Speaker 1: What's epislift service. I'm Angela Yee, I'm g G Maguire,
Speaker 1: I'm Jazz. My friends, I'm Laura Mura. I'm Coco. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Coo here Courtney? Right? Is it when people call you that? Ever?
Speaker 1: Only my family and like my childhood friends. It's really
Speaker 1: like Hannah Montana type thing. And when I started singing,
Speaker 1: my mom was like, you're gonna get another name? Okay.
Speaker 1: I was like yeah. She was kind of like, okay,
Speaker 1: if there's gonna be like contracts or whatever, like she
Speaker 1: wanted to be separate from my government name. And plus
Speaker 1: when I go back to Tennessee and needs to give
Speaker 1: stay humble. So, dude, if you're dating a guy, right,
Speaker 1: does he call you Coco or Courtney the way you
Speaker 1: got straight into it. I normally when I'm when I'm
Speaker 1: dating a guy, I kind of get cringed out when
Speaker 1: they call me Coco. Okay. I don't know why I
Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, I don't know why I do that
Speaker 1: because I have some of my friends that I've known
Speaker 1: for a really long time that I met in LA
Speaker 1: they called me Coco. But then I have other friends
Speaker 1: that I also meant like as an adult that call
Speaker 1: me Courtney. I don't know. I don't know. Whatever sits right.
Speaker 1: If it don't sit right, then I'm like, change that
Speaker 1: one up, because I always think that about like when
Speaker 1: entertainers have a different like a you know, kind of
Speaker 1: a stage name, but it is a play on your
Speaker 1: real name, so I get it. It's like a nickname.
Speaker 1: But then when you're in bed and they're like, oh, Cocoa,
Speaker 1: You're like, whoa you know, yeah, I don't know. It
Speaker 1: just depends. I think. Also sometimes it's like a if
Speaker 1: I meet somebody in the industry and we all do
Speaker 1: things in the industry, then it's weird if they call
Speaker 1: me Courtney, because I'm like, hey, we're in the industry,
Speaker 1: like this is this is that? This isn't that you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And especially if you introduce yourself
Speaker 1: a certain way. Yeah, I think whatever you introduce yourself as,
Speaker 1: I would think they would kind of keep didn't go
Speaker 1: with that. But sometimes if I tell a guy what
Speaker 1: I like, I tell them I do something completely different.
Speaker 1: Like sometimes I'll be like, oh, I work for my
Speaker 1: parents construction company. My name's Courtney. I'll do a completely
Speaker 1: different life. They do not, they no, they really don't.
Speaker 1: One time, I did tell this guy that's like my
Speaker 1: go to fake career year in life, and so I
Speaker 1: did tell him that, and then we went to this
Speaker 1: restaurant and then the waiter was like co I was like,
Speaker 1: right now, it is that deceptive though, because then let's
Speaker 1: say you really like this guy. Now even lied, what's fine,
Speaker 1: He'll be all right, I feel I mean, he's gonna
Speaker 1: have to come and understand because it's not like easy
Speaker 1: to just honestly, Sometimes it's weird for me to even
Speaker 1: say that I'm a singer, like what do you say
Speaker 1: when you ask? What do you do? Honestly, if they're
Speaker 1: asking what I'm doing, I'm probably going to lie, which
Speaker 1: is not great. But it's because if they don't ask them,
Speaker 1: they already know, so we don't even have to even
Speaker 1: talk about it. I don't know. Is it weird to
Speaker 1: talk about Yes, like it is, And I feel like
Speaker 1: sometimes guys be like I'll be like, oh yeah for me.
Speaker 1: She came in and Mutu was playing and she started singing.
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, you really no, that's hilarious. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I honestly sing without even knowing. But it really just depends,
Speaker 1: I think for me too. It's more like the vibe,
Speaker 1: Like if I feel, oh, this is a normal person
Speaker 1: or they have there's still some normalcy there, then I'll
Speaker 1: be normal too. But if they're all industry, if they're
Speaker 1: all weird, then I'm a lie. Where did you meet
Speaker 1: the guy that you hum up to like about your
Speaker 1: career too? Get him? Would you ask where did she
Speaker 1: meet the guy that she lied to about her career,
Speaker 1: because then we would know who she is? But where
Speaker 1: did you meet this person for them not to know
Speaker 1: who you are? That's a great question. So when I
Speaker 1: do normal things, like when I'm not doing like work stuff,
Speaker 1: I like to do completely normal things if possible. So
Speaker 1: at that time, I had went with my homegirl to
Speaker 1: the guy she was talking to is like little house
Speaker 1: party kickback, and he was there, and then I'm always like, hi,
Speaker 1: like let's see if they know like how they act,
Speaker 1: and he was giving confused and didn't know. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh right, okay, Hi, you don't see you If your
Speaker 1: home girl's talking to a guy, he already done. Tell Okay,
Speaker 1: so my girl is bringing Coco Jones, so like, but
Speaker 1: at you don't know her because she loved that. Now
Speaker 1: that would be some triggering com triggering. I don't know,
Speaker 1: because my friends, like they're not all in the industry either,
Speaker 1: Like I have some friends who are like like nurses
Speaker 1: or you know, like in their own fields that have
Speaker 1: nothing to do with music, and they don't understand it
Speaker 1: at all, like like law or something, you know. So
Speaker 1: it would be one of those friends who just wouldn't
Speaker 1: even think to bring that up. Some of my friends
Speaker 1: don't understand why people know me. Like look, we were
Speaker 1: walking under block and these women turned around like them,
Speaker 1: and there's like, why are they looking at us? People
Speaker 1: be knowing who I am sometimes like you forget sometimes
Speaker 1: like you walking around and then they stare and I'm like,
Speaker 1: what the hell are they stare? And she's like, I
Speaker 1: mean I am standing there to you. Oh that's right.
Speaker 1: Like my best friend I walked out of her house
Speaker 1: and the neighbor was like, hey, Angela, and she was like,
Speaker 1: how do you know my neighbor? And I'm like I don't. Right,
Speaker 1: it's also got to be interesting too, because you're you're
Speaker 1: going to race here, yeah, so like your family and
Speaker 1: stuff's here and your career. Like from me, I feel
Speaker 1: like when I go to LA it's like a different world.
Speaker 1: It's none of my family's there for real, Like it's
Speaker 1: always been about work. When I went there, I couldn't
Speaker 1: imagine if I was born and raised in the place
Speaker 1: where my career. Also, So you were raised in Tennessee, right,
Speaker 1: but you were born in South Carolina. I was born
Speaker 1: to Southlina, raised in Tennessee. Do you live in LA
Speaker 1: now or I do. I moved to LA when I
Speaker 1: was seventeen, and then I came to New York for
Speaker 1: a year because I was doing Broadway. And then I
Speaker 1: came back at eighteen and I was like, Okay, I
Speaker 1: can do this now. Broadway it's tough. Y'all know. First
Speaker 1: of all, y'all know I love going to Broadway plays. Okay,
Speaker 1: I said, Lord to see her first Broadway for Color Girls.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, we went. Yeah, we went to go see that.
