WEBVTT - Mickey Guyton 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:22.520 Quest Love Show is a production of iHeart Radio all Right. So, 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:27.920 with the exception of Darius Rutgers episode, I don't believe 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:32.559 that we here at QLs via Questlove Supreme or The 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:37.600 Quest Love Show has had a bonafide, bonafide country music 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:42.440 artists in our presence. I've had the pleasure of playing 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:45.879 drums with our guest today at of all places, the 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:49.640 Essence Festival. I knew then that I wanted to have 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:53.240 her as a guest on the show. Our guest today 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:56.560 has definitely created a lane for herself where I guess 0:00:56.600 --> 0:01:00.560 one seemingly really didn't exist, and one fast needs me 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:05.480 about her story is not just you know, all the 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:09.679 accolades that she's had, the Grammy nominations, or the TV appearances, 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:13.360 the high profile appearances magazine covers, YadA, YadA, YadA, But 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:17.840 it's it's the journey that sometimes the path to finding 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:20.319 your voice means that you got to get it, you know, 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:22.320 out of your comfort zone and step into a space 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:27.160 that wasn't exactly built with you in mind, and deciding 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:32.080 that you're going to own that space and be there anyway, 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.800 and that you know, there's a lot of commonality. I 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:40.360 guess I felt commonality just in my experiences, so I 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:44.680 definitely wanted to have this conversation. And her music, especially 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:49.640 with songs like black Like Me Remember her Name, of course, 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:53.840 sparked conversations that country music is basically has been on 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:59.400 my sideline view a sort of avoiding. She miraculously hosted 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:07.040 the the CMAS. Oh ACMs, I'm sorry, it's all. 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.639 They all sound the same. There's ACMs and the CMAS, 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:12.120 the Academy of Country Music Awards, and I did. 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:14.360 Not know the difference between. Yeah, okay, I got it. 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:17.320 Of course I was there to watch her seeing the 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:21.720 national anthem at the super Bowl. She's built a global audience. 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:24.440 We're definitely talking about China, something that was not on 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:28.239 my Bengo card. We're just going to talk about the 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:32.280 journey of our guest today, the one and only Mickey Guyden. 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:35.000 Thank you for coming on the Quest Loft Show. How 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:35.520 are you there? 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:38.920 I am so good. You know I am a huge 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:42.080 Quest Love fan, so it is an honor to be 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:45.520 able to sit here and speak with you. Really, you 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:47.360 are a legend in my household. 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:48.560 I appreciate that. 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:49.320 Thank you so much. 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.359 So right now, where are you speaking to us from? 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:53.880 Are you at home or on the road? 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:58.080 Where you actually in Los Angeles, California. I'm taking a 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:00.560 little bit of break since I've been and I came 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:02.760 back from China, so I'm here in Los Angeles, California. 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:06.600 Got it? Okay, Well, I'll just ask, and I guess 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:10.120 I shouldn't be surprised, being as though for the last 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:13.280 thirty years, I can definitely say that the roots have 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:18.000 been like at least in twelve very specific places like 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:20.880 the Lincoln cent or whatever, like where we're the first 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.320 yeah pop act to be there. You know, you think, 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:25.720 like so late in the game, like how are the 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:29.320 roots playing places that some of these big platinum artists 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:32.360 haven't played? But I'm in surprise as a bound. What 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:38.200 is in China that is common with what I would 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:41.120 know as country culture. 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:45.520 Or just absolutely nothing? There is nothing in common. I guess. 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:51.160 The biggest country song in China is Country Roads take 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:54.800 Me Home by John Dimver. That song, believe it or not, 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:59.440 is massive out there. A lot of people learned English 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.680 listen to that song, so that song is very endearing 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.440 to the people out there. But even how I even 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:08.360 got out there, I got out there, it's just so 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:12.040 random and I would never ever ever do something like this, 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:15.600 but it was this show called The Singer, and so 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:20.080 I went on it. And it's like basically like Master Chef, 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:24.200 but for musicians. So it's like professional musicians all over 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:25.480 the world, including China. 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:28.400 Oh wait, you're the contestant. You're not the job I was. 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:28.919 I was not. 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:31.640 I was a contestant. Chante Moore did it the year 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:32.120 before me. 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:33.160 Jesse J. 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.680 Yeah, jesse J did it in twenty eighteen. 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:38.720 So even established people can. 