WEBVTT - Episode 332 "Saweetie" 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:04.120 H word with me here? 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:06.040 You know BT, no how it goes, shout out O 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:08.720 C T, no real color, what we see? Whole game? 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:11.160 Ready about the boot something you can't stand on their own? 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:11.480 Sushi. 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:14.120 I already know you can't with me because up with 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:16.680 the squad of me they get into They called me 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:26.040 love love he love, he reported live from Atlanta, Georgia. 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:27.720 Welcome to the ball Luk Show. I go by the 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:28.600 name of Ferrice Simons. 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:31.720 I go by the name you know BT with that sweetie. 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:35.279 Too. 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:38.040 I loving the hat match even though they can't see 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:38.440 the boots. 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:39.919 You smell is amazing. 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:43.279 Yeah, yeah, yeah, How you doing? Welcome? I'm good Atlanta. 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:44.240 I like your introduction? 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:48.480 How sweety doing right now? 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:51.720 Do you know when you work so much you just 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:56.280 go on like autopilot? I think we like that's what 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:58.280 we've been working for like three months straight. 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:04.959 New single out is fire. Thank you for that nice, 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:07.399 nice little routine. Did you choreograph that? 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:07.920 Yeah? 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:09.160 I did really? 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:11.640 Yeah, getting getting it. 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:13.440 In the video, getting it on the mountains. 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:14.920 I didn't shout out to Cot like. 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:19.640 She was about to be watching this and be like, 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:23.520 are you I'm loving the nails? You always the nails 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:25.240 has always been on point. Can you keep showing for 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:25.920 the camera? Quick? 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:28.399 A nail girl? Thank you? 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:30.600 Do you have like a nail person that comes that 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:31.320 you fly out? 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:34.800 Or I've been using the same person for five six years? 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:35.640 Her names Tamika. 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:38.399 Okay, everybody getting shout outs on the show. Now do 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:43.760 they come to you? I'm okay, boss, Can we take it? 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:46.360 Can we take it back? Let's do it now? Originally, 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:49.280 where is Sweety from the Bay? The Bay? One time 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:52.280 for the Bay? And how was it for Sweety growing up? Like? 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:53.320 Who were you as a kid? 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:55.200 Oh, that's a good question. 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:59.920 I feel like my whole life, I've always like a 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:04.160 common theme is like duality. I grew up biracial, I 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:06.320 went to two different colleges, I grew up in two 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:08.040 different households, So. 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:10.200 I've always just had to find like a balance. 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:13.720 But growing up in the Bay Area, like being like 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:16.720 black and Asian or just mixed it it's really common. 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:18.799 But I think that. 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:24.040 I was I was the first grandchild to be mixed, 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:26.919 and I was the first on both sides. 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:29.880 On both sides. Now, who's black dad or my dad? Okay? 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.679 And I think that there needs to be more conversation 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:37.920 between like the clash of cultures, because what's always appropriate 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:40.600 that this household may not fly in this household. 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:43.320 So as a child, I struggled with that. 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:45.600 But then I did learn that you have to respect, 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:49.120 you know, both groups based on their morals and their values. However, 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:52.679 sometimes you have to kind of like code twitch sometimes. 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:55.640 When you say it was like a little challenging, was 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:58.160 it more so on your mom's side that was challenging 0:02:58.280 --> 0:02:59.160 or your father. 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:03.080 I would just say both sides. I feel like both 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:06.079 households had different rules. But I'm also talking about like 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:09.800 my grandparents' house because my grandparents were always babysitting me, 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:14.560 and my parents was like out working a lot. But yeah, 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:19.440 like so my Filipino side hardcore traditional. They were immigrants, 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:23.480 so it's like that the values are very traditional, really strict. 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:27.400 And then my dad's side is really different, so more 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:34.040 relax more relaxed. But also my grandparents were pastors, so 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:35.120 then so. 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:38.040 Then they're strict in their own way. 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:40.760 But then at my dad's house, my dad in the streets, 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.040 so it's like there's no there's no rules at his household. 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:47.520 And then my mom she's just a tiger mom because 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:51.080 she's Asian and so I was like trying to balance 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:54.040 like four different households and a lot what I could 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:56.560 do and what I can't do in these environments. 