Speaker 1: And I just went to go see d Wood. She
Speaker 1: does all these plays now. She was in Black Odyssey.
Speaker 1: So I just went to How did you like doing Broadway?
Speaker 1: Did a lot? It was just so hard, Yeah, I was.
Speaker 1: It was the hardest part about it. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's everything is up to you. It's all depending on you.
Speaker 1: Like I guess in the acting world, you're kind of
Speaker 1: catered to a little bit. More like you can go
Speaker 1: and get your hair and makeup done. Do you want
Speaker 1: any breakfast? Your breakfast will be in your trailer when
Speaker 1: you get back. Da Hey, they're ready for you. They're
Speaker 1: not anymore. Go to your trailer and it's warm in there,
Speaker 1: and you can light your own candles. Here. It was like,
Speaker 1: you're with everybody. We'll be here at seven am. No, No,
Speaker 1: where's my microphone? They were like, put it on. I
Speaker 1: was like, what about my outfit? Here I go, I'm
Speaker 1: carrying props. I was like, what the hell is this? Though?
Speaker 1: It was grounding, and I will say like I was like, okay, humble, humble,
Speaker 1: And I appreciated it for the skill and the art
Speaker 1: and the passion of it because the people around me.
Speaker 1: I was the youngest one and the newest one. Actually
Speaker 1: that's not true. There was this little kid that played
Speaker 1: a little kid, but he was like a vet in
Speaker 1: it too. They getting newbie. They were like, girl, get
Speaker 1: your props together. I'm sorry. After that experience and you,
Speaker 1: you know, do other jobs in the industry, you think
Speaker 1: you ever like circle back and maybe give it another
Speaker 1: try once you have some more kind of experience something about. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I could see myself wanting that challenge again because it
Speaker 1: really was a little more. Yes, it really did bring
Speaker 1: out something something in me that's like I felt like
Speaker 1: a g a Bronx sale. Yeah, okay, right, okay, So
Speaker 1: I would do it again. And especially if I one
Speaker 1: day have the goal of doing like the Egott type life,
Speaker 1: I would have to circle back right, Well, you have
Speaker 1: a sense of humor. Have you ever considered doing like
Speaker 1: a little stand up or anything? People have said that,
Speaker 1: They're like, you need to do comedy. I'm just like,
Speaker 1: I just do not see myself getting on the stage
Speaker 1: and not singing. I feel like I'd be like a pretender.
Speaker 1: I don't know. But you can sing in your comedy.
Speaker 1: That now part of your whole because yeah, a whole
Speaker 1: new trend you could be. I mean, I want to
Speaker 1: offer me a bag to do it. I will figure out, yeah,
Speaker 1: used to sing ye party with my new career path, well,
Speaker 1: I'm really trying to break into artistry and really like
Speaker 1: solidify myself as one of the R and B girls.
Speaker 1: And then, honestly, I would I would take on anything
Speaker 1: I don't want to put myself in any type of box. Well,
Speaker 1: congratulations because I feel like the stars are aligned hello
Speaker 1: for you right now. It's been crazy my life, but
Speaker 1: my life has literally been crazy. I just like we
Speaker 1: were all talking about, I had this performance in DC,
Speaker 1: and I was literally so emotional because the last time
Speaker 1: that people knew the words to my songs and like
Speaker 1: were there just to see me. Like I was literally
Speaker 1: like sixteen, wow, and I had been I was just
Speaker 1: signed and I felt how I feel now, like oh
Speaker 1: my god, it's all coming together, you know, and it
Speaker 1: just did not at that time. So it's like deja
Speaker 1: vu in a way, and I'm just like, I understand
Speaker 1: why it didn't work out that that way. Thank you God.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad because had I known that it was
Speaker 1: going to be like this, I wouldn't have even been
Speaker 1: that pressed. Yeah, but you know, you can't ever know.
Speaker 1: You never know, and sometimes, like in the moment and
Speaker 1: you were younger too, Yeah, it's so much harder when
Speaker 1: you're oh my gosh, had this anticipation and you think
Speaker 1: you're right there, and then it feels like the world's
Speaker 1: gonna end. It felt it felt like the world itself
Speaker 1: was ending. I was like all of you are not
Speaker 1: existing because the world is over. Like my dreams, My
Speaker 1: dreams were my everything. I didn't care about boys, didn't
Speaker 1: care about none of that. So then I had to
Speaker 1: go and live. And like I met these usc girls
Speaker 1: that became like my best friends. And when I was
Speaker 1: outside and then I was like, oh wait, the world,
Speaker 1: the world, a whole new world, shout out to a ladder.
Speaker 1: But I guess in the time, like I had to
Speaker 1: grow because I was so naive. I literally was homeschooled
Speaker 1: at the time. I only cared about jobs, and like
Speaker 1: when the next opportunity, I didn't want to be outside.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know what outside was giving. I never drank,
Speaker 1: did none of that. So like I needed things to
Speaker 1: write about and real artists be living that life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: be about that, Lite, I need you to get your heartbroken, okay,
Speaker 1: And did shout out to ICU, right, thank you and
Speaker 1: not tell us about the heartbreak? What happened? L O
Speaker 1: l um. Well, Honestly, I think at the time I
Speaker 1: wasn't the best version of myself because my career and
Speaker 1: the things that made me me, they were so up
Speaker 1: in the air, so uncertain. So at the time I
Speaker 1: guess I wanted a relationship way more than I should have,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And it wasn't that he
Speaker 1: didn't want the same. It was more like I was
Speaker 1: just not focused anymore. Like I was like, this, this
Speaker 1: career hurting me. So what we're trying to do? You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like I don't even want to
Speaker 1: There's only disappointment here, like this is fun, this is safe,
Speaker 1: this is great, you know what I'm saying. And then
Speaker 1: when things changed and my career was starting to bubble again,
Speaker 1: I was like, uh, sorry, hate to shift things around.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't like it was any bad blood or
Speaker 1: anything there. It was really once my life got back
Speaker 1: on track, I was so different and I just had
Speaker 1: such different priorities that we could we didn't. We didn't
Speaker 1: make sense anymore. Like he would be doing his thing
Speaker 1: over there and I'd be doing mine over here, and
Speaker 1: then we wouldn't see each other. And then we would
Speaker 1: see each other and they'd be like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: this is great, but like our lifestyles don't match anymore,
Speaker 1: Like what we want out of life doesn't match anymore.
