Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel one coming on right now, another panic
Speaker 1: attack inside, climbing up in my throat, and I'm starting
Speaker 1: to hyperventively all the classic science. Man, I gotta get
Speaker 1: out of my head and pay attention or I'll miss
Speaker 1: my transfer. I think I'm all worked up because it
Speaker 1: was coming up tonight. I thought i'd be excited, but
Speaker 1: it's just it's just too much. You know, what the
Speaker 1: hell am I inbuts oh god, God cool yo, Ruben,
Speaker 1: It's all in my head. I know this, I know this,
Speaker 1: but it feels so real. Sometimes it's overwhelming and I
Speaker 1: cannot have an attack like this night. It will ruin
Speaker 1: everything Marko and I have planned, Ruben. See, no one
Speaker 1: wants to be a Hollywood celebrity anymore, no one my
Speaker 1: age anyway. I mean, we want to be Internet famous.
Speaker 1: We want to be influencers, motivating our peers to become
Speaker 1: followers of what's trending on Twitter, TikTok or Instagram. We
Speaker 1: areddinkted to our follows and our likes. Man, I should know.
Speaker 1: I remember when I was nine, I created a profile
Speaker 1: on Vine. Remember ye that it doesn't matter, kind of
Speaker 1: like Instagram, but with just video. Anyway, I posted a
Speaker 1: video and nearly broke the internet. Outloaded the post to
Speaker 1: me freestyling off of Hello Marco, what man, are you
Speaker 1: ready for tonight? My best friend Marco has a mischievous grind.
Speaker 1: Oh he sees his upside. Try my best not to frown,
Speaker 1: Try my best to mirror his expression. Yeah, I'm ready
Speaker 1: as I'll ever be. Believe it, bro, you gotta kill
Speaker 1: it tonight. Trust me, my head is still in the
Speaker 1: clouds when I try to focus on Marco was asking
Speaker 1: me about I can't believe of really doing this. He
Speaker 1: grabs me by the shoulders and stares me dead in
Speaker 1: the eyes. Hey, I wanted you in this with me specifically.
Speaker 1: You got this. Are you sure you don't want to
Speaker 1: be on MIC for the interview yourself? You got the crid,
Speaker 1: You're the quote unquote influencer. Now I'm just a goof
Speaker 1: making dumb TikTok videos. Man, this is bigger than that.
Speaker 1: It's got to be its own brand. You got the depth.
Speaker 1: You're practically an artist yourself. I see you lost in
Speaker 1: your head all the time, scribbling your ideas out in class.
Speaker 1: You need an outlet, let those creative juices flow. I
Speaker 1: know you can connect here. Trust me. You're a guy
Speaker 1: for this. I do trust Marco, but I am nervous
Speaker 1: as hell. All I really want to do is put
Speaker 1: my headphones on and yeah, I get lost in my thoughts.
Speaker 1: I don't want to think about doing an interview tonight.
Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm sneaking into the city, lying to
Speaker 1: my parents and doing what I've dreamed of doing forever.
Speaker 1: Too sick when you think about it. I'm tripping, fraid
Speaker 1: I can't do this. No, no, no, no no. Marco
Speaker 1: was right, No need to psych myself out there. There's
Speaker 1: no turning back now. Did you tell your parents you're
Speaker 1: staying at my place tonight? Yeah? They think they know,
Speaker 1: They don't know. Jack Jack, Jack Jack. Hey, congrats man,
Speaker 1: it's been a hell of a summer. We live large.
Speaker 1: Now on to bigger and better things, right, meet me
Speaker 1: back at the train station at seven. That's gonna be huge?
Speaker 1: Will it be huge? What if I mess up? Ship?
Speaker 1: I'm more afraid of it being huge. And if it's
Speaker 1: just some dumb, hoppy me and my friend of doom?
