1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:03,519 Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke. I'm your host, 2 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:07,320 Speaker 1: Colleen Wit and today we have world famous DJ Charisma 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:11,080 Speaker 1: in the building. From Power one on six, she quickly 4 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:15,240 Speaker 1: rose to celebrity DJ status and was named three times 5 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 1: Female DJ of the Year. In addition to her DJ skills, 6 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:22,840 Speaker 1: she has released hit records with Chris Brown, Tory, Lanes, Deslow, 7 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:24,920 Speaker 1: just to name a few. What do you have us 8 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:28,640 Speaker 1: cooking today? Dj? Charisma? While I come from Southern California, 9 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:32,280 Speaker 1: Santana to be exact, and Mexican household, and we always 10 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:34,320 Speaker 1: have tortillas on hand. So I'm gonna show you how 11 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 1: to whip up three cool little dishes with the tortillas today. Yeah, 12 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:43,199 Speaker 1: and what are your ingredients? We got one of them 13 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:45,279 Speaker 1: is gonna's gonna be straight up tortillas and butter than 14 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:46,959 Speaker 1: we got. You know, if you're really lucky, you got 15 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 1: some cheese at the house, We're gonna do that, and 16 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,199 Speaker 1: then we're gonna whip up a little dessert with the 17 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 1: sugar in the cinnamon. Wow. Okay, so if you're really 18 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:56,720 Speaker 1: really down on your luck, you have your tortillas. And 19 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: I'm excited to see how tortillas and butters turn out, 20 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 1: So go ahead, let's get started. And I just want 21 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 1: to know what was the last time you ate this? 22 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 1: I mean probably just the other night. Like I taught 23 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:09,399 Speaker 1: my daughter how to make it. This is something real 24 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:11,960 Speaker 1: simple that like a kid can make, so like if 25 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:14,319 Speaker 1: you're nine home alone and your parents are at work 26 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 1: type of deal. That's really where I started, you know, 27 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 1: making this dish, right, and this this dish, like you know, 28 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 1: I don't I don't really know the difference between flower 29 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:26,000 Speaker 1: and quarantinias. Hate to hate to be that person from 30 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 1: New York y'all um, but I noticed the price point, 31 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 1: Like you know, I shopped for the show, so I 32 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:36,120 Speaker 1: like look at the prices and I think I paid 33 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 1: five bucks and it was like a million flower tortillas 34 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 1: in that bag that could last you quite quite a while. Definitely, 35 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 1: I feel like growing up like that was one thing 36 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 1: we really always had in the fridge, was the tortilla. 37 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 1: So that's you know why this is definitely my dish 38 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:54,680 Speaker 1: because my mama always had those on deck. So let's 39 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 1: try the flower and butter tortillas, all right, So the 40 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 1: flower and butter is, like I said, if you really 41 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 1: you know, that's all you got you get home from school, 42 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 1: Mom and dad aren't there. You need to whip something up. 43 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 1: You go on the fridge and there's nothing there. So 44 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:09,839 Speaker 1: you got tortillas. Go ahead, and so the first one's 45 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 1: real simple. You just get a flower tortilla, put it on. 46 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 1: You don't even need butter on the pan. We're gonna 47 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 1: put the butter on right now. I know it's an 48 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 1: electric skillet. Usually I would have done this with the 49 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 1: flame skillet. It's a lot easier to toss your tortilla 50 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:26,359 Speaker 1: on there, you know. But if you got an electric skill, 51 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:29,639 Speaker 1: we're gonna do it this way. Oh you mean you 52 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:31,960 Speaker 1: would put the tortilla on directly on the flame, directly 53 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: on the flame. He did tortilla first, both sides, heat 54 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 1: it up, and then put your butter on, rolling into 55 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 1: a roll and that's it. Okay, I want to see it. 56 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 1: That's it. So we're gonna try it with this electric skillet. 57 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 1: Would that be considered like but with the difference, Oh, 58 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: it's okay, it's it's hot enough, we're good. Okay, we're good. 59 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 1: Sea it's bubbling up. Yeah like that. I mean, you 60 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 1: can't use corn. There were times I use corn tortillas, 61 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 1: but the preference was always flower for me and my 62 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 1: sister growing up. The taste or yeah, it tasted better, 63 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 1: just tasted better. I feel like quarantin teas are better 64 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: for other street tacos and good. Okay, so this is 65 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: he know when it took two seconds? Two seconds because 66 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:15,119 Speaker 1: I like a little bit of crispiness. That's what you need, 67 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:17,840 Speaker 1: the crispiness. Like that's why I like the flame definitely. 68 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 1: So but this is good. This is good se same night. 69 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: Now you're gonna be electric, lover. Get to heat it up. 70 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 1: And you know, like we said, this is definitely a 71 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:28,919 Speaker 1: broke meal. So you know, when you're a kid, your 72 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 1: taste buds are a little different. You know when you 73 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 1: were a kid, did you know this was a broke meal? 74 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:36,560 Speaker 1: Or did you know this was bombed? To me? Like 75 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: I couldn't wait get to get home and just make 76 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 1: one of these. When I was a little you know, okay, okay, 77 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 1: what was going on? Like what's your home environment when 78 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:45,960 Speaker 1: all this is going on? Definitely I was the older sibling, 79 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:47,680 Speaker 1: so you know, I took care of my little sister 80 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 1: and me and her would go and once my mom 81 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 1: started working when I was like three or four years old. 82 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 1: She never stopped working and neither did my dad, so 83 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 1: they were always at work and we were always alone 84 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:59,360 Speaker 1: a lot of times. So this is what we will 85 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 1: come home and what we do. And how old were 86 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 1: you when you were making the like nine? That's why 87 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 1: I said, this is really simple that your kid can 88 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 1: make when they're by themselves. Like, but when she showed us, 89 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 1: you know what, you know what I mean, she showed 90 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:15,000 Speaker 1: us that my daughter is ten and I got her 91 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 1: doing it already too, so it's definitely doable. She's like, 92 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 1: there's nothing even like that there. This one is over seeing. Basically, 93 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 1: if you want, all you gotta do is slap a 94 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 1: little butter in there for yourself, okay, and then rolling 95 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:31,840 Speaker 1: into a roll because I don't know how much butter 96 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 1: you like I was slathering it. Okay. Oh wow, So 97 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:43,160 Speaker 1: all this is going on, you're cooking at home. When 98 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 1: do you desire to become? D J Crais Well, I 99 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:49,720 Speaker 1: grew up in in the Golden era of music, like 100 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 1: I feel like I grew up in the golden era 101 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 1: of radio in the nineties, Like I was a little 102 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:56,440 Speaker 1: kid at that era, and that's when radio was at 103 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 1: its finest. You know. So I always had my radio. 104 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 1: I was always making um, stealing my mom's cassettes, cold 105 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:07,160 Speaker 1: tissue in the top so I can record over whatever 106 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:09,599 Speaker 1: she had on there. Remember how you used to do that. 107 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 1: You know you can stick tissue in the time. You 108 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:13,119 Speaker 1: had to put taper tissue on the top to block 109 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: a cassette so you could rerecord over it. Oh no, 110 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 1: I was popping in there and make my own mixtapes. Yeah, 111 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:20,920 Speaker 1: I remember recording off the radio, but I didn't do 112 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,720 Speaker 1: that part. That was like next level ingenuity, right, Yeah, 113 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 1: because you know, I didn't have no money to go 114 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:27,600 Speaker 1: get the blanks, you know what I mean. So I 115 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 1: would just take my mom's tape and would she what 116 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 1: would she say, like if she would be really mad 117 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 1: depending on what it was. So I was careful of 118 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 1: what cassette I chose. Don't be burning your parents stuff. 119 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 1: But yeah, so I would do that. And so that's 120 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 1: how I really gathered it on. The whole thing. Is 121 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 1: that's how you do it? Yeah, and then just go 122 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:47,839 Speaker 1: ahead and roll it on up. I roll it like 123 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:52,040 Speaker 1: a taketo, roll it like a taketo. I feel like 124 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:53,840 Speaker 1: by the end of the season, I am going to 125 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:58,599 Speaker 1: be fully prepared to handle tortillas. See, I would always 126 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 1: give it that little folder so I don't drip all 127 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:05,839 Speaker 1: over me. I did it, no, no worries. Oh that's smart. 