WEBVTT - R&B Money: Trina 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:05.000 R and B Money. 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:10.159 We are take about Chi. 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:13.800 We are the authorities. 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:16.280 R and B. 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:19.639 Ladies and gentlemen. 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:22.960 My name is Tank and this is the R and 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:28.120 B Money Podcast, the authority on all things R and B, 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:32.040 the Miami and the You come to Miami, you better 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:32.440 pull over? 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:38.720 Whoa why are you pulling over? Listen? 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:43.440 You got to tap in with the soil, the originator. 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:48.400 Yeah, we begin where it all begin. Y'all talking that ship. Now, 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:54.960 she's been talking that ship, give it up, been talking it. 0:00:56.720 --> 0:01:00.080 Hey, guys, you've been you've been doing. 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:02.600 This, been doing this, being done that. 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:07.600 How does that feel like watching, you know, watching this 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:12.840 new generation just kind of like pick up the pieces 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:16.600 that that that you've that you've just kind of inspired 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:18.440 and and just run with it in such a way 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:20.480 and be recognized in such a way because you were 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:23.520 you were a standalone you were by yourself talking like this, 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:27.920 and now it's like it's it's common. 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:30.319 This is what you're supposed to do now. Yeah. 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:32.720 Yeah, it's just like I just look back and I 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:34.720 just see all the new artists, the girls and stuff, 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.440 and I could see like the form of inspiration or 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:40.759 like the drive, the hunger, like the sassiness. 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:43.240 I want to be the boss. I want to get 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:44.360 my money up my bags. 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:47.000 I see all that you know, and you know every 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:49.800 day it's just constantly a new generation of it growing 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:50.720 every single day. 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.400 It's wow, do you do you do? 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:57.120 You get those calls and hit those des like you 0:01:57.280 --> 0:01:58.040 inspired me? 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:02.160 I get it all the time. I get it all 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:02.600 the time. 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.560 Yeah, I get some of that. But it's like the 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:08.280 way they start the sendence is like unk. I'm like, 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:13.720 I thought you embraced No, I embraced it now, But 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:15.280 in the beginning it was like, oh g. 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:19.440 You know what I'm saying. I was like, man, I'm 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:20.919 still coloring my hair. 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:21.360 You know what I'm saying. 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:25.480 With the rewind with the rewind the time, I'm still 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.200 trying to I'm at the poor party and they're like this, hey, 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:39.840 how did you get in here? Like the older section is, 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:42.520 first of all, thank you so much, thank you so 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:45.320 much for coming. We like we appreciate and value your 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:49.679 time for you are still cooking in these streets as 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:53.960 we are on the show later on this week together. Yes, 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:57.120 and I'm it's dope to be on the show with you. 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:59.280 I want to ask you about the beginning I want 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:02.000 to ask you about the the beginning of Trina and 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:07.640 you being in this Miami space and coming to terms 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:09.520 with the fact that I have a gift. I have 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:13.320 something to offer, and let me show you what that is. 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:14.919 When did you identify that. 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:20.720 In the beginning before even you guys knew me, I 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.160 knew that, you know, I just kind of came up 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:25.800 like that. I came up around a lot of women 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:29.560 that were entrepreneurs, hard work and successful women. 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:31.840 You know, my aunt owned the bank. 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:33.720 Your aunt owned a bank. 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:37.200 Yeah shit, yeah, my sister she owns the bank. So 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:39.520 she passed away. This was years ago. 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:40.440 I was young. 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:44.080 So I just kind of grew up in like the 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:53.320 surroundings of just women like always leveling up, you know, businesses, 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.880 just seeing women be really profound, like taking care of 0:03:58.960 --> 0:03:59.880 themselves always. 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:06.560 You know, I didn't see like you know, I need. 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:09.200 I didn't see like that. I didn't see like the 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:11.280 women I grew up around. I didn't really see them 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:14.840 sit around and wait for anything hat. No, it was 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:16.760 they were the hands. They were the hands that was 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:19.200 handing out, you know. They was the bosses. They was 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:21.200 the you know, the women in the nice cars with 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:23.120 the nice business the nice home. This is the stuff 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.200 I saw growing up all the time, all around me. 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.599 So all my friends, this is what we aspire to be, 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:30.680 Like these women, how can we have our own money? 