Speaker 1: So if you were a ghost, what would be your
Speaker 1: style of hunting? Your signature? If I was the ghost,
Speaker 1: what would be my style of hunting? Probably something sexual,
Speaker 1: pulling dicks. Oh my god, Yes up, I'm gonna pull
Speaker 1: your dick off today. I'm Gosha and the Creepies. We
Speaker 1: are blessed with the presence of the Queen Diva, Miss
Speaker 1: Big Frieda. How are you, honey? I'm good. You already
Speaker 1: know how you doing. I miss you too. We were
Speaker 1: just talking about how we were supposed to be spending
Speaker 1: this whole past year making people dance their tits off.
Speaker 1: That's right, for real, for the whole body, Like, for real,
Speaker 1: just wear them out. We were going to wear them
Speaker 1: out onto our honey. Well we still will will. Yes,
Speaker 1: So everybody get the COVID shots so we can get
Speaker 1: back to it. Yeah, so we can go shake our
Speaker 1: asses till we can't anymore. We can go raise some
Speaker 1: hell'll chase some rainbows. Girl, Yes, well you seem well.
Speaker 1: Is that your home? Are you home right now? I
Speaker 1: love New Orleans? I was thinking about it. Oh I
Speaker 1: miss it girl, not me. I'm ready to get from
Speaker 1: I've been thinking about moving and I'm like, should I
Speaker 1: move to Austin. I boomed to Nashville, and then I
Speaker 1: was reading up on New Orleans and I was like, funk,
Speaker 1: should I just moved to New Orleans. It's such a
Speaker 1: magical city. It is. It's a crazy place. It's crazy,
Speaker 1: crazy place. It seems I've spent some time there. But
Speaker 1: obviously you were like born and raised in New Orleans, right,
Speaker 1: That's right my whole life. So that's why I'm ready
Speaker 1: to get the hell away from the words right now.
Speaker 1: I want to get back on the road, back to
Speaker 1: the bag and the fans. Me too. I missed that energy, yeah,
Speaker 1: because you know, just like performing virtually is really weird,
Speaker 1: you know. Um, It's like, you know, you don't have
Speaker 1: the audience to screaming Holly, you don't have the people
Speaker 1: to touch and feel, and you know the room is
Speaker 1: not sweating with little drips of water on the wall.
Speaker 1: So it's just a weird feeling, you know, sometimes in
Speaker 1: the virtual space. So I definitely want to to feel
Speaker 1: that energy and love from that stage. You can hear
Speaker 1: it all in the your green room while you're getting ready,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Yes, it's such a it's
Speaker 1: such a weird experience for to try to put into
Speaker 1: words that feeling it is. There's nothing like it. It's
Speaker 1: nothing like it, and like it's so like anxiety and excitement,
Speaker 1: anticipation and you're snatched and you're pulled and you're yanked in. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's definitely a war. But we will you will see
Speaker 1: me in big free to on stage as soon as
Speaker 1: it's safe, just for all of our listeners. I am
Speaker 1: super curious just in reading so much about New Orleans.
Speaker 1: There's so many parts about New Orleans that seemed very
Speaker 1: conducive to being creepy or spooky or supernatural. It feels
Speaker 1: like a very witchy, like a magic, witchy city. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, there's lots of talk of voodoo here. Um
Speaker 1: you know, I have a friend who's a boodoo priests
Speaker 1: and um, you know he reads me sometime. But usually
Speaker 1: you know, when I go get a reading, it's about um,
Speaker 1: you know, just life, a life reading and um, you know,
Speaker 1: energies and stuff like that. I don't you know, he
Speaker 1: don't usually be playing with no like witching spells and
Speaker 1: stuff like that, or no hex to kind of you know,
Speaker 1: get nobody or nothing like that. But you know, there
Speaker 1: is here say that there's some voodoo, some the dark
Speaker 1: side of the voodoo going on as well here in
Speaker 1: New Orleans. But I keep it on the light side.
Speaker 1: If I go get a reading, that's good because I
Speaker 1: saw on you like a is it like a reality
Speaker 1: show on the clips on YouTube? You're talking about going
Speaker 1: to your voodoo priests. Yes, that's him and so so
Speaker 1: there is like a dark and a light. So it's
Speaker 1: just like anything like you can pick the light positive side.
Speaker 1: Voodoo is not just a dark kind of it's a
Speaker 1: dark thing always. No. You know, they have people who
Speaker 1: practice the good, you know, kind of good voodoo, and
Speaker 1: they have people, of course who practice the bad voodoo.
Speaker 1: So just like anything in life, you got the good
Speaker 1: and the bad. And I definitely want to stay with
Speaker 1: the good though, you know, especially when it comes to
Speaker 1: some thing like that. I don't want to be having
Speaker 1: spirits and stuff come and talk to me and touch
Speaker 1: me and freak me out. You know. I'll watch a
Speaker 1: lot of movies dealing with you know, um, the weird
Speaker 1: and and and and the are normal, I would say, um,
Speaker 1: but I definitely don't want to have to experience any
Speaker 1: of that, So I definitely keep it on the light side.
Speaker 1: I used to funk with like Luigi boards, and I
Speaker 1: thought it was really fun to try to conjure up spirits.
Speaker 1: And when I'm on tour, I stay at haunted places.
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, I had an experience
Speaker 1: with something and I was like, I'm done. That was
Speaker 1: just too much. Well, I just didn't know what I
Speaker 1: was doing, and I realized you have to be careful.