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:43.360 Yeah. It's the craziest thing. It gives you all whole 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.560 different audience that you would never be you know, open to, 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:49.840 especially on my side of country music. And that was 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:53.320 kind of my uh reason for doing it. I was like, well, 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:56.680 why can't I bring country music out to China? 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:00.599 So who presented this opportunity to you? 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:05.719 They found me, they asked yes, And at first I 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:08.359 was like, absolutely not. Is this a scam? Is what 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:09.200 I thought it was? 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:09.920 Right? 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:13.000 I was like, there's no waya what are you talking about? 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:13.560 Right? 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:16.760 And when I saw that Chantey Moore did it, I 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:19.479 was like, you know what, why not? Why not let 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:21.640 me try to do this and let's see what this 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:24.440 is all about? And it was the craziest experience of 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:24.960 my life. 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:30.480 So what was the results? Did you see an instant change? 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.800 And yeah, and it's a change. And the audience that 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.320 I was performing for, like it gave me a whole 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:39.120 different audience to sing for. Like you can think about it. 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:40.920 Every week I was singing in front of like about 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:44.520 one hundred and fifty million people. It was like the 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:48.760 super Bowl every week. It was crazy. It was there's 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:53.600 so many people in China and there's so many avenues 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:56.719 of being heard, and I was just trying to find 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:00.359 another additional space to be in front of and that 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:04.159 was my motivation. It's crazy, and it's I mean, you 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.640 look at the way the world is going, and especially 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:08.920 with a lot of artists in Asia, like you've got 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:12.440 the whole k pop movement that is massive, Like there's 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:16.039 you know, like I don't think we paid attention to 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:19.400 as much as we should have to that whole area. 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:22.600 And I think every single artist should do that if 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:22.920 you have. 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:25.760 Not, you know, on my side of the fence, especially 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.520 with hip hop, I mean, you know that's all of 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:31.560 Asia is like our third biggest market. Yeah, but I 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:35.000 just never you know, I kind of felt like country 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:39.880 music was limited to in my mind, you know, kind 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:43.520 of you're not the big signiction line. But it's worldwide. 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:45.719 I never knew this, never not It. 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:50.040 Is not worldwide. You're very much so spot on. It 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:53.000 is not worldwide, like this is uncharted territory. 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:54.719 You know you're pioneering. 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.240 Okay, that's good, like yes, so. 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.520 And I've had you to be likeas. 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:03.720 No other country artists have ever considered doing the show 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:05.320 or I think the one that I. 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.440 Could really see being successful out there is like a 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:11.840 Casey Musgraves. I'm not sure. I don't have the data 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:15.160 to be able to tell you. I don't know. I 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:19.000 just saw it as a huge opportunity for me. I 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.280 just was like, wow, that's a and so I did 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.600 a tour out there, just like a test tour to 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:27.520 see what that was like in February, and it was 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:32.560 absolutely incredible. Like there's a whole world out there that 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:35.880 you can be a part of. And I guess I'm 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:36.840 pioneering that too. 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.000 There you go, there you go. Could you tell me 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:45.800 what your first musical memory is, man, the very first 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:49.800 thing you remember about music and either to three years old. 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:55.320 It was definitely church for me. I remember just being 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:58.080 in church and singing in the angel choir, then singing 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:01.200 in the Celestial choir. That that was my very first 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:03.160 memory of music. 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.400 How old were you when you first started singing in 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:06.800 the church. 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.120 I was probably about five or six, so I think 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:12.360 around like six or seven is when I started having 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:14.440 memories of church. 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:16.600 And what city did you grow up in? 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:20.640 I grew up in So I grew up around all 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:26.360 around Texas, but Arlington, Texas, and Waco, Texas, Moody, Texas, 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:29.160 really small towns. That's where I grew up. 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:33.240 What are your general memories of childhood. I'll tell you 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:37.360 go back in time to your earliest days, Like what 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.400 are the first things visually that you see, even if 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:43.520 it's the smallest thing, not like going to a fair, 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:47.439 just your curtains. Maybe I don't know visually, you know. 