Speaker 1: What did I get myself into? Okay, let's let me
Speaker 1: stop tripping. I put in my earbuds and force myself
Speaker 1: to focus on something other than myself. Doubt ready or not,
Speaker 1: here it comes to break, of course, I'd be Marco
Speaker 1: back to the train station. He's always mad late, It's
Speaker 1: like clockwork. And while I'm stuck waiting, my mind dripped
Speaker 1: back to the same old training thought. The video that
Speaker 1: blew up on Vine just me freestyling over a Kanye
Speaker 1: type beat I found on YouTube. After I posted that video,
Speaker 1: my likes my shares, they went through the roof. Next
Speaker 1: day at school, everybody stopped me in the hall in
Speaker 1: class Wherever asked me to take selfies with him. The
Speaker 1: biggest hip hop law share my post on their pages.
Speaker 1: I was famous overnight in that famous anyways. I gained
Speaker 1: fifty k followers in less than forty eight hours. Parents
Speaker 1: didn't quite understanding the oven until Ellen, Yes, Dad, Ellen,
Speaker 1: the one with the TV show shared my video on
Speaker 1: national television. Ellen itself didn't invited me on, but my
Speaker 1: parents thought I was too young. They wouldn't allow me
Speaker 1: to fly out to Los Angeles to be a guest
Speaker 1: on the new shows at Ellen or or anyone else
Speaker 1: hosted on television, radio or even podcasts. Parts right, my
Speaker 1: parents thought my freestyle was cute, but they freaked out
Speaker 1: it all the attention I was getting, some of which
Speaker 1: was negative. After monitoring the comments over the weekend, my
Speaker 1: parents to leading my account on Monday morning before they
Speaker 1: dropped me off as school. They were afraid of me
Speaker 1: being cyper bullied or distracted by internet fame or worse.
Speaker 1: I mean, I thought I was just having fun and
Speaker 1: being myself. It's never my intention to go viral or whatever,
Speaker 1: but I did. But man, when it happened, what a rush.
Speaker 1: I just I never quite stopped chasing that feeling. Fast
Speaker 1: forward eight years later to the here and now. My
Speaker 1: friend Marco was a self made social media influencer and
Speaker 1: he's only seventeen years old. He doesn't follow trends. He
Speaker 1: sets him height beast monitors his social media pages for direction.
Speaker 1: Dude has been a tastemaker his whole life without even trying.
Speaker 1: Marco has a soil of three hundred thousand followers. He
Speaker 1: gets invited to these exclusive events in the city and
Speaker 1: he's not even old enough to drink yet. Man, tonight
Speaker 1: is one of those events. He got two tickets to
Speaker 1: see Levega Jolie live at the Brooklyn Bowl. I mean,
Speaker 1: this show was sold out leves from Newark, so you
Speaker 1: already know the love of cool kids gonna be in
Speaker 1: the building. Not that would even get closer to the the
Speaker 1: stage to see her performance, probably won't even get to
Speaker 1: shake her hand and meet her. But Marco's big ideas
Speaker 1: to maneuver our way onto the press list and score
Speaker 1: an interview with her tonight. My doubts had me scrambling
Speaker 1: for a way out. I can't deny that Marco knows me.
Speaker 1: He knows what makes me tick. He knows I want
Speaker 1: that rush the rest of he gets all the time,
Speaker 1: one post, one sound bite, one selfie blowing up that
Speaker 1: next level rush. I do a gut check on my
Speaker 1: nerves and to show this closer and closer. We're on
Speaker 1: the train now heading into Brooklyn from our queen's neighborhood
Speaker 1: and far rockaway into the A tram. Once we arrived
Speaker 1: at the Brooklyn Bowl, Marco gives the woman behind the
Speaker 1: ticket count of our names. She asked if we're on
Speaker 1: the press list. Mirco gives her a slick smile and responds, yes,
Speaker 1: my stomach is doing backflips. This is the moment of truth.
Speaker 1: The ticket lady frowned and she looks through the papers
Speaker 1: on the clipboard, shaking her head, ready to turn us down.
Speaker 1: I feel my throat tighten again. My head is dizzy.
Speaker 1: Ship ship ship not now, man, not now. I can't
Speaker 1: the race, and thoughts start flying around my mind. I mean,
Speaker 1: what if she kicks us out for lying about the
Speaker 1: press list? What if I have an anxiety attack right
Speaker 1: here in the lobby. Okay, I gotta chill. She want
Speaker 1: to call my parents to take me home, which is
Speaker 1: humiliating enough, But then they'll find out we're doing this.