Speaker 1: Now that I am back to who I am, I
Speaker 1: want to be this girl, and this girl can't be
Speaker 1: where you're at. She's doing her thing. You know, it
Speaker 1: just didn't make sense. But we always would like stop
Speaker 1: talking to each other and be like, all right, cool,
Speaker 1: we're friends, we're good, we're good, And then it'd be
Speaker 1: like circling back, congratulations on that, how are you? How
Speaker 1: are things? One more time around the block? Just ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Did you think for a period of time that he
Speaker 1: was the one, because, like you said, you keep going
Speaker 1: back to somebody and you started thinking like, maybe this
Speaker 1: is it. I think there was a time where I
Speaker 1: thought he was the one, But I think for a
Speaker 1: really long time I just knew he was the closest
Speaker 1: to the one, you know, when like you have other
Speaker 1: guys that are cool, but they're just not hitting the
Speaker 1: way that that chemistry would hit, you know. Or maybe
Speaker 1: it's that I was so blind by that chemistry and
Speaker 1: what that was in the in the peak of it,
Speaker 1: that I couldn't even see these other guys as like
Speaker 1: good too, like solid contenders. So I think it was
Speaker 1: more like I romanticized what it was and like I
Speaker 1: wanted it to be that again. So that's like the
Speaker 1: song double Back seem like you did it, went and
Speaker 1: did this, and and did a whole album. Okay, I'm like,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get some content out of this band. And
Speaker 1: it's a still giving. The sex was amazing. I don't
Speaker 1: know if say it was the sex part of the
Speaker 1: real going back, I'm scream when the sexes will we
Speaker 1: always think they won, right, they got the potential to
Speaker 1: be the one w hate you, But that's sexy. I'm
Speaker 1: crying because it really wasn't for me. It wasn't. It
Speaker 1: wasn't that it was like that was my first love.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like that was that's a
Speaker 1: whole different that's what That's what I knew. It was
Speaker 1: my comfort zone. Yes, it was about comfort. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: really was not. It was about comfort. It was really
Speaker 1: about but it was about that too. Anyway, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: sit one left out because sometimes but the first person
Speaker 1: you don't know what great sex is. No, yeah, so
Speaker 1: you think this is it and you're like, oh, it
Speaker 1: is a sex and then you have great sex and
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, but you probably broke his heart too, though,
Speaker 1: Like from what I'm hearing, I know it hurt you,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure he was like what the hell? Yeah,
Speaker 1: And that's another thing too, Like it didn't feel like
Speaker 1: I was in it by myself wanting it to last.
Speaker 1: He kept coming back too. It was both of us
Speaker 1: like oh please, no, no, you know, like we both
Speaker 1: were stuck on now that how it felt. How did
Speaker 1: you break the cycle? How did you cut that in
Speaker 1: debt well? Or how did it him later tonight? No?
Speaker 1: Did I think I've been thinking it's over? If I'd
Speaker 1: been thinking it's over and then it's like here we
Speaker 1: go again. No, But honestly, I think for me having
Speaker 1: my life handing out the way it is now, I
Speaker 1: just have to be more intentional and I don't want
Speaker 1: to learn the same lessons over and over and over again.
Speaker 1: I already literally did that before my career got back
Speaker 1: on track. I wish I could go back and be like,
Speaker 1: you should have been doing more content, You should have
Speaker 1: had a better mindset. If you would had a better mindset,
Speaker 1: you would have better actions. And who knows the things
Speaker 1: that when viral could have went viral way before. Everything.
Speaker 1: Timing is everything, you know what I'm saying. But I
Speaker 1: just don't want to I don't want to waste any
Speaker 1: more time, and I do feel like right person, wrong
Speaker 1: time to me is just kind of cap I feel
Speaker 1: like if they are the right person, you you make
Speaker 1: it right. It all just up right. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't know because I also believe a wrong person right
Speaker 1: time to wrong person right time that happens. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: could be that. It could be that. And honestly, if
Speaker 1: you want to tuckle the block, I'll take another hit
Speaker 1: off of it album. Okay, you know how to fin
Speaker 1: You know where I'm saying, Gig that every time you
Speaker 1: keep doubling back, you might be blocking your blessings. You
Speaker 1: may have better sex and better coming street waiting for you.
Speaker 1: I do, I definitely do feel like when you're holding
Speaker 1: onto something, your hand is tight so nothing can get
Speaker 1: in there. You know what I'm saying, Nothing good can
Speaker 1: get a where nothing's coming out, but nothing good's coming in.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I'm just trying to go with
Speaker 1: what feels the most authentic to me. I feel like
Speaker 1: my intuition has kind of been on point. Well, good trust,
Speaker 1: and you're at Capricrine like me. By the way, your
Speaker 1: birthday is a day after mine. Oh my god, over here,
Speaker 1: so you know, we worked really hard. We're very practical.
Speaker 1: We're very practical people. Um. Now let me ask you this.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been in a secret relationship like where
Speaker 1: y'all were sneaking around child? I feel like everyone has
Speaker 1: done that at some point. I remember someone telling me
Speaker 1: it was really exciting, like we'd be at a party
Speaker 1: and pretend that we're not together, but then no one,
Speaker 1: We're gonna, you know, meet up later. Have you ever
Speaker 1: done the sneaky link thing? Um. I wouldn't say it
Speaker 1: was like a secret, but it was more like we're
Speaker 1: not outside with it, like you are doing your career.
Speaker 1: I'm doing my career and nobody's trying to have that
Speaker 1: be in the tabloid. So it's giving. Yeah, it's giving
Speaker 1: you when I see you type thing. Yeah, because life
Speaker 1: has to be really different now because now people see
Speaker 1: you and they're like Hillary Banks, uncle Jones, you know,
Speaker 1: they know you for all these different things, and it's
Speaker 1: not like you can just go to Ruth Chris. Now
Speaker 1: that's very true. I mean everything that I do, I
Speaker 1: feel like do I want this on the internet, Jess
Speaker 1: and I want this on the internet. Gosh, what a
Speaker 1: thing to have to debate. But that is that's and
Speaker 1: sometimes people like that attention too, Like people will purposefully
Speaker 1: try to do things, do things with somebody so that
Speaker 1: it can Whenever you see somebody spotted at such and
Speaker 1: such by you're like, oh, yeah, that's they went. They
Speaker 1: went there because outside they called the paparazzi. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: do be given that. Sometimes I don't know. For me,
Speaker 1: I'm just, like I said, trying to go with my
Speaker 1: intuition and sometimes I'm like maybe, but it always just
Speaker 1: doesn't feel right. So I'm not going outside with Nladdie
Speaker 1: because I'm thinking about bel air because I do. By
Speaker 1: the way, I love the show. Watch the show being
Speaker 1: keeping up with it. You know, we watched the whole
Speaker 1: first season like um last year Binge did, and so
Speaker 1: we were excited for the new season to come back.
Speaker 1: But we're looking at your relationship with Jazzy Jess character
Speaker 1: on the show, and this is a real life thing, right.