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:51.760 I definitely my room. My bedroom was a big memory 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:54.480 for me. I'm an introvert, so I spent a lot 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:56.440 of time in there, like that was something I really 0:08:56.559 --> 0:09:01.040 loved my grandma's Those are huge memories. Those are a 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:05.319 lot of times my first like thoughts, like the gravel 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:09.520 roads and Crawford, Texas, or the gravel roads driving up 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:12.600 to Moody Texas. That long stretched drive that we would 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:16.199 drive to go see my grandma, the roads going to 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:19.440 see Reesal, Texes. Those are a lot of my memories. 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:22.439 What was the domestic situation in your house? Are you 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.679 the only child? Did you have siblings? Oh? 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:27.280 Yes, I have two siblings. I have three siblings. Excuse me, 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:28.760 I've got two sisters and a brother. 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:30.280 Where do you fall in? 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.520 I'm in the middle. I'm the upper middle. So I've 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.600 got two younger sisters and my brother is the oldest. 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.719 But really I'm the oldest. You know, there's always we're 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:45.520 mature daughter, the eldest daughter is the things. Yeah, for sure, 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.760 it's me and my youngest sister. She's like an old 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:49.320 woman too. 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.120 So do they have musical talent as well? 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:53.199 Or is this just you? 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.560 Well, my whole family sings, besides my mom. She would 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:58.240 hate for me to say that, but my mom can't 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:01.520 sing at all, like at all, But we all we're 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.079 all in the choir together, we all say. But I 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:07.360 was the one that pursued it the most in my family. 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:10.480 You say you traveled all around Texas. Is your father 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.560 in the military or like so my dad. 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:17.839 I don't know what The equivalent of that is like 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:22.640 he was an engineer and he was VP of customer 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:26.319 relations of a company called my dad was he did 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:29.920 well for himself. It's encore, it's I don't know what 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:31.600 where are you at, Laura. 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:33.040 I'm in New York right now? 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:37.520 Whatever the electric company is that major? Most New Yorkers use. 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.040 That was what my dad was in Texas. 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:41.040 Okay, I got it. 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:45.880 What television show would you say best describes your childhood 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:49.679 as a kid or was there a character or a 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:51.480 television show that you imagine that. 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:55.200 So all say, I mean it sucks, like what has 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:58.800 happened to that family? That we were like the Cosby's 0:10:58.880 --> 0:10:59.640 for sure, Like. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:01.080 The Bulls are still alive? 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:06.120 Okay, great? The Huxtables, we were like the Huxtables. Yeah, 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:08.960 like that, we were like that, or you know, definitely 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:12.240 family matters family. We were definitely like that. That was 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:17.079 what our family was like. Okay, blue collar, hardworking. My 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:19.160 mom didn't work. My mom was a homemaker. But that 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:19.920 was our family. 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:23.079 Okay, And mind you, So this is one of the 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:26.599 episodes in which I'm torn between because I want to 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:30.800 know everything about your career, but I also I'm hyper 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:34.640 aware and I think there's another commonality that we might have, 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:38.000 Like oftentimes, when you're in a position in your career, 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:42.319 you're instantly tagged as the person that has to be 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:47.280 the spokesperson for everything. For saying that, and so sometimes 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:50.319 I just want to know silly stuff that you never 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:51.120 get asked before. 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:54.000 Yeah, yeah, I appreciate you for wanting to do that, 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:57.160 because that was kind of a thing for me. 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:00.480 Yeah, I know, you got to ask about what you 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:03.920 put anything click baity, like, yeah, what's your opinion on this? 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:04.640 What's your pinion? 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:06.280 You know, if you're like I have. 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:09.920 I feel no I am o Marion, I feel no ways. 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:14.280 Right now, there you go, There you go. So that said, 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:16.560 uh is there? 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:20.680 This is rather than random? Do you have a weird 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:22.760 food combo that you swear by? 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:26.719 A weird food combo that I swear by? 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:28.280 Yes, I'll tell you what. 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:33.200 So my mom she's dealing with like some like gluten allergies, 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:38.000 So she's trying all these different meals. She got a 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:43.719 sweet potato and put this like avocado like spread on 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:47.920 it that was really really really good. I don't know 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:50.400 what was on it. I have no idea, but it 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:54.040 was like sweet potato there's a baked sweet potato and 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:57.280 they put this like, I don't know, this really flavorful 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:01.520 like avocado spread thing on it, and I tore it up. 