WEBVTT - Episode 345 "Lakeyah" 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:05.840 They called me. 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:15.000 Broadcasting little famous Atlantic, Georgia. Welcome to the ball Alert Show. 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:16.120 I go by the name of Ferrari sent. 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:17.680 I go by to the name you know, BT. The 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:18.880 kid in the building. 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:22.400 Already here trying to get us take some shots, but 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:24.080 we would be taking water. 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:25.880 I don't know. I'm ready to get turned. 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:27.240 What's up man? 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:28.360 Long time? 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:30.440 I've been trying to get you up here for the longest. 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:32.360 We have to push you back because you said. 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:33.159 You own the trust. 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:39.479 Relax, relax, relaxed, relaxing. 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:43.040 The kid is grown now, she be turned. Last time 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:45.080 we spoke like for real, like this, I was like 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:45.920 nineteen years old. 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:50.320 Yeah, you are one of my favorite artists. I talked 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:52.160 to you often, not really. 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:56.800 He talked about how great of artists you are. Your freestyle. 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.440 He always talked about your free the freestyle. 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:00.720 When I went, we went viral. 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:01.720 Oh gotcha. 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.200 It's still like getting plays on because I was at 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:08.480 the other station. It's still getting plays right now. 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:11.399 She had a strong guy's accident talking about she's been 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:13.720 to Milwaukee in the building Milwaukee. 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.039 It's been coming out lately, though, But y'all know I'm 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:18.720 from Foe on Foe shout out my city. But you'll 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:19.880 know I fu with Atlanta too. 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:23.919 So I do want to start there from Milwaukee. 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:25.560 What what part of Milwaukee? 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:28.520 I'm from the North side, like I'm from like Silver Spring, 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:31.240 I'm near West Line. My people gonna know what I'm 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:31.920 talking about. 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:32.959 Now, education? 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:33.880 So what is that? 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:35.720 An okay area? Is it good? 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:38.280 Is it's I'm gonna call it okay? Like we lived 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:41.000 by people that was like a lot of single family 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:42.959 homes stuff like that. They got a lot of kids. 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:46.759 I lived in the Caudy Sack, in the Caudi Sacks, 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:48.320 so we had the same neighbors. 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:50.800 Yeah, you drive down there, you you you stayed there, 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:52.760 or you're delivering something you ain't supposed. 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:55.080 To drive down Stuff happened everywhere that I know about 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:57.160 the Kia boys and ship like that. Just don't have 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:57.600 no KYA. 0:01:58.000 --> 0:01:59.040 Okay, your car safe. 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:02.200 Wait they still kids in Milwaukee. 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:03.040 But you know to. 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:06.720 Because you can open it with an iPhone or something 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:12.760 like that. What man, it was trending damn from a 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:15.160 specific gear to a specific gear you could have you 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:17.160 could help you could open the car with. 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:21.239 So y'all put me on game. 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:24.200 Yeah, I know you've been hearing a lot about Milwaukee. 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:24.960 Now they coming up. 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:27.040 They like, yeah, first of all, y'all win that championship 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:27.560 that one year. 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.400 And my boy, my boy, Bobby Porters, he played for 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:32.360 the Milwaukee Bucks. 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:33.920 He me and him from the same. 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:37.000 City from Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas. 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:45.000 Yep, okay, yeah. So in my time when. 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.120 I travel with JIZI a lot, he was always in 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:46.600 Milwaukee and Detroit. 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:49.919 So, uh, it'd be cold as hell up there. 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:52.240 It's call right now. I was just there. It was 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:53.560 like forty degrees. 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:55.640 Damn, you don't have no jacket on. 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:58.799 Look at it because it's it's slip cold outside. 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:01.920 It's called outside cold. 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:07.800 You know, we just don't get cold the. 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:09.960 Man. 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:11.919 I'll definitely be cold outside right now. 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:13.040 When did you start rapping? 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:15.680 I start rapping when I was fifteen. Well, I started 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:17.520 realizing I could rap when I was fifteen. 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:19.440 What happened? Like, how how did you realize that? 