Speaker 1: Welcome to Drink Champs, the production of The Black Effect
Speaker 1: and I Heart Radio and it's Drink Chess, motherfucking podcast.
Speaker 1: He's a legendary queen's rapper. He's agree, that's your boy
Speaker 1: in O R He's a Miami hip hop pioneer d
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Speaker 1: of the biggest players in the most professional, unprofessional podcast
Speaker 1: and yet number one sort for drunk drin is New
Speaker 1: year Z Time Drinking Champs. Drink Up. Would good be hoping?
Speaker 1: This is what it should be. This is your boy
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Speaker 1: f N. And this is Drink Champs. Yappy our make
Speaker 1: some especially special now who we're about to introduce. When
Speaker 1: me and you started this show, we always everyone that
Speaker 1: you know, give it to legends. We wanted our platform
Speaker 1: because in this game, when when people are season and
Speaker 1: they have ten years or more, or fifteen years or more,
Speaker 1: or or me I just hit twenty five years in
Speaker 1: this game, and people try to say you washed up
Speaker 1: and it's over for you. But this is very few
Speaker 1: who could maintain that relevance, who could maintain that substance,
Speaker 1: and that people always look to them and say, this
Speaker 1: is the people we want to be like. So the
Speaker 1: person that we're talking about, it's not only a queen,
Speaker 1: not only a legend as an icon, She's dominated in
Speaker 1: so many different fields. We we was just listening to
Speaker 1: her hits and god damn, it just kept going more
Speaker 1: and more and more. It's movies all and then she
Speaker 1: came with the sweeper Tato Pope because for those that
Speaker 1: don't know, when you're black, we sweep Tato Pope and
Speaker 1: not another ship Punky when I'm not. So in case
Speaker 1: you don't know who we're talking about, we're talking about
Speaker 1: queen motherfucker's soul. Thank you. Now, I've been studying you.
Speaker 1: I've been studying you, right, and I've been studying all
Speaker 1: your interviews. This is a very awkward question, but I
Speaker 1: need to start with this. Did you get rid of
Speaker 1: that flip phone? No, I have an Android. You'd wait,
Speaker 1: it's still a flip It's still wait wait wait, it's lavender.
Speaker 1: I got it last week and it made me mad
Speaker 1: enough to almost throw that one away. It's a little flip.
Speaker 1: Since my nails are so much, I try to press
Speaker 1: those things so that my my my friend Edward said
Speaker 1: let's get you an Android that you just have to
Speaker 1: touch a name and the number pops up. Well, I
Speaker 1: touched and the number didn't come up, and so I
Speaker 1: got angry. So I really think I'm going to get
Speaker 1: rid of that one too. I wanted to get a smartphone,
Speaker 1: but I can get in trouble because people can hear
Speaker 1: you if you're talking about them when they hangs up
Speaker 1: and you or something like that. But I don't know
Speaker 1: none about phone. So let's okay, okay, okay, look time
Speaker 1: on every flo Okay, I don't anything, but this is
Speaker 1: my little purple baby before now, okay, okay, so let's
Speaker 1: get that done with. I'm a flipper though, okay, okay, man,
Speaker 1: So let's can I say something Last Monday or I
Speaker 1: think it was Sunday, my son said, Zori, my son, Um,
Speaker 1: they want you to do that show? So I said,
Speaker 1: what's show? He said, drink chance, that's what it's called.
Speaker 1: I said, who? Because I know how about you guys?
Speaker 1: So I said, what I gotta do? Smoke reef? I
Speaker 1: don't smoked cigarette, I said, But I don't want them
Speaker 1: or stuff. What they do, I don't shots. I don't
Speaker 1: do nothing about I said, I'm honored. And then you
Speaker 1: had a red carpet for me when I got off
Speaker 1: your beautiful con. I mean, you're treating me like a queen.
Speaker 1: And I'm saying I am not hip hop, but i am.
Speaker 1: I'm not this, but i am. Yes, I'm seven, held
Speaker 1: them seventy eight and i am so, I'm every woman,
Speaker 1: I'm everything. But to be here, I'm honored to hold up. Okay, yes,
Speaker 1: because that's what you do right here. We got glass
Speaker 1: cup today too, and I'm glass okay yo, so flow
Speaker 1: you got your own glass. Yeah, I've had it for
Speaker 1: like twenty years. Really, this is my great You're supposed
Speaker 1: to drink champagne out of this, but I drink wine
Speaker 1: and beer out of it. Okay, but don't stop doing
Speaker 1: anything you do if you want to puff, smoke reef,
Speaker 1: I don't care. It's not for the money, you know. Okay, everything.
Speaker 1: The more thing I want to say before I forget
Speaker 1: what what? What? I love that? I love it, I
Speaker 1: love it, I love it. I love it. Here. I
Speaker 1: am to celebrate what you guys. Hold on. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: have to join you. I have to join you on this.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, this is so wonderful. I'm so proud
Speaker 1: of this moment right now, solo, I can't. Oh good,
Speaker 1: thank you guys, Oh wow that what? What? What? Okay,
Speaker 1: So here's the funny thing, right, let's get let's get
Speaker 1: the flowers right now. Okay, that's right. That's our show
Speaker 1: is about, you know, giving people their flowers while they're
Speaker 1: here and they face you know, I always say, it
Speaker 1: doesn't take anything away from me to pick up someone
Speaker 1: else and me just start of you. You, I could
Speaker 1: tell you like that, So off top before we even
Speaker 1: do anything, we want to give you your flowers. We
Speaker 1: want to want to give physically play the flowers a
Speaker 1: fabulous flower. Thank you, honey, so yes, thank you so much,
Speaker 1: so thank you, no problem, no, thank you for being here.
Speaker 1: So listen, let me ask me take you off top. Right.
Speaker 1: We've been doing this show and I always like to
Speaker 1: hear people's drink orders. You want to hit people drink orders,
Speaker 1: like what would you like just drink when we sit down.
Speaker 1: And when I spoke to Charles and he said camus
Speaker 1: at opus one, I thought he was playing with me
Speaker 1: because that's my favorite one. That's my favorite, especially wedding one, birthday,
Speaker 1: I'm said timber six. I'm Burglar, I m my wife
Speaker 1: eight personality, and I clicked up. I love your mother
Speaker 1: and your wife. That's so old to you know me.
Speaker 1: And Charles is closed. He knew me since I was
Speaker 1: a child, literally, and so when he Charles to saying that,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking he's he's like bottering me up. So then
Speaker 1: I wait, and I'm wat telling your interviews and you
Speaker 1: really are Camus? Well he was Opus? Really know it's
Speaker 1: really Camus first, really Cams. I'll tell you why after
Speaker 1: the show. Okay, okay, but I like Opus two. Okay,
Speaker 1: but things happened that make him like something even more. Okay,
Speaker 1: I got reasons, you got reasons, okay, But I love
Speaker 1: them both, love them both. Okay, I ain't gonna lie.
Speaker 1: I picked if it's a little bit more, if I
Speaker 1: had to choose, if you had to choose open okay, yes, okay.
Speaker 1: And they're both great wines, you know. Um, and I
Speaker 1: had my own mind coming out soon. Okay. Let you
Speaker 1: want to support that head. I'll let you know when
Speaker 1: long long overdo, Long Over do. Okay, who want let
Speaker 1: me getting my notes, Patty, I got notes now, okay,
Speaker 1: let's get on this topic. Um. They said that you
Speaker 1: and Aretha at the White House, and then Aretha walked
Speaker 1: by you, and that was the time that people started
Speaker 1: to say because in hip hop, I started to think
Speaker 1: that the girls can't get along right, and I'm and
Speaker 1: it's it's like, it's notable when hippa. So I never
Speaker 1: thought that this was happening in your world back then,
Speaker 1: and when I researched it and then and that's like
Speaker 1: one of the first things that came up. Well, let
Speaker 1: me say something. I watched Snoop's interview on your show,
Speaker 1: the things that they were saying about him and Pine
Speaker 1: Diddy that it wasn't good, but it was good. Me
Speaker 1: and a wreath, we were good. Okay. The time when
Speaker 1: she did the White House, she was not feeling great. Okay,
Speaker 1: after the White House, we spoke on the phone. She
Speaker 1: called me because she was very interested in having her
Speaker 1: items in Walmart. We talked about food, we talked about
Speaker 1: recording together. This is after the White House. She always
Speaker 1: loved me at the time. I don't think she was
Speaker 1: feeling great. No telling how I would be if I
Speaker 1: wasn't feeling my best and somebody walked by me and
Speaker 1: said hey, and I didn't speak, It must have been
Speaker 1: for a real reason, because I did her the White
Speaker 1: House of the thing, you know, the honors, the legend,
Speaker 1: the honors, uh uh nath Kennedy, Kennedy Honors. When she's
Speaker 1: sitting up in the wave top boot, I sang Ain't
Speaker 1: no Way because she warned me to do at Essence U,
Speaker 1: the TV show Essence along with Susan Taylor. Aretha wanted
Speaker 1: me to sing Ain't no Way, and I did and
Speaker 1: it was a standing ovation. She called me to her
Speaker 1: seat afterwards done and said you did okay, And I
Speaker 1: said it's okay, baby. I mean, she loved me. It
Speaker 1: wasn't a love hate. It was a love. And when
Speaker 1: I'm not feeling well, you might get the other side
Speaker 1: of Aretha. So that's all it was, you guys. I
Speaker 1: never took it to heart. She's my number one hero,
Speaker 1: always has been, always will be. And I wanted to
Speaker 1: clear this up on this wonderful show because people think
Speaker 1: sometimes when you're like I feel, Jasmine Sullivan hated me.
Speaker 1: Let me say something. Last week she made my heart
Speaker 1: pald hard. She called me, we're the same gentleman um
Speaker 1: Mark Keys who made this outfit and the outfit that
Speaker 1: I wore for essence the last couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: He's good friends with Jasmine and so, he said, Jasmine
Speaker 1: and I always just to talk about who's coming to
Speaker 1: Patty Labelle's party first, you or me. So she's always
Speaker 1: had this love for me. But whatever I would see her,
Speaker 1: she shy, and I would give her all these props
Speaker 1: and stuff. I said, Baby, they're alone like me. My
Speaker 1: feelings were hurt until last week when we talked on
Speaker 1: the phone. She said, Patti Lapelle, you're my everything. She said,
Speaker 1: I love you so much. I get shy when I'm
Speaker 1: around you. So you see how things are misunderstood. This business,
Speaker 1: so ugly business. Sometimes people want to make us hate
Speaker 1: each other and say, oh, she don't like her. Well,
Speaker 1: Jason and I are recording, so you know, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: after fifteen years, I haven't recorded R and B. So
Speaker 1: I'm doing stuff with her in a bunch of other sweeties.
Speaker 1: And I just wanted to clarify that for me because
Speaker 1: I was holding this thing that she didn't like me.
Speaker 1: She loved at Patti LaBelle. Okay, so thank you Jasslle,
Speaker 1: right right, talk about the real honey. Don't let people
Speaker 1: think negative all the time. Bust that up. And I
Speaker 1: believe in telling the truth to a fault. I can
Speaker 1: trouble sometimes because you talk too much. I say too
Speaker 1: many things. And he said, why did you say that?
Speaker 1: As citizens on my heart? Let next that were wonderful
Speaker 1: that's what Angel was supposed to be called before. Yes,
Speaker 1: something happened, Yes, great great relationship we had. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: so this is something that struck me crazy. Look the
Speaker 1: Vanjo's got put on by selling you clothes, How don't
Speaker 1: hen steal on them? I was gonna line that no money,
Speaker 1: but he was so interested in Patty LaBelle on the Bluebells.
Speaker 1: We're at the Apollo Theater and the doorman came up
Speaker 1: to my room and said, there's a Luther Andrews who
Speaker 1: said he wants to be your fan club president, who
Speaker 1: wants to come in and give you clothes. I said, shoot,
Speaker 1: anybody given us. We were buying stuff from five and dime.
Speaker 1: We didn't have no money for for costumes. He came
Speaker 1: up with these beautiful pink and gray apple Let's wait,
Speaker 1: m it's so many stories I have? Yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so this so then gray and Pink afthletes came out
Speaker 1: of this bag that Luther board four. It was all
Speaker 1: for the ladies and we went on stage the next
Speaker 1: show with these great They were a little big, but
Speaker 1: I didn't care they were new because they'll always like
Speaker 1: to wear new clothes. And so he gave us these
Speaker 1: clothes and he said, I would like to be your
Speaker 1: fan club president. I said, but who are you? Boot
Speaker 1: great to be our fan club president? And actually sorry,
Speaker 1: but I just want you to get all these stories.
Speaker 1: And so Luther said, at that time, could I be
Speaker 1: your fan club president? So I'm saying and Sarah, no,
Speaker 1: no, no no, we're saying who are you? He said, I'm
Speaker 1: Luther Andros I'm a singer. And I just took him
Speaker 1: for his word. I said, I bet he didn't blow
Speaker 1: And after that we found out who he was. But meanwhile,
Speaker 1: he's our president of our family. We didn't have a
Speaker 1: fan club, so he was the first ever president for
Speaker 1: who we call them, Patty LaBelle and the Bluebells Labell No, no,
Speaker 1: we were Patty Labell. Yes, but he willed it. He
Speaker 1: wheeled himself into the weekend and what a man. And
Speaker 1: after that, when he got money, he bought me diamonds. Lalik,
Speaker 1: I have some of his birds, birds that he Barton
Speaker 1: gave to me when he died. His mother gave me
Speaker 1: some other items he wanted me in the halt. He
Speaker 1: was a patty baby. I love him so much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got some stories for you. Yeah I didn't. I
Speaker 1: didn't know the Luther depart. I thought I knew a
Speaker 1: lot of people the Luther depart when he shook me up,
Speaker 1: especially how he did it, because everyone has the beginning,
Speaker 1: but to see how humble that beginning was, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: like damnit stylist to like the number one pop singer
Speaker 1: in the world and the world, and did you see
Speaker 1: that in him when you first let him in the room?
Speaker 1: Didn't see anything but I see those boys all I
Speaker 1: so was free, free cut, sunny. So No, I just
Speaker 1: saw a great man. Ever knew he had that talent.
Speaker 1: Yeah you have, You have these these great stories. Like
Speaker 1: there's a piano guy that you you was working with
Speaker 1: in London named Reginald Wright, Reginald Right. Let me see
Speaker 1: if I got the story correct. So Reginald Right was
Speaker 1: playing back up for you, and I think he wanted
Speaker 1: to quit because at this time, because people were homosexuals
Speaker 1: weren't being accepted at that time you told him you
Speaker 1: keep going. You speak to Reginald White. Couple of years later,
Speaker 1: you asked Reginald White, um, he actually, can you come
Speaker 1: out to a show? And you said, well, who are
Speaker 1: you being a show for? And he said, it's me.
