Speaker 1: R and B Money.
Speaker 2: We are take about Chi.
Speaker 1: We are the authorities.
Speaker 3: R and B.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2: My name is Tank and this is the R and
Speaker 2: B Money Podcast, the authority on all things R and B,
Speaker 2: the Miami and the You come to Miami, you better
Speaker 2: pull over?
Speaker 1: Whoa why are you pulling over? Listen?
Speaker 2: You got to tap in with the soil, the originator.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we begin where it all begin. Y'all talking that ship. Now,
Speaker 1: she's been talking that ship, give it up, been talking it.
Speaker 4: Hey, guys, you've been you've been doing.
Speaker 3: This, been doing this, being done that.
Speaker 2: How does that feel like watching, you know, watching this
Speaker 2: new generation just kind of like pick up the pieces
Speaker 2: that that that you've that you've just kind of inspired
Speaker 2: and and just run with it in such a way
Speaker 2: and be recognized in such a way because you were
Speaker 2: you were a standalone you were by yourself talking like this,
Speaker 2: and now it's like it's it's common.
Speaker 1: This is what you're supposed to do now. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just like I just look back and I
Speaker 5: just see all the new artists, the girls and stuff,
Speaker 5: and I could see like the form of inspiration or
Speaker 5: like the drive, the hunger, like the sassiness.
Speaker 3: I want to be the boss. I want to get
Speaker 3: my money up my bags.
Speaker 5: I see all that you know, and you know every
Speaker 5: day it's just constantly a new generation of it growing
Speaker 5: every single day.
Speaker 1: It's wow, do you do you do?
Speaker 2: You get those calls and hit those des like you
Speaker 2: inspired me?
Speaker 3: I get it all the time. I get it all
Speaker 3: the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get some of that. But it's like the
Speaker 2: way they start the sendence is like unk. I'm like,
Speaker 2: I thought you embraced No, I embraced it now, But
Speaker 2: in the beginning it was like, oh g.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I was like, man, I'm
Speaker 1: still coloring my hair.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: With the rewind with the rewind the time, I'm still
Speaker 2: trying to I'm at the poor party and they're like this, hey,
Speaker 2: how did you get in here? Like the older section is,
Speaker 2: first of all, thank you so much, thank you so
Speaker 2: much for coming. We like we appreciate and value your
Speaker 2: time for you are still cooking in these streets as
Speaker 2: we are on the show later on this week together. Yes,
Speaker 2: and I'm it's dope to be on the show with you.
Speaker 2: I want to ask you about the beginning I want
Speaker 2: to ask you about the the beginning of Trina and
Speaker 2: you being in this Miami space and coming to terms
Speaker 2: with the fact that I have a gift. I have
Speaker 2: something to offer, and let me show you what that is.
Speaker 2: When did you identify that.
Speaker 5: In the beginning before even you guys knew me, I
Speaker 5: knew that, you know, I just kind of came up
Speaker 5: like that. I came up around a lot of women
Speaker 5: that were entrepreneurs, hard work and successful women.
Speaker 3: You know, my aunt owned the bank.
Speaker 1: Your aunt owned a bank.
Speaker 5: Yeah shit, yeah, my sister she owns the bank. So
Speaker 5: she passed away. This was years ago.
Speaker 3: I was young.
Speaker 5: So I just kind of grew up in like the
Speaker 5: surroundings of just women like always leveling up, you know, businesses,
Speaker 5: just seeing women be really profound, like taking care of
Speaker 5: themselves always.
Speaker 3: You know, I didn't see like you know, I need.
Speaker 5: I didn't see like that. I didn't see like the
Speaker 5: women I grew up around. I didn't really see them
Speaker 5: sit around and wait for anything hat. No, it was
Speaker 5: they were the hands. They were the hands that was
Speaker 5: handing out, you know. They was the bosses. They was
Speaker 5: the you know, the women in the nice cars with
Speaker 5: the nice business the nice home. This is the stuff
Speaker 5: I saw growing up all the time, all around me.
Speaker 5: So all my friends, this is what we aspire to be,
Speaker 5: Like these women, how can we have our own money?
Speaker 5: I want my own car, art, Like this is the
Speaker 5: stuff that I, you know, wanted to see. So I
Speaker 5: always that was before I even became you guys know me, Like,
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm from Miami. This is a big place,
Speaker 5: so everybody already knew who I was just because of
Speaker 5: my upbringing. And then when I decided to do music,
Speaker 5: it just made it like, you know, like ten times
Speaker 5: even more intense.
Speaker 3: But I already had that vision.
Speaker 5: Like when I started doing music, I fell in love
Speaker 5: with the women that were like, oh my god, this
Speaker 5: is you make me you know happy?
Speaker 3: Or that song did?
Speaker 5: It got me through my heartbreak and I wanted to
Speaker 5: just kill my husband and I just listened to you
Speaker 5: and I just so much of that. And I used
Speaker 5: to be like, you know, like wow, you know, like
Speaker 5: my husband cheated and I gave him a chance. I'm
Speaker 5: not giving them more chances. So I was the one
Speaker 5: that was like, you know, wow, more power, the strength,
Speaker 5: the hugs, the love and the energy, the attitude, the
Speaker 5: you know, the determination to be able to walk and
Speaker 5: stand on your own. And I just that was how
Speaker 5: I set myself up. Like everything I did, I wanted
Speaker 5: to do it. I wanted to make sure that my
Speaker 5: affairs was in order. I had everything that I needed.
