WEBVTT - SEVYN STREETER - Fried Egg Bologna and Cheese Sandwich 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:02.280 What up you guys. It's your girl Seventh Street, and 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:05.440 I am here with my girl Colleen, and this is 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.239 eating while broke. So today I'm like cook y'all up 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:11.559 with a little a little hood classic that I ate 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:14.640 growing up. You know, when money get funny, sometimes you 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:17.560 can never go wrong with a classic Bologny egg and 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:19.880 cheese sandwich. But it gotta be fried to fried Bologni 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:24.080 egg and cheese. Said, Okay, don you fry the bologna. Yes, 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:27.560 we're gonna find some bologne, we too. Yeah, I didn't 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:29.480 know if these guys we were just gonna cook the 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:31.560 egg and melt the cheese on it. I didn't know. 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:37.080 I've never actually had a bolognaian egg sandwich. Really. Yes, okay, 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:38.839 well listen, I'm gonna put you on on So I 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:41.800 like to start makes just a little warm, Yes, okay, 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:46.239 I like to start with the bologney right because the 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:48.839 bologne is gonna take the longest to cook. You feel me, 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:51.280 so one piece for you want piece of me? I 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:53.479 won't be honest, though, I don't eat a lot of 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:55.720 bologna these days. I like to keep it a little clean. 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:58.640 I eat real clean now, but every now and then 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:01.480 it's just, you know, I just be craving the things 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:04.039 that I ain't growing up, you know what I mean. 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:06.280 And don't get it twisted, because I will go home 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:08.400 to this day right now, and if it's four o'clock 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:10.360 in the morning and me and my family, my mom, 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:12.160 my dad, my brother, we're just up chilling and we 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:15.000 just have one of those urges we we might make 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:19.080 a little belonging. Friday was for real. Wow. So how 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:23.360 does someone from Haynes, Florida, Haines City, Haines City, Florida, 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:25.920 which I did look up. It was too small town, 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:31.080 very small town. How does someone go from a small 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:35.959 town to you know, writing on Chris Brown's records, Kelly Rowland, 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:40.200 Alicia Keye, Like how and you're banging out hits, but 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:43.400 how do you go from you know, the small town 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:46.720 to man? I mean, um, you know what I sang 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.840 everywhere growing up? I was saying at weddings, funerals by 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:53.680 Mrs Talent, shows, malls like anywhere that I could, and um, 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:56.520 you know, throughout the years, singing kind of led me 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:58.960 into different spaces and led me into girl groups, would 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.800 let me into meeting Chris Brown, which led me into 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.040 writing for him, which you know, led him to me 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.520 being able to write for other artists because of what 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:08.720 I was able to do with him. So, um, it 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:12.160 was just a it's just a crazy it's a crazy journey, 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:14.200 but I wouldn't trade it for the world. Was he 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.440 the first person that you wrote for? He was my 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:20.079 first placement. My first placement was a song called Yet 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:23.480 three Times and um, yeah, it was my my baby. 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:26.080 Was my first time that I was like left in 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:29.480 a studio to to finish something up and I was 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:33.040 nervous as hell. Um, but it was it was a 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:35.200 good lesson for me because it was like, all right, 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:37.680 but write the hell out of his verse or you 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:40.960 know so, but you were now you were an artist, yes, 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:46.359 and then of course you're a songwriter. But how when 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:48.440 it came to Krish Brown, he saw so he sees you, 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:51.320 He's like, you're an amazing talent, come right for me? 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:53.400 Or was it like he saw that you wrote a 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:56.200 really good song. I literally we were working at the 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:57.760 same studio with him. I was in a group at 0:02:57.760 --> 0:02:59.880 the time, and we were working at the same studio 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:01.760 off the hall and I saw him in the hallway 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:05.040 and I was like, hey, Chris, you know I heard 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.040 it was about to go, right, can I come and 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:09.600 write with you guys? And honestly, I never had a 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:12.920 righting placement. I never wrote had any placement. But I 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:14.840 don't know. I just feel like that was God's saying, Okay, 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:16.760 you should go ask him if you can write. Now. 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:20.040 That was awesome. That's awesome that you didn't. Ye, man, listen, 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:22.280 God is good. You gotta you weren't scared to do it, 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:24.760 or you were just like mama artists were in the 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:27.200 same place. It's you know what, at that point in 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:30.200 my career, you just learned that when you have the 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:33.480 urge and the feeling and the inkling to do something, 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:35.960 you probably should act on it at the moment. You know. 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:38.560 You know, I don't like to have wasted opportunities, you 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:40.640 know what I mean, And so I just I looked 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:42.840 at it as an opportunity. Oh girl, we over here. 