Speaker 1: You don't want to commit, but then you also get
Speaker 1: really jealous if the person that you're dating but won't
Speaker 1: commit to is talking to other people that other people
Speaker 1: like them. You know, some natural reaction or feeling for sure,
Speaker 1: especially for a woman. Yeah you like and normally I
Speaker 1: feel like guys think that women want to be in
Speaker 1: relationships so bad, like we're the ones, but in this case,
Speaker 1: you're the one that's like ump the brakes. I'm not
Speaker 1: really sure that's what I want to do, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it does depend there. I have
Speaker 1: had situations where the guy was way more serious about me,
Speaker 1: and I was like, it's not even giving that like relax,
Speaker 1: you know. But I think at the time too, I
Speaker 1: think honestly, it's really about like being honest with yourself,
Speaker 1: Like you can get to know a person enough to
Speaker 1: know what type of time they're on, and then it's
Speaker 1: up to you whether or not you want what's being served. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because sometimes you just went like a little fun, yeah,
Speaker 1: and to be spoiled and go out, but you're not
Speaker 1: trying to get something serious because you are still young
Speaker 1: and you have time. How are your parents with people
Speaker 1: that you date and what are the rules in terms
Speaker 1: for you introducing someone to your parents or your family? Um?
Speaker 1: My parents. My mom is way more strict about things.
Speaker 1: My dad's more like chill. My mom's like does he
Speaker 1: love the Lord? She's very southern, very old school, so
Speaker 1: I'll be like yes, cries Um, that's pretty much like
Speaker 1: the main thing. But I honestly do feel like my
Speaker 1: mom and dad like they kind of as we've gotten older,
Speaker 1: you know, you start to see more of the real
Speaker 1: of a relationships because we're grown. And so I do
Speaker 1: feel like I've watched my mom kind of like evolved
Speaker 1: more and I feel like she's more modern minded in
Speaker 1: the fact that like it's not just does he love
Speaker 1: the Lord? It's like, Okay, well what does he go
Speaker 1: to therapy? Like what is his what are his mental value?
Speaker 1: What is he value? Like where's his where's his head at?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like things that honestly are crucial.
Speaker 1: So for a guy to go to therapy for you,
Speaker 1: I do think it's important. You don't have to go
Speaker 1: every month, but like you gotta circle the black every
Speaker 1: once in a while because I just feel like, if
Speaker 1: you go to the doctor for your body, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think you need to go to therapy for your emotions
Speaker 1: and that mental health. You don't know what what you're
Speaker 1: holding in, so you go to therapy. Also, Okay, what
Speaker 1: made you start going to therapy? Um? Actually it was
Speaker 1: during the pandemic and one of the guys that I
Speaker 1: was like kind of talking to he was talking about
Speaker 1: therapy and I was like what, And so I was like, well,
Speaker 1: who's this person? Because if a guy's going to therapy,
Speaker 1: I want to I want to see who they're going to,
Speaker 1: you know, because I don't mean I don't know. Stereotypically,
Speaker 1: I feel like guys don't want to be told about themselves, right,
Speaker 1: it's all like who is this person? And I've been
Speaker 1: going to therapy ever since that therapist. Oh you go
Speaker 1: to his therapist? Yeah? Wow, I still share my therapist.
Speaker 1: I know she doesn't. Well it's like it's not like
Speaker 1: we can talk about I can talk about everybody's skate,
Speaker 1: but now you feel like a bond him always like
Speaker 1: we're gonna Oh it ain't got nothing to do with that.
Speaker 1: I'm okay. I like, I really like her, I really
Speaker 1: respect her, And so I'm like, I'm not even trying
Speaker 1: to find another one. If you broke up with you
Speaker 1: when it was like I don't want you go into
Speaker 1: my therapist anymore, Like sir, you're not saying for it
Speaker 1: right that you were even able to mess with her,
Speaker 1: because you can't. I've been to a couple of different therapists,
Speaker 1: and sometimes you meet somebody and you're just like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is not the person. Yeah, It's like it's like
Speaker 1: a real relationship and you got to have a rapport
Speaker 1: or just a real chemistry with that person in order
Speaker 1: to be able to give what it needs to give,
Speaker 1: to get what you need from them, and to feel
Speaker 1: comfortable to share. Yes, like if I if I feel
Speaker 1: like she don't even know my struggle for real, I'm
Speaker 1: not there's nothing to talk about because you don't get it. Well,
Speaker 1: that's why I'm like having a black therapist, because she
Speaker 1: understands what I'm saying. I curse with her, I say
Speaker 1: other things and you know, so in word heavily, and
Speaker 1: she says it back like bad hilarious. She's like, well
Speaker 1: this niggas shouldn't do. Okay, yeah, so I but that's
Speaker 1: for me, it's not a part of the language. Like
Speaker 1: for me it is, but I mean for other people
Speaker 1: it's not. But that that works for me. And also,
Speaker 1: I feel like with therapy, you should not feel embarrassed. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: because we've been talking about the same stuff for years
Speaker 1: and I'm like, this isn't embarrassing and she's like it's not.
Speaker 1: So I feel like it's you know, important, it's really
Speaker 1: important that you mesh with whoever you you know, sharing
Speaker 1: your life with. That's a secrey. I want all my
Speaker 1: friends that get my therapists. My therapist is amazing, and
Speaker 1: I think she's amazing that I feel like it would
Speaker 1: be selfish of me to say no, I don't want,
Speaker 1: you know, like just me. She's done so much for
Speaker 1: me mentally and being able to deal with things that
Speaker 1: I know so many and I already tell as soon
Speaker 1: as you get your private practice, let me know, and
Speaker 1: I have people for you on deck, Like, I think
Speaker 1: she's really good. But the same thing, I open up
Speaker 1: to her about things that and I'm really open about
Speaker 1: a lot of things, but with her, it hit different.
Speaker 1: It hits very different. And then I, you know, I
Speaker 1: love to cry, and she's like, it's okay crying. I
Speaker 1: need here to stop in the next three minutes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: She's like, but I need you to stop and let's
Speaker 1: talk about this cry in front him. But Jasmine will
Speaker 1: be like, I don't want anybody around what I'm doing
Speaker 1: my therapy because I stopped crying, and Shita gotta go somewhere.
Speaker 1: You gotta go somewhere, all right. So your mom says dad.
Speaker 1: What about So you said your dad is more chill. Yes,
Speaker 1: so my dad is more chill. He's more Um, what's
Speaker 1: the what's the character of the guy? Like, like, would
Speaker 1: he bond with him at all? You know, if he
Speaker 1: feels like I guess, if he feels like he can't
Speaker 1: relate to them, he would be more concerned, right, but
Speaker 1: he's chill about it. What about your brother, my brother strict.
