WEBVTT - Episode 227 "Chinese Kitty" 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:01.720 Do you feel like there's a lot of pressure all 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:04.320 women to look good or look a certain type of way, 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:07.920 especially in hip hop, Yes, because they always say, like, 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:11.680 you know, sex appeal cells, and then if you're overly sexy, 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:14.760 then it's like, oh no, you know what I'm saying. 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.040 But then it really just depends on the person. Because 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:20.560 you got girls like Sukihanna, and then you got girls 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:23.480 like like really Rolls. I felt always slim. Oh yeah, 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:27.400 you're right and different. Yeah, I think now it's more 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:29.080 like you could be whoever you want to be. But 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:33.120 when you got a game, you felt that pressure. Yeah, definitely. 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:35.320 I definitely feel like I came out a time where 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:38.280 it was like you have to have sex appill like 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:40.559 you said, you came up off the Nikki era and 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:42.720 that was really an inspiration. And even she has come 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:44.639 out and said that she felt that pressure to get 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:46.839 her body done. Did you feel the pressure to get 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:49.640 your body or do you have any enhancements? Yes? I do, 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:52.400 and um yeah, I definitely did, and I actually got 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:54.760 my body done before I got into the music. But 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:57.600 I was just in that world where it's like you're 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:00.960 not really looked at in that in that industry, do 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:02.800 not really look at it. Let you look like this 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:05.959 like in like I'm saying exactly so, I feel like 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:08.280 that started off and name kind of is the same 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:11.080 thing in the music industry, like people just want you 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:13.959 to look way better or this bad the third and 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:17.320 I think that definitely came from That's quite pressure. I 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:23.119 pressure myself into that quarrel with me. You know, bt 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:27.479 so no real color what we see whole getting ready 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:29.360 about the be something. But you can't stand on the 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:31.640 home SUI. I already know he came ball with me 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:33.320 because you have let up with a squad to me, 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:43.000 they get as they called to me, Welcome to the 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:46.399 Baller Show. Podcasts available everywhere you get your podcasts. I 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:48.440 go by the name fer Our Simmons. Hey, y'all, world, 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:50.600 up your best Tisu solo. Let's see team with that 0:01:51.240 --> 0:02:01.080 Chinese Kitties whatever. This wasn't schedule. Literally, you are here. 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:05.160 I am here. Yes. What brings Chinese Kitty to at 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:08.040 lant Well? First of all, for those who don't know 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:14.799 who is Chinese Kitty, Chinese Katie is a artist, female rapper, mother, 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:18.360 and businesswoman. Let me ask you, do you feel like 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:22.600 you have to say female rapper no, because I literally 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:26.520 just had this conversation yesterday. I'm like, um, I feel 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:28.480 like women should just be at a point where we 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:31.440 just say I'm rapper totally, but you know, sometimes already 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:33.680 like it better than your head, so I say it, 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:35.720 but yeah, it's a rapper. Before you get the name 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:41.000 Chinese Kitty from um, well, I am part Chinese. Um 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:43.800 my last name is King, so a lot of people 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:45.959 just tease me back in the day, so I always 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.239 have to tell him I was Chinese black. And then 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:52.160 m Kitty is just a name I've always had because 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:54.560 it was like mysterious. People used to always say I 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:56.959 was mysterious or whatever, and I just stufp with that, 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.080 so weeople should call me Kitty. So I was just 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:01.679 one day on Instagram was like, I'm gonna put it 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:04.240 all together and just a Chinese kid. I definitely thought 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:07.200 it was more sexual, Like I'm about to say everybody, 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.120 it's sexual, But I mean, that's what I'm going to 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:12.120 think right now, I guess because like you said, you 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:16.760 have such a feminine sexy or about it. I think you, yeah, 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:18.919 I know that's not what it is. Your mind together 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:21.880 exactly ahead. I was gonna say I was knowning you 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:24.040 for a while and I've definitely been seeing you even 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:27.600 transition into the music. When I first met you, music 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:32.000 wasn't the focused point. No, music was not. Music has 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.800 always been the focus point, but music was something that 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:38.160 I was a little shaky, okay to get into. Okay, 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:40.440 So I was saying, okay, let's say that it wasn't 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:46.200 the main thing that we talked about. Yeah, okay, I 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:49.760 guess I said, what were you doing before music? I 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:53.000 was at first, I was in a nightlife. I used 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:56.120 to bartend. So I started out at like the club 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:58.880 call Starlets. A lot of people know I'm so popular. 