WEBVTT - AMINA BUDDAFLY - Apple Oats & German Pancakes 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.560 Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke. 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:07.480 Today I have a very special guest, reality TV star 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:09.560 musician mother. 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:11.880 I mean a butterfly is. 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:15.800 In the building. Yes, yes, yes, and I'm very excited 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:17.239 to have you here. I met you a couple of 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:19.560 years ago and you were a breath of fresh air, 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:21.119 very beautiful in person. 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:24.720 Today. What will you have us eat? 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:28.640 Okay, so I'm gonna have us eat a super simple 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:33.279 breakfast dish. Actually it's two separate dishes, but they are 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:36.239 easy to make, cheap, and you know something that I 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:39.920 ate a lot during hard times. So one is a 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:43.159 apples and oatmeal. That German term for it is a 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:46.920 famously and I actually used to eat it as well 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:49.360 as I you know, was growing up in Germany, and 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:51.159 then I took it along with me into, you know, 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:52.360 my struggle. 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:52.920 Times in New York. 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:56.240 But the other one is a German pancake, also super simple, 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:57.920 and it's a little bit different than you know, the 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.400 pancakes that people are used to in America, the few ones. 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:02.800 It's more like a almost like a crape. But it's 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:04.840 a German pancake and easy to make. 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:32.480 Okay, So it's it's apple and and oats. 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:35.000 And then and I used to eat it for breakfast 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:35.560 all the time. 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:37.800 So for the oats, what are the ingredients? 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:42.240 So it's old fashioned oats. It is apple. 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:45.520 I use one apple for one serving, so if I 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:48.280 just eat it by myself, it'll be one apple, and 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:52.800 I put almonds, orange juice and cinnamon, and that's it. 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:54.680 And it's not it doesn't have to be cooked on 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:57.000 the stove. So you can just wait a minute. How 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:58.960 is it not cooked on the stove? You don't cook 0:01:58.960 --> 0:01:59.520 it on the stove. 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:01.559 That's the okay. 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:06.240 And then and then for the pancakes, the pancakes. 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:10.000 Ingredients are flour, milk, sugar, and eggs. 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:13.880 Awesome, this is pretty simple. I've never heard of any 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:15.519 of the above. I'm going to ask you to repeat 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:17.560 the name of the way you said it. 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:18.240 In Germany, I. 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:22.200 Call it famously, and it's apples and odes basically the translation. 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:24.359 Okay, okay, yeah, but it's in German. 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:27.079 That's what it sounds like. Okay, it sounds really special 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:30.200 when you say it. But all right, so walk us through. 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:34.560 Go ahead, go ahead with the apples. Okay, take a bowl, 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:37.560 you peel the apples. 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:39.600 Peel on it, and then you need a shredder like this, 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.000 and you just go all around. 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:47.120 Until you know you come to the. 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:51.360 And just so you know, if I would have, like 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:54.280 actually known about this dish, I would have helped you 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:55.040 pre make it. 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:59.119 But like, it's literally it's super fast to make. 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:03.200 This is probably the most annoying part because you know, 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:04.960 you get your fingers dirty and stuff like that. 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:06.920 But it's apple. 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:09.920 It's an apple. Yeah, it's apple. I didn't know what 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:12.040 kind of apples do you like? I only eat honey. 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.840 Crisp, But for this dish, I picked up Granny Smith. 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:17.960 I love it. You can use any apple that you like. 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:20.720 If you like sweeter, you know, obviously you would pick 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.000 like a Pink Lady or whatever you like. 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:26.519 Any kind of apple works. I was thinking more sour. 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:29.440 That's why sour is always good, even though this dish 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:30.720 does not have any sugar. 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:33.000 That's why what I like about is healthy too. 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:36.960 It's a super healthy breakfast dish, and that should be 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:37.760 enough for this. 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:39.720 I'm more curious how you're gonna do this without a 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:41.320 stood Yeah. 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:44.000 Man, this doesn't see When I tell people about this dish, 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:47.200 I actually posted it before on social media and people 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:49.720 were like, wait, you don't cook the oats. 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:52.400 I don't eat oats with that, you know, without them 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:54.880 being cooked. And so you just I don't measure as 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:56.120 you see, I don't measure anything. 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:58.960 I like that. That's a respectable I think. 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.040 That's yeah, a little bit more because it should be 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:02.640 equal amount apple and oats. 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:05.720 And then we take the chopped. 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:09.000 Almonds, and just so you guys know, she actually buy hand, 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:11.720 took a knife and just chopped the almonds. 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:14.080 I did, but it also didn't take long. 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:15.680 And then all I need. 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:21.080 Is cinnamon because that gives it the flavor that makes 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:21.719 it so good. 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:24.799 And then the orange juice, and. 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:29.479 We I've never seen this, I know, like people like 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:32.000 orange juice with oats, no way, But wait till you 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:35.960 taste it because the apple, I think it doesn't want 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:37.800 to you don't want to make it, you know, want 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:39.840 to have it swim in it, but you want a 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:41.680 definitely nice and moist. 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.760 And this is something this is is this like culturally 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:45.840 normal in Germany? 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:49.400 You know what I think it's it's actually my mom 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:52.080 made it up. It's not a typical German recipe, okay, 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:54.240 but it's something that my mom. 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:55.040 Introduced me to. 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:59.200 And I just remember that I used to always make 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:01.159 it when I just was hungry in the morning and 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:03.680 wanted something healthy and fresh, because you know. 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:07.919 It looks super healthy. This is it, you guys, This 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:13.120 is all all you have to do that too. It's vegan. 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.640 It's vegan, guys. I didn't even learn my first vegan this. 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:20.560 Yeah, I did not even even think about the aspect 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:21.440 of being vegan. 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:22.280 Yeah, that's the thing. 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:24.120 What was going on at the time when your mom 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:25.640 had she was making up dishes? 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:27.840 Like was she Were you guys struggling or. 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.920 Yeah, I mean, I don't know if I want to 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.240 say struggling. But we definitely were poor. We didn't grow 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.560 up with much and my mom never had much money. 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:36.520 Single mom. 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:41.560 Dad left when we when I was eight, and yeah, 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.040 we never had much even before when dad was around, Like, 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:45.000 we were never. 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.919 A family of like eating out was like wait what. 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.039 We never got to eat outside or like in a 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:56.560 restaurant or something like that. So I definitely my mom 0:05:56.560 --> 0:06:00.320 would always freestyle cook and do things like this, and 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:03.360 that's I think where I got it from now, as 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:06.720 you know, being my having kids myself, I think I 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:09.280 got a lot of my style of cooking from my mother. 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:11.479 Just whipping stuff together and then it's coming out. 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:14.479 Well, let's let's sample it, so no cooking. She just 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:18.719 fixed the apples with the oatmeal. Who was the oats 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:22.400 and orange juice and almonds, and it looks delicious. 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:23.680 And guys, I have just. 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:26.680 Learned how to make my first vegan dish, which you 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:30.080 guys know I'm trying to eventually switch over to vegans. 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:32.040 So and it looks very beautiful. 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:37.120 Yeah, I are you vegan. I'm not vegan, but I eat. 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:39.840 I like to eat healthy, you know, I don't eat 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:41.080 a lot of meat and stuff like that. 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:42.920 And you see, I'm excited. 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:47.200 What you think. 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:50.360 It's not sweet? 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:51.719 It's really good. 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:55.240 You good at sugar? If you like it, doesn't eat sugar. 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:57.800 You could also adding that my apple, I chose the 0:06:57.839 --> 0:06:59.000 Granny Smith, which was sour. 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:01.240 I didn't know what to expect I did it. I 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:03.280 was like if I go sweet, but no, I would choose. 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:04.640 You could probably choose a sweeter apple. 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:06.880 And you could also add like, if you like raisins, 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:08.240 my mom used to put raisins in it. 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:12.120 I don't love raisins, so I always make it like this. 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:15.080 Yeah, I would leave it like this. Yeah, And people 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:15.480 love it. 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:17.720 People are like orange juice with olds. 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:18.360 I don't know about that. 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:20.960 But with the apple, the part of me feels like 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:22.640 I wouldn't mix this with a little bit of yogurt, 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:23.960 but I don't know if that would mess it up. 