128 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 1: That's there you go, and there you go. You got 129 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 1: your little butter takido and you're hungry you get home 130 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 1: from school, just a little snack whom it will work 131 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 1: right when you're hungry and feels the stomach for sure. 132 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:23,480 Speaker 1: Now have you found other stuff, like random stuff in 133 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 1: your freads? You just throw it in there so it 134 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 1: got good. If you had like some leftover salsa from grandpa, 135 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 1: My grandpa used to make homemade salsa, green salsa. If 136 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,360 Speaker 1: you got lucky, you have some sour cream, maybe he 137 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:37,960 Speaker 1: would just dip it in whatever your flavor of dip is. 138 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 1: You know, ironically, I wish I had just grown up. 139 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,720 Speaker 1: It works, It surely works. And how we get down 140 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:46,360 Speaker 1: in the Mexican house. You doesn't have to salt a 141 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:49,719 Speaker 1: pepper on it the butter, does it? Now? Did you 142 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 1: have real butter or margarine? Do you know? Um? Whatever 143 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 1: mama had, I don't know, because you don't need pepper 144 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 1: at all. This is delicious. Two seconds to make, two 145 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 1: seconds easy for your kids to make. All right, let's 146 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 1: do it this thing now, let's see, because normally I 147 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 1: would have a fire. If you got real lucky, you 148 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:13,080 Speaker 1: put a little cheese in it, and you got your 149 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 1: good old classic kids of here. No, your passion for 150 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 1: music is going on all while you're young. You're burning tapes. 151 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: Where does it take the next pivotal turn before you 152 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 1: become DJ? Who? Isma? Well, I mean in high school 153 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:32,320 Speaker 1: I used to program all the the when the varsity 154 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:35,520 Speaker 1: basketball team would run out, I used to sit back 155 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 1: there and control the speaker and handle all that kind 156 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:39,320 Speaker 1: of stuff. So that's how I knew I was really 157 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 1: interested in it, you know, like volunteered to do that. Yeah. Well, 158 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 1: I was on the basketball team. I played ball, so 159 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 1: I was always really like, man, we need music, we 160 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 1: need some park while we run out, you know, so 161 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 1: I would. I really got into that, and the coach 162 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:53,240 Speaker 1: let me do it. He showed me the speaker and 163 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 1: I taught myself how to use it. It It was this 164 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 1: massive p a and then from there I just kind 165 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:00,320 Speaker 1: of learned. And there wasn't too many dj is at 166 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 1: my school. M hm. So next time you put butter 167 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 1: on it, huh. Yeah, this time, we're doing okay, all right, 168 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:14,200 Speaker 1: So you you start to peep that there's no DJs. 169 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 1: There's not a lot of DJs. But I hear him 170 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 1: on the radio and I see him, so I started. 171 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 1: You know, this was the MTV era, you know, b 172 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 1: et the basement. I was sold in love with hip hop, 173 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 1: the culture of hip hop and R and B. Like, 174 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 1: I was just in love with it. So I just 175 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 1: wanted to do more. And I was like, man, there's DJs. 176 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 1: And growing up there was only one female DJ I knew, 177 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:37,719 Speaker 1: and that was Spinderella. Oh it wasn't you from like 178 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 1: Salt Peppers, but she was, you know, she was an 179 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:43,199 Speaker 1: artist DJ. As far as like real club DJs and 180 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:49,720 Speaker 1: radio DJs, I didn't know any So did you desire 181 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:51,839 Speaker 1: to fill that void? Yeah? I desired to fill that 182 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:54,800 Speaker 1: void because it was it was all boys and then 183 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 1: growing up too like it was that same thing, that competition. 184 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 1: All the boys that did have of the turntables didn't 185 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 1: want to let me try it or do any of that. 186 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:06,200 Speaker 1: So I went and I saved up all my money 187 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:09,760 Speaker 1: mode lawns, wash cars, saved up all my bread and 188 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:13,839 Speaker 1: bought my first creative records, my first turntable, and it 189 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 1: started teaching myself. You know, how did you know to 190 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:18,440 Speaker 1: do that? To go out in mo lawns and wash 191 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:21,679 Speaker 1: cars like I was just hustler. Did you proparach your mom? 192 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:24,839 Speaker 1: Like mom, one day's equipment, she says no, and then 193 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:26,800 Speaker 1: you go out and hustle. Or you just said no, 194 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:29,560 Speaker 1: mom and dad's at work, I need these turntables. Mom 195 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:32,560 Speaker 1: and dad's at work. Like I learned early on, don't 196 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:34,480 Speaker 1: ask them for nothing, because healthy were gonna say no. 197 00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 1: They were gonna say no. Even when it came to 198 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 1: like high school and my my, the things that you 199 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 1: typically get in high school, like the prom and the 200 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:46,679 Speaker 1: in the letterman jackets and all that stuff, I had 201 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:49,559 Speaker 1: to get it myself. So so becoming an entrepreneur was 202 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:51,319 Speaker 1: like second, Yeah, it was like you had to do it. 203 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 1: You know, my mom and dad worked, so they showed 204 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:55,719 Speaker 1: me they worked, so I had to do the same. 205 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:58,960 Speaker 1: Can we turn this down? This thing? These electric skillets 206 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,679 Speaker 1: ain't no Jo turned your boy up on her? So 207 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 1: natural instinct you naturally and instinctually you just went to, Okay, 208 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:10,800 Speaker 1: I'm gonna hustle up my own stuff, so you door knock. Yeah, 209 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:12,439 Speaker 1: all my neighbors knew me and stuff, So I just 210 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 1: got to hustling. Started working at fifteen years old, Soult shoes. 211 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 1: I worked at the athletes Foot. I worked there for 212 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 1: eight years straight, became the manager. Just I was a hustler, 213 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:23,439 Speaker 1: saved up my bread and every night and every weekend, 214 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:25,839 Speaker 1: I would do any house party I could do, Like 215 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:29,640 Speaker 1: I DJed on washers and dryers upside down, trash cans before, 216 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:32,319 Speaker 1: like anything to get the job done. It didn't matter 217 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:34,000 Speaker 1: how much you were getting paid or did you do it, 218 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:36,079 Speaker 1: because I did it in the beginning, I just did it, 219 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:39,199 Speaker 1: did it, did it? And the money eventually came, you know, 220 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 1: with the years of once it became a professional thing, 221 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:45,360 Speaker 1: the money started coming in. So when would you have said, 222 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:48,400 Speaker 1: like when did you I guess how long did it 223 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 1: take for you to go from doing it for free 224 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:55,079 Speaker 1: to actually like making money? Um, the money came kind 225 00:10:55,120 --> 00:11:00,480 Speaker 1: of quick because you know, weddings and house parties those 226 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:02,680 Speaker 1: are long events and like they gotta pay you something. 227 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 1: So it came. It came once I started like actually 228 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:07,280 Speaker 1: getting good and I knew the music. It came within 229 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:09,760 Speaker 1: a year or two, A little bit of money, a 230 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:11,679 Speaker 1: little bit, a little bit did you have to did 231 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:13,440 Speaker 1: you were you always able to do hip hop music 232 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:15,679 Speaker 1: or did you have to do what? Oh? No, It 233 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:18,440 Speaker 1: took a long time for me to get to where 234 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:20,679 Speaker 1: I wanted to, and that's in the world of hip hop. 235 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:23,880 Speaker 1: Like I had to play because I came from southern 236 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 1: California where the the Hispanic population is massive it dominates, 237 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 1: So I had to know how to play all the 238 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 1: Spanish music, all the seventies funk, old school, that's like 239 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:36,559 Speaker 1: where I started. I couldn't wait until I could be 240 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:39,439 Speaker 1: able to do a full party and play hip hop like. 241 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 1: That was my goal, you know what I mean, I 242 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 1: really had to When did you have every papish like 243 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:46,160 Speaker 1: what was that? Do you remember your first time actually 244 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:49,520 Speaker 1: being able to like play hip hop? I mean certain 245 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:52,559 Speaker 1: like parties is depending on who booked me. But it 246 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 1: got really good when I finally broke into l A 247 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:58,240 Speaker 1: and got on the street team and did my first club. 248 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 1: Like once I got into the world, I was able 249 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 1: to start Okay, this is it right here, and this 250 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:04,319 Speaker 1: is when I knew, okay, I'm gonna do this. And 251 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:07,680 Speaker 1: I had three day jobs. I worked at That's how 252 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 1: I am right now. I worked at I worked at 253 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:13,400 Speaker 1: a Chicago title in the daytime, I worked at home 254 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:15,320 Speaker 1: depot at night, and then I worked at Coca Cola 255 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:18,000 Speaker 1: in the graveyard, you know. And then on the weekends 256 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 1: where you working to like pay bills and pursue your 257 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:24,480 Speaker 1: dreams or where you like, why were you working so much? Yeah, 258 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:26,679 Speaker 1: I lived on my own since I was seventeen. I 259 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:29,160 Speaker 1: moved out at seventeen, you know, and just I was 260 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:31,240 Speaker 1: just a hustler and just had to pay bills. Never 261 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 1: I didn't like to ask my parents for nothing. I 262 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:35,480 Speaker 1: wanted to always take care of them because they worked 263 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 1: so hard the whole lives. They still worked to this 264 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:39,680 Speaker 1: day and I'm still trying to make it so they 265 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:43,160 Speaker 1: don't gotta work no more. But yeah, I just hustling. 