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Speaker 1: R and B Money, we second take valleib We are

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Speaker 1: Money Podcast. The authority on all things are n B. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, hit records, hit movies, dessert.

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Speaker 3: You can't spell that.

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Speaker 1: It's written right here on my phone class beauty and Talent.

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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 1: It's all package and a really cool paggage and it

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Speaker 1: has a really really awesome being to define it. I

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Speaker 1: would enjoy saying this name, announcing this.

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Speaker 5: Person to be family, excuse my friends, but is oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Christine,

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Speaker 5: I didn't know you.

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Speaker 4: Were sta Okay, okay. It was a great intro.

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Speaker 6: That was exciting, That was exciting, and I wish, you

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Speaker 6: know what, we have it on tape if I ever

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Speaker 6: go out and perform ever again, I'm gonna play that

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Speaker 6: right at the beginning.

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Speaker 4: You know, you have you the intro, that's my intro. Hi,

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Speaker 4: what's the guys gonna be?

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Speaker 1: Y'all give me million? Where's Lilyan?

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Speaker 4: From my mom?

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Speaker 6: So Carmen Million is my mom and my dog.

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Speaker 4: And I'm Cuban, So I come from Cuban descent.

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Speaker 6: But Cuba is like a melting pot, just several just

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Speaker 6: different different cultures, different places and faces, and so from

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Speaker 6: what I'm told, I mean, we have just a long

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Speaker 6: lineage back.

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Speaker 4: But it's Spaniard.

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Speaker 6: It also feels very Italian if you have veryal But

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Speaker 6: I don't know, I honestly, really I need to do

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Speaker 6: one of those like twenty three and and just kind

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Speaker 6: of go back, I know, because.

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Speaker 4: Then you find out you're connected to a whole bunch

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Speaker 4: of presents you don't want to be in contact even

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Speaker 4: just that.

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Speaker 7: Then they start, you know, they probably will be looking

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Speaker 7: for people that they got certain that's true.

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Speaker 6: What you're in the system. They might they might build

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Speaker 6: a robot off of me. I found a little bit

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Speaker 6: of inkling. What is the ear wax or what is

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Speaker 6: it the nose?

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Speaker 1: I didn't do it yet, No, sure yet. I'm just interested,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Because every time, every every

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Speaker 1: time I'm around me him there, they say, start talking

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Speaker 1: through me, you know. So I'm like, I must be

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Speaker 1: I must be part of the community, you know. They

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Speaker 1: told to me, and they see me, they say, hey,

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Speaker 1: your name is Derail. That's my mama fault. But my

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Speaker 1: middle name is out.

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Speaker 4: With the role just artists.

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Speaker 1: Artists, Okay, you know what it has? I like, like

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Speaker 1: over over my e there's the thing. It's only found

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Speaker 1: in the in the Spanish, right over top of.

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Speaker 4: Okay, it count you even.

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Speaker 1: Know what I'm talking about. It's US scree today.

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Speaker 4: You're Spanish.

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Speaker 1: I was taught Spanish. Is my first language? Really? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Wait so in school or you mean in general? That

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Speaker 4: was your first first language.

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Speaker 1: My grandmother believed that that Spanish was going to be

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Speaker 1: the first language of the US. One day, Wow, my

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Speaker 1: in a Spanish immersion school kindergarten through fifth grade. I

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Speaker 1: only learned Spanish, really, and you would lose recess if

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Speaker 4: Did you teach nobody? You're coming from me like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I thought I was slick. I'd be like, she's like,

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Speaker 1: I said, well, this says right here, no necessity, and

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Speaker 1: then and then this part says I saw them, and

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Speaker 1: then I'm done. And she said, okay, you can talk

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Speaker 1: that Spanish stuff if you want to. I'm gonna see

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Speaker 1: when the report car come out. And my dumb self

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Speaker 1: like this, whatever, you know what I'm saying, And that

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Speaker 1: report card came out English.

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Speaker 4: Yes, maybe you got beep.

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Speaker 8: Dang man.

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Speaker 1: She lied to me. She told me, I was good,

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Speaker 1: it's Spanish.

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Speaker 6: You thought you had a secret language and everything thought

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Speaker 6: I had a secret leg.

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Speaker 1: Kids always think that they're smarter than the adults.

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Speaker 6: I don't know why they do. My daughter, I had

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Speaker 6: to talk with her this morning talking about stuff that

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Speaker 6: wasn't turned in and how she found out three other

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Speaker 6: into and the teacher wrote to me that they hadn't

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Speaker 6: gotten it, but they sent the same message to everybody

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Speaker 6: else and blah blah blah blah blah. And I'm like, everybody,

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Speaker 6: this is the same story all the time. I never

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Speaker 6: I don't think I tried to pull this stuff on

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Speaker 6: my parents, but they were too smart.

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Speaker 4: Dad was super smart. He was really strict to me. No, no, no,

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Speaker 6: I remember the day I had a C on my

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Speaker 6: I was crying on my walk home, like, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 6: my dad, my parents are going to kill me. I

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Speaker 6: meant I wasn't, you know, focus, et cetera, et cetera.

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Speaker 6: My dad was big on like focusing and about you know,

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Speaker 4: And so when I had a.

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Speaker 6: See, Oh my gosh, but you know what he was surprisingly,

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Speaker 6: they were cool. I didn't get my my butt whipped.

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Speaker 1: Went out. We're talking about c's here.

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Speaker 4: That mean that was average.

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Speaker 1: First of all, when I got a SEE, was going

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Speaker 1: to basket Rappers.

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Speaker 6: Yes, you got the pizza.

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Speaker 3: They knew you were going to master the middle seat.

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Speaker 4: L Look what happens when you stay here with.

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Speaker 1: Graduate. He didn't even need to school. He didn't even

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Speaker 1: need to school. She said. I was getting a and

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Speaker 1: BS and scene. No, it tormented me.

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Speaker 4: It was terrible. I thought death was It was upon me.

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Speaker 1: Christina. When was the identifying moment that you have a

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Speaker 1: gift or something different to offer outside of your intellectual

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Speaker 1: and scholasticabilities.

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Speaker 6: Wow, okay, well outside of being extremely.

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Speaker 4: You know, I knew early on.

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Speaker 6: My mom says she saw it early of course a parent,

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Speaker 6: they recognized things, and now as a parent, I recognize

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Speaker 6: things in my.

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Speaker 4: Children, so I get in.

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Speaker 6: But she I was always singing, and I still to

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Speaker 6: this day. There's not a moment in my day even

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Speaker 6: don't even notice I'm humming or I'm singing. So I'm

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Speaker 6: always like musically, it's always going through my head.

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Speaker 4: I could be having me my mom would be screaming

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Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm not doing it, and then she started

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Speaker 6: I'm like, like, I don't know, it's it's something neurological,

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Speaker 6: it's something, but I think it's a great thing. I

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Speaker 6: I'm like, you don't see like an unhappy person. I

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Speaker 6: think that's just what keeps me in my little happy bubbles.

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Speaker 4: Music. So it was really it was.

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Speaker 6: It was the Greats that I was watching as I

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Speaker 6: grew up. It was Michael Jackson, I was listening to

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Speaker 6: a lot of motown. My parents only had AM radio

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Speaker 6: so Am Radio. I was just listening to old school

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Speaker 4: So I was looking at the people and they.

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Speaker 6: I'd dream about that same exact thing. And of course

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Speaker 6: to just want to go big and back then, those

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Speaker 6: that I really like if you watch old camp quarter

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Speaker 6: I was singing the Oscar Marina song. Whatever I can

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Speaker 4: Get away from the they're screaming up. I got screamed

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Speaker 6: You know, people telling me sing for everybody, for the family.

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Speaker 6: So I'd always have to sing some Italian aria, some

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Speaker 6: I started like auditioning and stuff when I was a kid,

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Speaker 6: mostly for acting because we didn't really know how to

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Speaker 4: I was living in Maryland because my dad was in

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Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, and my parents they were my dad and

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Speaker 6: my mom. They started young, like they had me at

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Speaker 6: seventeen and eighteen years old, and so these are like

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Speaker 6: two Cuban refugees, you know, they'd come from Cuba five

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Speaker 4: Back then.

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Speaker 6: They were like, y'all gotta get married, y'all gotta do this,

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Speaker 4: I was hooked, Like.

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Speaker 4: At this point, I was just thirteen.

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Speaker 6: He's like eighteen years old, and he invited us to

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Speaker 6: my mom. So my mom is my right had died

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00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,040
Speaker 6: like this, I said, Carmen is my mom. She's my

444
00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:05,160
Speaker 6: manager and for years, like she's just everywhere I went.

445
00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:07,280
Speaker 6: We just did this together, and so we were like,

446
00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:09,840
Speaker 6: maybe this is our opportunity to really like to get

447
00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:10,480
Speaker 6: a record deal.

448
00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:11,880
Speaker 4: And we're meeting people constantly.

449
00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:15,320
Speaker 6: We're meeting people through Rodney, I'm meeting people at different avenues,

450
00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:16,480
Speaker 6: just walking walking the street.

451
00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:18,400
Speaker 4: Again, like I met a lot.

452
00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:21,600
Speaker 6: Of different people, like you know, people from Babyfaces Camp.

453
00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:23,640
Speaker 6: You know, people would just they were trying to find

454
00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:26,640
Speaker 6: girls like to sing or to be in girl groups.

455
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,920
Speaker 6: And so I didn't know these people, but eventually, like

456
00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:31,920
Speaker 6: you know, they were all legit and they're still here

457
00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:32,560
Speaker 6: to this day.

458
00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:34,080
Speaker 4: You know a lot of these producers A.

459
00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:37,080
Speaker 6: And RS and stuff, but Rodney. I made some great

460
00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:40,560
Speaker 6: people through Rodney and Rodney. Originally he asked me to

461
00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:41,960
Speaker 6: make some demos. He was like, you want to make

462
00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,520
Speaker 6: some demos, you could practice there and he wanted to

463
00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:47,440
Speaker 6: sign me. So I was making demos for him and

464
00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:49,240
Speaker 6: I got him. I got to watch him make the

465
00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:51,280
Speaker 6: Boys Mine. I got to watch him make all that

466
00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:54,600
Speaker 6: Brandy album that was a really good album, amazing. I

467
00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:57,080
Speaker 6: got to see him work with Whitney Houston and he

468
00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:58,879
Speaker 6: would just invite us to the studio. And that's the

469
00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:01,240
Speaker 6: first time I experienced like, don't go to sleep, you know,

470
00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:05,040
Speaker 6: you don't sleep, like working late at night, people talking, gathering,

471
00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:07,960
Speaker 6: watching them work, listening to music. The music's so powerful.

472
00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:10,720
Speaker 6: It's just like you dream big as this is happening.

473
00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:14,760
Speaker 6: So that was really my first foray into the record

474
00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:18,040
Speaker 6: business world. R and B world and Ronnie used to

475
00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:19,639
Speaker 6: They used to make fun of me because I was

476
00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:22,959
Speaker 6: They would say, I sing white so like they so

477
00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:24,920
Speaker 6: I would go and make demos, but they're like, can

478
00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:25,400
Speaker 6: you do this?

479
00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:27,919
Speaker 4: Run? Can you do this? And I'm like, and Sean,

480
00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,280
Speaker 4: you know everybody, they're making fun of me and stuff.

481
00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:34,160
Speaker 6: But I was learning and trying and you know, trying

482
00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:35,679
Speaker 6: to do runs. I just didn't do that. You know,

483
00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:38,080
Speaker 6: when you do musical theater. It was just so like plugging,

484
00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:41,800
Speaker 6: you know, learn and you stick to that. So I

485
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:46,560
Speaker 6: learned to find myself by myself emotionally. I wasn't writing

486
00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:49,480
Speaker 6: back then, but I was singing other people's demos. But

487
00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:51,199
Speaker 6: it was there that I learned that I wanted to

488
00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:54,880
Speaker 6: write because it was the really like I just sometimes

489
00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:58,240
Speaker 6: couldn't relate to the lyrics. So I wanted to write

490
00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:01,320
Speaker 6: songs that related to me and to other kids and stuff,

491
00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:01,879
Speaker 6: and so.

492
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:03,360
Speaker 4: That happened later on.

493
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:07,120
Speaker 6: But yeah, Brodney, I didn't end up signing with him,

494
00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:08,679
Speaker 6: and I don't even think we got to the paper,

495
00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:12,679
Speaker 6: but I started to the papers part of it. But

496
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:14,879
Speaker 6: I started to meet other people, and I think, like

497
00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:17,840
Speaker 6: at sixteen, I took a music as a business class

498
00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:20,560
Speaker 6: at Valley College over here, and I met a gentleman

499
00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:24,679
Speaker 6: who worked with David Foster, and they also ended up

500
00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:25,760
Speaker 6: wanting to offer me a deal.

501
00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:27,080
Speaker 4: I got a little deal.

502
00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:30,200
Speaker 6: The deal was offer was like twenty five thousand dollars,

503
00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:34,439
Speaker 6: but it was David Foster, and I learned about the

504
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:37,359
Speaker 6: music business and I got an attorney, and then the

505
00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:39,919
Speaker 6: attorney was like, you should probably meet some other people

506
00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:43,119
Speaker 6: before you sign this deal. So we're like okay, and

507
00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:45,199
Speaker 6: so they set up some meetings and I ended up

508
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:47,280
Speaker 6: going to New York and meeting with Island f Jam.

509
00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:49,560
Speaker 6: I met with Sony, I met Tommy Mottola, I met

510
00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,000
Speaker 6: Leo Cohen, and I just sang for them. I made

511
00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,959
Speaker 6: a demo. I ended up writing a song for myself.

512
00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:55,840
Speaker 6: It was called what You're going to Do. I have

513
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:57,639
Speaker 6: like songs that I wrote as a kid. I was

514
00:23:57,640 --> 00:23:59,320
Speaker 6: because I'm the big sister, So I used to like

515
00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:01,000
Speaker 6: write songs, do plays.

516
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,640
Speaker 4: In the house of my sisters. I used to make Yeah,

517
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,239
Speaker 4: they had to sing yeah to act out what I did.

518
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:07,480
Speaker 4: Pup show.

519
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,800
Speaker 6: I'm the director, you said, the puppet rail station, the

520
00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:13,080
Speaker 6: record and play and record on the little play.

521
00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was me say this. They are the puppet

522
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:18,520
Speaker 4: by the way too.

523
00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:29,879
Speaker 7: So you all these means you do the you do

524
00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:32,800
Speaker 7: the whole thing. Yeah, where you go sit practically you

525
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:34,680
Speaker 7: you're naming all the labels at this time.

526
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 3: Yeah everybody.

527
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:39,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, that was that was crazy to me because like

528
00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:42,200
Speaker 6: I finally had a little CD collection. Oh no, no,

529
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,400
Speaker 6: it might have been cassette. I wasn't on CDs yet.

530
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,720
Speaker 6: I was like, I'm not CD. But when I finally

531
00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:49,960
Speaker 6: did get into CDs, I was sixteen seventeen years old

532
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:52,320
Speaker 6: and I had like my little record book, my little

533
00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:54,840
Speaker 6: CD book, and I had most of the artists in

534
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:57,320
Speaker 6: there were rappers. I love the jay z Jall Rule,

535
00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:02,040
Speaker 6: all these people. Most of them were artists. So in

536
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 6: my head, I was like, you got either bad Boy.

537
00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:05,560
Speaker 6: I was like, that would be cool to be on

538
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 6: bad Boy, or I could be something like Deaf Jam

539
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 6: and Deaf Jam.

540
00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:13,000
Speaker 9: So those were like two big record laklans.

541
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:15,159
Speaker 4: Like what I had plans. I had dreams. It was

542
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 4: really like dreams, but.

543
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:20,880
Speaker 1: You were very concerned. It's almost like you were studying,

544
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,960
Speaker 1: like this is gonna this is where, this is where

545
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:26,320
Speaker 1: it's gonna work best for me.

546
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:31,480
Speaker 6: I was like, there's no other person that competes. They

547
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:34,000
Speaker 6: would appreciate me this. I would be the girl of

548
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:35,639
Speaker 6: the team, you know what I mean. I would be

549
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:37,720
Speaker 6: that person. But at the same time, I was like,

550
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 6: I want to be an urban pop artist, Like I'm

551
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:41,840
Speaker 6: not just R and B, but I'm urban pop. I

552
00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:44,160
Speaker 6: want to go really mainstream, And back then they only

553
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 6: had like, you're only listening to pop radio hip hop radio.

554
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:50,360
Speaker 4: Remember it was also, I'm so separated.

555
00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:51,880
Speaker 6: If you wanted to be if you made a pop song,

556
00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:53,639
Speaker 6: you want to be on R and B radio or

557
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:55,960
Speaker 6: hip hop radio, you had to get a feature from

558
00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:56,879
Speaker 6: hip hop artists.

559
00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:57,760
Speaker 4: Now it's all.

560
00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:00,399
Speaker 6: So I had to find this like happy middle. But

561
00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 6: I just knew that I was both, you know, it

562
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 6: was all of it. I was like, I'm not going

563
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 6: to be just you know, one tone. And I was like,

564
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 6: I want to dance, but I didn't know how to dance.

565
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 6: By the way, I didn't I didn't take dance lessons.

566
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 3: Or I wanted to dance.

567
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 4: But yeah, I was like, I want to be Michael Jackson.

568
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:15,680
Speaker 6: I want to be Jenna Jackson, but I don't take

569
00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:17,760
Speaker 6: dance classes because we can't afford it. But I'm going

570
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:20,480
Speaker 6: to do it the musical theater. I faked it the

571
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 6: whole way too. I said I was the tap dancer.

572
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 6: I said I could ride horses. I can skateboard. Yeah,

573
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:33,640
Speaker 6: I've seen kills, you know, ride never.

574
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:33,960
Speaker 1: Have a horse.

575
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 4: I was like, I want to learn it.

576
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:43,679
Speaker 1: Pop in to the meeting. You pop it to the

577
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 1: meeting and they say so you ride horses first.

578
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:54,200
Speaker 6: My skills were deep, but you have no idea that's

579
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,040
Speaker 6: how That's what my list was. So I was like,

580
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 6: whatever the case is, I'm going to learn it, you know.

581
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:02,400
Speaker 6: And so yeah, I met Tommy Wutola, I went to them,

582
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:05,760
Speaker 6: I came back again, did a whole meeting. I met

583
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:08,720
Speaker 6: Jeff Finster at Island def Jam and he was the first.

584
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,879
Speaker 6: He was the one that discovered and signed Backsheet Boys.

585
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,119
Speaker 6: He was the A and R for Britney Spears and

586
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:19,240
Speaker 6: Sink and so they brought him over to Island f JAM.

587
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,360
Speaker 4: I was like, what a perfect union for what I want.

588
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:24,080
Speaker 1: You are doing so much.

589
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 4: It was a great, amazing.

590
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:29,119
Speaker 1: Calculating and processing at an early age.

591
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 4: Like I had a lot of information.

592
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 1: None of that is like, give me a d I

593
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:37,400
Speaker 1: was like, I didn't even know that was like you're

594
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:41,399
Speaker 1: still talking about sixteen seventeen eighteen. I'm still at church,

595
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:44,439
Speaker 1: not even considering R and B. But I mean we

596
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:47,720
Speaker 1: had a deal with Verity Records doing gospel and stuff

597
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 1: like that. But I didn't even know what that meant,

598
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:51,200
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I just wanted to get

599
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 1: on my two keyboards and sing my songs. And write

600
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:57,119
Speaker 1: my songs. I didn't know there was life after that,

601
00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:00,399
Speaker 1: that there was a whole thing happening that I was

602
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,440
Speaker 1: that was being stolen from me. I didn't know that, right,

603
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 1: And so when I finally get to this R and

604
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 1: B space, I don't know, they just say, yea, we're

605
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 1: gonna get a deal with such.

606
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,640
Speaker 4: I'm like, cool, cool, and put the music out.

607
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:14,720
Speaker 1: Oh we lost that deal. We don't get a deal

608
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 1: because we got another one coming there. We'll get deal

609
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:17,159
Speaker 1: with such.

610
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,359
Speaker 4: A Ya that happened. Yeah, people work didn't go through that.