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:32.520 I want my own car, art, Like this is the 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:34.880 stuff that I, you know, wanted to see. So I 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:38.520 always that was before I even became you guys know me, Like, 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:40.520 I mean, I'm from Miami. This is a big place, 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:42.880 so everybody already knew who I was just because of 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:44.919 my upbringing. And then when I decided to do music, 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:47.440 it just made it like, you know, like ten times 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:48.599 even more intense. 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:50.159 But I already had that vision. 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.440 Like when I started doing music, I fell in love 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:57.320 with the women that were like, oh my god, this 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:59.120 is you make me you know happy? 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:00.280 Or that song did? 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:02.920 It got me through my heartbreak and I wanted to 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:05.040 just kill my husband and I just listened to you 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:07.160 and I just so much of that. And I used 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:09.839 to be like, you know, like wow, you know, like 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:11.760 my husband cheated and I gave him a chance. I'm 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.240 not giving them more chances. So I was the one 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.919 that was like, you know, wow, more power, the strength, 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:21.080 the hugs, the love and the energy, the attitude, the 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:26.000 you know, the determination to be able to walk and 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:29.640 stand on your own. And I just that was how 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:32.200 I set myself up. Like everything I did, I wanted 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:34.760 to do it. I wanted to make sure that my 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:37.440 affairs was in order. I had everything that I needed. 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:41.480 I had my own everything, and my business was organized 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:45.479 like it was dropping to start, like you know, from 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:49.520 the start, like I mean, it's music, it's fun, we 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:52.320 travel and we performing, but that's still a business. Like 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.039 I never got so caught up in the fun to 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:58.920 I didn't understand the business. That's why twenty plus years later, 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.440 I'm here because I understood the business from the beginning. 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:03.839 And I tell a lot of girls now, like you 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:05.320 know that ask me for advice and stuff. 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:06.800 I tell them that, like it's all fun. 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:08.800 You go out, you know, you got your wanes, you 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:10.440 in the club, you pop in bodies, You having a 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.800 good time, and you're supposed to have a good time. 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:14.680 You're young, you live in life, and we only get 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:19.360 one life. But you need to be really precise, ideal, 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:24.760 and strategic about your business, making sure that you are 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.760 setting the ground for yourself, making sure you have for yourself, 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:32.600 making sure you don't run into a brick wall, and everything. 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:34.880 The door is closed and you're like, what all happened? 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:35.880 The whole start went away? 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.560 No, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta understand that this 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:41.400 is still a business, even though for us it's still 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:44.480 it's a it's a craft. It's art and people adore it, 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.800 you know, and you do it for as long as 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:49.320 you feel until you say I don't want to do. 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:49.680 It no more. 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:53.479 Sure, And that's still like running a business. I work 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:56.440 for self. Guy is self employed. Die must get up 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.800 for self and run and handle her business. So that's 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:01.080 just now I kind of started. 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:04.840 So as you as you talk this boss talk, I 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:07.680 love it. I love it, which is very exciting. 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:09.840 You. 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:14.240 You you you had the foresight in terms of understanding, 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.160 you know, to make sure the business was taken care of, 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:19.080 to be on top of your business. But I feel 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:22.520 like also you would unders you understood all levels of 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:26.680 the music business even before you even kind of embarked 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:30.080 on it. So choosing to be a rapper was definitely 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:36.040 a concise choice because coming from from these these these 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:40.040 uh these boss inspirations who owned you could could have 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:43.480 easily chose management or just be part of a label, 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:45.680 or just be like you could have chosen all those things. 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:47.840 What made you choose to be in front of the 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:48.680 microphone too? 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:50.200 Because I felt like I was a star. 0:07:56.200 --> 0:08:01.440 This is the main thing is the main So I 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:03.800 just I always felt like that, you know, like I 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:05.680 was just always the leader of the pact. Even with 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:07.920 all my friends, my girls, I'm the person in charge. 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.720 I'm making sure everybody outfits look a certain way. We're 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:12.800 going to this spot, We're gonna sit in this section. 