266 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:45,839 Speaker 1: And then, uh, I knew it was real when I 267 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:48,160 Speaker 1: got hired at the Street Team at Power one oh six, 268 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:50,480 Speaker 1: And that's when I officially quit my day jobs and 269 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:53,319 Speaker 1: I just took this. But the Street team didn't doesn't 270 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:56,599 Speaker 1: really pay them nothing. So yeah, right back to eating this, 271 00:12:57,800 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 1: right back to eating this kind of stuff. When I 272 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:02,000 Speaker 1: started do, when I when I made myself full time 273 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:05,240 Speaker 1: and you were willing to actually take a pay cut. Yeah, 274 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 1: because I just really was so passionate about it. I 275 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 1: don't know where the passion came from, but the passion came. 276 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:14,439 Speaker 1: Didn't You have to give up some of your lifestyle 277 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 1: to to to do that? Well, I was never a 278 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:20,319 Speaker 1: flashy person, thank god. So were you like living in 279 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 1: my roommates because that's a big pay cut. Yeah, I 280 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:25,560 Speaker 1: had roommates. Definitely had roommates throughout the years and all 281 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 1: that good stuff? You know? Did you have to explain? 282 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:29,920 Speaker 1: And I'm a little I'm a hustler like and plus 283 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:31,719 Speaker 1: you learn on street teams, you learn how to like 284 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 1: talk to people in trade. I'm a great trader, barter 285 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: some ship. That's how I am. Like, I can just 286 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:40,880 Speaker 1: give you, I'll get you these, you give me those 287 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:42,760 Speaker 1: like I did a lot of that coming from a 288 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 1: lot of that. I like that. Yeah, I know people 289 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:47,679 Speaker 1: that started on the street team level from d from 290 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 1: djaying to go onto street team level. It's a lot 291 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:53,160 Speaker 1: of work. You think this work, I want we can. 292 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 1: We're gonna try this because electric Skillet. I No, I'm scared. 293 00:13:56,080 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 1: I'm scared by the way this is, sir right now. 294 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 1: So this is just a simple kiss of thea you know, 295 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:05,839 Speaker 1: if you if you're really on a good day, you 296 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:08,840 Speaker 1: got cheese in the fridge, Like that's such a good thing. 297 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:11,240 Speaker 1: So you get your cheese and you sprinkle it on 298 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 1: some butter and you just roll it up same way, 299 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:15,760 Speaker 1: folded however you want to do it. This thing was 300 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:17,640 Speaker 1: really hot, so I didn't want to fold it roll it, 301 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:20,480 Speaker 1: so we folded it. And that's the second meal you 302 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 1: can make. And like the same thing if you got 303 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:25,800 Speaker 1: some chili, guacamole, anything dipping into make it not so dry, 304 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 1: and you know it work for you and kids taste 305 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:31,440 Speaker 1: bloods are really simple, so this kind of stuff always, 306 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:33,480 Speaker 1: you know, you know our kids are I'm a grown 307 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:37,520 Speaker 1: up and I think this is awesome. Um now I 308 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:41,720 Speaker 1: have to have guacamola and SALTSA I can't, No, I can't. 309 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:44,400 Speaker 1: I need I need that spice. Well, guys, just for 310 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:47,880 Speaker 1: you listeners, I need the whole in butter. Like it 311 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 1: was nothing simple, so simple, and it was delicious and 312 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:53,160 Speaker 1: she didn't need some on pepper. She also just made 313 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 1: the cheese case of dia. So now you guys are 314 00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 1: probably thinking I'm fat at home, but I'm really not 315 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:02,080 Speaker 1: that big. The dessert should be easy. This should be simple. Yeah, 316 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:05,320 Speaker 1: this is perfect, shredded cheese and tortilla. This is case 317 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 1: of deal. You know, working three jobs, I ain't got 318 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 1: no time come home real quick. I continue to eat 319 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: these meals throughout. You know, I never went to fancy restaurants. 320 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 1: Always assume you never ate a TV dinner. They're gross. 321 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: I think TV dinners are pretty gross. I used to 322 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:27,280 Speaker 1: live on TV dinners. M hm. You know what. My 323 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:32,360 Speaker 1: mom always had hot pockets kinda kinda did you eat 324 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 1: those a lot? I ate some hot pockets, Yeah, I 325 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:37,640 Speaker 1: definitely remember hot pockets. These are fashion in hot pockets. Okay, 326 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:39,880 Speaker 1: so this is the dessert. This is like the easy part. 327 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 1: It's eating everything. Put a little butter on there, and 328 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 1: then sprinkle a little bit of cinnamon and a little 329 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 1: bit of sugar, and it's like a a hood churl. 330 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:53,920 Speaker 1: If you ain't got the deep fried churls. If you're 331 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 1: a kid, you don't want to do all that, all right? 332 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:02,320 Speaker 1: Can you sprinkle a little sugar, a little cinnamon, roll 333 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:08,520 Speaker 1: that thing up. Okay, cinnamon and sugar. My first. Now 334 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:11,200 Speaker 1: I've had a case of dia. I've never had a 335 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:16,520 Speaker 1: butter tortilla roll and I've never had the cinnamon, and 336 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:18,520 Speaker 1: I hope I'm not jacking this up. Here he goes, 337 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:22,600 Speaker 1: that's just like that cinnamon, butter cinnamon, and then he's 338 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 1: that spoon. There you go, Here we go, here we go. 339 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:28,640 Speaker 1: Let's see if it's I'm probably messing this up. Guys, 340 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 1: there you go. Okay, you don't think alright? Sold the 341 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 1: folding and so it don't drip because you know a 342 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 1: little kids running around like that folds your in and 343 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:40,320 Speaker 1: then roll it and then roll it. Now, let's see 344 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 1: homemade version of a churl. Let's see if it's really 345 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:51,080 Speaker 1: tastes like a churl. It tastes like it tastes like 346 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:54,640 Speaker 1: a tortilla with butter, tastes like a tortillo with butter, 347 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 1: cinnamon and sugar. But if you like the flavor of 348 00:16:59,840 --> 00:17:02,600 Speaker 1: the you know, the cinnamon and tuggar, I guess, dude, 349 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:04,919 Speaker 1: I just realized just now that a churl is centament 350 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 1: and trigger, but it still has a tortilla doesn't have. 351 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:12,639 Speaker 1: This is good though. Honestly, this is girlfriending. You know, 352 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:16,240 Speaker 1: I think your kids would like that. I wouldn't have 353 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 1: to do that ever, tried to on a date with 354 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 1: a girl like I got an appetizer, I got the meal, 355 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:24,320 Speaker 1: and I have the dessert. I got you. I got 356 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:26,960 Speaker 1: you right now, girl, just basically what you just did. Yeah, 357 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:30,080 Speaker 1: you know, depending on if you like cinnamon sugar, I 358 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 1: feel like there would always be a gigantic bottle of 359 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:35,639 Speaker 1: cinnamon just for months, right, or to be in there 360 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:37,879 Speaker 1: for years, so you don't have to count on having 361 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 1: cinnamon or sugar or something random. I love that this 362 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:43,600 Speaker 1: meal is affordable and no matter what age you are, 363 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:45,880 Speaker 1: you can make it. They'll flow you up. It takes 364 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:48,600 Speaker 1: two seconds to make. Yeah, you just fold it, roll it. 365 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:51,280 Speaker 1: What shall we name this? And you can run off 366 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:53,720 Speaker 1: the practice or whatever you needed to do. What should 367 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:56,520 Speaker 1: we name this tortilla with the cinnamon and sugar? What 368 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 1: do we call it? It's good, I'm not gonna I'm 369 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:03,920 Speaker 1: gonna eat all years. That's pretty good right there. Mm hmmm. 370 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:06,200 Speaker 1: Have you shown your daughter how to make this? I've 371 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:09,159 Speaker 1: shown her how to make all this? Yes, what are 372 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:14,400 Speaker 1: you gonna name this for the cookbook? But the cookbook 373 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:21,800 Speaker 1: m charismas cinnamon charismas centnamon to stick tortilla sticks. Yeah, 374 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:24,600 Speaker 1: we gotta work on it. Where you come out, We 375 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:28,040 Speaker 1: need your help. We need some help so we could 376 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:31,080 Speaker 1: turn off the stove. Because you basically cooked our appetizer, 377 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:33,680 Speaker 1: meal and dessert. We actually did it on an electric stove. 