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.520 I was on a poetry slam team And they was like, girl, 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:25.200 you sound like a rapper. And then I did a challenge, 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:28.120 caught the Sogune challenge. It was a long time ago, 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:30.800 and I will record myself on SoundCloud, like on my 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.680 little computer I had, I deleted all that shit. It 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:36.000 was so bad. I hated the tone of my voice. 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.000 I was doing like a lot of raps and covers 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:42.200 and I would go viral on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and shit. 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:44.240 By the time I was eighteen, I got picked up. 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:47.760 Isn't that how QC found you? Because you were wrapping 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:48.400 in your car? 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:49.080 Yes? 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:50.600 So who contacted you? 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:54.760 I was blowing them up, okay, I was harassing them. 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:58.360 I was arresting them. And then he finally DM me 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:01.040 and was like, you know, are you signed. I'm like, no, 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:02.560 I'm trying to get signed. 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:03.000 What's up? 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:07.840 And then it happened probably like like six months from that. Damn. 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.840 I would say, usually it takes a little minute, but 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:13.720 you kind of came. I don't know if I ever 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:17.599 saw someone came so aggressive in the music, like cause 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:19.000 she be talking that ship. 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:20.200 Yeah, you definitely be talking. 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:21.640 That's what I'm here for. 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:25.720 First, she got an attitude and she rather, you know 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:27.359 what I'm saying, are you mad? 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:31.039 Like when you at the time, who'll be making you mad? 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:34.560 Besides these internet trolls that you keep entertaining, which I 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:35.200 don't know why. 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.640 I clock and see though sometimes I don't even be mad. 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:42.839 It's just like you said something, I'm funnier. I'm hilarious 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:43.160 that me. 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:45.480 You you say that about me all the time? Why 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:46.919 are you when people coming don'times? 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:50.120 I just feel likeday, I just feel like tell you 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:50.640 what I. 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:52.200 Feel like because I'll be having to tell him. 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:55.200 I'll be like, bro, man, why are because he will 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:56.400 be so wrong? 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:59.159 Yeah, it's about the facts. I feel like, if you 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:01.520 say what you're gonna say, I ain't gonna say nothing. 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:03.120 If you got it all right right. 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:06.000 But see the difference was between you. You been giving 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.000 them platforms. Man, you don't need to be on. 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:11.479 Don't give nobody no cloud like like but you become Kooby, 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:13.400 you be you be putting them in their pocket. 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:15.400 That over here like damn, she went in on. 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:18.279 That, Like I would rather clear you and tell you 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:22.479 and you know you're trying to humble me. But like, 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.520 I'm funnier, I'm in a better position than you technically, 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:27.680 I'm like, you know what I'm saying. I'm gonna tell 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:29.920 you about you? Why are you? Why do people get 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:31.800 to say what they want about like people of higher 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:33.920 stature and just be like, oh, she need to be 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:36.400 humble when a person clap back. I feel like, that's crazy. 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:40.800 I don't understand why people watch artists and they feel 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:43.000 the need to like say something negative, you know what 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:44.520 I mean, Because they're watching you. 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:45.880 It's not like you went to their. 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:49.440 Page and on your page. 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:54.719 But that's called internet troll. And like I said multiple times, 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:57.440 I have a cousin from Florida, where I'm from, and 0:05:57.480 --> 0:05:59.080 she's a professional troller. 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:00.600 That's what he does. 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:03.320 Yes, she has multiple accounts and all she does is 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:05.440 she wakes up and she trolls. 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:09.600 Sometimes people would page that's what she likes to do. 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.200 So people I didn't think people actually enjoyed that. 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.120 I think it comes from like people like me, like 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:20.000 what I just went through. If a person gonna reply 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:21.799 to me, I know, I'm gonna get, like some followers, 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:24.560 some engagement. Maybe that's why they do it, because it 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:26.240 ain't no way you want to wake up every day 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:26.560 and just. 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.120 Be Sometimes they have these accounts when they're following two 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:31.480 thousand people don't have any followers, and then. 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:32.120 They're talking shit. 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:34.960 And I think sometimes those accounts are people that you know, 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:37.000 people that know you. 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:38.599 Yeah, yeah, you know what. 