WEBVTT - Episode 208 "Dondria" 0:00:01.360 --> 0:00:15.000 Hold up, hold up. Show volat to the Baller Show 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:18.239 podcast available everywhere you get your podcast. I go by 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:20.800 the name of Ferrari Simmons. Hey, young world, is your bestie. 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:24.280 So so oh, we got a special guest in the building. 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:33.640 We do snapsco keep please in the building. So what's up? Gang? 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:37.040 What's now on the podcast? You're gonna we're gonna talk 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:38.600 to you, but you're gonna host with us too. Is 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:42.120 that okay? Yeah, we're gonna get into some ship alright, 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:53.360 especially yokay, okay, alright. Congratulations to tennis champion Naomi Osaka. 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:55.720 Did I say your name right? All right? She expecting 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:58.520 her first child with her long term boyfriend, long time 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:02.600 boyfriend rapper corps day and we get some snaps for that. 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:04.720 I love that. Let's me tell you. They look like 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:10.880 the perfectly like odd but amazing couple. Like I never 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:13.760 saw it coming, but when I discovered that it was 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:15.760 a thing, I was like, you know what, I can 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:18.240 see it and it makes sense. I feel like they 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:20.880 pushed each other, like with their fashion, I ain't never 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:22.720 seen it, and we dressed the way that she dresses now, 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:25.480 Like I love them as a couple. I can't wait 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:28.440 to see this baby. They's gonna be so cute. Apologize 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:34.280 to making the Stallion. I'm gonna apologize to making Um. 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:37.720 I said some things, but it was because on social 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:41.120 media I posted things that when she said, uh, she 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:45.000 was with Gail and she said that. Uh. She said, 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:48.680 were you intimate Tory Lanes? And she said, uh what? 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:53.240 And then it was like, no, I like, God, she lying. 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.520 At that point I knew she was. She's like, it 0:01:57.560 --> 0:01:59.360 wouldn't be no reason for me to be around each other. 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:04.000 And then, um, from now if it felt like she 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:06.840 was lying to me, you know what I'm saying. So 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:08.640 I was like, little things will pop up, and I 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:12.600 wasn't being supportive of it. You were a little more vocal. Yeah, 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:14.720 And the only reason why I feel like, you know, 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:18.360 at some point you should apologize. I should apologize to 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:22.840 us because um, when I heard uh the phone conversation 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:27.480 that that made me feel like, oh, now I know 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.280 what what happened. That was a good day with the apologizes. 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:32.440 What are you gonna learn to stop being so mean? No, 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:35.680 like we're talking about to apologize when you were so 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:39.000 insensitive this whole time because the people love it. I 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:41.240 feel like in the Megan situation. He really did what 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.800 a lot of people are doing. The differences that he 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:47.200 has a big, old platform and it's very dangerous for 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:49.960 him to say certain things without having facts. But he 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:52.120 did say that once he listened to the call, it 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:54.440 all made sense. And I think that kind of is 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:56.560 what happened to everybody. Everyone heard that call, and he 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:58.919 was like, oh, toor I did it. I never did it? 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:01.119 Did you? Did you up with the with the whole 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:06.200 megana stallion from the top, I mean from the top. 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:09.880 I thought Tory did it. I don't without any evidence. 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:12.400 It's like he didn't, you know? Um, So I'm glad. 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:16.519 I was glad. I was right. Alright, Gonna, it seems 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:18.840 like it's a y cell civil war going on. Una 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:22.520 breaks his silence. Uh. This past Tuesday, Gonna made his 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:25.959 official return to social media that you gotta see Gunna's post. 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:30.640 I did. And let me just say, if Gunna was 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.200 gonna come back outside, if he was gonna give us 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:36.360 some music, everybody was like, so you're worried about the 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:39.520 wrong thing. He ain't thinking about that. Yes he is. 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:42.640 I was right, gonna have some speakers. He had a microphone. 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:44.800 That man is recording right now. He's going back to 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:46.720 what he loves. I don't care if it's a good 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:48.480 idea or not. I'm just saying what he's doing. It 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:50.160 ain't my business if it's a good idea or not. 