Speaker 1: I'm Elton Jaws. That's the way it happened that I
Speaker 1: didn't even have to tell you the story. So he
Speaker 1: was at the Spectrum and fill it up here. And so, uh,
Speaker 1: I got this call from I'm saying, Hi, Patty, it's Reggie.
Speaker 1: I said, I Hey, Reggie, what's up? He said, I'm
Speaker 1: at the Spectrum to light. I said, who's opening? I mean,
Speaker 1: who's closing the show? He said, I'm opening to the show.
Speaker 1: I'm Elton john Now, I said, you pump. You made
Speaker 1: it before me said I'm sorry. I did give me
Speaker 1: my tubleware back his group they were called Bluesology, I think,
Speaker 1: and I fed them every night after the show because
Speaker 1: nobody had any pounds, they didn't have any money, and
Speaker 1: I always cooked. So I gave him and his band
Speaker 1: food to take home and tubleware. And so I'm a
Speaker 1: tubleware shopping bag queen. If I gave you a beautiful
Speaker 1: shopping bag or a beautiful piece of tubberware. I wanted back.
Speaker 1: So when I saw him the next time, we recorded
Speaker 1: at Caesar's with the red piano show that he was doing,
Speaker 1: and we did a duet. Um what was that song?
Speaker 1: We did Zuri your song on my album and it
Speaker 1: was beautiful. And after he finished, he left his ring
Speaker 1: on the piano. I said, Elton, here's your ring. He
Speaker 1: said that show us for the Tupperwar dialing. I have
Speaker 1: that ring today. It's a beautiful diamond cross and I
Speaker 1: know it post more than five dollars. I got my ring, Yes,
Speaker 1: and I got a good friend. Do you know how
Speaker 1: legendary story? But did you know he was You had
Speaker 1: heard John the name before he told told me it
Speaker 1: was happen. Yes. I was shocked, and I said, you
Speaker 1: made it before me, boo, And he did and he's
Speaker 1: still making it and I'm so happy for him. Here's here. Yeah.
Speaker 1: One of my famous uh stories on drink Champ period
Speaker 1: has always been a Prince story because we know we'll
Speaker 1: never get to meet Prince. A lot of people don't
Speaker 1: know how hardcore right Michael to Yeah, we're going both.
Speaker 1: But something that's interesting is Prince at the our senior horse.
Speaker 1: Oh god, I was shocked. First of all, we recorded
Speaker 1: in many and how do you say? You can't say
Speaker 1: that word? Wherever I was there for me be a month.
Speaker 1: And so what he did for me was like treating
Speaker 1: me like I was his mom. And so he had clothes,
Speaker 1: you know, he had that shop of the tailor's right
Speaker 1: the other premises. He took me to the clothing place,
Speaker 1: had four outfits made for me. Then he took me
Speaker 1: to his house in the alphabet car and had me
Speaker 1: cooked for him. I cooked everything. You know what, he
Speaker 1: ate a freaking biscuit And I had the brisket, the
Speaker 1: fried chicken, the corn over tomatoes, everything, and all he
Speaker 1: wanted was a biscuit. He wanted to see me cook.
Speaker 1: I said, what's up? So I cooked real fast. I
Speaker 1: cooked everything like well four hours with the brisket. I
Speaker 1: put that on early and everything else, and he watched
Speaker 1: me eat. So I set the table and so I said, okay,
Speaker 1: let's eat. I said, what's wrong with you? He said
Speaker 1: this all I want? I said, okay, I love you anyway.
Speaker 1: So then after that we played pool in his house
Speaker 1: with my musical director Bud Ellison, who's no longer hear,
Speaker 1: and he said that everything he earned and music was
Speaker 1: from my musical director, Bud Ellison. Now Bud was phenomenally
Speaker 1: a hight. It was just one of the best compliments
Speaker 1: everybody can anybody can give you. So then we went
Speaker 1: to a club and we danced. We were dancing. He
Speaker 1: had on his pumps and I had on my pumps,
Speaker 1: and we were throwing down. Because he likes to be
Speaker 1: tall and I love him. He was all right, let's
Speaker 1: go with that. I'm just going with that. I'm just
Speaker 1: going with the same height. We were dancing. Damn, you
Speaker 1: know you can dance and I can't. But I pretended
Speaker 1: like I was like doing something. So then we went
Speaker 1: to the disco. Then after that he took me back
Speaker 1: to my hotel and then he called me. About four
Speaker 1: months later, Arsenio Hall called me and said, Arsenia said, Patty,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? I think it was in three days.
Speaker 1: I said, cooking, just so. I ain't got no no jobs,
Speaker 1: so I'm chilling. He said, could you come to my show?
Speaker 1: I said, I just said your show not so long ago.
Speaker 1: Why he said, because Prince won't do it unless you
Speaker 1: do it with it. So I said Why what am
Speaker 1: I gonna do saying with him? He said, no, he
Speaker 1: just wants your presence on on the days where we
Speaker 1: were sitting in the chairs, I get things mix up.
Speaker 1: So I went on and I said and printed a
Speaker 1: little talking, and our senior kept looking at me, said, Patty,
Speaker 1: you on energet No, I don't know what to say,
Speaker 1: held my hand and it was such an honor that
Speaker 1: he wanted me to be there with him as a
Speaker 1: comfort blanket. It's just so many great things that happened
Speaker 1: to me in this business. I have so many showbusiness daughters,
Speaker 1: so many showbusiness sons, so many nieces and nephews, and
Speaker 1: I'm mother of everybody. My son, natural son, Zory, my baby.
Speaker 1: He has about fifty million sisters and brothers, you know.
Speaker 1: And and he didn't mind, you know, do you Jory?
Speaker 1: My mom? Don't forgetting Hey man, I've been doing my dude,
Speaker 1: just to make sure I'm bouncing around a little bit.
Speaker 1: But let's just let's just how did we even start
Speaker 1: to think? Because what was the internet guy that that?
Speaker 1: I think he ate the pie and everyone. James James
Speaker 1: James uh from Chanelle White from l A. He's my
Speaker 1: best friend. Now we didn't know him, but at the
Speaker 1: time we were in London performing and got this video
Speaker 1: of this guy doing this video. That's well, that's sweet.
Speaker 1: Thank god. The pies had already been selling, you know,
Speaker 1: so when he did that, they sold even more. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, he's one of my better friends. And um,
Speaker 1: I think some people are saying, let's get it real
Speaker 1: that I didn't take care of him. Okay, it wasn't planned.
Speaker 1: And I did take care of him, Okay. Me and
Speaker 1: Zori we make sure we make sure people are you know,
Speaker 1: not used or abused. So ins that we did for
Speaker 1: James and he appreciated. But people have the chit chat
Speaker 1: and talk like I should have brought him a mansion
Speaker 1: or something. You know, what's that kind of pro It
Speaker 1: was organic, you know. So I always wanted to hit
Speaker 1: that story straight. And we're friends, we talk, He comes
Speaker 1: and stays with me and coax for me because he's
Speaker 1: a great chef. So that story is a phenomenal story. Yea,
Speaker 1: even already already and doing quite well, but he just
Speaker 1: put that extra kid to it. I love him for that.
Speaker 1: I do. Do we make some moise for him? Huh?
Speaker 1: Do we make I mean, why not always give props
Speaker 1: where props are. Do you know I never use anybody
Speaker 1: or abuse anyone. That's my baby. So let's just think
Speaker 1: about this. What happened. Someone is at the house and
Speaker 1: they're eating this peepotator poe. I say, we gotta sell us, Like,
Speaker 1: how did this happen? Like it happened because of my
Speaker 1: um my there and grandmother's recipe, and I added a
Speaker 1: little something to it. And I think people know me
Speaker 1: not as just a singer, but as a cook. And
Speaker 1: I cook all the time. So why shouldn't my pie
Speaker 1: be good? Tell me why? So it happened just because
Speaker 1: it's a good pie. It's no better than your grandmother's
Speaker 1: or your mother's, but it's a Patti pie, you know.
Speaker 1: And like I said, I know I don't make the
Speaker 1: best pie in the world. I know that I don't
Speaker 1: make the best macaroni in the world. But this happened
Speaker 1: to hit and people really enjoyed Patty's pipe, the little
Speaker 1: baby fifty cent ones and all the little little goodies.
Speaker 1: What was the first product that that that won't go off?
Speaker 1: And someone said we have to start selling it? What
Speaker 1: was the first product? I think it was a pie.
Speaker 1: It was a sweepotato pie. Right, it was a sweepetato
Speaker 1: pie because like, because you do white people able to eat,
Speaker 1: they eat pie. But we have a pumpkin pie coming out.
Speaker 1: That's taste everybody, right, right, right, everybody, I see, so
Speaker 1: I can give you a pie. You're a pier. Everybody
Speaker 1: get a pie. I'll see y'all suit with the motherfucker Sarah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's uh sugar free serups, all types of serups.
Speaker 1: So I'm a diabetic, so I have to use the
Speaker 1: sugar free and it's so darn good. I promise you.
Speaker 1: I don't put my name on anything unless it's phenomenal.
Speaker 1: I can tell you. I can tell just going through
Speaker 1: your disciography and just everything. I can tell you. Hands
Speaker 1: on with everything I have to be. If there was
Speaker 1: a time when I was hands on with some stuff
Speaker 1: back in the day that I hated M like, can
Speaker 1: I tell the truth? Yeah, you want another drink? I'm good. No, No,
Speaker 1: there were some things back in the day. I had
Speaker 1: a line on hsen, don't talk about that again. I
Speaker 1: had a line of perfume might not tell the truth.
Speaker 1: I just didn't like it, but I did sell it.
Speaker 1: But I told people when they bought it, I said,
Speaker 1: I'm not crazy about it. I have to be honest.
Speaker 1: That's the only thing I can say that that happened
Speaker 1: to have happened in my life, that it just wasn't
Speaker 1: so loving about Zorry gonna beat me later, I see.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I get in trouble. As you said, I'm a
Speaker 1: Jim and I so we sometimes say things that we
Speaker 1: wish we hadn't. But it's hot, it's honest. I don't
Speaker 1: mind being honest, but so so now we're getting in
Speaker 1: the breakfast. In the breakfast, yes, I love that. We
Speaker 1: got pancakes, waffles, waffles, Yes, And my little grand babies
Speaker 1: that are in the back of boxes. I think cute.
Speaker 1: And there's a peanut butter and jelly um pancake. There's
Speaker 1: wall full sears, all kind of stuff. And then I
Speaker 1: have my dry mix coming out that you can make yourself,
Speaker 1: and it's awesome. I swear to you. Pine okay, add water, Yes,
Speaker 1: you don't even have to add milk. Okay, But they're
Speaker 1: so good you're gonna slap yourself. Your mother's gonna love,
Speaker 1: your wife's gonna love. Do you have any kids, Yes, Yes,
Speaker 1: they're gonna love. Yes, I'm serious, mom, okay, And and
Speaker 1: and the stupid tati pie. I've read somewhere. I heard
Speaker 1: you say somewhere that you sometimes don't even heat it up. No,
Speaker 1: you can eat just like on great out the box.
Speaker 1: And this was is the buttermilk pie. Slap yourself. I
Speaker 1: can't move with this. Go ahead, get the peach goblin.
Speaker 1: Oh the dumble beach cob was devil cross one too. Yes,
Speaker 1: what the macaroni? Have you had? That? Have you had
Speaker 1: my greens, my my kale greens, my black eyed beast,
Speaker 1: all that you could the whole day, My corner for tomatoes,
Speaker 1: my corn bread, Jesus, my bis and my chicken sauce.
Speaker 1: Take my chicken stuff. I got a bunch of stuff
Speaker 1: for you, wonderful people. So let me ask you when
Speaker 1: you go out to eat, what's your favorite type of food?
Speaker 1: To eat? Good food? Anything good like soul full to Italian,
Speaker 1: I make soul fool all the time. So I love
Speaker 1: great Italian. I love Japanese food, and I love uh
Speaker 1: el mc gary uh you know the a sushi but
Speaker 1: nothing wrong just to cook yell the smoke deal. And
Speaker 1: I just like I like good food. I like a
Speaker 1: good Smashburger, Hamburg. Still like that, You'll still go to cheeseburger. Baby,
Speaker 1: we've been there. What's that? Piece is a little here's
Speaker 1: a little a little little tiny cheese. It's a fantastic.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, it's fantastic. I'm not a fancy like
Speaker 1: rosemary and time and all that stuff for my plate.
Speaker 1: Don't put nothing like that on my food because when
Speaker 1: I go to restaurants, people think I'm fancy. So the
Speaker 1: plate comes out dressed up rosemary and time garnishes, and
Speaker 1: I don't want to crags. I eat that. I don't
Speaker 1: do good. I don't know. I don't know why they're
Speaker 1: doing that. We don't like that. Give me basic food. Yes,
Speaker 1: but do you ever ate a carbone? No, we're gonna
Speaker 1: get you that car. We're gonna get bone tonight. That
Speaker 1: is like the most popular restaurant, yes out here? Yeah,
Speaker 1: must scoo, yes, yes, yes, yes, we're gonna make sure
Speaker 1: the red carpet codes with you. Just give me a part.
Speaker 1: I love you so much. When you was an artist,
Speaker 1: what did you like more making the music or performing
Speaker 1: the music? Or that was because she is Yeah, yeah
Speaker 1: that's right. I mean I look at myself I love
Speaker 1: them both equally. Although the making of the music, you
Speaker 1: can do one song and make a hundred takes out
Speaker 1: of it and they end up using the first take
Speaker 1: you did, you know. So I've always said to the producers,
Speaker 1: how many more times you're gonna have me say that
Speaker 1: word on? Like what I did on my own honey.
Speaker 1: The producer made me say, now you have to say one.
Speaker 1: I said, I want to say one I say on
Speaker 1: my own, and he made me so mad I threw
Speaker 1: the song away until Richard uh and Carl barrs Sarah
Speaker 1: came um back around, came and said, Patty, please, do
Speaker 1: you want to do this song? I said no, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to talk about the producer, not with him.
Speaker 1: I said, but I love the song. He said, would
Speaker 1: you like to do it as a duet? So I said,
Speaker 1: sets an answer. He said, who do you like? I said,
Speaker 1: I love Michael McDonald And so they got Michael and
Speaker 1: he did his uh somewhere and I did mine somewhere.
Speaker 1: We did our videos. I was in Brooklyn and he
Speaker 1: was in Malibu when we did though on my own video.
