WEBVTT - Throwback Thursday to Nuestra Musica 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:06.200 Hi, shut out to all of y'all. Welcome back to 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:09.000 another episode of Exactly A Matter with your girl a 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:11.920 Mada la negra. And if you didn't know, now you 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:14.920 know that this is a production of my heart. And 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:17.959 thank you so much for tuning in as usual, thank 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:20.320 you for supporting me, for showing me love, for always 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:25.400 being connected to this amazing podcast. And today I want 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:28.920 to remind you as usual to subscribe, rate us and 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:32.000 share this podcast with your friends, family, is, your girlfriend, 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:34.680 your boyfriend, whoever, because you know that the show is 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:37.720 late and I always talk about things that can connect 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:41.000 with the people. 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So Big Sexy is 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:25.800 in the house. Thank you so much for joining. And 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:29.520 I also have Arlene that I have named her today 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:34.720 Mrs Juicy Juicy Juicy is also here with the t 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:39.959 um and today actually today is like throwback Thursday. We're 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.280 gonna change it up a little bit and we're gonna 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:46.280 talk about some throwbacks right now. We're gonna basically you 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:50.000 as an artist, my friend, uh, you know, we want 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:53.320 to know and if people want to know what influenced 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:57.440 you write and by we're gonna bring calling it throwback 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:00.440 Thursday because we want to know what did you listen 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:03.080 to growing up? What did your mom listen to growing 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:06.120 up that influenced to you? Boy? And I love growing up. 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:10.280 I remember my mom um. I have some good memories 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:13.080 of that. But my mom would have a lot of 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:20.760 young um you know, Fafita. She would have a lot 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:24.920 of like Dominican and also Cuban music playing in the house, 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:28.280 especially on Sundays that was the day that she used 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:34.480 to clean the house by and and also she didn't 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:38.560 understand the language per same better. She would love to 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.359 play in the house and maintain a turner when in 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:48.880 Houston's on a summer's glory Gainer, those people, Musica, Yessica, 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:54.440 all those things influenced me, I guess honestly, Um before 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:57.360 we had those big as TVs that you have to 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:00.040 like turn the own, like the buttons you want and 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:07.240 yelling that you would see those shows and hear the 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:09.880 music and and a little bit. I picked up a 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:12.240 little bit of everything. I picked up a little bit 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:14.520 of everything, some of the English from the Spanish, but 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:17.440 definitely she always played a lot of like strong women 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:24.919 like Laupe sometimes even Juan or stuff like that. You know, Yeah, 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:27.920 I listened to everything growing up, so Romantico and stuff, 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:34.120 Yeah Jose with me yelling Timpo, you know, with Momento, 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:38.160 a lot of some goes on and on of all 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:42.400 the amazing roo La. Like, my mom was always very 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.120 well rounded when it came to music, and she wanted 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.280 me to hear a little bit of everything. And I'm 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.840 grateful that she exposed me to so much variations of 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:54.880 what Latin music was at the time, because that's how 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:57.160 I was able to be like, Okay, I want to 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:58.560 pick up a little bit of this, a little bit 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:01.360 of that, put it together and this is you know 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:04.960 whom is that's amazing. And you know, coming up in 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:07.160 a Puerto Rican household, it was the same way that 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:12.600 component component with all the freaking like you know, CD player, 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.440 tape deck, you know, everything, and my mom would be 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:24.880 playing everything LaSalle, smiting Bolero, but all that stuff, you know, 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:27.880 everything just just oh my goodness. Now you're thinking about it, 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:30.440 I'm like, don't you miss don't you miss those days? 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.360 How things have changed so much. Obviously, we know we 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:36.200 gotta evolve, you know, we gotta go with times. But 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:39.960 I think of those memories of how we grew up 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:43.240 and and then sometimes I look at today's times and 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:46.200 it's like it's not that it's not nice, but it's 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:51.640 definitely not as innocent as family oriented as it was 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:53.919 back then. You know, I agree, and things things have, 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:56.440 you know, I just you know, and sometimes you think 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:58.919 you want to keep that the same spirit that you 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.000 had when when you were anger, and even now with 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.480 your kids, you know, you think, do I wanna go 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:05.400 ahead and do the same thing? And you should? I 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:07.760 think you should. I think that that's uh, that's a 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:11.479 lost art, is having that family bonding time, you know, 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:15.600 because everyone's on a damn screen now, see I I 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:17.760 agree with the screen thing. Yeah, we definitely have to 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:21.719 change for those that want to undo, right, but for 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:27.440 those that want to keep. I think it's important for 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:29.280 us to be the ones to take charge and be like, 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.000 you know what, I'm gonna play you some music. This 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:33.520 is what I grew up with. I want you to 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:35.400 listen to this. I want you to know where you 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:38.719 come from, what we heard, some of the old school music. 