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:00.720 I feel like there's so many persons knowledgies that came 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:02.960 out of Startling. Yeah, came out of Starlars. I mean, 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:04.840 I know a Hardy came out of that. I was 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:11.280 a bartender. This was there was an Asian bartender who 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:16.200 went viral who worked at Starlars. Oh, I think Gracie, Gracie, 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.080 and it just so many of them. Yeah, there's a 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:20.240 lot of girls that mar name. So I definitely like 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.320 started from there. Shout out to Blaze, Yeah, sh out 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:27.920 to Startlets. When I offered Hardy d's in them. Yeah, okay, yeah, 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:31.120 Because when I first I met you, you extremely popular. 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:34.760 I was a DC, was tip DC. I was like, 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.640 how is she so popular? But then we discovered you 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:40.640 did music? So when did you say, you know what, 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:43.039 I'm gonna be an artist, I'm gonna be a rapper? 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:44.440 What may did you say? This is what I do? 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:46.640 So a lot of people don't know that I grew 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:50.279 up around music my whole entire life because my dad 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.919 and my mom's boys in industry my moments and worked 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:57.160 for the Source magazine, so she literally had us there 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.160 every time we get home from school. She was take 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:01.840 to work with there. You see all these celebrities all 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:05.200 day long. And then sending with my dad, he found 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:09.120 a lot of artists facting like Joe Budding Bad same 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:14.160 miss he man the low key guy. Huh he was managing. No, 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.720 he actually like sound them and like he was like 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:20.440 muscling them around and got them with DJ Clue and 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:21.760 then they got a deal and they had like a 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.280 whole thing called this Stopping around was my whole entire life. 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:29.160 And then when I got around like seventeen eighteen, I 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:31.760 was like doing my own thing. So I got a nightlife, 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:34.400 wanted to be outside. Then I was like, you know 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:38.279 what I need to go to what I've always known 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:41.480 and which was music. Literally I've grown up with nephew, 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:46.280 but music and to me being cute pretty like Instagram 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:49.000 was just now coming out side start taking pictures and stuff. 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.359 So it just happened that way. But then when I 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:53.760 had my son, I was like, I gotta say, my 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.120 life serious, So what is it that we're gonna do? 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:59.240 And I was like, music, Did you call on your 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.440 dad because he's already had to come at first he 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:03.880 was like I was just like to ask, like, where 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.240 you go, honest head dad about it? Yes, I came 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:09.040 to him. I already made the song, my first track ever, 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.440 already made the song and I played it for them 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:15.760 and it was like what is this? Oh no, nobody 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:18.839 even was so bad. It was so terrible. But in 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:22.920 that they were like, yo, your voice, so the song 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:25.159 you made me to come up with some better bars, 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:28.560 but your voice definitely stand out. Maybe you should try 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:32.360 it again. And then I just started practicing more, practicing, practicing, 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:36.240 studying my verse, studying better word play, studying how to 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:39.839 embody myself as an artist. And that's how I would 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:42.560 you pull the inspiration from when you made that first track? 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:45.200 Who was you listening to to like kind of lean 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:47.320 on at that time? It was nothing but nicky for me, 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:50.400 Okay nothing. Why didn't you go to your dad before 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:52.400 you made the song? Because he's not one of them. 