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Speaker 1: Money ladies and gentlemen. My name is Tank Valentine. Oh

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Speaker 1: and this is the R and B Money Podcast, the

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Speaker 1: authority on all things what R and B. Oh, my goodness.

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Speaker 2: The last part that you forgot out, the money part,

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Speaker 2: the independent money part.

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Speaker 1: Listen, man, I don't know where you're from. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, shout down. I don't know where

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Speaker 1: you're from. I would have been through that. We've been

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Speaker 1: through them street and I'm not I'm gonna say it,

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Speaker 1: Shoutown's finest, y'all makes noise for taking the film. I'm listen.

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Speaker 1: I'll be listening to your music and I'll be like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's that's something I would have said, just in reverse.

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Speaker 1: It's aggressive. It is aggressive aggress And so I was

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Speaker 1: just going down the projects and I was trying to

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Speaker 1: count how many times you said the word pussy. I

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Speaker 1: was trying to count because you when I say you're

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Speaker 1: you'll break it out this pussy to put the pussy.

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Speaker 1: And I was like this.

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Speaker 3: So early we just started.

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Speaker 1: We told you we're different around here. This ain't no

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Speaker 1: regular you know, I mean, you you say it the

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Speaker 1: way it is, and and for me, like I'm a

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Speaker 1: very visual, you know what I mean. I'm a very

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Speaker 1: visual person. Like as soon as you start to sing

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Speaker 1: or talk, I go straight into my imagination. And if

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Speaker 1: you can visualize line by line, that's when you're a writer,

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Speaker 1: thank you. That's when you are a real songwriter. That's

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Speaker 1: the that's when you're creating an atmosphere, right Shi, It

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Speaker 1: has to happen when your music comes on.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, my ladies, they need it.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's raw, it's to the point, you know,

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Speaker 4: you know how it gets as you say. I want

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Speaker 4: to say this first, I'm so honored. Literally I have

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Speaker 4: been listening to your music, your influence for years. So

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Speaker 4: whatever you see in me is literally you know, me

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Speaker 4: just taking from everything that I've heard from you, and

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Speaker 4: I'm honored to be here.

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Speaker 1: Awesome.

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Speaker 4: I just have to throw that I'm such a student

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Speaker 4: of the game and I can tell you just do

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Speaker 4: not know.

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Speaker 3: This means so much to me.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely so we're blessed to have you because you cook it.

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Speaker 1: Because you cook it, and I think that you know

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Speaker 1: you represent I think we give, we give flowers, and

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Speaker 1: we give celebration to anybody. What I say, who can

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Speaker 1: get off that bench? You know what I'm saying and

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Speaker 1: get into the space, because it's hard enough to just

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Speaker 1: get in the game and to have some some success

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Speaker 1: regardless of your level of talent. But you, for us,

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Speaker 1: you represent a very high level of talent. You represent

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Speaker 1: where we come from, like we come from, real hard

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Speaker 1: workingction and true gift. You know what I mean, This is.

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Speaker 3: My whole soul.

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Speaker 4: I get so much song when I hear when I

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Speaker 4: hear your voice, your music, That's what I try to

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Speaker 4: bring to the game, to my soul. So it was like,

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Speaker 4: you know, you keep it robbing kind of straight to

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Speaker 4: the point. I agree, it has to be felt.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because your your truth resonates with with with everyone

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Speaker 1: that's within that connective fiber, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: You like you never you never really realize how many

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Speaker 1: people now that are just listening but are connected to

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Speaker 1: your journey. Like it it's beyond say that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, oh my god, the journey. Yeah yeah, I've been

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Speaker 4: making music so long y'all, so I felt that word

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Speaker 4: the journey.

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Speaker 1: Get into that. When's the first time somebody said, bab

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Speaker 1: this one right here? Got it?

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, I started making music in my basement,

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Speaker 4: So my journey has been for years back in twenty

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Speaker 4: like Chicago days when I didn't have a dime and

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Speaker 4: all I had was a computer and my father, he

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Speaker 4: would have recorded me in my basement. Your father, your

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Speaker 4: father's My father was my engineer. He recorded my first

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Speaker 4: two mixtapes. Yeah, shout out to my father. He really

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Speaker 4: like I say, this is like really built into me

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Speaker 4: and we started molding this, you know, this artistry in

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Speaker 4: the basement. He would sit at his guitar. You know,

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Speaker 4: sure I came prepared. It came with my my lyrics ready.

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Speaker 4: And that's why I take it so serious, y'all because

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Speaker 3: For a long long time. Yeah, So it's in me,

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Speaker 1: That is that family dynamic is crazy. Pops with the

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Speaker 1: engineering and with the guitar. Was he was he in

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Speaker 4: Well, no, he was the engineer and he also played

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Speaker 4: people record. My mom was a gospel singer, so she

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Speaker 4: recorded her own songs and wrote her own material. So

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Speaker 4: music is just like all throughout my family. My father

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Speaker 4: would record her and I would just watch this as

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: I would be trying to peek down the stairs, like

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Speaker 4: who's coming in to day? You know which y'all recording

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Speaker 4: what she talking about. But that's how I got my start,

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Speaker 4: just watching, and I asked my father one day, can

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Speaker 4: you record me or show me how to you know,

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Speaker 3: How to record music?

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Speaker 4: And he gave me, you know, my first my first

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Speaker 1: That's crazy. So Pops was doing the tracks. Well.

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Speaker 3: I would find my beasts on YouTube, y'all.

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Speaker 4: This is like early so I would find, like, you know,

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Speaker 4: found my beats wherever I could, and my father would

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Speaker 4: So my biggest record is like treat me like somebody.

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Speaker 4: We recorded that in the basement. He had gave me

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Speaker 4: two hours. You know, it was just a Saturday, and

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Speaker 4: you know, like I say, he had a job, so

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Speaker 4: he couldn't he couldn't record all day. I had two

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Speaker 4: hours to come in and do what I had to do.

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Speaker 4: And that's probably one of my biggest records to date.

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Speaker 4: So I owe my father so much credit, so much credit.

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Speaker 2: And it's dope because it gave you, in a sense,

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Speaker 1: I come here, I'm here to work.

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Speaker 3: That's what I mean.

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Speaker 4: It's it's very serious for me, like I didn't have

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Speaker 3: It wasn't like you can you know kind of.

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Speaker 1: And then none of that exactly.

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Speaker 3: It was a one take thing. I didn't have a

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Speaker 4: So yeah, you know that really just trained me to

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Speaker 4: was practicing before I went in that basement, and you.

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Speaker 1: Know what, that's that's lost. Practicing before you go in

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Speaker 1: the studio. That's lost because I used to do that,

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Speaker 1: Like if I would was writing songs or whatever before

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Speaker 1: I actually because I would write it in my basement, make

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Speaker 1: I'm already rehearsed. But that also that's also a different

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Speaker 1: level of gift, right because you know a lot of

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Speaker 1: times artists need songs, you know what I mean, and

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Speaker 1: so the creative process for them may not happen until

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Speaker 1: they get there, right. But for those that get the

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Speaker 1: this record, that's the time you start building on that

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Speaker 1: this is where I'm gonna go here, I'm okay, I

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Speaker 4: That Like I love that I still write on paper,

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Speaker 4: I still make my notes and you know you'll see

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Speaker 4: a scratch sheet with me arrow up. That means you

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Speaker 4: need to be a little stronger. I rolled down gets solved.

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Speaker 4: I still do that to this day. So that's crazy

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Speaker 4: you mentioned that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because like Chicago is Chicago's Chicago, Chicago's music, Chicago

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Speaker 1: is music, but Chicago also has this this this undercurrent

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Speaker 1: it was it your pops in the family that kept

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Speaker 4: I feel like it was a point in Chicago where

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Speaker 4: gotta remember, drill drill rap was a heavy part of music.

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Speaker 4: So I did take a couple of years where I

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Speaker 4: a couple of years where you know, I shot away

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Speaker 3: So a lot of people don't know that too. I

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Speaker 4: To really rap, like drill rap, like very very much

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Speaker 4: hear it. So that's why I say I'm so, I'm

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Speaker 4: so kind of like multi talented. I can also, you know,

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Speaker 4: we can draw bars if we want to. I can sing,

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Speaker 4: I can I can get hard if.

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Speaker 3: We need to.

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Speaker 4: So, yeah, I feel like Chicago got a lot of

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Speaker 3: R and B.

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Speaker 1: It's relatable.

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Speaker 3: I'm blending it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because you're a rapper as well, don't start this. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he was a terrible rapper. You were you, I would

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Speaker 1: say I wasn't a terrible rapper. I wasn't a terrible rapper. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this is a reoccurring theme that always

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Speaker 1: happens because he tries to discredit me. I had a

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Speaker 1: rap called Rated R that was killing the hood. He

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Speaker 1: didn't get out of the church until he was twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: I was rapping while on all the.

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Speaker 3: Church church, Yeah, half past.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know the Turks over here, you know what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying. Hey, no, my Midwest. I was in Milwaukee rapping.

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Speaker 3: I get it.

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Speaker 1: I used to compete against like you know, Vice Lawds

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Speaker 4: Of course, of course legendary all times. So grateful that

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Speaker 3: It's crazy. You know.

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Speaker 4: Music exactly, and that's what I appreciate With Tim. We

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Speaker 1: I think that that introduction and validation was all I

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you.

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Speaker 1: I didn't even need to hear you do anything.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and Tim, like I said, he was my biggest

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Speaker 3: Though. You need people in your corner that are ten

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so you come from that or you go to

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Speaker 3: Oh my god.

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Speaker 3: It was extremely hard. I was.

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Speaker 4: Literally, I didn't post, I was kind of I turned

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Speaker 3: I took it personal. I really I really did. And

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Speaker 4: When I got in my independent bag and my music

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Speaker 3: And I wasn't trying to please the studio. It was

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Speaker 3: Honestly, it wasn't a call.

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Speaker 4: It took years and to rebuild, you know what I

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Speaker 1: How many projects do you know?

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Speaker 3: Wow, fourteen in total over the last decade so since.

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Speaker 4: I want to say in twenty fifteen, I had mixedtapes

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Speaker 4: I don't have the luxury of sitting back and I

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Speaker 1: Day, Yeah, you don't let them forget.

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Speaker 4: I can't let them forget. I don't have that luxury.

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Speaker 3: I would do that. I would do it regardless.

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Speaker 1: what what song creates that hit moment for you?