378 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:36,199 Speaker 1: I was worried. We did it, so shout out if 379 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:39,240 Speaker 1: you got electric stove as possible. It is possible. And 380 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:42,680 Speaker 1: now I know that if I have tortillas in my house, 381 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:45,760 Speaker 1: I'll never started it at boom, I'm literally gonna start 382 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 1: having to our days in my house. Shek They're good, 383 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 1: they last, they last long, They're super easy to looks 384 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:54,600 Speaker 1: A whole dish right there is right there. We got 385 00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:58,960 Speaker 1: the dessert, we got the main course, We've got the appetizer. 386 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:03,440 Speaker 1: You know what I mean. Easy, peasy easy, So come 387 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:07,640 Speaker 1: over here and sit with me. So you go from 388 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:11,680 Speaker 1: working three day jobs in corporate America, so saying I 389 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:15,160 Speaker 1: want to put these jobs and pursue being a street 390 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:18,399 Speaker 1: Uh what do you call it? A street, um ambassador? 391 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:20,960 Speaker 1: I would say street working on the street team, working 392 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,480 Speaker 1: on the street team for Power one or six eight. 393 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:29,520 Speaker 1: So like I had no kids, you know what I mean? 394 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 1: I was like, you know I had I knew what 395 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:33,520 Speaker 1: I was capable if I put my mind to it. 396 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:35,560 Speaker 1: I was like, let me just do it, and that 397 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:37,200 Speaker 1: voice just spoke to me, and I did it and 398 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:39,600 Speaker 1: fill that voice. Did you feel like there was good 399 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:44,639 Speaker 1: potentially gonna be uh like uh like a rainbow at 400 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:46,280 Speaker 1: the end of the journey or something, or did you 401 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:48,879 Speaker 1: just like doing it like you had you tried it 402 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:50,560 Speaker 1: at least it did part time and then you did 403 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:53,399 Speaker 1: the transition like I just already well, I mean I 404 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:54,639 Speaker 1: was doing it for a couple of weeks, and I 405 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:56,879 Speaker 1: knew because it was hard going from Santa and all 406 00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:00,280 Speaker 1: the way to Bourbank, California, to the Media City where 407 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:02,919 Speaker 1: all the radio stations in L A. R And all 408 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:04,359 Speaker 1: that good stuff. So I was like, I can't do 409 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:08,439 Speaker 1: this to quit my day jobs and come out here 410 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:11,639 Speaker 1: and just go for it. Wow. And so you're on 411 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:15,240 Speaker 1: the street team, You're working crazy hours, i'd assume, And 412 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:17,600 Speaker 1: what is power one all six? Are they noticing that 413 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:20,439 Speaker 1: you have these other skill sets at this point? Yeah, definitely. 414 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 1: And the crazy thing is like remember ninety two point 415 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:26,360 Speaker 1: three the beat. In fact, I like applied to both 416 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:29,240 Speaker 1: of them for years, and for both of them, I 417 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:32,000 Speaker 1: got rejection letters that I saved to this day. So 418 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:34,560 Speaker 1: it took me years before I finally got hired and 419 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:36,679 Speaker 1: you were just applying for street team level and they 420 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:39,520 Speaker 1: what do you think that was? Do you think it 421 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:42,440 Speaker 1: was because I had to I mean back then, this woman, Dad, 422 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:46,000 Speaker 1: I'm a woman. I'm not your with the men in 423 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:48,440 Speaker 1: the industry like type of woman. Real you know, you 424 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:50,040 Speaker 1: don't see me and a Leo. It's hard or nothing 425 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 1: like I'm one of the tomboys, you know, So I'm 426 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:55,679 Speaker 1: definitely wasn't anything they were used to. But did they 427 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,080 Speaker 1: actually interview you before they rejected you? Or did they 428 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:00,639 Speaker 1: see your resume come in and then reject you resumes? 429 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:03,359 Speaker 1: I did get an Inverury one time at ninety two 430 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:06,000 Speaker 1: point three. I'll never forget that, and uh yeah, I 431 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:07,760 Speaker 1: didn't get the job after that, but it was just, 432 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:11,840 Speaker 1: you know, kept trying to forget that because it was 433 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:13,680 Speaker 1: I actually went in there, and I'll never forget the 434 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:15,359 Speaker 1: question that guy asked me. He's like, what would you 435 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:17,840 Speaker 1: do right now if you saw D'Angelo and like Maxwell 436 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:19,760 Speaker 1: in the hallway and I go it was like, you 437 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:23,080 Speaker 1: know question, and I wouldn't do anything else. I was 438 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:25,919 Speaker 1: just not, you know, because that's what they want. They 439 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:27,560 Speaker 1: don't want people that are group. He's you know, you 440 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:30,320 Speaker 1: gotta learn to act professional. So that was the one 441 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:32,720 Speaker 1: question that stood out to me. And he asked me 442 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:35,800 Speaker 1: what color is your brain? And I was like, what 443 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 1: color is your brain? I think it's pink. I don't know. 444 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:42,879 Speaker 1: I immediately said blue. Why I don't know? I go, 445 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 1: I feel like my thought process in my aura is blue, 446 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:47,560 Speaker 1: like I don't know what it is water. And he's like, 447 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:49,440 Speaker 1: I love that answer, and he's like, that's the type 448 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:51,200 Speaker 1: of answer I'm looking for when I asked that question. 449 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:53,720 Speaker 1: He's like, when people tell me pink, they think more 450 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:56,879 Speaker 1: like logical, and I'm looking for her creatives. So that 451 00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:59,080 Speaker 1: was interesting that he asked, I'll never forget that question. 452 00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:11,960 Speaker 1: But he didn't give you the job now, mm hmm. 453 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:18,840 Speaker 1: Though you like my answers, So how did you not 454 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 1: say at that point, like, okay, maybe this is informed 455 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:24,440 Speaker 1: me and you just keep keep applying. I just I 456 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 1: think God forgiving me this blinding like bubbly passion, you 457 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 1: know what I mean in the beginning, because I really 458 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:33,520 Speaker 1: if I didn't have that, I would have never made 459 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:36,840 Speaker 1: it this far. Never, because this industry will eat you up. 460 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:39,440 Speaker 1: Why do you say that, because it's brutal, especially for 461 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:42,080 Speaker 1: a woman. A brown skinned woman, like it's it's tough. 462 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:45,760 Speaker 1: It's really tough. So I'm just glad that he gave 463 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:48,160 Speaker 1: me that those blinders where I had, I had complete 464 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:50,760 Speaker 1: tunnel vision, you like new this is what I wanted. 465 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:53,440 Speaker 1: And it was also a competitive thing, like I'm gonna 466 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:56,400 Speaker 1: really show y'all, like you think I can't do it, Like, okay, 467 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:59,200 Speaker 1: I'm gonna show all, y'all. So you're on the Street Team, 468 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:02,600 Speaker 1: You're doing us for how long? Years? Street Team for 469 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 1: like three or four years, and then I was killing it, 470 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 1: Like I was more popular than a lot of the 471 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:10,000 Speaker 1: on air guys because they have your call in right. No, 472 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,119 Speaker 1: we didn't even do that at this time anymore. They 473 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 1: cut that out. By this time in radio was already changing. 474 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:19,399 Speaker 1: And this was when the Internet really came and you 475 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:22,960 Speaker 1: started having the birth of Spotify and all these other platforms. 476 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:25,480 Speaker 1: So radio started changing. So how did you end up 477 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,560 Speaker 1: developing that following from Street Team to being outside. I 478 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:31,960 Speaker 1: was everywhere any high school, any college, like I just 479 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 1: you never saw me sleep. I do events from night 480 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 1: to day, didn't matter what kind of event, and really 481 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:39,880 Speaker 1: hustled and I got and I that's how I really 482 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:42,720 Speaker 1: knew what the kids wanted, and I always was tapped 483 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 1: in with what the next level of kids wanted, and 484 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,399 Speaker 1: it just happened to be the jerking movement in the 485 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,600 Speaker 1: key movement. And I'll never forget. I went to Westminster 486 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:52,880 Speaker 1: High School. We had a basketball game with Power six 487 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:56,600 Speaker 1: versus the School for Fun for charity, and I was like, please, 488 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 1: I begged my boss, please please let the New Boys perform, 489 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:02,919 Speaker 1: like please, just give him one chance. I swear to God, 490 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:06,320 Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you. So he's like, alright, alright, alright, alright, 491 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:08,960 Speaker 1: So he let the New Boys come out do your jerk. 492 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:13,960 Speaker 1: The entire stadium, Like eight d kids swarmed the gymnasium 493 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:16,000 Speaker 1: floor and started jerking, and he just looks at me 494 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:19,120 Speaker 1: like and I was like, I told you, You've been 495 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:23,240 Speaker 1: telling you. And then that's how I actually became on 496 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,359 Speaker 1: their DJ that very moment. He let me be on 497 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:29,360 Speaker 1: a because you And it's funny because this has come 498 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:33,359 Speaker 1: up before, and like another interview, people underestimate the power 499 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:36,200 Speaker 1: I think of the high school in the middle school demographic. 