correct?

Yes, I just did a film called Shrink with Kevin Spacey and Robin Williams. It's nothing like True Jackson VP.

And we've watched you grow. So we just want to say congratulations.

Thank you so much. I'm so glad you guys are part of my life and I'm just so thankful of everything going on around me and I hope to continue to make you guys proud.

And now it looks like you're going to embark on a new journey with your music. Congratulations. You've been signed to Interscope Records.

Yes! Woo!

And I just got to get a taste of your singing voice, which is beautiful.

Thank you so much.

But you've been singing on a variety of Disney records and for your show, you sing the theme song.

Exactly. I do a lot of singing behind behind everything like that, but I just got signed to Interscope and I'm getting ready to do my second album and I'm just thrilled about everything and, you know, getting the music out there and, you know, I want to make sure it's what teenage girls want, but also guys too, but just something that the girls can listen to and really connect.

And, um, it looks like you might be doing some producing in your future as well.

I would love, love, love to do some producing.

And you're doing all this and you're 16.

Yes.

What else could you do? Like what is on the top of your list of something that you would love to do that you haven't yet done?

Well, at the end of the day, I'm hopefully if all the way things go as I would like them to and, you know, do everything that I can as an entertainer, I would love to direct or write and, you know, uh, produce, like you said, do videos, all that type of stuff. Um, I would like to go behind the scenes at some point.

And throughout your career, you've worked on some really neat films. You've worked with some really established great actors, William H. Macy, so many people. You worked with Kevin Spacey the last time I talked to you. What have you learned from them and what advice have they given you to kind of grow in your career?

Um, just throughout the movies that I've worked with them. There's nothing specific that they've, you know, went to a corner and said to me, but just working with them, there's always been times where they've done something or did anything that I've taken with me to the next thing. So right for that, I thank them.

When you wake up each morning, what kind of drives you to be more successful and better at what you do each day?

The people, like things like this and the people that are proud of me, it makes me want to keep continuing to make them proud and to work hard to get what I want to be as myself, you know, they keep me thinking, you know, there's always a next step. I can always get better and that's what I choose, that's what I use, used to make me keep going.

There are these girls in my class. We call them the Pinks. And they think they're so awesome because they stick together and make everyone around them feel small. Well, you know what? They're not so hot. Was there a point?

Yeah.

Neither are you. We showed them, huh? Team Jackson and the House! Do the, uh, picture. You have a new line out, Mad Style.

I do and I'm super excited about that and it exceeded their expectations as of yet and I'm just hoping that it continues to grow.

What advice would you give to someone in your spot today to make them actually make it in this difficult career?

Just to keep going and to keep working hard and just to, you know, follow their dreams and never let anybody bring them down.

Young Hollywood, I'm so excited to be on the verge to emerge. Thank you. Young Hollywood, Young Hollywood.