Speaker 1: What's up?
Speaker 2: It's way for Angela yee, my girl cooy is been
Speaker 2: guest hosted with me.
Speaker 3: What's up y'all?
Speaker 2: And we're both excited because Danny lay back in the building.
Speaker 1: What's up?
Speaker 4: Blur Hi. She's been on it. We've been like moving
Speaker 4: to New York.
Speaker 5: Like we had her fashion show, her first fashion show
Speaker 5: yesterday Rookies.
Speaker 4: She was walking for Nike, so she was on a walk.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna post it soon.
Speaker 5: And then we had good Day in New York this morning,
Speaker 5: so she and then she got on stage took my
Speaker 5: mic So I don't know, I mean, I'm not trying
Speaker 5: to like put her into anything.
Speaker 1: I'm let her to herself.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: She actually likes it, so I'm like, okay.
Speaker 2: We saw the footage from the Rookie fashion so, so
Speaker 2: I saw I saw a little Kim was there, I
Speaker 2: saw Toya was there.
Speaker 1: Angela Simmons.
Speaker 2: What was that like seeing? I know, you have to
Speaker 2: feel so proud.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5: I tried not to cry because it's my makeup, but
Speaker 5: it was just like so overwhelming, and she was I
Speaker 5: just want her to have fun at the end of
Speaker 5: the day, and she was really hovy. A lot of
Speaker 5: fun doing it, and there was a lot of other
Speaker 5: like little kids, So I feel like that was.
Speaker 4: Like her comfort zone, like seeing them and was fun.
Speaker 4: It was crazy.
Speaker 1: It was like she got a crew. Now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she was ready for another one.
Speaker 3: She's like, I'm gonna do it again. I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 3: did she remind you of like younger you?
Speaker 6: Because I know you did dance when you were younger,
Speaker 6: So did you see like glimpses of yourself and her walking?
Speaker 4: Honestly, no, she reminds me of my sister.
Speaker 5: My sister was very confident and like in her bag
Speaker 5: when it comes to that.
Speaker 4: Me, I was always a shy, quiet reserved girl.
Speaker 1: Yeah, look at how things have to.
Speaker 3: You know, I feel like I'm still shy though I
Speaker 3: don't want to talk.
Speaker 2: You posted this super cute video. You said your mom
Speaker 2: made you take Indian dance classes. When I tell you
Speaker 2: that was so cute. You were ten years old, and
Speaker 2: it was just amazing to see, like.
Speaker 1: To actually have that type of footage.
Speaker 3: I know. I'm so grateful that they like recorded everything.
Speaker 4: It was cool.
Speaker 5: I was doing that for like two years and I
Speaker 5: really connected with it and loved it.
Speaker 4: I had like no rhythm, she said, and it brought
Speaker 4: me out of my show.
Speaker 1: I feel look like you did though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, Koya, I found out today did Alvin II
Speaker 2: when she was younger.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I had a real connection to dance back
Speaker 6: in the day. But it probably is something that helped
Speaker 6: shape you into the person that you are now. Your
Speaker 6: mom probably saw the light and was like, okay, let
Speaker 6: me put her and dance because I see something there.
Speaker 6: I know she saw same with me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't you need to. I don't even
Speaker 3: dance like it. We're out. Have you ever seen me dandance? Never?
Speaker 2: I saw you dance when we did a sister strut
Speaker 2: we did and she was she.
Speaker 1: Was grooving at the breast cakes.
Speaker 2: But I wonder why that is, Like why not enjoy,
Speaker 2: you know, the abilities like to go out and be able.
Speaker 5: To feel like back in the day, the dance more.
Speaker 5: I feel like nowadays people are just on their phone.
Speaker 1: It's the same on TikTok.
Speaker 4: Yeah, TikTok, Yeah, I'll TikTok y.
Speaker 3: You don't do TikTok dancings. No, I don't do TikTok dance.
Speaker 2: And she's great at content and listen, you have a
Speaker 2: song recently that went viral. Onto you, I feel like
Speaker 2: you go all the time for your dance moves, but
Speaker 2: step was a whole vibe.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what that was the goal. I was like,
Speaker 5: we're gonna hop on this TikTok trend and make something happen.
Speaker 5: But I really like intentionally wanted to do a song
Speaker 5: that had to dance to it that I.
Speaker 4: Could just show love to the dance community.
Speaker 5: So I just try to collab with all the biggest
Speaker 5: dancers and you're not even big, like just the coolest
Speaker 5: dancers and just.
Speaker 3: You know, show love to the dance community.
Speaker 1: And I like saying with the kids with the kids
Speaker 1: doing it too.
Speaker 5: I know, it reminded me of little Baby when I
Speaker 5: did it back then, and like the only person that
Speaker 5: did that was like.
