WEBVTT - Tink Interview and Freestyle 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:08.000 Real people, real celebrity join the breast morning. Everybody is 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:10.840 DJ n vi Agela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We all 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:14.240 the breakfast club special guests in the room. It's our 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:18.240 favorite new rapper. That's right. I'm a fan of hers, absolutely, Tink. 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:21.440 Ladies and gentlemen, what's up, Tink? What's up? Y'all? Think 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:25.400 there's a lot of pressure around you. Yeah, I understand 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:29.440 all put on you by Timberland. Yeah. Tim is excited 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:33.440 like me. He's uh, he's passionate. You know what I'm saying. 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:35.879 We know what what we got that's going on? Now, 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:39.320 explain the name Tink. Tink is a it's a nickname. 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:41.600 My friends gave it to me when we were young 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:44.360 as a kid. My real name is Trinity. So um, 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:46.960 I don't know. I guess they just got me Tink 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:48.680 one day and it's stuck. I said it on the 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:51.160 mic and I kind of like like like poor little Tink. 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:54.920 Take Yeah, I get that a lot time. No, it 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:57.600 has nothing to do with a comedian, nothing do with 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:01.120 a tinker bell. It's just it's my ain. Think now, 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:04.479 you from Chicago, why I know, drill music or rapping 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:06.480 the ball, killing people and every other song or what 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:09.399 game you rep. I just think it's more more to 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:13.479 talk about than that. Um coming out of Chicago. That's 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:18.160 all people from Chicago. No, So it's almost like I 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:21.480 had to separate myself in order to, you know, get 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:25.120 that recognition because for the most part, it's violence in 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.440 Chicago and growing up there, it is it is a 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:29.920 very tough city to come from. So it's like my 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:32.440 responsibility to like let kids know, like, that's not all 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.120 you gotta be about. UM. It's okay to be different, 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:39.000 you know, it's okay to have a message. So yeah, 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:40.800 that's just that was my way to just stand out 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:44.840 and make myself different from everybody else coming out of Chicago. 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:46.800 Did you feel like you had to do that, especially 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:49.240 being what you were surrounded with, Like somebody had to 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.200 tell the kids something different. You know. In my earlier 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:54.160 years of rapping, I was doing drill music like UM. 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.520 When I first started rapping Chief Keith, I had remixed 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:00.320 his three hundred and he had noticed it and he 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:03.320 retweeted it on his timeline. So that was like my 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:06.040 buzz at the moment was drill. But then the order 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:08.000 I got him, like, you know, I'm kind of tired 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:10.000 of just you know, blending in with everybody. I felt 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:11.560 like I was a follower and you don't want to 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:13.239 get shot and I don't want to get shot all 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:16.280 that because people will go there with you in Chicago. 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:20.520 So yeah, I had to grow up. You know. That's 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:24.320 that's growing up in you only twenty. Yeah, that's true. 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:27.160 I'm an older twenty though. Like I'm I'm very much 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:29.200 sure for my age. I get that. You know, let's 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:31.560 talk about your old soul. Like when when the first 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:33.080 time I heard your music, I was told timer and 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:34.919 I was like, she might be nineteen, but she's fifty. 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:37.760 Like you have an old soul, like the stuff that 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:39.880 you rap about and talk about it, it seems like 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:43.640 you've almost been here before. Wow, I can understand that. Um. 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:46.240 When I was growing up, I listened to a lot 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:48.240 of the records my dad had in the basement. When 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:51.440 I first started singing, he would record me, so really 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:53.840 all I knew was what he listened to. And I 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:57.000 would like a classic artist older people like who this 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.560 is gonna make us feel old? Like who Man? I 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:06.919 listened like Joda see TLC. You know, Luther Van Draws, 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:11.520 Uh Jackson five, You know, just real old school music, 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.760 you know, the nineties. Yeah, there's also been a lot 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:19.920 of comparisons as you know, I'm sure you heard all 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:22.640 the time to Lauren Hill. You know. Is that something 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:26.639 that you embrace? Oh, I definitely embraced that. Um, if 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:28.800 that was anybody I would want to be compared to, 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:30.639 it would be Lauren Hill. And she was pretty young. 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:33.120 She was about your age when she was you know. Yeah. 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:35.760 And I think it comes a lot of times because 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.160 I singing our rap, you know, and also because I 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:40.560 got I have a message within my music and I'm 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.440 not just uh just here to be a gimmick, but 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.960 just uh saying what's popular or what's you know, what's 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:51.640 not like trying to be sexy n you know myself. 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:54.320 I think, uh, that's where so many females go wrong. 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:56.240 You know. They try to mimic what they see on 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:58.960 TV or what everybody else is doing instead of just 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.720 you know, being an individal. There's a lot of pressure though, 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:03.080 when they say, like you did the next Lauren Hill. 