Speaker 5: I had my own everything, and my business was organized
Speaker 5: like it was dropping to start, like you know, from
Speaker 5: the start, like I mean, it's music, it's fun, we
Speaker 5: travel and we performing, but that's still a business. Like
Speaker 5: I never got so caught up in the fun to
Speaker 5: I didn't understand the business. That's why twenty plus years later,
Speaker 5: I'm here because I understood the business from the beginning.
Speaker 5: And I tell a lot of girls now, like you
Speaker 5: know that ask me for advice and stuff.
Speaker 3: I tell them that, like it's all fun.
Speaker 5: You go out, you know, you got your wanes, you
Speaker 5: in the club, you pop in bodies, You having a
Speaker 5: good time, and you're supposed to have a good time.
Speaker 5: You're young, you live in life, and we only get
Speaker 5: one life. But you need to be really precise, ideal,
Speaker 5: and strategic about your business, making sure that you are
Speaker 5: setting the ground for yourself, making sure you have for yourself,
Speaker 5: making sure you don't run into a brick wall, and everything.
Speaker 3: The door is closed and you're like, what all happened?
Speaker 3: The whole start went away?
Speaker 5: No, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta understand that this
Speaker 5: is still a business, even though for us it's still
Speaker 5: it's a it's a craft. It's art and people adore it,
Speaker 5: you know, and you do it for as long as
Speaker 5: you feel until you say I don't want to do.
Speaker 3: It no more.
Speaker 5: Sure, And that's still like running a business. I work
Speaker 5: for self. Guy is self employed. Die must get up
Speaker 5: for self and run and handle her business. So that's
Speaker 5: just now I kind of started.
Speaker 1: So as you as you talk this boss talk, I
Speaker 1: love it. I love it, which is very exciting.
Speaker 4: You.
Speaker 2: You you you had the foresight in terms of understanding,
Speaker 2: you know, to make sure the business was taken care of,
Speaker 2: to be on top of your business. But I feel
Speaker 2: like also you would unders you understood all levels of
Speaker 2: the music business even before you even kind of embarked
Speaker 2: on it. So choosing to be a rapper was definitely
Speaker 2: a concise choice because coming from from these these these
Speaker 2: uh these boss inspirations who owned you could could have
Speaker 2: easily chose management or just be part of a label,
Speaker 2: or just be like you could have chosen all those things.
Speaker 2: What made you choose to be in front of the
Speaker 2: microphone too?
Speaker 3: Because I felt like I was a star.
Speaker 5: This is the main thing is the main So I
Speaker 5: just I always felt like that, you know, like I
Speaker 5: was just always the leader of the pact. Even with
Speaker 5: all my friends, my girls, I'm the person in charge.
Speaker 5: I'm making sure everybody outfits look a certain way. We're
Speaker 5: going to this spot, We're gonna sit in this section.
Speaker 5: Everybody got that was me, organized organization. All the girls
Speaker 5: got to be looking this way like that was my thing.
Speaker 5: So I knew when I started doing music, I was
Speaker 5: gonna like run everybody crazy because I knew exactly what
Speaker 5: I wanted.
Speaker 1: A are you do?
Speaker 2: You go as far as like, yeah, you're not gonna
Speaker 2: be to sit with us with that with that on,
Speaker 2: that's not going.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, no, look you know what tonight, this is
Speaker 5: not that my we're like all black affair, you're gonna
Speaker 5: have to change.
Speaker 3: No, it's it's respect.
Speaker 5: Like I just know you look right. I don't want
Speaker 5: you to look crazy. Everybody knows that about me. Maybe
Speaker 5: you sure with something else, like what's the option?
Speaker 3: Or you look beautiful?
Speaker 5: This is it? Like that's just me. Everybody was an all
Speaker 5: black affair. Everybody's wanting black. Don't come in here with
Speaker 5: your sob story about while you have one yellow. We're
Speaker 5: not accepting them coming here with your organization formation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're not doing that.
Speaker 5: So I just kind of structure like that because I
Speaker 5: just like to be organized and just this whole little
Speaker 5: you know thing.
Speaker 2: There's a listen, there is a there's a certain sexiness
Speaker 2: to order. You understand what I'm saying and when it
Speaker 2: looks certain because you know, we can speak from the
Speaker 2: God's perspective when we look at the at the section
Speaker 2: and this and the section is curated the right way.
Speaker 1: We want to we want.
Speaker 2: To send some some flowers and some and maybe a
Speaker 2: couple of bottles to that section and you tell them
Speaker 2: that they doing.
Speaker 1: The right ship over there.
Speaker 3: That's a good section section right there.
Speaker 6: You never want to have to tell one of the homies.
Speaker 6: You know, you gotta take one for the team. You
Speaker 6: see the one in.
Speaker 1: That yellow.
Speaker 4: With the with the side story. You got to take
Speaker 4: one for the team and that dog.
Speaker 1: Check. We need you yellow. We wanted that shoe. We're
Speaker 1: gonna focus on all.
Speaker 6: So let's get to these records, right, so you're you're
Speaker 6: curating your section and homies and y'all moving a certain way.
Speaker 3: And then oh my god, so now the.
Speaker 1: Record is that the first rap song you recorder? Are
Speaker 1: you already?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: That was the first rap song I record? That was
Speaker 5: That was kind of like me doing a favor for Trick.
Speaker 5: It wasn't really like it turned into a record, But
Speaker 5: that's not initially what it started out as started out,
Speaker 5: as you know, before I even heard the record, Trick
Speaker 5: was like kind of on the phone, kind of like
Speaker 5: just talking, rapping whatever he was going to say on.
Speaker 1: Can I go back to you? And Trick getting on
Speaker 1: the phone. How do y'all meet?
