WEBVTT - Meet Amara La Negra 0:00:01.680 --> 0:00:09.120 That's right. Guess who is? It's your girl Latin Nega 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:14.000 and you're listening to it exactly, al Mada. I heart 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:23.119 radio slaft my cool exactly a maa my podcast where 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:25.680 I am going to tell you exactly how it is 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:30.400 and how I feel. And most importantly, I have my 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:33.840 co host here with me, Yes, and today I'm Stevin Doodas, 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:37.000 and today we're gonna find out exactly who made La 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:41.000 is hassy because you're gonna have a one on one 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:44.160 on all about Alana, which is me and me feel 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:46.360 about that, but let's be honest. Do you feel comfortable 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:48.239 about that? Because I'm gonna get kind of juicy with it? 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:50.160 Do you wanna get juicy? Because I like it juicy? 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:52.080 When it's dry, it's not good. Well, people need to 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:56.480 know exactly who is exactly, so so you're ready, I 0:00:56.480 --> 0:01:00.240 do my own side effects that you hear that like 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:05.440 radio from the sixties and fifties. That's that's amazing that 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:11.200 I'm so recently you said that you were homeless, but 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:14.000 recently I said it, but recently I wasn't homeless, thank god. 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:17.440 And yes, that was a wall back. Oh my god, damn, 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:20.280 we're really gonna get into something because you need to 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:23.200 help me help somebody out, or you help somebody out. 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:26.840 I agree, I hear you. Okay, So long story short. Um, yes, 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:29.720 back in like two thousand and I don't know, I 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:33.280 was like twenty three or so. Um, guess that I 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:35.759 fell in love with this guy who was trashed by 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:40.559 the way, And okay, I hope that he's actually listening 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:45.520 to this podcast and his ass was, but I guess what. 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:49.800 Thanks to your crunchy, raggedy ass, I am here today, 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:53.160 so thank you very much. But he really did have 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:55.840 me struggle, and I won't lie. I'm grateful for many 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:58.000 things that he did teach me, for many opportunities that 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:01.480 he did give me. However, you know, um, he did 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:03.640 pay me in a very uncomfortable situation where I had 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.520 to choose between being with him and my mother. So 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:11.680 once he know yes and don't say one day, you know, 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:14.560 he got pissed off. He ended up cursing my mom 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:20.359 out and kicking her out. Who whoaa. You don't take that, 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:23.920 And it's like a two from one deal. You have 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:31.480 to be cool. If not, it's not happening. A long 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:33.440 story short, you know, things didn't work out. I ended 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:35.000 up leaving in my car for like three months and 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:39.160 for the Walgreens and um McDonald's in Homestead with Homestead 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.720 is an air here in Florida, and I was there 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:43.440 for three months. It was terrible. I would go in 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:45.280 there and watch myself with white bee's and stuff. My 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:47.440 mom never knew that I was struggling because I didn't 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:49.400 want to stress her out because she was already in 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:52.880 a bad situation where thank god, she found a Christian family, 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:56.360 and she asked, and she could, you know, if if 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:58.400 she could stay there because she didn't have anywhere to 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.560 go and come to us. Later, I ended up sleeping 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:03.320 in that same bed with her for like a year. 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:07.000 So listen, nobody knows everybody's story. You have to be 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.120 supportive of people because you never know what people have. 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:12.560 They see the glory and not the story. In another 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:17.600 and another thing too, a lot of people expect or like, oh, 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:19.480 you have a badass face, a body, you have a 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:22.600 pretty facial smart, why were you struggling? People automagical assuming 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:24.560 you're supposed to be out here in the streets. Fucking 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:28.520 if people are to minthly expect you to be out 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:30.600 in the streets, sucking or whatever if you're struggling, but 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:33.840 not necessarily some of us, which is my respect everybody 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:37.040 that does what they do to survive battle. I'm very prideful, 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:38.720 which is a good and bad thing, right because that 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:41.640 is the stigma. Let's just that's the stereotype for at 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.640 that we're just right, that we're all beauty. But you 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:47.920 have brains and beauty a mat and that's what I 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:50.160 think made. And I have some beauty too. But okay, 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:53.560 but I guess what's not gone this good ass though? 