Speaker 1: He is drinks chess, motherfucking podcast man.
Speaker 2: He's a legendary queens rapper.
Speaker 3: He ain't agreed that your boy in O R E.
Speaker 3: He's a Miami hip hop pioneer. What up his dj
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Speaker 3: of the biggest players, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: And the most professional unprofessional podcast and your number one
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Speaker 3: Drink up, motherfuck mother? Would it good?
Speaker 4: Bess?
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Speaker 3: drink champs. Baby.
Speaker 4: We are so happy to have this woman from.
Speaker 3: Across the pond.
Speaker 2: She's here now you're kidding me, Bro, I gotta do it.
Speaker 3: I gotta do it, bro. Oh, here we go.
Speaker 4: I gotta do.
Speaker 5: It so across the pond. This woman is a legend
Speaker 5: amongst legends.
Speaker 3: Hits, a pond hits.
Speaker 5: We can't talk about her without calling her an icon,
Speaker 5: a legend, a person that we have to lay out
Speaker 5: the flowers when she walks in the room. In case
Speaker 5: you don't understand or no, what the hell fucking talking about?
Speaker 3: We're talking about you.
Speaker 5: You bro, Yeah, I feel like I'm from the UK? Okay,
Speaker 5: is that messed up? Because because I know accent.
Speaker 3: Everyone does, everyone does. That's okay.
Speaker 6: No, we we sound Southern when we try to do
Speaker 6: American accents.
Speaker 3: So it's it's very strange. It's okay, we'd take and
Speaker 3: there's different accents over there too, like.
Speaker 1: It was here.
Speaker 7: So there's six and one half a dozen.
Speaker 4: So if I say, bro, I'm sucking.
Speaker 5: Up now, okay, what are you going to say? Normal,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna I'm gonna have a shot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead, but Jamie, are you gonna drink drinking?
Speaker 3: Are you drinking? Kicky?
Speaker 6: Said Davis, and a cup of ginger? I should have missed.
Speaker 5: She flows on us that.
Speaker 3: That's that's Beyonce. You know, I'm a brown looker girl,
Speaker 3: and really I am.
Speaker 5: I am so so so hennessy is your Starnes?
Speaker 6: I know, I say one of my whiskey, whiskey scotch.
Speaker 6: That's my deal, okay, all right, so what kind of whiskey?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 6: So it's stages to it. So it's McAllen, it's calin.
Speaker 6: That's that's that's ill. Okay, Yeah, that's my stage one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I know my drink.
Speaker 6: I'm drinking, you know, and then there's oh bonn if
Speaker 6: I'm being fancy and outside low key, and then you know,
Speaker 6: I stick around those two. So Davis is a new
Speaker 6: addition to the scenario. I like the taste of it.
Speaker 6: It hits where it hits in. You know, it feels good, is.
Speaker 5: Fantastic, it's great. Okay, let's get straight to it. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you had Kanye on your you go, let's talk.
Speaker 3: Just get straight to it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, hey man, we had Kanye on hair.
Speaker 3: Yeah your friends? Did you say my friend? No?
Speaker 5: I like that, but yeah, is that controversy having somebody
Speaker 5: that's controversies on your record?
Speaker 3: Is it? Is that?
Speaker 6: No, Because at the end of the day, it's my
Speaker 6: record and it was always my record, and I performed it.
Speaker 6: It's my record, and you know, I feel like the
Speaker 6: point of the record was joy. The point of the
Speaker 6: record was happiness. Point of record was legacy, Like I
Speaker 6: prayed for it to be this kind of record. So
Speaker 6: I can't focus on what doesn't feel like that anymore,
Speaker 6: just because i't feel like that anymore. I have to
Speaker 6: move with what the record is, and to me, people's kids, kids,
Speaker 6: kids like I have grandparents like I was when your
Speaker 6: song came out, and my grandkids like, oh man, I
Speaker 6: come and I'm just like, that's.
Speaker 3: What we did it for.
Speaker 6: So, you know, I feel like when God moves, you
Speaker 6: can't really you can't get caught up in whatever doesn't
Speaker 6: fit the.
Speaker 3: Mold in a moment. It's my point.
Speaker 7: So I don't really focus on that.
Speaker 3: I don't worry about that. And I've been singing it myself.
Speaker 6: And promoting it for seventeen o the years since it's
Speaker 6: been out.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's my joint, my song.
Speaker 3: Yeah, by the way, that was the purpose.
Speaker 6: That's true, because look, we're all humans, and I like
Speaker 6: people will be on their journey. That's the other thing
Speaker 6: I say. People are on their journey on mine before
Speaker 6: I came here. He was on his before we got together,
Speaker 6: and do that record. He's on his now and I'm
Speaker 6: still on mine and I can't.
Speaker 5: I'm not the judge, no anything off a gig. We
Speaker 5: had him last week and I didn't realize that America
Speaker 5: is just as mean to you guys as that that
Speaker 5: we are like to us.
Speaker 4: Because I didn't.
Speaker 5: I didn't realize, like when I tried to enter the UK, like.
Speaker 4: How mean they were to me? But then they are
Speaker 4: mean to y'all like that the same way.
Speaker 3: What do you mean mean like when you travel back
Speaker 3: and forth?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I think any boarder, thank you. I
Speaker 6: think any boarder anywhere any place. And I hate to
Speaker 6: generalize this because you're talking about the UK, but like
Speaker 6: their job is to be mean at the borders.
Speaker 3: Isn't it?
Speaker 7: Like their job is.
Speaker 3: The screen people screen people like I go to that's
Speaker 3: a whole other.
Speaker 6: People wore me and then I was like, oh no, okay,
Speaker 6: well I'm here to do this, thank you.
Speaker 5: I wish I knew Drake back then, you know what
Speaker 5: I watched like back then, I'm not sure he would
Speaker 5: have let us us through the door. Anyway, I'm sorry.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's it's kind of their job. But you know,
Speaker 6: you have to also be calm, and we travel a lot, right,
Speaker 6: so I have Like I said, between me and my team,
Speaker 6: we figured out I have a master's degree, and just
Speaker 6: being like I'm here for this, I'm not gonna be
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna be laid down, but also.
Speaker 7: I'm here to do my job.
Speaker 3: You have a master's degree.
Speaker 6: Like a master's degree and being calm.
Speaker 3: Did we have a master's degree in Russia?
Speaker 2: At one point and being calm, we went through some
Speaker 2: ship in Russia.
Speaker 3: They treated was pretty crazy. I do it.
Speaker 7: I was thinking about that.
Speaker 6: It was in Russia with my team and we saw
Speaker 6: like maybe we counted the amount of black people we
Speaker 6: saw that.
Speaker 3: That's what he said. That was he even said, because
Speaker 3: you said.
Speaker 6: Nothing and you just be so happy, like hi, hi,
Speaker 6: like when you see him.
Speaker 3: You said, you saw Oh no, what happened?
Speaker 5: No, it was crazy because when we landed in Russia,
Speaker 5: we have we said the story often and we had
Speaker 5: a guy that said his his tad said Russia is
Speaker 5: against ra racism.
Speaker 2: That was the people that brought us out there to
Speaker 2: do a show. Like this place we're fu.
Speaker 4: So if you have to say that, you understand it's
Speaker 4: the thing.
Speaker 5: So what's one of the craziest places you performed that?
Speaker 3: Oh God, you didn't know.
Speaker 7: Lebanon?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 6: Yeah it was Lebanon, right, No, yeah, yeah, that's the capital.
Speaker 6: So because so this is the part where you realize
Speaker 6: we don't get as much information and news via general
Speaker 6: news sources as we should, or we're not paying attention
Speaker 6: because I go we went to perform. Half my team
Speaker 6: were like, nah, different excuses not to come. So I
Speaker 6: ended up going with like my DJ and like a
Speaker 6: couple of dancers and we go out and I'm like,
Speaker 6: this isn't that bad. It's okay. The hotel they put
Speaker 6: us and was beautiful, and then we walk out onto
Speaker 6: the patio and it's like the bullet bullet brittle building.