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:57.440 What's a tiger mom? 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:00.400 A tiger mom is often described as a mom who's 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:02.400 like who wants the best for their child, so she 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:05.440 pushes them, like your pressure to get straight a's or 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:09.840 b is not is not acceptable, Just always pushing their 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.440 child to like do their best, especially like in academics. 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:13.680 Did you get straight a's. 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:15.920 I'm my dad. Did you have any siblings? 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:18.520 So my dad had. 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.680 Three kids eleven years later with another woman. Okay, but 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.039 just for your parents, you're the only child. I'm the 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:25.120 only child. Was on them? 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:25.560 Oh wow? 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:28.039 Did you have like cousins to play with? Was it lone? Agog? 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:28.920 I had a cousin. 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:31.760 I love them so Like at my grandma's house, my 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:34.800 dad's mom's house, especially in the summertime, it'd be like 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:38.520 fifteen of us in there, you know, you know, calling 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:41.159 for showers, calling for the couch, trying to like hide 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.080 the cover so we had a cover at night, you know. 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.640 Was like growing up in a household full of kids, 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:48.960 It's like it's like survival. Little fittest Okay, what's. 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:50.599 The different sides of town too? Like did you go 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:52.560 on one side of town here and then the other 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:53.080 side of town? 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:54.480 You know what's so interesting? 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:56.880 So both of my grandmothers like lived in Union City, 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:59.480 but on different sides of the bridge. Union City is 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:01.719 a city in the so they were like about what 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:03.080 ten minutes away from each other. 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:04.760 So it's like a car right around the bed. 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:07.960 But it wasn't like over here I'm good and over 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:09.600 here like I'm not good. 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:13.200 I just feel like I got my dad's At my 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:17.599 dad's mom's house, there was never no food because of 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:20.200 all the kids. But they're not my Filipino side. They 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:22.160 always they always got food over there. So when I 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:25.080 would get hungry, I would go to my grandpa's. 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:27.839 Did they always have like rice ready? 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:28.600 Yes? 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:29.880 Because I have a type. 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.160 I had a best friend who was tied in black 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:35.560 and her her grandmother always had like a pot of 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.240 rice at least the rice is always ready to go. 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:40.000 Now, look, don't get mad at me, friend, but I'm 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:41.760 might to ask you a question that whose food was better? 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:46.240 Oh no, I can't decide to be honest. 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:48.440 Because both people throwing down on these sides. As you're 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:49.160 talking about. 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:52.320 Both of my grandma's can throw down, like throw down 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:56.479 down to choose though, Well, my favorite food is Filipino food, 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:00.840 but I can't say that that that's someone's cooking it's 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:04.400 better than the others. No, no, no, no, now they both 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.960 they're both equally good. I'm just clarified. 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:11.920 With you having so like you said, the two sides 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:13.680 you were going from back and forth, is that we're 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:16.599 brought in your palate because you have a wide palate. 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:18.360 Now, so let me call you something. 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:24.000 Well, she has a white palette, a palette, so I 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.279 feel like my palate comes from I was like the 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:30.240 taste tester. Oh, but when my grandparents were cooking, so 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:33.600 you know, Filipino food is it's foreign food. And then 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:37.279 my grandma and on the other side, they get down 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:39.200 in the kitchen too, and they make their own concoctions. 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:41.200 Actually, it's it's really funny. 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:44.520 My pap Paul will like save food from like a 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:50.440 couple of months ago, reheat it up. That no, that's crazy, 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.360 but freeze it, reheat it up, and then throw some 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:56.200 extra stuff in it to make it like good. And 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.039 then he'd be like, oh, baby, you want some of this, 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:00.919 And my Grandma'll be like, baby, don't you eat that's 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:10.200 like from six months ago. That's how that's how he 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.560 would He still does it, but that's how he would save. 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:14.760 The left's perfectly fine, isn't he Yes. 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:14.840 He is. 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:17.800 And then he would reheat it, make a couple of concoctions. 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:21.160 So like I tasted it, I don't even eat food 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:22.040 from two days later. 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:23.920 When you put it in the freezer for a long time, 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:25.680 you put like you make a pop pot of greens. 