1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,320 Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the episode of butter Nomics. I'm 2 00:00:02,320 --> 00:00:04,440 Speaker 1: the host, Brandon Butler Founta CEO of Butter atl and 3 00:00:04,559 --> 00:00:09,320 Speaker 1: today we have got somebody special in the building, the 4 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:12,400 Speaker 1: one the own, Miss Molly Wilson. 5 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:13,360 Speaker 2: Molly, how you doing today? 6 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 3: I'm so good. I said it earlier. I really do 7 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 3: feel like I'm floating on a magic carpet. 8 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:22,800 Speaker 2: Right, I'm glad. Well, thank you for stop. 9 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 3: Your miss My grandma say blessed and highly favored. 10 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 1: Look, that's what all the grandma said. You know, mine 11 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 1: always says it's better to be seen and not viewed. 12 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:32,160 Speaker 1: And I'm telling you right now, that's how I feel 13 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:33,560 Speaker 1: about a lot of things. 14 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:34,560 Speaker 3: So it's been a year. 15 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 1: You know, I tell people all time, I'm just happy 16 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 1: to be here. And that's why, because there's a lot 17 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:41,879 Speaker 1: of change going on. Well, I'm glad you stopped your 18 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:43,400 Speaker 1: magic carpet by here for a second. 19 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:43,760 Speaker 2: You know. 20 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:46,280 Speaker 1: For those that don't know what you, please tell them like, 21 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:47,519 Speaker 1: who is Molly Wilson. 22 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 3: Molly Wilson is in love. 23 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 2: Okay, I'm in love. 24 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:57,840 Speaker 3: You know, last fifteen years, you guys never saw me 25 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 3: with anybody. So it's been a shock or to a 26 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:02,760 Speaker 3: lot of people to see me over the last few 27 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 3: years kind of go from that caterpillar to the butterfly. 28 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 3: I always been cold and fly and whatever, but I'm grateful. 29 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 3: I'm about to drop a record March the twentieth. It's 30 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 3: called Retro in Real Time. My husband named it. We 31 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 3: actually wrote the project together. 32 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:29,119 Speaker 2: Shout out to eat, Yeah, yeah, yeah. 33 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:31,759 Speaker 3: And it wasn't like, hey, let's write a project together. 34 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 3: It was me sitting in the room with Grammy winning 35 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 3: nine ten times. I don't know how many times Mark 36 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:42,840 Speaker 3: Batson has been nominated. But you know when you with 37 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 3: somebody who's your best friend, you're homie, You're trying to 38 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 3: say a word and they oh, you mean and they 39 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 3: come up with the word. Well, that's what happened at 40 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 3: a session I was in with Mark and he came 41 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 3: up with the hook and I'm like, my brother, you 42 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 3: got the hook and he's like no, no. I'm like no, no, 43 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 3: I would never take anybody's credit. You got the hook. 44 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 3: And so that started our ash Ford and Simpson journey. 45 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 3: For you young people who don't know Ashford and Simpson 46 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 3: looking them up. Our parents loved them. They wrote together, 47 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 3: they produced together, they performed together. 48 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:13,640 Speaker 2: Well that's great. 49 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:13,920 Speaker 1: Look. 50 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so we're making doing business together. We did 51 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 3: business for a very long time. The Black Banker is 52 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 3: his handle. If you guys don't know. When Jeeze says, 53 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:26,960 Speaker 3: I own all of Atlanta. He was the partner and 54 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 3: making it happen. So he helped a lot of people. 55 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 3: I helped a lot of people. And after helping a 56 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:35,360 Speaker 3: lot of people, I fell in love and started singing 57 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 3: around the house. And here we are sitting here talking 58 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 3: to you. 59 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 2: You know, I appreciate it. Man. We'll get air couping 60 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 2: here one of these days. Now, I don't know. We 61 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:44,079 Speaker 2: can see if he makes some time for us. You 62 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. 63 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 1: We're gonna get him up in here. But I know 64 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,080 Speaker 1: he's working on you all stuff. Y'all got some amazing 65 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 1: project coming out. We gonna get into that. But you know, 66 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 1: like I said, my first connection with you was with 67 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 1: you know, my boy Ryan Stewart from The Two Lives 68 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 1: stew Shout out to stew. 69 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:58,919 Speaker 3: Shout out to Stu. We texted this morning. 70 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:00,919 Speaker 2: Yeah. He brought me over to a tree sound you 71 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 2: know what I mean. 72 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:02,800 Speaker 1: And he was like, man, come over here, man, I 73 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: want you to I want to take you to this 74 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:06,079 Speaker 1: thing I on issue to Molly, you know, and I 75 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:07,360 Speaker 1: didn't know what I was walking into. 76 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:09,679 Speaker 3: Walked in family reunion. 77 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 2: It was amazing, It was amazing. It was a great space. 78 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: You was in there, cooking, you was doing all kind 79 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:15,359 Speaker 1: of stuff. All of a sudden, Brandy gets up and 80 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 1: starts singing. I'm like, what is this? What kind of 81 00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 1: sorcery is this? And you know, like and a lot 82 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:21,959 Speaker 1: of people I think probably know you through Tree Sound, 83 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 1: even though you've got a lot of other stuff going on, 84 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:24,919 Speaker 1: but just out of cre like, what did that chapter 85 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 1: kind of represent for you in your career? 86 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 3: That chapter is very reminiscent of this one. I mean 87 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 3: I pivoted at the time. I made a very difficult 88 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 3: decision to pivot out of you know, selling out shows 89 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 3: and paperwork with Charlie Walk and Clyde Davis in front 90 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 3: of me, to decide that, you know, no one was 91 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 3: selling records at that time. The digital hadn't caught up. 92 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 3: So the world around me wanted me to make this decision, 93 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 3: and I made a decision not to. And so at 94 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 3: that time I was a partner in a studio in 95 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 3: New York and I came down shout out to Ethiopia. 96 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 3: She connected me to Tree Sound and the owners were 97 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 3: going out of business. They had three hundred thousand dollars 98 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 3: in debt. We talk about butter nomics. You know, it 99 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:16,599 Speaker 3: all looks glamorous in this industry, and a lot of 100 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 3: times it's a lot of people on some front street, 101 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:24,159 Speaker 3: you know. And so you know they needed me. I 102 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 3: wanted to work with the producer who'd produced Nappy Roots Groove, 103 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 3: and he said, let's be partners, and Paul Groove and 104 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 3: I became partners. Was great because you know, I'd never 105 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 3: had a boss or a real job waitress in bar, 106 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:41,719 Speaker 3: attending that kind of thing. And you know, they were like, 107 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 3: we need you to run the ship. So I had 108 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 3: full of time to me to run the ship and 109 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 3: shout out to Lil Wayne. That was my first real 110 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 3: like okay, who needs to be in here? You know. 111 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:56,919 Speaker 3: And so after Katrina, here comes Wayne and he was 112 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 3: loyal for the fifteen years I was there. He brought 113 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 3: Dre and you know it was just it was amazing. 