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:06.160 You think that creates like an expectation that you may 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:07.760 or may not live up to, like this, let me 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:10.280 be tanked. Yeah, I feel like that sometimes you know, 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:12.320 like when the block's kind of just throw it in 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:15.160 every every piece they write, it's always, you know, you 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:18.200 see the name. So sometimes I do feel like that, like, uh, 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:20.760 you know, just let me, let me get in and 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:23.920 we'll take it from there. But like I say, I don't, 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:26.200 I don't look down on it. Lauren Hills, she was 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:28.320 one of the greats. So it's it's a compliment. Now, 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:30.080 what did you study it as rapping? Because I like, 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:33.320 it's talking to Charlemagne and I haven't stole records in 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.800 a long time. I came from the mixtape days. Yeah, 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:39.200 and when tim Oland was here, I stole your records. 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:41.719 Why you got tim in trouble with that moving base? Well, 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:45.520 besides that, I haven't had a feeling like that in 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:47.400 a long time. So when you know, you talked about 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:49.560 some of the singers like rapping, who did you follow 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.400 as rappers? Because you the way you break words down 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:54.760 and go back and forth, it's something that we haven't 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:58.039 heard for a long time. I listened to a little 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:01.760 bit of everything, U. You know, I listened to Lauren, 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:03.840 I listened to Biggie I did when I was like 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:07.800 a kid. I listened to NICKI Minaj and um. I 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:09.599 listened to a bit of everything you know, and my 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:13.080 style kind of just it's just now molding into what 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:16.000 it is. I started, like I said, I started talking 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:19.440 about drill drill things, and now it's more so of 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:21.800 a message in my music. So it was something I 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:24.760 worked that, you know, I didn't. It didn't happen overnight. 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:29.279 My first rap was probably terrible. M Do you remember it? No, 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.400 and I don't want to remember. I'm sure it wasn't. 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:35.080 It wasn't nothing to talk of. Hell, a lot of 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:36.680 men have embraced you. Do you think it's harder for 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:39.599 women to do that? Do you feel like women aren't 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:44.200 reaching out like the men have been? For sure? Yeah, 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:47.320 it's definitely like that. I think females we have, like 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:50.000 a lot of females have a mindset that, you know, 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:53.440 if if something is something is better than I can't 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.760 or I'm in competition or everything, I have to be 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.200 number one, you know. So it's harder for a female 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:02.200 to reach out and say you're good, because you know, 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:04.880 it's almost like a self esteem thing. You know, if 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:07.760 if you feel like somebody is a bit maybe a 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.120 bit better than you, you don't want to have as 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:12.839 coming from my spot, you think, man, but there's so 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:14.840 much room, Like, I don't even know why people think 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:17.760 she's coming from my spot. You know, everybody thinks that 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:20.840 has to be one female in charge or uh, they 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:23.120 put us in competition so much that we can't even 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:27.080 support each other. It's, uh, we're scared to say, hey, 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:30.359 you're pretty good, jump on my song, or you know, 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.360 just reach out, reach out and said that jump on 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:35.720 my song, or you're good, or like what you're doing 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:41.440 Missy Elliott big Sis. Uh. Other than that, No, why 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:43.400 do you think female mcs always get compared to other 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:49.120 female mcs? Hm hmm. I'm honestly not sure. I think 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:51.960 goes back to just being the sport, like being a 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:55.320 female in the rap game. You know, I think it 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:56.760 is a sport to it, you know what I mean. 0:06:56.839 --> 0:07:01.400 It's Nikki, I think Niggi or any artists out there, 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:02.560 it has to see well, let me see what she 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:03.960 does for us, let me see how nice he is, 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:08.440 let me make sure somebody's out and be like, oh 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:12.200 behind the trees. They make it seem like you can't 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:14.520 sign a female unless she has certain quality, she has 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:17.240 to look at certain ways. Yeah, and they make it 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:19.760 seem like women are a lot more difficult because financially, 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:21.280 you gotta get your hair done, you gotta get your 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.640 makeup done, you gotta have a lot of them all. 