Speaker 1: When we first met was on Johnny Carson. That's when
Speaker 1: we first met. After doing the song together. I'm so
Speaker 1: happy to throw that away. I love that song, yes,
Speaker 1: and I love Michael McDonald. You know, it's crazy the
Speaker 1: new people now that use this record. It's two things.
Speaker 1: As soon as you hear he's like, oh, I know
Speaker 1: he doesn't broke up Instagram up first this first posting
Speaker 1: three thousand pictures together and love you see what happens.
Speaker 1: You know, it's crazy that both couples individually boasted songs separately.
Speaker 1: So it's like one of those songs. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just one of my favorite songs to've seen and I've
Speaker 1: done it with so many different duet partners. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: and well, I just love it. I love right about Michael.
Speaker 1: Your interactions with Michael, I had not many because we
Speaker 1: didn't record together, we didn't video together. We did Johnny
Speaker 1: Carson together and that was all we wrote after that.
Speaker 1: I did see him at another performance, but we never
Speaker 1: really talked. Talk but I'm almost sure he's laid back
Speaker 1: and quiet. Yeah, because I'm shy, and I think he
Speaker 1: is shy a little. So I'm not a great conversationalist.
Speaker 1: I don't talk too much when I see people one
Speaker 1: on one. Are you that way? Yea. Sometimes, yeah, I
Speaker 1: shy away from people a lot, unless a crown, and
Speaker 1: then it's on. Yes, yes, yes, because because I was
Speaker 1: acting that earlier. Because this is when you go google
Speaker 1: see you on YouTube? Is the famous Patty kick? Will
Speaker 1: you kick your shoes off? Do you know about that?
Speaker 1: It's a whole I know about it, and thank god
Speaker 1: I started kicking them off because my corns were hurting,
Speaker 1: and I said, this shoe was killing my foot and
Speaker 1: it has to come off. And so sometimes they stick
Speaker 1: to your feet unless you have vasiline on your feet something,
Speaker 1: the shoe slides off. I didn't have vasoline this night,
Speaker 1: and that suckers stayed on. Like when I did Dance
Speaker 1: with the Stars, I had a part where I kicked
Speaker 1: the shoe off. It wouldn't come off. I was saw embarrassed.
Speaker 1: It was live and the shoe was stuck with my
Speaker 1: freaking foot. I said, no, not to night boot, but
Speaker 1: I'm known for kicking that. I still kick him off.
Speaker 1: You still, oh, yes, okay, that's that's a signature move.
Speaker 1: The baby fantasious she started kicking hers. I said, fantasie
Speaker 1: your way through a fourth song, because that half of
Speaker 1: will go out there and kick him up on the first.
Speaker 1: That's my first. So many baby girls. Yeah, she's a kicker.
Speaker 1: I don't know anybody who's met Patty and said that
Speaker 1: they don't love you really like I haven't met him like.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they exist. I bet they do.
Speaker 1: They do. I've seen you talk about these such people
Speaker 1: like Coline talk about them too dy, but I don't
Speaker 1: see it. But I've never seen it, thank god. And
Speaker 1: when I did, I confronted it. And she's in love
Speaker 1: with Patty what I told you about? Okay, Yeah, because
Speaker 1: I've seen you on the Breakface Club you were talking about.
Speaker 1: You've seen somebody at Awards show. Oh girl, she'll name name,
Speaker 1: she'll remain nameless. I can never tell you who she is,
Speaker 1: but I'll never make friends with her. I can tell
Speaker 1: you that already. She needs Jesus. Oh yeah she does.
Speaker 1: I know, well you might, but you'll never hear from
Speaker 1: my mouth. Never. Never. I mean her mother was loving
Speaker 1: on me and she wasn't. I said, okay, did I
Speaker 1: do something to you? I'm bad on her? Years old?
Speaker 1: I know I couldn't go through about two. Are you
Speaker 1: hating on me like this little girl? But it's Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm still loving myself. You do you feel like you
Speaker 1: feel like because um, it's different from male has like ego,
Speaker 1: sometimes women if it was like they're threatened by another woman.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like you still threatened like these young
Speaker 1: snacks out here? No, I don't. I shouldn't. I mean,
Speaker 1: I really should not. But if they take it like that,
Speaker 1: then I take that as a high compliment. They might
Speaker 1: by yeah, I'm saying that, but I wish they were not,
Speaker 1: because I'm I am gonna talk to you because I've
Speaker 1: been where they're going. So all I'm here is is
Speaker 1: I'm a teacher and I'm gonna tell you every little
Speaker 1: downfall you might run into that I ran into and
Speaker 1: I got out of it somehow. So here I am
Speaker 1: to give you info, not to hate on them, and
Speaker 1: don't hate on me if you don't really know me.
Speaker 1: But then again, I take that to as a compliment.
Speaker 1: You always have to take the high road in life, though,
Speaker 1: and don't always think that something negative is going to
Speaker 1: bother you. I was talking to my friend today ship here.
Speaker 1: My hairstylas as fine as she is and beautiful, people
Speaker 1: are still trying to make her feel less than who
Speaker 1: she is. You can't let that bother you. Take it
Speaker 1: as a compliment. That's what I do. You also cooked
Speaker 1: for the Rolling Stones? Oh, I cooked for the Rolling
Speaker 1: Stones Richard Pryor? Um? What what? I don't think you
Speaker 1: ever had a Richard Pryor story on drinks? I think
Speaker 1: I don't ever anything. You're just messing me up. I
Speaker 1: don't really Wait a minute, it's the best story. Okay,
Speaker 1: which version of Richard Pryor we're talking? This is after
Speaker 1: he burned, before before bay. Yeah, so you're with Richard
Speaker 1: and um, he always thought that he wasn't paying me
Speaker 1: enough money. Uh. On the tour, he said, you're too
Speaker 1: damn good to be out here getting what I'm giving you.
Speaker 1: I said, it's good, I'm good, right, he said, no.
Speaker 1: So we were in Detroit and it was a Sunday. No,
Speaker 1: it wasn't. It was a Saturday. And he took me
Speaker 1: to a car dealership and said that he wanted me
Speaker 1: to pick out a car for his aunt. So I said, oh,
Speaker 1: how old is he's about sixty something. I said, what
Speaker 1: colors her hair? She said? He said gray. So I
Speaker 1: saw a soft blue, beautiful car. I don't even know.
Speaker 1: It was a Cadillac or I don't know what because
Speaker 1: I don't drive. I don't know what cars are. I
Speaker 1: was in that fierce car this mor now I knew that,
Speaker 1: but I had cars, but I don't know about cars.
Speaker 1: So he said, turn the ignition on. I said, how,
Speaker 1: I don't drive. He said, let me come in there.
Speaker 1: So Richie came in and turned the car on and said,
Speaker 1: this is your car. I said, oh no, my husband
Speaker 1: won't kill me. I said, oh no, it ain't that
Speaker 1: kind of party. Or he said, no, I love you.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pay you more. I want to give you more.
Speaker 1: And so I said, okay, let's go to We went
Speaker 1: to Benigan's and I said, Richard called my husband. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Benigans right in Detroit. We went to Bennigan's and I said,
Speaker 1: call him, I said, Arms said, somebody wants to talk
Speaker 1: to you. So Richard got on the phrase. He said, man,
Speaker 1: I just want your wife a car. I'm saying like that.
Speaker 1: Just say I don't like her like that, I just
Speaker 1: want her car. So we just said, man, I just
Speaker 1: love her. I don't, well, I don't love her like
Speaker 1: you love her. I said, okay. So Arms said said, well,
Speaker 1: thank you sir, and so the car went to Philly.
Speaker 1: I met while I can't dry, we had a car.
Speaker 1: So that was the Riches story. And then he sent
Speaker 1: me a song into my house. Then he brought me
Speaker 1: loads of diamond bracelets. He said, you can't get enough
Speaker 1: money out here for your town, which was a high compliment.
Speaker 1: And that was that was the Richer prior story with me.
Speaker 1: And when he was leaving not so well and getting
Speaker 1: ready to pass um, he said some messages to me.
Speaker 1: You know, I love him so much. But we did
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff together. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: how long we toured, but he did that Sunset Boulevard thing,
Speaker 1: and I think my name is on credits as Patti
Speaker 1: LaBelle being a performer that night. So I performed that night,
Speaker 1: and uh, I had the sax player, white guy. He said,
Speaker 1: I can't say what he said to me. He said,
Speaker 1: I said, Richard, what you said? He said, how to
Speaker 1: play like that? But so many things he would say
Speaker 1: to me. He loved my shoes, every pair of pumps.
Speaker 1: Let me see those plumps. I said, what's up, bo Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll let him see the shoes. But it was just
Speaker 1: such a wonderful relationship, just a good one. Yeah, Richard,
Speaker 1: I had I had stopped you because you said, Richard,
Speaker 1: but what else you cook? Before you said? The rolling stones?
Speaker 1: Um throwing stones were in Philly. Uh, Mick called and said, Patty,
Speaker 1: we're in Philly. Could you make us everybody knows that cook.
Speaker 1: Could you make us some food? So I said, as
Speaker 1: long as it's out there for you know, when you
Speaker 1: have the set up for all the groups to eat,
Speaker 1: as long as mine, says Patty LaBelle, and not the
Speaker 1: caterers of the spectrum that evening. So I made everything
Speaker 1: and they ate and they publicized it. And was they
Speaker 1: were so happy that I cooked for everybody? I mean,
Speaker 1: so it was them. It was so who back in
Speaker 1: the day because we opened the show for them and
Speaker 1: I made sure they ate. Yeah, I get a room
Speaker 1: with my hot plate. I have like two hot plates
Speaker 1: and I plug them up. Ble and my friend Norma,
Speaker 1: my friends who used to perform Who's do My Hair? Norma?
Speaker 1: She would go to the farmer's market and get all
Speaker 1: the grub. And I cooked for everybody in my band
Speaker 1: and crew. Never got got angry. I come already branding
Speaker 1: it better. Whe he didn't take credit for my food.
Speaker 1: No would you cooking for us for that you that
Speaker 1: you thought you wouldn't and that that that that Nina Simone,
Speaker 1: Nina Simone was near her end. We were at the
Speaker 1: hotel in New York, the Um the oh god, what
Speaker 1: was it? Palace? Yes, and we were doing Carnee hallwood
Speaker 1: Sting with album was on that show a bunch of people,
Speaker 1: and so Sting's wife what's her name? Called me? What
Speaker 1: is it? Truly? Called me right and said Mr the Bad?
Speaker 1: Could you do as a favor? So I said, what
Speaker 1: do you want? Girlfriend? So she said, Nina loves show
Speaker 1: so much. Could you tell her to wood pants tonight
Speaker 1: not as good because she sits with her days open
Speaker 1: on stage. That's it? Would I said? Okay? I said,
Speaker 1: I'm maneuvered somehow. So Nina wanted me. I was in
Speaker 1: the hotel cooking my lunch. I had. I love those
Speaker 1: hot sauceage right, so I got them from the farmer's market,
Speaker 1: so hot that nobody can't eat them but me. So
Speaker 1: she said what Then they're called what are you doing? Patty?
Speaker 1: I said, girl, I'm cooking lunch. She said, what are
Speaker 1: you making? I can't I can't talk like her. What
Speaker 1: are you making? Patty. I said, hot sausage. How mean
Speaker 1: at your God? I said, I have four, bring me
Speaker 1: to swear it up. So me and Norma went up
Speaker 1: to her room, knocked on her door, and she said, no,
Speaker 1: normal you can whatever. She didn't know normals, and you
Speaker 1: can't come in. It's just Patty. So when I went in,
Speaker 1: she was lying. I went back to lying on the
Speaker 1: bed and she showed me her hair and she said,
Speaker 1: you know what I got. It was so hard heartfelt.
Speaker 1: And then she showed me her press and she said,
Speaker 1: I love you so much. I share things with you.
Speaker 1: Like she saw me at Carnegie rehearsal drinking wine out
Speaker 1: of a plastic cup. Never they give you crystal a
Speaker 1: nothing at all. I suppose she was beating me up
Speaker 1: for not knowing better. That said, girlfriend, I just wanted
Speaker 1: some wine, So she said, no, only in crystal. So
Speaker 1: we did the I changed my glass, and then when
Speaker 1: I finished with her up in her room, she said,
Speaker 1: you have another sausage. They were so hot. I sit
Speaker 1: and Nina, how can you eat that? So then she
Speaker 1: would have me call her every two weeks to see
Speaker 1: if I found a friend for her, and y'all became friends, right, oh,
Speaker 1: best friends friends. I did her memorial. I mean, that
Speaker 1: was a lady that not many people had a privilege
Speaker 1: to me. I had the privilege. And we talked on
Speaker 1: the phone all the time. And when she left, her
Speaker 1: daughter called me and told me some nice things that
Speaker 1: she felt about me. I think I've been with everybody, um,
Speaker 1: just wonderful people. Yeah. Yeah, it's an array of people
Speaker 1: that you just mentioned just in I mean, I had
Speaker 1: so much fun googling you because you know, they always
Speaker 1: say you know related names too, and when when your
Speaker 1: your related names is so like so much of the
Speaker 1: elliest people in the world, like from Elton John Prince,
Speaker 1: and it's just like why, I like, eventually they our
Speaker 1: names will be related to you. We got we got God,
Speaker 1: thank you. It's so many things, uh, in my life
Speaker 1: that I'm so proud to have been a part of,
Speaker 1: like being the first black women to play the Metropolitan
Speaker 1: Opera House, you know, with Sarah and Sarah Dash baby
Speaker 1: Sarah Dash is no longer with us, whose memory will
Speaker 1: never be forgotten, and Nona, we're still hanging in there,
Speaker 1: and then we're still doing things and and what made
Speaker 1: you stay in Philadelphia? I have pictured you like being
Speaker 1: in Hollywood somewhere people did. Philadelphia is quiet enough for me. See,
Speaker 1: I don't like a lot of Yeah, I don't like
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff, like New York is too fast
Speaker 1: for me, so as l A at times. So I'm
Speaker 1: a Philadelphia girl who still lives there and I'm never leaving.
Speaker 1: Did you ever move to Hollywood? At one point? I
Speaker 1: had to when I was doing Out All Night. I
Speaker 1: did two sitcoms here. So I lived not here in
Speaker 1: l a uh for for a long too long for me,
Speaker 1: because I don't like l a you know, I don't
Speaker 1: like the mentality that people are so grand Hollywood. If
Speaker 1: you don't have a song out or a movie out,
Speaker 1: you're nobody, you know, that kind of stuff. So but
Speaker 1: I had to live there to do the shows that
Speaker 1: I I did with VIVIDA Fox and Mars Chestnut, the
Speaker 1: one Out All Night, And then I did another sitcom,
Speaker 1: Um Different World. I did at times, Chipmunk's Mother, Oh
Speaker 1: god was it. I've been around you did Empire Horror
Speaker 1: Story too? Oh, yeah, hard story. They cut my throat. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and her story story wasn't watched. He never watched, he
Speaker 1: never watched it. Yeah, I've been in a few things.