114 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:08,119 Speaker 3: I mean, big Sean Whiz Khalifa shout out to trade 115 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 3: the truth. He's like, yo, you were the first person 116 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 3: I ever got me out of my house. All those 117 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:16,039 Speaker 3: records before Trey worked with me, he did at home. 118 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 3: And so the full circle moment that's happening with retro 119 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 3: in real time now with this record is which is amazing, 120 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:27,760 Speaker 3: because I never helped anybody. You know, if you didn't 121 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 3: have studio time and you could talk to everybody from 122 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 3: Titty boyd killing Mike to David Man. If you didn't 123 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 3: have it, Mike, will anybody come on? Because I know 124 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 3: when you have it, I can look you in the eye. 125 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:43,839 Speaker 3: I know you're gonna give it back. So the fun 126 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 3: thing is it's not the story that you know, Cinderella 127 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 3: made the dress for the ball for everyone else and 128 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 3: she wanted to be singing Ninea. 129 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 2: You know. 130 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 3: It's been a business person since my first lemonade stand, 131 00:05:56,560 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 3: and I do believe in God's timing, and so that 132 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:05,560 Speaker 3: time in my life not just prepared me on you know, 133 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:08,600 Speaker 3: ten years on Atlanta and Company in the morning and 134 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:12,720 Speaker 3: own network and A and E and the media training 135 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:16,279 Speaker 3: that happens by seeing your friends fuck it up, skew 136 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:19,839 Speaker 3: it all up. Sorry, you go ahead mess it all up, 137 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 3: you know, And you know, now I'm at a space 138 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:25,840 Speaker 3: where it's like, okay, Eric and I, it's like, if 139 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:28,760 Speaker 3: you've got a good heart and you've got the spirit 140 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 3: of God, and we want to work with you, which 141 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:35,400 Speaker 3: eliminates a lot of the people on that I love 142 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 3: and sorry to say, because I think some people aren't 143 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 3: there yet, but I do believe you'll get there in 144 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 3: your time. But the people that are coming forward. Shout 145 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 3: out to Drummer Boy. We got a bunch of songs 146 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 3: with drummer Boy, Mike will Eric and I went down 147 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 3: to get up with Juvie Juvenile and Trombone Shorty. Is like, 148 00:06:56,520 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 3: when you talk about my last chapter, I think I 149 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 3: just was trying to figure out how does this business work? 150 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Before I stick myself and 151 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 3: as an artist, and then I have an empathetic heart. 152 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 3: So I'm like, man, you need to know about publishing. 153 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 3: And I'm seeing people who made great records that had 154 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:22,000 Speaker 3: the wrong business managers didn't understand that you could look 155 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 3: in your bank account and see that you're not flying 156 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:27,119 Speaker 3: all over the world, and you know, seeing what happened 157 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 3: to Whitney, that kind of made me not want to 158 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 3: do it. So the fact that I have the desire 159 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 3: now to sing and to share my gift is it's 160 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 3: a miracle from God after everything I've seen, you know 161 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 3: what I mean? It really is just this love story, 162 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 3: this Retro and real time record is I just say 163 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:47,680 Speaker 3: each song as a chapter. And now the records used 164 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 3: to be where you could just put them in and 165 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 3: ride the whole song. It's not meant to just pick 166 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 3: one song. We dropped I think three songs off of 167 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 3: this record. We've dropped five total, three songs off of 168 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 3: this record we dropped and now we got ten. It's 169 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 3: a love story. It's really like we went viral, Eric 170 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 3: and I because nobody ever saw me when everybody that 171 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:10,280 Speaker 3: was big sister Molly, you know what I mean. So 172 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 3: you know it's been great, you know. 173 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:16,680 Speaker 1: And now you said you and Eric came up with 174 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 1: the whole concept of the name retro real Time, like 175 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 1: what is that? 176 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 3: He actually came up with the title I love his 177 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 3: I think his pen game really got me in the 178 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:29,400 Speaker 3: text messages. First of all, nobody was ever really that 179 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:32,200 Speaker 3: bold because I don't put off the energy of you know, 180 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 3: you know, I never dated nobody down here. It wasn't 181 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 3: you know, I've had love in my life, but it 182 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:42,360 Speaker 3: wasn't never. I never had butterflies, and I've always thought 183 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 3: that was some Disney like y'all making us up like 184 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:49,080 Speaker 3: it's interesting. This is my first time being in love, 185 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 3: and I've been married before. I've had relationships and in 186 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 3: really great relationships, but the fact that you have somebody 187 00:08:56,960 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 3: that you could write with and you just really the 188 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 3: love is there. Thankfully, our relationships started off business and 189 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 3: then we started talking and realized, Okay, we both grew 190 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:12,560 Speaker 3: up with great Grandma's in the church, and you know 191 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:15,760 Speaker 3: DC Chicago. He's DC got the go go, I got 192 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 3: the house music, and our character is a lot the same. 193 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:22,680 Speaker 3: So when we're writing, we pray before a recession Lord, 194 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 3: and you know, you hear Michael Jackson talk about how 195 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 3: the song if he didn't write it, he wanted to 196 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:30,080 Speaker 3: hurry up and get it out here before Prince got 197 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 3: it right. And so for me, it's not like this 198 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 3: isn't a competition. This is Lord just bless us with 199 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:38,839 Speaker 3: the songs that will bless our community, because I feel 200 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 3: like in the music side, love in general, not just 201 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 3: Black love, but love in general, it's like I got 202 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:50,960 Speaker 3: my own money, I don't need you, or is you know, 203 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:54,560 Speaker 3: heartbreak love, and so this love is not a heartbreak 204 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:57,679 Speaker 3: love record. There are some you know, lyrics that talk 205 00:09:57,720 --> 00:09:59,840 Speaker 3: about I gave my heart my soul and you know 206 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:02,680 Speaker 3: y'all broke me in half because we all go through that. 207 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:06,080 Speaker 3: But the gist of the record is, you know we 208 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 3: I think the reason why he chose retro in real 209 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:10,800 Speaker 3: time he just resonated with me is obviously I love 210 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:14,960 Speaker 3: vintage clothing and I love you know, how I felt 211 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:19,079 Speaker 3: as a young person knowing that, you know, there were 212 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 3: good people around. I think when we talk about retro, 213 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 3: we talk about when people really cared about each other 214 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:28,560 Speaker 3: and there was community. And so when we go back 215 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:32,200 Speaker 3: to my old days and my old studio versus where 216 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:35,440 Speaker 3: we are with Stonewood, we have a community. We have 217 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:38,480 Speaker 3: a space that's you know, over eight acres and people coming. 