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:25.360 You know, if you look at History, you look at 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:28.960 Little Kim, you look at Foxy Brown, these women were 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:30.960 hard to get around and hard to move around and 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:32.800 hard to work with it times, and everybody says that, 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:36.560 you know, so it's you know, it's history. I got 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:39.240 a point, But at the same time, like that's what 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.840 I'm trying to bring to the game, like a real, 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:44.760 a true individual. I don't I don't look at anybody 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.560 and say I have to look like you to make it, 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:50.040 or you know, I don't pay attention a lot of times, 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:52.040 I really don't pay attention to what other female artists 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:53.960 are doing, because then you get lost. You get lost 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:56.040 in a in a sauce. You start it's not even 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:57.840 that as you looking at it, as people coming to 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:00.559 you like, well, you know she's good and she has talent, 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.680 but I just need her to do this, this and that, 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:05.120 because this is what's winning right now, you know, pressure 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:09.680 tor asshots, right na, Na, And it's crazy. When I 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:13.040 got my deal, I really just wanted to, um, you know, 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:15.760 I just wanted to get things like my my gear 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:18.160 and um, you know, I wanted to get my teeth 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:20.120 fixed and all that. And they were like, don't get 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:22.760 no ashots. I'm like, no, I'm not. I'm definitely not 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:24.680 going to get that. That's the last thing I was 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:30.200 thinking about. So definitely no encourage. They told me. No. 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:33.200 My team, they they're behind me. They know, don't get that. 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:36.000 You know, you know, I appreciate that because some people 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:39.280 might have, uh, you know, well he might need a Yeah. 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:41.560 It wasn't like that, you know, it was ironic. I 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:43.520 was watching UM the last time I Team Love and 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:46.120 hip Hop and your song was on there. Yeah, right, 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:51.960 and you got a song and everybody else like it 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.439 was perfect timing right right, And I'm like, do they 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:58.559 know that you're kind of talking about them in that song. Well, 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.920 I think that's why they minded threw it in. I 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:04.760 saw an article that said, your song The Ratchet Commandments 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:07.760 is sex shaming. Women are shaming women? What you what 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:11.800 you think about that? It's not see if that's the thing. 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.360 When I made that song, it was more so let's 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:17.959 be aware of what's going on. Nobody's talking about this. 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.720 Let's uh, let's put it out there that this is 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:23.400 what's going on. This is somebody has to say it, 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:25.720 you know what I mean. And for the most part, 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:29.200 we have so much of the shake your ass songs 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.839 or um watch me twork type of type of music. 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:34.760 So why not? Why Why am I, you know, being 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:38.439 criticized for being the one out of a million songs 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:42.040 that goes against what everybody's talking about. Everybody doesn't have 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:43.959 to do that. And it's not that you're saying things. 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:45.520 You're like, yo, if a girl, if a guy got 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.880 a girl, and I talked about males as well. Yeah, 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:52.079 it wasn't just all putting shame on women. And my 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.160 thing was, you know, when I made Ratchet Commandments, I 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:56.760 was talking to myself three years ago, you know what 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:58.439 I mean. It's not like I'm trying to say I'm 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.599 perfect or everybody he has to think this way, or 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:03.559 you're you're you're wrong. It's not like that. I just 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.600 want people to be aware. You know, young girls growing up, 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:08.080 they need to hit this type of stuff. You are 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:11.840 working on social media, uh man. When I was maybe 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.400 in like junior high high school type of days, everybody 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:17.280 has the moment. But when you know better, you supposed 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:18.680 to do a better right. What do you think about 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:24.120 something like Amber roses SlutWalk that she's organizing, teach us all. 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:28.280 I wouldn't partake in a SlutWalk, you know, it's just 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:33.079 not something I think. It's not something other jew. You know, 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:35.440 it's kind of unfair to do this interview. The reason 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:37.400 I say that is because we've heard so much music, 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:39.200 and there's so much music I want to talk about, 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:41.959 because we've actually heard the music and I'm excited about it, 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:43.679 but I can't talk about it yet. Well, let's talk 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:45.959 about tink there. What's the what's the female experience like 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:48.120 in Chicago? Do women go through the same thing guys 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:51.040 go through, like pressure to join gangs and stuff like that. Yeah, 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:54.920 for sure, Like females in Chicago. Man, a lot of 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:57.839 times it's like females and guys did the same um 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:01.040 And that's just because the drill saying in Chicago is 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:05.839 so heavy and influential. Like females almost they feel like 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:08.439 if I don't if I don't rock with this gang, 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:11.000 you know, I ain't cool. You know, it's not a 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.640 it's not cool to be to say no, I'm not 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:15.319 not a part of the gang, or you have to. 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:17.840 It's almost like a family type of thing. You feel 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:20.319 like you disloyal if you're not out here, you know, 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:23.959 gang banging. So yeah, that's what I'm saying, and it 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.520 comes across in the music. A lot of female rappers 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:29.080 from Chicago they are they're drill and I was at 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:32.200 one point too, a part of that people with drillers. 