WEBVTT - ITS Home Edition: Saweetie 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:05.240 Welcome to Inside the Studio presented by I Heart Radio. 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:17.480 I'm your host, Joe Leaving. Okay, so the whole idea 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:20.119 of this home edition of the show is to let 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:23.680 you into the lives and homes of artists so you 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:26.920 can see how they've been impacted by the pandemic and 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:30.000 how it's affecting the way they make music. And this 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:34.279 week's guest, Sweetie, is a real inspiration and she's all 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:38.240 about positivity and hustle, and she says lockdown has turned 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:41.120 her into a creative genius. I mean, for one thing, 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:44.320 she doesn't have to get on a plane every day 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:46.800 to go out and promote her music. She has time 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:50.000 to actually make her music. And if things are a 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:54.640 little quiet, well, she compares the solitude to being a 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:57.560 little kid and having to entertain herself. She and our 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:01.520 Quarantine correspondent Jordan Runtog also talked about how they've both 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:04.640 been finding comfort by going back to the music they 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:08.400 used to listen to in high school. Except for Sweetie, 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:10.920 some of the rappers she grew up listening to her 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:14.959 now her peers. So Jordan's you've got a little catching 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.679 up to do. Anyway, If you enjoy this episode. Be 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:20.080 sure to listen to the I Heart Radio podcast that 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:24.040 Jordan's hosts, which is called Rivals Music's Greatest Feuds and 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:33.200 which is available wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, everybody, 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:35.280 my name is Jordan Runt Talk, but enough about me. 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:38.400 My guest today is one of hip hop's brightest new stars. 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:41.559 She caught her start freestyling on Instagram before her track 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:45.560 is a Girl Blew Up on SoundCloud back in. Since then, 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:49.760 she's redefined hustle. By my count, She's appeared on eighteen singles, 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:53.800 filmed seventeen music videos, and released two EPs. She's also 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:56.560 started a record label, a jewelry line, a beauty line, 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:59.559 and launched an acting career. Honestly, I'm tired just thinking 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:02.400 of all that. In June, she drops tap in, which 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:04.840 pays tribute to her Bay Area roots by sampling two 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:08.080 shorts two thousand six Anthem Blow the Whistle the tracks 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:10.840 the lead single from her debut LP, Pretty Bitch Music, 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.080 which is due out later this year. I'm so happy 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.320 to welcome sweetie. Thank you so much for taking the 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:18.839 time today. Hey sorry, if I keep going in and out, 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:23.800 my postmates keeps telling me, hey, you know, just millennials multitasking, 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:27.960 doing so much at once typical day, and Tony, I'm well, 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:29.720 how are you? Thank you for having me on your 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:32.040 show today. Thank you so much. Actually, this is a 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:34.800 great way to lead into my first question. You do 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:37.040 so much. You are a rapper, you want to run 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.919 your own label, you're a CEO, you're also an actress. 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:42.040 I guess my first question is how do you do 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:43.400 it all? When do you do it all? Is this 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:45.840 quarantine does not sound like it has much downtime for you. 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:49.960 I've actually been a lot busier in quarantine only because 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:54.080 I'm not traveling. So the time that I usually would 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:58.000 spend packing my bags, traveling to the airport, traveling to 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:02.360 another city, I'm now at home just shooting everything in 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.920 my space. You've got a future is like a time 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:10.359 management like self help author or something too. It's really amazing. 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:12.800 Do you know what you need to have time management? 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:14.720 You need to be organized. I need to have a 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:18.359 planner because otherwise everything just seems like a long laundry 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:21.200 list and it can get hectic one thing at a time. 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.680 So if your first LP pretty much music do out 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:28.519 very soon, how is it a departure from your previous EPs. Um, 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:31.200 it's a big departure. I have a new team, new 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:34.400 people helping me with my vision. I'm actually working with family, 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.320 so it's helping a lot. My uncle is my manager, 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:39.360 my auntie is a part of my management as well. 