0:03:53.600 --> 0:04:03.839 So I don't know. I don't back to you exactly. 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:08.280 So wait, your mother has always but struggled to make 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:13.160 you like who you are today, because exactly mad is 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:18.520 exactly who your mom made. You know, I think yourself made, yes, 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:22.040 but your mom I know the story. I know how 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:24.919 she had to travel around the whole state of Florida 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:27.840 to get you to all these auditions. I know that 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:34.560 your mom. So what what was like the breakthrough? Honestly, 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:36.880 everybody that knows me knows that. I always give my 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:40.320 mom credit because as a child, you never really appreciate 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.159 all the sacrifice that our parents do for us, because 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.480 you know, not for nothing, but I've missed my mom 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:47.000 having a job and taking care of me and me 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:49.480 just you know, doing my high school at the homework 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:51.520 that I used to hate. I wish I could go 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:53.960 back to that. But announcing a dot now that to 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:56.680 have all these bills and all these responsibilities, oh my god. 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:58.640 I don't know how she did it. She did it 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.800 by herself and with me your whole. I don't know 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.760 that was able to do that, But I'm grateful for 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:07.640 that because I recall her, which I used to do 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:09.520 with her. You know, you sell sell flowers in the 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:12.240 streets of Hialiyah with her on the weekends to make 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:18.560 some extra cash the flea market. I remember cleaning houses. 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:21.080 But my mom too as well. I remember a lot 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:22.760 of work that she did in order to pay for 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:25.240 my singing classes, my dancing classes, and instead of telling 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.880 me no, she always supported me. So I am grateful 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.279 because thanks to her, I'm here today. And that's why 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:32.760 any opportunity I get to tell parents, if you have 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.920 a talented kid, I'll you know, be supportive. Stop telling 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:37.960 your kid would you want them to be? Let them 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.360 be who they are. Just support them because you never 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:42.640 know what they might make out of themselves, I think 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:47.960 is the word more. You gotta support your children. Now 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:51.159 you're we're speaking on your early days to get to 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:56.160 exactly who a mata is? Who were you in high school? 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:58.280 Who was a mada in high school? First of all, 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:00.360 nobody let me in high school. That's why I did 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:04.159 it because I was not cute. Now I was always cute, 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.240 but don't get it twisted. I was cut or whatever. 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:09.840 But okay, I wasn't popular or nothing. And I've always 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:12.640 been very socially awkward. I'm good when the cameras is on, 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:15.440 like fan, but then afterwards I'm like, I just want 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:16.800 to go to my room and to hide there, Like 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:21.400 why am I out here? Right? So I'm very socially awkward. Um, 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:23.839 I was never out and about. I really hated being 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:26.480 in school. While I was there, I was always thinking 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.200 about dancing and just I always had like a performance 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:32.000 in my mind. Um, during the lunch break or whenever 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:35.640 I skip class. Kids do not skip class. But if 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:41.680 you're gonna skip class, skips class the dance classed, right. 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:44.440 I used to always skip class in the dance class 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:46.120 and I love to perform, and that was like my 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:48.719 happy place. So I always knew. I even went to 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.080 college for those I mean, I know, I studied business administration, 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.359 I didn't actually get to finish. I wanted to study 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:58.400 funeral services. Batt. I realized that education is key. I'll 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:02.320 never discredit that, but not college may not be for everyone. 