Tiara Thomas Tells Us Why She's Solo For Dolo, All "Up In Smoke": "This Is Like My Baby" [Audio]

[With her new “Up In Smoke” EP available right now, soulful singer Tiara Thomas talks to SOHH about how special this release is for her.]

This is like my first project that’s close to me since I came out with the Wale record, “Bad.”

I dropped an EP when I was signed to Interscope but it really wasn’t me as an artist. I just had to figure out my sound and who I wanted to be as an artist.

This is like my baby.

It was like a year and change [putting this together]. A couple of the songs are ones that I had when I was signed to the label and they weren’t particularly in love with that music.

There were some creative differences so I decided to go my own way with my own team.

So I took some of those songs from then, which were “On Me,” “Something Else,” and that might have been the only old ones. Then over a course of a couple months, I recorded the rest of my EP.

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