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.560 I'm just saying, this is what he's doing. And I 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:55.640 don't know what it's for. Is it to prove that 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.680 yre cell is a label? I don't know. I don't know, 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.800 but the man it's outside. So y'all owe me on 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.280 apology something that is a little fishy, because I do 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:08.600 think I don't know for sure what's going on because 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:12.720 I see other people in Atlanta not co signing or 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:16.520 not saying anything. Nobody's seeing anything. Did you notice that 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:19.080 nobody said welcome home to gun Did you notice that 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:25.640 I'm talking about a rap contemporary Nobody said welcome home. Nobody, nobody. 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:30.160 They want to stand clear, and he has like the 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:32.440 welcome committee, which is kind of crazy that he didn't 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:37.279 say nothing like you know, damn, it's a y Sell 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:39.240 civil war going on. I'm just letting you out know 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:41.240 it's something as a war going on in between you. 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:43.080 I don't know we're gonna get to the bottom U 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:47.839 because it's gonna It's gonna reveal itself at a later day. 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:51.320 Speaking to why I sell a juror in uh young thugs, 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:54.760 why I sell trial? Skipped on jury due to go 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:57.680 on vacation. You have to get that bl You don't 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.520 get that depositive back. You do not get that depinds 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.720 it back. Wow, she went to the Dominican Republican. You're 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:06.359 probably want to get a teeth done or bbl You 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:11.560 get BBLS and dominic it all. Yes, I'm not saying 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:13.720 that for a factor all. I'm just teasing. But do 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.440 you know people who get BBLS what? I don't know 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:22.680 anyone that has personally. I think Domenica Republic is when 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:28.400 you get your teeth did and they're doing it all. 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:30.599 They're doing it all, don't they do it in America? 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:33.000 It might be botched, but they're getting it done. Yeah. 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:35.000 The jury, the jury duty is not going and how 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:37.640 it's supposed to go. So people are skipping out and 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:41.320 going to Dominican Republic. That's why sales ship is all 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:43.880 the change. What are the repercussions if you skip out 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.320 on jury duty? Like what's happen? You can find you 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:48.240 can find and go to jail. Well, the judge is 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:51.080 not holding her in contempt, like, he's actually making her right. 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:54.520 A thirty page essay on why jury duty is a 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:56.680 service and how it's a privilege for black people to 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:59.200 even be jurors because we were not allowed to be 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.000 that for are So he's yeah, he's making her right 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:05.720 an entire essay. He's like, I'm assuming she's a black woman, obviously, 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:07.840 because I said we were not. You know, we didn't 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.120 have the privilege of being on jury duty before. So 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.279 I like this route. He's like, you know what, I 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:15.159 want you to educate yourself. Yes, I can throw you 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:17.080 in jail, but I'd rather you get the education. So 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:19.040 I like that. Don't play with it. Don't play with 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:22.520 your else. Okay, you don't play with it. Uh? Do 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:26.880 you guys fly outside of Delta because Southwest announces a 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:30.280 forty nine dollar fair sale as airline recovers from his 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:33.440 holiday meltdown. You guys flying Southwest? Some of them people 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:38.040 from Southwest? Bag that's still here New Year's Like that 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:41.279 was crazy. I do not like Southwest. I think that's 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:45.120 the airline where you pick your own seat. Have you 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:48.000 flown that before? The second Southwest It wasn't that man. 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:50.679 What I would never do, though, is like check a bag. 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:52.479 I feel like Southwest you kind of got to treat 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:54.520 it a little bit like spirit. You want to travel 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:56.920 super light, just have a carry on bag. Don't expect 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:59.520 nothing to hop on your flife because you get a 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:05.040 fresh back from a Southwest right, you get took. That's 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:08.800 why they're losing the bads too many bad spirit before. 