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Speaker 1: Well, Jake Valentine, we are all right. Welcome to the

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Speaker 1: R and B Money Podcast. I am Tank, This is

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Speaker 1: Jay Valentine. We are the authorities on R and B

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Speaker 1: and in the building. My dog come on now, too

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Speaker 1: much hair away from from side to side from not

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Speaker 1: related to Jay Valentine. Okay, gets out of the way.

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Speaker 1: You know what's so crazy? I don't know. Should we

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Speaker 1: do the trade? Check the road? You can check everything,

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Speaker 1: check the roads. Yeah, so how do you how do

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Speaker 1: we get Valentine? Um? Wow, that that was probably a

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Speaker 1: drunk night. Um just sound good, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: I think that, Uh, at first it was just Valentine.

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Speaker 1: Everybody would call me Valentine's like, oh, she's so she's

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Speaker 1: so lovable and loving and whatever, like a little Valentine,

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Speaker 1: you know. And my Southern hospitality in l A was

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Speaker 1: like really like Valentine's Day card, you know. And Brooke

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Speaker 1: is is my name? My mom named me Brooke. My

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Speaker 1: name is Nicole Brook Nicole. Yeah, but listen, that actually

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Speaker 1: reversed though, because Nicole is usually ninety five percent of

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Speaker 1: black girl's middle name in the hood. True, very true.

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Speaker 1: If I mean we're do the calls at like if

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Speaker 1: ain't on the calls in here then something that, you

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Speaker 1: know what I mean. So definitely the black girl middle

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Speaker 1: middle name had to keep you Valentine. Yeah, and it

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Speaker 1: just it just worked out. It just sounds good, rolled

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Speaker 1: off the tongue. You know. I had did a little

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Speaker 1: showcase and they asked me what my name was, and

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Speaker 1: I tried it out on him and it was like, oh,

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Speaker 1: that's amazing. I was like, okay, that's it. When I

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Speaker 1: met Jay and he said his name was Ja Valentine,

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Speaker 1: I was imry, Wow, that's an R and B name. Okay,

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Speaker 1: here I am. Yeah. My story, my story ain't like

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Speaker 1: you know what, it's not okay, it's not about it.

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Speaker 1: You know. I had to change my okay yeah yeah,

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Speaker 1: not run on, not run on. We're gonna get him

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Speaker 1: one day and then I want to be here for that.

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Speaker 1: You gotta hear that. So what we like to do

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Speaker 1: is we really like to we really like to start

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Speaker 1: from the beginning you, but we like to act like

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Speaker 1: we're just meeting you for the first right, right. We

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Speaker 1: need the the historian, we need the journey, we need

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Speaker 1: the journey all of this. She started, like, where did

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Speaker 1: the inspiration start? Where did the understanding of I have

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Speaker 1: a gift, I can do this, start people watching gets

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Speaker 1: a girlfriend. But but you know, how did how did we?

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Speaker 1: And then coming from Houston to l A, what was

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Speaker 1: the inspiration behind that voyage and all the way to

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Speaker 1: now to where you do a bunch of stuff your

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Speaker 1: multimedia at this point, Okay, hello, she poses for the picture,

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Speaker 1: so so let's see. Okay, let's start. Um in Houston,

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Speaker 1: Texas of course, Um, I came from a family that

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Speaker 1: were they wasn't really about the music. It was like,

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Speaker 1: that's a not even a dream. They just they it

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Speaker 1: was just something that did exists to my family, no one,

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Speaker 1: no one had ever done it ever, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean. It was a major joke. I feel like

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Speaker 1: when I watched What's a Little Movie for the kids,

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Speaker 1: Koko like, don't sing, that is not gonna work. So

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Speaker 1: it was my grandmother that would actually like entertain this

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Speaker 1: idea that I had. Remember, in the heat of the night,

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Speaker 1: started singing out loud. You know, I would sing privately

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Speaker 1: it was you know, coming on, and my grandmother was like.

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Speaker 1: My grandmother was like, what's what's going on? She really

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Speaker 1: you like that? So time passed and then she called

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Speaker 1: me up one time to sing in church. I was like,

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Speaker 1: Went up there his eyes on a sparrow. Everybody to death. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Sunday after, Sunday after, and so now you belong to

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Speaker 1: the church, right. But it's a little church. It's about

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Speaker 1: ten people at the church. It's my grandmother's you know,

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Speaker 1: it's my good No, it was a store from for real,

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Speaker 1: like y'all my grandmother's church. So they didn't even tell

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Speaker 1: was y'all know, Houston is um Nigeria and Houston have

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Speaker 1: Nigerian church. Oh yes, oh for sure. And then every

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Speaker 1: longest time I had. Oh yeah, it was a thing.

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Speaker 1: I was told I had to marry a Nigerian man.

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Speaker 1: her like that. To y'all, it was like, you go

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Speaker 1: all right, she said, or a light skin with good hair. Ho,

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Speaker 1: it's up to you, you know, because the baby got

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Speaker 1: So it's Nigerian church. I'm singing for my grandmother, my mom,

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Speaker 1: and everybody just thinks it's hilarious, like ha ha, she's

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Speaker 1: singing Mrs a Joke or whatever. So because of that energy,

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Speaker 1: called him Deja the Great Um. He was connected to

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Speaker 1: a Dino and Chisanne from Agetown and I met him

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Speaker 1: music industry already, so that was something new for me, Like, wow,

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Speaker 1: like that was amazing to me. So at this point,

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Speaker 1: I am of fourteen, fourteen fifteen maybe, so I'm going

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Speaker 1: laughing at me because I'm young. They you know, laughing

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Speaker 1: she thinks she could sing or whatever. So I made

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Speaker 1: the decision to lie up a little bit. All right,

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Speaker 1: well I'm seventeen then cool. That didn't work. Ran across

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Speaker 1: some homies from Wrap a Lot Records. They was like

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Speaker 1: saying something sunk. Something that was like, I wanna do

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Speaker 1: some hooks. So I don't know what that means. Look,

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Speaker 1: they say, we're gonna send you a taxi. What no,

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Speaker 1: uber back then we're gonna send you a taxi? They

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Speaker 1: send me a taxi. I ended up at wrapping our

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Speaker 1: record singing hooks for everybody. It was a work for

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Speaker 1: work for high hundred dollars. They told me I can stack.

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Speaker 1: I say stack? Can't you good at stack? And I

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Speaker 1: was like, I don't know what. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: My mom mad, She's like, what's going on? I just

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Speaker 1: want to know what she was selling? That's my uncle

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Speaker 1: Legit said, ain't no way anybody paying this little girl

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Speaker 1: My auntie. Everybody was like, it's no way that this happened,

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Speaker 1: it ain't no way. Okay. At the family functions, everybody

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Speaker 1: looking at me like, you know, I was really out

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Speaker 1: Pimpsy and you know, like they remember the little young

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Speaker 1: brook that was. They called me Skittles our butter, Skittles Butter.

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Speaker 1: Those were my two uh you know names around the hood.

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Speaker 1: They remember. I would come in there. They that's what

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Speaker 1: butter our skittles. Depending on if you was close to

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Speaker 1: the family with skittles. If you met me, you know,

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Speaker 1: around the studio it was butter and my mom had enough.

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Speaker 1: Um she was like, no more wrapper lot. So I

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Speaker 1: what's your name? I was like butter and he was like,

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Speaker 1: go home. He was like, who, who's idea was this?

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Speaker 1: I was like, no, for real? She could sing like

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Speaker 1: I don't feel comfortable with this. Oh yeah. He came.

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Speaker 1: He was so so well spoken, just I felt like

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Speaker 1: and I told him. He still said little girl. Go home.

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Speaker 1: I'm frustrated. I'm like, man, I thought I was on

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Speaker 1: venting to the ASA at the time. That was his

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Speaker 1: name about it, and um, he was like, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: So cool. That's when I did my first girl group.

