Speaker 1: I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about everything
Speaker 1: and everybody.
Speaker 2: You don't know if you don't lie about that, right,
Speaker 2: Lauren can't even.
Speaker 1: Hey, y'all, what's up. It's Laura l Rosa and this
Speaker 1: is the Latest with Laura le Rosa.
Speaker 3: This is your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment,
Speaker 3: news and the conversations that shake the room. Now we're
Speaker 3: doing a quick little check in before we get into
Speaker 3: this artist interview.
Speaker 1: Yes, we have an interview.
Speaker 3: Y'all love when we do the interviews here on the podcast.
Speaker 1: Just checking in real quick.
Speaker 3: Coming off of Juneteenth, a day off of work sort
Speaker 3: of kind of, I'm feeling energized and ready for the weekend,
Speaker 3: more days off of work that won't be off of
Speaker 3: work for real, because this weekend I'm headed to Delaware.
Speaker 3: We are doing a galla for the HBCU week Experience.
Speaker 3: I'll be honored with Anthony Anderson. So I'll be coming
Speaker 3: back and talk to you guys a bit about that
Speaker 3: and all the things that went down there. But I'm
Speaker 3: getting ready for that, and as we get ready, I
Speaker 3: want to I want to let you guys listen to
Speaker 3: this interview that me and DJ MV did with Honeybaby.
Speaker 1: She is a rapper. I'm sorry, she is a music artist.
Speaker 1: She's a singer from Jersey. Music is everywhere in New
Speaker 1: York right now. But the conversation we had with her
Speaker 1: respecial because it was in celebration of Juneteenth. We did
Speaker 1: a celebrating freedom sit down at the American Dream Mall
Speaker 1: in New Jersey and this was a dope day. Like
Speaker 1: they had a small businesses set up that you could
Speaker 1: shop from black owned businesses. They had an expungement clinic
Speaker 1: where people from the community could come and figure out
Speaker 1: getting you know, their backgrounds, expunge and have conversations with
Speaker 1: prosecutors about how to move forward once that's done. It
Speaker 1: was just a day full of us about us in
Speaker 1: American Dream uplifting black business, black community. There were relatives,
Speaker 1: they're helping people figure out I they could buy homes.
Speaker 1: And then we brought on the music in the entertainment
Speaker 1: and Honey Baby talks a lot in this interview about
Speaker 1: her upbringing what June Team means to her, It was
Speaker 1: just fire. Take a listen, what the builds everybody really
Speaker 1: doesn't everybody, how's everybody.
Speaker 4: Feeling right now?
Speaker 1: Like to what ulten say? What Brother dj Envy and
Speaker 1: my sister Laura and La Rosa can we get around with?
Speaker 2: Please?
Speaker 5: How y'all feeling y'all?
Speaker 1: All right, hey, y'all happy June teen? Y'all elect you
Speaker 1: slider yet to me as slot, y'all ain't none of
Speaker 1: the slides yet? This ain't really Juneteenth?
Speaker 5: Then we're gonna start in a little bit.
Speaker 4: So if you don't know, first and foremost salute to
Speaker 4: American Dream who does this each and every year Juneteenth,
Speaker 4: and it just gives us an opportunity to talk about
Speaker 4: June teeth, what it means to us. Do some dope
Speaker 4: panels with some dope artists talk about financial literacy and
Speaker 4: talk to different politicians and talk to different things that
Speaker 4: we need in our community. A lot of times we
Speaker 4: don't necessarily get that. So the fact that we're in
Speaker 4: the middle of them all while people are shopping, hopefully
Speaker 4: they can stop talk and express some of their feelings.
Speaker 4: So first we'd like to discuss June teeth and what
Speaker 4: it means to eat every one of us. You know,
Speaker 4: the funny thing for me about June teenth is it
Speaker 4: was kind of a holiday that we just started celebrating
Speaker 4: a couple of years ago. Right when I was a kid,
Speaker 4: there was no June teeth, and it just popped up.
Speaker 1: Well, Envy, we know you Dominican, so.
Speaker 4: I am not Dominican, I'm Black, But you know, it
Speaker 4: came up something that we started celebrating really heavy in
Speaker 4: the last couple of years, and it meant a lot
Speaker 4: because you know, for us it was like, oh, a
Speaker 4: day off of school, a day off of work. But
Speaker 4: now we have to get to the meeting of what
Speaker 4: it means and why it should be celebrated. So before
Speaker 4: we get into that, what does June teenth mean to you?