Speaker 1: I'll be crowning from not telling them in this podcast
Speaker 1: interview we have planned would be over before it begins.
Speaker 1: When I get caught up like this, I can see
Speaker 1: the oncoming crash, and I feel like there's no turning
Speaker 1: away Marco Joseph. If it's not there, then there's been
Speaker 1: a mistake. Just like Marco, this dude is too smooth. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: I'm trying not to throw up the ticket. Lady calls
Speaker 1: Neveta's rep, who comes up front to greet us, and
Speaker 1: without hesitation, Marco introduces himself with me. At least he
Speaker 1: recognizes Marco's name, special Influencer, inviting all I'm still focusing
Speaker 1: on my breath, playing it cool and trying to hide
Speaker 1: the fear of my eyes. Let it. Marco leads, really,
Speaker 1: this is my creative partner, Ruben Robinson, my schedule to
Speaker 1: an interview Nevea. But it looks like we're left off
Speaker 1: the press list. Vea's rep looks amused, probably thinking these
Speaker 1: kids got balls or we're out of our damn minds.
Speaker 1: There's a long pause. You're right, you're not on the list.
Speaker 1: I checked my hands to make sure they aren't shaken.
Speaker 1: I don't. We're about to get kicked out. I know it,
Speaker 1: and if he sees my nerves, it'll be my fault.
Speaker 1: I can't let Marco down like this, but I like
Speaker 1: your hustle follow me. A sense of really floods my
Speaker 1: veins like a cold shower. I held it together barely
Speaker 1: because we walked through the crowd. The rep asked if
Speaker 1: we want to meet an available before the show. She's
Speaker 1: got a few minutes and it will be our only chance.
Speaker 1: The rep is talking about a meet and Greece, so
Speaker 1: I kind of have to force the subject of the interview,
Speaker 1: even in the green room. But of course we respond
Speaker 1: yes in a nonchalant tone. Like it isn't a big deal.
Speaker 1: MARCOA makes small talk smoothly drops that we got a podcast,
Speaker 1: and the rep loves the name. Here comes the break,
Speaker 1: Only we don't have a podcast, not yet anyway. The
Speaker 1: rep looks at us, smiles slightly. He's clearly amused with Marco.
Speaker 1: My stomach has stopped doing flips, but now it feels
Speaker 1: like there's a lead brick in there. I didn't think
Speaker 1: this will work, but now we're here and there is
Speaker 1: no turning back. I'm seventeen and about an interview one
Speaker 1: of the hottest up and coming artists in the city.
Speaker 1: I've been waiting my whole life for this moment. I've
Speaker 1: loved hip hop since I was little. I remember being
Speaker 1: real young, like six, and hearing beats bleed through the
Speaker 1: walls from my parents room. It was my dad who
Speaker 1: introduced me the legendary artists like jay Z and Naas,
Speaker 1: who told me the stories behind each track, about their
Speaker 1: lives growing up, fast money cars and beasts that cost
Speaker 1: mcs like Biggie and packed their lives. He taught me
Speaker 1: the hip hop was born in the South Bronx. He
Speaker 1: exposed me the cool Hurt Run DMC and African Bambiden
Speaker 1: through Death Jam and the rise of Gangster Rapp. They're
Speaker 1: never in the story. I was obsessed with hip hop.
Speaker 1: I wanted to meet my favorite artists, dive into the culture,
Speaker 1: and spread the gospel. The minute I started getting the platform,
Speaker 1: my parents just shut all that down. I see my
Speaker 1: parents frowning and alarmed at the side of the amount
Speaker 1: of followers I gained overnight. I'm reminded of my parents discouragement.
Speaker 1: I get it on some level, particularly from my mom,
Speaker 1: who's always extra alert to the dangers of me putting
Speaker 1: myself out there as a young black man. She might
Speaker 1: not disapprove this podcast I did now that I'm seventeen,
Speaker 1: but she definitely won't be cool with me and Marco
Speaker 1: sneaking into the city and night behind her back. I
Speaker 1: can feel the tightness in my chest, the stack of
Speaker 1: breathing as I pull out my phone to review the
Speaker 1: questions I prepared to ask Nova if we actually got
Speaker 1: this far as if you couldn't tell. I have anxiety.