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Speaker 1: It was called Best Kept Secret. I'm sure that's on

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Speaker 1: were you in the roup? That group that, Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: not that group last for a hot second because the

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Speaker 1: like like I can't even tell y'all what happened. Everybody

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Speaker 1: always asked me why that little group broke up. Y'all

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Speaker 1: have some potential. I don't know, Okay, so they run off.

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Speaker 1: I'm on my own. He's like, don't worry, you know,

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Speaker 1: So I'm just waiting. My mom kicked me out. One

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Speaker 1: day we were at the studio. Um, I remember a

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Speaker 1: just looking nervous. I was like, yo, what's up. And

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, what's what's wrong? Like we all in

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Speaker 1: the hoods, it's like if somebody dad i't there, You're

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Speaker 1: going to let down. And she's like, no, ain't nobody

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Speaker 1: dad out there. Your mom out there, and like what

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Speaker 1: you're talking about? Yeah? Mine drop never told my mom,

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Speaker 1: dresser was out there, the whole dress to dressers, the dog,

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Speaker 1: my dog tied to the dress of my little snake,

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Speaker 1: had a dog of a snake. All my stuff out there.

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Speaker 1: She trashed bag the rest of my stuff and she's

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Speaker 1: seven oh two, Like I can't do that, you know,

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00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:53,120
Speaker 1: even though I didn't even know that. Yeah right, remember

424
00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:58,359
Speaker 1: you know actually some meetings you know you're too smart,

425
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 1: you don't imagine, and they're like, we don't want you.

426
00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:07,440
Speaker 1: I'm so do I have to pay back the budget

427
00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:14,200
Speaker 1: that they've already right, I'm not like my solo rights?

428
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:24,080
Speaker 1: Are you talking to? You? Got too much that that? Yeah? No,

429
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:29,320
Speaker 1: So I did my noontime time. I was I went

430
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:31,680
Speaker 1: through the you know, skipped over the Destiny Child thing

431
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:33,919
Speaker 1: and all the other stuff. Another group, y'all a tr

432
00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:39,960
Speaker 1: Terry Ross, Terry Ross hit up London. Was like, y'all,

433
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,280
Speaker 1: I got the girl group just lost my least singer.

434
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:45,200
Speaker 1: I heard you got a girl Now I'm in that group.

435
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:49,119
Speaker 1: I think they called it Sir Jane, a girl named Dina,

436
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:53,560
Speaker 1: and Shira and Tunisha. So we was in noontime working.

437
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:56,720
Speaker 1: That's when I met j Q. Okay, j Q, I

438
00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:59,760
Speaker 1: don't da. I don't know Jake. We want to get

439
00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:01,320
Speaker 1: Jake you on the phone. I don't know. I was

440
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,680
Speaker 1: just living. I was in a whirlwind, you know what

441
00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 1: I mean. I was like I made it l like,

442
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:10,920
Speaker 1: oh yeah, this is this is my journey to l

443
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:12,639
Speaker 1: a kind of you know what I mean. It's like

444
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 1: at this point I'm gone. I'm out of Houston. Ain't

445
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:23,400
Speaker 1: going back, Okay, No, mhmm. I'm like nobody's checking on you. No. No,

446
00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:25,439
Speaker 1: I didn't speak to anybody in my family for like

447
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:31,160
Speaker 1: three years straight. I'm gonna tell Win, oh yeah, sixteen

448
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,200
Speaker 1: out get out of here with the dog and the snake.

449
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:38,439
Speaker 1: It's like, anybody want to buy child and a Cobra

450
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 1: because I don't have anywhere to live. So yeah, I'm in.

451
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:45,040
Speaker 1: I'm in a t l with with me working with

452
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 1: Jazz Faye and um Um tr Teddy Bishop, working with

453
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:57,240
Speaker 1: Teddy Jay Austin. Yeah, everybody like they was. You know,

454
00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,520
Speaker 1: that's the first time I was told. You know, I

455
00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:03,160
Speaker 1: remember um Teddy was like, yo, you and Aliyah sounds

456
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,040
Speaker 1: so much alike in the booth is crazy to me.

457
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:10,120
Speaker 1: And I was like sad you were there. You were

458
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:14,159
Speaker 1: there because they wrote all of our songs, all of

459
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,360
Speaker 1: our son j Q. Too Hot to Go Home. I'll

460
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 1: never forget that song. That song got me in trouble,

461
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:23,439
Speaker 1: too gotten, too hot to just go home. Donnie is

462
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:27,400
Speaker 1: the first person that made me hate the studio. Donnie

463
00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:30,679
Speaker 1: will make you record a verse a hundred times in

464
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:34,440
Speaker 1: a row. He'm gonna keep them all and I will

465
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,960
Speaker 1: do what I do when y'all go home. An hour

466
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:42,199
Speaker 1: later after singing that same verse, I hated that song.

467
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 1: But any comp comp comping um Jazz Faye, I did

468
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,919
Speaker 1: my first like crazy little distract record. You know, I

469
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:54,840
Speaker 1: was feeling myself. Anyway, long story short, we did a

470
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:58,440
Speaker 1: bunch of meetings with the group. Didn't the meetings. Nobody

471
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 1: was trying to sign us. So that's when it's like,

472
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 1: it's not like that. You woke up. Keep it funky

473
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:08,640
Speaker 1: as you look back now, right, Jesus, just keep on. Yeah,

474
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 1: it was something missing. It was something missing because y'all

475
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:13,879
Speaker 1: know we had the records. That's very play the records

476
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 1: and took the records. That's very political in my mind.

477
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 1: That just said. I remember sitting in a meeting like

478
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:25,479
Speaker 1: everybody looked good. Yeah, it was everybody get down. Everybody

479
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:29,840
Speaker 1: group was getting knocked down. Everybody was getting by the

480
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:33,360
Speaker 1: same guy except me. I came in like, oh, y'all,

481
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:37,639
Speaker 1: it's something going on. What y'all doing? Okay, but I

482
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 1: love y'all. Uh, So we went to it was it

483
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 1: was it was a listen week, ladies. If y'all listening

484
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:46,600
Speaker 1: to this. We can talk about this, call me, d

485
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:48,960
Speaker 1: n me. We can set we can come right back here.

486
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: That's a whole lot of seats and we can figure

487
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 1: out the entanglements that that broke up the group. Okay,

488
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 1: But I remember sitting in the meeting like, come on, y'all, like, y'all,

489
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 1: we gotta remember knowing you need to walk into the

490
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 1: room and captivate you know what I mean, walk to

491
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:05,120
Speaker 1: the room. And but that was me being a Southern

492
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 1: bill like, how y'all doing? Yeah, I sing and you know,

493
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 1: and they would kind of be like m hmm. You know,

494
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was the l A on them,

495
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:13,719
Speaker 1: you know, it was the l A girls. They had

496
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 1: the fresh press and I was in there with the

497
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: country girls. You know, I don't know. But I went

498
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 1: through a situation in that group where they kind of

499
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 1: said they wanted to sign me after the meeting, and

500
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, that was my first encounter with that.

501
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 1: That was E and I at the time. Oh no,

502
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 1: it was just straight capital at the time. That freaked

503
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 1: me out. I didn't take the deal. I was like, no,

504
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 1: that's not wrong, that's not loyalty. You know, I think,

505
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 1: you know, I come from Houston. I'm like, no, you

506
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 1: don't do that. You stick with your gang. They came

507
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:43,720
Speaker 1: in there with them. I'm not turn the deal down.

508
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 1: So group just dissolved. I don't even I want to

509
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 1: ask Terry what happened? Why? Why we keep going? You know,

510
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 1: I don't know. So it was right. I ended up

511
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 1: in another group with Mila j In, Miyoko, Um Jane.