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:27.640 You can freeze those and then reheat them later. 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:32.600 My mom made me my Mom's from Barbados Thanksgiving. She 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:34.400 made some rice and beans and she put it in 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:36.559 the in the freezer and it stayed and she heated 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:37.120 that ship up. 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.760 My bad, damn Mama, make sure you let me know 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:44.880 which one has been in the freezer anyway, it's easy. 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:49.480 Your name so weedy. It's not sweetie, No, it's so 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:52.320 wety or yeah. 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:54.040 So it was like a family nickname. 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:56.680 And then it stuck because I have put it on 0:07:56.720 --> 0:08:00.600 my MySpace, and my MySpace was like really popping, like helipopping, 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:02.000 like I had all the cold, all the. 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:05.640 Layout, my homegirls. 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:08.520 But it had become so big that like people would 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:10.640 like see me walk in from like the bus stop, 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:12.960 they see me at like a gas station, they see 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:14.880 me like walking to school, and they'd be they pull 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:15.440 over and be. 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:16.160 Like, are you Sweety? 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:20.120 So it's just like my page was so big that 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:22.760 people thought that that was my name. 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.640 So why why that though not sweety? 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:27.840 Because when I was typing it in on MySpace, I 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:30.000 was like, sweety, look too sweet. You gotta put a 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:31.880 little flavor in it, Okay, So I put the A 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.880 between the W, the S and the W period. 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:36.600 And then to solidify. 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:40.760 It, my my other mom, the woman that my dad 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:45.160 is currently with, she got me my first nameplate that 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:49.319 says sweety for my first day of my sophomore year 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:53.959 in school. So it just like solidified everything. Yes, you know, 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:55.800 like it just really like. 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:57.520 Just made everything permanent after that. 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:00.760 So you were in college, she was about to get that. 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:01.120 Good shit. 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:04.560 Yeah, so you were in college. What were you studying? 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:08.040 So I went in to do psychology? 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:11.600 Okay, that goes with me, why no? 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:15.280 But listen, on the first day of school we got that. 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.360 Syllabus, was like, you know what I've got to go. 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:21.680 Let me tell you. 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:25.800 I literally got up like ten minutes of class. 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:27.840 And I said, I'm going to like the administration office. 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:31.720 I said, oh, hell no. 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:36.079 So then I was talking to my administrative counselor and 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:38.040 she basically just told me to take a whole bunch 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:41.560 of electives. And within those electives, one of the classes 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:45.840 that I really enjoyed was my communication course. So that's 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:48.040 what made me want to study communication because of the 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:49.240 elective that I chose. 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:50.440 And what college was this? 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:53.280 So this was at San Diego State and then I 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:55.640 transferred to the University of Southern California. 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:58.000 There's no way that you wasn't going to school with 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:01.240 your family. Like you said, your was a Tiger mom 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.520 and she believes in that schooling, so so you. 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:04.680 Had to go to college. 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:07.880 I think it was a combination between her pressuring me 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:09.760 and then me just wanted to get out of Sacramento. 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:11.440 Now, how was your college experience? 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:17.080 San Diego State was really fun And I didn't really 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:19.679 understand the consequence of being a transfer until I was 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:20.480 a transfer. 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.960 Could you lose credits or not only that. 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:27.120 But you just lose like the incoming freshman connection that 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.480 you created with the peers that you come in with. 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:32.520 And at USC it took me like a minute to 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:36.679 like create you know, friendships on campus. But at San 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.000 Diego State, like I was dancing for the school, I 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.400 was like the face of the students store. So I 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:43.720 was really like integrated into the school's culture, and I 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:45.319 really missed that when I transferred over to you. 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:46.520 Why did you transfer? 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:48.840 Why did you want to to be in an a 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:50.160 market city? 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:51.280 You wanted to be in La. 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:53.360 I wanted to be in La. I thought that you 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:55.120 and I was going to get discovered right away, you. 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.599 Know, because you're doing music also, correct. 