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:12.120 Don't I have I definitely have. I I have to 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:13.680 be a long time, but I have been a long 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.840 time many times. You want to hear her when I 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:18.880 got when I ain't hand no bread, I flu that 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:24.200 was that was my airline. Because don't you have for 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:29.000 like every single thing for your carry on and your 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:33.600 carry on, the carry on, there's no repression when you booked. 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:36.480 That's what I'm saying with Nam, what you're gonna do? 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:38.000 You gotta have at least a carry on, but you 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:39.640 pay for the carry on. You even have to pay 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:43.000 to print your boarding pass. Did y'all know that? A 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:45.880 five dollar charge? That sounds recent? Have you been there recently? No? 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:49.800 This is I'm hoping. I'm hoping that they don't have 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:52.280 to print boarding passes anymore. It's just a cure, calling 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:55.080 your damn phone. But lord, no, it passed. I saw 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.840 a joke on about the Spirit airline. She said, you 0:07:57.840 --> 0:07:59.480 gotta pay for the air. You gotta pay the one 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:03.840 say you got there. We have a mutual friend Ferrari 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:07.040 who is very well off that literally takes Spirit quite often. 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.400 I was really mad at my daddy took Spirit. Uh 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:11.720 when he came to Paris. Why are you taking Spirit? 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:14.720 As long as you get there sixty dollars? I was like, 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:19.800 number one. They are consistent. They was. They were tripping 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:22.400 a little bit over last year, a little bit, but 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:24.440 you know, everybody was trying to get that money back. 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:27.120 In blood, we'll speaking to back in blood. Lloyd Harvey 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.640 that she dated a father and a son, full blown 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:34.760 stories I've heard. I've dated a father and son before. 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:39.240 Absolutely true. She is the male future, she's the female future. 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:42.880 You always say that she's definitely the female future. Do 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:44.559 you understand what he's saying about that? Like, does it 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:48.560 make sense? I would definitely want contact if you don't 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.000 give a damn. She's doing her and it's about her. 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:55.480 It is what it is. But but isn't that what 0:08:55.559 --> 0:09:00.280 future doing? He just you know IM pregnant even because 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:03.719 that doesn't sound like a bad thing. Yeah, not a 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:05.360 bad thing. That's why. That's why I said, what future 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:09.400 does is not a bad thing exactly. Acting like a woman, 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.360 thinking like a man, I got the name of her. 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:14.600 Do you think she's thinking like a man or she's 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:16.920 just thinking like a woman. I think she's thinking like 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:20.520 a young successful woman who has access to people who 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:23.200 was also outside of the access, who was confident and 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:26.200 who she is. She feels sexy, she's very feminine like 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:30.160 I just think she's in her soft era and she's 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.840 allowing herself to date people that make her feel good. 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.200 And I don't believe that she dated he and his son, 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:39.120 that's what they were talking about. She said, no, I 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:42.520 never dated a father and son. Alright, cool, when we 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.280 come back, we're gonna talk to Dondrea and get all 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:48.480 in her bears now right on the ball the Show Podcast. 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:51.600 We'll be right back with more of the Baller Alert Show. 0:09:57.720 --> 0:09:59.959 Still listening to a special edition of The ball Or 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.640 Alert Show. What's up, y'all? It is your girl Dandrea 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:06.040 and I'm chilling with the Baller Alert Show. Available wherever 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:16.160 you get your podcast for me and we're back with 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:18.679 the Ball of Show podcast, available week wherever you get 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:21.400 your podcast. Dandrea is in the building house borne my 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:26.000 sister from another mister, my sister in law. Well, how 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:29.120 are you good? It's good to have you. Gentlemen that 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:32.280 I know pretty closely sent me a link to your song. 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:35.000 I bought it by the way to your project, um, 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:37.760 and it sounded really really good. And we had we 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:42.440 had these conversations often, and great mind started like, you 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:43.960 know what we need to bring her up here to 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:48.080 the Ball of the Show podcast. Thank you glad to 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:52.720 be here all right? Where where have you been traight 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:56.200 to it? Okay? Um, well, I mean, first of all, 0:10:56.600 --> 0:11:00.400 I ain't went nowhere. I've been working, I've been recording, 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:04.679 I've been putting out music. However, there has been five years, 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:08.560 um from my last ep and to this one, and 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:11.040 I think I've just been growing up, you know, becoming 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:14.679 a woman. I started really really young nineteen signed to 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:18.800 the right out signal was you're the one for me? 