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:41.599 I think it's important, Um, we have to create that 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:47.919 family oriented energy. Yes, times have changed these days, no 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:50.880 way too much. Back then, we didn't know as much 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:57.200 as they know now. And Lyrica lyrics has also changed. 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:00.440 You know, when were you going to hear back in 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:03.200 the days, you know, a song talking about pop that 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.000 pussy or you know jebber like is hot or like 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:09.000 you know Mrs Juicy over here, you you were going 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:12.800 to hear them lyrics? You know? Of the current music? 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:16.240 Is there anything you would play to your daughter's any 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:19.159 artists that you listen to now today? Are you only 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:23.520 going to play what you're adele? You might not see like, 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:26.200 you know, there's there's some nice songs that I feel 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:29.680 that my kids can listen to. For sure. But realistically, 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:31.760 if you really sit down and go through the playlist 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:35.039 of the modern songs you know up on charts right now, 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:38.200 it's kind of limited, uh, the songs that you can 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:41.400 play for them, that is, you know, okay for you 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:46.279 know children right um, because everything somehow is either sublibinal 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:50.719 or there's something freaky nasty you know in there that's 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.560 made for adults, which is fine because I've heard that too. 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:55.800 We can't put the pressure on the artists there. Being 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.039 an artist, you do what you do as a parent. 0:06:58.040 --> 0:06:59.920 You're the one that decides you can hear this, you 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:05.640 can't hear that, or whatever, and they could hear the 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.760 whole everything. How what are you gonna be changing stations 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:10.680 every time? I mean even in the you know, in 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.480 the mid nineties, you know, as a teenager growing up, 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.600 you know, there was a lot of songs on the 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:18.119 radio that we're kind of that you saw the trend 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.040 starting with hip hop and changing and then you know, 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:23.520 hip hop merging with Latin music, a lot of things 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:25.800 started changing. But you're right, You're right. I want to 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:27.520 know from you now. You told us a little bit 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:30.200 about growing up and what your mom played. When did 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:34.000 you take it upon yourself to make the switch and 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:39.560 start incorporating English speaking music into into your playlists. And 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:42.040 what were some of the records that you remember that 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:46.400 you know play out in your head. Oh my god, Um, 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:48.720 I think it was affected in my house. And that's 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:50.360 how I plan on doing it with my with my 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:55.800 girls as well. And in a way. Last, this is 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:58.840 what I didn't even watch, but I last, I want 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.720 you to, you know, smell the Sas song in the house. 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:03.920 I wanted to be very Latino. This is what we are, 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:06.200 this is our culture. This is what we do. And 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:08.080 you're gonna copy paste and do the same thing with 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:09.920 your kids, because I don't want you to lose the 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:14.360 essence of Latin because you're born in America. That's what 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:17.960 we're not going to do. Right. But um, in school, 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:19.800 I know that in school they pick up all the 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:24.680 English stuff, the accent, the language, the slang, the blah 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:27.760 blah blah. You pick all those things up so you 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:32.600 can do that. But I remember that that, you know, 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:35.199 being in school listening to my friends and stuff. I 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:38.840 was into like the Spice Girls. Okay, I was scary 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:44.160 Spice and Sink, you know, Britney Spears Christina. You know, 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:47.800 I felt like I was killing it. Janet Jackson. Also 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:51.480 there was a lot of artists like even even It's 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:53.440 funny because even when you look at the music videos 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:56.440 back then, you thought they were so futuristic and it's 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:59.839 like the technology look and this and that, and you 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.800 that they were killing it. They kind of were. Um, 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.760 I remember the freakiest song that I like back then, well, 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:08.679 there were two, I think it was, but the Milkshake 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:13.400 came in earlier, I think, um, but then, oh my god, 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:19.720 what's his name? Cisco song? I thought I was killing it. 