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Speaker 4: For me, it was I had two records and I

443
00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:18,040
Speaker 4: didn't know that they were hits until later. But there's

444
00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:21,000
Speaker 4: a record called Treat Me Like Somebody R and B

445
00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:25,480
Speaker 4: record nothing but Me and a guitar, And there's also

446
00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:31,320
Speaker 4: a record called Don't Tell Nobody feature in Jeremiah. And

447
00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:33,720
Speaker 4: at the moment, y'all, we didn't have a budget. I

448
00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:36,879
Speaker 4: didn't put any money into these records. I didn't have

449
00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:40,679
Speaker 4: a crazy video behind them. Don't Tell Nobody doesn't have

450
00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:44,359
Speaker 4: any of your visual at all. But that's what I

451
00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:46,480
Speaker 4: mean when I'm like, we didn't really know what we

452
00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:51,160
Speaker 4: were working with. It took years for me to understand

453
00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:54,200
Speaker 4: how big these records were, Like I'm just out figuring

454
00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,240
Speaker 4: out that, you know, those were the two people.

455
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, yes, thank you, literally treat me like somebody.

456
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:06,600
Speaker 4: It's my it's my biggest song to perform, and it's

457
00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:09,600
Speaker 4: shocking because it's over ten years old and I'm so

458
00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:10,600
Speaker 4: tired of performing it.

459
00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:13,920
Speaker 1: But don't you do this? Don't you do it?

460
00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:16,200
Speaker 4: Sometimes I'm like, oh my god, we gotta do treat

461
00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:18,479
Speaker 4: me like somebody, And they're like, they want to hear

462
00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:18,840
Speaker 4: that one.

463
00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:20,399
Speaker 3: You can do a new one, but you gotta do

464
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:21,640
Speaker 3: that way.

465
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:29,720
Speaker 1: So maybe I deserve will always be always like those

466
00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:33,480
Speaker 1: They're just defining records. They are records that make you

467
00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:39,040
Speaker 1: you right and connect that cult following to you. You

468
00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:43,920
Speaker 1: you cannot deny the cult. They will come after exactly.

469
00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:47,560
Speaker 1: They get upset, but that perform such and such right,

470
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Speaker 1: we've been. We went through that with uh funow with me,

471
00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:53,680
Speaker 1: I'll fuck with me for sure, definitely with me. I'm

472
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:55,800
Speaker 1: just saying the idea that we didn't know the streets.

473
00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,360
Speaker 1: The streets had picked that record up and ran with.

474
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Speaker 2: Never a single, never Anye. It just came on, like

475
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:02,800
Speaker 2: you said, no visual, no video, nothing.

476
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:04,760
Speaker 1: It came on during the show one day and people

477
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:06,680
Speaker 1: just got up and started screaming. I was looking around,

478
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:15,399
Speaker 1: like somebody walk out and niggas started screaming. I started

479
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,040
Speaker 1: singing the song. I was saying, well, let me put

480
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:23,439
Speaker 1: this body roll in this see we own. It's the

481
00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,760
Speaker 1: people will. The people will let you know. You know

482
00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:29,359
Speaker 1: what I mean. And the great part is that you're

483
00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:34,000
Speaker 1: you're out here. You're out here on this prideless venture,

484
00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:40,400
Speaker 1: hitting whatever spot you gotta hit list. It's gotta be that.

485
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:43,160
Speaker 3: No ego with me. I don't.

486
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:45,520
Speaker 4: I don't look at the game like you know, I'm

487
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:49,080
Speaker 4: too good for anything because I've seen I've seen how

488
00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:51,720
Speaker 4: we can come up. And I've seen the lows too,

489
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:55,960
Speaker 4: So I appreciate the small venues. I appreciate the theaters.

490
00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:58,160
Speaker 4: I appreciate when I have to do a host thing,

491
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,359
Speaker 4: you know, like I say, a season when nobody was

492
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:05,920
Speaker 4: calling and I couldn't get an opportunity to perform. So

493
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:09,400
Speaker 4: I'm taking every I'm taking everything that comes my way

494
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:10,680
Speaker 4: because I'm so grateful.

495
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:15,679
Speaker 2: I've seen it with my own eyes. I got a

496
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:19,439
Speaker 2: call from my brother. He said, you need to come

497
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:26,359
Speaker 2: to Chicago. You gotta see it, Mike, all right, is

498
00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:26,680
Speaker 2: my brother.

499
00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:29,160
Speaker 3: Nobody comes to Chicago. Let me say that people I saw.

500
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:32,360
Speaker 1: I had no other reason to be there.

501
00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:38,359
Speaker 2: My reason for being in Chicago was for you because

502
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:39,080
Speaker 2: of the phone call.

503
00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:47,080
Speaker 3: Thank you. I appreciate that I look out for me.

504
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:52,199
Speaker 2: I get the phone call from Mickey and I'm like,

505
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 2: all right, I'm on my way.

506
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 1: I love y'all food. Let's start there and Tank and tell.

507
00:25:55,640 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 3: You forget, no, no, no on that food.

508
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:05,880
Speaker 2: Chicago's food is amazing. And Tank will tell you that

509
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 2: when they asked, like is Jay coming, and I'd be like,

510
00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:13,200
Speaker 2: how's the food there? I go to the places where

511
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:13,960
Speaker 2: the food is good.

512
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 1: That's how they will get out in the street and

513
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:20,440
Speaker 1: walk around and uber around, walking around looking for food.

514
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 1: I can't do it no more because of this damn podcast.

515
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:28,240
Speaker 2: And now they'd be like, I'm just trying to grab

516
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:30,840
Speaker 2: you some of this U what is it called Luminati's pizza?

517
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,800
Speaker 1: Y'all got out here and I'm trying to go to

518
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,600
Speaker 1: these steakhouses. I'm just trying to chill.

519
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:40,919
Speaker 2: But so I get to Chicago and I don't really

520
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:43,240
Speaker 2: like I had heard of you. I'd heard of you,

521
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:47,040
Speaker 2: and i'd heard a couple of songs. And the other

522
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:49,600
Speaker 2: person that used to always scream your name to me

523
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:52,720
Speaker 2: was Coshion, always screaming your.

524
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:54,640
Speaker 3: Names right, and gave me one of my biggest.

525
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:57,280
Speaker 2: Records, always screaming your name right. So I'm like, okay,

526
00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 2: these these are my brothers. They they are vouching. I

527
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 2: am going to Chicago and I'm like, Mack, Where's where's

528
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:04,480
Speaker 2: the show?

529
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:09,120
Speaker 1: He's like, Chicago Theater. I'm like, Chicago Theater. I've been

530
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 1: to Chicago Theater. That's thirty five hundred, one of the

531
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:17,640
Speaker 1: biggest theaters. I know what that venue.

532
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:23,119
Speaker 2: Isn't Okay, So she's doing three three thousand plus seats.

533
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 2: Let's see what it's about to be because I don't.

534
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 2: I don't fully know yet. When I get there, it

535
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 2: is packed all the way to the concession.

536
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:41,919
Speaker 1: Stand and I'm like, Mickey, what the fuck? He's like

537
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 1: here like Broski, I told you they love her.

538
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 3: Thank you.

539
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 2: When you got on that stage after and this is

540
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,120
Speaker 2: the other thing I loved about. You know what y'all

541
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 2: all had set up. You got the glam on side

542
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,480
Speaker 2: of the stage. They getting you right before. I'm like, Okay,

543
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:05,120
Speaker 2: this ain't just in the in the dressing room. You're

544
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:09,680
Speaker 2: gonna go right here. They doing this, they you changing outfits.

545
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh ship, no major label.

546
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 3: Oh yes, let's let's talk about that. Independent independence.

547
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 4: This is all independent off the strength of a maybe

548
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 4: four person team.

549
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:24,480
Speaker 3: You know, you know.

550
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 1: What y'all doing is incredible. You called me right after you.

551
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 2: I called I said, a tank. What I just saw there?

552
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 1: I said? She cracking up, cracking, I appreciate this is year.

553
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 1: This is a good one. How many years back? Is

554
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 1: this for sure? Yeah? Yeah? When he said Chicago Theater,

555
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 1: I was like, not Chicagoo.

556
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 2: I called Tank and I called Ghazi because that's my brother,

557
00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 2: and I knew that. You know, you guys have been

558
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 2: doing you know, your projects with him.

559
00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:00,960
Speaker 4: And I'm like, and I'm I'm glad you're talking about

560
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 4: this because I'm very humble, so I don't really like

561
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 4: put things in people's face.

562
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:11,200
Speaker 3: It was packed out three thousands, but I appreciate that

563
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 3: because y'all it's not easy to get on stage in

564
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 3: front of you know, thousands, or even just to sell

565
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 3: one hundred tickets. It's not easy for any of us artists.

566
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 3: And like you said, the.

567
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 4: Hard tickets come on. But seriously, I'm putting a lot

568
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,239
Speaker 4: into my shows now. I'm not I'm not trying to

569
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 4: be an artist that's here today, gone tomorrow. I want

570
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 4: people to come back to see me and I want

571
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 4: my tours to be memorable, and I think that's also

572
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 4: lost in this game too. Like as as an R

573
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 4: and B artist, I'm really dancing and I'm really using

574
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 4: live vocals and we're working the tracks to make it,

575
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 4: you know, to make things sound huge, and everything is

576
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 4: done off the muscle.

577
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 3: I don't have a major label.

578
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 4: I'm signed under to myself as an independent artist. I'm

579
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 4: signed to myself as an independent artist like MEA Records.

580
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 4: So I don't have a major major. Winter's Diary Records.

581
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 4: It's a partnership with the Empire, but my company is

582
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 4: when it's Diary, So all of my music comes through

583
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 4: w D Records. So and I've never said that I'm

584
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 4: not I'm not here to like put in people's faces.

585
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 2: But today today let me.

586
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 3: Okay.

587
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 4: So yeah, everything is backed by me independent, you know

588
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 4: what I mean? And that just says I want people

589
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 4: to know, like I'm what am I trying to say? Yeah,

590
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 4: I just want people to know this is not an

591
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 4: easy thing. So the support means a lot. You know,

592
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 4: I'm a black female. That that's another you know, just

593
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:59,400
Speaker 4: another fight and if you know, you know, so yeah,

594
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 4: everything and everything that's on the way. It's really I'm

595
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 4: really fighting for it, and it's deserved. So I just

596
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 4: want to say that, you know, I appreciate that support.

597
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 1: It's not You've got our full support.

598
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,760
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, I had to. I had no choice.

599
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 4: And that's that's why I say that year that I

600
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 4: took away it built me.

601
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.