Speaker 1: June teenth to me means seasoning.
Speaker 3: And when I say seasoning, I think about like like
Speaker 3: we joke around and say, like, okay, you eat in
Speaker 3: a black household, you feel full, you feel the seasonings,
Speaker 3: all of that. But when you think about it, seasoning
Speaker 3: is culture. It's death, there's substance, there's a feeling, a
Speaker 3: community of family. I think anytime you get a group
Speaker 3: of black people together and we're talking about like things
Speaker 3: that juneteen makes people remember, like you know, where we
Speaker 3: came from, what we've overcome.
Speaker 1: Where we're looking forward to in the future. It feels
Speaker 1: like home. Juneteenth is that it's a day to just
Speaker 1: be like, you know what, I'm chilling to day. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be my people.
Speaker 3: I'm gonnag good, but I'm ann feel at home and
Speaker 3: I'm a feel community in.
Speaker 1: Love and a big hug.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So if you don't know, of course, Juneteenth was the
Speaker 4: day that slaves in Texas finally found out that they
Speaker 4: were free.
Speaker 5: Right, they were free before.
Speaker 4: That, but that was the day that they finally found out.
Speaker 4: So for me, I like to do these events because
Speaker 4: I love collaboration, right. Collaboration, in my opinion, is way
Speaker 4: better than competition. If we could collaborate with each other,
Speaker 4: there's so much that we can do. That's so we
Speaker 4: can go a lot further, And that's what we need
Speaker 4: to start doing as people. We look at all these
Speaker 4: different communities and for them, they collaborate a lot easier, right,
Speaker 4: They spread the knowledge a lot better, And I think
Speaker 4: we have to do a lot of that ourselves. If
Speaker 4: we know something that can benefit your brother or your sister,
Speaker 4: we need to start talking about.
Speaker 5: It a lot more. That's why I call Laura.
Speaker 4: And my sister is if there's anything that she's going
Speaker 4: through or I can help. I try to be there
Speaker 4: to help because I don't want her to make the
Speaker 4: same mistakes that I made. I don't want her to
Speaker 4: see the same pitfalls and the same everything. And that
Speaker 4: comes from relationship to business structure to radio and hopefully
Speaker 4: she's doing the same with her family and that's.
Speaker 5: What we need to do. More.
Speaker 4: So, what's one thing that you want to see more
Speaker 4: on June teenth?
Speaker 3: I think I want to see more of Like I
Speaker 3: thought that it was interesting when they were telling me
Speaker 3: what they're doing here in the mall because I didn't
Speaker 3: even know that this happened until you invited me to come.
Speaker 3: They're highlighting small businesses, there's an expungement clinic, things like that,
Speaker 3: like things that like drip down to the people, like
Speaker 3: everyday people. I think a lot of times when you
Speaker 3: talk about, like you know, diversity and inclusion, all these
Speaker 3: things that like affect us as black people, sometimes it's
Speaker 3: so high level that the everyday person who's just trying
Speaker 3: to figure it out in a real way, you don't
Speaker 3: feel it, nor do you have the time to stop
Speaker 3: and care. So I would love to see more things
Speaker 3: like this where you're bringing in these small businesses you
Speaker 3: know these different resources like Nguement Clinic that actually help
Speaker 3: people that are on their day to day just walking
Speaker 3: through the mall that really need it, and it's right
Speaker 3: there at arms reach.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 4: And I was actually talking to the prosecutor early and
Speaker 4: we were just talking about different things, and a lot
Speaker 4: of times we're bred to hate certain things, right, We're
Speaker 4: bred to hate, you know, prosecutors' attorneys. We're bred to
Speaker 4: hate police officers. But I tell everybody all the time,
Speaker 4: my dad is a retired cop.
Speaker 5: So I look at it.
Speaker 4: From two different sides. When I was talking to the prosecutor,
Speaker 4: I was telling her she was talking about expungements and
Speaker 4: doing different things, and I was like, that is great,
Speaker 4: and that's wonderful, but what would we really need to
Speaker 4: do is do more things in the community. And she said, well,
Speaker 4: what do you mean. I said, it's hard to tell
Speaker 4: a sixteen year old that if I go take that
Speaker 4: car and don't get caught, I can get ten thousand
Speaker 4: dollars for doing it and tell him not to do it. Right,
Speaker 4: But now if we put different things in his hand,
Speaker 4: different opportunities in his hand, and says, hey, I can
Speaker 4: still make money.