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:42.480 UM just brought my cousins on to help with March, 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:47.120 so is definitely a family affair. Oh that's awesome. I mean, 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:49.800 given all the success you've had with Icy Girl on 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.240 My Type and most recently Tapping, did you feel any 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:54.520 pressure when you're putting this album together in a way 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:57.720 to sort of, you know, to lead on from everything 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:01.480 that you've had so far. Um, I work really well 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:05.440 under pressure. For one, I was a big procrastinator in college, 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:08.200 so some of my some of my best papers were 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:14.000 written in five hours, ten fifteen p um so that 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:17.680 I was an athlete all my life. So I work 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:20.080 really well under pressure, and some of my best work 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:22.919 comes from pressure. So whenever someone's like, how is she 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.839 gonna top Icy Girl my Type and now tap In, 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:28.920 like that only motivates me to just keep competing against 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:31.600 myself and to keep winning. You sample too short to 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:33.359 blow the whistle on tap In? How did that idea 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.039 come about? I love sampling songs. I feel like it's 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:41.040 my specialty and I wanted to do something that paid 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:44.159 homage to an o G from my area, so that's 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:45.560 why I did Bow to Whistle and it's one of 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:48.040 my favorite songs. What are you looking for when you're 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:49.680 looking for a song to sample? I know that you 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:52.039 did obviously my neck my back. Is there something that 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:54.440 really speaks to you? Well, my neck my back. That 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:57.719 was an accident. I had did the car rap and 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:00.960 record a video and then went raw in a way 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:05.520 that I've never seen before. So that was just I 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:08.440 listened to my fan base, not listened to the internet, 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:10.560 and they said it was hot. So I recorded that one. 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:14.279 But my first true sample was was my type and 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:16.640 it was just missing something that on my project, and 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:18.080 I was like, let me just go back into the 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:21.360 archives of you know, people who I love and shots 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:24.080 to Pete Pablo because he's been nothing but supportive and 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.039 great with that. So I feel like that was my 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.400 first true true sample. And you grew up in the 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:30.280 Bay Area and the barrier sound of something you really 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:32.880 feel strongly about incorporating in your music For an East 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:35.520 Coaster like me, would you describe the Bay Area sound. 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:38.080 What are some hallmarks of it? It's a whole bunch 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:39.800 of When I say it PAMs off, I'm not talking 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:42.279 about like this respectful. I'm talking about the flyness in it. 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:46.200 Like everything is is enunciated a certain way. It's just 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:49.839 pronounced a certain way, and we can say something regular, 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:52.400 but that's how we say that. It's so fly like 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.320 rich rich Man with eight figures. That's my type, but 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:58.440 so simple. But the y say it's just the charisma 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:00.840 that goes behind it. I think you said that one 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:02.880 of your favorite tracks on the new albums called Prayed Up. 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:05.400 Why is that song so special to you? It reminds 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:09.320 me of this icy girl, reminds me of just the 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:12.920 importance of being motivated no matter what your circumstances. And 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:17.640 although I've attained some level of success, I do find 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:20.960 moments where I am discouraged, where I am second guessing myself. 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:23.839 So it just reminds me of how far I come. 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:25.359 And it just speaks to the girl who was in 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:28.400 college hustling, trying to just make ends meet in l A. 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:30.080 And I feel like it's always important to go to 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:33.400 those roots because I feel like you could. I don't 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:35.159 ever want to get comfortable when I always want to 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:37.719 have that that hunger, you know, just so that I 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:39.919 keep getting better and what I do and you do 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:42.680 do so much. Talk to me about the album title. 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.400 I know that pretty much actually has is an acronym, right, yeah, 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:50.960 So pretty like pretty for me. Um, people have always 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:55.880 tried to make that hindrance for me, like quote unquote, 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:59.880 pretty privileged quote unquote, she's pretty, so she she comes 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.400 him there, she acts like that, when in reality, I'm not, 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:05.760 And if you've met me in person, anyone can attest 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:08.320 to that. So I wanted to give pretty a good 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:10.600 meaning because I didn't. I didn't have privilege growing up. 