1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:08,039 Speaker 1: Real people, real celebrity join the Breakfast Morning. Everybody is 2 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 1: DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomane, that guy. We all the 3 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: Breakfast Club special guests in the building with us this morning. Guests, 4 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:16,560 Speaker 1: I should say, mister Nell Mune and you brought your artists. 5 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:25,640 Speaker 1: That's because you can't pronounce the good morning. How y'all doing. 6 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: It's good to see you in your Instagram. I saw 7 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:31,320 Speaker 1: you taking yoga. That's why I said, now I'm at Yes, 8 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:37,960 Speaker 1: I'm right there. All right, what's your dinner? From everywhere? 9 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:40,559 Speaker 1: From from a lot of places. Okay, yeah, I'm not 10 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:43,519 Speaker 1: an army brat, but I was born in Wisconsin, grew 11 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 1: up in Nigeria, Boston, California, working Atlanta, but I live 12 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 1: in East flat Bush. It's confused. You look like you 13 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 1: came out of the time, fresh out of the Malcolm 14 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 1: X movie. Thank you. Yeah, that's I'll take that as 15 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 1: a conflisolute. Let's plain your look to the people because 16 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 1: you got the thing you got to. It was like 17 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 1: a curl, the finger curl. You're ready to run for office? Yeah, 18 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:08,959 Speaker 1: I am what is that? That's a finger finger curl? 19 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: You do that every morning? You finger it. I have 20 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:20,600 Speaker 1: to not like that curl. The curl absolutely yeah, I mean, 21 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:25,680 Speaker 1: I mean the look came out of studying the Gym 22 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 1: Crow era. Honestly. Yeah, I feel like we live in 23 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:30,679 Speaker 1: the new Gym Crow right now. You know, the media 24 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:32,560 Speaker 1: is really catching wind of it, but it's been going 25 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:34,480 Speaker 1: on for a long time. So I just study how 26 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:37,639 Speaker 1: men really carried themselves in that era and then formed 27 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 1: what we see now. You even got the pocket watch 28 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:41,479 Speaker 1: now I'm taking it's hard to pull that off. Yeah, 29 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 1: you got to be a certain distinctive type of brother, 30 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:47,120 Speaker 1: a certain amount of elegance to pull off the big words. 31 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 1: You always exactly, God, that was the classic man. That's 32 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:55,360 Speaker 1: your single right now? The classic What is the classic man? 33 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 1: Classic man is a man who carries himself with dignity, 34 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 1: a certain amount of poise, discretion, excellent taste. I meet 35 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 1: a lot of classic man. I think you all a 36 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:12,680 Speaker 1: classic men as well. You know, I believe that it 37 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 1: really is a celebration of integrity, and a lot of 38 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 1: the ogs that I grew up admiring really held themselves 39 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:24,400 Speaker 1: in a certain regard, especially when I lived in la 40 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 1: in South Central A lot of them, you know, they 41 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 1: got their chest up like this button all the way 42 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 1: up top. Those are the men that that really inspired me. 43 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 1: I took it as a classy but you whooped somebody's 44 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:36,960 Speaker 1: ass hearing the song. Yeah, you're not afraid to roll 45 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 1: up your sleep. You do a couple of curses out 46 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 1: there that like, boy, I'm dressed up in I mean, 47 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 1: that's how it's been, That's how that's how it's been. 48 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 1: It's only recently, you know, hip hop era, that we 49 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:50,120 Speaker 1: started to dress down, if you will, right, And I 50 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 1: just like that as a kid as a kid, like 51 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:54,919 Speaker 1: as a young and you dressed like that. Definitely not 52 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:57,880 Speaker 1: I wish I could say I did, but I definitely 53 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 1: didn't know. I have my I have my fitted as 54 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:02,799 Speaker 1: you can. I have my Tim have my my. It 55 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 1: wasn't a V neck back then. You just had a 56 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: little T shirt jeans. That's why you shouldn't stereotype people, 57 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 1: because you see the guy in Tim's and Jean sacking 58 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 1: his pants like i'mna stan away from him. But he'd 59 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:16,239 Speaker 1: be the soft one. And absolutely Chas called himself to 60 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:23,240 Speaker 1: soften all the way through. I'm saying, Wonderland Record, that's 61 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 1: your old label. Yeah, what made you want to start 62 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:27,920 Speaker 1: your own label. Well, I mean I came up from 63 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:32,360 Speaker 1: you know puff, um did he gave me my Okay? Sorry, 64 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 1: look yes, so I'm ready to get back a lot 65 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 1: of people helped me get to where I am, and 66 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 1: I've always had my print, but we didn't have distribution. 67 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 1: And so UM, once I felt like there was a 68 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 1: void in in in having female business people who no 69 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: talent when they see it um able to see visionary 70 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 1: artists and see something remarkable like Jadenna. I wanted to 71 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:00,120 Speaker 1: make sure that I was the one leading the way 72 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 1: for that, and so um, I spent a lot of 73 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 1: time last year just really humbling myself like it would 74 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 1: be Jadina and artists, a few other artists and we 75 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 1: would literally just sleep on the floor, cook for each 76 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 1: other and just write music and have conversations about the 77 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:20,480 Speaker 1: music industry, about minorities, about um, what was going on 78 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 1: you know in today and how we could help. And 79 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 1: as I humbled myself, um, I just a lot of 80 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 1: great opportunities started to come to me. Not that it's 81 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:37,840 Speaker 1: just that I've always been a humble person, but you know, 82 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 1: you just want to go back to the roots, like, okay, 83 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 1: what does this mean? You know? I have great leadership qualities. Um, 84 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:48,280 Speaker 1: I'm in a very great place in my career where 85 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 1: I'm releasing the music that I want to. I have influence. 