Speaker 1: It's fun, but until some ghost tries to funk with you,
Speaker 1: and then it gets very real. Yeah, I've never had
Speaker 1: too many weird experiences of something, you know of no
Speaker 1: ghostly like friendly things coming at me or on any
Speaker 1: of that. And you know, but dar is talk that
Speaker 1: in New Orleans has a lot of places that's haunted
Speaker 1: buildings and hotels. And you know they're saying right now
Speaker 1: on Canal Street the building that collapse, that they're going
Speaker 1: to have some spirits in there because they still have
Speaker 1: people stuck in the rubble right now. Yeah, the building
Speaker 1: that collapse on Canal Street and they try to like
Speaker 1: blow it up to get the building to fall down.
Speaker 1: The building still would not fall. So that has been
Speaker 1: closed off over a year now. Oh wow, and they're
Speaker 1: trying to blow it up and make it fall to
Speaker 1: build something else. Yes, and there's still people bodies in there.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. That seems like a recipe for some
Speaker 1: supernatural ingredients. I always start the conversations off with do
Speaker 1: you believe in the supernatural? I mean to extend I
Speaker 1: feel there is another power that bese um you know
Speaker 1: I but not to experience it into actual see it.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. It's a it's a thing
Speaker 1: where it's just always that thought in the back of
Speaker 1: your mind, you know, is it real? Is it not?
Speaker 1: So you know, I really haven't had any experience too
Speaker 1: to really even think that far of man, you know,
Speaker 1: is this really real or not? But at some point
Speaker 1: in my mind I do think that, um, there is
Speaker 1: an other side, you know what I'm saying, that people
Speaker 1: have to deal with spirits. It just probably depends on
Speaker 1: who it comes to and the people that deals with
Speaker 1: that type of energy and stuff. But that's not my world. Yeah. See,
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was my world, but now I
Speaker 1: want it to be my world. I want to just
Speaker 1: know everybody's experience because they feel also ties in to
Speaker 1: your spiritual background too, you know, right, So I mean,
Speaker 1: that's why I was about to go next. So you know,
Speaker 1: I do believe in God, and so I do have
Speaker 1: a spiritual background that comes from being in a church
Speaker 1: and growing up, um, in the gospel choir and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. So there is a higher being that you
Speaker 1: can feel the spirit when when I've been you know,
Speaker 1: going to church all this time since i was a kid.
Speaker 1: So I'm certain that there's an other side like we've
Speaker 1: been talking about that also visits people and that they
Speaker 1: believe in it, that their beliefs are strong and and
Speaker 1: going to church. I read that you kind of were
Speaker 1: the one that really wanted to go to church and
Speaker 1: you took your mom to church, and that's I don't
Speaker 1: know if that was like a true story. And I
Speaker 1: did the same thing with my mom too. I did, like,
Speaker 1: you know, I would just try to encourage every out
Speaker 1: in the house to go to church. You know, I
Speaker 1: was the one who was always at church every Sunday,
Speaker 1: acquired rehearsal on Saturdays, you know, at Bible study. So
Speaker 1: I was just trying to make sure that my family
Speaker 1: was saved as well, and then they knew God. And um,
Speaker 1: you know, my my mom she started all bringing us
Speaker 1: to church when we were small, so she actually instilled
Speaker 1: it in me, and I just going and I will
Speaker 1: pull them back, you know, with me every now and then.
Speaker 1: That's it's so funny because I've always been drawn to
Speaker 1: the church, and I just think it's about finding the
Speaker 1: one that suits you. Like I went to a lot
Speaker 1: of different ones that didn't feel quite right, but then
Speaker 1: when I found just I almost had to find the
Speaker 1: church that fit me. And it kind of is a
Speaker 1: very unique thing that I hold inside myself and I
Speaker 1: know my morals. I know love is good. I know,
Speaker 1: you know. That's like what I've come to is I
Speaker 1: take from all different kinds of religions and just take
Speaker 1: the most positive pieces. Yeah, in my mind, I have
Speaker 1: my own church. And it was so much fun making
Speaker 1: raising hell and performing that with you and when we tour,
Speaker 1: because we will't just creating that almost like I really
Speaker 1: wanted to create that with you, and I think we did.
Speaker 1: It was like welcome to church, and the churches like
Speaker 1: love one another, Yeah, shake your eyes and love one another. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know that's what it's about. And and
Speaker 1: and you know, the people us we make up the church,
Speaker 1: the church that they call the church is just the
Speaker 1: building the churches inside of us, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: we make it up. So you know, I enjoyed making
Speaker 1: Raising Hell and because it did have a spiritual background
Speaker 1: and it felt really good, and you it was something
Speaker 1: fun for our audience to be able to you know,
Speaker 1: have the church in them and let it out and
Speaker 1: express themselves and in the way that they want. So
Speaker 1: you know, it's all about having what's inside if you
Speaker 1: come out absolutely, I feel like it is it is
Speaker 1: what's inside of you. And I've never heard it said
Speaker 1: that way, but it is. A church is just where
Speaker 1: you go to celebrate life and focus on the good
Speaker 1: and try to bring out the good and be honest
Speaker 1: about yourself, but in a building with other people. And
Speaker 1: then the singing part of churches would always drew me
Speaker 1: to church as well. Like I was never in a choir,
Speaker 1: but you were in a choir, right yes, And I
Speaker 1: was the quiet direct there. Yeah, and that's like where
Speaker 1: you started singing, right yeah, that's the most funnest part.
Speaker 1: You know. For me, it was always the music that
Speaker 1: that drew everybody together and brought us together. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: it was just like you can put on a good
Speaker 1: gospel song. You have people standing up clapping, you have
Speaker 1: people shouting, you have people dancing, you know, and that's
Speaker 1: where the spirit came in when those mom that's what happened,
Speaker 1: and it was through the music. Yes, And I love
Speaker 1: when it all kind of happens at the same time.
