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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="10247407" type="AGENCY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Kiana-led">Kiana Ledé</keyword> spoke to Insider about "Big Femme Energy," the first all-female compilation album.</li><li>Ledé contributed the fifth track, "Cut 'Em Off," a sizzling R&amp;B ode to boundaries and self-worth.</li><li>The singer-songwriter also teased her sophomore album, which will reflect her growth this past year.</li></ul>Kiana Ledé was scrolling through her own hashtag on TikTok when she came across <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@alannadinh/video/6914127996433599750?sender_device=pc&amp;sender_web_id=6941467851099670022&amp;is_from_webapp=v1&amp;is_copy_url=0s_copy_url=0">a video titled "Top 5 Toxic Girl Songs."</a>In the clip, the creator counts down her first three picks by Ella Mai, SZA, and <a href="https://www.insider.com/category/ariana-grande">Ariana Grande</a> before crowning Ledé with both top spots: <a href="https://youtu.be/rpBQxd6ytLs">"If You Hate Me"</a> at No. 2 and <a href="https://youtu.be/lVFE_w8eVno">"Attention"</a> at No. 1."I was like, 'Damn, I didn't realize how f---ing toxic I was!'" she said recently over Zoom, cracking up.If the divine plan for 2020 was change and self-reflection, Ledé's guardian angels took the assignment seriously.The 24-year-old singer-songwriter released her long-awaited debut album, "Kiki," at the dawn of lockdown; went through a breakup; entered a new serious relationship. As the world churned cruelly outside, her career and personal life did the same."I've learned a lot about myself," Ledé told Insider. "I'm definitely toxic in my own ways, but I'm growing. It's not a jealous, angry kind of toxic. It's an emotional kind, wanting attention.""I've also realized that I need somebody to bring out the best in me, not bring out those sides of me," she said. "We all have insecurities because when you go deeper, there are these characteristics that we probably want to hide from the people that we're with. But they get highlighted when we're with the wrong person."Luckily, one side effect of finding venom in your brain is being able to recognize the same danger in others.Ledé's newest song, "Cut 'Em Off," is a sizzling ode to boundaries - knowing when the final line has been crossed, even if it's invisible to others, and having the strength to walk away."That specific song was encouraging myself to be that way in a relationship because I felt taken advantage of. I felt like I was made to look like a fool," she explained."I've always told my boyfriends, 'There's not many rules I have about this relationship. I'm really chill. I'm not really jealous. I know I'm a good girlfriend. But my only rule is to not make me look like a fool. When you do that, it's time to go.'"Ledé, whose father is Black and Native American and whose mother is Mexican and Native American, said these boundaries are particularly important to encourage for women of color."People are very quick to dismiss our pain, dismiss our knowledge, dismiss our wisdom, dismiss our experiences," she said. "There's a misconception that women can put up with more and tolerate more, and not in a healthy way."<h2>'Cut 'Em Off' is Ledé's contribution to a first-of-its-kind all-female compilation album</h2><a href="https://www.bigfemmeenergy.com/">"Big Femme Energy Volume 1,"</a> released earlier this month, is the first all-female compilation album that's not connected to a movie soundtrack.The ambitious 11-song collection was helmed by <a href="https://www.femmeitforward.com/">Femme It Forward</a>, a female-led <keyword id="6354530" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="music">music</keyword> and <keyword id="4578" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="entertainment">entertainment</keyword> company, and distributed by <a href="http://stem.is/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stem</a>, a female-led payments platform that's designed to empower independent artists. The tracklist features artists like Tierra Whack ("Who Knew"), <a href="https://www.insider.com/category/tayla-parx">Tayla Parx</a> ("Mother Nature"), and Rapsody ("Iconic")."I'm someone who's really, really, really down for women, R&amp;B women, Black women specifically, women of color," Ledé said. "As soon as I heard there was going to be an album full of all of those things that I love, that I champion, there was no way I was going to say no. It was the perfect opportunity."Ledé's empowered, intensely collaborative spirit was born despite a rocky, highly competitive introduction to Hollywood. After winning <a href="https://www.j-14.com/posts/kiana-brown-wins-kidz-stars-usa-talent-search-2011-4719/">Kidz Bop's annual talent contest</a> at just 14 years old, Lede was signed to RCA Records - but <a