512
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 1: You know y'all, y'all know what everybody don't know. So

513
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 1: it's jen A, Miyoko, and Jamila. That's the three sisters. Um.

514
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 1: This is as soon as I um arrived. When I

515
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 1: arrived in l A for the first time, Like what,

516
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 1: I so not mind you? When he got me a

517
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 1: ticket to l A. I thought I was coming to visit,

518
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 1: you know. I'm like, it's no way I'm gonna stay

519
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 1: like I think I'm coming to visit. I'm gonna try

520
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 1: it out now in my mind, I'm gonna do everything

521
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 1: I can to stay here, you know what I mean.

522
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:28,400
Speaker 1: But it's like, okay, come see what it's like. I

523
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 1: met Mila j and um Miyoko and Mama Tina at

524
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 1: Friday's my first soon as I got off the plane. Um,

525
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 1: that was exciting. They just took me in like mom.

526
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 1: Matina was really a mother to me. That was the

527
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:45,000
Speaker 1: first time in a long time that I was like,

528
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 1: oh my god, Like she get me hughed, like baby,

529
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 1: you need to try this condition on your hair, you're

530
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 1: looking a little dry, and I was like, okay. We

531
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 1: end up getting swept back to a t L we

532
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:58,640
Speaker 1: I think they called us remix to do some meetings

533
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 1: um we and back to a t l as a group,

534
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 1: the three of us UM. I remember us staying in

535
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 1: hotels with the boys, um immature. Janet was there were

536
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 1: just like you know, a little a little unit. We

537
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 1: would all be just we would all have one floor

538
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 1: at the hotel or the motel or whatever. Were said,

539
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 1: let me not talk too big. You know, we had

540
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 1: the money yet, and we were just thugging it out

541
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 1: recording songs. I thought the songs was great, some of

542
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 1: them are on YouTube somewhere. And we did a couple

543
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 1: of meetings and it just just really really didn't go. Remix, Yeah,

544
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 1: really didn't go. Those are my hearts though, like from

545
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 1: that group, I really have relationships still to this day.

546
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 1: We still see each other, you know what I mean,

547
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 1: And it's Oh my god, Mama, te me look like them,

548
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,240
Speaker 1: my girls. I love them like what they were for

549
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 1: me when I first came to l A. Nobody you

550
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 1: know can replace that. They really took me in as

551
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 1: I was their sister. Period. Um they're brothers, brothers too. Um,

552
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 1: so I didn't really go anywhere. We did do a meeting.

553
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 1: Um I did hear something about them need to sign me.

554
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 1: I can't do that again, this is not this is

555
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 1: not it. We did. I think we did a we

556
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 1: did a showcase. We performed. Um. I wasn't much of

557
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 1: a dancer at the time, and they was going crazy

558
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 1: and I was like, what are these counsel? I think

559
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: we opened right because they were going in you like,

560
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 1: we gotta compete with Sierra. Let's go you know what

561
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 1: I mean, the precess That's what she wasn't see everything.

562
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 1: It was just precess then. And I remember we opened

563
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 1: for Jagged Edge and uh it was Max Goose. Max

564
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: Goose was standing on the side of the station. I'm

565
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 1: telling on you. Max. Remember he was like, you the

566
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 1: next Sadena. You're the next Sadena. And I was like really,

567
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 1: and I'm dancing. Yeah, he told me that. Max told

568
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 1: me I was the Nex Sadena and we're performing on

569
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 1: what you're doing what I'm saying. I was just dancing,

570
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 1: you know. I was like, listen, when you lose the

571
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 1: counter eight, get your friends just going to back that

572
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:08,560
Speaker 1: contest immediately, and everybody forgot that I wasn't doing what

573
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 1: everybody else is doing. Okay, see the work. What was

574
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 1: you doing some background? Okay, because I've been on shows

575
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 1: with what her with genuine guine introduced me. Okay, oh

576
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 1: my god. So yes, Max Goose is like, you you,

577
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a record that I'm gonna sign

578
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 1: you or whatever. And I'm like, oh my god, just

579
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 1: happing at a kid, you know. So I'm like it

580
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 1: kind of discouraged me from the industry because I'm I,

581
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 1: you know, people just trying to split you up. I

582
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 1: just felt like it was gonna make me look crazy

583
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 1: that here I am coming into these mind you, the

584
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 1: groups are already a group, lost the lead singer. I'm

585
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 1: coming in as the lead singer, and now, you know,

586
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 1: and I never wanted to get a deal based off

587
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:08,840
Speaker 1: of I went to a meeting with somebody else and

588
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:13,799
Speaker 1: stole their deal or whatever. So that discouraged me when

589
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:17,320
Speaker 1: I'm now. I'm I'm still in California, just chilling. Um.

590
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:19,879
Speaker 1: I heard about a showcase. Shout out to the days

591
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:24,319
Speaker 1: of the showcases, you know what I mean, showcase. I

592
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 1: heard about a showcase, um London, and I ran across

593
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: these kids on the street. I was a kid too

594
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:31,840
Speaker 1: at the time, but ran across these kids on the

595
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 1: street just playing with buckets. They was just play was

596
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 1: a band. It was like, we're a band, we do

597
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 1: our thing. And they were sold up to me and

598
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:39,399
Speaker 1: I was like, yo, it's a showcase coming up. Y'all

599
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:42,320
Speaker 1: want to perform together? And they was like, alright, cool,

600
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 1: So we did that perform. It was this little hole

601
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:48,439
Speaker 1: in the wall spot No a C. I went in there.

602
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 1: I had on some I still I think I still

603
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 1: got some pictures to this day. I had on some

604
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:59,000
Speaker 1: mess that I found various places, hair colorful. Um had

605
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 1: my own band win in there, went crazy the band

606
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 1: on the street. Okay, I had my own. I had

607
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 1: my own. I went in thereat Huh, they had just

608
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:13,799
Speaker 1: they had whatever. You know what if I walked in

609
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:16,400
Speaker 1: there and I saw some young kids performing and the

610
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 1: kid with the bucket and it was a spoon and

611
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 1: a fork and it was whatever. They had all kinds

612
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 1: of stuff. They was making noise within and I said, Janet,

613
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 1: Jason said give me a beat, and I was like,

614
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 1: it worked for Janet, so I'm gonna say it. I

615
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:30,239
Speaker 1: said that I sung like three songs. I mind you,

616
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 1: I'm in California. I'm from Houston. Where they danced and

617
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 1: they clapped and they participate. I was done with my

618
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,319
Speaker 1: last song. I was like, and they was looking at

619
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,879
Speaker 1: you like we're looking at you silent. I was like,

620
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 1: my god, me looking at them, that's what it was

621
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:55,280
Speaker 1: to back in the day, and nobody showed no emotion.

622
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 1: I was like, what yo. So I got off. I

623
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 1: got off the stage and I think Pete Farmer was there,

624
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 1: Pete Farmer, Pete Farmer, and I forgot the other guy

625
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:09,799
Speaker 1: that was there, and I walked out into the hall

626
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 1: and I remember Pete just kind of looking like, oh,

627
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:14,400
Speaker 1: I think it went well. I'm not sure, you know.

628
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 1: And I had met Pete before, but it was just

629
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 1: I didn't know what he do. I didn't understand the

630
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:21,239
Speaker 1: music industry in these positions. I didn't know if it

631
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:22,759
Speaker 1: was a good thing or a bad thing, or what

632
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:24,879
Speaker 1: if you were lying to me, I don't know. So

633
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 1: I walked out in the hall and sure enough I

634
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:30,360
Speaker 1: turned around. I'm like in tears, and these two guys

635
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:33,800
Speaker 1: walked up and it was Master Letic and Josh Josh Deutsch,

636
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 1: and he said, we're gonna sign you. You're gonna make

637
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 1: you a big You're gonna be a big star. And

638
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 1: I was like what it was like, you gonna take

639
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 1: the card, the card, come to this address, we're gonna

640
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:47,880
Speaker 1: meet with you. Went to the address. There was Capital,

641
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 1: the big building. I was like, oh my god, this

642
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:52,759
Speaker 1: is real. This is a real thing. That's a real thing.

