The rapper displays on her expertise working with JO1 for the Apple TV+ collection, assembly Kesha for the primary time and weighs in on the ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ phenomenon.
As proven in Episode 4 of the Apple TV+ collection, which dropped in full on Friday, the hip hop icon has her hit “Let Me Blow Ya Thoughts” remixed with a Ok-pop — or technically J-pop — spin, as she teamed up with JO1. Within the present, the boy band cut up in two, with Takumi (vocalist/rapper), Sho (vocalist), Sky (vocalist), Keigo (vocalist), Shion (rapper), and Ruki (rapper) becoming a member of Eve, and Junki (vocalist), Ren (vocalist), Mame (rapper), Shosei (rapper), and Syoya (rapper) collaborating with pop star Kesha. The 2 groups then confronted off in an epic battle.
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Throughout an interview with TooFab, Eve bought candid about her expertise working with JO1 in Seoul, sharing that she felt “very honored” to see her tune carried out reside in a brand new method.
“It was fairly loopy,” Eve recalled of her JO1 collab. “Earlier than I flew to Seoul, they despatched me over a number of takes that they’ve carried out. They despatched me over the beat. They despatched me over the roughs that they’d carried out … In my head, I am like, ‘I can not imagine that is occurring,’ after which as soon as we bought collectively, and began working towards the dance strikes, and I heard the tune, and we did the tune collectively, I used to be like, ‘Truly, that is actually cool. They did an incredible job.'”
“They had been such good guys,” she continued. “On the finish, we did not wish to go away one another. [I said], ‘Oh my god. I am gonna miss you guys!’ They did such a tremendous factor. And once more, that is one other factor that, for me as an artist, to see my tune reside differently, totally different style, totally different tradition, it is such a wonderful factor. I really feel very, very honored and grateful for one thing like that.”
As proven within the episode, throughout rehearsals, Eve appeared just a little nervous concerning the choreography for the efficiency. Nevertheless, when the “Tambourine” rapper and JO1 hit the stage, you’d by no means know Eve felt any anxiousness about dancing. She and the boy band members killed it!
“Oh my god. Oh lady, I used to be confused,” she advised TooFab with amusing, earlier than recalling how she felt through the efficiency.
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“I’ll say, I am very a lot the particular person … I all the time say I put my superhero on for stage,” she continued. “So Eve disappears in a method, and I am identical to, I am on. I am sort of like, ‘No matter occurs, occurs.’ … particularly as a result of I am not a dancer naturally. So for me, I am like, ‘Simply go on the market and vibe. If all else fails, vibe.'”
The Discuss alum added that she and the boys’ “first take” — which followers did not see — even went nicely.
“I feel our first take, we really, it was all good. There was no errors, there was nothing,” Eve mentioned, once more admitting that she was “positively confused,” earlier than praising JO1. “The truth that they realized these things so rapidly is insane.”
TooFab spoke with JO1 at KCON LA 2025 earlier this month, and the boys gushed about working with Eve and Kesha, saying it was “like a dream” and an “unbelievable” collaboration. Eve reacted to the reward, telling TooFab within the new interview, “It is so good. I am severe. It was such an incredible expertise.”
“They had been actually unbelievable, tremendous candy guys, and it was very nice to see, once more, see my music by way of their eyes, but additionally see a Ok-pop band work as nicely,” she added. “It was nice watching them work and watching how the followers checked out them, and it was such, actually, the most effective collaborations ever. I had one of the best time. They’re nice guys. I miss them. Inform them I miss them.”
In the meantime, on the present, Eve and Kesha met for the primary time, with the previous sharing with TooFab that she’d like to work with the singer sooner or later.
“It was nice assembly her,” Eve mentioned. “I imply, I clearly know Kesha, identified her, and her songs are unbelievable. Her model is nice. … I imply, positively sure, if it got here right down to it, yeah, we might positively work collectively. But it surely was very nice simply assembly her. Typically on this business, you hear of an individual and have seen their work from afar. So attending to know them up shut is all the time nice. And in a, I assume, an atmosphere that’s international to each of us, additionally. So it was cool.”
Eve went on to open up about her love of the Ok-pop style as an entire.
“It is so unbelievable. It is perfection on steroids, I feel. It is simply carried out in such a method that … it is so glamorous,” she mentioned. “It is so glittery. I imply, it is all the pieces. It is all the pieces. And yeah, I have been into Ok-pop for a number of years. And Seoul and Korea and simply the entire tradition. It is a spot that I’ve needed to go to for a really, very very long time. So, yeah, I used to be actually excited to be part of it.”
When requested what she thinks it’s concerning the Ok-pop style that has made it such a worldwide phenomenon, Eve mentioned, “I feel it is mainly what we all know on our facet of the world, however they only take it to a different stage.”
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“It is loopy even once we had been filming, the way in which that they movie, it is simply it is totally different than what we do,” she continued. “Once more, it is this perfectionist factor that they’re obsessive about, which makes it so tight, the dance strikes are so tight. … They’re so exact. I feel it is what we all know, clearly it is acquainted to us due to pop music and issues like that, however it’s simply [on] one other stage.”
The “What You Need” rapper shared her ideas on how Ok-pop options influences from hip hop — AKA her world.
“It makes me really feel unbelievable … particularly the place I come from,” she advised TooFab. “I have been on this enterprise for a very long time, however I typically have a look at myself as like, ‘God, I am this lady from Philly, and my hip hop has actually taken me everywhere in the world.’ And the truth that it has affect different genres, different cultures. I all the time really feel tremendous, extremely fortunate, and proud. I feel it is a very cool factor.”
Following her expertise teaming with JO1 on KPOPPED, Eve mentioned she in the end walked away feeling impressed, sharing that she’d like to return to Seoul and collaborate with an artist.
“Truthfully, I might love to return … I have been on this tour that I have been doing, and other people have been asking me like, ‘Are you gonna do new music or something?'” she advised TooFab. “I might like to do one other collaboration. I feel it will be such a enjoyable factor to do, however really do it in Seoul, not right here. I might moderately, I might like to go there and really work within the studio with a band or a singer or one thing like that. I feel it would be nice.”
“And likewise, clearly, the face care, however I would like to return for some skincare,” she added.
As for which of her songs she’d wish to remix after “Let Me Blow Ya Thoughts” bought the Ok-pop therapy, TooFab instructed her hit “Tambourine,” which Eve agreed, “That will be a enjoyable one for certain.”
“I really bought a tough from a pal of mine who writes on the market of ‘Who’s That Woman?’ from a unique band some time in the past,” she revealed. “I imply, I might be open. I might be open as a result of I might love to listen to what they do with no matter. I feel it will be enjoyable, any tune that is picked.”
As a Ok-pop megafan now, Eve additionally weighed in on the phenomenon that’s KPop Demon Hunters, after the Netflix and Sony Photos Animation fantasy musical has been breaking data on Netflix, on the field workplace, and on the Billboard charts. And never solely did Eve reveal she loves the movie, however so does her 3-year-old son, Wilde!
“It is actually good. I’ve watched it 3 times as a result of my son really loves it. And he is three!” Eve advised TooFab. “Then, I used to be like, ‘Oh god, that is actually good.’ The songs are insane. The songs are so good. So I am not shocked [of the film’s success].”
All eight episodes of KPOPPED are streaming now on Apple TV+
