WEBVTT - Episode 222 "Serayah" 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.880 Um borrow with me here. You know BT Solo shout 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:09.000 oct no real color what we see w getting rid 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:11.520 of bula something boy can't stand on the home Sufi. 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:13.640 I already know he can't ball with me because you 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:16.320 have with a square to me they get they called 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:24.880 to me by La Baller Alert. Welcome to the ball 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:28.360 Alert Show podcast available everywhere you get your podcasts. I 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:30.320 go by the name of Ferrari Simmons and I am 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:33.519 your best tie s Solo. You know BT oct Or 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:39.360 that Surrea's in the building. You not just Surreya in 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:43.960 the building. Man. We got the actress, singer, songwritererver Man. 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:48.760 Surrea has been in like called classics. I'm gonna just 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:52.240 say like from Empire, to be a math, to Woo 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:55.960 Tang saga continue like cowboy, y'all. We got sa in 0:00:56.040 --> 0:01:05.760 the building and I appreciate the intro. Welcome to show. 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:12.759 I'm good, how y'all doing? Were good though, But it's 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:14.600 about you. It's all about you a matter of fact, 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:16.640 Can you take us back? You know we met you 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:19.160 in twenty fifteen. I'm not sure if that's where you 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:22.679 exactly started, but we met you on Empire twenty fifteen. 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:25.200 Like and that was a time like an error, like 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:28.680 when people was doing watch parties, like everybody was locked 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:30.880 in the empire and we got to meet you and 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:34.440 you would sing it dancing. You know. Sometimes people think like, 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:36.000 you know, you just do that for the role, but 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:39.720 you are actually doing music you know and everything. So 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:41.920 can you take us back to that time, Like how 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:43.640 did you get into acting? Is that's something that you 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:48.400 always wanted to do? Yeah? Performing in general, it's always 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:50.360 been a passion of mine and my mom put me 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:54.360 in dance at four, and I started writing music at 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:58.240 like around ten. Um, and it's it's always been a 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:02.560 super passion of mine. And I remember being um, I 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:05.680 think five or six years old. Uh went I went 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:08.000 to a Destiny's Child concert and I was just like, yep, 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:13.800 that's what I'm gonna do. Not even it was like 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:19.480 I'm a survivor vibes and yeah and so um that 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:21.760 was like the pivotal moment for me as far as 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:24.880 I can remember. Um. And then ever since then, it's 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:28.000 just been you know, a grind, a NonStop you know grind, 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:32.400 just just always involved in it. In school, yeah, outside 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:36.919 of school, um, but specifically in twenty fifteen, I had 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:43.600 just graduated high school WOU a year before, and and 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:47.080 that was my first opportunity at like a television or 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:52.160 being on TV. UM and so theatrically it was it 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:54.440 was just different. It was it was a great opportunity. 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:57.440 And because I've done modeling and and things like that 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:01.160 before commercials, but not anything film and TV. So Empire 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.440 was definitely my segue into the world I'm in. Now, 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:08.480 how did you get that opportunity? My friend Dejean so 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:13.360 Dejean Butler, I'm gonna just put that out there. That's 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:15.840 my that's oh my gosh, that's family at this point. 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.320 But so he gave me the tip off of like, 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:22.160 there's an audition. I know that you're sing, you dance 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:27.080 this this this character has to sing and dance um, 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:32.519 and they're looking for this role. See. So his mom 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:36.120 is Leah Daniels, who is Lee Daniel's sister. She's a 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:39.800 casting director. So he um, it was in the family, 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:41.320 and he was kind of like, I'm about to put 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:47.160 my friend on yeah, and so um, she liked my 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:48.880 look and then I had to audition a couple of 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:52.160 times and you know, it made its way through her. 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:54.000 It made it to Lee Daniels. Then I had to 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:58.360 audition for Fox again, and and then I was shipped 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:02.160 off to Chicago foming Empire. So yeah, it was. It 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:04.600 was really crazy though, because you know, when I knew 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:07.640 when I got the audition for the show, it didn't exist. Yeah, 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:11.119 so so it was definitely a whirlwind. I didn't expect. 