Speaker 1: Real people, real celebrity joined the Breakfast morning. Everybody is
Speaker 1: DJ Envy Angela, Ye, Charlomagne the guy. We are the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. Have a young lady in the building. Ye,
Speaker 1: what's up to Mia? Feeling good? You like the og
Speaker 1: real real basketball wife? Yes, absolutely, yes, before it was
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say before it was popular to do
Speaker 1: so I get before we came around show. Yeah that's true. Yeah,
Speaker 1: married grandad was sixteen years Yes, she to think about it,
Speaker 1: she said, what's here? Yeah, well you know we've been
Speaker 1: together almost twenty so yeah wow, sope. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: also your birthday this week, right, isn't up? Yeah? What
Speaker 1: are you guys gonna do? Um? We are going away.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go um to the exhumers. I love the
Speaker 1: water of the beach, the birth right. Yes, yes, oh
Speaker 1: you you have entered vintage vagina. Absolutely when any woman
Speaker 1: that's over, I'm aware of this. Thank you. Okay, yes,
Speaker 1: but congratulations to YouTube for both still being a power coup.
Speaker 1: Thank you, and to him for finally making in a
Speaker 1: video a couple of years ago. He did very quickly
Speaker 1: that yes, he's never like um to me, and why
Speaker 1: can't I be like your love interest. For the most part,
Speaker 1: a lot of the songs that I've done have been
Speaker 1: sort of like I'm over you, you know. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: So that was the one song that it was actually
Speaker 1: like a good a good song. So he just made
Speaker 1: a cameo at the end. Are you the reason he's
Speaker 1: never gone broke? I mean, I know he's a smart guy,
Speaker 1: went to Duke and all. You know, now he's he's
Speaker 1: very conservative. Yeah, he doesn't have any you know, vices
Speaker 1: in terms, he doesn't like cars or you know, anything
Speaker 1: really kind of expensive, so he keeps all his money. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: So who's the one that's the extraffigant win? Is that you?
Speaker 1: That would be me the Taurus. But still I'm sort
Speaker 1: of I'm really a homebody as well, but I do
Speaker 1: like nice things. He can kind of tolerate, He can
Speaker 1: put up with anything. Okay, yeah, we're probably me. He
Speaker 1: not keeping spicy after solo sixteen years, y'all dress up.
Speaker 1: Maybe they don't even sleep in the same room exactly,
Speaker 1: change you're definitely yes, absolutely, Well, you know, I think obviously,
Speaker 1: I think communication, you know, um, put it here, put
Speaker 1: it there her, that works. Um. But you know, guys,
Speaker 1: they they find love through their eyes and we find
Speaker 1: love through our ears. So you have to talk to
Speaker 1: me a little bit, and I have to show you
Speaker 1: a little something there that's interesting. This is your first
Speaker 1: album in a while. Um yeah, So Beautiful Surprise was
Speaker 1: three years ago, okay, and now love Life. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: first album, this album, So Beautiful Surprise. I was independent
Speaker 1: and then on def Jam. Now for this project, or
Speaker 1: made you come back to the major label? You know,
Speaker 1: major labels suck. Now. It's not like you don't say
Speaker 1: that to me. They're kind of like a I use
Speaker 1: them like a rich uncle. You know. Yeah, it's kind
Speaker 1: of like a we have a joint venture, so I
Speaker 1: still have my company as well. So, um, you know,
Speaker 1: but they've been really awesome. I know it goes against
Speaker 1: the establishment, but they've kind of let me just do
Speaker 1: my thing to rich uncle, meaning you take money, don't
Speaker 1: get back. Uh yes, oh yeah, that but I you know,
Speaker 1: that's why we're partners in it. So did your husband
Speaker 1: ever would be like, man, chill out, man, I'm rich.
Speaker 1: You don't got to get back on that road radio
Speaker 1: and that No. No, he knows how much I love music,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's not really all about the money.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously a check, it's good. But you know,
Speaker 1: I love music, I love performing, I love touching people
Speaker 1: through music, and I think that it's important that I
Speaker 1: have something that's my thing as well. And it's popping already,
Speaker 1: like that's this thing I have my thing, And I
Speaker 1: think that also keeps things spicy as well. Were you,
Speaker 1: um uh cautious about dating a ball player back in
Speaker 1: the day? Um? You know this was before social media, yes,
Speaker 1: Basketball Wives and all of those things. So, um, I
Speaker 1: don't know. You know, you know how we met. I
Speaker 1: saw Anita Baker at at a Soul Train music award. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and she said, I'm telling you now, and she said,
Speaker 1: I know this guy that'd be great for you. And
Speaker 1: she had spoken to him at some party or something
Speaker 1: and somehow my name came up, so I kind of
Speaker 1: I kind of met him through a friend. So yeah,
Speaker 1: what do you think about Basketball Wives? Now? You mentioned
Speaker 1: it the show? What do you got a yea? Is
Speaker 1: it still on? They just put out the trailer for
Speaker 1: the season. Okay, they just put out they just put
Speaker 1: out the trailer. Okay, I didn't see it. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: because you once said that wasn't reality. Um it wasn't
Speaker 1: our reality? No, yeah, I mean you know it's it's
Speaker 1: obviously it's really their reality. But um, you know, I
Speaker 1: think everyone has things that could do well on television
Speaker 1: in their life. Um, you know that's kind of salacious enough.