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:16.120 Everybody got that was me, organized organization. All the girls 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:17.760 got to be looking this way like that was my thing. 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:19.680 So I knew when I started doing music, I was 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:21.920 gonna like run everybody crazy because I knew exactly what 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:22.320 I wanted. 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:24.440 A are you do? 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:27.160 You go as far as like, yeah, you're not gonna 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:28.480 be to sit with us with that with that on, 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:29.360 that's not going. 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:31.560 Oh yeah, no, look you know what tonight, this is 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.400 not that my we're like all black affair, you're gonna 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:35.080 have to change. 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:36.440 No, it's it's respect. 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:38.000 Like I just know you look right. I don't want 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:40.600 you to look crazy. Everybody knows that about me. Maybe 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:42.240 you sure with something else, like what's the option? 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:43.319 Or you look beautiful? 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:46.920 This is it? Like that's just me. Everybody was an all 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:48.880 black affair. Everybody's wanting black. Don't come in here with 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:50.800 your sob story about while you have one yellow. We're 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:54.880 not accepting them coming here with your organization formation. 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:55.920 Yeah, we're not doing that. 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:58.920 So I just kind of structure like that because I 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.360 just like to be organized and just this whole little 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:02.720 you know thing. 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:07.599 There's a listen, there is a there's a certain sexiness 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:11.240 to order. You understand what I'm saying and when it 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.560 looks certain because you know, we can speak from the 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:16.079 God's perspective when we look at the at the section 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:20.040 and this and the section is curated the right way. 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:22.280 We want to we want. 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:25.839 To send some some flowers and some and maybe a 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.400 couple of bottles to that section and you tell them 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:29.520 that they doing. 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:30.480 The right ship over there. 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:33.120 That's a good section section right there. 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:34.720 You never want to have to tell one of the homies. 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.800 You know, you gotta take one for the team. You 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:38.520 see the one in. 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:39.280 That yellow. 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.360 With the with the side story. You got to take 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:44.640 one for the team and that dog. 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:51.520 Check. We need you yellow. We wanted that shoe. We're 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:52.680 gonna focus on all. 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.360 So let's get to these records, right, so you're you're 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:02.040 curating your section and homies and y'all moving a certain way. 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:07.000 And then oh my god, so now the. 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:11.079 Record is that the first rap song you recorder? Are 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:11.920 you already? 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:12.240 No? 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:14.000 That was the first rap song I record? That was 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:16.400 That was kind of like me doing a favor for Trick. 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:18.840 It wasn't really like it turned into a record, But 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:21.960 that's not initially what it started out as started out, 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.920 as you know, before I even heard the record, Trick 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:28.400 was like kind of on the phone, kind of like 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:30.719 just talking, rapping whatever he was going to say on. 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.120 Can I go back to you? And Trick getting on 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:34.079 the phone. How do y'all meet? 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:34.320 Is this? 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:37.959 I met Trick when I was in school, like way younger. 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:40.360 We was in school, but Trick ended up going to jail, 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:43.079 so I've never seen him in more until he was 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:43.600 out of jail. 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:44.160 He was growing. 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:47.000 But this was way years later, and I think like 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:50.439 six seven years after. And then he always will say 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:52.120 he wanted the music. He wanted to rap so bad, 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:54.400 and like all of our girls, he will always be 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:57.840 rapping and stuff. We'd be like, okay, already shop a deal. 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:00.880 We're not a record label like already, and so once 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:05.480 he got out of jail, he really like all the 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:07.440 raps that he was rapping up in jail or whatever. 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:08.080 He brought it a lot. 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:10.160 And then he went directly to Luke to go do 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.240 music and he did a song. He did his whole 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:14.720 thing over there, and then after that he got signed 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.880 to stip in Slode Records, and then it was like, okay, 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:18.480 you elevate. 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:19.760 You moved from one thing to the next. 