218 00:10:38,559 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 3: It's not just about the record release parties or the 219 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 3: book signing events that I used to do. It's more like, 220 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 3: let's do let's have love, Let's let's support each other, 221 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:52,199 Speaker 3: you know, like your butter, like your four four day 222 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 3: this is everybody in this entire four oh four and 223 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 3: beyond needs to come together and support what you're doing. 224 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 3: Because when you do that in the community, you're stronger. 225 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:06,400 Speaker 3: And so there's a song on the record called Sidelines 226 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:09,439 Speaker 3: that's already out after the shows. We've been selling out, 227 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 3: shut out to the Midwest, we've been selling out at home. 228 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 3: But it's like when you're in a relationship and you're 229 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:18,240 Speaker 3: a strong woman like me, to have somebody who wants 230 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:21,560 Speaker 3: to champion you and isn't intimidated or jealous of you, 231 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:24,680 Speaker 3: it's so huge. And it goes for women too, Like 232 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:27,199 Speaker 3: a lot of strong women, you want a good man, 233 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 3: but you got to be able to be on the sidelines. 234 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 3: And so we have a song called Sidelines and it 235 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:33,960 Speaker 3: talks about that. And there's also some songs that the 236 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 3: guys really love and I think because we're writing it, 237 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 3: there's a man's perspective. There's a song called Cheatcode. Just 238 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 3: let him chill and watch the game, get out his 239 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 3: face and go do you know, It's like I'll be 240 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 3: in the other room. I'm cool, you know, And that's 241 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:50,360 Speaker 3: really who I am. So this record is really who 242 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 3: I am. We went viral when we posted jez knew 243 00:11:54,800 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 3: me as a you know, he told Eric she are 244 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 3: and now got on the Disney dress. But you know 245 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 3: all in all, I think that I'm just I'm really grateful. 246 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:12,680 Speaker 3: This is a god thing. And if you know me, 247 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:14,840 Speaker 3: you know I've never been a religious person, but I've 248 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:18,000 Speaker 3: always believed that if you do good with what's in 249 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:21,960 Speaker 3: front of you, and you do unto others as you 250 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:25,080 Speaker 3: want them to do to you, you'll be blessed. And 251 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 3: that's literally what's happening. Drummer boy, you gotta go down 252 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:30,600 Speaker 3: to Memphis. You've been doing the blues with your Chicago 253 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:33,560 Speaker 3: people and out in Sokal. You gotta go where the 254 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:36,120 Speaker 3: soul is. And so I'm singing on Aretha's mic and 255 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:40,560 Speaker 3: Al Green's mic and in the same building at William 256 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 3: Mitchell's studio in Memphis, and you know, did a whole project. 257 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:46,720 Speaker 3: Shout out to Boo Mitchell on that one, and we'll 258 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:49,240 Speaker 3: come up. We'll come back. When we released all. We 259 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 3: got about one hundred songs. So this is the first ten. 260 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 2: That's amazing. 261 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 1: Now, look we're gonna get into this, but hold on 262 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 1: a second, because min like in that in that whole thing, 263 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:01,320 Speaker 1: you dropped some receipts and out people have some respect 264 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 1: on your name. 265 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:02,920 Speaker 2: Okay again, you're talking. 266 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 1: About Clive Davis Drake, drummer Boy, two Chains and Killing. 267 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:09,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, it sounds very name droppy. 268 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 1: If you don't know me right then I know and 269 00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 1: I know you've you've got to receisse to pack it 270 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:16,400 Speaker 1: up with Whitney Houston. You know Chris Brown, right, Like 271 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:19,920 Speaker 1: you've worked with some people obviously there's a global superstars 272 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 1: at the biggest scale, Like, what's something that you notice 273 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:26,120 Speaker 1: that's kind of consistent with those types of individuals that 274 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:26,959 Speaker 1: have made it at that level. 275 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:30,640 Speaker 3: Now, it depends on when you say what when you 276 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 3: made it, made it to where your music touches the world. 277 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 3: You got a great team, made it to where you're mentally, physically, 278 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 3: emotionally stable. It's not many that I've seen that's made it. 279 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:52,720 Speaker 3: And if they've made it, there's times where you fall 280 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:55,160 Speaker 3: off or you say something. You know, we've seen Kanye 281 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:57,440 Speaker 3: at his best and I haven't had the pleasure to 282 00:13:57,440 --> 00:14:01,360 Speaker 3: work with Kanye. It just an energy person, you know, 283 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:03,800 Speaker 3: time and energy has to be right. There are times 284 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:07,640 Speaker 3: where you watch his interviews and he's amazing. There are 285 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:09,760 Speaker 3: the times when you watch and it's like, Okay, you're 286 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:13,160 Speaker 3: going through some We're all human, right, So I think 287 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:16,559 Speaker 3: when you talk about these names. I was very fortunate 288 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:19,480 Speaker 3: to have a grandmother that told me work with people 289 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:22,680 Speaker 3: who ain't cheating on their wife, work with people who 290 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:27,800 Speaker 3: are good people, right, so in the future you have 291 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:31,680 Speaker 3: a future with them. And so these people that I'm 292 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:35,280 Speaker 3: talking about, a lot of the names, nobody knew who 293 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:38,560 Speaker 3: Drake was. Nobody knew who Big Sean was, nobody knew 294 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 3: who Ja Cole was, nobody knew who Cameron whiz Khalifa was. 295 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:46,360 Speaker 3: You know, everybody knew Wayne from Young Money because he 296 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 3: started so young. But when we talk about the rappers, 297 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:52,160 Speaker 3: nobody really knew them. And so when I say these names, 298 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:55,200 Speaker 3: a lot of people are she named her? Who is she? Well? 299 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:58,640 Speaker 3: I always say, you know, my friend said, Miley, you're 300 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:00,640 Speaker 3: famous to famous people, but nobody he knows you. And 301 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:04,640 Speaker 3: so now this is my opportunity to share who I 302 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 3: am through the music, how I love through the music, 303 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:12,640 Speaker 3: my faith through the music. And I'm hoping. You know, 304 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:16,960 Speaker 3: my attorney who did the deal with Clive, Alison Finley, 305 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 3: shot outs Alison. She said, had you John and Kanye 306 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 3: John And She's like, all of them are doing great. 