611
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:24,160
Speaker 1: Barry Higginson says he would blackground records now is it cool?

612
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 4: I'll I'll tak it whatever.

613
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:31,639
Speaker 1: But you're like doing so was that a result of,

614
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:35,360
Speaker 1: of course, not just you understanding or wanting to understand

615
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 1: the terrain, but also having your mom involved to have

616
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 1: that back and forth and have those those Yeah, my mom.

617
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 6: I mean she, like I said, we were really close.

618
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 6: We still we're very close. And like because she was

619
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:49,480
Speaker 6: a young mom. We were talking about her being in

620
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 6: her thirties and I'm like, you know, early thirties. And

621
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 6: it was when my parents, like I don't know where

622
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 6: they were going to have a divorce. My dad asked

623
00:28:57,760 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 6: for a divorce from my mom and that was like

624
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 6: around fifteen, and it came as kind of a real

625
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 6: big surprise, even though and I look at their history,

626
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 6: I'm like, it shouldn't have been a surprise because things

627
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 6: were all over the place, but it was normal back then.

628
00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 4: But it really, like all of a sudden, our life.

629
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 6: Kind of changed, like like a from zero to one

630
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 6: hundred real fast. We went from living this like it

631
00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 6: was a more middle class family life and really surviving

632
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 6: off of what we you know, my money, our family money.

633
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 6: It's nothing like my dad working his butt off. My

634
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:31,479
Speaker 6: mom had to quit her job help with all this stuff,

635
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 6: and next thing you know, we were on our feet

636
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 6: on our own, like my dad.

637
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 4: It kind of shifted.

638
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,520
Speaker 6: It was a shift, and we've come to terms with

639
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 6: the reasons why and everything, and you know what was

640
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 6: happening in our life. But all of a sudden, it

641
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:46,720
Speaker 6: was my mom and I having to raise my two

642
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 6: sisters and we decided to stay here in California instead

643
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 6: of going back to Maryland. And so because we made

644
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 6: that choice my dad, it was like a separation of

645
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 6: everything from financ shoal to everything. So we were surviving

646
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 6: on our own. So in that time, it was a rough,

647
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 6: rough patch for my mom. She had, you know, months

648
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 6: of crying and listen to unbreak my heart and Tony

649
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 6: Braxton and the bathtub got.

650
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 1: To do it.

651
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 6: And I had to get her back on her feet

652
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 6: and say, Mom, like we're here, We're still living life.

653
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 6: And she had to get her life together again because

654
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:20,480
Speaker 6: she was just so distraught over it. And I remember

655
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 6: we went to the grocery store and we went to

656
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 6: go buy groceries and we found out like the credit

657
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,160
Speaker 6: cards everything was cut off, so we're gonna have to survive.

658
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 6: And survival mode really was like we had just moved

659
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 6: into our apartment everything we were gonna have to pay

660
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 6: the the you know, the rent on our own without

661
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:38,480
Speaker 6: my dad and I'm only fifteen, you know.

662
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 4: So she started taking temp.

663
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:47,400
Speaker 6: Jobs, I started babysitting, hosting at restaurants, We started cleaning

664
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 6: houses together, and we really went through this survival mode

665
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,440
Speaker 6: of like work, work, work, but we were just working

666
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:57,440
Speaker 6: to survive. But also life was actually kind of great

667
00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,880
Speaker 6: at that time when you're at your life hardest time

668
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 6: and you really have faith, but you're in a situation

669
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 6: where it's like we had no furniture. We just moved

670
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,040
Speaker 6: through the whole apartment thinking like life was gonna be fine.

671
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 6: We had moved in, we didn't have furniture, we didn't

672
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:10,600
Speaker 6: have anything, and all of a sudden, we had nothing.

673
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 4: You really appreciate with that nothing that.

674
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 6: Says you appreciate, like having toilet paper from the dollar

675
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 6: store instead of getting it from you know, McDonald's up

676
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 6: the street and getting ketchup or whatever. You liked the

677
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 6: can of beats that's the only food that you have

678
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 6: in the house, and you mix it up with some

679
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 6: olive oil and so, oh my gosh, it tastes like

680
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 6: a damn stk rob and noodles taste like a steak

681
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 6: and lobster. You're like, I don't know what these rich

682
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 6: people are talking about, but I could live like this.

683
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 4: This apartment is fine. We do. We as a family

684
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 4: were such a union.

685
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 6: And our friends were so dope. We had so many

686
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 6: friends from all of rich my friends. I had a

687
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 6: lot of kind of like young black, wealthy friends, and

688
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 6: they used.

689
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 4: To love to come to my house and like thug

690
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:53,000
Speaker 4: it out with us.

691
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 6: It was like everybody's sitting on the floor watching TV

692
00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 6: and my Mom's just like the cheapest thing to make

693
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 6: was like spaghetti or a list. You know, it doesn't

694
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 6: cost anything for noodles and sauce, but she cooked it

695
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 6: up and she would make a mass amount, and people

696
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 6: just every day just loved being with us and didn't

697
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 6: really feel like we were technically that we were broke,

698
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 6: though we were like on the verge of eviction every

699
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 6: other day, but we also just didn't feel like we

700
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 6: were broke, like something still felt like we were surviving,

701
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 6: even though there were some times that was like tough.

702
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 6: But the one moment when we realized it was the tough,

703
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 6: isn't it was the turnaround that we were like, let's

704
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 6: focus on.

705
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 4: This music part.

706
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 6: You really want to do this, then let's focus is

707
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:33,959
Speaker 6: when my mom and I went to a we went

708
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 6: to a food line in North Hollywood.

709
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 4: There's a church.

710
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 6: I know you've probably seen it all the time. It's

711
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 6: on like Moore Park and like Colfax, and they still

712
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 6: do this. They give away food to those that need it.

713
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 6: And we went there because we had no food. And

714
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 6: by the way, blessings would happen sporadically out of nowhere

715
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 6: all the time, so that's like we find like one

716
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,719
Speaker 6: hundred dollars on the floor or something. Just random things

717
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 6: would happen so that we really were surviving off of that.

718
00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 6: But it was in that line that I saw like

719
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 6: the rest of the people that were there with us,

720
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 6: and some people even more of a hopeless situation with

721
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 6: no shoes, nothing, And we got like I was standing

722
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 6: there with my mom and I just remember like I

723
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,959
Speaker 6: didn't want to show them, but I was crying, and

724
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 6: I was like we it had gotten to this, you know,

725
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 6: and we had gotten the food and they gave us,

726
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 6: you know, all the necessary needs that we needed. And

727
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 6: when we went home and I started opening the box

728
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 6: and when as we were walking and I'm looking like

729
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 6: there's ants in the boxes and stuff, and I'm crying,

730
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 6: and my mom she said to me, Christine, and we

731
00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:34,240
Speaker 6: made this promise to each other on that walk back

732
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 6: home that we were going to focus, that we were

733
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 6: going to sacrifice. We were going to sacrifice the fun

734
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 6: and all different all the other stuff to focus on

735
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 6: my career.

736
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 4: She started reading books.

737
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 6: She had just started reading books about music as a business,

738
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 6: and this is what made me go to school for

739
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 6: music as a business. She read about just contracts and

740
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 6: focusing on that because we seemed so close to everything,

741
00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 6: but it just never got there. We were like, there's

742
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 6: something there, and I really wanted it. And so we

743
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 6: made this promise to each other that I would always

744
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 6: take care of her. To promise that to my mom

745
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 6: to this day, I said, I just need you to

746
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 6: focus on managing me. I need you to focus on me,

747
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 6: and we'll focus on this together. We got to get

748
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 6: out of this rut. And so we went home. We

749
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:19,440
Speaker 6: put on all white, lit some candles and said a

750
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:21,360
Speaker 6: prayer with my sisters and we had this joke with

751
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:23,760
Speaker 6: my mom said a prayer on her knees. Like answers

752
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 6: were came immediately, and so we said, I can't tell

753
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 6: you about the job she was.

754
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,399
Speaker 4: Doing at the time, but they's just.

755
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 6: Say she had to use her voice, yes, And let

756
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:34,720
Speaker 6: me tell you the next day.

757
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:38,479
Speaker 4: Her voice was gone. She needed her voice for this job.

758
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 6: And just like our neighbors knocked on the door said hey,

759
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 6: we're moving out. Do you want the milk? Do you

760
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,400
Speaker 6: want the stuff in our cabinet? And like we just

761
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:48,799
Speaker 6: appreciated all the little things, the little answers were coming

762
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:51,360
Speaker 6: to us. I would find like ten cents under the

763
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:52,880
Speaker 6: couch so I can get a little gas, just so

764
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 6: I can go to the Valley College and get my

765
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:58,400
Speaker 6: anda take these lessons. And that's where I met the

766
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:01,400
Speaker 6: gentleman from David. So it was like we're just getting

767
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:03,240
Speaker 6: these little answers. But we were going to this crazy

768
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 6: time in life. And when we went to New York,

769
00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 6: it was like, we're in New York and I have

770
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 6: to make this happen. And so yes, it was a

771
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 6: strategy and it was a there was we It was

772
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 6: a lot of homework. We really my mom My mom

773
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:19,799
Speaker 6: is the mostly especially the spiritual part holds us down.

774
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,400
Speaker 6: And that's where I became connected, the spiritual part, because

775
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:24,479
Speaker 6: I understood religion as a kid, but I still didn't

776
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:27,760
Speaker 6: understand it. But it was then that I became spiritual

777
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 6: and I had conversations with God and that's when I

778
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 6: was like everything was just starting to unfold itself. And

779
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:37,440
Speaker 6: the day I so I got the deal with Island

780
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 6: Deaf jam oh M.

781
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:42,719
Speaker 4: Just Censer came to me again, offered the deal.

782
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,880
Speaker 6: I went in sing acapella, got my deal singing acapella

783
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:47,440
Speaker 6: and what You're gonna do about a demo?

784
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 4: And the day I finally signed my deal. We literally

785
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 4: drove our little tour station wagon to the attorney's office

786
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:54,319
Speaker 4: and that.

787
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 6: Thing it was broken down. We were laughing, my mom

788
00:35:58,040 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 6: and I because there was smoke coming out the car.

789
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 6: We had to push our car there. We had to

790
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,279
Speaker 6: push our car there. We finally made it there. It

791
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:08,800
Speaker 6: was right off of like Highland and Hollywood Boulevard. Signed

792
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:10,799
Speaker 6: my deal and on the way home we got it

793
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 6: to start again, and then it stopped like right on

794
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 6: the hill, like you know when you're like the Hollywood Bowl, and.

795
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 4: Stopped right there.

796
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:19,840
Speaker 6: We were there and my mom and I are laughing

797
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,959
Speaker 6: and crying, laughing like we just signed a deal for.

798
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 4: One hundred and twenty five thousand dollars.

799
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:26,320
Speaker 6: I didn't think I'd ever seen money like that, and

800
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 6: we went from zero I had actually been. We were

801
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 6: getting evicted and my attorney had to forward us money

802
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 6: in the meantime because I wasn't going to be able

803
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:37,319
Speaker 6: to pay it. And so we're laughing and crying and like,

804
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:39,480
Speaker 6: look at us, look at what's happening right now. It

805
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 6: was so humble. It's so humble, our humble beginnings, Like

806
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 6: stick with me. That's probably why I'm very frugal and

807
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:48,400
Speaker 6: all this other stuff because I'm like always like you know,

808
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:52,839
Speaker 6: I save and other stuff lasting out. I can laugh

809
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 6: at it, right, right, But it's those humble beginnings that

810
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:59,479
Speaker 6: I always draw back to and my connection with God

811
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 6: and I was my spiritual side. That's really like that

812
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:04,799
Speaker 6: opened up when I was sixteen fifteen, sixteen years old

813
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 6: and those times and yeah, you know that is now.

814
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 1: That's it.

815
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 3: That's incredible.

816
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:13,359
Speaker 7: That's an incredible story. And it just shows you got

817
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 7: to stick to what you really want. Yeah you know

818
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 7: what I mean, because so many people you just never

819
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 7: know how close you are, yes, right, And for you

820
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,440
Speaker 7: and your mom to have that moment together to say, listen,

821
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,800
Speaker 7: all right, no more this, no more that, no more this,

822
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:29,440
Speaker 7: because we're focused on getting you to a certain place

823
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 7: and actually getting there.

824
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, that moment.

825
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 7: Of relief and that like you said your car had

826
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 7: broken down, but you broke down with a with one

827
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 7: hundred and twenty five.

828
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:43,239
Speaker 1: You got five if you just picked me up.

829
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 4: Somebody pushed us.

830
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 6: They pushed ark and said there was somebody saw us

831
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 6: and they pushed our car from their car and they

832
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 6: pushed us up the hill. But yeah, it's crazy that

833
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 6: walk that I had with my mom was like an

834
00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 6: it was an eye because the option was stay and

835
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 6: dug it out and let's make this happen, or go

836
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 6: back to Maryland. And I was like, I just don't

837
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:06,880
Speaker 6: see it. I don't see me going back to Maryland.

838
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 6: All my friends that I had from back in Maryland

839
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:11,839
Speaker 6: at that time, they started, you know, doing drugs out

840
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 6: of boredom. There's stuff that kids do in towns like

841
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 6: that that is just out of boredom. And if they

842
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:19,239
Speaker 6: don't have, they weren't dreaming, already motivating. I was in

843
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 6: a different position. I still just felt like I could

844
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 6: see it.

845
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 1: I wasn't going back to There.

846
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 4: Was no giving up. I was like, I'm not giving up.

847
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 1: And that Maryland was a bad place, not at all.

848
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 4: It just felt like the opportunity.

849
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 1: I'm in Hollywood, the land of opportunity. If I go home,

850
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 1: if I just pack it up and go home, I've

851
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: given up.

852
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 4: Yes, that's exactly, And I was not. I was not

853
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 4: giving up.

854
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 1: So let me just move out to Rancho Cuckamonga, you know,

855
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:51,359
Speaker 1: just a little ways away, okay, where I can afford it,

856
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 1: you know, where they can't really see me doing bad

857
00:38:56,719 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 1: or Corona. Yeah, you know what I mean, until I'm

858
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 1: still here. I still I still can drive my stick

859
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:04,280
Speaker 1: shift Ford Escort.

860
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:06,920
Speaker 3: So you had a Ford that Scort, she had a

861
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 3: four tours.

862
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're in the family. Thank you for you know

863
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 4: what I'm saying, the very wheel spell off.

864
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 3: So now you got your deal.

865
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:26,799
Speaker 4: Yeah.

866
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 3: People don't realize now it's a whole nother process.

867
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 1: Yeah.

868
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:31,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, because now you gotta find songs.

869
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:35,439
Speaker 7: Now you got to people, you might get shelved.

870
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:40,360
Speaker 3: How long does it take you to get to the

871
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 3: record with you and ji U? Between me and you?

872
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:49,320
Speaker 6: Okay, I think it took I signed my deal September.

873
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 6: I think by the next summer that that song came out.

874
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:56,320
Speaker 6: So I signed my deal. I was making music.

875
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:58,359
Speaker 3: Are you still acting? In between two?

876
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,719
Speaker 6: Though I was at the I was I had gotten

877
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:02,360
Speaker 6: to the job on Disney Channel, so I was like

878
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 6: Tina from the movie Surfers.

879
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:06,319
Speaker 4: So that was actually that was one of those.

880
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:08,279
Speaker 6: Checks that would come I would get sporadically, that was

881
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:09,919
Speaker 6: like one of the things that helped us. So I too,

882
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:12,359
Speaker 6: and I was getting a name for being Tina from

883
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:14,359
Speaker 6: the movie Surfers. And also this probably helped me move

884
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,920
Speaker 6: my deal. Because Disney kids were popping and popping through

885
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 6: they were trying to find Disney kids. So that probably

886
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:20,480
Speaker 6: really helped because when I look at it, I'm like,

887
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:22,320
Speaker 6: I don't sing that great, and I wasn't dancing.

888
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:22,839
Speaker 4: Oh, you know what I mean.

889
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 6: But I had enough of a chance and a globe

890
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 6: that walked in and they were like they saw it,

891
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:31,759
Speaker 6: and so yeah, I had squit this Disney because by

892
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:34,319
Speaker 6: then I was like seventeen, eighteen eighteen, and I was like,

893
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:35,960
Speaker 6: I can't do this high pitch voice anymore.

894
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 4: And I was just in the studio and surviving off

895
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 4: this money. So I was doing fun.

896
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:40,839
Speaker 6: I didn't have to do the acting at the moment,

897
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:42,879
Speaker 6: and I was tired of doing like girl number four,

898
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 6: number three, you know what I mean.

899
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 4: I wasn't getting my main roles.

900
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 6: So I was making music and unfortunately, for a period

901
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:53,080
Speaker 6: of time, there was I did it something that could

902
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 6: have helped me back. I ended up in an abusive

903
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 6: relationship for a little while, but my def gen people

904
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 6: really like stuck with me, and my mom was on me,

905
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:05,879
Speaker 6: and I stuck it out and I eventually got out

906
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 6: of that and I made this trip my A and R.

907
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 6: Jeff said come to New York and start working on

908
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 6: music here. So I went to New York and in

909
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 6: that trip, I was able to break off of that relationship.

910
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:19,800
Speaker 6: I cut off my phone number. This that though I feared,

911
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:22,040
Speaker 6: you know, for the worst, I was like, I'm gonna

912
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:23,640
Speaker 6: take this chance, and I really want this.

913
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:24,840
Speaker 4: I can't let this stop me.

914
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:27,360
Speaker 6: And so I went to New York and I started

915
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 6: working on music there and I met my Her name

916
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:31,400
Speaker 6: is Shanita Floyd.

917
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 4: She was like my creative director, I guess, she would say.

918
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:36,960
Speaker 6: And she got a call from IRV Gotti and IRV

919
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 6: was looking for somebody to sing between me and you,

920
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:41,399
Speaker 6: and he wanted somebody that kind of sing.

921
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 4: Like Mariah Vibe. He wanted, like I forgot the song.

922
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 6: There was a song that Mariah did maybe with buster

923
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 6: rhymes or something like that, and he wanted that kind

924
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 6: of sweet spot voice. And they or the song was

925
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:53,880
Speaker 6: written and she's like, go to the studio and I

926
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 6: was like, they're like, would you want to do this?

927
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:56,759
Speaker 4: I was like yeah. I was like, I'll go to

928
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:57,759
Speaker 4: the studio and hear the song.

929
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:00,359
Speaker 6: So I went and I met IRV and I had

930
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 6: Irven his God bless him, and May he rest in peace.

931
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 6: He had this loud New York energy and everything with

932
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:09,399
Speaker 6: bananas and it was electric.

933
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:11,800
Speaker 4: Banana.

934
00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:13,400
Speaker 6: That was the first time I was in the studio,

935
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:14,960
Speaker 6: so like there was a gun on the table. I

936
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 6: was like, oh my here, you know, the guys had

937
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 6: to protect themselves. But Job Rule was one of my

938
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:23,439
Speaker 6: first you know, theft jam albums CDs that I bought,

939
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:25,560
Speaker 6: so I was a band of Ja Rule, like, oh yeah,

940
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 6: I want to work with them, And so he played

941
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:29,440
Speaker 6: me to the song and the song was dope.

942
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 4: It was there.

943
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 6: So I went in the booth, sang it, didn't know

944
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:37,240
Speaker 6: anything of it, left, the left my mom and I left,

945
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 6: and within a month we're shooting a music video David

946
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:45,240
Speaker 6: Myers up in like Porter Ranch, Chatsworth and this giant

947
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:49,960
Speaker 6: house and I'm shooting a video and it was like overnight.

948
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 6: It was those chances that I would take of sacrificing,

949
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:55,800
Speaker 6: Like even when you're in an abusive relationship, it is

950
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:59,080
Speaker 6: a sacrifice to leave something because you're scared and you're

951
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 6: also so in love brainwashing that person. You're like, you know,

952
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 6: I could you know You're It's it's a it's a

953
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 6: sacrifice I had to make because my heart was so

954
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 6: in it, but I knew it was the wrong thing.