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:05.360 You know, certain things may not be for everyone. And 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:07.520 I was trying to do it to please her, but 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:10.840 I just that environment was never for me. You know, 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:12.800 I want to give a special shout out. Who would 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.480 you like to shout out from those early days? A teacher, 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:19.400 A right here on one of because most definitely I 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:20.840 want to give a shout out to my best friend 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:24.000 Jail Smith. He had an amazing dance studio at out 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:27.120 here in Miami called True Talent Dance Studio. Well, we're here, 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:30.760 right here in the city of Miami. Um, we cannot 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:36.120 go on without speaking about the man, the legend, the icon. 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:40.560 Don't Francisco? Yes? What was that like? How? First of all, 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:42.960 everyone knows you were on the show because we always 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:44.800 see the clips. We love the little clip of you 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:48.720 when you were younger. All remember you younger? Yes? But 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:54.120 how did that happen? How did you get there? My mom? 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:58.600 My mom is more than I am. He tells me 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:00.760 how to talk, how to dress, how to say, what 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:04.000 to say, don't sing this song, what I'm doing my choreography. 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:06.480 She's there in a little cornery kid. So she's like 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:11.400 Michael Jackson's father, yeah, or like Selena's dad. No no, 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:13.120 no no. I would say Michael Jackson because when I 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:17.200 was used to beat the hell out of me, I 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:19.680 got it. I got it right. Look at me to 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:23.640 be good. But say no to the vines. Anyways. Um, 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:32.040 sometimes kids don't joan, but um, but you know what, 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:34.760 Francisco was such an amazing experience for those I mean 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:38.480 that known. Obviously, Francisco is a very important part of 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:42.800 the Latin culture, very important. Everyone knows how Listen, you're 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:46.240 African American, you know who don't Francico is you're Asian? 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:49.720 You know who don't? Everyone says something back in those days. 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.720 I was there for six years. Every single Saturday, I 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.680 became I was reading the section called like the kids 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:57.640 section where they would ask you like where the babies 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:00.200 come from or anything like that. That was cute and 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.000 we were so innocent that we actually, you know, would 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:04.800 say and stuff like, oh, you buy your babies at 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:07.959 the supermarket or something like that. These days kids no 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.679 way too much, so it's not the same. But then 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.920 it became a background dancer for the personality Ganta. Then 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:19.080 it became a background dancer for for the network um 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:21.760 dancing and Graham means all those things as a background dancer, 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.320 and then it was a great experience. It showed me 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.839 how to work in that environment. Definitely gave me a 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:31.800 great work ethic. Um it was good and I'm grateful 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:33.760 that that she, you know, she put me in that space, 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:37.960 because sometimes it's about your surroundings. God knows what you 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:40.679 have been able to have become if you were just 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:46.920 put in the right environment. So that definitely, and what's 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:51.600 even more intriguing about this whole story is that you 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.280 were you actually work your ass off to get to 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:59.760 where you are today, going doing background doing all this 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:03.600 traveling around the state, like you didn't just come out 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:06.000 us here. You know, I wish it would have been 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.280 that easy, But at the same time, I don't because 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:10.240 then maybe I wouldn't have to appreciate, you know what, 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:13.160 and how hard I've worked to get here, and I 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:18.640 wouldn't be, you know, as grateful for it. When they 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:20.800 give you things. I feel that you don't appreciate it 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:22.880 as much then when you have to bust your ass 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.360 to get it. It is not because I have a cousin, 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:27.240 I have a friend who hooked me up. Because you're 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:29.240 out here giving your dot away know and if you 