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Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.

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Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club Morning, everybody is DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious,

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Speaker 2: Charlamagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 3: Jess is all maternity leave. So Lolaos is feeling in

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Speaker 3: and we.

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Speaker 2: Got a special guest in the building, Lady Netlie for title.

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Speaker 3: Welcome.

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Speaker 1: Hi, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 4: How are you?

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Speaker 3: How are you feeling?

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Speaker 1: I'm good? How are you?

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Speaker 4: I'm blessed?

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Speaker 2: Black and Holly favorite new album seventy is out today.

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Speaker 4: How does it feel?

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Speaker 1: Congratulations by the way on your work you're doing for community.

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Speaker 1: That's it was on your Instagram.

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Speaker 2: Oh, thank you was talking to this morning.

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Speaker 4: Thank you very much. How does the feel be back

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Speaker 4: making music?

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Speaker 1: Incredible?

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Speaker 4: You like this part? Having to come to interviews and

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Speaker 4: be interrogated.

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Speaker 5: It's not as.

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Speaker 1: Fun sometimes nowadays because everything's click bait and I'm like, ah,

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Speaker 1: what you know? Sometimes that's challenging, but it's okay, So

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Speaker 1: like kind of share my vibes, my positive energy.

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Speaker 3: So why so long? It took a long time? Seven years,

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Speaker 3: just busy.

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Speaker 1: I like to kind of keep one foot kind of

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Speaker 1: like in the real world. And then went for entertainments.

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Speaker 1: Entertainments really fast paced, and you have to really be

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Speaker 1: out there to be successful in my industry. And I

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Speaker 1: take I've taken the approach for the last twenty five

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Speaker 1: years to kind of do it go hard for a

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Speaker 1: little bit, but then for my own mental health, I

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Speaker 1: kind of need to take breaks.

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Speaker 4: And exercises.

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Speaker 1: No, kind of yeah, I'm a and so yeah, just

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Speaker 1: like doing the mom thing and kind of like normal

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Speaker 1: normal life. And then and then when I'm in the studio,

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Speaker 1: I get to really express myself and write and produce

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Speaker 1: and invite a lot of friends into the studio and

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Speaker 1: have really late nights and finals. It's the most fun

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Speaker 1: part is making the music for me. I enjoy concerts.

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Speaker 1: I've been out on stage again performing a lot that's

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Speaker 1: been really refreshing and good. But like, yeah, you have

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Speaker 1: to take care of yourself.

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Speaker 6: You know, we're part of mom life. Nelly Fotato inspires music.

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Speaker 3: Nell his music a mom like this.

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Speaker 5: I'm going to say, because you said Brazil, this gives

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Speaker 5: me split servibes.

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Speaker 6: Thank you.

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Speaker 5: You know very.

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Speaker 1: What.

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Speaker 4: Don't go ahead continue look at face.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so there's pink post it note on.

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Speaker 4: Nobody.

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Speaker 5: No, I do have a lot of energy.

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Speaker 1: I mean to be totally honest. My brain is like,

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Speaker 1: it's different. My brain's different. I have a lot of

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Speaker 1: channels in my brain in a tent of ADHD And

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Speaker 1: this time, when I made this record, I was like,

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna lean into that. I'm going to write

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Speaker 1: And so of course I like festive music. I would.

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Speaker 1: I started to go out again a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 1: and I would hear my music everywhere. DJs would play it,

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Speaker 1: people would dance, do it. I heard it at house parties.

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Speaker 7: Still slaps, girls still slaps.

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Speaker 1: Think you even if if you hear I'm like a

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Speaker 1: bird at a house party, it goes down.

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Speaker 3: Too really well, you don't Timberland this time right.

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Speaker 1: We have been in the studio but for our own

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Speaker 1: single we released last year. We talk all the time.

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Speaker 1: We're you know, we're you know, family for life. I

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Speaker 1: believe I think we have very similar natures when it

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Speaker 1: comes to creativity. I think that's why we make special

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Speaker 1: music together and we will again for sure.

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Speaker 3: But nothing made this happen right.

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Speaker 7: Feels like it sounded like timble and I got the

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Speaker 7: T Minus.

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Speaker 1: produces most of J Cole's stuff, and he's had some

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Speaker 1: great records over the year. But what's gat about him

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Speaker 1: sure they're in the business, but it's more than business.

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Speaker 1: It's family, you know what I mean. It's like you're invested.

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Speaker 1: He wanted to brand the best of me. So we

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Speaker 1: do have some really really good beats on this album,

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Speaker 1: really good, high quality production. Timberland's favorite song. I've played

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Speaker 1: him a lot of records. His favorite song is Floodgate,

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Speaker 1: which was produced.

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Speaker 4: By f n Z.

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Speaker 1: If you know they're beats, but but save your breath. Actually,

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Speaker 1: I co produced and did a lot of vocal production,

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Speaker 1: but T Minus also came with that rhythm. It was

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Speaker 3: I said, you recorded four to five hundred songs in

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Speaker 3: the last four years. I have that's a lot of music.

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Speaker 2: To narrow down to just a couple of the album.

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Speaker 2: So how did you narrow it down? And why so

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Speaker 1: Because I don't write like I can't. I can write

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Speaker 1: that I wrote. I'm I'm like a bird that way.

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Speaker 1: But when I'm in the studio, I like what the

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Speaker 1: approach that I took is I turn the microphones on

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Speaker 1: So I put the speakers and everything really loud, and

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Speaker 1: then I have everybody with microphones, including me, everybody, and

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Speaker 1: when when protos is going and I can record everything

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Speaker 1: I do because my lyrics and melodies come to me

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Speaker 1: at the same time, whole entire songs come that way.

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Speaker 1: It just kind of comes. I did that when I

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Speaker 1: was I would sing. Yeah, I would just sit there

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Speaker 1: and just make up songs, and they made me feel

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Speaker 1: wells of things I don't have an energy drink. I

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Speaker 1: don't have a booty line. I don't got patience for that.

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Speaker 4: One energy you have natural?

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Speaker 1: Is that weird?

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Speaker 4: You're making me a little nervous.

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Speaker 3: Why you don't know?

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Speaker 7: You're just moving and you're talking fast, and I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 7: I didn't hear that part.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 6: That's why she opened with commentating on your your mental work,

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Speaker 6: because she says she deals with add and her mental

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I think it's because she was moving fast. It might

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Speaker 1: Real, like before. I only got diagnosed a couple of

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Speaker 1: years ago. But as a child and growing up in

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Speaker 1: my teens, I'd be that girl that my friends would

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Speaker 1: be like where did she go? Because I would just

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Speaker 5: But did you do what?

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Speaker 4: Score me? Sometimes? So I ignore them. I'm just saying

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Speaker 4: in general, like these two like ignore them all the time.

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Speaker 3: Like we talked, we ignore him too, that we.

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Speaker 5: Locked in over here, no switching up. We don't know

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Speaker 1: That's okay, what was it?

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Speaker 5: You when you were diagnosed? How old were you?

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Speaker 6: Sorry, how old were you when you were diagnosed with eighty?

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Speaker 6: Okay, so what was that like actually having like a okay,

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Speaker 6: I know what this is now, I know how to

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I read a.

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Speaker 1: Lot of books about oh, particularly women with eighty because

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Speaker 1: of the experience for women's a little different, you know,

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Speaker 1: because you know there's more pressure, you know, Especial's Mom's right.

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Speaker 1: It's like you know, you're supposed to have your your

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Speaker 1: so just self acceptance, self love.

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Speaker 4: You got three kids, right, three?

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Speaker 1: Yep, yes, I do, twenty one, six and five?

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Speaker 4: Oh is it?

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Speaker 7: A six year and a five year old? Don't know

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Speaker 7: nothing about music? Nellie for tadle a little.