955
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 6: So it was when I would take those chances and

956
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 6: follow my heart and connect with God that I would

957
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:18,240
Speaker 6: have these amazing turnovers, like these turns in my life

958
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:20,399
Speaker 6: that was like it. God was always telling me, see,

959
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:22,719
Speaker 6: like I'm your friend, I got you, I got you,

960
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:28,120
Speaker 6: and I did. The video song came out and I

961
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 6: didn't really know that it was like blowing up like that.

962
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:30,840
Speaker 4: It was crazy.

963
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:36,760
Speaker 6: I was like, yeah, like at Ralph's on Venture Boulevard

964
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 6: one day, all of a sudden, I'm power one of six,

965
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:41,319
Speaker 6: I'm hearing the song and I'm sitting in the in

966
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 6: the parking lot with my mom, and I'm like, I

967
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:45,320
Speaker 6: just thought, I'm calling people.

968
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 4: I'm hearing myself on the radio like like it was.

969
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 6: It was that's when you you cry and you're counting

970
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 6: your blessing. You're connecting back to the moment of walking

971
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:59,440
Speaker 6: and you know, you know, the whole I've lived. I

972
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 6: still live in the area where all of this stuff happens,

973
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 6: you know, So I passed by these places and remind

974
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 6: myself of this stuff all the time.

975
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:08,000
Speaker 4: So yeah, the job Rol.

976
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:13,760
Speaker 6: Song came out, Give You that's when the label was like, okay, studio,

977
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:18,719
Speaker 6: I go to Sweden. Oh yeah, like yeah, I go

978
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 6: to Sweden. It had been took like four months. It

979
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:23,879
Speaker 6: was like maybe maybe two maybe two and a half months.

980
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 6: I made an album.

981
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 1: And you said to Sweden to make it.

982
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:30,239
Speaker 6: I went to Sweden. I went to Norway. That was

983
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 6: my first time at the country. I still have these videos.

984
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:34,000
Speaker 6: Was watching the other day and I was such a novice,

985
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:36,200
Speaker 6: like like, wow, look there's a burger king.

986
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 4: Wow, this is that?

987
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:40,520
Speaker 6: And and yeah, I went and worked with a couple

988
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:41,960
Speaker 6: couple people stricken to Rogers.

989
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 4: These guys name bloodshin Avunt, even what's his name?

990
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:49,320
Speaker 6: My mama, Mama Mark Mark when we made all the

991
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 6: Brittey Spears records, I should.

992
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:54,880
Speaker 3: Know this, Yeah, Max Martin.

993
00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 4: Historic. So these are people.

994
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 6: Well I'm like watching, you know, and I'm in the

995
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 6: studio making records. And I started writing.

996
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 3: I really started the I started.

997
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was with Bloodshed. I started writing.

998
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:13,720
Speaker 6: And because people were giving me songs at eighteen talking

999
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 6: about there were either two overly sexualized or always like

1000
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:18,919
Speaker 6: I've got pictures of him on my wall.

1001
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:19,600
Speaker 4: I look at him.

1002
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 6: It's always admiration and like over the top of guys,

1003
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 6: and I'm like, well, what about my real experiences, Like

1004
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 6: I didn't fit in in school, girls didn't like me,

1005
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:31,120
Speaker 6: you know the you know the records about.

1006
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:33,120
Speaker 4: Just like real high school stuff.

1007
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:36,359
Speaker 6: And so I started writing those songs with really great

1008
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 6: melodies and pop sounds. And when I was working with him,

1009
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 6: I ended up writing a song called play also, and

1010
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 6: that was supposed to be like I wrote that right

1011
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:48,799
Speaker 6: before song. The next day, I wrote a song called

1012
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:50,920
Speaker 6: AM to PM. So play was something I did in

1013
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 6: like twenty minutes. I didn't think anything of it.

1014
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:55,759
Speaker 4: I was like, Oh, it's cool, Bampa, doctor Seuss. I

1015
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 4: was like, is this too simple? My Mom's like it's great,

1016
00:45:58,160 --> 00:45:59,439
Speaker 4: you know simple, It's good.

1017
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 6: And by the way, I studied to write because I

1018
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:03,880
Speaker 6: didn't think I could write, So my mom told me,

1019
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:05,239
Speaker 6: if you could read, you could write. So I did

1020
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:07,320
Speaker 6: study a lot of the greats to learn how to

1021
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 6: write songs in the formats, all that stuff that was

1022
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 6: happening also in those really broke times.

1023
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:12,880
Speaker 4: So that's what we do.

1024
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 6: We go to Second Spin on Ventura and we would

1025
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:17,320
Speaker 6: listen to music for free, because you get the CDs,

1026
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:20,279
Speaker 6: you listen to music and so anyways, so that's how

1027
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,040
Speaker 6: I learned how to write, learn how to format.

1028
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:24,160
Speaker 4: I wrote a first song, my first song called you

1029
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:24,759
Speaker 4: Make Me Laugh.

1030
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 6: Anyways, So play happens and I was like, oh, it's

1031
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 6: a good song write am TOPM.

1032
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 4: I'm like, that's a great song. This is me.

1033
00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:34,319
Speaker 6: And then like a week later, Tommy Watola comes to

1034
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 6: Sweden to come get some songs for j LO and

1035
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:39,839
Speaker 6: he hears the song play and he's and he fell

1036
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:42,160
Speaker 6: in love with it, and he's like, we need this

1037
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:44,120
Speaker 6: song for Jenny Lopez. And they were like do you

1038
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:46,359
Speaker 6: are you? Do you? Are you cool to give it away?

1039
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 4: I was like, oh yeah, yes, please, yes, I don't

1040
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:55,200
Speaker 4: like the song like that. I was like, am TOPM.

1041
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:56,600
Speaker 6: Was my party song. I was like, there's no way

1042
00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:58,240
Speaker 6: they're going to put two party songs on this album.

1043
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:00,480
Speaker 6: I'm going to keep AM to PM. Yes, yes to

1044
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:04,279
Speaker 6: j LO. And so yeah, I'm like I got a

1045
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:05,719
Speaker 6: song on j LO by accident.

1046
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:06,839
Speaker 4: It was so cool.

1047
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:10,400
Speaker 6: I went to New York she recorded the song like

1048
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:12,440
Speaker 6: it blew my mind. And then I started writing for

1049
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:15,759
Speaker 6: other people too, and it's just it was crazy and yeah.

1050
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 4: Eventually AM to PM came out of course.

1051
00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:21,279
Speaker 6: Unfortunately it came out around the nine to eleven era,

1052
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:24,400
Speaker 6: so a lot of that changed, a lot of the

1053
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 6: trajectory of music. I ended up getting Johnny Right as

1054
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 6: a manager, so he started co managing with my mom

1055
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:31,240
Speaker 6: and Johnny Wright.

1056
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:32,680
Speaker 4: Was handling Britney Spears and Sync.

1057
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:35,800
Speaker 6: When I tour within Sync, which was cool and opening

1058
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 6: for them, Yes, I opened for.

1059
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 4: Them and the week my album was it was crazy. Yeah.

1060
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:45,920
Speaker 6: I met my idol. The day I went to MTV,

1061
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:48,400
Speaker 6: I met Jenny Jackson.

1062
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:52,360
Speaker 3: The one day you go up there having a meeting.

1063
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:55,120
Speaker 6: Jenny Jackson was going to surprise PRL and come out

1064
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:57,840
Speaker 6: and they decided they said.

1065
00:47:57,719 --> 00:47:58,359
Speaker 4: You want to meet her?

1066
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,439
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, They.

1067
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:03,480
Speaker 6: Brought me down to her. I walked in that room. Guys,

1068
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:06,359
Speaker 6: I couldn't get a word out of my mouth. I

1069
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:10,240
Speaker 6: was like, like, I said, Hi, I was like so timid.

1070
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:12,080
Speaker 4: I had my mom with me. All I said was

1071
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:14,719
Speaker 4: nice to meet you. She was glowing. That's the thing.

1072
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:17,319
Speaker 4: I walked in there. She was glowing. She had an

1073
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:18,799
Speaker 4: art she was glowing, and she.

1074
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:21,759
Speaker 6: Was petite, and she was telling me that she saw

1075
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:28,479
Speaker 6: my music video and she was telling me, my mind, did.

1076
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 3: You never know who's watching no, you never know who's watching.

1077
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:33,360
Speaker 6: It blew my mind and I was on MTV. I'm like,

1078
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:35,440
Speaker 6: this is my dreams that come in true. Like she

1079
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:37,239
Speaker 6: left the room or I left the room, I can't

1080
00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:40,280
Speaker 6: even remember. And I was I cried for two hours

1081
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:42,760
Speaker 6: and laughter in tears and crying good.

1082
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:45,840
Speaker 4: Like I was crazy, but I was crying.

1083
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:49,080
Speaker 6: I was so happy, like everything just unfolded so beautifully

1084
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 6: and so it was so cool and it was such

1085
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:53,200
Speaker 6: a time. This is why people don't like. People ask

1086
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:55,879
Speaker 6: me about doing music now and I just don't know.

1087
00:48:56,440 --> 00:49:01,200
Speaker 1: It's cool. It's cool, is it? I have to ask you.

1088
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:03,280
Speaker 6: My husband does it, but he does it in France,

1089
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:05,960
Speaker 6: I think on a really international level. And I had

1090
00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:10,400
Speaker 6: MTV and I had the nineties, nineties, two thousands.

1091
00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:17,279
Speaker 1: Early two thousands, man please, there was like, yeah, there

1092
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 1: was so music mediums, like especially visually you know what

1093
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:27,360
Speaker 1: I mean with that MTV and those like music videos,

1094
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:28,480
Speaker 1: worry things.

1095
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:32,160
Speaker 6: You spent your money on that being man what And

1096
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:35,680
Speaker 6: people watched it. People came home after kids came home

1097
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 6: after school.

1098
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:37,720
Speaker 4: It was a tradition.

1099
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:39,520
Speaker 3: I think they made it more normal.

1100
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:42,720
Speaker 7: Now music feels too in my opinion, it feels too normal.

1101
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:49,280
Speaker 1: Because back then, doing a video right was special because

1102
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 1: you have to actually have an't you called just content.

1103
00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:55,719
Speaker 1: You have to have a You couldn't use this to

1104
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:56,600
Speaker 1: shoot a video.

1105
00:49:57,160 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 7: I mean the first time a director said that to me,

1106
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:01,320
Speaker 7: he was like, you know, I shot it on my iPhone.

1107
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:04,319
Speaker 3: I said, oh, we're fucked. Dang, I said, we're fuck.

1108
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 4: No, in my head, I was like when someone said that,

1109
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:08,880
Speaker 4: I was like, damn.

1110
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:10,239
Speaker 6: If I would have had that, then do you know

1111
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:12,040
Speaker 6: how many songs I wanted to put out or how

1112
00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:14,759
Speaker 6: many videos I wanted to do? People telling me no

1113
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:18,040
Speaker 6: because you technically did what the label told you in

1114
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 6: a way or what they were down for what they

1115
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:22,840
Speaker 6: would commit to. But like I have video ideas. I

1116
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:26,280
Speaker 6: wanted to shoot so many things, and eventually people did.

1117
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:27,719
Speaker 4: Do that, and I was like, damn, I should have

1118
00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:28,319
Speaker 4: done that.

1119
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:31,960
Speaker 1: Well, it just wasn't economical back No, it wasn't. Yeah

1120
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:34,600
Speaker 1: that and that's you know that, that's where videos also

1121
00:50:34,719 --> 00:50:36,319
Speaker 1: made star videos may start.

1122
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:37,280
Speaker 3: They made stars.

1123
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:41,399
Speaker 7: These pieces of content don't really make our stars.

1124
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:43,040
Speaker 3: Like they introduced you to artists.

1125
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:47,040
Speaker 7: They engagement, and it's engagement, but maybe not even I

1126
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:51,120
Speaker 7: won't say they don't make superstars they don't make superstars.

1127
00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:54,600
Speaker 4: All the superstars have videos with labels and still.

1128
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:57,440
Speaker 1: Still don't you got videos? Still it says they got

1129
00:50:57,480 --> 00:51:02,200
Speaker 1: video Chris Brown got videos, Beyones got videos, drakevideos, can videos.

1130
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:03,960
Speaker 4: Name some new people who got videos.

1131
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:04,880
Speaker 3: They don't got videos.

1132
00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:07,400
Speaker 1: Those your cat got videos. Those you can't got videos.

1133
00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:09,279
Speaker 3: But those are super That's what I'm saying.

1134
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:12,080
Speaker 7: Those are Those are the superstars now though, and they

1135
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:16,560
Speaker 7: still have that. The rest of the artists don't have that.

1136
00:51:16,920 --> 00:51:18,600
Speaker 7: Let me shoot this in my hood real quick.

1137
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:20,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're gonna.

1138
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 1: Get a buzz off of it, and that's cool.

1139
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:24,880
Speaker 7: It's not gonna make it to me because it's just

1140
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:28,040
Speaker 7: something about the screen, something about that screen, right, It's

1141
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 7: just like being.

1142
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:30,359
Speaker 6: In the movie There was Now I don't even get

1143
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:32,479
Speaker 6: to watch music videos.

1144
00:51:32,920 --> 00:51:35,040
Speaker 3: Did I make music videos?

1145
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:35,279
Speaker 6: Man?

1146
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:37,280
Speaker 4: You know, I'm surprised.

1147
00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:39,880
Speaker 6: Sometimes there are videos, but we just don't get to

1148
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:42,200
Speaker 6: seek them all the way. Like I'll find out when

1149
00:51:42,239 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 6: I go on the treadmill and I'm like, Okay, I

1150
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 6: just want to see listen to music, So I'll go

1151
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:48,480
Speaker 6: on put a playlist on, and I'm like, oh.

1152
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:50,359
Speaker 4: They made a video for that. Like, but you're right.

1153
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:52,640
Speaker 6: Still, some people are just making like lyric videos and

1154
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:54,799
Speaker 6: stuff because it's like why spend the money. But it

1155
00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:56,840
Speaker 6: was just a different time. We had the platforms. Is

1156
00:51:56,840 --> 00:52:00,200
Speaker 6: when we had we had MTV overseas, we had all

1157
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:02,560
Speaker 6: these different networks of shows that you will perform on

1158
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:04,920
Speaker 6: PEPSI smash this, that, blah blah blah, and it was

1159
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:08,120
Speaker 6: just so exciting. And I just don't like if it

1160
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:10,600
Speaker 6: doesn't give me that vibe, and I got a hustle

1161
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:13,399
Speaker 6: and that probably not make any money, not that much money,

1162
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:16,360
Speaker 6: and leave sacrificed my family for that. It doesn't feel

1163
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:18,279
Speaker 6: really worth it for me right now to do that.

1164
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:21,200
Speaker 6: And I just feel like I lived in such a

1165
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:23,759
Speaker 6: good time. And actually back then you can kind of

1166
00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:26,000
Speaker 6: know what the numbers were. I don't know how y'all

1167
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:28,640
Speaker 6: count the numbers streams and this, that that, and figure

1168
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:30,279
Speaker 6: out how you make money off of this as an

1169
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:31,960
Speaker 6: artist just for music.

1170
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:34,280
Speaker 4: You know, now it's just touring and maybe merchant stuff.

1171
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:38,759
Speaker 4: But figure out the numbers how you do that character show?

1172
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:39,160
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.

1173
00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:41,520
Speaker 7: I mean, that's that's a big tricky That's the only

1174
00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:44,200
Speaker 7: real thing. Those the numbers that they've created. Now as

1175
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:47,560
Speaker 7: far as like the streaming, it's all bullshit. Yeah, I'll

1176
00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:49,640
Speaker 7: say it clearly, it's all bullshit, you know what I mean?

1177
00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:53,520
Speaker 7: Somebody telling you that you gotta stream fifteen hundred times

1178
00:52:53,520 --> 00:52:55,759
Speaker 7: for it to be considered one download?

1179
00:52:56,440 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 3: Like who made that dumb ass shit up?

1180
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 1: Are you?

1181
00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:00,839
Speaker 6: Yeah?

1182
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:03,360
Speaker 1: Crook?

1183
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:04,680
Speaker 4: That's crazy?

1184
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:06,080
Speaker 3: Crook made that up?

1185
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:06,640
Speaker 1: Right?

1186
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:09,440
Speaker 7: Because and then it's like, okay, are the numbers even real?

1187
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:12,600
Speaker 7: Because you can trick the algorithm. Somebody may have phones

1188
00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 7: just running over unning about that, you know what I mean.

1189
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 3: So it's a lot of things.

1190
00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:18,879
Speaker 7: The only thing that's that's in my opinion, that's really

1191
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:22,320
Speaker 7: tangible is going out there and performing for your for

1192
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:23,920
Speaker 7: your audience and for your fans.

1193
00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:27,120
Speaker 1: When you show up to that room five hundred or

1194
00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:31,359
Speaker 1: one thousand or fifteen hundred, that's gonna tell strong what

1195
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:37,000
Speaker 1: the truth is outside. All that makes the stream and

1196
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:41,399
Speaker 1: YouTube and all I get it? What do the people say, though, Yes,

1197
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:44,799
Speaker 1: that's how you define it. Yeah, I'm gonna jump around

1198
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:50,600
Speaker 1: a little bit because my stories no no, no, no, no, I'm learning, like,

1199
00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:54,520
Speaker 1: like I've learned so much about you that it's really really.

1200
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:56,480
Speaker 4: Cool that I had no idea good, Like.

1201
00:53:56,800 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 1: Really your journey is really really awesome, let's go here

1202
00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:02,440
Speaker 1: because because this is I want to go and sequence

1203
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:08,120
Speaker 1: your order. Love don't cost the thing? Oh two thousand.

1204
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:09,120
Speaker 4: And three, right, great movie?

1205
00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:12,839
Speaker 1: Yep, how'd you land that? Just me me quick.

1206
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:15,400
Speaker 4: I was surprised. I was going away with that one.

1207
00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:19,160
Speaker 6: My first album came out only overseas because, like I said,

1208
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:21,040
Speaker 6: nine to eleven kind of change the trajectory of that.

1209
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:24,480
Speaker 6: But I had a name that was out there. Am

1210
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:27,279
Speaker 6: TOPM did come out between me and you came out.

1211
00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:30,520
Speaker 6: But I got a call from Troy Bayer. That's she's

1212
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:32,840
Speaker 6: an actress who was also a director.

1213
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:33,960
Speaker 4: She's great.

1214
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:37,160
Speaker 6: She ended up writing the script to have a general meeting,

1215
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:39,279
Speaker 6: and that was one of my first general meetings that

1216
00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:40,960
Speaker 6: I had. It was like an in between album thing.

1217
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:44,120
Speaker 6: I was coming back to you know, LA, because I

1218
00:54:44,160 --> 00:54:46,319
Speaker 6: was on the road everywhere. I traveled to over like

1219
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:48,960
Speaker 6: thirty five countries off just the first album because I

1220
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:51,839
Speaker 6: went overseas, and so I came back and they asked

1221
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:53,799
Speaker 6: me to have I ended up getting an agent because

1222
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 6: I was like, I'm interested in acting again, and I

1223
00:54:56,680 --> 00:54:59,799
Speaker 6: got an agent and she got the call about this meeting.

1224
00:54:59,880 --> 00:55:02,719
Speaker 6: So when had a meeting and didn't have a.

1225
00:55:02,719 --> 00:55:03,600
Speaker 4: Script or anything.

1226
00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:06,440
Speaker 6: They had introduced me, given me a script, and they

1227
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:08,760
Speaker 6: were just talking to me, and I'm like, okay, cool,

1228
00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:11,239
Speaker 6: We're here having this meeting in Santa Monica talking and

1229
00:55:11,239 --> 00:55:13,640
Speaker 6: it was like the producers and stuff didn't really know

1230
00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:17,120
Speaker 6: anything of what was happening. But she was just smiling.