Speaker 1: I am too. I am truly blessed. It's like you
Speaker 1: have a multiple careers. You have like a movie career,
Speaker 1: you have like a food career, music career, like you
Speaker 1: can just turn around, throw darts in anyway whichever you land.
Speaker 1: It's great. It's it's a good, good feeling. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: there were times when I thought I wouldn't make it
Speaker 1: and and uh, to me, I have not really really
Speaker 1: really made it yet. But I'm still gonna make it.
Speaker 1: You know. I still have things to do that white
Speaker 1: women do that I the same caliber. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: sell too stuff like that, like if you ask me
Speaker 1: to with with Selene singing, dian Her singing self. Um,
Speaker 1: I did the first. But it was one of those
Speaker 1: things in life you have to wait your turn, you know.
Speaker 1: And I'm seventy eight and I'm not tired of waiting.
Speaker 1: I'm not right yet, you know, because it's still coming.
Speaker 1: Things are still going to happen, and they're happening. I'm here.
Speaker 1: We had Tank on here right and Tank said that
Speaker 1: he said that, Um, sometimes it's not black violence, that's
Speaker 1: that's that's other people are scared of. He said, it's
Speaker 1: black love. People are scared of you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: That's it, that's true, and why I don't know. If
Speaker 1: we all love each other, then this world will be.
Speaker 1: It's a better it would be, you know. But all
Speaker 1: that stuff has made me just work harder. I'm the
Speaker 1: hardest working woman in show business as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 1: I never stopped because there's never something in my mind
Speaker 1: saying you're not worthy. I'm worthy, so I know I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make it. You know, how do you find an
Speaker 1: energy to to continue on? How do you find the energy?
Speaker 1: I just do because there's younger people that don't have
Speaker 1: any energy to do all the stuff you're doing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm blessed with energy, you know. And I I'm not
Speaker 1: trying things, you know, Like I'm still doing crip wall
Speaker 1: that okay. My son is California, So whenever that comes on,
Speaker 1: I do my pretend crip wall, okay, and I did
Speaker 1: it on stage with Essence, but I've been doing it
Speaker 1: for the last two years on stage with my younger
Speaker 1: people in the band. I asked somebody, but now google
Speaker 1: Essence last week okay, okay, what you okay? Okay? They
Speaker 1: gave me thirty minutes and I wore that thirty minutes,
Speaker 1: although my beautiful suit was falling off me because I
Speaker 1: just had it made and I lost weight, so the
Speaker 1: pants were almost on my knees by the time my
Speaker 1: finished cript walk. It's okay, but I was throwing down
Speaker 1: my old girlfriend, the one who sayings that we just
Speaker 1: had on her chunks or some kind of sneakers, and
Speaker 1: she was holding her dress doing the kip. I don't
Speaker 1: do it like they do it. I pretend love that song.
Speaker 1: I love any gangster music. I love gangster rap. On
Speaker 1: Dance with the Stars. My son was fifty set the club.
Speaker 1: That's what I do know. Y'all got to find somebody
Speaker 1: and let him tell you if they didn't do it great,
Speaker 1: but I did it good. Is that how you stayed
Speaker 1: so young? I love music, I love hip hop. I
Speaker 1: love gangster rap. Some rewards they sell. And one song
Speaker 1: I was dancing to and not realizing what the boy
Speaker 1: was talking about. I can't tell you what son was.
Speaker 1: It was your I'm only joking it was somebody's son.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I loved it so much and
Speaker 1: I was into it, and I think my son was
Speaker 1: in the car and he heard me jamming. I guess
Speaker 1: he said, my mom don't even know what she's listening to.
Speaker 1: But I love that. I'm seven to eight, but I
Speaker 1: ain't old. But let me ask you. Ever hear CARDI
Speaker 1: being Megan the Stallion, W Yeah, I heard it. I said.
Speaker 1: The girls, Oh my god, they said it. They do it,
Speaker 1: I mean, and that's what they do and people love it.
Speaker 1: You know. I don't think your day of making music
Speaker 1: they ever be Yeah. Never, everybody glass name would be
Speaker 1: out there. Don't get it twisted. I love those girls
Speaker 1: from what they do. We love this city girls. They
Speaker 1: all got their own thing. Everybody is doing what they do.
Speaker 1: I took pictures with City girls two weeks ago, and
Speaker 1: as I mean, I know what's happening. So when you
Speaker 1: guys try and hide the blunts and the reefers and
Speaker 1: stuff for me, don't hide you don't. Don't ever stop
Speaker 1: your lifestyle for Patty Bell because I think you know
Speaker 1: what's crazy and I respect the respect I do, but
Speaker 1: don't stop. Okay, I might just like two hits hot,
Speaker 1: but I'm not doing it. But I don't mind you're doing.
Speaker 1: We giving you what's your earliest memories of like hip hop?
Speaker 1: Be interacting with hip hop. I guess it was too pop.
Speaker 1: That was the earliest for you. I think so that
Speaker 1: was that was my earliest. What it was big there
Speaker 1: he came because we sang together. But it feels like
Speaker 1: another one. Yeah, it was Daddy came right, Thank you
Speaker 1: for telling me it was Daddy came. Um. But I
Speaker 1: started moving to California love. That's when I started learning
Speaker 1: a crypt walk. Did you beat Park? No? Never? Isn't
Speaker 1: that a sin? No? I love him so much? About
Speaker 1: be Smalls, Yeah, no, one never met Bay did I Zory? No?
Speaker 1: But Biggie had a song about Patty? Oh yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: can I get he? Sure did? I was shocked, but yeah,
Speaker 1: he sure did have a son. The younger men are
Speaker 1: still attracted to you. I mean they're attracted to you
Speaker 1: like this. I'm just happy and you you you you know,
Speaker 1: I'm a lucky woman. I am to be seventy eight
Speaker 1: and still have people looking. You know, that's a blessing, right,
Speaker 1: your virus really think? Yes, I love what I do,
Speaker 1: I love who I am, and I love who I know. Yes,
Speaker 1: I just people. I can just tell from your relationship
Speaker 1: with Aretha that you always called her queen you always,
Speaker 1: even when times might have not seem shaky, but you
Speaker 1: kept your classiness. Like I'm looking through this this stuff, um,
Speaker 1: and I'm like wow, Like you really a classy You're
Speaker 1: you're the definition of class act. Like you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like we all got that in us, like
Speaker 1: by being pushed too much, where we're gonna get to
Speaker 1: the edge, and it seems like you ain't nowhere near
Speaker 1: the age. Know that pushes me to the top. You
Speaker 1: go to the opposite word. When the bottom tries to
Speaker 1: get me to the bottom, it puts me higher up
Speaker 1: because then I know I'm somebody that they might be
Speaker 1: threatened by, which is an awful thing to feel as
Speaker 1: though you're a threat to certain people. But when it
Speaker 1: happens to me, I go way high, way high because
Speaker 1: you can't bring me down. You just can't. And you
Speaker 1: had a cooking show too. Oh yeah, I had a few, really,
Speaker 1: but they sure put me off why, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It didn't last very long. I had a few. I
Speaker 1: can't really say why things happen the way they happened
Speaker 1: to me or maybe other black women or black men.
Speaker 1: But you roll with it as long as you have it.
Speaker 1: Don't ever stop rolling, you know, and I'm still I'll
Speaker 1: have another one. I have a few mores. You could
Speaker 1: create your own network, I think, I am. What'd you say?
Speaker 1: You could create your own network? Your own network? Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: oh why not? Because we see of so crazy. One
Speaker 1: day someone asked you. They said, um, patty, so we
Speaker 1: can't get um no more uh no, no more pies.
Speaker 1: And you said, because they add of potatoes. So I
Speaker 1: had to call Oprah se potatoes. I was like, wait
Speaker 1: a minute. By the way, I was just like, oh,
Speaker 1: like I literally was like, wait a minute. That was
Speaker 1: so that was supplies. She just like, yeah, I can
Speaker 1: call open to see Pope got potatoes because there's no
Speaker 1: more potatoes in America. I said, wait, the first of all,
Speaker 1: even know like that, and then I'll tell you just
Speaker 1: running the potato and this is better. You're singing poes
Speaker 1: like paplo. Let's just be clear. Let's just so I could.
Speaker 1: By the way, I know this gonna sound crazy. Come on,
Speaker 1: I didn't know sweetpotato pie came from potatoes? What from sweet?
Speaker 1: Are you serious? I didn't know you swept. I was like, sweeptato,
Speaker 1: But I didn't put doing two together for years. I
Speaker 1: never did. It's it's very honest. So how it happens
Speaker 1: you had to call open for potatoes? Okay because you
Speaker 1: said that playing sometimes Okay, okay, okay, I just like
Speaker 1: to talk, okay, but we're tight. Yeah, she's one of
Speaker 1: my better friends. I did her first show in Baltimore
Speaker 1: before she became who she is. And she called my
Speaker 1: friend Cassie Johnson, who does my wardrobe for me in
Speaker 1: styling uh, and said, do you think Patti Labell would
Speaker 1: do my show? So Cassie called me, I said who
Speaker 1: is she? She said her name is Oprah. I said
Speaker 1: I'll do it, and I did it, not knowing of
Speaker 1: course who opened one for you was? But she she
Speaker 1: always thanks me for that for doing her first show.
Speaker 1: There's not a lot of people in this world, and say, Oprah,
Speaker 1: O me. I know, but but no, no, she doesn't
Speaker 1: know me. I don't know what I mean what I say?
Speaker 1: What makes you do? People things like that? Like you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like um, like like someone unknown
Speaker 1: asked you for a favorite. Here's here's a Patty Labell moment.
Speaker 1: I love people. I love fans. I don't care who
Speaker 1: they are. Twenty years ago, hugged a gentleman with aids
Speaker 1: because he was dying, and my security had a fit
Speaker 1: because that my little moment was going to make his
Speaker 1: last moment a little better because he was a big
Speaker 1: Patty fan. My security got so mad. I was pim
Speaker 1: slapping my security. I said, move, move away, let me
Speaker 1: hug this person. That's who I am. So I didn't
Speaker 1: care who Oprah was or anybody is, because I love people.
Speaker 1: I'm a people per and if somebody comes to me
Speaker 1: like they did a lot of essence for photos that
Speaker 1: my security try to stop me, I get very sick.
Speaker 1: I get angry because those are the people who make
Speaker 1: me without family. Who am I don't important to protection?
Speaker 1: And protection is fine, but I know who's not gonna
Speaker 1: hurt me. I mean, I swear to you, I am
Speaker 1: so well rounded with knowing people and what they might
Speaker 1: do and what they might not do. Let me have
Speaker 1: the freedom make somebody's day, because they show you make
Speaker 1: mine every damn day. So let me hug them. So
Speaker 1: you know, and I have the best security people in
Speaker 1: the world, But let me be Patty for a moment,
Speaker 1: that's all. What do you call your fans? Then nothing?
Speaker 1: You don't call like everything like like Lincki, Mina's got
Speaker 1: the bar Beyonce got the Beehives. We gotta leave your
Speaker 1: fans because I name him love Yeah, my love folks.
Speaker 1: They love on me like crazy. And when I see
Speaker 1: the housekeepers in the hallway, I'll stop him and they'll
Speaker 1: look at me because I'm all beat up and cute.
Speaker 1: I say, Hi, would you like a photo? They said,
Speaker 1: are you patty? Stuff like that. It makes their day.
Speaker 1: So call my my fans love bugs, love bugs. Unless
Speaker 1: you get a better name, you got inspired you. I
Speaker 1: used to listen to Dakoda State and Gloria Lyne, Nina Simone,
Speaker 1: James Moody back in the day when my brother was
Speaker 1: living with me. That was his music. So I I
Speaker 1: started out loving jazz and listening to jazz and influenced
Speaker 1: by my mother, who never sang, but her spirit was
Speaker 1: a sung to me. Just wonderful woman. She didn't have
Speaker 1: to sing. But I was influenced by the love of
Speaker 1: my my mother. My sister is my sisters who are
Speaker 1: no longer here, Jackie Barbera Vivian and now my niece
Speaker 1: Stacy and my nephew Billy. The only family I have left.
Speaker 1: You know, blood from my from my mom. I have
Speaker 1: my son, thank God, and his wife Lona, and my
Speaker 1: three babies, my three grand babies, so I have. I'm
Speaker 1: influenced by the little thing my little baby did this morning. Uh,
Speaker 1: he tried to pull my wig off. I said, baby, no,
Speaker 1: just ain't your mama. No, his mama got long the
Speaker 1: fearest black hair. This ain't mine. Everybody know this ain't
Speaker 1: my hair. Okay. The baby tried to pull my hair,
Speaker 1: he said, And I was influenced by that. It just
Speaker 1: made me feel good. They know that I have something
Speaker 1: that he wants, but he didn't have it. But seeing
Speaker 1: little things just makes my day. Little things and I
Speaker 1: love you. Well, don't get mad at me. Will was
Speaker 1: my security. Okay, next, but we heard you have famous
Speaker 1: things giving party. I do. In fact, one of these
Speaker 1: parties you had. You had just had your living room
Speaker 1: done and you let no one in there. That's right,
Speaker 1: and you let the people smoke. We feel by outside
Speaker 1: and they've smoked by the pool. No body is gonna
Speaker 1: give me no contact. I don't get a contact. I
Speaker 1: didn't know why. I'll be high sometimes and I said, oh,
Speaker 1: they blue smoke in my face or something. But no,
Speaker 1: you can smoke outside, right, but don't go to the
Speaker 1: new living room. The living room, don't go to the basement.
Speaker 1: What was so special about this new living It was
Speaker 1: new and phenomenal, just child. It wasn't a Patty living room,
Speaker 1: just beautiful and it was white. So I don't want
Speaker 1: anybody do no red wine smoked, no cigarettes in there, Daniel, nothing,
Speaker 1: no nothing. Yes, so I kept it closed. Yes, I
Speaker 1: let him peek in it, but don't walk, because that's
Speaker 1: something you ever get into, like a terrier designing. Yes,
Speaker 1: I love it. That be hard. That's what I do.