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Speaker 1: Bit, only because my I have a friend leader. She's

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Speaker 1: say it right. I think it was a live performance

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Speaker 1: in Paris or something like that. Yeah, they liked it.

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Speaker 7: What vibe were you on when you wrote Promiscuous Crowd

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Speaker 7: back back then? And what did your parents think of it?

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Speaker 1: My parents? I mean I was, Yeah, I was already

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Speaker 1: But I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I've never asked my mom ever.

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Speaker 6: She's never like commented like, hey, hey, the song because

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Speaker 1: I mean I remember being fourteen in our house growing up,

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Speaker 1: and Salt Peppa had a song Let's talk about sex, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and Pepper absolutely very empowered, you know, in talking about

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Speaker 1: people still call it promiscuose, but the song is actually

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Speaker 1: called promiscuous. It's not girl or boy.

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Speaker 5: Oh because of those hooks.

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Speaker 6: We I think I always thought it was prom excuse girl,

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Speaker 7: And this new album seven, what does the number seven

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Speaker 7: mean to you? I know, I know it's your seven filbum.

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Speaker 7: I know you put out album seven years ago, but

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Speaker 7: what does the number seven actually mean you?

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Speaker 1: To be honest, I kind of wanted a title this

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Speaker 1: like really simple, like a almost like a fashion collection.

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Speaker 1: Fashion collections. Uh. And I love the song seven by

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Speaker 1: Prince Princes is one of my favorite artists of all time.

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Speaker 1: And I got to meet Prince a few times and

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Speaker 1: I opened for him before, and I don't know, his

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Speaker 1: that's another that's another sort of thread.

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Speaker 7: I wonder, you know, because you have so much success

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Speaker 7: with Wold Nelly, how was your relationship with famous success

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Speaker 5: But thank you.

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Speaker 6: What are those things for you that you're like, this

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Speaker 5: I'm here for it.

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Speaker 1: On their next and it's so funny.

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Speaker 2: So how did that feel when you heard her using

445
00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:57,120
Speaker 2: your record? You hear that she used your record?

446
00:19:57,160 --> 00:19:57,240
Speaker 1: Man?

447
00:19:57,520 --> 00:19:58,240
Speaker 4: Or no? Of course?

448
00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:01,159
Speaker 3: Okay, did they ask you clear? Did they just use it?

449
00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:05,720
Speaker 1: No, it's TikTok. I don't know, it's just like it's

450
00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:07,960
Speaker 1: what it is. I'm honored.

451
00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:10,639
Speaker 4: Yeah, you think that song scares man away from you?

452
00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:12,520
Speaker 1: Oh?

453
00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:12,720
Speaker 7: Wait?

454
00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:17,399
Speaker 1: I think I was asked that before, like wait, are

455
00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:18,080
Speaker 1: you really a man?

456
00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:18,280
Speaker 2: Eat?

457
00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:25,280
Speaker 1: Bye bye guy? But no, I don't think it shouldn't.

458
00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:29,159
Speaker 1: It's just a song, should it.

459
00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:35,600
Speaker 4: I don't think think. I think whatever you want to do,

460
00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:36,480
Speaker 4: you can do. Man.

461
00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:39,720
Speaker 6: Nothing is on your groundwork of what he should feel

462
00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:41,280
Speaker 6: when he is in your facinity.

463
00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:44,280
Speaker 7: You're interested in me because I just like the space

464
00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:47,119
Speaker 7: you're in, because you are in your own world, like

465
00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:50,880
Speaker 7: you have your own energy, and I think.

466
00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:55,159
Speaker 4: That's probably preserve your energy, right absolutely, and not let

467
00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:56,640
Speaker 4: anybody else shift who you are.

468
00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:58,680
Speaker 7: Like the whole time we're talking to you, I'm like, Oh,

469
00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:01,600
Speaker 7: there's nothing that's going to to shift who she is.

470
00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:03,760
Speaker 4: She's comfortable with who she is.

471
00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:06,320
Speaker 1: Thank you. I've worked really hard at that and it

472
00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:09,280
Speaker 1: doesn't come overnight, that's for sure. And I think that's

473
00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:12,480
Speaker 1: why sort of my ability as a producer and musician

474
00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:15,800
Speaker 1: has gotten better and greater because now I think when

475
00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:17,680
Speaker 1: I'm in the studio, I was always confident. I mean,

476
00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:22,200
Speaker 1: for sure, you know, I was an individual, But now

477
00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:24,680
Speaker 1: I just, I don't know, have healthy sense of detachment

478
00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:27,960
Speaker 1: and boundaries. I'm not trying to feel everybody's feelings, you know,

479
00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:31,600
Speaker 1: but that empathy like that could be that could be hard,

480
00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:32,000
Speaker 1: you know.

481
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Speaker 7: And I get the sense that you're just having fun

482
00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:38,879
Speaker 7: now because you realize this, this shit ain't really about nothing.

483
00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,600
Speaker 7: You got your kid, You can go home be a

484
00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:42,400
Speaker 7: mother when you want.

485
00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:44,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do have a lot of other interests, like

486
00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:46,719
Speaker 1: outside of music, I get. I mean they're not that exciting,

487
00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:49,679
Speaker 1: but I mean dancing, and I like dancing. I like

488
00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:51,840
Speaker 1: that's what TikTok's funny. Can do dance and go to

489
00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:54,760
Speaker 1: the dance studio. It helps me stay to mind. The

490
00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:59,320
Speaker 1: choreography is the discipline. But yes, to answer your question,

491
00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:03,359
Speaker 1: I did use it as almost like I like to

492
00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:06,560
Speaker 1: get through the last few years. I was like, okay, well, identity, right,

493
00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:08,159
Speaker 1: I was talking about identity. I was like, okay, well

494
00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:10,119
Speaker 1: what am I good at? I forgot that how good

495
00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:12,639
Speaker 1: I was at music, I was like, really, yeah, man,

496
00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:13,920
Speaker 1: I got to this chat and I was like, wait,

497
00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,560
Speaker 1: I'm really good. And then my songs kept getting played

498
00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:19,000
Speaker 1: again by DJs on social media, and it was like

499
00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:21,320
Speaker 1: I felt called back to it. I felt like, Okay.

500
00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:23,320
Speaker 1: It's easy to like second guess yourself when you have

501
00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:25,439
Speaker 1: like maybe one hit and you're like twenty five, you know,

502
00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:27,639
Speaker 1: and you can maybe have a lot of feelings of

503
00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:31,960
Speaker 1: you know, like you're not sure. But when you're twenty

504
00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:35,800
Speaker 1: five years into a career and then your songs are

505
00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:39,800
Speaker 1: still touching people, you're reaching brand new audiences, You're reaching

506
00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:43,120
Speaker 1: kids that weren't even born when the music came out.

507
00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:47,399
Speaker 1: That starts to feel very real, very authentic, and something

508
00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:49,359
Speaker 1: you can maybe lean into a little bit more with

509
00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:51,600
Speaker 1: a little more confidence, right, And so that's what's happened

510
00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:53,280
Speaker 1: to me the last few years. I found my identity

511
00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:55,920
Speaker 1: again with my craft of like I'm good at this.

512
00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:58,280
Speaker 1: I've always been good at this. It's about the music.

513
00:22:59,160 --> 00:22:59,399
Speaker 1: You know.

514
00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,600
Speaker 7: That's interesting because your lyrics always have explored like themes

515
00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:06,280
Speaker 7: of identity and love and self discovery. So now these

516
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:09,880
Speaker 7: new personal experiences are influencing I guess this new messaging.