Speaker 2: Is this?
Speaker 5: I met Trick when I was in school, like way younger.
Speaker 5: We was in school, but Trick ended up going to jail,
Speaker 5: so I've never seen him in more until he was
Speaker 5: out of jail.
Speaker 3: He was growing.
Speaker 5: But this was way years later, and I think like
Speaker 5: six seven years after. And then he always will say
Speaker 5: he wanted the music. He wanted to rap so bad,
Speaker 5: and like all of our girls, he will always be
Speaker 5: rapping and stuff. We'd be like, okay, already shop a deal.
Speaker 5: We're not a record label like already, and so once
Speaker 5: he got out of jail, he really like all the
Speaker 5: raps that he was rapping up in jail or whatever.
Speaker 3: He brought it a lot.
Speaker 5: And then he went directly to Luke to go do
Speaker 5: music and he did a song. He did his whole
Speaker 5: thing over there, and then after that he got signed
Speaker 5: to stip in Slode Records, and then it was like, okay,
Speaker 5: you elevate.
Speaker 3: You moved from one thing to the next.
Speaker 5: And then he had put out an album on slip
Speaker 5: and Slide, So we just already knewm so we always
Speaker 5: would support him, go to the videos, you know, me
Speaker 5: and my girls just hang out and just go show
Speaker 5: him love. And because he really got out of jail
Speaker 5: and did like I said, I wanted the music. And
Speaker 5: then so now it's the second album time. And then
Speaker 5: he just called me one day. It was me and
Speaker 5: my friends in the car. We was on our way
Speaker 5: I think to the flea market or something like that,
Speaker 5: and he was just like, hey, I want you guys
Speaker 5: to come out of the studio and he was like, no,
Speaker 5: it's gonna be a whole bunch of people over there, Like no,
Speaker 5: what for He was like, no, no, no, it's just
Speaker 5: gonna be me and he was calling out the names
Speaker 5: and we was like, because I'm the person that I
Speaker 5: always say, who are I gonna be over there?
Speaker 3: That's me.
Speaker 5: I'm always who's all over So he was kind of
Speaker 5: staying over there.
Speaker 3: So it wasn't a lot.
Speaker 5: So we was like, what do you want, Trick, and
Speaker 5: then he was just like I want you. I need
Speaker 5: you trained to come, like talk on this song. Needs
Speaker 5: you just come get on this song. I was like,
Speaker 5: get on the song and do what and he was like,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna let you hear it and he just started
Speaker 5: saying it on the phone and I was like, what
Speaker 5: are you singing?
Speaker 3: You don't know? Naw like what? He was like naw man?
Speaker 5: And I was like now I meaning like nobody. Now,
Speaker 5: nobody's better than you, like now, like nothing is better.
Speaker 5: And then he was like yeah and I was like
Speaker 5: all right, we'll see. So we came over and when
Speaker 5: I got to the studio, he played the record and
Speaker 5: I was like, what in the hell is happening here?
Speaker 3: It was no, it wasn't. It was just like whoa
Speaker 3: Like he was just talking.
Speaker 5: You know, you guys heard the record he was, and
Speaker 5: so mind you it was just him on the hook
Speaker 5: and just saying it and then he was like verbally
Speaker 5: singing his verse. It wasn't done yet though, it was
Speaker 5: just kind of so I was like, WHOA, what the
Speaker 5: hell am I gonna be doing on the record, And
Speaker 5: then he was like, no, I just need you to
Speaker 5: go in there, take your friends, had my girlfriends with me,
Speaker 5: my godsister and some of my homegirls and just all
Speaker 5: y'all going to booth and just just I need you
Speaker 5: to just like talk the talk, like I need you
Speaker 5: to just like it's like guy versus girls. So if
Speaker 5: a guy is just kind of coming at you aggressive
Speaker 5: and you know whatever, I need you to just go
Speaker 5: like ten times and say that you're gonna hear what
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say, and you just go afterday and so
Speaker 5: I'm in there, I'm saying all kinds of stuff in
Speaker 5: my friends like no, that's not nasty enough, say this,
Speaker 5: and we taking stuff away.
Speaker 3: We laughed. It was just a whole production this day
Speaker 3: in the studio.
Speaker 5: And so when it was finally done.
Speaker 3: He had left trick Love study, so it's just us.
Speaker 5: So I saw me and my girls an engineer and
Speaker 5: so when it was done, we called him and told
Speaker 5: me it was finished, and he came back and heard it,
Speaker 5: and then he called the label owner from the Slipping
Speaker 5: Slide Records and then he heard it and he was like,
Speaker 5: that is not Trina and then we was like, yes,
Speaker 5: it is, and then the rest is history. I got
Speaker 5: to deal with Atlantic Records from.
Speaker 1: The song and so you weren't even trying me.
Speaker 5: No, they were trying to sign me for a couple
Speaker 5: of months, like three four months to the label.
Speaker 3: I was like, no, I'm just doing a favor. I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 5: I was like no show no at first, Yeah, I
Speaker 5: was like no. I was like I'm just doing I
Speaker 5: just went to talk and do a favor, like you know,
Speaker 5: just talk my Todd, like you know, you hear songs
Speaker 5: and you a girl somebody in the background. Theyre arguing
Speaker 5: she's not actually an artist, she's just somebody in the
Speaker 5: background and somebody you know, your friend and she's just
Speaker 5: and then they were like no, and the Atlantic Records
Speaker 5: is like who is that?
Speaker 3: And it was like I kept saying no. They were
Speaker 3: harassing me days and days and days. Yeah, So I
Speaker 3: went to perform.