307 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:28,680 Speaker 3: When you look at John, he spends half his time 308 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 3: you know, singing that giving back hold on John Legend. Yes, 309 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:39,440 Speaker 3: and John and I aren't close like that, but just 310 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:42,480 Speaker 3: seeing his journey with him and hopefully we will be 311 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 3: one day because I have a lot of respect for 312 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 3: him and he has work in my space and I 313 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 3: have had chats with him, but just seeing what he does, 314 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 3: like he gives back, he believes, he ain't no punk 315 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:54,280 Speaker 3: about what he believes in, and he raised a lot 316 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 3: of money for a lot of good cause. And so 317 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:59,360 Speaker 3: for me to share this music, it couldn't just be 318 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 3: I'm in love. Oh look kid, she's cute, she can sing. 319 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 3: Had to be for a purpose, and so I got 320 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 3: the honor when we dropped our first record, I'm not sorry. 321 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 3: If you get a chance, go listen to it. I 322 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:17,920 Speaker 3: was supposed to go on toward Angie Stone. So she 323 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:21,440 Speaker 3: wrote a little quote for me for my press release, 324 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 3: and it said, you've helped so many people. Nobody knows 325 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:28,520 Speaker 3: you could sing like this. I can't wait for our 326 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 3: voice as a sword. Two days later, she passed away. 327 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:34,880 Speaker 3: And when something like that happens, and we've had a 328 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:38,440 Speaker 3: lot of loss when it comes to physical lately this year, 329 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:42,560 Speaker 3: John Forte, they were both my friends, and we were, 330 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:45,360 Speaker 3: you know, on the way to working together. And so 331 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:49,120 Speaker 3: I get a call from the Billie Holiday theater. Molly, 332 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:54,040 Speaker 3: you embody what Billy Holiday is? We want you to headline. 333 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:57,320 Speaker 3: So it's always this double edged swore that happens, right, 334 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 3: and it's just it's exciting. Like for me, there's a 335 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:05,680 Speaker 3: lot of names that we drop. But if you realize 336 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:07,639 Speaker 3: everybody puts their pants on the same b It's like 337 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:10,399 Speaker 3: people that I know work for P and G. You 338 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:13,240 Speaker 3: think their name dropping when they say Kara at shame Oisture, 339 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:17,439 Speaker 3: they talk about s at Unilever. No, this is my world, 340 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:20,280 Speaker 3: you know what I mean. And so for those who 341 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:22,480 Speaker 3: think I'm named dropping and go do your research on 342 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:25,800 Speaker 3: Molly Hunter. That was the caterpillar that's now the butterfly. 343 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:26,920 Speaker 3: Molly Wilson. 344 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 1: Absolutely, Now I can't be remissed, especially as a woman 345 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:33,200 Speaker 1: in this industry. I'm sure there have been some challenges 346 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:35,639 Speaker 1: and stuff like that, Like what was that moment that 347 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:38,959 Speaker 1: you like really feel like you earned your respect amongst 348 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:41,200 Speaker 1: your peers, because I'm sure there were some hard rooms 349 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:42,879 Speaker 1: to walk into. There was probably some different people to 350 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:44,879 Speaker 1: kind of work with. But when do you think you 351 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:46,680 Speaker 1: had that like real breakthrough breakthrough moment. 352 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:50,680 Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting because I don't care when people think, 353 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:54,000 Speaker 3: and it comes from me having I don't know over 354 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:58,320 Speaker 3: sixty first cousins that are boys, wo many women in 355 00:17:58,359 --> 00:18:02,159 Speaker 3: my mom I'm named after a great grandmother, so I 356 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:04,639 Speaker 3: kind of was made for this industry, you know what 357 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 3: I mean, Like having a great grandmother. Everybody in the 358 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:11,000 Speaker 3: city is that's their big mama. And I had some 359 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:15,240 Speaker 3: I got some rough cousins who taught me the streets. 360 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 3: And I haven't always been, you know, as kind and 361 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:22,200 Speaker 3: gentle as I am now as Molly Wilson. Eric softened 362 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:24,919 Speaker 3: me up a lot. But you know, one moment that 363 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:29,479 Speaker 3: I can remember really realizing what I had done was 364 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:32,840 Speaker 3: it was before I was nominated for my Grammy with 365 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:37,440 Speaker 3: Chris Brown and uh shirt. The Grammys were like, Molly, 366 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:40,920 Speaker 3: we usually don't have anybody speak, you know, at these 367 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:44,119 Speaker 3: panels if they haven't won or been nominated. And I'm like, 368 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:46,400 Speaker 3: but I have four thousand Earth girls in the great 369 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:48,680 Speaker 3: Atlanta area, so you want people to god, you know 370 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:50,040 Speaker 3: what I mean. I kind of got what they were 371 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:52,320 Speaker 3: getting at. But they were like, no, we also respect 372 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:56,280 Speaker 3: you and what you've done, and so room full of girls, 373 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:59,000 Speaker 3: these girls raising their hands telling me stories, and I'm 374 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 3: sitting here like, WHOA. I never did it for fame 375 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:12,119 Speaker 3: or fortune. Always been a businesswoman to make money. And 376 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:15,520 Speaker 3: if there was a room that was dangerous to walk 377 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:18,359 Speaker 3: in and I didn't think I could handle it, my 378 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:20,560 Speaker 3: spirit wouldn't have let me walk in that room for 379 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:23,879 Speaker 3: any reason, for any money or anything. And so for 380 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:27,199 Speaker 3: the women who are out here, you know, when your 381 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:30,440 Speaker 3: gut tells you was some funny business. Are they rubbing 382 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:34,320 Speaker 3: on your shoulder? Are they trying to you know? I 383 00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:36,600 Speaker 3: think one time I can really when you say that 384 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:39,960 Speaker 3: I made it and when I had it really had happened. 385 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:43,320 Speaker 3: I don't think there was one point. I think that 386 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:47,840 Speaker 3: Grammy thing when they said, Molly, you never felt this way, 387 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:50,560 Speaker 3: and I'm like, but don't try to be me. You're 388 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 3: sitting on these panels, You're paying to go to these panels, 389 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:57,119 Speaker 3: and that's my journey. That's not your journey. My journey was. 390 00:19:57,119 --> 00:20:00,720 Speaker 3: I had a rough, awful, hard journey in the streets 391 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:04,879 Speaker 3: in North Chicago, Walkee and Chicago to get here to 392 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:07,760 Speaker 3: kind of get me ready to talk to these cats. 393 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:09,960 Speaker 3: If I didn't have that tough journey. I could have 394 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:12,679 Speaker 3: never talked to J Prince or Trade the Truth or 395 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:15,880 Speaker 3: TI or two Chains in the way when we were younger. 