Speaker 1: I feel like music can be a really spiritual experience.
Speaker 1: It can mean Yeah, so many different emotions you know,
Speaker 1: can come out of music, from happy to say to
Speaker 1: you know in between two to dancing. It's just so
Speaker 1: many things that come from come from it. And that's
Speaker 1: the fun part to see, especially in church, when it
Speaker 1: all happens at the same time, because you have good
Speaker 1: all of the things, the energy, the expulsion of sounds
Speaker 1: and clapping and singing and all of that. Community. I
Speaker 1: find community also for like as my church, my church's
Speaker 1: music and my church's community. And I love being able
Speaker 1: to create a space where we can all come and
Speaker 1: do that. And that's what raising hell is really about.
Speaker 1: For me. It's I'm not a perfect person, far from it.
Speaker 1: And I like to do some ship that people would
Speaker 1: probably categorizes not in the way of the Lord, but
Speaker 1: maybe not. I mean, just like getting drunk and running
Speaker 1: around and acting a fool, but it's all like in
Speaker 1: good fun. And I think as long as you treat
Speaker 1: people with respect and you're good, then that God or
Speaker 1: higher consciousness, that's that's the exchange of energy. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what it's about. You know. The song
Speaker 1: had great energy and and it brought people together, and
Speaker 1: it gave us all a reason to want to raise
Speaker 1: Hell just about enjoying life and living life and living
Speaker 1: in our truth. And you know, it brings the community
Speaker 1: of different people together and that was that was the
Speaker 1: biggest part of bringing all these people together and doing
Speaker 1: something positive through music, because you know, everybody might not
Speaker 1: be able to get up and go to church, but
Speaker 1: this is their church. We're giving them a piece of
Speaker 1: church that relates to their religion or relates to uh
Speaker 1: they're higher being or you know, their spiritual feeling. And
Speaker 1: that's what's important. You know, He works in mysterious ways,
Speaker 1: and he puts you know, us in different positions where
Speaker 1: people are able to deliver and and make people know
Speaker 1: who He is and in many different ways. And and
Speaker 1: somebody may have got you know, closer to God listening
Speaker 1: to Raising Hell. I hope, so that would be amazing
Speaker 1: I'm certain, I'm certain for sure that someone did well.
Speaker 1: And Chasing Rainbows too, like that song was so special
Speaker 1: is so special. I was listening to it earlier because
Speaker 1: my nieces in the video, my brother was just telling
Speaker 1: you and she loves it, and she was the one.
Speaker 1: She's about five. She told me that you were going
Speaker 1: to be on the New Yar's Eve show. Yes, that
Speaker 1: was How was that? Oh? It was great. I mean
Speaker 1: the experience, you know, just doing something on a positive
Speaker 1: note bringing in the new year in the countdown, I
Speaker 1: had a blast. I can't wait to do it again,
Speaker 1: and you know, hopefully next year I do it again.
Speaker 1: You know, it was a lot. I just wish that
Speaker 1: the world was open and that I could have had
Speaker 1: the whole New Orleans behind me as we were doing it,
Speaker 1: you know, because we have to kind of be like
Speaker 1: socially distanced and people in these little circles and stuff.
Speaker 1: But you know, next year, we're doing what we can
Speaker 1: to try to stay sane and connected even with all
Speaker 1: this going on. I know that you're killing it. And
Speaker 1: I also heard I'm pretty sure I heard one of
Speaker 1: your songs in a commercial like last night, but I didn't.
Speaker 1: It went by so fast. One of your songs in
Speaker 1: a commercial right now, yeah, JUBIDERM Yes, face filler is
Speaker 1: that the lip filler? I was reading about, uh, Queen
Speaker 1: Marie Lavaux, and I was so taken by her story.
Speaker 1: Do you know about her? Like the queen of Voodoo
Speaker 1: and New Orleans? And she just sounded like a wonderful person.
Speaker 1: She helped feed people that couldn't afford to buy food, clothes,
Speaker 1: kids on the streets, and just in like reading about
Speaker 1: New Orleans. It's made me want to dive deeper into
Speaker 1: what voodoo is because I think when I first hear
Speaker 1: about it, you know, I'm from Nashville and then I
Speaker 1: live in l A. It's a it's a removed thing
Speaker 1: from my culture that I lived through. But it seems
Speaker 1: like a really interesting and she seemed like a beautiful person.
Speaker 1: It seems like a really interesting religion. What means I
Speaker 1: think that you know, um, you know, in life, certain
Speaker 1: people have certain positions that they feel, and I think
Speaker 1: she did a great thing for New Orleans just in
Speaker 1: the community. Um, that's just like divine prints. He helped
Speaker 1: a lot of people. He's always in tune to the
Speaker 1: community and trying to help people to you know, going
Speaker 1: the right direction or sphere of their life in the
Speaker 1: direction in the right direction. That's why he's always doing readings.
Speaker 1: And I think that, you know, she was another person
Speaker 1: that UM has that's kind of the same path where
Speaker 1: you're helping the community and helping people to kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, fix something in their life that they UM,
Speaker 1: you know, can fix before it becomes something else. When
Speaker 1: I went to see the Voodoo Priests, UM, and you
Speaker 1: saw that I was probably crying on the show. You know,
Speaker 1: he had told me that he had sought death on
Speaker 1: my brother and that he needs to fix some things
Speaker 1: before it's too late. I told my brother, and UM,
Speaker 1: he still wasn't fixing the things that he needs to fix.
Speaker 1: And not long after me and the brutal pre spoke,
Speaker 1: my brother was killed. And so I saw that. Thank you.