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:13.280 I worked for everything that I've accomplished and everything that 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.320 I gained. So for me, pretty as attitude, pretty as 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:20.480 work ethic. Pretty is what makes anyone unique given their culture, 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:24.800 skin shape, size, not feel like my fans all looks 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:27.040 so different, but I make them feel pretty and I 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:29.400 make them feel confident. So pretty it's energy is how 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:31.800 you treat other people. It's being a good person and 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:34.360 being a hustler and just being confident in your own 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.920 skin and bitch, like I say, bitch a lot of 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:42.120 my music, and I know my mom and my grandmall 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:46.559 be like mad have sometimes, but so when I'm saying bitch, 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.400 I just want to make sure that people understand. When 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:52.720 I'm saying bitch, it means boss, it means independent, it 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:55.400 means tough, it means creative and not from the bay. 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:58.160 So the H means hi fi. So all those things, 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:01.320 all those moods, all those acts can be found throughout 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:04.080 the project message of positivity. What's the latest for it? 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:07.400 For a release date? And I know COVID's shuffled everybody around, 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:11.040 but what's the latest it's shuffling is it's continuing to shuffle. 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:14.360 And because you guys are such a big and respected platform, 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:16.040 I wouldn't even want to play all like that. But 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:19.440 definitely sometime in the fall, have you been writing a 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:23.040 lot during lockdown? Even been feeling productive musically? Definitely? I 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:26.240 feel like, if anything, I'm grateful because I was on 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:29.160 a flight every day and that takes a lot on 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.000 your body. So it's like for me, this is my 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:35.760 time to just unwind and get back to my creative roots. 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:37.959 I've been doing all my treatments for my videos, so 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:54.199 I'm excited for this. Nobody of work walk me through 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:55.840 how you put a verse together, because I read you 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:57.840 put it together almost like a college essay, you like, 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:03.720 outline it out right. Yeah, because us. I went back 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:05.560 and I listened to my two piece and I was like, damn, 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:09.360 this was some great music. But going back to a 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:11.320 year or two years later when I had to release them, 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:12.880 I was always like, Damn, I wish I would have 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.440 talked about this, dad, miss song is missing this. So 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:17.160 I feel like when you have a premises, when you 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.320 have an introduction, when you have the body, the meat, 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.760 and when we have a conclusion person, you're able to 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:23.760 attack the things that you want on it. So it's 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:25.760 like I was tired of not checking everything off my 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:28.920 list because there's power in the raptors, power in the bars, 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:30.760 and there's power in your words. So it was like 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:32.840 I kept being mad that I kept missing out on 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:35.040 certain things I wanted to touch on. So it was 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:37.400 a way to keep myself accountable for what I wanted 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:40.560 to talk about. Just clarity and get all all messages 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:43.839 direct exactly. And you have a home studio now, right, 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:46.400 how is that? How's that working out for you in lockdown? 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:48.520 Has it changed the way that you've approached music at all. 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:52.400 It's called the pretty box. Yeah. Uh, it's called a 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:55.200 pretty box, the pretty box, and I feel like, you know, 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:57.280 I make pretty bitch music. So it was only right. 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:59.000 I was like, what do I call this place? But yeah, 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:03.240 it's called the pretty box. That is amazing. Has has 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.040 lockdown in any way changed you creatively? Like, did you 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.040 in any way that you've approached music? I mean even 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:12.280 like collaborating over zoom and stuff like that, or Um, 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:17.679 I felt like it's made me a creative genius once again. Um, 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.280 I was the only child for about I come from 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:22.160 a big family, but I was an only child for 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:27.160 about ten eleven years. So I operate well in solitude. 