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:14.240 How did your life change in that time? So much? Girl, 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:18.560 so much like three sixty. I mean I grew up. 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.839 I grew up struggling and just kind of like you know, 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:26.960 it wasn't easy childhood. I moved a lot. I have 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:31.719 friends all over the country. Where did you start? And then, um, so, 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.960 originally I'm from southern California, moved to La the Valley area. 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:39.760 Then I moved here actually, and my dad lives in Seattle. 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:43.799 As I live with my dad. I moved a lot 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:46.000 as a kid, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot. 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:49.839 So so it was that. And so when when Empire came, 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:51.520 I was working, I was going to college and I 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:53.920 was working at H and M and uh I had 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:58.040 what college were you at? Community college? And colleagues? Um, 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:03.680 and and uh I was It's called Pierce Piers call 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:08.560 it by the way. She didn't have a good time there. No, no, no, yeah, no, 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:10.719 what I didn't want to. I didn't want to. I 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:14.360 knew what I wanted to do, so um uh yeah, 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:16.640 I was doing that working at Each and Them and 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:21.760 I had just booked um a modeling agent CESD, so 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:25.440 I was doing that on the side. Um and then yeah, 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:27.839 once I got that call, I was like, you was like, 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:32.839 that was your first song acting? Um no, but pretty 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:36.080 much yeah, pretty much on TV. I was very green 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:39.240 for your breakout though, for Empire to be your breakout, 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:43.120 like you did a thing like you was performing, like 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:45.400 like when you and the Ryan Densities of the world, 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.279 you know, y'all can like really put on and perform. 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:50.640 When it came on, I'm like, damn, you got everybody 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:54.120 locked in and y'all had the songs that like Lee 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:57.320 Daniel should definitely have like a talent agency because drip 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.680 dropping all that stuff that y'all was. She didn't want 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:04.119 to go back. I love H and M, but listen, 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:09.200 working there is very different. Um. But No, you're right though, 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:13.480 because Lee has a special eye for raw talent um 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:16.200 and that's something that he I mean, it's proven over 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:20.160 and over. So I'm very you know, grateful to you. 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.920 I've been a part of that process. And other other 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.479 you know, new or green artists were a part of 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:28.760 the show as well. So it was this whole fresh 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:33.640 face type of thing. Um and and yeah, so performing is, 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.200 like I said, my thing. But Tianna didn't start off 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:38.400 as as that. She was actually supposed to be more 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:41.680 of a Lauren Hill Aliyah type. Yeah that was that 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:45.320 was the original character role and power. Why did it 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:51.599 evolve change? So? I um, they had they had a choreographer, 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:54.640 but once again, it wasn't involved as she was this 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:59.040 big performer, so it wasn't a big thing until I 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.680 took it upon myself to make up my own dance 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.880 for Keeping Moving, which was one of the first songs 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:09.039 on the show. And once they saw me perform, and 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:13.240 some of those moves I made up I choreographed. Once 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:16.120 they saw me perform, the whole trajectory of Tianna changed. 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.480 They're like, Okay, nope, she's not Elia, She's not this 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:21.480 no more. We want Hakim and Tiana to be jay 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:24.200 Z and Beyonce. So it just it changed. And then 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:26.480 ever since then, it was like Jamaica Craft, who was 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:29.520 an amazing choreographer came in and she I was like 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:32.720 in Jamaica's boot Camp. Okay, I got my whole entire 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:36.440 life with her. Don't touch my body was like I 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.560 can't move, but yeah, so that's how it evolved. You 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:42.640 steal friends with any of the cast members from Empower, 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.640 I am, I am. I'm friends with a lot of them. 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.880 I mean, we're all moving and working, so I tried 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:51.720 my best to stay tapped in as much as I can. 