1231
00:55:17,239 --> 00:55:19,560
Speaker 6: She was just so happy to see me. It's just

1232
00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:21,680
Speaker 6: something to director Troy, and she kind of looked like

1233
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:23,600
Speaker 6: she could be like my big sister. So I think

1234
00:55:23,640 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 6: she saw her in me. And by the end of

1235
00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:32,000
Speaker 6: the meeting, she's like there telling me, we want you

1236
00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:37,040
Speaker 6: to do this movie. And I was like, really, like,

1237
00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:40,880
Speaker 6: I had been auditioning my whole life for everything, for

1238
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:43,120
Speaker 6: small roles because they didn't have as many black roles,

1239
00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:46,560
Speaker 6: black Latina rolls, anything like that back then. So I

1240
00:55:46,600 --> 00:55:49,120
Speaker 6: was always auditioned for really small roles or the best

1241
00:55:49,120 --> 00:55:54,400
Speaker 6: friend of or something. And they said they want me

1242
00:55:54,520 --> 00:55:56,160
Speaker 6: to do this movie. And back then it wasn't even

1243
00:55:56,239 --> 00:55:58,480
Speaker 6: with Warner Brothers. Yet they got the green light off

1244
00:55:58,480 --> 00:56:01,239
Speaker 6: of me, off of my name, and so I read

1245
00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:03,680
Speaker 6: the script loved it. It reminded me of Can't Buy

1246
00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:05,920
Speaker 6: Me Love, which it is a remaking Can't Buy Me Love.

1247
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:08,879
Speaker 6: So I knew the vibe. I didn't know actually until

1248
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:11,680
Speaker 6: later on, that it was actually a reimagining of and

1249
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:13,440
Speaker 6: so they said, if you want to do it, then

1250
00:56:13,680 --> 00:56:15,680
Speaker 6: we'll bring it to Warner Brothers. So Warner Brothers said yes.

1251
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:17,600
Speaker 6: They green lit the movie off of me saying yes.

1252
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:20,440
Speaker 6: And then we had to find the guy. And so

1253
00:56:21,640 --> 00:56:23,160
Speaker 6: they thought of a couple guys. But I thought of

1254
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:24,759
Speaker 6: you know who I thought of? So I thought of

1255
00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:26,640
Speaker 6: two guys. It was the guy who played Jet Jackson

1256
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:30,600
Speaker 6: on Nickelodeon. And I thought of Nick Cannon. And there

1257
00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:32,759
Speaker 6: was saying, that's funny, we were think about Nick Cannon two,

1258
00:56:33,200 --> 00:56:35,680
Speaker 6: et cetera, et cetera. So had a general meeting with

1259
00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:37,640
Speaker 6: them and I connected with Nick. And now the reason

1260
00:56:37,680 --> 00:56:39,120
Speaker 6: I thought about Nick cause Nick used to hit on

1261
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:40,640
Speaker 6: me all the time when I was younger, and I

1262
00:56:40,719 --> 00:56:41,520
Speaker 6: just felt like, you know.

1263
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:43,560
Speaker 4: The whole and I always felt like he was nerdy.

1264
00:56:44,440 --> 00:56:48,440
Speaker 6: He was young, Yeah, we were both young, but I

1265
00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:49,919
Speaker 6: always felt like he was a little bit nerd.

1266
00:56:49,960 --> 00:56:52,279
Speaker 4: He just wasn't my type, you know. So I was like,

1267
00:56:52,320 --> 00:56:55,600
Speaker 4: how perfect fit. He's popular in Nickelodeon.

1268
00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:58,480
Speaker 6: It's this and he's actually a really nice guy and

1269
00:56:58,560 --> 00:57:00,520
Speaker 6: so when he came in and we all had this meeting,

1270
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:02,799
Speaker 6: they were like they still were on the fence. They

1271
00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:04,640
Speaker 6: were thought maybe jee Jackson, and I was like, no,

1272
00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:06,719
Speaker 6: it's Nick. I think it's Nick. And so they went

1273
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:08,480
Speaker 6: off of my off of my.

1274
00:57:08,480 --> 00:57:09,560
Speaker 4: Say and said we'll do Nick.

1275
00:57:10,239 --> 00:57:15,319
Speaker 6: And so Nick ended up being Alvin and within what

1276
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:17,960
Speaker 6: didn't take much like I don't even know how they

1277
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:21,280
Speaker 6: green lit it and it happened so fast, but whatever

1278
00:57:21,320 --> 00:57:22,720
Speaker 6: period of time it was, the production.

1279
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:23,120
Speaker 4: Company was ready.

1280
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:27,320
Speaker 6: We shot the movie, and I mean it was the

1281
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:29,920
Speaker 6: best experience ever. I just I was nervous because I

1282
00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:32,880
Speaker 6: finally had a lead role, so it was gonna fall

1283
00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:34,840
Speaker 6: on me and I was gonna had to actually memorize

1284
00:57:34,880 --> 00:57:36,720
Speaker 6: all these lines and everything. But it was easy. It

1285
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:39,200
Speaker 6: was so easy. Troy was an amazing director. She was great,

1286
00:57:40,080 --> 00:57:42,800
Speaker 6: such a great guide. My connection with Nick I was

1287
00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:46,120
Speaker 6: we had great chemistry and it grew over time in

1288
00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:47,960
Speaker 6: the role. I almost felt like I was my character

1289
00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:51,400
Speaker 6: sometimes when people would, you know, when the odds were

1290
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:52,320
Speaker 6: against me, you know what I.

1291
00:57:52,200 --> 00:57:53,880
Speaker 4: Mean, Sometimes I was like nobody's my friend here.

1292
00:57:55,040 --> 00:57:57,320
Speaker 6: And Nick and I connected and had this chemistry on

1293
00:57:57,400 --> 00:57:58,920
Speaker 6: screen and of course in person.

1294
00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:00,480
Speaker 4: That happened eventually.

1295
00:58:01,560 --> 00:58:05,600
Speaker 6: Where you got to see that and now you know,

1296
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:09,040
Speaker 6: after that role, I immediately got another role.

1297
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:13,120
Speaker 1: What happened because because you're having a time right now,

1298
00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:15,400
Speaker 1: like you're starting like.

1299
00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:17,640
Speaker 4: Two thousand and three, two thousand and three, you.

1300
00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:20,800
Speaker 1: Start having a time, then you drop it's about time

1301
00:58:21,720 --> 00:58:25,960
Speaker 1: and hit that hot one hundred with dip it low. Yes, yeah, yeah,

1302
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:27,000
Speaker 1: you're cooking right now.

1303
00:58:27,080 --> 00:58:31,440
Speaker 4: Yes. So I'm back in the studio, back in the studio.

1304
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:36,240
Speaker 1: So Love don't cost a thing. The record company said, yeah,

1305
00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:37,440
Speaker 1: we got some money.

1306
00:58:37,720 --> 00:58:40,480
Speaker 6: You want album going, keep going, Come on, I'm in

1307
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:42,280
Speaker 6: the studio. I'm trying to find a hit. By the way,

1308
00:58:42,320 --> 00:58:44,960
Speaker 6: I'm making songs. I consistently was in the studio, by

1309
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:47,320
Speaker 6: the way, all this time, because music was still like.

1310
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:49,640
Speaker 6: I was like, there's no reason I can't do both.

1311
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:52,480
Speaker 6: So I'm still in the studio doing and filming Love

1312
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:55,840
Speaker 6: don't cost the thing, but I'm making songs movies over

1313
00:58:56,040 --> 00:58:58,240
Speaker 6: I'm still continuing to make songs. But I still didn't

1314
00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:01,200
Speaker 6: have that hit. I didn't have that home, so I

1315
00:59:01,240 --> 00:59:04,880
Speaker 6: was searching. It took months finding it. And my friend.

1316
00:59:04,640 --> 00:59:08,680
Speaker 4: Billy Billy's in the building. Big Billy like he was

1317
00:59:08,720 --> 00:59:09,400
Speaker 4: at Deaf Jam.

1318
00:59:09,560 --> 00:59:12,840
Speaker 6: I made best friends with him and Billy is he

1319
00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:14,160
Speaker 6: is one of the A and R's here on the

1320
00:59:14,160 --> 00:59:16,760
Speaker 6: West Coast and he's just one of my best friends

1321
00:59:16,760 --> 00:59:18,920
Speaker 6: who just believed in me. And he's another lover of

1322
00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:22,120
Speaker 6: like the Jacksons, Michael Janet and he just gets it too.

1323
00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:26,960
Speaker 4: And Billy, Billy knew some producers.

1324
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:28,360
Speaker 6: I called him one day, I said, Billy, I said,

1325
00:59:28,400 --> 00:59:31,360
Speaker 6: I want to meet as many producers as possible. I

1326
00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:34,440
Speaker 6: need to find a hit. And so just put me

1327
00:59:34,720 --> 00:59:37,000
Speaker 6: like every hour I want to go to a studio,

1328
00:59:37,200 --> 00:59:39,080
Speaker 6: meet somebody listening to some music. Tell him I want

1329
00:59:39,080 --> 00:59:41,760
Speaker 6: to come in, and you know, because not every hour

1330
00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:43,480
Speaker 6: is like maybe you have two hours because you got

1331
00:59:43,520 --> 00:59:46,280
Speaker 6: traffic in La So I had one meeting and then

1332
00:59:46,320 --> 00:59:47,840
Speaker 6: he told me about this guy named Polly Paul and

1333
00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:52,160
Speaker 6: this guy named Demetrius. Demetrius was managing Polly Paul and

1334
00:59:52,320 --> 00:59:56,840
Speaker 6: also at the time it was Schaeffer as we know

1335
00:59:56,920 --> 01:00:00,520
Speaker 6: was Neow he was Schaeffer back then was working with

1336
01:00:00,600 --> 01:00:03,240
Speaker 6: him too and like helping him, like with vocal production

1337
01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:05,240
Speaker 6: and stuff like that. So I went and had a

1338
01:00:05,280 --> 01:00:08,439
Speaker 6: meeting with Shape or not Shape or with Paully Paul

1339
01:00:08,480 --> 01:00:13,240
Speaker 6: and Demetrius. First time I met them, and uh, he

1340
01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:16,640
Speaker 6: plays me songs and the first song they play is

1341
01:00:16,680 --> 01:00:19,000
Speaker 6: dip it little first song, first song.

1342
01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:19,600
Speaker 4: And TJ.

1343
01:00:19,680 --> 01:00:21,520
Speaker 6: Moses is the one that wrote it. She's singing the song,

1344
01:00:22,440 --> 01:00:23,080
Speaker 6: and my mom and I.

1345
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:25,680
Speaker 4: Have chills thinking about this. We looked at each other

1346
01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:29,800
Speaker 4: and we were like, that's it. You know, you don't

1347
01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:33,640
Speaker 4: say that. I loved And they started playing game. They

1348
01:00:33,680 --> 01:00:37,480
Speaker 4: started over play Oh, so and So wants it? So

1349
01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:38,440
Speaker 4: I got a lot of that.

1350
01:00:39,160 --> 01:00:40,920
Speaker 6: You find a song like oh but so and So

1351
01:00:41,040 --> 01:00:44,560
Speaker 6: wants oh but it. Songs that never even came out

1352
01:00:44,920 --> 01:00:48,720
Speaker 6: to this day. So I heard, We heard that song,

1353
01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:50,920
Speaker 6: and we just knew it was immediate.

1354
01:00:51,080 --> 01:00:51,880
Speaker 4: It was immediate.

1355
01:00:52,200 --> 01:00:54,880
Speaker 6: We didn't say it in front of him, but we knew.

1356
01:00:55,640 --> 01:00:57,640
Speaker 6: Then he played some other songs. We're like, yeah, those

1357
01:00:57,680 --> 01:01:00,160
Speaker 6: are good. That's a good great We were like that

1358
01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:02,040
Speaker 6: Diplot song, that would be a good one.

1359
01:01:02,360 --> 01:01:05,959
Speaker 4: That would be a good one. That's great.

1360
01:01:07,320 --> 01:01:09,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, I should explore it.

1361
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:10,080
Speaker 4: Let me tell you.

1362
01:01:10,640 --> 01:01:12,600
Speaker 6: We got in the car my mom and I called

1363
01:01:12,640 --> 01:01:18,960
Speaker 6: Billy like Billy sorry, that was prob. We got it.

1364
01:01:20,040 --> 01:01:23,040
Speaker 6: We got it. We got it. Called the label do

1365
01:01:23,080 --> 01:01:26,240
Speaker 6: this do that? We got to set this up. We

1366
01:01:26,320 --> 01:01:29,120
Speaker 6: got to record this song. That's the one. It's the one.

1367
01:01:29,200 --> 01:01:31,600
Speaker 6: I'm telling you, it's the one. Billy was so excited,

1368
01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:33,760
Speaker 6: you know, because it's like as a friend and as

1369
01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:36,360
Speaker 6: an an r and you know that your friend is happy,

1370
01:01:36,640 --> 01:01:38,439
Speaker 6: and those meetings were set upright.

1371
01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:40,439
Speaker 4: And everything was was good. Everybody was good.

1372
01:01:40,560 --> 01:01:43,120
Speaker 6: But that song we knew we had the single single

1373
01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:46,920
Speaker 6: is everything. First single, that's first single, and now we

1374
01:01:47,000 --> 01:01:49,160
Speaker 6: know it's dip it low like diplo. Is my biggest

1375
01:01:49,160 --> 01:01:53,360
Speaker 6: song today. So I went in and Uh Schaeffer, which

1376
01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:59,040
Speaker 6: is Neo. He was my vocal producer, and I sang

1377
01:01:59,280 --> 01:02:02,400
Speaker 6: that song. And thank you teacher Moses, Moses for writing

1378
01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:05,600
Speaker 6: it also being a great demo guide because most of

1379
01:02:05,720 --> 01:02:08,120
Speaker 6: what I did on top of what I did on

1380
01:02:08,160 --> 01:02:08,880
Speaker 6: my own.

1381
01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:10,640
Speaker 4: Was her flair, you know what I mean.

1382
01:02:10,680 --> 01:02:13,240
Speaker 6: She was a great inspiration for that and I found

1383
01:02:13,320 --> 01:02:16,080
Speaker 6: my I felt sexy already in that time.

1384
01:02:16,120 --> 01:02:18,920
Speaker 4: I was twenty one, twenty twenty one. There was a

1385
01:02:18,920 --> 01:02:20,479
Speaker 4: big change. Also, you had like.

1386
01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:23,680
Speaker 6: All the maxims and all this other stuff. So it

1387
01:02:23,720 --> 01:02:27,439
Speaker 6: was it's like I feel this, I am this, I'm

1388
01:02:27,480 --> 01:02:31,920
Speaker 6: ready to make this leap into my womanhood.

1389
01:02:32,080 --> 01:02:34,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, she just jumped over King magazine. You went right

1390
01:02:34,120 --> 01:02:34,640
Speaker 3: to Maximum.

1391
01:02:38,480 --> 01:02:46,560
Speaker 6: King was the Queen of King most magazines ever sold.

1392
01:02:46,760 --> 01:02:47,640
Speaker 1: It was the time.

1393
01:02:48,080 --> 01:02:52,680
Speaker 6: Platinum, the time.

1394
01:02:53,160 --> 01:02:57,160
Speaker 8: We did a couple of those, by the way.

1395
01:02:57,960 --> 01:03:00,439
Speaker 6: So yeah, I fell into my woman Hud. I felt

1396
01:03:00,480 --> 01:03:03,120
Speaker 6: confident this was me, and it felt like even though

1397
01:03:03,160 --> 01:03:04,680
Speaker 6: I didn't write it, and it was rare that I

1398
01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:06,680
Speaker 6: would find songs that didn't write that I connected with.

1399
01:03:07,000 --> 01:03:09,280
Speaker 6: So this one, I just felt it and it was right,

1400
01:03:09,560 --> 01:03:12,680
Speaker 6: and so I recorded it. The label was super happy

1401
01:03:12,720 --> 01:03:17,800
Speaker 6: with it, and wam bam music video. The ideas were

1402
01:03:17,880 --> 01:03:19,560
Speaker 6: just coming out, coming out, and we found the right

1403
01:03:19,560 --> 01:03:21,760
Speaker 6: director and we had this whole idea based off of

1404
01:03:21,840 --> 01:03:24,480
Speaker 6: the seventies and just doing body paint and they used

1405
01:03:24,480 --> 01:03:26,360
Speaker 6: to do shows with the body paint and everything.

1406
01:03:26,840 --> 01:03:29,320
Speaker 4: Then I started getting movies. I got be Cool.

1407
01:03:30,080 --> 01:03:33,880
Speaker 3: That's ship. I don't do no no this nigga loves

1408
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:34,439
Speaker 3: be Cool.

1409
01:03:34,520 --> 01:03:37,320
Speaker 6: Well, the video for Dipple Little helped me also, like

1410
01:03:37,360 --> 01:03:38,880
Speaker 6: I showed them after I got me cool.

1411
01:03:38,920 --> 01:03:41,440
Speaker 4: But keep going. Let's let's back it up, going, go ahead, tank.

1412
01:03:41,280 --> 01:03:48,520
Speaker 6: Go ahead, Well, now Diplo in my pocket.

1413
01:03:48,760 --> 01:03:53,040
Speaker 1: Now we're two thousand and five. We be cool? Yes,

1414
01:03:53,320 --> 01:03:56,520
Speaker 1: I don't even think you understand how many times me

1415
01:03:56,560 --> 01:04:01,640
Speaker 1: and Zina have watched this funny movie. It comes on today,

1416
01:04:02,120 --> 01:04:08,920
Speaker 1: I stopped and watch It's just one of my movies.

1417
01:04:09,720 --> 01:04:14,360
Speaker 1: I love that movie. Like in this period in time,

1418
01:04:14,560 --> 01:04:17,800
Speaker 1: like this, this, this, this is I just want to

1419
01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:20,480
Speaker 1: I just want you to speak to this is life.

1420
01:04:20,520 --> 01:04:25,000
Speaker 1: You're having a life changing something that never happens in

1421
01:04:25,080 --> 01:04:30,400
Speaker 1: a lifetime for most entertainers, like you have hit records

1422
01:04:30,440 --> 01:04:33,920
Speaker 1: and hit the movies at the same time, it doesn't

1423
01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:39,600
Speaker 1: happen like that. And just speaking to the walk home

1424
01:04:39,680 --> 01:04:46,960
Speaker 1: with mom too. Now you're having this moment that had

1425
01:04:46,960 --> 01:04:47,600
Speaker 1: to be like.

1426
01:04:48,720 --> 01:04:49,840
Speaker 4: That means, what's happening.

1427
01:04:49,920 --> 01:04:54,040
Speaker 6: But we're still like it's crazy because we're still living

1428
01:04:54,120 --> 01:04:57,320
Speaker 6: like this, like a really cool regular life because we're

1429
01:04:57,360 --> 01:04:58,640
Speaker 6: still saving.

1430
01:04:58,640 --> 01:05:01,240
Speaker 1: I'm sure you don't have to get My little.

1431
01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:03,200
Speaker 6: Sisters are going to school in North Hollywood High School.

1432
01:05:04,880 --> 01:05:06,840
Speaker 6: I'm showing up at the little you know, the little

1433
01:05:06,920 --> 01:05:10,720
Speaker 6: you know prom thing, being the ambassador little things, showing

1434
01:05:10,760 --> 01:05:12,640
Speaker 6: up for my sisters because they also had to sacrifice

1435
01:05:12,640 --> 01:05:15,320
Speaker 6: a lot too from like me being away. I felt

1436
01:05:15,320 --> 01:05:17,520
Speaker 6: like I was like their parents too, So yes, all

1437
01:05:17,520 --> 01:05:19,080
Speaker 6: this stuff, I was like, I'm doing it for me,

1438
01:05:19,200 --> 01:05:21,920
Speaker 6: for my family or my sisters. There were my daughters,

1439
01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:25,280
Speaker 6: you know, and uh yeah, it was the time. I'm

1440
01:05:25,280 --> 01:05:27,960
Speaker 6: doing photo shoots every the day. Magazines were selling back

1441
01:05:27,960 --> 01:05:30,600
Speaker 6: then too, so we're doing photo shoots every day, magazine covers,

1442
01:05:30,640 --> 01:05:35,240
Speaker 6: traveling the world, shows, Japan, this, that, tours and sync.

1443
01:05:35,240 --> 01:05:38,880
Speaker 6: I'm touring with Britney Spears and doing this that below.