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:32.199 Um it's exciting for me. Um, I have fun by myself, 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:35.760 you know, having to be a little kid and having 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:38.160 to be creative and entertain yourself. Like that's something that 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:41.600 I did do. So it's like for me, I'm enjoying it. 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:44.280 Oh that's good to hear. I mean it's crazy to 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:46.600 me to think that that your life could have taken 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:48.040 such a different path. I mean you you went to 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:51.800 USC studying communications and you nearly didn't get into music, right, No, 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.360 I always did. I always did, But for me, like 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:56.960 I'm from the big area, but I went to high 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:01.880 school and Sacramento. Sacramento back then probably a sea market city, 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.400 so there wasn't a lot of opportunities. So it's like 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:06.120 I had no one looking at me, and I'm just like, 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:07.920 do I stay in Sacramento or do I get out 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:09.640 of here? And I was like, I gotta get out 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:11.280 of here. I'm trying to be out in the world. 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:14.920 So I decided to pursue college. And then I was 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:18.000 at San Diego State and I wanted to drop out, 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.160 but I was like, I'm gonna say in college if 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:21.880 I if I get to go to my dream school. 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:25.079 So I applied to USC. I got in my homegirl 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.920 who was an English major. Oh my gosh, God bless her. 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:30.960 So her name was Kaya, and she was the bomb 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:33.440 I wrote. I wrote all my essays and she proof 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.280 read them from me. So teamwork, my friends supported me 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.520 and helped me get in the USC. So shout out 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:42.880 to incredible. It's funny now thinking that you're being in Sacramento, 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:45.800 but social media has played such an incredible role in 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:47.560 your career and so many other people's career. I think 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:49.320 there was a quote you said it was an amazing quote. 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:51.600 He said, social media is the new streets? How do 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:53.520 you use social media these days as a tool for you? 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.640 Social media is definitely the new streets. Like the hashtag 0:11:56.720 --> 0:12:00.240 is you passing out your mixtape? Someone clicking freestyles wrap, 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.040 Like that's how they're getting to your music. You tagging people, 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.439 you deem me people, You're sending your music out there. 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:09.959 It's made it a lot easier, but um, it's also 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:13.920 a double edged sword because there are no more gatekeepers. 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:17.360 Like someone can literally go viral overnight and then there 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:21.360 there with the fan base, with the engagement, they can 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:24.559 be deemed as a star. So it's like, yes, it's 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:27.880 it's made it super accessible, but now it's really getting 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:29.960 down to how do you separate yourself from the pack, 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:33.200 because now anyone can do it. Basically, who are some 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:36.040 of your early musical heroes when you're first starting up 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.000 that made you want to make music? You know what? 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:40.439 And this is why I make music? Like I think 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:44.040 it's great when you're able to find an old playlist, 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:48.160 find an old burnt CD um and you listen to 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:51.280 these songs that take you back down memory lane. And 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:56.600 I remember currency and Wiz had Taylor Gang Um. Young 0:12:56.640 --> 0:13:01.640 Money had Nikki, Little Wayne and Drake Um. Who else 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:03.440 was out, but I think those those were like the 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:06.600 big people who we listened to at school, and it 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:10.880 was just it was so cool, like skateboarding, wrapping like 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:12.960 that was the culture of our high school. So just 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:16.160 seeing young people go out there and get it. Even Tiger, 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:17.839 like Tiger was a part of Young Money as well, 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:19.800 and it's just like wow, like these people really been 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:21.960 in the game for a long time, and it makes 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.720 me respect them even more. It's funny. During the pandemic, 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:26.719 I found myself listening to stuff that I used to 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:30.280 listen to back in high school I ever listened to. 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:33.480 I literally listened to car Service last night by Currency 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:37.040 and West Khalifa, and it's like cleared a roundway, baby, 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:40.280 I get money from Sunday to Sunday Lady like it was. 