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying that people can feel some things
Speaker 1: and know some things and have a connection what a
Speaker 1: spirit and and be able to tell you things to
Speaker 1: kind of help you down the line, and you should,
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes take advice and listen. And I'll pre
Speaker 1: warn my brother. I tried to save him and did
Speaker 1: everything in my power, and he just wouldn't listen and
Speaker 1: things happen. So you know, spirits do um play their part.
Speaker 1: You know, I listened to the Holy Spirit all the
Speaker 1: time and try to let a guide me in the
Speaker 1: right direction and keep me on the right path. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm also I have a team of
Speaker 1: angels or spirits. I'm not sure it's kind of you
Speaker 1: can use whatever word, but just I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: not alone. And I can tell if I'm making a
Speaker 1: decision that's not a good decision, I can like, bitch,
Speaker 1: maybe I where you look at that decision. Maybe try
Speaker 1: to fix that decision because that's not you're not going
Speaker 1: in the right direction. Yeah, and you know I feel
Speaker 1: the same exactly what you just said, Like you know
Speaker 1: there are you know, a spirit that guides us and um.
Speaker 1: I also feel like I have guardian angels, you know,
Speaker 1: my mom, my uncle, all the people who have helped me.
Speaker 1: If I can hear my mom saying, oh, don't do
Speaker 1: that ship that is I'm no, don't do it. You
Speaker 1: know I can hear saying yes, this is the direction
Speaker 1: you want to go in. And she is my guardian
Speaker 1: angel now who walks with me and on my side.
Speaker 1: And and I'm always saying she's clearing paths for me
Speaker 1: for certain things. You know, I genuinely think it's true
Speaker 1: because there have been so many times in my life
Speaker 1: I can't see what's happening or why it's happening. And
Speaker 1: then later on, after you've had to go through this
Speaker 1: ship storm or something really difficult, then you understand why
Speaker 1: it happened. Yeah, it clicks in. It clicks in, and
Speaker 1: be like, oh, that that was the reason. You know,
Speaker 1: this is why this happened to get to this. You know,
Speaker 1: I totally feel it, Like even this year, I feel
Speaker 1: like this past year has been so difficult and just
Speaker 1: overwhelmingly intense. I don't know how it's been for you.
Speaker 1: I actually want to ask you it's been for you.
Speaker 1: It's saying it's crazy, so so crazy, unlike anything I've
Speaker 1: ever experienced in my life, saying especially you know, I'm
Speaker 1: we always want to go, we're always working, were always creating,
Speaker 1: and to just have to kind of all of that
Speaker 1: just stopped all at once. You know, it messages you up,
Speaker 1: It really messages you up, and they put you in
Speaker 1: a whole different mind frame. You know, then you have
Speaker 1: to try to figure out new ways and things and
Speaker 1: it's a lot. So yeah, I think my spirit helped
Speaker 1: guide me through this quarantine as well, because I was
Speaker 1: in the first couple of weeks, I was freaking out
Speaker 1: my album had just dropped. I didn't get the promo it,
Speaker 1: you know, I had to be called off a little
Speaker 1: promo tour as soon as they dropped. So it was
Speaker 1: just all kind of weird feelings and spaces I was in.
Speaker 1: And I think the spirit has definitely helped guide me
Speaker 1: not to lose my mind. I'm with you the first
Speaker 1: couple of like the first couple of months I was.
Speaker 1: I remember calling my therapist and being like, I think
Speaker 1: I'm losing my mind and she said, no, You're having
Speaker 1: a spiritual awakening. And I was like, but why does
Speaker 1: it feel like I'm going just completely insane? And I
Speaker 1: think it's like you said, we just are always on
Speaker 1: the always creating, always putting all this energy into all
Speaker 1: these things, and then to just have like a cold
Speaker 1: stop right after I just put my album out too,
Speaker 1: and I canceled the whole tour with you and all
Speaker 1: the promo, and I felt like I just poured my
Speaker 1: heart and soul into making this thing and it never
Speaker 1: got to Yeah, to flourish. Listen, we and I'm telling
Speaker 1: we had the same feelings and I was just like
Speaker 1: you know, but it also gave us a chance to
Speaker 1: reevaluate ourselves and to reevaluate our life and our surroundings
Speaker 1: and everything around us. And it gave us a chance
Speaker 1: to just take a break for ourself and you know,
Speaker 1: really just look at things in a different light. You know. Um,
Speaker 1: now we can create a new sound and a new
Speaker 1: energy and a new wave of stuff that that, you know,
Speaker 1: after looking over what we just went through in the
Speaker 1: last year, now it's twenty one, we can create something
Speaker 1: new and give people a new a new space of energy, love, music, light,
Speaker 1: you know. Um, kind of to goal come from where
Speaker 1: it was in and come into a new space in
Speaker 1: you know, we all went through something. So now we
Speaker 1: we have the opportunity to use our platforms to create
Speaker 1: new sounds and and all of that, you know. And
Speaker 1: so I'm interested to see how this year will go
Speaker 1: versus last year. You know me too. It's come out
Speaker 1: with a bang of a start, with a bunch of
Speaker 1: crazy shit already going on. But I'm I'm hoping between
Speaker 1: Army Hammer being accountable and the insurrection on the Capitol,
Speaker 1: all of those things. Hopefully, like we got out of
Speaker 1: our system for this year and we can just get
Speaker 1: the vaccine make some new music. I feel so, um,
Speaker 1: so different than I did a year ago. And I'm
Speaker 1: excited to see what other artists are going to make
Speaker 1: out at this time because I just feel like we
Speaker 1: all feel weird about it, we all feel crazy about it,
Speaker 1: and now it's time to channel that in the art,
Speaker 1: which is exciting. Yeah, it is exciting, and it's scary. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's excited and scary at the same time. So um,
Speaker 1: you know, and I've I've been really happy about what