Speaker 5: It was Trick's birthday party right after, and they was
Speaker 5: trying to release the record, and they come to his
Speaker 5: birthday party.
Speaker 3: I was like, okay, cool, I'll come. So I go
Speaker 3: to the birthday party.
Speaker 5: I know he's going to perform and do his thing,
Speaker 5: but I'm just here in full support, me and my friends.
Speaker 5: And as we're there, they played the way he was
Speaker 5: going to perform and they stopped playing his records. He
Speaker 5: stopped playing some songs, and then I remember the record
Speaker 5: came on and they told me, well, we want you
Speaker 5: to come out on the record. I was like, absolutely not,
Speaker 5: Like it's not gonna happen. It's just not It's not
Speaker 5: gonna happen. And so I remember it was like it
Speaker 5: was a club. It wasn't a really big club. The
Speaker 5: stage was not so big. So we were like behind
Speaker 5: the stage in this VP or that's where it's little.
Speaker 5: The party was at before you get out to the
Speaker 5: main part. And he came on the stage and he
Speaker 5: stopped phone. So I'm in the backstanding by the curtain.
Speaker 5: You know, we stand up. Me and my girls were
Speaker 5: looking We just partying out at a good time, and so
Speaker 5: they kept saying you have to come out. I kept
Speaker 5: saying I'm not coming out. And when the song came
Speaker 5: on him and like one of my other friend guys,
Speaker 5: they came. They pushed the curtain up and they was
Speaker 5: like to show the crowd. It was me like yeah,
Speaker 5: like this is the girl who's saying it. And as
Speaker 5: soon as they did that, they were like trying to
Speaker 5: grab me to come to the stage and the girls
Speaker 5: like right when I was talking the little like hold up,
Speaker 5: hold up over that little part. I was standing right
Speaker 5: there and the girls in the crowd like just said
Speaker 5: every word to the song I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: I didn't open my mouth and say nothing. I was just.
Speaker 5: Standing there looking like what And it was That's how
Speaker 5: it just started. That's exactly how it happened.
Speaker 1: Was that the bug was that the thing that.
Speaker 3: Said no, it was one more after that was the
Speaker 3: one thing. So then after that, Naddy invited me. This
Speaker 3: was a performance.
Speaker 5: This was like the first performance of Trick's new album.
Speaker 5: It's at the College Times in Tallahassee. Fam you so
Speaker 5: we're gonna go to Tallahassee. So we all excited like okay,
Speaker 5: we'll go, let's go. And that was the bug that
Speaker 5: was the one because it was like this is a
Speaker 5: big venue, it's a big stage, and I mean the
Speaker 5: song it's one divert like one the bar. So by
Speaker 5: the time Trick he had like he didn't really do
Speaker 5: a lot of songs from like the previous project. He
Speaker 5: had did a couple songs from that and maybe it's
Speaker 5: like a thirty minute sat. So this song now, particularly
Speaker 5: was the last song that he do and when it
Speaker 5: came on, you could just see the like the crowd
Speaker 5: just inflaming. Everybody's going nuts, and now it's time for
Speaker 5: me to come out. And then you just hear the girls,
Speaker 5: everybody just screaming. I can hear them in the back.
Speaker 3: I'm looking peeking.
Speaker 5: And so by the time I came back at this time,
Speaker 5: I had came with like my friends, some dancers, everybody,
Speaker 5: a whole full production. And then we came out and
Speaker 5: I did the song, and I don't know, I was like,
Speaker 5: what it's going on?
Speaker 3: Like what did I create? I'm talking.
Speaker 5: I mean, I literally didn't have to say nothing. They
Speaker 5: said the whole song like I couldn't even I was
Speaker 5: like I was starstruck, like looking at them like what
Speaker 5: And then that's that was it?
Speaker 4: And you still don't have a deal yet, are you
Speaker 4: at this point?
Speaker 1: Now you have the deal? Have you given in?
Speaker 5: And actually don't think I had the deal at the
Speaker 5: Tallahasseee thing. I think right after Tallahassee, I did the deal.
Speaker 3: I did the deal. So were you able to since yeah,
Speaker 3: right after that.
Speaker 6: So now you have this hit record that's out, you
Speaker 6: kind of playing cat and mouse with the label. Are
Speaker 6: you able to create a bidding war or do you
Speaker 6: say I'm still going this way though?
Speaker 3: Well, it wasn't obitting where it was just Atlantic.
Speaker 5: They just came through with that pressure like this is
Speaker 5: what they want to do. This is the deal they
Speaker 5: going to merge with slipping slide, this is the deal
Speaker 5: coming through this trick and train of record X y
Speaker 5: Z And it was a great deal and we just
Speaker 5: I did it. And then immediately well because this was
Speaker 5: nineteen this was a ninety eight. Then a the record
Speaker 5: came out, and then we went on like all these
Speaker 5: different tours like right after for the whole straight year.
Speaker 5: But in the midst of that whole year of touring
Speaker 5: off this record, that's when I was creating my album.
Speaker 5: So it came out in two thousand, right directly right
Speaker 5: after the record, So went from that to that, and
Speaker 5: it just started because.
Speaker 2: It's like you were just having a good time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're just having fun and stumbled on.
Speaker 6: And you were able to in a sense practice with
Speaker 6: a hit record.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because no nobody gets to do that.
Speaker 4: Usually people go.
Speaker 6: Out there on nobody know, they don't know your pa.