1444
01:05:39,640 --> 01:05:43,440
Speaker 6: So I get the audition for Be Cool. Yeah, and

1445
01:05:43,480 --> 01:05:45,760
Speaker 6: they had John Jivalta and now with Thurman involved, and

1446
01:05:45,760 --> 01:05:49,680
Speaker 6: I knew it was the sequel to Get Shorty.

1447
01:05:49,760 --> 01:05:53,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, are you kidding me?

1448
01:05:53,960 --> 01:05:54,160
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1449
01:05:54,240 --> 01:05:55,800
Speaker 6: Tell me about it. I was blown away that I

1450
01:05:55,840 --> 01:05:56,120
Speaker 6: got it.

1451
01:05:56,200 --> 01:05:57,120
Speaker 3: Did you have to audition?

1452
01:05:57,240 --> 01:06:01,160
Speaker 6: I auditioned four times, and that time I was exhausted.

1453
01:06:01,240 --> 01:06:04,520
Speaker 6: I was shooting the movie Man of the House Tommy

1454
01:06:04,560 --> 01:06:07,919
Speaker 6: Lee Jones in Texas. Love Don't Cost a Thing came

1455
01:06:07,960 --> 01:06:11,000
Speaker 6: out that same month, and I came back to do

1456
01:06:11,040 --> 01:06:17,040
Speaker 6: these auditions for f Gary Gray and I sang, well

1457
01:06:17,160 --> 01:06:18,479
Speaker 6: should I feel this good?

1458
01:06:19,760 --> 01:06:20,160
Speaker 4: I sing?

1459
01:06:20,240 --> 01:06:21,920
Speaker 6: I can't sing right now, but I was singing it,

1460
01:06:22,280 --> 01:06:24,920
Speaker 6: singing and that was the song I was using to

1461
01:06:24,960 --> 01:06:28,600
Speaker 6: sing it. And I did my audition and they loved it,

1462
01:06:28,960 --> 01:06:31,280
Speaker 6: and there were a couple of really really great contenders

1463
01:06:31,280 --> 01:06:33,440
Speaker 6: I was up against. It was like a handful of

1464
01:06:33,440 --> 01:06:35,880
Speaker 6: women that were up for this role. So I was

1465
01:06:35,920 --> 01:06:37,880
Speaker 6: really surprised actually that I got it because they're real

1466
01:06:38,040 --> 01:06:42,800
Speaker 6: the sangers, and they're really popular. And when it came

1467
01:06:42,840 --> 01:06:45,880
Speaker 6: down to my last audition, I was exhausted. I was

1468
01:06:45,960 --> 01:06:48,280
Speaker 6: tired because I was filming. I was doing a lot,

1469
01:06:48,320 --> 01:06:50,760
Speaker 6: and I flew in from Texas to do this last

1470
01:06:50,800 --> 01:06:53,400
Speaker 6: audition and I remember sitting inside the driveway for the

1471
01:06:53,400 --> 01:06:55,360
Speaker 6: audition because they were negotiating my deal.

1472
01:06:55,640 --> 01:06:57,880
Speaker 4: You have to negotiate for the it's.

1473
01:06:57,800 --> 01:06:59,280
Speaker 6: Kind of like it's kind of like a screen test,

1474
01:07:00,040 --> 01:07:02,400
Speaker 6: so you kind of have to negotiate if you if

1475
01:07:02,480 --> 01:07:05,200
Speaker 6: they're going to agree to what's happening. If not, you

1476
01:07:05,240 --> 01:07:07,680
Speaker 6: don't do the audition, you do not even doing the movie.

1477
01:07:07,960 --> 01:07:10,960
Speaker 6: So this last screen test, my attorney was was like

1478
01:07:11,000 --> 01:07:12,720
Speaker 6: for an hour and a half. I was sitting inside

1479
01:07:13,160 --> 01:07:15,960
Speaker 6: the driveway and I had practic singing so much that

1480
01:07:16,040 --> 01:07:17,920
Speaker 6: my voice was actually kind of tired, so I was like,

1481
01:07:17,920 --> 01:07:21,480
Speaker 6: I gotta go and sing again. So I remember crying

1482
01:07:21,480 --> 01:07:24,040
Speaker 6: to my mom like I'm just exhausted, and she's like, Tina,

1483
01:07:24,160 --> 01:07:25,840
Speaker 6: you can do this. You can pull through with this,

1484
01:07:26,520 --> 01:07:28,680
Speaker 6: you know, don't you know, don't discourage yourself.

1485
01:07:28,720 --> 01:07:29,720
Speaker 4: This is the last one.

1486
01:07:30,640 --> 01:07:33,400
Speaker 6: And I went in there and I sang and I

1487
01:07:33,440 --> 01:07:35,480
Speaker 6: did crack a little because I was tired. It was like,

1488
01:07:35,480 --> 01:07:37,360
Speaker 6: how my voices right now is got scratchy. But it

1489
01:07:37,400 --> 01:07:41,240
Speaker 6: was just a small crack. But I had enough parisma,

1490
01:07:41,280 --> 01:07:44,320
Speaker 6: I guess, and enough of the auditions enough that Efgary

1491
01:07:44,320 --> 01:07:46,520
Speaker 6: Gray saw something and the innocence I think still in

1492
01:07:46,560 --> 01:07:52,000
Speaker 6: me that match to character. And gosh, when I got

1493
01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:56,480
Speaker 6: that call talk about bringing to your knees crying and

1494
01:07:56,600 --> 01:08:00,840
Speaker 6: prayers and being where I was at and back then

1495
01:08:00,880 --> 01:08:03,120
Speaker 6: I was still with Nick Too, and I had just

1496
01:08:03,200 --> 01:08:05,120
Speaker 6: I shot the video for Dip It Low too, and

1497
01:08:05,160 --> 01:08:06,760
Speaker 6: I had the video in my hands and we were

1498
01:08:06,760 --> 01:08:10,040
Speaker 6: at the edits and stuff and uh, and I got

1499
01:08:10,040 --> 01:08:10,400
Speaker 6: that call.

1500
01:08:10,480 --> 01:08:17,320
Speaker 4: It's just a man, Yeah, maybe you'll feel me. I

1501
01:08:17,400 --> 01:08:18,479
Speaker 4: don't have to say words.

1502
01:08:19,720 --> 01:08:21,240
Speaker 6: And then I was on the set with these people

1503
01:08:21,280 --> 01:08:22,720
Speaker 6: and I'm like, what am I doing here?

1504
01:08:22,880 --> 01:08:23,760
Speaker 4: I had it was pinched me.

1505
01:08:23,800 --> 01:08:25,720
Speaker 6: It was pinched me all the whole time, just like

1506
01:08:26,680 --> 01:08:29,519
Speaker 6: and you're shocked that I'm working with these legends, these

1507
01:08:29,600 --> 01:08:32,960
Speaker 6: amazing of a plus actors and I couldn't believe I

1508
01:08:33,080 --> 01:08:35,759
Speaker 6: was there with them and I was singing, and I'm

1509
01:08:35,800 --> 01:08:36,320
Speaker 6: the focused.

1510
01:08:36,479 --> 01:08:39,479
Speaker 4: My character is the focus of this movie, Linda Moon,

1511
01:08:40,200 --> 01:08:42,799
Speaker 4: Linda Moon. John Travolta's my manager.

1512
01:08:42,840 --> 01:08:47,160
Speaker 6: These people are fighting over me in this movie. Alicia

1513
01:08:47,240 --> 01:08:51,439
Speaker 6: Keys wrote one of the songs. Bergie and wrote one

1514
01:08:51,520 --> 01:08:55,400
Speaker 6: of the songs. And will I am Vince Vaughn. Like

1515
01:08:55,439 --> 01:08:57,160
Speaker 6: the scene actually with me and Vince Vaughan in the

1516
01:08:57,160 --> 01:08:59,760
Speaker 6: beginning where he's like, Linda, get over here, blah blah blah,

1517
01:08:59,760 --> 01:09:04,760
Speaker 6: and by the arm like I really fel grabbed me

1518
01:09:04,800 --> 01:09:06,599
Speaker 6: and I slipped in my little wedges and I love

1519
01:09:06,680 --> 01:09:09,360
Speaker 6: that they kept that stuff in there. But he stays

1520
01:09:09,360 --> 01:09:11,120
Speaker 6: in character, by the way, even when he's not feeling

1521
01:09:11,240 --> 01:09:14,080
Speaker 6: he was. He was his character all the time when

1522
01:09:14,080 --> 01:09:17,920
Speaker 6: we're not chooting. So so uh it was. It was

1523
01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:21,080
Speaker 6: mind blowing at this point.

1524
01:09:21,280 --> 01:09:25,400
Speaker 7: What's your favorite? You have a favorite between being an

1525
01:09:25,520 --> 01:09:26,839
Speaker 7: artist or being an actress?

1526
01:09:26,960 --> 01:09:27,439
Speaker 4: Not at all?

1527
01:09:27,520 --> 01:09:29,040
Speaker 3: Are you just like I'm doing everything?

1528
01:09:29,080 --> 01:09:31,120
Speaker 4: You're doing everything. I loved doing everything.

1529
01:09:31,280 --> 01:09:33,200
Speaker 6: People try to break me away from doing one or

1530
01:09:33,200 --> 01:09:35,280
Speaker 6: the other, like the label would be like she has

1531
01:09:35,320 --> 01:09:38,439
Speaker 6: to do acting. They didn't really tell me I had

1532
01:09:38,479 --> 01:09:40,080
Speaker 6: to do that, but they kind of were like she

1533
01:09:40,240 --> 01:09:42,120
Speaker 6: has to a little bit. There was a there was

1534
01:09:42,160 --> 01:09:45,400
Speaker 6: a like she's gonna get more movies she focuses on.

1535
01:09:45,600 --> 01:09:47,240
Speaker 6: And I was like, no, I can do it all.

1536
01:09:47,520 --> 01:09:49,600
Speaker 6: And even at the label, they were fighting over me.

1537
01:09:49,760 --> 01:09:51,960
Speaker 6: I went, if you look at my albums, I was

1538
01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:57,040
Speaker 6: like Island plus Murder plus the ink. They changed the

1539
01:09:57,040 --> 01:09:58,280
Speaker 6: thing because I don't want to have Murder on that

1540
01:09:58,720 --> 01:10:00,760
Speaker 6: the ink. Then they changed me the deaf Soul. So

1541
01:10:00,760 --> 01:10:02,840
Speaker 6: they were fighting over me. Even as a pop artist

1542
01:10:02,840 --> 01:10:04,320
Speaker 6: and an R and B artist, I was always in

1543
01:10:04,360 --> 01:10:06,920
Speaker 6: between these things where people trying to make me make choices,

1544
01:10:07,400 --> 01:10:09,439
Speaker 6: and I never believed that that was the option. Like

1545
01:10:09,479 --> 01:10:11,160
Speaker 6: it's just like I can do it all, and like

1546
01:10:11,479 --> 01:10:16,240
Speaker 6: don't give me these labels actor or singer, pop or

1547
01:10:16,360 --> 01:10:18,880
Speaker 6: R and B or this or that, Like I can

1548
01:10:19,040 --> 01:10:20,680
Speaker 6: do all of these things, and so.

1549
01:10:20,680 --> 01:10:21,680
Speaker 4: I just kept doing it.

1550
01:10:21,760 --> 01:10:23,840
Speaker 6: Sometimes I had to make these adjustments and do things

1551
01:10:23,840 --> 01:10:27,200
Speaker 6: their way, especially music label wise, and then would prove

1552
01:10:27,240 --> 01:10:29,080
Speaker 6: itself like if it didn't work, it just didn't fit.

1553
01:10:29,240 --> 01:10:32,000
Speaker 6: But yeah, it was a it was a beautiful time.

1554
01:10:32,000 --> 01:10:35,360
Speaker 6: I ended up going on tour after that with Usher

1555
01:10:35,479 --> 01:10:37,280
Speaker 6: and Kanye West.

1556
01:10:37,920 --> 01:10:41,519
Speaker 1: Your tour lineup is pretty crazy and it's pretty cool.

1557
01:10:42,040 --> 01:10:47,320
Speaker 6: Confessions Tour at that that was Kanye West the Graduation

1558
01:10:47,720 --> 01:10:53,479
Speaker 6: like College drop Out that say, it was college the

1559
01:10:54,000 --> 01:10:56,120
Speaker 6: College Dropout album and we have.

1560
01:10:58,200 --> 01:11:00,080
Speaker 4: Never people. He's honest.

1561
01:11:03,040 --> 01:11:05,840
Speaker 1: Time he was cooking. I don't I don't want to.

1562
01:11:05,920 --> 01:11:09,080
Speaker 1: I don't want to gloss over bring it on.

1563
01:11:09,920 --> 01:11:12,960
Speaker 6: Oh that was yeah, that's still girls to because it

1564
01:11:13,840 --> 01:11:16,800
Speaker 6: bring it on is a thing. It is a thing

1565
01:11:16,880 --> 01:11:18,720
Speaker 6: that they came to me, Universal came to me. That

1566
01:11:18,760 --> 01:11:21,400
Speaker 6: was a straight up offer. I no longer had a

1567
01:11:21,439 --> 01:11:24,559
Speaker 6: record deal. I had gotten dropped from ild Def Jam

1568
01:11:25,280 --> 01:11:27,880
Speaker 6: after my third album. It was a crazy like drop,

1569
01:11:27,920 --> 01:11:30,519
Speaker 6: but it happened, and I was in this lull and

1570
01:11:30,560 --> 01:11:35,800
Speaker 6: I still wanted to do music, and uh.

1571
01:11:34,479 --> 01:11:36,040
Speaker 4: But I didn't know you know, the labels.

1572
01:11:36,080 --> 01:11:38,519
Speaker 6: You know how labels it could be like people don't

1573
01:11:38,560 --> 01:11:40,400
Speaker 6: want you to be somewhere else, so they'll talk about you,

1574
01:11:40,479 --> 01:11:42,439
Speaker 6: and you know, so I was like in this crazy

1575
01:11:42,479 --> 01:11:44,519
Speaker 6: place and next thing I know, I got a call

1576
01:11:44,680 --> 01:11:47,760
Speaker 6: out of nowhere to bring it on and it was

1577
01:11:48,000 --> 01:11:49,960
Speaker 6: great money, great franchise.

1578
01:11:51,200 --> 01:11:52,280
Speaker 4: I needed them. I did.

1579
01:11:52,520 --> 01:11:54,680
Speaker 6: When I say money is because again you go through

1580
01:11:54,680 --> 01:11:57,519
Speaker 6: dips as an entertainer. Everything is not certain. People have

1581
01:11:57,560 --> 01:12:00,840
Speaker 6: to understand like it might be famous, but it's nothing

1582
01:12:00,880 --> 01:12:02,559
Speaker 6: is certain. You have to be you have to let

1583
01:12:02,600 --> 01:12:04,920
Speaker 6: your pride go to the side sometimes, but this is

1584
01:12:04,920 --> 01:12:06,240
Speaker 6: not a pride thing. I was a fan of to

1585
01:12:06,240 --> 01:12:08,880
Speaker 6: bring it on, you know, franchise, and they brought me

1586
01:12:08,920 --> 01:12:11,080
Speaker 6: a really great deal and I was like, yeah, I

1587
01:12:11,120 --> 01:12:13,720
Speaker 6: love the script and I did it. And now to

1588
01:12:13,760 --> 01:12:16,960
Speaker 6: this day, I have little girls and their mama coming

1589
01:12:16,960 --> 01:12:20,040
Speaker 6: to me overseas are like it's called American Girl. They're like,

1590
01:12:20,080 --> 01:12:22,400
Speaker 6: I love American Girl. I have girls recognized you in

1591
01:12:22,520 --> 01:12:25,320
Speaker 6: now yeah called American Girl.

1592
01:12:25,400 --> 01:12:28,280
Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah. And I had so much fun doing it.

1593
01:12:28,280 --> 01:12:30,600
Speaker 4: It was great. It was an awesome opportunity.

1594
01:12:30,680 --> 01:12:32,680
Speaker 1: One thing that's awesome about what you were able to

1595
01:12:32,680 --> 01:12:34,479
Speaker 1: do with your career is you were able to really

1596
01:12:34,600 --> 01:12:40,760
Speaker 1: establish an overseas presence, yes, which which which pays dividends

1597
01:12:40,800 --> 01:12:43,800
Speaker 1: as you as you moved in through move through those

1598
01:12:43,880 --> 01:12:47,720
Speaker 1: highs and lows, because something about overseas, Yeah, they just

1599
01:12:47,960 --> 01:12:51,200
Speaker 1: they stick, which yeah they rocking.

1600
01:12:50,960 --> 01:12:53,439
Speaker 6: Which they still then they still rock with me whether

1601
01:12:53,439 --> 01:12:55,519
Speaker 6: I'm doing music or not. When you see those numbers

1602
01:12:55,520 --> 01:12:58,600
Speaker 6: on those Netflix films and when you see numbers on

1603
01:12:58,920 --> 01:13:02,240
Speaker 6: you know, especially movie these they do numbers these days.

1604
01:13:02,240 --> 01:13:05,080
Speaker 6: A lot of things data driven. That's what streams are for,

1605
01:13:05,600 --> 01:13:09,800
Speaker 6: for data. And and when you see that, you're like

1606
01:13:09,840 --> 01:13:12,599
Speaker 6: a movie you do is number one in over seventy

1607
01:13:12,600 --> 01:13:13,760
Speaker 6: five countries.

1608
01:13:14,920 --> 01:13:18,000
Speaker 4: Speak because of that relationship I've carried with them.

1609
01:13:18,160 --> 01:13:18,479
Speaker 1: You know that.

1610
01:13:18,840 --> 01:13:20,200
Speaker 3: You know my sister did that movie with you?

1611
01:13:20,400 --> 01:13:20,880
Speaker 4: Which one?

1612
01:13:21,240 --> 01:13:22,200
Speaker 3: Meet me at Christmas?

1613
01:13:23,080 --> 01:13:23,479
Speaker 4: Which one?

1614
01:13:23,800 --> 01:13:28,479
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, yes, yes, yes, yes, let's tell you

1615
01:13:28,479 --> 01:13:29,479
Speaker 6: you know ser tomorrow.

1616
01:13:30,240 --> 01:13:31,040
Speaker 4: That's my girl.

1617
01:13:32,160 --> 01:13:32,880
Speaker 1: There's most people.

1618
01:13:32,960 --> 01:13:35,280
Speaker 3: Most people don't. Most people don't put two and two together.

1619
01:13:35,680 --> 01:13:37,920
Speaker 7: Because our last name is new but my middle name

1620
01:13:37,960 --> 01:13:38,840
Speaker 7: is Valentine, So.

1621
01:13:38,840 --> 01:13:41,760
Speaker 3: Most people don't put it together. We don't always say it.

1622
01:13:41,920 --> 01:13:43,320
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Like, you know, she has

1623
01:13:43,360 --> 01:13:43,719
Speaker 3: her career.

1624
01:13:44,320 --> 01:13:49,480
Speaker 4: She surprised me when she talks about it. I forgot.

1625
01:13:49,640 --> 01:13:51,360
Speaker 4: I didn't put it. I did didn't even put the

1626
01:13:51,400 --> 01:13:51,880
Speaker 4: two together.

1627
01:13:52,680 --> 01:13:54,040
Speaker 3: I love her, She loves you.

1628
01:13:54,120 --> 01:13:55,160
Speaker 4: She did a fantastic you.

1629
01:13:55,200 --> 01:13:57,839
Speaker 3: Guys did an amazing movie and we watched it over Christmas.

1630
01:13:58,800 --> 01:14:00,679
Speaker 3: Loved it the whole family.

1631
01:14:00,960 --> 01:14:04,240
Speaker 1: She's like, and make sure what was the extra one?

1632
01:14:04,240 --> 01:14:09,840
Speaker 7: It's like excellent movie makes all y'all got got you?

1633
01:14:10,080 --> 01:14:12,360
Speaker 6: Oh man, Yes, that's amazing.

1634
01:14:12,439 --> 01:14:14,000
Speaker 4: She's great. She's an awesome producer.

1635
01:14:14,080 --> 01:14:17,080
Speaker 6: Now I've gotten just step into the producer lane, you know,

1636
01:14:17,120 --> 01:14:18,760
Speaker 6: which is cool on producing movies now.