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:55.000 Speaking of friends. And around that time too, Taylor Swift, 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:58.400 you was like in the Click like you was really popping, 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:03.080 Like I mean you steal popping, but just starting was 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:05.800 just like you just took off. I'm trying to tell you. 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:08.160 Like that time in my life, it was like left 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:10.800 and right, like I couldn't even Yeah, I couldn't really 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:13.960 grasp what was really happening because everything happened so fast. 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:16.280 So yeah, when I got the call to be in 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.280 her video, I was like this cannot be real. Yeah 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:22.800 I was Taylor Swift. She's great, She's a very she's 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.760 a girly girl. She's a girl's girl. I can think 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:30.040 that um, and she takes pride in and having girlfriends 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:33.440 and and women empowerment and all that type of stuff. 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:37.040 So it was great being around those ladies because once again, 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:43.640 like we're relatively here group, you know, but um, there 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:46.600 are people I looked up to, like Taylor Swift, like 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:51.280 she's a songwriter. I was just kind of sitting sitting 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:54.040 back like just you know, experiencing it at all. And 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:57.839 I was nineteen, so rushed out of high school, rush 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:02.800 of Taylor Swift. You're a cool kid man. Mentally, how 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:05.240 was that for you? Because you know everything's going so 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.960 fast for you at that particular moment, you're nineteen. I 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:10.840 know that's a lot to take in mentally. Yeah, I'm 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:17.719 glad you asked, because, like with something like that drastically changing, um, 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:23.240 you know, your whole entire like mindset is just like 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:28.240 being challenged. And I'm fine. You know, friendships are changing, 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:33.080 families changing, dynamics are changing, and now like you know, 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:36.000 me finding out like once you get on TV, people 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:39.240 look at you differently. You don't. I haven't changed, you know, 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:45.880 I'm the same price asking for money. Yeah, in your pocket, 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.080 you got a million dollars tell you. I just want 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.160 to say I've seen something that Taji put out there, 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.280 and I love that she did this, because this is 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:57.760 this is real life. When you are a guests are 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:01.040 on the show, you're getting paid. Maybe I don't know 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:04.200 what the running rate is anymore, but what I got 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:10.719 paid was about maybe you know, eight or five in 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:13.120 the episode five thousand episode. But then once you get 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:16.439 your check, it's half of that. So and then I'm 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.640 not in every episode. I'm only paid in the episodes 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:22.720 i'm on. People forget about taxes, okay, and so you know, 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.720 just because you make it on TV, I'm I'm still, 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:29.840 I'm still. I was doing bookings every weekend the first 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:32.360 couple of seasons of Empire because I wasn't a regular, 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:35.920 so I couldn't count on being in every episode. Therefore 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:39.840 my money, right, rent, I gotta live. So I was 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:43.640 I was flying, gotta look good, going to these events, makeup, wardrobe, 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.560 you know this. And so it's like, you know, I 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:48.840 was doing a lot of club appearances for real, Like 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:52.040 it was great the exposure, but I needed the money. 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:54.920 So so you know what I mean, It's just it's 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:57.640 what you said. Once you get on TV, people automatically like, oh, 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:01.720 you're rich. Not the case, psych I'm arriving. I haven't arrived, 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.839 but I'm arriving. Asking with Michael B. Jordan. He just 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:06.840 did an interview a million dollars worth the game and 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:08.760 he was like, you know, they was they was talking 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:10.560 to him about man, do you feel like you made it? 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.120 And he was like, I finally feel like that I 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.800 made And I'm thirty six and I've been acting for 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:19.200 you know, fifteen years, and he I finally feel like 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:21.200 I've made it with this Creed movie. I feel like 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.400 I have arrived. So yeah, that says a lot about 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:28.120 this business. People just automatically think, you know, because you're 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:30.559 on TV, you're making all this money and stuff like that, 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:34.000 and that you could just take care of your whole family. Yeah, instantly, right, 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:37.040 that's crazy question. So you're nineteen, This is changing, and 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:41.320 mental is evolving, and relationships are changing. Are you in 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.640 a relationship? Are you single at this particular time. We'll 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.280 be right back with more of The Baller Alert Show. 