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Speaker 1: Breakfast Club Morning, Everybody's DJ NV Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne, the Guide.
Speaker 1: We are the Breakfast Club law La Rosa is here
Speaker 1: as well, and we got a special guest in the building.
Speaker 3: Indeed, Lizzen that's up.
Speaker 4: Hi.
Speaker 3: How you feel?
Speaker 4: I feel good, I'm a little sleepy. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 3: You look good.
Speaker 5: Everybody talks about your physical appearance and how you lost weight.
Speaker 5: But to me, I see somebody that has changed mentally
Speaker 5: and spiritually. I see somebody that's on a healing journey
Speaker 5: because you got to glow about you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you. Well that's where it starts.
Speaker 6: I think I had to start with, you know, cleaning
Speaker 6: out my mind and my energy and clearing out all
Speaker 6: of the negativity around me. And I feel like I
Speaker 6: released so much I was holding on to and then
Speaker 6: it starts to manifest physically as well. Like that's why
Speaker 6: I don't call it a weight loss. I do call
Speaker 6: it a weight release because it started. I got snatched
Speaker 6: here first, and then my body just followed suit.
Speaker 4: So I do feel amazing.
Speaker 6: I feel like I've always been in a good place
Speaker 6: because I'm always a positive person. But I think that
Speaker 6: I was not aware of just like how much toxicity
Speaker 6: has started.
Speaker 4: To kind of come around in my life.
Speaker 6: And I had a really beautiful period of isolation and
Speaker 6: clearing of that energy. And now I just feel like, oh,
Speaker 6: I was holding on it so much.
Speaker 4: You gotta let go. It's hard for me.
Speaker 6: I'm a tourist, so I'll hold I'll hold the fuck on. Yeah,
Speaker 6: hard headed, stubborn, loyal, you know so. But I'm so
Speaker 6: glad you feel that it's an aura thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can definitely tell me, he said. Pilates helped
Speaker 2: a lot with it too, right.
Speaker 6: I started out with pilates, yeah, because my back was
Speaker 6: hurting and that was the best way to get moving.
Speaker 4: But I do a lot of things. I strength train,
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 6: Yoga, sculpt I hike, I played pickleball, I got a
Speaker 6: water bike.
Speaker 1: You know, a little bit you just Pilotates was one
Speaker 1: of the best. I did pilates with my daughter.
Speaker 2: Wait, you do PILATEI yeah.
Speaker 1: Wanted me to go with because I didn't want to
Speaker 1: go at first, but it was you know, you do
Speaker 1: some stuff with your daughter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I did it.
Speaker 1: She's twenty one, twenty three, and she took me to
Speaker 1: do pilates and it was the most amazing thing. All
Speaker 1: my aches, all my pains, he was able to stretch
Speaker 1: it out. It was it was I'm the only guy
Speaker 1: in there, damn.
Speaker 6: Which is crazy because Pilates, that's a man. His name
Speaker 6: is Joseph Pilates. A man created it and is designed
Speaker 6: to help you with longevity. So he lived to be
Speaker 6: like well, I mean, I think he passed away in
Speaker 6: a house fire, but he could have lived to be
Speaker 6: like two hundred years old.
Speaker 2: Just got changed the music a little bit. Sometimes that
Speaker 2: music is just don't.
Speaker 6: Be funny, stuff that motivates you to keep doing it.
Speaker 6: Sometimes need a little I want to hear trap music.
Speaker 6: Some trap pilates is crazy. You better trademark that for
Speaker 6: somebody taking in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: One of our friends, Weezy do that fitness we Need
Speaker 1: New York that does.
Speaker 3: From the Decision of Decisions podcast.
Speaker 5: She has an actual place called trap House Fitiness and
Speaker 5: that's what they do.
Speaker 6: But is it called trap plates Because I'm a branding girl,
Speaker 6: I'm a trademarked that this.
Speaker 3: Trap house fitness. I don't know that's cool.
Speaker 4: Well, okay, it's not taken. It's a billion dollar idea.
Speaker 5: You've always had a form of self love that people
Speaker 5: can see, but I feel like it's just.
Speaker 3: More radical now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it has to be. I have to
Speaker 6: fight for it a little bit more, but I think
Speaker 6: I always have to fight for it though. Actually I
Speaker 6: just think it's just like, as your life changes and
Speaker 6: different things happen to you, you gotta you know, move differently. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I think it's just a life thing. Like you can't
Speaker 6: handle every situation in your life the same you get older,
Speaker 6: you grow up.
Speaker 4: Everybody can relate to that.
Speaker 5: I'm glad you said that because people think radical self
Speaker 5: love is a constant state, but no, you gotta fight for.
Speaker 3: It every day.
Speaker 6: I don't love myself every day when I wake up,
Speaker 6: Like some days I do wake up and I'm like, yes,
Speaker 6: But some days I wake up and I don't. And
Speaker 6: it's it's the act of seeking that, you know, love
Speaker 6: for yourself, and you don't actually always have to be love.
Speaker 4: It could be like it could be tolerate, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean. I'm just or accepting that I.
Speaker 6: Don't like it, and I'm cool with that, but I'm
Speaker 6: gonna get there one day. It's it's not a monolist,
Speaker 6: you know, it's a process.
Speaker 7: At what point in your career did you get to
Speaker 7: this point where like you even like talk about that
Speaker 7: side of it more, Because I feel like when you
Speaker 7: first came out, even when you did talk about like
Speaker 7: stuff that wasn't as positive, you still kept it so positive.
Speaker 7: But now that you stream, you really get into like
Speaker 7: how you feel for real, what you're going through, you like,
Speaker 7: and it was a lot more protected when Lizzo first
Speaker 7: came on the scene. From what I felt like, the
Speaker 7: brand was protected a little bit more. But now you're
Speaker 7: taking control over a lot more.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I just think people know me a little bit more.
Speaker 6: So I think I'm able to communicate things and not
Speaker 6: put a bow on it or have a happy ending
Speaker 6: because y'all just know me more. I think when I
Speaker 6: first came out, people didn't know me. So the brand
Speaker 6: is very like one note because it's like, oh, that's
Speaker 6: that girl, that's the happy girl who'll be working with
Speaker 6: the flu, you know. And but that happens to everybody,
Speaker 6: Like any artists, you just become like a thing, you're
Speaker 6: not a person. But I think the more we get
Speaker 6: to know artists, and the longer they're in the game,
Speaker 6: the brand becomes more multifaceted. And I think mine just
Speaker 6: expanded a little bit more. So I feel more comfortable communicating.
Speaker 6: And also I feel safer on stream talking about these
Speaker 6: kinds of things because I know I'm in a room
Speaker 6: with people who get me. Y'all understand me, you know me,
Speaker 6: so I can tell you how the fuck I'm feeling
Speaker 6: or what I went through, and you know, these real
Speaker 6: moments that I have, I can share that, and I
Speaker 6: arge you you were saying that people are kinder there
Speaker 6: as well, like it's a better sense of community on
Speaker 6: Twitch and streaming that that's good. When did you were
Speaker 6: you scared to before? Were you scared to dive into
Speaker 6: that part?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 6: I always kind of flirted with it because I love
Speaker 6: like running my mouth and I love talking and I
Speaker 6: love talking to my fans. I've always been this person
Speaker 6: like with my social media. So I had a whole
Speaker 6: Twitch set up in my house, just ready to go,
Speaker 6: and I was like, I was like, I want to
Speaker 6: whole stream is set up now, I want games, all
Speaker 6: of that, the sims, and it was just in my
Speaker 6: house sitting there, and I was kind of intimidated by it.
Speaker 6: I would walk by it every day and be like
Speaker 6: these days, I'm a stream one of these days. And
Speaker 6: then I remember my friend Solana. She was like, bitch,
Speaker 6: I'm about to be on kay Sanat like pull up
Speaker 6: with me. And I was literally I was like when
Speaker 6: she was like in two hours, I said, okay, let
Speaker 6: me get myself together and like go pull up with
Speaker 6: my friend, Yes, okay, but my friends Silana, A lot
Speaker 6: of people might not know you're talking ton I know,
Speaker 6: you know, but the average person might night.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I just like average people might not know that cause
Speaker 6: casually talking about I am so sorry the track. So
Speaker 6: Sissa hit me and was like, I'm about to be
Speaker 6: on kay Sanat in like two hours, can you pull
Speaker 6: up with me? And I was like, fucky, I'm gonna
Speaker 6: pull up with you because I'm like, I was so
Speaker 6: afraid because it's like he has like hundreds and hundreds
Speaker 6: of thousands damn near million people watching and commenting in
Speaker 6: real time. Oh god, that's terrifying. So I said, you
Speaker 6: know what, I'm gonna pull up and I'm gonna ride
Speaker 6: with my friend. And I was like, if anybody got
Speaker 6: any thing that coat would say though saying about me,
Speaker 6: goddamn it, you know. So I pulled up and I
Speaker 6: had so much fun and I was reading a chat
Speaker 6: and they were like yeah.
Speaker 4: W Lizzo, yeah, W Sizza, yeah, littlely.
Speaker 6: Motes and shit, and I was like, oh, they're so nice,
Speaker 6: and that made me feel comfortable with diving into my
Speaker 6: own channel. I made Lizo be twitching and Kai got
Speaker 6: me like forty thousand subscribers in like two seconds. He
Speaker 6: was like, everybody, go spam Lizzo be twitching right now,
Speaker 6: and they all followed it, and I was like, Okay,
Speaker 6: now I have to stream because they just gonna be
Speaker 6: sitting in there, you know, building a cachet.