Speaker 7: No, but it was.
Speaker 6: It was just like it was really it was still
Speaker 6: the remnants of like the ongoing war out here that
Speaker 6: that isn't stopping, that isn't showing anything.
Speaker 7: What was ten twelve years.
Speaker 3: Ago, it was still going on.
Speaker 6: So to me it was just like, oh, we really
Speaker 6: are outside in the world. But it was that, and
Speaker 6: it was that, And then we ended up performing. The
Speaker 6: venue was beautiful. I didn't know what to expect. Too crazy, Yeah,
Speaker 6: the people are amazing, And we end up performing at
Speaker 6: the top of this venue that was like the most
Speaker 6: incredible skyline you can see, and I was standing on
Speaker 6: the bar. It was just glorious, like standing on standing
Speaker 6: on chairs like.
Speaker 7: It was wine felt like here.
Speaker 6: Or London, but we're in Beirut a top of the
Speaker 6: building and the building next door has definitely.
Speaker 3: Got all through it. It's crazy. It was just like.
Speaker 5: I got to take a shot for you than you.
Speaker 3: Are we doing? Are we doing the flowers? Yes, let's
Speaker 3: give it. Mm hmm.
Speaker 5: Our show was about giving people they flowers where they
Speaker 5: can smell them, doors where they could tell them you,
Speaker 5: drinks where they could drink them, and they thinks where they.
Speaker 3: Could think them.
Speaker 5: Okay, we're gonna give you your flowers.
Speaker 3: This is very cool.
Speaker 5: Snoop Dog says better than a Grammy.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 6: And I'm honest, this is a big deal for me
Speaker 6: right now, like people don't think I do like I'll
Speaker 6: be outside a little like you know.
Speaker 7: So this is a big deal.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Oh gosh, you's put it right here. I do.
Speaker 5: Okay, it's just in case, okay, just.
Speaker 3: In case he hit up. Thank you. That's so perfect.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 5: So I would like you to describe the UK scene
Speaker 5: right because I'm so sorry I have to ask this. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm looking on the UK recent comments.
Speaker 6: Is it safe, it's safe, it's not, it's not, it's
Speaker 6: it's I say this same is different currency. I could
Speaker 6: same ship, different currency wherever you go. It is your drama.
Speaker 6: If you don't start, nothing won't be nothing if you
Speaker 6: act like you know you're from where you're from, you
Speaker 6: know what.
Speaker 3: The rules are. Everywhere is everywhere? You know what the rules?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, get whole reference.
Speaker 6: We're talking about like safe aerrias to like the eighteen
Speaker 6: hundred and sixty five.
Speaker 3: So I'm going to fight.
Speaker 5: You like I'm like damn because you know, London always
Speaker 5: showed me love.
Speaker 4: I play the Best hood O t with Tim Westwood.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I said that back in the day.
Speaker 5: Holy mortal. Now I'm scared because they they chop off
Speaker 5: the man.
Speaker 6: Man, You're fine, You're they love chomping off your hand.
Speaker 4: You find my good What's what's Nando's?
Speaker 7: You're good at Nando's. This This is why.
Speaker 6: So there's like a run of places as people think
Speaker 6: I'm the restaurant master.
Speaker 7: Low key, I am to my friends.
Speaker 4: But okay, the restaurants we're good at, well.
Speaker 3: There's a few of them. There's a lot of but
Speaker 3: there's a lot in there.
Speaker 6: It's all specific, right, But my whole thing is like
Speaker 6: go to Nando's if you're in London. That's the that's
Speaker 6: a safe bet. That's your version of Church's Chicken. That's
Speaker 6: your version of like whatever food. What's the one someone
Speaker 6: out here I forget the name, but not prop Oh no, Miami,
Speaker 6: Miami finger like finger. It's like think, you know you're
Speaker 6: gonna get good food.
Speaker 4: You're good to.
Speaker 6: That's so we're just going. Yeah, that's my that's my thing.
Speaker 4: Okay, And what are you drinking?
Speaker 7: I'm drinking again?
Speaker 3: What are you drink? I'm drinking to day.
Speaker 6: It's ginger L. I should have been doing ginger L.
Speaker 6: But I need I need, no, no, I.
Speaker 3: Should. I feel like that's how I should drink it.
Speaker 2: But can I do any sta?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm trying to be tame.
Speaker 3: It's the middle of the day.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's let's let's let's let's go over there, right.
Speaker 3: Oh lord?
Speaker 4: Be a favorite place to perform it?
Speaker 6: Okay, all right in the US, And I feel like
Speaker 6: I performed everywhere. Yeah but maybe Arizona maybe maybe no, no, no, no,
Speaker 6: everywhere but Arizona, thank you.
Speaker 3: I have performed everywhere.
Speaker 6: By Arizona maybe finished, but my favorite place.
Speaker 3: I feel like it's a it's a cross between New
Speaker 3: York and Oakland. Yeah. Wow, that's that is?
Speaker 5: That is to one of the number two marketskan Yeah,
Speaker 5: of course, between Philly though Philly, Uh Oakland.
Speaker 6: The Berea the same day. They know music like London.
Speaker 6: It's different, it's it's different. I'll be out there like
Speaker 6: a lot and I could be reggae. I could do
Speaker 6: I don't stay in any genre. I could do whatever
Speaker 6: I want. It's a whole.
Speaker 7: It's open for me.
Speaker 3: Because we're talking before and she moved to l A.
Speaker 4: You moved to l A.
Speaker 7: I moved to l A. I said same in Chicago.
Speaker 3: Want to see l A.
Speaker 7: I'm in l A.
Speaker 3: What's the bricks? Then? Move or the brick? Like?
Speaker 4: I feel like you know what niggas were.
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Why did they go? Solo went? So? I don't want
Speaker 3: to be in a group anymore.
Speaker 5: Yo, there's no way yet drink There's no way.
Speaker 3: This this is it? This is good. That's hilarious. Gave
Speaker 3: her the flowers? Is it?
Speaker 4: Quicktimes?
Speaker 3: Quick time? That's kind of dropping up the can of work?
Speaker 2: I almost expected to be Have you watched have you
Speaker 2: ever seen them? Okays?
Speaker 3: The rules? So scared?
Speaker 4: I got that same shirt.
Speaker 2: Hass all right, So just to explain the rules, which
Speaker 2: we never explained, right, but you kind of already know them,
Speaker 2: and we're going to give you two choices. If you
Speaker 2: pick one, we're not drinking. If you say both or
Speaker 2: neither you don't want to answer, then we all take a.
Speaker 3: Shot, all of us just beginning to beginning.
Speaker 2: And really what we want you to do with these
Speaker 2: choices is give us stories.
Speaker 3: This is not really just anybody just give us some story.
Speaker 3: Oh no, this is this is I mean, it's up
Speaker 3: to you, but this is fine. Whatever you're comfortable is good.
Speaker 2: All right, you ready, Kanye or will I Am producer,
Speaker 2: It's whatever.
Speaker 3: Whatever you're in your mind, your face. I love fake.
Speaker 7: Will I Am. He doesn't get enough props.
Speaker 6: He's brilliant, he's an incredible producer, and he lives in
Speaker 6: the future for real, for.
Speaker 3: Real.
Speaker 5: He's definitely he's a he's a black. Yeah, he is
Speaker 5: a Black Mexican.
Speaker 3: He's brilliant.
Speaker 2: Amy White House for Whitney, Oh man, come on now, barriers,
Speaker 2: Yeah I.
Speaker 8: Got I did yeah real quick.
Speaker 3: My friend, my friend was doing pr for her and.
Speaker 7: It was backstage somewhere and it was just like this
Speaker 7: tight you know, it was.
Speaker 6: Like hey baby, and it just kept it like she's
Speaker 6: genuinely yeah, she's a genuine human.
Speaker 7: Like the love you saw on the videos. And whatnot.
Speaker 6: Like I don't think that any of it was shaky.