Speaker 5: And then I had, in the midst of that another
Speaker 5: thing because right when that we did, now, I had
Speaker 5: did What's Your Fantasy remix with Ludacris, so that record
Speaker 5: was so I had two records, and so I would
Speaker 5: go on the road with Ludacris, going road with Tricks
Speaker 5: back and for It back and for It back, and yeah, kind.
Speaker 3: Of happened real all.
Speaker 5: This is before I put out my first single, my album,
Speaker 5: So I had both of those records.
Speaker 6: Like out the gate, Are you doing any shows by yourself?
Speaker 6: Are you just like, okay, I'm gonna just do their
Speaker 6: shows with you.
Speaker 3: No, I just did the shows with them.
Speaker 5: I didn't do no shows by myself until my album
Speaker 5: came out, because then it was all me, okay, yeah,
Speaker 5: so you waited, yeah, because I was, and why I
Speaker 5: was doing it. I had just got the deal signed
Speaker 5: and then Atlantic was like requesting I put the album
Speaker 5: out like right away, like you know yes, and so
Speaker 5: I did it.
Speaker 3: Within the year I was on the word working with
Speaker 3: that deal.
Speaker 6: We like to ask you get your check, get your check,
Speaker 6: you buy it.
Speaker 5: I didn't buy anything, actually nothing, no, I actually, this
Speaker 5: is just funny.
Speaker 3: I didn't buy nothing. I gave a check to my mom. Actually, and.
Speaker 5: My mom well, I had introduced my mom into like
Speaker 5: buying properties, buying stuff, flipping it, and you know, buying
Speaker 5: selling whatever. And so when I first got the check
Speaker 5: or whatever, it was like I was already working and
Speaker 5: I was good. I was making money, so I didn't
Speaker 5: really need the check. So I just gave it to her,
Speaker 5: and here I go. My album came out. The first
Speaker 5: year we worked on the album, I'm doing videos, I'm
Speaker 5: traveling to them, whatever. The second year came, I'm still
Speaker 5: in the world. I'm working, but I'm getting creating my
Speaker 5: second album at the same time. And by time the
Speaker 5: second album had dropped and came out. I believe it
Speaker 5: was like when the album came out, I want to say,
Speaker 5: like right after, like I had like an album release
Speaker 5: party or something or whatever, and then my mom gave
Speaker 5: me the check back, but it was double the money
Speaker 5: she just took. She just doubled it like whatever she
Speaker 5: was slipping out so I had check, So I didn't
Speaker 5: I just really had it. I didn't have a Yeah,
Speaker 5: I didn't have a used to like getting nothing because
Speaker 5: I kind of had everything. Like I had three cars,
Speaker 5: I had a house. I had everything I wanted, Like
Speaker 5: I was just young, traveling the world doing I want
Speaker 5: to do.
Speaker 3: I didn't you know what I mean. I didn't really need.
Speaker 5: Nothing like that except but to just live, like wake
Speaker 5: up and get the album done.
Speaker 6: I'm glad you didn't buy rims like Tank.
Speaker 1: I had first of all in l A, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And in l A.
Speaker 2: The if you got a rim she was in Miami.
Speaker 2: If you got to the culture was different.
Speaker 4: They got.
Speaker 3: All that down here. That's a big thing for us.
Speaker 2: But as a boy, I had to show up with
Speaker 2: that ship on my car and when they gave me
Speaker 2: my first check. No, I didn't have nowhere to live,
Speaker 2: absolutely not. So you didn't double yours, not in double mind.
Speaker 2: But I doubled up on them rims. I promise you
Speaker 2: that I put them low and hard ld ones on
Speaker 2: that GS three hundred.
Speaker 1: Black on black, then pot them edition and they saw me.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, look at the cameras.
Speaker 1: I wasted mind.
Speaker 2: Yes, kids, please don't buy rims because you know you
Speaker 2: go because they come with rim. You go through a
Speaker 2: tire a month, and and don't go to all the
Speaker 2: strip clubs. Pick one, just just pick one. You try
Speaker 2: to be an informative pie. But I had fun. Shout
Speaker 2: out to the next gold club, Shout out to Legs,
Speaker 2: shout out.
Speaker 1: To Michelle, Triple X and Trish. I'm just shout out
Speaker 1: to Peanuts.
Speaker 4: Get out of there, man.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, anyway, So so.
Speaker 2: Give me, give me your give me just your disposition
Speaker 2: and how you're feeling going from okay, yes, I'm just
Speaker 2: jumping on stage with Trick, I'm just jumping on stage
Speaker 2: with Luda. Now it's now it's just your name on
Speaker 2: the marqut, it's just you. How are you feeling at
Speaker 2: this point because you all, from what you say that
Speaker 2: you've already felt bossy, right, yeah, but now this has
Speaker 2: to take your boss level to.
Speaker 3: I was out of control. I was out of control.
Speaker 5: Now I just felt I really it just really like
Speaker 5: separated me, you know, from what I was already doing
Speaker 5: to what I just already wanted to do myself like
Speaker 5: I'm in charge, this is the ticket.
Speaker 3: It's about me.
Speaker 5: So everything that's I'm bringing to this show and to
Speaker 5: this platform, I'm doing it on my own. Like I'm
Speaker 5: calling the shots. I want the sound to sound like this,
Speaker 5: I want the stages like this. I won't dances. I
Speaker 5: want you know, like Trick ain't really have dance and stuff.
Speaker 5: He was just like he's just a good damn rap.
Speaker 5: I wanted a production, so I want to turn it different,
Speaker 5: And yeah it was different.
Speaker 6: Did you hire from within, like as far as from
Speaker 6: Miami or did you like do the whole who's the
Speaker 6: biggest choreographer or you know what?