517
00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:13,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I always say so, I would say, so it's

518
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:15,840
Speaker 1: just beginning and kind of you know, I mean, you

519
00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:17,840
Speaker 1: got to stay in there to be good, you know,

520
00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:19,879
Speaker 1: to be a good like you got to be in

521
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:21,560
Speaker 1: the studio a lot, you know what I mean. If

522
00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:23,160
Speaker 1: you want to stay like on top of your game,

523
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:26,159
Speaker 1: you can't really rest even you have to kind of

524
00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:28,360
Speaker 1: keep going. And I found lately, yeah, I'm gonna it's

525
00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:31,840
Speaker 1: all about the flow that you're in and bless you

526
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:35,600
Speaker 1: and access to that originality of sorts.

527
00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:38,560
Speaker 2: I always wanted to know how did you and Timberland meet,

528
00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:40,760
Speaker 2: Like how did that relationship come so strong? And then

529
00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:43,000
Speaker 2: just in Timer late later on, like you guys were

530
00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:44,720
Speaker 2: strong three or people thought you was going to trio.

531
00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:46,560
Speaker 2: People thought y'all were going to do an album with each other.

532
00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:48,360
Speaker 2: So how did y'all initially meet.

533
00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:51,720
Speaker 1: It's a really special chemistry between the three of us.

534
00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:56,040
Speaker 1: So the really cool my little origin story with Timbaland

535
00:23:56,359 --> 00:24:00,120
Speaker 1: we'd like to hear is that in two thousand and one,

536
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 1: you know, I put out my first album Wonellie in

537
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:07,040
Speaker 1: two thousand and one, song called baby Girl it's kind

538
00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:09,159
Speaker 1: of like but about but ding Ding Jing about bu

539
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:11,280
Speaker 1: but ding Ding what about the day. It's like a

540
00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:14,880
Speaker 1: vocal a vocal rangement we did. Timberland heard the song

541
00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:20,119
Speaker 1: and someone from a Vira company said, hey, Timblin' Timbling's

542
00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:21,880
Speaker 1: a fan of yours. He wants to sample this song,

543
00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:23,280
Speaker 1: but he'd also like to meet you and'd like to

544
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:25,119
Speaker 1: come to the studio. So right away I was a

545
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:28,560
Speaker 1: huge fan already, you know Miss the albums and and everything.

546
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:31,800
Speaker 1: So I went to the studio and we hit it

547
00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:34,000
Speaker 1: off from the jump, like right away. It was like

548
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,120
Speaker 1: I had to get in the booth and I started

549
00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:40,320
Speaker 1: singing over the song. I mean he didn't I hadn't

550
00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:41,720
Speaker 1: invited me to sing at that pot, but I just

551
00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:43,000
Speaker 1: was like, I need a thing, turn the mic on,

552
00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:44,800
Speaker 1: and then I was on the song and it was

553
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:46,919
Speaker 1: a sample for Miss Jade, an artist he had at

554
00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:47,200
Speaker 1: the time.

555
00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:49,920
Speaker 6: I did not know that was so that was a

556
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:51,760
Speaker 6: sample of your original song. It was I did not

557
00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:54,520
Speaker 6: know that he sampled me. And then the story doesn't

558
00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:58,440
Speaker 6: end there. I ended up uh touring with the Miss Jade.

559
00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:00,639
Speaker 6: She I had had her opening for me on in

560
00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 6: the US, and then Timberland came.

561
00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:04,119
Speaker 1: For a little run too. He did a turn off

562
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:06,280
Speaker 1: a light remix. But in addition, that very first day,

563
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:10,240
Speaker 1: he goes, I want you to hear something. Sit down,

564
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:11,880
Speaker 1: so we said, and like I sat in a good

565
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 1: spot right in front of the speakers and he played

566
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 1: me get your freak on. I Missy Alliott Yeah, and

567
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:18,679
Speaker 1: no one had heard it. I was probably one of

568
00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 1: the first people to hear it. And he goes, Missy

569
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 1: wants you own the remix? Can you go to I'm sorry,

570
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:26,320
Speaker 1: but I don't remember the state we went. It was,

571
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:29,560
Speaker 1: I probably Virginia to record it. Can you fly to

572
00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:32,719
Speaker 1: Virginia next week or whatever? And I said yes, And

573
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:38,399
Speaker 1: I'm literally twenty two, and I remember I went with

574
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:40,320
Speaker 1: one of my best friends. I just flew there on

575
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:42,720
Speaker 1: my own and I get to the studio and Missy's like, hey,

576
00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:46,439
Speaker 1: what's up. You know I saw your video. I'm like

577
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 1: a bird and I was like, who's this girl in

578
00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:50,320
Speaker 1: shelters and like the princess Leah buns like this is

579
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:52,520
Speaker 1: this is so cool? You're like like your energy.

580
00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:54,520
Speaker 4: I feel like you started doing our sound effects to her,

581
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:56,280
Speaker 4: like BB you do stuff like that.

582
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,480
Speaker 1: Well, she just left with the engineer. She's like, Okay,

583
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:03,679
Speaker 1: I'm gonna sit out here. Here's my engineer, you know, Brian.

584
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:06,760
Speaker 1: I don't remember his damn sorry, right, But then I

585
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:09,160
Speaker 1: sat in the studio and I was like, Okay, it's

586
00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:12,040
Speaker 1: game time. I gotta hit this verse out of the park.

587
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 1: And when I was coming up in Toronto, I would

588
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:16,240
Speaker 1: do this thing where I tried I had too many

589
00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 1: lyrics and I had to try to fit them all

590
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:20,480
Speaker 1: in the bars, so I had to come up with

591
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:23,080
Speaker 1: a way to sing rap them, you know. And so

592
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:25,919
Speaker 1: that's the style you hear on that record that I

593
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,240
Speaker 1: get a frequent remix. So I'm in there and I'm like,

594
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:31,520
Speaker 1: I gotta it. Oh God, I just like yeah, I

595
00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:33,000
Speaker 1: just went for it. And then she did love it.

596
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:35,240
Speaker 4: So she was first verse you laid.

597
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 1: She was like, yeah, that's it done. Deal Records.

598
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Justin Timberlake. How did y'all meet?

599
00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:44,640
Speaker 1: Justin met So Timberland, and I flew to, you know,

600
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 1: make good on the promise of all our earlier remixes

601
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:50,520
Speaker 1: Jimmy Ivan from my lip so you gotta go work

602
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:53,359
Speaker 1: with him again and fulfill the promise of that chemistry,

603
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 1: you know. So I was like yeah, and we were

604
00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:57,919
Speaker 1: in the same state of mind musically. We were listening

605
00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:00,879
Speaker 1: a lot of like really cool stuff, like kind of

606
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 1: rock and like just interesting a mix of things. You're

607
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 1: on the same wavelength. I flew to Miami and you

608
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:12,359
Speaker 1: started cutting Loose with Timblin. We finished Loose, Justin heard

609
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:16,879
Speaker 1: it and you know, kept going with Tim and finished

610
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:20,040
Speaker 1: Feature Sex Love Sounds, And so while I was finishing

611
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 1: my record, Justin was starting that and he came through

612
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 1: the studio and yeah, he's so impressive. He's a real deal,

613
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: really talented, and he was like right there when we

614
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 1: wanted him to be on this, this new song we

615
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,879
Speaker 1: put out last year called Keep Going Up. And I

616
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 1: don't know, it just feels, you know, I think actions

617
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 1: speak loud of the words in a way, you know,

618
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 1: with that with family and the idea of supporting you know, artists,

619
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:43,359
Speaker 1: because you know how it is, it's business, right, so

620
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:46,360
Speaker 1: it's cool when people can you know, deliver that way.

621
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 1: So quickly. It was a quick turnaround. We just made

622
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 1: the record and we put it out.

623
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 6: And were there any because those are like historical, like

624
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 6: you listened to Missy Elliot's song before anybody heard it,

625
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 6: and that song is you know what I mean, it's huge.