602
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 4: I've been fucked up and I've had a year when

603
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 4: nobody wanted to call me to put on a show.

604
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 4: So when I get on that stage, I'm making sure

605
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 4: my dancer is already and I making sure we are

606
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 4: rehearsing weeks in advance, you know what I mean. I'm

607
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,520
Speaker 4: not just here for a moment. I want this to

608
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 4: be a lifelong thing.

609
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 2: I remember running up on you because I am known

610
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 2: for that. Yeah, because if I if I I'm just

611
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 2: one of those type of people. If I fuck with you,

612
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:51,240
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you'll fuck with you at the Grammy party.

613
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 2: At the Empire Grammy Party.

614
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 1: I'm like, when are you coming on this podcast?

615
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 3: Thank you? That's what I mean. I've been ready.

616
00:31:58,040 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 4: I've been waiting to see y'all for a long time,

617
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 4: and I think the timing now is so much better, y'all.

618
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 4: I was.

619
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 3: I was in a crazy space.

620
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 4: You know, the past couple of years have been a

621
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 4: roller coaster, and I'm finally able to tell my story

622
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 4: myself and I feel confident talking to y'all in I

623
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 4: feel at ease, you know what I mean.

624
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 3: And I also just had to put in some more work.

625
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 4: I'm I'm so honored, Like I say, like, you know,

626
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 4: I don't think y'all understand how legendary y'all lied to me.

627
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 4: And even you know Tank, when we were speaking, you know,

628
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 4: you had mentioned like you were going on tour, and

629
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 4: I lost my mind about that. I was like, you know,

630
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 4: did Tank just mention a tour? So I'm just grateful

631
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 4: y'all in that moment, you know, I was ready. I

632
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 4: told make like, we have to get this done. But

633
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 4: the timing is perfect.

634
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 1: Yeah.

635
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, Now listen, we were willing, we were willing to

636
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 2: to wait until you are ready. Absolutely, because that's that's

637
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 2: the other thing about us. Yeah, you know, for artists,

638
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 2: because he don't do as much as I do. But

639
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 2: like I see, and it's gonna make it even crazier

640
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 2: my in my comments, but I see the artists that

641
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 2: they ask for so when I see them, and I

642
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 2: appreciate what people do. If I see you in person,

643
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 2: I'm going to hey, yeah, we're ready when you are.

644
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 2: But it's not like it's a if you don't come

645
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 2: in the next no, no, no, Our invitations are open invitation.

646
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 2: That's why we that's.

647
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 1: Why we did this.

648
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 2: Yes, we started this a genuine place that we just

649
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 2: really care about other artists and showcasing their their gifts

650
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 2: and talking about their journey.

651
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 3: And I'm thankful for that.

652
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 4: I do meet a lot of people like you know,

653
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 4: if something, if something doesn't fall through, it's like in

654
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 4: this industry is cutthroat, it's fuck you.

655
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 3: Was the love there for real? Y'all? Or you know?

656
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 3: So I appreciate this. That says so much.

657
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 4: You know, like I say, I've seen a lot of

658
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,240
Speaker 4: people come and go in my life in this industry,

659
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 4: and you know, to have people that are in your corner,

660
00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:58,520
Speaker 4: I don't take that for granted.

661
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 3: Serious.

662
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 1: Let's talk about this Winter's Diary. Talk about it. Come on, because.

663
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 2: Now I didn't know that the label was named Winter's Diy.

664
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 1: I know about the you know the valumes.

665
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 4: Yes, it's so many layers. Yes, this is number five,

666
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:16,240
Speaker 4: This this has been a long journey. Since twenty twelve,

667
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 4: I've been dropping w D you know, Winter's Diary mixtapes,

668
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 4: So that's what makes this specialists the album and some

669
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 4: of my biggest songs were from my mixtape era. Yeah,

670
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:30,400
Speaker 4: so the fans are kind of attached to Winter's Diary,

671
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 4: and you know, I'm really telling my life in these records,

672
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 4: and that's why it's so personal and hard for me

673
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 4: to even you know, speak on because the songs ain't pretty,

674
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 4: you know what I mean, My story ain't pretty, and

675
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:50,280
Speaker 4: it takes a lot for me to get vulnerable and

676
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 4: and talk about the ship that I'm dealing with. So

677
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,360
Speaker 4: that's why this album being a you know, a Winner's

678
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:59,320
Speaker 4: Diary and an album, it's just a lot of growth.

679
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:03,719
Speaker 4: And it takes a lot of good to release this

680
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 4: and promoted and you know, have to read the comments.

681
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 1: And yes, yes, well I'm I'm a lot older and

682
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 1: I went through you know, it's your current, as they

683
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:33,360
Speaker 1: say in my threading, you know that's how I feel,

684
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: you know, and I remember when social media first kind

685
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 1: of broke out, you know what I'm saying, And and

686
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 1: you know, of course our art is personal for us.

687
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, and people being in the comments,

688
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 1: you know, saying whatever they want to say, making up

689
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:52,360
Speaker 1: whatever they want to make up, you know, in the

690
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: name of having an opinion. I didn't like that ship,

691
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:03,239
Speaker 1: and I would get a phone call from about every morning, like,

692
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 1: what the fuck are you doing? These motherfuckers can't do

693
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 1: this to me. Be playing basketball, he's shop program. He

694
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 1: really mad about probably a fifteen year old bro. I

695
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:26,439
Speaker 1: just want to just fucking with me. But it took

696
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:34,760
Speaker 1: me so long to realize that those people and those

697
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 1: comments don't even fucking matter, you know it in doing

698
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 1: business right, in doing business, no one has ever asked

699
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:49,880
Speaker 1: the brand is never asked what type of comments are

700
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 1: you getting? What type of interaction are you getting? They've

701
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 1: only asked how much you're getting. They just want they

702
00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 1: just want to see the number. Kid a fuck what

703
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 1: they're saying. So I'm like, oh, I needed that one.

704
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: So as long as they talking, I'm good. Yeah, y'all

705
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:12,879
Speaker 1: could say whatever the fuck y'all want to say, talk

706
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 1: on And I'm asking you, like, because those comments can

707
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 1: be they can they can be they can.

708
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 4: Be hurtful, they can be a lot absolutely social media,

709
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:26,839
Speaker 4: I've never never expressed this, but it gives me anxiety

710
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 4: and this day. When when it first came out, I

711
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 4: felt like it was a fun place and I felt like.

712
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 3: It was easier for me to jump on.

713
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 4: But now you know, I'm kind of I'm kind of

714
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 4: I'm on it when I'm on it, and then I

715
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 4: step away. You know, I'm not even looking through the

716
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:47,279
Speaker 4: comments anymore because it's what you say.

717
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,399
Speaker 3: You know, it's not.

718
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:51,800
Speaker 4: All love out here, and a lot of times people

719
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:56,240
Speaker 4: are just home and board, and you know, I can't.

720
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 4: I can't feed into it because it'll affect my spirit. So,

721
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 4: like I said, I post what I gotta post.

722
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 3: I talk to my.

723
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:06,880
Speaker 4: Fans, the positive ones, and you know, I keep it moving.

724
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 4: I try not to dwell. I'm not in the blogs

725
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 4: in their comments. You know, if there's something big that happens,

726
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 4: I'll ask my manager and my team, you know, let

727
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 4: me know what you know, what's going on, what they're saying.

728
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,719
Speaker 4: But social media is a toxic place, so you have

729
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:23,360
Speaker 4: to use it for your for the good, and you know,

730
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:25,759
Speaker 4: if you get wrapped into it. I notice a lot

731
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 4: of artists we can crash out behind social media, and

732
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 4: I've had my days where you know, I've had my days,

733
00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:35,279
Speaker 4: so I have to really balance it and find a

734
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 4: happy medium. And you know, some days I'm not even

735
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 4: on Twitter right now because I don't want to put

736
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 4: negative energy out in you know, sometimes it'll be an

737
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 4: outlet for me just to talk shit, and I'm like,

738
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 4: you know, I don't want this to be my my

739
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:51,400
Speaker 4: you know, my story, like when people check my Twitter

740
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 4: negative thoughts exactly. So I take my time and my

741
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 4: breaks because I don't want that ship to consume me.

742
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 4: And that's not all all that I am. And I

743
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:03,879
Speaker 4: think it's helped me, you know. So it's a little

744
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:09,880
Speaker 4: mystique mystery. Mystery is really nice. So I show what

745
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 4: I want to show. And yeah, you know, you have

746
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:15,440
Speaker 4: to be careful out on social media.

747
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:18,400
Speaker 1: And I think that you know that the lesson for

748
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 1: most artists is create the thing. Give them the thing

749
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 1: that you want them to see, yes, the thing that

750
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 1: they should have an opinion about, the thing that they

751
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:33,760
Speaker 1: should make a decision about. You can make a decision

752
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 1: about this all day, you can like or love this

753
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:38,879
Speaker 1: all day, but I'm not going to give you the

754
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:42,839
Speaker 1: thing that It's precious to me for you to make

755
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 1: a DICIPLEM you'll get none of that. I won't even

756
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 1: know it exists. I know that he was, You're not.

757
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 1: You're not supposed to know because this is mine, right,

758
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,760
Speaker 1: this did I give you. You have to keep something

759
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: for yourself. I got to keep something. You just got

760
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 1: to keep something for yourself. So all of these fourteen projects.

761
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:04,800
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm, Yes, it is crazy.

762
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 1: I know this is going to be a hard question.

763
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 1: But what's your favorite one?

764
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 3: Okay, my favorite?

765
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 4: My favorite album it's called Hopeless Romantic and I dropped

766
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 4: that maybe about three years ago, four years ago. But

767
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 4: I feel like that, to me, was an album that

768
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 4: I wrote entirely, so maybe that has something to do

769
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:30,440
Speaker 4: with it.

770
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 3: It was it was all. It was all on me

771
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 3: on that way.

772
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:36,520
Speaker 4: But you know what I mean, The songs really resonate

773
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:41,320
Speaker 4: in my soul. So and that was my first album

774
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 4: to have like a gold or platinum record. So I

775
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:47,360
Speaker 4: saw I saw it pay y'all. So that gave me,

776
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 4: you know, some some real motivation.

777
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: Money too, real money too. Yes, Yes, plaque talk.

778
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:57,719
Speaker 4: Yes, when I walked in y'all, I've seen at least

779
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 4: fifty plaques on the wall, and yeah, that did it

780
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 4: for me.

781
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:08,840
Speaker 3: Big Tank. Yeah, I've seen it.

782
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get my I'm gonna give my plex up, y'all.