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:04.320 It was really really good, and I've been thinking about 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:07.560 it a lot, and it's actually a really good food 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:09.520 combo that I was really surprised. 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:13.400 All Right, I'm gonna look for that. However, if you 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:16.400 eat one meal forever, what would it be like, eat 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:18.400 one meal for forever? 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:20.240 What is your all time favorite? 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:23.880 So my family they used to make this meal back 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:25.959 in the day. It was called Growmy Beans and Corn, 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:29.199 so it's growny beans and corn. I've been eating this 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:32.280 since I was a little girl, so it's groundy. It's 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:37.040 like the black beans in that little black jar black 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.760 can with corn drained the corn and taco sea thing 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:43.120 and yeah and. 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:48.200 She so that's not chili and that's not chilians and corn. 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:50.160 I think they call it bullshit is what they call it. 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.400 It's a Southern thing, but it is really really good. 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:55.959 That's something I used to eat all the time and 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:56.480 I still do. 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:02.679 What song reminds you of high school dances? 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:07.760 Oh? Man, I don't know why this song reminds you 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:10.000 of Probably because it was in love of basketball. But 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:12.760 what was that song that was in love of basketball? 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:18.760 God, Michells, you made a fool of me. No, I 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:19.760 was like, that's depressing. 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:23.520 No, No, what is it called? I Want to Be Here? 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:27.480 You know? I Want to be Yes by Roger Trautman. 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:30.520 Yes. I never danced to it in a high school 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.200 dance at all, but that song always made me think 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:34.480 about a high school dance. 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:36.320 You know, being as though I went to school with 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:39.800 boys to men. I just realized something, We've never had 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:43.400 a high school dance at Creative and Performing Art school. Wow. 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:52.000 What Yeah, I've never been to I mean besides the prom, 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.840 besides junior prom and prom, like, we've never had like 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:56.960 sop hops or. 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:01.760 I think I did either. Actually all the times like homecoming. 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:04.600 I went to Mansfeld High School. Yeah, we had homecoming. 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:07.560 We had uh, we didn't even have. 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:08.520 That, y'all. 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:12.920 Oh wow, Yeah, it's weird, like we did everything that's. 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:16.280 A Texas thing like Texas like homecoming. 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:17.840 And football games and stuff. 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:22.080 Yeah, the moms, those big moms that people. 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:25.320 Would wear, right, Okay, I don't know what that is, 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:26.480 never know what that was. 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:28.520 I'm going to show you a picture of a mom. 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:30.480 If you can't look at one, I. 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:35.120 Will google mom m Um. Yes, okay, and they're. 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:39.160 So ugly, but these are the things that people wear, yeah, mum, 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:41.520 Like this is the stuff that people would wear. 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:44.920 Oh wow wow. 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:48.520 And like the bigger it was, the more that guy 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:49.920 really cared about you. 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:55.000 Yeah, just like a a dress. 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:57.520 That's that's the status thing. If you had a big 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:00.760 mom like you were like the person I know, I. 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.880 Know, And that's that's a traditional thing. Like you're looking 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.000 forward to going to your first mom dancing? 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:10.480 Yeah, oh yeah, give your dressed everything you had Homecoming king, 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:11.440 Homecoming queen. 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:13.280 Wow. 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:17.520 Okay, people in the South know what I'm talking about 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:17.840 for sure. 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:20.960 In high school, who is your celebrity crush? 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:26.920 Oh man, I definitely had a crush on Probably Kobe Bryant. Okay, 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:32.360 I loved that group. Immature but Marcus Houston. 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:40.600 Right, okay, nice? Or then they became immature Yeah yeah clever? 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:45.280 Oh my god, did you have an embarrassing all or 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:46.280 aim name. 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:50.320 My parents were super super strict with us. I never 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:51.240 got to do any of that. 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.920 You didn't none of it? No, really, like no, Yeah, 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:58.680 when did you first like get acclimated with like life on. 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:02.760 Line and I never did the chat rooms. I never 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:06.200 did that ever. I know, I know that's shocking, but 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:10.600 I my parents were like, absolutely not. I wasn't really sheltered. 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:12.960 They didn't let me do anything or go anywhere. 