643
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:58,879
Speaker 1: I am. Let's see a team. So now I'm just yep,

644
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:04,399
Speaker 1: a team because yeah, when uh, when girl Fight finally hit,

645
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 1: I was actually no, no, no, let me think I

646
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 1: had to be nineteen when I actually went there and everything.

647
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:14,799
Speaker 1: So but then I might be off on it might

648
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:19,759
Speaker 1: like people don't understand by that time, you have been

649
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:24,240
Speaker 1: in multiple groups. Three kicked out your house saying hooks

650
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:27,320
Speaker 1: for a hunted, Yeah, that's the new ship. Took hooks

651
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 1: for a hunted. Um, I'm sure you don't have a

652
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:32,439
Speaker 1: dog in the stare dog in the snake? No more

653
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:35,880
Speaker 1: dog in the stay gone, big boy, I loved you.

654
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 1: Sorry whoever took care of my dog? Right? Like people

655
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:47,839
Speaker 1: really think that they just one day you decided to sing,

656
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:49,400
Speaker 1: the next day you got a record, or the next

657
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:54,400
Speaker 1: day you got a song on the radio. And fighting, fighting, fighting,

658
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: little light skin and this is this is not what

659
00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,840
Speaker 1: I call myself, light skinned girl with good hair, fighting

660
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 1: all the fighting somebody every day I felt like, why

661
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 1: do you want to what was wrong with y'all? Jeez?

662
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 1: Everywhere I go, some girl want to fight me. I'm like,

663
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:11,839
Speaker 1: all right, I gotta And then that that started to fight.

664
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 1: Things started back home because I was the oldest cousin,

665
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 1: the oldest sister. So anytime somebody to pick on my

666
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 1: little sister brother pushed them over, I gotta go out

667
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,439
Speaker 1: there and represent for the entire family that you can't

668
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:24,839
Speaker 1: continue to do this. So I'm out there like, oh

669
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 1: she did, I gotta kill her because I don't. She's

670
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 1: gonna push over everybody else in the fish. She beat

671
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,360
Speaker 1: me up, then I'm about to get laughed at, you

672
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:35,480
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I'm the oldest, so it's just

673
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 1: a fight. I'm just fighting for my life. I'm fighting

674
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:42,360
Speaker 1: London's girlfriends because he still got he didn't came to

675
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 1: l A and he got set. So mind you, he's

676
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 1: he's getting he's getting ready to send me back to

677
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 1: Houston because in his mind he's like, no, he had

678
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,240
Speaker 1: a one bedroom at the Avalon. He like, I remember

679
00:38:56,280 --> 00:39:02,680
Speaker 1: sitting in the living room like, well, by, okay, how

680
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 1: you doing, girl, I've heard so much about you. Yes, girl, alright,

681
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 1: let me turn the TV up. Just I'll remember, you know,

682
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 1: I remember, so, you know, and that's that's coming from

683
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,879
Speaker 1: home to you know, to watching him do his thing.

684
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 1: So they right there, they did it right there, demodeal

685
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 1: right there, demo deal with Virgin Records, Master Aletic and

686
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 1: Josh Dewey. Two later, um started Downtown Records. I was

687
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:35,800
Speaker 1: we are at the same time when the when the

688
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,360
Speaker 1: girl fight come up? I think so all two thousand five, No,

689
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:45,680
Speaker 1: it was later earlier, okay and one okay, all right,

690
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:51,279
Speaker 1: interesting because I feel like that's my noon time days.

691
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:52,840
Speaker 1: I remember when you came to the Bay and he

692
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,839
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, it's this new girl. She kidding to you.

693
00:39:56,560 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 1: Oh god, I don't know. I was a couple of

694
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:08,359
Speaker 1: times and I was like, is that you man? I

695
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:16,520
Speaker 1: was like, well, I mean I mean easy. It seems

696
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 1: easy to me, you know. But I got my deal,

697
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:23,239
Speaker 1: um demo deal. They sent me to Sweden to work

698
00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 1: with Bloodshine in a bunt. Immediately I'm freaked out. I

699
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 1: gotta get a passport of They put some money in.

700
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 1: I had seventy six dollars when I sawed my deal,

701
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 1: seventy two dollars and something said because I pawned a

702
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:38,439
Speaker 1: ring that I had, that's how I had. Oh my god,

703
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:42,440
Speaker 1: bro Broke had nothing like I pawned the ring had

704
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 1: seventy two dollars. I remember sitting there with the seventy

705
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 1: two dollars and my cell phone. It was forty two dollars,

706
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:49,840
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I gotta I gotta eat and I

707
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 1: gotta pay the cell phone bill. So I paid the

708
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: cell phone bill. I went to the grocery store and

709
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 1: I got to celest pizzas y'all know what I'm saying.

710
00:40:56,760 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 1: Little dollar and some noodles, and I was like, oh

711
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 1: my god, I don't know, like how does music stuff work?

712
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 1: And I don't know what I'm gonna do. And I

713
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 1: went to I guess I overdraft or whatever. So I

714
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 1: went to the A T M. Like, let me see

715
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 1: how bad the damage is. I don't know what happened

716
00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:16,840
Speaker 1: between me walking from that grocery store and every anybody

717
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 1: that knows that part of Wooding Hills with a grocery

718
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 1: store to the bank is literally right there. I walked

719
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 1: from the grocery store to humh to the A T

720
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:27,879
Speaker 1: M hum about a coffee bean and all of that,

721
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 1: and booms in my account. I was Mama, uncle, let

722
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 1: me tell you what you do. You slept on me.

723
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:50,720
Speaker 1: I got oh and didn't get hit by nobody, still

724
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 1: got my dignity and pray hello, so money, I was like, oh,

725
00:41:55,760 --> 00:42:05,719
Speaker 1: put the celest pizzas back right. I was tripping so oh,

726
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 1: oh my god, that would be right there. So go

727
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:12,640
Speaker 1: to go to Sweden. I guess I did a good

728
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 1: job with my demo deal. Came back with great songs.

729
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:17,759
Speaker 1: They liked them. They were all rock and roll, though

730
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 1: I have to say that it was rock and roll songs.

731
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:24,799
Speaker 1: It was pop rock. I did pop rock music at

732
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:27,640
Speaker 1: my showcase. It was all pop rock music that I

733
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:31,239
Speaker 1: was doing. That's what I was into. When you not

734
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 1: signed to a production company. I was signed to Subliminal,

735
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 1: but that was literally me in London, so we just

736
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:41,719
Speaker 1: was that. So he wasn't doing the record, he was

737
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 1: doing the records. And I did have R and B records,

738
00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:47,759
Speaker 1: but my showcase with the band that I pulled off

739
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:50,359
Speaker 1: the street, all they knew were pop rock records. So

740
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 1: I would just sing over what they knew. So I

741
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 1: got my deal the moment they saw me. That's what

742
00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 1: I was doing. I wasn't doing my R and B stuff.

743
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:02,320
Speaker 1: I wasn't doing anything from remix or surgeon, you know

744
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 1: what I mean. It was that's what they saw. So

745
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 1: for a lot of people that don't know the story

746
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:11,799
Speaker 1: that explains how my first album, Chain Letter, went the

747
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 1: way it went. It was so like what is this?