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:21.520 And then he had put out an album on slip 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:23.120 and Slide, So we just already knewm so we always 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.520 would support him, go to the videos, you know, me 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:27.200 and my girls just hang out and just go show 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:30.280 him love. And because he really got out of jail 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.120 and did like I said, I wanted the music. And 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:36.440 then so now it's the second album time. And then 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:39.080 he just called me one day. It was me and 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:40.800 my friends in the car. We was on our way 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:42.960 I think to the flea market or something like that, 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:44.400 and he was just like, hey, I want you guys 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:45.640 to come out of the studio and he was like, no, 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:48.040 it's gonna be a whole bunch of people over there, Like no, 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:49.880 what for He was like, no, no, no, it's just 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:51.680 gonna be me and he was calling out the names 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:53.120 and we was like, because I'm the person that I 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:54.679 always say, who are I gonna be over there? 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:55.080 That's me. 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:59.640 I'm always who's all over So he was kind of 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:00.480 staying over there. 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:01.280 So it wasn't a lot. 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:03.000 So we was like, what do you want, Trick, and 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:06.199 then he was just like I want you. I need 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:08.520 you trained to come, like talk on this song. Needs 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:10.280 you just come get on this song. I was like, 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.360 get on the song and do what and he was like, 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:14.760 I'm gonna let you hear it and he just started 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.000 saying it on the phone and I was like, what 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:17.680 are you singing? 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:19.679 You don't know? Naw like what? He was like naw man? 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:21.880 And I was like now I meaning like nobody. Now, 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:25.160 nobody's better than you, like now, like nothing is better. 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:27.120 And then he was like yeah and I was like 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:30.880 all right, we'll see. So we came over and when 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:34.079 I got to the studio, he played the record and 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:37.360 I was like, what in the hell is happening here? 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.840 It was no, it wasn't. It was just like whoa 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:43.360 Like he was just talking. 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.760 You know, you guys heard the record he was, and 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:48.640 so mind you it was just him on the hook 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:50.679 and just saying it and then he was like verbally 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:52.960 singing his verse. It wasn't done yet though, it was 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:55.320 just kind of so I was like, WHOA, what the 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:57.120 hell am I gonna be doing on the record, And 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:58.240 then he was like, no, I just need you to 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:00.920 go in there, take your friends, had my girlfriends with me, 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.720 my godsister and some of my homegirls and just all 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:06.640 y'all going to booth and just just I need you 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.000 to just like talk the talk, like I need you 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:12.280 to just like it's like guy versus girls. So if 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:14.080 a guy is just kind of coming at you aggressive 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:15.880 and you know whatever, I need you to just go 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:17.640 like ten times and say that you're gonna hear what 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:20.280 I'm gonna say, and you just go afterday and so 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:21.559 I'm in there, I'm saying all kinds of stuff in 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:23.320 my friends like no, that's not nasty enough, say this, 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:24.400 and we taking stuff away. 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:26.679 We laughed. It was just a whole production this day 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:27.240 in the studio. 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:32.000 And so when it was finally done. 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:33.160 He had left trick Love study, so it's just us. 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.080 So I saw me and my girls an engineer and 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.040 so when it was done, we called him and told 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:38.800 me it was finished, and he came back and heard it, 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:41.280 and then he called the label owner from the Slipping 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:43.400 Slide Records and then he heard it and he was like, 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:45.360 that is not Trina and then we was like, yes, 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:48.600 it is, and then the rest is history. I got 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:50.040 to deal with Atlantic Records from. 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:53.480 The song and so you weren't even trying me. 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:55.000 No, they were trying to sign me for a couple 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:56.320 of months, like three four months to the label. 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:58.200 I was like, no, I'm just doing a favor. I 0:13:58.200 --> 0:13:58.560 don't know. 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:00.520 I was like no show no at first, Yeah, I 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:02.520 was like no. I was like I'm just doing I 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:04.520 just went to talk and do a favor, like you know, 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:06.840 just talk my Todd, like you know, you hear songs 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:08.560 and you a girl somebody in the background. Theyre arguing 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:10.959 she's not actually an artist, she's just somebody in the 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:12.800 background and somebody you know, your friend and she's just 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.360 and then they were like no, and the Atlantic Records 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:17.079 is like who is that? 