Speaker 3: Missy Elliott for real.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I always want like little kids in my videos,
Speaker 5: but it's a little harder now because I'm independent now,
Speaker 5: and it's like when it comes to having kids on set,
Speaker 5: it's like a tutor fire truck.
Speaker 3: It's like crazy, all.
Speaker 1: Right, So you are independent now, I am. So how
Speaker 1: was that? Like, are you loving it?
Speaker 4: I do? I've only like been with duv Jym like
Speaker 4: for my whole career.
Speaker 3: So it is different, you know, it is more like
Speaker 3: on me and like, but I like that.
Speaker 5: I'm like really on my own creative and my own
Speaker 5: like whatever I want to post, like when I do it,
Speaker 5: when I drop, like it feels good.
Speaker 2: That is crazy that you've only it's at funny story
Speaker 2: when you first signed a death Jam. Yeah, we did
Speaker 2: an event and a spot together.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It was a spa day.
Speaker 2: With Danny Lay and her girls and they were like,
Speaker 2: oh would you I say yeah, absolutely, and it was
Speaker 2: a beautiful day.
Speaker 5: Yeah. So they did really do cool like activations like that.
Speaker 4: It would be nice to do it again, but I'd
Speaker 4: have to figure it out.
Speaker 1: But I got to pay for it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But so leaving deaf Jam, was it that your contract
Speaker 2: was up?
Speaker 1: Like how did that? What was the process of that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, the contract was up, so that was it, and
Speaker 5: it was like, yeah, I was like, okay, let me
Speaker 5: try the independent route.
Speaker 3: I know things are different nowadays. I feel like this
Speaker 3: day and age, like.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of people that are independent now and
Speaker 5: they're really like working through like distros and stuff distributions.
Speaker 4: So I was like, let me try it. I have
Speaker 4: like a fan base, like.
Speaker 5: Let's see hopefully something goes up and then maybe later
Speaker 5: I'll go with another label, you know, just to do
Speaker 5: it again, but like get a better like a good
Speaker 5: good deal or something.
Speaker 2: Right, because I think once you show your value of
Speaker 2: what you could do on your own, then people are like, okay,
Speaker 2: we need to picture.
Speaker 1: And I think deals are structured so different now too.
Speaker 2: You can kind of dictate, like make things more creative
Speaker 2: as far as okay, this is our partnership.
Speaker 5: Do like a little joint label type of thing. I
Speaker 5: didn't have that before because I was just new. Now
Speaker 5: I could be like, let me make my own company
Speaker 5: and then do a little joint venture thing.
Speaker 6: But I also feel like it gives you the freedom
Speaker 6: to actually create music that you are passionate about and
Speaker 6: do the things that you want to do. And it
Speaker 6: seems like we are seeing that live out because of
Speaker 6: the things that you're putting out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You know you've been talking a lot about your faith
Speaker 2: and showing us a lot of that too.
Speaker 1: You put out a.
Speaker 2: Song about God, yes, and I want to talk about
Speaker 2: that for a second as well. Before we get to
Speaker 2: the latest single, La Familia, which only makes sense. You
Speaker 2: got your mom here, you got your sister on the song.
Speaker 1: Your brother.
Speaker 2: You know, it's truly love familiar. You guys like the
Speaker 2: musical family.
Speaker 5: I know. I don't even know how we all ended
Speaker 5: up just being like with like learning music. I don't
Speaker 5: know my dad his like dad's name was Beigthoven, his
Speaker 5: sister saying in church, my mom was the dancer back
Speaker 5: in the day.
Speaker 3: She also modeled.
Speaker 1: So I guess it's just say your mom need to
Speaker 1: do one of the challenges.
Speaker 3: She always tells me. She's like, can you teach me?
Speaker 4: So I could do it, but she's never gonna really
Speaker 4: do it.
Speaker 1: No, I'm not gonna lie. Yeah, that might be fired
Speaker 1: all generations, I know.
Speaker 2: But you talked about you've been crossing your fingers and
Speaker 2: keeping it low. Yes, right, So tell me about what
Speaker 2: that's been like for you, because I feel like since
Speaker 2: you've come out, you've gotten a lot of attention. And
Speaker 2: I know, some of it good, some of it not good,
Speaker 2: some of it really difficult, and you've been open about
Speaker 2: going through difficult times. But how is it like, you know,
Speaker 2: just keeping low and just kind of rebuilding.
Speaker 4: It's been good. I think that time was very much needed.
Speaker 5: It allowed me to just really grow my relationship with God.
Speaker 5: And I truly feel like that just changed me as
Speaker 5: a person entirely. I just moved different. I see things differently.
Speaker 5: I put more value into myself. I have more faith
Speaker 5: in like what I have to come. I have more
Speaker 5: strength on just like not giving up.
Speaker 3: So I definitely had time where.
Speaker 4: I wanted to give up a lot of times. So yeah,
Speaker 4: I feel good at that time was needed.
Speaker 3: I have been keeping it low, no, literally.