626
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,160
Speaker 6: Were there any songs that you got to hear first

627
00:27:58,160 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 6: and you were like, oh, maybe it's not for me,

628
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 6: and then it like became a staple icon like that song.

629
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:04,160
Speaker 5: Yeah.

630
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,679
Speaker 1: We thought Promiscuous was just going to be like a

631
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:09,880
Speaker 1: club record just for the clubs. We thought it would

632
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,119
Speaker 1: just kind of just come out, people dance to it

633
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 1: for a bit, and then it was just shot to

634
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:15,480
Speaker 1: number one. It was number one for weeks and weeks

635
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:15,959
Speaker 1: and weeks.

636
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:18,640
Speaker 6: I think you're talking about people that like your yeah,

637
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 6: like where they bring you on, because I feel like

638
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 6: you you had such a yeah.

639
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Drastic five Jurassic Five used to record

640
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 1: in their house in LA and they I'm on a

641
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 1: song called fin Line the Roots Fornology. I was like,

642
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 1: listen to Cody Chestnut before because I heard Cody chess

643
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:37,480
Speaker 1: this whole thing before he came up with that album,

644
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 1: because he would be hanging in Philly with the Roots,

645
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 1: shout out Questlove, Fill friends with Quest Love. After all

646
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 1: these years. We used to used to sing Isa sing

647
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 1: you got Me on on the Area one tour that

648
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 1: Outcast was on with the Roots, And so that's he's

649
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 1: the realist, one of the realists in the business.

650
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 4: I think and.

651
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 1: Basically, yeah, Phrenology album. I'm on that album too. I

652
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 1: don't know. So Cody Chestnut pretty legendary. He'd be hanging

653
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:09,959
Speaker 1: around in Philly and we heard all his songs. Shoot,

654
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 1: now you're like, no, I'm like, I like this type

655
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:18,240
Speaker 1: of conversations. Yeah, and it's like just cool like records,

656
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 1: just cool stuff before before I got came thinking, yeah,

657
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 1: the good question.

658
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 7: Before I got to business, before the business took over.

659
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 7: That's what it feels like when.

660
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 1: You like, you mean now the business now versus how

661
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 1: the business?

662
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 7: Yeah, Like it seems like back then when you're talking,

663
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 7: it was just creative and it was fun.

664
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 4: It was you're doing it for the love.

665
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:41,480
Speaker 1: I mean, well, I mean it was. I mean, I

666
00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 1: don't know because I felt like I kind of blew

667
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 1: up with my first album because I was already like

668
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 1: on pretty big tours and doing but it was a

669
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,600
Speaker 1: different type of thing, I guess than Loose because then

670
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 1: Louse was I guess even bigger than that album.

671
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 9: So yeah, well I'm trying to think, I'm trying to

672
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 9: a man, trying to think of some other songs like that.

673
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a little Wayne remix of and he recorded

674
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 1: it in Miami.

675
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:15,959
Speaker 6: Is no that never we never heard that though, right,

676
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:17,479
Speaker 6: huh we never heard that remix.

677
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 1: I think someone leaked it like recently, not that like

678
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 1: I feel like if you could probably find it on

679
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 1: the internet. But because the uh, his his studio was

680
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:32,760
Speaker 1: was right right beside where Jimbalon woodwork, right there at

681
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:40,360
Speaker 1: the hip factory, and and uh he he came through

682
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 1: and did it like he did a really amazing verse

683
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 1: and we had a remix act though music's totally different.

684
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 1: I performed that remix before, but not with Little Wayne's verse.

685
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:49,200
Speaker 1: But cool little things like that.

686
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 7: Yeah, I can I ask about motherhood, can ask you

687
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 7: about motherhood? How is motherhood like influenced your perspective on life?

688
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 4: And it isn't your daughter?

689
00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 1: I have three kids involved in this album? Yeah act

690
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 1: So Yeah, she's turning twenty one tomorrow. Same an album

691
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 1: comes out Wow, And she's credited as one of the

692
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 1: an r's on the album actually, and she works in

693
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 1: the music business. She's working already at a second record

694
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 1: company she's worked at and she's she's in marketing A

695
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:14,760
Speaker 1: and R. She goes sand Yu and she's really smart.

696
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 7: Is she like the person that you're afraid to play

697
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 7: your music for Yeah, it's like I thought.

698
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: That crazy stuff with my friend and my friend played

699
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 1: it for her, and I'm like, oh, you played her

700
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 1: that one.

701
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 5: It's just like, you know, good critique.

702
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 6: She normally saying, back to the music she doesn't like,

703
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 6: what does she say she doesn't like something with it?

704
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 1: She said, of course, yeah, she's very opinionated and she's talented,

705
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 1: so so she she has some court rights too. She

706
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 1: wrote some stuff on the album too with me, but

707
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 1: it was like super low key, you know, like no

708
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: big deal because she has a little other administrative side

709
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 1: as well. So anyways, yeah, it's a process. She reminded

710
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 1: me actually to kind of be real with my sound,

711
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 1: and she kept saying this one thing. She said, Mom,

712
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 1: there's two you know, you need to make the music

713
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 1: three dimensional. You know this beat isn't three dimensional enough.

714
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 1: It's like two basic or like your vocals are like

715
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 1: it needs it. We need to round out the sound

716
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 1: like real kind of I guess I feel like she

717
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 1: was thinking about everything, kind of like like she and

718
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 1: our well and are kind of like creative director like

719
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 1: tiny desk I did recently. She was very involved and

720
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 1: was like, no, you gotta do this. She is the

721
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,240
Speaker 1: one who told me to do to get your freaking remix. Wow,

722
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 1: she said you must.

723
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 7: Do that one your most most honest inn are ever

724
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 7: like your most honest critic.

725
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 1: Yes, it's kind of like it's cool having kids, especially

726
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 1: if become adults, because it's the closest thing to having

727
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 1: like a second brain, you know, when you're like, I

728
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 1: wish I had two people so I could get more done,

729
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 1: you know, so she'll like come in like in those

730
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 1: moments you know, where I'm like I need help, you know,

731
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 1: finishing this artwork or like what do you think? Like,

732
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 1: you know, it's really really it's been a blessing.

733
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 4: Did you want her to be in the music Injury?

734
00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 1: No I didn't. I really kept her away from the spotlight. Yeah,

735
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 1: I protected it. I tried my best to protect a

736
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 1: privacy because you know, like you know, I think that's important.

737
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 4: And the books are crazy.

738
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I mean, how are you gonna you know,

739
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 10: you gotta you don't know who you are, you gonna

740
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 10: become you, and I think that's important.

741
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:26,160
Speaker 1: And yeah, so music business. Don't want my kids to

742
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 1: be you can't fight it. If they're talented, I don't think,

743
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, look, it's somebody like

744
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 1: Justin Bieber, Like it's clear he wanted to be there

745
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 1: singing like this is some music was coming out of

746
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 1: him at a young age as a kid. And you know,

747
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 1: I was singing at a young age. But you know,

748
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: I didn't get to do it professionally till later. But

749
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 1: I'm grateful because I got to go to college for it.

750
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 1: But I got to backpack in Europe, I got to

751
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 1: go to prom you know, to be to go to

752
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 1: work the alarm company.

753
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 7: You know, it's got to be tough when you're disconnecting

754
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 7: from the industry and your.

755
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 4: Daughter wants to be in it.

756
00:33:55,440 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't mind. I don't mind because she's more

757
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,280
Speaker 1: on the marketing and the business side, you know what

758
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: I mean. So I'm just always like.

759
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 6: Was that her choice or did you encourage her to

760
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 6: go in from that side and just do the creative

761
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 6: stuff with you?

762
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:11,799
Speaker 1: Became natural, it was natural. She'd actually didn't go into

763
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:13,960
Speaker 1: the studio with me besides feel like maybe it's a

764
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 1: kid a baby once in a while. She didn't go

765
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 1: into the studio with me until she was sixteen, and

766
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 1: she discovered she loved it. So yeah, And you know you.