1637
01:14:19,240 --> 01:14:20,680
Speaker 4: And so that was one of.

1638
01:14:20,640 --> 01:14:23,240
Speaker 6: My first I produced an independent before that, and then

1639
01:14:23,400 --> 01:14:26,760
Speaker 6: I just was an executive producer with Netflix after I've

1640
01:14:26,800 --> 01:14:29,400
Speaker 6: done two very successful movies with them. They trusted and

1641
01:14:29,560 --> 01:14:31,479
Speaker 6: trusted in me and my gut feeling about how to

1642
01:14:31,479 --> 01:14:33,439
Speaker 6: do this. And I'm pretty good at rom coms, you know,

1643
01:14:33,840 --> 01:14:37,760
Speaker 6: Love Don't Cost a Thing, and and Latania and I

1644
01:14:37,880 --> 01:14:42,120
Speaker 6: and also Christina Rogers she introduced me Militania. She entrusted

1645
01:14:42,160 --> 01:14:44,160
Speaker 6: in the both of us to really help put this

1646
01:14:44,200 --> 01:14:46,280
Speaker 6: project together in a way that would make it work

1647
01:14:46,320 --> 01:14:48,920
Speaker 6: and become what that movie was. And we had some

1648
01:14:48,960 --> 01:14:51,760
Speaker 6: really great partners. I mean Mark Mark Roberts is the

1649
01:14:51,800 --> 01:14:53,720
Speaker 6: one that you know, initially started the movie. So all

1650
01:14:53,720 --> 01:14:55,800
Speaker 6: the producers, all of us together was a really great team.

1651
01:14:55,840 --> 01:14:58,000
Speaker 6: We had so much fun, so much fun, and it

1652
01:14:58,000 --> 01:15:01,200
Speaker 6: shows on screen. And she's very I love she's on it.

1653
01:15:01,800 --> 01:15:04,360
Speaker 4: She stay with us the whole way. She could have left.

1654
01:15:04,400 --> 01:15:06,960
Speaker 3: She still like that. You still like that for sure?

1655
01:15:08,280 --> 01:15:13,960
Speaker 1: You're sending me leon. We got TV film, we got

1656
01:15:14,200 --> 01:15:22,840
Speaker 1: records producers. Now we got my nickname is snacks. Now

1657
01:15:22,920 --> 01:15:26,280
Speaker 1: we got these motherfucking Ben.

1658
01:15:28,040 --> 01:15:32,559
Speaker 3: And said my daughter two days ago. Listen, she loves it.

1659
01:15:33,000 --> 01:15:42,759
Speaker 1: No disrespect to anybody, am I beignets anywhere? You got

1660
01:15:43,360 --> 01:15:49,160
Speaker 1: my favorite beignets. No, no disrespect to anyone, to the

1661
01:15:49,200 --> 01:15:52,559
Speaker 1: originators of the idea, just.

1662
01:15:52,520 --> 01:15:56,320
Speaker 7: God, and say what you gotta say, disrespect.

1663
01:15:55,880 --> 01:16:03,360
Speaker 1: Your beignets are my favorite. Thank you light extra powders

1664
01:16:03,479 --> 01:16:07,360
Speaker 1: sugar for me late almost died. It was so much

1665
01:16:07,400 --> 01:16:10,639
Speaker 1: powdered sugar. And I breathed in hell, Never in hell,

1666
01:16:11,640 --> 01:16:15,360
Speaker 1: yesterday powdered sugar for the love of God.

1667
01:16:15,439 --> 01:16:19,600
Speaker 6: Gosh, no the first bite, never in hell, because the

1668
01:16:19,640 --> 01:16:21,479
Speaker 6: powdered sugar is just gonna go straight.

1669
01:16:21,800 --> 01:16:27,240
Speaker 1: What really quickly? What made you say I'm going to start? Ben?

1670
01:16:27,439 --> 01:16:30,240
Speaker 1: Yeo okay, Ben.

1671
01:16:30,120 --> 01:16:30,799
Speaker 4: Yeah okay.

1672
01:16:30,840 --> 01:16:33,599
Speaker 6: So in the between, after all the music has happened,

1673
01:16:33,960 --> 01:16:38,120
Speaker 6: and after being bring it on, I started living real

1674
01:16:38,160 --> 01:16:40,759
Speaker 6: life after I had a divorce, so my daughter Violet

1675
01:16:40,800 --> 01:16:43,439
Speaker 6: came along, I met dream, got married, had a crazy

1676
01:16:43,439 --> 01:16:46,479
Speaker 6: world when life of one year and a half and

1677
01:16:46,520 --> 01:16:48,280
Speaker 6: then I had to figure out my life after that,

1678
01:16:48,280 --> 01:16:50,360
Speaker 6: I'm getting a divorced, got a divorce, the whole deal,

1679
01:16:50,520 --> 01:16:52,839
Speaker 6: and I'm like, what am I gonna do. I'm figuring

1680
01:16:52,840 --> 01:16:54,760
Speaker 6: out my career, start getting a little rolls here and there.

1681
01:16:55,080 --> 01:16:57,400
Speaker 6: But then I started to figure out friendships. I was

1682
01:16:57,479 --> 01:16:59,680
Speaker 6: always working, so I didn't really get to hang out

1683
01:16:59,680 --> 01:17:01,840
Speaker 6: with pa people like I have. My dancers were my friends.

1684
01:17:01,880 --> 01:17:03,920
Speaker 6: Police people like Billy were my friends. But it were

1685
01:17:03,920 --> 01:17:06,920
Speaker 6: always music related. But my family was like my friend.

1686
01:17:07,040 --> 01:17:08,360
Speaker 6: That was like I was kind of raised, like your

1687
01:17:08,400 --> 01:17:10,240
Speaker 6: family is your friend and everybody else is an out

1688
01:17:10,240 --> 01:17:12,400
Speaker 6: of it. But I'm such an extrovert, like everybody is

1689
01:17:12,400 --> 01:17:14,960
Speaker 6: actually my friend. But I didn't really go out. I

1690
01:17:14,960 --> 01:17:17,040
Speaker 6: didn't go out in Hollywood, none of that. But I

1691
01:17:17,040 --> 01:17:19,760
Speaker 6: had to figure out how to stay famous in Hollywood

1692
01:17:19,760 --> 01:17:24,439
Speaker 6: after getting dropped from the label and like, But the

1693
01:17:24,479 --> 01:17:27,839
Speaker 6: thing was it was going out, going out, being popular,

1694
01:17:27,960 --> 01:17:31,160
Speaker 6: going to Robertson doing pop Rozzi snapping you, and so

1695
01:17:31,240 --> 01:17:32,000
Speaker 6: I figured that out.

1696
01:17:32,160 --> 01:17:33,240
Speaker 4: So I started to go.

1697
01:17:33,240 --> 01:17:36,719
Speaker 6: Out and I had a friend named Liz that I met.

1698
01:17:37,439 --> 01:17:39,800
Speaker 6: We know, she's not my Venia box partner, but Liz

1699
01:17:39,920 --> 01:17:40,559
Speaker 6: was in the scene.

1700
01:17:40,600 --> 01:17:41,320
Speaker 4: She knew people.

1701
01:17:41,960 --> 01:17:45,760
Speaker 6: And I met Liz through an organization, like we were

1702
01:17:45,760 --> 01:17:50,280
Speaker 6: going to work on an organization mentoring kids and that

1703
01:17:50,439 --> 01:17:52,560
Speaker 6: were in a Plowster care system.

1704
01:17:53,160 --> 01:17:54,160
Speaker 4: And through our.

1705
01:17:54,040 --> 01:17:57,120
Speaker 6: Connection there on one side, we're like doing all the

1706
01:17:57,439 --> 01:17:59,920
Speaker 6: you know, foundation hands on work, and we're also girls

1707
01:18:00,040 --> 01:18:03,040
Speaker 6: going out clubs and partying and stuff like that, and

1708
01:18:03,120 --> 01:18:06,360
Speaker 6: we just grew this bond. We grew this tight, tight friendship.

1709
01:18:06,720 --> 01:18:09,559
Speaker 6: And through that type friendship, we meet lots of girls,

1710
01:18:09,960 --> 01:18:11,160
Speaker 6: girls become our friends.

1711
01:18:11,200 --> 01:18:12,800
Speaker 4: Girls in the bathroom, girls this you.

1712
01:18:12,800 --> 01:18:14,240
Speaker 6: Know what I mean, you're going out, And we just

1713
01:18:14,280 --> 01:18:17,920
Speaker 6: grew this clique of girls that just was growing, you know.

1714
01:18:18,439 --> 01:18:21,599
Speaker 6: And so after my divorce, I started to go back

1715
01:18:21,600 --> 01:18:23,920
Speaker 6: out again. It was that revenge body, revenge life. I

1716
01:18:23,960 --> 01:18:25,760
Speaker 6: got to get my life together, but I know that

1717
01:18:25,920 --> 01:18:27,960
Speaker 6: also being on the scene helps me get my roles,

1718
01:18:27,960 --> 01:18:32,520
Speaker 6: helps me do this da da And we eventually decide

1719
01:18:33,600 --> 01:18:34,679
Speaker 6: let's get a place together.

1720
01:18:34,720 --> 01:18:35,920
Speaker 4: She had this place called the Sugar Shock.

1721
01:18:36,000 --> 01:18:37,479
Speaker 6: So the Sugar Shock is where all the girls got

1722
01:18:37,520 --> 01:18:41,280
Speaker 6: together hung out sugar Shack, and we're there and everybody's

1723
01:18:41,280 --> 01:18:43,560
Speaker 6: doing their business, doing their life. And I started to

1724
01:18:43,600 --> 01:18:46,599
Speaker 6: become an entrepreneur. I had this thing called Platinum Hookah

1725
01:18:46,920 --> 01:18:49,400
Speaker 6: that I started at the time and it was getting

1726
01:18:49,400 --> 01:18:51,519
Speaker 6: popping by the way. By the way, that would have

1727
01:18:51,560 --> 01:18:54,680
Speaker 6: been a big business. It was these little, little known

1728
01:18:54,760 --> 01:18:57,840
Speaker 6: nicotine hookah sticks, which is really popular, and I was

1729
01:18:57,920 --> 01:19:01,000
Speaker 6: killing it. Let me tell you, I was killing it.

1730
01:19:01,080 --> 01:19:05,680
Speaker 6: But I also felt it didn't match my life and

1731
01:19:05,720 --> 01:19:07,679
Speaker 6: the FDA and all this other stuff was too complicated.

1732
01:19:07,680 --> 01:19:10,400
Speaker 6: But she saw my ethic, my work ethic, and that

1733
01:19:10,520 --> 01:19:12,560
Speaker 6: was my first entrepreneurial thing that I did, and that

1734
01:19:12,720 --> 01:19:15,240
Speaker 6: was a goal getter. I didn't sleep. I was working

1735
01:19:15,240 --> 01:19:17,639
Speaker 6: on that thing day and night. And Liz had her thing.

1736
01:19:17,720 --> 01:19:20,080
Speaker 6: She has events, you know, knocked out, she's got marketing

1737
01:19:20,160 --> 01:19:20,760
Speaker 6: knocked out, this that.

1738
01:19:20,840 --> 01:19:22,880
Speaker 4: So we always used to say. So we ended up

1739
01:19:22,880 --> 01:19:23,240
Speaker 4: moving in.

1740
01:19:23,280 --> 01:19:25,559
Speaker 6: I moved in with her because I'm single, I'm with

1741
01:19:25,640 --> 01:19:27,400
Speaker 6: the girls all the time. I needed to get out

1742
01:19:27,400 --> 01:19:29,200
Speaker 6: of my mom's house because that's where I was after

1743
01:19:29,200 --> 01:19:31,200
Speaker 6: my divorce, and I was like, I can't keep doing this.

1744
01:19:31,520 --> 01:19:32,720
Speaker 4: I had Violet, so.

1745
01:19:32,680 --> 01:19:34,479
Speaker 6: I was like, my girls, I'm with them all the time.

1746
01:19:34,600 --> 01:19:37,680
Speaker 6: We're raising Violet together. We're a village. Plus to have

1747
01:19:37,720 --> 01:19:40,400
Speaker 6: my sisters and my mom. But we said to each other,

1748
01:19:40,520 --> 01:19:42,439
Speaker 6: Liz and I were like, we just saw what we

1749
01:19:42,479 --> 01:19:44,720
Speaker 6: had on our hustle, and we were like, someday we

1750
01:19:44,760 --> 01:19:46,479
Speaker 6: need to do a business together. We need to figure

1751
01:19:46,479 --> 01:19:48,639
Speaker 6: it out. We need to do something local in Studio City.

1752
01:19:48,760 --> 01:19:50,920
Speaker 6: That's our community, these are our people. We got that

1753
01:19:51,040 --> 01:19:53,559
Speaker 6: vibe we're going to do something, and so we set

1754
01:19:53,600 --> 01:19:55,160
Speaker 6: our mind that someday we were going to do something,

1755
01:19:55,160 --> 01:19:56,639
Speaker 6: and we thought about it. We would go on walks

1756
01:19:56,680 --> 01:19:59,240
Speaker 6: and running canyon and say, you know, maybe a candy store,

1757
01:19:59,320 --> 01:20:03,000
Speaker 6: maybe this be a bakery. But we're not chefs, but

1758
01:20:03,080 --> 01:20:06,360
Speaker 6: we never said bannets. But she had this organization where

1759
01:20:06,360 --> 01:20:09,960
Speaker 6: we would rebuild houses in New Orleans. It was called

1760
01:20:09,960 --> 01:20:12,760
Speaker 6: the Hope Foundation. And so I would go back to

1761
01:20:12,800 --> 01:20:15,080
Speaker 6: New Orleans and she had this gala and we would

1762
01:20:15,080 --> 01:20:17,960
Speaker 6: actually physically like meet the families and rebuild their houses.

1763
01:20:18,000 --> 01:20:20,960
Speaker 6: We raise money, and we would try the food. We

1764
01:20:21,000 --> 01:20:23,720
Speaker 6: had po boys, we had turtle soup, we had this that.

1765
01:20:24,320 --> 01:20:27,200
Speaker 6: And one day all the girls we gathered we went

1766
01:20:27,240 --> 01:20:32,320
Speaker 6: to cafe doing it and we got the coffee and

1767
01:20:32,360 --> 01:20:33,280
Speaker 6: we got the bagnets.

1768
01:20:33,680 --> 01:20:35,639
Speaker 4: And lord, let me tell you, we.

1769
01:20:35,479 --> 01:20:39,639
Speaker 6: Were like ben like we're girls, you know, drinking wine

1770
01:20:39,680 --> 01:20:42,200
Speaker 6: and having bagnets, like you know, we're bringing it back.

1771
01:20:42,240 --> 01:20:44,080
Speaker 6: But it just wasn't the same when we would bringing

1772
01:20:44,160 --> 01:20:47,120
Speaker 6: back like there it was great. We'd bring them back

1773
01:20:47,160 --> 01:20:48,920
Speaker 6: to the house and it was like kind of like

1774
01:20:49,000 --> 01:20:51,160
Speaker 6: doe and cold and it was just not the same thing.

1775
01:20:51,160 --> 01:20:52,880
Speaker 4: But the sugar, the sugar was doing a thing.

1776
01:20:53,320 --> 01:20:55,240
Speaker 6: So we're like, before we go back to La, we

1777
01:20:55,280 --> 01:20:57,400
Speaker 6: need to get some Beagnets again. We have to do

1778
01:20:57,439 --> 01:20:59,479
Speaker 6: it again. We're like, Liz, you have to bring us back.

1779
01:21:00,439 --> 01:21:03,280
Speaker 6: And it was there that we were like, there's no

1780
01:21:03,360 --> 01:21:04,280
Speaker 6: Begnets in La.

1781
01:21:06,520 --> 01:21:10,559
Speaker 4: Why not Beignet's in La. And this was like.

1782
01:21:10,680 --> 01:21:12,679
Speaker 6: We were like all of us are, Yeah, we should

1783
01:21:12,760 --> 01:21:15,479
Speaker 6: d D D And Liz started to do the numbers

1784
01:21:15,520 --> 01:21:17,880
Speaker 6: and see what the business of it would be and

1785
01:21:17,960 --> 01:21:22,559
Speaker 6: it just made sense and so yeah, like it sounded

1786
01:21:22,680 --> 01:21:23,679
Speaker 6: like it just made sense.

1787
01:21:23,760 --> 01:21:25,680
Speaker 4: We loved it. We knew there was nothing like it.

1788
01:21:25,680 --> 01:21:27,800
Speaker 6: There was a food culture in La and just the

1789
01:21:27,840 --> 01:21:30,920
Speaker 6: world that food is everything, and we decided that was

1790
01:21:30,960 --> 01:21:31,960
Speaker 6: gonna be the Begnet.

1791
01:21:32,320 --> 01:21:33,679
Speaker 4: So it took us some time.

1792
01:21:35,040 --> 01:21:37,519
Speaker 6: She started working on We really first started working on

1793
01:21:37,560 --> 01:21:38,960
Speaker 6: the look of the branding.

1794
01:21:39,320 --> 01:21:40,200
Speaker 4: That's what Liz does.

1795
01:21:40,880 --> 01:21:43,240
Speaker 6: And through that time we started to figure out what's

1796
01:21:43,240 --> 01:21:47,640
Speaker 6: the Begnet, what's gonna be the best tasting, most flavorful.

1797
01:21:47,760 --> 01:21:50,080
Speaker 6: What's going to make sense in La? Why did we

1798
01:21:50,120 --> 01:21:50,599
Speaker 6: choose La?

1799
01:21:50,680 --> 01:21:51,400
Speaker 4: Our friends were there.

1800
01:21:51,439 --> 01:21:56,120
Speaker 6: It was gonna be the community, the people, and but

1801
01:21:56,439 --> 01:21:59,240
Speaker 6: you know La, we're also like health conscious, were also

1802
01:21:59,360 --> 01:21:59,880
Speaker 6: like fit.

1803
01:22:00,040 --> 01:22:00,639
Speaker 4: It's conscious.

1804
01:22:00,640 --> 01:22:02,599
Speaker 6: We're like, we got to do something a little bit light,

1805
01:22:03,280 --> 01:22:04,519
Speaker 6: but give them the same flare.

1806
01:22:04,880 --> 01:22:06,880
Speaker 4: Unless we got and we figured out the.

1807
01:22:07,120 --> 01:22:09,519
Speaker 3: Run off the turkey, then we don't care about none

1808
01:22:09,560 --> 01:22:09,760
Speaker 3: of that.

1809
01:22:09,760 --> 01:22:10,880
Speaker 4: It's okay, just go a light.

1810
01:22:10,800 --> 01:22:19,639
Speaker 6: Bo I say it's a diet because they're super light.

1811
01:22:19,760 --> 01:22:22,439
Speaker 6: They're very fluffy, the layered, and that's why we thought

1812
01:22:22,439 --> 01:22:24,080
Speaker 6: it would be the perfect benyet.

1813
01:22:23,800 --> 01:22:24,800
Speaker 1: The mini Ben. Ye.

1814
01:22:27,600 --> 01:22:30,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, you guys were one of our first customers too.

1815
01:22:30,640 --> 01:22:33,840
Speaker 4: We started with the truck. That's holy.

1816
01:22:33,880 --> 01:22:35,800
Speaker 3: That's how I found out about it. Yeah, coming to

1817
01:22:35,840 --> 01:22:37,759
Speaker 3: the house, I see the truck.

1818
01:22:38,160 --> 01:22:41,000
Speaker 7: Yeah, and out of nowhere, I see Christie in the window.

1819
01:22:41,000 --> 01:22:46,200
Speaker 8: I'm like serving people cooking.

1820
01:22:46,680 --> 01:22:48,040
Speaker 4: It's taking sure, everyone's getting it.

1821
01:22:48,520 --> 01:22:50,559
Speaker 3: Okay, you got to search now, fine, give me give

1822
01:22:50,560 --> 01:22:51,040
Speaker 3: me two boxes.

1823
01:22:51,520 --> 01:22:52,240
Speaker 1: Really awesome.

1824
01:22:52,360 --> 01:22:54,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's cool. It's a crazy start.