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:23.240 Everybody was like, this is so late, you know, when 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:27.079 the Thong song came out and stuff. You know, when 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.200 you when you think about it, right, you start listening 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:31.640 to songs that you listen to back then, you listen 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:35.880 to it now and uh you know, for instance, uh 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:41.240 end quote you have to lick it before you stick it. Yeah, 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:43.880 Like wait a second, I was like rocking out to 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:46.880 this in my room and just hanging out. You know, 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:50.760 you're saying like when you discovered the lyrics, when when 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:53.640 you did, you don't. You're not there for the lyrics 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:57.079 to be to make sense. You're there to sing, you know, 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:01.520 I'm listening to jamming out to both um, you know, 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.880 alternate music, Blink one eight two, you know hip hop, 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:09.200 you know Woo Tang was crazy, you know, planning and 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:11.640 you know, like all of that stuff. And I wasn't 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:16.040 thinking back then. You know, now I look back at him, like, whoa, 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:20.559 If my mom knew English the way we do, she 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:31.840 would have whoke my behind. I think it's you too. 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:33.720 A lot of times. I'm not saying that there wasn't. 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:36.520 There was songs that were you know, a little bit 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:42.480 you know, freaky harsh or whatever. You just wanted to 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:44.200 sing the song and dance and you knew that you 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.400 liked and it was a vibe. You weren't really paying 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:49.240 attention to the death of the lyrics of the songs. 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.960 So I guess is that these days, I think we 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:57.000 all know what the lyrics mean. The young ones, even 0:10:57.040 --> 0:10:59.520 the young ones, they know. They may not know exactly, 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:02.160 but they know it is not you shouldn't be singing it, 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:06.600 but you still do. So I get it. The pressures, 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:09.160 you know, when you first started to to get into 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:12.760 the music industry, what were those pressures like for you initially? 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:15.959 Like coming in, I'm sure there was people you were 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.160 meeting with people that that were saying, you have to 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:20.240 sound like so and so, I need you to sound 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:24.080 like this. My mom was one of the first ones. 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:27.280 She was so annoying because my mom was like, since 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:29.920 since that was very good at doing many things, it's 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:33.000 like still now as an adult, you know, I'm an artist, 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:35.720 even though that I haven't done music in like two years. 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.920 I think since the pandemic, I put out one or 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:41.160 two songs, But since the pandemic, I really haven't been 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:43.400 doing music like that. I got kind of caught up 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:48.880 doing reality TV, doing movies, doing other things. I I 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:51.320 somewhat maybe I feel I kind of got comfortable in 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:53.080 that space and I haven't been back in the studio 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.920 also because I'm still going through some legal situations with 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:59.959 with those that have watched Love Love and Hip Hop Miami, 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.240 you guys know what I've been going through. But that 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:08.719 also that they say even though that I miss it. 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:11.320 But my mom was one of those that it was like, 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:13.520 when you're very talented at doing many things, like I 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:15.360 could host, I can do radio, I can do this, 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:20.079 I can do that. DA she felt musically like I 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:27.040 want you to I want and I'm like, but how 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:29.760 am I supposed to find my identity musically? Which happens 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:31.880 to a lot of artists. You get caught up doing 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:35.560 so many different genres. Then now your audience doesn't even know, 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:39.439 like you know what you are, who you are, like 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:42.400 what is your target? Because one day you're singing pop, 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.440 next thing you're now you're singing rock, and then after that, 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:47.439 now you just did a hip hop song. And as 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:49.880 an artist, you should be able to be creative and 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:53.200 try and experiment with all those different sounds. Nothing should 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:55.800 stop you, but you still do have to have a 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.800 lane of sound. So yes, I did feel the pressure 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:01.720 of having to, Like all they would do this, Oh 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:05.120 my god, you should be the next Sea Cruiz sing Salta, 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:09.479 And it was like, that's cool, That's an honor most definitely. 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.000 But just because I'm black and I have an Afro 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:16.040 and I'm Latina, it doesn't mean that automatically I should 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:18.760 sing Salza because I remind you of Salia Cruise. You know, 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:22.760 I'm still from this error, from this generation, and I like, 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:24.679 I like to do a lot of fusion. I mix 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:26.960 up a lot of sounds. I'll mix up some Afro 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:30.240 b with some Brazilian funk. I'll make something bold with 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:32.920 some like That's what I think that it's fun about 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:35.880 doing music, being able to create. Yeah, I like that, 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:38.320 and you gotta find your own voice. It's always great 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:40.360 to pay homage to the to the past and to 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:43.199 who we listen to. But at the same time, you know, 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.920 you kind of gotta like move on with what you're doing. 