Speaker 1: And my friend, she care crazy and she's doing her
Speaker 1: house now I'm helping her with her house. Yes, here's
Speaker 1: another show on the network show I want. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: go and decorated. Let's do it. We do something anyway
Speaker 1: with your food, like god damn it. Food. That's okay
Speaker 1: because come the King of Pold anytime. Anybody hip hop,
Speaker 1: R and B, so jazz, if you've got anything to
Speaker 1: do with food, you must go to Patty LaBelle. She
Speaker 1: is live my dren. She is the guard mother. And
Speaker 1: that's just it's no negotiating that. You gotta dry her back.
Speaker 1: You gotta go check into Patty say, let me take
Speaker 1: you some you come on to mind, bring the I
Speaker 1: just got cos I just don't want you all to
Speaker 1: know we got and the bag is coming to for sure.
Speaker 1: And I heard someone asked you before what was more
Speaker 1: lucrative for you? Your music or the food? But that
Speaker 1: was like five years ago. I want to ask you
Speaker 1: that same question because I feel like you're gonna say
Speaker 1: food right now. I'm gonna say both both, okay, because
Speaker 1: your warrior teth still crazy, I'm gonna say both. I'm
Speaker 1: truly blessed. Yes, Yes, I am blessed, Yes coming back,
Speaker 1: I'm o manure. I just love your spirit. I just
Speaker 1: love how you know, Like I said, I was studying
Speaker 1: you for so long because once you must be locked
Speaker 1: into that. And I'm trying to look for a floor
Speaker 1: in you, like I'm trying to not not just to
Speaker 1: see you know, so almost see that you're human and
Speaker 1: you're like an angel. Oh yeah, like I kid you
Speaker 1: not Like I'm like I'm looking and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: like I think you're sent here to make us to
Speaker 1: know what love is like yeah, because like like like
Speaker 1: I said, like you could have had judgment on people
Speaker 1: and you just don't you just sit there and you're
Speaker 1: still just And like I said, I was looking for it.
Speaker 1: I'm going through it. And I got other people who
Speaker 1: work here and I had them go through it, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, she she doesn't have one. I just love.
Speaker 1: I love my blessings. I could not be where I
Speaker 1: am today. I don't have to be sitting here with
Speaker 1: you guys, which is an honor. And I didn't have
Speaker 1: to do certain shows that I've done, or movies or whatever.
Speaker 1: I've been touched by angels. And when my sisters all
Speaker 1: left me mm hmm, they they laid this thing on
Speaker 1: me if they never had and I have because I
Speaker 1: always say, why didn't I die at fifty like they did?
Speaker 1: And I'm seventy eight. I'm still standing strong. I'm not sick.
Speaker 1: They were also sick, and I think I think they
Speaker 1: left some time. Keep on rocks, sorry, I can keep
Speaker 1: on rising. And tears are great. I don't mind crying
Speaker 1: because they they were the best sisters you could ever have,
Speaker 1: and they left so early. And I I around. I
Speaker 1: surround myself with nothing but positive people, you know, Kim, Charles, Lona,
Speaker 1: my niece, Stacy, Billy positive, my son's jury is the
Speaker 1: best son that a woman could have. He's negged back
Speaker 1: in the day whenever his docks eyes, the shoes would
Speaker 1: have holes, and limousines will come for me to take
Speaker 1: me to the show. He wanted to ride in the
Speaker 1: luggage fan. He never tells promoters he's my son. What
Speaker 1: a blessing. He's not a Hattie Labelle's son. He's a
Speaker 1: son and all of that love that he's given me
Speaker 1: in all these years when he saw me really sick.
Speaker 1: There was the time I thought I was gonna give
Speaker 1: up singing because I had lost my voice. I know
Speaker 1: I lost it, but he said, no, you didn't, Mom.
Speaker 1: I said, yes I did. They're gonna start throwing eggs
Speaker 1: at me. And I was on toward Frankie, Beverly and
Speaker 1: the o J's, and they would all come to my
Speaker 1: trail and say bring me flowers. Of Frankie would bring
Speaker 1: me flowers, said are you okay today? And I would
Speaker 1: look at him and say no. I was evil. I
Speaker 1: went through a six month period of something trying to
Speaker 1: take over me, and my son stood there. He cried
Speaker 1: with me. He stayed with me, and he kept promoting me, saying, mom,
Speaker 1: You're great, you know. Head kept holding me up and
Speaker 1: I and I love telling this story. I don't think
Speaker 1: a lot of people would. But I thought I lost
Speaker 1: my livelihood, my voice, my personality. I was staying and
Speaker 1: look at the audience and wouldn't say one word. The
Speaker 1: next day radio stage, you say we're praying for Patty
Speaker 1: because I'm human, and I don't know what was wrong
Speaker 1: with me, but I went through. And I'm standing here
Speaker 1: now here on the station, on your show and feeling
Speaker 1: like a queen, and just knowing that I've done much
Speaker 1: more in my life than most people expected me to.
Speaker 1: Because there are people in my life who said, you're
Speaker 1: never gonna make it. Okay, now you're never gonna make it.
Speaker 1: Shut up. We got quick time and we'll do the shots.
Speaker 1: What does that mean? Yesterday's make it quick? Okay? Okay?
Speaker 1: Where is that? I don't see it? You see it?
Speaker 1: Oh No, I don't think you said it to him? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you see it to us? Okay, guys, when number is that?
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe all service anyone? Yeah, you got your you
Speaker 1: got I don't know. Maybe my service is nervous. Your
Speaker 1: even hold the death. I get it, I got it.
Speaker 1: You want to explain the rules. So we should have
Speaker 1: Sunny come in Sunny Stone. I was gonna no, it's okay,
Speaker 1: it's okay, it's okay, because we're gonna sit. We're gonna sit.
Speaker 1: I we're gonna sit because she's not taking shots. So
Speaker 1: we're explain explained you could it could be say so
Speaker 1: you want to explain it. We asked you a question.
Speaker 1: It it's two names. You pick one or the other.
Speaker 1: If you say the politically correct answer, then we take
Speaker 1: a shot. Okay, so it's either both are neither. That's
Speaker 1: the politically correct answer. Shot if you pick more, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't have to at all. If you don't want you,
Speaker 1: we gonna have my friend right, d say his name
Speaker 1: is Sunny DBT. I'll take a shot. Yes, yes, you
Speaker 1: gave dance. That's right, the dance. Okay, come on, come
Speaker 1: on right? Are you right? Word to stay for it?
Speaker 1: Stay relaxed, cool, I'll set up the first one. M
Speaker 1: J or Prince Michael Jackson or Prince God Prince Prince okay, okay,
Speaker 1: Gerald Leavert or Luther Vandros Oh my lord, both them
Speaker 1: for different reasons? Can I say both? Yeah? Take a
Speaker 1: shop for you? You take this job for you drunk
Speaker 1: the work take away one, I'll take a swea yeah, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: you get the next one? All right? You said right?
Speaker 1: Aretha Franklin or Diana Ross Area Franklin podcast or radio podcast? Okay?
Speaker 1: Sam Cooker Oldist ready? Both both of them? Who is that?
Speaker 1: When he left over at Sam Cooking oldist ready? Keep going?
Speaker 1: You got the next one? No, go ahead, go to
Speaker 1: the next one. Our green or Teddy Pendergrass. Are so
Speaker 1: many things in my life that I could think of
Speaker 1: right now to say Teddy Pendergrass. Yes, Smokey Robinson or
Speaker 1: Marvin Gaye. I love when they do that. Okay, well, okay,
Speaker 1: I love you Smoky okay. James Ella Fitzgerald, James Rocket
Speaker 1: Label style Epic or m c A. Which one was on?
Speaker 1: A and Epic? Right? Both? Okay? Can I say book? Yeah? Yeah? Both?
Speaker 1: Adele or Mariah Mariah Carry my god daughter, Yes, I forget.
Speaker 1: One of our people in the crew said, the last
Speaker 1: time they've seen to was in the amphitheater. Out here.
Speaker 1: We're a seventeen year old Mariah Carry introduced to you.
Speaker 1: Do you remember who? What did your grandma? To say? James?
Speaker 1: That is true? Yeah, I don't remember yesterday, but I
Speaker 1: know that's true. That's true. Yes, it's crazy. You just
Speaker 1: have just amazing stories, like like rarely touching the service
Speaker 1: anything about it was a classic. You turned around like
Speaker 1: you know, but if you play this like whoa, it's
Speaker 1: Farrell or Kanye West. I did record with Kanye with it.
Speaker 1: His mother, Donna, took me to a session and it
Speaker 1: was I think it was a rose that we're saying,
Speaker 1: and Kanye said, Mr Vell, would you please seeing this
Speaker 1: with me? It's Kanye. It's Kanye Kanye. Although for Rel
Speaker 1: was doing housekeeping at the studio with Teddy Riley back
Speaker 1: in the day in Virginia when I recorded there and
Speaker 1: I cooked for them, and when I saw Farrell the
Speaker 1: last time, he said that food shore was good it.
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, you were scrubbing then look at your dad. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: thank you, honey. This is fun. You got it? Oh? No, okay.
Speaker 1: Tina Turner, Gladys Knight, Gladys Knight, Quincy Jones, or Rick James.
Speaker 1: I got Rick James stories too. You know, back in
Speaker 1: the day he had a song of a LaBelle song
Speaker 1: or something I recorded with Rick way way back in
Speaker 1: the day. He was so high he couldn't even talk.
Speaker 1: But that was my mad I love Rick James. I
Speaker 1: love him because of who he was not afraid to
Speaker 1: be here free. I love him for that. So who
Speaker 1: was the other one? Quincy Jones? I love Quincy, but
Speaker 1: give me Rick alright, Bobby Brown or I'll be sure.
Speaker 1: I'll be sure. God I got stuff with them too,
Speaker 1: I'll be sure. It came to my house a long
Speaker 1: time ago. I think with Diana Williams of days back
Speaker 1: in the day, and wanted me to cook back in
Speaker 1: the day. And I didn't know who he was. And uh,
Speaker 1: Bobby Brown and I we have history. Bobby Amy wine
Speaker 1: House or Celine Dion both both Amy know what Amy did.
Speaker 1: We were in the Bahamas. She was doing the show
Speaker 1: somewhere and I was on the show and I had
Speaker 1: my security guy E, and so she came over. She said,
Speaker 1: I hear your name is BIGI. He said, yes, man,
Speaker 1: He just said, couldn't have some of what you in Janiki,
Speaker 1: so he don't bang drinking behind people. She took that
Speaker 1: glass and killed his wine and said, Patty LaBelle, I
Speaker 1: grew up listening to Patti LaBelle and the Bluebells back
Speaker 1: and then we had Yeah, we had history. I had
Speaker 1: so she drank out of his glass and he had
Speaker 1: a fit because he had the dream can write after
Speaker 1: her because he didn't want to hurt her feelings. Go ahead,
Speaker 1: baby Face or Stevie, wonder both, God both, I did
Speaker 1: waiting to exhale with Baby and I. Stevie always wants
Speaker 1: to write new songs and he did old band up
Speaker 1: your hard phone me and let me in. Stevie wrote
Speaker 1: that for me fifty years ago. Yes, so I have
Speaker 1: history with both of those wonderful man. Yeah, I keep going.
Speaker 1: I know somebody who's seen Stevie wanted to drive And
Speaker 1: you think it's a real shot up. No way peoplecause
Speaker 1: Shock said he see him in the elevator and Stevie
Speaker 1: prest But you know what, it's possible, possible. It's a
Speaker 1: funny story. We need check to make it true or not.
Speaker 1: Alicia Keys or Erica I do ah, both of them
Speaker 1: for different reasons. How many so far? Sunny Huh, You're
Speaker 1: gonna need some Patty Pie the next one? Nina Simon
Speaker 1: or Billy Holiday, Oh god, Nina, okay, new edition of
Speaker 1: Jackson five? Oh, for so many reasons, Boat come on,
Speaker 1: drink up. That bottle is almost gone. Keep going. Oh
Speaker 1: I'm scared of you already? Did one? Do we do it?
Speaker 1: Keep doing? W B or trc. Oh wow, so many
Speaker 1: history moments with both of those groups. Both drink up,
Speaker 1: drink up, tupac a Biggie clock californing wonder if I
Speaker 1: have what I love Biggie two both, let's go, come on,
Speaker 1: drink un, come on, didn't take a baby sweater. It's
Speaker 1: all good. It's all good. Don't worry. He loves it.
Speaker 1: So shoes on or shoes off? Right now? Off because
Speaker 1: they hurt? But I have them on, but they should
Speaker 1: come off. You see, I got minds on, but I
Speaker 1: have mine. Yeah, right now they're on on for beauty. Yes,
Speaker 1: and then when the corn started hurting, kick it off? Yeah, okay, yes,
Speaker 1: I think it. Yes, And it's still ask a question
Speaker 1: last one for this for this game, okay, and everyone
Speaker 1: thinks it's a trick question, And honestly we never think
Speaker 1: it is. No at it's loyalty or respect, loyalty. We
Speaker 1: want to know what I'm gonna expand on that, because loyalty,
Speaker 1: if you're very loyal, I know respect is in there.
Speaker 1: I do know it, and I have so many friends
Speaker 1: of mine who work with me, not for me. We're
Speaker 1: so loyal I know to be that loyal, it's total
Speaker 1: respect for Patty the Bell. So I say loyalty first,
Speaker 1: respect follows. It's in the same category. What do you say, Well,
Speaker 1: usually it's both just say yeah. I was gonna say it,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to be common. But I feel
Speaker 1: that if someone is loyal to you respect. We have
Speaker 1: people in different perspectives and feel that they don't need
Speaker 1: the loyalty, they want the respect. All right, you out
Speaker 1: of the show now, sir, we are done with you.
Speaker 1: You show has been already. You might as well pull up.
Speaker 1: I'm serious. Gets a fun question? Oh man, we have fun.
Speaker 1: We have I'm gonna get back in, said one nose.
Speaker 1: Excuse but the most question. Yes, then we can go
Speaker 1: to the anytime part of the show us. Okay, come on, Wow,
Speaker 1: if only they knew what we just did. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: you recently said that Whinney Houston's his song I Will
Speaker 1: Always Love You, which was written and sang by Dolly Parton,
Speaker 1: was written for you. To No, it wasn't written for me,
Speaker 1: but Dolly wanted me to record it. After she did.
