“We got a lot of rejection at the beginning. When we tried to get an artist to collaborate with me or a producer to do a song for me, they usually said, ‘no, this is very explicit, we can’t work with this,’” Tokischa shares. “Before, I used to knock on doors and they were closed on me, they told me no. Now great artists knock on my door and I say yes with a vision of making art, to express my message, my creativity, how I feel, my fantasies, and my life through art.”