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:34.160 Some people might not know what drillers. Drill music is 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:37.920 really just like a gritty sound. It's about a you know, violence. Uh, 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:44.480 it's very vulgar. Um dirt Keith, you know that whole movement, 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:50.920 the little reci um y'all know. Now you had to 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:53.360 pick a number. Never. Um, I wouldn't even let put 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:56.240 myself in that position where somebody's you know, never like 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:58.560 never was that with Timerland? Is it is it harder 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:00.599 to work with Timerland? Or is it easier? Do you 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:05.200 have to prove yourself more? Or I got with him. 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:07.560 Um he heard a record idea called Don't Tell Nobody 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.320 in La and Um he got me on the phone 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:13.400 and he flew me out the next day to talk 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:15.640 to me, and from there we got in the studio 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:17.160 and it was just it was just like a real 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:20.559 genuine chemistry with him. So it is very easy to 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:23.480 work with him. He uh. You know a lot of producers, 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:25.040 they all get in the studio and they tell you 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:29.240 like they know it all, or you have to sound 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.040 like this, you're not doing that right. And with Tim, 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:34.440 it's like a partnership. It's the teamwork is a team effort. 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.800 So he listens just as much as he talks. Now 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:39.400 with with him, is it you know, with with some 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:41.120 of the doors that are opening, is it do you 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:42.960 feel like you have to prove yourself even more than 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:45.000 the people or is it is a little easier to 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.559 getting a feature or to getting something done. It's a 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:50.920 bit of both, um, you know. Tim definitely he has 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:53.719 those uh tricks in the bag that have helped me 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.840 a whole lot, you know. Um. But at the same time, 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:00.199 that push and that pressure is motivation. Like I go 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:01.959 on the studio with Tim, I know I can't I 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:03.839 can't do what I was doing ten years ago, well, 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:06.079 you know five years ago. I'm sorry. I have to 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:08.600 be better, you know, and every I think every artist 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:11.000 needs that. You know. Sometimes we get so comfortable with 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:15.280 what we were doing. We forget. You know, I gotta evolve, 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:17.240 I gotta I gotta switch it up a bit to 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:19.280 be greater. He said, you clean them up a little 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:25.839 bit too. He said, big white ya y'all, y'all look 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:30.440 like you. Yeah. He always telling me like you're making 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:33.520 me young again, And it makes me laugh because Tim 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:35.440 is a cool guy. Like if you ever talked to him, 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:37.240 he is just a silly person. He is a kid 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:40.000 at heart. So yeah, you have to tell him sometimes 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:44.480 and that be is kind of whack. I would never 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:46.920 say that, you know, I would never say that be 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:49.079 this whack, you know what I mean. I wouldn't say 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:51.440 it's a whack, but I'm like, uh, okay, Tim, let's 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:53.360 change this part up, or let's mix this beat. You 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:54.760 know what I'm saying. It's a it's an effort, the 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:56.679 team effort. I would never say it's whack, though. Is 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.120 it true? He always wanted to work with him? I did, 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.679 and you'd be surprised. Growing up, I listened to a 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.440 lot every artist that he worked with, Missy. I watched 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:08.720 our videos sitting on the couch every single day, Missy 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:12.160 Aliyah justin Timberlake, and uh, and I was telling to him. 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:14.240 A month before I met him, he was working with 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:17.000 an artist um her video was on TV. I think 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:19.600 her name is now you must Supreme, and I was, man, 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:21.400 what did she do to get with him? You know, 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:23.440 I just wanted to know, how do you get to Timberland? 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:25.960 And a month later it was like, man, it was 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.080 some destiny type of type of thing going on, because 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:29.920 he called me a month later after. I was thinking 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.200 that watching as the law of attraction, your thoughts become 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:36.080 things do you watch or anything like that. I watched 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:39.040 a few episodes, you know, I caught a few tend 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:42.720 to get material right, tend to get material right now? 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.760 That didn't embarrass you when Timberland like jumps out there 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:47.600 and says things like Alia came to him in a 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:51.200 dream and said you one because I saw him do 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:58.360 that on stage. No, I wasn't embarrassed. I was more 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:02.200 so just thinking about just the reaction because I know, 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:04.920 you know, for Tim to say that on a on 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:06.840 a big stage, a big platform like that, so many 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:10.040 cameras people are recording. I had I really automatically knew 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.920 people were gonna take it as if Tim saying uh, 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:15.920 tink is the next Aliyah, and and my thing was 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:18.160 Tim never said that. In fact, if you watched the 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:20.480 video before he said that, he was like, I'm not 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:22.920 saying Tink is better than Ala. He said that, and 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.280 I want people to know that will never be another Aliyah. 