767
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,279
Speaker 7: Have reinvantage yourself a bunch of times across a bunch

768
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 7: of different albums. So what makes you want to explore

769
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 7: new sounds and themes in new creative directions besides your daughter?

770
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:32,400
Speaker 4: What makes you want to do?

771
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,840
Speaker 1: Oh me, Oh, I'm a curious mind. I just have

772
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 1: a curious mind. I mean I have an entire album

773
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 1: in Spanish I put out in two thousand and nine.

774
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 1: My parents are Portuguese from the Azores Islands, and I

775
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 1: don't know, I just grew up with a lot of

776
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 1: eclectic music. I was in the Portuguese marching band, like

777
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:50,640
Speaker 1: my grandfather was a marching band composer. I you know,

778
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 1: would just hang out and record dance music with my

779
00:34:55,640 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 1: DJ friends or more like hip hop with my friends

780
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 1: that had hip hop groups or whatnot over the years.

781
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:06,280
Speaker 1: So I don't think I see music in terms of genre,

782
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 1: you know, I don't. I see it as a language.

783
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 1: So that's really what inspired because I think more than anything,

784
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:17,920
Speaker 1: I like people. I like people, So that's what the

785
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 1: curiosity is like. On Save your Breath. Actually that artist

786
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:25,399
Speaker 1: is from Haiti. Will Anne Wanta wait. She's my friend,

787
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:29,319
Speaker 1: my collaborator's mother, and she's actually a TikTok star. She's

788
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 1: a motivational uh, she has a motivational sort of TikTok

789
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 1: she does, and she's a great art she's probably fifty five,

790
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 1: I think she is. And then my friend's mother, Taboris,

791
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:40,840
Speaker 1: she's she's seventy seven. She's on that record too. She

792
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: used to sing with Rick James. Wow. Yeah. And then

793
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 1: Tainomi Banks, she's a very successful drag queen and a

794
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:49,919
Speaker 1: good friend of mine is on there too. Because it's

795
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,040
Speaker 1: and that's why I say this is a community recording,

796
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:55,240
Speaker 1: because it's just I love bringing people together.

797
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:57,359
Speaker 7: Did you ask her about Rick James and you'd be like, Hey,

798
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 7: what else Chappelle episode drill?

799
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:04,840
Speaker 1: I don't know, it sounds colorful, Yes, it sounds it

800
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 1: sounds colorful, but but but yeah, we geez. I just

801
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:12,799
Speaker 1: I love that you asked me that, because I think

802
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 1: I just know about having an interest in like eclectic,

803
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 1: like you know, I'm interested in so many sounds of

804
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 1: music and why like why, what's the reason? And I

805
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 1: think at the end of the day, I have a

806
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,359
Speaker 1: curious mind and I just want to challenge myself all

807
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:29,279
Speaker 1: the time. I going to get bored very easily, and

808
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:30,839
Speaker 1: I just want to check. I got a song with

809
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 1: Andre and the game. You know, it's like there's no thread,

810
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:37,840
Speaker 1: you know.

811
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:40,240
Speaker 6: I was going to ask when you see other artists

812
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 6: like kind of getting like bashed for doing that, being

813
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:44,839
Speaker 6: able to switch in and out of genres and different

814
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 6: types of music, how do you feel about that because

815
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,760
Speaker 6: you've done it very well and it's been accepted across

816
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 6: very different genres and ethnicities, Like, how does.

817
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:54,400
Speaker 1: That mean that? Yeah? I feel you on that. I

818
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 1: guess I think. I mean I get the same thing too,

819
00:36:57,239 --> 00:36:59,839
Speaker 1: because people don't understand I'm hard to market. It's hard

820
00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:02,880
Speaker 1: to market my music because I'm not a brand.

821
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:05,400
Speaker 5: You think you get that. I feel like people are accepted.

822
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 1: Like what brand am? I?

823
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, you've always what's the aesthetic?

824
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 1: I have no clue.

825
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,360
Speaker 7: I think Nelli for Tole is just Nelly Fortado, like

826
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 7: like you're one of those people like like Nellie Fordo

827
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 7: put out an album. I'm listening. I got introduced to you.

828
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:18,839
Speaker 7: I knew about the Wheelly album, but I really got

829
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:21,360
Speaker 7: introduced to you when you started working with Timblin. Okay,

830
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 7: but so from that moment on, it seems like I'm

831
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 7: always checking for Nelly for Toato just because of the

832
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 7: connection with timbling. That's my personal experience with you.

833
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:30,960
Speaker 1: You're right, Yeah, there's always different avenues for people to come.

834
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 6: You feel like you got back, you feel like you

835
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 6: you didn't get accepted in certain genres and stuff like you.

836
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say that. I'm just gonna say that.

837
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 1: I think every artist, when they try to change their

838
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 1: standard style, you'll definitely get Like, for instance, right, my

839
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 1: second album was called Folklore, and you know, when I

840
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:52,399
Speaker 1: first came out, my image was on Wonelly was They're like, oh, look,

841
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 1: she's like a clectic but like she's Portuguese, but she

842
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:56,239
Speaker 1: has a little bit of hip hop influence. She has

843
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,560
Speaker 1: this and that. So it's sort of like, oh wow,

844
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:04,240
Speaker 1: you know, like, you know, look at the fun ethnic

845
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 1: girl do fun music, you know what I mean. And

846
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:08,359
Speaker 1: then when I came to Vocalore, it was a little

847
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 1: more like emo and singer songwriter. So it was like, oh,

848
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 1: I don't get it. You know, why is she sad?

849
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:16,319
Speaker 8: Film me.

850
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 4: Like, you're not allowed to be sad?

851
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:24,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, said, you really messed with it and it's your

852
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 1: favorite album ever Vocalore.

853
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 7: You know, I feel like that's what artists should do.

854
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 7: I don't like when artists stayed just consistent on one thing.

855
00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 7: The reason I love Kendrick Lamar because good King mad

856
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:36,959
Speaker 7: City sounds totally different than the Butterfly him. Butterfly sounds

857
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 7: totally different than Damn. Damn sounds totally different than you know,

858
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:40,800
Speaker 7: mister Morale and the Big Steps.

859
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 4: I love that.

860
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 2: But it's also the influences, right, her influences a daylight soul,

861
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:48,400
Speaker 2: but also Madonna, Like they go from so many different ranges.

862
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, they really do. Yeah, I grew up on kind

863
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: of eighties two like you know, like I like, like

864
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:55,520
Speaker 1: my my dad had like a record player in the

865
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 1: living room, so I was listening to also like Abba

866
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 1: or Lionel Richie or like every thing just meshed together.

867
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 1: And then I will say being fourteen or fifteen in

868
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:07,800
Speaker 1: the late nineties was a gift, amazing time, the best

869
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:10,439
Speaker 1: and urban like it gave me. I got goosebumps again.

870
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 1: I got goosebumps twice on the show today. So like,

871
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 1: I'm just lucky, you know that I got to grow

872
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,640
Speaker 1: up with the influences I had. But I think artists

873
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 1: should take more risks I love when artists because what

874
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:25,279
Speaker 1: people don't realize is like they're just kind of like,

875
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 1: you got to deconstruct to construct again, how are you

876
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:30,319
Speaker 1: gonna like grow or get better if you don't deconstruct, Right,

877
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 1: It's like anything like a garden, right, a garden like

878
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:34,840
Speaker 1: the flowers wilt in the winter.

