Saweetie Makes History as ESPN's First Woman Monday Night Football Music Curator (Exclusive)

Saweetie is bringing her signature style to nan NFL this play arsenic ESPN’s first-ever Monday Night Football euphony curator.

Fans sewage a preview of nan business connected Saturday, Sept. 6, astatine ESPN’s Red Nail Bar pop-up salon. The arena featured typical "Saweet" treats, bold photograph moments and signature "ESPN Red" manicures — including a agleam reddish group done by Saweetie’s longtime nail artist, Temeka Jackson.

"Football was nan first athletics I ever played successful my life," nan rapper, 32, tells PEOPLE exclusively astatine nan event. "I travel from a really large shot family. All my uncles played successful college. My dada played successful college. My grandfather played successful nan NFL. So shot was astir apt nan first shot I ever took."

She continues, "So I was ace excited erstwhile ESPN asked maine — honored, actually."

Being nan first female to service arsenic a Monday Night Football euphony curator, Saweetie calls nan opportunity a awesome milestone. In this role, she’ll hand-pick tracks for prime ESPN MNF games passim nan season, featured successful promotional spots, unrecorded telecasts and Monday Night Countdown.

"It’s nan biggest nighttime of nan week, truthful I’m conscionable happy they spot maine and my euphony tastes," she says. "I’m really looking guardant to curating playlists and sharing immoderate upcoming musicians pinch fans."

When asked if she mightiness see her ain songs successful nan mix, Saweetie teases: "I besides person a fewer tricks up my sleeve."

If she had to take her ain walkout track, though, nan determination is easy — she’d spell pinch “Do It for nan Bay,” her collaboration pinch P-Lo. The choice, she notes, is simply a tribute to her Bay Area roots and her longtime emotion for nan San Francisco 49ers.

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But for Saweetie, nan relationship to nan athletics goes beyond music. Growing up surrounded by athletes, she says sports taught her lessons she still carries into her profession today. Now, seeing each nan different ways female are getting progressive successful sports, she couldn't beryllium much excited.

"Playing a athletics teaches you truthful overmuch — handling pressure, moving arsenic a team, being disciplined," she says. "Those are nan qualities I look for erstwhile I prosecute group too. Sports really springiness you invaluable skills you tin transportation anywhere."

And erstwhile it comes to her ain game-day style? Saweetie keeps it simple. "Give maine sneakers, jeans and a T-shirt," she says pinch a laugh. "I wanna beryllium comfortable."