href="https://www.vibe.com/features/editorial/kiana-lede-interview-next-625946/">has said</a> she received no advance or material support, and was ultimately dropped from the label."I've definitely experienced sexism and racism, especially because I started at such a young age," she told Insider. "I've had some crazy s--- told to me, happen to me, and I've had to prove myself more than a man or more than a white woman."By 21, Ledé had signed a new contract with Republic Records, starred on the second season of MTV's "Scream," and <a href="https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8503579/kiana-lede-emerging-artists-spotlight">landed on Billboard's Emerging Artists chart</a> thanks to her breakout single <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE9qY8VBKJc">"Ex,"</a> which has since gone platinum.All the while, Ledé has knitted herself ever more intimately into supportive spaces for sexual, complicated - and, yes, sometimes toxic - female musicians.She landed a song on the hit "Fifty Shades Freed" soundtrack, and then Ariana Grande's mostly-female curation for "Charlie's Angels." She's collaborated with the likes of Ari Lennox, Queen Naija, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CRUEeHhNlGi/">and now Kehlani</a>, whom Ledé named as her dream feature during our <keyword id="28970" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="interview">interview</keyword>.Her discography feels like a direct rebuttal to the "Mean Girls" vision of women: catty, vicious, inherently at odds. In fact, Ledé said she generally "makes sure" there's at least one other woman in the studio with her."Most of the time that's the other writer, because we can relate on a lot more levels than a man, or at least a straight man," she explained. "I like to feel comfortable. I like to feel like I can really speak my mind and be truly open - and also make sure that story is not going to be taken. I've definitely had that backstab and betrayal from dudes."<h2>Ledé is hard at work on her sophomore album, which she hopes to release before the end of this year</h2>The songstress said she has some "surprising and amazing" collaborations in store, including "Ur Best Friend" with <keyword id="3249289" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Kehlani">Kehlani</keyword>, released on Friday as her new album's lead single."I want this to be the most powerful album that I've made," she said. "I know who I am in this moment.""It's been really hard for me to acknowledge that everything is temporary. Feelings are temporary," she mused. "That's why I say I know myself within this moment, because we're always growing. We're always changing."Ledé described her 2020 debut "Kiki" as a coming-of-age album, letting her fans ride shotgun as she sped down a winding path. Now, she's ready to reveal more of her core."All of us have kind of sifted through what sticks in our lives," she said of quarantine. "We only had such a limited time to explore, go outside, talk to people and get to know people in person. I definitely learned what deserves my attention, my energy, and my time.""There's still some emo songs for sure, but there's a part of me that I've been hiding and that I've never felt secure in," she added, grinning. "I'm feeling much more secure in the part now, and that's what the world is going to see."

Kiana Ledé knows she's toxic, but she's working on it

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12466982" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="tom-hanks" source="Orion">Tom Hanks</keyword>' son Chet said it was "complicated" growing up with famous parents in a new YouTube video.</li><li>Chet said his parents' fame led people to assume he was an "arrogant, entitled, spoiled brat."</li></ul>Chester Hanks, better known by the name "Chet," said that growing up with famous parents was a "double-edged sword," and while it had major boons, it also led to people judging him and thinking that he was "arrogant" or "spoiled."In a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCg_CinPnEOTCt0aocE4xuw">video published on his YouTube channel Chet Hanx</a>, Chet spoke about his adolescence growing up as the son of Tom Hanks and <keyword id="12129892" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="rita-wilson" source="Orion">Rita Wilson</keyword>. Chet said that he "wouldn't want any different life," and loves his parents, but that growing up around fame was "complicated.""My experience was even more complicated because on top of fame already being toxic, I wasn't even famous," Chet said in the video. "I was just the son of somebody famous, so I hadn't even done anything to deserve any sort of recognition and that created a lot of contempt for me."Chet said that people assumed that he would be an "arrogant, entitled, spoiled brat," and that while he was "very privileged," he wasn't spoiled and had to work to earn an allowance from his parents