1825
01:22:54,439 --> 01:22:56,200
Speaker 6: We were like, we do a shop and then we

1826
01:22:56,240 --> 01:22:58,320
Speaker 6: couldn't figure out the shops. Too many permits and too

1827
01:22:58,400 --> 01:23:00,640
Speaker 6: much stuff. And then Liz, Liz is the go get her.

1828
01:23:00,720 --> 01:23:03,360
Speaker 6: That's the one thing like, that's the partner I chose

1829
01:23:03,479 --> 01:23:05,000
Speaker 6: was right for me, and she chose I was right

1830
01:23:05,040 --> 01:23:07,880
Speaker 6: for her because we're connect we're connectors, we're one with

1831
01:23:07,960 --> 01:23:12,320
Speaker 6: God and manifesting and we work hard. But Liz, she

1832
01:23:12,600 --> 01:23:16,160
Speaker 6: is she is, She's diligent, she's like on it, she's persistent,

1833
01:23:16,240 --> 01:23:19,080
Speaker 6: she's consistent, she's on and as a partner and as

1834
01:23:19,080 --> 01:23:20,880
Speaker 6: an artist, I still want to be an artist.

1835
01:23:20,880 --> 01:23:23,080
Speaker 4: I don't want to have to do all the work.

1836
01:23:22,840 --> 01:23:25,400
Speaker 6: That she is really what she's really good at. She

1837
01:23:25,439 --> 01:23:26,680
Speaker 6: doesn't want to have to do it all the time.

1838
01:23:26,720 --> 01:23:28,960
Speaker 6: And I have been there when I can, especially in

1839
01:23:28,960 --> 01:23:32,160
Speaker 6: the beginnings. But she's one of those people. She's a boss,

1840
01:23:32,280 --> 01:23:35,599
Speaker 6: and she learns things and she grows things, and she's

1841
01:23:35,600 --> 01:23:37,600
Speaker 6: not afraid to get her hands, you know, in the

1842
01:23:37,640 --> 01:23:40,599
Speaker 6: dirt and learned some lessons and to get us where

1843
01:23:40,640 --> 01:23:42,439
Speaker 6: we are even in the hardest times, because you know,

1844
01:23:42,520 --> 01:23:45,760
Speaker 6: we've gone through pandemic, we've gone through actors strike, we've

1845
01:23:45,800 --> 01:23:48,479
Speaker 6: gone through a lot of changes. But the food truck

1846
01:23:48,520 --> 01:23:50,160
Speaker 6: was the best start for us because we got around

1847
01:23:50,200 --> 01:23:51,800
Speaker 6: town and we made our way to the people and

1848
01:23:52,040 --> 01:23:52,800
Speaker 6: we got the word out.

1849
01:23:53,120 --> 01:23:55,320
Speaker 3: How many restaurants do you guys have now?

1850
01:23:55,479 --> 01:23:58,360
Speaker 6: Right now, we have two trucks and we have one location, okay,

1851
01:23:58,560 --> 01:24:01,080
Speaker 6: And the reason we did that just wanted to focus

1852
01:24:01,160 --> 01:24:04,360
Speaker 6: on we want a franchise, and so our biggest thing

1853
01:24:04,479 --> 01:24:07,600
Speaker 6: was learning the different ways this company could work. So

1854
01:24:07,640 --> 01:24:09,599
Speaker 6: we've had a brick and mortar. We've had a really

1855
01:24:09,640 --> 01:24:12,080
Speaker 6: big brick and mortar. The location was quite large, the

1856
01:24:12,160 --> 01:24:13,400
Speaker 6: rent was high, you have.

1857
01:24:13,320 --> 01:24:14,400
Speaker 3: To employ more people.

1858
01:24:14,680 --> 01:24:17,759
Speaker 6: Yeah, so you have to employ more people, the rent

1859
01:24:17,840 --> 01:24:20,640
Speaker 6: is high, the insurance, everything is much higher. In those situations,

1860
01:24:20,680 --> 01:24:23,840
Speaker 6: it looks great, but you know, the the you know,

1861
01:24:23,920 --> 01:24:26,559
Speaker 6: there's a lot of setbacks in that in that way,

1862
01:24:26,760 --> 01:24:29,800
Speaker 6: but we've learned, like kiosks work, you know, really well

1863
01:24:29,800 --> 01:24:32,320
Speaker 6: for us to go, the trucks work extremely well. So

1864
01:24:32,360 --> 01:24:34,960
Speaker 6: we've learned the different patterns that work well for us,

1865
01:24:35,040 --> 01:24:37,919
Speaker 6: so that if anybody wants a franchise, they can understand

1866
01:24:37,960 --> 01:24:41,120
Speaker 6: what they're working with and with the best direction for them.

1867
01:24:41,240 --> 01:24:45,040
Speaker 6: So it's been some really great learning lessons and we've

1868
01:24:45,040 --> 01:24:47,479
Speaker 6: employed a lot of people, our friends' kids, you know,

1869
01:24:48,080 --> 01:24:51,880
Speaker 6: and here here and around Studio City and North Hollywood everywhere.

1870
01:24:52,160 --> 01:24:53,920
Speaker 6: We've had a lot of people come for us as

1871
01:24:54,000 --> 01:24:56,479
Speaker 6: far as like to come to eat the beignet, but

1872
01:24:56,520 --> 01:24:59,400
Speaker 6: also family like you know, you know your daughter needs

1873
01:24:59,439 --> 01:25:02,120
Speaker 6: a job, first job, and we've had some great like

1874
01:25:02,160 --> 01:25:04,040
Speaker 6: they bring on the other kids to come. You know,

1875
01:25:04,280 --> 01:25:07,719
Speaker 6: it's a family, you know, Benya Box is about family.

1876
01:25:07,960 --> 01:25:11,479
Speaker 6: The Benya Bytes is about sharing, it's about community, and

1877
01:25:11,560 --> 01:25:13,600
Speaker 6: eventually we want to bring this back to where it

1878
01:25:13,640 --> 01:25:17,200
Speaker 6: all started with foundations, organizations, and just last night we

1879
01:25:17,240 --> 01:25:19,160
Speaker 6: work with a foundation called Hands for Hope. It's in

1880
01:25:19,200 --> 01:25:21,880
Speaker 6: North Hollywood and we've done a lot of great things

1881
01:25:21,920 --> 01:25:24,960
Speaker 6: personally with them and also now through the organization with

1882
01:25:24,960 --> 01:25:28,040
Speaker 6: with with Benye Box. So it all leads one thing

1883
01:25:28,160 --> 01:25:29,320
Speaker 6: right back to the next.

1884
01:25:30,280 --> 01:25:32,599
Speaker 7: Since you're here now, can you tell the people where

1885
01:25:32,840 --> 01:25:36,640
Speaker 7: the trucks are located or around the way or even.

1886
01:25:38,640 --> 01:25:40,960
Speaker 6: Yeah, well you can find us at Bennet Box, our

1887
01:25:41,000 --> 01:25:45,120
Speaker 6: online on social media just at Bennet Box. And then

1888
01:25:45,160 --> 01:25:47,800
Speaker 6: we're we're up updating our website right now. Right now,

1889
01:25:47,800 --> 01:25:50,439
Speaker 6: we're so focused on marketing and on making every short

1890
01:25:50,600 --> 01:25:52,240
Speaker 6: making sure all the things that we have. We've never

1891
01:25:52,240 --> 01:25:54,479
Speaker 6: done email marketing, we've never done any of that stuff.

1892
01:25:54,600 --> 01:25:58,559
Speaker 6: Really we've been like just so small business, grassroots friends, family.

1893
01:25:58,800 --> 01:26:01,120
Speaker 6: Then now we're like, okay, time take those next steps

1894
01:26:01,320 --> 01:26:02,760
Speaker 6: because we really are a small.

1895
01:26:02,479 --> 01:26:04,599
Speaker 4: Team running it. We're just us women.

1896
01:26:04,840 --> 01:26:06,719
Speaker 6: We've had people come in and out that just didn't

1897
01:26:06,720 --> 01:26:09,360
Speaker 6: work out, but we've got to figure it out. And

1898
01:26:09,479 --> 01:26:12,040
Speaker 6: so yeah, you can find us right now at the

1899
01:26:12,040 --> 01:26:15,840
Speaker 6: Topanga Mall at the Westfield to Panga Pega Social Yes,

1900
01:26:16,320 --> 01:26:19,240
Speaker 6: which is great, brings lots of people over there. And

1901
01:26:19,280 --> 01:26:22,080
Speaker 6: then the truck is usually in and around all around town,

1902
01:26:22,160 --> 01:26:25,360
Speaker 6: Studio City, Calabasas, Santa Clarida, Long Beach. If you just

1903
01:26:25,439 --> 01:26:27,880
Speaker 6: check out the page, you know, it'll show where it's at.

1904
01:26:27,920 --> 01:26:30,280
Speaker 6: And eventually right now we're figuring out the email marketing.

1905
01:26:30,360 --> 01:26:32,880
Speaker 6: We have a loyalty program all that stuff. We'll start

1906
01:26:33,000 --> 01:26:35,000
Speaker 6: letting people know, you know where we're at. But you

1907
01:26:35,000 --> 01:26:35,840
Speaker 6: can really just go to it.

1908
01:26:35,960 --> 01:26:37,719
Speaker 7: I mean, I'm gonna get I'm gonna get some uh

1909
01:26:38,000 --> 01:26:38,639
Speaker 7: a discount.

1910
01:26:38,640 --> 01:26:53,240
Speaker 8: Then put you on the loyalty reward, you get a

1911
01:26:53,920 --> 01:26:59,160
Speaker 8: a we got some good deal.

1912
01:26:59,520 --> 01:27:00,400
Speaker 3: Congratulate relations.

1913
01:27:01,479 --> 01:27:05,320
Speaker 7: Just watching how you pivoted in your career has been

1914
01:27:05,360 --> 01:27:09,240
Speaker 7: really cool, you know what I mean, Like, no, absolutely right,

1915
01:27:09,280 --> 01:27:10,680
Speaker 7: because we never know, nobody ever know.

1916
01:27:10,760 --> 01:27:11,560
Speaker 4: People.

1917
01:27:11,640 --> 01:27:14,640
Speaker 7: We meet each other young age, we're all kids, and

1918
01:27:14,680 --> 01:27:17,200
Speaker 7: then some of us become what we become. Some of

1919
01:27:17,280 --> 01:27:21,760
Speaker 7: us go into other spaces. But the main thing that

1920
01:27:21,840 --> 01:27:25,720
Speaker 7: I've seen just off of the survivors in this thing

1921
01:27:25,840 --> 01:27:29,680
Speaker 7: is like literally surviving in music and having a real career.

1922
01:27:29,800 --> 01:27:32,880
Speaker 3: Because you got to be able to pivot. You have to.

1923
01:27:33,840 --> 01:27:35,320
Speaker 7: You know, we talk about that all the time. You

1924
01:27:35,720 --> 01:27:40,000
Speaker 7: can't shop that same demo, yeah, you know what I

1925
01:27:40,000 --> 01:27:41,640
Speaker 7: mean in any term, You know what I mean. You

1926
01:27:41,680 --> 01:27:44,320
Speaker 7: just can't continue to shop that same thing. It's like, Okay,

1927
01:27:44,360 --> 01:27:49,439
Speaker 7: well what else can I do in these spaces because

1928
01:27:49,479 --> 01:27:52,000
Speaker 7: all of this is in your wheelhouse though, everything that

1929
01:27:52,040 --> 01:27:56,439
Speaker 7: you just said all connected, It all connected, and it's

1930
01:27:56,520 --> 01:27:59,760
Speaker 7: really cool to see. And just like I said, congratulations

1931
01:28:00,120 --> 01:28:02,040
Speaker 7: you graduation. I've known you a really long time.

1932
01:28:02,080 --> 01:28:04,120
Speaker 4: I know we have each other for a long time,

1933
01:28:04,439 --> 01:28:06,439
Speaker 4: all of us here. We're not gonna talk about age.

1934
01:28:08,320 --> 01:28:09,160
Speaker 4: That's all I got to say.

1935
01:28:09,200 --> 01:28:11,240
Speaker 3: You know that beauty.

1936
01:28:15,080 --> 01:28:15,559
Speaker 4: Forever though.

1937
01:28:15,600 --> 01:28:17,479
Speaker 3: While he was sixty three, is he about to be

1938
01:28:17,520 --> 01:28:19,760
Speaker 3: sixty four? I said, yeah, I'm allowed to be sixty five.

1939
01:28:21,520 --> 01:28:26,840
Speaker 4: Oh my birthday, right time. It was the right time.

1940
01:28:26,920 --> 01:28:27,479
Speaker 4: A good time.

1941
01:28:27,520 --> 01:28:29,599
Speaker 1: We need a couple of things from you before you go. Yes,

1942
01:28:32,640 --> 01:28:39,280
Speaker 1: we need your top Oh lord, oh lord, five oh.

1943
01:28:41,439 --> 01:28:45,280
Speaker 4: R and B artists Brandy.

1944
01:28:45,080 --> 01:28:53,200
Speaker 1: Oh okay, let's go all right, married j oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,

1945
01:28:52,680 --> 01:28:54,240
Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah.

1946
01:28:55,720 --> 01:28:59,960
Speaker 6: Oh gosh, I mean Beyonce, she's she's a little everything.

1947
01:29:00,880 --> 01:29:07,320
Speaker 4: She's I can consider her. She's and my last one. Dang,

1948
01:29:07,640 --> 01:29:11,519
Speaker 4: I gotta go back though. I want to go. Oh,

1949
01:29:12,000 --> 01:29:15,200
Speaker 4: Aretha Franklin. No no no no no no no no

1950
01:29:15,200 --> 01:29:17,439
Speaker 4: no no no, I said the wrong name. It starts

1951
01:29:17,439 --> 01:29:23,640
Speaker 4: with the A. No no no, no know me. I

1952
01:29:23,680 --> 01:29:24,680
Speaker 4: need a baker.

1953
01:29:25,960 --> 01:29:31,599
Speaker 1: What a voice? Guy in there? Right?

1954
01:29:32,280 --> 01:29:34,240
Speaker 4: I mean I can keep going no, no, no, no no.

1955
01:29:35,680 --> 01:29:39,200
Speaker 4: But I like my females and I relate very much

1956
01:29:39,280 --> 01:29:39,960
Speaker 4: to them.

1957
01:29:40,280 --> 01:29:42,320
Speaker 6: And uh, but there are a lot of ARM and

1958
01:29:42,320 --> 01:29:45,519
Speaker 6: B males. I mean, especially groups. I love groups, my gosh,

1959
01:29:45,560 --> 01:29:47,599
Speaker 6: true hell, Joe's all the groups.

1960
01:29:47,640 --> 01:29:48,400
Speaker 4: I mean, everybody.

1961
01:29:48,439 --> 01:29:53,600
Speaker 6: You make great albums, like I can keep going.

1962
01:29:52,720 --> 01:29:55,680
Speaker 1: Five, it'll be in the top fifteen. I know you.

1963
01:29:55,760 --> 01:29:59,400
Speaker 1: I know you're gonna do top five Army songs.

1964
01:30:00,040 --> 01:30:06,320
Speaker 4: Oh nah, he would go, I gotta do this R

1965
01:30:06,400 --> 01:30:06,640
Speaker 4: and B.

1966
01:30:07,720 --> 01:30:11,599
Speaker 6: Gosh, can we just go through all the Confessions album.

1967
01:30:15,080 --> 01:30:16,160
Speaker 4: That's a great album.

1968
01:30:16,320 --> 01:30:16,960
Speaker 1: Incredible.

1969
01:30:17,920 --> 01:30:20,320
Speaker 6: Gosh, guys, you really do this.

1970
01:30:20,600 --> 01:30:21,920
Speaker 4: You should have told me in bed.

1971
01:30:21,960 --> 01:30:23,559
Speaker 1: This is the thing we told Billy.

1972
01:30:24,439 --> 01:30:28,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, he didn't tell me. Can I'm gonna go through

1973
01:30:28,200 --> 01:30:28,519
Speaker 4: my phone.

1974
01:30:28,560 --> 01:30:32,760
Speaker 6: I'm gonna tell you what I have that you did not, guy,

1975
01:30:33,439 --> 01:30:34,360
Speaker 6: did not say this.

1976
01:30:34,920 --> 01:30:36,639
Speaker 4: Hold on, we go to R and B and we're

1977
01:30:36,640 --> 01:30:37,280
Speaker 4: gonna make this.

1978
01:30:37,760 --> 01:30:41,400
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, I mean to B B. I get so weak.

1979
01:30:41,680 --> 01:30:44,240
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, Mary j.

1980
01:30:44,320 --> 01:30:47,880
Speaker 6: Blige, Wait wait, but there's a specific song because that

1981
01:30:48,200 --> 01:30:48,880
Speaker 6: was my jam.

1982
01:30:49,000 --> 01:30:51,439
Speaker 4: That was like, Mary, Oh my gosh, y'all killing me.

1983
01:30:52,920 --> 01:30:54,479
Speaker 7: I love that you have the pink phone with the

1984
01:30:54,520 --> 01:30:57,120
Speaker 7: heart hanging now if it's very I love, don't cost

1985
01:30:57,120 --> 01:30:57,360
Speaker 7: the thing.

1986
01:30:59,439 --> 01:31:00,680
Speaker 4: I haven't out of it.

1987
01:31:01,640 --> 01:31:01,720
Speaker 6: Not.

1988
01:31:02,320 --> 01:31:05,599
Speaker 4: Well, that's a great song too. Oh yeah, I love

1989
01:31:05,640 --> 01:31:07,800
Speaker 4: real love. She's got so.

1990
01:31:07,800 --> 01:31:09,920
Speaker 6: Many songs, but there's just one.

1991
01:31:12,360 --> 01:31:14,479
Speaker 4: But let's let's get it. Cronk. I'm sorry. It's an

1992
01:31:14,560 --> 01:31:16,479
Speaker 4: army songs was my jam.

1993
01:31:16,520 --> 01:31:22,760
Speaker 6: So we're gonna put that read about heartbreak Hotel. That's

1994
01:31:22,800 --> 01:31:23,360
Speaker 6: another one.

1995
01:31:23,760 --> 01:31:25,000
Speaker 4: It's a Mary js Los song.

1996
01:31:25,080 --> 01:31:31,200
Speaker 6: I have to say because it's necessary my life. Mary Jane, Oh,

1997
01:31:31,400 --> 01:31:35,280
Speaker 6: I'm gonna you know, I'm gonna give Maya Maya. Maya's

1998
01:31:37,000 --> 01:31:39,800
Speaker 6: gosh Case of the X. Case of the X was

1999
01:31:39,800 --> 01:31:44,200
Speaker 6: popped though, but her first song too, and it's uh damn,

2000
01:31:44,240 --> 01:31:47,120
Speaker 6: what was Maya? I love Maya Rocked the Boat, Aliyah

2001
01:31:47,360 --> 01:31:51,320
Speaker 6: Rock the Boat, great song, amazing and we got one more?

2002
01:31:51,800 --> 01:31:56,799
Speaker 4: Is that? What it is? Brandy? Brandy Brandy.

2003
01:31:57,080 --> 01:31:59,240
Speaker 6: Because it's gonna be hard to pick this one, but

2004
01:31:59,360 --> 01:32:01,479
Speaker 6: that I'm gonna go with this.

2005
01:32:01,360 --> 01:32:04,000
Speaker 4: Album, Never Say Never. That was my jam.

2006
01:32:04,040 --> 01:32:06,320
Speaker 6: And it's gonna be hard to pick this one because

2007
01:32:06,360 --> 01:32:08,519
Speaker 6: Never Say Never was my album. Me and my girlfriend

2008
01:32:08,560 --> 01:32:11,640
Speaker 6: would be in the car crying over our little boyfriends,

2009
01:32:11,760 --> 01:32:16,280
Speaker 6: singing the songs, Oh my gosh, Oh Angel in disguise.

2010
01:32:17,720 --> 01:32:24,840
Speaker 4: Angel, Yes, and I got the Roddy Jerkins what he

2011
01:32:24,880 --> 01:32:28,760
Speaker 4: did in music, super bad by super Bad.