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:17.240 I'm also a shelter kid, So there's a lot I 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:20.560 didn't know that I found out long after my high 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:21.120 school days. 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:23.600 Don't you hate that? Like there was like so much 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:24.920 that I missed out on. 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:31.760 I've said the story before, which maybe like the last 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:35.440 time I saw Bismarcky before he passed, he was sitting 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:38.439 in on the Tonight Show, and even though he was joking, 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:43.920 he's like, Dad, quest like, when did you become a suit? Which, like, 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:48.080 you know, if you're creative, the worst thing that someone 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:51.560 could tell you is that you're a suit, meaning you're 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:56.600 such a straight edge, you know, like I've always been 0:17:56.640 --> 0:18:00.480 the odd guy out of a well. Next question to 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:02.200 you was have you ever cut school? 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:03.960 Or one time? 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:06.840 Wait? But was it was a senior cut day because 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:07.480 that doesn't count? 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:10.080 No, no, I really and it wasn't cut school the 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:11.479 whole day. It was just one class. 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:13.440 Yeah, and you got away with it. 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:14.760 I got away with it. 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:17.520 Oh, okay, one time. 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:19.680 Okay, why did you have to cut? 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:22.919 Well, I didn't have to, so I became I ran 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:25.840 track okay. And there was one guy who was like 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:28.879 the track stars. It was Enrique. He was like the 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:30.000 distance track guy. 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:32.879 Yes, okay and I were. 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.640 Really great friends and we cut school that one day. 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:37.920 He was the one guy that had a car and 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:40.359 we all cut. I think it was like maybe like 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:42.280 the last class of the day. 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:47.000 Oh just one early, an extra hour, you don't have 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:47.240 to go? 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:50.000 Yeah, I know, like so that does that even really count? 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:53.560 No lame, no extra I was good because it's really 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:56.600 really lame. I was you're every kid in America. I 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:59.320 have to be home if the Oprah theme was coming 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:03.000 on and I is not home, Yeah that was that 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:03.520 was Yeah. 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:08.080 So yes, like the door hinges are coming off, Like 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:10.280 my door is coming off, the hinges, like I won't 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:11.400 have a door to my room. 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:14.840 Oh no, privacy your parents before they did that to 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:17.399 me for like a month. Yeah wait, what kind of 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:18.760 trouble did you get into? 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:22.040 Don't even remember. I was probably on the phone past 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:22.760 ten o'clock. 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:28.080 Got you. Yeah, yeah, wow, terrible dude. 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:31.400 You know how many times Tarik would call the house 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:35.160 like Tarika knows. Everyone knows not to call my house 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:39.080 after nine thirty pm. Look, my dad's like six foot 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:43.000 four and just a very scary man. I mean I 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:46.360 joke like he was a Joe Jackson drill sergeant father. 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:49.399 Yeah, my mom and dad were very much on that too. 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:51.120 Yeah, people knew my parents didn't play. 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:55.440 But like Tik would routinely called me to like play 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:57.040 me some rap song he just heard that. 0:19:57.160 --> 0:20:01.720 It'd be like ten oh one or whatever, and together 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:07.560 I'll be like hello. He'd be like hello, and I 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:10.080 gotta call Yeah, I gotta call you tomorrow too. 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:16.399 I thought my husband, I got the exact opposite, Like 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:20.040 I got such a you can't tell that about him now, 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:23.440 but how he was like he was wild and all loose. 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:26.400 And how when did you guys first meet? 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:29.280 We first met when I was nineteen. He's my best 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:33.760 friends step brother, okay, and I don't like him back then, 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:38.639 I didn't even think about him like that. But he 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:41.760 was just so rough around the edges, and I, like 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:46.280 you was not, and so I just never. 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:49.680 Thought And then here was always the person that you 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:52.840 least expect. It's like, I like when that works out, 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:55.640 I do too. I like what that has never worked 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:56.000 out in my. 0:20:56.080 --> 0:21:00.400 Favorite I mean you never nothing worked out of my favor, 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:02.280 to be honest, but that this one did. 0:21:14.760 --> 0:21:19.720 Is there a fashion trend that you regret ever following 0:21:20.000 --> 0:21:22.240 in your life in your teen years? 0:21:22.800 --> 0:21:26.560 Oh my god, Like when everyone was wearing those super 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:29.840 super low jeans where their ass cracks were sticking out, 0:21:30.200 --> 0:21:32.040 I was like that, you're from Texas? 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:34.040 Were you a walking house of dairion? 0:21:35.720 --> 0:21:38.760 I couldn't afford the house of airon? Okay, Like that 0:21:39.000 --> 0:21:40.399 was not in my prim Oh that. 0:21:40.480 --> 0:21:42.080 Was a luxury Okay, I didn't know. 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:45.119