86 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 1: What else can I do? And so um, I've just 87 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 1: been excited about Wonderland Records and what we're gonna do. 88 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:00,280 Speaker 1: How did you in the music industry? Actually I met 89 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:02,560 Speaker 1: Jordinna at a masquerade. I don't believe that. I believe 90 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 1: that you were time traveling because you know what, and 91 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 1: we can we can go exactly. You know what we 92 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 1: are all We always have our clones, you know, so 93 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 1: my clone did most definitely meet him in the gym 94 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 1: crow era, But no, we really met at a masquerade 95 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:19,839 Speaker 1: on the West Coast. We invited you. I heard through 96 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 1: my Space. Yep, through my Space. This is when I 97 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 1: first I was about my business. That was when I 98 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 1: was on my Yeah. So I've known him, I've known 99 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 1: I've known Jordinna for years. So when we met, we 100 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:39,680 Speaker 1: met at the masquerade face paint. It was crazy and 101 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 1: we ended up just filling our kindred spirits and understanding 102 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:46,880 Speaker 1: what our purpose was. And we've kept in contact and 103 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 1: when I got into position to help him with his career, 104 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 1: I did it. Now You've always had the Wonderland collective though, 105 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:56,480 Speaker 1: and so now doing the label? What made you decide, 106 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 1: you know, to go with Epic with La Reid? Did 107 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:01,600 Speaker 1: you guys already have a relationship. Well, La had had 108 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:03,600 Speaker 1: been a fan of mine for a while and I 109 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:06,919 Speaker 1: had recently recently reconnected with him in an outcast show, 110 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:11,719 Speaker 1: and so, um, he was just really excited. He pushed 111 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:13,479 Speaker 1: me up on stage. He was like, I just you know, 112 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 1: love you, and I want to figure out what we 113 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 1: can do together. And when I reached out to him, 114 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 1: uh and told him I had something very special, very 115 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 1: special group of artists for him to meet, um, he 116 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 1: instantly fell in love offered us to do this is 117 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:36,279 Speaker 1: because young man, right, he was not he was not playing. 118 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:38,920 Speaker 1: He was like, I'm not missing this opportunity to pass 119 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:41,720 Speaker 1: up an opportunity to be in business with you. No money. Now, 120 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:43,520 Speaker 1: when you said you first met, what you guys attracted 121 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:45,560 Speaker 1: to each other? Or was it just because somebody at 122 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:47,200 Speaker 1: your mid space and you go to parties, not just 123 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 1: you know I want to hear his music? No attraction? 124 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:52,120 Speaker 1: Well I was performing at the party. He was also performed. 125 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: So I was about my business then and I'm still 126 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:59,400 Speaker 1: about my business now. So with that said, what that said, No, no, 127 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:00,919 Speaker 1: what that said. When you have asked that if it 128 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:04,920 Speaker 1: was a man who was going to attracted to each other, 129 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 1: I'm just asking question. Listen, Jodenna is nice looking, and 130 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 1: any woman watching this right now, I hope y'all can 131 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 1: see that and realize why I did sign him. But 132 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:22,280 Speaker 1: most importantly, again, visionary artists, people who have ideas as 133 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:24,680 Speaker 1: well as vision um. I think that what he's doing 134 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 1: right now is going to be um something that the 135 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 1: music industry and hip hop industry has not seen. He 136 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:35,440 Speaker 1: has a different perspective, his story is very unique, and 137 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:44,119 Speaker 1: the way that he tells his stories lyrically as a rapper, Yeah, okay, 138 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 1: got crazy, But it seems like you can sing as 139 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 1: well from the record I mean yeah, I mean, I 140 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 1: mean that's where hip hop is now though, right it's 141 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 1: all melodic, So I think that we are at a 142 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:01,880 Speaker 1: different phase in hip hop where the old school really 143 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 1: did not embrace melody in the way that the new 144 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:07,960 Speaker 1: school is embracing it now. So absolutely, you know, I 145 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: walked that line. I've heard you refer to your music 146 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 1: as as swinky. That's usually a term reserve for fashion. Yeah, 147 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 1: so what does swinky mean? Well, the music is called swank. 148 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:22,920 Speaker 1: Swanky means classy and funky, and so I believe swank 149 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:25,480 Speaker 1: to be a sound that's really the evolution the next 150 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:29,040 Speaker 1: stage of hip hop. It violates certain rules, like I said, 151 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 1: like a full embrace of melody. Um. The culture really 152 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:36,640 Speaker 1: is about going to a party dressed to the nines, 153 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:39,240 Speaker 1: but then sweating out your dress, sweating out your suit. 154 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:45,480 Speaker 1: For some reason, would he'd be considered he's definitely swanky. 