Speaker 5: I did it kind of here first because we have
Speaker 5: a lot of like we had a lot of great dancers,
Speaker 5: a lot of grants.
Speaker 3: I mean great dancers.
Speaker 5: You know, they travel, they dance here, they dance Atlanta,
Speaker 5: they dance California, like all the you know, artists, videos
Speaker 5: and tours and stuff. So I already came in with that,
Speaker 5: Like Miami is a big known place for dance scenes
Speaker 5: and dancing, so that was easy to find. That was
Speaker 5: easy to get that. So yeah, I kind of constructed
Speaker 5: that desk like right here, that's dope.
Speaker 1: I love that. And your first solo tour is with who.
Speaker 3: Oh Myself. It was myself, but.
Speaker 6: You didn't have to really, so you didn't have to
Speaker 6: do the promo run though.
Speaker 1: I mean as far as.
Speaker 6: Like, hey, but you did that with which with tricking
Speaker 6: with Lulak. I'm saying, once your project came, you were
Speaker 6: already getting paid to do shows.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I still did promo though. I just still
Speaker 5: did a lot of yeah, no, no, no you promo. Definitely, I
Speaker 5: definitely did promo. I definitely did those radio dates. I
Speaker 5: definitely did those, you know, go to the radio station, show,
Speaker 5: loved every whatever they needed. I did that also because
Speaker 5: then again when it was my album and then you know,
Speaker 5: I did my single and then I had my single
Speaker 5: with Kelly Rowland, and so it was definitely mandatory for promo.
Speaker 5: It's definitely like a marketing strategy behind it. And I
Speaker 5: definitely had to steal take like it was dates that
Speaker 5: I would that I would be booked. It was for
Speaker 5: me to like perform, but I would take radio dates
Speaker 5: in with that also. I had to, and I mean
Speaker 5: I didn't care because I was Sometimes I would do
Speaker 5: two shows in a day.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Sometimes, so I'll do a show, two shows in one city,
Speaker 5: or two shows and one citay and another show after
Speaker 5: party somewhere else, or a show here and a show
Speaker 5: somewhere else, fly here or drive here. So it was
Speaker 5: kind of like every day, you know. So I added
Speaker 5: promo into that with radio like kind of on the run.
Speaker 5: I didn't have a problem with that though.
Speaker 2: I think, like we were talking about, you know, just
Speaker 2: younger artists and artists who who've kind of in this
Speaker 2: new generation have more subscribed to online promo versus in
Speaker 2: person promo.
Speaker 1: Like there's a difference in touching the people.
Speaker 2: In those artists who've actually gone to all those B
Speaker 2: and C markets and left their mark there. Because I
Speaker 2: can tell I know for a fact, you can go anywhere.
Speaker 3: Anywhere down South anywhere and.
Speaker 2: Get a full you can go anywhere and get a bag.
Speaker 2: And that is a result of those promo runs. Man,
Speaker 2: just going to touch the people doing those luncheons, showing
Speaker 2: up I have shown.
Speaker 1: Up to to to what they what they're doing their
Speaker 1: hair to the hair salon did this.
Speaker 2: We had a we had a in Chattanooga. No what't
Speaker 2: not you Charleston, South Carolina. Fill up your tank with
Speaker 2: tank and and I.
Speaker 1: Was pumping the gas.
Speaker 2: This is fixed in the morning, but it's a line
Speaker 2: as hours I can see, and I am pumping gas.
Speaker 2: I'm shaking hands and there's no babies this early morning,
Speaker 2: but I'm shaking hands and giving hugs at the gas station.
Speaker 2: And I think, you know, for us coming up in
Speaker 2: those times, I think that's been a saving grace and
Speaker 2: the difference in us being able to stand the test
Speaker 2: of time because we're connected to people, We're not just
Speaker 2: connected online. But then you add the fact that you
Speaker 2: have legendary music and you have a legendary persona, which
Speaker 2: I think these new young female artists are are snatching
Speaker 2: pieces of and trying to you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: No, I love the way that you've that you've embraced
Speaker 6: all the newer artists who that have come along, you
Speaker 6: know what I mean, because everybody isn't always receptive of
Speaker 6: you know what's coming. But I feel like it's done
Speaker 6: nothing but continue to push you higher up because you
Speaker 6: just move in such grace. Yeah, it's really cool to
Speaker 6: watch and really cool to see and see, you know,
Speaker 6: all the artists that have come after you celebrate you.
Speaker 6: I'm watching it like in real time, it's as soon
Speaker 6: as they start talking to like and Trina, Yeah yeah,
Speaker 6: And that's just it's really really cool, really cool to see.
Speaker 6: But the things that you've done early on too with
Speaker 6: you and Trick Daddy had the most amazing chemistry, like
Speaker 6: you said, with the back and forth with the records,
Speaker 6: like shut up and take it to the house. Like
Speaker 6: y'all got records that they still play right now, right
Speaker 6: now for sure, but even just get the get the
Speaker 6: get the arena going records. How did it feel to
Speaker 6: have a record like that, like a take it to
Speaker 6: the house when you any football game, you go to
Speaker 6: basketball game, anything sporting event, because that's not like okay,
Speaker 6: yeah we at the club and it's gonna get his burned.
Speaker 4: This is little kids in there.
Speaker 2: Ye.
Speaker 3: Everybody's having a good time. That's a great feeling.
Speaker 5: You know, Like we got a chance to perform that
Speaker 5: record at the halftime for the Dolphins game.
Speaker 3: Right doing that before the Super Bowl and.