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.240 And I think that's what a lot of artists struggle 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:53.480 with nowaday and you know, it's it's I'm pretty sure 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:56.720 back then everyone's struggle because somebody, you know, I wanted 0:13:56.800 --> 0:14:01.240 to be the next Frank Snatro. You know, for you, 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:04.880 what do you attribute your success too in music? Like 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.280 do you think about it as your maybe your mom? 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.479 Do you do you give all the props to your mom? 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:14.400 Is there a special person, a special mentor that helped 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:17.160 you get to the level of success that you've been 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.520 been at. I know it sounds so corny, but I 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:24.520 definitely always have to give credit to my mom. I 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:26.800 have to give credit to my mom because my mom 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:31.920 has been my number one supporter, my number one cheerleader, 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:36.480 my number one you know, critic, my everything, And I 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:40.040 think it's because she sees what I'm capable of more 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:43.480 more than I can sometimes, and I think that parents 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:47.200 have don't. It's like a gift like once your kid 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:49.680 is born. I don't know how they do that, but 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.760 they can say no, Dad or mom, I can't do it, 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:56.840 and you know what they're capable of them doing even 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.280 though they don't see it, but you can see past it, 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:01.080 like I know all you can do it, and you 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:03.840 also know when your kid don't got it. You also 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:06.720 know like, no, this is not this is not your department. 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:08.560 And I know you like it, but this is not 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:10.920 for you, but you also know. So I feel like 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:13.560 my mom always was able to see beyond what I could, 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:16.440 and she always pushed me. And I'm grateful that she 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:18.280 pushed me because if it wasn't for that, I wouldn't 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:21.080 have known what I am actually capable of. And I 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.600 still don't think that I have forced myself or pushing 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:26.280 myself to see my full potential. I kind of sometimes 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.800 half fast it a little bit, so I would say 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:30.400 that it is that if it wasn't because of her, 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:34.120 said Vialo, you know, like it happens, and I would 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:38.360 have been coming, you know, just like walking around the 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:40.760 world trying to figure it out. I was gonna say, 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:43.160 I'm out of the music industry is changing so much, 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:47.280 and I feel like women, female artists are are really 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:51.000 taking the lead. I would say, especially in you know, 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:53.880 when it comes to our community, where do you think 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:55.960 that you fall and how do you see yourself? Like 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:57.840 what kind of music in the future are you hoping 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:01.520 to create? The thing is, I'm a very a bubbly, happy, 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.280 upbeat person. So whatever I do, I want to know 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:07.040 that my music brings happiness and it brings joy. I 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:10.360 like music that that um can change your whole vibe, 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:12.400 Like I'm stressed out, let me put this music on. 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:16.160 It's just gonna get my my momentum, you know, going. 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:19.760 But then I also love songs where like I did 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:22.120 my song Insecure, which is one of my favorite songs, 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:25.080 that I also was able to connect with women, you know, 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:28.760 and and connect in a more vulnerable aspect because I'm 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:31.080 not always happy, like like you know what I'm saying, 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:32.800 the battery is got to turn off at some point. 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:35.360 And I also go through rhoto cultures of emotions like 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:36.760 I really feel right now if I were to go 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:40.160 into a studio, which would be so great, and I 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:42.680 would really sit down and do like a whole album 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:44.840 of what my life has been like in the past 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.800 two years and not just two years two years now 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:50.360 moving forward, I think I would come up with an 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:55.080 amazing album where I am honest about my feelings like 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:56.960 I am now, and I know that a lot of 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.520 people will be able to connect with me. So I 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:01.880 love doing happy music, but I think that being able 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.800 to do music that just connects with the audience really 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:08.119 it's something that I visualize for the future for me. 