Speaker 1: Because we were managed by Sandy gall and the same
Speaker 1: manager for both of us, and so we had a
Speaker 1: lot of communicating with with with each other. I did
Speaker 1: Dolly Show and we wore the same dress and guess what,
Speaker 1: we were the same size with everything Boob's waste and
Speaker 1: but I said, wow, Dolly, I got you one of
Speaker 1: those moments. So we were friend friends. And she said, Patty,
Speaker 1: why don't you record this song again? And I said,
Speaker 1: I love this, I will always love you. I was
Speaker 1: going to do it, but then a bodyguard amount and
Speaker 1: thank god, Whitney got it. It was a wonder wonderful
Speaker 1: way she performed that that song and I'm still gonna
Speaker 1: do it. I just don't know where, right, Yeah, And
Speaker 1: they said that you had one of the most iconic
Speaker 1: Super Bowl performed halftime performances of all time. Get out
Speaker 1: of Here was so ugly, it was so over. No,
Speaker 1: I didn't like my super Bowl performance. I know it
Speaker 1: was snakes and stuff down there. They were doing that
Speaker 1: up what's that man's uh? Somebody one of those characters
Speaker 1: where they had the snakes Uh, Indiana Jones a segment
Speaker 1: for Indiana Jones. They had real snakes that didn't bother
Speaker 1: me because they weren't close to me, but they were
Speaker 1: under me somewhere anybody. I didn't like my song, I
Speaker 1: didn't like the little one second they gave me. I
Speaker 1: was there, though I can't say that I was. I
Speaker 1: think it was one Nonah Judd and and her sister
Speaker 1: Ashley Judd, who's no longer with us. Kind of costs anyway,
Speaker 1: God blessing, But I did. I did halftime. So let
Speaker 1: me say thank you Jesus for that half time that
Speaker 1: I didn't know people ever do half a time show?
Speaker 1: I know? Is that a blessing? Yes? Yes, so let
Speaker 1: me stop. Let me take that back. I'm so happy
Speaker 1: to have done that. And he did that, and I did.
Speaker 1: I did that. Wow, I love the show. I didn't
Speaker 1: know I was gonna love it this month, but I do.
Speaker 1: I'm wearing his shoes. You're gonna meet the next Kanye
Speaker 1: West model. I'd hold, but these are Kanye shoes. He
Speaker 1: makes up, he makes well, makes me something. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: got you. Keep going. So did You'll really have beef
Speaker 1: for the Supremes? Yeah? Damn Like it wasn't the Supremes.
Speaker 1: It was the Iena and myself Back in the day
Speaker 1: because we did the Apollo together the Supremes, Patty Labell
Speaker 1: and the Blue Bells or where were we Little Bell
Speaker 1: I don't know who we were, but we were on
Speaker 1: who Blue Bells Patty Blue blue Bells versus the Supremes
Speaker 1: and other acts. I think the Four Tops one on
Speaker 1: Temptations because it's like five acts at those shows and
Speaker 1: used like four shows a day. And that's when I
Speaker 1: had to save my hot dogs on the light bulbs
Speaker 1: because I didn't have any for DM. You know, we
Speaker 1: we were poor, and every time between shows, I wur
Speaker 1: playing cards with the Four Tops and whoever was on
Speaker 1: the show and lose my money. So I always made
Speaker 1: sure I had my hot dog on the light bulb
Speaker 1: so I did have food after my money is going.
Speaker 1: And then the hot items. You know, people used to
Speaker 1: come to the Apollo Theory and sell hot clothes, Gucci
Speaker 1: and all that stuff for two dollars and when it
Speaker 1: was worth thousands, I bought all the clothes and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. So I had moments with the Supremes at
Speaker 1: the show. We would to walf Walmart or wal Greens
Speaker 1: or one of those cheap stores and buy gold outfits
Speaker 1: and so the next day the day we wore them.
Speaker 1: The next day, the Supremes had on the single things,
Speaker 1: so they were biting my style. No for real, I
Speaker 1: mean biting big. That's a girl when you've got no money.
Speaker 1: It's only after we have and so we both have
Speaker 1: on the same outfits. But it was after they saw ours.
Speaker 1: Somebody want to buy it. And we had issues up
Speaker 1: until we did the Legends ball Oprah when Freeze Legends
Speaker 1: and Diana and I were at the same table. Thank god,
Speaker 1: we made up because I love her. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: no more ever, There's never gonna be Supremes or Diana
Speaker 1: Rawson's the phenomenal group. I said, why can't we get along?
Speaker 1: I'm I'm just wearing my clothes, you know, and doing
Speaker 1: whatever I do. But it was something that was always
Speaker 1: bubbling under with she and I and oh oh, I
Speaker 1: forgot Jesus, the main thing. Oh, Cindy bird Song was
Speaker 1: Patty LaBelle was sarad Ash, Nona Hendricks, Cindy bird Song
Speaker 1: and Patti LaBelle. We're in Cleveland. Oh my lord, I
Speaker 1: forgot this real story. We're in Cleveland, ready to go on.
Speaker 1: There are only three Patty LaBelle members Cindy bird Song
Speaker 1: had gone to Dake Florence Vallard's place with the Supremes.
Speaker 1: They had been rehearsing her for months, and that night
Speaker 1: she left us, Oh, left us to go with the Subtreeme.
Speaker 1: She jumped ship bittime. I forgot to tell that story, Okay.
Speaker 1: So the thing was, after it all settled in my bones,
Speaker 1: I said, thank god, she's making more money with them
Speaker 1: than she was with me. So I was it was
Speaker 1: a blessing for her, but do it the right freaking way,
Speaker 1: and Diane, don't come stealing my chicks in the night.
Speaker 1: So she stole Cindy bird Song from me. I forgot
Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, that was a no no, that would
Speaker 1: be a no no, baby, But that happened. That's that's
Speaker 1: why we had issues. And so when Cindy went with
Speaker 1: the Uh Supremes, all I could do was bless her
Speaker 1: and say, you know, I'm praying for you to climb.
Speaker 1: And then something happened that she's no longer with them.
Speaker 1: Diana left and left her without a blue bell or
Speaker 1: a paddle. Those things hurt me because they took her
Speaker 1: for the right reasons for them, but the wrong reason
Speaker 1: in the end, so yeah, that's why we have issues. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and but guess what we are now? We're friends now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because it's so much stuff in this business you go
Speaker 1: through that you forgot you went through. I forgot all
Speaker 1: about until somebody just mentioned it and that was big. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So but we're friends. You weren't glad to snipe. Been
Speaker 1: friends when you before I did Versus. Forever we've been.
Speaker 1: I was with her when her son died. She was
Speaker 1: with me. My sisters g we're always together. We call
Speaker 1: each other all the time. She's my Gemini sister. And
Speaker 1: when we did Versus Sunday, who first of all, baby
Speaker 1: Girl said, Patty, I didn't know what Versus was. I said, well,
Speaker 1: I happened to have seen a few uh shows, so
Speaker 1: I knew what it was. And uh, we did Versus
Speaker 1: and just had fun. My lyrics were messed up on
Speaker 1: the durn thing teleprompted I couldn't sing my songs. I said,
Speaker 1: we're the rest of the song. And then it was
Speaker 1: so many funny things that happened. And then my son
Speaker 1: remind me, Mom, the song is only going to be
Speaker 1: like thirty seconds, not three minutes. So the little lyrics
Speaker 1: they put up there. I didn't know those baby lyrics,
Speaker 1: so I just played myself and said, I don't don't
Speaker 1: see my lyrics. But it was so much fun. And
Speaker 1: then I got to chair dance gone, I was feeling
Speaker 1: it wasn't it was it? It was like right out,
Speaker 1: Oh it was during the pandemic. Yeah, I don't remember
Speaker 1: many things. It was during the pandemic. We have fun.
Speaker 1: I have fun singing background for her, and she was
Speaker 1: singing background for me. See we're two best friends. We're
Speaker 1: not pretend friends, and that makes them big different. We're
Speaker 1: not trying to outdo each other. Never. Yeah, we celebrate
Speaker 1: because we're on tour still together, she and I. So
Speaker 1: she goes on first. Sometimes sometimes I go on first.
Speaker 1: I like to go on first. A lot of people
Speaker 1: like the closing show. Give me the first spot in
Speaker 1: the day. I don't give me some food. I don't
Speaker 1: want to wait for the accidents on this midnight or
Speaker 1: one in the morning when I'm getting out, ain't no
Speaker 1: restaurants open. Let me go first. I love first because
Speaker 1: I don't never like closing the show. Never you keep
Speaker 1: with your shoes on versus too. I sure did. Sitting down,
Speaker 1: I said, they got it because they were hurting. Yes,
Speaker 1: but I just love what I love what I do.
Speaker 1: I don't care for standing, sitting, or whatever. It won't
Speaker 1: be swimming because I can't swim. It won't be driving
Speaker 1: because I can't drive, so all those things. Like I
Speaker 1: don't smoke, so it won't be smoking. But you gotta
Speaker 1: smoke if you want smoke, smoke smokes? Do it? Um?
Speaker 1: Do you still enjoy performance? What? More than anything? I'm
Speaker 1: off for for a whole month. People want me to
Speaker 1: take vacations. I said, why, I want to sing. I'd
Speaker 1: rather go on on a tour any day than than
Speaker 1: than a vacation. I don't like sun, sand or water,
Speaker 1: so I stay at home on my vacation and play
Speaker 1: cards with all my buddies and eat crabs hardshell crabs
Speaker 1: from Baltimore and hard hardy male not female. Those little
Speaker 1: girls ain't got no meat. Jumbo extra jumbo, honey. I
Speaker 1: get that paper laid out and eat crabs all day.
Speaker 1: Yes I do. So you said you don't like the son.
Speaker 1: I hate the son. I don't like the water, and
Speaker 1: I don't like sand. So I'm I'm indoors a girl.
Speaker 1: So no Hawaii, no, no, no, really No, no bato
Speaker 1: some Miami, Miami, because you're here. You know. I don't
Speaker 1: like that kind of like. No, I like a casino. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I played black Chat Okay, I couldn't put you playing Sego.
Speaker 1: What's that? That's that's the holy game. Oh no, but
Speaker 1: I played a c doocey in between in between the
Speaker 1: ace and the dudes. It's it's good. No, it's a
Speaker 1: card and I played five hundres Jim Rummy, that's it?
Speaker 1: And are you planning to go back on tour? What
Speaker 1: excuse me? Gotta stay on tour? You better ask somebody.
Speaker 1: I stayed on sheet. I tore eleven months out of
Speaker 1: a year. That's more than wrestling. And that's where the right,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm doing was crazy because I just try
Speaker 1: to try to calculate, like, let me give it up
Speaker 1: for my band. I have the best band and singers
Speaker 1: ever and crew, and so we're gonna be all for
Speaker 1: a month and that's gonna hurt me, you know, yes,
Speaker 1: but no, I love touring. I have the best people.
Speaker 1: You're see no son this month, No, no son inside
Speaker 1: my house. Vacation, Well that's whatever it is, vacation. It's
Speaker 1: what I love watch some i D Channel mysteries and
Speaker 1: all that stuff and just cooking and playing card. You're
Speaker 1: watching I D I D and Oxygen those murder mystery
Speaker 1: channels her to kill them, kill girl. What shows you
Speaker 1: in too? Right now? I D the Oxygen Channel, the
Speaker 1: Timer and Hall shows when she talks about murder. Her
Speaker 1: sister was murdered, So she has a lot of those shows.
Speaker 1: And I look at anything spooky. I gotta put you
Speaker 1: on the Frame team. Documentary. What's that? It's a great
Speaker 1: documentary about like these these boys from Queens that came out.
Speaker 1: It's a true story. I want that. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so you actually like true crimes everything. Okay, you gotta
Speaker 1: watch that. You gotta watch um Mafia City from us
Speaker 1: on Netflix. It's about the mafia integrating. Very good. I
Speaker 1: know I probably saw that. Did you see the Ted
Speaker 1: Bundy Files. Yeah, a little creepy, little creepy. Yeah. Out
Speaker 1: of the people. The other I think it was, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: cooking folks, not like how Patty cooking. No, and that's
Speaker 1: not good. Give me anything you have ye like that?
Speaker 1: I'm a Does your wife watch them? She watches some
Speaker 1: of them with me? Yeah, she wanting someone, but she's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: she watches them with me. Yea, you like those? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I like that And I'm good And I'm a
Speaker 1: movie lover too, like like dumb movies. I like The
Speaker 1: Jerk with Steve Martin. Oh yeah, that's dumb as hell.
Speaker 1: I watched that the other day. He's so ignorant. Mama, God,
Speaker 1: I love that movie. But you like dumb movies. I
Speaker 1: like dumb movies, like what um um dumb and dumb
Speaker 1: is a good one for me. Dumb. You ever see
Speaker 1: part of the Old Virgin? Yes? I did. That's something
Speaker 1: about something about Mary. I'll wait some about Mary one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: with her hair when I put that stuff on you
Speaker 1: too much? To a point, daddy, her hair is yeah,
Speaker 1: about three months ago. I love it. Yeah, so you
Speaker 1: really are. I like stuff working. If I'm not working,
Speaker 1: I'm watching. Okay, what's your favorite place to travel to?
Speaker 1: No place, Damn, I don't. I don't have a favorite. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I mean I love DC in Baltimore. I mean,
Speaker 1: those are my peeps all there. But I don't like traveling.
Speaker 1: But Canada sometimes, Okay, nice people there. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't have a favorite place about
Speaker 1: How about what do you eat when you go to
Speaker 1: d C? You said that's one of your favorite. When
Speaker 1: I go to d C, I use the cook because
Speaker 1: I bring my electro frypans and my pots and stuff
Speaker 1: because I don't I don't know if any places in
Speaker 1: DC to eat your utensils travel with you. It's a
Speaker 1: big trunk with all of my utensils, my pots pans,
Speaker 1: all of my spices, all of my stuff. And when
Speaker 1: I get to a hotel and sit that, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if I'm going to eat something. We go to
Speaker 1: the farmer's market and I cook for everybody. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: can't wait to see that. You're gonna see it because
Speaker 1: that's what I do. Yes, I already see another show.
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving with Patty every year that whatever, every day Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: with every day? That's perfect though, And like every day
Speaker 1: is Christmas because people get all hypes on Christmas. What
Speaker 1: am I gonna buy her? Nothing? Every day should be Christmas? Okay,
Speaker 1: don't make that a special. What next? On Thanksgiving? Do
Speaker 1: you fry your turkey or you know my sun story
Speaker 1: fries and and I put it in the oven. I
Speaker 1: do a capon like, yes, a capon I put in
Speaker 1: my pot on top, and he puts, see a fried
Speaker 1: turkey in the fried turkey pot whatever that is. I
Speaker 1: never fried. I probably fried my wig. So I'm taking
Speaker 1: no chance with no frid damn turkey. No, I don't
Speaker 1: do that. But do you eat fried turkey? I love it?
Speaker 1: Do you make it? No? I can't? I burn cereal?