Speaker 1: I've been creating, um lately. You know what I did
Speaker 1: do though, just to keep busy. You know, I was
Speaker 1: doing a little shakedown Fridays in my backyard when Quarantine
Speaker 1: thought it and I had thought at the little cooking chill,
Speaker 1: but the but I was going to the studio more
Speaker 1: than ever and creating sounds and channeling my energy and
Speaker 1: letting you know, shipped out in the in the in
Speaker 1: the box. And so I'm excited about the new wave
Speaker 1: of music that will be coming this year. And um,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just in a different as you know,
Speaker 1: I've even when I perform, I'm in a different space
Speaker 1: and it's just it's really weird. You haven't performed except
Speaker 1: for virtual stuff. But that's what I'm saying. It's been
Speaker 1: virtual and I've had maybe like maybe three gigs that
Speaker 1: was out into the public and and so, um, just
Speaker 1: a weird balance now. And it's just like I want
Speaker 1: to get back to that, to that feeling, you know,
Speaker 1: of where I was, and it's just so weird now.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited to see where it's going to go. Though,
Speaker 1: um once everything open back up, and will I get
Speaker 1: back there or will will they go into a whole
Speaker 1: new direction? You know, Well that's the thing. It could
Speaker 1: take you in a whole new direction, which is scary,
Speaker 1: but it's also so exciting to maybe have I've taken
Speaker 1: this year because that was what I was worried about too.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I want to get back to something like
Speaker 1: maybe I don't want to get back to something, maybe
Speaker 1: I want to get into who I've become. And and
Speaker 1: just knowing that, I feel like a very deep change
Speaker 1: in myself. It's exciting but terrifying. It is it is
Speaker 1: so well, hopefully this your girl, we get to go
Speaker 1: on so where Inchiano? All of that okay, and we
Speaker 1: won't be tired from promo so we can really check
Speaker 1: our uses like never before. Yes, I'm ready, God, I
Speaker 1: mean do. I've been dancing around my house like a
Speaker 1: complete fool this quarantine. But I'm just practicing, practicing for tour. Listen.
Speaker 1: You gotta keep the energy up though, and that's the thing, like,
Speaker 1: you know, as artists, we have to keep our energy
Speaker 1: up because you know, we don't want to get lazy
Speaker 1: and sluggish, and you know when we go out there,
Speaker 1: we gotta hit it hard. So it's just been like damn,
Speaker 1: I want to relax, but I also got to keep active.
Speaker 1: So I've just been on the go constant, constant. You know,
Speaker 1: it's good for you. I don't know how to relax,
Speaker 1: and me either, Like it's the I don't know how.
Speaker 1: It's the worst. People always like what you do for
Speaker 1: self care. Um, I go to sleep and try to
Speaker 1: get a nap. You know that's myself care because I'm
Speaker 1: always going to go I can't even I like, I
Speaker 1: get a massage like once a month, but I've been
Speaker 1: doing that this year, or I'll go to a show.
Speaker 1: I can't do that this year. I just really missed
Speaker 1: the human connection, Like I love being able to see
Speaker 1: you and you're in New Orleans and this is amazing,
Speaker 1: but I cannot wait to we're in the same room
Speaker 1: and so hot. Yes, I listen, girl, you know howavy
Speaker 1: with when you're like you see somebody and you haven't
Speaker 1: saw him in forever and everybody's screaming in holl That's
Speaker 1: gonna be happening all around the world. Just lots of screams. Okay.
Speaker 1: I can't wait for that moment. I love that it's
Speaker 1: something to look forward to because after the the was
Speaker 1: Spanish flu in nineteen seventeen, then came like what was
Speaker 1: it called, what was the tent called? Yes, the Roaring twenties.
Speaker 1: So I'm hoping if we look to history, that there's
Speaker 1: something that keeps everybody inside and then right afterwards there's
Speaker 1: an explosion of parties and music and art and wildness
Speaker 1: and energy and connection. And that's what I'm praying for. Listen.
Speaker 1: I feel it's going to happen. I definitely feel it.
Speaker 1: I've been saying that, you know in the low places
Speaker 1: that's been sneaking opening, like you know, Atlanta and Houston
Speaker 1: and all that you know, those people are still like
Speaker 1: kind of parting a little bit, but the places that
Speaker 1: have been not really opening, the clubs and the spaces,
Speaker 1: where did all of this happened. When it do, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be like Wildfire's shift. People shaking asses everywhere, turning
Speaker 1: up bottles, popping, you know, laughing and screaming. And I
Speaker 1: haven't saw you in years. You know, all that's gonna
Speaker 1: be going down. It's just gonna be crazy all over
Speaker 1: the world. I can't wait. I'm just like all my friends,
Speaker 1: all my fans and just turned up like me too.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Yes, you're making me excited just thinking
Speaker 1: about it, like change, because I got excited. It's coming.
Speaker 1: It's coming. It's a new year. It's going to come.
Speaker 1: But oh, speaking of like partying, I've never been to
Speaker 1: Marty Gras and not maybe not this year. But we're
Speaker 1: not having it this year. They weren't even having Mighty Rod.
Speaker 1: They counseled Mighty Grod girl, And I mean, that's like
Speaker 1: the biggest thing for New Orleans. That's the you know,
Speaker 1: that's the money maker here, that's the biggest tourist attraction,
Speaker 1: and we're not having it. They're talking about some doing,
Speaker 1: you know, a bite mighty grass, some type of ship,
Speaker 1: you know, and want me to be the Grandma show
Speaker 1: girl you get that would be amazing. You want to
Speaker 1: bike being the big grand Marshal. Do you get a
Speaker 1: key to the city. I don't want being a Grand
Speaker 1: marsha for no parade. That ain't happening. I want to
Speaker 1: be the Grand Marshal of something, the Grand Marshall when
Speaker 1: it's actual mighty ground. Okay, we're going to put out
Speaker 1: a p s A with you saying that. Okay, I
Speaker 1: would vote for you. I don't know if that helps.