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.040 She is a legend in her own right. What Tim 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.600 basically was saying, and he's talked to me about this before, 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:33.920 it wasn't like he was just babbling on the mic. Basically, 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:36.840 it was confirmation he had a dream that Eliah came 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:39.840 and said she's the one, not not she's the next me, 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:43.400 the one, meaning you know what we're doing, You're going 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:45.360 on the right path. It's gonna be something big. So 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:49.640 I believe that for sure. My city shows me so 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:53.360 much love. It's a good feeling because Chicago is a 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.120 very it's a very hateful city, like we hate on 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:59.840 our own in Chicago. So coming up, I did struggle, 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:01.600 you know, trying to get on my feet coming out 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:04.360 of Chicago. But now it's it's a different type of 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:06.280 love because they see where I'm calling and what I'm 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:08.240 trying to do for my city. You wanted to be 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:10.760 a radio host growing up, right, Yeah? I did. I 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.600 like the way y'all sound how y'all hype people up 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:16.280 in the morning. When I was every day my parents 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:17.920 would take me to take care and I'd be like 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:20.360 a kid in the backseat hearing voices and they just 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:23.720 kind of made the day. Pick up the radio people. 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:26.160 You had to see a therapist. So what's up the voices? 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:32.000 You was here the voices on the radio. When I 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:33.800 first started playing your record in the morning. You know, 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:36.000 timber Land came up here. He played it for Charlemagne 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:38.320 and Famine told me about and Timberland was invite me 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:39.720 to the studio, came up. He played the record when 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:41.520 we played it that first day, and I mean we 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:43.360 played it over and over again. What was the reaction? 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:46.400 Were you listening or people hitting you? I was getting 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:50.360 all type of type of love. I was definitely listening. Um. 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:53.480 I was in Chicago at the moment um and everybody 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:55.520 was kind of hitting my Twitter and I think I 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:59.520 jumped up at least like six thousand followers just off 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.280 of what y'all did in this room. Okay, Okay, Yeah, 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:04.720 shout out to the Breakfast club. Y'all really like gave 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:07.280 me a big push, um, and I didn't expect it. 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:09.439 To be like that, you know, and it's crazy how 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:13.119 to music just hit people and affected people to the 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:15.680 point when everybody calls and wants now, they be like, 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:17.119 can you do what you did for Tink? I'm like, 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:21.000 Tink got music. We're gonna want you to spit this 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:23.640 more days to have good music. What's up? We want 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:25.200 you to spit you tweeted, Um, I want you to 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:27.560 take me serious. Do you feel like people want taking 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:29.879 you serious? Oh? No, I was in my feelings. I 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:34.359 was listening to a song. It wasn't I knew people 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.080 would look at it like that. Um, it was a 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:38.840 big sean. I think, Uh, what's the name of that song? 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:42.080 He has a record play No Games? Oh yeah, yeah, 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:44.879 that's what Kanye. No. No, it's with Chris Brown and 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.639 Todd Dolla sign. So that was That's that's what that 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.679 was about. I think people do take me serious though, um, 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:54.040 And if they don't, I really do want you to feelings. 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:56.480 You just feel like, was that about the industry or dude? 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:59.000 It's about a guy? The song was. It's a cute song. 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:02.800 It's aw, don't you get caught up in those boys? Now? Okay, 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:05.600 it's not like that. I just liked the I like 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:08.119 the message behind that, that simple phrase. I want you 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:11.840 to take my serious. What about the braids. You don't 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:14.439 have them in today, but I don't have my brains. 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:17.640 I switch it up sometimes I do rock my brains 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:20.800 and it's crazy. I saw I got love for my braids. 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:22.520 But at the same time, I didn't understand why people 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:26.920 were offended by my braids. Yeah, like I got a 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:30.720 couple of comments, you know, like you know, just people 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:32.879 saying you're trying to be the brad or you you 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:37.400 think take those beads out. And I didn't understand because 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:40.160 it's like, you know, honestly, if you if you it's 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:42.000 a hairstyle, but if you really man, if you do 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:45.480 your research, beads actually for our culture, beads mean a lot, 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:50.120 a lot of positive things beads mean, and people don't 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:52.480 really understand that this is a part of our culture. 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:56.440 We were wearing beads hundreds of years ago. So I 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:58.680 took it and I really didn't care. You know, I'm 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:00.840 gonna really do what I want to do because I 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:04.040 like my beats, my brains absolutely all right, when we 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:05.520 come back, we're gonna get some music on. We want 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:07.040 you to spit a little bit, all right, that's what 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:10.919