155 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:50,840 Speaker 1: You know. I think Outcast has a lot of a 156 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 1: lot of that sound that really made you feel that vibe. 157 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 1: I feel that there's Farrell Uh and jay Z, especially 158 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 1: when they collapsed with make you feel that. So it's 159 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 1: not something that comes out of nowhere, you know. I 160 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 1: definitely respect everybody that that that inspired the sound and 161 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 1: the culture. Now as by the way, it's different. It's 162 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 1: not like you heard on radio before. And the video 163 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:15,720 Speaker 1: is too. The video was dope. But did you get 164 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:18,960 Speaker 1: nervous at all because it's it's not like it's it's 165 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 1: not that bounced, it's not that that New York you 166 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 1: know boom bat sound. No, no, no, no, we knew, 167 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:28,200 Speaker 1: we knew it was special, you know when we wrote it. 168 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 1: I mean we wrote um Jor Dinner Road Classic Man. 169 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 1: We were there when he was writing it, and the 170 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:39,040 Speaker 1: rest Nanna who's also part of the production team, and Roman, 171 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 1: who was another artist on Wonderland Records. When they were 172 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:43,199 Speaker 1: writing it. We knew it was special, and that's what 173 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:46,079 Speaker 1: we move on. You know. We knew it was remarkable. 174 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 1: We knew that we hadn't heard men speaking in that way, 175 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 1: singing in that way, rapping in that way. And so 176 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:54,320 Speaker 1: I was excited because we were going to be bringing 177 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 1: something special. Seem like a party all night in the 178 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 1: student that seemed like that session it was, it really was. 179 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:02,520 Speaker 1: I mean everybody just got in. I mean we was 180 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 1: fixing special drinks, reaching for each other. We had a 181 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:09,680 Speaker 1: good time during the process of writing, of writing this music, 182 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:12,439 Speaker 1: working on this EP. I picture like, did y'all all 183 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 1: like stay in the house together. I don't know why 184 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:15,680 Speaker 1: I pictured this, but with Wonderland, I know you said 185 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 1: you had to humble yourself and take it back to that, 186 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:21,480 Speaker 1: you know, sleeping on the floor. Was everybody there together 187 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 1: for like months on the house we were we were 188 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 1: it was in Wonderland, and we again literally on the floor, 189 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 1: nobody slept in a bed. We were like, we're gonna 190 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:34,480 Speaker 1: take it back to the basics, and it really helped 191 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:37,840 Speaker 1: our process. I wouldn't even know Tuxedo. You know, nobody 192 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 1: was was really them them themselves if the world perceived 193 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:43,560 Speaker 1: them to be. When we came into Wonderland, we just 194 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 1: stripped that away and and we focused in on the 195 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:49,680 Speaker 1: music and the ideas and really collaborating with each other 196 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 1: and not being afraid. Like I will say, this process 197 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:57,600 Speaker 1: in writing EPIS has made me a more experimental artist, 198 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:01,479 Speaker 1: Like I'm experimenting with new sounds, new ideas, new concepts. 199 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:05,280 Speaker 1: You know, I'm not really inspired to repeat anything that 200 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:08,880 Speaker 1: I've I've done. Um So, I'm excited for you guys 201 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 1: to hear that too, because you guys super private. She 202 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 1: had us in white tunics. Go, what the hell? We 203 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 1: agreed we have gone one sixteen Street. You know what 204 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:26,320 Speaker 1: the tunic is? No, you know what it's really when 205 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:32,199 Speaker 1: everybody was wearing a quadruple XIL shirts, I mean, tunic 206 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:35,600 Speaker 1: is what that was trying to be. But we were 207 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 1: all dressed, um in tunics on this in the grass 208 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 1: in Wonderland. Um So we definitely feel because we didn't 209 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:44,559 Speaker 1: feel like who feels like you know, you go to 210 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:46,600 Speaker 1: bed at five in the morning trying to get dressed. 211 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:50,480 Speaker 1: It's just like where that. Sometimes we didn't bathe, We 212 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 1: just kept we slept in that got up, we didn't. 213 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:56,520 Speaker 1: We were focused on ideas, we were focused on music. 214 00:11:56,559 --> 00:11:58,840 Speaker 1: We were we were really saying, look, if we're gonna 215 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:01,080 Speaker 1: do this, we gotta do it. Don't come in here 216 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 1: trying to flick your hair down. Don't don't. I don't 217 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:07,560 Speaker 1: mess up because we don't want to wash We didn't 218 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 1: want to wash out the phone. We got to keep that. 219 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:13,199 Speaker 1: You keep that in the music. Now are you really 220 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:15,440 Speaker 1: are you ready for the stress of being an executive 221 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 1: because you've been an artist and how artists can get 222 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 1: this scrunt to it like when out? Sure? Um, I 223 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 1: think that I've always known Like again, I've known Jadna. 224 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:30,840 Speaker 1: We have a duo named the Cotton Roman, same beauty. 225 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:33,120 Speaker 1: These have been my friends for a really long time. 226 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 1: They've helped with my project. So it's it's organic um 227 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 1: our relationship and I'm more like I'm in the music industry. 