Speaker 5: Just valuing family and just setting myself up for the future,
Speaker 5: setting her up like that's the goal.
Speaker 3: At the end of the day.
Speaker 6: You're speaking a lot about your relationship with God. How
Speaker 6: would you say that your relationship with God is different
Speaker 6: from now versus like a few years.
Speaker 3: Ago, it wasn't there.
Speaker 4: I grew up going to church, but I just was
Speaker 4: disconnected all the way.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: It just goes to show how you like move differently
Speaker 5: in life and make better decisions, like when you are
Speaker 5: following God.
Speaker 4: And that's truly where I am right now.
Speaker 6: And yeah, what was the moment that pulled you back
Speaker 6: to God? Because you say you grew up in church,
Speaker 6: but I think we all do. And then we kind
Speaker 6: of like straight away and then we come back to
Speaker 6: you remember what moment like specifically pulled you back.
Speaker 5: I felt like there was a tug on me when
Speaker 5: I was going through a lot of dark times, but
Speaker 5: I'd never like I would try, never.
Speaker 3: Really did it.
Speaker 5: And then once my dad got diagnosed with cancer, that
Speaker 5: was the moment where I just my family, we all
Speaker 5: got together.
Speaker 4: We all had to take care of my dad.
Speaker 5: Seeing a loved one like go through so much pain
Speaker 5: and suffering it.
Speaker 4: It just like released all of like I don't know
Speaker 4: what's the word, just.
Speaker 5: Like any everything else outside of the world like didn't
Speaker 5: matter because all we were with was our family.
Speaker 4: And then God revealed a lot to us during that time.
Speaker 3: I would say like sorry, I'm like saying, oh, I'm
Speaker 3: so much sorry. I feel like.
Speaker 5: God doesn't give you guys cancer, Like he'll allow certain
Speaker 5: things to happen that the enemy will bring to us.
Speaker 4: So he just revealed so much.
Speaker 5: And my dad was dealing with a lot of like
Speaker 5: demons and things like that on a darker spiritual level,
Speaker 5: and we just got to reveal that and he just
Speaker 5: showed us like how real God is?
Speaker 4: I really?
Speaker 5: I know He's knew of God, and I was like yeah,
Speaker 5: but then he showed us like literal things that I'm like, oh,
Speaker 5: this is like real. So yeah, it that time. We
Speaker 5: just prayed over it all, and I just feel like
Speaker 5: if he wouldn't have passed away, he wouldn't have made
Speaker 5: it into Heaven. I feel like our family like truly
Speaker 5: saved my dad and yeah, he's surrendered to God at
Speaker 5: the very last bit. And then it also felt like
Speaker 5: he was God allowed it to happen to to save
Speaker 5: all of us because I don't know if who knows
Speaker 5: if my dad would have survived, and then I would
Speaker 5: have just kept on living life, like I wouldn't have
Speaker 5: fully made the change.
Speaker 2: It was like a wake up call, Yeah, your father,
Speaker 2: So was he telling you things that you never knew?
Speaker 2: Because sometimes in family, we don't have those types of conversations,
Speaker 2: especially with our parents, like we don't know what they've
Speaker 2: gone through or things that have had all.
Speaker 5: That was our first time that my dad did like
Speaker 5: confess a lot. He went through a lot of things
Speaker 5: during his childhood that I felt like we're grabbing onto
Speaker 5: him and like, you know, I don't want to get
Speaker 5: too deep into it because it's just like very personal
Speaker 5: but yeah, it allowed him to confess.
Speaker 4: When you confess your sins, that's when you really release.
Speaker 1: That's a scary thing to do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's hard even we all confess our sins to
Speaker 5: each other as a family.
Speaker 3: Like I told my family some things and like it
Speaker 3: was hard to do, but it made.
Speaker 5: Me be like wow, and it just shows how much
Speaker 5: like shame that too, that you're like holding on to
Speaker 5: by keeping a seeking or whatever.
Speaker 4: And it's just like, oh wow, I don't feel bad
Speaker 4: about that no more.
Speaker 3: I released it.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's crazy because you know, I have this second
Speaker 2: on my show called tell Us a Secret. And the
Speaker 2: reason why I did that because people who call it
Speaker 2: their anonymous we don't know.
Speaker 4: Who they are, but I've seen it.
Speaker 1: It's supposed to be.
Speaker 2: No judgment zone because the truth is that there is
Speaker 2: nobody that can act like they don't have some things.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that they would.
Speaker 2: Be ashamed if people knew definitely the truth about what
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 1: And the truth is when people do tell it, even
Speaker 1: though we don't know them online they be mad at
Speaker 1: me for even letting people.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I didn't do the thing, you know, but
Speaker 2: it makes it scary because there is a lot of
Speaker 2: judgment that people passed on each other.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know the Bible says not to judge people.