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:24.520 Run That was myself. I still till this day you 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:26.120 were looking at me. I thought it was a duet 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:31.120 between us. I appreciated the harmony, though I was signed 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:34.240 that nineteen. Yeah, so you had just not too long 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:39.440 graduated high school. Yeah. Um. And so just being a 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:43.080 young woman in the industry. Now, granted, I'm very grateful 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:46.360 for I guess the infrastructure that I had that so 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:51.360 so deaf, but but um, not no, not like that. 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:55.000 But I just also did not have a sense of self. 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:58.800 Didn't really know what I wanted to sing about, what 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:01.280 I wanted to look like, didn't know any of that stuff. 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:05.360 So they were making those decisions for me. Um. And 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:08.240 for the most part, you know, looking back, I'm okay 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:11.520 with all the decisions that they made. Um, But at 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:13.520 some point I had to figure out, like what do 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:17.040 I actually like? You know, what do I I want 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:18.280 to talk about, What do I want to put out 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:19.839 into the universe, How I want to wear my hair, 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:21.480 what I want to wear like, you know, those types 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:24.840 of things. And um, that's where the hills and the 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:28.319 valleys came in. Um. Because I feel like the music 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:33.400 industry was my college I didn't finish. So yeah, that's fair. 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:35.120 I get that. I feel like a lot of artists 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:36.840 say that, you know, when they're first coming out, they're 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:38.920 being told who to be, what to be, how to act, 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.520 and you kind of get to the space of who 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:43.600 am I? What am I even doing? None of this 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:45.640 feels authentic, So it's nice to know that you took 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:48.920 some time to yourself to to grow into self. So 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:50.640 what made you want to get back to it? I 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:57.120 guess through the search of self and actually finding that. Um, 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:58.760 I just had stuff to talk about, you know, I 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:01.920 wanted to tell my story and let people know where 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.120 I've been and you know what's been going on. Went 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:07.720 through a breakup, um, broke up with some friends, you know, 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:11.120 fell into depression with the therapy, like all these things happen, 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:14.680 and the best way that I knew how to express 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:17.320 it was through song. So because it's not like, you know, 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:21.040 you fall out of love with making music. You just 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:24.520 weren't in the right, you know, situation to produce the 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:26.640 music that you wanted to put out. So and I 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:28.720 think it sounds better too when you have a little 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:31.520 bit more experience on the stool. Now I will say, 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:33.199 like I do have a song on the EP call 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:35.080 let It Be, and it's kind of like a love 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.079 song to music or to my career. I think there 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:42.720 was a space where I fell out of love. Um, 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:44.880 just because you know, coming in I'm a girl from 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:50.080 the suburbs. Okay, I everything was rainbows and butterflies. Which suburbs, 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:54.199 um Texas, sexy Texas, um, a little bit outside of Dallas. 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:58.680 So um So my expectation of how it was gonna 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:02.840 go um after things started to slow down a little bit, 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:05.720 I just didn't expect that. So, like a lot of 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:09.840 my sense of self and confidence and all that stuff 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:12.760 came from all the accolades and all of the praise. 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:15.000 So when it stopped, that kind of was like wait. 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:17.640 And that's where the finding myself came in because it 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:20.720 was like, Okay, who are you outside of like what 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:24.440 you do? You know? So that's the question I kind 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:26.160 of wanted to ask you because I'm a big mental 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:32.880 health person and overcoming transgression. So what you're saying that 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.880 you overcame was this in that five year gap? This 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:37.960 is the five year gap? Like what year is this? 