Speaker 5: You know, like you said, it's like, you know, it's
Speaker 5: just kids, everybody. It was just one of those records
Speaker 5: that everybody's having a good time.
Speaker 3: They just listen to the beat.
Speaker 5: They just listening to the whole harmony and us just
Speaker 5: talking and you know, and it's just a fun record.
Speaker 3: I think that's like a universal record.
Speaker 5: It's the record you can put on the party, a barbecue,
Speaker 5: you know, a game, a kickback, whatever you want to
Speaker 5: put it on. And it's just one of those records
Speaker 5: that has still been standing all these years.
Speaker 6: Hey you got you got so many hits though, looking
Speaker 6: at the club to thank you.
Speaker 1: And it's one of those.
Speaker 6: Things you kind of like if you pull up on
Speaker 6: a girl she's playing training, you don't really be like, Okay,
Speaker 6: she is she on one of the talk ship records?
Speaker 4: What did do today?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? You figure out how to go.
Speaker 1: We don't make a vote. We're gonna make your super
Speaker 1: R and B artists.
Speaker 2: And you got to put this artist together with artists
Speaker 2: dead or alive with these qualities. Who you're going to
Speaker 2: get the vocal from, the performance style from, the styling
Speaker 2: from and the passion of the artist, the heart of
Speaker 2: the artists. Who out of all the artists you love
Speaker 2: and know, are you going to get the vocal from
Speaker 2: to make your super artist one vocal?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, top tier the voice Okay, Who you're going to
Speaker 2: get the performance style Okay, Well then if you know
Speaker 2: you know, you know I went to Okay, the styling
Speaker 2: we put your.
Speaker 3: Man, I'm gonna go with she gonna a clean, nice
Speaker 3: clean one.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, easy easy.
Speaker 2: My grandmama used to make me watch Patla Bell. You
Speaker 2: see how the hair used to be out doing the
Speaker 2: thing like I had.
Speaker 1: And the passion of the artists, the heart of the artists.
Speaker 5: Passion, passionate heart, passion. Oh, I'm gonna go Fantasia.
Speaker 3: She's gonna kick off the shoes and get sweat. Yeah,
Speaker 3: she's gonna get into it.
Speaker 1: Five minutes and she's.
Speaker 3: Gonna get right into it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I cried in Fantasia one American idol.
Speaker 5: Yes, like she deserved that.
Speaker 1: Yes, like she got she did something to my soul.
Speaker 3: She deserved it.
Speaker 1: That just doesn't happen. I crab when he was on tour,
Speaker 1: it was on tour together. Now just cried, all right,
Speaker 1: here we go. Yeah. Let you notice I have theme songs,
Speaker 1: full lot of this ship. Okay, I ain't saying no
Speaker 1: name today. I ain't saying no names. I ain't saying
Speaker 1: no names. I ain't saying no names. Where he was,
Speaker 1: who is with what you did? Don't say she I
Speaker 1: ain't saying no names.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so we're here.
Speaker 3: Now we're here, Now you're here.
Speaker 6: Special segment special of the show. It's called I Ain't
Speaker 6: Saying no Names. Tell us a story funny or fucked up?
Speaker 6: Are funny and fucked up? The only rule to the
Speaker 6: game is you can't say no names.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 5: We are in Los Angeles, California. It is my birthday weekend,
Speaker 5: and we are about to turn up. I am with
Speaker 5: the hottest chicks in the industry. Legend Superstar one is
Speaker 5: so big, it's.
Speaker 3: Just iconic.
Speaker 5: Okay, Okay, I decide to go out with my friends.
Speaker 5: I'm calling everybody up. They not answering everybody. I'm thinking, like,
Speaker 5: you know, I'm they you know, nobody's reaching back out
Speaker 5: to me. We all up here. I go shopping with
Speaker 5: my friends. Me and my friend go shopping. We go
Speaker 5: a couple places. We go to the store, we go
Speaker 5: Rodale Drive, We go to Mail Roads. Were your fool?
Speaker 5: We walking around with shopping. We leave, We come back
Speaker 5: to the hotel. All my stuff is all over the
Speaker 5: bed and stuff. I'm sitting in there. A couple celebrities
Speaker 5: is in here, my friends and we're just here and
Speaker 5: all of a sudden, you know, we're just getting ready
Speaker 5: to my birthday, so everybody's getting ready to have a
Speaker 5: good time. You got to get dressed to you know whatever,
Speaker 5: And all of a sudden, there's like a knock on
Speaker 5: the door of the hotel.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, what the hell is that?
Speaker 5: And some of my friends are you know, they drink
Speaker 5: and they just vibing on the balcony, have a good time.
Speaker 5: So I'm like, hey, somebody's the door. Somebody's door and
Speaker 5: they go to the door like hey, it's like security.
Speaker 5: I'm like, what the hell, what's going on? Like, you know,
Speaker 5: So I say, we'll open the door.
Speaker 3: I'm in the room.
Speaker 5: I'm hiding in a room or whatever. And they come
Speaker 5: to the door. It's like two like police guys and
Speaker 5: like another guy looks like the hotel owner of security
Speaker 5: or whatever, and they go they're asking for my name,
Speaker 5: and so my friend is like, yeah, she's here, what's
Speaker 5: the problem. And so I come out the room. Beck
Speaker 5: I come to the door. They're like all standing right here.
Speaker 5: I go to the door and they're like, hey, are
Speaker 5: you such and such or whatever, and I'm like yeah,
Speaker 5: that's me. And they're like they have this paper. It
Speaker 5: has a picture of my driver's license.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, the fuck that's going on. So we
Speaker 3: look and I'm like, yeah, this is what happened. He
Speaker 3: was like, were you with someone today shopping? Today? Out shopping?