Speaker 5: But I ain't got to worry about going to jail.
Speaker 4: Those are the things that these kids need to see,
Speaker 4: and it's not going to come from our parents. It's
Speaker 4: gonna come from us, right because they want to see
Speaker 4: it from us. It's like when your dad or your
Speaker 4: mom tells you something like you really be like ima.
Speaker 5: Whatever, eyepops whatever.
Speaker 4: But now you get that same information from somebody that
Speaker 4: looks like you, the same age as you, that's making
Speaker 4: this ten times the money you all, you're more likely
Speaker 4: to see it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with that.
Speaker 3: I also think too, when you set up things like
Speaker 3: what they have happening in them all, I think kids
Speaker 3: see that like it's important because other people care about
Speaker 3: it too. Because a lot of times, especially nowadays, but
Speaker 3: kids like my niece is she's ten years old. A
Speaker 3: lot of what she cares about and what she thinks
Speaker 3: is important depends on who also thinks it's important and
Speaker 3: who also cares. So I think even being able to
Speaker 3: do something like this and just put any things on
Speaker 3: platforms like this, it shows kids like, oh shoot, okay,
Speaker 3: Lauren and Envy were there and all these people gather,
Speaker 3: let me at least see what this is, and then
Speaker 3: they learn about the small businesses and they learn about
Speaker 3: and even what you're talking about, right, like creating these
Speaker 3: opportunities in the community. Sometimes you got organizations that are
Speaker 3: coming and create these opportunities. But the kids gotta they
Speaker 3: gotta want to go, So you got to. I think
Speaker 3: we have to do a better job. I know, like
Speaker 3: for myself, one of the things I try to do
Speaker 3: with even being from Delaware, just talk about being from
Speaker 3: Delaware because.
Speaker 4: Nobody's from Delaware. But go ahead, but Joe Biden, but
Speaker 4: go ahead, and y'all don't claim.
Speaker 5: Him, but go ahead.
Speaker 3: Anyway, I talk about it because now you have a
Speaker 3: lot of kids who are like, Okay, when I go somewhere,
Speaker 3: I can say, oh, I'm from Delaware, and I can
Speaker 3: feel good about it. But that wasn't always a thing
Speaker 3: because we're a small state, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: We're not in New York. But just something like that,
Speaker 3: like people seeing you care about something makes them care
Speaker 3: about it. And I think when you talk about these programs,
Speaker 3: we have to actually care about them. We got to
Speaker 3: talk about them. We got to show up and do
Speaker 3: things like this, whether it's at a YMCA, it's at
Speaker 3: the American Dream All.
Speaker 1: So the kids are like, Okay, this is lit, this
Speaker 1: is where I should be.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And I also feel like we have to feed these kids,
Speaker 4: and not feed like as far as food, but whatever they.
Speaker 5: Want to do, we have to make sure we pull
Speaker 5: into them, right.
Speaker 4: I agree, And I say that all the time because
Speaker 4: when I told my dad, who is a police officer
Speaker 4: at the time, that I wanted to be a DJ,
Speaker 4: he was going to smack the.
Speaker 5: Black off me.
Speaker 1: Why you keep giving you keep giving me the jokes,
Speaker 1: but smack the black off you.
Speaker 5: It's not much right because but you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: But I wanted to do it anyway, and he poured
Speaker 4: into me regardless, even though he didn't believe.
Speaker 5: And that's what we have to do. When my son came.
Speaker 4: To me, I would say about eight years ago, and
Speaker 4: said he wanted to be a streamer, I laughed. I
Speaker 4: was like a streamer.
Speaker 5: He could have been constant, not right. He could have
Speaker 5: been missed.
Speaker 1: The beast, not mister DJ envy, mixtape DJ right laughing
Speaker 1: at someone to be early on something.
Speaker 4: But I didn't get it because I wasn't involved in it.
Speaker 5: It didn't make sense to me.
Speaker 4: It didn't make sense that you could make money playing
Speaker 4: video games all day. I was like, this is a joke.
Speaker 4: You're just doing this because you don't want to do
Speaker 4: your homework. But he could have been the next this,
Speaker 4: and that's what we have to start pouring. Just because
Speaker 4: we don't get it doesn't mean it's not right, doesn't
Speaker 4: mean it's not a career. It doesn't mean that it
Speaker 4: can't be something that they can do for long periods
Speaker 4: of time.