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:42.000 Like what's happening? Um? So? I would say probably the 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:46.760 last five to seven years. Um. So I moved to 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:51.680 l A um just to kind of get a new atmosphere, 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:54.800 you know, get a kind of new um motivation and 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.120 why why what made you move to l a or 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:59.840 who made you move to l AM. My manager at 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:04.600 the time, UM, he just I guess explained to me that, like, 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:07.800 you know, let's just try something new, you know, let's 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:11.440 go somewhere we haven't been and really try to get 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:15.480 a new market and meet some new people, new producers, 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.840 and just go for it. Yeah. Um, and I was down. 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:21.880 You know, I've always been the girl that jumps, you know, 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:25.960 I'm not really scared, you know, to like do the 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:30.720 hard stuff for whatever. So we went. But I ain't 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.920 hand no damn playing, you know. So that's like the 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:39.800 first mistake. Um and so right, So um, you know, 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:44.480 there was financial struggles and just there's a certain atmosphere 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:48.920 in l A a certain type of person individual that 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:53.400 is very pretentious and you know, making all the promises 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:56.520 all that kind of thing. So like though I didn't 0:15:56.520 --> 0:16:00.320 really have anybody advocating for me, there, um, a lot 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:03.360 of situations happened the place where I was living. The 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:06.440 locks got changed on me, like just so many things 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:08.160 like back to back to back to back, and I 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:12.880 was just like, all right, now this cannot be what 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:17.120 is for me. So um, at that moment, I just 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:20.560 kind of I went within. You know, it sounds you know, 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:24.640 but I went within you know, Um, I got into therapy. 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:29.240 Um just too because I was suffering from anxiety. So 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:30.760 I really wanted to get to the bottom of that, 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:34.240 Like why am I so nervous to be in rooms? 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:39.440 And um yeah take up space when I when I 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:42.960 show up? So um yeah. That and and making the 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:48.360 decision to leave that manager and trust myself comes back 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:51.160 to a combat. Um and just trust that I know 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:53.120 what's best for me. How did you get out of 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:55.280 the or did your deal running always so so deaf? 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:58.080 For how did that happen? Like, I think we're skipping 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:01.080 that part. How did you get out that deal? Um? So, 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:03.600 I think this is the thing that I'm glad to 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:08.920 be able to share this go around because um so 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:13.520 when I first got signed, j D was at uh 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:17.439 where was we at? Def jam and um so it 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:21.240 was a major label situation, so so deaf deaf jam. 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:24.600 Um when he left, he took him with me and 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:29.280 actually that made me independent so um but we were 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:32.439 still working together, we were still trying to build you 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:36.880 know something, so really almost my whole career. But your 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:40.879 single was on def jam my, so you're the one. 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:43.879 It might have been on def jam or it might 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:47.840 have been on Malaco. UM. But we we was independent 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:50.800 like early early on UM. But a lot of people, 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:54.240 you know, I don't know that. So after the success 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:58.199 of that, what ended up happening? UM, I just I 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:01.200 don't know. I guess because it was already an independent thing, 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:03.280 it was kind of just like, well, you know, I 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:06.800 think that we probably could have picked another single, second 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:12.679 single UM. And I think just at that time, a 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:15.320 little Black Girl being signed from YouTube was like not 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:19.400 a thing. So as exciting as it was, it wasn't 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:24.639 really a lot of people labels included that understood or 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:27.919 even like believed in the vision. They were like, we 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:30.679 don't get it. UM. So I think, I don't know, 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:35.680 lack of support UM and resources. I don't know. We 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:37.639 just kind of like went back to the drawing board, 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:40.600 but kind of stayed at the drawing board for a while. 