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:55.479 He's not me. He's not one of those people that 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:58.599 he just gonna just go off what you say. He 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:01.240 got to really see pinning work like. He is one 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:05.040 of those people that he don't play about nothing in life. 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:08.080 So if this is not anything for fun his child 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:13.760 or not, he was like that good impactly signed independent? 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:17.080 I am independent right now. I'm actually signed to my 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:22.000 own label, which Kitty Game Music, and okay, yes I 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:26.720 do do I deal go example Empire, So we got 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:29.320 our own little plays. When I'm about to drop a 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:32.720 song and stuff like that. It's like distribution through them. Yeah, okay, 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:34.800 do you want to sign other artists to your label 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:37.280 or yeah? That's exactly why I made it. I could 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:40.000 get some more female artists, you know, for the focus 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:46.040 is yeah, it's female for me. Yeah okay, oh yeah 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.480 for me, and it's Kitty Game Music. I mean I 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:51.280 don't want to be signed today. I mean you never know. 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:53.880 It could be someone like a sausage Santana like yeah 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:59.440 to RUPs that so gay. Not your mom is extremely popular, 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:01.880 I know, said your dad has come. Not one of 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:12.240 them mom's is popping pop interviewing your mom like yeah, yeah, 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.880 she came to the station. No my mommy outside she 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:19.680 got no. I tell you, yeah, I tell I remember, 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:21.840 tell you. I was like, oh, I have mama Chinese 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:29.840 Kitty in here. Chinese Nikki is her name now real day? Yes? Okay, god, 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:32.319 yeah it was Chinese Nikki. I remember. I was like, 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:34.720 damn she first of all, y'all was just like we 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:40.280 do and she still lit turned up. Yeah, I was 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:42.840 gonna be that. That's how I got into that, you 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:44.840 know what I'm saying, Like she's one of those people 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:48.200 that she's just gonna go get her her whole, like 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:50.760 so she pushes in all her kids, go be a 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:52.760 go get her or it's like you have no other 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.040 answer when you come home. You get what I'm saying. So, 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.480 like all of us are into different things. How many 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:01.240 sibls do you have. It's a lot of us on 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:04.400 My stepdad has, which is my dad by the way, 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:09.599 he has three kids and then it's four of us, okay, 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:14.760 so we all intertwined. So going back to you being independent, 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.559 did your parents, you know, help you with that or 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:22.240 they are more on the I should be with a 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:25.000 major label, but I feel like for me, obviously the 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:27.640 opportunity has came, but I just wanted to be set 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:28.960 up in the right way and I want to be 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.240 with people that's for me and not just gonna shelve 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:33.199 me or just send the third And I want to 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:35.360 get to a place where I'm comfortable in my music 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.120 that I know that whatever I sign is gonna be 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:40.400 the right deal for me. So where have you learn 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:45.520 so far? Being independent? Business wise? There's a lot. Music 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:47.520 is a lot. I don't know why people think that 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:51.360 it's easy. It is not, because when you're doing everything yourself, 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:53.880 you gotta grind ten times more than you want to 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:55.800 make your label. You get what I'm saying, because it's 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.559 a lot of things you gotta pay for, like producers 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:07.720 and splay. It's saying, um, studio, you gotta look good, hair, makeup, 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:10.880 all that. So it's it's a lot. It's a lot. 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.880 But I know that where I'm going with it, that 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:16.720 it's blessed to succomb. Do you point there's a lot 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:19.320 of pressure all women to look good or look a 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:22.880 certain type of way, especially in hip hop, Yes, because 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.880 they always say, like, you know, sexy hill selves, and 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:29.559 then if you're overly sexy, then it's like, oh no, 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:31.360 you know what I'm saying. But then it really just 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:35.000 depends on the person. Because you got girls like Sukihanna, 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:38.160 and then you got girls like like really Rose, I 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:41.280 feel always slim. Oh yeah, you're right, and yeah, I 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:44.240 think now it's more like you could be