396 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 3: That I did to gain that respect, you know. And 397 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:25,119 Speaker 3: so I think when Tip came out of his situation 398 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:28,720 Speaker 3: and was doing Trouble Man in my building, he practically 399 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:32,120 Speaker 3: lived there, and he was like, Molly, you have your 400 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:35,679 Speaker 3: hands in everything. I have so much respect for you. 401 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:38,639 Speaker 3: And he shouted me out on several different podcasts and 402 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:41,440 Speaker 3: he says that, but it was when Tip was like, man, 403 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:45,760 Speaker 3: everybody has so much respect for you. You like my 404 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:49,760 Speaker 3: you know. And I think those kind of moments when 405 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:54,359 Speaker 3: you know people like J Prince, thank you, or Trade 406 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:56,880 Speaker 3: the Truth or the real guys that you could look 407 00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:58,880 Speaker 3: in your eyes and it ain't the business is business 408 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:01,600 Speaker 3: kind of thing and know that they'll have your back. 409 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:04,560 Speaker 3: And that's what we're seeing now, Like you know, Drummer 410 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:07,960 Speaker 3: Boy pulling us down to Memphis, Juvenile pulling us down, 411 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:12,199 Speaker 3: Trombone Shorty and Louisiana. It's just a different you know, 412 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:14,959 Speaker 3: calls that I'm getting. It's not the Hey, Molly did 413 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 3: everything for everybody? Know what's everyone doing for you? It's 414 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:20,800 Speaker 3: the everyone's saying what you need and I'm like, I 415 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:25,119 Speaker 3: just need to enjoy this, this chapter right here, this 416 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:28,680 Speaker 3: retro in real time. Let me enjoy the journey. Because 417 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:33,120 Speaker 3: I watched so many of my friends be stressed while recording. 418 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:37,880 Speaker 3: That's one real reason why my old building was successful. 419 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:41,400 Speaker 3: Because the labels would say, you got this many days? 420 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 3: How many? What song did they do today? And I'm like, 421 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:46,720 Speaker 3: in what world can you create? In the Motown days? 422 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:48,880 Speaker 3: They started a song and came back to it three 423 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:50,919 Speaker 3: days later, and you know what I mean? And so 424 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:52,880 Speaker 3: what I'd be like, you don't feel like recording today? 425 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:54,800 Speaker 3: I could see it in your eyes. You're gonna waste 426 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:58,480 Speaker 3: this money. We'll tell them you recorded. And when they 427 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:01,280 Speaker 3: asked me what songs they are, the go Black Eye 428 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:04,840 Speaker 3: and when you feel like coming in, come in, And 429 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:07,040 Speaker 3: I might throw a few extra days on it. Because 430 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 3: music is not supposed to be, you know, synthetic in mathematical, 431 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 3: it's supposed it comes from. Where does it come from? 432 00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:21,440 Speaker 3: It's beautiful, you know. So we've really enjoyed creating with friends. 433 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:25,160 Speaker 3: I mean a lot of this record. Kenneth Whaleam came 434 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:28,160 Speaker 3: in after we'd done eighty songs with so many other people. 435 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 3: It was just like this retro and real time what 436 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 3: he knew of me, you know what I mean, And 437 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:36,600 Speaker 3: he knew me when he was touring with Maxwell, and 438 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 3: you know, came down to my all space. I'm like, 439 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:40,400 Speaker 3: come on, you ain't got a bread, come on, come 440 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 3: on in. And now we're creating songs together. So it's 441 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:48,360 Speaker 3: wild man, just even talking to you to hear myself 442 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:51,360 Speaker 3: say these things, because you definitely can see that it 443 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:56,119 Speaker 3: was a divine journey and everything that I went through 444 00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 3: is let up to this moment and if I'm blessed 445 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,400 Speaker 3: another day to the other moments that are ahead of us. 446 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I was like, we're just saying, you know, 447 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 1: Steve Jobs said you can always connect the dots looking backwards, 448 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:10,320 Speaker 1: and I think that is kind of testament to that. 449 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:12,880 Speaker 1: And as you, you know, think about the stuff you're 450 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:15,080 Speaker 1: working on right now. You've been supporting people from behind 451 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:18,160 Speaker 1: the scenes for so long. What really made you say 452 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:20,560 Speaker 1: this is the time to step back into being an artist. 453 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,680 Speaker 1: Not that you ever stopped, but no, I stopped inspired 454 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 1: to come out. 455 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:27,120 Speaker 3: I wanted to, but I had people around me who 456 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:31,480 Speaker 3: really were making so much money and just living off 457 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:34,640 Speaker 3: of the energy of me helping other people. Nobody really 458 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:39,000 Speaker 3: wanted to see me step out because if you know 459 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,200 Speaker 3: my voice, I've been singing since some three, it's not knew. 460 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:46,720 Speaker 3: It wasn't like, you know, this kid that wished she 461 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:48,639 Speaker 3: could sing. I was put out in front of the 462 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:50,600 Speaker 3: church and in front of people for my whole life. 463 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:54,480 Speaker 3: But it really was my husband's saying, no, you don't 464 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:57,960 Speaker 3: sing like this and have helped everyone else, because it's 465 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:01,120 Speaker 3: a full circle moment retro and real time for him too, 466 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:04,000 Speaker 3: because his dad worked with the likes of Nina Simone 467 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:07,280 Speaker 3: and Nancy Wilson and helped create the Maryland Jazz Festival, 468 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:13,760 Speaker 3: and so you know, it was him saying, nah, he's 469 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:16,000 Speaker 3: a businessman. It's done very well and helped a lot 470 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,680 Speaker 3: of people. He's like, I never gave nobody alone who 471 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 3: didn't pay me back. I bet on you. And so 472 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:26,639 Speaker 3: for the first year it was it was like freaking 473 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,240 Speaker 3: what'd you call it? Imposter syndrome. I hadn't sung it 474 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 3: so long. And I get a call from my old 475 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:35,280 Speaker 3: creative partner, Craig Schneider in Chicago, and he said, man, 476 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:36,719 Speaker 3: it's great to tell you know you were of the 477 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 3: best writers and producers that I know, and I'm like, 478 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:44,879 Speaker 3: what because I had taken that hat off, you know. 479 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:47,120 Speaker 3: Every time I popped my hat in and helped justin 480 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 3: count just really produced a whole, you know song, and 481 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,439 Speaker 3: it got moved around for New Flame, for Usher and 482 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:54,479 Speaker 3: Chris Brown where I had my Grammy, but I just 483 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:58,280 Speaker 3: would tap in a little bit, tap in and sighed like, hey, 484 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:00,520 Speaker 3: can you sing this? I'm on one of his records, 485 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:04,600 Speaker 3: but it was tapping in and then the fear of 486 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:07,560 Speaker 3: what happened to Whitney and the fear of you know, 487 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,679 Speaker 3: people's opinions in your personal life, and I was rough. 