Speaker 1: I'm like, sir, but I don't know. I think I sho. Also,
Speaker 1: I'm really close with my siblings, Like those are my
Speaker 1: best sies, my sister and my brother. So I feel
Speaker 1: like I tell him like pretty much all the tea
Speaker 1: and he can give me like a really good perspective,
Speaker 1: like a young guy perspective, and I'm like, yikes, all right,
Speaker 1: isn't really how you think? Like y'all all right, everything okay, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh okay, I'll be like, what does this mean?
Speaker 1: He'll be like, oh, da da dada. I'm like, I
Speaker 1: wish I wouldn't have heard that. Okay, damn right, he'd
Speaker 1: given it he becoming straight. But I appreciate it. It'spreci
Speaker 1: that you have such a close, tight knit family. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm really tired with my family, and I know that
Speaker 1: that's like a blessing and kind of rare, so I
Speaker 1: do I always thank God that like I love my family,
Speaker 1: Like really honestly, if I didn't have my family, I
Speaker 1: would have gave up because the calls, you know how
Speaker 1: I was you said, repeating it for years, the same thing.
Speaker 1: I would say the same thing on the phone all
Speaker 1: the time, and I just don't know how they dealt
Speaker 1: with it. Wow sometimes wow Wow. Sorry, Now, because what
Speaker 1: about the period in your life where you felt like
Speaker 1: it wasn't gonna work, Like you said when you were
Speaker 1: like around sixteen years old, you thought everything fell into place,
Speaker 1: And I saw that you had said before you were
Speaker 1: ready to just give up, you know, and if you
Speaker 1: had given up, like what would you have done, because
Speaker 1: you've been wanting this since you were a little kid six,
Speaker 1: she'd be working at the construction company. Yeah right, that
Speaker 1: is the line. Um, I'm not even gonna hold you.
Speaker 1: I did have a time where I was like, hmm,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe I'll just be a wife who sings, my
Speaker 1: wife that sings, you know, I don't know, or maybe
Speaker 1: I'll be Um. I knew I wanted to be like
Speaker 1: in charge of something, so maybe I'll just figure out
Speaker 1: how to work my way up and be somebody boss.
Speaker 1: So you really did consider not doing like for real
Speaker 1: you had. It wasn't like I didn't. I didn't tactically
Speaker 1: go out and do what you think, but like they
Speaker 1: would be like my thoughts in the back of my head,
Speaker 1: like you know, I you know, I like little little
Speaker 1: voices in the back of my head. But did I
Speaker 1: go apply somewhere? Now? When did things turn around? Then? Like?
Speaker 1: What was the first uh thing that kind of put
Speaker 1: you back on the path, Like, okay, we back. I
Speaker 1: remember exactly what it was. I saw this tweet that
Speaker 1: had went viral, and it was like what happened to
Speaker 1: Koko Jones? She was supposed to be like next up?
Speaker 1: And had it did numbers to the point where I
Speaker 1: even DM the person who tweeted it, and I was like,
Speaker 1: thank you for even saying this. What the hell? And
Speaker 1: so at the time I showed it to my mom,
Speaker 1: I showed it to like the guy I was talking to.
Speaker 1: I was like, look, there's an egg. He was like,
Speaker 1: respond to it. I was like, okay, So I responded.
Speaker 1: I was like, y'all want to know what happened. And
Speaker 1: then that tweet did numbers and I was like, what
Speaker 1: the hell. So then I literally just went on like
Speaker 1: YouTube live and told this story, saved it as a video,
Speaker 1: and now it's like got crazy views. Somebody took a
Speaker 1: clip from the video and put it on TikTok and
Speaker 1: then that sound went viral like everyone was using the sound.
Speaker 1: It was so weird, and people was texting me. You
Speaker 1: know how when you start popping up again, like you
Speaker 1: start popping off, people are like, oh hey hey girl,
Speaker 1: hey hey hey. That's how you know you're doing something right.
Speaker 1: When you get them numbers, you'd be like my second
Speaker 1: grade teacher, Hey, how are you? Literally I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: you did, you did see that? But yeah. So that
Speaker 1: clip went viral on TikTok and then I was like
Speaker 1: what's TikTok because what the hell is this? So then
Speaker 1: I was like looking at TikTok. I was scrolling and
Speaker 1: I saw somebody do a video and it was like
Speaker 1: if I was on this song, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I can do that, I can do that. So I did.
Speaker 1: If I was on Hit Different by Scissa, it went
Speaker 1: crazy and hello like popped off Scissor Hit me like
Speaker 1: executives were hitting me. Um. And then I went to
Speaker 1: the studio with somebody who saw the cover at the time.
Speaker 1: I went to the studio and the guy was like,
Speaker 1: you need to he was just doing the musk. He
Speaker 1: was like, you need to show more that. I was like,
Speaker 1: I didn't even know he was working with all that.
Speaker 1: I was like, thanks guy, but I was like, damn,
Speaker 1: do I need to do more? Like I'm just like what,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I want to keep this momentum. What
Speaker 1: do I need to do? And then there was one
Speaker 1: guy and he was like, I don't think she needs
Speaker 1: to do all that, and we were all like and
Speaker 1: so he became like my managers the tea yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So then we kind of got to work together and
Speaker 1: then um. Shortly after that, I got my acting management
Speaker 1: and they were like, you need audition for the show.
Speaker 1: It's called bel Air. I was like, I don't want
Speaker 1: they want to like you girl, I look like Hillary,
Speaker 1: I'm not doing that. They were like, you're auditioning for it.
Speaker 1: I was like all right, sure, So I send in
Speaker 1: an audition and then at the time I'm like I
Speaker 1: find out that I get that I have like meeting
Speaker 1: set up with labels, and then I meet Jada who's
Speaker 1: with High Standards, which is my joint venture with Deaf
Speaker 1: Jam was def Jam High Standards, so literally at the
Speaker 1: same time, literally at the same time, like I got
Speaker 1: these things and my life literally shifted and here we
Speaker 1: are and then I have my music manager, Lydia, and
Speaker 1: it's just been go. Like we've been on go. It's
Speaker 1: just crazy image of work. Oh, it's crazy. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: I literally wish because I tell people and every time
Speaker 1: I get the opportunity, like every time, I'm like, this
Speaker 1: was not what it was giving almost two years ago,
Speaker 1: and I used to say a year and how a
Speaker 1: year ago, because like it just changed all of a sudden.
Speaker 1: And really, I want, especially my black women, to have
Speaker 1: more mercy with themselves, Like we're so strict with ourself
Speaker 1: where our toughest critic, but literally, like just the fact
Speaker 1: that I didn't give up on them days that was enough.
Speaker 1: I was battling. This was a war zone. This is
Speaker 1: not easy to be out in LA by myself fighting
Speaker 1: these things, like going into these auditions and showing up
Speaker 1: every day. That's a war zone. I should have had
Speaker 1: more mercy with myself and I keep trying to tell
Speaker 1: the girls that look like me, have more mercy with
Speaker 1: yourself and give yourself grace and time to make mistakes.