Speaker 1: It's just do you want to do that? They have
Speaker 1: approached you. Yeah, absolutely all the time. Really yea, even
Speaker 1: now even but you guys could have your own show absolutely,
Speaker 1: you know, and I could see that happening. Yeah, um no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: absolutely not um because you spotlight so uh yeah, no,
Speaker 1: we just it's just not something you know that that
Speaker 1: we're into. Um, you know, yeah, never gonna happen, I
Speaker 1: don't think so okay. No. Jermane Precor produced your single Still,
Speaker 1: and he said that Sierra stolen is that what he's
Speaker 1: used it for her song? I bet the beat. I
Speaker 1: have to listen to it. I didn't. I didn't I
Speaker 1: didn't write I didn't write it, so nobody I listened
Speaker 1: to it. No, I listened to the song, but I
Speaker 1: didn't hear that. I didn't hear that. I didn't hear
Speaker 1: the connection with still, So I have to listen to
Speaker 1: it even more to hear the connection with Still. So
Speaker 1: we're Claire. Yeah, yeah, do you like the music? I do? Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's a sweet, sweet girl. Yeah, I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: clean it up for Yeah, she's very nice, beautiful girl. No,
Speaker 1: she's she's really nice. She's looked over here, like, so
Speaker 1: let's go. But you are back on the road now
Speaker 1: doing shows and everything, getting ready to promote this album
Speaker 1: that's coming out in June. Yeah, June ninth. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I'm back kind of performing and and doing promo and
Speaker 1: things like that. So where did you film the video?
Speaker 1: But we filmed the video somewhere in California. Okay, it
Speaker 1: looks like it's somewhere completely different. I was like, where
Speaker 1: is it. Yeah, it's somewhere in California, on the side
Speaker 1: road somewhere. Even't it a little harder to promote now
Speaker 1: because back in the day it was just all about
Speaker 1: the music. But now people want to know so much
Speaker 1: about your personal life. They want you to be transparent,
Speaker 1: right it is. I mean it's certainly changed. And as
Speaker 1: an artist, it's hard to find that sort of fine
Speaker 1: line between, you know, wanting to share things and still
Speaker 1: wanting to be your own person and knowing when to stop.
Speaker 1: And as a parent, as well, knowing how much to
Speaker 1: share and how much not. You know, I don't have
Speaker 1: a thirteen year old and a seven year old. Then
Speaker 1: they're already embarrassed of us because we're their parents. Oh
Speaker 1: it's a good one. Just wait, yeah, they're they're you know,
Speaker 1: just we're their parents, so you know, um, so for
Speaker 1: them as well, it's just, you know, a matter of
Speaker 1: knowing when to pull back on sharing certain things. You
Speaker 1: were asking a question this one and on the topic
Speaker 1: on the radio was have you ever what's the freakiest
Speaker 1: thing you ever seen your parents do? Everybody was calling
Speaker 1: in saying how they caught their mom and dad having sex. No,
Speaker 1: I didn't see. My mom was a single mom, so
Speaker 1: I didn't see any of that. The kids haven't ran
Speaker 1: up on you, And if they did, they didn't say
Speaker 1: anything about it. They'll probably call it ten years from now.
Speaker 1: Daddy told me you up. We had a we had
Speaker 1: a random conversation the other day in my house. We
Speaker 1: were listening to Tamiya and we were talking about that
Speaker 1: So into You song and when it first came out,
Speaker 1: because then we had a debate, like, no, it came
Speaker 1: out earlier than that, but then fab took it and
Speaker 1: made it am I guess it was. You had your
Speaker 1: single and then he made it his single, which was
Speaker 1: a little different years later. Yeah, so so I was like, no,
Speaker 1: that song is way more recent, like no the original. Yes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Tim and bobbing myself and we we we wrote
Speaker 1: um so into You and then fab redid the song
Speaker 1: over at Electra. Yeah, like maybe six years that's good,
Speaker 1: whole check. It gave it a whole another new life.