879
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 2: But when you do an album or you step outside

880
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:39,320
Speaker 2: of the box quote unquote box and you don't get recognized,

881
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:40,719
Speaker 2: how does that feel like? And the reason we say

882
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:42,759
Speaker 2: that as you know, everybody's been talking about Beyonce who

883
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 2: did the country album and not nominated. So how would

884
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 2: that make you feel as an artist? You put this

885
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 2: album out, was number one on the charge, your record

886
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 2: was spinning number one. Yeah, but they don't that genre

887
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:52,759
Speaker 2: doesn't recognize you.

888
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, jeez, I think that. Hmmm, that's a good question too.

889
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:02,759
Speaker 1: How do I feel I had an answer? You're going in.

890
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 4: You're not in your field.

891
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:17,200
Speaker 1: I tend to do that interviews. I talked really fast. Yeah,

892
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:19,399
Speaker 1: I'm going through the like. I mean, I got lucky

893
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 1: with a Spanish album, probably because I had a history.

894
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 1: I had done a song with one, I'd done a

895
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:28,799
Speaker 1: song with I had, I had done some stuff. You

896
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 1: know in Spanish. And then by the time that that

897
00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 1: album came around, I spent a lot of time curating it,

898
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like I work very closely

899
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:43,799
Speaker 1: with my really good friend who an artist andres and

900
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:46,280
Speaker 1: and we we we we reached out to the community,

901
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 1: got a lot of different voices from Luis Guerra to

902
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 1: we even have like album, so we have like a

903
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: lot of You have to just be mindful, you know

904
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: what I mean, and do it. Try to do it

905
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:03,719
Speaker 1: with as much grace as you can, right would be

906
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:08,840
Speaker 1: just like I don't know. For me, I always.

907
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:14,799
Speaker 4: Do you remember his original question, no.

908
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 5: Girls, you're cute.

909
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:23,800
Speaker 6: You look so good answering it, though he took the

910
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:26,840
Speaker 6: look it's okay, Yes, it's a.

911
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:41,720
Speaker 8: Look being accepted question outside outside the box.

912
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 6: It was too much going on in the beginning of

913
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 6: it anyway, and he took a long time to ask it.

914
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 5: I think you drifted off and we were here for

915
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:49,120
Speaker 5: you know, we were here for you.

916
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:52,400
Speaker 1: It's the peak artistry when you can shift the cultural needle,

917
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:56,239
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and politically, like that's incredible,

918
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 1: Like the respect is huge. And I also was lucky

919
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:01,399
Speaker 1: enough to kind of come up. Well, no, Destiny Child

920
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 1: was already out. But like you know, I'd crossed paths

921
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:06,920
Speaker 1: with Beyonce a couple of times briefly, and I love

922
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:09,919
Speaker 1: her obviously, her energy and her light, and I think

923
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:13,359
Speaker 1: that that is like the peak of what you could

924
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:16,840
Speaker 1: do achieve as an artist is do something like that.

925
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:21,399
Speaker 1: That's absolutely peak. You know how you feel, So being

926
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 1: accepted doesn't really matter at all.

927
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:25,160
Speaker 6: You know what, I'll tell you this, you got it,

928
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:29,880
Speaker 6: you entered it, because there.

929
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 1: Are sometimes sometimes that girl, there are some sometimes there

930
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 1: are songs where you might think no one was listening,

931
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 1: no one was paying attention. But I'm telling you, like

932
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:42,080
Speaker 1: years later, a DJ might remix it. Yeah, this happened

933
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 1: to a song I put out. Ronnie Jerkins produced it.

934
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 1: It's called Big Coops super cool track. You know. I

935
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 1: put it out, yeah, twenty thirteen. It's on a Spirit

936
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 1: Indestructible album. I did Jammy like literally, if you played

937
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:56,319
Speaker 1: it right now, I'd be like see, but like it

938
00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:58,280
Speaker 1: was fine, you know, it didn't really make any waves

939
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:00,840
Speaker 1: or anything. But ten years later, I know these DJs

940
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:05,240
Speaker 1: from the UK they remixed it and it was top forty.

941
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 1: It was like, you know, I played in my shows,

942
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 1: and I'm like, see, reel recognizes real. At the end

943
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:11,720
Speaker 1: of the day, someone will find it. The same happened

944
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 1: with my track Powerless, which was successful in certain places

945
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:20,520
Speaker 1: but not globally. Years later, I'm you know, I'm you know,

946
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:24,400
Speaker 1: halfway across the world, and you know, I'm out of school.

947
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:28,920
Speaker 1: I was doing some some nonprofit working and teaching girls

948
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:33,279
Speaker 1: songwriting and things like that, and they say to me, wait, wow,

949
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 1: that's the one we want to sing. That's our theme

950
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 1: song for this school. You know what I mean all

951
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 1: the way Kenya, you know, And I go, see, that's why,

952
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 1: that's why I make this. You know. It's like eventually,

953
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 1: like if you write a song from your heart, somebody's

954
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,319
Speaker 1: gonna find it someday. Even this new stuff, I'm putting

955
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 1: it out tomorrow. It's like I go away for a

956
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 1: long time. You know. I don't have like that type

957
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:57,520
Speaker 1: of cycle in my albums where my fans are like

958
00:43:57,600 --> 00:43:59,440
Speaker 1: right there with me, and it's like I treat it

959
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:01,239
Speaker 1: kind of differ, so like I don't know who the

960
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 1: music will get to or win or half fast, but

961
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:06,080
Speaker 1: I do know that whoever does listen to it, you

962
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:09,560
Speaker 1: know what I mean, eventually it'll get its own love or.

963
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 6: Whatever, you know, whatever, because the pressure isn't there as much.

964
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:15,600
Speaker 6: You know what, you know, you're good with what happens,

965
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:17,239
Speaker 6: and you know, to grow you did.

966
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:20,959
Speaker 1: I appreciate the little things like my record with Dom Dalla,

967
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:23,759
Speaker 1: really amazing tech house DJ. It's called Eat Your Man.

968
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:25,759
Speaker 1: It just went gold in Canada and we didn't expect it.

969
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:27,440
Speaker 1: It was again, oh, let's make a club recker for

970
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:30,880
Speaker 1: the rapes. You know, we've since performed it at Lolla, Palooza, Coachella,

971
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:34,000
Speaker 1: like it's like it's a proper like you know, it's

972
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:38,439
Speaker 1: in the dance canon now so much. My friend wrote

973
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:40,279
Speaker 1: that with me. She's like, you should reference yourself, My

974
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 1: really good friend Angelie from another great writer from Toronto,

975
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:45,359
Speaker 1: and she's like why not. And so it would take

976
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:48,560
Speaker 1: like a friend to convince you to reference yourself. You know,

977
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 1: you're not going to do that on your own. Not me,

978
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:54,799
Speaker 1: that's not my personality. But I was like sure, like

979
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:57,760
Speaker 1: that's cute, Like I love remix culture. I think the idea,

980
00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 1: like it's it's very meta, you know, very very unique. Actually, yeah,

981
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 1: I liked it.

982
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 6: You know, you did a four million, four point four

983
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 6: million views for your Tiny Desk. So I think people

984
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 6: love good what Yeah, that's great people, But it's the

985
00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:12,960
Speaker 6: live performance Nelly that people love. And I know that

986
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:15,439
Speaker 6: you've talked a little bit sometimes about Vegas.

987
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:17,799
Speaker 5: Oh is that something that you would do? Is that

988
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:19,800
Speaker 5: coming in cooking up lately?

989
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 1: Yeah? I really love the culture around Loose as an

990
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 1: album and the culture around like Timberland and ized connection

991
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 1: and just like the idea of it's a very it's

992
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 1: a very clear picture. It's those late nights in Miami.

993
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 1: It's at like those palm trees and the red and

994
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:35,120
Speaker 1: white cover and the whole I met somebody recently there

995
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:38,560
Speaker 1: was a whole club night called Loose and I couldn't

996
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:40,880
Speaker 1: believe it. It was like, no, this is the hottest party.