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:32.280 are MA, my shutouts to you. But no, I'm not 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:34.360 a SCAMMERA I'm not doing this. It was just based 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:45.880 off working. You know, especially society, you are better than 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:49.000 being the Laton the Lion community. We are known for 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:51.720 being very hard working people. You know what I'm saying. Like, 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:55.360 let you know, I always like to credit because no 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:58.440 matter when from what country you may immigrate from, you 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:00.520 know that you're coming to the United States to work 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.760 and bust yours for a better future for yourself and 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:14.120 for your family as well. So that's that's amazing. And 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:17.240 it's crazy because I even know you. I've interviewed you 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:21.480 several times in different markets, and I never knew this story. 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:24.920 I didn't know that. I didn't know exactly who Amata is. 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:26.800 And I think that's the thing. I think people don't 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:31.080 know exactly who you are. And now exactly matter is 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:32.640 that if you don't know, you're going to get to 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:38.080 know now, So this is incredible. Now my next question 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:46.640 that was all glad, beautiful, amazing, inspired because I don't 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:51.079 so they say that, you know, women in the industry 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:53.600 is really hard. Let's just keep it. I'm just asking 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:57.040 the question. Don't come for me. People don't come for me. 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:02.440 Did you ever? Okay, First, have I ever? Never? Have 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.000 I ever? That would be a great game. Oh my god, 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:09.600 what the listeners? That would be? Never have I ever? Would? Never? 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:23.760 Have you ever had to smash to get an opportunity? Um? 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:29.400 Have I ever smashed for an opportunity? No, I've never smiled. 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.040 And I'll be honest because it is what it is. 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:36.800 I've never smashed for an opportunity. Battle. I have been 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:40.160 with people that could have given me opportunities, dang, and 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:46.360 you didn't take them. No, I didn't take it. I've 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:51.800 been listen, if I had an opportunity to give to myself, 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:56.400 I would try to smash me too. No. I have 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.000 been with people that could have given me opportunities. And 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.320 even though in the back of your mind you're hoping 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:04.400 that maybe you know, I actually like you, but maybe 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:06.480 you might want to, you know, hook me up or whatever, 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:14.040 and it didn't happen for free. No, yeah, don't you 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.440 ever look back and like that, why did that for free? 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:18.320 I could have got Yeah, sometimes you would just be 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:23.160 putting miles in your little for I want to refund? 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:25.040 Can I have a Can I have a total refund? 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:27.040 Can you just give me my hole total back? Because 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:30.760 it was such a waste. But um, you know why, No, 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:32.520 I don't regret anything that I've done in my life 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:34.760 because I feel like everything is a life experiences and 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:36.720 it builds your character, and it builds who you are, 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:39.520 and it makes you stronger, makes you wiser. It's just 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:41.120 things that have to happen in your life. So that's 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:42.840 why I always give. If I had to give an 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:46.320 advice to any girl that wants to participate or be 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:51.800 part of this industry, which is very difficult because predominated 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:56.000 by men. Um most definitely don't be out here giving 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:59.400 your they get hoping this person is gonna do anything 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.040 for you all the other day, so it's not gonna happen. 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:05.679 Make sure that you keep your business business and personal personal. 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:07.920 And that's the hardest thing for me because I love 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:12.120 mixing the two. It's terrible. Okay, So I just wanted 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:16.040 to address that elephant in the room. But also lately 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:18.640 in social media, people are like coming for this new 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:21.320 look that you have. I mean everywhere I went. I 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:24.240 was just recently up north and everyone's like, damn, my 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:29.040 mother looked smoking hot. Thank you. I'm like, calm down, no, no, no. 