Speaker 6: I think it was actulutely real, you know. And the
Speaker 6: more we get to know about her from her friends
Speaker 6: and from her people, the more you're just like, yeah,
Speaker 6: I would have loved to have been like in the
Speaker 6: mix in the nineties and the eighties when she was here,
Speaker 6: because like she hadn't given you so much information, so like.
Speaker 7: So cool about it.
Speaker 6: I don't know so Whitney's memory.
Speaker 3: What about Amy Winehouse?
Speaker 6: I love Amy too, Like I loved her too. Yeah,
Speaker 6: we both kind of start. She her records came out
Speaker 6: before my first album came out, but we were all
Speaker 6: on the same open mic scene, and like we would
Speaker 6: see each other as things were moving around, and you know,
Speaker 6: we had genuine love for each other, like you are
Speaker 6: you okay looking at you know, in the eyes. So
Speaker 6: I was annoyed. I will say that when I would
Speaker 6: see her performing like not herself or you know, I
Speaker 6: would be like, somebody, come, what do you.
Speaker 7: What do you do?
Speaker 3: Is that?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 6: And so that that would annoy me. But you know,
Speaker 6: things happen, Everything is perfect, everything in order.
Speaker 4: That's the first time I kind of like I saw nas.
Speaker 8: Like, h.
Speaker 5: I take up for artists like I don't. I don't
Speaker 5: know if ye I seen that, Like nah, it's like
Speaker 5: really like took up for I believe we were all virgos.
Speaker 5: I believe a virgo. I believe she's a virgo, and
Speaker 5: I believe na virgo.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we didn't nobody even ask you you're a
Speaker 1: virgo born in June.
Speaker 3: You gotta wow. I'm sorry.
Speaker 7: One for Amy the.
Speaker 3: Rick Ross or French Montana.
Speaker 6: Brick Cross, I did a record with him. He was
Speaker 6: very sweet to me on set. He might save my
Speaker 6: life a little bit from falling for the ledge I
Speaker 6: had on heels and sign and he was.
Speaker 3: Like, don't worry, you got it. And I was like, okay,
Speaker 3: so we sound crazy when I do that.
Speaker 6: Okay, he was like, we did break my heart and
Speaker 6: we were on the ledge of a pool. Chris Robinson
Speaker 6: directed the video was yeah, I love him and I
Speaker 6: was in my Charlotte Lympias with this high ridiculous but
Speaker 6: you know fashion. So I was like sliding and sliding
Speaker 6: and I was like trying to do the dogs I
Speaker 6: want and I could be.
Speaker 3: Like, oh my bust, I'm a diable die. I'm a
Speaker 3: full backwards. He was like, don't worry, you got it.
Speaker 3: It's okay.
Speaker 1: Just like that, like, yeah.
Speaker 3: Hey, home team right here, NAS or LL, she's.
Speaker 5: Always that's the light Skin Academy, the light Skin Academy Academy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm brown skin. I can't be involved.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 6: I feel like NAS is in your range, my brother, Okay,
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, this is tough. Oh this is tough
Speaker 6: because I kind of like, so the parameter for me
Speaker 6: is like when you get to the either oars or
Speaker 6: you wouldn't be here if it wasn't for that person
Speaker 6: kind of thing.
Speaker 3: Like just in ages, right, that's such a it's just
Speaker 3: such a great way to break. I'm still he said,
Speaker 3: But I'm no, I think.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna I'm gonna say both I love LL and
Speaker 6: what he still fall. But I also like I'm I'm
Speaker 6: a NAS fan, Like I'm.
Speaker 3: I was out there like pe me in like they
Speaker 3: won't right.
Speaker 6: It was like I was in it, like you know,
Speaker 6: the feast thing. I was in it from the first album, like.
Speaker 3: Like all the way he's a diehard, Like I.
Speaker 6: Was like I have I had the albums on CD,
Speaker 6: like you know, like it was so I'm I'm a
Speaker 6: fan of lyricism.
Speaker 3: Is the point here?
Speaker 6: And to me, you know, you.
Speaker 3: Know what you deserved. Okay, let's say he said, m
Speaker 3: h it's mamajuana. That's special to ma majuanna. What does
Speaker 3: that do? There's a lot of things.
Speaker 6: I'm too young to be too young? Okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 6: say let's not entertaining. Okay, that game a bottle.
Speaker 3: That's the first verson take a bottle brand? What does
Speaker 3: it do? You hear what he said?
Speaker 7: Okay, you got you say.
Speaker 3: If you want to. She's asking if you want to
Speaker 3: try this?
Speaker 7: No, no, no, somebody said my feet it's fine.
Speaker 3: That's not true. He makes the story. I definitely make
Speaker 3: this story. Every island actually makes a form of this. Okay.
Speaker 3: It's like the stuff that they put the roots in
Speaker 3: the road. Okay, usually promised ferments. Keep the feet in
Speaker 3: your mind, you know what? But he made up the story.
Speaker 3: And the guy that makes it, why does he keep saying.
Speaker 6: That when people are listening, I might need a ball,
Speaker 6: like I might need a ball take home.
Speaker 3: Okay, don't do it in your mind?
Speaker 7: He said, don't do it?
Speaker 3: Nobody. Are you gonna drink feet juice right now?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's been drinking feet juice.
Speaker 3: That's crazy, Fance Rihanna, Oh.
Speaker 4: Man, we're definitely drinking.
Speaker 6: Yeah we are, because like, no, I'm a.
Speaker 3: This is tough. It's very tough for.
Speaker 7: Me Beyonce because.
Speaker 6: Legacy he've been doing this since he was a whole child,
Speaker 6: like she was, like she was actually like early teenager.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, that's a.
Speaker 7: Long time to be doing this.
Speaker 6: It's like a long time and doing it excellent space
Speaker 6: every single time, like really every single time, whole albums,
Speaker 6: and believing in herself. And it's not just what we see,
Speaker 6: it's the business I look at to when it comes
Speaker 6: to her, and I think it's I think it's brilliant.
Speaker 6: I think it's it's encouraging, it's affirming, it's.
Speaker 3: Drinking anyway, picked a drink.
Speaker 6: M I will say these are British hold.
Speaker 3: On business wise.
Speaker 6: I will also say that billion dollar deal that was
Speaker 6: go ahead. Yeah, she was very clear. I like a
Speaker 6: clear person. I like a very focused artist, like I
Speaker 6: came here to do this, I'm doing this, I'm doing this,
Speaker 6: I'm with it. This makes me so happy. By the way,
Speaker 6: thank you, No, I'm taking these with me, Okay, just please,
Speaker 6: thank you. Appreciate that because because you are the queens.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 4: We need we need.
Speaker 2: You to be good, excellent, Thank you all right, Cardinal
Speaker 2: or Gigs drink Yeah, both the Dream Chances alumni Cardinals,
Speaker 2: the homie Gigs became the homie Yeah.
Speaker 6: Clark announced, my brother, I love what Gates has been
Speaker 6: on since day one, and I think I would like
Speaker 6: to hit them both on the records together. They do
Speaker 6: the record together, and my bugget Yeah, I would like
Speaker 6: to hit them both on the record.
Speaker 3: A shot for that, So we're making that happen. Dream
Speaker 3: Changs they got to do a record together.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think amazing. Got a compilation, he said, spell it.
Speaker 6: I took my six week good. Yeah, they'd be good.
Speaker 6: I've known Cardi from since like I was twenty.
Speaker 3: And a long time lyricist.
Speaker 6: Just a vibe like to like and a good beyond
Speaker 6: the music, A good solid person I've noticed half my life. Yeah,
Speaker 6: good human like So yeah, he's got a song out
Speaker 6: too right now?
Speaker 3: So yeah it does yea? Yeah? All right?
Speaker 2: Sam Smith or Harry Styles, Yeah, what are you doing?
Speaker 3: A terrible terrist as well? What is that trig again?
Speaker 3: What you say?
Speaker 7: Maybe I would have try some this is over defeat you.
Speaker 7: So I'm gonna try to feed you.
Speaker 3: Absolutely question. I'm absolutely avoiding the question.
Speaker 4: Definitely not for feet.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: I let me pick up the guy who makes this.