748
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:15,759
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? You had a girl fight,

749
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:17,680
Speaker 1: and then you had a rock record, and then you

750
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:20,160
Speaker 1: had a pop record. It was like what But they

751
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 1: didn't know, Like I kind of not on purpose because

752
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:26,440
Speaker 1: I didn't know any better, set myself up for that. Immediately.

753
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:28,879
Speaker 1: They sent me to Sweden to work with blushin a bunt,

754
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:31,280
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So when I came back

755
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:33,400
Speaker 1: and I had meetings with them, they was like this

756
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:36,480
Speaker 1: little ghett old girl. It was like when I did

757
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:38,960
Speaker 1: the big round table meeting, they were like I remember

758
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 1: them like whispering to each other and talking about my hair.

759
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:45,920
Speaker 1: And at the time, yeah, they hired Chocca. They hired Chocca,

760
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 1: who was you know with J and B. Now Chocca

761
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 1: and she came on and she was like, yeah, they

762
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 1: hired me to get you together and figure you out,

763
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:55,760
Speaker 1: like because they we don't know what to do with you,

764
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 1: you know. And a lot came with that. You know.

765
00:43:57,680 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 1: I was told I was too light skinned to do

766
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 1: get told music, and you know, I needed to tan.

767
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 1: So I started tanning every day. I was burning myself up.

768
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 1: So now people think that I bleached and I'm like, no,

769
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:10,919
Speaker 1: now I'm just regular. I was in the tan beid

770
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 1: probably three times a week, trying to be brown enough

771
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 1: to be as ghetto as I was telling you that. Yeah,

772
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 1: it was like yeah, right away they told me I

773
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 1: was I needed to tan. They was like, tanning is

774
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 1: the new thing. You see a shanty like she's you know, toasted,

775
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:31,360
Speaker 1: And I'm like, okay, well she is. You know what

776
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:34,799
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess you know. And um, they told

777
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:37,320
Speaker 1: me a couple of things and they needed to drop

778
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:39,839
Speaker 1: like twenty seven pounds. I'll never forget the twenty seven.

779
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:41,360
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, because I liked my you know

780
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 1: in Houston. In Houston, you know, you had a little

781
00:44:46,640 --> 00:45:00,520
Speaker 1: It was okay, they have a little chunk I did that,

782
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 1: dropped the weight or whatever. And then um, I came

783
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:06,320
Speaker 1: back and I don't know who had the meeting about

784
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 1: me going to Atlanta to work with Little John, but

785
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 1: it was like, we let's see what she does over there,

786
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:20,080
Speaker 1: you know, after Sweden. Yeah, after I did those records.

787
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:22,880
Speaker 1: So actually, hold on stop, I just skipped apart, you

788
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 1: gotta it's been a while. I'm old. I went to

789
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 1: Atlanta first, and I work with Tricky. I work with

790
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:33,160
Speaker 1: Tricky first. I work with Tricky and dream Um first,

791
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:36,399
Speaker 1: and um, we did a couple of records and I

792
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 1: think that was like maybe we don't know this girl,

793
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 1: you know, because we were in there talking crazy, you know,

794
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:47,880
Speaker 1: with those records, and um, it was just just really ghetto, okay,

795
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,920
Speaker 1: really nice, really colorful and ghetto. And then it was

796
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:52,799
Speaker 1: like maybe we should put her. We're hearing about this

797
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:55,480
Speaker 1: new guy named little call itself Little John. Let's let's

798
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 1: see what she does. And I was supposed to go

799
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:00,040
Speaker 1: to Atlanta to work for him, got to ad and

800
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:03,600
Speaker 1: he wasn't there, so I don't know nothing about that.

801
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:05,200
Speaker 1: I'm like, what you mean he's not here because I'm

802
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 1: here because y'all see me here. He's like, now I'm

803
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:14,720
Speaker 1: in Florida. I'm in Miami. Ain't I waited on templing

804
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 1: for five days? So you feel me, you feel me.

805
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 1: That's how it goes. That's just how it goes. He said,

806
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:22,879
Speaker 1: I understand that you in a t L. But I'm

807
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:26,759
Speaker 1: in Miami. I'm on the boat. What I do? I

808
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:28,920
Speaker 1: get it. I got on the plane and I went

809
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 1: to Miami, like where are you at? You know? And

810
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 1: I got called the company like, hey, I don't know

811
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:41,440
Speaker 1: what y'all talking about, but I'm just in a hotel

812
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:43,360
Speaker 1: in a t L. And he said he's in Miami.

813
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:45,200
Speaker 1: So they said, all right, let's get her to Miami.

814
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:49,880
Speaker 1: I get there. He's on the boat. He's on the boat.

815
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:52,799
Speaker 1: I'm on the boat in London. I don't care. Me

816
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 1: like at this point, people like me and London have

817
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:58,800
Speaker 1: a son together. So that's that that. You don't ladies,

818
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:02,240
Speaker 1: just handle your busy, mixed the business with the pleasure. Okay,

819
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:08,400
Speaker 1: now drink to that. You just don't do it I

820
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:11,279
Speaker 1: thank God for my son, but jeez, did I complicate

821
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 1: my life? That was way later. So at this point,

822
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:17,720
Speaker 1: you know, it's like, what can I do to control

823
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:20,160
Speaker 1: this girl? Because you know, I'm out here and you know,

824
00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:23,680
Speaker 1: I'm um something to talk about this new little you know,

825
00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 1: a little new little chick you know that's doing her things.

826
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:28,240
Speaker 1: So a couple of looks, you know, rappers are asking

827
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:30,400
Speaker 1: about me and you know, stuff like that. This is

828
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:33,160
Speaker 1: before Instagram too. Oh yeah, just when you got a

829
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:37,839
Speaker 1: real phone called inquiry. Oh yeah, you got you got

830
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:40,600
Speaker 1: the girl, the little girl that works at the desk

831
00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:43,719
Speaker 1: at the company, like someone you know, someone sos in

832
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:45,600
Speaker 1: another room and he wanted to know. You know, I'm like,

833
00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:47,960
Speaker 1: oh he did, Okay, all right, you know, it's all

834
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:51,640
Speaker 1: of that. It's like, oh, Bobby Valentino is another room

835
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:54,200
Speaker 1: he wants to know. I'm like, okay, I guess you know,

836
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:57,200
Speaker 1: it's just like whatever. So it's all of that. So

837
00:47:57,320 --> 00:48:00,359
Speaker 1: we we're on the boat and little John is giving

838
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:02,919
Speaker 1: me a hard time. He is just like, what's gonna

839
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:06,200
Speaker 1: make me want to work with you? Why? I'm like, wow,

840
00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:08,200
Speaker 1: like I need some audition. I didn't know. I thought

841
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 1: it was just gonna work together. I didn't know. I

842
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:11,759
Speaker 1: had to come out there and prove to him that

843
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:15,719
Speaker 1: I was good enough to work with him. So first

844
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:17,400
Speaker 1: of all, he was not trying to get in the

845
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 1: studio with me. He's like, we're gonna be on this

846
00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 1: boat until you show me something. Come on a little.

847
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:27,280
Speaker 1: So I'm on the boat. Um, I'm just walking around,

848
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:30,799
Speaker 1: just taking into sights. Uh, I'm walking trying to find

849
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:33,399
Speaker 1: a bathroom. It's a big boat. The door flies open,

850
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:35,600
Speaker 1: pit and they're doing his thing. I was like, this

851
00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:38,319
Speaker 1: is my first time really seeing porno in real life.

852
00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:41,239
Speaker 1: So this is what the three looks like. This is

853
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:42,879
Speaker 1: why I didn't. I didn't know that I was gonna

854
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:45,880
Speaker 1: find this out today, you know what I mean. The

855
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:48,279
Speaker 1: girl come out, she's like, you cut it in my hair,

856
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:57,759
Speaker 1: and I'm like, this is I didn't and I'm a

857
00:48:57,760 --> 00:48:59,600
Speaker 1: fan of your work. I didn't mean to meet you.