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:42.440 I do believe that because I remember one of our 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:44.640 one of our interviews I think we did the interview 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:46.960 with Boosie or somebody in something like the dude I 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.960 went to high school with. He was talking like crazy 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.679 shit in the common and I went on this page 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:54.440 and I said, man, I went to high school with 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:54.880 this dude. 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:59.599 Because I think envy and a hater is different. Like, 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:01.279 if it's a hater, I can see that am all away. 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:03.000 MV is someone that I feel. 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.039 That they know you and they wish they could be you. 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:05.919 That's just me. 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:07.520 Jealousy definitely come from within you. 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:10.120 So when I see that, that's yeah, I gotta be 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:12.200 on ma quy and clear you because I'll be over 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:14.760 here like I think you may know me and you're 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:16.800 talking to me from a fake page, so let me 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:18.440 put you in your in your pocket real quick. 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.000 Definitely, like, if you know that much about a person, 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.440 like you can go back to like when it was 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:27.240 nineteen and list what you don't like about them, that's envy. Yeah, 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:29.040 a hater just woke up and said, Oh, that bitch 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.600 wig for I today. You know what I'm saying, that's 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:34.400 at that bitch is not like. But if you don't 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:35.840 watch everything about me, it can be like, oh, I 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:37.160 don't like this I don't like this, but you're. 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:40.080 Jealous, and you probably have a lot of people jealous 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:43.280 because you did blow up very young, you. 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:44.040 Know, and fast. 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:47.080 But I also think that's because you're also talented, and 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:48.640 some people don't have that path. 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:52.080 Uh. Sometimes they have to work a lot harder because 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:53.080 they're talented and be like. 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:54.040 Damn, man, why I heard? 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.080 And why not meet? Type shit. So I feel like 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:57.720 you faced that. 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:00.480 A lot, but like everybody got their own path, though 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:02.720 I'm still in a position where i'd be like damn, 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:05.000 you know, I feel like I'm taking a little longer 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:08.240 than I would have expected because I'm talented, you know 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.760 what I'm saying humbly speaking, But shit, I feel like 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:12.960 everybody got their own path and you gotta wait on yours. 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:14.440 Don't look at me and be like, oh that should 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:17.240 be me, bitch, Just wait and wait. 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:19.760 Everybody get a turn to And that's what people don't understand. 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:22.240 It's like I know a lot of artists. They see 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:24.880 people and you know you and you might think of 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:26.280 your mind like now I got better songs in this 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:29.360 I got But it's like everybody has their time and 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:30.840 their moment exactly. 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:32.320 You really got to be patient. 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:33.199 Do you feel underrated? 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:37.959 Yes, but I feel like it definitely keeps me grounded 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.960 and it keeps me grinding because I feel like if 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:43.120 I would have blew up faster, it wouldn't have gave 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:44.600 me nothing, but like cockiness. 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:49.600 Where does all this confidence and self respect come from? 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:50.400 Is your mom? 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:51.320 Your dad, grandma? 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:53.680 I'm gonna definitely say my mother, like I ain't see 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:57.160 her have no man like, you know, giving her money 0:08:57.200 --> 0:08:58.000 and stuff like that. 0:08:58.840 --> 0:08:59.840 She got it ot the mother. 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:01.720 Got it out the mud, like shout out her. She 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:05.080 got three businesses, three group homes now and I remember 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.880 her like working three jobs like every single day. I 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:12.360 remember watching mom and go to college walk across the stage. 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:13.440 So you saw that. 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:17.760 Yeah, So it's just like I think I just grew 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:20.080 up with it. It was installed in me. I just 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:23.280 gotta keep going. But the confidence and stuff is like look, 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:28.160 no shamee, Like I'd be looking good for real. So 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.600 I just want to exude that for people that watch me, 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:33.080 listen to me, because I came along way when I 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:34.839 was in high school. Everybody know when I used to 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:37.640 go viral, I used to wear bracest I have braces 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:41.520 for a long time, glasses, acne, skinny, little ice skin 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:44.040 girl for real, like skinny. Like they used to call 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:46.960 me lanky, long and lanky. So now that I'm like 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.640 in love with myself, I just want to exude that threeople. 