488 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,600 Speaker 3: I had a rough start, you know. So it really 489 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:18,679 Speaker 3: was my husband saying I believe in you, and I said, well, 490 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,760 Speaker 3: if God gives me the desire to do it. And 491 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 3: the next day Mark Batson calls, I'm finishing Leashaki's record 492 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:29,359 Speaker 3: on Broadway and you're next. I knew what to do 493 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:31,639 Speaker 3: with her in India. Iry, I know exactly what to do. 494 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:34,159 Speaker 3: And two years he took my husband, took me out 495 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:36,800 Speaker 3: and said, come on, let's go get with Mark. Craig 496 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:39,879 Speaker 3: came down, Craig Snyder came down from Chicago. I hadn't 497 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,879 Speaker 3: seen him in fifteen years and we started creating, So 498 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,760 Speaker 3: it really was the universe. I always say, when you 499 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:47,439 Speaker 3: have a dream and a desire in your heart, if 500 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 3: you're a good person, And I never was like, oh, 501 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,359 Speaker 3: I'm not going to do it. I was just like, 502 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 3: if I get the desire, it has to be bigger 503 00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:59,359 Speaker 3: than me. So now I have the desire to stand 504 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,879 Speaker 3: on the shoulder that paved the way before me. You know, 505 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,679 Speaker 3: the l is atis, the earth is the Dinah Washington's 506 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:08,720 Speaker 3: all these girls out in the UK, who y'all hear? 507 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 3: Amy Winehouse said, Dinah Washington. All these people loved Billie Holliday. 508 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:17,640 Speaker 3: It's like, where where these young men and women need 509 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:22,200 Speaker 3: to see, not just us in the strip club and 510 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:24,320 Speaker 3: magic and you know, I love magic and shouts of 511 00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:26,560 Speaker 3: juju and everybody. I've been there a hundred thousand times. 512 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 3: I know every girl probably, But there has to be 513 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,159 Speaker 3: a balance. And so for me to be able to 514 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:38,680 Speaker 3: realize that as a woman of color, we didn't get 515 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:40,680 Speaker 3: to walk through the front door of radio City Music 516 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 3: called Carnegie Hall. There's a kind of I got to 517 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:48,119 Speaker 3: do this. I gotta shine a love on light on 518 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:50,240 Speaker 3: that and then I have to shine the light on 519 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:54,920 Speaker 3: the love that God's blessed me with because I wasn't 520 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:58,240 Speaker 3: looking for love. Everyone else, man, you weren't even looking. 521 00:26:58,920 --> 00:26:59,840 Speaker 3: Got the black banker. 522 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:01,760 Speaker 2: That's where you normally find it. 523 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:04,720 Speaker 3: Right when you're thirsty Thursday looking around. Don't nobody want 524 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:07,000 Speaker 3: you when you're thirsty looking around. I'm like, I'm on. 525 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 1: Now as somebody that's been on kind of both sides 526 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:13,280 Speaker 1: of the business, right on the business side and the 527 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:17,240 Speaker 1: artist side. What is something that you think artists that 528 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:19,600 Speaker 1: are coming up should be a little bit more aware of, 529 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:21,439 Speaker 1: Like what kind of advice would you give them to 530 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,040 Speaker 1: help them find their own voice and hopefully find their 531 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,200 Speaker 1: own success in that business. 532 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:30,000 Speaker 3: Staying true to who you are in your gut, in 533 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:33,600 Speaker 3: your heart, so you're not running around with your underwear 534 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:37,560 Speaker 3: on in the middle of the street in California. You 535 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,600 Speaker 3: lost your mind sitting on the curb eating fried chicken 536 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:45,160 Speaker 3: in the hood and you're famous. Keep your soul, keep yourself, 537 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:49,480 Speaker 3: keep your soul, and then don't believe nobody in this industry. 538 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 3: I've been nominated for Billboard Women of the Year probably 539 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:57,320 Speaker 3: twenty times, a number one. Because I'm not an industry 540 00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 3: person with a lot more people than a lot of 541 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,119 Speaker 3: people who won. But I never cared about the accolades. 542 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:07,359 Speaker 3: So my advice is, don't care about the accolades. You 543 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,919 Speaker 3: know you care about the business side. How is the bread? 544 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:14,080 Speaker 3: How is it okay You're gonna do a deal with 545 00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:16,359 Speaker 3: a major labor for what? Because you're a cloud chaser 546 00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 3: and you want all this team who's gonna push you 547 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:22,440 Speaker 3: and everybody got to get a paycheck. Every little coffee 548 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,760 Speaker 3: you get gonna have to get reimbursed and paid for. 549 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:31,119 Speaker 3: Or do you not be afraid of small beginnings? I 550 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 3: think that's my biggest advice. Do not be afraid of 551 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:37,520 Speaker 3: small beginnings and learn how the money is collected. And 552 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:43,120 Speaker 3: there's so many ways. It's knowing and daunting. Who collecting 553 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:46,240 Speaker 3: off radio, who collecting the shows? Who's collecting on sync deal? 554 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:48,760 Speaker 3: Who collecting on a brand deal? How do I get 555 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 3: paid on my merch What is being my doing? What 556 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:54,560 Speaker 3: is askap doing? What? I mean, that's a lot of 557 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,520 Speaker 3: stress and pressure. That's why you see a lot of 558 00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:00,440 Speaker 3: artists not end up with anything after a tour in 559 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:01,880 Speaker 3: the whole world. It's sad. 560 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,760 Speaker 1: Now you know, beyond the music again, you've done that 561 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,200 Speaker 1: and done amazing stuff. And again you got the album 562 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:12,560 Speaker 1: coming out soon. But Earth Girl, that's also something that's 563 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:14,280 Speaker 1: important to you. Tell us about how that, how that 564 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:15,760 Speaker 1: got started and what is it. 565 00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:16,200 Speaker 2: It's huge. 566 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:18,920 Speaker 3: Somebody said that you got your own bee hive, huh, 567 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:22,600 Speaker 3: And we really literally have bees on our land because 568 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:24,200 Speaker 3: we care about the earth. It started when I was 569 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,560 Speaker 3: a little girl, saying don't throw that paper on the ground, 570 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:30,000 Speaker 3: and having to garden with my grandmother and the projects 571 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:33,520 Speaker 3: in her little garden and then go to my other 572 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,680 Speaker 3: grandmother's house in North Carolina every summer. We were sent 573 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:40,720 Speaker 3: from the city to be in the earth and plant 574 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:46,280 Speaker 3: and be gardeners and farmers with my grandfather, Robert Hunter. 575 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:51,600 Speaker 3: And so I think that's where it originated. Two thousand 576 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:55,200 Speaker 3: and eight. I just saw a need, you know, you 577 00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,240 Speaker 3: asked me about when did I know as a woman 578 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:01,160 Speaker 3: like I just saw that girls didn't I have strong leaders. 579 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 3: I didn't have any real woman to look up to. 580 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:08,000 Speaker 3: All my mentors are men, except for one, Camille Cook. 581 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:11,680 Speaker 3: She helped me. She was running her own production company 582 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:14,000 Speaker 3: and helped me. We did the hard Knight Life tour. 583 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:16,920 Speaker 3: We did all these different tours. But I just knew 584 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,320 Speaker 3: girls needed to be helped. In two thousand and eight, 585 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:23,360 Speaker 3: Dove underwrote my program and I brought a hundred girls 586 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:26,880 Speaker 3: from around the country and they were all tween twenty agers. 