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:54.840 You're listening to a special edition of The Baller Alert Show. 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:57.760 What's up? It's Sireya and you're listening to the Baller 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.920 Alert sh The question I'm trying to ask is everything 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:04.400 is changing? What about your relationship status? What about if 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:07.480 you are seeing someone, did that change? You know? I'm Sorea. 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:10.160 You know everybody knows Srea, but now I'm sorry. On 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:15.560 TV it's different, right, it gets a little, it just changes, 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:18.800 you know. And in guys sometimes they feel a little 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:25.840 the ego be threatened. You're surrounded by celebrities, money and access, right, 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:29.160 so now they may feel a way, you know, And 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:31.400 so I've dealt with all of that. I mean, it's 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:36.000 it's definitely a thing. But um, I was I did date. 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:39.600 No one just didn't. No one knew. Okay, I'm very 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:43.199 I'm a private person. You know. Even in my last situation, 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:46.200 we were together for a year before we went public. 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:49.640 So yeah, that's it's how did that even happen? How 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:52.240 last situation did you go where you got somewhere together 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:54.640 or how did that even? How did y'all get together? 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:58.719 You and Jacob? When did we meet? Yeah? Like, how 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:02.000 did you guys connect? Like the point where you decided 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:04.800 to be together? Oh? Okay, okay, So well, both of 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:07.319 our shows shoot in Chicago, and I think there was 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:11.760 just a specific summer where the Shy and some of 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:13.880 the casts from Empire we all know each other. We 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:16.120 shoot down the street from each other, by the way, 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:19.319 on the studio film a lot. So we were just 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:21.280 all hanging out for a summer, and it just kind 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:24.240 of happened that way. The friendship built into more. So 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:26.200 you y'all were there on the summer. Was it a 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:29.760 break or y'all were shooting? And then well empire always 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:32.240 started right after fourth of July. Okay, so we were 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:34.760 we were there shooting during the summer. Yeah, okay, y'all 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.520 got bored and then he was like, yo, let's hang out. 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:45.079 We don't know. I knew him for years before that, 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:47.760 but so it just happened to happen that summer. So 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:52.040 y'all started as like friends, and yes, evolved right, yes, 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.520 Like what's your type? Do you have any type? I 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:57.480 don't have a type, honestly, I really don't. But I 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:02.320 could say, um, someone who's confident and sure and evolving 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:06.880 and uh, you know, is kind of aware of themselves 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:12.640 and can can reciprocate energy that type of thing. Um, 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:16.320 obviously doing his own thing, has his own thing going, 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:19.600 and and I'm good, you know, I don't need to 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:24.040 jump into someone's already made situation. I'm not interested in that. 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:27.640 I um, because I'm doing my own thing. You're not 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:30.920 focused on your bag. But I do think it's important 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.120 for both people to have, you know, their own things. 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:39.640 Going to have a job, yes people say that, but realistically, 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:43.000 like you had things that you like, right, Like you 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.960 may like to travel, you may like life thing, So realistically, 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:50.680 you're gonna want a partner that can appease that. Like, yes, 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:54.560 you're not saying every day, right, but someone that can 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:58.040 compliment the lifestyle for sure. For sure. Yeah, I mean 0:14:58.080 --> 0:14:59.480 you're not going to go back to like your old 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:03.120 neighborhood and just start dating Joe from down the street. 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:05.440 Like it's got to be someone of some type of 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:27.360 that for her, never via your neighborhood. So you got 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:29.960 You didn't come out and say that you guys broke up. 