228 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 1: I'm here if you need any questions answered, if you 229 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:46,800 Speaker 1: have any concerns, and I just want to also say 230 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 1: that it was inspired by a dream that we had. Um. 231 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:52,360 Speaker 1: There was a dream that we had that we were 232 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:57,080 Speaker 1: swimming to this boat and all of us, all of us, yeah, 233 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:01,280 Speaker 1: we well, Nate the producer, Um brought it to us 234 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:04,040 Speaker 1: and we just kept we kept talking about like water, 235 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:05,800 Speaker 1: water kept coming up in our minds, and there was 236 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 1: this dream that we had of the artist swimming and 237 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 1: we were all swimming to this boat and no artists, 238 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:14,319 Speaker 1: no person was going to be left behind. And this 239 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 1: was before I had talked This was a year before 240 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:18,840 Speaker 1: I talked to La Read. So we were not even 241 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:21,080 Speaker 1: thinking about a label deal. We were just saying, as 242 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 1: a collective, we wanted to create more water to redefine 243 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:29,680 Speaker 1: the creative you know, the creative waters within the music industry. 244 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 1: And so when we got that offer with LA it 245 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:35,640 Speaker 1: then no, no, no, I'm skipping. Then a year later 246 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 1: we went to Mexico and literally had a water experience 247 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:43,559 Speaker 1: where all of us were there. We got stung by jellyfish. 248 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:46,360 Speaker 1: We were trying to swim. It was a mess. Yes, 249 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:49,480 Speaker 1: And so the dream kind of happened, and it taught us, 250 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:51,559 Speaker 1: you know, there were people who couldn't swim as much 251 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:53,199 Speaker 1: as others. They hadn't felt what it felt like to 252 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:55,199 Speaker 1: get stung by jellyfish. We had to put each other 253 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 1: on our backs and like some people were dipping each 254 00:13:57,840 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 1: other down in the water, just trying to help every 255 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:02,360 Speaker 1: about to get to land because we all were freaking out. 256 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:07,960 Speaker 1: We were freaking audition to go through. You got to 257 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:12,640 Speaker 1: go through. Because one of one of the things that 258 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:14,920 Speaker 1: um I had actually talked to, had the opportunity to 259 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:16,880 Speaker 1: meet Jimmy Aben and I talked to him and he said, 260 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:19,760 Speaker 1: you guys, don't don't mess up the vibe that you guys. 261 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:22,760 Speaker 1: They're gonna be people who say, you know, oh such 262 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 1: and such, we can do this for you, or you're 263 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 1: not doing this right. Let you should leave them. And 264 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:28,680 Speaker 1: you know that's what happens in the music industry. People 265 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:31,640 Speaker 1: want to divide, and those experiences taught us that we 266 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:33,840 Speaker 1: have to We came here together. We got to stick together. 267 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 1: When you see your brother or sister, you know, off 268 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 1: message or just out not remembering what we're doing this for, 269 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 1: it's up to you to put them on your back 270 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 1: and take them to land. Don't let them drown. Do 271 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 1: you get to save money because you got an expensive 272 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:52,760 Speaker 1: habit over there, like sneakers are like, that's an expensive habit. 273 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:57,480 Speaker 1: You hear a little very well kept thank you that 274 00:14:57,720 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 1: you know, it looks a lot more expensive than the 275 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 1: The style developed from thrift shops and thrifting. I couldn't 276 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:07,240 Speaker 1: keep up with the trends. Everybody's spending sixty seventy dollars 277 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 1: on T shirts nowadays, so I was like, okay, let 278 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 1: me do something else. Go to thrift shops. You see 279 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 1: a suit, buy that suit for five ten dollars. You 280 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 1: go upstate, though, up state in New York, not here nowadays, Buffalo. 281 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 1: You gotta go up up go to Canada if you can, 282 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 1: you get that suit, and you really spend money on 283 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 1: the on the local tailors, you know, a little mom 284 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:31,840 Speaker 1: and pop shop, and all of a sudden, you've only 285 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:34,400 Speaker 1: spent bout fifty dollars and you have yourself a new suit. 286 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 1: So it looks a lot a lot more expensive than 287 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:39,600 Speaker 1: it is. All the suits, the majority of the suits 288 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 1: that I wear were designed and styled by Whipper Wiley, 289 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 1: who's on my team, and a lot of the pocket 290 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:49,640 Speaker 1: squares and the ties were designed by Kittery. So it's 291 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 1: it's it's predominant in house. I am co designed. I'm 292 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:58,080 Speaker 1: not a stylist, but but I got style. Now is 293 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:00,040 Speaker 1: the true that you have a slogan coming dry and 294 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:04,760 Speaker 1: leave what almost it's come dry and leave wet. Put 295 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:13,120 Speaker 1: that kind of pressure on you, don't just selling opiate? Right? Well, 296 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 1: we have soires that we that we host and in 297 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 1: those at those choires, we have women coming in backless dresses. 