Speaker 5: You know, Yeah, you're.
Speaker 1: Good at that, even though you're.
Speaker 5: The old head. You're old ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 1: You're good at no.
Speaker 3: You're good at like understanding, like when things are well now.
Speaker 3: I don't know what happened a couple years ago with
Speaker 3: just something, but I.
Speaker 1: Feel like for me, like I'll have an idea or
Speaker 1: like something and you'll be like, well, let's just try it,
Speaker 1: let's just do it, and then it'll work out.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it might not always work out, but it'll work out.
Speaker 3: But you're really good at being like no, just go ahead,
Speaker 3: go try it, go do it. You gotta try it,
Speaker 3: you gotta.
Speaker 1: Do it well.
Speaker 4: A lot of times I've got to invest in my
Speaker 4: friends and family then invest in something that I don't know,
Speaker 4: because if my friends and family connect, no matter what
Speaker 4: happens in this world, they always come back and get you.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, one hundred percent. Man, this is so beautiful.
Speaker 1: Look at us. It's Juneteenth, that's right. Did y'all listen
Speaker 1: to sounds of Black this this morning? What y'all do
Speaker 1: this morning? Yes?
Speaker 2: You did?
Speaker 1: Okay, I did too. I woke up like I'm black, y'all.
Speaker 1: I'm black, y'all, black, Andy, black and black lic Yes,
Speaker 1: this is so beautiful.
Speaker 4: Now we have a special guest that we're gonna bring
Speaker 4: out and talk to.
Speaker 5: But yeah, ready, yeah, we're getting her mic.
Speaker 4: This is actually the first time I'm meeting this individual.
Speaker 3: Oh, this is my girl. She put me in a
Speaker 3: music video. What, Yes, I'm a whole video vixen out here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so now you're a video vixen.
Speaker 3: First of all, ben been, I just had to start
Speaker 3: dressing different when I got a job. But yes, a honeybaby,
Speaker 3: y'all know, honeybaby, Yes, honeybaby is Oh, we're gonna put
Speaker 3: her on a chair, okay, honey baby. I met her
Speaker 3: a few years ago actually talking about community and black
Speaker 3: things and all things black. So I went to HBCU
Speaker 3: Delaware State University, and one of Honeybabies managers or management
Speaker 3: team members actually went to school with me. So she
Speaker 3: came to me and was like, Yo, I'm quitting my job.
Speaker 3: I'm about to manage his artists. And I was like, okay,
Speaker 3: what does that look like?
Speaker 1: What does that mean? And she was like, we're gonna
Speaker 1: start a company.
Speaker 3: You're gonna manage this artist and I'm gonna just figure
Speaker 3: it out years later, like probably like what it's been
Speaker 3: like maybe two years later. Her artist is Honeybaby. This
Speaker 3: is the artist she was talking about, and they're they're
Speaker 3: everywhere and they're moving. She's like, she I feel like
Speaker 3: when I listened to Honeybaby, she is New York. It's
Speaker 3: very she she throws a lot back to the nineties
Speaker 3: than the vibes of the nineties.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna get into the things.
Speaker 3: But if y'all can't tell, I'm a huge fan of
Speaker 3: Honeybaby from Jersey.
Speaker 5: She's from Jersey, New York.
Speaker 3: I didn't know she was from She'd give me Jersey.
Speaker 3: I did not know she was from Jersey. Oh Jersey
Speaker 3: is here to do?
Speaker 2: Jersey?
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, can you play honey Baby record right fast?
Speaker 5: Turn it up a little bit there, we go, honey
Speaker 5: baby one time.
Speaker 1: You always look so good. Look at her, y'all? Ain't
Speaker 1: she so cute? I love the blonde over here?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: They give you a chair, can y'all y'all got.
Speaker 5: A mic for honeybaby?
Speaker 1: Hey girl?
Speaker 5: What's up? So for people that don't know where are
Speaker 5: you from this, honey.
Speaker 1: Baby, I thought you. I did not know that. I
Speaker 1: thought you were from New York. Everybody thinks I'm from
Speaker 1: New York. Yeah, I'll be trying to claim me. I'm
Speaker 1: not from New York.
Speaker 4: Delaware, Delaware, They're trying to claim everybody. So how did
Speaker 4: you get into singing? What got you into singing? What
Speaker 4: was your inspiration?
Speaker 5: And every day?