whoever you 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:46.000 want to be. I feel like it was a sex 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:49.280 yeah exactly. Yeah, I do too. I feel like it 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:51.400 was a certain standard at one point, but when you 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:55.440 got a game, you felt that pressure. Yes, definitely. I 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:57.520 definitely feel like I came out a time where it 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:00.640 was like you have to have sexes. Oh they don't 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:03.080 think SEXI pill is though, Like like I think they're 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.280 first of all, sexy pill is relative. What sex to 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:07.280 the one person might not be sexy to the next. Like, 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:09.600 but I feel like for some reason, hip hop there 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:13.599 was this expectation that our women had to be super hourglass, 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:17.520 small waists, big breast, big butt, Like it was like 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:21.360 very precise what they felt like colored women ship look 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:25.200 like versus any other race. True, very true to your point. 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:27.240 You know, like you said, you came up off the 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.920 Nikki era and that was really an inspiration. And even 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:31.640 she has come out and said that she felt that 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:33.959 pressure to get her body done. Did you feel the 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.520 impresure to get your body or did you have any enhancements? 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:39.200 I yes, I do, and um yeah, I definitely did, 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:41.800 and I actually got my body downe before I got 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:43.960 into the music. But I was just in that world 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:47.720 where it's like you're not really looked at in that 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:49.800 in that industry and not really looked at. Let you 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:52.720 look like this like it's like learning what I'm saying exactly. 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:55.440 So I feel like that started off and name kind 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:57.440 of it's the same thing in the music industry, like 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:01.000 people just want you to look better or this. That 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:05.040 the third and I think that definitely came from that pressure. 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:08.240 I pressure myself into that being you're so popular and 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:12.520 loving hippop artists. Does that take a toll on your 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:17.079 personal life? Is you know, how does uh mis challenge kid? 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:21.079 You have time to be in a relationship. I barely do. 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:25.400 So are you talking to anybody are you? Are you single? 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:30.440 In a situationship? Situationship? I'm in a situation young man, 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:37.280 young woman? What a young man with a young man 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:43.800 is a situationship? Up? It's complicated because it's like we 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:47.520 come from two different world because he's in the industry. 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:55.080 Not in the industry mind like no law no, like 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:59.280 not as an entertainment. What does he do at your side? Yeah? 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:04.880 I said, a brand, it's the way. But he holds 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:09.920 it down and for me, like he is supportive for me, 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:15.200 especially all the craziness. Guy, No, he's not okay, but 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:19.160 he just don't try to follow him on social media. Now. 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:23.920 That's so we blocked each other on each other's blocks. Yeah, 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:26.079 but I still follow him from fake face shows. I 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:29.080 don't know. That's right. That's going on. So you feel 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:32.040 pressure like in nightlife and then I know it was intensified, 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:35.280 you know obviously, like the more popular you become, the 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:38.959 blocks are picking it up. You're on TV. Yeah, how 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:43.040 do you date with that pressure? That's what I'm saying. 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:46.120 It's a lot. It's a lot, and that's why I 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.680 do like them with the guy that I'm in a 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:52.720 situationship with now. But we're not like officially dating. Well, 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.200 I'm not exclusive. I can't explain it. It's like one 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:58.160 of them. It's a situation a girlfriend. You I am 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:02.920 a great girlfriend. I get playing places that I can't control, 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:05.840 Like the internet will say it this, and the say 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.280 is that he's watching it like you could be in 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:10.240 a student with such a such and that may get 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:12.720 blown out of it exactly. So that's why I then 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.160 it'll be like, oh, well we're not together, and it's 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.439 just too much, too much, that's my point. It's too 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:22.240 much sometimes dating being a girl like me. Speaking of 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:24.400 a girl like you. Roads mentioned love and hip hop, 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:28.160 which up. You were on Miami Front Miami for one 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:31.760 season and then I probably did like two episodes on 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:34.680 the second season. But to answer the question that I 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:37.040 know you're probably gonna ask, I hated it. I don't know. 