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:43.760 Tour with that single or I did. Yeah, I went 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:47.280 on tour, the Passion, Pain and Pleasure tour with Trey 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:50.959 Songs and Monica, So that was a lot of fun. Yeah, 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:52.960 And I know we're kind of working backwards. Her. I 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:56.600 wish you started this way, but you said, uh, being 0:18:57.000 --> 0:19:00.920 signed from YouTube, so you were YouTube. Sorry, Jady saw 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:03.919 you and then brought you to Atlanta. He discovered me, 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:07.000 and me and my mom came to meet him. And 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:09.960 it just happened to be the weekend that Jaggadesh was 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:13.800 releasing their album. Um you j album was this, This 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:18.040 was right out of Heaven. No, this was the album. 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:22.639 The first song on there is with Ashanti Uh and 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:26.360 it was the album. Um. So you know, I came 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:28.879 to Atlanta, got to meet them, and immediately it was 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:33.040 like welcome to the family, and we signed that contract 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:36.520 like real quickly. Meeting came. YEA moved to Atlanta. Yes, 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:38.720 he put you up and you just that's what I 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:42.240 want need. Um if it took very good care of me. 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:47.000 When I first came. Before I moved, I was staying 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:52.120 at the Intercontinental. Um, the maids, the housekeepers, they knew 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:53.760 me because every time they came to the room, Hey, 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:55.359 y'all because I didn't know, you know, I didn't know 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:57.040 where to go or anything, so I'd just be in 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:01.000 the room. Um. And then I guess after we decided 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:03.640 like okay, this is a thing, Um, I actually moved 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:08.679 in with j D. Yeah. So coming back to today, UM, 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:14.119 your new EP perspective Um, is that you're just solely 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:19.080 independent right now? No distribution anywhere. Yeah. Now, speaking of 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:22.879 the cover, somebody had no shot that cover. Uh, the 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:27.760 visuals have been visualizing and I see he post you 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:31.200 you post him. Who is this man in your life? Um? 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:34.040 You seem real happy and it's a light. A light 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:37.240 walked in when you walked in the studio. Yes, somebody 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:40.000 responsible for that light outside of Yes, I have an 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:46.800 amazing partner who goes by the name of rest Res Photography. Um, 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:50.199 he's amazing at what he does. And we just we 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:53.400 just clicked. We we've known each other two years prior 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:55.199 to getting together because we have the same trainer at 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:59.520 the gym and so, uh, he was plotting the whole 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:03.280 time up you know, and he shot a shot and 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:10.239 we just clicked. Yeah. We loves used to work at 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:14.320 Boston work for us. Yes, he was a photographer and 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:18.119 somebody over with us, you know, did I mean we 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:19.679 we are so proud of you and you are so 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:23.680 in love and it's just so cute and we love 0:21:23.720 --> 0:21:25.880 this for you. You know how many links I got 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:29.639 on my phone about you and links of your stuff. 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:33.000 Now he goes hard. I appreciate him. What does that 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:36.000 feel like? Like, what does it feel like to have 0:21:36.119 --> 0:21:39.560 a man that just genuinely like you guys do real stuff, 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:43.560 to work out together, you travel together. He's supporting your business, 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:46.920 You're supporting his. It just seems like your lives are 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:50.480 so intertwined and it seems effortless. It doesn't seem like, 0:21:50.880 --> 0:21:53.280 you know, you guys are forcing each other to support 0:21:53.320 --> 0:21:56.040 each other. So what does that feel like? Tell voll 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:58.719 Donation what it feels like what a black man loves you? 0:21:58.800 --> 0:22:03.560 Correctly know? It feels great. You know. I came from 0:22:03.800 --> 0:22:08.880 prior experiences where the support wasn't necessarily there definitely wasn't 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:12.639 like this um and but I think because I didn't 0:22:12.640 --> 0:22:17.199 have anything to compare it to, I just thought it 0:22:17.280 --> 0:22:20.440 was normal, like, oh, it's okay, you know if he 0:22:20.480 --> 0:22:22.520 didn't want to come to a show, or like that's fine. 0:22:22.920 --> 0:22:30.720 And I really didn't understand um until res as, I mean, 0:22:30.800 --> 0:22:34.080 he shows up. He I could say so many things, 0:22:34.119 --> 0:22:37.280 but he definitely showed me how like it's supposed to be. 0:22:38.400 --> 0:22:42.800 I love that, really love you so perspective. What can 0:22:42.840 --> 0:22:46.639 people expect? Is it out already or it dropped on 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:57.720 my birthday? Thank you Appercorn say, um, what can you expect? 0:22:57.880 --> 0:23:01.520