Speaker 1: You were in a video and everything off fabs. Yes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then I went and I sort of resang my parts. Yeah.
Speaker 1: When you do songs with guys like fab just Grant
Speaker 1: come on set. You know. No, no, no, he does
Speaker 1: it usually, you know. Usually it was during the season, so,
Speaker 1: um no he doesn't. He didn't. He didn't come to Sandwi,
Speaker 1: Gnnesota either. The new single single, Oh yeah, yeah, he
Speaker 1: didn't come to that either. I would diagnosed with MS. Yes,
Speaker 1: explain to everybody what MS is. Oh, okay, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's kind of a lot of things. It's one of
Speaker 1: those things where it's In two thousand and three, I
Speaker 1: was diagnosed with multiple scirrols is um It's an autoimmune disease,
Speaker 1: so it kind of attacks your immune system, but it
Speaker 1: mimics a lot of other things like lupus and things
Speaker 1: like that. So um, and everyone's different. How did you know? Uh?
Speaker 1: You know, I was promoting I think officially missing you,
Speaker 1: and I was really tired, which we all are, so
Speaker 1: that wasn't a clear symptom to me. Um and um.
Speaker 1: I was really sensitive to heat, so I would get
Speaker 1: really heated and kind of neurologically kind of lose my
Speaker 1: function to like writeing things like that. And so that's
Speaker 1: where I really started to think that something was wrong.
Speaker 1: One of my really good friends is diagnosed with MS,
Speaker 1: and it's been really bad because she has two kids, right,
Speaker 1: and she's so bad that she can't really even walk
Speaker 1: down the black It takes it like an hour just
Speaker 1: to walk down one black. Yeah, and she has to
Speaker 1: take all these different hormones. It's been really tough for her.
Speaker 1: But then Montell was on here the other day. Obviously
Speaker 1: he said he smokes weed. He definitely helps him out
Speaker 1: a lot. No the voice, and she seems pretty good, right.
Speaker 1: Rihanna's vocals were bad for a minute, but they sounded better.
Speaker 1: They sound really good now, So how do you cope
Speaker 1: with it? Um, well, you know, I think with Montell
Speaker 1: he has he has pain, and so I think the
Speaker 1: weed is good for the pain. Right. Um, I don't
Speaker 1: have pain or anything like that. And I've been actually
Speaker 1: very good. I do a lot of like homeopathic things,
Speaker 1: and I have a regular doctor and I have a
Speaker 1: homeopathic doctor, so, um, we do different types of of
Speaker 1: you know, therapies and things like that. So I've been
Speaker 1: good since two thousand and three. That's great. And my
Speaker 1: family had a rough time and her husband's cheating on
Speaker 1: her and oh yeah, and stress exacerbates everything, right, And
Speaker 1: then she felt like she couldn't do anything about it
Speaker 1: because she can't really even like, you know, how old
Speaker 1: is she. Um, she's probably like thirty four or something.
Speaker 1: She's pretty young. Still. She was actually hiring quaw girls
Speaker 1: off of a website that stress and yeah, that's stress.
Speaker 1: I mean, stress will kill you. I could they have sex, though, Um,
Speaker 1: you don't want to ask your girlfriend sex while she's
Speaker 1: battling something like him herds it. I mean, she's been
Speaker 1: having a really rough time, like she can't pick her
Speaker 1: kids up. She feels you know, she can't. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: she doesn't want to leave her husband because She's really
Speaker 1: nervous about it because she's like, now, what am I
Speaker 1: supposed to do? You know, it's not like you. It
Speaker 1: don't sound like he was emotionally sheet. It sound like
Speaker 1: he was just orders to get by. I mean relationships,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I mean relationships have ups and downs. And
Speaker 1: you know, if I can't, if I can't give you
Speaker 1: something for a little bit, you don't have to like
Speaker 1: hold off for a second. I'm gonna try and pull
Speaker 1: it together and then we're gonna get back on track.
Speaker 1: You've never had you guys have never had any like
Speaker 1: bad public scandals or anything. She's fantastic. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: good like relationship goals as people say, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: every relationship has ups and downs and and and you know,
Speaker 1: roller coaster rides. But yeah, I mean he's he's awesome.
Speaker 1: He supports me, Um, I support him. Obviously. I'm not
Speaker 1: the same girl I was that you know, twenty five
Speaker 1: when we got married, and he's not the same guy.