Speaker 1: And some days you ain't gotta like, you know, push
Speaker 1: past your emotions just to do something. Sometimes the fact
Speaker 1: that you didn't give up that day was good enough. Yeah,
Speaker 1: next day, start over. And LA could be a very
Speaker 1: lonely place. It can, especially when everybody's like, what you're doing?
Speaker 1: What do you do? Oh? It was, and it would
Speaker 1: get humbling. People are like, how do you say so humble?
Speaker 1: I'm like, I have seen the humblest I live in hometown,
Speaker 1: still have an apartment there. Okay, I love it there. Oh,
Speaker 1: whe marble floors. Because they'd be like, deci act. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh god, please, this is so unbearable. Like
Speaker 1: I'd be like at a party, like with a jello shot.
Speaker 1: They'd be like, oh, you're a girlfriend, Oh are you?
Speaker 1: And I'd be like another jello shot. Yeah. He laterly,
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm just gonna turn up because that's
Speaker 1: all I could do at the time. I'm here and
Speaker 1: this is my circumstances, and best believe I have another
Speaker 1: jello shot and re March Badness plays my future. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do circlo. I was just trying to live my life.
Speaker 1: But I was everything financially for you at that time. Um,
Speaker 1: at the time, I had a lot of savings and
Speaker 1: stuff because I will my mom my mom. My mom
Speaker 1: didn't play and like when I would invest in stuff,
Speaker 1: when she would invest it would all be like the
Speaker 1: safest stocks. So I did have a lot of savings
Speaker 1: and everything like that. I never had like a real job.
Speaker 1: When looking back, I'm like, that's kind of crazy. But
Speaker 1: I did get to a point where I was almost
Speaker 1: at that point, like I remember, Lord be offense. My
Speaker 1: mom called me and she was like, hey, Court. She
Speaker 1: was like, not Coco, okay. She was like, um, not
Speaker 1: to stress you out or anything, like Everything's gonna be fine.
Speaker 1: She was like, but you're getting to a point where
Speaker 1: you're getting low on the funds because I'm not making
Speaker 1: no income and I'm just spinning it's la yeah hello, yeah,
Speaker 1: She's like, girl, I did some crunching at the numbers, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: the way these things going, you're going. I would never
Speaker 1: let my parents know what I have in the bank, too,
Speaker 1: but that's great. My mom was my business manager. See
Speaker 1: But that's amazing because a lot of people don't have
Speaker 1: like their family that can actually have that type of knowledge,
Speaker 1: especially when it comes to finances where they can be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: well invest in this. Okay, now miss is getting low.
Speaker 1: That's so true and I'm so blessed because when my
Speaker 1: dad played professional football, he played for ten years. My
Speaker 1: mom had seen, like so many athletes lose money, and
Speaker 1: so she just studied it, like she really, Like she's
Speaker 1: from a all entrepreneurial background, like her side, they just
Speaker 1: they just do it, and so um, she just studied
Speaker 1: it and she became really educated. She was like, nobody's
Speaker 1: gonna take no money from my kid. So she always
Speaker 1: had been looking over it and making sure that like
Speaker 1: I was good, you know so, but when it got
Speaker 1: a little ugly, she was like, he's getting us figure
Speaker 1: this out. Okay, humble, And I know what I was
Speaker 1: gonna do. I was gonna ride it till the wheels
Speaker 1: fell off. That's what I knew I was gonna do.
Speaker 1: But I didn't know what that was gonna look like.
Speaker 1: I was like, I want my wheels. I had to
Speaker 1: be like waitressing, like anything else I can get you.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it was gonna give. I don't
Speaker 1: know what it's gonna give. Let me ask you. I
Speaker 1: need you to be honest. Have you ever gone on
Speaker 1: a date just because you were hungry and didn't want
Speaker 1: to have to pay with l O l um. Not
Speaker 1: because I was hungry and didn't want to have to
Speaker 1: pay it up. Definitely, when I'm like, I want to
Speaker 1: go to this really nice restaurant and he asked me,
Speaker 1: I might as well tell him that's hilarious, I will
Speaker 1: say I would. I would go on a date knowing
Speaker 1: I wasn't really messing with the guy, but like I'm
Speaker 1: trying to drink up and either like I'm trying to
Speaker 1: live lavish. So the answers, yes, yeah, not because I'm
Speaker 1: own star. No, it wasn't life all right, let's dine
Speaker 1: in camera Martini. It would give yeah, exactly. But also
Speaker 1: I did feel like I wasn't the type to like.
Speaker 1: If I knew I wasn't really feeling a guy, I'm
Speaker 1: still gonna be like, m Am, I sure like I
Speaker 1: would want to see one more. I would give a
Speaker 1: guy like two chances, right, and then I'd be like,
Speaker 1: all right, so what okay? So I always see all
Speaker 1: these and we would talk about this like gurus on
Speaker 1: social media, the dead ones. Yeah, and so I want
Speaker 1: to ask you this because I saw a one that
Speaker 1: was about like, how can you tell a guy that
Speaker 1: is really into you? Right? And here are the signs?
Speaker 1: Now I want to talk about for us, right, how
Speaker 1: can you tell that you're for a guy? How can
Speaker 1: they tell that you're really into them? What are some
Speaker 1: of the signs that you would give that you would
Speaker 1: say this is how you know I'm into you? Oh okay,
Speaker 1: well somebody's gonna be hurt once they was sorry, sir. Okay. Um,
Speaker 1: when I'm really into you, you're gonna get a very
Speaker 1: feminine girl, like I'm gonna be like hi, Like you know,
Speaker 1: you just bring out the girly in me. When I
Speaker 1: really like you, I probably I'm really like love. My
Speaker 1: love language it's physical touch. So I want to be
Speaker 1: like touching you and I want you to be touching
Speaker 1: me like I just love it. I'm gonna like yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: literally literally it wasn't even hilarious. You're like, um, I,
Speaker 1: when I like you, I'll call you first, Like sometimes
Speaker 1: it's not gonna give like I'm always picking up the
Speaker 1: phone to a call, but like sometimes I'll be like, oh,
Speaker 1: like good morning, I'll say it first, or like, um,
Speaker 1: how was your day, Like I'll start the combo everyh.
Speaker 1: I feel like that, And I mean just all around,
Speaker 1: I'm more like warm and receptive when I when I
Speaker 1: like a person, you know, and like I'm not necessarily
Speaker 1: gonna try to drive the boat, but I'm gonna you're
Speaker 1: gonna know that this belt is ready together. I'm the
Speaker 1: co captain. He like, did you know you ain't? Thought
Speaker 1: you did? Yeah, But it just depends. I mean, I
Speaker 1: really like when I can like a guy back because respectfully,
Speaker 1: it's rare. Yeah, it's rare. It's right somebody that you
Speaker 1: have because they can look so good on paper. And
Speaker 1: that's another thing like that I've been so shocked about.