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.439 Well, I'm posting my wraps on my Instagram. 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:01.679 How many followers did you have at the time. 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:03.679 I've always had a lot of followers. 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:07.360 I've always been heavy into like social media and the aesthetics, 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:10.240 so I've always just had like a before the music, 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:13.440 it was like a brand following, like girls just fucked 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:14.480 with like the vibe. 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:18.240 But then you know, when you drop can't style, won't stide? 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:18.679 Yeah go? 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:22.320 You know that's that famous. That's a classic freestyle. You 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:24.320 know instantly, did your world change? 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.000 No, it did, but it changed after the music video. 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:33.200 I was so taken aback with how much coverage I 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:37.319 got because I dropped this without a publicist, without backing, 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:38.760 without a label, without management. 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:40.560 It was just fresh out the gate. 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:44.079 So I think that at the beginning of my career 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:48.360 I was kind of just thrown into the industry quickly. 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.920 I'm very pressed, you know, with what you've done and 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:54.240 what you were able to do and create yourself. Even today. 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:56.280 I know we're going to get to more of your accolades, 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:58.240 but I just want to say, I'm very proud of 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:00.000 what you are doing. You know what I'm saying, especially 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.280 as a young black girl out here, You're very intelligent, 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.640 very smart, and I think that needs to be you know, 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:08.240 said and shined on because a lot of people look 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:11.600 at you know, certain people nowadays and they don't really 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:13.520 are they like you said, they see the aesthetic, but 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:18.400 you know, you really are putting in the work mentally 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:20.160 to get to where you're going. 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:21.000 Thank you. 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.079 Yeah. I had an argument about you the other day 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:25.280 and I was saying, Sweetep really put up some points 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.520 on the scoreboard, like you had some number ones and 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:31.200 they were really really big. We're gonna get into that. Yeah, 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:33.959 So you put out the song, you put out the video. 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:35.599 What happens next? 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:39.400 I had several meetings at different labels. 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:41.199 Did they just have they get flew out friends? 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:44.319 Surprisingly, all my meetings were in La. 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:48.280 Okay, So yeah, you did make the right decision. I 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:49.559 guess moving you had to go far. 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:52.440 Yeah, but this was like two years after I graduated 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.600 from college. Yeah, I struggled for like two years in LA. 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:59.320 But how was the struggle? We talked about the struggle too, 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:01.200 because a lot of it was always real. Man. 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:04.200 I worked like a lot of odd jobs. 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.040 Where does Sweetie work that people would be like what? 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:10.680 I was a receptionist. 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:14.280 I was a waitress at a strip club. I was 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:18.679 an ambassador for like Craigslist events like hey, come be, 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.520 come help us with this pop up shop, and you know, 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.679 like the people who help solicit at public in public areas. 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:29.439 But interestingly that helped me with like my people skills, 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.360 because when you're constantly being thrown into like different environments 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.240 with new people, you have to like accommodate really fast. 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:36.960 You have to adapt. So it helped me. 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:41.400 But I remember like every time I would like pay 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:43.440 my rent, my account would go back down to like 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:45.920 twenty or like forty dollars, and I was. 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:49.600 Like, bitch, it's real, it's real. 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.600 Not because like my aesthetic it was always just like 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.280 I've always wanted to be a rich bitch, Like ever 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:57.120 since I was a kid, that's what I aspired to be. 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.200 I like the diamonds the first I love the boss 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:01.600 bitches out there out to them, and I was like, 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:06.920 this is not what we planned. Friend, But I looked 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:08.959 myself in the mirror. That's why I see girl, I say, 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:10.280 look it in the mirror. I think, I feel I'm 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:11.720 about to be Like I was broke as fuck when 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.040 I wrote that, and I was like, we have to give. 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:14.800 Yourself a deadline. 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:17.520 And I always tell people who I give advice to 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:19.760 give yourself a deadline because if you do that, you're 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:21.440 able to keep track of like what you're doing. So 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:23.840 I gave myself a year to make it in LA 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:25.520 and if I didn't make it, I was going to 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:27.800 go home and at least be comfortable and stack my 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:29.120 money up and move back to LA. 