298 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 1: We have men coming in knickers, and they come dressed 299 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 1: to the nines and they come dry. But we want 300 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:34,360 Speaker 1: to make sure you sweat. Yeah, our generation where I'm 301 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:39,080 Speaker 1: like using the three am category of your mind. You know, 302 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 1: it's all about our generation really letting loose. And that's 303 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:45,880 Speaker 1: what Wonderland. That's why I'm at Wonderland Records, because Wonderland 304 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 1: is not afraid to let loose. Yeah. You know, you 305 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 1: go to the party. Everybody turned up for like two 306 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 1: seconds and last in the check they fall. It's it's yeah, 307 00:16:55,920 --> 00:16:57,600 Speaker 1: and we we don't we don't know what it's like. 308 00:16:57,680 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 1: I listen to my sisters, they're talking about the eighties, 309 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:03,240 Speaker 1: the seventies, my mom talking about the sixties. Everybody used 310 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 1: to really actually cut loops, so that's what comes dry 311 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:08,679 Speaker 1: leave wet means. So you said it the closest to expensive. None. 312 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:10,000 Speaker 1: If I'm going to the trip stop by the fifty 313 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 1: dollars too, I'm not afraid it's worth that right, right 314 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 1: exactly now. In the video in your video, there's a 315 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:17,840 Speaker 1: scene where cops are harassing or rest and a young 316 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:20,880 Speaker 1: African right, and you guys walk up. What does that represent? 317 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:24,520 Speaker 1: It represents what's going on and has been going on 318 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:26,399 Speaker 1: in New York City, and you stopped the cop and 319 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:29,120 Speaker 1: started talking to the cop during the rest. I said, man, yeah, 320 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:33,800 Speaker 1: it's going bad well, and I don't think it ended bad. 321 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:35,600 Speaker 1: I hope it didn't have that in the video. It 322 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 1: hasn't ended bad badly in my life. You know, I've 323 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:43,479 Speaker 1: I've often found friends on the police force, you know, 324 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:48,520 Speaker 1: the officers that I think really represent that job to 325 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:51,119 Speaker 1: the fullest. I do think it's a very noble and 326 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:57,879 Speaker 1: honorable profession if if done righteously. Right, I think the 327 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:00,359 Speaker 1: issue we're having nowadays is just at the institu Tuan 328 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:03,800 Speaker 1: has been militarized and so that we feel that we're occupied. 329 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:06,440 Speaker 1: You know, I'm in East Flatbush, I'm hearing the rad 330 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:10,960 Speaker 1: siren and we're in We're not in Palestine. Uh, And 331 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:14,920 Speaker 1: I'm feeling I'm I'm you know, it's it's designed to 332 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:17,719 Speaker 1: scare you. Now, do you think that African Americans, young 333 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:20,920 Speaker 1: African Americans should dress differently? You know, because you know, 334 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:22,919 Speaker 1: when I'm looking at the video, I'm looking at the 335 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:24,399 Speaker 1: guy in the video, he has a hood in jeans, 336 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:26,159 Speaker 1: baggy and you know, and then I look at you 337 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:29,640 Speaker 1: walk up. Do you feel that we should dress more 338 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:31,879 Speaker 1: respectful and look a little better as as young African 339 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:34,119 Speaker 1: America have been taken you there simply because you had 340 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:36,000 Speaker 1: a suit on. There's a lot of things you can 341 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:38,439 Speaker 1: get away with when you wear a suits. But I 342 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:40,959 Speaker 1: don't think that everybody should dress in suits. I think 343 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:43,360 Speaker 1: you should dress how you feel comfortable. You know. It's 344 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:46,800 Speaker 1: it's it's better to walk and carry yourself and whatever 345 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:49,119 Speaker 1: it makes you feel comfortable. For me, a suit suits me. 346 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:54,080 Speaker 1: But for the young Latino and African American Uh boy 347 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:56,200 Speaker 1: in the video and for the ones that I've actually 348 00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:58,760 Speaker 1: worked with in New York and other cities, they can 349 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:01,840 Speaker 1: wear what they want. But people, you should be aware 350 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:03,920 Speaker 1: of that people are gonna perceive you a certain way. 351 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:06,199 Speaker 1: But in no way, shape or form. I think a 352 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:08,240 Speaker 1: classic man has to dress in a three piece suit. 353 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 1: It's much more important that you you you carry yourself. 354 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:15,840 Speaker 1: So you can wear a V neck and jeans and 355 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:19,720 Speaker 1: Tim's in a fitted Yankee cap and you're a classic man. 356 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:23,800 Speaker 1: You can wear a mechanic outfit and you could still 357 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 1: be a classic man and has nothing to do with 358 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:31,199 Speaker 1: the price of your garment. Has everything to do with 359 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:34,359 Speaker 1: your character. Absolutely, Yeah, you do. Do you do yoga? 360 00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 1: Would you know? I do? You know? She's taught me 361 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:40,159 Speaker 1: some new moves tree pose. All I knew was the 362 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:46,160 Speaker 1: downward dogar. I mean that's what got me on something new. 363 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:49,439 Speaker 1: For about the last year, I really got into it. It 364 00:19:49,359 --> 00:19:51,040 Speaker 1: It was one of the rituals we did when we 365 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 1: were working on working on the compilation, and we would 366 00:19:56,560 --> 00:19:58,639 Speaker 1: get up, some of us would would lead it. I 367 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:01,400 Speaker 1: didn't really know anything. I started to do beak from 368 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:04,720 Speaker 1: yoga and then or back room however you want to 369 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:06,920 Speaker 1: pronounce it. But I started to do that. And then 370 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:11,520 Speaker 1: recently when we were doing the project again, I started 371 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:14,440 Speaker 1: to just experiment with different ways to be balanced. And 372 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:20,280 Speaker 1: so yoga does balance me um a lot, and I 373 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:23,119 Speaker 1: saw it as bending and never breaking, and so I 374 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:25,000 Speaker 1: just kind of applied that to my life, Like I 375 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:27,080 Speaker 1: love beacrom yoga, but you got a shower before you 376 