Speaker 1: I was just around music a lot when I was younger,
Speaker 1: and I don't know, I just grew an attachment to it.
Speaker 1: I was always singing every chance I got.
Speaker 4: And how did you get your deal? What got you signed?
Speaker 4: And you got you your deal?
Speaker 6: Me?
Speaker 1: Hello, no, but I don't know my team. And then
Speaker 1: you know me as an artist? They like, I make
Speaker 1: good music and I got good energy, so I'm a superstar.
Speaker 3: I was telling them before you came out here that
Speaker 3: we're talking about like just community and all things black
Speaker 3: and it being Juneteenth, and I'm like, I met you
Speaker 3: through Jamila, who works on your management team, and me
Speaker 3: and her went to a HBCU together. And that's the
Speaker 3: beauty of having community, because she came to me a
Speaker 3: while back and was like, yoa, I'm about to quit
Speaker 3: my job and I'm about to manage this artists were
Speaker 3: about to start managing artists. And I was like, okay, bet,
Speaker 3: just let me know, Like what, I don't know what
Speaker 3: that looks like, but just let me know.
Speaker 1: And then I started hearing your.
Speaker 3: Music everywhere when I moved to New York, and I
Speaker 3: remember I saw her post you one day and I
Speaker 3: was like, this is the artist and she was like yeah.
Speaker 3: I was like, yo, she is so fied, like she's
Speaker 3: such a vibe. But to see her journey as on
Speaker 3: the management side, and then to see your journey on
Speaker 3: the artist's side, it's really beautiful to watch because you guys.
Speaker 1: Are figuring it out together. Talk about that. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a lot. It's a lot of trial and error
Speaker 1: for me and my management. It's just I don't know,
Speaker 1: like it's a lot. It's kind of just hard to
Speaker 1: explain because so much goes on behind those scenes and
Speaker 1: so many strings that are be and pulled, and you know,
Speaker 1: outside of like just making music, it's so much that
Speaker 1: people don't see. We're just going with the flow.
Speaker 5: Do you love it? Do you love the music industry school?
Speaker 1: I love it like I wouldn't want to do anything else, Like, no,
Speaker 1: thank you, I'll stay here. What did you when you
Speaker 1: talk about it being a lot behind the scenes. I
Speaker 1: know creatively you're really involved in like your video setups
Speaker 1: and all that. We did a video together, yea, so
Speaker 1: talk about she was a video vixen in your video?
Speaker 1: She was a left eye. Yes, she's a really good Yes.
Speaker 1: It was to the video for Leftie, which we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about. The video is about her getting upset.
Speaker 1: She finds out her man is, you know, doing the things,
Speaker 1: so she calls her homegirls like, yo, we need to
Speaker 1: handle this. We got the house need to be set
Speaker 1: on fire. We got something you need to I'm a
Speaker 1: good crash out friend. I pulled up.
Speaker 3: But being on that set with you and seeing how
Speaker 3: you know you and your team are so hands on.
Speaker 1: What's the planning process for you? What's your career? What
Speaker 1: kicks off your care process? I don't know. I got
Speaker 1: a big imagination. My brain just be running rapid all day.
Speaker 1: So I just come up with ideas. I sometimes write
Speaker 1: them down, or I just tell somebody, like if like
Speaker 1: whoever the video director is, I'll tell them my idea.
Speaker 1: We share ideas and I'll make a template for them
Speaker 1: and then I'll just have them clean it up. Like
Speaker 1: I don't know, it just it could be whatever the
Speaker 1: song is about, make the video about it, or if
Speaker 1: I want to do something different, like I just try
Speaker 1: to make it make sense, make it look good.
Speaker 4: So we're all here for Juneteenth. So what does Juneteenth
Speaker 4: mean to you? And the fact that your community supports
Speaker 4: you so much?
Speaker 1: Being black is beautiful, period period.
Speaker 4: Now, the fact that you've got so much support so
Speaker 4: fast and that people are supporting you and your record
Speaker 4: is planned, what does that mean? Because it takes all
Speaker 4: the years and they don't connect, but you have been
Speaker 4: connecting and people really been messing with you.
Speaker 5: So what does that mean for you?
Speaker 1: That means that I must be doing something right. And
Speaker 1: I'm glad that people are enjoying my music and I'm
Speaker 1: glad that it's connecting because you know, everybody goes through
Speaker 1: a phase where it's like, what am I doing? How
Speaker 1: am I going to do this? How am I going
Speaker 1: to get people to like to like rock with me?
