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Speaker 1: Live from the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge. We are backstage

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Speaker 1: with Shuboozy and it has been a crazy year. Happy holidays,

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Speaker 1: first of all, Happy holidays, you too to be doing

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Speaker 1: this with you and we know that you've been in

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Speaker 1: New York City. You're at Madison Square Garden. Are you

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Speaker 1: enjoying the holidays here in the city. What is your

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Speaker 1: favorite part?

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I just love how festive it gets

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Speaker 2: out here, the Christmas markets, you know, getting getting, you know,

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Speaker 2: being able to layer. I love layer and stuff, so

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Speaker 2: same it being cold enough to wear jackets is nice.

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Speaker 3: Nice. And you just did SNL SNL one of my

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Speaker 3: favorite shows. How like surreal is doing a show like that?

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Speaker 2: Oh ze, it was really fun. You know, the crew

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Speaker 2: was amazing, the cast was amazing. You know, Paul was amazing.

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Speaker 2: We had fun after we definitely had definitely had to

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Speaker 2: the party a couple of shots. Yeah, we definitely got

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Speaker 2: tipsy that night.

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Speaker 1: I see what you did there, I understand it. So

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Speaker 1: looking forward to twenty twenty five, what do you see

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Speaker 1: for yourself or were seeing collaborations bucket list stuff that

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Speaker 1: you're like, this is what's gonna.

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Speaker 2: Happen with a lot of it. You know. We're just

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Speaker 2: I'm just really excited to get in the studio make

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Speaker 2: some new music. You know, I'm really I think we

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Speaker 2: had a great year. We made a lot of like

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Speaker 2: year and this for the album and the songs, and

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Speaker 2: I'm excited to just knowing what I've known now and

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Speaker 2: all the things I've learned to just make some just

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Speaker 2: make more music. You know.

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Speaker 1: Can I say one thing? I love that you and

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Speaker 1: lil Na's X have had this record breaking time on

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Speaker 1: Billboard as to black country artists. It warms my heart. Congratulations,

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Oh, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Shout out.

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Speaker 3: Now it's seventeen times that you were seventeen weeks that

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Speaker 3: you were number one.

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Speaker 2: We don't even keep.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know, you have to keep track.

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Speaker 1: Get out of here.

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Speaker 3: You don't know what So next year, what are we

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Speaker 3: going to expect from Shaboozi?

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Speaker 2: Just you know, I'm just really excited. I can't speak

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Speaker 2: too much about it, but you know what I think

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Speaker 2: I pride myself most of my career is just being

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Speaker 2: able to always grow. So if you know, if anybody

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Speaker 2: knows me, you know that that's all whatever we did,

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Speaker 2: you know, now it's gonna be better next time. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we can't getting better and better and better.

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Speaker 3: We can't wait.

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Speaker 1: Don't go too much or the tallest person in.

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Speaker 2: This Yeah, seriously.

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Speaker 1: We know that you played the iHeartRadio Music Festival, which

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Speaker 1: is back in September, and you had a huge year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: do you have highlights, favorite moments from just.

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Speaker 2: So many to count? You know, I think a lot

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Speaker 2: of like what's happened to us this year, I think

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Speaker 2: happens to people over five years, you know, but we

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Speaker 2: were able to compact it into one. So this is

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Speaker 2: just so much, you know, Grammy nominations, a lot of

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Speaker 2: dreams came true, CMA nominations, performing at the BT Awards,

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Speaker 2: CMA Awards, all of them. Every day it's something, it's

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Speaker 2: a new it's a new blessing. So you know, I

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Speaker 2: was able to, you know, thank God earlier and it

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Speaker 2: was crazy. I hadn't done that in a long time,

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Speaker 2: and I was so overwhelmed. I was just like, man,

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Speaker 2: it's been so many things to be thankful for.

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Speaker 3: So all right, New Year's Resolutions, we're going into twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty five. It's almost the end of the year. Give

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Speaker 3: us your biggest resolution, man.

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Speaker 2: Get in the gym, Get in the gym, up the

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Speaker 2: dunk food. Honestly, yeah really really just get just taking

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Speaker 2: care of my you know wellness.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 2: Every day we were we were in a new city.

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Speaker 2: We probably touched so many cities this year. I just

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Speaker 2: want to get you know, next year, to be able

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Speaker 2: to just work on myself, you know, yeah, of course.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, thank you for joining us again. We are

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Speaker 1: live from the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge with Shaboozie. He's

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Speaker 1: going to open the show. You're so excited.

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Speaker 2: Thank you guys,