500 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 1: The kids truth. They literally if you want to know 501 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:43,920 Speaker 1: if something sucks or as real, and they're searching, they're 502 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:46,480 Speaker 1: literally searching. They're like, I dare you to try and 503 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 1: sell me something, because I'm going to question the hell 504 00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 1: out of it. Right, I was that kid? Yeah, I 505 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:56,120 Speaker 1: was like, I got the brand new, unreleased Tupac mixtape, 506 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:58,600 Speaker 1: Volume one. You ain't got it? Like that was me. 507 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:01,399 Speaker 1: So I've always kept that mentality. And I know that 508 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:06,560 Speaker 1: the kids set the trends. So here you decided to 509 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:09,000 Speaker 1: approach your boss and say, take a chance on the 510 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:12,440 Speaker 1: new Boys. Why were you so passionate about it? Where 511 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:14,200 Speaker 1: is it that you really wanted to give the kids 512 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,399 Speaker 1: a great event or did you really want to like 513 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 1: show the radio station that they were they weren't really 514 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:23,520 Speaker 1: paying attention to something. I was very passionate about the 515 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:25,280 Speaker 1: culture of hip hop, you know what I mean? And 516 00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 1: that was a time I don't know if you remember this, 517 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,520 Speaker 1: but R and B changed. They went from R and 518 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:32,840 Speaker 1: B to pop. Yeah, I remember that. And then hip 519 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:34,440 Speaker 1: hop did the same thing and went from hip hop 520 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:36,720 Speaker 1: to pop. And I'm like, this is not hip hop? 521 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:40,080 Speaker 1: Do you blame? This is not hip hop? I just 522 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:43,359 Speaker 1: have to ask you this. Then, I feel like played 523 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,320 Speaker 1: a major role in hip hop plant transitioning to popping. 524 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:49,400 Speaker 1: I think it was it was a bunch of things 525 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:53,440 Speaker 1: it went. It started with Pocket Biggie getting murdered and 526 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:55,760 Speaker 1: then the South taking over, and then it just like 527 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:59,240 Speaker 1: was event after event after event, and it changed a lot. 528 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:01,879 Speaker 1: Do you feel like hip hop it's more pop now? 529 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:06,560 Speaker 1: We are pop music? I think because well popular pop 530 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:09,800 Speaker 1: it means popular and hip hop is the number one 531 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:13,080 Speaker 1: genre in the country for like the past three years now, 532 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 1: for three or four years. So officially hip hop is 533 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,359 Speaker 1: pop because we are the most popular music. And that 534 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 1: took people fighting for it and sticking up for it, 535 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:23,119 Speaker 1: because it did change. The sound became e d M 536 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:26,000 Speaker 1: and up tempo. So that's why like people like me 537 00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:28,440 Speaker 1: and the West Coast and Drew Ski and the and 538 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:31,400 Speaker 1: DJ self in the East Coast and Drama in the South, 539 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:33,840 Speaker 1: we kept it all alive. I really feel that DJs 540 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,000 Speaker 1: don't get enough credit because they don't understand what we 541 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,919 Speaker 1: were fighting with at the radio stations, like fighting against 542 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,920 Speaker 1: the bosses because they wanted the let's just be safe 543 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 1: and play the Bruno Mars and then with listen, we're 544 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:47,159 Speaker 1: not gonna be open to the y g s. Who's 545 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:51,720 Speaker 1: yg no, So it'll be you guys pushing it back. Yeah, back. 546 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,560 Speaker 1: It's a lot of pushback and back and forth. Why 547 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:56,560 Speaker 1: do you think that they were the unsung heroes. We 548 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 1: don't get the credit never. DJs do not get the 549 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:02,920 Speaker 1: credit for what they do, especially radio DJs. Now, so 550 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:05,960 Speaker 1: there's street DJs and there's radio DJs. You have a 551 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 1: background in both both. That was my my goal to 552 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,920 Speaker 1: I wanted to be able to do all of it. Okay, 553 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:13,879 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Because there's different kinds of DJs. 554 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,439 Speaker 1: There's DJs that are real technical. Back in the day, 555 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:18,800 Speaker 1: they used to have battles. You know, they don't see 556 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:22,600 Speaker 1: that too much anymore. You know. Then you have people 557 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:24,320 Speaker 1: who are just in the industry. Then you have people 558 00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:25,959 Speaker 1: who are tapped in with the streets only. And I'm 559 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,200 Speaker 1: trying to I want to have it all. I want 560 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:31,760 Speaker 1: to be tapped into the clubs, the youth, the radio, everything, 561 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,280 Speaker 1: like I want to be tapped in. So the other 562 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:36,639 Speaker 1: night I was out with I Heart Radio shout out 563 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:43,040 Speaker 1: to y'all because they do. They had Paris Hilton DJ 564 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:48,119 Speaker 1: is set. So I was like, no, I'm curious, Like 565 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:52,440 Speaker 1: I was genuinely like hopeful, Like for some strange reason, 566 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,800 Speaker 1: I was really hopeful for her. You know she's been 567 00:27:54,960 --> 00:28:00,359 Speaker 1: DJ for years too. Years. Yeah the year says in 568 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:02,440 Speaker 1: like not as long as you, but maybe like what 569 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:06,159 Speaker 1: the last five years years? DJs for years because like 570 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:08,520 Speaker 1: I remember, a girl like me couldn't get booked. Those 571 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,280 Speaker 1: were the only type of women that would get booked 572 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 1: in Vegas. To this day, it's still like that. Well, 573 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:15,800 Speaker 1: I still can't get booked in Las Vegas, like they 574 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,640 Speaker 1: only book I don't even know if they're really DJ, 575 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:20,320 Speaker 1: and I think someone made it for him and they're 576 00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:24,520 Speaker 1: just pushing it. Yeah. I've actually had tours and the 577 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:31,120 Speaker 1: they weren't really DJ. But now Paris Hilton did her set. 578 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:33,119 Speaker 1: If I had to rate it on like a one 579 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,399 Speaker 1: to ten, I probably would have rated it at like 580 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:40,400 Speaker 1: a two. And I don't know if it's because I'm 581 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 1: such a hip hop head or like I was just 582 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,400 Speaker 1: so hopeful for her and then like her, you know, 583 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:47,080 Speaker 1: I feel like the first track you drop is like 584 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:49,800 Speaker 1: it's gonna make or break you, you know what I'm saying. 585 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:52,120 Speaker 1: And I think she went for like maybe E d 586 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:55,800 Speaker 1: M or something. But I was hopeful, man, I was, 587 00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:58,440 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Most female DJs are E 588 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:00,960 Speaker 1: d M DJs as said, I don't have too many. 589 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:02,960 Speaker 1: I really didn't have no one to look up to 590 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:06,560 Speaker 1: outside of Spinderella. Did you did you give you her 591 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:10,200 Speaker 1: ap parents ELTs on set? I've seen clips of them, 592 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:11,920 Speaker 1: so I already know what it is. You know, I 593 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:13,959 Speaker 1: get it, de rate it? What would you rate it? Though? 594 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,880 Speaker 1: I mean, that's E D M. I'm not okay, So 595 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:17,640 Speaker 1: I'm so it's not fair to rate it because it's 596 00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:20,320 Speaker 1: adi um. So I'm telling like, try if you're a 597 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:22,400 Speaker 1: DJ out there and you've never mixed medium, tried it. 598 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:26,440 Speaker 1: It's easy as can be. Just it all rolls together. 