997
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:43,600
Speaker 1: It's called Loose. And I was like, Oh, that's crazy,

998
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:45,399
Speaker 1: because I want to do a Vegas show called Loose,

999
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:47,640
Speaker 1: And it all made sense. Like I just think Vegas

1000
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 1: would be the great outlet for recreating Loose in a

1001
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:57,560
Speaker 1: cool environment and being creative with it. Of course, ultimately

1002
00:45:57,600 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 1: I feel like that would be on my bucket list.

1003
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, no deals of coming away with that, because this

1004
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:03,960
Speaker 6: is not your first time mentioning it. They haven't grasped

1005
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 6: that yet, Like they haven't.

1006
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 1: No, it's it's it's in the works. Yeah, it's a

1007
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 1: it's a it's a bubbling.

1008
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 7: Oh nope, So yeah, okay, yeah when next year twenty

1009
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:13,600
Speaker 7: twenty five.

1010
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:16,320
Speaker 1: Uh, that remains to be saying, because the twenty fifth

1011
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:20,080
Speaker 1: Loose will be twenty five years old in twenty twenty

1012
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,839
Speaker 1: five or I'm sorry, twenty twenty six.

1013
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:24,879
Speaker 4: You really a legacy artist now, netlie for talking.

1014
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 1: Oh that's funny.

1015
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:29,760
Speaker 4: They don't feel like twenty five years but got time flying?

1016
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 1: I know.

1017
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:33,160
Speaker 4: What do you think about social media right?

1018
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:35,799
Speaker 7: Like, like, like how do you view its impact on

1019
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:38,400
Speaker 7: artists in their relationship with fans compared to when you

1020
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:41,240
Speaker 7: first started your career because it's like a real direct

1021
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:42,400
Speaker 7: connection and it was so.

1022
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:45,600
Speaker 1: Many I like social media. I don't know, I like

1023
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 1: it vibes with my mind, Like I really like TikTok.

1024
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 1: I love it. It's so immediate. I love you know,

1025
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:52,920
Speaker 1: DMan like DJ's are they DM me? And like can

1026
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 1: they do this remix or artists? And it's so it's

1027
00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:58,880
Speaker 1: so direct, it's so instantaneous, and I do like that

1028
00:46:58,960 --> 00:46:59,400
Speaker 1: about it.

1029
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 3: So you answer your d ms and everything, some of them.

1030
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 1: Hey at Nellie Bertando. Yeah, so I think social media

1031
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 1: is actually pretty amazing when it comes to music business stuff.

1032
00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:23,279
Speaker 1: At the same time, I don't always love when I

1033
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:24,920
Speaker 1: thought I knew a song, but then I hear the

1034
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 1: whole song and it's totally different, you know, like that

1035
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 1: TikTok sound. You're like, yeah, this song's actually really good

1036
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: when I made the whole song, you know. But I

1037
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 1: mean whatever, I can deal with that too. It's fun,

1038
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:35,320
Speaker 1: It's all. It's all fun.

1039
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:39,600
Speaker 7: How do you balance the vulnerability that's required, No, not

1040
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:42,760
Speaker 7: just in songwriting but nowadays just at the talent period

1041
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 7: because people want so much you have vulnerability, right, How

1042
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:48,800
Speaker 7: do you balance being vulnerable but also having boundaries and

1043
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:49,320
Speaker 7: your process?

1044
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:52,840
Speaker 1: Such a tough one, man, that's a tough one because

1045
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 1: my songs are so personal. They're almost like sometimes I

1046
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 1: only just draining blood from my heart into the song actually,

1047
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:08,760
Speaker 1: so so it's like they're really personal som some songs

1048
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:11,560
Speaker 1: are more personal than others. But that's hard because if

1049
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:12,960
Speaker 1: people ask me about it, like you don't want to

1050
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:15,399
Speaker 1: necessarily go into detail, I'll be more like, well, you'd

1051
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 1: listen to the song and you feel what makes you feel.

1052
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:19,360
Speaker 6: You know what I mean, You're not going to detail

1053
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:22,879
Speaker 6: because it like rehash is that pulling blood situation where

1054
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:23,200
Speaker 6: it's like you.

1055
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:24,719
Speaker 1: Don't want to be sad, you don't want to just

1056
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:26,719
Speaker 1: be like just negative. I like to kind of like

1057
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:28,319
Speaker 1: stick in the positive energy, you know what I mean.

1058
00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:30,720
Speaker 1: I find like it's more tracked attract it's more magnetic,

1059
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:33,200
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like because I think I've

1060
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:35,720
Speaker 1: been caught out there before in the past, over the years,

1061
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:38,359
Speaker 1: you know whatever, careers highs and lows where you kind

1062
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:40,919
Speaker 1: of like you focus like you're too like you get

1063
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:42,440
Speaker 1: too caught up in the wrong things or like the

1064
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:44,719
Speaker 1: wrong way to express yourself, or like you're not you

1065
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like you got to focus on

1066
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:48,239
Speaker 1: the positive and they just keep that joyful energy. I

1067
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 1: think that's important.

1068
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:50,279
Speaker 4: That makes all the sense in the world.

1069
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:50,920
Speaker 1: Serious.

1070
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:53,800
Speaker 7: What if you come in the studio you're positive, but

1071
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 7: then somebody brings up one of your songs that might

1072
00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:59,479
Speaker 7: trigger you still, but it's your song, So.

1073
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 1: Oh that's a good question too. Oh yeah, that'll be interesting.

1074
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:08,880
Speaker 1: I think I'll just start that journey tomorrow when the

1075
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:11,239
Speaker 1: album comes out, because yeah, I'm gonna get asked, they're

1076
00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:15,600
Speaker 1: gonna ask me whether it's a fan or you know,

1077
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:17,279
Speaker 1: you know, I got to pick and choose what I

1078
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:17,879
Speaker 1: want to talk about.

1079
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:19,920
Speaker 2: I think whose idea was it to go more urban

1080
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 2: and hip hops? Because you know, no, no, no, just

1081
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 2: what you're doing. Because your influences have been daylight. So

1082
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:28,640
Speaker 2: you talk about you know, Timberland, you talk about it.

1083
00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:30,920
Speaker 2: But now it's like you're doing more of that, You're

1084
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 2: doing more interviews, you're doing more. Why is that it

1085
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:34,759
Speaker 2: is because it is an influential thing or you think

1086
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:36,720
Speaker 2: that some of your records have crossed over before.

1087
00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:42,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I always felt like the Black career,

1088
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:46,040
Speaker 1: it's been natural, you know what I mean, It's been

1089
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:50,360
Speaker 1: a natural thing. It's just like people, you know, you

1090
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:52,840
Speaker 1: don't chase anything, you know what I mean. My manager

1091
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:54,759
Speaker 1: always would say that, you know, you let people come

1092
00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:57,400
Speaker 1: to you, you know, and it's like and that's organic,

1093
00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:01,040
Speaker 1: you know, and so that's it, you know, just like

1094
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:03,120
Speaker 1: whatever energy comes my way, people want.

1095
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:03,440
Speaker 5: To work with me.

1096
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:06,920
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's true. Yeah, early in my career, yeah,

1097
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:09,440
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of urban artists wanted to

1098
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:11,040
Speaker 1: work with me, you know what I mean, And it

1099
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:14,040
Speaker 1: was just natural. It wasn't something I sought out, you know,

1100
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:21,360
Speaker 1: it was just organic. You know. It's kind of what I.

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00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:23,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think don't recognize it, do you know what

1102
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:24,759
Speaker 4: I mean? Like there's certain.

1103
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:26,640
Speaker 7: People you can smell it on and you'd be like, Okay,

1104
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:29,920
Speaker 7: that's not authentic. But like I think, like you, Amy

1105
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 7: Winehouse like to me, y'all, y'all got the right.