858
00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:06,400
Speaker 1: And then hey, guys, carry on all right, you know,

859
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:09,399
Speaker 1: like y'all know, I'm fresh out. I'm the country bumping like,

860
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:12,799
Speaker 1: oh yeah, crime mobs on the boat. Um, Scrappy's on

861
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 1: the boat. You know, It's just it's it's a good time.

862
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:18,640
Speaker 1: So and they all looking at me, like why should

863
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:20,399
Speaker 1: we let you in? You know what I mean? So

864
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:23,960
Speaker 1: I go upstairs. I'm now I'm looking for my person,

865
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:27,480
Speaker 1: like he really leave me? Like my security not here

866
00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:31,440
Speaker 1: like you had. You had a label. Not on the

867
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:35,400
Speaker 1: boat though, just u We had security because London was crazy.

868
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:39,720
Speaker 1: And that's that's that's his that's his interview. That's his interview.

869
00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 1: We had security everywhere we win. You security, He had security,

870
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:48,560
Speaker 1: but I was with him, so you know, yeah, yeah,

871
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:55,080
Speaker 1: we had security everywhere we win, you know what I mean? Yeah?

872
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:57,040
Speaker 1: It was it was Your life was gab, you know,

873
00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 1: all the girlfriends, all the girlfriend you know what I mean.

874
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:04,000
Speaker 1: So I'm upstairs, I'm like, yo, anybody like what's up?

875
00:50:04,040 --> 00:50:06,359
Speaker 1: So I get up there. I'm looking a little John

876
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:09,839
Speaker 1: who was like your boy in the bathroom and I'm

877
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:11,960
Speaker 1: like okay, I'm like, which way is the bathroom? He's

878
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:14,839
Speaker 1: like right there, open the door. They're busting down. Little

879
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:20,080
Speaker 1: John's assisted in him going crazy in the bathroom. I'm like,

880
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:23,319
Speaker 1: this canvy life. So I just she had her hair,

881
00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:25,160
Speaker 1: she had like want of a little sharp buzz cuts.

882
00:50:25,239 --> 00:50:26,880
Speaker 1: I'm like, dam I can't pull her hair. I just

883
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:30,799
Speaker 1: aren't choking her out. Like, let's just go because I

884
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:32,880
Speaker 1: don't want to. Like at this point, I'm up against

885
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:36,720
Speaker 1: the wall. I want a record. I want a record.

886
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 1: Tomin and Prince says, eyeballed me, like they want to fight. Scrappy,

887
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:42,840
Speaker 1: don't like me. I saw people's peters. I don't know

888
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:45,720
Speaker 1: what's going like when I don't just I had enough,

889
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:47,279
Speaker 1: Like I don't. I don't know what's going on. I'm

890
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:48,920
Speaker 1: out of my element, you know what I mean. I

891
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:54,359
Speaker 1: just just started, you know, so everybody clapping. I get

892
00:50:54,400 --> 00:50:59,279
Speaker 1: my record, I get my Who would have thought that

893
00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:07,759
Speaker 1: all I had to He turned that boat around and

894
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:11,080
Speaker 1: we went straight to the studio. Straight to the studio.

895
00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 1: He started making the beat and it was like, come on,

896
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 1: do something, go start writing girl fight whatever I was

897
00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:20,880
Speaker 1: and that was the vibe, that was the energy, you

898
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:24,120
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So we did the record and

899
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:27,279
Speaker 1: he was he gave me such a hard time. He

900
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 1: was like, um, and I'm like, you should you know,

901
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:33,000
Speaker 1: you know, little Southern girls, we got all the confidence

902
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:34,439
Speaker 1: in the world, Like, all right, so you're gonna jump

903
00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:37,360
Speaker 1: on it. He's like, that's a whole another check, you

904
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:39,640
Speaker 1: know what I mean. He was like, nah. So I'm

905
00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:46,680
Speaker 1: like dang, that's crazy, son, And I know everything right.

906
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:49,160
Speaker 1: Everybody know how he used to work, so this is

907
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:51,399
Speaker 1: not you know, you're doing interviews like it's certain things

908
00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:53,439
Speaker 1: you say and certain things you don't say. Everybody knew

909
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 1: that there was porn on like six different flash screens

910
00:51:57,640 --> 00:51:59,839
Speaker 1: in a mattress for you to go sing behind. That's

911
00:51:59,840 --> 00:52:02,560
Speaker 1: how he worked period. Everybody knew. I know everybody was.

912
00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:05,640
Speaker 1: It wasn't a secret. It wasn't a secret location. Everybody

913
00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:08,759
Speaker 1: was walking in and out. I'm just in there, like, yo,

914
00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:11,640
Speaker 1: this is this is crazy. I would have definitely got

915
00:52:11,719 --> 00:52:15,719
Speaker 1: kicked out from my mom. And if they knew this

916
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:21,759
Speaker 1: part of it, it's like, what's wrong with Get behind

917
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:25,239
Speaker 1: the mattress and do the rough. I'm like, all right, okay,

918
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:27,160
Speaker 1: I look at it. So I go do the rough.

919
00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:29,279
Speaker 1: He's like, something ain't right about the sound. I don't

920
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:30,640
Speaker 1: know if it's the A C or whatever. We gotta

921
00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:32,840
Speaker 1: go to a real Stowe studio and do it. So

922
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:34,799
Speaker 1: we book another studio. I go in there, I do

923
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:37,960
Speaker 1: the vocals, you know, clean or whatever, and I leave

924
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:40,600
Speaker 1: and we go eat and I come back and I

925
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:43,279
Speaker 1: have been blessed. He heard the record. He loved it.

926
00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:45,560
Speaker 1: He jumped on it. He jumped on the record. He

927
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:48,280
Speaker 1: went in there. He what you know what I'm saying?

928
00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:53,799
Speaker 1: That happened, go back to California, played the record for

929
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:56,960
Speaker 1: the company. They're all excited. I can feel the energy

930
00:52:57,000 --> 00:52:59,160
Speaker 1: of my life about to change. Like y'all really like

931
00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:01,319
Speaker 1: this record because a lot more where they came from.

932
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:03,839
Speaker 1: I'm like, can I beat myself? You know what I mean?

933
00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:07,839
Speaker 1: Because I can do this? So time pass. I don't

934
00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:10,680
Speaker 1: hear anything. I don't hear anything. I remember signing papers

935
00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:14,520
Speaker 1: giving away all my publishing. I remember sitting in the

936
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:20,799
Speaker 1: clk M saying, signing some long paper. That's it. So

937
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 1: many other people was in the studio that wasn't there

938
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:25,319
Speaker 1: when I wrote the song. But okay, I didn't understand it,

939
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:27,040
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And I signed the paper

940
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:28,880
Speaker 1: because I'm like, I was told, if you want to

941
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:30,800
Speaker 1: be a big star, you need to start the paper.

942
00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:34,920
Speaker 1: I was like, really, it's like, how much do I get?

943
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:36,799
Speaker 1: You know? I say, I see fifty, and I'll see

944
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:38,279
Speaker 1: you a six, and you know, I see all these

945
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:42,399
Speaker 1: big numbers and I got five some five. I don't

946
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:46,360
Speaker 1: know what this means, but don't see not the entire

947
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:49,360
Speaker 1: record London role with me, and we did take like

948
00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:51,480
Speaker 1: a B section from a song that we did when

949
00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:53,239
Speaker 1: we worked with Tricky and a T. And I think

950
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:58,399
Speaker 1: that's when it got tricky because now you got, oh

951
00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:03,000
Speaker 1: that was inspired by a beat I made. And then

952
00:54:03,160 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 1: and they started fighting, and I'll tell you girl, fight

953
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:09,640
Speaker 1: went into the black list because of this. It's I

954
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:12,640
Speaker 1: don't I ain't seen the dime I've gotten paid from

955
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:14,800
Speaker 1: other things, but that publishing that was a joke. It

956
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:18,319
Speaker 1: was so many people fighting over the guitar player. It

957
00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:20,400
Speaker 1: was just so much stuff. I just remember hearing all

958
00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:22,400
Speaker 1: these and I don't know what's true, but I remember

959
00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:24,000
Speaker 1: hearing a lot of story. You ain't seeing no money

960
00:54:24,040 --> 00:54:28,160
Speaker 1: because so and so, um, you know. I didn't like. Yeah,

961
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:30,279
Speaker 1: it was all of that, and I signed for my father.