599 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:31,320 Speaker 1: There's no lyrics, really simple. So hip hop's a little 600 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:35,360 Speaker 1: more challenging. Reggae and Spanish is a way more challenging 601 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:38,320 Speaker 1: if you're ask me. But so you become a radio 602 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:40,600 Speaker 1: DJ after the New Boys even by the way, shout 603 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:42,960 Speaker 1: out to the New Boys, I love them. That was 604 00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:46,000 Speaker 1: Actually they're one of the first people that I had, Like, 605 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,080 Speaker 1: what do you call it? When he smoked weed, car 606 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:54,120 Speaker 1: fills up? Hot box? Hot box you j J? Hot 607 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:58,320 Speaker 1: box me shout out J. Yeah, he hot boxed me. 608 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:00,960 Speaker 1: I think I was like sad about a breakup and 609 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:03,560 Speaker 1: he was like, you know, he was signing Nick Cannon 610 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:05,920 Speaker 1: and they were all doing that whole thing in He 611 00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 1: was like, oh, you just come to the back and 612 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:12,080 Speaker 1: I get in the car, and boy, I mean, your 613 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:14,520 Speaker 1: eyes was burdening. It was impossible not to get high. 614 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:17,240 Speaker 1: I think that was the first real time I got high, 615 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,360 Speaker 1: and then it would have been perfect. Right after and 616 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,280 Speaker 1: I think I had another incident with them where I 617 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:26,560 Speaker 1: don't even remember, but it had involved weed. Yeah, but 618 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:28,400 Speaker 1: they were great, and I was kind of sad to 619 00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 1: see the breakup of them. It was like, work it out, 620 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:32,480 Speaker 1: work it out, work it out. A lot of these 621 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,320 Speaker 1: groups they couldn't work it out. It was, you know, 622 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:40,680 Speaker 1: so you become this huge radio DJ. But it was 623 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:43,720 Speaker 1: it was it a smooth transition, Like what was that transition? 624 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:47,320 Speaker 1: Like it happened fast once they let me in the 625 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:50,320 Speaker 1: doors and put me on. It was fast because all 626 00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:53,200 Speaker 1: of a sudden, I started coming out, all right, here's 627 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:56,080 Speaker 1: new boys, meet yg Meat Mustard and Ty Dollars sign 628 00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,240 Speaker 1: here you go, and they were the next one's boom 629 00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:01,000 Speaker 1: and then it was teach me how to cat Daddy. 630 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,440 Speaker 1: And I also was in the bay. Here's the heartbreaking 631 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:07,240 Speaker 1: I am too stage Gemini, all these cats, one after another, 632 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:09,200 Speaker 1: one after another, one after another. Now did you know 633 00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:13,240 Speaker 1: these artists? Or I just you hit him up on 634 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:16,040 Speaker 1: my Space back in the day Facebook shout out to 635 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:18,520 Speaker 1: my Space and just reached out. I was never scared 636 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:20,720 Speaker 1: to reach out. I was really hungry and passionate and 637 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:22,880 Speaker 1: I just did it. Yeah. Like I said, I had 638 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:24,880 Speaker 1: tunnel vision. I was really blind to what people were 639 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:27,040 Speaker 1: saying or anything. I just did it. That's how I 640 00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:31,560 Speaker 1: got DJ Charisma. I emailed her, I called some close acquaintances, 641 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:33,680 Speaker 1: and then eventually I landed in the d M. We 642 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:37,240 Speaker 1: here and we here, And because she wasn't initially really 643 00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:39,840 Speaker 1: responded to the DM. Just so ya know, I had 644 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:43,920 Speaker 1: like inside a friend do a group d M, and 645 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:45,680 Speaker 1: I was like, oh, this is gonna do it. And 646 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,520 Speaker 1: it worked. So give me all my d ms ladies. 647 00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:51,200 Speaker 1: And for some reason, my DM is broken into three categories. 648 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:55,479 Speaker 1: Oh I know there's like one where why did they 649 00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:57,440 Speaker 1: put these? The other day I went in there and 650 00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:00,240 Speaker 1: like Trino was in there, like what she send me 651 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:04,000 Speaker 1: a message three years ago? Like what is this? So 652 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,480 Speaker 1: I apologize, I'm gonna get better at it. Yeah. I 653 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:08,360 Speaker 1: don't know why it does that because I did notice 654 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,360 Speaker 1: I'll miss d ms and it goes into like that 655 00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:12,440 Speaker 1: third little bucket. But I don't know if you have 656 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:14,840 Speaker 1: to follow them to get it to not. I do 657 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:16,400 Speaker 1: follow some of them, so I don't. I'm trying to 658 00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:19,720 Speaker 1: figure it out. Instagram, Yeah, Instagram is tough, but hey, 659 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:21,920 Speaker 1: you know what, we finally got DJ Charisma and then 660 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:24,479 Speaker 1: like made my day. I was like, yes, I got her, 661 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:26,160 Speaker 1: I got her, and then I was demon her. You 662 00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:28,000 Speaker 1: got the email, You're gonna be there, you gonna come from. 663 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,880 Speaker 1: But being a radio DJ is tough. And then like 664 00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:34,160 Speaker 1: eating while broke is something you're gonna have to do 665 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:36,840 Speaker 1: if you want to get into the radio game. Yes, 666 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:41,320 Speaker 1: so you go from street to mainstream. People are now 667 00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,520 Speaker 1: listening to your advice. There's no competitive there's no I 668 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:47,560 Speaker 1: don't know because there's tons of competitive business. But it's 669 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,760 Speaker 1: always just keep it going. Okay, the competitives never stopped. 670 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,760 Speaker 1: It still goes on in this day. Okay. So too, 671 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,680 Speaker 1: in addition to the radio, you're doing side gigs. You're 672 00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,400 Speaker 1: blowing up. I'm sure your fee is going up. Your 673 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:01,880 Speaker 1: now the feast stayed the same, you know, you know, 674 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,400 Speaker 1: it's harder. I'm really trying to fight for equal pay 675 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,600 Speaker 1: for women, especially in the radio industry. It's mind blowing 676 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:10,040 Speaker 1: the difference. It's like a fourth of what the men's make. 677 00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:15,720 Speaker 1: Just what it is. That's why I personally quit both 678 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:18,560 Speaker 1: radio stations and walked away from radio because it was 679 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:21,720 Speaker 1: just mind blowing to me how big of a gap 680 00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:24,440 Speaker 1: there wasn't the pay difference, but my name was just 681 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,520 Speaker 1: as massive and way bigger than most of them. And 682 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:29,560 Speaker 1: then other guy DJs were like, Yo, this is what 683 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:32,800 Speaker 1: I'm getting paid, and you just me, just me, they 684 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:34,560 Speaker 1: no one ever told me like. It was just me 685 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,640 Speaker 1: figuring things out, you know, because I had a couple 686 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:39,640 Speaker 1: of office spots here and there where I was able to, 687 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:44,239 Speaker 1: damn you make they're making this, they're making what all right? 688 00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,400 Speaker 1: I need? I need? I need at least a fifth 689 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:49,520 Speaker 1: of that or something, because I was making like a 690 00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:52,400 Speaker 1: fraction of what they make. So that's why I left 691 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:54,600 Speaker 1: Power one of six and went to my heart. And 692 00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:57,040 Speaker 1: you know, my heart was a tabit better. But once 693 00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:00,760 Speaker 1: I figured out the inside workings, I blown away. I'm 694 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,800 Speaker 1: still only making a fourth of what these men are making, 695 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:05,680 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So that's why I ended 696 00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:09,240 Speaker 1: up walking away from my heart and then just started 697 00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:11,920 Speaker 1: getting into programming for all these tech companies because there's 698 00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,200 Speaker 1: so many options now a DJ, we could go to 699 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:17,239 Speaker 1: Spotify and program these massive playlists, and it's kind of 700 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,200 Speaker 1: the same thing. So you go, you mean, so you'd 701 00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:22,400 Speaker 1: work for a spot up, Well, you don't work for Spotify, 702 00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:24,040 Speaker 1: but I guess you get a contract and then you 703 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:28,520 Speaker 1: program a playlist, which multiple they're they're like stations playlist. 704 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:32,080 Speaker 1: But that's how you're basically supplementing the income that you're 705 00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:35,080 Speaker 1: really supposed to be making. And begin with how is 706 00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:37,439 Speaker 1: this still possible? In two thousand and twenty one, though, 707 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,160 Speaker 1: coming back to I ended up coming back to radio 708 00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:44,200 Speaker 1: just because I'm so passionate about it because in Nick 709 00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:47,640 Speaker 1: Canyon like, yeah, you're the only DJ I can have. Yeah, 710 00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:49,239 Speaker 1: I really don't want to do radio. I was so 711 00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:50,799 Speaker 1: excited when I heard it. I was like, Dick cannon 712 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:56,800 Speaker 1: More's with DJ. I was like, what Christmas? Unfortunately COVID 713 00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:59,200 Speaker 1: hit and there was just a rough Yeah, of course 714 00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:03,480 Speaker 1: nothing going on. So but the pay is still it's 715 00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:05,880 Speaker 1: still a battle. It's still a battle to get with 716 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:08,440 Speaker 1: these men get, you know, and I'm fighting so the 717 00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:10,920 Speaker 1: next little girls don't have to have as part of 718 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:14,960 Speaker 1: a battle as I did. I've officially accepted that I'm 719 00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:17,719 Speaker 1: that person because there was no female DJ like me 720 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:21,480 Speaker 1: before me. You threaten them, you think they would be 721 00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:23,680 Speaker 1: willing to lose you, because didn't. They happened with like 722 00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:25,680 Speaker 1: I want to say, big Boy years ago, like where 723 00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:28,759 Speaker 1: what radio station was? He did leave. He left, and 724 00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:31,040 Speaker 1: he and they could pay him the whole time, and 725 00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:32,960 Speaker 1: they didn't. And then they tried to come back around 726 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:34,560 Speaker 1: and offer him the money and it was too late. 727 00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:36,200 Speaker 1: And then they tried to assume him, didn't they Do 728 00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:40,279 Speaker 1: you remember that? Yep? I remember all that. So Big 729 00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,320 Speaker 1: Boy did that, you know, And I tried to follow 730 00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:45,400 Speaker 1: his footsteps and the exact same thing, and they were like, okay, 731 00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:49,120 Speaker 1: well we'll challenge it. No, the power was like well 732 00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:51,320 Speaker 1: and then you went time. They just try to convince 733 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,600 Speaker 1: me to stay, you know, like, oh maybe in a 734 00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:55,640 Speaker 1: couple of years. You don't understand how hard it is 735 00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:58,719 Speaker 1: once you leave, like people will stop calling you. It's 736 00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,000 Speaker 1: it's a lot of mind game. It's a lot of threats. 