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:33.360 It was like a mutual decision, I guess, or you 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:37.440 guys are apart. You said yeah, yeah, so are you 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:42.960 guys still friends now? Or I wouldn't say friends. Um, 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:48.400 but we have had, you know, conversations afterwards, and I 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:51.560 think that it's it's no bad blood. I think it's 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:55.400 just um, something that we both realized that right now 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:58.960 at this time, Um, he's focused on what he's doing, 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:03.480 and I am too, and sometimes you just gotta be 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:06.280 mature about it and be like, Okay, we're not gonna 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:08.280 sit here and go back and forth all day. You know, 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:11.680 I still am rooting for you. I obviously love him 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:13.840 and I have loved for him, and I want to 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:17.560 I want him in, you know, a beautiful situation, and 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:21.080 he's got things going on. Dropped a movie in theaters, 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.480 you know what I mean. So it's just certain things 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:27.520 where I don't want no bad blood. I didn't we 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:30.840 didn't say anything on purpose. I didn't. I never wanted that, 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:34.400 so but I do realize that with me saying nothing 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.520 says a lot. So yeah, well I thought it did. 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:43.520 I think you guys did it so slightly when it 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:49.680 was too quick obvious when the pres got deleted, that's 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.360 when that's when I was like, yeah, they it's OK. Well, 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:55.960 I know guys, when when the when the picture of 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:57.960 Joey Badass came out there and they're like, oh, it 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:00.840 seems like they look really good. That's why I was like, 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:05.240 I was like, where is Jacob? No, So for me, 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:07.960 I mean, I know Jacob, and you know, of course 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:09.439 I was able to see you guys. You guys were 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:11.080 very public like, I mean, you guys went to a 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.280 lot of events together, you shared photos of each other 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:15.000 on social media. So for me, I did start to 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:18.320 question at some point like, oh, they're getting a little quiet, 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.520 like what what is happening? And I did not assume 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.840 it was work or anything, because you guys are always working, 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:27.359 but you still seem to find time to be with 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:30.760 each other to support each other. So I definitely was like, Okay, 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:39.000 I don't the relationship is over. They're not all down. First, 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:43.960 I think we just stopped posting together. Yeah. Yeah, it 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:46.879 wasn't a bad breakup because I feel like to not. 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:50.280 Maybe I'm a little different, but I'm friends with all 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:54.000 my exes, like we are cordial. It's very mature. Listen, 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:56.480 it ain't working. Doesn't mean that we don't have love 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:58.119 and respect for each other, but as far as being 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:02.520 in an intimate relationship, gonna leave that alone. Um, but 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:04.760 for you to say that you guys are not friends, 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:08.200 are you friendly? Oh well yeah, like if I see 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:09.960 him as hey, you know what I'm saying. It's not 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:13.440 like we have that blood like I said, but um, 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:17.600 friends with me like we communicate, which we don't. Got it. 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:20.040 Only thing going on man, she gonna be a man, 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:25.240 She would say, no so much other things to worry about, 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:28.359 you know. And sometimes I'm very much like you where 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:31.120 I can be Core Jones. Yeah, but everyone's not like that. 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:34.280 You have to also respect that factor too, for sure. Yeah. 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:36.240 Everybody ain't like that. They might text you them, but 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:42.480 like you miss me. Hell so the picture of you 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:48.240 and Joey came out like what was your he don't 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:51.560 want to he scared. I was very surprised. I um, 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:56.360 I didn't expect that. He fools, I said, I had 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:59.080 had me, had all of us fools? I said, she 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:01.639 don't post them? Then it ain't really Then you posted, 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:08.080 I said, Oh talking about that, I said, oh, oh gosh, 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:11.200 I was, and I'm filming right now Kingdom business and 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.440 how was that work? Like god, my phone is own 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:18.440 fire like I wasn't. I mean, of course, right, but 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:21.760 I just wasn't expecting that. And then I wasn't expecting 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:25.320 people to be like saying the things they were saying. 