Speaker 1: Can you cook? Are you married? Kind of? We're not married,
Speaker 1: but I could cook. I could do something. I call
Speaker 1: it inventions because I grow with a single mother and
Speaker 1: we have much food in the cover. So she's like,
Speaker 1: I'm making invention, made whatever was in the cover. That
Speaker 1: makes sense. Yeah, Well, I'll come for both of you
Speaker 1: guys to one day and your mom and your wife, Patty, Patty,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna we're gonna be talking you now. We're gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna. You're looking with your rip ball that pulling up.
Speaker 1: Just put your number. We got to do? Really, I really?
Speaker 1: Is that something that you know? Um, when people make
Speaker 1: it in life, the simple things that make them happy.
Speaker 1: That's one of the simple things that make you happy.
Speaker 1: Just cooking for other people and to see you asked
Speaker 1: for seconds. If you don't ask for seconds. I'm very mad.
Speaker 1: Yeah I'm that girl and asked to take some home. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm her. So you make that much more? You make
Speaker 1: extra because you want. I always cook for like twenty people.
Speaker 1: A person's vegetarian, and how about the person's vegetarian. I
Speaker 1: hook him up. Jasmine, she's vegan. I'm going to cook
Speaker 1: for her, Jasmine Seloman, she doesn't eat me. What do
Speaker 1: you cook a vegan for a vegan? I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna find out. I just found that vegan
Speaker 1: and uh what else? OK? Colaries without the turkey in there?
Speaker 1: Vegetarian if you just vegetarian, but they got they got
Speaker 1: soy cheese too. I got her. When she comes, I said, Jasmine,
Speaker 1: don't worry. She said anything you cook me right, So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make her some good vegan for you. That's fine.
Speaker 1: The vegans ter a vegan? Are you from Jamaican? Respect right?
Speaker 1: All right? If you don't drink, take kind of people
Speaker 1: you can. I usually steal it, said I could have it.
Speaker 1: What do you think, um, the differences you've seen in
Speaker 1: the music industry in your whole career, You've seen all
Speaker 1: different levels and the changes you think the artists are
Speaker 1: better off now than they were before. Oh honey, much
Speaker 1: better off now. Yeah, I mean it would be hard
Speaker 1: to get up any kind of recording recorded back in
Speaker 1: the day. The day people are recording in their car
Speaker 1: and their basement whereever, yes, and getting the music out
Speaker 1: and it's going to sell. So it's much better now
Speaker 1: than it was back in the day. I'm going to
Speaker 1: record for the first time in fifteen years, um all
Speaker 1: my month off for the first time. Who you recording? Who?
Speaker 1: He said, Stanceman? Who's that the white boy? To stay
Speaker 1: with me? Sam Stansman, I'm sorry, you know what you say.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, No, I'm not recording with him. Okay, who
Speaker 1: Let me see if I could guess the person? Boy, George,
Speaker 1: boy you're from. I'm just trying to see you. Interview
Speaker 1: with both with you you were both on Andy Cohen.
Speaker 1: You see everything I told you. I was going hard,
Speaker 1: but I made you think that I'm recording those booths
Speaker 1: because because you know why, I go a lot you did.
Speaker 1: They both was like, I want to collabor with Patty
Speaker 1: and he was like, yeah, I got you, you know,
Speaker 1: but yeah, and I do want to collabor with him.
Speaker 1: But it wouldn't be on this project, but it could
Speaker 1: be in the future. Finally, yeah, yeah, I have about
Speaker 1: six different producers waiting to exhale. Thank God with me,
Speaker 1: I can't tell you yet. Okay, cool, but I call
Speaker 1: you okay, no problem. As soon as I can talk.
Speaker 1: No problems, no problems. You will hear some new music
Speaker 1: from me by the end of next year. Okay, not
Speaker 1: this year, Okay, but I promise you. I'm so long overdue.
Speaker 1: I don't even know, but think about. But you've continued touring, yes,
Speaker 1: And that's that's what You don't have to know the
Speaker 1: student for fifteen years and you can still talk eleven
Speaker 1: months of the years. I think we need to make
Speaker 1: some noise out of that, because it's these people out there.
Speaker 1: They're making one song and it lasts for a certain amount,
Speaker 1: and then you get so satisfied you buy jury and
Speaker 1: you forget that this is work that goes with this.
Speaker 1: You still gotta wake up in the morning. You still
Speaker 1: got to put on a smile one of your door.
Speaker 1: And this is a prime example that actually didn't been
Speaker 1: in the studio for fifteen years and still and that's
Speaker 1: why three years after a year and a half you're
Speaker 1: You're so right. Like I said earlier, I know I'm blessed.
Speaker 1: I know I'm touched by angels. I know that I'm
Speaker 1: still doing it because I still can do it. And
Speaker 1: the record doesn't matter to the audience who come. They
Speaker 1: don't know if I've recorded last year, two years ago.
Speaker 1: They don't care. They really just want to see a show.
Speaker 1: And whenever I'm outfair, I give, Oh God, I give
Speaker 1: a real show. No dancers, no fly by night, people
Speaker 1: behind me doing it, singing, no tracks, all music. I
Speaker 1: have a twelve piece band or something. I got something.
Speaker 1: I got four singers and eight band members or whatever.
Speaker 1: And nothing's pretend nothing. Everything you hear is live, live, live, live,
Speaker 1: And that's that's what's keeping me living during these live shows.
Speaker 1: That energy you get from that, all that energy, but
Speaker 1: they give it to you back. You can shoot the
Speaker 1: shoot verse point ki and you're talking like that, feelingly
Speaker 1: you do need a backup dancers. He's tired right now.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Have you been to one of my shows?
Speaker 1: Well you have to come to one soon after August. Oh,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. They know you right, and how
Speaker 1: do you got a drunk to let's speak? Yes, thank
Speaker 1: you so much. Thank you. So let me ask you
Speaker 1: where where um still dealing with like racism? Right? Um?
Speaker 1: Was it was? It was it like that for you
Speaker 1: coming up? What did you did you guys? Was it like? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Like how was what's the difference between now and then? Now?
Speaker 1: I can fly on the plane before we had to
Speaker 1: do the station wagon back in Oh. Look, it was
Speaker 1: so bad. We were we were touring with the Rolling
Speaker 1: Stones back in the day. So we had to arrived
Speaker 1: from Philly to l A. Uh we said, at the Hope,
Speaker 1: Hollywood and Vine hotel and they also stayed there. The
Speaker 1: tickets for that show was three dollars and fifty cents
Speaker 1: to see the Rolling Stones and we were called Patti
Speaker 1: Lavell and the Bluebells. I think we were so stressed
Speaker 1: by driving from Philly to l A. We fought me, Sarinona.
Speaker 1: We fought in the dressing room, No, in my hotel suite.
Speaker 1: So we are stopped in Detroit on the way, and
Speaker 1: I bought some clothes. We all bought some clothes with
Speaker 1: our damn but fearce little clothes. And so I'm the
Speaker 1: one who loves to dress. I'll dress going to the supermarket.
Speaker 1: You will not catch me in jeans and tights and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. I'm coming in a full suit. So
Speaker 1: we bought these clothes and I said, okay, girls, guess
Speaker 1: what they want us to do a radio show. Let's
Speaker 1: get dressed. Everybody got dressed, and after that, I said,
Speaker 1: psych honey. We started fighting and said you lie in
Speaker 1: some some names they called me. It was the right
Speaker 1: to call me those names, and I said I was
Speaker 1: only player having fun, and so they tried to fight,
Speaker 1: and so I took a bag of pecans and threw
Speaker 1: him at Sarah. It cracked the mirror and she got
Speaker 1: cut with the glass. We were so loud Mick Jagger
Speaker 1: knocked on our door. I swear to God, who said, Lergies,
Speaker 1: Lergies to show us tonight. What's wrong? I said, I
Speaker 1: was just playing, having some fun time. We had to
Speaker 1: do a radio show and you can't see us on radio,
Speaker 1: so we didn't have to get dressed. But I said,
Speaker 1: let's get you anyway, and he stopped the fight. The argument.
Speaker 1: But I'm bad, I'm very very I'm a prankster and
Speaker 1: I loved I love to play jokes on people, so
Speaker 1: that was a joke. It almost got me, but it didn't.
Speaker 1: But I said, as I say something else, what do
Speaker 1: I say? Okay, that's Patty the Bell. So racism was
Speaker 1: always bad, it's still bad. So it's it's not stopped.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of pretend people who say they're not
Speaker 1: racist anymore or at all, or ever have been. But
Speaker 1: you can feel the blood running down the neck, that
Speaker 1: red blood coming down. You see it and you know it.
Speaker 1: But you just take the high road again, so you
Speaker 1: keep keep moving. You don't let anything stop you. And
Speaker 1: that that can't hurt my feelings because you don't like
Speaker 1: my skin color. Never couldn't hurt me. I had a
Speaker 1: manager back in the day of car dealership, Howardy Robinson
Speaker 1: and Philly. That's where we first started singing. And so
Speaker 1: he always talked about my nose because I had a
Speaker 1: big nose. I had it done, Okay, I gotta be honest.
Speaker 1: So I got my nose done. And after what's done,
Speaker 1: he still saw this black, ugly woman because he said,
Speaker 1: he said, one day, you're not attractive. I said, I know.
Speaker 1: I wasn't born to be attractive. I said, I was
Speaker 1: born to be whatever I am. And so he would
Speaker 1: put the microphone hanky over the microphone, saying because I
Speaker 1: was singing and you never walk alone or something. He said,
Speaker 1: now sing and it's gonna come out, right, I said,
Speaker 1: with this handy, I said, someone to say. I said,
Speaker 1: with this hanky, really, and he said, it's gonna make
Speaker 1: you sound powerful. I said, sir, I am powerful, alot,
Speaker 1: I'm black and I'm beautiful, and this is the nose.
Speaker 1: You know. I did get my nose, son, because before
Speaker 1: it was all over the place, but it didn't take
Speaker 1: away my beauty, but I thought it did, so I
Speaker 1: had it done. And you see how you get things
Speaker 1: done because of what they think you should look like.
Speaker 1: Now I did that and I still don't see much
Speaker 1: difference in my face. But racism it was all over
Speaker 1: that mic that day. It's all over, it's everywhere. It's
Speaker 1: still and it's not gonna cease. This is the way
Speaker 1: of the world and we know it. But do you
Speaker 1: think that back then it was a little bit more
Speaker 1: out front as opposed to now, like you know, there
Speaker 1: was actually people win kukus Klan, where now these almost
Speaker 1: seem like the Clucas clan as the police. Right, it's
Speaker 1: still there, you can feel it, you can see it now.
Speaker 1: They don't have the hood or there's an invisible hood
Speaker 1: that you know, is there dangerous? Oh, it's very dangerous. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But as I said, we always have to remember who
Speaker 1: we are and knowing that we're going to be treated
Speaker 1: less no matter matter what, no matter how much money
Speaker 1: you have, no matter what, it's still the same. And
Speaker 1: I'm mad. But that's the thing about you is like
Speaker 1: you seem like you was like like like you mentioned earlier,
Speaker 1: you said you hugged somebody with a with a's um.
Speaker 1: The thing about you is like you really don't judge anybody,
Speaker 1: like like even from like like back in the days,
Speaker 1: you know Elton John telling you that he's gay, and
Speaker 1: you know you being I think you even have like
Speaker 1: a gay pride song, like the name and it's in
Speaker 1: scarface the name of place. Wait a minute, it's in
Speaker 1: the other one. Uh yeah that was Lady in Right
Speaker 1: and I had starred up in Beverly Hill Cop and
Speaker 1: New Attitude in Beverly Hill Cop. Right. But like developed
Speaker 1: not judging people. I was always because when we were
Speaker 1: first starting the Blue Bells, all of our fans were
Speaker 1: gay and people were asked, Patty, why don't you think
Speaker 1: you draw a gay audience. I'm a drag queen, you know,
Speaker 1: and ain't nothing gay about me. But I'm a drag queen.
Speaker 1: I love flamboyance. I love people being themselves. Don't hide
Speaker 1: who you are, because that that'll bring you a quick
Speaker 1: death if you hide who you are. Be yourself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love people period, black, white, green, I don't care.
Speaker 1: Just be good. I don't just be a good person. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's that's that's that's what like seemingly streaks out,
Speaker 1: is that, like you really are you really embedded what
Speaker 1: you just said, like black, white, whatever, you just don't care? Yeah? Really,
Speaker 1: I love, I love the world. And how does that developed? Though?
Speaker 1: Like my mother and father, I don't know if you
Speaker 1: said earlier, you said your fans, Well, yeah, let's let's
Speaker 1: take it to your mother. My mother and father were
Speaker 1: very much like that. My father was an entertainer who
Speaker 1: loved people, who love the dream, who love the gamble,
Speaker 1: who loves every part of life. And I'm a part
Speaker 1: of him. And my mother, who never or drink or
Speaker 1: smoked or anything, I'm a part of her, you know.
Speaker 1: So I think I'm blessed to have had those parents
Speaker 1: that I had and I guess I'm just whatever I am.
Speaker 1: I'm happy you like me. We talked, we talked. We
Speaker 1: we know the street, but we paid it. Spies in stores?
Speaker 1: Is everything else in stores? And if not, what day
Speaker 1: is it's gonna? Okay? So the breakfast items we're in
Speaker 1: Target and in Giant and Walmart. Well we'll talk, y'all. Okay,
Speaker 1: tell me up, tell me what Okay? This is in
Speaker 1: This is in Walmart, Target and Giant. And the syrup
Speaker 1: is coming in January, and the powder pancake makes is
Speaker 1: coming in January. And it's a it's a one for
Speaker 1: diabetics like me, one for real people like you, guys.
Speaker 1: I'm a real person. I'm just a guy off different flavors.
Speaker 1: And this butter pie is out, it's in Walmart and
Speaker 1: where else and Walmart and the sweepert Data pie is
Speaker 1: in Walmart. And their baby Sweepertata pies for fifty cent,
Speaker 1: those little baby ones and the family size and that size.
Speaker 1: And I'm not a good person to advertise my stuff,
Speaker 1: but it's all phenomenal, it's all good. The peach Cobblers,
Speaker 1: double peach Cobbler there, Waltlar, that's when you're taking right
Speaker 1: so all of my din I have the macaroni, the kale,
Speaker 1: corn over tomatoes, black eyed peas, cornbrea to cornbres, chicken stew,
Speaker 1: brisket stew, and something else. And when you say Walmart,
Speaker 1: let's be clear for the people, you're not saying Walmart.