Speaker 1: I was diagnosed with it at ten years old. I've
Speaker 1: been taking medication ever since. Sometimes it works better than
Speaker 1: other times. Honestly, until the night, I never thought of
Speaker 1: my angsty diagnosis that's connected to my board of fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes of fame. But moments like this are triggering. I
Speaker 1: should feel exhilarated, proud, and excited, but I'm preparing for
Speaker 1: the worst. Something bad will happen, something will ruin this
Speaker 1: moment for me, or maybe I'll ruin it for myself.
Speaker 1: In a weird way, I want that to happen to
Speaker 1: take the pressure off. I know that on some level,
Speaker 1: the real reason Marco insists that I joined him on
Speaker 1: this adventure is because he wants to have a reason
Speaker 1: to keep hanging out. My parents arranged for a transfer
Speaker 1: to a stem Magnet school booker t Washington High when
Speaker 1: school starts. Marco and I don't want to lose our friendship,
Speaker 1: and keep telling myself tonight doesn't have to be about
Speaker 1: anything bigger than that we arrived closer in the Vedas
Speaker 1: green room, Marco little ship that he is locked size
Speaker 1: and smiles at those who aren't getting access backstage like
Speaker 1: we are. We're being treated like v I peace and
Speaker 1: it feels electric For a short shining moment, I don't
Speaker 1: feel like a snowball careening downhill. I feel all the
Speaker 1: way up, like fat Joe and Remy my. The door
Speaker 1: opens and the publicist woman needs Marco went out into
Speaker 1: the green room and I swallowed the rise and pit
Speaker 1: in my stomach. Novella. Great to see you, Marco, Joseph
Speaker 1: Ruben Robinson, we're here for the interview. Holy shit, there's
Speaker 1: that adrenaline rush. When the ride a home. Marco can't
Speaker 1: stop help the photos of us. When the he writes,
Speaker 1: teasing captains to read a night to remember and new
Speaker 1: project coming soon. Marcot was crazy. I'm happy you had
Speaker 1: a great time, but I'm just trying to save her
Speaker 1: every bit of day. Endorphin high and filing after that interview,
Speaker 1: but as we get back to town and head back
Speaker 1: to Marco's place, I feel sad. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: the closest we've ever been tonight. But what if this
Speaker 1: is the last time it's like this? What if changing
Speaker 1: schools changes us. It's like on the trip home, I've
Speaker 1: been able to fly all the stresses and fixations that
Speaker 1: was lashing onto in my panic. I left them way
Speaker 1: down below me on the ground. All those issues seem
Speaker 1: so small and manageable. All of a sudden, the thing,
Speaker 1: the actual thing, the interview, We got it, but I'm
Speaker 1: coming back to earth. Marco and I both knowing but
Speaker 1: not saying that this is the end of an era,
Speaker 1: knowing but not saying this podcast it's our best shot
Speaker 1: to make this the start of something new and great instead.
Speaker 1: Marco may be in Internet sensation, but I'm the one
Speaker 1: getting into a private stem school starting next week. He'll
Speaker 1: still be back in public school in some ways. He
Speaker 1: needs to pop more than I do. You know, Marco
Speaker 1: is addicted to every hit on his social media accounts.
Speaker 1: That's just the world he lives in. I always tol
Speaker 1: him that this goes well, and as if he's reading
Speaker 1: my mind, he turns to me and says, hey, Ben,
Speaker 1: thanks for doing this with me. Thanks for pushing me. Man.
Speaker 1: When we get back to Marco's house, it's at it
Speaker 1: in time. It's pretty late and his parents are already asleep,
Speaker 1: so we raided the catchen for snacks, takis and prettzels
Speaker 1: and the red Bull. Each we rush up the stairs
Speaker 1: to Marco's room so we could dig into the Neva interview.