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:32.280 And you know, I usually don't recomment what I say. 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:36.000 It surprised you. I didn't know I had so many haters. 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:43.119 Oh no, I was looking too, I seeing a lot. No, 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:48.520 I swear listen. I don't know. Look, I didn't look 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:50.960 at the shade room or maybe the big ones, but 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:58.560 on his posts it was a lot going on. But 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:01.840 I think, um, I think it was very interesting. It 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:04.199 was it was kind of funny. I was laughing a 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:07.199 little bit. And you know the videos out, did you 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:10.879 guys watch it? I haven't yet. Is definitely like a 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:14.320 love story. So it's a really really dope video and concept. 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:20.879 You had a soulful picture came up, Oh this guy, 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:27.880 what's going on? See? No, he didn't. I was just like, 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:31.040 man Jacob Joey Badass, so different, right, And then that's 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:32.879 why I was like, what's your type? I don't have 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:35.879 a type. It could be someone who's like super clean cut, fashionable, 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:37.080 and then it could be someone who might be a 0:20:37.080 --> 0:20:39.679 little edgy. So I believed it. I thought you were 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:42.199 with him. But he he believes in polygamy. No, he 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:45.720 believes in multiple girlfriends. Joey Badass. Aquarius is in general 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:48.959 to me general, we're not met for like one person 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:51.080 or one thing or one we got to move around. 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:54.359 Aquarius is are real, like we like an entity. You 0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:57.160 feel like Aquarius can't be monogamous. Well, I can't speak 0:20:57.160 --> 0:20:59.520 for all Aquarius, but you know, I do resonate with 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:03.959 that person personally. You know, I'm not sure if relationship 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:06.679 is necessarily for me one percent. I was like, I 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:09.320 do not see her being a girl from one two three? 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:11.479 I ask you this was like, we're gonna ask her 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:16.400 this relationship and Octavia said, I don't think she's into 0:21:16.440 --> 0:21:21.119 that type of definitely not y'all know, girl, But I 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:23.280 was like, no way, come on. That was for his 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:26.080 song show me Yes, and now you have a song 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:30.960 that can we talk about that song? And it just 0:21:31.200 --> 0:21:35.480 fid Sexy went to her single release the other night 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:38.359 and just hearing the song over and over and seeing 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:42.840 different types of people vibe to it. Girl did that Yeah, 0:21:42.840 --> 0:21:47.560 I appreciate you, Yes, absolutely, but yeah, like it's one 0:21:47.560 --> 0:21:51.439 of my favorite songs right now. It just feels so good. 0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:54.560 And I'm just in a space where, um, you know, 0:21:54.800 --> 0:22:01.440 releasing more music is upon you know horizons, yes, independently 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:06.000 and um and yeah, I've been I've been in my bag, 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:08.879 but I've been just working. I've just been in the lab. 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:13.320 So yeah, and it's and it's starting to finally like blossom. 0:22:13.480 --> 0:22:15.879 You know, when you like when you plan to seed 0:22:16.119 --> 0:22:19.000 and it's just there, just water in it. I listen 0:22:19.040 --> 0:22:23.120 to a lot, so I'm talking about planning the seed. Um. 0:22:23.160 --> 0:22:26.360 And you know when you first start seeing that little 0:22:26.400 --> 0:22:28.879 bit of something coming off the ground. I feel like 0:22:28.960 --> 0:22:31.199 that's where I'm at right now. And it's been a 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:33.280 lot of years of just ever since the Empire, I've 0:22:33.320 --> 0:22:35.280 been in the studio for years. I just want to say, 0:22:35.280 --> 0:22:38.360 how do you find the time? Because your schedule is crazy? Yeah, 0:22:38.400 --> 0:22:42.080 I um, now it's super crazy. But like on Empire, 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:44.800 whatever I had time off or anything, I would just 0:22:44.840 --> 0:22:47.840 be in studio. That's what I was doing. UM. And 0:22:47.960 --> 0:22:50.640 it's also an outlet for me, so it's very natural space. 0:22:51.119 --> 0:22:54.439 But as far as putting music out, I I have 0:22:54.800 --> 0:22:58.600 developed my own vibe and what that is. And you know, 0:22:58.680 --> 0:23:01.520 I'm a performer, so has to be something that we 0:23:01.560 --> 0:23:05.359 can move to. And I happened to, you know, link 0:23:05.440 --> 0:23:08.600 up with this artist, Village Boy Prince in la Um. 0:23:09.480 --> 0:23:11.840 Check him out. Yeah, I gotta check him out and 0:23:12.080 --> 0:23:14.560 um and yeah, we just started vibing and it was 0:23:14.600 --> 0:23:19.320 a great vibe. I'm excited. When when will that be completed? 0:23:21.320 --> 0:23:25.320 Were writing the date and I'm probably gonna be in 0:23:25.600 --> 0:23:27.439 be a minute though, because yeah, yeah, I don't have 0:23:27.480 --> 0:23:29.359 a date yet, but I am gonna put out another 0:23:29.400 --> 0:23:32.240 single in the summer for sure. We'll be right back. 0:23:32.320 --> 0:23:40.120 Stay tuned with more of The Baller Alert Show. You're 0:23:40.160 --> 0:23:42.680 listening to a special edition of The Baller Alert Show. 0:23:42.840 --> 0:23:45.600 What's up? It's Soreya and you're listening to the Baller 0:23:45.640 --> 0:23:49.800 Alert sh I have a personal question in a timeframe 0:23:49.880 --> 0:23:54.360 of tattoos, I don't see any tattoos. You just can't 0:23:54.359 --> 0:23:59.119