Speaker 3: I'm a wanner king. That's that's a don't want to kick.
Speaker 3: I told him with it make a commercial. You got
Speaker 3: some sexy dady stumping into the but you.
Speaker 6: Still have Yeah, I know, I know, waiting for you,
Speaker 6: trying to dodge the whole scenario.
Speaker 7: This drink is so lovely, you said.
Speaker 6: Sam shouts, how am I gonna? I'm trying to quantify
Speaker 6: this in my head. I don't have to give an all.
Speaker 3: Can I come back to that one? Sure? Never? Can
Speaker 3: I come back to it? Okay, what's the question? Sam Smith?
Speaker 4: Harry styles, all right, we'll come back.
Speaker 3: Please, We've never done that the first time ever I drinks. Okay,
Speaker 3: make us come back to it. Don't forget, please, we
Speaker 3: don't come back please, alright. S w here escape s
Speaker 3: w V.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I wanted to be able to sing like Coco when
Speaker 6: I was young, my whole life, and then I realized
Speaker 6: that's not my range. And but s WV like unreal
Speaker 6: since I was a kid, and it's wild to me.
Speaker 6: That like being twelve and or fifteen and listening to
Speaker 6: their records and like, you know, when you're in your
Speaker 6: room and you're like and then you meet them later
Speaker 6: and you're just like, you look.
Speaker 3: The exact same you know in my head.
Speaker 7: And they're exactly who they are. It's wild.
Speaker 6: It's I haven't met them, like met I met all
Speaker 6: my heroes essentially, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: And it's just like, oh, this is this is the thing.
Speaker 7: S WV.
Speaker 2: I did one of the best. Okay, yn't have to drink.
Speaker 2: Definitely one s WV and Escape on dream Chance. Yeah,
Speaker 2: legends Phil Collins or Elton John el John outfit.
Speaker 4: They both Yeah, they both outfits.
Speaker 3: Outfits, outfits. That's it, Old John.
Speaker 6: I mean no, Phil Collins was out here. Now here's
Speaker 6: what I had. He was out here and Can't Hurry
Speaker 6: Lovers this giant I seen Kang Gorilla. I don't know why,
Speaker 6: because as a child you mix things up. And then
Speaker 6: I realized that Can't Hurry Love wasn't his record. And
Speaker 6: then Diana Ross apparently wasn't really happy with it, or
Speaker 6: it wasn't it was the Supremes. She wasn't happy with
Speaker 6: that whole scenario, because you know, it felt like taking
Speaker 6: our records and said, I've read in the interview.
Speaker 3: She was like, what else?
Speaker 6: But that kind of took it down a couple of
Speaker 6: notches from me after I heard that with Phil Collins.
Speaker 6: But covers of covers, it is what it is, you know.
Speaker 6: But yeah, Ellen, John outfits they were amazing.
Speaker 4: He's still still be killing them.
Speaker 8: Yeah this day, and he was, and he was like, outside,
Speaker 8: he performs, he performs, John outside, he's.
Speaker 3: A radio show. You remember that.
Speaker 2: I heard a Phil story with him and Bone Thugs. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you heard that story. Really did a they had to
Speaker 2: do a track or somebody to sample him and said,
Speaker 2: well I got to be in the Yeah, Brandy R.
Speaker 3: Monica, Oh, I just answered this question. I love them both.
Speaker 6: I know what it takes somewhat, what it takes to
Speaker 6: be who they are in this industry. I love Monica
Speaker 6: because of her the way she came out.
Speaker 3: I started as a rapper. So to me, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Well, people want somebody to facefore.
Speaker 3: What that's what people?
Speaker 6: No, No, you want to do that for me? I do,
Speaker 6: but I'm not gonna do it. But yeah, I wrapped
Speaker 6: on it. I started my first song in the UK.
Speaker 6: It was a song called nineteen eighty, my first album,
Speaker 6: and that's the record that took everything off, that even
Speaker 6: put me on.
Speaker 7: The radar of anybody.
Speaker 6: And you know, I wrapped along shine and I rap
Speaker 6: on pretty much every single album. But I just happened
Speaker 6: to sing too. So people pick what they want and
Speaker 6: they label you, but I do both. Yeah, I'm on
Speaker 6: that ship.
Speaker 3: You could have done, Lauren, what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: You could have done that had that same kind of
Speaker 2: career where you were doing both.
Speaker 7: That was the That was the early reference.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: I came out after she was out, so it makes sense.
Speaker 6: But I always give it up to Lauren because again,
Speaker 6: she walked so I could try to run.
Speaker 3: She did both so I.
Speaker 6: Could even think about saying, oh, you know, I sing
Speaker 6: a little bit and I rap a little bit, or
Speaker 6: I can do this fully and I can do that fully,
Speaker 6: you know, whichever way it goes.
Speaker 7: So I was give up to Lauren.
Speaker 6: We American boys are singing song is what it is,
Speaker 6: you know, and people take you from the refreshed reference.
Speaker 7: They see I don't have anything to do with that.
Speaker 2: Tom Hardy or Jason Stalem.
Speaker 3: The fine action White Boys. Huh, this is scary.
Speaker 6: M he's in He's in what's the what's the show
Speaker 6: he's in That's the New Moveland.
Speaker 3: Yeah, scary, He's really scary, and that I.
Speaker 6: Don't watch it clips and I'm like, all right, too
Speaker 6: many people died too disastrously. So but Tom Hardy, Oh yeah,
Speaker 6: Tom Hardy, big fine, you like him scary?
Speaker 7: Rolling Stones, Oh my god, Rolling Stones.
Speaker 3: He's met Jagger, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay.
Speaker 6: I just like that he's like still kicking, like still
Speaker 6: going for it. Yeah, he's like and then you know,
Speaker 6: you know what what I find If you keep living
Speaker 6: enough or people keep living around your music, you start
Speaker 6: hearing all the folklore, but you start hearing the truth
Speaker 6: about how.
Speaker 3: Records were produced.
Speaker 6: And there's a couple of beat records that I really love. Yeah,
Speaker 6: but then there's a couple I'm just like.
Speaker 3: You didn't even know. We've heard a lot of crazy stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 6: So my whole thing is like I like the Rolling Stones.
Speaker 6: I like the way that they're he's still performing, they're
Speaker 6: still doing their thing, and I'm good friends with Jay Jagger,
Speaker 6: but that's separate to just I like their way, their
Speaker 6: family way, the way that they are as humans.
Speaker 3: But I just like that.
Speaker 7: I just like their energy, his energy.
Speaker 6: He's very much like I'm here when I'm here, and
Speaker 6: I'm home when i'm old again, that's my mistake. I'll
Speaker 6: be outside and then I'll identify with that. Yeah, it
Speaker 6: feels truthful.
Speaker 3: It does what you're saying. Bruno Mars or Chris Brown.
Speaker 6: Man, it's gonna be Chris Brown again. He walked so
Speaker 6: anybody could fly. I just but also I think Bruno
Speaker 6: is a once inner generation talent. He practiced, he did
Speaker 6: his work, and he's brilliant.
Speaker 3: Young. Yeah, it seems like Bruno like a baby.
Speaker 6: It's just different levels of exposure, different ages of exposure, right,
Speaker 6: But watching Chris still be just freaking amazing performance wise.
Speaker 3: Like young Michael. You could see that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's something else.
Speaker 6: And then Bruno's songwriting with his team, the way he
Speaker 6: writes and the way he thinks about writing songs, he
Speaker 6: doesn't reinvent the wheel. Then he does it so well.
Speaker 6: That's always my thing, like just do it well. I
Speaker 6: just I don't like, I'm just trying to move up
Speaker 6: to this moment and I'm just going to ride the wave.
Speaker 6: And it's just like no, but it's not done well
Speaker 6: and don't sound good. But Bruno sound good. It sounds amazing.
Speaker 3: It's a bit of both. Give love to other arts.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's true.
Speaker 6: I feel like, well, I don't lose anything doing that one,
Speaker 6: but you feel me.
Speaker 7: But two, it's true.