Speaker 5: It's like we're all going through different things in life,
Speaker 5: and who knows what we're connected to that makes you
Speaker 5: do certain things.
Speaker 3: And then it's like you can't just like live and
Speaker 3: hold on to that.
Speaker 5: You gotta move forward and grow and have accountability and
Speaker 5: like realize like, Okay, I wasn't moving right, but now
Speaker 5: it's all.
Speaker 2: Up to you to just change some of the most
Speaker 2: of what we learn is from our mistakes.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you know that's like the biggest education I think.
Speaker 6: So do you think some of the hardships that you've
Speaker 6: experienced in life that you had to go through those
Speaker 6: lessons to be shaped and mold into the woman that
Speaker 6: you are now?
Speaker 3: Absolutely?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think at the time when we're going through it,
Speaker 6: we don't really see it as that, but then when
Speaker 6: we look back inside experience.
Speaker 5: No, it's the darkest season that God meets a lot
Speaker 5: of people. So it makes sense though, because you have
Speaker 5: to hold on to something and you're like searching, like
Speaker 5: what do I do next? You feel depressed, broken, Like,
Speaker 5: it makes sense. God is love, so you find that
Speaker 5: and then it just gives you like a strengthen, a pickup,
Speaker 5: and then you're like, oh wait, let me change my life.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, it just was not that.
Speaker 6: And the song God you talk about finding your light
Speaker 6: again after of everything that you've experienced.
Speaker 3: What does it feel like to find your light again?
Speaker 4: It feels good.
Speaker 3: It feels really good.
Speaker 5: I feel good to just drop music that spreading light,
Speaker 5: you know, I feel I don't know. As artists, we
Speaker 5: all have responsibilities to influence people, so it's like what
Speaker 5: we put out there is really important. So the fact
Speaker 5: that I am like spreading the gospel in my own way,
Speaker 5: it's like, really, it's really exciting. And then it's for
Speaker 5: her too. Always say, when I go into the studio,
Speaker 5: I'm like, we're making music.
Speaker 3: My daughter could hear.
Speaker 1: That's nice.
Speaker 3: My daughter could see you too.
Speaker 4: Visually, Like I'm very like adamant about that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And you also got baptized. Yes, wow, how is that?
Speaker 5: I actually got baptized with my mom on my dad's birthday,
Speaker 5: I know, so it felt like we were being born again.
Speaker 4: And then my dad's birthday, it was just like a
Speaker 4: full circle.
Speaker 2: And that's something you'll remember every year. On his birthday too.
Speaker 2: I know, just that experience, man, And so a la familia,
Speaker 2: let's get into this new song because you have your
Speaker 2: fam your brother's on the song, and your sister's in
Speaker 2: a group yes Belados.
Speaker 1: And she's on the song as well.
Speaker 2: And then you guys recorded the video in the Dominican Republic, right, yes,
Speaker 2: So that was like everything I know to the fundamentals
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 5: Literally, it was fun. We did the song and puta khana.
Speaker 5: We were all together kind of like doing Oh say hi,
Speaker 5: I'm talking about So this is this is Belados, my
Speaker 5: brothers in the car.
Speaker 4: Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1: We got to keep it down.
Speaker 3: She's sleeping, she's gonna be knocked out. She's actually used
Speaker 3: to it.
Speaker 5: Dominican family literally music.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's actually really funny.
Speaker 3: I know, I didn't even realize I was talking.
Speaker 1: And her head fell back.
Speaker 2: So what was it like for you guys all being
Speaker 2: in put ta khana together and filming this video.
Speaker 5: It was fun. It was you know, it was busy.
Speaker 5: We were in a camp too, so that they were
Speaker 5: making music. My brother was making his own music, and
Speaker 5: then we decided to do my mom decided like, let's
Speaker 5: all do a song.
Speaker 4: Together and what have we all gone through? Even these two.
Speaker 5: Girls have lost their fathers as well, right, So it
Speaker 5: was just like a full circle. I'm like, Okay, let's
Speaker 5: let's do something that celebrates grief and like getting people
Speaker 5: through it and like loving like the people that are
Speaker 5: here with us.
Speaker 1: That's one thing that's inevitable.
Speaker 2: Boy, we are all going to have grief in our lives,
Speaker 2: and we are all going to suffer from devastating losses.
Speaker 2: You know, even in this room just thinking about things
Speaker 2: that we've been through within the past year. So they
Speaker 2: have to feel very healing for you, because with grief
Speaker 2: you also have to discuss love.
Speaker 4: Yeah, with no place to go?
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you feel any like were there any special
Speaker 2: things or signs?
Speaker 1: One thing I've also learned is to always pay attention to.
Speaker 2: Signs, like when you feel like the universe is trying
Speaker 2: to tell you something, did you feel anything?
Speaker 4: Or our dad our god? And well my dad like
Speaker 4: there was he was like their tour manager.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: So he was just like my dad was like the
Speaker 5: most supportive person ever, and like.