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:51.520 So you done glowed up. 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:53.880 Exactly where's your name come from? Is that your real name? 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:54.320 Yeah? 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:57.120 So that's what your driver's license it is. Is that 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:01.080 your middle name? Or that's your first person name? Okay? 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:07.439 I wanted to be just as police questions why they 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:09.920 chose their name, well, I wanted to go by my 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.199 real name because besides the fact I was already going 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:14.480 viral and shit, it was just like when you think 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:18.880 about Chris Brown when you like, you know, the great, 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:21.880 when you call my name on stage, when I get 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.439 my first award, like kid, and it's just like, exactly, 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:27.280 that's that's on the certificate. 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:30.120 Say that my real name, my real name, that's my 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:33.440 government name, all right. So it's type for do you 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:34.120 like me? 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:38.200 Okay, Lakia? Do you have a crush on somebody? Does 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.400 someone have a crush on you? Do you want to 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:41.520 shout that person out? 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:46.720 A lot of people got crushes on me, But do 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:49.920 I have a crush on somebody? I'm in a relationship, baby, 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:50.520 I love. 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.560 You ya whoa whoa? Wait wait you say I love you? 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:54.120 Key? 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:54.920 Who is key? 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:59.319 Drop the name if you know you know you knowing 0:10:59.400 --> 0:10:59.880 and stuff? 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:01.679 Okay, okay, who's key? 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:05.800 Who is key? Is key? Who is key? 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:07.000 Wait? 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:10.160 Look kea, yeah, so is this person named key? 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:13.120 Yeah? They be calling us the keys sometimes, okay, calling 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:14.280 us the keys. 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:16.200 So you are in a relationship, you're going steady? 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.880 Yeah, I'm a lover. Girl'm a pisces in there. You 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:26.960 be in there like you. 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.320 You know, I love tell me my camera, I love you? 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.840 All right, all right, all, good job, good job. Now 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:33.800 it is time for you got me fucked up? 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:35.840 What's okay? 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:38.360 Just take just know you take it over the all 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:40.520 radio show too, okay. 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:45.199 So yo, this is for all your trolls. Just this 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:46.880 is for somebody who just got. 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:47.400 You fucked up? 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:48.560 Who got you? 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:54.000 Okay? Yo, that's good? 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:56.600 Who got who got Lakia fucked up? 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:58.480 All these witches that be hanging the kid got me 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:01.719 up for one. I'm chill, ill, be chilling. I make 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:03.959 my money. I sit back, I look good. I'm telling 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:06.960 to this fuck I popped my ship. Why people just 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.680 be hating on me? Why are you just behating on me. 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:12.120 Do y'all know, I. 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:14.520 Don't know, but they got you fucked up. 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:17.439 Y'all gotta stop that, y'all gotta stop that hate. 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:19.800 Man, stop that hate. And you could be anything in 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.320 the motherfucking world. You could be a doctor. You could 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:24.880 be a motherfucking zoologist. I don't care what you want 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:26.920 to be. Why the fuck you wake up and say 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:29.280 I want to be a hater. Don't do that. It 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:30.880 don't pay. What do we pay? 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:31.679 It does. 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:37.880 Unless someone gets really smart and they do some streaming 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:38.520 ship with it. 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:40.120 They're like a streaming hater. 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:41.560 That's way. 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:43.680 I don't know if I I don't know if we should. 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.000 About to say, don't put that, don't put this in there. 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:49.959 We already got Jack war Wright and all these all 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:52.240 these crazy people getting paid that crazy. 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:54.240 All right, Well that was you got me f up 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:57.840 featuring Lakiah Uh Now I want to get into the music. 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:01.120 What we got going on is Kia is still signed. 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:02.480 Is the Lakia independent? 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:05.839 Lakia is going to address that when Laki is ready to. 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:07.280 Address We're not addressing that right now. 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.760 We're not going to address it today when I come. 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:13.600 Back, So we're neither signed nor independent. You know you 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:15.160 can answer no, you know what it is. I know 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:18.240 what it is. It's it's a litigation. 