783
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:14,440
Speaker 4: But yeah, that album.

784
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:17,280
Speaker 1: Give me a song from that album, I have a record.

785
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:19,759
Speaker 3: Called cut It Out. It was a turning point for me.

786
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 4: I felt like I was I was quiet until I

787
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:26,840
Speaker 4: dropped Hopeless Romantic, and people really they just ate that

788
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:29,799
Speaker 4: album up. And I had so many songs on there

789
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 4: that that were really like, you know, just going crazy,

790
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:36,919
Speaker 4: so cut it out. There's also a record that came

791
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:41,240
Speaker 4: after that album called Bottom Bottom Bitch. But I feel

792
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,960
Speaker 4: like that album gave me my LIGs, you know what

793
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 4: I mean. And once I dropped Hopeless Romantic, the calls

794
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 4: were coming there and the shows were picking up, and

795
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 4: I was able to tour from those records, and it

796
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:55,479
Speaker 4: just kind of put me back in my bag.

797
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:58,360
Speaker 1: I was about to ask that was Hopeless Romantic, like

798
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 1: you at your most authentic, like you and for the

799
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:07,239
Speaker 1: first time, like you know what, Yes, I'm gonna live

800
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 1: and die with me, this is me exactly. Yeah.

801
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:13,280
Speaker 4: I had no fear on that album and nobody, nobody

802
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:16,359
Speaker 4: was there to tell me, you know, do it this way,

803
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 4: do it that way. So it was a lot of freedom,

804
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 4: and I like freedom. I feel like my songs really

805
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:27,640
Speaker 4: register when I'm able to say what I want.

806
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 3: So yeah, you've been.

807
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 1: You've been saying what you want.

808
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 3: Absolutely yeah, yeah, talking about listen, I mean your record

809
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 3: now is you know, songs about you?

810
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. Like it's very direct, you

811
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:45,839
Speaker 1: know what I mean.

812
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 2: And I think even just even in collaboration with you

813
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:52,879
Speaker 2: in summer, you know what I mean.

814
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:56,319
Speaker 1: I feel like I feel like people have been waiting.

815
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 4: On that yes for a long time, and I'm so

816
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 4: happy we finally have it. And it's good because a

817
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 4: lot of people I see online they like to compare,

818
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:08,400
Speaker 4: you know, who do you love more? And oh it

819
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:10,799
Speaker 4: just it just makes me feel So it gets me

820
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 4: so angry when I read that because I'm a fan

821
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 4: of her. And and if you go back, you'll leave

822
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 4: and see someone Walker singing treat me like somebody. You know,

823
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:22,239
Speaker 4: she did like a cover of you know My my

824
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:25,360
Speaker 4: old records. So there's a lot of love and the

825
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 4: fans can really fuck you know, a bond up, a

826
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 4: relationship up, and you know, and that's why I say,

827
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 4: us doing this song just really made a statement out

828
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 4: here for the girls, like you know, I ain't mad

829
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:39,400
Speaker 4: at summer, don't you know. Don't try to pit us

830
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 4: against each other. Two black women making music and R

831
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 4: and B. You know, we together and I support her,

832
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:47,879
Speaker 4: and you know, likewise, I feel like.

833
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 1: There's so much camaraderie, especially in the fast. It's scary

834
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 1: to our brothers in the game.

835
00:43:57,480 --> 00:43:58,520
Speaker 3: It's so scary.

836
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:02,319
Speaker 4: It's like, you know, as much as they say it's

837
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 4: a caddy caddy thing for women, a lot of it

838
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 4: is caused by you know, the fans and social media

839
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 4: and you know, people just making opinions on women. So

840
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:16,279
Speaker 4: just just I agreeable what you're saying. It's just a

841
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 4: lot of competition. And I miss the days when you

842
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:24,279
Speaker 4: can see Miss Elliott, you know, Kim the Ladies night.

843
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:27,279
Speaker 4: I pray for times like that that we get to

844
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 4: a level of unity.

845
00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:31,680
Speaker 1: Y'all are closer thanenough.

846
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:35,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well, you know I would say yes, because

847
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:37,240
Speaker 2: you know, y'all let each other.

848
00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 1: Have y'all man, m.

849
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 3: Okay.

850
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:45,000
Speaker 2: That's that's the part that they don't, you know, they

851
00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:47,399
Speaker 2: don't really that's the part when when people ask, like, well,

852
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:50,960
Speaker 2: why don't these R and B male singers do records together?

853
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:53,320
Speaker 1: Because they are trying to take the same ones.

854
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 3: Behind the ladies.

855
00:44:55,719 --> 00:44:56,920
Speaker 1: That's always.

856
00:44:58,000 --> 00:44:59,439
Speaker 3: But I thought, man don't really care.

857
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:08,440
Speaker 1: I feel like they don't. Let them tell you that,

858
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:10,960
Speaker 1: it'd be a whole lot of pill of talking and

859
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:18,360
Speaker 1: dirty mack in and all. U never see those features together. Wow,

860
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:23,600
Speaker 1: because it's like men speak of a level of competition

861
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 1: in this space, but they don't really want to compete.

862
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 1: Y'all are putting it out there. I'll sing with whoever.

863
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:35,400
Speaker 1: Let's get Yes, let's let's get on it, let's get

864
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 1: let's hit the road, whatever or whatever. I mean. I

865
00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:43,280
Speaker 1: ain't gonna be mad at on tour us. Somebody gotta

866
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:46,800
Speaker 1: get hurt. Somebody got to start, you know. Calling the

867
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:50,319
Speaker 1: crewel and calling it just gets it over a woman.

868
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 4: You're right, It does elevate a lot quicker with me.

869
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:55,480
Speaker 4: You're right, and I haven't thought of it that way,

870
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 4: but yeah, me and take it, take it to a

871
00:45:57,160 --> 00:45:58,879
Speaker 4: new level, a new height.

872
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thank god we don't have those issues at

873
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:08,359
Speaker 1: R and B money. We work with everybody. Yeah. Well,

874
00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:10,880
Speaker 1: also to you know, you gotta get to to to

875
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:16,120
Speaker 1: the nuance of I had girls. I was a kid

876
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:19,760
Speaker 1: in church, so women.

877
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:27,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, they used to bring me candy that's why I

878
00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:29,719
Speaker 2: had civil tea.

879
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:32,720
Speaker 1: If they haven't seen that simvilitude post that I made,

880
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 1: that's why they used to bring me candy to school.

881
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 3: How brought this fend?

882
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:45,360
Speaker 1: It was? It was def a thing like I was

883
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:51,360
Speaker 1: a background singer for the guy. I was the background

884
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:55,120
Speaker 1: singer for genuine Wine. There was no way you're gonna

885
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:59,480
Speaker 1: get a girl before genuine wine. You have to wait

886
00:46:59,719 --> 00:47:01,320
Speaker 1: till he made his choice.

887
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:08,200
Speaker 5: You have to wait whatever left, whatever, whatever, and then

888
00:47:08,239 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 5: he might still walk choice to be willing to give

889
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:15,400
Speaker 5: that up for the greater cause it's bigger than me.

890
00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:19,560
Speaker 3: You know why you're cutting up.

891
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:24,760
Speaker 1: But it's just like for the sake of the music

892
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:29,880
Speaker 1: and history to start coming together, we gotta start coming together.

893
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:32,520
Speaker 1: And I'm saying that. And that's why every like you know,

894
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:35,280
Speaker 1: with a lot of guys that come through to our platform,

895
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:38,640
Speaker 1: we let them know, Man, I fuck with you. Anything

896
00:47:38,719 --> 00:47:44,279
Speaker 1: you need from us, it's up, let's do it. So

897
00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:49,280
Speaker 1: you're moving around, yeah, yeah, around the country, the country

898
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:53,280
Speaker 1: and the world the world.

899
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:56,480
Speaker 3: Have you done overseas I did last year.

900
00:47:56,560 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 4: We took the tour. We did about six cities in Europe,

901
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 4: and that was an.

902
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:06,880
Speaker 3: Experience different in Europe very different, very different.

903
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:09,319
Speaker 1: And that can be that can be good and bad

904
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:12,200
Speaker 1: at the same time because it's so many differences.

905
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:15,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, it built a lot of character because I feel

906
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 4: like in Europe they're a little more reserved at your

907
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:22,040
Speaker 4: shows and as in America where we're screaming, acting a fool,

908
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 4: we dancing, Europe is a little more they have a

909
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 4: lot of more poise. So yeah, it was different, and

910
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:30,359
Speaker 4: like I say, they didn't I went to like a

911
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:32,600
Speaker 4: Paris and a lot of a lot of the spots

912
00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:32,920
Speaker 4: I was that.

913
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:36,200
Speaker 3: Didn't speak the language. So you have to perform without people,

914
00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:38,560
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, being as loud or singing

915
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:41,680
Speaker 3: every single word. So it built character, you know.

916
00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 4: And what they'll do, they'll wait until you're done and

917
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 4: then they give you a great applause. And yeah, we

918
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 4: really thugged it out when when we went out there.

919
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:54,840
Speaker 3: It was me and my team.

920
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 4: You know, we didn't have the craziest budget when I went,

921
00:48:57,800 --> 00:48:59,839
Speaker 4: so we put a lot of heart into that tour

922
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 4: and like I said, I was doing it for the fans.

923
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:06,680
Speaker 4: So I can't wait to go back out there again

924
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:08,520
Speaker 4: for a bigger show.

925
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:15,440
Speaker 1: They are appreciating you in a completely different way because

926
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:19,879
Speaker 1: it's it's it's an appreciation, but it's also like when

927
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:23,080
Speaker 1: is the next time we're going to see Tink? So

928
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:27,920
Speaker 1: we have to study and download all of this in

929
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:31,440
Speaker 1: the moment. We can't miss nothing.

930
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:34,960
Speaker 3: Yes, that's what it feels. It feels like they're studying you.

931
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:38,880
Speaker 4: And like I said, I know I'm unfamiliar face and

932
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:41,319
Speaker 4: some of those territories. So it was it sharpened me,

933
00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 4: like you have to keep a game face because.

934
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:46,440
Speaker 1: Coming from this, you think it's something else.

935
00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 5: I am.

936
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:53,440
Speaker 3: Exactly.

937
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:58,120
Speaker 4: We are so loud and we are so aggressive what

938
00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:00,880
Speaker 4: I love and like I said, when you go out there,

939
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:03,680
Speaker 4: it's a new it's a new vibe at the at

940
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:06,680
Speaker 4: the show. So you know we had to adjustin you know,

941
00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:09,160
Speaker 4: you got to fight through and as a performer, I

942
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:12,360
Speaker 4: had to learn to keep my face, you know, stay excited,

943
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:12,880
Speaker 4: stay in it.