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:31.600 Even though I give mixed feelings. Some people like the 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:35.840 thicker amount of some people like the more polished, somewhat 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.200 version of what I'm coming. How did you get here? 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:42.120 As far as how you look your image? I know 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.000 that you guys really want to know the t on 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.120 you know, this transformation that I've done and all things 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.160 that have happened that that have happened to me. So 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.760 then that's why I want you guys to stay tuned 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:59.640 because on episode five, actually on the episode fifty, exactly 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:02.120 in my I want to tell you exactly what happened, 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:04.400 how it happened, and what you can do right because 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:07.200 I need to learn exactly how to lose this cheaho 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:09.640 because that you need to help me. I'll tell you. 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:13.080 I'll tell you this much. Um. Some of it was 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:17.840 unwilling and some of it was you know, purpose. So 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:19.960 it's been a mixture of things, which, like I said, 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:23.760 I just want to be prepared to express myself, gentleman. 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:27.520 I tried, I tried, I tried. I know everybody wants 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:30.120 to know, everybody wants to know the team, but I 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:31.760 just feel like I want to do it in the 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.760 right in the right moment, you know, because I don't 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:36.400 want people to think that this is a joke. I 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:38.240 don't want people to think that I'm doing this, you know, 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:40.960 to promote anything, like, I really want to express what 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:42.760 exactly happened. And I know that a lot of people 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.440 have been concerned about my health. Other people think that 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:49.640 I'm doing drugs. No, I'm not doing drugs. And we'll 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:52.720 get to that later. Well, you know that's exactly what's 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:54.720 gonna happen. Then you're just gonna have to tune. And 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:57.920 I am so upset right now. I don't talk about 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:00.320 I don't think about SIFT. I want to know, but 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:04.760 you know what exactly? Yes, but I will, I will say, 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:15.600 I will say what I did. Listen, I'm gonna get 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:17.440 off of you for like two seconds because I saw 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:30.440 that Mommy just joined us. Yeah, yes, he isn't me. 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:34.600 That's my daughter. My baby makes us like my mother, 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:39.040 like mama, that's right. Exactly. Can I interview my mom? 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:49.280 Charisma came said, let me see this in English just 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:51.800 in case. But you understand me, you understand name was right? 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.000 A little bit? When are we gonna work? And that's 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:57.920 the Spanish word? But how has it been for you 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:05.280 being the mother of such a fabulous, gorgeous daughter like myself? Talented, smart, 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:09.200 well educated? You see me? How has it been for you? 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:11.200 I know it's been an honor, but can you please 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:22.320 elaborate a little bit more on that? Unica a then 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:35.960 different normal? You saw you an artista, Yo saw you 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:51.480 n artista and momento, comproment, taste okay, and no work 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:57.200 a little bit harder, different? Has it better? Hasn't been 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:00.600 hard for you? Like? Okay? So obviously we know that 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:02.720 you work very hard to help me get to where 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:05.000 I am now, But do you feel that it's been 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:09.160 hard to be a support system for me in this industry? 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:23.200 To the casino it's ok so compromise, so Leon said, 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:45.760 perceive and getting to people that they can the problem 0:18:45.840 --> 0:19:00.920 and problem and moment the k based out press, maybe 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:18.120 Potasia the parlor to Potiam and to say, let's talk. 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:24.920 I just want to thank my mom for being here 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:27.199 where No, no, no, no, you're trying. You're trying to 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:30.520 get out of this. Have your mother in the studio. 