Speaker 3: He would be in the YouTube comments or plying of.
Speaker 5: Like he would literally did Yeah, he would be strangers
Speaker 5: showing our stuff to people.
Speaker 1: It's like my dad, Yeah, my.
Speaker 2: Dad called the super market like the guy baging the
Speaker 2: groceryes knows you.
Speaker 1: How do he know who you are saying?
Speaker 3: He was just like that.
Speaker 1: He was our big cheerleader.
Speaker 5: So that alone, to me was like our sign, Like
Speaker 5: he's so happy, like hearing all of us do a
Speaker 5: song together.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's dope.
Speaker 2: And you know, sometimes you also want your parents to
Speaker 2: stay off because they can't take it when somebody talking
Speaker 2: about their baby. Yeah, you know, and so they can't.
Speaker 2: We could take the criticism of ourselves better than they can.
Speaker 2: I think that's the worst part when your parents have
Speaker 2: to see, like your family has to see somebody talking
Speaker 2: crazy about you and they want to clap back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'm like.
Speaker 7: Social media, Yeah, I think back in the day, that
Speaker 7: wasn't something that people were so freely honest on sometimes.
Speaker 7: So I think like when it came to my dad,
Speaker 7: he wasn't used to that. He was like, what is this?
Speaker 7: Or my parents are from New York, so they're like,
Speaker 7: what is this?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that sounds nerve.
Speaker 1: I'm a find this person.
Speaker 2: I want to ask you because this is something I
Speaker 2: go through to have you ever seen somebody that you're
Speaker 2: cool with and they online like making jokes about a
Speaker 2: situation you're going through, and you like, oh, why would
Speaker 2: they like that or why would they comment like that?
Speaker 2: And now I got to see you in person.
Speaker 4: Yeah that's true.
Speaker 3: Not like the top of my head, but I feel
Speaker 3: like I.
Speaker 1: Have seen something like you've been like, what is wrong
Speaker 1: with this person? I thought he was cool.
Speaker 2: You know, sometimes things that happen in your life is not.
Speaker 2: It's hard for us and other people can make jokes
Speaker 2: because everybody thinks everything's funny online. Everybody turns everything into
Speaker 2: a joke and they don't realize like, this is something
Speaker 2: that's really hurtful and hard.
Speaker 5: Yes, but I've learned to not take social media that's
Speaker 5: serious anymore because I do feel like people could be
Speaker 5: probably like writing all this stuff and then see me
Speaker 5: in person like hello, okay, I get a picture.
Speaker 2: I learned about the music business throughout all of this
Speaker 2: and industry quote friends.
Speaker 4: I don't I will say, like people support them, people don't.
Speaker 5: Like there's moments and seasons where people will really support
Speaker 5: and then people will not. And I think that just
Speaker 5: goes to show with like any type of industry, Like
Speaker 5: when you're like doing really great hot yes, it's like okay,
Speaker 5: then when you're not, and then it's like okay, where
Speaker 5: are you guys at type of thing.
Speaker 3: So probably something like that.
Speaker 2: H How important was family for you throughout this time,
Speaker 2: because clearly this song laugh Familia, it is about grief,
Speaker 2: it's about loss, but it is about love and the
Speaker 2: physical title of it is laugh familiar, right, So talk
Speaker 2: to me about why that's so important that you guys
Speaker 2: have such a strong foundation and do you feel like
Speaker 2: there was a time when that was broken?
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 5: We definitely were going through so much before my dad
Speaker 5: got cancer, and I was just living my own life,
Speaker 5: not really caring about a lot of my decisions, and
Speaker 5: just they weren't really aligned with everything I was doing,
Speaker 5: which they shouldn't have been. But I know that they
Speaker 5: were really hurt that I like straight away from them,
Speaker 5: and that just goes to show like when you're close
Speaker 5: to the people that really love you, you can do a
Speaker 5: lot of things that you wouldn't like normally do. So now,
Speaker 5: after everything that we went through, it felt right to
Speaker 5: do a song together because we all do music and
Speaker 5: we've been working so hard for so many years.
Speaker 1: So whose idea was it?
Speaker 3: It was my mom's idea. Yeah, it was my mom's ideas.
Speaker 7: The reality.
Speaker 4: Honestly, I consideration.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm scared of.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm not honestly.
Speaker 7: If I'm gonna be honest, I'm ana jump in. But
Speaker 7: our family is such a character. Like my brother, I
Speaker 7: wish he was here because he's honestly such a funny
Speaker 7: person even though we fight all the time, he just
Speaker 7: has like such a personality. So I feel like it
Speaker 7: would be I feel like people would like love to.
Speaker 1: Watch you don't want to glow up too. I want
Speaker 1: to say I know I'm not found.
Speaker 7: I was like, wait, why getting older looking here, like
Speaker 7: like we're so was just walking out of this all
Speaker 7: the time.