Speaker 1: And now it's like starting to happen now. But it
Speaker 1: feels really good. It feels really really really good.
Speaker 4: And what artists would you love to work with that
Speaker 4: you haven't got a chance to.
Speaker 2: Work with yet?
Speaker 1: Drake?
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, Drake Drake, and besides Drake.
Speaker 5: Anybody else?
Speaker 1: Kailani, I am a Miley Cyrus that shocked.
Speaker 4: This one of Cyrus next tail script next no, yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: all right a.
Speaker 1: B t awarrids. You just did the one of the
Speaker 1: pre show stages with Little Kim. Yeah, what was that like?
Speaker 3: Because a lot of your music gives odes to you know,
Speaker 3: the nineties and the like all quiet Storm vibes and
Speaker 3: all those things.
Speaker 1: It was crazy. It didn't like really hit me until
Speaker 1: I got to the stage and I was like, oh wow,
Speaker 1: what did I just sign myself up for? Like with
Speaker 1: all the cameras and stuff like that. But it was
Speaker 1: really dope, especially being on stage with him and like
Speaker 1: how iconic she is and not a lot of people
Speaker 1: could say that they did that. That was like really crazy.
Speaker 1: The prep four was a lot too, Like I was exhausted.
Speaker 1: I was running off adrenaline all day. I was just like,
Speaker 1: like Sonic the Hedgehog.
Speaker 4: Now you're also performing here next weekend or this weekend
Speaker 4: coming up?
Speaker 5: How was that for you?
Speaker 4: Because I'm sure you grew up on summer jams, so
Speaker 4: now that you're actually performing in there, how was that
Speaker 4: for you?
Speaker 1: I did Summer Jam last year, but I didn't like
Speaker 1: have my own set. They like had it like set
Speaker 1: up a certain way. But now I have my own
Speaker 1: set this year, so I'm so excited. I actually was
Speaker 1: never allowed to go to Summer Jam when I was
Speaker 1: younger my brother because my brother wasn't having it. Got
Speaker 1: you like, you're not going to stuff what you're doing
Speaker 1: at Summer Jam.
Speaker 5: I'm not mad at you, I'm yeah.
Speaker 1: So my first time ever at Summer Jam was me
Speaker 1: performing at Summer Jam. Wow? Yeah? So what was that like?
Speaker 1: So doing the last hear here? That being your first
Speaker 1: time now you're an artist, what was the whoe moment
Speaker 1: for you? Well, last year a lot of people knew
Speaker 1: me and knew my music. So that was like kind
Speaker 1: of shocking to me because I like I always underestimate myself.
Speaker 1: Like I go out to like places or like performances
Speaker 1: and it's like so many big people there, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh okay, Like I'm nervous, like what if there's like
Speaker 1: what if it's just crickets in there? But I go
Speaker 1: out and like everybody's like singing and like recording me,
Speaker 1: and like I go on Instagram, like there's people like
Speaker 1: making these walky ass videos.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm like, yeah, now she's out here.
Speaker 5: We're going to open up the phone line while.
Speaker 1: Work.
Speaker 5: I think I'm at work. I'm always at work.
Speaker 4: We're going to open up a little bit and ask
Speaker 4: if you guys have any questions. You just raise your
Speaker 4: hand and we'll get some questions for you guys as well.
Speaker 5: So when is your new project dropping?
Speaker 1: It dropped already, they thirtieth.
Speaker 4: You ain't come by the Breakfast Club, so we end
Speaker 4: we tell you any time you want to come, anytime
Speaker 4: you want to come, I could come on Monday about Monday.
Speaker 1: But exactly you scared of me. I'm serious, you scared
Speaker 1: of me. I'll wait to get on the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 5: Right Monday might work. We might Monday.
Speaker 3: I'm looking because I'm like, maybe you told her that
Speaker 3: she will she will show up on Monday and be
Speaker 3: expecting her interview. But talk about the new EP Raw Honey, right, yeah,
Speaker 3: May thirty, if your drops, yes, yes, So talk about
Speaker 3: because Raw Honey. To me, it sounds like, Okay, you're
Speaker 3: exposing yourself a bit more, giving a bit more of yourself,
Speaker 3: but you already are so open in your music, So
Speaker 3: what is Raw Honey?