962
00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:32,040
Speaker 1: I said, what's the problem, guys, I should be the

963
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:35,800
Speaker 1: one fighting. So I remember that day. I remember sitting

964
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:38,680
Speaker 1: in the Mercedes a little bit little Mercedes signing over

965
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:41,200
Speaker 1: and I remember feeling like, dang, this this kind of

966
00:54:41,239 --> 00:54:43,319
Speaker 1: this don't feel good, you know what, I mean to

967
00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:47,120
Speaker 1: like work that hard? And then five just didn't seem good.

968
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:49,359
Speaker 1: Just it seemed like a good number. When you saw

969
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:53,080
Speaker 1: other you know, big numbers up there. So did that.

970
00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:55,880
Speaker 1: I was kind of down, kind of forgot about it.

971
00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:58,759
Speaker 1: It was quiet calling a record company, couldn't get them

972
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:00,799
Speaker 1: on the phone, like hey guys, you know, hey, you know,

973
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:03,640
Speaker 1: am I still gonna be a big star. So I

974
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:06,719
Speaker 1: was like, let me just let me take a take

975
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:10,080
Speaker 1: a back seat. So I was gonna go to Houston,

976
00:55:10,200 --> 00:55:13,719
Speaker 1: and I heard I needed to rub elbows with the

977
00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:15,480
Speaker 1: the DJs in Houston. It was like, you need to

978
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:18,120
Speaker 1: go home to where you came from, and you know

979
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:21,000
Speaker 1: what I mean, make sure it's yeah, make sure it's

980
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:24,439
Speaker 1: cool out there. So we land. We're in a car.

981
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:28,640
Speaker 1: I'm riding a car. My song come on, and I'm like,

982
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:31,000
Speaker 1: I'm irritated with Londons. I'm like, you keep playing the

983
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:32,800
Speaker 1: song over and over again, like we heard now. I'm irritated,

984
00:55:32,840 --> 00:55:33,960
Speaker 1: Like it just needs to be on the radio. He

985
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:37,360
Speaker 1: was like, it's on the radio. It's on the radio.

986
00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:41,839
Speaker 1: And I hear it right and I big boy comes in.

987
00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:47,719
Speaker 1: I'm like hold on, Like my cheeks are like wait, wait, wait,

988
00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:50,279
Speaker 1: wait wait, is that big Boy from Outcasts on my song?

989
00:55:50,600 --> 00:55:53,439
Speaker 1: Like is this really happened? I'm screaming about to lose

990
00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:56,719
Speaker 1: my mind, lost my voice. No, I did not know

991
00:55:56,800 --> 00:55:58,520
Speaker 1: Big Boy was gonna be on the record until I

992
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:04,359
Speaker 1: heard it on the radio. Like I was worrying getting

993
00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:14,040
Speaker 1: shopped down, this whole thing. Big Boy and Little John

994
00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:18,160
Speaker 1: is on my first single, and I'm back home in Houston,

995
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:24,040
Speaker 1: really nice and it's on the radio. I go to

996
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:27,280
Speaker 1: the radio station. They loved me. They're like, yeah, we remember,

997
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:29,359
Speaker 1: you know, you was at rap a lot and blah

998
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 1: blah blah, and we didn't know who you were. And man,

999
00:56:31,680 --> 00:56:33,480
Speaker 1: I heard you on this song and all of that stuff.

1000
00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:36,120
Speaker 1: And then it's just like it just you know, it

1001
00:56:36,280 --> 00:56:42,920
Speaker 1: just goes from there. But I mean, it just out

1002
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:45,919
Speaker 1: of nowhere. And they said, they said the record league,

1003
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:49,080
Speaker 1: they wasn't prepared. We didn't have art for it. I

1004
00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:52,600
Speaker 1: had to go. They rushed me to work with Jonathan

1005
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:58,279
Speaker 1: to get pictures. Yeah, Jonathan, Man, it was putting you

1006
00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:02,000
Speaker 1: with all everybody. Yeah, that's the one thing of this story.

1007
00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:06,759
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was. I was to work with the

1008
00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:09,080
Speaker 1: real people. Like they put you in a spot. Oh yeah,

1009
00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:11,640
Speaker 1: I can only imagine what your budget was. Um, you

1010
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:26,160
Speaker 1: definitely didn't recoup. Let me get him this publish immediately

1011
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:33,240
Speaker 1: put me with Chris Robinson to shoot the video good

1012
00:57:33,360 --> 00:57:36,760
Speaker 1: Boy at L Down, got all the permans to shut

1013
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:40,120
Speaker 1: it down a freeway. Everything just went crazy. I know,

1014
00:57:40,160 --> 00:57:42,200
Speaker 1: we spent a million dollars on the video, and back

1015
00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:45,920
Speaker 1: then I was like, are you really had to give

1016
00:57:45,920 --> 00:57:48,400
Speaker 1: it to him myself? I'm on there, I'm like, y'all,

1017
00:57:48,440 --> 00:57:53,760
Speaker 1: good point. I wanted to know how much money was

1018
00:57:53,840 --> 00:58:00,520
Speaker 1: being spent. Right, you know we have of our show.

1019
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:05,840
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're ready for it. Oh gosh,

1020
00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:07,520
Speaker 1: you know, I think I got my take a deep

1021
00:58:07,560 --> 00:58:10,680
Speaker 1: breath for real quick. Yeah you listen, you just said

1022
00:58:10,280 --> 00:58:17,840
Speaker 1: that terrible but with some names attached. So yes, but

1023
00:58:18,560 --> 00:58:22,240
Speaker 1: this story has to okay. So the segment is called

1024
00:58:22,240 --> 00:58:27,120
Speaker 1: I ain't saying on that right, and it's something about

1025
00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:29,200
Speaker 1: you y'all loving hip hops. Man, you'll like the same

1026
00:58:29,280 --> 00:58:36,520
Speaker 1: names man shout out to hit maker. Young birds just

1027
00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:40,160
Speaker 1: could not tell a story. No, he couldn't pull it off.

1028
00:58:40,160 --> 00:58:44,360
Speaker 1: He had to, he said, I got to it. So

1029
00:58:44,520 --> 00:58:48,560
Speaker 1: it's not okay. So those are the rules of the game,

1030
00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:53,360
Speaker 1: mhmm of the segment to not say any names and

1031
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:57,640
Speaker 1: tell us a funny are funked up story? Industry related

1032
00:58:57,680 --> 00:59:00,280
Speaker 1: industry people, and you could say enough for people made.

1033
00:59:00,360 --> 00:59:02,040
Speaker 1: You know, they can try to figure some out. But

1034
00:59:03,440 --> 00:59:05,600
Speaker 1: it's card I ain't saying on that. Oh my lord

1035
00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:10,520
Speaker 1: is terrible. Okay, give us Oh Lord, I got so

1036
00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:17,280
Speaker 1: many Can I tell a two part story real fast?