Speaker 3: He's like smoke it. Okay, I'm taking insto the house.
Speaker 3: I hear this is great. He's a fantastic I've seen.
Speaker 3: So you picked Chris Brown.
Speaker 6: I picked Chris Brown. But I should say both because
Speaker 6: but I picked. But I give my reasons.
Speaker 3: There you go. Tyler the Creator or twenty one seven.
Speaker 7: Ah, Tyler, we.
Speaker 3: Did a record together. Separate to that.
Speaker 6: I think he's brilliant. It's like looking at the lineage
Speaker 6: he does. I haven't seen him this week. He does
Speaker 6: it look good, you know.
Speaker 3: I mean it's because Tyler gives a stage too. He
Speaker 3: gives a vibe involved in what he's doing.
Speaker 6: And I have I'm always just like, man, you are
Speaker 6: brilliant and fearless.
Speaker 7: Yeah Tyler, oh day.
Speaker 6: I love him and he makes me happy like he
Speaker 6: was like, he's having fun doing what he's doing as
Speaker 6: an artist.
Speaker 3: I'm always that I'm hearing his tours. It shows I.
Speaker 6: Went to the one was it call me when you
Speaker 6: get home with DJ drum all over it and call
Speaker 6: me if you get lost. And this man had a
Speaker 6: full size yard in the middle of the stadium.
Speaker 7: What was the stadium?
Speaker 3: Was it so far?
Speaker 7: Was it one of these?
Speaker 6: He had a full size yart going through the stage
Speaker 6: from one stage to the next stage. And my mind
Speaker 6: was a little blown, Like I go to I pay
Speaker 6: tickets and I go to watch artists perform sometimes I
Speaker 6: love music, but just watching him, yeah, through an audience,
Speaker 6: like it was just like what, who's so I'm looking
Speaker 6: at the imaginations, like how did they get this whole boat?
Speaker 3: Did they just they got out of the ground, like what?
Speaker 6: It was just mind blowing and it was just him.
Speaker 6: So it kind of again affirms some things for me
Speaker 6: when I think about performances I learned from young artists
Speaker 6: and artists like him.
Speaker 3: But I'm also just like.
Speaker 6: That's yes, dream as big as you can and do
Speaker 6: the wildest ship, like this is our world to create.
Speaker 2: I mean, and look and say what you want about
Speaker 2: Kanye like he's done that. Like his listening sessions, he
Speaker 2: had exactly in the middle of the thing that it's
Speaker 2: lineage it was like it's like in.
Speaker 3: The music for real, like the way it's very immersive.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's to me like when I think.
Speaker 6: About why don't get bored on why I just want
Speaker 6: to do music, it's because of arts like him. It's
Speaker 6: because of artists like that will think of like a
Speaker 6: burning house and arts that will be like, you know what,
Speaker 6: let's do just just think outside the box. And my
Speaker 6: thing is like, that's where that's why we have to
Speaker 6: that's why we support them, that's why we have to
Speaker 6: keep you know, like give them their flowers or them up.
Speaker 7: Nothing is impossible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's actually should be the like your creative.
Speaker 6: Yeah, white literally, Yeah, that's what we do.
Speaker 5: That's the American Boy, the biggest record you ever did
Speaker 5: in America from America.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's other records around the world that people are like, well,
Speaker 6: I know that's American Boys America, American American Boy, and
Speaker 6: I've translated that to Polish Boy Bulgaria elevenies. But I changed, No, no,
Speaker 6: I just changed. I have a brain, I have a braid.
Speaker 6: I have a braid. No no, no, I have a braid.
Speaker 6: I used my head. I Like we've performed that song
Speaker 6: in every on every continent by the northern South Pole.
Speaker 6: And I'll say this like I've been to Iceland and
Speaker 6: done it. That's he said, who said North and South Pole?
Speaker 3: You don't with it?
Speaker 7: No, I haven't performed it there.
Speaker 2: That's the only place hasn't performed She performed it every everywhere.
Speaker 4: So Santa Claus, Santa Claus, I feel like you folk
Speaker 4: with it.
Speaker 6: I feel like you talk with yeah, the kids. The
Speaker 6: kids love it, so I feel like you fuck with it.
Speaker 6: But we've performed that song everywhere. And that's my point
Speaker 6: when I say it's about joy with that record, it's
Speaker 6: not about.
Speaker 3: America.
Speaker 6: It's like, no, this was just about a fun time
Speaker 6: and America.
Speaker 3: It was the point of it.
Speaker 6: But it did speak to the America that I was
Speaker 6: I loved, you know, which is based in hip hop,
Speaker 6: which is based in black folk, which is based in
Speaker 6: Latino folk, which is you know, like, that's what I
Speaker 6: know when I think about America.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's about love and I'm giving those.
Speaker 2: I'm taking it all right, pushing to your t have
Speaker 2: a Scott Pusher quick with it. Yeah, I'm the error,
Speaker 2: all right, central see er skeptic.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, this is like a pusher Travis Skepta because
Speaker 6: errors like again skeptic Ward so you could run.
Speaker 3: You heard that, skeptic Joiner Lucas. This what happened? Now
Speaker 3: I have not Oh wait, they're beefing because of well skept.
Speaker 2: Is the one that started the UK versus US. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's the one who Challengeho did the challenge? Yeah, and
Speaker 2: then Drake said that when he said.
Speaker 7: It, Oh okay, okay, but it.
Speaker 3: Was Skeptic that did it said something first, I like
Speaker 3: skeptics wreckers. And there's that one dude that went at Eminem.
Speaker 3: What's his name? Anybody knows name? The Lucas No, no,
Speaker 3: the guy who went at Eminem the Grand Artists from
Speaker 3: the UK. So Skeptic went a Joiner Lucas everybody. I
Speaker 3: don't sit in beef.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, I don't call this beef.
Speaker 2: I want to say it's a healthy battle.
Speaker 6: I mean it's like in the in the most like
Speaker 6: I understand lyricism and compare to completing and stuff. But
Speaker 6: if it feels frivolous or it feels like not based
Speaker 6: in like, you can't say that to my face.
Speaker 3: I don't care.
Speaker 7: Because you know, because I feel like no because I.
Speaker 3: Also so like were it was worse.
Speaker 7: It's worse the worst mean things and the music.
Speaker 6: As artists, we're alchemists, like we really have the power
Speaker 6: to change people's lives energy, spirits and vibes.
Speaker 3: Don't take that for a joke. Don't make up beef
Speaker 3: to get popping.
Speaker 6: I'll make it up if you have something to say
Speaker 6: to somebody, I mean, stay on your son, get to
Speaker 6: where you all get to. But we've seen how that's
Speaker 6: ended up with some of our heroes. If you like,
Speaker 6: if you don't have my number enough find it or
Speaker 6: if you can't, then we don't have beef.
Speaker 3: That's that's all.
Speaker 6: So when it comes to beef, I understand lyricism, I
Speaker 6: understand the back and forth, but I'm not gonna I
Speaker 6: just kind of keep mm.
Speaker 3: Hm where it goes.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's weird, it's weird.
Speaker 3: She killed, he broke, and it's a mature way that
Speaker 3: it should be looked at.
Speaker 6: Yes, everybody's in their journey.
Speaker 3: Top Boy, super Cell, Okay, here's going He's going to
Speaker 3: be the thing.
Speaker 6: I'll say both because it's beautiful to see at least something.
Speaker 4: London pardon.
Speaker 2: International, so London to the UK and I don't want
Speaker 2: everyone drinks.
Speaker 3: I want to stop me because I wanted Top are.
Speaker 6: They are good, But I want everyone to stop doing
Speaker 6: that like weird accent that they got from Top why
Speaker 6: super Cell whenever they see you can't.
Speaker 3: Help it because we're not watching it.
Speaker 2: You got to get into the accents and really, at
Speaker 2: least for an American, you got to like start to
Speaker 2: understand it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you start to mimic it Top Boy, but it's
Speaker 3: like it's mimic.
Speaker 4: In London.
Speaker 3: So how do we get here? How? I don't know.