while growing up."Everyone was just prepared to hate my guts, and that caused me to develop a chip on my shoulder and walk around with a lot of anger," Chet said in the video. "And it led me to create this hard exterior so that people wouldn't fuck with me, because people did kind of fuck with me growing up."Chet said in the video that his defensiveness led him down a "path of self-destruction" in his 20s. <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/gossip/la-et-mg-chet-hanks-rehab-cocaine-n-word-tom-hanks-20151001-htmlstory.html">The Los Angeles Times reported in 2015</a> that Chet posted a series of videos that year, that appear to have since been deleted, saying that he had a cocaine problem and had been in rehab.Chet has also been mired in controversy several times over the past decade, defending his use of the N-word in 2015, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/gossip/la-et-mg-chet-hanks-n-word-tom-hanks-20150602-story.html">as the LA Times reported,</a> and <a href="https://www.insider.com/chet-hanks-kiana-parker-white-boy-summer-milkshake-racist-font-2021-4">sustaining criticism for the "white boy summer" meme he started in 2021.</a>In January 2021, Chet was ordered by a Texas judge to cease contact with his ex-girlfriend, Kiana Parker, after she accused him of abuse, and he was barred from possessing a handgun, <a href="https://www.insider.com/texas-judge-granted-protective-order-against-chet-hanks-2021-3">Insider previously reported</a>. Chet's lawyer denied Parker's claims in a <a href="https://pagesix.com/2021/03/31/chet-hanks-ends-up-bleeding-after-fight-with-ex-kiana-parker/">comment to Page Six in March 2021.</a>Chet said in his YouTube video that he believes the "animosity" he faced wasn't just due to his father's fame, but also because people were "jealous" and "projecting their own insecurities" onto him."I'm grateful. I've changed my life," Chet said. "I no longer have gone down that self-destructive road of dealing with my anger and my resentment by self-destructing, by pleasure seeking through partying, drugs, alcohol, substances everything.""And now I'm just focusing on doing the work and being the best me that I can be," he added.

Tom Hanks' son Chet says he faced 'animosity' and 'contempt' from people because he had famous parents

AP Photo/Richard VogelA customer smokes a joint while having a salad at Lowell's Original Cannabis Cafe in Los Angeles.Welcome to Cultivated, our weekly newsletter where we're bringing you an inside look at the deals, trends, and personalities driving the multibillion-dollar global cannabis boom. <a href="http://newsletter.businessinsider.com/join/cultivated">Sign up here to get it in your inbox every week</a>. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/subscription/prime-discount?r=birefer-jberke">If you want a discount to BI Prime to read my stories, sign up here!</a>Happy Friday,Welcome to another edition of Cultivated! We're back after a week off for (American) Thanksgiving. Across the industry, the story's the same: public cannabis companies are getting hammered, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cannabis-investing-slump-stocks-fall-layoffs-fewer-deals-2019-11">deals are stuck in the mud</a>, but more people all over the world are buying cannabis legally every day.To that end, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/legal-marijuana-states-2018-1">Michigan made the first legal marijuana sales in the Midwest on Sunday</a>. Illinois will follow shortly after on January 1. And countries as far-flung as New Zealand are weighing legalization bills. In other news, I'll be at MJBizCon in Las Vegas next week. My schedule will obviously be pretty crazy but please get in touch if you'll be there and want to talk.Last, we're continuing to report on the wave of layoffs in cannabis. If you have a tip, please send me an email. We can talk about moving our conversation to Signal, an encrypted chat app, or even going on background or off-the-record.-Jeremy Here's what we wrote about this week:<h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ayr-strategies-ceo-john-sandelman-discusses-pot-shop-strategy-2019-12">The CEO of the top-selling cannabis shops revealed how a strategy he shares with Starbucks is crucial to his success</a></h3>Despite maintaining a low profile, the New York City-based <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/latest-cannabis-business-news-2019-6">cannabis</a> company Ayr Strategies can boast about at least one superlative: Its dispensaries make more money than the competition, according to a report from the industry data provider BDS Analytics.We talked to the company's CEO, the Wall Street veteran John Sandelman, to figure out why.