Speaker 1: Keep on riding that high. Yeah, and it's the last
Speaker 1: weekend of the summer, so if we want to, we
Speaker 1: could stay up till dawn and sleep tomorrow away. I
Speaker 1: was turning the interview over in my head on the
Speaker 1: train ride back while Marcot was on his phone, So
Speaker 1: once we're safely in his bedroom, we immediately snapped back
Speaker 1: into mind. Mailed Mark, just leaving some of the casual
Speaker 1: stuff on either end. Help things feel real intimate. Oh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna want to score the opening and closing with
Speaker 1: the tight beat for now the job. On the girl
Speaker 1: group question, she really opened up about her mom, and
Speaker 1: I'm bringing the closer we get to complete in the pot,
Speaker 1: the more I start to feel my anxiety return, just
Speaker 1: bubbling up from within me. Oh shit, I just realized
Speaker 1: I forgot to take my meds. I've been so distracted
Speaker 1: that it didn't even cross my mind. And to be honest,
Speaker 1: my Clopin could put me to sleep, which I've been
Speaker 1: too busy for. While the audio file renders, I pulled
Speaker 1: the pill, bought a lot of my bag and duck
Speaker 1: out to the bathroom and wash one down. When I
Speaker 1: step back into the room, Marco was pulling the microphone
Speaker 1: from his closet and hooking it up to his laptop.
Speaker 1: What are we recording? You've got to introduce yourself to
Speaker 1: the masses. Bro queue up the interview with an intro
Speaker 1: in a sign off. Damn, he's right. I've been so
Speaker 1: focused on the interview itself. But there's another part of this.
Speaker 1: I hadn't thought through the big picture. I don't want
Speaker 1: to tell my parents, but if I'm the face of
Speaker 1: this project, then it gets the audience we want. I
Speaker 1: can't keep pretending this is just gonna be a fun
Speaker 1: amateur poty with my friend. If it hits, we're not
Speaker 1: gonna be business man. We're gonna be a business man.
Speaker 1: I can't hide that from my parents forever. The combination
Speaker 1: of the long night in the city, the head trip
Speaker 1: of success, the lack of sleep, and Miss Mad's it's
Speaker 1: got me tripping, and without thinking, I blurt out, can
Speaker 1: we disguise my voice? Marco throws some serious I what, no, man,
Speaker 1: We have to lay effects back over the whole interview.
Speaker 1: The sun's coming up. It'll be worth it. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: part of a stage name, a persona. The anonymity could
Speaker 1: give us a little mistique. Okay, okay, that's interesting what
Speaker 1: you're having in mind. I scrambled for an idea, jittery
Speaker 1: winging it, I suggested this out of panic, But now
Speaker 1: I gotta keep my nerves about me and back it up.
Speaker 1: How about mask on like a play on futures. Mask
Speaker 1: Off could be a play on Corona culture too. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know all right, it has potential. If I start
Speaker 1: on divorce distortion as soon as we lock down the
Speaker 1: intro on autro, we could still post it today. And
Speaker 1: I gotta record the central and noutre before that climb
Speaker 1: up and kicks in the fact I fell off my
Speaker 1: med schedule on his own and starting to freak me out.
Speaker 1: You can throw off my mood for days. Not what
Speaker 1: I need right now. I got a family dinner celebrateing
Speaker 1: Mynday school tomorrow. Marcos starts to take with a tap
Speaker 1: on his track pad. Okay, mask On, step up to
Speaker 1: the mic. We'll so we's set out there, podcast world.
Speaker 1: We are coming at you, fresh from the van of
Speaker 1: Joel Show at the Brooklyn Bowl after wrapping up an
Speaker 1: interview with one of the hottest new artists in the game.
Speaker 1: She's fly too. That's what we do here and here
Speaker 1: comes to break. You get used to that. I'm your
Speaker 1: host mask on, and that's what those earbuds in and
Speaker 1: enjoy our exclusive interview with Nevea Jolie. I don't know
Speaker 1: where it comes from, but I feel way less anxious
Speaker 1: and more confident behind this PERSONA killer first take and
Speaker 1: I'll try to outro. That's our interview with the Veta. Hey,
Speaker 1: the show was amazing. Showing some love like follow and
Speaker 1: subscribe to the artist feeds our feeds links in the description,
Speaker 1: I'm mask on. This is your place for the hottest
Speaker 1: and breaking new artists. Ready or not, here it comes
Speaker 1: to break. Oh you're a natural. We don't have a
Speaker 1: second episode lined up. The plug you worked around it.