944
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:15,000
Speaker 3: So that built a lot of character.

945
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:18,879
Speaker 1: Go through your progressions, run your place, yep, no matter

946
00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:22,440
Speaker 1: who out there. And yes, I just I learned that

947
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:26,799
Speaker 1: from being overseas just just watching like like what are

948
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:30,839
Speaker 1: they what are they doing? They're watching you, watching, They're

949
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:34,080
Speaker 1: paying attend. They don't want to miss any note. They

950
00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:37,400
Speaker 1: don't want to miss any core change they are watching

951
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:47,080
Speaker 1: and then after they're like, oh make man, so you

952
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:48,520
Speaker 1: did like it?

953
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 3: Okay, So y'all do fuck with me? Okay.

954
00:50:51,239 --> 00:50:53,240
Speaker 1: So you moveing around the country right now on something

955
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:54,719
Speaker 1: on something crazy you.

956
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:57,880
Speaker 4: You and Arenas Yes, Oh my god, the Magic Autour,

957
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 4: Jeneko Yes, and support of Janey.

958
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:02,279
Speaker 1: Uh.

959
00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:05,920
Speaker 3: Such a crazy show, y'all. It's me, like I say,

960
00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:07,000
Speaker 3: koy Lray.

961
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 4: Keanu, La Day and Umi and every night I get

962
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:12,720
Speaker 4: twenty five minutes to do my things.

963
00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:17,200
Speaker 3: Yes, it's a it's a it's a great it's a great.

964
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:21,480
Speaker 4: Uh, like a camp of all my music. So fans,

965
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:23,480
Speaker 4: you know, like I say, I'm seeing new faces. I'm

966
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:26,120
Speaker 4: getting to see my day once. We're getting to see

967
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 4: you know, Jane's support team, and I'm just meeting so

968
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:33,840
Speaker 4: many different people on that stage and I'm taking advantage

969
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:34,440
Speaker 4: of that moment.

970
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:36,200
Speaker 3: It's a great, great tour.

971
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:40,400
Speaker 4: You know, we got Cooy who brings that aggression, that

972
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:44,160
Speaker 4: rap vibe, and I feel like me and Janey we

973
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:45,880
Speaker 4: share a lot of fans too, with the R and B.

974
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:50,319
Speaker 4: So that's why it's special because I feel like, you know,

975
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:53,560
Speaker 4: I go back to the early you know twenty twelve

976
00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:56,680
Speaker 4: days and her fans are familiar with that R and

977
00:51:56,719 --> 00:51:59,960
Speaker 4: B type of music, So it's beautiful, y'all. I'm so

978
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:03,480
Speaker 4: thankful a lot of a lot of Like I say,

979
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 4: it's hard to see women come together, and I'm just

980
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:10,920
Speaker 4: happy Jane gave me the opportunity and saw something in

981
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:13,400
Speaker 4: me to say, hey, put her on directly.

982
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:16,680
Speaker 3: You know, it's direct supporting me. That's that's the ultimat.

983
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:21,040
Speaker 1: I feel like you made the most sense, Like I

984
00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:22,399
Speaker 1: think when I look at.

985
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:24,319
Speaker 3: Both of them, but there's so many girls she could have.

986
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:29,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, have this do amazing rn B, I have this.

987
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:33,400
Speaker 4: I love that hood Hitaler.

988
00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:38,760
Speaker 2: It's like, don't like, I'm gonna make you this soup,

989
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:43,120
Speaker 2: but don't get it fucked up. That is that's how

990
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:45,400
Speaker 2: I feel when I listen to your music. It's like

991
00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:48,960
Speaker 2: it's airy and it's flowy, but then it's.

992
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:54,359
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, I stabbed your ass. You know what I'm

993
00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:58,640
Speaker 1: saying that It just it to me. Y'all make perfect

994
00:52:58,719 --> 00:52:59,760
Speaker 1: sense on the road together.

995
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:00,400
Speaker 3: Thank you.

996
00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:01,799
Speaker 1: I can't wait topciate it.

997
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:05,759
Speaker 4: Yes please, I'm in La were at the Crypto and

998
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:12,879
Speaker 4: this is an arena at the Crypto. Lakers playing big, big,

999
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:16,480
Speaker 4: big for a young lady from Chicago.

1000
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:19,839
Speaker 3: This is huge. So I'm giving I'm giving it all.

1001
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:25,120
Speaker 1: I got into your rap bag. Any well, I do.

1002
00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 4: Have a couple of songs. Don't tell nobody. It's on

1003
00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:30,480
Speaker 4: that wrap side. I out a couple of records I

1004
00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:33,799
Speaker 4: could really turn up, but it's the magic hour, so

1005
00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:35,280
Speaker 4: this is my gracious moment.

1006
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:36,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, I plan on.

1007
00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:39,920
Speaker 4: I'm working on something special for my fans where I

1008
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 4: can really let and then incorporate everything. So I'm swinging.

1009
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 4: I'm swinging again next year. You know, be looking out

1010
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:50,200
Speaker 4: for me.

1011
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:52,920
Speaker 1: You got another project coming well.

1012
00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:56,680
Speaker 4: Tory, Okay, we're working on something special. I won't know when,

1013
00:53:56,880 --> 00:54:01,520
Speaker 4: but I am trying to make sure I serve my fans.

1014
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:04,080
Speaker 4: They want to They want to tour so bad.

1015
00:54:05,560 --> 00:54:09,040
Speaker 1: So let me ask you a question. You've at this

1016
00:54:09,080 --> 00:54:13,000
Speaker 1: point already done so much, and from the outside looking

1017
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:15,600
Speaker 1: in and just even having this conversation with you, it

1018
00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 1: feels like there's still so much more to do, so much.

1019
00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:23,760
Speaker 1: One what is what is I'm sure there are many goals,

1020
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:26,320
Speaker 1: but what's what's an ultimate go What's one you can

1021
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:30,200
Speaker 1: articulate right now where you see five ten years down

1022
00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:32,799
Speaker 1: the line, this is this, this is what and where

1023
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:33,319
Speaker 1: I will be.

1024
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:37,719
Speaker 4: I'll tell you one one of my main goals, I

1025
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:43,160
Speaker 4: want to run the charts. I feel like I haven't

1026
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:46,759
Speaker 4: got the opportunity to really have I guess, a top

1027
00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:49,000
Speaker 4: tier and number one and.

1028
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:53,920
Speaker 1: You need it, you need it.

1029
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:58,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, it would just really make everything worthwhile. You know,

1030
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:00,279
Speaker 4: I have so many songs that I feel like that

1031
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:03,399
Speaker 4: was it, that was it. So I'm waiting on that

1032
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:08,239
Speaker 4: billboard moment for me, and I want a record that

1033
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:11,520
Speaker 4: stays on the charts like it's stuck there, she's she's there,

1034
00:55:11,560 --> 00:55:16,080
Speaker 4: it's in that top ten, even a number one. You know,

1035
00:55:16,600 --> 00:55:19,279
Speaker 4: I haven't really been able to just tap that chart

1036
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:22,440
Speaker 4: yet the way I want to. So that's that's my

1037
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:24,960
Speaker 4: next move. And it's going to take some some genius.

1038
00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:28,919
Speaker 4: Like it's gonna take you know what I mean, because

1039
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:30,520
Speaker 4: I've been doing it so long. So I'm like, what

1040
00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:33,600
Speaker 4: is that key that that turns the billboard chart up?

1041
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:37,560
Speaker 4: And That's where I'm at now, figuring out how to

1042
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:41,080
Speaker 4: keep my keep my formula the same, but also.

1043
00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:44,560
Speaker 3: Tap in on that end.

1044
00:55:45,160 --> 00:55:48,880
Speaker 1: I always say this, it's if you're if you're working,

1045
00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:54,920
Speaker 1: truly working and truly building It's never a matter of if,

1046
00:55:55,239 --> 00:55:59,279
Speaker 1: it's only a matter of when. And so as you

1047
00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:03,880
Speaker 1: continue to grow and build and work, yeah, it's going

1048
00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:04,560
Speaker 1: to come.

1049
00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:07,439
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I love that.

1050
00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:09,080
Speaker 1: It has to.

1051
00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:12,120
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1052
00:56:12,560 --> 00:56:15,400
Speaker 1: It's just like it's like magic. It's like you just

1053
00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:18,680
Speaker 1: you just look up one day and you're like shit,

1054
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:22,560
Speaker 1: I called this out like two years ago, and you

1055
00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:26,560
Speaker 1: look up. But you look up from from working. You

1056
00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:29,799
Speaker 1: have to hould up, am I number one way now?

1057
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:31,880
Speaker 3: About that? From working?

1058
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:32,880
Speaker 1: From working?

1059
00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:36,920
Speaker 4: Yes, And that's why to just tie in with you

1060
00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:39,200
Speaker 4: guys said earlier, I have so much music because I

1061
00:56:39,239 --> 00:56:42,480
Speaker 4: cannot stop working. I don't want to stop, you know

1062
00:56:42,520 --> 00:56:45,960
Speaker 4: what I mean. I'm looking for something. You know, I haven't.

1063
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:48,880
Speaker 4: I haven't scratched that off the list yet.

1064
00:56:48,719 --> 00:56:50,520
Speaker 3: So be prepared.

1065
00:56:50,719 --> 00:56:50,920
Speaker 1: You know.

1066
00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:54,520
Speaker 3: There may be another album next year, maybe another album December.

1067
00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:56,319
Speaker 3: I'm like that.

1068
00:56:59,200 --> 00:57:00,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, so crazy.

1069
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:03,759
Speaker 3: He's so crazy like that.

1070
00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:11,560
Speaker 1: It's like when you talk that Billboard talk like I

1071
00:57:11,600 --> 00:57:16,800
Speaker 1: get it. I love streaming, I love I love I

1072
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:22,320
Speaker 1: love all of these different mediums where our music it's

1073
00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:25,760
Speaker 1: played and people can hear it and absorb it. But

1074
00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:33,480
Speaker 1: something about that Billboard top ten just makes shit special.

1075
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:35,640
Speaker 3: Thanks.

1076
00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:40,600
Speaker 1: I am with you my sister on this chase and

1077
00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:47,160
Speaker 1: this hunt to that hot one hun. R and B

1078
00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:49,960
Speaker 1: deserves it that part too.