<h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/traders-piling-into-bets-against-aurora-tilray-hexo-canopy-growth-2019-11">Wall Street stock traders are piling into bets against cannabis stocks, even as shares have plummeted</a></h3>Traders are still bearish on cannabis stocks after <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cannabis-investing-slump-stocks-fall-layoffs-fewer-deals-2019-11">months of turmoil in the industry</a>. A report from the financial analytics firm S3 Partners showed that investors were increasing their bets that the stocks would fall, a practice known as short selling.Shorts have added a net $1.4 billion of short positions in cannabis companies this year, according to S3 data through November 20.<h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/legal-marijuana-states-2018-1">You can now officially purchase legal marijuana in Michigan. Here are all the states where marijuana is legal.</a></h3>Michigan residents can now purchase marijuana legally. Marijuana dispensaries opened for business in the state on December 1, marking the first day of legal recreational marijuana sales in the Midwest.Illinois will soon follow. Governor JB Pritzker signed a legal marijuana bill into law in June, and recreational sales will start January 1. <h2>Capital raises, M&amp;A activity, partnerships, and launches</h2><ul><li>Canopy Growth <a href="https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/canopy-growth-outlines-cannabis-2-0-portfolio-849267468.html">unveiled its full lineup</a> of "Cannabis 2.0" products, including vape pens, CBD and THC-infused beverages, and chocolates. The company said it will stagger the rollout of products to "ensure a smoother rollout" and they'll start hitting shelves in Canadian dispensaries in January 2020. </li><li>Cannabis infusion tech startup Vertosa <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191204005574/en/Vertosa-Raises-6-Million-Series-Seed-Funding">closed a $6 million seed funding round</a>, co-led by California-based AFI Capital Partners and New York City-based Welcan Capital. </li><li>Chicago-based cannabis startup Leaf Trade <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191203005390/en">raised a $4.5 million seed round</a> led by Hyde Park Angels and Duke Software Investments.</li><li>GrowGeneration Corp., a chain of specialty retail hydroponic centers, <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/growgeneration-corp-approved-to-begin-trading-on-nasdaq-stock-exchange-300964686.html">began trading</a> on the NASDAQ on Monday. </li><li>Kevin Durant's Thirty Five Ventures is <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/kevin-durants-thirty-five-ventures-joins-canopy-rivers-strategic-advisory-board-300964915.html">joining the board</a> of Toronto-based cannabis investment firm Canopy Rivers. </li><li>Rapper Lil' Wayne is joining his former protegee Drake in hawking cannabis products. Weezy rolled out his brand, <a href="https://www.gkua.com/">GKUA Ultra Premium</a>, in which the high-THC products are tasted and approved by "Lil' Wayne himself."</li></ul><h2>Executive moves</h2><ul><li>Former Canndescent CFO Tom DiGiovanni is joining Harborside as the company's new CFO. Former Harborside CFO Keith Li is staying on as VP of Finance.</li><li>Holly Hamman is joining cannabis payroll startup Wurk as the company's CMO. She joins Wurk from Automox, a cybersecurity company.</li><li>Katy Dickson, a former Mattel and General Mills exec, is taking over as president of Manitoba Harvest, which was acquired by Tilray earlier this year. </li><li>Bhang's interim president, Jamie Pearson, is taking over as CEO.</li><li>Alex Shah is joining Akerna as the company's CTO. </li><li>Former Beboe CMO Kiana Anvaripour is joining Sweet Flower as the company's new CMO.</li></ul><h2>Chart of the week</h2>Despite the tumult in the public markets, cannabis legalization is spreading around the US. Michigan started recreational cannabis sales on December 1, and Illinois is set to start January 1: Shayanne Gal/Business Insider<h2>What I'm reading</h2><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/business/hemp-producers-banks.html">Hemp industry is cleared to do business with banks</a> (New York Times)<a href="https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/11/cbd-coffee-shampoo-lotion-tincture-everything-all-of-it.html">I was a CBD guinea pig</a> (Slate)<a href="https://cannabiswire.com/2019/12/03/cannabis-in-the-caribbean-part-i-change-is-coming/">Cannabis in the Caribbean Part 1: Change is coming</a> (Cannabis Wire)<a href="https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/deals-dry-up-with-pot-stocks-limping-into-year-end-1.1355846">Deals dry up with pot stocks limping into year end</a> (Bloomberg) <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-04/cannabis-industry-marijuana-4thmvmt-licenses-los-angeles">He went from buffalo wings to cannabis and became the talk of L.A.'s marijuana industry</a> (Los Angeles Times)Did I miss anything? 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