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:39.160 I didn't like that you left. I liked you on. 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:43.080 I'm definitely a reality really star person. I'm not. I'm 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:46.680 not a reality TV. Yeah, Like it's my toxic thing 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:49.000 like it might be. It's like late night, I'm like, oh, 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:50.560 I need a little fakes real quick before I go 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:52.520 to bed, and I'll just like turn on something and 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:55.840 I definitely felt that it was heavy for you. I 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:59.320 felt that you first of all, I think you just 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.680 intimidate and a lot of people, whether it was just 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:05.480 your looks, your personality, your confidence. Like I think the 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:07.160 way that some people came at you, it kind of 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.600 seemed like it was out of nowhere. That's what I'm saying. 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:11.960 That's like I couldn't. I couldn't do it because I'm like, 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:15.080 I don't even know any of you people, Like my 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:16.960 mom was living in Miami. I was still living in 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:20.680 New York. That my mom lived at in Miami. Someone 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:22.840 had reached out to her. I was like, yo, I 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:25.880 know you have your daughter. Would you think she would 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.120 come to Miami and do the show? The both of 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.400 you guys get on it, And I was like, you know, 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:32.920 I didn't have anything going on. I was just working, 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:35.720 So I was like, all right, cool, And then it 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:39.600 was just a whole different ball game of things I 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:42.880 didn't even ask for or what expect it. If you 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.080 was on New York, you were leave New Dream and 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:48.320 I wouldn't known everybody that you know, that opportunity didn't come. 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:50.640 So at the moment, I was like, Okay, let me 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:53.760 take this, and I mean, I know they ain't blending them. 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:57.040 Now would you ever like the blending what they have? 0:15:57.120 --> 0:16:00.120 Like the reunions and stuff like that, like good I 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:02.800 don't like throwing unions. I like the actual, like seasons 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:04.800 in the city. I like to see y'all move around 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:08.560 like me, people that y'all know. But did you feel 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:10.920 that your short time I love and hip hop did 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:14.120 it help you? Hurt you? I feel like it just 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:16.520 brought me a bunch of followers that just sit there 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.480 and watch me. Honest, anything I built off music, I 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:21.880 feel like I built off the music like I have not. 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:23.880 I don't think that anything came from them the hip 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:26.840 hop for my music, and I stand strongly behind that. 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.880 Would you go back? No, what if it was New York? 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:32.360 But why would you do your all reality show? Yes? 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:35.480 I do my own TV show with me and my friends, 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:40.240 my family, the kid because listen, my life is a 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:43.240 lot within itself. I have crazy friends, I have a 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:46.720 crazy family, crazy mom. All of that. It's just a music. 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:50.720 I do have a question. I'm a mental health person 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:53.560 and I talked about this all the time, and I 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:55.600 wanted to ask you because we talked about a whole 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:58.520 bunch of things mentally, How did all this affect you 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.720 and how do you navigate today? It's hard to be 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:11.600 very popular being mom, manager, company, being a relationship situationship, Um, 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:15.119 not like the television show that was on you know 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:19.400 sometimes how do you mention that? No? Sometimes I would 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:22.520 really be do you have something that you do? Do 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:26.320 you tell? My outlet is for me calling my friends 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:33.639 and just unloaded the clips, like yeah, you know what 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:36.280 I'm saying that I wanted to look like this is 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:39.360 my go to person right here? Um, and then my 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:42.800 mom too, to be honest, that's the answer. Like I 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:47.640 can literally call my mom and she's gonna have an 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:50.119 answer to make me feel better no matter what, Like 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:54.200 it'll be about relationships music. It's like she's been so 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:57.560 in this world, in the industry and everything so much 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:00.440 longer than me that she has so much dance for 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:02.679 me that helps me stick through with them, kind of 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:05.600 like how Kanye was with his mom. Like she's like 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:08.119 that for me. Like I go to her with business 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:11.840 everything and she's always got the best advice to me, 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:16.000 Like nothing spiteful, nothing, like you know, you can't trust everybody, 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:20.240 but sometimes a lot with like being on a blog 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:23.160 with this or that, or it does take its toll 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:28.000 sometimes I have to really just step back, step back. 