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:20.600 It's a litigation of her getting out of her content, 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:24.720 and she can't talk about it until she's out of the. 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:27.120 Or they're probably negotiating some new deals, a new deal. 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:29.920 Okay, we got two different you know. 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:32.200 I think I'm right. I think you're wrong. I mean, 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:33.400 we both might be wrong. 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:39.280 Could guess what do I know? 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:40.800 We know we're just journalists. 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.960 I will say Lakia is always working, Lakia is you 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:51.120 know that bitch, regardless of like any situation that's going on. 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:53.360 But it's nothing negative. You know, anything that I'm going 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:54.920 through was a choice. 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:58.720 You have a lot of big records with a lot 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:02.440 of big females, a lot of males. This is like 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:05.320 really good for you because it's just so hard to 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:08.720 get these co signs of people to work together in 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:10.640 a space where everyone's so clique. 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:12.280 I don't see Lakid. 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:16.240 Like on one side or that side. I always see you, 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:17.440 you know, doing you. 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:20.800 Yeah, I'm just very focused on myself, my career. I 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.520 love everybody. I love that. It's so much especially the 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:27.520 industry right now, it's like the doors flew open and man, 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:29.920 anybody could like get a deal, anybody could be like 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:32.640 the next big thing. So shit is like, just focus 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:35.720 on you. I feel like when you put yourself in 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:39.160 different cliques, different groups, you kind of just like minimize 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:40.360 opportunities for yourself. 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:43.320 Let me say that, Yeah, do you feel like that 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:46.360 you do get the support from the label that you 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:49.200 need to continue going to the next level. 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:50.840 I definitely got a I'm not gonna lie. I got 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:54.080 a lot of support from QC. I mean, as you know, 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:57.720 like I got signed during COVID, So yes, I was 0:14:57.800 --> 0:14:59.560 doing a lot of stuff that it was like, I 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.160 mean it was is it the particular situation or what 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:04.640 I wanted? But it was definitely great for me. I 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:08.760 was nineteen years old. My life changed, like jurassically. 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:10.600 Is there something that you was like, damn, I don't 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:11.080 like this. 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:14.640 Yeah, that's every day in the industry, industry. 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.080 Just what particularly that you was like, Damn, man, this 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:19.560 come with it, like I gotta, I guess. 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:21.360 The one thing that I felt like was just like 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.240 having to alter yourself to fit to what's going on 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:29.240 in the like this generation's music, you know, Like I 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:31.360 feel like, damn me and Laurence Hill would have been 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:34.560 like sisters, like we would have been sisters. Me and 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:36.960 Keisha Colee. That's my girl. She called me, you know, 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:39.800 and she gave me advice. I listened to a lot 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:43.400 of like Rick Ross and Willet's and cash down t 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:45.520 Grizzly is one of my favorites. I listen to a 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:47.360 lot of lyrical people like Jake Cole got me through 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:50.360 a little phase in my life in middle school. So 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:52.840 I feel like right now, it's like damn. Sometimes I 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:54.920 feel like I got a dumb it down just a 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:55.320 little bit. 0:15:55.400 --> 0:16:00.000 Sometimes, Oh, what's some advice keishak give you? 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.880 Just to keep going staying true to myself. She hear me, 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:04.960 and a lot of people hear me, and like, you know, 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:08.280 they need people like me. She needs people like me. 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:11.120 You know what I'm saying. The girls be listening to 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:12.440 my heartbroken ads? 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:14.600 Real who broke your heart? 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:18.360 Not key that. 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:24.200 Never yeah my name all over there, but like my 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:26.640 daddy broke my heart and shit your dad? 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:31.680 Yeah, Okay, let's unpack that. Friend, OK, what's going on with? 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:37.360 My daddy left me when I was like two years old? O? Shit? 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:40.480 You know when? Yeah? No, I don't really think so 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:42.120 he was definitely out of my life. And the father 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:44.920 figures that I did have was like one passed away 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.000 and then the other one was like in and out 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:49.840 of prison and stuff. He just got out shut out 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:54.000 KT but yeah, stuff like that, Like I'm a broken 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:56.520 hearted girl. Like overall, I listened to a lot of 0:16:56.840 --> 0:17:00.280 music that resonated with my soul, like Tink and like thing. 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:04.080 She's special and I saw her perform. I took my 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:06.400