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:34,480 Speaker 1: do that. That's all She's trying to keep the fun. Yeah. No, 377 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:37,119 Speaker 1: Sometimes when I go if the people in there having showered, 378 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:38,719 Speaker 1: like if it's early in the morning, people might roll 379 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:42,240 Speaker 1: out of bed and just can't make the whole room smell. Yeah, terrible, 380 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:45,359 Speaker 1: I've I've smelled that before. But I go in and 381 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:47,679 Speaker 1: I have to get what I need. I can't be 382 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:49,560 Speaker 1: worring about them stinking. I got to get my piece 383 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:50,920 Speaker 1: of mine. And you said, you look at a piece 384 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:53,119 Speaker 1: of mind balance. You said, he's looking to be humbled, 385 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:54,840 Speaker 1: Like what what? What? What? What did you feel like 386 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:57,560 Speaker 1: you needed to change? I just felt like I would 387 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:01,520 Speaker 1: change you a little. Maybe I wouldn't say that just 388 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:04,000 Speaker 1: as a person. You know, evolution is important to me, 389 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:07,840 Speaker 1: and evolving and if I'm not learning from my mistakes 390 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:12,439 Speaker 1: or um too much in my head, you know, if 391 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:14,399 Speaker 1: I'm trying to be a leader and try to lead somebody, 392 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,439 Speaker 1: how can I lead when I'm I'm not balanced? You know? 393 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:20,240 Speaker 1: And I think when I knew that I have I 394 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:24,359 Speaker 1: have these leadership qualities I'm surrounded around puff and you know, 395 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:26,639 Speaker 1: I have the support of La Reid, and you know 396 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:31,000 Speaker 1: the support of um you know Melody Hobson, who's an 397 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:34,639 Speaker 1: investment an amazing investor in Black Woman, and I have 398 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 1: a support of all these people. I met George Lucas 399 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:40,360 Speaker 1: and Steven Spielberg and it's like, Okay, I'm a young 400 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:45,120 Speaker 1: black girl from Kansas. I have a clear, big opportunity 401 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:51,080 Speaker 1: to move forward and to develop my business and be 402 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:53,400 Speaker 1: just as great as these people. You know, I come 403 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:57,920 Speaker 1: from My grandmother was of sharecroffer in Aberdeen, Mississippi. So 404 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:01,440 Speaker 1: I come from a line of women who have worked 405 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:03,919 Speaker 1: hard and built nothing out of something, and so I 406 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 1: knew that there was something I can do. So when 407 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,240 Speaker 1: I when I got the opportunity to get this label 408 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:10,919 Speaker 1: and to lead in the way that I needed to, 409 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:12,920 Speaker 1: I knew that I needed to get my mind right 410 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 1: for real, Like I wanted to make sure that when 411 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:17,120 Speaker 1: I'm feeling low and I need to be more balanced, 412 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:19,080 Speaker 1: I have to figure out ways of how to deal 413 00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:21,000 Speaker 1: with it, because you can't get lost in the music 414 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:26,439 Speaker 1: industry balance Cookie Hills go home, look my Hills and 415 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:28,880 Speaker 1: go home. I wish it was that simple, No I do. 416 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:31,600 Speaker 1: I was just home with my mama and I have 417 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:34,360 Speaker 1: the opportunity to buy her her first car. So that 418 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:38,560 Speaker 1: was like a huge thing for me last year. This week, 419 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:42,439 Speaker 1: no I got our BMW okay okay, Yeah, I saved 420 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:44,240 Speaker 1: up and I was like, do a couple shows, and 421 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:46,240 Speaker 1: I'm gonna give my mama a couple of shows. You 422 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:48,159 Speaker 1: could save up, I would thinking, Now I've seen you 423 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:51,080 Speaker 1: perform several times. It's always been an experience, and you 424 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:53,160 Speaker 1: talk about evolving and not wanting to do what you've 425 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:56,280 Speaker 1: done previously. So what's gonna happen now with the live show? 426 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:58,200 Speaker 1: What's going to be different about that? Because it's always 427 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:00,879 Speaker 1: been amazing and people always discussed thank thank you babe. 428 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:05,120 Speaker 1: We'll see, like I'm I'm I'm excited with this project 429 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:08,680 Speaker 1: that we're putting out um and it's gonna be great 430 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:12,119 Speaker 1: for the summertime. My contribution again is like I'm just 431 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,239 Speaker 1: in a space where, if you know, my music, I 432 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 1: experiment with so many different sounds. And when I look 433 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:22,040 Speaker 1: at some of my heroes like Michael Jackson, Prince, you know, 434 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:26,840 Speaker 1: even Madonna, they never repeated themselves and they always figured 435 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:30,880 Speaker 1: out new ways to shock and and to m reinvent themselves. 436 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 1: And so that's what I'm gonna do. We have a 437 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:38,199 Speaker 1: song together called Yoga. Yes it's jamming. Oh it's so jamming. 