Speaker 4: So that really helps?
Speaker 6: Would you say, absolutely, I have to run my mouth.
Speaker 6: I'm a life path three, I'm a communicator. So therapy
Speaker 6: was the beginning of that. Like that saved my life,
Speaker 6: being able to talk to somebody once a week and
Speaker 6: just run my mouth and figure out my issues. And
Speaker 6: I feel like when I communicate, when I write music,
Speaker 6: when I sing songs, when I go on tour, when
Speaker 6: I talk to people, it is very healing and it's
Speaker 6: very connecting. I need to connect to feel good. I
Speaker 6: can't be disconnected. I go actually insane, I learned.
Speaker 3: You mean you can't be disconnected from people.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't be disconnected from people. I go insane.
Speaker 6: So at a point where you said you had to
Speaker 6: step back and isolate, that was kind of hard for
Speaker 6: you too, since you had to, I mean, I know
Speaker 6: you had to do it, and it all, you know,
Speaker 6: made sense, and it made since in the end, but
Speaker 6: it still was challenging for you because you have to
Speaker 6: be connected to people person It was a little insanity,
Speaker 6: but I think in a little period of insanity can
Speaker 6: be helpful because you have to do really hard work.
Speaker 6: And I was at a point in my life where
Speaker 6: the Internet hated me and I could not trust the
Speaker 6: people around me, like friends, family, co workers, and I
Speaker 6: was severely depressed, and so I didn't have anyone to
Speaker 6: talk to. And I sat in that and I went crazy.
Speaker 6: But I spent time with myself, which I think I
Speaker 6: was always afraid to do. I know people who are
Speaker 6: like I just need to be alone. I just need
Speaker 6: to go to the park and be by myself and
Speaker 6: read a book. I'm like, what's not without a buddy,
Speaker 6: not without a sweet treat in a conversation. But when
Speaker 6: I finally did it, I was so afraid of feeling lonely,
Speaker 6: and I pushed past that, and it's like, you can
Speaker 6: be alone and not lonely, and you can sit with
Speaker 6: yourself and find out who you are now because you've
Speaker 6: grown up and you didn't check in.
Speaker 4: You know and.
Speaker 6: Love her or like her, or just know her and
Speaker 6: know what she wants and now I feel like I
Speaker 6: know who I am. I know whose I am and
Speaker 6: can't nobody shake that. Because once I reintroduced myself back
Speaker 6: into connecting with people and friends and trusting the Internet,
Speaker 6: and you know, I'm like, I know who I am.
Speaker 4: I move with a different kind of confidence.
Speaker 5: But why the Internet though, Because I say that, you
Speaker 5: say the Internet hates you, But you can leave your
Speaker 5: house and lizzle. Everybody wanna take a picture, you do
Speaker 5: a show. Everybody gonna come to your show and be
Speaker 5: cheering for you. So why the Internet? You know, is
Speaker 5: people that love you wouldn't be little if people didn't.
Speaker 4: I didn't know that. That's the wild part.
Speaker 6: I have a lot of my uh in the beginning,
Speaker 6: a lot of my career and my validation was based
Speaker 6: off of social media.
Speaker 4: Like I was one.
Speaker 6: I was a part of that first generation of artists
Speaker 6: who really like galvanize their following on social media because
Speaker 6: that wasn't like an industry standard.
Speaker 4: Even people don't.
Speaker 6: Even realize it's because we've been microwaved by the Internet.
Speaker 6: We don't realize how far we've moved in a very
Speaker 6: short amount of time. Like pre twenty fifteen, this social
Speaker 6: media was not even a conversation in labels. But there
Speaker 6: were people like me and little nas X and people
Speaker 6: like that. We were going online and we were just
Speaker 6: like talking to our fans like direct and galvanizing them
Speaker 6: and building a community.
Speaker 4: And so all of.
Speaker 6: My love because I'm not always on tour, I'm not
Speaker 6: always really a people like I be in the house.
Speaker 4: I'm kind of boring.
Speaker 6: So all of the love and like we love you,
Speaker 6: like you're amazing, like this is good, we fuck with
Speaker 6: you was all from the internet for me, and that
Speaker 6: was fine because I had built my community and I
Speaker 6: felt very safe with that, and then that all kind
Speaker 6: of changed, and I feel like the Lizzo that I
Speaker 6: am has always been truly me, and it was wild
Speaker 6: to see that, Like you reach a point of fame
Speaker 6: where somebody can change that just by saying something about
Speaker 6: you that's not true or whatever. Yes, but that's that's fame,
Speaker 6: Like that is the definition of fame is for me
Speaker 6: is people could say things about you that aren't true
Speaker 6: and everyone will believe it, of course, for better or
Speaker 6: for worse.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean.
Speaker 6: It's like Lizo got red toilet paper on her ride.
Speaker 6: Everyone will believe that. Like that's that's weird, Like that's
Speaker 6: just fame shit. So once that all changed, I started
Speaker 6: to I believed that I was loved because the Internet
Speaker 6: told me they loved me. And when the Internet hated me,
Speaker 6: I believed that I was hated and I didn't believe
Speaker 6: like so it was really weird. And when I isolated,
Speaker 6: I was really afraid of people. And there was this
Speaker 6: and there was I always say a concert, but it
Speaker 6: was renaissance.
Speaker 4: It was like a concert in a park in la
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 6: Renaissance, shout out beat, and I was like, I have
Speaker 6: to go. And I was so afraid to go because
Speaker 6: I just thought people were gonna, I don't know, throw
Speaker 6: tomatoes at me or something. I could get really self
Speaker 6: doubting in my head. But I pushed through and I
Speaker 6: went and I promised you. Like I it was like
Speaker 6: one person. Once one person recognized you, then like other people.
Speaker 6: So one person recognized me and they were like litzen
Speaker 6: and I was like, yes, I love you, come here
Speaker 6: and they hugged me.
Speaker 4: And then I got a video of it.
Speaker 2: You were in the crowd.
Speaker 6: I was in the crowd, babe. I'm not in no
Speaker 6: sweet I was not in those sweet are renaissance. I
Speaker 6: was where the people are.
Speaker 4: Thing. Yes, she was definitely. You were definitely like that.
Speaker 4: I saw you in.
Speaker 6: The mall that day, and it was it was like
Speaker 6: a chain effect. People weren't noticing, but she was kind
Speaker 6: of timid with you. She was like, oh hi, And
Speaker 6: my buddy caught my friend Coy. I was like, he
Speaker 6: was like I just saw this. I was like, I
Speaker 6: want to meet her, and then he was like, I'm
Speaker 6: gonna take you over there, and I was like, oh
Speaker 6: my god, I'm scared to meet you, and you look.
Speaker 4: Just as scared. I'm like, I get lizo.
Speaker 2: Then other people noticed.
Speaker 6: Then other people walking past notice, then the little girl
Speaker 6: noticed with her dad, and you got love. But you
Speaker 6: did seem like you were in a place where you
Speaker 6: didn't even know how to accept it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: At the mall, yep, I was really uncomfortable because I
Speaker 6: was like, I don't know what people are like thinking
Speaker 6: about me, and that shit fucks me up really bad,
Speaker 6: because if somebody's thinking something about me that's not true,
Speaker 6: and it's like I can't prove it, I can't, you
Speaker 6: know what I mean, It's just weird.
Speaker 4: I was like uncomfortable.
Speaker 6: So at the concert at Renaissance, people were just showing
Speaker 6: me love and hugging me and being like we got
Speaker 6: your back, like you know, shake that shit off, we
Speaker 6: love you. And I'm getting emotional now even thinking about
Speaker 6: I just started crying.
Speaker 4: I was crying and I was.
Speaker 6: Hugging them, and I was like, you know what, this
Speaker 6: is where real love is. You cannot get this shit
Speaker 6: off the internet. You cannot get this kind of love
Speaker 6: from the internet. It's the only the only kind of
Speaker 6: love you can get it like, this is in real life.
Speaker 6: And that I was like, I have to make an
Speaker 6: album about this. And so my album Love and Real
Speaker 6: Life Is started from that experience, and I started to
Speaker 6: rediscover what real love feels like, and what real connection
Speaker 6: and real community feels like.
Speaker 4: And now I know I.
Speaker 6: Can still get love on the Internet, but I also
Speaker 6: can curate it, and I can weed out the real
Speaker 6: from the fake. I can differentiate. Now I don't just
Speaker 6: believe everything, you know, I really actually at this point
Speaker 6: don't believe anything I see on the internet.
Speaker 7: Seeing so much stuff about yourself. Even before that time, yeah,
Speaker 7: you were like, what that's just not true.
Speaker 6: And I'll see things about my friends that's not true,
Speaker 6: and I'll be like what you mean, like with them
Speaker 6: right now, like that's not happening.
Speaker 5: But you got to remember, nobody cares about the truth
Speaker 5: and the lives more entertaining.
Speaker 3: As long as you know that, you wouldn't pay.
Speaker 4: This sh Also, the mess is more entertaining. They don't.
Speaker 4: They don't care about the.
Speaker 2: For it right.
Speaker 1: We reward people who do that, give them thousands of
Speaker 1: dollars for these chats that are fake, and we don't
Speaker 1: punish them.