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:30.760 What did that mom feel about, you know, when you 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:33.399 decided to do the enhancements. Does she feel that it 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:36.640 was right on trend because of the pressure and hip hop? 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:38.640 Did she try to talk you out of it? It's 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:41.240 sofy because you're gonna be gagging his My mom looks 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:47.560 exactly like, but that was beforehand. Like now we talked 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:50.400 about how it's more accepting of women to be who 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:53.240 they are, like we're seeing black China is doing yeah, 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:57.560 moving the butt shots. How do you feel about the removal? 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:01.000 Would you want to get stuff removed? Um? I feel 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:05.000 like I look perfectly fine. But if sometimes if you 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:08.440 do overdo it, it's nothing wrong with going back, like 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:12.400 because sometimes a surgery can get addicted, can get addicting zoo, 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:15.960 so people might keep you know, then they look unproportionate 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:19.120 and whatever it is you want to go back then 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:23.000 I definitely support that too. But my mom is she 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:27.439 don't care, She don't care. I had a crazy question. 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:33.320 You're Chinese kid, uh, I know DM's is crazy, craziest 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:40.040 DM you ever received from somebody? Come on, what is 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:46.400 the craziest DM you've ever got, or maybe what surprised 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:52.840 you some more like it's definitely some dirty zinc pay Okay, okay, 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:58.040 well maybe like Serena Williams, M did you me unpacking? Now, 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:00.840 I'm not just feeling no tea I I have probably 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:03.159 I will say this if you guys are gonna say this, 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:09.280 I don't think that there's not one guy in this 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:14.280 industry that has not DM. I mean when they all 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:15.919 like trying to get at you, or where they're just 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:18.560 friendly dms, where they like, hey, I see what it's Hey, 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:22.000 it's the eyes. What's up? It's the your new song 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:27.120 is fired, It's the all that I've been. You are 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:30.239 in there saying that you're a part of the crew. No, 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:35.600 but it's definitely nobody ever comes off this respect from now. 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:40.560 I've had one or two idiots that might have thought 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:43.120 that it was one way and it ain't. Some people 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:45.160 don't read their dms. Do you read yours? Like all 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:49.000 the time when I'm sitting at home here, Yeah, I do. 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:51.680 I even go to the ones on the side, like 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:55.400 the exact request. Yeah. Sometimes it's a lot of people 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:57.760 in there that have like inspirational stuff or like or 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:00.760 singing my music and my dudes a song, or like 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:03.200 grap to my song and in a car or whatever 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:05.720 that I want to repost. It could be anybody. Yeah, 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:07.880 so I think that I think you're having a fan base. 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:09.800 It might be important for you to check that you 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:11.679 never know what your fan's gonna say to you. Exact 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:15.000 who has said Shinye's kitty, I want to work with you, 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:16.880 let's get in the studio, But then it turns out 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:19.720 they really just want to smash. Oh damn, I forgot 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:25.880 who jobs. A lot of has come out and talked 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:29.240 about it, like, you know, the thing is, it's like, 0:21:29.720 --> 0:21:34.119 no matter how musically talented, how far. And this is 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:38.560 why Nikki acts away she does because man, it doesn't matter. 0:21:38.800 --> 0:21:42.119 You could come in here spitting ten times harder than them. 0:21:42.280 --> 0:21:45.800 As soon as they see this, they're like what damn? 0:21:45.920 --> 0:21:49.439 So like what she gonna on you? You're dating somebody? 0:21:49.560 --> 0:21:51.800 Is they're gonna shoot they shot. It doesn't matter. Like 0:21:51.880 --> 0:21:54.879 I've been in the room with people with whole wives 0:21:55.240 --> 0:21:57.800 and still shoot their shot. And I just told you 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:00.560