438 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:40,159 Speaker 1: And people are not going to be able to expect 439 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:42,639 Speaker 1: y'all when y'all see it, y'all gonna be like, oh 440 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:44,520 Speaker 1: my god. I'm not gonna give too much away, but 441 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:50,000 Speaker 1: just know that that I'm not yoga. No no, no no, no, 442 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:55,919 Speaker 1: no no. It's great. You know, part party, part ponder 443 00:23:56,960 --> 00:24:01,639 Speaker 1: h part part party. Yeah, yeah, it's and you just 444 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:04,840 Speaker 1: have to listen to it. I just want I want 445 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:08,280 Speaker 1: you guys to jam to a first and hopefully you 446 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:10,879 Speaker 1: find some things in there that can can help you 447 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:12,520 Speaker 1: find your way. I mean, how many times if people 448 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 1: ask you, speaking of not repeating yourself, how many times 449 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,320 Speaker 1: if people ask you to take pictures and recreate that 450 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:21,080 Speaker 1: Solange wedding photo. Ah, I haven't been No, I haven't 451 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:23,640 Speaker 1: been asked. And that's my friend. That was a beautiful 452 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,679 Speaker 1: wedding like those two. Alan has directed a lot of 453 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:30,080 Speaker 1: my videos, and you know, Solange is a friend um 454 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:32,119 Speaker 1: as well. And so to even be there, I was, 455 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:35,320 Speaker 1: I was. He did a classic man, you know, and 456 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,080 Speaker 1: he made a cameo, So it's all family. You know, 457 00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:40,000 Speaker 1: when when we get together, we try to make sure 458 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:42,440 Speaker 1: that we're creating more opportunities for you. A lot of 459 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:45,080 Speaker 1: legendary artists have embraced you as well, but that you 460 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:47,720 Speaker 1: look up to who has impressed you the most that 461 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:50,160 Speaker 1: you've been like, oh my god, I can't believe this 462 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:54,680 Speaker 1: person is you know, Janelle money Fan Wow who um. 463 00:24:56,440 --> 00:25:00,439 Speaker 1: We were kind of out, Uh, I don't know. I 464 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:04,639 Speaker 1: mean again for me, Stevie wondered, you know, to do 465 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:08,119 Speaker 1: that tribute. When we did, I think it was a 466 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 1: few days after Grammys. That was the one when he, 467 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,439 Speaker 1: you know, reached out to me and told me that 468 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 1: he had listened to my music and he was singing 469 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:20,360 Speaker 1: some of my lyrics and m and the President, you know, Michelle, 470 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 1: the First Lady Michelle and the President. I'm like, they 471 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:28,120 Speaker 1: are so busy in my mind leading the world. But 472 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:30,960 Speaker 1: when you realize that your music is reaching the White 473 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:32,600 Speaker 1: House and it's in the hands of people who can 474 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:37,040 Speaker 1: change this world for better, it is definitely something that 475 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:38,920 Speaker 1: I that don't take lightly because I'm like, if y'all 476 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:42,119 Speaker 1: listen in the tight rope and that song was about balance, 477 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:44,400 Speaker 1: and about tipping on your haters and when people try 478 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:47,119 Speaker 1: to pull you down, and it's it's about oppressive people. 479 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:49,879 Speaker 1: If they're getting that and they're they're doing better and 480 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,200 Speaker 1: doing a better job because of because of my music, 481 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:54,960 Speaker 1: I feel like I have a bigger responsibility, you know 482 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:57,439 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It's like the president is listening, he 483 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:00,040 Speaker 1: could be making decisions and like, you know what, I 484 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:03,240 Speaker 1: heard this girl song today. I ain't even gonna I'm 485 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:05,560 Speaker 1: not even about to push that button. So now some 486 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 1: people say like like you have a great career, but 487 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:09,679 Speaker 1: some people said jail a minute when they should be 488 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:12,119 Speaker 1: a little bigger. Do you feel like you feel like 489 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,440 Speaker 1: why I push other artists now when you still could 490 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,199 Speaker 1: be focusing on yourself. No, because it is because this 491 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:20,439 Speaker 1: is a movement and I can't do it alone. I 492 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:23,159 Speaker 1: know that these artists are just as visionary as me. 493 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:27,240 Speaker 1: I know something when I see it, because and able 494 00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:31,280 Speaker 1: to see the things that make me special preserve those 495 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:36,200 Speaker 1: it allows me to see that in other people. And so, um, 496 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 1: this is a movement and I knew that it was important, 497 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:41,280 Speaker 1: and I'm glad you even mentioned that. I knew that 498 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:44,640 Speaker 1: it was important to get my tribe with me to 499 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,000 Speaker 1: make sure that when we come in this time, we're 500 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,160 Speaker 1: not working around with y'all. I don't I don't even 501 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,359 Speaker 1: use the cuss, but I'm about to tell you no, 502 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:56,359 Speaker 1: it's serious. It is in terms of black female artists 503 00:26:56,359 --> 00:27:00,760 Speaker 1: and just black music in general. Um, it's a lot 504 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:04,680 Speaker 1: of marginalization that has been happening, and of course it 505 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,239 Speaker 1: pisces me off. I was listening to a song that 506 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,720 Speaker 1: I had done on the Electric Lady, and I was like, man, 507 00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:14,760 Speaker 1: this song is amazing. What the hell you know? And 508 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,760 Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about it. Just it's going to take 509 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:21,199 Speaker 1: more people to push forward to sound, to push forward 510 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:25,920 Speaker 1: ideas that are as big as mine. You don't know 511 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,600 Speaker 1: what category to put you in, you know, And when 512 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,400 Speaker 1: you think about I think, I think it'll be great. 513 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:34,320 Speaker 1: I think with EPIS, I think with Wonderland Records. I 514 00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 1: think that this is gonna be a time where I 515 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,320 Speaker 1: think I'm gonna go somewhere different this time, and I'm 516 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,880 Speaker 1: excited about that. I think when I came in, my 517 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:45,800 Speaker 1: main focus was my messaging. Um just you know, people 518 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:47,359 Speaker 1: look at the black and white and when I wear 519 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,879 Speaker 1: the tucks and you know, when we were a uniform 520 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:54,360 Speaker 1: as like you know, she's rebelling against or not rebelling, 521 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,240 Speaker 1: but she's not trying to conform. But it was all 522 00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:00,080 Speaker 1: about just being in control as a woman. And I 523 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:02,479 Speaker 1: think if everybody was wearing tuxedos, I might be the 524 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 1: one that's naked. I just you know what I'm saying. 