Speaker 1: And we you know, our dreams change, our goals constantly change,
Speaker 1: and it's all about supporting each other and and and
Speaker 1: and being there for each other. And you both have
Speaker 1: still been successful in working so that helps too. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it does. You've had to fight a white girl's white
Speaker 1: girls love. No, no, they they've never tried it. But
Speaker 1: to me, it was also that check that everybody was on,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So that had to be
Speaker 1: hard for him too. I'm sure. No, everybody is pretty much.
Speaker 1: They're pretty respectful. I mean, if something happens and somebody
Speaker 1: says something, or it's a girl, then you know he
Speaker 1: has to politely say hey, or if it's a guy,
Speaker 1: you know, I need to kind of you know, check it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're working with It's a nice way you can do it.
Speaker 1: You're working with Tricky Stewart now, right, I did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I worked with him again. I actually worked with him
Speaker 1: on my very first project. Really yeah yeah, wow, Yeah
Speaker 1: he's been Do you feel like you have to adapt
Speaker 1: to whatever the sound is now? Not necessarily No. I
Speaker 1: think that, Um, that's kind of where artists kind of
Speaker 1: fall in a trap. I think you kind of you
Speaker 1: have to stay true to who you are as a sound,
Speaker 1: and vocally you can kind of, you know, you can
Speaker 1: kind of vocally adapt, but you should never kind of
Speaker 1: change who you are. Did you ever come to you
Speaker 1: with records already written like and it's like twerque, twerque twerk. No,
Speaker 1: I mean you know I might be able to twerk,
Speaker 1: but I mean you know, it's just as I'm working on.
Speaker 1: I'm working on it's not cute right now. Um but
Speaker 1: um yeah, I think you know it's it's no no one,
Speaker 1: no one. They've never sent that to me. Now, how
Speaker 1: did you when Quincy Jones get cool? Because I always
Speaker 1: remember the cues? Duke? Yeah, yeah, Um, you know, when
Speaker 1: I was nineteen, I got to um, he had a
Speaker 1: song called you Put a Move on My Heart and
Speaker 1: I got to go in and kind of audition for it,
Speaker 1: and um, he liked it and he took me all
Speaker 1: over the world. Yow. Yeah, I'm surprised you never wrote
Speaker 1: a book on just how to you know, maintain a
Speaker 1: great relationship, great career'all together for a long time. Grant
Speaker 1: and I, yes, yeah, you know, we talk about it. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe one day, but we're trying to live
Speaker 1: our life, let alone tell someone else how to do it.
Speaker 1: Are you a sports fanatic? No, I'm not a sports fanatic.
Speaker 1: His mom and dad are. Um, if there's anything going on,
Speaker 1: they're like, oh we're are we going to dinner, we
Speaker 1: can't go because the game is on. Like, so, um,
Speaker 1: I'm not and I'm not sure he is either. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure about that. He played basketball for a
Speaker 1: long time. Point I was like, grant time, say, I'm
Speaker 1: smarter than that. You know, I'm not gonna make a
Speaker 1: man stop doing what he loves, just you know, that
Speaker 1: has to be his decision, because I don't want him
Speaker 1: ten years later going you made me stop. You know,
Speaker 1: his knees had had to hurt, so he stopped when
Speaker 1: zom like that last season in the league paying for
Speaker 1: this trip, Yeah, it's like, okay, this is one more years, months,
Speaker 1: six more months. You got it in. You can do it.
Speaker 1: So y'all don't sit around and watch sports all day
Speaker 1: because I always I know, guys, I've dated that all
Speaker 1: they do is watch sports and all the time. Now, No,
Speaker 1: he doesn't he I mean he he does some things
Speaker 1: now for the NBA, um for for and for March Madness,
Speaker 1: So I think you know he watches that for that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we don't really, not not really. I mean
Speaker 1: what do y'all watch at home? Um? Okay, so the
Speaker 1: children take over the television most of the time, and um,
Speaker 1: they're usually wanting us to watch them do something, you know,
Speaker 1: some sort of acting, singing something. So okay, that's nice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't really and we live in Florida, so we
Speaker 1: like to be outside. And um and Grant, if Grant
Speaker 1: sits down near television, he's definitely fallen asleep. He's not
Speaker 1: watching TV. He's fallen grandparents already. Well, when we're at home,
Speaker 1: you know, we travel a lot, and we're both sort
Speaker 1: of you know, working, and we take the kids all
Speaker 1: over as well. So when we are at home, our
Speaker 1: home life is very kind of calm and quiet. Nothing
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Speaker 1: Album is Love Life, yea is it? What is it
Speaker 1: going to be like autobiographical in a way. It's so yeah,
Speaker 1: it's sort of about loving life and and about love life.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of songs that are you know,
Speaker 1: love songs, and um, it's kind of just a happy album. Um,
Speaker 1: it's not as deep and dark as maybe, um, some
Speaker 1: of my other ones. It's kind of in a better place,
Speaker 1: is it. We're doing like deeper, darker music when you're
Speaker 1: actually pretty happy and not really I mean, music sometimes
Speaker 1: is almost like acting. It's just you know, I think
Speaker 1: artists we we um, you know, we're very sensitive. If
Speaker 1: you start crying, I'm gonna start crying. I don't even
Speaker 1: know why. I'm just gonna start crying. So you could
Speaker 1: tell me a story and I can feel it in
Speaker 1: a way that I can really you know, relate to
Speaker 1: it and sing about it, even though I have no
Speaker 1: idea what it feels like to have gone through that.
Speaker 1: So tap into your emotion. Yeah, yeah, so um yeah, So,
Speaker 1: I mean, sometimes there are things that I that I
Speaker 1: that I've personally gone through. And then sometimes there are
Speaker 1: things that I write about that maybe someone's told me
Speaker 1: or um, you know, girlfriend said something and it triggered
Speaker 1: something and and it you know, she'll never know it
Speaker 1: was What are your rules for dating for your daughter
Speaker 1: for your thirteen years? Never never know? On the phone,
Speaker 1: I'm sure no with guys, she was sneaking out her health,
Speaker 1: Say thirteen, I said. When I was in high school, Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: and go to the club. No we're we're not. We're
Speaker 1: not doing that right now, absolutely, So what's the asia
Speaker 1: she can do? Oh? I don't know. I don't want
Speaker 1: to think that. I dearly don't I mean you know, yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I don't. What do you think about R and B? Now,
Speaker 1: um well, I definitely think there is good R and
Speaker 1: B out there. I think, um well, I think bout
Speaker 1: ye Wait a minute, and what kind of interview? Um, well,
Speaker 1: you know listen, Um it's okay, yeah, okay, I can't
Speaker 1: I can't think off the top of my head, but
Speaker 1: there is you know, there's a lot we like a
Speaker 1: gal I like me, go, I love me gown, yes
Speaker 1: and thank you. Okay, um, it's very good. Kendrick Lamar
Speaker 1: and you know, and what do we say that is ok?
Speaker 1: Hip hops August so yeah, and let us see and
Speaker 1: people like that, like you know Anthony Hamilton. Okay, we're like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can use sixteen year career. As anybody ever said
Speaker 1: to me, you're too happy because you got to think
Speaker 1: you know, the Mary je obliges and the keys your goals,
Speaker 1: they go through heartbreak and they too happy. You can't
Speaker 1: sing about your marriage and being having children? Well, I
Speaker 1: mean I would, I guess I would tell them, you know,
Speaker 1: I still live my life just because I choose not to, um,
Speaker 1: you know, sing about it. Obviously, there's things that I've
Speaker 1: gone through whether it's health wise or you know, family
Speaker 1: things that you know, I just don't display it. Um,
Speaker 1: and I choose to be happy, point blank. Period. That's
Speaker 1: it officially was a heart like yeah, that's your heart. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, And when I sing songs like Stranger and Me,
Speaker 1: I look at the audience and someone's like crying. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know, I'm sort of just used as a vessel.
Speaker 1: I didn't necessarily have to go through that, but you know,
Speaker 1: through me and the music, you know, I'm helping them
Speaker 1: sort of deal with it in a way. Are there
Speaker 1: songs that you perform that you cried during? Yeah, all
Speaker 1: the time, strang Stranger in my house? Um no, well no,
Speaker 1: don't help her out. Which songs did you cry to? Um?
Speaker 1: It depends. It depends on what's going on in the audience,
Speaker 1: like you know, Um, sometimes me, you know, someone might
Speaker 1: say something or I might look out there if I,
Speaker 1: like I said, if I see you crying or doing something,
Speaker 1: yeah I might, I might. Great, Daniel, Yeah, Yeah, we
Speaker 1: appreciate sensitive. Thank you. You know. The people from def
Speaker 1: Jam was like to me, it's boring, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, exciting. I'm like, I can be boring boring, boring.
Speaker 1: Oh well, thank you, thank you. Let me talk to I.
Speaker 1: See now they are acting like a label. See no,
Speaker 1: but I'm excited. We never had a chance to meet
Speaker 1: you before. I'm glad to be here. Every morning when
Speaker 1: we work out, we listen. It's nice, all right. Well
Speaker 1: Tamia is the breakfast Club. Good morning,