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:31.720 All my ninth month, I got discovered. 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:36.040 That that does work, though, when you give yourself a deadline, 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:37.560 I know, I know you. 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:40.280 Know that personally, and I'm glad you're sharing these things 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:44.080 with people because I feel like how it looked on 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.400 the outside, it looked like it just happened really fast. 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:49.680 But the things that you're saying would make someone say, wow, 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:52.000 I didn't know she had to do that. I didn't 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:53.240 know she had to work these jobs. I didn't know 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:54.800 how to do. That kind of makes it a little 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:55.480 bit more human. 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:57.800 So when did you have to get When did the 0:14:57.880 --> 0:14:59.960 check come? Where you can say, well, you can tike 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.040 tail a little bit, When did that big check come? 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:05.120 Is that when you signed? Did you get in advance 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:05.800 or you. 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:07.800 Always was on Warner correct, you decided to. 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:08.840 Go, it was on Warner. 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:11.960 But before that I was doing I was an influencer 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:15.480 for like weave companies and clothing companies. So because Icy 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:17.960 Girl was like new and hot, it had put the 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:21.160 attention like that helped me get my first like low key, 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:24.040 low hanging fruit like Brandill's. Like that was the first 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.000 time I had a couple thousand in my bank account. 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.000 I just had to like post my picture they would 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:28.920 and they would pay me. 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.840 Okay, So that twenty dollars turned into a couple of 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.400 thousand dollars getting some shows or anything like that. 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:35.440 Because the song was doing. 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:37.800 Really the show was an Istanbul Turkey. 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:41.320 Wow, how how they pay you? You? 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:41.800 Turkey? 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:45.920 Stanbul, yurkey, Yes, all the way over there, all the 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:46.520 way over. 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:50.200 There, and yes, and I sat in the middle seat. 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:54.760 The whole thought is like, I'm not doing this. Listen, 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:57.960 I gotta know how much they paid you. Okay, I 0:15:58.000 --> 0:15:59.360 would have said. 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:02.160 Yeah, I said how much are we going? 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:06.800 One thing about now, listen, One thing about a cancer 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:09.600 is we get real uncomfortable when we ain't got no money. Right, 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:16.280 So it's like when it's time to get but when 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:17.960 it's time to get that check, we finna get it. 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:19.840 It's just like I was in the middle seat. 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:24.880 On the side of the plane. I'm gonna be on 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:27.320 a plane like this. It was at the time that 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:29.800 you maybe got a little bit of an excel. You 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:35.080 got that in l As. Did that motivate you to 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:35.560 keep going? 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:36.880 Absolutely? 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:39.640 But then after that I had got my contract okay, 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.560 but my contract wasn't like one of those flashy contracts. 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:44.880 It was it was enough for me, but it wasn't 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:45.800 like you know how some. 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:47.480 People like break the bank and get me. 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:53.400 What made you go with Warner out of all the labels, To. 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.960 Be honest, I don't remember why. I can just remember 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:57.880 how I felt in those meetings. So I kind of 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:00.840 like this followed like my feelings energy. Okay, did you 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:04.439 have a manager at the time and an unofficial manager? 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:06.159 I did you like just sat right here and just 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:08.200 act like you know what you're doing? No, it was. 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:11.800 Somebody who was trying to like help me, like navigate, gotcha. 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:13.440 Yeah, We're going to navigate to a break real quick. 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:13.600 Man. 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:16.040 We got Sweetie right here on the Butler Alert Show, 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:16.919 right here on revote. 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:17.560 We'll be right back. 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:20.760 We'll be right back with more of the Bawler Alert Show. 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:25.280 You're listening to a special edition of the Baller Alert Show. 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:25.879 Hey, what's up? 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:28.320 A Sweety with a Baller Alert Show? Right here on 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:30.480 re vote beg but more the bro Alert Show. We 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:31.520 got Sweety in the building. 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:35.480 Ye're having a great cab. I love this. 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:38.639 I love the humble beginnings to now just to know 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:42.080 who you are. I want to talk about the mental space, 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:44.439 you know, and the mental health of Sweetie back in 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:46.760 those times to now, how were you were you calling 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:49.440 your mom like you know sometimes like hey, help me 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:52.240