Speaker 2: There's no penalty.
Speaker 5: I was gonna say to the red toilet paper will
Speaker 5: be fire. You said that, and that shit been stuck
Speaker 5: in my head.
Speaker 2: I just think got black toilet paper. I never seen
Speaker 2: no red toiler.
Speaker 3: Red would be fire.
Speaker 2: But you can't see nothing.
Speaker 3: You can't see.
Speaker 4: And I'm on my message right now. I don't want
Speaker 4: to take I just made something I don't need that.
Speaker 2: I was gonna ask what puts you into that light?
Speaker 1: Like you know, usually you're a pop star, right, and
Speaker 1: usually when you meet pop.
Speaker 4: Stars period, they come on black girl popstar.
Speaker 1: A lot of times that the assholes that stand office
Speaker 1: you don't see them, but we see you so much.
Speaker 1: And every time somebody asked me about Lizzo if she's
Speaker 1: been to the breakfast club I met.
Speaker 2: I was like, she's the nicest, she's cool, she's.
Speaker 3: Down to earth.
Speaker 2: What puts you in that mind frame to say, I
Speaker 2: don't want to be like that. I want to be this. Wait,
Speaker 2: because you were at them all by yourself.
Speaker 1: You were at the Charlemagne went to the consot last
Speaker 1: night asking what he was sweet, but you were out
Speaker 1: on the floor like you do.
Speaker 4: Hey booze. Wait, okay wait. The first half of that
Speaker 4: question was pop stars are assholes?
Speaker 1: You said A lot of times you see pop stars
Speaker 1: are I don't want to say assholes, but out of
Speaker 1: the way, like you can't touch them. They feel like
Speaker 1: they don't want to be next to their people. If
Speaker 1: you go back and look at a lot of pop stars,
Speaker 1: you don't seem as personable as let's say you would be.
Speaker 4: That's interesting. I have a lot of.
Speaker 6: Sympathy for like, really really famous pop star people because
Speaker 6: a lot of them became famous when they were teenagers.
Speaker 6: A lot of them started this when they were like nine,
Speaker 6: And I can't relate to not to I'm just getting
Speaker 6: it together and I'm a grown ass woman.
Speaker 4: When it happened to me you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: So, like that developmental stage where you're getting all of
Speaker 6: this like weird love and validation from like strangers, and
Speaker 6: you can get anything you want, and you know, your
Speaker 6: comfort level starts to get real sensitive too, like people
Speaker 6: open doors for you.
Speaker 4: People you know you have drivers pull up to you.
Speaker 6: You don't got to drive. You sixteen year old, don't
Speaker 6: got a license because you've had a driver since you
Speaker 6: were thirteen. Like the way you're gonna move through the
Speaker 6: world is a little different than someone like me, who
Speaker 6: you know pretty much all the way up until I
Speaker 6: was twenty nine years old, was working at restaurants, working
Speaker 6: at Raisin canes, like working at the mall, like playing
Speaker 6: shows to like fifty people. One of my first shows
Speaker 6: I ever played with my mom, nobody was there but
Speaker 6: the sound engineer, and I still went the fuck, not
Speaker 6: the fuck, but I still went hard even though the
Speaker 6: only person there was the bartender and the sound engineer
Speaker 6: in my mom, like you know I have, I had
Speaker 6: of a different experience with the success that I have,
Speaker 6: Like I was in I was with the people. I
Speaker 6: would play festivals and then I would jump down off
Speaker 6: the stage and just go to the rest of the
Speaker 6: festival with everybody else, you know, So like when fame
Speaker 6: happened to when I became famous, when it happens to you,
Speaker 6: you know, it's strange for me because I feel like
Speaker 6: I became famous in twenty twenty, which is weird, Like
Speaker 6: after I won the Grammy. I don't think I was
Speaker 6: famous in twenty nineteen. I don't think I was famous
Speaker 6: in twenty eighteen. Yeah, I feel like twenty twenty when
Speaker 6: I want to Grammy and then guess what happened?
Speaker 4: I run to Grammy January.
Speaker 6: Guess what happened in March twenty twenty, Cause it's.
Speaker 7: Dooe for you though, because I think that's when a
Speaker 7: lot of us needed like that, like just something light
Speaker 7: and yeah, we're doing that all right in the Internet,
Speaker 7: and I think that's what it caught people so much.
Speaker 6: But maybe that's what put the box there too though.
Speaker 6: But at that time, we were all separated from each
Speaker 6: other because there was a global pandemic, not because I
Speaker 6: am famous and I need to be separated from everyone.
Speaker 6: So by the time we was able to be back outside,
Speaker 6: I still have my twenty eighteen twenty nineteen mentality. I
Speaker 6: want to be where the people are. I want to
Speaker 6: connect with everybody, like I don't want to be put
Speaker 6: on no pedestal. So I think that's the difference. I
Speaker 6: don't think it's a choice being like other pop stars
Speaker 6: are allegedly assholes allegedly, and I don't want to be that.
Speaker 6: It's just like, this is just who I am, and
Speaker 6: I think everybody should just like be yourself, you know.
Speaker 4: Like I'm not going to change who I am just
Speaker 4: because I'm famous.
Speaker 5: Now, that's because when did you first realize that confidence
Speaker 5: and healing weren't the same thing.
Speaker 4: Damn, listen, you'll be with every day?
Speaker 1: Why everybody were talking about fueh he want to be
Speaker 1: all serious?
Speaker 6: Let me think that's a really deep confidence in healing. Well,
Speaker 6: they're not, first off, just by definition, because I think
Speaker 6: people can fake confidence.
Speaker 4: You can't fake healing.
Speaker 6: Can't be fake healed, like, oh, you know you gotta
Speaker 6: cut and it's like, yeah, I'm faking it.
Speaker 4: You know that's a band aid. You're not really healed yet.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: With confidence, there are a lot of people who walk
Speaker 6: around and they can pretend to be confident. And actually,
Speaker 6: I think that's what confidence's intention is, is to be
Speaker 6: used a little artificially, the fake it till you make it,
Speaker 6: and then eventually you get there. Because my confidence, you know,
Speaker 6: I had to force it and fake it for a
Speaker 6: long time because I didn't grow up in a world
Speaker 6: where they were like, you're beautiful and your body is beautiful,
Speaker 6: and we like you, we like your personality. Yeah, you
Speaker 6: watch anime and listen to rock music, we accept you.
Speaker 4: No, Like I was very like.
Speaker 6: Other and I think that I had to be like, no,
Speaker 6: you are good enough, you are worthy of love. Your
Speaker 6: body is beautiful, even when I didn't believe it. And
Speaker 6: I think that that eventually, if you say something enough,
Speaker 6: it can come true. You can manifest it, you can
Speaker 6: create your reality. And I think I got there by
Speaker 6: faking it. But healing, I think, is a little bit
Speaker 6: uglier than confidence, and I think I'm still learning that.
Speaker 6: I don't think there's like a singular moment, but I think, man,
Speaker 6: it's funny because you look back and you're like, all
Speaker 6: these years of like telling myself, I love myself and
Speaker 6: I'm beautiful, and can't nobody tell me about me? Da
Speaker 6: da dada da, And then people can and you realize, oh,
Speaker 6: all this shit wasn't even real.
Speaker 4: I was just telling myself this.
Speaker 6: I was faking the funk because if I really believed
Speaker 6: that y'all wouldn't be able to take this from me,
Speaker 6: y'all wouldn't be able to shake me. And then being
Speaker 6: like walking through the world now and being like, man,
Speaker 6: this person just says something crazy to me.
Speaker 4: People be talking to me crazy. I'm so nice, and I'll.
Speaker 6: Be like, okay, cause I'm like, you know, I don't
Speaker 6: need your validation, but okay, but now people talk crazy
Speaker 6: to me, and I'll be like, hmm, but you know what,
Speaker 6: it's not even real. You're in pain, You're hurting for
Speaker 6: you to say something to me like this. What did
Speaker 6: I bring out in you? Did I make you feel
Speaker 6: a little insecure for a second?
Speaker 4: Boo boo ah? I'm sorry, and I hope that I
Speaker 4: hope it gets better for you.
Speaker 1: But you give a lot of people grace though, Like
Speaker 1: I've seen people have made it, cracked a joke or
Speaker 1: said something, and then I'll see you do an interview
Speaker 1: a couple of years later and you give them the grace.
Speaker 1: Why do you feel like it's the right thing to
Speaker 1: give grace instead of just give the middle finger a
Speaker 1: single fuck yourself?
Speaker 6: Because people are as kind to others as they are
Speaker 6: to themselves. And if somebody is throwing hatred or or
Speaker 6: saying something mean, just mean spirited about somebody just for
Speaker 6: the sake of doing it. I can't imagine how you
Speaker 6: talk to yourself. I can't imagine how you think about
Speaker 6: yourself and treat yourself when no one's watching. And for
Speaker 6: that I've already won, So I don't need to win
Speaker 6: in real life and sit up and talk bad about nobody.
Speaker 6: I don't have anything bad to say about nobody. And
Speaker 6: I've been dogged, I've been dog walked bad, and I
Speaker 6: don't have any to say. I have nothing bad to
Speaker 6: say because because I love the person I've become through
Speaker 6: it all, and I think that's the real prize, that's
Speaker 6: the real reward.
Speaker 4: What did you well? First?
