JT IS YOUR S MOOD BOARD

The 32-year-old rapper is ready to show off her softer side.

- CHRISTEN A. JOHNSON

“I'M NOT INTO THE SHIT Y'ALL THINK I'M INTO,” says Jatavia Johnson, or JT, as she’s known to her fandom. We're sitting in her stylist’s Lower Manhattan wardrobe studio the night before her Cosmopolitan photo shoot. A dozen people move through the room, but JT isn’t actually addressing any of us—that pointed “y'all” is directed at her haters. Specifically, at the people who refuse to accept her growth, those who can't move beyond the 20-something member of the hip-hop duo City Girls they first encountered years ago. Back then, JT was hungry for stardom, a bit gritty. “I'm really just not in that era no more,” she confesses.