Switching gears, you’re signed to Pharrell’s I AM Other – do you miss being an independent artist?

Bia: Oh girl, I do not miss being independent. There’s nothing like having a team that supports you and backs you and understands your greater vision. I will get in a comfort zone and I would like just what I like but when you have a team of different people and different minds it contributes to you artistically.

Let’s get into Chola Season – for the folks who have no idea what “chola” means please explain.

Bia: Let me be clear because a “chola” is derived from Mexican descent. I’m not Mexican, I’m actually Puerto Rican. I played off the fact that we’re so big into stereotypes that every time you see a girl – they don’t even know what my ethnicity is – but the fact that you see a Spanish girl with baby hair down and two braids it’s “chola season.”  It’s just bigging up the Hispanic community. It’s not that many hard, Spanish rappers out there that are females besides Snow Tha Product so I’m definitely repping for us.

What was that studio session like when Pharrell laid down his verse for “Chain Swang?”

Bia: I had just lost my laptop a few days before. I was just in the zone and freestyled to it. Pharrell walks in with the Baes and just got in the mood and started freestyling to it so I’m like ‘oh that’s hard go lay that down.’ He went in the booth and freestyled that whole verse.  Fam was in there and he heard it and I said ‘Fam, come on we need you brother’ and he did the same thing. That was really just a genuine collaboration.

Biggest lesson you’ve learned from Pharrell in regards to making music?

Bia: My biggest lesson from Pharrell is don’t focus on making a hit. Don’t focus on pleasing other people, just own it and do what you feel.