Speaker 1: That's in Philadelphia, Walmart and over yeah, it's everywhere. Let's
Speaker 1: clap to that. Is this the first time a black
Speaker 1: woman is doing this level of business with Walmart? I mean,
Speaker 1: if it is, I don't know. Okay, they're saying over there, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I was going to say, yes, yes, yes, it's the
Speaker 1: first time. I like I said, I'm blessed the first
Speaker 1: time that I am that lady who people look to
Speaker 1: for great food. And how does that like exactly feel
Speaker 1: when someone comes to you and say Walmart wants to
Speaker 1: carry your products? Because this is this is the top
Speaker 1: of the food chain. This is I know, everyone goes
Speaker 1: to Walmart, from Oprah to Johnny Day, everybody. Right. It
Speaker 1: was like being asked to do drink Champs. It was big, Okay, fabulous, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's drink that. We didn't asked to do something at Walmart?
Speaker 1: What a blessing? Yeah, I mean there were so many
Speaker 1: a second, how many of you guys? I think that's crazy. Okay,
Speaker 1: you saw part every two seconds. Yeah, and you know what,
Speaker 1: I don't want you guys to think that I don't
Speaker 1: know anything about my business. But my three business partners, Charles,
Speaker 1: Alex and my son's story, they know much more, they
Speaker 1: remember much more than I do. I know that they're
Speaker 1: on point. And I asked some questions when I forget.
Speaker 1: So that's all it is. Listen, we book artists all
Speaker 1: the time here, and we know how we know if
Speaker 1: your team is on point in twenty four seconds, I
Speaker 1: know you know, and your team is on point. The
Speaker 1: official there tight. They gave us all information we needed
Speaker 1: and information we already had. They gave us information that
Speaker 1: we didn't know. What when do you think I would come?
Speaker 1: We just we just we was scared. We just scared.
Speaker 1: This is scared. I'm happy you got unscared. Yeah. Really,
Speaker 1: because I am so honored. I bought a new suit. Yes, beautiful, hilarious.
Speaker 1: I love you guys, really, man, man, that's why we
Speaker 1: because um, it's a little bit of left over marijuana residences.
Speaker 1: While we was we was spraying this is dijon a
Speaker 1: lot of story. You know, just screed. You know, we
Speaker 1: just got it up. You know what I'm saying, make
Speaker 1: your is that to stop the red first smell? No,
Speaker 1: this is a specific ship. I'm not supposed to be
Speaker 1: praying this. I'm just trying to impress you to try
Speaker 1: to get the smell. I'm human. Yes, we gotta impress
Speaker 1: you because let me just tell you something. It's an
Speaker 1: honor for us because, like I said, when we started
Speaker 1: this show, we want to interview legends. We never thought
Speaker 1: we don't get an icon like you. We never thought that,
Speaker 1: you know, we could, We could be honored and blessed
Speaker 1: in front of your presence. You know, I writed my
Speaker 1: mom's I writed, my wife, and my son is here.
Speaker 1: My son, all my friends, he works so the set,
Speaker 1: so he works here, work right now. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, we've got a little here, and it's a blessing.
Speaker 1: It's an honor. Um you know because and I know
Speaker 1: I know you're gonna say, yeah, but you don't have
Speaker 1: to be this cool. You don't have to be this
Speaker 1: down to earth and still be a queen Like I
Speaker 1: remember when um uh Kanye's mother told him on the
Speaker 1: documentary she said, a giant doesn't see himself as a giant.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? And say said, the giant
Speaker 1: looks in the mirror and sees nothing. And that's that's
Speaker 1: kind of like the definition of what I'm seeing it
Speaker 1: with you, because that's saying you don't see nothing. I
Speaker 1: know you see who you are. To know, you know
Speaker 1: who you are, but you would be as humble as
Speaker 1: you is. It teaches me a lesson, you know, as
Speaker 1: much as you know success that I'm receiving and I'm
Speaker 1: a success that I hopefully I'll continue to have, hopefully
Speaker 1: continue to stay humble, but continue to stay a king.
Speaker 1: That's what you Yes, what you embedded, that's what you do.
Speaker 1: I hope to continue to that. I hope people following
Speaker 1: your footsteps because it's true. Like you know, people make
Speaker 1: a look at it on TV and be like, man, god,
Speaker 1: he can't be that much of a good person. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I got to witness it. I got to see it.
Speaker 1: I got to see the respect and we just really
Speaker 1: love you man to that this is Can I come back? Yes,
Speaker 1: it's want to keep bands on for your marror. That good,
Speaker 1: it's a good one. Ye give me one to take home.
Speaker 1: And give. Yes, I'm happy to take it. So what's
Speaker 1: the extra Patty? Besides that, we talked about the studio,
Speaker 1: we talked about the base. Is there something else we
Speaker 1: ain't mentioned yet that, Yeah, you're going to space? I
Speaker 1: don't even like airplane. No, I'm not going to space.
Speaker 1: I'm just going to continue to tour and record and
Speaker 1: make products and just just love doing it and pray
Speaker 1: that I have at least seventy eight more years on
Speaker 1: this planet. That's what I want. That's what I want.
Speaker 1: You worked with Easter Rate. We got Easter Rate coming
Speaker 1: in another way? What did you We're going black Girl sketches.
Speaker 1: What was it called sketch show, the comedy black Sketch Show.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that was exactly the title. That
Speaker 1: was fun. Yeah, yeah, so she's coming in yes, yes,
Speaker 1: oh god, like that be a show to anybody loved Patty?
Speaker 1: Everybody right now? I know? Oh gosh, let me see
Speaker 1: if it's anything I have to ask you before we leave, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: no problem, because you would like to teach it through experience,
Speaker 1: you know that like when you when you when you talk,
Speaker 1: it's like a natural it's like it's a natural lesson
Speaker 1: like people just gravitate towards you and trying to because
Speaker 1: we all allow people here and we kind of all
Speaker 1: shut up today. Like what I wanted to ask you,
Speaker 1: when did you know this show was a success? How
Speaker 1: long have you doing? How many years? Six years? Six years?
Speaker 1: When did you know? The first episode DMX DMX I
Speaker 1: recorded with him too. Oh yeah, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: It was called thank you or something. When I came
Speaker 1: in the studio, it was so much readfer in that
Speaker 1: studio and so many roads. I said, is this for me?
Speaker 1: Him and his wife? They gave me this beautiful necklace
Speaker 1: said love MX list. Okay, so you started, you started
Speaker 1: six years ago. The first episode, we knew we were
Speaker 1: onto something. No, it was the DMX game. We were
Speaker 1: like the sixth episode and that's when it took us
Speaker 1: over the top where we really really knew that there's
Speaker 1: nothing stopping. I agree everything you said. I agree. For
Speaker 1: the first episode we did, I knew we had something,
Speaker 1: but it was the DMX like reaction like when we
Speaker 1: when we got because remember it wasn't all positive at first,
Speaker 1: really remember the next episode. No, the factor was positive
Speaker 1: about the DMX episode at first when we dropped that
Speaker 1: it wasn't all positive. A lot of people looked at
Speaker 1: us strange because you know, X was drawn. But then
Speaker 1: we also knew that X wouldn't have did that in
Speaker 1: front of anybody else. We knew that he would talk
Speaker 1: to talk to me because when he was one night
Speaker 1: the best year of life, I was dead with him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah. So so once we did that, at
Speaker 1: the time, I didn't realize, I said, because all we
Speaker 1: haven't we don't have no journalist skills. We just really
Speaker 1: just got together and just wanted to talk. And then
Speaker 1: people wanted to hear us talk and we was like, okay,
Speaker 1: wait a minute here. Yeah yeah, so it worked, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it work, It worked, and guess what it got us?
Speaker 1: We got Yeah. I a I'm sitting here told you
Speaker 1: all day. But I'm happy it went this long. I
Speaker 1: said to myself, I wonder how long are they gonna
Speaker 1: talk to because I saw Kanye's his was five hours.
Speaker 1: I love that. I just wondered how long you're gonna
Speaker 1: be with me today? And it makes me feel so blessed.
Speaker 1: Let me just say you something. Let me be clear.
Speaker 1: I was so scared right I was on this group chat.
Speaker 1: I was like, listen, I watched everyone in her interviews.
Speaker 1: She does ten minutes to thirty three minutes, and that
Speaker 1: we got to get all the questions in very bad
Speaker 1: The Opra interview, The Opra interview that was. That was
Speaker 1: a great one. When y'all sat down, had a white believe.
Speaker 1: That was the Apollo Theater doing that. That's was walking
Speaker 1: through the Memories network. And can I give Sarah Dash
Speaker 1: another my ex, my friend who sang with me for
Speaker 1: many many years with LaBelle Uh Sarah Dash. She wasn't sick,
Speaker 1: she just left. Yeah. Yeah, I cleansed myself today on
Speaker 1: this show. I said a lot of things that I
Speaker 1: probably shouldn't have, but I don't care. I said it,
Speaker 1: and I feel good about being here. What's your favorite
Speaker 1: era of music if you had to pick one? And
Speaker 1: when I said, I mean like ten years fan God,
Speaker 1: the eighties, it was the years of Marvin Gay. So
Speaker 1: that what was it? Somebody tell me what years Al
Speaker 1: Green got the grit stone on? That's Al Green? Right?
Speaker 1: Al Green? Was he in that time? Was he with
Speaker 1: the grits? I don't remember because I grew up being
Speaker 1: scared of grit because of that story. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: don't grits on you got Jesus, you may not ever
Speaker 1: make your wife man, he said, no, but I love
Speaker 1: those years. I love Curtis Mayfield the time. See I'm
Speaker 1: not good with years. And what was this and what
Speaker 1: was that? I just know what I love and I
Speaker 1: love Curtis Mayfield, Al Green, Marvin Gay, Oh my God,
Speaker 1: Kim Weston, just um, a bunch of Brenda Holloway, Brenda
Speaker 1: hollow every little bit her who's saying that, bring the
Speaker 1: Holloway and who's saying that he's somewhere never sleep. So
Speaker 1: it was just some certain songs that I just love.
Speaker 1: Ain't no Way is my favorite song of all every
Speaker 1: every everything, that's that's my top. If you had one
Speaker 1: album to pick, they came down and said, listen, you
Speaker 1: got one album to pick for the rest of your life.
Speaker 1: God gotta be your favorite album. It could be yours,
Speaker 1: it could be one of yours. It could be Nippers
Speaker 1: from LaBelle Okay, Nipper Okay. Yeah. That that was very unsung.
Speaker 1: That album. A lot of our music was very unsung
Speaker 1: because when you was making it, because we're who we are.
Speaker 1: Nona Hendricks one of the best writers ever in the world,
Speaker 1: and that album was just phenomenal. Yeah, what is your
Speaker 1: favorite album you ever made? That I ever made? Oh,
Speaker 1: they're so stupid of me. I don't know. That's the
Speaker 1: one with if only you knew. I don't know the
Speaker 1: titles of albums, all of them. What's that title? What's
Speaker 1: that title? I'm in loving it? Uh, Gambles. I'm saying
Speaker 1: Kenny Jamma wrote it. Yeah, thanks baby, me and my
Speaker 1: son we have Okay, Sorry, I know that was I
Speaker 1: was just saying that Kenny Yamma had a lot to
Speaker 1: do with that, right and and oh my god, what's wrong, Patty?
Speaker 1: What's the piano? Man? Yes, Leon Huff those guys. And
Speaker 1: one of my favorite songs is if you Don't Know
Speaker 1: Me by Now by Teddy Pendergrass. That's what I do
Speaker 1: on my show. It's a whole story with that song, right,
Speaker 1: sing it, You'll never never know me? Look at look
Speaker 1: at these girls, all the things that we've been through.
Speaker 1: That has to go back at my show. Yes, when
Speaker 1: you performer, I did, I stopped for what reason? I
Speaker 1: don't know, Honey. That song, that song, it's coming back
Speaker 1: when we come back after August. That will be in
Speaker 1: my repertoire. Yes, you're going back in August. That's when
Speaker 1: we're gonna go. August. Yeah, you're gonna come and let
Speaker 1: you know where I am gonna and I want you
Speaker 1: to be in the front row. I'm paying for your
Speaker 1: everything and you'll be there. Okay, we got to see
Speaker 1: miss PATTII right. Goddamn man, I ain't gonna lie. This
Speaker 1: has been so beautiful man, thank you. I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: yesterday I tell you the truth, you know. Um, seeing
Speaker 1: my mom's happy and seeing you know how so full
Speaker 1: of joy. It was like breaking up the next day,
Speaker 1: like it was like Christmas for me because I was
Speaker 1: like I couldn't kind of like sleep, and I was
Speaker 1: just like, you know, because I just wanted I wanted
Speaker 1: to be a good son, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: She didn't ask me. I just all my idea and yeah,
Speaker 1: and I wanted her to I wanted her to feel good.
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen me before? My Really? Where do
Speaker 1: you live? Where do you live? How you doing? And
Speaker 1: what's your birthday? And how young are you? All? Right? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm happy to meet you really. Yeah, he said you
Speaker 1: wanted to come and your wife and thank you for me?
Speaker 1: It felt like Christmas because you know, like I said,
Speaker 1: we were just we were just starting this playing around
Speaker 1: and for this to be serious and for us to land,
Speaker 1: you know, someone like you, and for us to have
Speaker 1: fun too, this was like this was this was It
Speaker 1: wasn't just like we just sat down. It was like,
Speaker 1: you know, we had fun. Like But then you guys
Speaker 1: were saying, well, damn, we can't smoke. Reef said nothing.
Speaker 1: We don't need. We don't need you here that we
Speaker 1: need to. We need to, we need and we just
Speaker 1: want to thank you. We want to support even though
Speaker 1: yourself every part every two minutes, we still want to
Speaker 1: say every two seconds, excuse me seconds, right, that's right
Speaker 1: that they said. And then I was ready. I know
Speaker 1: I was saying that playing around, but I'm not playing around.
Speaker 1: I think everyone in the food industry one take heat
Speaker 1: of what you did and how remarkably you laid it
Speaker 1: out and stud and stuck to who you are. The
Speaker 1: only thing should take heed to that. But if they
Speaker 1: have a full product, they should actually really come to
Speaker 1: you on your team. That I nor, what's say that
Speaker 1: playing around? But I really wasn't. No. I appreciate that,
Speaker 1: and they can come to my tea. Yeah, yeah, because
Speaker 1: like you said, whatever you said. Aretha wanted to get
Speaker 1: some of her stuff, and yes she did imagine that
Speaker 1: the imagine that a reef was alive and y'all had
Speaker 1: and we'll be on the same We've been doing the
Speaker 1: same thing with food. She and I goddamn, yeahda, And
Speaker 1: I want everybody to know there was nothing but love
Speaker 1: with me and her. Godam, nothing but love. We love you, Patty, goddamn,
Speaker 1: and we love you. Lots to take pictures and some
Speaker 1: that's okay. I just got to do. You have on
Speaker 1: the master piece roll us check your watch out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's the way you all time. Yeah, the president of
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