587 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:29,160 Speaker 3: I called them that junior high because I feel like 588 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:34,120 Speaker 3: if you catch them early, you can give them the 589 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:37,400 Speaker 3: strength and the power to reject and rebuke what the 590 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:40,520 Speaker 3: world takes away from you. And now it's guys too 591 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 3: that we're helping. It's Earth Angel, that's the nonprofit. But 592 00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:47,720 Speaker 3: that's when it started. When I decided to leave my 593 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:52,560 Speaker 3: old partnership, I had just started doing camps, more camps 594 00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:56,640 Speaker 3: and camps and camps, and then MK and Jermaine's J 595 00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,760 Speaker 3: Cole's team was like, yo, so you're doing these camps. 596 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:05,000 Speaker 3: My partner at the time had told him. Grooves said 597 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:07,040 Speaker 3: to Jamaine, to j Cole, you used to do your 598 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:09,760 Speaker 3: camp here. And so I hosted a fourteen day camp 599 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:11,960 Speaker 3: and I knew that was the end of me at 600 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,479 Speaker 3: that space because I had prior bought up my studio 601 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,160 Speaker 3: now Stonewood, and I had two producers in it. And 602 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:24,560 Speaker 3: so the earth Girl movement really exploded big time twenty 603 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 3: nineteen because I knew that I was gonna call Swiss Beats, 604 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:35,760 Speaker 3: Khalid Rick Ross Ti to come when j Cole would 605 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:40,880 Speaker 3: be calling Wallet Kendrick the younger guys, right, And so 606 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:44,840 Speaker 3: we built this whole thing, this camp, and that was 607 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:48,120 Speaker 3: my last in my mind. And then somebody made this 608 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:51,560 Speaker 3: rumor Moly did this camp and won no females. There 609 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:57,800 Speaker 3: was all men. We had Ari Lennox, Baby Rose Mariba 610 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:01,200 Speaker 3: who are all popping now, and a couple other girls. 611 00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:03,960 Speaker 3: And I wasn't singing at the time. So I'm setting 612 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,200 Speaker 3: up MIC's outside my office, like man, why a y'all? 613 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:09,400 Speaker 3: Like man, the guys will and me, I'm pushy if 614 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,480 Speaker 3: you don't let me in to play double Dutch, I'm 615 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,800 Speaker 3: snatching the ropes and I'm the one doing. Come on, 616 00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:16,880 Speaker 3: you have to be fair, you know what I mean, 617 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,280 Speaker 3: just just because I grew up Boston, my cousins around 618 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:24,040 Speaker 3: and you know, and being a them including me, so 619 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,520 Speaker 3: like if they didn't include me, so the girls weren't 620 00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:29,520 Speaker 3: getting included in that article. And I'm like, Okay, I'm 621 00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,720 Speaker 3: gonna do a whole camp before I leave this partnership. 622 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:36,160 Speaker 3: And we have four thousand women come to the camp. 623 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:41,800 Speaker 3: We had everybody coming, All the kids came, Lo Wayne's daughter, 624 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:48,040 Speaker 3: Tip's daughter, Zonique. There's so many, Cody Shane, all these 625 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:50,160 Speaker 3: girls that are popping out. They all came out. But 626 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:54,560 Speaker 3: then we had the moms. We had Whizz's mom, Tea 627 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:58,480 Speaker 3: Pain's mom, Future's mom to talk to the girls and 628 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:02,959 Speaker 3: their mothers. And I remember this moment where el Werner 629 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:04,840 Speaker 3: was in the middle of the room with her guitar, 630 00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:09,240 Speaker 3: crying about the label and how they shelved her and 631 00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:12,280 Speaker 3: how she started drinking and she just didn't put out 632 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:16,240 Speaker 3: music and that was the jump of her getting back 633 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,360 Speaker 3: in and now she's produced her own record. So Earth 634 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,560 Speaker 3: Girls started because everybody was like, Molly, how are you 635 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:25,320 Speaker 3: doing it? And I'm like looking around, like Ah, I 636 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:27,520 Speaker 3: had a very strong father that said, don't be no punk. 637 00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:32,120 Speaker 3: Everything God made me, don't get pimped. I had. You know, 638 00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:36,440 Speaker 3: I came from a strong background where my dad didn't 639 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:39,920 Speaker 3: have any boys. So I was that that was the 640 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,400 Speaker 3: g in that family, you know what I mean. So 641 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:45,800 Speaker 3: you know that's where it started. Word is now camps, 642 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:50,080 Speaker 3: monthly camps shout out to the brands that really care. 643 00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:52,959 Speaker 3: The last one we had LORI I'll be a part of. 644 00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:56,800 Speaker 3: And you know, there's been several beverage companies, and we 645 00:33:56,880 --> 00:34:00,680 Speaker 3: try to be really careful about who's being sustainable and 646 00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,600 Speaker 3: who's not, you know what I mean, that's important to us. 647 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:08,400 Speaker 3: And so yeah, we've placed almost two hundred songs maybe 648 00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:13,839 Speaker 3: over on girls in this you know, in this community 649 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,200 Speaker 3: on Paramount and via Calm. Shout out to Anita and 650 00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:21,640 Speaker 3: her teams and you know Jennifer and sung that Annie. 651 00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:23,799 Speaker 3: We've placed a lot of music and done a lot 652 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:25,759 Speaker 3: of good and talk girls how to get their money 653 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,320 Speaker 3: and figure out how the paperwork and do their split sheets. 654 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:30,840 Speaker 3: It's bigger than just wanting to be creative. And I 655 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:34,520 Speaker 3: think that's the beauty of Earth Girl. And if it 656 00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:37,799 Speaker 3: becomes my behive because they love my music and I'm 657 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,840 Speaker 3: able to be the flagship artist that pushes these girls 658 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:44,040 Speaker 3: out to have their own labels, not be signed underneath me, 659 00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:48,319 Speaker 3: we can partner, then that's something that will be organically 660 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,160 Speaker 3: beautiful and flower one day out. 661 00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:51,320 Speaker 2: That's amazing. 662 00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:54,000 Speaker 1: Now when you think about the music and especially the 663 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,880 Speaker 1: album you got, you know, you got jazz, you got blues, 664 00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,520 Speaker 1: you got gospel, all these things that kind of influenced you. 665 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:01,840 Speaker 1: You know, Oh, was it really important, especially with the 666 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:04,000 Speaker 1: stuff you're working on now to really kind of like 667 00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,319 Speaker 1: lean into those things that were authentic to you and 668 00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,400 Speaker 1: not just be out here chasing trends like other people do. 669 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:14,040 Speaker 3: I think come from a mixed background. My mother is 670 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:19,520 Speaker 3: white Eastern European. My dad is a real one. You 671 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:21,680 Speaker 3: think back in the day he would have thought he 672 00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:25,239 Speaker 3: was a black panther. But just being taught to be 673 00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,000 Speaker 3: everything that I am. And I grew up in the 674 00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:33,040 Speaker 3: church and my grandmother's sister's church, and with my great 675 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:37,399 Speaker 3: grandmother