737 00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:03,080 Speaker 1: What did you think when they're saying that, all right, 738 00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:05,680 Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you. So I quit and I ended 739 00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:07,399 Speaker 1: up going to our heart and things got a little 740 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,440 Speaker 1: bit better, but still their sharks there and they're big. 741 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:14,680 Speaker 1: They're like McDonald's, they're they're a corporation, and they got 742 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,160 Speaker 1: all these stations all over the country and they run 743 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:19,279 Speaker 1: them all so and then once I got in there, 744 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,120 Speaker 1: I saw, Okay, they're a little bit. They treated me 745 00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:24,480 Speaker 1: better to get me, to steal me away from power, 746 00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,040 Speaker 1: but they're not taking care of me nowhere near the 747 00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:28,839 Speaker 1: way I should be taken care of. And I think 748 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,280 Speaker 1: that's a tough battle as a woman because women's biggest 749 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:35,279 Speaker 1: I think women's biggest downflaw is we struggle with our 750 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:37,640 Speaker 1: networth or not our net worth? Are worth? Are worth? 751 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:43,640 Speaker 1: Are worth? Is? Ultimately, I say, the biggest dilemma woman face. 752 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,759 Speaker 1: It's not man, it's not love. It is literally self worth. 753 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:50,680 Speaker 1: So you have to live in a world where you're 754 00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:54,120 Speaker 1: undervalued right period, off top and you have to jump. 755 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:57,680 Speaker 1: You have to know you're worth, you're worth, and then 756 00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:00,320 Speaker 1: you gotta stand by stand by it. It's just the 757 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,359 Speaker 1: most difficult win the press and when not to press 758 00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:06,000 Speaker 1: too hard because like Nicki Minaj said it best, like 759 00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:08,799 Speaker 1: if jay Z goes into a meeting nam this needs 760 00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:10,920 Speaker 1: to get done. He's a boss. She goes into a 761 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,520 Speaker 1: meeting and starts breaking it down. She's a bit And 762 00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:16,640 Speaker 1: that's like definitely what it is for us. So it's 763 00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:18,640 Speaker 1: really finding that balance. I had to cater to these 764 00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:21,800 Speaker 1: guys egos that are your bosses, but holding your ground, 765 00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:25,000 Speaker 1: you know, I think what you're drunk like, I'm honestly like, 766 00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,600 Speaker 1: but it takes it. It takes people to pave the way. 767 00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:30,839 Speaker 1: And like I said, I've accepted that I'm the one 768 00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:34,480 Speaker 1: they because now look at how many female DJs there are, 769 00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,520 Speaker 1: It's beautiful. I've never seen this many female DJs in 770 00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:41,320 Speaker 1: hip hop. It's a beautiful thing, like, and they're successful 771 00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:43,279 Speaker 1: on all different levels and I've never seen that when 772 00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:46,880 Speaker 1: I was coming up. So I think that's some change 773 00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:49,400 Speaker 1: has been made. Change has been made. Thanks thanks to 774 00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:54,680 Speaker 1: you and your contributions. Now, I ain't gonna lie the 775 00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:58,560 Speaker 1: Jamakan means Hella piste off because I feel like, um, 776 00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:00,840 Speaker 1: what the funk? Like, you know, we had to me 777 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,279 Speaker 1: to error, Like we've survived so much. I feel like 778 00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:07,239 Speaker 1: women is like the you know, between the black black 779 00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,799 Speaker 1: lives or black racism and women, I don't know who 780 00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:14,960 Speaker 1: has it worse. To be honest, it's just different and 781 00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:16,640 Speaker 1: we all got it. We all got it work. We're 782 00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:20,800 Speaker 1: all set behind that that that invisible white life. Because 783 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,279 Speaker 1: literally even when I left Heart my Heart, there was 784 00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:25,359 Speaker 1: a white man that got the exact same position as 785 00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:28,040 Speaker 1: me and kid got paid double what I was making. 786 00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:30,800 Speaker 1: You know what I mean? For this is that protects 787 00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:33,080 Speaker 1: people from that or not? But we gotta keep pushing. 788 00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:36,080 Speaker 1: Is there a union? You might be right, but I'm 789 00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:38,440 Speaker 1: a DJ. We don't even have insurance. You know what 790 00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:42,160 Speaker 1: I mean? This is like, wow, self independent? You guys 791 00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,320 Speaker 1: are independent, correct, I left know what it's like. We 792 00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:46,719 Speaker 1: don't get you, We don't get none of that. We 793 00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:48,319 Speaker 1: got to figure this out. And I feel like things 794 00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:50,800 Speaker 1: are changing. Feel I've heard of companies that are being created, 795 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,520 Speaker 1: so eventually, like I said, I think feel eventually there 796 00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:58,160 Speaker 1: will be more. I think you're dispelling so many myths 797 00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:00,040 Speaker 1: because when you hear someone on the radio and you 798 00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,239 Speaker 1: see someone like DJ Charisma, you're like, oh my god, 799 00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:06,000 Speaker 1: DJ Charisma huge, following, big parties, Chris Brown every night, 800 00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:09,800 Speaker 1: and like literally like stuff that you're saying here, like 801 00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:12,960 Speaker 1: I would never say, I would never even imagine that 802 00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,719 Speaker 1: you DJ Charisma goes through this and gets eight dollars 803 00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:19,160 Speaker 1: an hour at power one six never made more than 804 00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:23,760 Speaker 1: forty eight dollars every two weeks. Like it's rough, that's crazy, 805 00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:25,480 Speaker 1: that's a crazy journey. So how long have you been 806 00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:30,960 Speaker 1: in DJ now? It's almost sixteen years, sixteen since I 807 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:38,120 Speaker 1: started starting. So if you decide like say like f this, 808 00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:40,600 Speaker 1: Like I'm like, what is your bar? Like where you're 809 00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:42,360 Speaker 1: like f this? And then you just you go a 810 00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,000 Speaker 1: hundred percent independent, Like what does that scope look like? 811 00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:46,959 Speaker 1: I mean, that's what I did when I quit radio, 812 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,440 Speaker 1: and I when there's so many options nowadays, we're in 813 00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:53,160 Speaker 1: a great time in era. Technology is booming. There are 814 00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:56,359 Speaker 1: so many platforms now and these tech companies will pay 815 00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:59,400 Speaker 1: triple what a traditional radio station is paying. So I 816 00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:01,279 Speaker 1: feel like it is just so much more opportunity. And 817 00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:04,160 Speaker 1: do they reach out to reach out to them? Both? 818 00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:08,160 Speaker 1: But like I like your hustle. Yeah, And I think 819 00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:13,320 Speaker 1: that you came from mud and flower Tortilla's case of 820 00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:17,800 Speaker 1: Dias wearing nothing but thirty and a gangster. Can we 821 00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:23,920 Speaker 1: call it the gangster church gangster churro. I don't know, 822 00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:25,759 Speaker 1: we're going We're gonna figure it out. We need your help. 823 00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,160 Speaker 1: We need your help. I love that you came through 824 00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:32,759 Speaker 1: and you dispelled probably every thought that I even I 825 00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:35,920 Speaker 1: honestly had no idea what the life of a DJ was. 826 00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:38,120 Speaker 1: You want to be a DJ, you better get used 827 00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:40,880 Speaker 1: to eating while broke, you know what I'm saying. And 828 00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:43,360 Speaker 1: if you are one of the lucky ones that become 829 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,440 Speaker 1: did you finally passed that bar? I passed that bar, 830 00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:49,680 Speaker 1: then it's it'll all pay off. Look at Kalin, like 831 00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:52,759 Speaker 1: he broke huge walls. He's the first of his kind 832 00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,680 Speaker 1: in so many ways. But he was like name dropping 833 00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:57,719 Speaker 1: his name only like I don't know how he was 834 00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:00,440 Speaker 1: able to. He eatd a lot. He was a curator. 