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, I was shopping. He was like,
Speaker 3: where you got shoplifting?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: I was like?
Speaker 5: Shoplifting? I was like, so I got very Miami shoplifting
Speaker 5: me shopping?
Speaker 3: Do you know why I am? I just went crazy
Speaker 3: like no, no, no, I got all this stuff and
Speaker 3: how all this side or whatever? Mind you.
Speaker 5: My friends are here, they're celebrity, they're all sitting here.
Speaker 5: So I'm just first of all, I'm embarrassed. I'm scared
Speaker 5: the police is here shoplifting. So I'm looking at my
Speaker 5: friend like there's like and she was with you and
Speaker 5: I was like yeah, and the guy goes, we have
Speaker 5: you on camera for stealing something out of a store.
Speaker 3: So I'm here.
Speaker 5: The guy already and came to the door and he
Speaker 5: go I looked at her and I go, are you stealing?
Speaker 3: And she said and I.
Speaker 5: Bustop crying, and they were like you know what, you
Speaker 5: two you guys come with us, and they grabbed us
Speaker 5: lf to the door, put our hands behind my back
Speaker 5: or whatever. And at that time, as soon as my
Speaker 5: hand went behind my back, I just heard something go
Speaker 5: boom and it was a music box pop on and
Speaker 5: the guys with the police things, I take it out.
Speaker 3: They clothed this y.
Speaker 5: So my other celebrity trains I at the door and
Speaker 5: the go there in the bat They on the floor
Speaker 5: in the hallway crying and laughing, screaming, laughing, And when
Speaker 5: they come in, I was so mad. I couldn't even
Speaker 5: I forgot. I didn't even realize them like starting to
Speaker 5: do the strip teasing. I was so mad, I couldn't
Speaker 5: get unmad. It was like happy Birthday. And then everybody
Speaker 5: just came and everybody's talking.
Speaker 3: I was so mad. I was like stealing roll Dale drive.
Speaker 3: What what mes?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 3: How do you get my ID? My friend took a
Speaker 3: picture of my ID zoomed it in. It was a
Speaker 3: big plot.
Speaker 5: But my friend, my celebrity friends. Her security was the
Speaker 5: guys that came to door as security. I never saw
Speaker 5: her security before, so I'm thinking these big guys, these
Speaker 5: are like, yeah, he's talking about It was so not.
Speaker 3: Funny, but it was so funny.
Speaker 5: After I was pissed off, but I had a good
Speaker 5: time after. But boy, this group here, it was a
Speaker 5: it was like one of the best birthdays ever. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm just waiting on Ashton cut you to pop up,
Speaker 5: like being paid, Like what's happening?
Speaker 1: Like what person Yellow really probably sent you, Like you
Speaker 1: didn't have to do that?
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I was looking at her like what stealing, like it's
Speaker 5: my birthday weekend, like what and she went only she
Speaker 5: was like just the shirt, just a shirt.
Speaker 3: Everybody in the room was just trying not to laugh
Speaker 3: so hard.
Speaker 5: During the whole time. I was at the door like terrified,
Speaker 5: my hands in my back and like what and my
Speaker 5: eyes were beg I was like crying and everything. And
Speaker 5: I was just so embarrassed. And I mean when I
Speaker 5: seen them people by that door, and when I seen
Speaker 5: them once the guys came in, I see my friends
Speaker 5: on the floor. I'm talking on the hallway of the
Speaker 5: hotel flow laughing.
Speaker 3: Oh. I was too pissed off with them. But it
Speaker 3: was a good day.
Speaker 1: You didn't get to enjoy the I.
Speaker 3: Didn't even came out to strip tease. I was just over.
Speaker 3: I was too mad to enjoy.
Speaker 5: I was just like I couldn't even have fun right
Speaker 5: then because I was my heart was beating, like shoplifted, arrested, la,
Speaker 5: wait what we have to have a miscommunication? And then yeah,
Speaker 5: that's what happened. So that was like the little trick
Speaker 5: that happened to you, shop is stealing?
Speaker 3: What appen?
Speaker 5: All my receives my purse, my credit card, all my
Speaker 5: backs like it is my birthday, Like yeah, but that
Speaker 5: was that was That was one of the things that
Speaker 5: got me.
Speaker 6: That a great story. That is a great great shout
Speaker 6: out to the friends. Shout for y'all pushing. They actually
Speaker 6: stole something too turned into a fight, Like.
Speaker 2: I know how Trina, listen, we I mean your your
Speaker 2: essence is legendary as you continue to see these young
Speaker 2: ladies with more confidence, more business acumen and in owning
Speaker 2: who they are as women. You you are, You're You're
Speaker 2: part of creating that legacy for us. So we appreciate you.
Speaker 2: We we we we can't wait till I'm gonna put
Speaker 2: a date on it. We can't wait till June. You know,
Speaker 2: we can't wait till May.
Speaker 1: I'm just throwing.
Speaker 2: I'm just throwing months out there, you know what I'm
Speaker 2: saying I'm not trying to poind, no pressure, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, Just I'm just praying.
Speaker 4: And maybe sometime in May June, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: new training. I'm just.
Speaker 1: I'm just putting that in an atmosphere, going on tour
Speaker 1: and you want to pop up, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: You know, anytime, anytime, and if you need us for anything, man,
Speaker 2: this is this is a home for you. Whatever you
Speaker 2: need us to say, do, promote, show up to whatever
Speaker 2: it is we are.
Speaker 1: We are there.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Not that.
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