Speaker 1: Like I'll see somebody from Afar and I'll be like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is gonna hit Like what's wrong with you? Literally,
Speaker 1: like where's the normal of you where it's a human?
Speaker 1: Do you like really cute guys or like medium or
Speaker 1: like unattractive? Here she go? Do you have a type?
Speaker 1: I don't have a type. Me and my friends do
Speaker 1: say we like medium, ugly and if you're taking me
Speaker 1: out that's jazzin' you're I don't like media. I feel
Speaker 1: like I feel like, if you're not cute, you're weird.
Speaker 1: You're weird. You're weird. She said the same thing. It's
Speaker 1: just like we can't both be the baby like I
Speaker 1: don't like that. Like like if you're giving contrace no,
Speaker 1: no, no no, no, I'm sorry. But it doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: they're ugly, because it's just a term. It just means like, no,
Speaker 1: they're hurting right now in the corner. It's really big thing.
Speaker 1: It's really just a thing that girls say. But I
Speaker 1: really like a guy that just like has like a
Speaker 1: masculine he gives masculine you know what I'm saying, like,
Speaker 1: take care of the handle it it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: But I will say I have dated guys that off
Speaker 1: the first impression, I would be like nah no, But
Speaker 1: because I was kicking it with them and like listening
Speaker 1: to how they talk and like their mindset, their confidence,
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, that always happens. The guy they tell
Speaker 1: like I would never like him, would and then like him.
Speaker 1: It's like this thing in my mind, it's like the
Speaker 1: club test, Like if they come up to me at
Speaker 1: the club I'd be like, sir, please, I'm with my girls.
Speaker 1: Or I'd be like, yeah, well your section that you
Speaker 1: know what I know whether you go like that's the
Speaker 1: like lowest tier, just straight attraction your section. But I've
Speaker 1: met guys that are where your section at type with
Speaker 1: terrible personality. Yeah, So now I'm like, what what do
Speaker 1: I like? What do I like? Because I can look
Speaker 1: at a guy and be like, m he doesn't give comedy.
Speaker 1: He doesn't seem like we'd laugh at the same things.
Speaker 1: He doesn't seem like I would call him if I
Speaker 1: had a bad day and be like, You'll never believe
Speaker 1: what happened to me. I want to I wanted to
Speaker 1: give that like, oh my gosh, what's so mean to
Speaker 1: me at at the store? What was mean to you
Speaker 1: right here? Literally? I wanted to give best friend because
Speaker 1: that's how I am with my best friends. I'm like, girl,
Speaker 1: this girl was looking at me crazy the sophrow. I
Speaker 1: was like, what I should be a girl? Who know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying? Like I hated to give it already. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: what is it like for you when you go back home?
Speaker 1: When I go back home, it's hilariously normal, like nice,
Speaker 1: Literally I can go to like, first of all, nobody
Speaker 1: dresses up. It's so funny, Like I'll be like, am
Speaker 1: I Hollywood? Like am I the Drama? Because I'll go
Speaker 1: like out with my cousins and stuff, and I'll be like,
Speaker 1: this is what is this we're wearing? We're serving? We're
Speaker 1: serving twenty one on them. I'll be like, you're not
Speaker 1: gonna put a heel on or something? They're like, girl, why,
Speaker 1: Like I don't even think the girls own heels for real?
Speaker 1: Like well, I'm talking Lebanon, like we really, like the
Speaker 1: grocery store is like thirty minutes away, like it was
Speaker 1: not giving none of that, you know, like fresh Direct
Speaker 1: and nothing on what order groceries and now I don't
Speaker 1: even know what it was asking just what a fresh
Speaker 1: Direct we're talking about? Like Instacart, Yeah, I only know
Speaker 1: Instact because of LA but no, I mean I love
Speaker 1: hello Wait, hold on, hold on? What did you say
Speaker 1: about internet? Instac account to much? Because I have the
Speaker 1: point one point five miles every dollar if you're platinum
Speaker 1: or above. See I'm gonna tell my mama's right now
Speaker 1: to finances left. Yeah, my lift is connected for sure.
Speaker 1: I care for lift. I used it to get here today. Really,
Speaker 1: I like lift. I used to put me onto that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I will say sometimes when some you know what, I
Speaker 1: don't know who's going to but I check both services
Speaker 1: back lift, and I see which one's cheaper. All the time.
Speaker 1: I always checked both, and then I'm like, okay this one.
Speaker 1: And also feels feel like it depends on what city
Speaker 1: you're in, right, yeah, And it's a different times. And
Speaker 1: I don't mind waiting extra five minutes to save a dollar,
Speaker 1: not a dollar. But then you want to complain because
Speaker 1: I didn't want to put you in first class. I
Speaker 1: want you to come back to coach with me. You
Speaker 1: know it was we saved like you do you remember
Speaker 1: the first time you flu first class? Oh no, I
Speaker 1: don't remember, because you know, being on Disney Channel, he
Speaker 1: was earlier another orange justice. I was literally I was
Speaker 1: like another cookie, you know, I do remember literally, you
Speaker 1: know when they used to give the little warm nuts,
Speaker 1: yes in the little bow. Hello, they don't have no more.
Speaker 1: They don't cookies either, they don't, they don't. They do
Speaker 1: be hard. Um. I do not remember the first time.
Speaker 1: I do remember feeling like singing that little Freggy song.
Speaker 1: I was like first class you know, like hell no,
Speaker 1: But I don't remember the first time. Honestly, it was
Speaker 1: probably around the time when I filmed Let It Shine,
Speaker 1: like the TV movie that I did that put me
Speaker 1: on that whole time. I felt like I was living
Speaker 1: in like a fir princess, Like I would wear these
Speaker 1: amazing costumes and I'd be on set and just having fun.
Speaker 1: It wasn't work like I'd be sad when it was
Speaker 1: time to go. That's ideal that'd like to be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know who taught you about like when it came,
Speaker 1: and I know you're very close with your mom, But
Speaker 1: when it comes to relationships and sex, did she had
Speaker 1: to talk with you ello? Ill No, she never Okay,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be watching this uncomfortable as hell, dogging off.
Speaker 1: She's like I stopped walking it manifty one, And she
Speaker 1: could telling me that. She's like I stopped watching when
Speaker 1: you kiss Jazz. I'm like, okay, mom, thank you, thank
Speaker 1: you mom. Um. No, she didn't. I don't. Honestly, I
Speaker 1: don't think that her side really taught her that, Like
Speaker 1: they don't really, they weren't really open like that, right, Like, honestly,
Speaker 1: neither of my family's sides but you know how your
Speaker 1: parents are doing better than their parents. Their parents do,
Speaker 1: so I think they did the best that they could.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't giving open discussion. So where did you
Speaker 1: learn about that? Like where did you learn how to
Speaker 1: have sex? Where did you learn how to kiss? Like
Speaker 1: all of those things? Was it? Did you know what
Speaker 1: you were doing the first time you had sex? Were
Speaker 1: you like, okay, that's hilarious. No? I mean does anyone? No? No,
Speaker 1: I mean remember when the first time you had sex?