Speaker 6: No, it's beautiful to see them both being represented in.
Speaker 3: T that's my that's my thing on Top.
Speaker 4: All right, you can't.
Speaker 6: Look Finally, No, it's good to see being taken seriously
Speaker 6: and it's good to like we live a real life
Speaker 6: out there. It's not just like so people have said
Speaker 6: stuff like and this is my I've looked allowed to
Speaker 6: have I'm trying to phrase it right. I've had to
Speaker 6: stop myself from like getting at people because I'll be
Speaker 6: like tea and crumpets and I'm just like, you know,
Speaker 6: if I said something back to you that was that
Speaker 6: read to like your culture, just to be frivolous, just
Speaker 6: to be a dick.
Speaker 3: Then I'd be like, you know, you don't like.
Speaker 6: Those apply look and to me, it's just like it's stupid,
Speaker 6: it's it's nonsense, it's divisive, and it's it's unaccepting of
Speaker 6: culture that we and we both still from each other's cultures.
Speaker 6: We really both go back and forth, like it's just
Speaker 6: lovely to see the representation as somebody who doesn't live
Speaker 6: there anymore, to see it like, oh, look, look, I
Speaker 6: know so it's on TV.
Speaker 2: Oh that's so good.
Speaker 3: I seen them when it was a child and and.
Speaker 6: I get high pitched when I get emotional.
Speaker 3: This is so great to see actors from the UK.
Speaker 6: And you know, like really moving around in the world
Speaker 6: is beautiful to me, Like, you know, in the same way,
Speaker 6: it flips back the other way.
Speaker 2: And not just that it feels like it's people who
Speaker 2: like underrepresented in the UK as.
Speaker 3: Well, exactly.
Speaker 4: But but you're you're oh gorgeous. We love you.
Speaker 5: We want to make sure that you continue that we
Speaker 5: are supporting.
Speaker 3: Okay, the Brits, the Brits, the Brits.
Speaker 2: First off, rest in peace of both of these legends,
Speaker 2: Tupac or Bob Martin.
Speaker 6: Oh goodness, Bob Marley. Shit, I was three looking at
Speaker 6: bove mally in front of a TV screen, saying I
Speaker 6: want to do that, and it was him singing a
Speaker 6: song in the spirit, and it just felt like it
Speaker 6: moved me so much at a young age, I remember thinking,
Speaker 6: it's myself, that's what I'm gonna do, and so Bob
Speaker 6: Marley for that.
Speaker 3: No one were you a Tupac fan? Yeah, I'm still
Speaker 3: a tubad fan. What do you mean, what's your favorite?
Speaker 7: Oh goodness, he's got too many.
Speaker 6: We were just listening to I Ain't Mad at You
Speaker 6: and I realized that song is about twelve hours long,
Speaker 6: but it was so beautiful. It's a long song, but
Speaker 6: it's so beautiful. And it was just like in that era,
Speaker 6: I didn't really hear anything that sounded like emotional in
Speaker 6: the slightest coming out of West Coast and he was
Speaker 6: repving the West Coast to that point, and I never
Speaker 6: heard anything like that, and it's just kind of arrested me,
Speaker 6: like just kind of had me stuck for a while,
Speaker 6: Like me and my sisters.
Speaker 7: That was our joint.
Speaker 2: And that right when he passed right which is in
Speaker 2: the video, like he lived in he lived in the future.
Speaker 6: He also was very clear by his mission. Whether he
Speaker 6: was clear or not, he was clear by his mission
Speaker 6: and he got it done.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: It was on Yeah, fish and chips or bangers and
Speaker 2: these questions.
Speaker 3: This is definitely well, look he's homie from love. He
Speaker 3: grew up out here, he went to high school.
Speaker 6: Terrible these questions as a wild sir.
Speaker 3: Fish and chips because bags mashes strange. I don't know.
Speaker 6: It's sausage and mash with gravy.
Speaker 2: Like mashed potatoes and sausage. Yeah, I prefer fish ships. Yeah,
Speaker 2: look at you. Looked at you all right?
Speaker 3: The last one of the loyalty or respect.
Speaker 7: Respect because.
Speaker 6: People can be loyal to you and still do a
Speaker 6: disrespectful ship, and it's up to you to see it.
Speaker 6: But if they respect you, you stand less of a
Speaker 6: chance of them being disloyal.
Speaker 7: That's my theory.
Speaker 6: So not both, No, it's one of the other most
Speaker 6: and one breeds one. So yeah, I'll take you respectful day.
Speaker 3: You have to light me right right. Respect.
Speaker 5: We want to show you a flower, thank you for
Speaker 5: your love, because appreciate it. That's what that's what our
Speaker 5: show is about. And we want to give you a love.
Speaker 3: Thank you. I appreciate it. Can you talk about how
Speaker 3: are you and Kanye connected?
Speaker 6: I do.
Speaker 7: And it's a story. It's a story.
Speaker 6: It's like it's a story that's on Google. But no, no,
Speaker 6: as in, like I've told it so many times. We
Speaker 6: met a while ago, like in two thousand and two
Speaker 6: to one, maybe right before my first album came out,
Speaker 6: and I wanted to actually find John Legend and that
Speaker 6: was the point wow.
Speaker 7: Because I heard it, Yeah, which we eventually did.
Speaker 6: I heard a song from the mixtapes he had out
Speaker 6: and I was in La working on records with Corrupt
Speaker 6: and like a few other like West Coast, I was yeah,
Speaker 6: she was crip.
Speaker 3: No, So, like I said, I was rapping.
Speaker 6: So I had worked with some producers who were the
Speaker 6: dog pand essentially there was they were out there working.
Speaker 3: Great group of guys.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and we will go back and forth from London
Speaker 6: to one. I'd pay my flight and just come out
Speaker 6: and work with them. And one of the one of
Speaker 6: the weeks I was out working, I was staying down
Speaker 6: the street from Roscoe's on Gower Street and I was
Speaker 6: listening to the is.
Speaker 3: It Through the Wire with the.
Speaker 6: I'm Good and all that on it right and John
Speaker 6: was singing, and I just kept thinking to myself, this
Speaker 6: man's voice. And so I went to Roscoe's and I'm
Speaker 6: listening to it in my headphones and I walk inside
Speaker 6: and he's sitting there, and I'm just like, holy.
Speaker 3: Sitting there, it's two thousand and one. It's not what
Speaker 3: I'm saying. The fact you were listening to it and
Speaker 3: you said that you walk in there.
Speaker 7: This happens to me frequently.
Speaker 4: That's a magical Like you walk into Rascal there.
Speaker 3: That's like a lot of attraction. Ship right there.
Speaker 6: That's my whole life. I'm writing a book about it.
Speaker 6: It'll show up. But he was there, and so he
Speaker 6: comes up prayed and I was like, God, I just
Speaker 6: need to speak to him because didn't want to run
Speaker 6: up to the table and.
Speaker 7: Be like, oh, why you have chicken in your mouth? Hello,
Speaker 7: some British girl.
Speaker 6: And so he comes outside after I literally say thank
Speaker 6: you God Amen. He walks outside.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, thank you Jesus.
Speaker 6: Hey, Kanye, really love you. You have some people in common.
Speaker 6: I really want to work with John Legend.
Speaker 3: Is he there? Is it like?
Speaker 7: And I just connect with him and he's like.
Speaker 3: You know him. I was like, I know his voice.
Speaker 3: Because John wasn't well known yet.
Speaker 6: He was like, there was no videos, so he's yeah,
Speaker 6: and he said come to the studio. I go to
Speaker 6: record plant and met John. It's a short, shortened version
Speaker 6: and we were just been We've just been cool ever since.
Speaker 6: He actually signed me to my second album in the
Speaker 6: US with Atlanta with Atlantic, and that's how everyone has
Speaker 6: shine an American boy. That's the short version of Yeah, it.
Speaker 7: Took some years.
Speaker 6: That's a lot of time, but it's a lot of manifestation.
Speaker 6: It's a lot of like law of attraction. There's a
Speaker 6: lot of walking in your purpose with me, you know, but.