835 00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:03,000 Speaker 1: He was the brain that said, let's put you you, 836 00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:05,840 Speaker 1: you and together you would sound good on this A 837 00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:08,040 Speaker 1: and our work and a lot of DJs we don't 838 00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:09,960 Speaker 1: get our and our credit, you know what I mean? 839 00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:13,439 Speaker 1: So do you guys stick together? Who the DJs? Yeah? 840 00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:16,880 Speaker 1: I feel the DJs do a lot of us, you 841 00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:18,200 Speaker 1: know what I mean. For the most part, I get 842 00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:19,680 Speaker 1: a lot of love from a lot of the males, 843 00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:22,920 Speaker 1: especially outside of the West Coast. So I'm gonna ask 844 00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:26,200 Speaker 1: another controversial question. I hate to keep bringing her up. 845 00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:29,399 Speaker 1: But now I'm curious, so you walking through Parashilton walks 846 00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:31,560 Speaker 1: in the room. Now she's a he. She doesn't even 847 00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:36,440 Speaker 1: need the money. I'm muna say, looking at from outside, 848 00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:38,640 Speaker 1: she's obviously gonna make more just because she's white, right 849 00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:41,520 Speaker 1: of course, off to say that, right, And she's famous, 850 00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:45,239 Speaker 1: she's paras Hilton song. But you're also famous. I mean 851 00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:48,560 Speaker 1: you're She's getting big, big, big, massive checks that hip 852 00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:51,400 Speaker 1: hop DJs do not get. And that's another thing like 853 00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:55,000 Speaker 1: I'm I'm also pushing forward is to hip hop DJs. 854 00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:58,160 Speaker 1: We need the same respect as these international DJs. It's 855 00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:01,640 Speaker 1: just mind blowing, like a DJ snake in them. They're 856 00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:04,920 Speaker 1: getting a hundred K a set a hip hop DJ, 857 00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:10,640 Speaker 1: you're fucking lucky if you get a thousand? Yes what yes, there, 858 00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:14,320 Speaker 1: you're lucky. And those DJs in Vegas? Who's who's that 859 00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:16,200 Speaker 1: big DJ in Vegas? It was a big DJ Vegas? 860 00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:19,520 Speaker 1: What's his name? Who? Why are you telling me who's 861 00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:21,480 Speaker 1: a hip hop? Big hip hop? Not a hip hop? 862 00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:24,280 Speaker 1: It was hip hop. They're all E d M DJs, 863 00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:27,680 Speaker 1: all of them. So why why don't you, for lack 864 00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:30,400 Speaker 1: of better words, a passionate about hip hop. Okay, so 865 00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:32,640 Speaker 1: because you're passionate about hip hop, you're not gonna sell out. 866 00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:35,560 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sell out. I'm passionate. I'm gonna change things. 867 00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:41,560 Speaker 1: So someone's like, I've been told that. I have been 868 00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:43,640 Speaker 1: told that to my face plenty of times. Like when 869 00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:45,960 Speaker 1: I was the first time we are a dish, I 870 00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,880 Speaker 1: was having an audition for Beats by Dre Headphones and 871 00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:51,120 Speaker 1: it was me versus one of my co workers. A man. 872 00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:53,840 Speaker 1: He's like, Christmas, You're gonna get nowhere in this industry. 873 00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:56,560 Speaker 1: He's like, first of all, it's like the way you dressed. 874 00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:58,640 Speaker 1: He's like, you're a tomboy. And then goes and then 875 00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:00,799 Speaker 1: he's like all you do is vouch for the hood, 876 00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:02,959 Speaker 1: you got for the streets. And he's like, it's gonna 877 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,160 Speaker 1: get you nowhere. He's like, you're gonna learn. He's like, 878 00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:07,399 Speaker 1: you're gonna see. He's like, you need to be doing 879 00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:09,040 Speaker 1: E d M sets, and you need to be doing 880 00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:13,520 Speaker 1: pop and international sets. And I didn't were looking at 881 00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:16,239 Speaker 1: him like fuck, You're like you know, I'm like, nah, 882 00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:19,600 Speaker 1: I love hip hop funk that you guys will culture 883 00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:22,320 Speaker 1: vulture it because you catch these E d M DJs 884 00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:25,839 Speaker 1: using hip hop pieces constantly, you know what I mean? 885 00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:28,440 Speaker 1: So nah, but how do you cope with that? Mentally though? 886 00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,160 Speaker 1: Like that would be difficult challenge me, Like I always 887 00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:32,879 Speaker 1: look at everything as a challenge, and I always feel 888 00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:35,320 Speaker 1: like everyone's challenging me. All right, cool? And then I 889 00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:37,480 Speaker 1: ended up getting that gig that day and he didn't. 890 00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:40,879 Speaker 1: By the way, guy ended up being featured in Best 891 00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:44,320 Speaker 1: Buys Christmas catalog, you know, And it was just that 892 00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:47,160 Speaker 1: was the start, and then that confirmed my thoughts to 893 00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:50,960 Speaker 1: likec I got this gig over your heirs, I'm gonna 894 00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:53,279 Speaker 1: keep doing what I do. I look at the world 895 00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:55,240 Speaker 1: and I see social media and I feel like everything 896 00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:58,600 Speaker 1: that's negative or sexual like does really well. Then you 897 00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:01,120 Speaker 1: have like our podcast Eating Broke. You know, it's like, oh, 898 00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:04,920 Speaker 1: for lack of better word, we're more on the positive achievement, 899 00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:08,680 Speaker 1: positive stories, but you know, we're in the world where 900 00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:11,480 Speaker 1: you're constantly based like maybe we should do something controversial, 901 00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:13,759 Speaker 1: like why are we gonna stay loyal? Now? Of course 902 00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:16,320 Speaker 1: this is my baby, so I'm gonna stay loyal to it. 903 00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:18,360 Speaker 1: But it's hard to wake up every day going and 904 00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:21,600 Speaker 1: you're competing against a girl in a bikini. You're competing 905 00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:24,759 Speaker 1: against sexual stuff, for negative stuff. You just gotta put 906 00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:26,960 Speaker 1: them tonal vision glasses on the go, because that's exactly 907 00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:28,520 Speaker 1: what I was against, and I didn't. You know what 908 00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:30,520 Speaker 1: I mean, I love it, and I mean for all 909 00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:32,320 Speaker 1: your little girls out there that are just like me, 910 00:44:32,400 --> 00:45:45,600 Speaker 1: we could do it. Kah me and while broken broken, 911 00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:51,000 Speaker 1: I respect you and like you inspire me. Straight up, 912 00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:55,000 Speaker 1: let's go, so Charisma, where can we catch you? Where 913 00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:57,600 Speaker 1: can we find you? How can people book you if 914 00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:02,120 Speaker 1: they wanted to? I mean, just shoot your shot shot, 915 00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:03,840 Speaker 1: I try a d M or you know, as somebody 916 00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:07,359 Speaker 1: like I do. My best answer, Uh, you can catch 917 00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:09,520 Speaker 1: me if you're out in the southern California area. I'm 918 00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:12,680 Speaker 1: on your radio all the time. I'm also on Series XM. 919 00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:15,080 Speaker 1: I gotta show every Saturday night called Live from the 920 00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:18,120 Speaker 1: West Side, and that's national, so no matter where you're 921 00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:20,239 Speaker 1: at in the country, you can tune into that. I like, 922 00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:22,640 Speaker 1: I got more music coming. I got a brand new 923 00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:25,239 Speaker 1: song with Little Kim on the Way. Yeah, we shot 924 00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:28,080 Speaker 1: the video and everything, so it's got Little Kim coil Ray, 925 00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:30,920 Speaker 1: Lady London. It's like a Ladies night. Yeah, it's just 926 00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:32,560 Speaker 1: special to me because it's something I've been wanting to 927 00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:35,680 Speaker 1: do for years. When does it drop? It's I'm waiting 928 00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:38,759 Speaker 1: on the clearances, so any day now, like we're just 929 00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:41,520 Speaker 1: waiting on those clearances to go through. That's coming. It's 930 00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:43,920 Speaker 1: called she Ball. You can actually hear it in the name. 931 00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:47,359 Speaker 1: It's in the movie. It's the theme song of the movie, 932 00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:49,040 Speaker 1: so it does play a little bit. You can hear it. 933 00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:53,000 Speaker 1: Waiting for that to come out. Just trying to be 934 00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:54,440 Speaker 1: a game changer. You know, I got a lot of 935 00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:56,359 Speaker 1: stuff I'm working on. I got my own cannabis line. 936 00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:59,440 Speaker 1: Now got my own string, my Charisma strain. So where 937 00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:03,640 Speaker 1: can people up to Charisma and eat broke? You can 938 00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:05,799 Speaker 1: get us to benj. You heard that she got our 939 00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:08,640 Speaker 1: own straight. If you're out here in California, you can 940 00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:10,880 Speaker 1: get it. All the cookies. Shout out to my brother Bernard, 941 00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:13,160 Speaker 1: thank you for letting me being all the cookie stores. 942 00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:15,480 Speaker 1: I'm at all this easy stories. I'm at a lot 943 00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:18,360 Speaker 1: of stories out here. But if you catch me, you 944 00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:20,440 Speaker 1: can get it. You know what I mean. Look for 945 00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:22,560 Speaker 1: me and I'm always in the clubs. I'm always somewhere 946 00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:27,680 Speaker 1: DJ follow my Instagram at DJ Charisma, Always outside come, stay, 947 00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:30,400 Speaker 1: what's up? I don't bite. She definitely doesn't bite, and 948 00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:33,440 Speaker 1: I think the damns work fine for me. But definitely 949 00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:36,800 Speaker 1: follow her. Check her out anywhere you you gag sister podcasts, 950 00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:42,399 Speaker 1: right huh for your national syndicated serious call. Yeah, what's 951 00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:46,319 Speaker 1: what it's called? Life on this It's a mixed show. 952 00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:49,080 Speaker 1: It's not a podcast. It's good music. You want me 953 00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:51,160 Speaker 1: to do? 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