Speaker 4: Oh my, that's my favorite thing.
Speaker 7: But like that, people like I like commented on it,
Speaker 7: and I was like this one video he's like drinking
Speaker 7: his water bottle, but he drinks it like four times
Speaker 7: in the video, and I commented, I was like, bro,
Speaker 7: how many times you're gonna drink this water bottle? And
Speaker 7: then people replying back and like, yeah, why do you
Speaker 7: do I'm like okay, I said, I can.
Speaker 4: Okay, No that's funny.
Speaker 5: And then we're all like creative too, So I feel
Speaker 5: like it'd be interesting he does his music. They all
Speaker 5: sang like it would be interesting.
Speaker 1: You want to do that. I just don't like.
Speaker 7: She's like, it's gonna be a black shadow.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but you're thinking about it. Yeah.
Speaker 8: I'm getting older, so I'm getting more like I don't care.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: You know, sometimes you also have to just not care
Speaker 2: at the end of the day. Day some people that's
Speaker 2: gonna love you, and then some people that won't. There
Speaker 2: will be people who are determined to not like you
Speaker 2: no matter what you do, and you know there will
Speaker 2: be people who always support you because they real fans.
Speaker 2: And so a show they're all gonna watch though, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're either gonna watch.
Speaker 1: To love it or watch to hate exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, reality show interesting.
Speaker 8: I'll just take a good offer. Let's see what happens.
Speaker 8: He was really interesting. One limited series maybe.
Speaker 1: Or why not do the pilot yourselves?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 1: We talk about controls.
Speaker 7: Actually, we've been having a video guy follow us like
Speaker 7: for the rest of this trip, and he every time he.
Speaker 3: Loves what he loves it. He's like, oh, they're fighting.
Speaker 3: Entertainment we're loud.
Speaker 1: Like we don't know what is natural. Yeah, that's not
Speaker 1: that's not like we're not always fighting.
Speaker 8: We're just talking.
Speaker 1: Sound like, here's the loudest Brandon everybody.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like your tone is okay, you talk a lot.
Speaker 3: I just project a lot.
Speaker 1: I have a very good dieph Okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now would you be open the show on your
Speaker 2: dating lives on here?
Speaker 3: I'm engaged.
Speaker 7: I number one on America's Favorite Couple. Were actually can
Speaker 7: go vote for us so we can win? Yeah, we're
Speaker 7: America's favorite couple.
Speaker 4: We do like model coupling and stuff.
Speaker 7: Really, he loves my family, so I think could be
Speaker 7: so great.
Speaker 3: He's a white boy, so it's just better and better.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he's like a white boy with Dominican sauce because
Speaker 8: actually we don't know Dominican.
Speaker 3: He embraces the culture.
Speaker 4: He loves to eat all the time, and he loves
Speaker 4: the culture.
Speaker 3: He thinks my family is hilarious.
Speaker 7: It's funny because when I go to his house, it's
Speaker 7: very quiet, and when I go to him, he comes
Speaker 7: to my house like, oh wow, there is.
Speaker 8: Actions great integrate Jenny's family.
Speaker 9: Yeah, wy, oh my gosh, there be on the floor
Speaker 9: dancing it's like crazy family, we need to see someone
Speaker 9: we need Yeah, yeah, it would be so much.
Speaker 1: So now, Danny Lay, when you date? Are you dating?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 9: Lord?
Speaker 4: And I know you're gonna ask. I know you're gonna ask,
Speaker 4: but I'm gonna just keep it to the low. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I was just you know, keeping.
Speaker 1: I know, somebody say keeping load at me, yes, because.
Speaker 3: I know you just say no.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're gonna say my.
Speaker 2: Music is my boyfriend exactly. So what type of rules
Speaker 2: do you have for yourself now? Like when it comes
Speaker 2: to dating, what are some things you learned about yourself?
Speaker 5: Having a man of God is really important because that
Speaker 5: just shapes their character. They're just they fear God, so
Speaker 5: they're not about to do things that's like out of pocket.
Speaker 3: That's a great point.
Speaker 6: So if you don't even fear God, you're not gonna
Speaker 6: fear me exactly.
Speaker 3: So that was like my number one thing.
Speaker 4: And that's there. So living do you want to sure?
Speaker 4: Why not?
Speaker 1: She's out of it?
Speaker 4: Yeah's time.
Speaker 1: She tired herself out that.
Speaker 3: It was not time for sure. What time is it?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Two o'clock? Perfect time?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, just someone atlantic go ahead bless himself.
Speaker 5: Yes, And I was really just wanting someone that's so sweet,
Speaker 5: and I feel he's just so sweet and caring.
Speaker 4: And those are the non rules, Like I didn't really
Speaker 4: about it.
Speaker 2: Looks, how to looks come into this is key? Okay,
Speaker 2: you know, yes you can you dance?