1106
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:36,560
Speaker 1: Energy, thank you, because I don't take that lightly, you know,

1107
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:40,040
Speaker 1: I don't want to, you know, well, no, I also

1108
00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:43,799
Speaker 1: feel I feel just privileged to be making music. You

1109
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 1: know obviously is that were the influences, you know what

1110
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 1: I mean, the history just like I'm just I'm just

1111
00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:56,560
Speaker 1: I'm just happy to be sort of like accepted, I

1112
00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:59,760
Speaker 1: guess by a lot of different genres, right, even Latin

1113
00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:02,360
Speaker 1: like manage music. It's like my parents are Portuguese. But

1114
00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:06,080
Speaker 1: if you do it with sincerity, you know, and you're

1115
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:08,719
Speaker 1: coming from a place of learning and sincerity, it's like

1116
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:11,359
Speaker 1: no one can fault you for that, right and if

1117
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:14,959
Speaker 1: you try to do it well right, and that's because

1118
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:19,400
Speaker 1: I'll feel like I'm just still that person that just

1119
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:23,719
Speaker 1: really believes music is the only kind of proof of

1120
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:25,920
Speaker 1: life and proof of God in terms of people. You

1121
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:28,279
Speaker 1: could get together people that don't even like each other.

1122
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:32,640
Speaker 1: I've experimented with that before in a art like an

1123
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:35,880
Speaker 1: art setting not too far at moment PS One. I

1124
00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:38,600
Speaker 1: was invited to just at the fundraiser, to own a

1125
00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:41,120
Speaker 1: room and do whatever art performance art I wanted to do.

1126
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:43,240
Speaker 1: And I chose to teach people how to write songs.

1127
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:45,239
Speaker 1: But a bunch of people would just come in the room,

1128
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:47,319
Speaker 1: and some of them weren't songwriters, and we would just

1129
00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:49,719
Speaker 1: make a song out of thin air together. And to me,

1130
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:51,680
Speaker 1: it was asking the question like, why do you feel

1131
00:51:51,680 --> 00:51:54,640
Speaker 1: connected to somebody you walk by on the sidewalk? You

1132
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:56,400
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Why do you feel connected to

1133
00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:57,600
Speaker 1: stranger you walk by?

1134
00:51:57,880 --> 00:51:58,000
Speaker 6: Right?

1135
00:51:58,400 --> 00:51:58,520
Speaker 1: Like?

1136
00:51:58,600 --> 00:51:59,239
Speaker 5: What is that?

1137
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:01,920
Speaker 1: It's a collective, you know, the collective unconscious and so

1138
00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:04,520
Speaker 1: music is proof of that, man, it's proof of that.

1139
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:07,600
Speaker 4: You know, seven is God's number and seven is God.

1140
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:11,520
Speaker 4: Seven is God's number. Yes, I didn't know that. Tell

1141
00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:13,640
Speaker 4: me more about that seven is God's number.

1142
00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 5: I'm about to google.

1143
00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 4: Don't warry seven gods number. I do have one last

1144
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:21,439
Speaker 4: question leaving.

1145
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:24,279
Speaker 5: I have the answer to the second answer the question.

1146
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:26,359
Speaker 5: It is It's in the.

1147
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:28,359
Speaker 6: Bible, the number seven is quite significant in the Bible,

1148
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:30,680
Speaker 6: appearing over seven hundred times throughout both the Old and

1149
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:35,520
Speaker 6: the New Testaments, and biblical numerology, seven symbolizes completion or perfection.

1150
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:37,279
Speaker 6: It is said that God created the world in six

1151
00:52:37,360 --> 00:52:38,920
Speaker 6: days and rested on the seventh.

1152
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 4: Day, completion and profecs.

1153
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:42,680
Speaker 6: My grandma would have been mad. I had to google

1154
00:52:42,719 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 6: that because I knew that good Angel numbers two, seven, seven,

1155
00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:53,160
Speaker 6: eleven as well eleven, like number, yes, seven, eleven, I love.

1156
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:56,200
Speaker 3: I mean the number is not the store. That's not

1157
00:52:56,200 --> 00:52:56,560
Speaker 3: the store.

1158
00:52:56,640 --> 00:52:59,480
Speaker 6: Eleven is my favorite number, eleven and twenty two just

1159
00:52:59,520 --> 00:53:00,560
Speaker 6: because they're like, I.

1160
00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 1: Like three, Like, do you know your life path number?

1161
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:03,440
Speaker 1: I'm kind of into life path numbers.

1162
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:06,360
Speaker 3: Is my favorite three my life three.

1163
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:08,839
Speaker 1: Do you know that your life path number? No, I'm

1164
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:09,719
Speaker 1: gonna count your Yeah.

1165
00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:13,360
Speaker 5: Oh no, I'm just gonna tell you look the paper, like,

1166
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:14,239
Speaker 5: what's the last question?

1167
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:14,440
Speaker 4: No?

1168
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:19,440
Speaker 7: Who is Nellie Fortarto right now?

1169
00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:22,800
Speaker 1: I'm a work in progress. Yeah, I'm just a working progress.

1170
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:24,919
Speaker 1: I'm just like taking it day by day, just kind

1171
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:29,480
Speaker 1: of trying to like just accept myself and love myself

1172
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 1: as much as I can and and uh, you know,

1173
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:35,400
Speaker 1: not take my craft for granted, and my talents for granted,

1174
00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:36,200
Speaker 1: and just be.

1175
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 7: Grateful so you'll be back. This isn't a one and done,

1176
00:53:39,239 --> 00:53:40,319
Speaker 7: Like you're not gonna go back.

1177
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:43,960
Speaker 1: Trust me.

1178
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:45,040
Speaker 8: Your sign?

1179
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:47,480
Speaker 1: We still don't trust me.

1180
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:48,399
Speaker 5: Pardon what's your son?

1181
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:56,200
Speaker 1: Sagittarius? I was gonna call the album sagittariusious? Really, yeah,

1182
00:53:56,400 --> 00:54:00,040
Speaker 1: I'm not twenty second twenty second you're just barely as.

1183
00:53:59,880 --> 00:54:02,440
Speaker 5: I yeah, because they think I'm crazy when I say that, though.

1184
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:09,040
Speaker 1: But no, that's there's still Sagittarius definitely. So yeah, that's

1185
00:54:09,080 --> 00:54:11,279
Speaker 1: who I am right now. I'm just like taking it

1186
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:13,720
Speaker 1: day by day and figuring it out, trying to accept

1187
00:54:13,719 --> 00:54:16,520
Speaker 1: my flaws. But then I think the key too is

1188
00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:19,760
Speaker 1: like accept my light as well. We have to accept

1189
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:23,279
Speaker 1: the light we have and just like and that's a

1190
00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:24,759
Speaker 1: that's a lifelong journey.

1191
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:26,919
Speaker 4: That's the beauty of life. It is a journey. Yeah,

1192
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:28,840
Speaker 4: you should just appreciate and respect the process.

1193
00:54:29,960 --> 00:54:31,840
Speaker 3: And we appreciate you for joining us this morning.

1194
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:35,359
Speaker 1: You're really amazing. I got four times and.

1195
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:37,000
Speaker 5: You were nervous when you came in here or something.

1196
00:54:38,840 --> 00:54:42,719
Speaker 2: I'm glad, yep, I'm sorry because I Kendrick uld Drake

1197
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:43,840
Speaker 2: pick one, but we didn't, So.

1198
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:49,040
Speaker 1: The weekend.

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00:54:52,719 --> 00:54:55,440
Speaker 3: It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, wake that ass up

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00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:56,560
Speaker 3: in the morning.

1201
00:54:56,680 --> 00:54:57,680
Speaker 4: The Breakfast Club