going to her church, Ebenezer, and so that had 676 00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:40,080 Speaker 3: to be I mean, it's who I am. The blues, 677 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:44,760 Speaker 3: you know, all of it. People don't realize the history 678 00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:48,920 Speaker 3: of music, the blues was creative because black people built 679 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:51,560 Speaker 3: this country off their backs, and then they were ostracized 680 00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:54,560 Speaker 3: and treated awful, and they thought it was freedom. Going 681 00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:57,520 Speaker 3: up to the Midwest, where I'm from, they were told 682 00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:00,000 Speaker 3: come on. My grandmother said, there were poor white people, 683 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,480 Speaker 3: well that were our family in North Carolina, that we 684 00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:05,080 Speaker 3: left to go up north, and we're living in these 685 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,400 Speaker 3: slums now. We got tricked. And that's where the blues 686 00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:09,880 Speaker 3: came from. And so I've had a lot of blues 687 00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:13,000 Speaker 3: in my life. You know, it's a troubled teenager and 688 00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:16,480 Speaker 3: getting arrested several times, you know, and you know the 689 00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:19,400 Speaker 3: blues is a part of me. But what we love 690 00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:21,360 Speaker 3: is that Eric and I said, let's call it the 691 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,480 Speaker 3: Sunshine Blues because there's always a redemption at our songs. 692 00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:26,600 Speaker 3: It's not that let's put this on and be a misery. 693 00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:30,799 Speaker 3: It's it should happens. Man, you know, you're not the 694 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:33,240 Speaker 3: only one. When you're not a narcissist and you realize 695 00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:36,200 Speaker 3: you're not the only one, you can move on from it, 696 00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:39,680 Speaker 3: and then soul it's in me, you know. You know, 697 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:45,520 Speaker 3: thank God for John Baptiste because he won't let you 698 00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:47,959 Speaker 3: put him. I met him when I was managing Carly 699 00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:52,880 Speaker 3: Simon and I had her on Corbert Show. John Baptista 700 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:54,840 Speaker 3: is like, I'm not a genre. I'm gonna do whatever's 701 00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:57,720 Speaker 3: in me creatively, and that opens a door for artists 702 00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:00,680 Speaker 3: like me to just be like, you know, some songs 703 00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:04,200 Speaker 3: are leaning more toward the soul, more toward the gospel, 704 00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:07,200 Speaker 3: but my voice is jazzy. I can't. Everyone's like, where 705 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,239 Speaker 3: do we put this? And where do you put me? 706 00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:11,839 Speaker 3: As a human being? You know what I mean, all 707 00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:14,560 Speaker 3: of us really in America are mixed with something. Even 708 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:18,480 Speaker 3: if your bloodline isn't, you have black culture that's influenced 709 00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:22,000 Speaker 3: you like no other country. You know what I mean. 710 00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:25,200 Speaker 2: This is an amazing conversation. 711 00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,160 Speaker 1: I know, I know you got the magic carpet outside 712 00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:28,600 Speaker 1: and you got to make some moves. So I'm going 713 00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:30,839 Speaker 1: to respect your time. But I do appreciate you pulling 714 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:32,160 Speaker 1: up before we get up out of here. 715 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:35,600 Speaker 3: Just I appreciate you having me. I have a lot 716 00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:38,160 Speaker 3: of respect for you and what you're doing. You don't 717 00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:41,040 Speaker 3: have to share, butter atl you didn't have to create 718 00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:44,000 Speaker 3: four or four day And from the moment that you 719 00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:47,440 Speaker 3: and I Brandon met, I knew that God had blessed 720 00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:51,120 Speaker 3: you with something special that you could really look someone 721 00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:55,600 Speaker 3: so powerful in the eyes. But the humility that you 722 00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:59,879 Speaker 3: have is it's not normal to be in an Ah. 723 00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:03,080 Speaker 3: Y'all is like New York in the nineties. Boy, you living, 724 00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:07,600 Speaker 3: you made something happen in the at L quit playing 725 00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:11,800 Speaker 3: with me. So you get your flowers from me always, 726 00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:13,840 Speaker 3: And I appreciate you having me. 727 00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:16,040 Speaker 1: Oh, I appreciate you buying I'm gonna I'm gona get 728 00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:17,359 Speaker 1: my daughter out there with the Earth girls too. 729 00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:20,440 Speaker 2: Yes, please out there. She's in that tweens. Stay. 730 00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:22,720 Speaker 3: Oh, that's what we're focused on. And we have every 731 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,880 Speaker 3: we have earth girls that are in their eighties, but 732 00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:31,400 Speaker 3: we have that that teen, that ten to fifteen group. 733 00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:33,440 Speaker 3: They'll try you. 734 00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:36,560 Speaker 1: She's telling me, well, looky, before we get up out 735 00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:38,600 Speaker 1: of here, please tell people I know the album comes 736 00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,239 Speaker 1: on the twentieth. How can they get it? How can 737 00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:43,399 Speaker 1: they find you? Support you, like, give them all the thing. 738 00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:47,839 Speaker 3: Molliwilson dot com. You can get my record. You can 739 00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:50,719 Speaker 3: support me and take a lot of money to do 740 00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:54,440 Speaker 3: these records, you know, because we pay people. You can 741 00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:57,400 Speaker 3: get t shirts. You can go on my Instagram at 742 00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:01,200 Speaker 3: I am Underscore Molly and to Molly like the country 743 00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:06,440 Speaker 3: in Africa m A l I And you know used 744 00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,520 Speaker 3: to be able to google me as Molly Hunter, but 745 00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:12,359 Speaker 3: now it's Molly Wilson. And I'm very proud to have 746 00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:15,160 Speaker 3: such an awesome partner and be sharing this music with 747 00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:17,480 Speaker 3: you guys. So yeah, that's where you can catch me. 748 00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:19,719 Speaker 2: Absolutely and we don't get airico. 749 00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:23,440 Speaker 3: And I'm baton nomics period that part. 750 00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:25,560 Speaker 1: Well, look, Molly, thank you so much for pulling up. 751 00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:28,720 Speaker 1: Congratulations on a new album. Congratulations on everything. You've always 752 00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:30,400 Speaker 1: been amazing and you'll have been supporting. You just want 753 00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:32,560 Speaker 1: the nicest people. I know, I don't care what nobody says. 754 00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:33,600 Speaker 1: You want the nicest people. 755 00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:35,960 Speaker 3: Well, it's either one. You know, they're just saying that 756 00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:38,439 Speaker 3: you get what you give, and I don't always give 757 00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:41,200 Speaker 3: back that. But there are some people who the door 758 00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:44,000 Speaker 3: gets closed if your spirit ain't right. You know. I 759 00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:47,359 Speaker 3: I'm a Libra, so I like balance and connecting. But 760 00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:49,960 Speaker 3: most of the time, if even if you're hurting and 761 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,120 Speaker 3: you're not very kind, I'm gonna be kind anyway, because 762 00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:53,439 Speaker 3: why not? Right? 763 00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:56,920 Speaker 1: Absolutely, well, you know, this is an amazing conversation y'all 764 00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:57,800 Speaker 1: all again, thank. 765 00:39:57,640 --> 00:39:59,480 Speaker 2: You for pulling up, thank you for having me. And 766 00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:01,680 Speaker 2: what that's it, y'all, that's the pod. We out, we 767 00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:02,120 Speaker 2: out