1079
00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:51,880
Speaker 4: And that's the thing why it's good to have this

1080
00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:56,400
Speaker 4: conversation here, R and B. You know what I mean, honestly,

1081
00:57:56,880 --> 00:58:00,360
Speaker 4: what genre is better than R and B? Am I opinion,

1082
00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:02,920
Speaker 4: we deserve so much more.

1083
00:58:03,560 --> 00:58:06,160
Speaker 3: Quality R and B. So we deserve so much more.

1084
00:58:06,880 --> 00:58:12,240
Speaker 1: You shouldn't be penalized because you can sing good, because

1085
00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:15,080
Speaker 1: you look good, because you perform good. That shouldn't be

1086
00:58:15,120 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 1: a knock against you. Because everybody can't do what you do. Come,

1087
00:58:20,040 --> 00:58:23,680
Speaker 1: that's the point of his ship. That's why I'm here

1088
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:30,080
Speaker 1: to give you something that you don't have. God gives

1089
00:58:30,120 --> 00:58:36,280
Speaker 1: everybody their own measure. This is mind. Yeah, wow, my

1090
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Speaker 1: mother fucking flowers, come on, come on board.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's coming though, I wholeheartedly believe it. But like

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Speaker 4: I say, it's it's just a matter of time, and

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00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:51,200
Speaker 4: like you say, it's not even if it's when.

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00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:56,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I think I feel like the tink Tank

1095
00:58:56,360 --> 00:58:59,120
Speaker 1: moment is gonna happen. It has to feel.

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Speaker 3: I'm so glad you said that.

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00:59:01,040 --> 00:59:02,680
Speaker 4: I see all the time, like our names, I saw

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00:59:02,720 --> 00:59:06,560
Speaker 4: similar people mistake it so much I'm like a record together.

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00:59:06,600 --> 00:59:09,720
Speaker 4: We could do some crazy marketing. It's just some incredible

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Speaker 4: promotion behind it.

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Speaker 1: Tink and Tank.

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00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:15,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, that would just fuck my heart up.

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Speaker 1: Man. Please your top five R and B.

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00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:36,720
Speaker 3: Singers, top five for me Beyonce, like when you started Beyonce, Rihannam.

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00:59:39,320 --> 00:59:43,439
Speaker 1: You're just gonna start keep it there, Beyonna.

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00:59:43,520 --> 00:59:48,320
Speaker 3: Mary j Blie, I love that a lot of influence.

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00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:51,680
Speaker 1: I love that.

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00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:59,240
Speaker 3: I had to say, Mary j Blis, Lauren Hill, you

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00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:00,560
Speaker 3: don't speak enough about the.

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Speaker 2: Queen Unicorn Yes on BT Awards her and her son

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Speaker 2: Unicorn busy.

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Speaker 3: Mm hmm. My fifth.

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01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:24,960
Speaker 4: If I could make Usher and Chris Brown into one,

1114
01:00:25,320 --> 01:00:30,600
Speaker 4: Usher Brown Chris Raymond, I have to give some credits

1115
01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:34,400
Speaker 4: to the fellas, uh Usher Chris Brown for my generation.

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01:00:34,560 --> 01:00:39,440
Speaker 4: I came up off Chris. That is my top five

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01:00:39,640 --> 01:00:45,720
Speaker 4: R and B. Yes, Usher Brown, that.

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01:00:45,720 --> 01:00:53,880
Speaker 3: Is that's something. Listen when you said that, Mary Jay, pioneer, pioneer, trailblazer,

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01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:56,320
Speaker 3: No no one can compare.

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Speaker 1: Yes cut.

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01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:03,320
Speaker 4: All absolutely and and like I said, the Chicago and me,

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01:01:03,360 --> 01:01:09,400
Speaker 4: the hood in me. I feel Mary on so many levels.

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Speaker 4: Ndred percent, you know, per her demeanor, her stage presence.

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01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:16,840
Speaker 3: You know the swagger.

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01:01:19,440 --> 01:01:20,080
Speaker 1: She means it.

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01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:21,040
Speaker 3: She means it.

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01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:22,480
Speaker 1: IM playing with you.

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01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:26,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's that's it. She puts some fear in

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01:01:26,040 --> 01:01:29,560
Speaker 4: you when you're here. I said that like I slapped

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Speaker 4: the ship.

1131
01:01:29,880 --> 01:01:30,200
Speaker 3: Out of you.

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01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:30,800
Speaker 4: Yeah.

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01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:32,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been on the road with.

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Speaker 3: Her, respectfully, respectfully Mary Queen.

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01:01:37,320 --> 01:01:43,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh it's been there for a minute. I thought

1136
01:01:43,480 --> 01:01:46,600
Speaker 1: it was on purpose. I thought we had a sponsorship.

1137
01:01:49,760 --> 01:01:54,560
Speaker 1: We had a sponsorship was going. I was like, okay,

1138
01:01:54,440 --> 01:01:59,240
Speaker 1: we're plugging sponsorship. That's that's exciting. Sponsoring up after that

1139
01:01:59,320 --> 01:02:06,200
Speaker 1: check to come in. They only sponsored timberlat my nerves.

1140
01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:12,520
Speaker 1: You get everything first. We're ready. We're good. Okay, Tink

1141
01:02:13,160 --> 01:02:18,160
Speaker 1: your top five R and B song Yes you are

1142
01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:19,560
Speaker 1: an R and B song writer.

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01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:27,160
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, top five R and B songs. Okay, this

1144
01:02:27,240 --> 01:02:29,800
Speaker 4: is my perspective, y'all give me grace.

1145
01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:39,040
Speaker 3: Kisha call. Love did something to my spirit.

1146
01:02:39,360 --> 01:02:42,160
Speaker 1: It does something that every spirit that hears it every

1147
01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:44,320
Speaker 1: time it comes on. They got a commercial.

1148
01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:46,240
Speaker 3: Now it's like a spiritual hair.

1149
01:02:46,160 --> 01:02:49,959
Speaker 2: Father and his kids in the car and singing Love

1150
01:02:50,080 --> 01:02:52,360
Speaker 2: comes on. I said, it's amazing.

1151
01:02:52,920 --> 01:02:53,600
Speaker 1: Come on, R and D.

1152
01:02:54,720 --> 01:03:02,720
Speaker 3: Needs you bad. Jazmine Ellivant confessions us.

1153
01:03:02,760 --> 01:03:06,560
Speaker 1: Sure why not. Why not. You're on a row.

1154
01:03:07,040 --> 01:03:10,120
Speaker 3: You're on a row dangerously in love Beyonce?

1155
01:03:12,040 --> 01:03:16,400
Speaker 1: Yes, have you seen her do it live? No, it

1156
01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:17,600
Speaker 1: doesn't even make sense.

1157
01:03:17,600 --> 01:03:19,760
Speaker 3: No I haven't.

1158
01:03:20,320 --> 01:03:23,480
Speaker 2: She's cheating like it said, cheat code. It's like, how

1159
01:03:23,480 --> 01:03:25,439
Speaker 2: can you sing up there?

1160
01:03:26,080 --> 01:03:26,320
Speaker 3: Yes?

1161
01:03:26,400 --> 01:03:30,760
Speaker 4: I was at her last story identical to her tracks.

1162
01:03:30,800 --> 01:03:32,680
Speaker 3: Scares me to watch her perform the.

1163
01:03:34,200 --> 01:03:39,560
Speaker 1: Like you said earlier though rehearsal, Yes, perfecting your craft. Yes,

1164
01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:42,360
Speaker 1: I be having an audit, just like I'm having to

1165
01:03:42,400 --> 01:03:45,680
Speaker 1: go a few times so I can really audit with

1166
01:03:45,960 --> 01:03:46,480
Speaker 1: what's happened?

1167
01:03:46,520 --> 01:03:47,120
Speaker 3: What's happening?

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01:03:47,280 --> 01:03:48,560
Speaker 1: If you only go once, you're be like what the

1169
01:03:48,840 --> 01:03:49,240
Speaker 1: just happened?

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01:03:49,280 --> 01:03:54,120
Speaker 4: Yes, that was my experience, so in awe. Yes, so

1171
01:03:54,560 --> 01:04:01,880
Speaker 4: also stuck watching Beyonce and then uh class Timeless week

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01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:06,680
Speaker 4: by s w V taught me how to run, taught

1173
01:04:06,680 --> 01:04:10,560
Speaker 4: me riffs. I feel like I mimic them and so

1174
01:04:10,640 --> 01:04:14,000
Speaker 4: many of my records, you know, the breakdowns, the harmonies,

1175
01:04:14,040 --> 01:04:14,560
Speaker 4: the crying.

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01:04:15,960 --> 01:04:17,959
Speaker 3: Yes, I think that's a five.

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01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:21,000
Speaker 1: That's a great five. Yes, I love the s WV

1178
01:04:21,320 --> 01:04:22,840
Speaker 1: because Coco don't get enough credit.

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01:04:23,080 --> 01:04:25,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, talk about it.

1180
01:04:25,800 --> 01:04:30,920
Speaker 1: Coco is a building building block of this female R

1181
01:04:30,960 --> 01:04:37,080
Speaker 1: and B vocalshm. Let's do this. Let's build a vultron.

1182
01:04:37,680 --> 01:04:41,000
Speaker 1: You're super R and B artists, Okay, you're gonna piece

1183
01:04:41,040 --> 01:04:42,240
Speaker 1: them together. We want to know you can get the

1184
01:04:42,280 --> 01:04:45,000
Speaker 1: vocal from who you're gonna get the performance style from.

1185
01:04:45,200 --> 01:04:47,880
Speaker 1: Who you're gonna get the styling front, you're going to

1186
01:04:47,960 --> 01:04:51,800
Speaker 1: get the passion from. And since you are sid right

1187
01:04:51,840 --> 01:04:55,880
Speaker 1: to who's going to write for this artist, let's start

1188
01:04:55,880 --> 01:04:58,440
Speaker 1: with the vocal. Who's vocal you're going to get to

1189
01:04:58,480 --> 01:05:00,760
Speaker 1: make your super R and B artists and vocal.

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01:05:03,240 --> 01:05:04,920
Speaker 3: The vocal Whitney Euston.

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01:05:05,080 --> 01:05:11,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, I want to dance with somebody as well,

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01:05:12,560 --> 01:05:20,400
Speaker 1: with somebody who loves me. Ship that range everything it is.

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01:05:20,440 --> 01:05:27,880
Speaker 1: She is the voice, performance style on stage, what they're

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01:05:27,920 --> 01:05:28,360
Speaker 1: doing on.