1037
00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:21,920
Speaker 1: I know women could be long. I ain't saying no names,

1038
00:59:22,040 --> 00:59:25,440
Speaker 1: but it's a certain female. She really tall, she got

1039
00:59:25,440 --> 00:59:30,640
Speaker 1: real short hair. She looked banging for her age. I

1040
00:59:30,720 --> 00:59:34,800
Speaker 1: walked into the I would say the apartment that I

1041
00:59:34,840 --> 00:59:36,760
Speaker 1: was sharing with my baby daddy at the time when

1042
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:39,240
Speaker 1: she was in a bid. But Nikki, that's the one part.

1043
00:59:40,040 --> 00:59:45,000
Speaker 1: I ain't saying no names. But there's another female. She

1044
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:48,000
Speaker 1: was in a movie that we all love. This movie

1045
00:59:48,080 --> 00:59:50,439
Speaker 1: has a lot of sequels to it. It's a one

1046
00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:54,560
Speaker 1: to three folk Okay, she real cute. She got a

1047
00:59:54,640 --> 01:00:01,760
Speaker 1: bootook cuty with a booty. Um she was I was saying,

1048
01:00:01,760 --> 01:00:04,120
Speaker 1: I don't want to say she was dating the guy

1049
01:00:04,160 --> 01:00:05,920
Speaker 1: that I was with at the time. She was blowing

1050
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:08,640
Speaker 1: him off because I heard she was good at that. Um.

1051
01:00:08,680 --> 01:00:10,040
Speaker 1: I don't even think they got to the point of

1052
01:00:10,080 --> 01:00:13,920
Speaker 1: actual you know. The meeting in the green was just

1053
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:15,560
Speaker 1: kind of like when you get down there and do

1054
01:00:15,600 --> 01:00:17,640
Speaker 1: what I heard you was good for. But that's just

1055
01:00:17,680 --> 01:00:19,120
Speaker 1: my side of the story. Girl. You can come to

1056
01:00:19,120 --> 01:00:21,000
Speaker 1: the couch and tell it because you know who you are.

1057
01:00:22,080 --> 01:00:23,960
Speaker 1: You know who you are, sis, because you still be

1058
01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:25,800
Speaker 1: telling your jacked up side of the story you're talking

1059
01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:27,280
Speaker 1: about I'll be trying to jump you, and you know

1060
01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:28,760
Speaker 1: I don't be trying to jump you when I see you.

1061
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:30,400
Speaker 1: How am I trying to jump you? When I see you?

1062
01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:32,800
Speaker 1: When it's just me by myself. When you're trying to

1063
01:00:32,840 --> 01:00:35,800
Speaker 1: jump somebody, that means it's several people. It just beat

1064
01:00:35,840 --> 01:00:40,160
Speaker 1: me running up on you, girl. Okay, So anyway, so

1065
01:00:42,640 --> 01:00:51,120
Speaker 1: just not a run up. I walked swiftly, Hey girl,

1066
01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:54,200
Speaker 1: Hey girl, And she's like, brook, I always trying to

1067
01:00:54,240 --> 01:00:55,600
Speaker 1: jump me? Would she see me? I'm not trying to

1068
01:00:55,680 --> 01:00:57,440
Speaker 1: jump it's just me, and I make sure I'll tell

1069
01:00:57,480 --> 01:01:00,920
Speaker 1: my girl stand back right there. But anyway, this young

1070
01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:03,840
Speaker 1: lady was at a beauty shop getting her hair done

1071
01:01:03,840 --> 01:01:06,520
Speaker 1: by celebrity hairstylis. I ain't gonna say no names because

1072
01:01:06,520 --> 01:01:09,040
Speaker 1: she do all of our hair, and she was talking

1073
01:01:09,080 --> 01:01:11,520
Speaker 1: mad noise. She was like, I don't know who she

1074
01:01:11,560 --> 01:01:13,280
Speaker 1: thinks she is. She'd just be coming up in the

1075
01:01:13,360 --> 01:01:15,760
Speaker 1: studio because the dude I was talking to it was

1076
01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:17,480
Speaker 1: both talking to. He had a studio at the time.

1077
01:01:17,520 --> 01:01:19,120
Speaker 1: She's like, she's just be coming up in a studio

1078
01:01:19,200 --> 01:01:20,880
Speaker 1: like she owned it. She's gonna have to run meet

1079
01:01:20,920 --> 01:01:22,640
Speaker 1: and keys. She gonna have to run meet and keys.

1080
01:01:22,640 --> 01:01:25,040
Speaker 1: So I'm like, So they called me and they tell

1081
01:01:25,120 --> 01:01:26,720
Speaker 1: me I'm riding in the car. I got my son

1082
01:01:26,760 --> 01:01:29,440
Speaker 1: in the bag. I'm like, good, baby boy, all right,

1083
01:01:29,680 --> 01:01:32,480
Speaker 1: call my mama, My mama, Mama, you you're good, You're

1084
01:01:32,480 --> 01:01:34,919
Speaker 1: done at the nail shop. She's like, yeah, I'm gonna

1085
01:01:34,960 --> 01:01:36,720
Speaker 1: drop the kid off to you. I need to handle

1086
01:01:36,760 --> 01:01:39,360
Speaker 1: something right, gree Mama. She said, okay, I'll take drop

1087
01:01:39,400 --> 01:01:40,960
Speaker 1: my son off. This one, I knew I was certified

1088
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:44,360
Speaker 1: crazy and had to get out the relationship. I found

1089
01:01:44,400 --> 01:01:46,160
Speaker 1: out where she was. She was in the studio at

1090
01:01:46,160 --> 01:01:49,040
Speaker 1: the time. I say, this the door. This is the

1091
01:01:49,120 --> 01:01:51,320
Speaker 1: this is the keys to the door that you speak

1092
01:01:51,320 --> 01:01:53,320
Speaker 1: of that I had to run. I just drove my

1093
01:01:53,400 --> 01:02:02,120
Speaker 1: car into the studio because now I don't nobody need

1094
01:02:02,160 --> 01:02:06,200
Speaker 1: no keys, and I gave it. Here's the key to

1095
01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:10,200
Speaker 1: the door, just the doors under the car. And they're

1096
01:02:10,200 --> 01:02:14,440
Speaker 1: sitting there. They're sitting there looking at me crazy like

1097
01:02:14,520 --> 01:02:17,440
Speaker 1: I'm crazy. You know what. I ain't gonna call you

1098
01:02:17,480 --> 01:02:22,120
Speaker 1: that because I don't know no more. Now we don't

1099
01:02:22,120 --> 01:02:24,919
Speaker 1: have to talk about this door no more. We're gonna

1100
01:02:24,920 --> 01:02:27,000
Speaker 1: worry about this door and who's got the kid who

1101
01:02:27,040 --> 01:02:31,040
Speaker 1: walking through this door? Like they own no more the doors.

1102
01:02:32,480 --> 01:02:35,600
Speaker 1: We will try to know Ho ho by that bus stop.

1103
01:02:35,840 --> 01:02:39,680
Speaker 1: Just you know, y'all know range rovers they really built

1104
01:02:39,720 --> 01:02:42,120
Speaker 1: for it. Took they built for it because what I

1105
01:02:42,240 --> 01:02:45,920
Speaker 1: drove outing with vehicles, drove outing with home and got

1106
01:02:45,920 --> 01:02:48,480
Speaker 1: the baby milk and everything, Like, what kind of tore

1107
01:02:48,560 --> 01:02:59,480
Speaker 1: that door? I think that's a great way to Yeah, um,

1108
01:02:59,800 --> 01:03:03,400
Speaker 1: they are old. If you want to talk, she's steal

1109
01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:16,440
Speaker 1: shouts out. That's don't down, it's that's I'm gonna get

1110
01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:21,280
Speaker 1: out of here. Um okay, I'm just out of This

1111
01:03:21,360 --> 01:03:35,520
Speaker 1: is Bruce Beutam and this is been R. B. Money