Speaker 1: Don't sweat it for now. I'll here comes to break
Speaker 1: official accounts, cross posts on my accounts. We'll have artists
Speaker 1: coming to us once we hit some real numbers, and
Speaker 1: until then, we just gotta step up our hustle going
Speaker 1: out to shows rollsoving me like a wave. This thing
Speaker 1: is real. Now the thought scares me. It's rattling around
Speaker 1: my brain, throwing the elbows and the climb up and
Speaker 1: still doesn't feel like it's kicking in. Suddenly have a
Speaker 1: panic thought and check my book back again. Shit, I
Speaker 1: brought the wrong pill bottle. This is my adderall I
Speaker 1: took an adderall by mistake. Oh, there's no way I'm
Speaker 1: getting any sleep. Now, I'm going to be up all
Speaker 1: day and walking in the family dinner tonight with raw nerves.
Speaker 1: The big celebration to me starting a book of t
Speaker 1: and I'll be lucky if I'm a zombie on type
Speaker 1: of line to them about why was tonight? Now I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to cover up my exhaustion and adrenaline and
Speaker 1: they're gonna see if right through it. Oh, the voice
Speaker 1: whispers inside of me. Oh no, here it comes all
Speaker 1: my anxieties. They're coming together, and that big familiar blob
Speaker 1: of fear. Now, Yo, Reuben, it's time to work. I
Speaker 1: step up to the mic. Adrenaline anxiety coursing through me.
Speaker 1: Let's screw it. Here calms the break. We'll be right
Speaker 1: back and now back to the show. In an industry
Speaker 1: that is constantly trying to define artists, can you tell
Speaker 1: our listeners in your own words? Who is Novea Joe
Speaker 1: Lee h Who is Novejoli Novego Lee. I am an artist,
Speaker 1: a full on creative, crazy person, singer, songwriter, actress, future entrepreneur.
Speaker 1: I do a lot, but I'm still defining myself every day.
Speaker 1: You get my own words. Wow wow okay, okay. You
Speaker 1: know every artist has that when they step into a room,
Speaker 1: when they walk, the way they dress, speak, sing. How
Speaker 1: do you maintain to develop that? WHOA? My number one
Speaker 1: role is to always keep it playing, so you know,
Speaker 1: I gotta stick to that definitely, and just being yourself
Speaker 1: as an artist. The goal is to be entertaining, but
Speaker 1: the goal is also to be able to express yourself
Speaker 1: and the best way you can. So if people are
Speaker 1: digging it, they're gonna dig it. You just gotta be
Speaker 1: you keep it playing. Okay, Okay, I feel I feel
Speaker 1: you and you go right. And so you were eight
Speaker 1: years old, So tell me what road is writing playing
Speaker 1: your life? Writing is my expressions, my voice, pen and paper,
Speaker 1: just typing it out and my notes is it's getting
Speaker 1: that emotion out. It started off with a little colone
Speaker 1: little songs. Since I was eight, I carried around a
Speaker 1: journal and I just whenever I thought of something, I
Speaker 1: just wrote it down. It's kind of like just a release.
Speaker 1: If I have built up energy, I can't sit on it.
Speaker 1: I need it to get out of my system. So
Speaker 1: I write every day, just trying to express myself. Did
Speaker 1: you view it as a film a therapy? Definitely? Definitely.
Speaker 1: It's processing. It's ways to get out an emotion you
Speaker 1: you have and you can't necessarily say it, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like, I'm not the best at articulating
Speaker 1: my thoughts, so I'll have to write it out. I'll
Speaker 1: have to because I'm better with that. The switching gears here.
Speaker 1: How how have you built your following, especially on social media? Well,
Speaker 1: it's been it's been, you know, going up these past
Speaker 1: like two years, and I've just been building relationships with
Speaker 1: my plays and it's dope. It's dope. I really just
Speaker 1: try to stay true to myself, try to post relatable content,
Speaker 1: just try to reach out to people, talk to people,
Speaker 1: go live and just really use my platform to not
Speaker 1: only advertise my music and advertise what I'm doing, but
Speaker 1: just to be there for people, you know, and to
Speaker 1: connect about current events like Black Lives Matter. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what that's That's what it's there for. Definitely speaking about it.