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:42.520 Oh my god, aspect supers the thirst beautiful woman right 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:49.760 now listen People's Magazine. I don't know, Yo, Morossa said 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:59.760 seeing Young Charismata when I when I'm going a personae 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:08.280 man when the mommy, Oh my god, what don't you 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:11.200 what doesn't the people know about me? You're asking my 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:22.760 she has never told us, Oh my god, Oh no, 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:30.480 I can't. When I was literally such yes my tongue too. Yeah, 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:50.720 I've always like say, come on in super what is 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:56.480 POI poisson? We have let me clarify that. So yeah, 0:20:56.520 --> 0:21:03.080 that's where you have to. I don't know what's the 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:05.719 terminology for it, but I like to be um in 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:08.480 small spaces. I think it's because I'm an only child, 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:11.760 so I accustomed myself to being alone. So wherever I 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:14.640 can find a little corner or whatever, it's my space. 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:17.399 Or I would stick myself inside a box and then 0:21:17.480 --> 0:21:24.639 create my own world in there, like my mom. We 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:27.920 know that you speak this amazing Highalea English, and we 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:30.439 would like you to give us the word of the 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:46.639 day English exactly. Oh Okay, exactly, exactly, okay exactly and 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:53.200 not fasting. You are the most beautiful ladies in the world. Exactly. Yes, 0:22:02.760 --> 0:22:05.560 we're gonna get to some juicy stuff. Okay, we got 0:22:05.600 --> 0:22:09.000 to the earlier days. Let's get to love in hip hop. 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:15.240 Oh Lord Jesus stuff, and he calmed out, Am I going, Brian, 0:22:16.440 --> 0:22:21.360 listen loving hip hop? You've had, you said, you've you've 0:22:21.520 --> 0:22:26.080 You've been in some relationships that Maiden break broke you. 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:30.280 The world got to see you in a relationship. We 0:22:30.320 --> 0:22:34.280 got to see you in a relationship. And it's almost like, 0:22:36.920 --> 0:22:40.320 and in these relationships, how hard is it to find 0:22:40.400 --> 0:22:44.800 somebody that's not an opportunist, that's not trying to live 0:22:44.920 --> 0:22:47.399 up in your house trying to be the biggest star. 0:22:48.320 --> 0:22:52.919 And I'm not throwing shade at no no, who palm tree. 0:22:54.920 --> 0:22:57.119 How hard is it for you to find someone? Because 0:22:57.119 --> 0:22:59.800 that's where you left off on the show, Like that's 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:02.600 say this much. I was actually talking about it yesterday 0:23:02.640 --> 0:23:05.840 because I I just reopened my Tinder, so look um, 0:23:06.119 --> 0:23:11.720 it's I'm swiping right, I'm swiping left. Listen, it's hard. 0:23:12.160 --> 0:23:14.439 I was just talking about it because I'm like my 0:23:14.520 --> 0:23:17.639 whole life I've dedicated my life to success, right to 0:23:18.000 --> 0:23:21.400 following this dream of becoming this person that I see 0:23:21.400 --> 0:23:25.800 in my mind, and I have left out you know, friends, family, 0:23:26.320 --> 0:23:28.719 I don't care about family. I don't care about anything. 0:23:28.840 --> 0:23:32.919 Just success, work, my mom. That's all that matters. Nothing 0:23:32.920 --> 0:23:36.520 else matters. You can have the biggest house on the block, 0:23:36.720 --> 0:23:39.560 you can have the nicest car, you can have the 0:23:39.600 --> 0:23:43.480 most expensive you know, jewelry, bags, everything that you can imagine, 0:23:43.920 --> 0:23:47.560 and still somewhat feel incomplete, and still feel like you're 0:23:47.600 --> 0:23:49.639 missing that other part. And it has nothing to do 0:23:49.720 --> 0:23:51.960 about how educated you are, how pretty you are, how 0:23:51.960 --> 0:23:53.960 good you're though it's not about none of those things. 0:23:54.880 --> 0:23:57.000 You're just you're just always in the search of that. 0:23:57.280 --> 0:24:00.840 So it's not the easiest thing. I have so much 0:24:00.960 --> 0:24:04.080 love for MJ. I appreciate him, I'm grateful for him. 0:24:04.119 --> 0:24:06.960 He was a great part of my life at one point, um, 0:24:07.000 --> 0:24:11.320 I mean unfortunate and and and you know what, I 0:24:11.359 --> 0:24:16.440 needed him and that your trash. I needed him time 0:24:18.800 --> 0:24:24.320 all the time. Is he going to leave? Had some 0:24:24.440 --> 0:24:28.240 great that's how they think. I had great moments with him, 0:24:28.280 --> 0:24:31.040 And I wish you nothing but the best. He's the 0:24:31.040 --> 0:24:33.600 great person is just that I think sometimes in life. 0:24:34.320 --> 0:24:42.560 I am that's but I think that some things in 0:24:42.600 --> 0:24:45.480 life is just about timing. You know. You can love 0:24:45.520 --> 0:24:48.160 someone or whatever and just not be at the same 0:24:48.200 --> 0:24:50.560 speed in that moment in life, you know. And I 0:24:50.600 --> 0:24:52.520 think that he has some things that he's working on 0:24:52.960 --> 0:24:54.720 and I'm working on my own. And like I said, 0:24:54.720 --> 0:24:56.760 I wish you nothing but the best. I am currently 0:24:56.840 --> 0:25:00.679 dating and I am very happy right now. You're just 0:25:00.760 --> 0:25:04.240 answering the questions. So let me ask you. So real. 0:25:04.320 --> 0:25:07.400 You're like an open book, you ask me. But wait, 0:25:07.640 --> 0:25:17.520 you're dating? Yeah, I mean, how's that going? I'm you 0:25:17.560 --> 0:25:20.159 know what, I'm very open minded right now. And I 0:25:20.200 --> 0:25:22.639 don't know what happened to my body, to my knee. 0:25:23.040 --> 0:25:25.879 But the moment I hit thirty, like, I don't know, 0:25:26.000 --> 0:25:28.760 this transformation in me happened, like from the way that 0:25:28.800 --> 0:25:34.760 I see things that they do. So I mean, we 0:25:34.920 --> 0:25:41.000 didn't like for what I mean, why would I I 0:25:41.040 --> 0:25:43.520 mean it doesn't mean Look first of all, First of all, 0:25:43.600 --> 0:25:46.680 my icon is Jennifer Lopez. Everybody give it up for Jay. Look, 0:25:49.400 --> 0:26:00.760 so we all got a chance, you know. But I'll 0:26:00.800 --> 0:26:03.920 say this that I admire. Yes, you need to have 0:26:03.960 --> 0:26:06.680 options but I admire the fact that if something makes 0:26:06.680 --> 0:26:09.679 her unhappy, she's out. Who says that you have to 0:26:09.720 --> 0:26:14.560 be in an uncomfortable, unhappy situation just to satisfy society 0:26:14.680 --> 0:26:18.560 so that they don't see you as a or or whatever, 0:26:18.680 --> 0:26:21.160 and while you're unhappy. Back in the days, our grandparents 0:26:21.240 --> 0:26:23.800 used to be in these long as fifties, six year 0:26:23.920 --> 0:26:26.920 marriage where you're not even together. One sleeps in one room, 0:26:27.000 --> 0:26:28.560 the other sleeps in the other room, but just so 0:26:28.680 --> 0:26:32.159