Speaker 3: You worked with some big people early on. You worked
Speaker 3: with Swiss, right.
Speaker 6: Swizzy was one of the first people who wanted it
Speaker 6: was going to sign me in like two thousand and one.
Speaker 3: Is this before you're doing the West goes back and forth.
Speaker 6: Before while I'm doing it, before my first album comes out,
Speaker 6: I go for me. It was Swiss and Grady because
Speaker 6: I had I had a whole I had a long career.
Speaker 6: I had a skate shoe with this company called Edney's.
Speaker 6: If you're a real skater, you know by Edney's, right.
Speaker 6: I had a shoe with them, and I was like
Speaker 6: this young no, I just like the shoe was this
Speaker 6: rap culture.
Speaker 3: I like the shoe.
Speaker 6: And when I went to talk to Swizzy and then
Speaker 6: they were like confused. They were like, how do you
Speaker 6: have a shoe with the number one skate ran in
Speaker 6: the world at the time.
Speaker 3: What right?
Speaker 6: And they were like, we just we just don't have
Speaker 6: our infrastructure right, but you know, our eyes are on you.
Speaker 6: And so when it came around for Shine, here here
Speaker 6: came the opportunity to work with Swizzy and he said
Speaker 6: absolutely and he produced track Wow.
Speaker 7: So you know, it's it's been a lot of.
Speaker 6: Lined up things, a lot of like stars in motion, Yeah,
Speaker 6: see Low two U, Shine Yeap, who else?
Speaker 7: Everybody I wanted to.
Speaker 6: Work with Jacks like a bunch of people. Everyone I've
Speaker 6: wanted to work with I've worked with.
Speaker 3: But it's funny because these names.
Speaker 2: From what I know is it was early after you're
Speaker 2: well established, Like you worked with these people very early
Speaker 2: in your career.
Speaker 7: And part of it was like who is this girl
Speaker 7: and why is she good?
Speaker 6: And part of it was like the label being not label,
Speaker 6: but John being like he listened to this artist. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I was on his label at the time, and I said,
Speaker 6: John John Legend, I was on his label at the time,
Speaker 6: and our partnership or our friendship was based on you
Speaker 6: do melodies really well, and you do lyrics really well.
Speaker 3: Like we work really well together.
Speaker 7: And that's it, and that's literally why we work so well,
Speaker 7: you know.
Speaker 6: So it's been a journey, it's been a wild time.
Speaker 3: A lot like yourself. But as I said, I'm writing
Speaker 3: a book about it.
Speaker 7: It will be our.
Speaker 3: Like is that really like a theme in the book.
Speaker 6: Manifestation the law of attraction? How I did it is
Speaker 6: the thing, the recurring fact it is. Put it in
Speaker 6: the world, write about it and go to work, like
Speaker 6: so write a boy, write your journals.
Speaker 3: Do it you gotta do. Put it on the board
Speaker 3: and go to work.
Speaker 7: Go to get it done. And I do, vision board,
Speaker 7: vision board, put it on the merrit don't.
Speaker 3: Matter what writing down.
Speaker 6: Yeah, get it done. It works, It does work, it does,
Speaker 6: I agree, But also go to work.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 3: You have to meet your luck. That's what I tell people.
Speaker 3: It's real, you have to meet your luck exactly. That's
Speaker 3: the coo.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Like I don't seen him perform in London so
Speaker 6: many times like this no, like you're a whole legend.
Speaker 3: I want to give you your flowers.
Speaker 2: You know that.
Speaker 4: Give you a flower, don't give me flowers.
Speaker 3: You are thank you so much. You are a new
Speaker 3: You have a new project came out this year.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it came a couple months ago called Stay Outer,
Speaker 6: and it was born in the Panini in the pandemic,
Speaker 6: the pandemic, the pandemic, pandemic, pandemic. It was a tough
Speaker 6: time for everyone, but it was also a moment clarity
Speaker 6: for a lot of people. And I was coming out
Speaker 6: of a real moment of like reorganizing my entire stuff,
Speaker 6: like my life everything. So walking through this whole period,
Speaker 6: I had to focus on, like I had to focus
Speaker 6: on who I was as a person, flip it all
Speaker 6: around and then get back to like who I am
Speaker 6: in my heart and who I am who I was
Speaker 6: raised to be. And every single song on this album
Speaker 6: is a reflection of that from Roses, which pairs so
Speaker 6: nicely with my roses.
Speaker 3: To love and Love to.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's really that you have a new theme song
Speaker 6: for the Roses section of your But it's really about
Speaker 6: that because the world as it is right now and
Speaker 6: this is my whole thing with this album, the world
Speaker 6: is it is right now. It's determined to suppress our light.
Speaker 6: Right every time you look at anything online you think yourself,
Speaker 6: oh god, the world's going to have a hair basket.
Speaker 6: But it's not, you know, because you exist and you
Speaker 6: have light in you. And so my thing is like,
Speaker 6: look at your light. Go to your like every single time,
Speaker 6: and if you don't have the words, put on a
Speaker 6: record that does have it, you know, and affirm who
Speaker 6: you are a human and as a as a great
Speaker 6: person and live from that space, even if it's for
Speaker 6: five minutes of your day. It's be's better than nothing,
Speaker 6: you know. So that's the stay outer. It's out right now.
Speaker 3: Put it on. It's a fun time. It feels good.
Speaker 2: It was it independent, So that's no more major regulations.
Speaker 3: I've been I've been independent since twenty two. How do
Speaker 3: you like that he loves major labels. I'm just saying,
Speaker 3: you do. I get the infrastructure, I get it. I
Speaker 3: like it. Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 4: So do you love independent more?
Speaker 7: I love being able to see where everything is.
Speaker 3: I respected.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's my thing with a major It's so many
Speaker 6: moving parts, amazing. Yeah, it does the thing that oh
Speaker 6: look Atlantic did incredible work.
Speaker 7: I love him.
Speaker 6: They're still cool. You know, we had a wonderful We
Speaker 6: had a wonderful party.
Speaker 7: It's great.
Speaker 6: Nothing's crazy, but I can see where all the parts are.
Speaker 6: And also I can I'm grateful that I'm the kind
Speaker 6: of ys where I don't have to move at anybody's
Speaker 6: place with my own. I can live a real life,
Speaker 6: which is part of my whole personal reorganization. I wanted
Speaker 6: to live a real life and not just be music focused,
Speaker 6: and every single minute I'm on a flight trying to
Speaker 6: promote this or do that, and I don't actually get
Speaker 6: to live and have a family or da da da.
Speaker 3: Da da, you know, like just to serve the art justice,
Speaker 3: it doesn't serve the art.
Speaker 6: I can't live. If I can't live, I have nothing
Speaker 6: to speak about. And I'm that person. I need to
Speaker 6: live to speak about some shit. So to me, I
Speaker 6: like this idea of being able to take my time
Speaker 6: a little bit. It's a little tougher, it takes a
Speaker 6: little bit longer sometimes sometimes, but for the most part,
Speaker 6: it's good.
Speaker 7: It's a good time.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So you know, here a drink chance. We love
Speaker 3: Prince stories, and I hear that you have some print
Speaker 3: stories I do.
Speaker 6: Prince Mama asually calls it like the Wayne Brady effeits,
Speaker 6: you know in the Dave Chappelle Show where he just
Speaker 6: pop up on Dave, like Wayne Brady just pop up
Speaker 6: on Dave.
Speaker 3: It would just be random moments, people just popping up around.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 7: It's a wonderful time.
Speaker 6: No, I have a good life, but Prince was one
Speaker 6: of the ones. I remember seeing him over my over
Speaker 6: my backyard in London.
Speaker 7: So let me let me face it.
Speaker 6: I used to live in the state in London and
Speaker 6: right over the side of the state there was a stadium,
Speaker 6: right and I remember hearing him seeing purple ran and
Speaker 6: seeing the purple girl purple lights around the stadium. I
Speaker 6: didn't never saw it, but I was just there singing
Speaker 6: like like.
Speaker 3: Oh my God, like this princess in that building.
