Felicia Pride is committed to curating stories centered on the honeys.

Storytelling came to Pride, who serves as co-executive producer on Peacock’s Bel-Air and is behind the upcoming A Different World sequel pilot at Netflix, by way of hip-hop. She is someone who grew up on the genre and wrote the lyrics to songs down in a red spiral notebook, and this invigorated a passion for documenting and displaying the narratives of everyday people who look like her.

“I always say that before I knew Toni Morrison and James Baldwin, I knew Queen Latifah and Big Daddy Kane,” Pride told Blavity. “They were my storytellers, and I started to, you know, unconsciously or subconsciously, study their storytelling. I didn’t realize that’s what it was at the time. But then I found myself becoming a writer and doing a lot of things that emcees do, whether it’s inserting the eye into the storytelling, or having a sort of perspective, having a rhythm in the writing. It really came from hip-hop.”

Guillory recently signed a new book deal and is already dreaming up the stories to come. One thing she knows for sure? She’s not done with the world she built in Drunk on Love.

“I know really what one is going to be about. If Drunk on Love is about a brother-sister pair who own a winery together, and that it is about the sister’s love story, then I know I want to tell his love story — the brother’s love story,” she said.