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:47.839 It's frying, girl crying, it's frying and frying. Yeah. See, 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:49.280 I like for it to get a little burnt and 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:53.240 little crispy, you know, little burn, little crispy. Someone let 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:57.520 those you know, you won't let them sizzle a little bit? Yes, 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:04.240 So you went from girl group to us independent just 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:08.240 solo artists. And how was that transition? Did you lose 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:12.200 friends along the way? You know? What that that transition, 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:16.080 I will say, um, it was two folds. Um. In 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:19.520 terms of me being a songwriter, it was so beautiful. 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:21.280 It was amazing, you know what I mean, because I 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:24.200 got to be around a lot of amazing other songwriters 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.240 and um, you know, like I said, I didn't have 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.320 any place, but so I was really learning, you know, 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.640 and you know, Chris's Fame album and chris Is Fortune album. 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.040 I wrote seven songs with them on Fame, with seven 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.920 songs with him on Fortune, and I was just surrounded 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:40.640 by the most amazing creatives, Chris obviously being one of himself, 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:44.039 but just um, just so he writes with you guys. Yeah, 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:48.280 he's an amazing song absolutely an amazing songwriter. So, um, 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:50.560 I learned a lot. And so for my songwriting, it 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:54.120 was amazing. In terms of um, my me being an artist. 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.240 You know, I've been in girl groups pretty much all 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:58.919 my life. So that was a little bit of a 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:01.920 transition and kind of like okay, now you you know, 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:04.360 you're on your own, you're solo. What do you want 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:06.239 to sing about? What do you want to write about, 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:09.520 and um, you know it was the beginning of me 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.720 figuring out who I am in that sense, you know, yeah, 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:15.880 yeah that yeah. So when you were younger, did you 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:18.680 know you wanted to be a songwriter or it just 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:22.479 started to develop as your artistry grew, you know what 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.440 being Um, I always wanted to be a singer. I 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:30.880 did not realize the um, the value of being a songwriter. 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:34.200 And I didn't realize how therapeutic it was. Like songwriting 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:36.920 it's so therapeutic, even if I'm not writing for myself 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:39.120 and I'm writing for other people. It's like, let me 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:41.799 get these ideas and these emotions of offer me child. 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.200 So um, you know, when I was younger, I didn't 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.240 realize it. I just wanted to be a singer and 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:49.839 I wanted to day Hanson. Um. You know, when songwriting 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:52.200 came along, I started to realize there were so many 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:56.120 more benefits for one therapeutic for two. Um, obviously the 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:59.760 money is really great a lot more it pays really 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:01.600 really be great, and it pays you for a very 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:05.159 long time. And so um yeah, so it just kind 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.800 of came my baby too. Speaking of pay if you 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:11.359 don't mind for us, that really We really don't know 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:15.680 how the financials work because I know all the artists listening. 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:17.440 They you know, they want to be mainstream. They want 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:20.880 to be the seven mainstream. They're not thinking about the 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:24.200 artistry and the and the and songwriting and the publishing. 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:28.160 Can you explain kind of how that process works. First, 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.880 I'm about to smother me some some smothering me some 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:33.080 mayonnaise when its bread. Do you like mayonnaise? I love 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:35.960 may Okay, Mom, I got you. I'm glad you didn't 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:41.719 say miracle with I case. I'm not only like miracle WITHO. 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:45.400 And like potato salad, Okay, my grandma, my grandma Salaly 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.839 makes like the best potato salad. My grandma laws and 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:50.280 my grandma will. We do not get mad at me 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.240 because y'all potato salad is good too. Okay. You have 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:57.080 other things that there's like top tier. Um, but yeah, 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:01.600 I love I love mayle, and do not like miracle whippop. Now, 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.440 I will say this though I for years was never 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:07.919 a big mustard fan. Really they just kept up. But 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:11.040 you know, the older you get, the more and I've 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:15.200 had enough street callie dogs to know that throw all 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:19.240 the condiments on. There are doing. The more the merrier 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.800 you feel me like, put everything on my I need 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:26.640 everything hallapenos like there for all of it. I need 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.480 to look at my man too. So when did you 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:33.440 move to l A. I moved to l A two 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:37.640 thousand and two, So this is right when you're working 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:40.200 with Chris, right when you're released. No, no, no, this 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:42.520 was early. This was in I was in a group. 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:46.120 Then I was in a group called two and two 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:48.680 was a group called T T four, And then a 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:53.800 little bit after that, probably like maybe like five years 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:57.280 after that, there was my other group, Rich Girl, and 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:00.040 that was amazing, and then Chris came a little of 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:02.240 it later. So it's been a little minute l A. 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:04.800 It's kind of like a second home to me, um, 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:06.320 and I just love it because it allows me to 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:08.880 be my most creative self. Most of the most creative 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:10.640 people in the world out here. I love it. Did 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.120 you move here everybody yourself? No? I moved here with 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:15.840 my family, my mom, my dad, and my brother, which 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:19.400 also my brother just so happens to um. He produced 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:21.679 the record I'm Gonna Sit This Yes, nice and crispy 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:27.080 my brother. Um my brother actually produced the song on 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:30.360 my recent album is called nasty girl in this speech 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:33.880 from Via and you know, so it's like it's that 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:37.679 was a really full circle moment for me because, like 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:40.720 I said, I moved out here, moved out here with 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:44.160 my family, so to look up and it some years later, 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:46.400 I'm this is so fat and it's gonna be so 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:50.720 good and fat. I love it so good, fat good, 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:54.080 so so so good and fat. So this is a 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:57.920 family affair. It is my family. Like then my dogs, 0:08:58.000 --> 0:08:59.959 like I mean, it's my like my road dogs, say, 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.840 called me down for a very long time. So from 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:05.280 the beginning, you were like I wanted to do singing, 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:07.640 and they said, all right, let's pack up our bags, 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:11.520 let's support, let's put her in every and everything we 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:14.439 need to be in. And you know, my brother played 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:16.959 instruments from a very young gay so he's very musical too. 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:20.280 And yeah, I was in a girl group when I 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:22.240 was fifteen years old, and me and my mother we 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:25.840 moved to California first, my brother and my uh and 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:29.480 my dad came like a year after that, and we 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.880 just I worked in that group until you know, for 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.560 a year or so, and then the group disbanded after 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:38.840 a year, and um, my family and I we stayed 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.839 in California for maybe like four more years, five more years, 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:44.720 uh huh. And then and then we moved back to Florida. 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:47.160 And when I moved back to Florida, that's when I 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:50.000 started to UM. I started to dabble in writing a 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:52.600 lot more. I was working with the Runners, and you know, 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:56.360 I've just gotten uh, you know, just kind of diving 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.280 into writing a lot. I like a lot of pepper. 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:00.920 Two by the way, Okay, I like that. I'm trying it. 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:03.440 However you eat it, I'm gonna try it, and I'm 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:05.560 gonna try to rate it too. Yes, I love a 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:09.720 lot of pepper. So go back to the songwriting. I 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:12.720 hate to read. Just to kind of educate everybody. How 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:16.400 does the process work? Do does the artists like say, 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.120 at Licia Keys, Does she comes to you and say, hey, 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:21.200 I'm feeling blue today, you write a song about me 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:23.800 feeling blue? Or do you just come over to her 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.239 house and hang out with her and swiss? No? Sometimes 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.640 sometimes it works like that. Sometimes I like to um, 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:31.960 I like to know what people are going through in 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:34.480 their lives before I write songs about them, You know 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:37.800 what I mean? UM. I think that's how how you 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.720 get the best performance. That's how people better, you know, 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:44.400 best connect to the records. You know, consumers are smart 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:46.840 and they don't give them enough credit, you know what 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.360 I mean. For being smart, they can feel when things 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:53.000 are not authentic, and you know, so I like to 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:55.040 know what Like, for example, if I were writing a 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.560 song about you, I would sit here and ask you, 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:00.760 are you in love? Are you? Are you? Are you 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:02.559 you know? Are you angry at someone? How do you 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:05.600 feel about yourself? You know what I mean? What? Um? 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:07.800 What are your dreams? What are your goals? What are 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:10.320 your insecurities? What are the things that you think make 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:14.880 you bomb? Like? I want to know all of those things. So, um, 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:17.480 that's a lot of the process. Well, that's a part 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:20.360 of the process because you also have other times where like, 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.320 for example, right now, I just put out my album 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:29.079 Drunken Word, so with thoughts right and I have UM. 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:32.760 When I finished my projects, I usually have a lot 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:35.400 of songs left over. So what I like to do 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:38.719 is I like to shift those songs out to whatever 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:42.720 artists at Nah, It's like whatever artist is looking because 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:46.439 at this point I've got my creative juices off within 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:49.440 my project, you know what I mean. So Um, I don't. 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:51.320 I don't want to. I don't like to let records 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.840 just sit lay dormant on my you know, on my 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:57.400 hard drive. I want you know that the ideas came 0:11:57.480 --> 0:12:00.320 to me because somebody needs to hear them, so they 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:02.720 don't do any good by just sitting on my laptop. 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:04.440 So I sell them that way too. How do you 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:06.400 select the ones that stay and the ones that go? 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:09.720 Now that that's the question I have been trying to 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:12.560 answer for a very long time. You just know when 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.280 you know, when you know what your body work is 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.840 supposed to feel like. And it's one of those things 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:20.360 no one can really tell you when that is, which 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:22.319 is like, you know, for me, it's been a for 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.320 year process, you know what I mean, you know, in 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:28.280 between projects. And I wouldn't trade that for the world. 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:30.440 I don't apologize for it. I think it was very 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:34.040 necessary and therapeutic, um in a lot of different ways. 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:37.280 But yeah, you just know when you know when your 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:41.120 project is done. You know, since you've been in the industry, 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:45.480 have you had any hiccups? Um? I mean I think 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:47.680 that kind of just comes along with it. Every artist 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:53.040 has their story, you know, Um, every artist has been uh, 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:55.400 you know, in situations that you thought we're gonna go 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.280 well and then ended up taking a left turn and 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.440 then you have to pivot from there. But I think 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.280 that that is that's just the part of it, and 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:05.920 that's the thing that makes us. Uh, that's how you learn, 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:08.480 you know what I mean. It makes you resilient. It 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.280 you know, puts more tools on your tool bell. You 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:14.440 learn how to you know, shake and move and and 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:17.480 and that whole type of things. So experiences, yeah, I 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:19.600 mean I've been in groups and groups have lost record 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:22.679 deals I have. It's just been a lot of different things, 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.400 you know. I've had songs that I love, you know, 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:29.080 get you know, look up and and the beats are 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.600 gone because somebody's It's a lot of different little things 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:35.640 I've had. Um, I've had people like within our industry 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:39.559 like you know, try to stop certain you know, deals 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:42.320 and things like that. So have I experienced it. I've 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:45.640 experienced it all. But UM, at the end of the day, 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.960 all it does is make me stronger. All it does 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:51.880 is um, all it does is at you know, it 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:53.920 just makes me more resilient. It just puts an even 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:58.120 bigger battery in my back, you know, does it like 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:00.160 what pulls you out of it is your mom um 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.360 coaching you through. Are you crying or well? What pulls 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:05.360 me out of it is that I actually love what 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:07.960 I do. So I think that it's it's like a 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:13.800 little ludicrous um for you know, for people to there's 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:15.720 nothing to put it this. There's nothing that's ever gonna happen. 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:18.840 It's going to ever make me stop doing music. You 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:22.640 feel me like literally nothing. And I never been a 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:25.600 time where you've doubted it. It's never been a time 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:27.960 that I've doubted my purpose. There have been times where 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:32.040 I've doubted, um, how things were going to get from 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:35.440 one space to another, but I never doubted Can you 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:39.000 give me an example of that, um, Well, in between deals, 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.760 in between deals, in between albums, when you're when you're 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:45.160 trying to creatively figure out where you're gonna go next, 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:46.880 What is it gonna be next? What is your music 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:49.720 gonna sound like next? You know what? What label are 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:52.040 you gonna be? A who's gonna understand your your art? 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:56.520 Those people don't realize that the transitional periods in between 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:58.960 when we give you guys one project to the next, 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:02.360 that's a lot that goes on there. So you really 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:05.600 have to um, you kind of and there you can't 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:08.640 get around it. You just have to go through it, 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:12.200 you know. So it's um. It's one of those things 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:16.120 that I'm I'm so appreciative for it. I really really, 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:24.280 I really truly am. I really truly am Your parents 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:28.040 make the adjustment from Florida, small town, small city in 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:31.200 Florida to l A was a big investment. I had 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:34.080 a match absolutely. So did you feel any type of 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:36.680 responsibility like to pay back or do you feel pressure 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.720 where they just like, no, my parents have never made 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:42.320 me feel like that. They really honestly have it until 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:46.080 this day. Like they are my writers. Like they go 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:48.960 so hard. Anybody know me, they know they go so hard. 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:52.480 So UM, any pressure to to know, not no pressure. 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:55.040 That's family. That's what you do for family, you know 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:57.520 what I mean. But I love um. You know in 0:15:57.600 --> 0:15:59.640 every way that I can for the rest of my life. 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:04.160 I tend on repaying it and vote in different ways, 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:05.800 you know what I mean. But it comes from a 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:09.800 place of genuine love and not like pressure. Absolutely, I 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:14.040 love that. I love that. That's prettiful. It's a blessing. 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.760 So we're almost halfway through your meal. I'm excited to 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:21.840 eat it. I'm hungry. It smells good. I've never had 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:26.800 a fried bologny egg sandwich, so I'm looking forward to this. Girl, 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:31.200 I got you. Okay, So your favorite song on your 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:34.760 album at the moment, My favorite song is a song 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:38.720 called Fallback. So fallback? When you were writing this record, 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:40.960 wrote it by yourself or with writers? I wrote it 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:44.480 by myself. So what were you going through when I 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:49.120 wrote Fallback? I was falling out of a situation with 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:53.520 someone and someone that I cared about very deeply. But 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:57.240 um really started to realize that we were a lot 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:01.360 more similar than I thought, and maybe not in in 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:03.480 a lot of great ways, but also and not in 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:07.840 not you know, not so good ways as well. Um, 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:11.640 you know, we kind of live similar lifestyles and uh, 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.520 you know, sometimes that can clash a little bit because 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:17.800 people are um a little bit that they'll feel something 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:20.000 but be a little bit hesitant to actually just, you 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.520 know what, just dive all the way into it. And 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:27.240 so fallback is about, um, that space where you know 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:30.399 that it could it could move forward, but for you 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:33.560 know what, it's a little you know, a fallback. I 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.760 won't hold that against you, because love is scary. Yeah. Yeah, 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:38.600 So that's what Fallback is about. You've been in love 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:42.120 multiple times, and I mean I think, you know, I've 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:45.000 been in different versions of love, you know what I mean? 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:47.520 I like that, Yeah, because it's like I think I'm 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:50.720 still you know, I think you never truly have this 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:53.760 whole idea of what love is. I think that as 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:56.360 I get older, I add a little bit more love 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:59.000 knowledge onto my love to belt. So you know, I've 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:00.960 been in love a few times. Your parents have been 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.720 together a long time, Yes, they have. Feel like they're 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:06.880 the bar. Um. I don't think there is a bar 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:11.000 when it comes to to to love and relationships. I 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:15.280 think it's a very you know, um, you know, what's 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:18.080 the word I'm looking for. It's a very singular thing. 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:22.000 It's a very uh uh, you know, case by case thing, 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:25.240 you know, a relationship by relationship thing. Every relationship has 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:29.520 its own rules and ways and tribes and and whatever 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:32.119 that is. It's like that's their business and that's what 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:34.119 works for them, and that's what works for them, and 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:36.760 that's what works for them. So you know, you find 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:40.919 what works for you. Yeah, yeah, definitely. So what are 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:43.720 your expectations for this next record? Like what would you 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:48.480 like to see happen? I would like to see all 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:52.320 of my fans um to just I want them to 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:56.560 get to a place where this song begins to speak 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.000 for them, and the record of the product we're goin 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:01.040 to speak for them. That's all I really want. I 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:05.080 want them to feel like they I want them to 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:10.720 feel seen and heard and understood. And if they don't 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:12.919 have the words to express themselves, I want them to 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:15.240 be able to put in the product to say this 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:17.840 is exactly how I feel, because I think that that's 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:22.160 what music is about. It's about helping people, um, communicate 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:27.639 and express themselves. You san it almost time, Yeah, exactly. 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:32.080 We have a nice shop growing up. Who were your 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:43.879 inspirations growing up? My inspirations were Um, Whitney Houston, right, Carrie? Um? 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:47.520 Who else? Did I love? Brandy? Monica? And you wrote 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:49.520 for all of them? Well, not all of them. You 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:51.720 wrote for Brandy. You wrote for Brandy And that was 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:55.840 like a game come true for me. Were you nervous 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:58.240 at all? Or you get to actually work with them 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:00.720 or is it you send it in? No, I get 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:04.600 to actually work with them, and uh it was I 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:07.600 lost my mind when she walked in the studio. I 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:10.399 really did lost my whole line and we wrote I 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:13.800 wrote a song with Chris Um for her call Slower, 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:17.399 and it was just at the first of all, she 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:20.200 killed that record. Just to even hear her sing words 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:22.040 that we had come up with, the melodies that we 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:25.160 had come up with, was like some whole other ship 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:27.520 for me. I lost. I lost my mind. Yeah, that 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:30.119 I lost my mind. And then seeing your name on 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:32.840 her album, seeing my name on a Brandy album because 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:35.920 all my life all I did was read the booklet. Yeah, 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:38.640 I remember those days. I read them all. Remember those 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:41.560 days when the booklet the booklets and you could read 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:46.400 the lyrics. Yes, I would live. Yeah. So it was amazing. Wow. 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:48.960