Speaker 7: On that note, does it get on your nerves though
Speaker 7: that sometimes every single thing you do people still relate
Speaker 7: it to like wanting to talk about you in certain ways,
Speaker 7: like you were at the met Gala the outfit went off.
Speaker 7: Every headline, though, is about your weight loss and not
Speaker 7: about how good you looked. And I think that that's
Speaker 7: unfair And it happens a lot with you, does that
Speaker 7: get annoying to you where it's like I can't move
Speaker 7: around that, like people always want to talk about me.
Speaker 4: Well, I signed up for it.
Speaker 6: I knew when you know, back in twenty fourteen and
Speaker 6: big girls weren't wearing leotars on stage, and I said,
Speaker 6: I'm about to put me on one of these Beyonce dance leotars,
Speaker 6: and I'm about to have big girls behind me wearing
Speaker 6: them too, because I knew that my body would be
Speaker 6: the focus of that conversation. And it was something that
Speaker 6: because it was unavoidable, I either I could hide and
Speaker 6: run from it, and people are gonna.
Speaker 4: Do it anyway. You know. It's like the big girl
Speaker 4: wearing your arms out theory.
Speaker 6: It's like we know your arms big, whether you you know,
Speaker 6: cover it up or not, we know your arms big,
Speaker 6: So either enjoy the outfit and wear your arms out
Speaker 6: or cover your arms up, but we know what it is.
Speaker 6: So for me, it was just like I'm just gonna
Speaker 6: run head first into it. What I didn't know is
Speaker 6: that it would never go away. No matter how much
Speaker 6: my body changes, It's never gonna go away. But I
Speaker 6: think that I have to just like accept that and
Speaker 6: I'm actually cool with it. It doesn't annoy me because
Speaker 6: I look good, you know, and even when I was bigger,
Speaker 6: I looked good.
Speaker 4: So it's like, say what you want.
Speaker 6: But there was always someone in the comments being like, yeah,
Speaker 6: but she's still beautiful and she looks soft and face
Speaker 6: Card never declines.
Speaker 7: What about the time because I was reporting when all
Speaker 7: the lawsuit stuff happened, and you didn't say anything for
Speaker 7: a long time, like not at all, which those people
Speaker 7: come out and say stuff. I was wondering the day
Speaker 7: that it was dropped, how did you feel? What was
Speaker 7: your thought process around that? Because you were in isolation
Speaker 7: at that point, right.
Speaker 4: I was in Japan, Yeah, on a dream trip.
Speaker 7: A brough of fresh air or did you feel like
Speaker 7: but the conversation is still there and it is hard.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's very hard because I was confused. I was
Speaker 4: confused and I was a little like hurt. But I
Speaker 4: was in Japan with it was my first time ever
Speaker 4: being in Japan. I was with my best friend and
Speaker 4: her kids and we.
Speaker 6: Were at Hello Kitty World, and I'm like crying in
Speaker 6: the car, but I'm like, Okay, wipe your tears and
Speaker 6: go in there and have fun with the babies because
Speaker 6: we had Hello Kitty World, and you only do this
Speaker 6: once with these kids who've never been to Japan and.
Speaker 4: That's their dream.
Speaker 6: So I did a lot of balance in between that.
Speaker 6: But I'll tell you one thing about Tokyo. They don't
Speaker 6: give it fuck.
Speaker 4: What's going on in your personal life and Tokyo they're
Speaker 4: like a picture.
Speaker 6: I'm like, okay, Like I had a great time, like
Speaker 6: nobody's nosy in Japan, and I think being there was
Speaker 6: God for sure, because though I was dealing with a
Speaker 6: lot of inner turmoil and hurt, honestly in shock and confusion,
Speaker 6: I was in this place that didn't reflect that or
Speaker 6: throw that back at me. I had my first panic
Speaker 6: attack when I came back to la for the first
Speaker 6: time after everything the lawsuit had dropped and I was
Speaker 6: in Japan for like a month and I landed in America.
Speaker 6: I had a panic attack in the car because as
Speaker 6: I was walking through the airport, I was like, everybody
Speaker 6: hates me, everybody's you know. I got in my head
Speaker 6: and I got in a car and I like I
Speaker 6: had this.
Speaker 4: Like yeah, I had this like pressure on my chest.
Speaker 6: Mind you, I've had anxiety attacks that feels different than
Speaker 6: a panic attack.
Speaker 4: I had pressure on my chest. I said, something's really wrong.
Speaker 6: I couldn't use my limbs or my body, and I
Speaker 6: was like I literally crawled to my bed and just
Speaker 6: like broke down. I was like, what's happening to me?
Speaker 6: And I talked to my doctor and was like, hey,
Speaker 6: you got a panic attack?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: And I think America, everybody want to know everybody's business here,
Speaker 6: so I it's this weird almost like invisible. I'm not
Speaker 6: a victim, so I don't want to say attack, but
Speaker 6: it was like, you know, this pressure or this like
Speaker 6: I don't know, it's like implied energy in America where
Speaker 6: I'm like, oh I need to hide versus Japan, I
Speaker 6: could be a Hello Kiddy world and everyone's like.
Speaker 4: Right you were when somebody lies.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that when you started thinking people hated you. Because
Speaker 5: I wondered, do you remember what the industry felt like?
Speaker 5: What what social media even felt like? Before that lossuit, it.
Speaker 4: Felt very like.
Speaker 6: Silly and lighthearted, and I had like a lot of
Speaker 6: freedom to just scroll and I see nothing about me.
Speaker 6: And then I was on and I would scroll and
Speaker 6: every like three scrolls it was, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 6: we'd be like Liza, if I just see two z's,
Speaker 6: my heart start raising. My scroll been pizza, but I
Speaker 6: was like wow, and I just kept scrolling, So it
Speaker 6: felt it felt.
Speaker 4: A little bit more hostile.
Speaker 6: But I'll say in general, I think the internet has
Speaker 6: gotten more hostile for everybody, every like out of nowhere,
Speaker 6: Like it used to be so fun and lighthearted, and
Speaker 6: now everybody is beefing and quarreling and dropping tea and
Speaker 6: I'm just like, WHOA, when did this happen? But that's
Speaker 6: when it happened for me, Like I was like, oh,
Speaker 6: I have to get off. And so from I would
Speaker 6: say October twenty twenty three to maybe even like April
Speaker 6: twenty twenty four, I wasn't on my phone at all.
Speaker 4: I threw my phone.
Speaker 6: Away, Like I had my team post things for me
Speaker 6: because I had to post about yiddie and I had
Speaker 6: to post about, you know, little things I wanted to
Speaker 6: share with people. I didn't want to completely disappear because
Speaker 6: that's not who I am. But my team posted it
Speaker 6: for me and I did not scroll. I did not
Speaker 6: look at the internet because I was too sensitive. And
Speaker 6: I think I don't think I could have handled it.
Speaker 6: And I'll also say this in reference to the lawsuit,
Speaker 6: I would say, in light of all of the other
Speaker 6: like high profile lawsuits that have been coming out comparatively
Speaker 6: the allegations against me, I think, now we see we're
Speaker 6: just like kind of ridiculous. You know, I cracked my
Speaker 6: knuckles in the script club to me and mind.
Speaker 4: You, it was going to the strip club.
Speaker 6: It doesn't say that I did anything like I didn't
Speaker 6: do anything to anyone in that strip just went to
Speaker 6: the strip club. And then like being fat phobic for
Speaker 6: firing someone for gaining weight, that just wasn't true.
Speaker 3: It wasn't true, but just larious, right, But that's why
Speaker 3: nobody believed.
Speaker 6: It's like right, But but I also have to say,
Speaker 6: like one of my fears is I don't want my
Speaker 6: situation and my lawsuit to be an indicator on any
Speaker 6: other that's going on. I don't want it to invalidate
Speaker 6: any other actual because I will always stand for real
Speaker 6: victims of sexual harassment and sexual violence and anything, and
Speaker 6: I will always stand for them and ride for them.
Speaker 6: So I don't want what happened to me to kind
Speaker 6: of invalidate anything else going on in the world. And
Speaker 6: that was really important to me, which is why I
Speaker 6: was quiet for a long time, because I still want
Speaker 6: to protect victims side.
Speaker 2: Does that not change you?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: How does that not change.
Speaker 1: Liz as a person? I did though, because now do
Speaker 1: you still go out with people? Do you still feel
Speaker 1: as free?
Speaker 3: Do you?
Speaker 2: Are you still the listeners?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: Baby? No? Baby? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Because it changes you as a person. And is that
Speaker 2: a good thing of bad?
Speaker 4: I think it's an amazing thing. I am. You know what,
Speaker 4: God really loves me.
Speaker 6: I have to say that, and I feel like everything
Speaker 6: that happens to me is God, and God is preparing
Speaker 6: me for something that I don't even know about. But
Speaker 6: I feel like I readied myself now as I feel
Speaker 6: like a boss, like I feel like a better boss,
Speaker 6: I feel like a better friend. I feel like I
Speaker 6: know how to run a big operation, you know, because
Speaker 6: mind you back to the pandemic thing. I blew up
Speaker 6: in twenty twenty. In twenty nineteen, I had maybe four
Speaker 6: crew members. I had one roadie, I had a tour
Speaker 6: manager and two dancers. And then the world shut down
Speaker 6: in twenty twenty and I blew up and I did
Speaker 6: my first arena tour after being in isolation for two years.