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01:05:28,360 --> 01:05:36,160
Speaker 3: Stage, Beyonce, Yeah, the greatest, the greatest, that's it.

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01:05:38,560 --> 01:05:49,760
Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah, the styling, the drip, that's a great one.

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01:05:55,800 --> 01:06:04,200
Speaker 3: That girl can't go wrong. Be flyes there, undeniable in

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01:06:04,280 --> 01:06:08,040
Speaker 3: her sleep on on on any level too.

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01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:14,400
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yes, you can catch your I fashion. Yeah,

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01:06:16,400 --> 01:06:20,400
Speaker 6: you know what you're doing. The passion of the artist,

1201
01:06:20,440 --> 01:06:23,640
Speaker 6: the heart of the artists, the.

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01:06:23,600 --> 01:06:36,120
Speaker 3: Heart of the artist. Mm hmm, that's deep. Okay, passion.

1203
01:06:37,480 --> 01:06:38,800
Speaker 1: Will make you feel something.

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01:06:45,520 --> 01:06:50,760
Speaker 3: H Yeah, yeah, I study. I study.

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01:06:50,800 --> 01:06:59,560
Speaker 1: This is why you are who you are? Yes, well studied. Yes,

1206
01:07:00,120 --> 01:07:05,160
Speaker 1: lost art. Who's writing for this artist?

1207
01:07:06,520 --> 01:07:12,520
Speaker 3: Okay, Missy Elliott it's the mixed.

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01:07:13,760 --> 01:07:14,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, the ballot.

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01:07:15,120 --> 01:07:16,840
Speaker 3: She so talented.

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01:07:16,920 --> 01:07:19,200
Speaker 1: I just went to that concert. I just went to

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01:07:19,240 --> 01:07:25,080
Speaker 1: Missy's concert. Yes, I was fucked up. My whole ride home,

1212
01:07:25,200 --> 01:07:26,120
Speaker 1: I was fucked up.

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01:07:27,040 --> 01:07:30,120
Speaker 3: I'm like her catalog's crazy.

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01:07:30,160 --> 01:07:35,880
Speaker 1: Thirty years. She said, she was like thirty years. High level,

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01:07:36,880 --> 01:07:37,479
Speaker 1: high level.

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01:07:37,520 --> 01:07:42,600
Speaker 2: Shout out to Missy Elliott Mona Scott high hat that show.

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01:07:42,960 --> 01:07:47,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, creative genius man.

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01:07:47,960 --> 01:07:51,880
Speaker 4: Her energy too, I've seen, I've seen the videosh.

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01:07:51,960 --> 01:07:53,680
Speaker 1: I got it. I got a phone full of them.

1220
01:07:53,880 --> 01:07:54,600
Speaker 3: Her energy.

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01:07:55,160 --> 01:07:57,080
Speaker 1: And I'm not even that I'm not even the kind

1222
01:07:57,080 --> 01:07:59,320
Speaker 1: of guy to be like I want to. Yeah, but

1223
01:07:59,360 --> 01:08:02,640
Speaker 1: I had to him, I'm like to film some of this,

1224
01:08:02,840 --> 01:08:03,600
Speaker 1: like this is crazy.

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01:08:04,520 --> 01:08:05,000
Speaker 3: I agree.

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01:08:06,160 --> 01:08:09,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, mister Ellie has the writer. Yeah, miss the meaner.

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01:08:10,640 --> 01:08:11,480
Speaker 3: That's really hard.

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01:08:12,320 --> 01:08:14,520
Speaker 1: It didn't seem like yeah, now you you you cooked,

1229
01:08:15,040 --> 01:08:18,439
Speaker 1: you cooked, But we got something else for you. We

1230
01:08:18,560 --> 01:08:21,040
Speaker 1: got we got more time before we let you leave.

1231
01:08:22,840 --> 01:08:28,599
Speaker 1: We know, we know you got ship to do. Ain't

1232
01:08:28,600 --> 01:08:31,679
Speaker 1: saying no nick. I ain't saying no names. I ain't

1233
01:08:31,680 --> 01:08:36,040
Speaker 1: saying no name. Ain't saying no na. Who he was?

1234
01:08:37,240 --> 01:08:42,599
Speaker 1: What you did? Don't say she? And I ain't saying

1235
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Speaker 1: no name.

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01:08:52,320 --> 01:08:57,320
Speaker 2: Very special part of our show's card. I ain't saying

1237
01:08:57,320 --> 01:09:01,280
Speaker 2: no name. When you tell us a story funny or

1238
01:09:01,320 --> 01:09:04,040
Speaker 2: fucked up? Are funny and fucked up?

1239
01:09:05,680 --> 01:09:06,960
Speaker 1: You know, kind of like some of the songs you

1240
01:09:07,080 --> 01:09:07,479
Speaker 1: be writing.

1241
01:09:09,960 --> 01:09:11,920
Speaker 3: Okay, you know it's it's.

1242
01:09:11,880 --> 01:09:14,360
Speaker 2: Like, it's not supposed to be funny, but all you

1243
01:09:14,400 --> 01:09:17,120
Speaker 2: can do is laugh at some of the ship and

1244
01:09:17,200 --> 01:09:20,400
Speaker 2: the name of this segment, and this portion is called

1245
01:09:20,880 --> 01:09:22,240
Speaker 2: I ain't saying no names.

1246
01:09:22,280 --> 01:09:25,200
Speaker 1: With a rule to the game, she just can't say

1247
01:09:25,240 --> 01:09:26,720
Speaker 1: no names. Oh my gosh.

1248
01:09:27,160 --> 01:09:28,759
Speaker 3: Okay, that's all. That's all.

1249
01:09:28,920 --> 01:09:32,080
Speaker 4: And I have a lot of story in this in

1250
01:09:32,120 --> 01:09:41,679
Speaker 4: his mind right here. Okay, interesting story, funny story, no names.

1251
01:09:42,479 --> 01:09:42,839
Speaker 3: Okay.

1252
01:09:45,640 --> 01:09:48,599
Speaker 4: Interesting story about how one of my records just came together.

1253
01:09:50,720 --> 01:09:57,000
Speaker 4: I was in the process of making an album and

1254
01:09:57,080 --> 01:10:00,000
Speaker 4: at the time I was working with a few producers.

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01:10:01,000 --> 01:10:01,599
Speaker 3: No names.

1256
01:10:02,160 --> 01:10:04,799
Speaker 4: Okay, the time, I was working with a few people,

1257
01:10:07,720 --> 01:10:09,840
Speaker 4: and there was a song that we did that was

1258
01:10:12,080 --> 01:10:17,160
Speaker 4: literally on the cuff of blowing up and I'll never

1259
01:10:17,200 --> 01:10:19,080
Speaker 4: forget it because.

1260
01:10:21,479 --> 01:10:23,840
Speaker 3: The producer or this is really hard y'all.

1261
01:10:25,960 --> 01:10:33,439
Speaker 4: So the person working on the record.

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01:10:30,960 --> 01:10:33,280
Speaker 3: He invited the other person to come into the lab.

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01:10:33,479 --> 01:10:36,720
Speaker 4: And like I say, at the time, this song we

1264
01:10:36,720 --> 01:10:41,519
Speaker 4: were all working on was bubbling, and there was a

1265
01:10:41,560 --> 01:10:49,040
Speaker 4: moment when I guess paperwork wasn't right and something I've

1266
01:10:49,040 --> 01:10:53,519
Speaker 4: never witnessed. But these two people they ended up in

1267
01:10:53,520 --> 01:10:55,840
Speaker 4: the studio at the same time. Although we were working

1268
01:10:55,880 --> 01:11:01,760
Speaker 4: on the same project. Paperwork isn't being handled correctly. So

1269
01:11:01,800 --> 01:11:04,679
Speaker 4: we're all chilling in the studio working and the vibe

1270
01:11:04,720 --> 01:11:05,760
Speaker 4: is cool.

1271
01:11:06,080 --> 01:11:08,639
Speaker 3: One person walks in, jumps on the.

1272
01:11:08,640 --> 01:11:18,400
Speaker 4: Table behind that paperwork and demands demands that person and

1273
01:11:18,479 --> 01:11:25,639
Speaker 4: no names, but you know, behind paperwork a lot can

1274
01:11:25,680 --> 01:11:30,280
Speaker 4: go down. So I'm in the studio and I'm kind

1275
01:11:30,280 --> 01:11:32,120
Speaker 4: of in the middle of everything, and I'm not sure

1276
01:11:32,160 --> 01:11:34,960
Speaker 4: what to say because I'm just grateful to be here.

1277
01:11:36,160 --> 01:11:38,680
Speaker 4: But when a song is about to do what it's

1278
01:11:38,720 --> 01:11:41,840
Speaker 4: about to do, your paperwork gotta be right before you know,

1279
01:11:41,920 --> 01:11:44,720
Speaker 4: before it goes out, because there's a lot of a

1280
01:11:45,920 --> 01:11:49,559
Speaker 4: lot of emotion behind a dollar So something I had

1281
01:11:49,560 --> 01:11:51,920
Speaker 4: never witnessed before. But the person had to jump on

1282
01:11:51,960 --> 01:11:56,240
Speaker 4: the table to demand that they get their percentage right. Yeah,

1283
01:11:56,320 --> 01:11:58,519
Speaker 4: literally jumped on the table, two feet on the table.

1284
01:12:00,360 --> 01:12:02,519
Speaker 4: And this is a glass table next to that fresh fruit.

1285
01:12:04,600 --> 01:12:07,479
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, This is a grand setting.

1286
01:12:07,520 --> 01:12:12,640
Speaker 4: It's beautiful, and to this day, I don't think that

1287
01:12:13,600 --> 01:12:19,080
Speaker 4: you know, they speak anymore. And that's the reason why.

1288
01:12:19,120 --> 01:12:21,880
Speaker 4: You know, paperwork gotta be right, make sure it's right,

1289
01:12:21,960 --> 01:12:25,040
Speaker 4: because you know, people really get crazy behind that dollar

1290
01:12:25,160 --> 01:12:31,080
Speaker 4: and that's split. So yeah, like I say, got on

1291
01:12:31,080 --> 01:12:34,040
Speaker 4: the table. The other person was the bigger person just

1292
01:12:34,080 --> 01:12:38,360
Speaker 4: walked away, and I'm so glad they did.

1293
01:12:38,760 --> 01:12:39,800
Speaker 3: But I never forget that.