Speaker 3: Yeah you can?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Is that a big deal for you because you're a
Speaker 3: great dancers.
Speaker 5: Honestly, it wasn't something that I cared about. But like
Speaker 5: we've been out and have like dance together and like
Speaker 5: people didn't even know like who it was or nothing.
Speaker 4: And it was just us and like yeah, and I'm
Speaker 4: just like, yo, this is so fun.
Speaker 5: I've never had a partner I could like dance with
Speaker 5: like this and it's really fun.
Speaker 1: Goes with you. Maybe I'm okay, I didn't really pay attention.
Speaker 6: I'm like, because you're a memory that good.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to because you ran up, but she was
Speaker 2: like low key, I can't see who was around. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go back to the footage. But so do
Speaker 2: you feel like you do want to keep things like private?
Speaker 2: When do you feel like you'll pop out?
Speaker 1: Y'all shall see Okay on the show. But you seem happy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, I'm really happy. I feel really good.
Speaker 2: All right, So aside from because I feel like you
Speaker 2: always have a lot of different things going on aside
Speaker 2: from the music, right and this reality show that you're
Speaker 2: working on.
Speaker 1: What else is Danny Lay working on? And and a mom?
Speaker 1: I mean, do you even have time?
Speaker 5: I know? That's That's what I was actually going to say,
Speaker 5: is like just focusing on like settling at a place,
Speaker 5: like getting my own space, and like.
Speaker 3: I kind of want to like go into like a business.
Speaker 4: I don't know what, but just something like outside of
Speaker 4: music that I that just brings income.
Speaker 10: Okay, I feel that, you know, because yeah, because it's
Speaker 10: like the music industry is different now too, because it's
Speaker 10: just like shows back then, we're like so much more
Speaker 10: pay and it's just like I'm not about to rely
Speaker 10: on like if I get booked.
Speaker 4: Or not, you know, so I want to just come
Speaker 4: up with something.
Speaker 1: I have some ideas, yeah, like what.
Speaker 5: I was thinking maybe like a Pilate studio. Ok yeah,
Speaker 5: thank you, I love it. And then my mom wants
Speaker 5: to do like a coffee shop.
Speaker 1: I was like, I have a coffee shop.
Speaker 2: Yea, yeah, I have a coffee shop in Brooklyn and
Speaker 2: in Harlem.
Speaker 4: Okay, I remember your coffee shop.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's my coffee coffee up lists.
Speaker 4: How do you feel about having your coffee shop?
Speaker 3: Is easy?
Speaker 4: I feel like it's kind of easy because it's like I'm.
Speaker 2: Gonna say this, brick and mortar businesses are tough because
Speaker 2: if you're not going to be there physically to run it,
Speaker 2: you have to have a great staff. So if you
Speaker 2: have great people that can manage and work there, that
Speaker 2: and location is the number one thing you have to
Speaker 2: think about. According to Small Business Services, the number one
Speaker 2: reason businesses feel is location.
Speaker 1: You know, keeping your overhead low.
Speaker 2: Because employees is also it's also something that you can
Speaker 2: never predict, like people being on time, people being responsible people,
Speaker 2: and when you do get some good ones, you got
Speaker 2: to take care of them.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 1: It's not even just about money.
Speaker 2: It's about like opportunities and being able to grow and
Speaker 2: learn other things. And I think another thing that's helped
Speaker 2: us is we have the actual coffee. So we import
Speaker 2: the beans and we roast them ourselves and then we
Speaker 2: are able to sell them too. We have Perpuvian, Mexican, Indonesian,
Speaker 2: and Ethiopian, and I think with that, you know, it
Speaker 2: makes sense, like it goes with the branding.
Speaker 1: I knew that five restaurants in total.
Speaker 8: It's a She thinks it's a crazy idea for me
Speaker 8: to even because you know the work that it entails.
Speaker 8: But I just figure after you know, I don't know,
Speaker 8: I want to do something. I'm going I'm understanding the
Speaker 8: overhead costs because of my experience, So I'm trying to
Speaker 8: do something really small, right, so the way that I
Speaker 8: can handle with maybe two employees, that not a.
Speaker 1: Full on restaurant, because a full on a restaurant is tough.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I'm definitely not doing.
Speaker 5: Even like a dance studio would be cool, but that's
Speaker 5: also a lot of like overhead and a lot of children,
Speaker 5: like a lot of people. So I'm like, Okay, there's
Speaker 5: like a lot to handle and I'd have to really
Speaker 5: handle it.
Speaker 3: But I also still want to do music.
Speaker 2: Maybe you could do us for first, and then that's
Speaker 2: how you old expand your database.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I also I know you're talking about doing
Speaker 6: things outside of the music industry, but I remember at
Speaker 6: one point you were like.
Speaker 3: Choreographing for Chris Brown.
Speaker 6: I think you're such a dope creative and I can
Speaker 6: even see you like taking the Tiana Taylor route where
Speaker 6: you are like a creative director for people and artists.