Speaker 6: And I'm suddenly standing in a room with seventy eighty
Speaker 6: people that I'm like, I don't I want to know
Speaker 6: everybody's names.
Speaker 4: That works for me.
Speaker 6: And it was really weird, and I got a crash
Speaker 6: course and being an arena level artist, a big artist,
Speaker 6: like after literally being an indie artist for ten years
Speaker 6: and being in isolation for two years. So by the
Speaker 6: time I was running arena level operation, I didn't have
Speaker 6: no practice in that, I didn't have no experiences, and
Speaker 6: I learned the hard way how to be a boss.
Speaker 6: But I'm gonna be a better boss for it. And
Speaker 6: I'm really proud of myself. Yeah, if you're on my payroll,
Speaker 6: we're not going to the bar.
Speaker 4: We're not gonna have drinks together. You know what I'm
Speaker 4: saying breakfast. But I got friends for that. I got
Speaker 4: friends for that.
Speaker 6: Okay, I got two friends, my best friend Alexo Derilo
Speaker 6: from Ace Town. Shout out Houston, Texas and shout out Chante.
Speaker 5: I knew what So what do you how do you
Speaker 5: decide like what's for the stage or what's for the public,
Speaker 5: and what's secret.
Speaker 6: Now hm hmm, there's a lot that's sacred. You know,
Speaker 6: my my my parameter for what's for the world. If
Speaker 6: you really love something, keep that shit a secret. If
Speaker 6: you really love something, keep it a secret. If so,
Speaker 6: there are things that I protect now that you know. Before,
Speaker 6: I didn't think it of it as protection. I thought
Speaker 6: of it as like, oh my gosh, like I'm keeping
Speaker 6: something from my fans, I'm keeping something from the public,
Speaker 6: Like I want you guys to see this, like you
Speaker 6: should see this. Like I literally like the.
Speaker 4: Term hard launched. That was me, you know, because I
Speaker 4: was like, gosh, like love, like I want y'all to
Speaker 4: see this. This is so beautiful.
Speaker 6: And then the world got two seconds of my relationship
Speaker 6: and I was like, oh yeah, y'all know how to act.
Speaker 7: I literally just I was looking to see I'm like,
Speaker 7: she ain't posted him in a minute.
Speaker 4: Y'all know how to act. You lost your privileges?
Speaker 6: Yeah, so all, yeah, all that cute ship, all that
Speaker 6: black love back in the vaults.
Speaker 7: I mean, maybe I only saw the positive stuff because
Speaker 7: I thought I saw a lot of people that I
Speaker 7: was happy for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it was that bad.
Speaker 7: Because I was literally on my Instagram looking I'm like,
Speaker 7: you know what minute people people.
Speaker 4: Were really positive.
Speaker 6: This isn't about like people, I do think that, you know,
Speaker 6: I don't want to give nobody an opportunity to destroy
Speaker 6: something good. And I found that it wasn't really necessarily
Speaker 6: about my relationship that people did that. It was other things,
Speaker 6: my other relationships where that happened, And I was like,
Speaker 6: I don't even want to give you the opportunity, no shade, like,
Speaker 6: no disrespect. I love everybody, thank you for being so cool,
Speaker 6: but due to new management. But in my personal life,
Speaker 6: I have to I have to protect this because I
Speaker 6: saw so much get destroyed by lies and I didn't
Speaker 6: want that to happen to my relationships.
Speaker 4: So it's very protected. Yeah, nobody acted up.
Speaker 6: I don't want this clip to go out and people
Speaker 6: being like, well, we didn't even say nothing wrong, Like,
Speaker 6: because I know how the internet can be, they'll take
Speaker 6: seven seconds and think that I'm saying something else.
Speaker 4: But it was more so out of it was preemptive,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: But I've then you said it right something youself.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's that's simple. Yeah. Do you have any tear
Speaker 4: jerkers on love in real life? We do.
Speaker 6: There's one song in particular that niggas had to leave
Speaker 6: a room.
Speaker 4: It ran out. I said, I'm sorry. I had like, oh,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get sad even though it's not. I mean,
Speaker 4: sometimes I feel that I wrote it. I lost my dog.
Speaker 4: I lost my dog and she was twenty years old.
Speaker 6: Can you see she left the malties Yeah, And I
Speaker 6: lost her like in the thick of it December twenty
Speaker 6: twenty three, when I was like at my most depressed
Speaker 6: and then she left and I was like, mind you
Speaker 6: twenty years Like she like a grandma to me, you know,
Speaker 6: And that really broke me down.
Speaker 4: And I wrote a song about it. But it wasn't
Speaker 4: just about Hookah. She said. I sampled her voice on
Speaker 4: the song, but it was a lost in general.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: I lost my father very young, and so it was
Speaker 6: a song about grief and death. And I was like,
Speaker 6: don't put this on your album. Like I'm the happy girl,
Speaker 6: I'm the positive spin and you know, I was like,
Speaker 6: you know what, I owe it to myself, not just
Speaker 6: to my fans or to myself to put a song
Speaker 6: like this on my album.
Speaker 4: And so there is a moment in there.
Speaker 6: It's called Phone to Heaven, and so that's a little
Speaker 6: tear jerker, and there are some really raw emotional songs
Speaker 6: on there, like I got a song called like a Crime,
Speaker 6: and I think that you can decide what that song
Speaker 6: is about when you listen to it. I'm really excited
Speaker 6: for this album because I feel like as an artist,
Speaker 6: everybody got into my singles, but they never got into
Speaker 6: my albums. And my albums are so good, yeah, and
Speaker 6: they're so well thought out, and I really want the
Speaker 6: album to shine this time and not just oh my God,
Speaker 6: a number one hit about Damn Time, because it's like,
Speaker 6: my album don't sound like special, doesn't sound like about
Speaker 6: damn Time, and because I Love You didn't sound like
Speaker 6: truth hurts, you know what I mean. There were so
Speaker 6: many other songs that show off like and these songs did.
Speaker 6: They show off my musical ability, but like I had,
Speaker 6: I have such an amazing.
Speaker 4: Catalog I'm so proud of.
Speaker 6: So this time I want people to get into the album,
Speaker 6: which is why I've been I've gone a little rogue,
Speaker 6: you know, opposite of what the label once for me,
Speaker 6: where I'm I'm service in music. I just dropped the
Speaker 6: demo to U Steal Bad today. Actually, wow, look at
Speaker 6: that timing. I dropped the demo to Steal Bad because
Speaker 6: I like the demo more than the finished song. And
Speaker 6: there's a there's an A and R process with music
Speaker 6: that people might not be privy to, but you write
Speaker 6: a song in a studio, the A and R comes
Speaker 6: through and they go, okay, fix this, write this, rewrite this,
Speaker 6: bridge the production needs to be more like this, and
Speaker 6: you're like okay, and you sit in with the producer
Speaker 6: and you work on it. And I've done that process,
Speaker 6: Like About Damn Time took like seven months and there
Speaker 6: were like a thousand versions. So it's still bad. We
Speaker 6: did the same thing and by the time we were done,
Speaker 6: was still bad. And this is this is this is
Speaker 6: really how I feel, and I'm sorry to Atlantic Records.
Speaker 6: But by the time I was done with Still Bad,
Speaker 6: I was like, this is just another about Damn Time.
Speaker 6: And I looked at Ricky Reid and I was like,
Speaker 6: be real with me. I was like, does this sound
Speaker 6: like About Damn Time? And he was like no, no,
Speaker 6: and I'm like yeah, from a sonic level, it's different
Speaker 6: instruments that take the lead. It's a different bpm, it's
Speaker 6: a different key, it has it's more indie sleeves. And
Speaker 6: I was like, I'm a trust y'all on this. I
Speaker 6: started doing press and interviews for it, and everybody said, yeah,
Speaker 6: it's like disco funk, It's like a disco funk, and
Speaker 6: I'm like, no, it's not a disco funk song. Like
Speaker 6: About Damn Time was disco funk. This is inde sleeves.
Speaker 4: But people don't fucking know that.
Speaker 6: They don't know the difference. Music is about feeling. Not
Speaker 6: everybody a music major had studied the theory behind no.
Speaker 6: They just want to feel it. And it felt like
Speaker 6: About Damn Time. And I should have followed my gut.
Speaker 6: But because for me, this album is rock and roll,
Speaker 6: and the demo version of Steel Bad that I put out.
Speaker 4: Is very rock and roll. No shade to the other
Speaker 4: still bad.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna let people decide which one they like more,
Speaker 6: because they both my babies.
Speaker 4: One is just cuter.
Speaker 5: People who listen to your music they know why you successful, right,
Speaker 5: But then you have some people who feel like you
Speaker 5: were only successful because at the time.
Speaker 3: People were checking off boxes.
Speaker 5: You're the black woman, you big, you know, diversity, all
Speaker 5: of that type of stuff.
Speaker 3: What do you say to those people?
Speaker 6: I would say that I created that lane. I don't
Speaker 6: think people were looking for diversity. I was undeniable, and
Speaker 6: that that created the trend of checking boxes. I don't
Speaker 6: disagree that at a certain point we started checking boxes.
Speaker 6: When it comes to checking a box of black, fat woman,
Speaker 6: I'm a ride for that every time.
Speaker 4: I don't care.
Speaker 6: I'm rooting for everyone black, and I'm rooting for everyone fat,
Speaker 6: black and woman.
Speaker 4: I don't care. You don't have to if you're.
Speaker 6: Not the most talented person in the world and you
Speaker 6: got pushed through yay, because it happens to other people.
Speaker 4: All the time who don't look like that, and we
Speaker 4: deserve it. Mm hmm. I am big. We talk about baby,
Speaker 4: I'm big. I'm not the.
Speaker 6: Biggest, so now, okay, I'm in a room full of
Speaker 6: people I trust.
Speaker 4: Right the internet is like Liz O skinny now I am.
Speaker 4: I am well over two hundred pounds, you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying. I'm five ft nine.
Speaker 3: In a different direction.
Speaker 4: I got double numbered pants on right now. But you're
Speaker 4: trying to be.
Speaker 7: No, okay, yeah, because I think you look amazing. I
Speaker 7: think are you saying that you're bigger than what an
Speaker 7: industry standard is because you're not. You are bigger than
Speaker 7: what some people will determine the industry thing. But that
Speaker 7: standard is like going, it's twenty twenty five people. I
Speaker 7: don't even think that's next to any pop star right now,
Speaker 7: Like I'm still bigger than them.
Speaker 4: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: You actually look normal compared to them. I'm just saying, oh,
Speaker 3: I hear you. Yeah, you look normal compared to it.
Speaker 3: But they look like.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and that's what I mean, Like twenty twenty five
Speaker 7: people want to see people that look like them and
Speaker 7: that Yeah. But is it because a lot of my
Speaker 7: friends that I that I talk to that are on
Speaker 7: weight loss journeys, they have like a body dysmorphia thing
Speaker 7: where they're never in a.
Speaker 4: Good place with themselves.
Speaker 7: Did you experience that or do you deal with that sometimes?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 6: I actually didn't realize how much my body changed until
Speaker 6: I was filming the Love and Real Life music video.
Speaker 4: I was in shock.
Speaker 6: It shocked me because the way that I'm releasing Weight
Speaker 6: has been a long, slow process, Like people maybe not
Speaker 6: have seen me or been keeping up with me, but
Speaker 6: I've been posting about it and I'm in a calorie deficit.
Speaker 4: So that's the one that sneaks up on you.
Speaker 6: If you're in a deficit, for so long it eventually
Speaker 6: you're just you're just shedding like half a pound a week,
Speaker 6: you know, And then you look up and if it's.
Speaker 4: Been fifty two weeks, that adds up.
Speaker 6: So when I was filming Love in real life and
Speaker 6: they put the outfit on me and I seen the
Speaker 6: number size on the pants, I said, wait a minute,
Speaker 6: hold on, Like, there's not a two in front of it.
Speaker 4: That's supposed to be a two right there. Why is
Speaker 4: that a one?
Speaker 6: I was like, Okay, something has happened. You've crossed the threshold.
Speaker 6: Your body has done the thing. So now it's about
Speaker 6: controlling that and making sure that it doesn't get out
Speaker 6: of control. Because my mind will keep going even though
Speaker 6: my body is like, hey, we're good.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
Speaker 6: Because when I look in the mirror, I still see
Speaker 6: me in twenty twenty three, I still see me at
Speaker 6: a heavier weight. Thank God, I love myself because that's fine.
Speaker 6: I think that people who really experienced the body dysmorphia
Speaker 6: the most, they didn't like themselves at that size, and
Speaker 6: when they look in the mirror and they see that person,
Speaker 6: it's they get upset and it's not enough, and that's hard.
Speaker 1: But those people with the opposite that they missed that
Speaker 1: weight because they were that weight for so long. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it feels like that's not them anymore, like they
Speaker 1: miss that.
Speaker 4: Person and that I experienced that too. I'll say this.
Speaker 6: Only my big girls who have released some weight are
Speaker 6: gonna understand this.
Speaker 4: How do I say this?
Speaker 6: I felt, I say this is what I was lot
Speaker 6: of crazy.
Speaker 4: Oh, here we go.
Speaker 6: When I was bigger, I felt skinny. I felt skinnier
Speaker 6: than I do now.
Speaker 4: When I was bigger. I'm not gonna hold you.
Speaker 6: When I was in my string bikini and I was
Speaker 6: at my heaviest weight, I was like, skinny, bitch. And
Speaker 6: that's when I realized, like, thin is a feeling. It's
Speaker 6: not a look, and so is fat. Fat is a
Speaker 6: feeling Like you've ever been around somebody thin and she's like.
Speaker 4: Ah, so fat, I feel so fat today Because it's
Speaker 4: a feeling. It's not real, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: Like society tries to tell you that it's real, and
Speaker 6: the scale tries to tell you, but it's really how
Speaker 6: you feel on the inside. So I felt skinnier then
Speaker 6: than I do now.
Speaker 4: Maybe I'm told.
Speaker 3: Because I get what you're saying, But if pounds, that's
Speaker 3: more than just right.
Speaker 6: No, and let's be real, yes, like there is like
Speaker 6: a science behind it, like you know, there is an
Speaker 6: aesthetic to it.
Speaker 4: But I also think that.
Speaker 6: It We've seen where Jessica Simpson had on mom jeans
Speaker 6: in two thousand and five and they were calling her
Speaker 6: fat and she wasn't. So it gets misinterpreted in misconstrued
Speaker 6: all the time. There are objective truths. You know, there
Speaker 6: are people who are bigger, and I think that's and yeah,
Speaker 6: we fat. I like calling myself fat.
Speaker 5: I think it's a race component too, though, because if
Speaker 5: Justice Simpson was black back then you'd be like, she thick.
Speaker 6: You know, you're absolutely right. But that's a whole other conversation.
Speaker 6: That's a ted talk we can get into. We can
Speaker 6: get into that. I do want to racialization of beauty
Speaker 6: standards and.
Speaker 4: How it was racist.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about it.
Speaker 4: Wait, what was your question gonna be?
Speaker 3: Though?
Speaker 5: Well, I was going to ask you, you know, what
Speaker 5: parts of your identity did the industry try to monetize
Speaker 5: or there I say, even exploit before you even understood
Speaker 5: it yourself.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I didn't know, because you know, I was being
Speaker 6: myself and the industry is exploitative. That's that's its job.
Speaker 6: Its job is to because I think it's an industry.
Speaker 4: There's car industries.
Speaker 6: They're you know, getting a product out there, and they'll
Speaker 6: exploit the workers to do that, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: So for me, I don't look at it as a
Speaker 6: negative thing. I know that word is so crazy, but
Speaker 6: it's like I was being sold. I was being packaged,
Speaker 6: marketed and sold for being my self and that was
Speaker 6: a weird that was a strange thing. I can't imagine
Speaker 6: people who have to fake their brand because that would
Speaker 6: drive me insane. I would be like, yo, dude, I
Speaker 6: don't want to do this shit. No mo, I don't
Speaker 6: want to be happy. I don't want to play the flute.
Speaker 4: I don't want to be fat, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: But you said, when did I realize it? Damn? I
Speaker 4: think maybe even now.
Speaker 6: I think when I'm starting to release weight, that's when
Speaker 6: I realized it, because I remember I was. I was
Speaker 6: talking to my trainer at the time and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 6: I want to just like intentionally, like let go some weight,
Speaker 6: like a little bit smaller.
Speaker 4: Da da da da da.
Speaker 6: And he was like, oh, I'm about to fuck up
Speaker 6: your brand? And I was like wait what. I was
Speaker 6: like what does that mean? And I had to think
Speaker 6: about that for a while, like and then and that
Speaker 6: was when I was heavier and you know, X amount
Speaker 6: of pounds down. Later I saw the backlash. People were upset,
Speaker 6: and I was like, wait, what's happening? And that was
Speaker 6: what he was talking about, and two things are happening.
Speaker 6: The industry packaged and sold me and my fatness and
Speaker 6: my joy and all of that and marketed it to people.
Speaker 6: People saw themselves in that, but they also were just
Speaker 6: like I don't know.
Speaker 4: How do I say this?
Speaker 6: And being very respectful to my fans, because when it changed,
Speaker 6: it was like you aren't that person, You're you're a liar.
Speaker 4: You know, you lie?
Speaker 6: That wasn't real. I was sold, wasn't real. It's like
Speaker 6: I got the I got the package, I got the product,
Speaker 6: and then it was like always always works, and then
Speaker 6: it stopped working.
Speaker 3: If you were so proud of it, why would you right?
Speaker 4: And how do I say this?
Speaker 6: But there are all kinds of issues, like you know,
Speaker 6: like health issues, yeah, like that can I'm along with
Speaker 6: obesity and things like being fat, and it's like why
Speaker 6: can't I want to, you know, why can't I do
Speaker 6: this for y'all bring more awareness to that part of it,
Speaker 6: and then we'd go on this journey together.
Speaker 4: Y'all, my fans, y'all. You know, I'll say the only
Speaker 4: way I was able to.
Speaker 6: Do what I've done and changed my body was because
Speaker 6: I loved myself. I've never done anything healthy or positive
Speaker 6: to myself out of hatred. I've been smaller than this before,
Speaker 6: and I was starving myself. I wasn't eating, and I
Speaker 6: was the most unhappy in my entire life, and I
Speaker 6: hated myself the most at my smallest, So you know
Speaker 6: what I mean. Like, I've also been heavier, and I've
Speaker 6: hated some of that too, and I've also loved some
Speaker 6: of that. It's just like it's just not one thing.
Speaker 6: There's like so much nuance, and it's like, I'm a
Speaker 6: human being, you know what I mean, And I'm living
Speaker 6: in this body. You don't have to live in my
Speaker 6: body for the rest of your life. I have to
Speaker 6: live in yours. And people, I'll tell you one thing
Speaker 6: about me, I'm always on the right side of history.
Speaker 6: People gonna look back and understand because what I'm doing now, Gosh,
Speaker 6: people gonna think I'm full of myself. But what I'm
Speaker 6: doing now is fucking revolutionary, and it's pushing body positive
Speaker 6: positivity forward, not because I've gotten smaller, but the way
Speaker 6: that I'm talking about my body changing. Because what people
Speaker 6: don't realize is in twenty nineteen, when I was talking
Speaker 6: about body positivity over twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, I
Speaker 6: had gain fifty pounds and I was talking about that
Speaker 6: experience and talking about body positivity and how I loved
Speaker 6: myself through it all. And now when I'm on the
Speaker 6: other end of that, I'm not changing my tune. And
Speaker 6: I think that would be fraudulent if I all of
Speaker 6: a sudden changed my tune and.
Speaker 4: Said, ah fuck that. Yeah, I hated it, Haha. I
Speaker 4: hate it being being gotcha.
Speaker 6: You got bamboodle, bitch, run me like no, Like, I'm
Speaker 6: going to be me through this entire process. And when
Speaker 6: people look back on this, they'll be like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: she was right.
Speaker 5: That's why I started the interview off talking about your
Speaker 5: mental health, and that's why I asked you the question
Speaker 5: about confidence and healing, because you know, people can talk
Speaker 5: all about the physical. The revolutionary thing about it to
Speaker 5: me is what you have done spiritually and mentally.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, And it's a lot of work. And it's
Speaker 4: a lot of work.
Speaker 6: And that's why I can say I am the best
Speaker 6: version of myself right now.
Speaker 4: You know, there's people.
Speaker 6: Like I said, like I said, I when I was
Speaker 6: younger and I had like very disordered eating and I
Speaker 6: was like really depressed and I was like really hard
Speaker 6: on my body. I was very small. There's people who
Speaker 6: look back at old pictures of that time in their
Speaker 6: life when they were small and like, oh god, I
Speaker 6: want to look like that again.
Speaker 4: Oh that was it, honey.
Speaker 6: If I could just go back to when I was nineteen,
Speaker 6: I don't want to go back to her. That might
Speaker 6: have been the worst version of myself sleeping in my
Speaker 6: car and you know, going through it and running into
Speaker 6: violent and dangerous situations. No, and not eating that that's
Speaker 6: what Liz will be eating because you aren't.
Speaker 4: Baby.
Speaker 6: No, there's nothing cute about hurting yourself. There's nothing cute
Speaker 6: about harming yourself. There's nothing cute about starving yourself. Like
Speaker 6: and and now it's like, I am the best version
Speaker 6: of myself, not because of how I look, even though
Speaker 6: I may be heavier than I was and small, you know,
Speaker 6: or heavy? What am I trying to say. I'm heavier
Speaker 6: than I was when I was at my smallest, and
Speaker 6: I'm smaller than I was and when I was at
Speaker 6: my heaviest. But because I'm here, this is, this is,
Speaker 6: this is what makes me the best version of myself.
Speaker 6: And no matter how my body changes, I get pregnant,
Speaker 6: I have a baby, my body gonna get bigger, my
Speaker 6: body could get smaller.
Speaker 4: Who knows. This is what's together? This is you know
Speaker 4: what I mean? And this is the most important part.
Speaker 6: And that's the part that I hope to my younger
Speaker 6: fans and so people who follow me that they don't
Speaker 6: just see my body changing and me being happy. I
Speaker 6: hope they feel that it was mental work and it
Speaker 6: was emotional work, and no matter how my body changes,
Speaker 6: this is gonna be the most important thing to me.
Speaker 5: Do you have real joy? No, because it feels like
Speaker 5: you were being joyful as a form of protests or
Speaker 5: maybe a survival tactic.
Speaker 4: Maybe. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think that black joy in any form is resistance
Speaker 6: in this society, and I think it's radical in this society.
Speaker 6: I think seeing it from someone who looks like me
Speaker 6: is even more radical. And because of that, y'all don't
Speaker 6: see me ninety eight percent of the time like y'all
Speaker 6: see me two percent of the time. And why would
Speaker 6: I be miserable when I'm doing what I love? When
Speaker 6: y'all see me, I'm doing what I love. I'm either
Speaker 6: on stage, I'm shooting a music video, I'm doing an interview.
Speaker 6: I'm actually genuinely happy to be here, like I like
Speaker 6: talking to y'all, you know. But then there's like a
Speaker 6: whole other ninety eight percent where I may be in
Speaker 6: a bad mood, or I may be you know, over it,
Speaker 6: or you know, my stomach hurt, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 6: Like damn, Like I'm a human being, but that part
Speaker 6: isn't shown to the world. But I do believe that
Speaker 6: my joy is still a form of resistance, especially especially
Speaker 6: right now, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Where I mean always, we're in a system that doesn't
Speaker 4: want to see us joyful, you know what I mean?
Speaker 6: They police our joys so much, and I think that
Speaker 6: my mission. I think everybody has different missions, you know,
Speaker 6: to help us, But right now, my mission is how
Speaker 6: do I help people find a community that brings them joy?
Speaker 4: Because that's powerful.
Speaker 7: I want to go back to the conversation that we
Speaker 7: almost got into about the black beauty standard and the
Speaker 7: difference with you being in the space that you're in.
Speaker 7: I remember it was a long time ago, Jillian Michaels.
Speaker 7: She came out and said something that the weight loss lady,
Speaker 7: and people defended you so gravely because they felt like
Speaker 7: she wouldn't have said certain things if you weren't a
Speaker 7: black woman this way. I mean it was she talked about.
Speaker 7: She basically said, why are we defending her weight? It's
Speaker 7: not healthy? Is it going to be funny when she
Speaker 7: gets diabetes? And she just went down the list and
Speaker 7: people were like, well, hey, you're bringing out all the
Speaker 7: things that happened to the black community more predominantly, so
Speaker 7: they thought it was a race thing. And that conversation
Speaker 7: happens a lot around you. When people try to attack you.
Speaker 7: People feel like, if you weren't a black woman that
Speaker 7: was doing I mean, yeah, if you weren't a black
Speaker 7: woman doing these things, you would have a little bit
Speaker 7: more grace or be propped up a bit more.
Speaker 4: Do you feel like that.
Speaker 6: You know whose voice I listened to the less when
Speaker 6: they have comments about me is celebrities. I really, I
Speaker 6: never I don't care about other celebrities opinions on me,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean. It's interesting because it's like
Speaker 6: I care more about what my fans say about me
Speaker 6: and think about me that matters. I never hear these
Speaker 6: little trivial comments, and I only hear the apologies, you know.
Speaker 6: But I will say, somebody's health is none of your business,
Speaker 6: and I've always been on that, And it's like, we
Speaker 6: only pretend to care about people's fat people's health so
Speaker 6: we could be fat phobic to them. It's, you know,
Speaker 6: being fat is the only acceptable form of bullying in
Speaker 6: our society, if you think about it. We're taught from
Speaker 6: kids from a young age to make fun of fat people.
Speaker 4: You watch TV and the fat dude, he's like, oh,
Speaker 4: and then he falls over.
Speaker 6: Trying to tie his shoe, and the kids are like,
Speaker 6: you know, and you laugh in front of your parents.
Speaker 3: Your parents laughing too.
Speaker 6: But if it was anything else, your parents would be like,
Speaker 6: don't laugh at that, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 6: we are socialized to make fun of fat people, and
Speaker 6: I think that some people pretend to care about fat
Speaker 6: people's health to just make fun of them, you know,
Speaker 6: in a weird backwards backwards ass way. I will have
Speaker 6: so many things to say about this, but a lot
Speaker 6: of people and I'm not gonna say this is not
Speaker 6: a blanket statement, because I am actually terrible, and I
Speaker 6: make a lot of blanket statements in the internet.
Speaker 4: Gets to my ass for.
Speaker 6: It, I'm gonna say, systemically, in America, the majority of
Speaker 6: fatness is due to things that are kind of out
Speaker 6: of your control. Our food system is abysmal. Our food
Speaker 6: system has so many invisible additives that have so much
Speaker 6: sugar and caloric density and toxins, and it is it is.
Speaker 6: How do I say this without getting political? I don't
Speaker 6: want to sound like RFK, but like it's poisoning us
Speaker 6: and in our communities too, in black communities at a
Speaker 6: disproportionate level. There are food deserts, and the only the
Speaker 6: only uh.
Speaker 4: What's it called? Uh? What's what's it called?
Speaker 6: In the middle of a desert when it's like green,
Speaker 6: the only thank y'all, come on, smart man. The only
Speaker 6: oasis in the food desert is fast food, is snack, food,
Speaker 6: is hot cheetos, It's bread forty d D D D.
Speaker 6: So when I was a kid, I grew up in Houston, Texas.
Speaker 6: A shout out to SWAT. I was in band rehearsal,
Speaker 6: and when I got thirsty, I drank sprite. I would
Speaker 6: chug this sprite and be like, oh, I'm so thirsty.
Speaker 6: Oh my hot cheetos. Every day at lunch and then
Speaker 6: our lunch, you're not gonna get a salad or a protein.
Speaker 6: At school, at public school lunch, it was chick and tenders.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 4: Cheese, stuffed bread, whatever that was. I don't know what
Speaker 4: the fuck that was. It was good, it was good.
Speaker 4: And so like, this is what we've been given.
Speaker 6: You know, a lot of people's fatness is genetic, you
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying. So it's like and then there
Speaker 6: are people who, like, you know, we contend to overeat
Speaker 6: and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: I'm not talking about that.
Speaker 6: I'm not making a blanking statement about it, but I'm
Speaker 6: like a lot of it is out of our control.
Speaker 5: Back here in social media too, because people aren't the
Speaker 5: activist they used to be so back in the day.
Speaker 3: We play social media.
Speaker 6: So it's like to sit up and just like criticize
Speaker 6: somebody for being like, hey, this is how I look
Speaker 6: right now, and you know what despite all odds, I'm
Speaker 6: okay with that.
Speaker 4: That don't mean that I'm like, you know, being fat
Speaker 4: is it? Everyone should be fat? No, it's just like, damn,
Speaker 4: can a bitch like herself right now? Depressed? Right? And
Speaker 4: if my body changes cool? If I get bigger, that's
Speaker 4: none of your fucking business. If I get smaller, that's
Speaker 4: none of your fucking business.
Speaker 6: But can I like myself right now so I can
Speaker 6: get through the day like you think, if I sit
Speaker 6: and go I hate myself. Let me just change and
Speaker 6: be skinny? Now, No, that's not how it works. So
Speaker 6: it's like, y'all want us to be miserable, but for
Speaker 6: what Because once I get small, you still not happy.
Speaker 6: So it's like, shut the fuck up, disrespectfully.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 7: Just for fairness of a conversation. She did, But the
Speaker 7: U turn because the people jumped on her. She said,
Speaker 7: I should have separated her from the conversation.
Speaker 4: It's a that in there. But your point, by the way,
Speaker 4: exactly I was gonna say. You called it because it's never.
Speaker 6: Been pre diabetic and this is not me flexing my
Speaker 6: health over nobody. But this is just me saving the facts.
Speaker 6: Don't ever put diabetes on me, I've never been pre diabetic.
Speaker 6: My father had type two diabetes, and it's like and
Speaker 6: when he passed away, I had from a young age.
Speaker 4: She passed away when I.
Speaker 6: Was nineteen twenty actually, oh my gosh, it was so
Speaker 6: long ago, but actually I'm twenty two. But when that
Speaker 6: happened to him, because he had hypertension and high blood
Speaker 6: pressure and type two from his eating habits. I have
Speaker 6: always been a healthy person. Even though I was physically larger,
Speaker 6: I was very conscious about what I put in my body.
Speaker 4: I was very active. I would post.
Speaker 6: Videos of me in the gym, running on a treadmill,
Speaker 6: lifting heavyweights. People would buy tickets to my show where
Speaker 6: I'm on stage for two hours, running back and forth
Speaker 6: playing the flute, doing choreography, rapping and singing an emoting
Speaker 6: and not being out of breath. Like I've always been
Speaker 6: a very active person. I'm always be a very healthy person. Yeah,
Speaker 6: never been pre diabetic. Honey, mind your business. That's between
Speaker 6: me and my doctor. And I'll get her on the
Speaker 6: phone too.
Speaker 4: She loved to talk.
Speaker 3: She takes a sugar drink.
Speaker 6: No, no, I'm glad you said that. This is a
Speaker 6: this is a black coffee. And then I put in
Speaker 6: half a vanilla protein shake, so actually there's no sugar
Speaker 6: in this. It's it's because it's half of it. It's
Speaker 6: about ten grands of protein and the coffee is black.
Speaker 6: There's no sugar in this at all.
Speaker 2: Shut up business.
Speaker 5: Like I said, I got one last question because Lauren's
Speaker 5: stomach is overhead.
Speaker 7: And crazy last night and like I'm literally just coming
Speaker 7: down from all the last night I went to drink.
Speaker 4: It was so good, So over.
Speaker 5: Here holding my stomach, boys crowding. But my last question,
Speaker 5: is there a version of lizzle we haven't seen yet?
Speaker 3: And are you afraid to shure?
Speaker 6: I'm not afraid, but I am protective. I think protection
Speaker 6: can be fear based. Sometimes a lot of people, like
Speaker 6: a protective mother is like, oh I'm afraid something might
Speaker 6: happen to my child. Let me be overly protective. So
Speaker 6: sometimes there's a like if y'all saw how I really
Speaker 6: you know am? Sometimes like when I'm working, I feel
Speaker 6: like people wouldn't understand, and it's like because I'm a
Speaker 6: very hard worker, I actually am.
Speaker 4: Like ask anybody in this industry.
Speaker 6: They're like, she wanted the hardest working, And I think
Speaker 6: the because I'm fat like the trope of oh she
Speaker 6: lazy or whatever comes in and I get that put
Speaker 6: on me, and so people don't put me in the
Speaker 6: category of the hardworking divas that we all know and
Speaker 6: love today. But I work very hard, and I don't
Speaker 6: show that side because you get to just enjoy the show,
Speaker 6: you get to just enjoy the product. But though I
Speaker 6: work hard, I'm very kind to the people who I
Speaker 6: work with. I'm very measured, I'm very fair. But it
Speaker 6: gets real, it gets real, And that's why I like
Speaker 6: that whole doughchy situation.
Speaker 4: I have to.
Speaker 6: I have to, like nobody knows what it feels like
Speaker 6: to be in a situation like that where it's so
Speaker 6: intense and the it's your first met and you are
Speaker 6: trying to do your best, and it's like to judge
Speaker 6: black women for working hard. I don't like this new
Speaker 6: this this new I don't know what it is, this
Speaker 6: new misconception or misperception of black women who are working
Speaker 6: hard for what they want where it's getting demonized, you
Speaker 6: know what I mean? And what I also have been
Speaker 6: seeing is us as a community stand up for the
Speaker 6: black women who are in this field, Like there's not
Speaker 6: a lot of us really at the top of this game,
Speaker 6: and it's like, we really have to work seven thousand
Speaker 6: times harder than our counterparts to get shit done.
Speaker 4: And we're working actively against the system of people, you know,
Speaker 4: and then.
Speaker 6: The the things that get projected on us, you know,
Speaker 6: the personalities that get projected on us like that.
Speaker 4: We have to overcome that too and subvert that.
Speaker 6: So it's like, yeah, you don't see the hard working
Speaker 6: side of me, But I gets busy. My hairstyle is
Speaker 6: back there like bitch me and my agent like when
Speaker 6: do you stop? He like, I work with my other clients.
Speaker 6: I at least have a time to go get a cocktail.
Speaker 4: You.
Speaker 6: I've been working NonStop since I got here. I've been
Speaker 6: doing radio interviews. I did the met, I shot a
Speaker 6: music video after the met that night and still managed
Speaker 6: to change my outfit and go to the after parties
Speaker 6: and turn up. Then I had radio the next morning.
Speaker 6: Then I turned up again. I did had radio yesterday.
Speaker 6: I have a cover shot, a cover sh yesterday. I
Speaker 6: gotta cover shoot today. I'm out here working.
Speaker 3: And came in here with the best energy.
Speaker 6: You don't really tired. You didn't sound tired. We didn't
Speaker 6: know I didn't know you were tired til you said it.
Speaker 6: You know, I got a show. I got two shows,
Speaker 6: all in New York. And it's just like, because I
Speaker 6: love this shit, I loved I love to work, But
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna pull back the curtain and show. There's
Speaker 6: other artists who do that, Like Beyonce pulls back the
Speaker 6: curtain for us, and we see her work ethic and
Speaker 6: I respect that and I love that, and I'm like,
Speaker 6: exactly when I see how she works when she put
Speaker 6: that black hoodie on, I'm like exactly, because that's how
Speaker 6: the fuck I get down too, down to the lighting,
Speaker 6: down to the timing, down to the sounds and the
Speaker 6: sonics of the music. We put that fucking work in
Speaker 6: and the and we don't show y'all because you're gonna say, oh,
Speaker 6: she's a bitch, like black women, especially, oh she's a bitch.
Speaker 6: So it's like, we don't even want to show y'all
Speaker 6: because y'all are gonna judge us.
Speaker 4: But we need.
Speaker 6: But I love when Beyonce does it because it puts
Speaker 6: respect on it.
Speaker 4: That's how we get down.
Speaker 6: So that that part, I'm not gonna pull back the
Speaker 6: curtain because I already got enough falligations against me.
Speaker 1: Let's keep Let's go to a record, man, let's go
Speaker 1: to a record. Let's get into it right now. New singles,
Speaker 1: Still bad.
Speaker 4: Still bad? Which one are you playing? You're playing the
Speaker 4: disco version?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 2: Which one you want to?
Speaker 4: I love key, wish I could play Bitch? Can you do?
Speaker 2: Y'all have bitch? Can we get bitch? We got bitch?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you for the conversation. To keep doing
Speaker 3: the work.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: I love to see you blow up mind, body and spirit.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Listen to you.
Speaker 2: It's the breakfast Club.
Speaker 3: Good morning.
Speaker 2: Wake that ass up in the morning.
Speaker 3: The Breakfast Club.