Speaker 1: Like, it's me kind of just like taking a little
Speaker 1: bit more control and being a little bit more vulnerable
Speaker 1: and you know, having a little bit more fun with
Speaker 1: it and not making it so sad like so many
Speaker 1: people don't know me yet, and the people that do,
Speaker 1: I don't think they've got to see like certain sides
Speaker 1: of me. It's always like very like slow like go
Speaker 1: to bed music and that's just not me at all.
Speaker 1: That's not even like, that's not me at all. Like
Speaker 1: Raw Honey is the real, raw, uncut version of me,
Speaker 1: like bad or good, like take it or leave it?
Speaker 3: Got you now in Raw Honey because one of the
Speaker 3: things that you did with some of your last projects
Speaker 3: where you were able to bridge the gap between like
Speaker 3: the Quiet Storm era and where we are today. So
Speaker 3: like that nineties vibe where we are today on East
Speaker 3: Coast Music that's a big like shoot a step.
Speaker 1: In raw, honey. Are we singing generational bridges on this project?
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, because Lefty is on there, like Tricks
Speaker 1: for You was on there, So there's definitely some music
Speaker 1: like that. But I definitely started to go out of
Speaker 1: that box too because I didn't want to be stuck
Speaker 1: in that box. So I took the opportunity to take
Speaker 1: this project to just show people that I'm capable of
Speaker 1: more than just that.
Speaker 3: Are you a type of artist too that like because
Speaker 3: stepping out of that box so you sing? But are
Speaker 3: you a type of artists who that will try different
Speaker 3: like ways of expressing musically like rap or no, you
Speaker 3: don't try or are there people that try to push
Speaker 3: you to because for you know, your energy gives rap artists. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 3: like your energy gives rat Girl one hundred percent. So
Speaker 3: I don't know if you've ever like tried it, that's
Speaker 3: what maybe extra that I've did.
Speaker 1: It before, but like I don't. That's not like a
Speaker 1: route I want to go, Like I'm a singer, Like
Speaker 1: that's just who I am at heart. God didn't give
Speaker 1: me his voice for no reason. I would use this mug.
Speaker 3: Well, let's talk a little bit about too, about any
Speaker 3: community advocacy. So, honey baby, this year going into twenty
Speaker 3: twenty six, being from Jersey, I just learned that what
Speaker 3: is community for you? And what are you looking to
Speaker 3: do in the community advocacy wise.
Speaker 1: I feel like community means a lot, especially like when
Speaker 1: it comes to kids, because it takes a village, and
Speaker 1: you know, you want to be you want your kids
Speaker 1: to be in certain environments that will uplift them. And
Speaker 1: where I come from, it's a really small town and
Speaker 1: it's just a lot going on. So I'm ready to
Speaker 1: give back now that I'm able to, especially when it
Speaker 1: comes to school because I remember when I was in school,
Speaker 1: like there were kids that didn't have anything, and we
Speaker 1: didn't really have like those give backs, those giveaways, like
Speaker 1: we know, ever had that in my neighborhood. Yeah. Oh,
Speaker 1: So I feel like now that I'm able to do that,
Speaker 1: I want to start pushing more towards that and just
Speaker 1: helping the people who are less fortunate, especially from where
Speaker 1: I'm from, because again, we just don't have that out there.
Speaker 1: We don't have any of that, and it's kind of
Speaker 1: just like film for yourself tie vibe and I don't
Speaker 1: think that's cool.
Speaker 4: Well, let's take some questions if you have a mind.
Speaker 4: Does anybody out there got any questions?
Speaker 1: I'll go I saw one girl walk out here.
Speaker 4: Any questions out there at all? Don't be shot next time, y'all. See,
Speaker 4: Honeybaby's gonna be ten thousand people here and you ain't
Speaker 4: gonna be able to ask one question.
Speaker 1: So, oh, we lost her. It was a little baby
Speaker 1: girl on the green. She says she had a question.
Speaker 1: Don't know where this is at no, not at all.
Speaker 1: I think armand has a question. Okay, Oh yeah, go ahead,
Speaker 1: extra question. Okay, so you gotta stand and let them
Speaker 1: know who you are.
Speaker 2: Hey, honey baby.
Speaker 6: Okay, So my question is, what was the process like
Speaker 6: working with Little Kim.