Speaker 2: I know it.
Speaker 3: I can hear it.
Speaker 6: So I skip signed and I have the same lawyer
Speaker 6: as him, and I don't realize I had the same
Speaker 6: lawyer as him for a while and then he tells me.
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, I also represent the sign this you know.
Speaker 6: Formally known as I'm just like okay, okay, everyone's everyone.
Speaker 6: And then he says, yeah, come the year before, the
Speaker 6: two years before I actually.
Speaker 7: Won my Grammy.
Speaker 6: So I come to the House of Blues, Princess doing
Speaker 6: the after thing and I'm like, all right, whatever, princes
Speaker 6: ain't coming out to know how some blues.
Speaker 3: But that's the thing.
Speaker 6: He would do that. And I'm getting drunk and Prince
Speaker 6: doesn't drink. That's whant to start drinking, Baker. But he
Speaker 6: pops off around two in the morning, like all the
Speaker 6: alcohol left my body. I was sober, That's what The
Speaker 6: minute I was realized he was there, and I was like, oh.
Speaker 3: Ship, gather myself.
Speaker 6: And so he's in the back and they call me
Speaker 6: in and it's him and Terry Jimmy jam and Terry Lewis,
Speaker 6: the Legends, and they sat there and he started telling
Speaker 6: me all the independent stuff like, yeah, make sure you
Speaker 6: have controller, blah blah blah blah blah, don't allow this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, your three sixties, they're going to try you with that.
Speaker 7: Don't give it up verbatim.
Speaker 3: And so well he was about that, and he would
Speaker 3: tell the young.
Speaker 6: Artists, tell the artists, and that's my thing, is like
Speaker 6: that's the last Yeah, own your ship and so own
Speaker 6: your ship.
Speaker 7: And so I learned, and I would start absorbing all
Speaker 7: of that. So things went on.
Speaker 6: True romance came out by Independent by Us, and I
Speaker 6: had a song called Conqueror on that which was on
Speaker 6: Empire and did all the things. And he called me
Speaker 6: on the day the week of release, and I'm in
Speaker 6: my house putting together. So I put together. I'm a
Speaker 6: home decort fan. And when I'm leave my brain cleared,
Speaker 6: I'll go and start putting together things like put together
Speaker 6: a bookshelf, like cut a wall open, like that's me right,
Speaker 6: And he calls me and a minute, me putting together
Speaker 6: a bookshelf, and I'm here like.
Speaker 7: Friends calling me on this afternoon in Brooklyn. What's happening?
Speaker 6: I lived in Brooklyn. But he was like, you know,
Speaker 6: you're doing the right thing. This is it, this is
Speaker 6: this is what you should sound like.
Speaker 3: This is great. Keep it going.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And he just reminded me of who I was.
Speaker 6: He was like, straightening your crown and every step and
Speaker 6: it's not just saying these are major moments. And then
Speaker 6: he every step of the way, he would just call
Speaker 6: me and just a firm that I was doing the
Speaker 6: right thing. And then he called me and asked me
Speaker 6: to perform with him in Baltimore. That constat he did
Speaker 6: in Baltimore for when they had the protests, and I
Speaker 6: was like, we'll be over there.
Speaker 3: I went over there.
Speaker 6: I thought I wasn't going to get to perform, ends
Speaker 6: up pulling me up for Purple Rain. I don't know
Speaker 6: what I sounded like, but I did it because my
Speaker 6: whole I had a whole out of body experience, like
Speaker 6: of it just felt purple.
Speaker 3: Well, the venue was purple, but it just felt like purple.
Speaker 6: And it felt like light, and it just felt like,
Speaker 6: holy crap, I'm floating, you know, like this is this
Speaker 6: isn't real.
Speaker 7: What do you want me to sing?
Speaker 4: What do you want me to do?
Speaker 6: And so it's not I mean, it's Princess has kind
Speaker 6: of popped up to just affirm that I'm doing the
Speaker 6: right thing and I'm good. But it's also just like
Speaker 6: his brilliance is astounding. And then Stevie Wonders another one
Speaker 6: of those people that I feel like is living legend.
Speaker 3: Here, living legend. You can see right, we've said it here,
Speaker 3: he said he cannot.
Speaker 2: He told everyone at the other day that he could
Speaker 2: see that he's pressed buns and elevators and he but.
Speaker 6: He has as he's been doing this his whole life.
Speaker 6: He's seventy five.
Speaker 3: His senses, he's been going to the same places. So
Speaker 3: everything seems like course.
Speaker 6: His ear is incredible, But it's just an amazing thing
Speaker 6: to witness somebody just be that prolific their whole life,
Speaker 6: despite disability what people.
Speaker 7: Call a disability.
Speaker 6: Prolific still, so it's like, there's no excuses for me
Speaker 6: to not make great music or not do the thing
Speaker 6: I do really well. When these people are hi, I'm
Speaker 6: in your energy field. I pop up around you, like
Speaker 6: what we're doing?
Speaker 3: You know? You got to say Stevie story. Then see,
Speaker 3: oh goodness, how I met Stevie.
Speaker 7: There was an event I took my homegirl to.
Speaker 3: It was Joe.
Speaker 6: He Sweat, and somebody else, and it was hosted by
Speaker 6: Stevie's radio station. I'm not thinking in any capacity that
Speaker 6: Stevie was going to be there, but he'd heard that
Speaker 6: I was in the building, and I was in the
Speaker 6: back again, drinking my brown liquor, minding my business, Like,
Speaker 6: oh my goodness, Stevie's in the building. I couldn't see him.
Speaker 6: And then he gets on stage and he calls me
Speaker 6: up and I'm like, what do you want me to say?
Speaker 6: This is my I'm honest like that.
Speaker 3: I'll be like, who would you like me? Because I'm
Speaker 3: standing next to you? The great is one of the
Speaker 3: great is just like are you bullying? Like? What do
Speaker 3: you want me to do?
Speaker 6: And then you got like he swe Johnny Gill and
Speaker 6: Joe in the building at the same time, I was like,
Speaker 6: what do you want for me to do?
Speaker 3: I came here as a watch and learn.
Speaker 6: Okay, He's like he's saying ribbon in the sky and
Speaker 6: he made me say you're with him? And I was like, ah,
Speaker 6: we've been friends since literal friends. Yeah, that family. But
Speaker 6: it still blows my mind in a certain sense that
Speaker 6: I've done the right things in order to put me
Speaker 6: in an energy space of icons.
Speaker 3: And legends like that, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think there's many people could say
Speaker 2: they have stories with Stevie and Prince alone, like that's
Speaker 2: all God, let's not doing?
Speaker 3: Is what is the what are you looking forward to doing? Oh? Well,
Speaker 3: I have a radio show and music I'm looking forward
Speaker 3: to interviewing you both know, But does he do it
Speaker 3: in l A too?
Speaker 4: Was in New York.
Speaker 3: I thought that was all over there.
Speaker 6: And now it's two different studios. It's it's it's about
Speaker 6: twelve stations at this point. It's so many stations. But
Speaker 6: we're out for music hits and we keep the legacy
Speaker 6: and giving people their flowers gone.
Speaker 7: So I'm like, would be lovely to talk to you.
Speaker 3: Good? Yeah, okay, let's do And music wise.
Speaker 6: Though, music wise, the album stay Out is out. I
Speaker 6: have a book coming about my journey so far. It's
Speaker 6: a how to but like I said, how to do it, yeah, essentially,
Speaker 6: and performing wives. I'll bet I'm performing.
Speaker 7: Out here tomorrow.
Speaker 6: I mean, I know when people are going to get this.
Speaker 6: I'm performing it in the overtown at the first of all,
Speaker 6: I have to do it. You're coming out. So yeah,
Speaker 6: we stay Out. We're doing the shows. You can always
Speaker 6: catch me on my Instagram, my socials and find where
Speaker 6: I'm at.
Speaker 3: For you, well, thank you for joining us. Thank appreciate
Speaker 3: you so much. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 7: I'm like again my roses.
Speaker 3: Everybody makes some noise up.
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