Speaker 1: Tell me, how how are you personally coping with all
Speaker 1: the civil own rest. Well, it's always been there and
Speaker 1: always been a problem. It's literally one of my only
Speaker 1: triggers that make me like angry or make me flustered.
Speaker 1: Just racism, police brutality, all that nonsense. My first fight ever,
Speaker 1: my first fight that I ever got into, was on
Speaker 1: that topic and um, I got body slammed by a dude.
Speaker 1: It was in the army program in my high school. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just very passionate about that type stuff. And it's
Speaker 1: so tiring. It's just tiring, it's exhausting. It's not gonna
Speaker 1: stop anytime soon unless people actually wanted to and make
Speaker 1: a difference. So you were in your first girl group
Speaker 1: of tend called the Perfect Storm. When lessons did you
Speaker 1: learn from that experience? Oh, my gosh, rhythm definitely. Rhythm. Wow.
Speaker 1: I was doing like choreography at ten and it would
Speaker 1: get me so frustrated, but it helped. It helped a lot,
Speaker 1: and it just it got me used to positive and
Speaker 1: negative feedback, people telling you how it is to your
Speaker 1: face as a kid, like I'm getting nose left and right.
Speaker 1: Because I used to audition for stuff on the side too,
Speaker 1: because I was also acting. So I would just catch
Speaker 1: the train to New York with my mom every day,
Speaker 1: every weekend, anytime she got off of work, and it
Speaker 1: was just audition after audition, So it just taught me
Speaker 1: a lot about the industry, you know, But it was
Speaker 1: just me and my mom was not like the most
Speaker 1: extreme mamager ever. But when I said that I wanted
Speaker 1: to do music, she was like, if you want to
Speaker 1: do it, we gotta get you on vocal lessons, we
Speaker 1: gotta do this, we gotta get you doing theater, we
Speaker 1: gotta do this that that. Well, what are getting that
Speaker 1: support from your mom? Meaning you and mental lot? At
Speaker 1: first I wanted to be a scientist and she was
Speaker 1: like super for that. But when I was like, Okay, no,
Speaker 1: I really want to do this music thing. We've been
Speaker 1: doing it for real, Let's do it for real, for real,
Speaker 1: of course she was going to support me. I was
Speaker 1: just so eager. There was no way that she was
Speaker 1: going to stop me. You know what I'm saying. She
Speaker 1: had to be there for it, and she believed in
Speaker 1: me entirely, and she still believes in me now and
Speaker 1: she's definitely rooting for me. So that's amazing. What advice
Speaker 1: would you get the families and parents about supporting a
Speaker 1: teenager that wants to pursue the arts. If you see
Speaker 1: their dedicated and you see that they really mean it
Speaker 1: in their grades are good, then my thing doing, man,
Speaker 1: I don't do it. Man. I kept my honor roll.
Speaker 1: But this is for all y'all aspiring artists. Keep your
Speaker 1: grades good. If you're trying to convince your parents that
Speaker 1: you got your life, figure it out. Keep your grades decent,
Speaker 1: and then they'll they'll believe you. They'll believe your promise.
Speaker 1: Keep your grades good. That's a going, that's a going.
Speaker 1: I know you're in the guide in meditation and drawing
Speaker 1: and painting. What does your wellness routine look like if
Speaker 1: you have them. I don't really have a routine. I
Speaker 1: try to meditate as much as I can, like every day,
Speaker 1: every other day. I try to draw a little bit
Speaker 1: in my journal, right, a little bit of poetry or
Speaker 1: a song. And final question, what would you like your
Speaker 1: legacy to be? Maybe just having a good personality, like
Speaker 1: just being a good person. I just I just want
Speaker 1: to be you know that cool old lady you know
Speaker 1: everybody remembers. Well, I'm sure your jeans are great. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna look like an old lady once you
Speaker 1: become an old lady. You're right, I'm gonna still be
Speaker 1: on tour like Shoot, I'm gonna be out here yoke.
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