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:19.560 And it was like I kept saying no. They were 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:22.800 harassing me days and days and days. Yeah, So I 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:23.560 went to perform. 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.920 It was Trick's birthday party right after, and they was 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:29.760 trying to release the record, and they come to his 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:30.280 birthday party. 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:32.480 I was like, okay, cool, I'll come. So I go 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:33.480 to the birthday party. 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:34.920 I know he's going to perform and do his thing, 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.400 but I'm just here in full support, me and my friends. 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:41.840 And as we're there, they played the way he was 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:43.400 going to perform and they stopped playing his records. He 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:45.360 stopped playing some songs, and then I remember the record 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:47.480 came on and they told me, well, we want you 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:49.200 to come out on the record. I was like, absolutely not, 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:51.720 Like it's not gonna happen. It's just not It's not 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.680 gonna happen. And so I remember it was like it 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:56.640 was a club. It wasn't a really big club. The 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:59.400 stage was not so big. So we were like behind 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.440 the stage in this VP or that's where it's little. 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:03.280 The party was at before you get out to the 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:07.000 main part. And he came on the stage and he 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:08.840 stopped phone. So I'm in the backstanding by the curtain. 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:10.160 You know, we stand up. Me and my girls were 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:12.520 looking We just partying out at a good time, and so 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:14.080 they kept saying you have to come out. I kept 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:17.200 saying I'm not coming out. And when the song came 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.760 on him and like one of my other friend guys, 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:21.400 they came. They pushed the curtain up and they was 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:24.680 like to show the crowd. It was me like yeah, 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:27.120 like this is the girl who's saying it. And as 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:29.680 soon as they did that, they were like trying to 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:33.000 grab me to come to the stage and the girls 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.280 like right when I was talking the little like hold up, 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:37.800 hold up over that little part. I was standing right 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:42.400 there and the girls in the crowd like just said 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:44.200 every word to the song I'm talking about. 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:46.960 I didn't open my mouth and say nothing. I was just. 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:52.200 Standing there looking like what And it was That's how 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:54.240 it just started. That's exactly how it happened. 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:57.600 Was that the bug was that the thing that. 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:05.160 Said no, it was one more after that was the 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:08.040 one thing. So then after that, Naddy invited me. This 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:09.560 was a performance. 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:13.840 This was like the first performance of Trick's new album. 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:16.960 It's at the College Times in Tallahassee. Fam you so 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:20.840 we're gonna go to Tallahassee. So we all excited like okay, 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:24.280 we'll go, let's go. And that was the bug that 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:25.960 was the one because it was like this is a 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:29.320 big venue, it's a big stage, and I mean the 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:33.200 song it's one divert like one the bar. So by 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:36.120 the time Trick he had like he didn't really do 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:38.480 a lot of songs from like the previous project. He 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:40.640 had did a couple songs from that and maybe it's 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:43.320 like a thirty minute sat. So this song now, particularly 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:47.160 was the last song that he do and when it 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:50.120 came on, you could just see the like the crowd 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:53.560 just inflaming. Everybody's going nuts, and now it's time for 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:56.960 me to come out. And then you just hear the girls, 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:58.800 everybody just screaming. I can hear them in the back. 0:16:58.800 --> 0:16:59.640 I'm looking peeking. 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:01.520 And so by the time I came back at this time, 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:04.240 I had came with like my friends, some dancers, everybody, 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:07.000 a whole full production. And then we came out and 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:10.159 I did the song, and I don't know, I was like, 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:12.240 what it's going on? 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:14.240 Like what did I create? I'm talking. 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:18.880 I mean, I literally didn't have to say nothing. They 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:22.159 said the whole song like I couldn't even I was 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:25.080 like I was starstruck, like looking at them like what 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:26.920 And then that's that was it? 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:29.240 And you still don't have a deal yet, are you 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:29.720 at this point? 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:32.840 Now you have the deal? Have you given in? 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:35.119 And actually don't think I had the deal at the 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:40.000 Tallahasseee thing. I think right after Tallahassee, I did the deal. 0:17:40.160 --> 0:18:03.440 I did the deal. So were you able to since yeah, 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:04.160