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:42.920 It just brought back so much like memories and it 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:47.120 was like wow, like it feels great to now be 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.840 being a company of people who I grew up listening to, 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:53.240 like all super talents at all. You know, we're just 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:56.120 young having fun and getting it. So I just always 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:59.440 want to keep that with me, Like yes, it gets stressful, 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:01.600 and yes, it is a lot of hard work. But 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:03.840 something that I loved about Young Money and the Taylor 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:05.640 Gang and all the other artists who I grew up 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:07.160 listening to is you were able to see that they 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.200 were having fun. So it's like, I never want to 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:12.599 lose that. I read your interview with Little Kim for 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:15.800 Interview Magazine. What was that like? That was so cool? 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:19.360 Little Kim is just she's so sweet, she's so humble, 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:23.600 and she loved you. Yeah, I was. It was It 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:25.600 was a moment for me because yes, I grew up 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:27.360 listening to who I did It in high school, but 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:30.200 my mom loved Lot Kim growing up, so it's like 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:34.440 I grew up just I was born into the Little Kimmitty. 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:37.560 If I don't, I don't know, but it's like, like 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:39.880 my mom loved it so off top, I loved it too. 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:43.360 And she's just so bossy, so independent, and she's a 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.440 true trend setter. So the fact that I was able 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:47.120 to go on the phone with her was just everything. 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:49.280 What are the messages that you want to pass along 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:51.080 to your fans and people that are just getting started 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:55.200 right now. Everyone has a different journey. Um, I love 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:57.320 I'm a I'm a student, so I would read a 0:14:57.320 --> 0:14:59.880 whole bunch of biographies and how people got made it. 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.600 And you really can't compare your journey to the next 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:05.680 person because everybody breaks in a different way. Whether you're 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:09.400 a photographer, whether you're an artist, whether you're a journalist, 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:12.240 when you're in the creative field, everybody has their own 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:14.760 journey to success. So don't compare it. And if you 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.000 feel like it's it's truly a part of your destiny, 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:19.480 just stay with it because it will happen because hard 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.800 work does pay off. Yeah, I mean, especially the industry 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:24.640 just changed yourself fascinate. When I was in high school, 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:26.400 social media didn't even exist, and that wasn't even that 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:29.320 long ago. It's crazier. So being adaptable to it's gonna 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:32.920 be crucial, I imagine now. Adapting is is truly important. 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.680 It's important to study the grace, but supporting to adapt 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.880 to to what's running the environment and a lot of 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:41.920 things are changing in real time. So I try to, 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:44.240 you know, do my best, work hard and just adapt. 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:46.360 The last few months have been tough on all of 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:48.800 us for so many reasons. How have you been staying 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:52.520 grounded and feeling good? My family. I love them so much, 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:54.560 like I can just go on the island with them 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:56.880 and just live there for the rest of my life. 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:00.880 There's so much fun. And I actually started and this 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:06.000 um TV series, this, this YouTube series that and hopes 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:09.080 and actually are in talks of being actually picked up 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:12.480 by TV network. So whoever's listening, I strongly recommend you 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.720 going to see the Icy live on the YouTube because 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:18.160 it's doing really well and you're able to see me 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:21.200 with my family, and that's something that I've actually started 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.360 in Quarantine and it's doing really well. You have time 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:26.440 to do all this. It's incredible, all the things that 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:29.440 you do. He launched your your your fashion line with 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:33.080 a Pretty Little Thing, the Pretty Little Thing collection, donating 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:35.080 all the profits to Black Lives Matter. I think he 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:38.280 raised a hundred fifty thousand. What do you have time 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:40.440 to do all this? I'm still so blown away by that. 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:44.280 Um you know that figure of the woman with all 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:47.880 the hands coming out of her, That's what That's what 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:51.240 I feel like every day. UM. You know, and this business, 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:54.600 you know, social media, one thing is everything just moves quickly, 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:57.440 so you have to be on points. So you know, 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:01.560 you know, I need four shots of express and I'm 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:20.000 ready to go. I mean, what do you do to unwine? 