Speaker 3: Do you think something like that?
Speaker 4: I love that.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's definitely what I want to do. I feel
Speaker 5: like I've been creating. I was like eighteen, Yeah yeah,
Speaker 5: because the first thing I did was with print, so
Speaker 5: it felt like I.
Speaker 3: Was like, what you do?
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I feel you on that.
Speaker 5: She's definitely like one of my inspirations on like her career,
Speaker 5: how she's just in movies creative directing like fly.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I want to.
Speaker 5: Do all that.
Speaker 6: If you were to take that route, is there an
Speaker 6: artist that you would love to work with and do
Speaker 6: something like that.
Speaker 5: I've seen people and I'm like, ooh, I would love
Speaker 5: to like choreograph like Maradas scientists.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was would be cool to do something for
Speaker 4: her write sciences.
Speaker 1: Definitely needs to because I want to say this, she's.
Speaker 2: Got banging so so good, and she's got a good personality.
Speaker 2: She's fun and she's been booked and busy, and I
Speaker 2: think that is something that is.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, they're not She's putting out there.
Speaker 2: I love this, But I appreciate you for coming here
Speaker 2: today and you know, kicking it with us. I love
Speaker 2: that we got a chance to meet for loower briefly
Speaker 2: when she passed out to see. But I'm liking to
Speaker 2: see like the energy of you having your mom your
Speaker 2: family around you, and I can tell that like you
Speaker 2: seem so grounded and like refreshed.
Speaker 4: No, I appreciate you.
Speaker 6: The skin is glowing, thank you my makeup from all
Speaker 6: day though, because this is like from six it looks great, stiff.
Speaker 1: When it's the full project coming out, and what can we.
Speaker 5: Expect we are working on like I don't think it's
Speaker 5: going to happen, but we were trying to get like
Speaker 5: end of August, but everything is pretty much mixed and mastered.
Speaker 1: Oh wow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I'm like, okay, but we'll see.
Speaker 5: I just want to have more time to like pitch
Speaker 5: the DSPs and like make sure it like gets in
Speaker 5: the right places first.
Speaker 1: So how do you feel like the response has been?
Speaker 1: You feel good? You feel okay?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I leave it to God. I'm just like I'm
Speaker 3: gonna put this out.
Speaker 4: It goes, it goes.
Speaker 5: If it doesn't, it's just okay, like it's his time,
Speaker 5: and so I feel good.
Speaker 3: I feel really good.
Speaker 2: How would you if you had to categorize this project, right,
Speaker 2: what type of direction? Because I feel like I'm hearing
Speaker 2: you know, different sounds and different things.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I feel I've always kind of done that
Speaker 5: with all my projects, where it's always like a mix
Speaker 5: of like hip hop, R and B.
Speaker 4: Always throw like a Spanish song in there, so I
Speaker 4: kind of feel like it's like the same vibe.
Speaker 3: I think it's fun.
Speaker 5: There's like a couple of ups, there's not many downs. Actually,
Speaker 5: it's a nice blend of like there's some like R
Speaker 5: and B drill in there, there's some hip hop vibes
Speaker 5: where I'm like in my little wrapping bag, and then
Speaker 5: there's some there's an afrobeat that I have in there
Speaker 5: that's kind of like Las Familia, and then another one
Speaker 5: in there. Yeah, there's like an acoustic guitar one that
Speaker 5: starts off the intro yeh and familiar.
Speaker 6: You go back and forth throughout the song between Spanish
Speaker 6: and English.
Speaker 3: Could we expect more of that on the new project?
Speaker 4: Okay, not on the new project, but next year Okay.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I want to take my time with like go
Speaker 5: tapping into the Latin market.
Speaker 1: Oh you have to do that? Yeah, I want and I.
Speaker 3: Have been doing it.
Speaker 5: I literally had like a whole camp for just Spanish records,
Speaker 5: and I got some really good songs.
Speaker 4: Actually, there is a bilingual song on there. It's called
Speaker 4: easy Love, and it's really good.
Speaker 5: I want to come back to like New York and
Speaker 5: shoot some visuals because it feels like New York Y.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will say New York is definitely the home
Speaker 2: of bilingual Spanish.
Speaker 1: Harlan. We got Washington Heights, we got.
Speaker 2: Melting you know, I wish LANs, Puerto Ricans and everything here.
Speaker 4: Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well, thank you Danny later.
Speaker 2: You know, it's always good to see you, I know,
Speaker 2: And I felt like this was a nice it was
Speaker 2: off this.
Speaker 1: I know, I'm walking yesterday like this was.
Speaker 5: The first interview I haven't felt nervous for every time
Speaker 5: I get into it, and we don't like so nervous.
Speaker 3: So I'm just so happy.
Speaker 1: Thank you, of course, thank you.
Speaker 5: I