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:11.199 That's amazing. That's like, that's a really good way of 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.160 looking at it. Because you gotta know what you want 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:16.560 to do and who you wanna where do you want 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:18.440 to make music for? And you have two kids, now, 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:20.960 do you feel like perhaps they'll inspire you in such 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:24.560 a way where you'll create I think you have the 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:27.959 soul in you and the heart to really put something 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:31.600 beautiful together. So do you feel like maybe you'll inspire 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:34.000 yourself a little bit more to create something for them, 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:37.480 maybe you know, to inspire them as well. I think 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:39.879 that I will. But I also think that in my case, 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:42.640 I I can relate to a certain extent to things 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.679 that Cardi B has said about her music that she 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:49.520 still does freaky you know, adult fun music, and she 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:52.280 doesn't let her children listen to it. So I wouldn't 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:55.439 want to like stop myself from doing what makes me 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:58.119 feel good or what I know that my audience expects 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:00.800 of me because of the canal. I'm a mother, No, 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:03.840 I'm a mother. You listen to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:06.680 over there and I'm over here, you know what I'm saying, 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:10.720 dropping it like it's hot. So you know, I want 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:12.840 I want to be able to create that balance. I 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:15.720 think that creating that balance is important. But I definitely 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:19.399 would love to do music and and do music videos. 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:23.639 Get um empower them as well, you know, as a 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:25.800 strong woman, like your mom's a strong woman. You know 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:30.880 she did that last Avid wincing. You know that eventually 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:33.880 they're like, oh my god, that's my mom over there, 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:40.760 Like no, you know, I get it. But but at 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:42.879 the same time, I guess, mama gotta pay these bills, 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:45.840 so you better. You know what I'm saying, cover your ass, 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:47.640 cover your ears, and let me do what I asked 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:50.000 to do. Beyonce, I did that too. I mean I 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:53.520 feel like she did that. She's helping women say, listen 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:55.520 I'm a mom, but I also want to be sexy 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:59.040 and get it on with my partner and I wanted to. Yeah, 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:03.200 so I'm excited does it? She does it very tastefully 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:06.399 that I'm being like, it's it's it's sexy, but I 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:10.399 don't find it personally like raunchy. I find it like tasteful. 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:13.600 I've seen other artists. We're not gonna mention any names that. 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:16.320 I'm like, dude, you're basically just doing porno right now, 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:18.280 Like that's a lot. You could have still done the 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:21.160 same thing and got in the same reaction without having 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:25.440 to like do it like that battle to each his own. 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:36.800 Everybody expresses their art form in different ways. When I 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:39.800 think about like musical influences, what are you, what are 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:42.440 your thoughts on people like Mary J. Blage like the 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:46.960 hip hop era and are you ever gonna dive into 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:50.960 that genre? The thing about it is that funny enough, 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:52.719 even though I'm on love and hip hop and all 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:55.800 thesely the things I grew up in Miami. In Miami 0:19:56.080 --> 0:20:00.359 is um Miami is very hip hop influence, I must 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:03.040 you know, for the African American community, there's a lot 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:06.199 of that. Obviously, the original hip hop like we have. 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:08.359 We have some of them on the show. You know, 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:10.840 we have Trina. We got tricked Daddy, like we got 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:13.520 some of the original essence of hip hop as well. 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:16.360 But I did grow up very cha cha. I did 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:20.840 grow up more Latina than anything, so I didn't have 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:25.280 that original experience of what hip hop was back then. 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:31.600 I heard about it later on in life, but especially 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:34.919 here in Miami that is also very Latino based. My 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:37.280 mom always had me more in Hi Ali or whatever 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:42.280 the Latinos were at, so I didn't get to enjoy, uh, 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:44.800 the real essence of Mary J. Bloss and stuff like 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:46.760 when she first came in. I heard it later on 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:50.600 in life battle I would I don't know. I don't 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:53.520 like to put any limits to myself, Like I can't 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:56.720 say I'm not I'm very open minded because what about 0:20:56.800 --> 0:21:00.919 c C And then said what do guy like? Why not? 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:03.479 So I think that in left you should experiment and 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:05.920 try everything as much as you can. You never know 0:21:06.000 --> 0:21:08.480 where you're you know what I'm saying, where your target is? Yeah? 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:11.640 I agree? Are you thinking of perhaps letting your your 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:14.040 I know you've spoken about, you know, having a casting 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:16.880 agent for your daughter's already, But what what are you 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:22.040 your thoughts on perhaps letting the girls into the music industry, 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:24.800 into the music business, Are you gonna shelter them from 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:29.080 this lifestyle, this you know, hustle. I would love to 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:32.080 be that support system for my children whatever it is 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:34.000 they decide that they want to be. And if I 0:21:34.080 --> 0:21:36.600 see that they're talented, I don't want to be the 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:41.320 one to be like Buena. And I'm like, no, you're 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:44.440 gonna be no, no, no, no no. If I see 0:21:44.520 --> 0:21:47.720 that you're good at something and you have potential, whether 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:50.760 I want it for you or not, if it is 0:21:50.800 --> 0:21:55.320 your blessing, your route, now I'm going to push you 0:21:55.400 --> 0:21:57.320 to the end of you. You're gonna hate me. I'm 0:21:57.320 --> 0:21:59.760 gonna do you like well Mommy did to me. But 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:02.159