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.160 What's your favorite thing when you're finally done for the day. 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.919 Did you walks, you go on shows, you binge games, 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:28.199 you play? What's your favorite thing? Oh my god, I'm 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:35.280 gonna show you. I've actually started to paint. Oh my god. Yeah, actually, yeah, 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:39.400 I love I love to paint. It's very therapeutic to me, really, like, oh, 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:42.439 that's so cool. What was that? Was that oil or acrylic? 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:46.680 It's acrylic. Um oil is a little hard. So I'm 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:49.600 doing baby steps, but I've got I want some blis 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:51.879 actually on Sunday because my homegirl I kept using on 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:53.960 her supplies, so I was like, let me just let 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:56.000 me just go and get my own. So, you know, 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:59.560 just a little a little icy icy Vinchi going on, 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:04.920 so we need vinci. Been doing that? That looks beautiful. 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:08.200 Um well, I took art in college, but it was 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.359 a little it was difficult because we use pens. We 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:12.760 was charcoal. I didn't get to use paint, and I 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:15.280 was under the impression that we were going to paint, 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:17.600 but we didn't paint. So I've always wanted to try painting, 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:20.800 and it's just so soothing. I love you and say 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.919 you are also an amazing cook. I've been watching some 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:28.000 of the seafood pasta, chicken, a dobo, like it's so 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:31.160 much more legit than anything I can ever make. Thank you. 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:35.000 I love seafood, and for me, I've always loved cooking. 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:37.399 But the reason why I started doing seafood because all 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:40.120 the restaurants were closed down. So I was like, I 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:42.600 can't eat my favorite food. So I went right down 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:45.800 the whole food went to a little fresh fresh market 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:47.959 section and I was like, I'm gonna create my own squid, 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:50.840 oct to push, shrimp, sam whatever I want. And that's 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:53.679 that's where I kind of like developed my skill for 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:56.480 you know, cooking seafood because I couldn't eat out no more. 0:18:56.880 --> 0:19:00.119 Oh my gosh, what's your absolute favorite thing to make? Like, 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.720 if you have to choose, Oh my gosh, I love 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:07.720 to create octopus or seafood seafood pasta with homemade alfredo. 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:10.320 My my alfredo is a little bit on the lemon 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:12.960 zesty park because I like to put some lemon juice 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:17.679 in there. But I love scallops, squid, octopus, rim, I 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:20.480 like everything, So it's like it's like my favorite thing 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:22.639 to make. Oh my god, is that like a family 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:26.200 recipe or just something you invented? And no, it's my recipe. 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:28.800 I just put all my favorite seafoods into one pasta. 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:31.560 Oh my gosh, that sounds incredible as its sa Can 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:33.480 you like FedEx me some of that? It always looks 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:35.480 so good on your social media. You know, I'm a 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:37.240 frazer and I'm gonna send it over to you, because 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:39.359 you know, seafood not good when it get warm. So, 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:42.960 oh yeah, from Boston, so we we do see food. 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:47.359 You guys have the best clam chowder? Yeah we do, Yeah, 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:50.240 we do. Oh my gosh, we're not at a radio 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:53.440 promo out there. I clam chowder every day. Oh my god. 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:55.880 That was like my my staple as a kid. It's 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:59.160 way better than Manhattan clam chowder, which just like wow, Red, 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:02.800 It's like a total different thing. No, now I got today. 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:08.639 Look what you just did to me? Sorry, Oh my gosh. 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:10.960 Well what is next for you? I mean I could 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:13.520 I feel like there's twelve things always happened for you 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:15.560 every day at once. But what are you most excited 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:19.240 about on the horizon? Um, I think I'm most excited 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:23.240 I'm excited for a festival season because I've been trying 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:25.600 to figure out I love when people wash bit, but 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:28.840 I was like, marsh pitting reminds me of something, and 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:31.879 it reminds me of the Bay Area, because if you 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:34.399 go to the Bay and when some mac dre's and 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:37.679 Mr fasom some music that makes you just want to 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:40.240