Speaker 1: But if people vote out up for you, I don't
Speaker 1: think they pick. They just I don't know how they pick.
Speaker 1: I guess somebody has to pick between all of the
Speaker 1: clubs and like you just it's just a huge party
Speaker 1: and Marshall usually is at the front of the parade
Speaker 1: on the on like the biggest float in welcoming everybody
Speaker 1: to the parade, and you know, waving in this Royal
Speaker 1: Court is out there with you, and they have the
Speaker 1: big crown, and you know, it just depends like mostly
Speaker 1: when it's a celebrity though there they might wear a
Speaker 1: costume or they might not. But They're up there waving
Speaker 1: their things, throwing stuff and you know, just being fabulous.
Speaker 1: Oh you would be so good at that. Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: done it before. Yeah, you just haven't been the Grand
Speaker 1: Marshall on Mighty grid Day. I'm usually on I ride
Speaker 1: with the Cruel Zulu. So I'm on the float on
Speaker 1: Mighty Gride Day throwing beads and I'm in a mask
Speaker 1: and a big bushwig. People don't even know if it's
Speaker 1: me unless I say something. So I was reading about
Speaker 1: the cruise. Are they cruise that like is everybody friends
Speaker 1: with each other or is it like one crew throws
Speaker 1: their own parade and the other crew throws around parade? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: every crew throws their own parade, usually the bigger cruise
Speaker 1: that's been around for years, like the Zulu, Um, the
Speaker 1: Endemian and Bakers like that. It's an organization and and
Speaker 1: they have a night that their their parade rose throughout
Speaker 1: the city and they usually connected with all the all
Speaker 1: the parades because you know, kings and queens of all
Speaker 1: the groups have to get together, and you know it's
Speaker 1: all ran by the city, so they have to they
Speaker 1: connect everybody together. But they're all separate groups, all throughout
Speaker 1: the city. Okay, one year, I'm going to come. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've gotta come. It's so much fun. You gotta come.
Speaker 1: The whole experience is just amazing. I would love that
Speaker 1: you can be the queen and I'll do whatever. I
Speaker 1: don't know, I'll be that. We're both gonna be the queen.
Speaker 1: That that happens all the time, all you gotta baby.
Speaker 1: That's how they gets all the fabulous beads. You know,
Speaker 1: the girls up Bourbon Street, they're just titterless all night.
Speaker 1: That might be me, depending on how many drinks I've had,
Speaker 1: I might be up there with you, acting very distinguished
Speaker 1: and waving. It might be the one flashing my titties,
Speaker 1: running around trying to I'm a freends mine too. I've
Speaker 1: never been. It seems like the most fun thing. People
Speaker 1: always have a wild story when they come back from
Speaker 1: Idagra what they did in New Orleans. And that's the
Speaker 1: best thing. Like you always have stories that you can
Speaker 1: meet with here in great memories and it's it's a
Speaker 1: great city, you know. I love this city also, which
Speaker 1: I didn't know this, but when someone passes away, there's
Speaker 1: like a funeral parade. Yeah, we celebrate, you know, we
Speaker 1: celebrate their life and their legacy and um usually we
Speaker 1: have like the second Line parade come or we have
Speaker 1: a jazz processional where we play music and we we
Speaker 1: danced in honor of them in their life, and so
Speaker 1: like from the time they coming out of the church
Speaker 1: and to the hearst and putting their casket in where
Speaker 1: we're like, we're celebrate it in their life and continuing
Speaker 1: to to let their memories live on. Yeah beautiful, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I had it. I did it up for my mom.
Speaker 1: Hearts and carriage, you know, jazz processional, same thing for
Speaker 1: my brother. Like we we yeah, we celebrate their life.
Speaker 1: Is it? Is it it all? Do you celebrate Day
Speaker 1: of the Dead as well, where it's kind of more
Speaker 1: of a celebration of the people that have passed on?
Speaker 1: Say that again, the Day of the Dead, we don't
Speaker 1: have that, no, we I mean, it's just we usually
Speaker 1: have so many debts here and so just each funeral,
Speaker 1: it's like the same thing happening every week or you know,
Speaker 1: every other day you're you're seeing people celebrating their loved
Speaker 1: ones life and so that's really not no Day of
Speaker 1: the Dead. That's every day, you know, somebody's we're losing somebody. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I've watched your would you call it your
Speaker 1: documentary or the movie Free to Out a Gun, and
Speaker 1: that was so moving and just so much about New
Speaker 1: Orleans I didn't realize, including the passing of your cousin
Speaker 1: and your brother, And I just want to tell you
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, because I do see on your Instagram that, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a lot we deal with and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of ideal with. But you know, I tried to remember
Speaker 1: those people in good light and good spirit and continue
Speaker 1: to celebrate their life and their legacy and let them
Speaker 1: live through me, you know, especially if they're my family
Speaker 1: and we're connected. I try to remember them by doing
Speaker 1: something good that they would have done, or something that
Speaker 1: they could have tried to change. I'll try to do
Speaker 1: it in my life. It's amazing the documentary you made,
Speaker 1: Freed to Got a Gun. It's streaming on Peacock, and
Speaker 1: it just shows kind of the cyclical issues of gun
Speaker 1: violence in New Orleans. And as someone that's never lived
Speaker 1: there and only visited a couple of times, I had
Speaker 1: no idea that it was one of the top cities
Speaker 1: for death spike gun violence America and I was just wondering, like,
Speaker 1: what would you say would be a start to addressing
Speaker 1: that issue. Well, you know, the guns. It's the guns
Speaker 1: are the big problem. You know, just being able to
Speaker 1: have easy access to guns. Um, these parents not really
Speaker 1: watching their kids around guns. You know, It's a lot
Speaker 1: has to happen in order for this to happen. With
Speaker 1: with with trying to get a balance on these guns,
Speaker 1: from the companies to the to you know, our local
Speaker 1: and national leaders, to us as a community. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: I just went through something this week that was letting
Speaker 1: me know the reason why I'm fighting so much about
Speaker 1: this gun violence and trying to get strict a gun laws.