Speaker 1: It was it was pretty smooth when it came to
Speaker 1: like Left Eye, she hit us up, like she loved
Speaker 1: the record so much and she wanted to meet me,
Speaker 1: and we've grown like a really great relationship. Like she's
Speaker 1: like my sister now, like I could just call her
Speaker 1: whenever I want to, which is so fucking weird, but
Speaker 1: it's so cool. But the process of working with her
Speaker 1: definitely was like it was really smooth. It was just
Speaker 1: very like girly vibs.
Speaker 5: Okay, can you give us like an inside joke?
Speaker 6: You guys, share something funny that we might not know
Speaker 6: or might not get.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, you got one, Hi.
Speaker 1: H I might, I'm I'm I'm I'm gonna give it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get back to you on that one. And
Speaker 1: you're trying to get me another question to get me honey,
Speaker 1: Baby Envy and Little Kim are really close too.
Speaker 5: That's my homie.
Speaker 1: That's my that's my homie.
Speaker 5: That's my homie.
Speaker 1: That's my homelies. We have another question. So you guys
Speaker 1: say your name.
Speaker 2: My name is true, Hi True. I was wondering if
Speaker 2: you have any dream directors that you would like to
Speaker 2: work with.
Speaker 1: Yes, HiPE Williams.
Speaker 2: Yeah, are you familiar with Hajji films? Howji World?
Speaker 1: No, you gotta put me on.
Speaker 2: I definitely do. You should look him up. Howji World
Speaker 2: is like the hype Williams of our time right.
Speaker 1: Now, Okay, I got to look that up. You write
Speaker 1: that down. Write that down. Williams is a great vibe
Speaker 1: for you, right yeah, because you embodied that that era
Speaker 1: very much to find me, Hi on my question, is
Speaker 1: what made you choose the name?
Speaker 5: Honey baby, great question.
Speaker 1: That's a good question because I'm sweet. Okay, she's very sweet.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you, thank you. That was a good question.
Speaker 5: That was Yeah.
Speaker 3: I got a little nervous when when she looked over
Speaker 3: and she's she's she paused, I'm like, oh, what is
Speaker 3: she about to say.
Speaker 1: Another question?
Speaker 2: Hmm?
Speaker 1: Oh right here, I thought Celia had one.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 1: Hello. My question is for other young women and men
Speaker 1: that want to go into the industry that are looking
Speaker 1: at you now, what advice would you give them to
Speaker 1: just get a really good team and get people that
Speaker 1: you can trust and that have your best interest at heart,
Speaker 1: and people who are going to protect you from what's
Speaker 1: going on in the industry. I think that's just really,
Speaker 1: really really important because that right there will kind of
Speaker 1: what is the word I'm looking for? What is the
Speaker 1: word I'm looking for? I don't like if you got
Speaker 1: good people around you in a good it's not like motivating,
Speaker 1: it's just like that'll set the tone. It'll set the
Speaker 1: tone for the rest of your career. Basic like how
Speaker 1: people deal with you, and like what you like, your
Speaker 1: level of like what you're trying to achieve yeah, like
Speaker 1: who's around you and what they do and how they
Speaker 1: help you and the way that they like they treat you.
Speaker 1: That will set the tone for your career. Otherwise it'll
Speaker 1: go to shambles.
Speaker 5: What's one thing you learned from the industry? One thing
Speaker 5: that you learned from the industry.
Speaker 1: Yep, being myself gets me a lot farther than I
Speaker 1: thought it would. Oh wow, that's a good when you
Speaker 1: realize you need to be yourself. At what point when
Speaker 1: I started being myself? When I realized that, like I
Speaker 1: didn't have to dumb down myself, Like I was getting
Speaker 1: a lot more opportunities and people were liking me a
Speaker 1: lot more. When I was just like, like, this is
Speaker 1: who I am.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, let's get into her other record going
Speaker 4: and play Left Eye whatever you got it, you don't
Speaker 4: got the video.
Speaker 5: Give us one time, y'all, honey baby, one time. Make
Speaker 5: sure y'all stream a supporter. Make sure y'all definitely check
Speaker 5: that out.
Speaker 1: Okay, y'all.
Speaker 3: I will see you guys in my next episode. The
Speaker 3: next episode, of course, be getting back to the trending topics.
Speaker 3: But I tell you, guys, all the time, you could
Speaker 3: be anywhere with anybody talking about these things, because at
Speaker 3: the end of the day, there is always a lot
Speaker 3: to talk about, and y'all choose to be right here
Speaker 3: with you each time. I appreciate you guys, Lowriders, and
Speaker 3: I will see you in the next episode.