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:28.040 I just don't know about mixing orange juice with Maybe 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:34.080 maybe you could wear that, right, There's one things for sure. 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:37.760 It's super healthy and easy to make, and you don't 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:38.240 need much. 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:39.760 You can leave the almonds out. 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:40.080 If you do. 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:41.080 Your kids know how to make this. 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:44.480 They yeah, they absolutely do, but they you know, I 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:47.160 still make it for them just because I. 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:50.280 Don't want them to hurt their fingers on this. But 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:52.880 they know how to make it. I know this dish 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:57.240 is good because I'm gonna finish it. So this is 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:58.080 a tad out of ten. 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:04.200 Okay, oh yeah, See it's not for everybody. But if 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.640 you like me and you like something healthy in the morning, 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:08.840 something quick. 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:12.920 I will say in this dish too. If you're not 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.680 a fan of an oatmeal, this is the best way 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:16.080 to eat it. 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:18.840 See, it doesn't taste like the typical oatmeal. 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.560 It doesn't like it does not like like you know. 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:23.760 For me, oatmeal has textures that I don't really like. 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:28.640 But I could totally eat this every day. I think 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:32.600 this will be my meal of choice because it's super healthy, super. 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:35.120 Different, even if you made a full breakfast and just 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:36.040 had this on the side. 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:38.160 Crazy thing, the kids love it. 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:41.800 My kids at least love it, and you know you're 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:42.920 feeding your kids something good. 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:45.679 I think the orange just really seals it. 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:46.360 Mm hm. 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:50.160 That's the crazy part. The thing that people are questioning 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:54.120 is what makes it feel that dish? 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:57.200 Yes, the next one, So the next one I think 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:58.840 even easier and simpler. 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:05.079 That was amazing for I think that was the first 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:07.439 time I actually enjoyed oatmeal one hundred percent. 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:10.200 Should I just go ahead and make it? This is 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:14.880 gonna be the German pancake. You gonna go ahead, So stove. 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:19.600 On and she used the butterspray. 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.920 Guys, I'm going to use the egg and the milk 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:23.520 and the sugar. 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:29.520 I think I need to pour a little bit out because. 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:32.480 We have too much, too much flour. 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:36.200 Oh, I'm mixing it with the Yeah, you're you're We're 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:42.599 not gonna use that, okay, So all we need is 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.120 the flour, the egg, the milk, and the sugar. 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:47.480 Mix it all together. 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:51.520 Flour egg, milk, sugar. 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:56.280 And again I'm not confiding. I'm just oh light whisk 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.200 yeah's good as you pour the milk. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:01.760 I feel so lazy because I always buy the she 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:03.480 made pancake mix and just add one. 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:04.200 Oh yeah. 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:08.959 I never even like growing up. My mom made everything 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:16.040 from scratch. And again this is something that came from 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:20.160 home from Germany and that I brought with me once I, 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:22.400 you know, we moved to New York, me and my sisters. 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:26.400 I didn't have much either. What made you guys move 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:28.440 to New York? You know, music? 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:34.080 Like you know what age? I was nineteen, Okay, I 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:34.720 was nineteen. 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.680 My twin I have a twin sister, Jazz, who obviously 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.560 also was nineteen at the time, and then our oldest sister, Sophie, 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:44.880 two years older. You guys packed up together and packed 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:46.160 up and just moved to New York all. 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:47.120 What was your mom saying? 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:48.000 You know? 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:51.840 She what made her comfortable is that we were together. Okay, 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:53.720 I think it was. If it would have been just 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.760 one of us, like would have been different. But we 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:58.400 were always together. She trusted us. 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:03.120 She wasn't really concerned, which is crazy. 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:04.839 Because we really went to New York with nothing like 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:06.880 no plan, no, no money? 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:08.400 Really well did she did? 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:10.240 She also feel like she still had a choice in 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:11.959 it or you guys kind even came to her like 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:12.600 we're leaving. 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:17.439 Oh yeah, we we we decided we were going, and 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:19.320 she could. She wouldn't have been able to stop us 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:21.680 even if she she didn't try, but if she would 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:23.480 have said, like, no, I don't think it's a good idea. 