Speaker 1: Because my best friend had a birthday party on Friday,
Speaker 1: and at the party, a five year old baby got
Speaker 1: hold to a gun and shot a four year old
Speaker 1: baby in the head. Which all these kids I know
Speaker 1: and grew up and watched them from when they came out.
Speaker 1: And this is a family that I'm very connected with.
Speaker 1: So this is the reason why guns need to, you know,
Speaker 1: be removed. I mean, if every if there was no
Speaker 1: guns in the world, we wouldn't be having all these
Speaker 1: issues and all these killings. Only people that I think
Speaker 1: really need guns or our you know, our armies that
Speaker 1: has to fight for war or you know, defend our country.
Speaker 1: But you have so many people that just have easy
Speaker 1: access to guns, and and it's it's it harms all
Speaker 1: of us in the in and um so, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what I dealt with just this week. And it was horrible.
Speaker 1: The baby is still needs a new skull and so
Speaker 1: and he did survive, He did survive. Yeah, but that's
Speaker 1: so horrifying to think of seeing that happen to such
Speaker 1: a young person that probably doesn't even understand what they're holding,
Speaker 1: or so innocent, hasn't even got a chance at life,
Speaker 1: you know, and all to a gun. You know, the
Speaker 1: baby went looking at the searching and found how old
Speaker 1: the cousin's gun that was put away, and it's it's
Speaker 1: about fifteen children in the room and one gets shot
Speaker 1: in the head. So I didn't that would be so
Speaker 1: scary And I'm so sorry. And after watching your documentary,
Speaker 1: I it opened my eyes to a lot of things
Speaker 1: I had no idea about about the gun violence in
Speaker 1: New Orleans and guns in general. I personally am just
Speaker 1: terrified of guns. I don't, you know, the Second Amendment
Speaker 1: and there's people fighting for their necessity to have guns,
Speaker 1: and unless you're going and hunting for your dinner or
Speaker 1: your law enforcement, and that even is like, well they
Speaker 1: need to yeah, the law enforcement dealing with using less guns,
Speaker 1: and just the systemic racism under who is getting shot
Speaker 1: more often than yeah, it's black people, not white people,
Speaker 1: And just I don't know, the whole monstrosity of guns.
Speaker 1: It would be a wonderful thing if we could make
Speaker 1: them at least harder to get to have to get
Speaker 1: your mental illness evaluated before you get a firearm, because
Speaker 1: you know, it's just you. You've given it to people
Speaker 1: and you really don't know their coredela, their conditions and
Speaker 1: or or whatever. As long as they got the money,
Speaker 1: they got the gun, you know. And a lot of times,
Speaker 1: a lot of these ways that they're transporting the guns
Speaker 1: or or whatever, people are breaking on the trains and
Speaker 1: in different places to get the guns. They just need
Speaker 1: to be stricker and tighter laws and security in place
Speaker 1: when all of this stuff is happening. Well, it was
Speaker 1: a very moving documentary and I urged anybody listening to
Speaker 1: go watch it. And I'm so sorry again, this is
Speaker 1: like an ongoing thing that's happening in your life. I
Speaker 1: want to ask, this is purely just from watching that.
Speaker 1: How is the younger? He was like ten years old.
Speaker 1: I think his name is Devon. Devon, Yeah, same as
Speaker 1: my boyfriend. And that was crazy that him and my
Speaker 1: boyfriend has the same name. That is just going fine.
Speaker 1: He actually just got out of jail. Devon is all
Speaker 1: grown up that it's not a little kid anymore. Devin
Speaker 1: has sprouted up to about six three six four. He's
Speaker 1: taller than me. And you know how small he was
Speaker 1: when he was on a documentary and I haven't saw
Speaker 1: him since, and the boy just I don't know. It
Speaker 1: was like he ate a tree and grow as tall
Speaker 1: as the tree. He's doing well though. I've been keeping
Speaker 1: in contact with him, and you know, he's staying out
Speaker 1: of trouble. He has to be inside by six pm
Speaker 1: every day. He has some strict you know, things that
Speaker 1: he has to do. But he wouldn't be in that
Speaker 1: position if he was doing right. And you know, hopefully
Speaker 1: he's going to get on the right path now. And
Speaker 1: he had to become a victim of the system in
Speaker 1: order to you know, and now somebody's regulating his life.
Speaker 1: That should not be happening as a young kid. You know,
Speaker 1: he should be able to be free and live his
Speaker 1: life and be who he wants to be um when
Speaker 1: he grow up and enjoy life and in his community.
Speaker 1: But now he has to be inside at a certain
Speaker 1: time and win an ankle monitor and you know, so
Speaker 1: hopefully he gets it together and we're gonna keep fighting
Speaker 1: with him to stay on the right path. And and see,
Speaker 1: I think that is going to be something very powerful
Speaker 1: when he gets older, and that he's going to make
Speaker 1: some type of change in his world because of the
Speaker 1: path that he had to go down in order to
Speaker 1: change his life. Well, if you speak to him, or
Speaker 1: if there's anything I can do, but just under my love,
Speaker 1: and I just want to see him win. Yeah me,
Speaker 1: So we all do, you know, And that's the thing.