525 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,439 Speaker 1: It's just one of those things where if just just 526 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,480 Speaker 1: because I'm a woman, I don't have to go into 527 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,159 Speaker 1: those stereotypes. But now I'm at the point where I 528 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:14,440 Speaker 1: can experiment a little bit more. I think that people 529 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:17,760 Speaker 1: know my intentions and I come in peace. But I 530 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:19,960 Speaker 1: mean business. Are you gonna pay your artists failure? Are 531 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:22,800 Speaker 1: you're gonna do like Puff you used to do his artists? Now, 532 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:24,440 Speaker 1: let me tell you. I'm not gonna talk about Puff, 533 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:26,360 Speaker 1: because that's who gave me my start. You know, when 534 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:27,960 Speaker 1: I got the label, I went down to Miami and 535 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,360 Speaker 1: I thanked him. Yeah, I flew in just to say 536 00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:37,399 Speaker 1: thank you, and and I left at stake that I 537 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:40,320 Speaker 1: never Puff. I'm taking the same approach once. You know, 538 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,440 Speaker 1: she swerved question about paying artists family, No, let me 539 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,440 Speaker 1: tell you, no, let me tell you what they got 540 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,400 Speaker 1: they are taking care of. This is family and if 541 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:54,800 Speaker 1: they ain't happy, they come. This is not exactly I 542 00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 1: give my artists. I give my artist suit, but no, 543 00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:00,640 Speaker 1: this is not count Yeah. I do want, I do 544 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:03,400 Speaker 1: want to say this that I don't flex as I'm 545 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:06,920 Speaker 1: the boss or I don't. We're all, we're friends, we 546 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,040 Speaker 1: love each other. This is a movement. I'm just here 547 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,800 Speaker 1: to God. If we're on a boat, I'm captain for 548 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:13,680 Speaker 1: a little bit, and I might not be. I'm they, 549 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:15,680 Speaker 1: I might need them to captain me. You know, We're 550 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:19,400 Speaker 1: just there to as any tribe, to to uplift each 551 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,440 Speaker 1: other and to make sure that we don't fall or 552 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:24,239 Speaker 1: nobody trying. She's the most humble captain I can speak that. 553 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,160 Speaker 1: Everything she's saying is genuine right now. I know a 554 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:29,360 Speaker 1: lot of people say that and then behind closed doors 555 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,880 Speaker 1: they're not that. Janelle Monee definitely is. So it's been 556 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:37,240 Speaker 1: a pleasure to be beside you and really not never 557 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:40,240 Speaker 1: feel like you were above or below me. You were 558 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:44,080 Speaker 1: just always uh leaving the room for growth, but still 559 00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:47,640 Speaker 1: a general at the same time, I honestly, let's have 560 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:49,640 Speaker 1: a big USB moment right there. That was positive. But 561 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:52,400 Speaker 1: the EB is coming out next next month. Yes, it's 562 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:56,720 Speaker 1: it's it's called and we were inspired by baseball terminology 563 00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,800 Speaker 1: if if nobody is familiar. I just learned it myself 564 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,920 Speaker 1: when going through it. But Baseball terminology of you know 565 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:08,200 Speaker 1: Pitt it is. It's a game changer, and we're just 566 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:11,280 Speaker 1: excited about it. Uh. Jadenna is the first with Classic Man. 567 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:13,520 Speaker 1: We're getting a lot of support on that. We'll have 568 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:17,920 Speaker 1: a song called Yoga, Uh coming out soon's according to 569 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:21,400 Speaker 1: our soul clocks, and we have a deep Cotton Uh 570 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,440 Speaker 1: Saint Beauty and we have Roman and all of these 571 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:27,880 Speaker 1: artists right and produce. Uh. They're playing their instruments live. 572 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:30,480 Speaker 1: I mean they're getting in their ten thousand hours. They're 573 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,479 Speaker 1: studying their heroes and realizing, because you know, music has 574 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:36,120 Speaker 1: changed so much. Music coming out right, so it's like 575 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:39,760 Speaker 1: get your live performance up, work hard, stay humble, and 576 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:41,480 Speaker 1: just take it back to the old days when people 577 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:44,280 Speaker 1: were just talented as hell. And you you, you're so 578 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:46,680 Speaker 1: talented that they have got no choice but to see 579 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:49,600 Speaker 1: you like we see you cannot see me now, you 580 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,920 Speaker 1: cannot not see me right now. I'm talented and I'm 581 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:59,480 Speaker 1: here and I'm remarkable. So we're doing well. Thank you. 582 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:04,120 Speaker 1: You beautiful skin. Let me touch dermatology. Baby, I love it. 583 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,360 Speaker 1: Y'all are so let me tell y'all, y'all are great, 584 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:10,000 Speaker 1: and I appreciate you guys coming and just you know, 585 00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:13,520 Speaker 1: talking to us and um again, actually you came to 586 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,320 Speaker 1: talk to us. Thank you. Well, you know, it's early 587 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 1: in the morning, so my wire, my wires just went. 588 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,800 Speaker 1: Now let me tell you, look, this is my house. Okay, 589 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:24,400 Speaker 1: this is my house. But yeah form cover to talk 590 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,400 Speaker 1: to me date makes she pick up the album. And 591 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:33,280 Speaker 1: we appreciate you guys for joining us. Thank you absolutely. 592 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:35,080 Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning,