WEBVTT - Justine Skye 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:11.480 R and B Money. We are thank Valotility. We are 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:18.640 the authority on all things R and B ladies and gentlemen. 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:23.759 I named Tank Valentine. This is R and B Money 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:29.880 Podcast is the authority on all things R and B. See, 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:35.280 y'all thought we was old. Y'all thought we wasn't tapped 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:39.760 in with the youth. You understand what I'm saying. Relax, Relax, 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:47.120 you know what. It's still tapped in with the youth movement. 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:51.360 The Undercurta is moving this thing. Our bright future is 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:55.640 in the building. We're talking about talent off the charts, 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:58.880 beauty off the charts. She's got everything happening, and we're 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:00.760 gonna get it to her. I said youthful because I 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:08.360 am youthful, because youth is in the building. Give it up. Yeah, 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:10.640 how you doing. 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:13.039 I'm good. I feel great. 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:15.720 I've just been in such a chill place. I know 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:17.000 when I came in here, You're like, you came in 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:19.240 here all chill. But that's how I am. Life is 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:22.119 just good and I feel happy. I don't get too excited. 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:25.840 I don't get sad so much anymore. I'm just yelling just. 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:30.240 Kind of good balance. Yeah, as you can see, I'm 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:35.480 I'm always happy. Yeah, and we're happy to have you here. 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:36.880 Thank you. I'm happy to be here. 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:39.360 Thank you for you know, taking the time, you know, 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:41.240 because I know you're moving and grooving. The last time 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:43.480 I saw you, you know, you was you was in Paris, 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:45.920 just you know, just you know, just just doing your 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:49.760 things life when you're fashion, you know what I'm saying, 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:52.000 being the life of the party. We were at a 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:54.639 at a party. We were at Kanye's party. 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:57.440 Yeah, out there and yeah it was interesting. 0:01:57.640 --> 0:01:59.840 Yeah, yeah, interesting is a great word. 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:01.000 It was definitely interesting. 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:01.840 It was a great word. 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:04.040 I wasn't, but you know me, I was in and out. 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:06.440 So yeah, I was. I was there, you know, my 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:11.200 kids were second choir and prior of the show. And 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:12.400 then there was a rave. 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:15.960 Then there was a rave. The dji a raver, but 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:17.760 not that rave. 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:19.359 Yeah. The DJs were fire though. 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:20.600 No, the dj was cool. 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.200 They had like because they had like I guess like, but. 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:23.919 You know, I wasn't. 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.320 I didn't even stay long enough to like actually experience 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:28.880 what the DJs were doing. To be quite honest, I 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:31.200 just like I was also exhausted because I was out 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:33.040 there for a while too, So I was just like 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:34.280 I just came to people scene. 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:36.240 Yeah, you were just in Paris for a minute, just 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:38.000 relaxing because I. 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:39.720 Don't get to spend much time out there, I feel like, 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.320 because I'm always working and I have things here to do, 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:44.200 like in the States, so I don't get to go 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:49.320 to Europe a lot, maybe like once a year maybe, 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:52.120 so especially since like COVID and all of that. 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:53.680 So it was really nice to be out there and. 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:57.680 Just experience all the restaurants and see some friends that 0:02:57.680 --> 0:02:58.680 I haven't seen in a while. 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:01.600 And how many times have you been to Paris? 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:02.080 Three? 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:04.320 Three times? And what do you how do you feel? 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.079 Because I know as an R and B singer, you 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:09.800 know what I mean, like going out there and and 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:13.200 and especially in that overseas market, like they're like there's 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:16.600 a different kind of love, oh yeah, and appreciation for 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:18.840 what we do over there. And I didn't go with 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:19.519 my younger. 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:22.800 Years, I think in Europe honestly, in a lot of places. 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:26.000 I just did like a couple back to back interviews 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:29.400 yesterday with some Asian markets and outlets out there, and 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:36.160 like I think because there's so many different genres of 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.560 music here like in the States, and artists like so 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:40.720 many more artists here. I don't know, maybe I'm like 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:43.400 speaking just pretymaturely. 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:42.920 But. 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:48.000 There's just such a different level of appreciation for music overseas. 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:49.680 I feel like here in the States. 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:51.480 We're just used to it, we expect it, we get 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:53.680 over it quickly, and I. 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:54.480 Mean we created it. 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:59.560 Yeah, So like in in Europe, like in London, in Paris, 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:03.560 like when they get us, they're like, please don't leave 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:05.680 or like and they just like are more focused on 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:07.680 I don't know what it is, but like even in 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:11.080 London too, like just when I'm when I have worked 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.360 in London with producers and songwriters out there, it's just 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:13.720 like a. 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:17.000 Different level of like focus that they have. 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.039 Yeah, no, we what's my guy? What was you talking about? 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:25.040 Was it Dave? Dave Russell? Wasn't Dave Russell from England engineer, 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:29.839 but just he's this guy? And then is Richard first 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:31.680 from London, Teresa's guy. 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:33.360 I don't know if he's from London, but he's from UK, 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:35.360 from the UK for sure. 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:39.640 But like even just a different appreciate, different appreciation, different 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:42.800 approach to like how they sonically make. 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:45.000 Things fixed, I mean low key, they're kind of killing 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:46.359 it when it comes to like the music. 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:48.760 And then even there, even they don't fire. 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:52.159 I'm like, dude, I'm wondering when they're gonna let a 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:55.920 black American play in English? Black Englishman. 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:59.080 Gotta nil that? Is that going to happen? You gotta 0:04:59.120 --> 0:04:59.960 nail that accent? 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:02.800 As Americans, we are spoiled. 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:07.440 Yeah, because here's the thing, right, so we don't as 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:10.680 as the spoiled speaks. Right as the spoiled speaks, we 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:18.360 don't necessarily take that big of an interest in other cultures, 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.480 you know what I'm saying, because we're we're in a 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:23.880 we're in a sense we've always, in a sense, been 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.440 at the forefront. We've been the leaders of it. You 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.200 know what I'm saying in terms of culture and swag 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:32.000 and all of these things, and entertainment for that matter. 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:34.880 You know what I'm saying, Denzel could have been James Bond. 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.600 I mean, I think Denzel is also Jesus. So you're 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:42.080 asking them wrong. I'm biased. 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:49.320 You know what wants? Maybe did he want? 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:52.440 Did he Denzel? Did you want to be James Bond? 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:54.920 I saw Another Night. You know what I'm saying. 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.080 You niggas was already talking about Paris. 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:01.280 Now you're talking about No, mean, I didn't. 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:03.760 Washington. 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:05.520 I wasn't with him. Okay, let me correct that. I 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:07.560 I hung out with him before shout out to Jamie Fox. 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:09.040 You know what I'm saying. I was in the right 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:11.920 room and he was over there and sitting on the floor, 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:14.800 and then I was sitting right here, two rolls back 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:16.880 from the floor, and then he saw me, and then 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.320 I said, I hit him with that. He said, he 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:25.120 gave me that. What is that? See you your fellows? Yeah, 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:27.720 he said, I see you your felling black people saw 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:35.760 this is okay, trying to take him. 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:36.880 To tell me it was black people. 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:43.000 Tell me, don't moment away from me. He saw me, 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:46.719 you seen me, He knew meel. 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:48.919 You know what's so crazy. I had a moment like 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:54.640 that with Beyonce in Paris. It was so crazy because 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:56.960 I was with my friend and she was like, let's 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:58.440 go say to Beyonce because she had. 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:00.240 Like a Renaissance club Renaissance in Paris. Said. 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:03.440 I was like freaking out obviously, and so I'm just like, 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:04.720 you know what, let me just like I'm not going 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:06.839 to be invading the space, like I'm just gonna I'm 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.880 so happy to be in this room. And so my 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:11.880 friend's like, let's go say hi to be and I'm like, 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:14.160 I just I don't. I don't think she knows who 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:17.720 I am. Like, I just I don't feel comfortable just 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:20.440 walking up to her, like hey, what's up. And as 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:22.800 soon as I said that, she like walked towards me 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:28.560 and said hey. And I was like, oh my god, 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:33.480 this is such a crazy party, right, It's crazy. 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:38.280 It's her party and like crazy and I was like, okay, bye, 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:41.240 I just didn't know what that say. 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:44.080 I like, that is fun. It's such a crazy party, right, 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:45.520 And I was just lit. 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:45.960 The rest of the night. 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:47.560 They literally have a video on my phone with me 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:50.240 screaming in the streets. Someone said something and I was like. 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:51.280 Don't baby, call. 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:01.280 Like I don't even phone. You know, you can't call 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:02.880 someone else. 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:08.120 You can't call because I think it's like she does. 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:13.560 It's like it's like even Beyonce, even people on that level, 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:19.240 you you be surprised how human and regularly cool they are. 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:21.680 But I'm like, even when I saw the Zel, like 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:24.280 I've seen him before, but I doubt it. I doubted 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:26.280 if he remembered me. You know what, I'm saying, but 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:28.600 it was still like, you know, he was the one 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:30.400 guy that I was kind of like it like a 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:31.240 little nervous about it. 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:32.520 You don't thinknzil her sex. 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:36.480 I hope, So you know what I'm saying, I hope, 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:38.240 So you know, I hope that's what that head Nott 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:42.439 was like, I like you, I like your tunes. You 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:44.600 know what I'm saying. But it's like you never know. 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:45.679 But it's like it's just like a. 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:46.520 Respect thing too. 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:49.680 Like I think it's awesome when there's people that you know, 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:51.760 we either put on like such a high pedestal or 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:55.760 we like admire, like in their craft, and to have 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:59.319 that sort of like recognition as artists as well too. 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:01.440 It just gives us that, you know, like pat on 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:03.280 the shoulder, to be like I see you and like 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:06.480 you are like, yeah, I get. 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:07.040 It, I get it. 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:10.440 I treat everybody saying I just I don't know any 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:10.880 other way. 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:15.240 No, no, I get that reverse. 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:18.120 It's just awesome to have that kind of like it's 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:19.360 not not co sign. 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:22.240 But just that like you you're doing your thing, I 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.520 see you doing your things. You'm up here doing my thing, 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:25.680 but I see. 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:26.520 You that acknowledge. 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:32.440 Yeah, I think you know, just in meeting people of 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.960 you know, of all classes. I think especially people who 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:40.079 have become very famous, they need normalcy. 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:41.719 Yeah, you know what I mean. 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.559 And I think that it's watching people, watching people freak 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.040 out sometimes kind of like for them, it's like, damn, 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:49.679 like I just kind of wanted to be cool, you 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:51.760 know what I mean. So you know ship, I mean 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:53.560 my first time when I first came, I moved to 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:58.000 LA and I'm eighteen, I meet my idol babyface. 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:02.040 I'm like, what's up, nigga. Damie Thomas was like, you 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:09.880 can't do that. I'm like, everybody's cool, but he's also 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:13.240 kind of skewed. You know what I'm saying, because you 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.560 know this this guy was hanging out with Michael Jackson and. 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.640 No, but that's that's not what I was saying. 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:22.800 I'm just saying, like as like for me, for me, 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:26.600 like working with Timbaland or him like acknowledging that. 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:30.120 He sorry, just stop calling me. 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:35.600 Just him being like acknowledging me as an artist just 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:39.040 gave me that reassurance that like, because you know, as 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:42.680 as artists and just humans, we can like go through 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:44.640 periods of like doubt or like am I doing the 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:48.120 right thing, like, like especially me, like I've been doing 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.120 this for like a minute now, and like it's awesome 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:54.840 that I'm experiencing what for me is like my first 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:58.280 real moment where so many people are like discovering my 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.240 music because of a platform or I'm like TikTok. 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.560 Yeah, yeah, you know, yeah, it's been rediscovery for you. 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.199 Yeah, rediscovery song came out almost ten years ago now, 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.800 and it's like people are listening to it like it's. 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:10.359 A brand new song, which. 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:13.440 For me is just like wow, Like good music is timeless. 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:15.160 It doesn't matter if it came out in twenty fourteen 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:19.960 or or whatever. And so I'm just I already was 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:23.040 in that space before my song Collide started to gain 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:27.040 this recognition on TikTok, but it just gave me that 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:29.200 extra like pat on the back, and sometimes you need 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:33.200 that in life because I'm sure like people didn't even 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.480 like know that. But I was like going through a 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:39.000 space of like is this the right thing that I 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:41.199 should be doing? Like should I be doing music? Should 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:42.600 I like think about something else? 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:42.880 Like? 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:49.000 And I talked myself off that ledge and I was 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:51.480 like getting back into that space before this happened, but 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.200 it really just like reassured me this year started off 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.200 like so amazing, and I've just been like grateful for 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:58.440 like everything that's been happening. 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:01.720 So let's get into today. Let's get into Let's get 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.200 into the beginning, as Tank would like to say, where 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:04.880 it all started. 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:06.400 It all started, because I mean. 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:12.199 I know you from being a very small key because 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:12.760 of your mom. 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:13.360 You know what I mean. 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:14.959 Your mom is my homie, been my homie for a 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:19.439 long time, amazing attorney executive, all the cool ship and 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:21.600 shout out to Nova. I think we locked her out 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:28.760 because we won't want her darted. It's not your mom's 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:33.959 friend doing an episode. Okay, all right, but let's start. 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:36.280 Let's start from the beginning with you, like where this 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:39.280 all kicked off. How would you say, what's your intro 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:39.720 to it? 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:45.240 When was the first time someone said to you you 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:49.160 have something special? You said to yourself, I think I 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:50.240 have something special? 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:57.839 Always from like elementary school, Yeah, it was right in 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:02.000 here though. Matter of fact, No, I just knew that 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:05.400 I wanted to be an artist. 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:07.160 I knew that I wanted to whether it was. 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:09.439 Like I was lady into like musical theater like when 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:10.720 I was younger, because I was like, I want to 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:12.480 be an actress too, and I want to be a singer, 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:15.280 like I know I can sing. And I remember I 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:20.040 was graduating elementary school and they were giving out like 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:22.400 the singer the best singer of the year or of 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:22.920 the class. 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:23.520 And it. 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:28.320 Was just a public school, but they had like the 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:30.800 performance arts. Like I went to school in Brooklyn. 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:38.600 So and they gave it to this girl and she 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:40.680 didn't sing at all, like she didn't even really talk. 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:42.800 So I was so confused as to how she could 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:47.120 win Singer of the Year. And I was furious, and 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:49.040 it just like lit a fire undeath me. 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:54.040 I was like okay. I was like okay. 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:57.199 So then in middle school, I went to performing arts 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.800 school in Brooklyn and then I was like, I'm going 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:02.640 to be in the choir. And I went so hard 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:03.800 to try to be in the choir. They didn't let 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:06.280 me in. Didn't let me in the choir. I don't 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:08.600 know me in school, just don't have a good like 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:13.920 a history, just me and the public school system. So 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:16.280 then I was like, all right, well I forget you 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:19.000 then and then I went into theater and then every 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:22.280 time they only did musicals and I would just go 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:25.960 so hard, and like because my theater teacher knew that 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:27.960 I could sing, so he would always want to give 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:30.800 me the singing parts. And the choir teacher, who was 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:32.200 also involved in it, she just hated. 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:33.640 She hated on me for whatever reason. 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:38.440 And I was just like, well, man, now I'm the ladybug, so. 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:38.680 What do you do? 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:42.480 And it was just all. 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:49.560 And enjoy that ladybug. 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:51.080 She was. 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.200 It was like the Ladybugs were kind of like the 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:57.560 dream Girls and I was. And so that was like 0:14:57.600 --> 0:14:59.240 a full I don't know, I don't know where these 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:02.840 schools got all this to put these plays on in Likelyn, 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:06.520 but that was a full production. And so then I 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:10.160 went to high school and I got into the choir, 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:12.560 but the teacher did. 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:14.640 Not like me. What were you? 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:18.880 I just wanted to sing? And so I'm just like 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:20.640 he would never give me a solo. 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:23.480 Were you're walking in like I'm here, Well why would 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:30.160 you not? Because okay, all right, because I was confidence, yes, 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:32.800 but you gotta understand, obviously you're an adult now, but 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:35.800 as a kid, you don't understand this is that most 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:39.360 people who are teachers are people who really wanted to 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:44.000 do it. Something happened and now they you know, they 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:45.120 still love it and they're teaching. 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:47.640 So when they when you walk in with all that confidence, lady, 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:51.120 but like, hey man, get her to. 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:58.680 My high school choir teacher was definitely like bitter. But 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:01.320 then we were learning a lot of music theory, like 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:06.320 things that I probably don't like incorporate into like my 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.120 life now, but I just wanted to. Like we were 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:12.240 singing opera, so I was like, I he was like, 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:14.160 you're going to be a tenor, and I'm like, what, 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.480 I can sing everything. I was like, well, I wanted 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:19.000 to be a soprano. And then he was like, no, 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:22.280 you're a tenor. You're there, and I'm just like that's crazy. 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:24.400 And I was like, well, actually I can sing baritone too, 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:25.160 So like. 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:25.680 I was just. 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:30.320 It's starting to come out the more started. 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:31.840 I wasn't saying it. 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:33.440 Like that, I'm saying it now like that, but I 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:35.320 was just like, hey, like I can do more than 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:36.720 just this, like don't box me in. 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:38.600 He was like, you're gonna do what I tell. 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:40.920 You to do, and which is fair too, which is fair, 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:42.480 you know what I mean? Like you don't want to 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:42.920 be boxing. 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.800 I was trying to be like a teacher's pet because 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:48.080 I just wanted like he just didn't. 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:50.920 But also he was just like angry. He was angry man. 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:54.600 And so then the one time he gave me a solo, 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:55.560 he knew I was sick. 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:57.760 He knew I was sick. 0:16:57.840 --> 0:16:59.720 And then I remember I was sitting in like the 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:02.040 court yard or whatever. We had a performance and I 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:06.560 cracked and I just cried and I ran away. My 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:08.280 voice cracked and I just cried and I ran away. 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:11.560 And then I was like another villain story wasn't invented. 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:13.800 I was like, oh wow, yeah, this will never happen 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:16.639 to me again. And so then I got a vocal 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:18.600 coach and my mom like, I was like, this is 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:22.000 what I want to do, regardless of all that work 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:23.800 that I did, like I went to like summer programs 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:27.240 or whatever, but then I started to I asked my mom. 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:28.720 I was like, I want to be a singer, and 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:30.760 she was like, you know, most parents in the in 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.520 the industry, they're just like no, They're like I'm not. 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:35.119 I don't want you to be a part of this. 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:37.959 It's like a brutal experience and they don't want their 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:40.119 kids to have to go through these things because they 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:44.400 see it firsthand. Yeah, And I was like, okay, whatever. 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.119 Now I'm on the internet. I'm on Tumblr. I'm developing 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:49.360 my own like you go find it yourself. Yeah, I'm 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:51.560 on my own. I create my own world, and this 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:55.480 whole community of like New York Tumblr kids, and we're 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:57.320 just like running around the city. Like now I can 0:17:57.320 --> 0:17:58.159 hang out in the city, and. 0:17:58.160 --> 0:17:59.880 I'm like, how are you this time? 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:06.280 I'm like sixteen seventeen, and I'm no longer. Oh no, 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:07.959 I was still in school at the time, but I 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:11.919 was like I was in high school but like tenth grade. 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:16.320 And then I started to develop like a fan base 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:20.720 pretty much on Tumblr by just you know, just being 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:24.080 weird and quirky and experimenting with my look. And then 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:27.480 like I started to make covers on YouTube and just 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:30.240 singing and like showing that I could sing, and then 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:33.639 people started to like find out. And I think I 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:35.560 was at a BMI panel one time with my mom 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:38.240 and because she would always bring me to these events, 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:40.440 and they were doing a Q and A. It was 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:43.560 like Lorienne Gibson and like a bunch of other people. 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:45.399 I can't remember like who else was up there. I 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:46.640 just remember because how could. 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:47.240 You ever forget lorient. 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:50.480 But so remember yeah, Remember. 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:54.199 So I stood on the line for the Q and A, 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:57.000 and I was like, can I sing? 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:00.000 Like this seems like the right room just singing. 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:03.000 You didn't tell your mother you do this at all? 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:05.160 No, Yeah, And so I just stood in the line 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:06.359 and I was like, can I sing? And then they 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:08.560 were like yeah, and I sang this song called Black 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:12.879 and Gold by Sam Sparrow, and then everyone there was 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:14.720 like a room full of people who wanted to figure 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:16.640 out how to be a part of the industry, whether 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:21.359 it's producer or like executive or whatever, and so so 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:24.639 many people then like ran up to me and my 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:26.040 mom after like do you have a manager? 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:27.560 Like do you have a producer? Do you ever? Like 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.480 what are you doing? And then my mom was like okay. 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:32.600 And then as I started to like build this fan 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:35.960 base on Tumblr, people started to like reach out and 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:38.520 wanted to work with me, and so my mom then 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:40.760 put me in with someone that she knew and trusted 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:44.440 at the time, and I started to just like, uh, 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:48.560 make original music, like you know, work with some writers 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:51.200 and producers. And I was still in high school, but 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:53.440 then it was becoming difficult. So then I started to 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:55.959 get homeschooled, because like I would be in the studio 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:57.399 really late and we were trying to get me a 0:19:57.440 --> 0:19:59.840 record deal, and it was so funny because I would 0:19:59.880 --> 0:20:03.280 go all the labels and like, now that I think 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:04.360 about it, I'm so embarrassed. 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:05.520 But I'd be like in fun of like Lee or 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:06.560 Cohen and like all. 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:10.080 These I think even La Read and like dancing and 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:15.000 singing and like doing this whole stupid little show. And 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:22.199 they were like, hmm, she's cute. And my spirit was 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:24.800 so crushed because I'm so young, just like standing in 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:27.600 front of these people like pick me, and then they're 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:31.080 like no, and I'm like all right, fine, and I 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:34.760 just developed. Actually I was younger than that. I was younger. 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:36.720 I wasn't like seventeen at that time. I was probably 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:38.119 like fourteen fifteen. 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:39.679 And then. 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:48.080 Yeah, so would that again, No, why not give because 0:20:48.080 --> 0:20:51.600 we want the audience to understand the process. 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:51.760 Well. 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:54.120 Also, times are so different now. I think that when 0:20:54.200 --> 0:21:00.280 I was first starting, like there was still this I 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:05.600 guess old school mentality at like record labels and like 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:10.320 artist development, and like that's not necessarily a thing anymore 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:16.040 because we have platforms like TikTok or Instagram right now 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:19.679 and YouTube where so many people are kind of just 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:26.720 becoming like overnight like sensations, just because. 0:21:28.600 --> 0:21:30.280 I think that it's both. 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:32.720 I think that there's pros and cons to it because now, 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:35.199 I mean, it's kind of just strange because everyone like 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:38.000 thinks that they're like a rapper and artists. And I 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:40.920 think that it's great that people like obviously everyone loves music. 0:21:40.960 --> 0:21:43.600 It's a universal language, so people if you have the 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:46.800 ability to make music, like, why wouldn't you? And then 0:21:46.920 --> 0:21:50.880 there's platforms where like it can reach people hundreds millions 0:21:50.920 --> 0:21:54.080 of people, like in a second, so why would you 0:21:54.160 --> 0:21:59.200 not share that? And I think that there's a difference 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:02.000 between people who just enjoy like making music and then 0:22:02.040 --> 0:22:06.360 people who like want to be a star, because even 0:22:07.040 --> 0:22:09.399 and I learned that very early on, like just with 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:11.719 working with a bunch of songwriters, because I'm like, these 0:22:11.720 --> 0:22:14.879 people are so talented, like why aren't they like celebrities? 0:22:14.880 --> 0:22:17.320 Why aren't they like bigger? Like why aren't they superstars? 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:20.719 And it's just everyone doesn't want to be that, you know, 0:22:20.800 --> 0:22:23.159 like you can be talented and creative and like have 0:22:23.200 --> 0:22:26.280 all these ideas, but not everybody to be in front 0:22:26.280 --> 0:22:29.879 of the camera and to be like the face of 0:22:29.920 --> 0:22:32.120 it all, Like you really have to have tough skin. 0:22:32.720 --> 0:22:34.679 And that's what I think is a dangerous part of 0:22:37.200 --> 0:22:40.199 that people aren't really like aware of, especially like the 0:22:40.280 --> 0:22:43.000 kids who like are just like putting out songs online, 0:22:43.040 --> 0:22:45.359 and like when it comes like mental health, it's like 0:22:45.359 --> 0:22:48.120 they're not prepared for that. Like not everybody has that 0:22:48.560 --> 0:23:06.200 thick of skin to be in this industry to that capacity. 0:23:07.040 --> 0:23:08.840 Yeah, well I would, I would kind of dare to say. 0:23:08.880 --> 0:23:10.800 And I'm sure what I'm not sure which part you're 0:23:10.840 --> 0:23:16.280 saying you would do differently, But I think you having 0:23:16.320 --> 0:23:22.080 those moments of disappointment, but you still going through your routine, 0:23:22.160 --> 0:23:25.240 You still going through your act and step act and 0:23:25.280 --> 0:23:29.240 stepping up and just you know, but it really prepared 0:23:29.280 --> 0:23:33.520 you and and it hardened you in a way to 0:23:33.680 --> 0:23:37.600 where once you get into really get into this, you 0:23:37.640 --> 0:23:39.120 know what I mean, you gotta have a tough out 0:23:39.119 --> 0:23:44.280 of shelter. Those blows keep coming, they don't stop, they 0:23:44.320 --> 0:23:49.040 don't stop. It gets the blows get heavier. Actually, yeah, because. 0:23:49.119 --> 0:23:51.399 As he continues to grow in this thing, yeah, oh. 0:23:51.320 --> 0:23:54.600 Yeah, the bag is heavier and the losses are heavier. 0:23:55.040 --> 0:23:56.679 You know what, I mean, so it's like you you 0:23:56.760 --> 0:23:59.960 were you were courageous very early. I'll give you that. 0:24:00.240 --> 0:24:00.440 Yeah. 0:24:00.480 --> 0:24:03.200 I mean, well, my mom she's taught me to be 0:24:04.640 --> 0:24:07.879 to be that way. But you're right, I guess I 0:24:08.760 --> 0:24:12.520 wouldn't change anything, honestly because everything that I went through 0:24:12.560 --> 0:24:14.919 from a young age, through this industry, through the labels 0:24:14.920 --> 0:24:18.359 that I've been at, and now being independent, like, it's 0:24:18.440 --> 0:24:22.080 all made me the woman and the artist that I 0:24:22.119 --> 0:24:25.360 am today and right now even though I've I got 0:24:25.400 --> 0:24:28.800 signed to the first label when I was seventeen and 0:24:28.840 --> 0:24:31.200 I'm twenty seven now, so that's ten years ago. Yeah, 0:24:31.240 --> 0:24:35.200 and I feel like just so refreshed and like new 0:24:35.200 --> 0:24:37.280 because I'm so much more sure of who I am 0:24:37.320 --> 0:24:40.239 just as a human and as an artist, and I 0:24:40.280 --> 0:24:41.959 know what I like. And I went through all these 0:24:42.000 --> 0:24:43.800 things where I listened to everyone because I thought that 0:24:43.840 --> 0:24:46.920 they knew it was best for me. And now I'm 0:24:47.000 --> 0:24:49.399 just like when I'm in the studio, I have just 0:24:49.480 --> 0:24:54.639 such a different energy and love because there was a 0:24:54.640 --> 0:24:56.280 certain point where I just felt like I was just 0:24:57.400 --> 0:25:00.200 doing homework or doing like a science project when I 0:25:00.280 --> 0:25:01.520 was recording a song, and like. 0:25:01.480 --> 0:25:03.280 Whenever I would write, they would be like, oh, it's 0:25:03.320 --> 0:25:03.680 not good. 0:25:03.720 --> 0:25:06.320 It's not good, instead of like having a team around 0:25:06.320 --> 0:25:11.200 me that encouraged me to be better, but to get 0:25:11.200 --> 0:25:16.200 my ideas like out right, you know. And I think 0:25:16.280 --> 0:25:19.480 that I don't take anything personal obviously, like this is 0:25:19.520 --> 0:25:22.320 this industry. I learned that from young and like I'm 0:25:22.359 --> 0:25:24.919 sure like my mom kind of like prepared me for 0:25:24.960 --> 0:25:27.280 that as well too, and also tried to protect me 0:25:27.320 --> 0:25:32.920 as much as she could from the evils. But I 0:25:32.960 --> 0:25:36.600 think now at this age that I'm at and the 0:25:36.640 --> 0:25:40.240 space that I'm in in life, I'm so beyond excited, 0:25:40.240 --> 0:25:40.480 And a. 0:25:40.480 --> 0:25:41.280 Lot of people. 0:25:43.320 --> 0:25:45.879 Probably would think that at this point I'd be jaded, 0:25:46.280 --> 0:25:47.600 you know, and are like tired of it. But I 0:25:47.600 --> 0:25:50.080 always I have this saying where it's like if your 0:25:50.160 --> 0:25:52.520 favorite artist gave up when things got too hard, they 0:25:52.520 --> 0:25:55.480 wouldn't be your favorite artist today. And I fully believe that. 0:25:55.560 --> 0:25:59.280 And there's so many examples, like and even artists who 0:25:59.280 --> 0:26:02.359 are just receiving their flowers for that I've been following 0:26:02.359 --> 0:26:04.199 for a while, like whether it's Doja Cat, I've been 0:26:04.240 --> 0:26:07.920 looking at her since like SoundCloud days on Tumblr and 0:26:07.960 --> 0:26:10.399 even Sizza, Like I've been listening to all these art 0:26:10.480 --> 0:26:11.159 even Kendrick. 0:26:11.200 --> 0:26:11.640 I've listening. 0:26:11.640 --> 0:26:13.200 I've been listening to all these people from like The 0:26:13.320 --> 0:26:15.879 Jump and The Weekend and everyone, Like it's just like, 0:26:16.320 --> 0:26:19.919 that's why I have such an a love for it 0:26:19.960 --> 0:26:22.159 because I see, like what happens when you stay the 0:26:22.200 --> 0:26:24.960 course and when you fully believe in yourself and when 0:26:25.000 --> 0:26:29.479 you create a team around you that can you know, 0:26:29.600 --> 0:26:31.040 help you bring your dreams to fruition. 0:26:31.359 --> 0:26:35.480 Yeah, that's dope. At twenty seven? Let me think, was 0:26:35.520 --> 0:26:39.600 that on the bench at twenty seven? I think, so, yeah, yeah, 0:26:39.680 --> 0:26:41.280 you have been benched. I have been benched. 0:26:41.359 --> 0:26:42.000 What does that mean? 0:26:42.680 --> 0:26:44.080 Put on the shelf? Put on the shelf? 0:26:44.240 --> 0:26:47.680 I mean we you know, we we connected to sports. Yeah, 0:26:47.880 --> 0:26:49.600 we both grew up playing sports. So it's like everything 0:26:49.680 --> 0:26:52.040 with us with music, we look at it in a 0:26:52.359 --> 0:26:55.199 sports way too, you know what I mean. But he 0:26:55.320 --> 0:26:58.000 was on the shelf after having a hit record, hit album, 0:26:58.960 --> 0:27:00.120 having labeled dispute. 0:27:00.240 --> 0:27:03.439 Well that's why I also like when I first like 0:27:03.760 --> 0:27:08.399 became independent, I was so scared because I'd been like 0:27:08.440 --> 0:27:10.240 I've been in Atlantic, I've been at rock Nation, and 0:27:10.280 --> 0:27:11.400 I'm like, what do I do? 0:27:11.640 --> 0:27:12.760 Like, how do I do this? 0:27:12.960 --> 0:27:16.960 Like the biggest Yeah, So I'm just like, what do 0:27:17.040 --> 0:27:18.639 you like when you have people like Charlie walk in 0:27:18.680 --> 0:27:22.000 your face like you're three minutes away, and like everyone's like, yeah, 0:27:22.000 --> 0:27:24.960 you got this, and I'm like, well no, I'm independent, 0:27:25.119 --> 0:27:28.160 so yeah, and I was like, I was so scared, 0:27:28.200 --> 0:27:29.640 and I was like, how do I even like get 0:27:29.640 --> 0:27:30.560 in with producers? 0:27:30.600 --> 0:27:32.960 Like how did you make that turn? Though? What what 0:27:33.160 --> 0:27:37.000 made you go from from Atlantic in the rock Nation 0:27:37.160 --> 0:27:41.760 and all of these buildings to becoming your own buildings? Well? 0:27:41.760 --> 0:27:44.639 I was with Atlantic for three years, and you know, 0:27:44.840 --> 0:27:50.359 things weren't going as I expect them to have gone 0:27:50.440 --> 0:27:52.760 in the in that three year span, and you know, 0:27:52.880 --> 0:27:56.600 so we parted ways due to some things and it 0:27:56.720 --> 0:27:59.080 was fine. And then obviously I like, you know, I'm 0:27:59.080 --> 0:28:02.240 from Brooklyn, so like, and my mom's obviously from Brooklyn. 0:28:02.359 --> 0:28:04.719 So we had like connections over at rock Nation and 0:28:05.240 --> 0:28:07.119 that was just like so cool to me to be like, 0:28:07.119 --> 0:28:09.359 oh my god, I'm a Brooklyn girls side a jay Z. 0:28:12.480 --> 0:28:14.840 And so I was there and a lot of interesting 0:28:14.920 --> 0:28:16.199 things happened there as well too. 0:28:16.240 --> 0:28:17.240 I got to work with. 0:28:17.119 --> 0:28:21.800 The Dream and Tricky on a project and and it 0:28:21.920 --> 0:28:24.320 was just really an awesome experience that I learned too 0:28:24.320 --> 0:28:26.159 I would go into that office every day like I 0:28:26.200 --> 0:28:28.479 was going to school, like what are we doing? Like, 0:28:29.000 --> 0:28:32.800 and after being with them for three years too, like 0:28:32.840 --> 0:28:35.919 I just wasn't in the place that I wanted to 0:28:35.920 --> 0:28:39.680 be yet. And so my mother and I we just 0:28:39.720 --> 0:28:45.320 took a risk in wanting to be independent. And it 0:28:45.400 --> 0:28:50.480 was scary at first, especially financially too. Ye, that is 0:28:50.520 --> 0:28:54.400 the toughest part of being independent, just finding you are 0:28:54.440 --> 0:28:56.200 the bank. Yeah, no, you are the bank. 0:28:56.240 --> 0:28:56.840 You are the bank. 0:28:57.160 --> 0:28:59.720 And then the building a team around you of people 0:28:59.720 --> 0:29:02.440 because and you have to like outsourcings like a publicist, and. 0:29:04.520 --> 0:29:06.600 It's a lot of favorites. But then I realized too. 0:29:08.600 --> 0:29:11.120 We even did a song together, remember that one time 0:29:11.120 --> 0:29:14.440 that we had that session, put it out on SoundCloud. 0:29:15.440 --> 0:29:20.360 That was me like finding that getting into my songwriting pocket. 0:29:21.440 --> 0:29:26.960 But it was the greatest decision I could have ever 0:29:27.040 --> 0:29:31.200 made because it just taught me more about myself. And 0:29:32.720 --> 0:29:35.360 I also realized like in being an art like when 0:29:35.400 --> 0:29:38.320 you're signed to a label, you're kind of like sheltered, 0:29:38.680 --> 0:29:41.480 You're so like baby, That's was my experience where it's 0:29:41.480 --> 0:29:42.880 like your A and R is setting up the sessions 0:29:42.920 --> 0:29:45.960 for you, Like I'm not developing relationships with these producers 0:29:46.040 --> 0:29:48.360 or these other artists that I'm working with and these songwriters, 0:29:48.400 --> 0:29:52.480 I'm just like showing up. Yeah, I'm just like showing up. 0:29:52.800 --> 0:29:56.720 And I'm like, that's not And all my peers that 0:29:56.720 --> 0:29:58.800 I'm like friends with, I'm like, that's not their experience, 0:29:58.800 --> 0:30:01.240 Like why is that my exper I'm just doing homework. 0:30:01.680 --> 0:30:03.480 And that's why I was like falling out of love 0:30:03.560 --> 0:30:08.040 with this whole cycle and being so disappointed when things 0:30:08.040 --> 0:30:10.640 didn't work out. Where it's like now like I'm so 0:30:10.720 --> 0:30:13.400 proud of the work that I'm doing, regardless of how 0:30:13.440 --> 0:30:17.160 anyone feels about it, because I know what went into 0:30:17.200 --> 0:30:19.040 this and the whole process, and. 0:30:19.000 --> 0:30:20.960 I don't want to interrupt you, but that's that's that's 0:30:20.960 --> 0:30:28.520 a that's kind of crazy, right, because most artists enjoy 0:30:28.800 --> 0:30:32.800 the pampered stay the coddling, you know what I'm saying, 0:30:32.800 --> 0:30:35.920 where they're being weighted on hand and foot and just 0:30:36.000 --> 0:30:38.400 you know, make sure my per diem is and tell 0:30:38.440 --> 0:30:40.240 them I want this at the studio and then they 0:30:40.360 --> 0:30:42.640 just you know, and you, on the other hand, are 0:30:42.680 --> 0:30:47.320 like you didn't feel hands on enough to understand how 0:30:47.360 --> 0:30:50.120 the earth was moving around. 0:30:49.680 --> 0:30:52.040 You time I was like. 0:30:53.480 --> 0:30:55.400 I won't say who obviously, but I was with an 0:30:55.480 --> 0:30:59.960 artist and I was in a session and I. 0:31:00.120 --> 0:31:01.400 Was like so excited. I'm like, oh my god, you 0:31:01.400 --> 0:31:03.240 have like a violinist. 0:31:02.720 --> 0:31:04.720 Here, like you're not going to it was like, yeah, 0:31:04.720 --> 0:31:06.960 I'm just gonna leave. And I'm like you're not going 0:31:07.040 --> 0:31:09.480 to wait for the violinists to get here? Like, well, 0:31:09.880 --> 0:31:12.920 I'm done, and I'm like you don't want to see 0:31:12.960 --> 0:31:15.960 what he's going to put on your song. He's like no, 0:31:16.080 --> 0:31:20.200 they'll take care of it. And I'm like, you just started, 0:31:20.320 --> 0:31:21.560 and this is how you're acting. 0:31:21.720 --> 0:31:24.200 Oh, this is a disaster. It was crazy. 0:31:24.240 --> 0:31:28.160 I could not believe it. I was like, this is crazy, 0:31:28.200 --> 0:31:30.280 Like I want to be in the studio. I want 0:31:30.400 --> 0:31:33.680 I'm not leaving without experience. Yeah, but also like I'm 0:31:33.680 --> 0:31:34.360 not leaving without a. 0:31:34.360 --> 0:31:35.680 Bounce of my song. I don't care who what? 0:31:36.120 --> 0:31:38.520 You know what I'm saying, like I now have learned 0:31:38.520 --> 0:31:40.760 that lesson. It's like I need to leave with the bounce. 0:31:41.080 --> 0:31:42.200 I want to listen to it in the car. I 0:31:42.200 --> 0:31:42.800 want to see. 0:31:45.640 --> 0:31:47.680 Sessions. I don't know, I don't know who's supposed to 0:31:47.680 --> 0:31:52.280 pay what, but you better put something on this floppy disk. 0:31:53.080 --> 0:31:56.920 I also used to think because like I was recording 0:31:56.920 --> 0:31:59.160 a bunch of songs that like I didn't necessarily have 0:31:59.240 --> 0:32:00.000 anything to do with. 0:32:01.560 --> 0:32:02.480 That I needed to. 0:32:04.360 --> 0:32:06.680 Like if I didn't finish the song and one day 0:32:06.880 --> 0:32:07.880 that I was a failure. 0:32:08.520 --> 0:32:09.560 Like it was so crazy. 0:32:09.600 --> 0:32:11.240 I was like, oh my gosh, like I didn't finish 0:32:11.320 --> 0:32:13.200 cutting this song, and like one day I only cut 0:32:13.240 --> 0:32:15.080 one song today like I'm a failure. 0:32:15.120 --> 0:32:17.200 And now that I'm like like, wait. 0:32:17.440 --> 0:32:20.240 I want this to be perfect, like and and. 0:32:20.880 --> 0:32:21.760 That takes time. 0:32:22.280 --> 0:32:25.640 I can't just like and sometimes it does happen where 0:32:25.640 --> 0:32:27.040 like you're in you catch a vibe and like you 0:32:27.040 --> 0:32:29.320 can cut the song and it's like great, like the 0:32:29.320 --> 0:32:30.760 first time you cut it, but it's like no, I 0:32:30.760 --> 0:32:33.040 want to go back. But also like listening to it, 0:32:33.080 --> 0:32:35.520 I thought that like once you cut it, it's there, 0:32:35.560 --> 0:32:36.600 it's bounced, that's it. 0:32:36.760 --> 0:32:41.200 Yeah. I learned it from Static, like I was the 0:32:41.280 --> 0:32:45.440 guy that record five six songs in a day and 0:32:45.480 --> 0:32:47.720 make the track and write it and do the whole 0:32:47.720 --> 0:32:50.800 like I was that guy. I'm on a thousand yeah, 0:32:50.840 --> 0:32:54.480 and I will watch Static just sit at the board 0:32:54.560 --> 0:32:58.720 and listen to a track and lay two lines and 0:32:59.560 --> 0:33:01.320 get back in front. Of the board and just kind 0:33:01.320 --> 0:33:05.200 of sit, smoke a little bit, go back, lay a 0:33:05.320 --> 0:33:07.920 third line, and then yeah, I'm gonna come back tomorrow. 0:33:07.960 --> 0:33:11.720 It's gonna be it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, all right. 0:33:12.200 --> 0:33:14.720 And I watched him work on a song for like 0:33:15.560 --> 0:33:20.520 four days and then listen to it. I'm I'm gonna 0:33:20.520 --> 0:33:22.200 come back. I'm gonna come back tomorrow. Listen to it, 0:33:22.320 --> 0:33:25.280 come back, listen to it. I need to I need 0:33:25.320 --> 0:33:28.880 to switch this up, and after you you're not done. 0:33:29.440 --> 0:33:33.160 And then I watch him do that, and it's why 0:33:33.200 --> 0:33:35.760 he's static major, it's why he has the hit records 0:33:35.760 --> 0:33:40.880 that he has, because he just took his times. I think. 0:33:41.240 --> 0:33:45.760 I think that's something that's especially with social media, because 0:33:46.160 --> 0:33:51.080 social media put a spotlight on the experiences, are a 0:33:51.120 --> 0:33:53.880 spotlight on the experiences that people wanted to push out. 0:33:54.160 --> 0:33:55.040 Yeah, you know what I mean. 0:33:55.080 --> 0:33:57.680 I think, you know, even when people start doing the 0:33:57.720 --> 0:34:00.800 whole I don't write nothing down. Yeah, there are artists 0:34:00.800 --> 0:34:03.080 and writers who do do that and are really good 0:34:03.120 --> 0:34:06.000 at that, but that's not for everyone, you know, And 0:34:06.200 --> 0:34:10.000 I think what's been promoted is that makes me more 0:34:10.080 --> 0:34:12.960 talented than such and such, which is. 0:34:12.920 --> 0:34:14.879 Not the truth. Absolutely you know what I mean. 0:34:14.960 --> 0:34:18.279 You know, like we go back and Tupac was a poet, 0:34:18.560 --> 0:34:20.640 you know what I mean, So he literally has books 0:34:20.680 --> 0:34:22.680 of poems. But then you have jay Z on the 0:34:22.680 --> 0:34:24.640 other hand. That's like listen, I get it off from 0:34:24.680 --> 0:34:28.560 my mind. It can go both ways, and I think 0:34:28.800 --> 0:34:32.560 with the newer and the younger generation, it got put 0:34:32.600 --> 0:34:34.880 into this space of I do it quick. Oh you know, 0:34:34.920 --> 0:34:37.480 I do my records in fifteen minutes. Well some of 0:34:37.480 --> 0:34:41.040 those records sound like fifteen minute records, you know what 0:34:41.120 --> 0:34:43.200 I mean. I don't care how many of you did today, 0:34:43.600 --> 0:34:47.359 Maybe you should have took fifteen days. Because anybody that's 0:34:47.360 --> 0:34:50.239 ever worked with Michael Jackson, who I will argue and 0:34:50.239 --> 0:34:54.360 fight with anyone as the greatest singer, entertainer, everything of 0:34:54.400 --> 0:34:58.960 all time. You would be in a studio with that man. 0:34:59.000 --> 0:35:02.480 It might get a record done a month depending. 0:35:02.040 --> 0:35:02.880 On how he you know. 0:35:03.000 --> 0:35:06.640 But that's why it sounds he wasn't coming. 0:35:06.320 --> 0:35:12.239 Out of that studio with mediocre records or a mediocre 0:35:12.360 --> 0:35:14.880 feel anything, you know what I mean, Because yes, everything 0:35:14.920 --> 0:35:17.919 is subjective. We do music, it's it's someone's fail. 0:35:18.120 --> 0:35:21.080 It's gonna be a colossal fail, you know. 0:35:21.040 --> 0:35:24.200 What I mean, but sonically it's going to be right, 0:35:24.560 --> 0:35:26.680 the mix is going to be right. They're gonna make 0:35:26.719 --> 0:35:29.440 sure the words make sense next to each other, you 0:35:29.480 --> 0:35:32.120 know what I'm saying, Like Michael Jackson wasn't just doing 0:35:32.120 --> 0:35:37.919 a vibe. And sometimes I personally feel like the word 0:35:38.120 --> 0:35:42.279 vibe gets thrown out as this thing of And you 0:35:42.400 --> 0:35:47.359 said that too, of you know, it's not judged the. 0:35:47.360 --> 0:35:49.240 Same because it's like, oh, it's just vibing. 0:35:50.760 --> 0:35:52.720 Well, you want somebody to take their time and listen 0:35:52.760 --> 0:35:55.200 to it and pay for and all these other things 0:35:55.400 --> 0:35:58.680 that you you really aren't putting your full into. That's 0:35:58.719 --> 0:36:00.960 why I respect what you're saying, Like, no, I want 0:36:00.960 --> 0:36:03.560 to be a full part of it. I really want to. 0:36:03.920 --> 0:36:04.960 I want to put into work. 0:36:05.719 --> 0:36:09.480 Well, that's what I think was so special about not 0:36:09.560 --> 0:36:10.920 this last part I put up, but the one that 0:36:10.920 --> 0:36:13.440 I did with Timbaland, because. 0:36:13.960 --> 0:36:16.760 Who's my favorite producer by iconic. 0:36:17.040 --> 0:36:21.080 Yeah, and so he produced my whole album Space and Time, 0:36:21.120 --> 0:36:24.240 and we did a documentary about it that's on my YouTube, 0:36:25.080 --> 0:36:26.880 and it just goes through the whole process of like 0:36:26.960 --> 0:36:29.200 covid and I's just like I never met him before 0:36:29.239 --> 0:36:31.640 in my life, but I was obviously such a huge fan, 0:36:31.719 --> 0:36:33.919 and he'd followed me on Instagram, and so we would 0:36:33.920 --> 0:36:35.719 he would send me beats and then I would just 0:36:35.760 --> 0:36:37.919 like write to them and I just be freaking out 0:36:38.239 --> 0:36:39.839 and I would just put them on YouTube, like these 0:36:39.880 --> 0:36:42.800 one minute clips that we would just do side by side, 0:36:42.840 --> 0:36:45.440 and then after like the tenth one, We're just like, 0:36:45.520 --> 0:36:47.040 we have to figure out how to get to each 0:36:47.080 --> 0:36:49.839 other so we can like finish this project. And we did, 0:36:50.480 --> 0:36:53.319 and we put it out and we shot sick music 0:36:53.400 --> 0:36:55.880 videos to it and all independent, and like I couldn't 0:36:55.880 --> 0:36:59.040 believe that that's crazy that that happened. And you know, 0:36:59.200 --> 0:37:03.160 like obviously people are still like discovering the project, Like 0:37:03.200 --> 0:37:06.680 as people are discovering me my music from like nine 0:37:06.719 --> 0:37:07.680 ten years ago. 0:37:08.400 --> 0:37:11.080 There's always someone who hasn't heard it yet exactly. 0:37:11.760 --> 0:37:15.000 And it's funny because a lot of like my fans 0:37:15.000 --> 0:37:19.360 who have heard these songs before, they're so frustrated because like, 0:37:19.360 --> 0:37:21.960 where's the new music, And I'm like, listen, there's millions 0:37:22.000 --> 0:37:25.719 of people. Like last year, I had maybe like two 0:37:25.760 --> 0:37:29.000 million monthly listeners on Spotify, maybe like one point six. 0:37:30.000 --> 0:37:32.600 I just checked to have ten minutes ten million then 0:37:32.640 --> 0:37:37.840 counting of and that's just on Spotify. Like I haven't 0:37:37.840 --> 0:37:41.640 released anything new. Yeah, and I put out a single 0:37:41.760 --> 0:37:42.359 last year, but. 0:37:44.520 --> 0:37:46.080 That's it. 0:37:46.120 --> 0:37:48.000 Like I haven't put out like a new like project, 0:37:48.000 --> 0:37:52.480 and I'm just like, wow, I can't believe like platforms 0:37:52.480 --> 0:37:53.960 like a TikTok can really. 0:37:53.760 --> 0:37:56.319 Just like I'll take you somewhere else, take you somewhere. Yeah, 0:37:56.360 --> 0:37:58.640 and you and you have ownership of all of your 0:37:58.719 --> 0:37:59.360 music now. 0:37:59.280 --> 0:38:03.160 Right, not all of it, but that song. Yeah. I 0:38:03.239 --> 0:38:04.840 was just like because when it first started going. 0:38:04.760 --> 0:38:07.080 Up, we're gonna promote, We're gonna promote the things you want. 0:38:07.080 --> 0:38:11.480 Yeah, the dark side right now. 0:38:12.080 --> 0:38:14.120 But it was so crazy because I'm like, oh, that's 0:38:14.120 --> 0:38:15.880 so crazy. Like I'm like, oh, I don't know if 0:38:15.880 --> 0:38:17.239 I own that song because I did that song when 0:38:17.239 --> 0:38:20.040 I was at Atlantic, and so I'm just like, oh, 0:38:20.120 --> 0:38:22.239 like that's crazy. Colyde's going up like I don't get 0:38:22.239 --> 0:38:24.880 anything from that, like woo, And the mom was like, 0:38:25.200 --> 0:38:28.160 actually you do. Like when we left Atlantic we got 0:38:28.200 --> 0:38:30.759 that song and I'm like, wait, what. 0:38:34.520 --> 0:38:35.240 That's crazy? 0:38:35.400 --> 0:38:38.080 Are you interacting? Yeah? Yeah, by side, I'll do it. 0:38:38.120 --> 0:38:41.040 I'll do no. 0:38:41.280 --> 0:38:43.799 So that it's you have two versions of the Clyde record. 0:38:44.320 --> 0:38:46.239 Yeah, so there's the one with Tiger, which is like 0:38:46.280 --> 0:38:49.239 the original one, and so on my project dark Side 0:38:49.239 --> 0:38:53.880 that I just put out, it's the solo, which a 0:38:53.920 --> 0:38:54.960 lot of people were asking for. 0:38:56.520 --> 0:39:00.680 I mean, like you said that discovery is in lists 0:39:00.719 --> 0:39:04.880 and it goes back to just just stay the course 0:39:04.920 --> 0:39:10.520 and do good stuff because when people accidentally hit that 0:39:10.600 --> 0:39:14.000 page or go down that rabbit hole and bump into it, 0:39:14.440 --> 0:39:17.600 you know what, it's like finding a dope restaurant. Yeah, yeah, 0:39:17.760 --> 0:39:18.399 you know what I'm saying. 0:39:18.520 --> 0:39:20.200 And like all the restaurant has been around for like 0:39:20.239 --> 0:39:23.000 however long. I was like, well, now it's spot. 0:39:23.160 --> 0:39:25.600 There's always those people who like I've been going there, 0:39:26.160 --> 0:39:26.520 you know what. 0:39:26.560 --> 0:39:30.680 I like it, like, maybe I'll see you here. Yeah yeah. 0:39:30.760 --> 0:39:32.719 So I mean as long as you're as long as 0:39:32.719 --> 0:39:34.920 you're doing that, I feel like I feel like musically, 0:39:35.040 --> 0:39:37.319 like you know, this sky is the limit for you. 0:39:37.400 --> 0:39:39.640 I mean you meaning feels good. 0:39:39.719 --> 0:39:41.560 Yeah, you've been doing it, you said for a long time. 0:39:41.640 --> 0:39:44.440 You've been doing it for ten years, which which is crazy, but. 0:39:44.120 --> 0:39:47.680 Longer than that evening professionally. Yeah, yeah, you've been in 0:39:47.719 --> 0:39:49.080 this thing half your life. 0:39:49.200 --> 0:39:52.800 But I mean you're still extremely young. 0:39:53.040 --> 0:39:56.640 I mean, look at dude. Yeah, she's like now a 0:39:56.760 --> 0:39:57.560 super Maga star. 0:39:57.800 --> 0:40:01.560 Listen, Siss ain't leaving the house for less than seven figures. 0:40:01.760 --> 0:40:03.319 Need it. I know that because I had. 0:40:03.239 --> 0:40:05.319 A conversation on the phone with Top talk about it. 0:40:05.440 --> 0:40:08.879 Need it Listen, somebody called me about sister, like, yeah, 0:40:08.920 --> 0:40:10.319 you know, can you get to Sis? 0:40:10.440 --> 0:40:14.040 I said, I can call Top Top. 0:40:14.080 --> 0:40:16.759 Top said yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Helmie. If they ain't 0:40:16.760 --> 0:40:18.520 got I said, oh, oh yeah, I love this talk. 0:40:19.880 --> 0:40:23.799 If you guys don't have this for Scissa, she's not 0:40:23.840 --> 0:40:25.640 coming and I'm not going to make any phone call 0:40:25.719 --> 0:40:29.440 for you and I, but I love to hear that. 0:40:29.920 --> 0:40:32.720 It's you know what I'm saying for like you said, 0:40:33.320 --> 0:40:36.719 it's what she deserves. She's worked so hard to get 0:40:36.719 --> 0:40:40.759 to this space and she they know, they know the 0:40:40.800 --> 0:40:42.080 type of room she gonna fill up. 0:40:42.360 --> 0:40:45.439 But people see like they just see like where she's 0:40:45.440 --> 0:40:47.919 at now, and they don't really like get to which 0:40:47.920 --> 0:40:50.560 is why I love like when artists do documentaries because 0:40:50.600 --> 0:40:55.560 you really get to like see their growth and like 0:40:55.600 --> 0:40:59.200 where they came from. And I think that's so beautiful 0:40:59.200 --> 0:41:01.120 and it gives you like a different level of like 0:41:01.239 --> 0:41:03.319 appreciation and respect for them as well too. 0:41:03.360 --> 0:41:04.640 Like people just. 0:41:04.640 --> 0:41:06.759 Read headlines and they just listen to a song for 0:41:06.800 --> 0:41:09.759 two seconds a snippet, like every our attention spans have 0:41:09.800 --> 0:41:14.400 gotten so short, and I think that that kind of sucks, 0:41:14.760 --> 0:41:17.520 like as like time progresses, like our attention spans just 0:41:17.560 --> 0:41:21.920 like shrink, and then as like I'm so grateful for TikTok, 0:41:21.960 --> 0:41:24.960 but it's like the one second, like what there was 0:41:24.960 --> 0:41:28.799 that moment of like Steve Lacy, who's like one of 0:41:28.800 --> 0:41:30.640 my friends, and there was like obviously one of his 0:41:30.719 --> 0:41:34.799 songs went crazy TikTok, and there was number one, I 0:41:34.800 --> 0:41:37.719 Love Love how so. 0:41:37.719 --> 0:41:38.920 Many girl a great songs. 0:41:38.920 --> 0:41:42.000 But then like everyone gets tickets for his concerts, and 0:41:42.040 --> 0:41:44.319 then like there's that one video that went around where 0:41:44.320 --> 0:41:47.160 it was like no one knew the rest of the 0:41:47.200 --> 0:41:48.680 words to the song. They just knew the hook and 0:41:48.680 --> 0:41:51.000 they were like beating him down about that on social media. 0:41:51.080 --> 0:41:53.719 But it's just like you guys are standing there, you 0:41:53.719 --> 0:41:54.640 should feel stupid. 0:41:55.560 --> 0:41:57.160 You guys should feel dumb that you don't know the 0:41:57.200 --> 0:41:59.399 words to this artist that you just paid however many 0:41:59.440 --> 0:42:03.040 dollars to go their show standing there. Whatever day, this is, 0:42:03.120 --> 0:42:04.879 this is the time you wanted to waste your time 0:42:04.920 --> 0:42:06.799 coming to somebody show that you're one of them, like 0:42:06.920 --> 0:42:09.319 talk shit about that, you don't know. It's just like 0:42:09.480 --> 0:42:13.200 we don't the respect for artists who like get on 0:42:13.280 --> 0:42:16.040 stage and like put this work into like do this 0:42:16.280 --> 0:42:20.719 obviously like people, they don't, they don't care. But I 0:42:20.760 --> 0:42:26.600 hope that a shift is beginning where people are becoming 0:42:26.760 --> 0:42:30.960 more just appreciative of everything. 0:42:31.239 --> 0:42:34.160 What a tough part about us as entertainers is that 0:42:35.680 --> 0:42:39.960 for people it's it's so disposable. Yeah, you know what 0:42:40.000 --> 0:42:42.759 I mean. And for them, for most people, it's just 0:42:42.840 --> 0:42:43.880 about the end result. 0:42:44.719 --> 0:42:45.680 Yeah, that's so true. 0:42:45.920 --> 0:42:50.080 It's just about Okay, entertainment. You know, I paid this 0:42:50.160 --> 0:42:53.040 money entertainment. You know what I'm saying, Like, if something 0:42:53.080 --> 0:42:56.759 goes faulty within that entertainment, they could care less about that, 0:42:57.120 --> 0:42:59.279 you know what I'm saying. They care less that it's 0:42:59.320 --> 0:43:02.200 not your fault that the building couldn't house the power 0:43:02.320 --> 0:43:07.120 that that is covering your LED, And then LED goes down, 0:43:07.160 --> 0:43:09.879 and then your pro tools which was running fine before 0:43:10.000 --> 0:43:11.879 sound check, all of a sudden, your pro toos rig 0:43:11.960 --> 0:43:14.400 is on the fritz. And then your backup pro toos 0:43:14.440 --> 0:43:17.880 rig it ain't running. Like they don't care you're standing 0:43:17.920 --> 0:43:22.040 there holding the bag like I promise we we rehearsed 0:43:22.080 --> 0:43:25.560 for six months for this to get this right for you. 0:43:26.320 --> 0:43:29.520 But you'll still see on the ground the show was weak. 0:43:29.600 --> 0:43:32.399 I couldn't believe I paid. And it's like there's this 0:43:32.400 --> 0:43:36.000 this this disconnect with the work that we put in, 0:43:37.320 --> 0:43:40.080 not even versus what they want. But how do you 0:43:40.120 --> 0:43:44.440 say that, like we're trying. I promise you we are. 0:43:44.520 --> 0:43:46.319 I think sometimes you have to say that, and if 0:43:46.320 --> 0:43:47.000 it goes back. 0:43:46.920 --> 0:43:48.040 I think people respect that. 0:43:48.200 --> 0:43:50.680 Yeah, and I think more artists should stand in front 0:43:50.719 --> 0:43:53.439 of that. Hey listen, if you got a bad show 0:43:53.520 --> 0:43:56.480 or you was sick or now, with the platforms that 0:43:56.520 --> 0:43:59.719 we have, it's nothing to go on there and say, hey, 0:43:59.719 --> 0:44:01.359 man had a bad night last night. 0:44:03.040 --> 0:44:03.720 You know what I'm saying. 0:44:04.000 --> 0:44:08.399 I think that it's just also like it means more 0:44:08.440 --> 0:44:12.320 and like you develop a different connection with your audience 0:44:12.440 --> 0:44:16.719 when you are vocal about like the mess ups. You know, 0:44:16.840 --> 0:44:20.759 like I was at the weekend show that he did 0:44:21.880 --> 0:44:23.799 so fine and he got t he was like, you 0:44:23.800 --> 0:44:25.640 know what, like I'm not I want to give you 0:44:25.680 --> 0:44:27.879 guys a great show, so I'm not going to put 0:44:27.920 --> 0:44:29.280 you through this if I if. 0:44:29.120 --> 0:44:30.560 I know that's not gonna be the best, and we'll 0:44:30.560 --> 0:44:31.239 reschedule it. 0:44:31.600 --> 0:44:34.239 And like, I think for the most part, like your 0:44:34.360 --> 0:44:35.480 real fans. 0:44:36.160 --> 0:44:39.200 Will appreciate something like that that you want to give 0:44:39.200 --> 0:44:40.239 them the best. 0:44:41.560 --> 0:44:45.120 Fans We're trying, We're trying our. 0:44:44.960 --> 0:44:54.880 Best, but I think like real fans understand that the 0:44:54.960 --> 0:44:56.319 fans from just thele that. 0:44:56.840 --> 0:44:58.520 Just watching people just hover. 0:44:58.640 --> 0:45:02.440 But we need all of it ultimately, because the business 0:45:02.480 --> 0:45:07.200 that we're in is entertainment, entertainment, and it's controlled by 0:45:07.239 --> 0:45:10.040 the people, and either it's love or hate or it's 0:45:10.080 --> 0:45:12.440 a little bit of both, but you need the people. 0:45:12.840 --> 0:45:15.520 For me though, I've I feel like I've entered a 0:45:15.560 --> 0:45:19.799 space where like obviously it still gets rough, like you know, 0:45:19.840 --> 0:45:22.000 there's comments that you see online and like when you're 0:45:22.040 --> 0:45:23.240 being attacked. 0:45:22.800 --> 0:45:24.480 Like it doesn't feel good. 0:45:25.160 --> 0:45:28.800 But and I actually one of my fans like at 0:45:29.080 --> 0:45:30.680 DMG the other day, like how do you do it? 0:45:30.719 --> 0:45:34.520 And I'm like, you know what, I've like made more 0:45:34.520 --> 0:45:36.960 of an effort to realize that at the end of 0:45:37.000 --> 0:45:38.960 the day, I am a human as well too, and 0:45:39.080 --> 0:45:42.520 just to keep good people around me. And I'm starting 0:45:42.520 --> 0:45:43.799 to do this thing too where it's like if i 0:45:43.840 --> 0:45:46.800 feel like I've gotten too like engulfed in my phone. 0:45:46.840 --> 0:45:49.200 Like I'm just like the way I just said, it's 0:45:49.200 --> 0:45:50.680 starting to do this thing as if it's not a thing. 0:45:50.840 --> 0:45:52.080 Like I'm just like, you know, I'm just gonna pick 0:45:52.160 --> 0:45:54.680 up a book and read, Like even if I have 0:45:54.719 --> 0:45:59.320 to force myself to like remove my focus from my phone, 0:46:00.120 --> 0:46:01.880 just gonna just so I'm always walking around with my 0:46:01.880 --> 0:46:04.920 book now, I'm just like, okay, like I'm too crazy 0:46:04.960 --> 0:46:05.960 at my phone, Like let. 0:46:05.800 --> 0:46:07.680 Me just because a lot of people aren't doing that, 0:46:08.000 --> 0:46:09.160 a lot of people aren't tapping in. 0:46:09.160 --> 0:46:10.800 I'm gonna read the book on my phone. 0:46:12.360 --> 0:46:14.600 I thought I could do that, but I thought I 0:46:14.600 --> 0:46:16.600 could do that, but that I even want on my iPad. 0:46:16.600 --> 0:46:20.239 I'm like, I'm gonna. I'm just like you know, I can't. 0:46:20.280 --> 0:46:21.839 I have I need self. 0:46:21.520 --> 0:46:24.200 Discipline, Like I really need to be more disciplined, and 0:46:24.239 --> 0:46:26.960 like if I'm on my phone, like I have I 0:46:27.040 --> 0:46:31.920 even deleted Sorry I'm little sick. I deleted like Instagram 0:46:31.960 --> 0:46:35.759 and Twitter from like my screen. But I can still 0:46:35.760 --> 0:46:38.879 like pull my search thing down and search Instagram, Twitter 0:46:38.920 --> 0:46:41.000 and like I found myself doing that way more than 0:46:41.040 --> 0:46:44.680 if it was just on my home screen. 0:46:45.480 --> 0:46:51.560 It's extremely addictive, especially and especially for your generation because 0:46:51.560 --> 0:46:56.520 you grew up in it completely, right, so I know 0:46:56.520 --> 0:46:58.360 how to tap out of it because I haven't always 0:46:58.360 --> 0:47:01.120 had it, you know what I mean. Even though in 0:47:01.160 --> 0:47:03.800 our generation as well, it's still people who are addicted 0:47:03.840 --> 0:47:04.399 to it as well. 0:47:04.600 --> 0:47:05.360 Conant searching. 0:47:06.160 --> 0:47:11.680 Yeah, but your generation, it's it's completely. 0:47:11.520 --> 0:47:14.799 It's like cartoons. A part of your life. 0:47:14.920 --> 0:47:17.879 This is this is what y'all do is figuring out 0:47:17.880 --> 0:47:20.800 what's going on in the ground, getting as much foolish 0:47:20.880 --> 0:47:24.359 information as possible all day long. Like you said, it's 0:47:24.480 --> 0:47:26.759 hard not to type in your name and see what 0:47:26.800 --> 0:47:28.640 they're talking about or see what you know. 0:47:28.760 --> 0:47:30.680 It's it's all I say. 0:47:30.719 --> 0:47:34.759 It's it's a it's a process of just finding what 0:47:34.880 --> 0:47:36.560 works for you and what don't work for you. Because 0:47:36.600 --> 0:47:41.560 for some people them being fully locked in has actually 0:47:41.800 --> 0:47:43.719 become a business. 0:47:42.600 --> 0:47:44.439 They know that. 0:47:44.600 --> 0:47:46.839 Yeah, it's to get none out of it. 0:47:46.320 --> 0:47:49.160 But I mean, I know so many people or it's 0:47:49.200 --> 0:47:51.399 just like they're just they have to be on their phone, 0:47:51.520 --> 0:47:54.359 they have to record everything, and I'm just like, I I. 0:47:54.320 --> 0:47:54.800 Can't do it. 0:47:55.280 --> 0:47:55.480 Bother. 0:48:09.000 --> 0:48:10.600 Do y'all ever even eat the snacks? 0:48:11.480 --> 0:48:18.920 No, sometimes we eat the snacks you want to. Sometimes 0:48:19.120 --> 0:48:22.200 we the snacks. 0:48:23.400 --> 0:48:25.480 The audiences don't like when Tank be on here smacking 0:48:25.520 --> 0:48:25.799 the shit. 0:48:26.000 --> 0:48:36.359 Sometimes we the snack. We eat the snacks. Justine, where 0:48:36.360 --> 0:48:42.640 are you going? I want to know your top five, 0:48:45.680 --> 0:48:54.560 your top five, top five, your top five? 0:48:55.880 --> 0:48:57.000 Just this top five? 0:48:59.360 --> 0:49:04.680 I bet R and B so. 0:49:04.880 --> 0:49:24.560 Home talk, Nikka, did you just Yoda. 0:49:28.000 --> 0:49:32.400 Out of his mind? Encourage? 0:49:32.440 --> 0:49:33.360 That was crazy? 0:49:33.400 --> 0:49:33.600 Good? 0:49:34.040 --> 0:49:38.480 Your top five R and B artists right now? 0:49:39.360 --> 0:49:43.840 So this is a band. Their name is Salt. The 0:49:43.920 --> 0:49:47.320 lead singer. I think they may like switch out sometimes 0:49:47.520 --> 0:49:49.440 I'm not too sure. I don't know, like too much 0:49:49.440 --> 0:49:53.080 about it. But Cleo Soul is like the singer. Yeah, 0:49:54.719 --> 0:50:00.720 my favorite song is Masterpiece Souse. 0:49:59.520 --> 0:50:01.160 Right, Okay. 0:50:01.200 --> 0:50:06.279 So Salt, obviously says right now is going crazy. 0:50:06.400 --> 0:50:08.319 Her album is phenomenal. 0:50:09.680 --> 0:50:11.400 I mean, like I have to put Beyonce in there, 0:50:11.400 --> 0:50:15.400 because Beyonce is just a queen of all queens, big beehive. 0:50:15.640 --> 0:50:17.640 I think we should buy her a phone for a birthday. 0:50:18.880 --> 0:50:19.800 You should buy her. 0:50:22.520 --> 0:50:23.080 You said you. 0:50:23.000 --> 0:50:27.720 Wanted to call it? Are you? Are you threatened. 0:50:27.960 --> 0:50:32.320 You calls you? If she wants to find she'll find it? 0:50:32.400 --> 0:50:34.719 Who who told us that too? She was like, yeah, 0:50:34.960 --> 0:50:35.760 I'll find you. 0:50:38.880 --> 0:50:41.640 Rico Love, Rico Love. She called Rico. 0:50:41.800 --> 0:50:43.359 Yeah, He's like hello. Yeah. 0:50:43.480 --> 0:50:45.399 But Kanye don't got no phone either, right, I don't 0:50:45.400 --> 0:50:45.759 think so. 0:50:46.200 --> 0:50:51.319 That man got a phone? Why he gotta have a phone. 0:50:52.680 --> 0:50:57.879 I feel like Kanye tells the person next to him, Hey, 0:50:57.920 --> 0:50:58.879 person next to me. 0:50:59.080 --> 0:51:03.719 No tweet shot his text messages and post of them. 0:51:03.760 --> 0:51:04.440 He has a phone. 0:51:05.080 --> 0:51:06.960 He got a phone. Okay, he's not in that same world. 0:51:07.200 --> 0:51:10.880 That's three? That three? Is that three salt? Uh? 0:51:12.960 --> 0:51:13.800 Jazmine Sullivan? 0:51:14.239 --> 0:51:17.319 Yes, yes, love that? 0:51:18.480 --> 0:51:19.040 Who else? 0:51:19.400 --> 0:51:19.640 Uh? 0:51:20.200 --> 0:51:23.400 We're doing artists and then what are the other categories? 0:51:24.040 --> 0:51:24.640 Songs? 0:51:24.719 --> 0:51:25.280 Next songs? 0:51:26.560 --> 0:51:27.120 More artists? 0:51:27.480 --> 0:51:31.080 Oh one, more artists? Steve Lacy. 0:51:32.560 --> 0:51:35.120 You know I'm rolling having a moment. I funk with Steve. 0:51:34.960 --> 0:51:39.680 Lacy love and like I his album like on repeat. 0:51:40.719 --> 0:51:41.400 He's dope. 0:51:42.600 --> 0:51:44.400 So yeah, okay, I like that. 0:51:44.520 --> 0:51:48.120 Okay the top five. Here we go, your top five 0:51:48.960 --> 0:51:50.160 R and B songs. 0:51:51.239 --> 0:51:58.799 Uh, dangerously in love, love that song, masterpiece salt mm hmm, 0:52:00.440 --> 0:52:07.400 right now it's blind is I Love Sunshine by Steve Lacy? Like, 0:52:07.480 --> 0:52:08.560 can't get enough of that song? 0:52:09.040 --> 0:52:09.560 And then. 0:52:11.600 --> 0:52:14.400 Just give us a little vibe. See you said, just 0:52:14.400 --> 0:52:15.359 a little talent. 0:52:18.120 --> 0:52:19.480 But right now it's sound of rain. 0:52:19.960 --> 0:52:23.239 M hmm line. Sound all right, here we go. Let's 0:52:23.239 --> 0:52:24.320 do someth We're gonna build. 0:52:24.120 --> 0:52:27.759 What we wait and sign. 0:52:28.760 --> 0:52:32.520 All right, sign my love many Rippleton only because it's 0:52:32.520 --> 0:52:35.879 many Rippleton. Just make that in. I mean, can't deny 0:52:35.920 --> 0:52:39.799 many ripples. We're gonna make a Voltron, all right. 0:52:41.640 --> 0:52:47.080 A transformer, no somewhat. No, Yes, it's a robot. 0:52:47.440 --> 0:52:51.680 It's a robot, but it's not a transformer. Okay. So 0:52:51.760 --> 0:52:55.560 back in the day Voltron, there were these lions, right, 0:52:55.840 --> 0:53:00.640 and there was the red, white, blue, yellow, and black lion, and. 0:53:00.560 --> 0:53:04.600 So power rangers love it. 0:53:05.320 --> 0:53:09.480 No, they were lions. And people used to drive the lions, 0:53:09.680 --> 0:53:13.560 and they were out of space lions. Lion exactly, you 0:53:13.560 --> 0:53:16.319 would get it. It's it's it's a machine lion. They 0:53:16.320 --> 0:53:18.600 were machines, but they were made like a lion. 0:53:18.440 --> 0:53:21.080 Like it's transformed, right. 0:53:20.239 --> 0:53:22.719 Okay, So and and and people would they would they 0:53:22.719 --> 0:53:24.680 would drive them and fly them, you know what I'm saying. 0:53:24.680 --> 0:53:28.480 And then to fight evil evil evils, zoids and things come. 0:53:28.680 --> 0:53:30.919 And so when it was time to fight the big 0:53:30.960 --> 0:53:34.600 evil monster, all the lions would come together and form 0:53:34.760 --> 0:53:39.200 one big like transform. No it's not a transformer. 0:53:39.719 --> 0:53:42.520 It's what's the nigga that get all the little things? 0:53:43.120 --> 0:53:45.640 I think this is Transformer and power Ranger put together. 0:53:45.719 --> 0:53:51.440 It's it's Vultron. It's Vultron. It's the five Lions and 0:53:51.480 --> 0:53:53.880 they come together to form Voltron. 0:53:54.560 --> 0:53:59.279 And he looks like a humans. 0:53:59.440 --> 0:54:03.319 He stole he stole that from the real Voltron. He 0:54:03.360 --> 0:54:06.520 don't even like Voltron. He stole it from for real. No, 0:54:06.600 --> 0:54:10.480 he stole it from Voltron. He's a thief. Anyway, We're 0:54:10.480 --> 0:54:14.880 gonna make a Voltron, okay, the best, the best of 0:54:14.880 --> 0:54:16.919 the best, the best of the best, all right. Where 0:54:16.920 --> 0:54:20.120 you're gonna get the vocals from, the performance style, from 0:54:20.160 --> 0:54:22.880 the styling from, and then the passion of the artists. 0:54:22.920 --> 0:54:25.120 We're gonna start with the vocal. What artists are you 0:54:25.200 --> 0:54:27.840 taking the vocal from to make your Voltron? One artist? 0:54:28.520 --> 0:54:30.520 I'm gonna take the voice of Jazzine Sullivan. 0:54:32.239 --> 0:54:34.440 I liked it. 0:54:34.520 --> 0:54:36.400 And then what else there got you? 0:54:37.760 --> 0:54:42.799 Performance style Beyonce, hmm, okay, you're ready, you're ready, all right? 0:54:44.160 --> 0:54:47.360 Styling the Cloud the Dread. 0:54:49.400 --> 0:54:53.399 Steve Lacy, Yeah he's dripped out. 0:54:54.200 --> 0:54:58.799 Okay, see you won't like it, Singing dark Beyonce. 0:55:00.239 --> 0:55:03.160 Yeah, okay, yeah, okay, Gothic, Gothic. 0:55:03.760 --> 0:55:06.000 No, he's not God for us. He's got a little 0:55:06.080 --> 0:55:08.560 dark what No, I think he had devil horns on 0:55:08.640 --> 0:55:08.879 the ship. 0:55:09.480 --> 0:55:15.760 No, you can't look at his style, his fashion. 0:55:16.520 --> 0:55:18.920 No, but you're looking at his artwork. The artwork and 0:55:18.960 --> 0:55:20.160 the way he dress is different. 0:55:21.120 --> 0:55:22.160 They all kind of go together. 0:55:22.200 --> 0:55:26.400 All right, Here we go and the passion of the artist, 0:55:26.400 --> 0:55:28.640 the heart beyoncew. 0:55:28.760 --> 0:55:33.520 Mm hmm, double do b. We're not letting you off 0:55:33.520 --> 0:55:34.920 the hook, don't you do it. 0:55:35.000 --> 0:55:38.520 We got a segment of this show that you cannot 0:55:38.600 --> 0:55:40.040 leave here without doing. 0:55:42.120 --> 0:55:42.520 Piano. 0:55:42.560 --> 0:55:46.400 Man, give me something music. 0:55:50.640 --> 0:55:51.400 What is this. 0:55:53.280 --> 0:55:54.040 You're gonna hear it? 0:55:57.080 --> 0:55:59.839 I ain't saying no but I ain't saying no name. 0:56:00.400 --> 0:56:03.040 I ain't saying no names. I ain't saying no name. 0:56:03.120 --> 0:56:10.000 Where we was wed, what we did. Hey, I ain't 0:56:10.040 --> 0:56:12.840 saying no n I ain't saying no names. 0:56:18.800 --> 0:56:21.520 Special segment of the show. It's called I ain't saying 0:56:21.520 --> 0:56:24.920 no name. The story can be funny. I fucked up 0:56:25.160 --> 0:56:28.520 a funny and fucked though. We would like it to 0:56:28.560 --> 0:56:32.960 be funny and put it up to you one ruling 0:56:32.960 --> 0:56:36.040 the game ruling again. You can't say no name. 0:56:36.120 --> 0:56:36.520 No name. 0:56:37.440 --> 0:56:39.880 You can give descriptions, you can do with that, just 0:56:40.040 --> 0:56:41.919 you cannot say their name. 0:56:42.160 --> 0:56:44.440 Okay, so right now. 0:56:46.680 --> 0:56:50.000 We are going to just teen skies. 0:56:51.280 --> 0:56:53.280 Grownish. I ain't saying no names. 0:56:55.560 --> 0:56:57.399 Oh this one's bad. 0:56:59.120 --> 0:57:02.720 No, No, I can't know that one was too crazy. 0:57:07.640 --> 0:57:10.640 Okay, fine, I'll tell half of the story. Okay. So 0:57:10.760 --> 0:57:13.840 I was, this was like over COVID and. 0:57:17.480 --> 0:57:20.800 This is really Oh, this is so bad. Actually, you 0:57:20.800 --> 0:57:22.680 guys gonna feel really bad for me or not. You're 0:57:22.680 --> 0:57:25.400 gonna think of an idiot. But okay, So I was 0:57:27.600 --> 0:57:30.480 it was COVID, and I was, there's like the beginning 0:57:30.560 --> 0:57:32.040 of it. We didn't know what was happening. 0:57:32.240 --> 0:57:36.280 I was like dating this person and. 0:57:38.440 --> 0:57:42.120 I'd like found out that he was like texting someone. 0:57:42.560 --> 0:57:43.800 So then I was like, you know what, And. 0:57:43.760 --> 0:57:45.840 I'm so crazy because I was with his brother earlier 0:57:45.880 --> 0:57:47.760 that day too, and I was like I never want 0:57:47.760 --> 0:57:50.200 to be in this situation and blah blah blah. And 0:57:50.200 --> 0:57:52.640 then I went back to the house and there was 0:57:52.680 --> 0:57:55.080 just a computer screen that was just open, and I 0:57:55.120 --> 0:57:57.080 was like putting his keys down. I was like, that's crazy. 0:57:57.080 --> 0:57:59.000 It's just open on a text message. That's really insane. 0:57:59.480 --> 0:58:02.280 So I was like, I just I think it was 0:58:02.280 --> 0:58:03.120 maybe Kelly. 0:58:02.920 --> 0:58:05.280 Rowland that I saw, like say, an interview and she 0:58:05.320 --> 0:58:07.440 was like, just don't scroll up or something like that. 0:58:07.480 --> 0:58:09.280 I don't know, maybe it wasn't her, I'm wrong person, 0:58:09.480 --> 0:58:11.200 but I saw something and there was like a woman 0:58:11.240 --> 0:58:14.080 saying like, just never if you see like someone's phone open, 0:58:14.160 --> 0:58:14.960 just never scroll up. 0:58:15.040 --> 0:58:16.800 And I was like no, I'm aa scroll up and 0:58:16.840 --> 0:58:17.160 so I. 0:58:18.840 --> 0:58:22.000 And so I scrolled up and what do you know, 0:58:22.240 --> 0:58:24.360 There's just like nudes and this, and then I was like, 0:58:24.360 --> 0:58:25.200 oh no. 0:58:25.640 --> 0:58:27.240 He immediately called his mom and I was like, uh 0:58:27.320 --> 0:58:30.120 uh get yes, I come get me. I gotta go. 0:58:30.720 --> 0:58:33.480 And then she was like I'm so sorry, like this 0:58:33.560 --> 0:58:35.240 is all my fall I raised him this way. 0:58:35.240 --> 0:58:37.640 I was like that is a grown man, like he whatever. 0:58:38.080 --> 0:58:41.080 And then so that and I called my other friend 0:58:41.120 --> 0:58:43.200 that lived in the same area and I was like, 0:58:43.240 --> 0:58:44.840 come get me, like I have to leave, like blah 0:58:44.880 --> 0:58:48.080 blah blah whatever. I then like I bring the computer 0:58:48.160 --> 0:58:50.840 to the guy and I'm like this is you, Like, this. 0:58:50.800 --> 0:58:51.880 Is what you're doing. It's COVID. 0:58:52.320 --> 0:58:55.920 You're trying to cheat on me during COVID, Like that's crazy. 0:58:56.520 --> 0:59:01.600 You're gonna go bring COVID back? Are you in sane? 0:59:01.920 --> 0:59:04.000 And then and then he's like, why are you in 0:59:04.120 --> 0:59:06.320 my phone? And I was just like that's what you 0:59:06.400 --> 0:59:08.280 have to say. And I was like he was like, well, Ef, 0:59:08.280 --> 0:59:09.840 you're so unhappy, then leave and I was like, I 0:59:09.880 --> 0:59:12.720 am leaving, but I just wanted you to give you 0:59:12.760 --> 0:59:15.400 the opportunity and he was like whatever anyway, So then 0:59:15.440 --> 0:59:17.720 something happened. And this is like at a time where 0:59:17.760 --> 0:59:21.840 like because of COVID, like we were doing like live 0:59:22.520 --> 0:59:26.320 for brands and like doing like mini performances, and so 0:59:26.400 --> 0:59:30.200 I had to do a performance for like Levi's or something, 0:59:30.960 --> 0:59:32.640 and I had to go live and the time was coming, 0:59:32.680 --> 0:59:34.760 but all of this was happening, and I was like, shoot, 0:59:34.880 --> 0:59:37.040 like I'm gonna have to do this performance here, like 0:59:37.040 --> 0:59:39.640 I have to set up and like so I can't leave, 0:59:40.760 --> 0:59:44.720 and so like I'm like, this is the worst moment ever. 0:59:44.800 --> 0:59:47.000 So I'm sitting and like and he's like, just do 0:59:47.080 --> 0:59:49.000 the performance here, and I was like, don't talk to me, like, 0:59:49.160 --> 0:59:51.920 don't speak, actually, just shut up forever. 0:59:52.520 --> 0:59:53.680 And so I'm just like whatever. 0:59:53.720 --> 0:59:55.440 And then his brother and his mom come and like 0:59:55.440 --> 0:59:57.920 they're helping me and he's just like, I don't know 0:59:57.960 --> 1:00:00.200 what the hell he's doing. They had to leave because 1:00:00.200 --> 1:00:02.000 they had to go do something or go home or whatever. 1:00:02.320 --> 1:00:03.840 And so I'm sitting there and I set up the 1:00:03.880 --> 1:00:07.280 phone and then he like I pressed start and then 1:00:07.320 --> 1:00:10.200 he comes into where I'm doing the live sits in 1:00:10.240 --> 1:00:13.360 front of me while I'm singing doing the performance, and 1:00:13.400 --> 1:00:15.280 every time I finished the song, he would clap. 1:00:18.440 --> 1:00:28.600 Oh yeah, it was horrible. 1:00:28.960 --> 1:00:29.440 And then. 1:00:31.560 --> 1:00:33.600 I'm on live, so I had to like pretend like 1:00:33.800 --> 1:00:38.280 nothing was happening, and he was just empty room, just him. 1:00:38.480 --> 1:00:45.440 I'm like, you should rot now, and then I left. 1:00:46.080 --> 1:00:52.680 I think he's kind of funny. That's wrong. 1:00:53.720 --> 1:00:57.160 Some ship is so bad. 1:00:57.920 --> 1:00:58.960 So bad. 1:00:59.000 --> 1:01:01.320 But you know, it was really funny because when my 1:01:01.360 --> 1:01:06.080 birthday came around to get back, because at that point 1:01:06.120 --> 1:01:07.600 I was like I was long ago, I was like 1:01:07.640 --> 1:01:09.960 I left the whole stay. I was like goodbye. And 1:01:10.000 --> 1:01:12.640 then he reached out to all my friends like trying 1:01:12.640 --> 1:01:14.400 to be like I need to make this up to her, 1:01:14.480 --> 1:01:16.280 like I mess things up, Like reached out to my 1:01:16.320 --> 1:01:18.600 managers at the time, all my best friends. He was like, 1:01:18.640 --> 1:01:20.280 I need to come to l A and surprise her, 1:01:20.680 --> 1:01:23.440 and they were like no, like, we don't think that's 1:01:23.440 --> 1:01:26.760 a good idea, like send flowers so haha, jokes on him. 1:01:27.160 --> 1:01:32.240 Mm hmm, so no, get back, no goodbye, you're trash. 1:01:33.120 --> 1:01:34.360 Oh she found her camera too. 1:01:40.040 --> 1:01:42.320 But when I look back at these moments, I'm like, honestly, 1:01:42.400 --> 1:01:44.680 like you have to laugh, Like it was traumatic in 1:01:44.760 --> 1:01:46.640 the in the moment, but it's like and also I 1:01:46.720 --> 1:01:47.400 learn my lesson. 1:01:47.560 --> 1:01:51.800 But that's a that's like a scene movie that wasn't 1:01:58.160 --> 1:02:01.520 don't do with people, have another place to perform. 1:02:08.280 --> 1:02:11.120 No, the lesson was if I ever am dating someone 1:02:11.120 --> 1:02:12.280 and I feel the need that I need to look 1:02:12.320 --> 1:02:14.640 through their ship, you probably should shouldn't be with them. 1:02:15.320 --> 1:02:19.840 That's that's the lesson. Also, find a closer venue. 1:02:20.160 --> 1:02:23.040 I live by that. If I got to look check 1:02:23.120 --> 1:02:26.000 after you run out, it ain't worth it. I don't 1:02:26.000 --> 1:02:26.560 have the time. 1:02:26.680 --> 1:02:30.640 Yeah, well I have never told that story. 1:02:30.880 --> 1:02:34.480 We thank you here at the Army the podcast that 1:02:35.200 --> 1:02:40.480 that might be top too, That might be top too. 1:02:40.800 --> 1:02:43.160 I ain't saying that. No, I'm saying it's between you. 1:02:43.680 --> 1:02:45.680 It's between you. You don't want to say who else? 1:02:46.520 --> 1:02:48.960 Between you and somebody else for top spot. I ain't 1:02:48.960 --> 1:02:53.840 saying the names great recovery. That was really good. Thank 1:02:53.920 --> 1:02:57.440 you for coming and turning out with old people. Well 1:02:57.440 --> 1:03:02.000 I'm here, you know, I like they always ask ask 1:03:02.040 --> 1:03:06.520 if he's my son. That's how you do see it. 1:03:09.480 --> 1:03:11.360 But thank you. Always got a home at R and 1:03:11.400 --> 1:03:15.040 B Money. You know that, and we will continue to 1:03:15.120 --> 1:03:19.360 support you, uplift you, shine the light on you. Whatever 1:03:19.400 --> 1:03:21.560 you need us to do, we are here. We are 1:03:21.720 --> 1:03:27.240 at your disposal. Continue to be great, continue to be grown. 1:03:27.680 --> 1:03:31.560 Ish, and keep the music coming. 1:03:32.320 --> 1:03:33.640 It's crazy, you know what I'm saying. 1:03:33.680 --> 1:03:38.800 And you yeah, But she owns Collide, run it up, 1:03:39.200 --> 1:03:43.880 the other songs, whatever one she's own. 1:03:43.560 --> 1:03:49.200 Whole dark side, you stream it, you buy it. 1:03:50.200 --> 1:03:53.600 TikTok to it, Come on take that, tell us, come. 1:03:55.880 --> 1:04:02.040 Tak talk, Come on ticketing, Get out of there. 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