Speaker 1: We all want to see our kids win, and all
Speaker 1: the kids in the community, and we want to see
Speaker 1: them be successful and do something, and you know, we
Speaker 1: want to break some of these generational curses that's happening,
Speaker 1: you know, of these kids just following the same thing
Speaker 1: that they saw and and and and become a victim
Speaker 1: to the system. And I'm just tired of it. I've
Speaker 1: been seeing it all my life, and I just want
Speaker 1: better from our community. Absolutely, it's a beautiful community. It's fascinating,
Speaker 1: Like after watching between your documentary and just reading about
Speaker 1: New Orleans and the history of Mardi Gras and about
Speaker 1: um Marie wait, I'm gonna sunk up her name, Marie Laveau,
Speaker 1: just all of it. It's just so vibrant and so
Speaker 1: full of life. And it's a real shame when a
Speaker 1: gun gets in the way of someone living a really beautiful, joyous, celebratory,
Speaker 1: full community loved life because of one stupid moment with
Speaker 1: a stupid gun. So it was really touching and thank
Speaker 1: you for making that, and it really was informative for me.
Speaker 1: And then sissy bounce. You're one of the queens and
Speaker 1: there's no sissy bounds. No, it's just see Okay, I'd
Speaker 1: never heard of the term cissy bound. But then I
Speaker 1: start and our reporter came and was like, you know,
Speaker 1: put a title on it. We don't put titles on it.
Speaker 1: It's just bounced music. I'm a gay artists who happened
Speaker 1: to do, you know, bounce music, So it's just bounce music. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't separate it here in New Orleans. Everybody just
Speaker 1: if you do bounce music, if you just do bounce music,
Speaker 1: there's no such thing, get straight bounce or sisty bounce.
Speaker 1: It's all just bounced music. And they tried to put
Speaker 1: it in a category. But you know, nobody can't box
Speaker 1: the queen in No, they sure as hell can't. I apologize.
Speaker 1: I read that. I read that, and I was never
Speaker 1: head that before. Oh my god, I have done hundreds
Speaker 1: of articles cleaning that up from one article. It's not
Speaker 1: sissy bounce, it's motherfucking bounce period period. Okay, and you
Speaker 1: are the queen of bounce? And how did that between
Speaker 1: church and between just like living in New Orleans, was
Speaker 1: that just like the thing you were drawn to? Did
Speaker 1: you always know you wanted? No? I did not. So
Speaker 1: being acquired director, people knew me all around the city.
Speaker 1: You know, I traveled with the choir, you know, doing music,
Speaker 1: and you know I was also the choiet directly at
Speaker 1: my church home and and my high school. So I
Speaker 1: was well known with with the choir and with music.
Speaker 1: And when I transitioned, you know, in in nine um
Speaker 1: to kind of start stepping into the bounce game, it
Speaker 1: just kind of happened you know, having fun, you know,
Speaker 1: with people in my neighborhood, making fun, crazy stuff up,
Speaker 1: saying it in the neighborhood, grabbing the mic at the
Speaker 1: clubs and at the black party, is doing it. And
Speaker 1: then it's just we started coming becoming the catch and everybody, Oh,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get on the mic, You're gonna do this,
Speaker 1: You're gonna do that. And once I went made my
Speaker 1: first song, there was no looking back. Yeah, the rest
Speaker 1: is history, queen. Okay, I gotta really, I got like
Speaker 1: four stupid questions. They're like quick fire. So if you
Speaker 1: were a ghost, what would be your style of hunting?
Speaker 1: Your signature? If I was the ghost, what would be
Speaker 1: my style of hunting? Probably something sexual. Pulling dicks. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, yes, I'm gonna pull your dick off. I
Speaker 1: want to join you in the afterlife if that is okay? Yes?
Speaker 1: And who would you hunt? I just told you all
Speaker 1: the boys, the good ones are the bad ones. The
Speaker 1: good ones, Well, I mean I'll just go, you know,
Speaker 1: just take a little peek at the good ones. The
Speaker 1: bad ones. We're gonna hunt them. We're gonna pull there
Speaker 1: it a hard tug. Yeah, we're gonna squeeze those balls.
Speaker 1: I love that, Okay. And if you had a cult,
Speaker 1: what would be the dress code? If I had a cult,
Speaker 1: what would be the dress code? Uh, probably something dealing
Speaker 1: with booty shorts. Some as shorts, you know, but you
Speaker 1: just a little two cheeks out. You know, you got
Speaker 1: four shorts on, but just a little two cheeks, like
Speaker 1: two little circles on the back. My coat will be
Speaker 1: very much dealing with lots of ash shaking. I love
Speaker 1: that that is your, like, at least your stage cult
Speaker 1: and family and people that come to the show's Like
Speaker 1: when I met you on that cruise ship, it was
Speaker 1: the most ass heavy place I've ever been. Like everybody
Speaker 1: as soon as you got up on stage, everyone took
Speaker 1: their ass out. It was like, that's how I'm supposed
Speaker 1: to be the take your ass out. Yeah. The power
Speaker 1: of the as it brings people together. You know. That
Speaker 1: is the most beautiful way to end a podcast. And
Speaker 1: you should make that into a T shirt. Okay, Yes
Speaker 1: I will. It's so good to see you. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for coming on here. Love you, love you girl. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll see you hopefully very soon. Yes you will, girl.
Speaker 1: The alright creepy, alright, creepy bye,