1294
01:12:39,920 --> 01:12:43,760
Speaker 4: I'll never forget that moment, and I think it just

1295
01:12:43,800 --> 01:12:46,120
Speaker 4: taught me to have business in order. We don't leave

1296
01:12:46,160 --> 01:12:48,880
Speaker 4: people out. We make sure everybody get taken care of.

1297
01:12:49,920 --> 01:12:52,759
Speaker 4: And to this day, I keep my sheets, my split

1298
01:12:52,800 --> 01:12:56,200
Speaker 4: sheets on me, or I make sure my attorney is

1299
01:12:56,240 --> 01:12:58,560
Speaker 4: handling stuff because people will walk in and jump on

1300
01:12:58,600 --> 01:12:59,080
Speaker 4: your table.

1301
01:13:00,080 --> 01:13:05,719
Speaker 2: So my question is, did the table jumper get that percentage?

1302
01:13:06,360 --> 01:13:08,040
Speaker 3: The song was never clear?

1303
01:13:08,760 --> 01:13:16,679
Speaker 4: Wow mm hmm, that song was never still in dispute.

1304
01:13:17,840 --> 01:13:19,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's just unfortunate.

1305
01:13:19,080 --> 01:13:22,160
Speaker 4: I think the way they handled it had something to

1306
01:13:22,200 --> 01:13:24,200
Speaker 4: do with that, so we could have handled it better

1307
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Speaker 4: a conversation, a sit down instead of a sit down

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01:13:30,680 --> 01:13:34,960
Speaker 4: instead of a jump up. But yeah, musicians, we are

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01:13:34,960 --> 01:13:38,400
Speaker 4: sensitive about our all right, So I understand both angles.

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01:13:38,439 --> 01:13:40,759
Speaker 4: But it's a time and place for everything.

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01:13:41,040 --> 01:13:46,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's why, Like we've always adopted this

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01:13:46,080 --> 01:13:50,920
Speaker 1: thing where if you're in the room, we just all

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01:13:51,000 --> 01:13:55,679
Speaker 1: chop it up because of course you don't want those

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01:13:55,720 --> 01:13:58,760
Speaker 1: type of situations, right, those uncomfortable situations. But then at

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01:13:58,800 --> 01:14:02,519
Speaker 1: the same time, the bigger conversation is, we do so

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01:14:02,680 --> 01:14:05,519
Speaker 1: many records, why are we fighting over one?

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01:14:05,840 --> 01:14:09,280
Speaker 2: But we're also choosy about the room. You have to

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01:14:09,280 --> 01:14:11,680
Speaker 2: be choosy about the room. And it's so and I'm

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01:14:11,680 --> 01:14:14,120
Speaker 2: sure you get this a lot. That's good as your

1320
01:14:14,400 --> 01:14:17,760
Speaker 2: you know, as your career is continuing to grow, and

1321
01:14:17,760 --> 01:14:21,559
Speaker 2: it's send more and more people are let's work, let's work,

1322
01:14:21,640 --> 01:14:26,160
Speaker 2: let's work. You can't work with everybody. You have to

1323
01:14:26,160 --> 01:14:28,679
Speaker 2: be choosy about who you work with because that same

1324
01:14:28,720 --> 01:14:31,760
Speaker 2: person that's yelling less work, let's work, less work, after

1325
01:14:31,840 --> 01:14:35,520
Speaker 2: something may get done, they may change their tone.

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01:14:36,800 --> 01:14:39,280
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Like I gotta I gotta know you to work

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01:14:39,320 --> 01:14:41,920
Speaker 1: with you. I like to get to know people.

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01:14:42,000 --> 01:14:42,559
Speaker 3: That's it.

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01:14:42,600 --> 01:14:46,880
Speaker 1: Take me on the date, the energy, the energy. Yeah,

1330
01:14:47,120 --> 01:14:48,559
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Let's get to know each other.

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01:14:49,520 --> 01:14:51,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I like to work around people that

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01:14:51,600 --> 01:14:54,160
Speaker 4: feel like family, so we don't have to argue.

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Speaker 3: I want to see you eat. You want to see

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01:14:56,320 --> 01:14:56,559
Speaker 3: me eat?

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01:14:56,600 --> 01:14:58,880
Speaker 1: Because you can hold your friends accountable as well. Absolutely,

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01:14:58,920 --> 01:15:00,920
Speaker 1: that's true. You can't. I really hope people you don't

1337
01:15:00,920 --> 01:15:06,720
Speaker 1: know accountable because you don't know them. Yeah, you're right,

1338
01:15:08,320 --> 01:15:09,920
Speaker 1: if you're gonna be helping me tell my story.

1339
01:15:10,720 --> 01:15:14,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I never want to be in the studio. And

1340
01:15:14,680 --> 01:15:17,040
Speaker 2: that's what the what it is somebody jumping on the

1341
01:15:17,040 --> 01:15:19,320
Speaker 2: table because and that person could have, like you said,

1342
01:15:19,400 --> 01:15:22,400
Speaker 2: you understand both sides of it. That person could have

1343
01:15:22,400 --> 01:15:24,479
Speaker 2: been right for jumping on that table, but even putting

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01:15:24,520 --> 01:15:28,240
Speaker 2: somebody in a position to have to do that, that's that's.

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Speaker 1: Not what I'm in.

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01:15:28,920 --> 01:15:33,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's ways to communicate. Yeah, so I agree. You know,

1347
01:15:33,760 --> 01:15:35,600
Speaker 3: you got to work with good people and people that

1348
01:15:35,720 --> 01:15:36,839
Speaker 3: love you and want to see.

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01:15:36,640 --> 01:15:40,920
Speaker 1: You when you know, well, I hope they both see

1350
01:15:40,920 --> 01:15:41,439
Speaker 1: this and then.

1351
01:15:41,360 --> 01:15:47,400
Speaker 3: They let's get the money.

1352
01:15:47,520 --> 01:15:51,280
Speaker 1: Let's get money, get the record to the people. Come on, now,

1353
01:15:51,360 --> 01:15:54,920
Speaker 1: that's just that's just one more record added added to

1354
01:15:54,960 --> 01:15:59,040
Speaker 1: the repertoire. Because Tink wants are plaques to come on?

1355
01:15:59,160 --> 01:16:00,000
Speaker 1: Say that more plans?

1356
01:16:01,200 --> 01:16:03,160
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, it's a long time coming.

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01:16:03,760 --> 01:16:09,000
Speaker 1: Oh god, damn plaque on the way. Well think I think,

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01:16:09,080 --> 01:16:16,320
Speaker 1: thank yeah, yes you start app I think.

1359
01:16:18,600 --> 01:16:20,639
Speaker 3: You will go to it, will go to the ladies

1360
01:16:20,960 --> 01:16:21,360
Speaker 3: love it.

1361
01:16:21,560 --> 01:16:22,360
Speaker 1: You are so dope.

1362
01:16:23,320 --> 01:16:23,720
Speaker 3: Thank you.

1363
01:16:24,400 --> 01:16:28,320
Speaker 1: Now we appreciate I know for a fact you were

1364
01:16:28,400 --> 01:16:32,120
Speaker 1: just you were just scratching the surface. Even with all

1365
01:16:32,120 --> 01:16:34,200
Speaker 1: these big moments you've had to this point, you are

1366
01:16:34,240 --> 01:16:35,639
Speaker 1: just scratching the surface.

1367
01:16:36,160 --> 01:16:37,920
Speaker 3: Made me cry. Thank you.

1368
01:16:38,200 --> 01:16:42,680
Speaker 1: Sure of I'm sure of your billboard, I'm sure of

1369
01:16:42,800 --> 01:16:45,720
Speaker 1: your own headline tour and people wanting to see you

1370
01:16:45,760 --> 01:16:47,800
Speaker 1: do what you do from top to bottom. They want

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01:16:47,840 --> 01:16:48,919
Speaker 1: to hear all them albums.

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01:16:49,680 --> 01:16:51,439
Speaker 4: Thank you, And this will be the interview we look

1373
01:16:51,520 --> 01:16:55,479
Speaker 4: back on when that when that billboard hit, when that chart,

1374
01:16:55,680 --> 01:16:57,960
Speaker 4: when when we tried on to you know, get there.

1375
01:16:58,040 --> 01:17:00,000
Speaker 4: I will look back on this and I appreciate you

1376
01:17:00,120 --> 01:17:03,000
Speaker 4: y'all for putting this in the air, manifesting it today.

1377
01:17:03,080 --> 01:17:04,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely so, thank you.

1378
01:17:04,680 --> 01:17:06,080
Speaker 3: This moment means so much.

1379
01:17:06,040 --> 01:17:08,040
Speaker 1: Absolutely well. I mean, you're product of hard work and

1380
01:17:08,080 --> 01:17:13,200
Speaker 1: dedication and and true gift and so we support you,

1381
01:17:13,840 --> 01:17:17,960
Speaker 1: we appreciate you. This is not this is not a

1382
01:17:18,000 --> 01:17:21,479
Speaker 1: promotional stop. This is home for you. So anytime you

1383
01:17:21,560 --> 01:17:26,000
Speaker 1: need anything from any of us, it's We're a text away.

1384
01:17:26,120 --> 01:17:29,160
Speaker 1: You ain't got a call and a pull up and

1385
01:17:29,240 --> 01:17:29,880
Speaker 1: it's that easy.

1386
01:17:30,120 --> 01:17:33,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we can go to the studio are Yeah,

1387
01:17:34,240 --> 01:17:36,680
Speaker 3: thank you so much too.

1388
01:17:36,720 --> 01:17:40,479
Speaker 1: Sessions before yeah, yeah, came to listen to the music before. Yeah,

1389
01:17:40,680 --> 01:17:44,240
Speaker 1: I ain't gett no call, but you know what I'm saying, Yeah,

1390
01:17:44,439 --> 01:17:49,960
Speaker 1: get a call there always get you amongst family.

1391
01:17:50,160 --> 01:17:53,600
Speaker 3: Thank you, you have beautiful Thank you. Thank you for

1392
01:17:53,640 --> 01:17:57,120
Speaker 3: welcoming me and of course like making me feel so comfortable.

1393
01:17:57,960 --> 01:17:58,800
Speaker 3: I really love it here.

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01:17:58,880 --> 01:18:02,080
Speaker 1: Thank you absolutely well, Ladies and gentle money is Tank.

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01:18:02,320 --> 01:18:08,040
Speaker 1: I'm Turks Valentine. If you haven't seen, this is the

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Speaker 1: Rmy Money podcast on all things R and B. Just amazing, man.

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Speaker 1: Please make some noise for tanking