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:27.080 We our mind was made up, you know, to go 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:27.720 to New York. 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.320 So she was a single mom with how many kids? 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:32.079 She had twins? 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:36.640 By the way, Oh yeah, I'm a fraternal But are 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:37.880 you fraternal or identical? 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:42.800 I am identical identical twin my sister exactly like. 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.840 Me, No way, So I always like here with her, 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.839 Yeah I have I have heart. 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:50.160 People always like is this at me? 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:50.880 And now were the twin? 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:55.040 So your mom had your you and your your sister 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:57.680 and who else was in the Yes, me and my 0:11:57.760 --> 0:11:58.720 twin are older sister. 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:03.120 And then my mom had another child by another man 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:05.800 when I was eleven, so I have an eleven year 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:06.840 younger sister also. 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:08.840 So it was four of us, four girls. 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:11.600 Wow, yeah, but the three of us, the three of 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:15.319 us are older sisters. We were very close, and we 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:17.600 would do everything together, and we you know, we started 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:20.439 singing together. So we were we've kind of always had 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:23.760 been a group, a singing group, and you, oh, you. 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.360 Guys were in a group. Yeah, there was no jealousy 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.000 or rivalry between you and your sister. Absolutely not. 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:29.400 Now. 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:34.720 We were more like I think we wouldn't have gotten 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.760 into music even if if we weren't sisters, because it 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:40.840 was a whole you know, it was that whole singing 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.040 in harmony, all of that stuff that we would do. 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:43.520 You know. 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:44.760 It was the nineties. Nineties. 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:48.520 Girl groups was pop everywhere, and we just wanted to 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:50.800 be like them, and we just loved singing so much. 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.720 So yeah, it was always me and my two sisters, 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:57.720 Twin and Sophie, So Jazz and Sophie and the three 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:03.559 of us we just determined because we had already started 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:06.839 out making songs. Actually, we were signed in Germany when 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:11.880 I was fifteen to a record label BMG, and we've 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.760 had a lot of experience, you know, being in the 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.960 music industry, just never in America. That sounded like such 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:19.520 a dream so far away. 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.320 Yeah, and you were you were learning about how America 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:23.480 through television and radio. 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:28.040 Oh yeah, like American just you know, R and B 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.440 music in general wasn't made in Germany. So we were like, 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.000 if we want to make that kind of music, we 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:37.040 have to go to America. But that still sounded so 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:40.880 like impossible. It was like, there's a lot of people 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:42.280 in America, nobody does that. 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:44.160 Did a lot of people in Germany look like you? 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:47.320 Because when I imagine Germany, I imagine, now this is 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:50.120 my ignorance speaking, but I would imagine more white, and 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.000 I absolutely grew up. 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:55.560 With mostly white, like around white people. Yeah, it was 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:58.000 we were the outsiders. And that's also one reason why 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:01.160 I never felt home there, never felt like I belonged there. 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:03.720 I don't know if my sisters also felt it, but 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:04.560 I can imagine. 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.280 I mean I just always felt like this is not 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:07.920 where I belong. 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.040 Are you? Are you mixed or are you? 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:10.360 Yes? 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.240 My mom's white? Oh, your mom's white. 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:18.200 Dad is African Senegalese. Okay, Okay, So yeah, we were 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:21.600 the different ones, you know, because we didn't. 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:22.640 Look like everybody else. 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:25.720 I mean, now, you know, times have changed, like twenty 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:30.240 plus years later, like there is it's more multicultural in 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:33.160 Germany in general, But when I was young and in school. 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.320 There was maybe one other kid that was like had 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:37.640 a black parent or something. 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:41.720 But when your dad left you were eight, You said, 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:43.800 what was going on at the time? 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:44.600 What made him leave? 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:50.000 You know that just you know, he's an African African 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:52.840 man and he he was just cheating on my mom 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:56.280 obviously the whole time, and my mom was just not 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:59.640 happy with him, and she stayed with him for way 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:01.840 too long because of us, like so many women do 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:03.600 because of the children. 