2012
01:32:28,880 --> 01:32:31,280
Speaker 1: He was a super producer, He is a super is Yes,

2013
01:32:31,320 --> 01:32:32,439
Speaker 1: he is super bag.

2014
01:32:33,040 --> 01:32:36,040
Speaker 6: So I'd say that whole album, actually, but we'll go

2015
01:32:36,120 --> 01:32:39,519
Speaker 6: with Angel. Honestly, it's every song you got a top

2016
01:32:40,120 --> 01:32:46,960
Speaker 6: that Okay.

2017
01:32:44,439 --> 01:32:47,200
Speaker 1: It's your world, it's your work. Let's make a Vultron.

2018
01:32:47,240 --> 01:32:49,800
Speaker 1: You're a super R and B artist, right. If you're

2019
01:32:49,840 --> 01:32:52,880
Speaker 1: making an artist, you're making a superhero R and B artist,

2020
01:32:53,200 --> 01:32:56,559
Speaker 1: and you want to get the vocals from somewhere or

2021
01:32:56,640 --> 01:33:01,400
Speaker 1: mid style from somebody, the styling of the artists, the

2022
01:33:01,439 --> 01:33:03,760
Speaker 1: heart of the artist. And since you're a songwriter who's

2023
01:33:03,760 --> 01:33:05,880
Speaker 1: gonna write for this artist, you need one vocal to

2024
01:33:05,920 --> 01:33:07,479
Speaker 1: make your super R and B artist.

2025
01:33:07,479 --> 01:33:08,680
Speaker 4: What is that going to be?

2026
01:33:09,320 --> 01:33:11,840
Speaker 6: Well, I just love Brandy's voice, So I'm gonna put

2027
01:33:11,880 --> 01:33:16,840
Speaker 6: Brandy's voice on it, saying easy walk Brandy's boys performance style.

2028
01:33:18,400 --> 01:33:19,520
Speaker 4: We're making a super.

2029
01:33:19,320 --> 01:33:23,960
Speaker 6: R and B with the R and B performance style

2030
01:33:24,200 --> 01:33:26,920
Speaker 6: of you know what, I love Maya.

2031
01:33:27,080 --> 01:33:28,479
Speaker 4: We're gonna put she she has.

2032
01:33:29,000 --> 01:33:33,480
Speaker 8: We're talking about her staff.

2033
01:33:34,640 --> 01:33:36,840
Speaker 6: I love a girl that can own it and who's

2034
01:33:36,840 --> 01:33:39,000
Speaker 6: She's kind of timid, she's not like like an hour

2035
01:33:39,080 --> 01:33:43,120
Speaker 6: person that's like, but her music is like she's I

2036
01:33:43,200 --> 01:33:49,559
Speaker 6: like her, Yes, Maryland, you know my love is like Whoa?

2037
01:33:50,640 --> 01:33:52,439
Speaker 6: Here was another one that's another person I should be.

2038
01:33:53,400 --> 01:33:55,599
Speaker 6: But I'm gonna go with Maya because Maya I love.

2039
01:33:56,040 --> 01:33:59,240
Speaker 6: I think I love that. I love what comes out

2040
01:33:59,240 --> 01:34:00,840
Speaker 6: of her. You know what I mean as an artist,

2041
01:34:00,960 --> 01:34:09,080
Speaker 6: a performance and stuff like that. With clothing wise, oh gosh,

2042
01:34:09,720 --> 01:34:14,160
Speaker 6: there's a couple of them. Style wise, I would say dang,

2043
01:34:14,360 --> 01:34:15,920
Speaker 6: I can't put it up at the top of my

2044
01:34:16,479 --> 01:34:22,640
Speaker 6: the top of my ah, give me some girls, damn styling.

2045
01:34:22,320 --> 01:34:24,200
Speaker 1: Wise, you gotta read.

2046
01:34:24,320 --> 01:34:28,759
Speaker 6: You got the oh Rihanna, Yeah, Rihanna and the style too, please.

2047
01:34:29,280 --> 01:34:31,240
Speaker 4: Rihanna got easy easy.

2048
01:34:31,040 --> 01:34:34,840
Speaker 1: Love that love that she she put that ship on. Yeah,

2049
01:34:34,880 --> 01:34:36,679
Speaker 1: the passion of the artist, the heart.

2050
01:34:36,520 --> 01:34:38,400
Speaker 4: Of the arts coming from the heart.

2051
01:34:38,400 --> 01:34:40,360
Speaker 6: I'm gonna give it to Beyonce because that girl's got

2052
01:34:40,360 --> 01:34:41,759
Speaker 6: a heart of the heart of a lion.

2053
01:34:41,840 --> 01:34:42,840
Speaker 4: She just doesn't give up.

2054
01:34:43,520 --> 01:34:46,439
Speaker 6: She's just she's that what would Beyonce do? Like, she's

2055
01:34:46,479 --> 01:34:48,840
Speaker 6: that voice in your head when you're feeling lazy that

2056
01:34:48,960 --> 01:34:52,360
Speaker 6: day and you're like, oh my gosh, I'm overwhelmed, and

2057
01:34:52,400 --> 01:34:52,760
Speaker 6: you're like.

2058
01:34:52,880 --> 01:34:54,080
Speaker 4: Whoa that woman?

2059
01:34:54,720 --> 01:34:56,960
Speaker 1: Beyonce would get to work. She would get to work,

2060
01:34:57,680 --> 01:35:00,839
Speaker 1: heels on the track, get to work.

2061
01:35:01,000 --> 01:35:04,200
Speaker 4: On treadmill and singing and singing. Yeah, caring a baby.

2062
01:35:04,200 --> 01:35:07,000
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, who's writing for this artist?

2063
01:35:07,520 --> 01:35:20,519
Speaker 4: Oh? Dang, okay? The dream yeah? Yeah. Tricky Steward.

2064
01:35:24,439 --> 01:35:28,640
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm not mad, not biased at all, No, not

2065
01:35:28,760 --> 01:35:32,200
Speaker 6: for any particular reason, but I have witnessed the man's

2066
01:35:32,200 --> 01:35:33,320
Speaker 6: talent in his very.

2067
01:35:33,520 --> 01:35:42,879
Speaker 10: Respect respect what's going on because We got one more segment,

2068
01:35:43,800 --> 01:35:45,200
Speaker 10: and we have to give a disclaimer.

2069
01:35:46,080 --> 01:35:48,479
Speaker 7: My brother's doing eight shows a week now. He's doing

2070
01:35:48,520 --> 01:35:51,960
Speaker 7: eight shows a week on John Browdway, right, he's a thespid.

2071
01:35:52,280 --> 01:35:54,400
Speaker 6: Can we talk about the title? Give me the title.

2072
01:35:54,439 --> 01:35:56,479
Speaker 6: We need to name anybody who doesn't know what show

2073
01:35:56,520 --> 01:35:57,519
Speaker 6: he's doing? What's the show?

2074
01:35:58,439 --> 01:36:02,520
Speaker 1: I am doing Hell's Kitchen and asking Alicia Keys Broadway

2075
01:36:02,640 --> 01:36:08,599
Speaker 1: Musical and I play her father Davis. And it's real.

2076
01:36:09,000 --> 01:36:10,720
Speaker 1: It's real, it's real. You got it.

2077
01:36:10,720 --> 01:36:12,120
Speaker 3: When you go back to New York, you gotta go

2078
01:36:12,200 --> 01:36:12,599
Speaker 3: check it out.

2079
01:36:12,600 --> 01:36:16,759
Speaker 1: I will like it's like, you know, it's Tony Award

2080
01:36:16,840 --> 01:36:19,120
Speaker 1: winners and nominees all over that.

2081
01:36:19,240 --> 01:36:20,960
Speaker 7: I was ready to throw tomatoes at him. He did

2082
01:36:21,000 --> 01:36:22,960
Speaker 7: his thing, no starting, I mean I had to tell

2083
01:36:23,080 --> 01:36:23,920
Speaker 7: I had to celebrate it.

2084
01:36:24,439 --> 01:36:25,080
Speaker 4: You couldn't help it.

2085
01:36:25,160 --> 01:36:29,679
Speaker 1: You killers on stage.

2086
01:36:30,120 --> 01:36:32,400
Speaker 6: Yeah, especially, and by the way, Broadway is killing you

2087
01:36:32,479 --> 01:36:35,559
Speaker 6: right now. You're amongst all these eight plus everything everywhere.

2088
01:36:36,040 --> 01:36:39,600
Speaker 1: Danzel's feet away, Denzel's right there. They cool and all that.

2089
01:36:39,640 --> 01:36:40,280
Speaker 1: But we talked.

2090
01:36:40,080 --> 01:36:42,840
Speaker 4: About this week talking about we're.

2091
01:36:42,720 --> 01:36:49,799
Speaker 1: Talking about dol Doorrail junior juniors. We'll be talking about senior.

2092
01:36:49,880 --> 01:36:53,240
Speaker 1: I get it. You want to see the new Denzel

2093
01:36:53,320 --> 01:36:57,240
Speaker 1: get to work. I'm on forty four. Oh, hello, my,

2094
01:36:58,040 --> 01:37:00,400
Speaker 1: I'm on forty four. Stand.

2095
01:37:04,080 --> 01:37:07,120
Speaker 7: We had a very important segment of the show. What

2096
01:37:07,240 --> 01:37:09,439
Speaker 7: we close out is called I Ain't saying on names?

2097
01:37:10,240 --> 01:37:13,599
Speaker 7: Will you give us a story? Funny or fucked up?

2098
01:37:13,920 --> 01:37:17,479
Speaker 7: Are funny and fucked up? The only route to the

2099
01:37:17,520 --> 01:37:19,200
Speaker 7: game is you can't say no names.

2100
01:37:19,200 --> 01:37:20,559
Speaker 4: Funny orked up?

2101
01:37:20,840 --> 01:37:21,880
Speaker 3: Both are both.

2102
01:37:22,439 --> 01:37:28,160
Speaker 6: It could be Billy, You'm alright and die. You gotta

2103
01:37:28,160 --> 01:37:35,880
Speaker 6: tell me because I know we got stories and I'm yeah,

2104
01:37:36,560 --> 01:37:37,320
Speaker 6: Las Vegas.

2105
01:37:37,920 --> 01:37:40,040
Speaker 1: I like that New Years.

2106
01:37:41,840 --> 01:37:48,240
Speaker 6: Hotel opening New Year's not okay, I can't sit then

2107
01:37:48,360 --> 01:37:54,880
Speaker 6: because I just love won't. But you might know the

2108
01:37:54,960 --> 01:37:58,600
Speaker 6: name just based off of my own interpretations of the situation,

2109
01:37:58,960 --> 01:38:00,519
Speaker 6: because this is an it's one of those nights.

2110
01:38:00,520 --> 01:38:01,880
Speaker 4: Actually you don't say the name. That's how good.

2111
01:38:01,880 --> 01:38:04,880
Speaker 6: This is beautiful, because this is almost a couple. This

2112
01:38:04,920 --> 01:38:08,519
Speaker 6: is twenty years later or no, ten years later. Okay,

2113
01:38:08,760 --> 01:38:11,840
Speaker 6: So we go night, Oh my gosh, we're having so

2114
01:38:11,920 --> 01:38:13,719
Speaker 6: much fun. Me and my friends, me and my sister

2115
01:38:13,880 --> 01:38:18,200
Speaker 6: and my sisters. Billy's there we go, New Year's Night,

2116
01:38:18,320 --> 01:38:22,280
Speaker 6: We see the fireworks, Crazy night, Billy, let's let's help

2117
01:38:22,280 --> 01:38:24,479
Speaker 6: me this with this story, because how do we end

2118
01:38:24,560 --> 01:38:27,599
Speaker 6: up there? Somehow we end up going with a very

2119
01:38:27,640 --> 01:38:31,240
Speaker 6: popular ARM and B pop star to a strip club.

2120
01:38:31,320 --> 01:38:32,880
Speaker 4: Is that where we started? How we end up there?

2121
01:38:34,000 --> 01:38:37,280
Speaker 6: Go say it, just say the beginning of it.

2122
01:38:38,479 --> 01:38:39,759
Speaker 4: Jay Z and Coldplay were playing.

2123
01:38:40,080 --> 01:38:41,559
Speaker 6: They are not in the part of the story, but

2124
01:38:41,600 --> 01:38:44,599
Speaker 6: they were there at the Yeah, so we see this

2125
01:38:44,760 --> 01:38:47,360
Speaker 6: all this everybody everybody like, all the hottest stars are

2126
01:38:47,360 --> 01:38:50,680
Speaker 6: at this big cosmopolitan, you know, New Year's night thing,

2127
01:38:51,120 --> 01:38:54,800
Speaker 6: and somehow we end up around this other star. She's

2128
01:38:54,840 --> 01:38:59,320
Speaker 6: a female's pretty dope, and we all decide somehow we're

2129
01:38:59,360 --> 01:39:00,360
Speaker 6: all going to the strip club.

2130
01:39:00,400 --> 01:39:02,599
Speaker 4: And she's like, come on, let's go. So she's got

2131
01:39:02,640 --> 01:39:02,920
Speaker 4: you know.

2132
01:39:02,880 --> 01:39:04,960
Speaker 6: The biggest you know, the big suv trucks.

2133
01:39:05,040 --> 01:39:05,919
Speaker 4: We all clamoring.

2134
01:39:06,000 --> 01:39:08,960
Speaker 6: We're stuffed in there like sausages, and she's like, she's

2135
01:39:09,000 --> 01:39:11,200
Speaker 6: a boss, by the way, and she gets.

2136
01:39:11,000 --> 01:39:12,160
Speaker 4: Us all inside of the car.

2137
01:39:12,520 --> 01:39:14,920
Speaker 6: We get to the strip club. We're at the strip

2138
01:39:14,960 --> 01:39:17,320
Speaker 6: club having a really good time. By then, we've had

2139
01:39:17,400 --> 01:39:20,560
Speaker 6: multiple shots, you know, there's people smoking, a little everything.

2140
01:39:21,840 --> 01:39:24,320
Speaker 6: She decides she's done with the strip club. We're gonna

2141
01:39:24,320 --> 01:39:25,599
Speaker 6: bring the strip club back.

2142
01:39:25,560 --> 01:39:27,560
Speaker 4: To her hotel room.

2143
01:39:28,680 --> 01:39:31,920
Speaker 6: So everybody gets back in the car. She's really cool,

2144
01:39:31,960 --> 01:39:33,760
Speaker 6: by the way, and we get in the car. We

2145
01:39:33,840 --> 01:39:36,639
Speaker 6: go to her penthouse suite that she has at the hotel,

2146
01:39:37,040 --> 01:39:38,160
Speaker 6: and we're just in awe of all.

2147
01:39:38,439 --> 01:39:39,920
Speaker 4: We're watching it, and she's such a boss.

2148
01:39:39,960 --> 01:39:43,120
Speaker 6: She's walking around the room, she's got stacks of singles

2149
01:39:43,479 --> 01:39:45,800
Speaker 6: in her pocket, and she's the but she doesn't really

2150
01:39:45,840 --> 01:39:47,519
Speaker 6: hasn't shared it. And she brought the strippers back. So

2151
01:39:47,560 --> 01:39:49,960
Speaker 6: these female strippers come back, you know, and so they're

2152
01:39:50,000 --> 01:39:53,080
Speaker 6: shaking their butt everywhere and everything shaking ass and they're naked,

2153
01:39:53,840 --> 01:39:55,160
Speaker 6: but nobody's paying attention to them.

2154
01:39:55,160 --> 01:39:57,600
Speaker 4: They're just like music playing out loud. People are smoking a.

2155
01:39:57,600 --> 01:39:59,160
Speaker 6: Little weed, you know what I mean, and we're all

2156
01:39:59,160 --> 01:40:01,800
Speaker 6: talking just you know, having a good time. But the

2157
01:40:01,800 --> 01:40:03,799
Speaker 6: strippers are doing stuff, but they're not getting paid anything.

2158
01:40:04,120 --> 01:40:06,080
Speaker 6: She has the money, but she hasn't you know, it's

2159
01:40:06,080 --> 01:40:06,559
Speaker 6: in the cut.

2160
01:40:07,280 --> 01:40:08,720
Speaker 4: So eventually the strippers.

2161
01:40:08,400 --> 01:40:10,320
Speaker 6: Are like, you know, oh my god, they're starting to

2162
01:40:10,320 --> 01:40:12,160
Speaker 6: get bored because no one's paying attention to them. So

2163
01:40:12,240 --> 01:40:15,479
Speaker 6: they go up to this girl and they're like, so

2164
01:40:15,520 --> 01:40:19,880
Speaker 6: and so we're gonna lead because you know, everybody's you know, everybody,

2165
01:40:21,600 --> 01:40:24,920
Speaker 6: Billy have to tell it, Come on, say it, you

2166
01:40:25,000 --> 01:40:27,040
Speaker 6: have to say what she says, Okay, you're gonna say it.

2167
01:40:27,840 --> 01:40:30,200
Speaker 4: So we're gonna leave because nobody's paying attention to us, and.

2168
01:40:30,200 --> 01:40:44,519
Speaker 6: They're holding their clothes in their hand, and she says.

2169
01:40:48,320 --> 01:40:50,000
Speaker 4: They weren't back.

2170
01:40:49,880 --> 01:40:52,360
Speaker 6: On the floor got to dancing, and then she said,

2171
01:40:52,920 --> 01:40:55,120
Speaker 6: just threw her she just threw the sacks.

2172
01:40:54,800 --> 01:40:55,839
Speaker 4: Of cash at them.

2173
01:40:56,120 --> 01:40:58,320
Speaker 6: And the night continued on and we were just in

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Speaker 6: all of this woman because she's just for so cool

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Speaker 6: and she's and I think, you know, I think that

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Speaker 6: told the story. So that's night we still talk about

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Speaker 6: to this tonight. We still talk about to this day,

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Speaker 6: just kind of like watching this this strong ass female

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Speaker 6: that's just so cool, be as dope as you imagine

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Speaker 6: that she is.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it.

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Speaker 3: Shut and there.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to hear it.

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Speaker 4: That's all she had to say.

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Speaker 1: That was it. Yeah, I don't want to hear nothing else.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's great. That's a really good story.

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Speaker 4: That's christ So that's a funny story.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you have you have navigated this thing in

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Speaker 1: such a way.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that was amazing. Was that two hours?

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Speaker 1: It's close. We were trying to you. But you've navigated

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Speaker 1: this thing with with with so much grace and so

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Speaker 1: much class. And to see you now, to see you

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Speaker 1: still evolving, to see you still growing, still surprising us

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Speaker 1: and showing us new things, it's just like, really dough,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. We we we didn't get

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Speaker 1: to tap too heavy into the the you know, the

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Speaker 1: wife and the children in this aspect of But that's

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Speaker 1: that's a whole another space. That is to where you know,

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Speaker 1: with everything else that you do, like you're in this

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Speaker 1: super woman super hero space that is just it should

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Speaker 1: be studied.

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Speaker 4: I got some work to do. It's not easy, no.

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Speaker 1: Space, but we get to you know, we get to

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Speaker 1: see you show up. You get to pull up on

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Speaker 1: us and and it all looks good on you.

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Speaker 4: Oh thank you.

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Speaker 6: I'm just trying to stay young, drink a lot of water, hopefully,

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Speaker 6: stay in shape, trying to do what these kids need

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Speaker 6: in their life. It starts show for whoever needs me

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Speaker 6: to show up for. You know, that's important. But no

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Speaker 6: matter what, God has just guided me. I always turned

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Speaker 6: to gout and that's what keeps me and all of

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Speaker 6: those things going. And I'm just thankful for my longevity

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Speaker 6: and to meet good people and through my lifetime and

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01:43:29,520 --> 01:43:31,679
Speaker 6: be good to people and people be good back and

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Speaker 6: it always comes back around. So great lesson I've learned

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Speaker 6: and I'm really happy about it.

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Speaker 4: Look at us, look at.

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Speaker 8: Us, look good at look at you.

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Speaker 1: And this is the Army Money Podcast, the authority on

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Speaker 1: all things are and be a Superwoman. Family Are outro.

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Speaker 4: Thank you has been been great. Thank you died that

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Speaker 1: Yah