Speaker 1: You know we're doing oh yeah? But do you know
Speaker 1: like for guys, they learn from their friends or they
Speaker 1: watch like foreign and stuff like that. And then I
Speaker 1: remember like in health class and they how to put
Speaker 1: on a condom, you know, they show you how to
Speaker 1: do that in see I was going to misstop, was like, okay,
Speaker 1: today we're gonna do they want you to wait until
Speaker 1: you were married since your mom's religious? Um? I think,
Speaker 1: of course I think that they would want that. I mean,
Speaker 1: even me as a parent, I feel like I'd be like,
Speaker 1: it's ideal, just be nice. Yeah, um, But I don't
Speaker 1: think that that's like, you know, practical, practical, I would say,
Speaker 1: just because everyone grows up way too fast now with
Speaker 1: social media, there's so much there's so much information, and
Speaker 1: some of it's like just that you ain't even need
Speaker 1: to know that, you know what I'm saying. It's like
Speaker 1: I get nervous when I see like my little cousins
Speaker 1: with their phones, and I'm like, what do you watching
Speaker 1: at this? Like what are we doing here? You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So yeah, And I think for you,
Speaker 1: coming from a household where your parents who were married
Speaker 1: growing up, you think about marriage because even just now
Speaker 1: you were like if I wasn't doing this, I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, I'll just be a wife. Yeah, I say,
Speaker 1: I definitely. When I was younger, it was like I
Speaker 1: want to get married at eighteen? Did I did? Used
Speaker 1: to think not eighteen, but I was like by the
Speaker 1: time I'm twenty two, I'm gonna be married. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have a house with my husband. I yeah. But that's
Speaker 1: also like I hadn't really experienced anything. I've never even
Speaker 1: had a boyfriend at that time. I just thought like, Okay,
Speaker 1: that'll be like that's how it goes, you know, that's
Speaker 1: how it works. But do you still do you want
Speaker 1: to get married? I do want to get married. Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you have an ideal age in mind, Um, it
Speaker 1: never works out that mage it doesn't. But I know,
Speaker 1: I mean, I hear. I've had an ideal age for
Speaker 1: literally seventeen things in my life and it's never been that.
Speaker 1: So I'm like chest stop. I would say, well, I'd
Speaker 1: like to have a kid around like thirty, so I
Speaker 1: feel like that's when I would be more marriage mindset.
Speaker 1: But I also am very career driven right now. And
Speaker 1: I also look like the women and their relationships in
Speaker 1: my life, and I kind of like, hmmm, maybe I'll
Speaker 1: just be Oprah and and I'll do a partner. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I really have to see how the
Speaker 1: sam Yeah, I really just marriage is just it's hard work,
Speaker 1: you know, Like and I love what I see on
Speaker 1: like Instagram and socials, but the women in my life
Speaker 1: or who I really you know, learn from what it's
Speaker 1: really like. And it's just it's very hard. And I
Speaker 1: only would want to make that commitment if like God
Speaker 1: himself woke me up and said this one's the way,
Speaker 1: you know, Otherwise I just I'm not sure I would
Speaker 1: want to do that with somebody so permanent. I feel
Speaker 1: like so many people feel that way now I know
Speaker 1: they've been having these conversations like, well, maybe you share
Speaker 1: just like your driver's license that you renew, you know,
Speaker 1: every few years, maybe you should do the same thing
Speaker 1: with marriage, where like you reassessed everything. I like that idea,
Speaker 1: like Chlessie and Jackie Douglas. No, I'm not talking about that,
Speaker 1: but they renew their vibe, but they don't like do
Speaker 1: like a whole like relationship like reassessment. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: like how you have to take like when you have
Speaker 1: a license, you're like a let's go back in or
Speaker 1: it expires, you know what I'm saying. Right, that could
Speaker 1: be a good a good situation. But then I also
Speaker 1: feel like sometimes people don't look at marriage as permanent
Speaker 1: and you're supposed to yeah you know, well maybe you're
Speaker 1: not supposed to. I mean you're ideally Yeah that's what listen,
Speaker 1: It's it's whatever you define your marriage to be. I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a constraint that we didn't. Yeah, so it's whatever
Speaker 1: we want it because the way that it is defined,
Speaker 1: it is supposed to be like till death, do its
Speaker 1: part in sickness and in health. You know, marriage was
Speaker 1: meant to be like forever. But it's not realistic for
Speaker 1: a lot of people, and clearly, clearly it's in the
Speaker 1: world we live in now. Listen, people are already being
Speaker 1: the back of horses with prenumps and everything else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but people also go, you can't go into it with
Speaker 1: the mindset of I could just get out of this
Speaker 1: at any time, right, And then why do people do though?
Speaker 1: Do they go into it like? Yeah? But so many
Speaker 1: people now like, you don't have to get married, you
Speaker 1: could just be together, you know, And I'm with that.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Coco Jones, I do want to thank you
Speaker 1: so much. We had such a good time with you,
Speaker 1: you know. I know we've been wanting to get you
Speaker 1: on here for a while and I've been loving to
Speaker 1: see like all of the excitement that you have because
Speaker 1: it's honest, you know, some people be trying to act
Speaker 1: cool when they get all these different achievements that you
Speaker 1: just like, Yeah, and I should celebrate that. You deserve it.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you guys so much. I have so
Speaker 1: much fun with yours and we energy is mad humble.
Speaker 1: Thank you, and we gonna keep on having you back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but come o, lord, what team are gonna speling last time?
Speaker 1: Because I'm like, I spell some tea on here. I'm like, mom,
Speaker 1: don't watch this next time because a little point you
Speaker 1: get a little horrified. I'm like, okay, let's back it up.
Speaker 1: Literally'll oh okay. It's like it's like, you know, you
Speaker 1: gotta loup it up first. Give it some time about that,
Speaker 1: you guys. Make sure the deluxe version is available so
Speaker 1: that next for you. And you got baby Face the
Speaker 1: song you on baby Faces album. We had him up
Speaker 1: here when you put that out. Him and Arian Lennox
Speaker 1: came together. But I know that had to be. Just
Speaker 1: working with baby Face is like iconic. Absolutely. I mean
Speaker 1: to even be with all the R and B girls
Speaker 1: on that project, I was like, I think I'm doing
Speaker 1: all right, so happy, so honestly like congratulations and everything
Speaker 1: well deserve Coco Jones and so much fun. Ye, thank y'all.
Speaker 1: We're coming to your stand up. We're coming to your
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