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:07.640 You stay together. But he was not treating my mom good. 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:11.320 Like we experienced some stuff like where it's like, oh, 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:13.120 you would never want to talk to your dad again, 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:16.720 like you know, just physical you know, domestic abuse and. 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:18.280 Things like that, and we would witness it. 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:22.200 And I just remember one moment, especially where he hit 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:25.440 my mom so hard that she fell on top of us. 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:27.280 I don't know, I think I was. 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:29.080 I was probably eight because it was around the time 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:32.760 that she left, And from that moment on, I was 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:33.480 just so scared of. 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:35.160 Him, just scared, scared, scared. 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:51.960 One of the crazy part is I was his favorite child, 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:55.240 so he always wanted me next to him, especially during 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:57.560 the phase where he felt like my mom is going 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:00.680 to leave him. He was holding on to me always Amy. 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:02.760 He called me Ami. You know, my name's Amina, but 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.680 to him I was Ami Ami. He comes it with me, 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:09.720 and it was like he wasn't like mean saying in 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:11.600 the mean way. It was like I love you, I 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:14.440 want you with me, like you know, things are bad 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:16.280 right now. He wouldn't talk like that, but that's what 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:19.400 I remember thinking in my head, like I just need 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:21.800 you right now because you. 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:23.600 Know, Yeah, my mom was trying to leave. 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.400 Yeah, so hey ended up she ended up, Oh my god, 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:29.920 I'm burning this. Ah it doesn't look burn No, it's 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:30.320 not burned. 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:31.320 Okay, good for good. 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:34.240 See this this always takes a little longer when you 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:36.280 have at the stove on. But yeah, and so then 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:39.480 my mom ended up getting my dad out a year later. 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:42.200 Took like almost a year, felt like eternity that he 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:45.680 was still in the house refusing to leave. 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:47.960 But he was cheating though. 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:49.000 He was, Yeah he was. 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:52.840 And he was like telling my mom things like why 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.720 are you worried about that? I always come back to you. 0:16:56.040 --> 0:17:01.080 Yeah you know yeah that men say it not every mine. 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:05.200 When you when you went to New York, how soon 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:08.000 was it before or how soon after you moved to 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:11.040 New York. Did you end up aligning with love and 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:11.560 hip hop? 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:13.280 Ooh, way, way, way, way later. 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:19.159 So the first and my first fifteen years in New 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:21.879 York were just you know, on the grind, trying to 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:23.960 make it in music, me and my sisters. 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:25.200 You said, first fifteen years. 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:28.280 Yeah, or like at least let's say ten Okay, Yeah, 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:31.440 I'm totally dripping ten years. So from two thousand and 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:35.199 two to twenty twelve, me and my sisters were just 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:36.840 like trying, you. 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:37.640 Know, always. 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:39.879 Making music together. 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:42.960 Got signed to diff GM Records in two thousand and five, 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:45.760 two thousand and six, then you know, we got dropped 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:48.040 from the label. Then we got signed again, just me 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:48.560 and my twin. 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:52.720 What made them drop, you guys. 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:53.560 A lot of reasons. 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:56.240 This is ready by the way, you just need to 0:17:56.240 --> 0:18:00.840 send him in on it. But they actually we didn't 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:03.119 get didn't get dropped from Gestion. It was like we 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:05.960 asked to be released from the label because they were 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:07.200 just holding us hostage. 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:09.600 Yeah, and you know. 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:16.280 That, okay, friend, not mess up here. 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:20.120 So we were just not Our album never came out, 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:20.920 and we were signed. 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:25.120 We get signed the same year that Chris Neo Arehanna. 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:27.480 Yeah, I was gonna say that was the air that year. 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:30.520 When nobody knew who they were and of them, and 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:33.160 we actually did a lot of showcases with them, with Neo, 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:36.520 Rihanna and Chris and we did like small little radio 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:40.240 tours throughout the nations and we. 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:42.119 Were all new artists. And then Black Butterfly was kind 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:47.000 of the only group, our group that didn't really get 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:47.720