WEBVTT - Pretty Vee 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:11.240 R and B Money. We are than take Valoti. We 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:18.800 are the authority on all R and B ladies and gentlemen. 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:22.919 Moneame is tank. This is the R and B Money Podcast, 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:28.600 the authority on all things R and B. H. 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:32.879 R and B has a look. Yeah, sometimes it has 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:37.240 a look. Yes, some some R and B is pretty. Yeah, 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:40.000 you know, R and B can be funny, but it 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:40.560 ain't a game. 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:41.880 Huh. 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:44.400 We're gonna speak on it, and we're gonna let her 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:48.760 speak age jokes. Few, just few in the building make 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:50.360 some noise for Pretty V. 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:55.560 Yeah. 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:58.360 You know what's great about you, Pretty V is that 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:02.800 like you're not like the pretty that comes before the 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:07.880 names on the Instagram pages. Because normally when you see 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:10.840 pretty man, man you're about to start some ship. 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:15.960 Okay, you get tricky, tricky tricky V. 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:21.760 But you are absolutely gorgeous and person absolutely naturally you 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:24.800 got the whole movie on and so it's it's really 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:27.920 mind boggling that you are this funny. 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:32.080 It really is. It really is, so thank you, thank y'all. 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:32.800 You know what I'm saying. 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:37.000 We're coming to hang out with us. 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:41.080 You busy. You're busy too, No, we're not. We're busy 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:41.560 doing this. 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:43.880 We had literally go on to Wilding Out. 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:45.640 We had to talk about it. 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:49.640 We almost boycotted, like, well, if we don't get pretty 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:53.760 V and we don't and we don't perform as Chuck 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:56.560 as Chuck, I said, well, if pretty V don't come 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:59.480 to the podcasting, we're not coming on Wilding Out. 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.360 And y'all might have places whatever. But that was our stance. 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:04.640 But you know what, sore crazy. I love this podcast 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:06.920 for y'all. I just think it's so dope what you're doing. 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:09.040 Like of course, like I didn't even know y'all want 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:11.040 to be on this podcast for just I don't know. 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:12.960 I was just like, okay, when I'm coming now here. 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:15.600 Well, we know you have a musical background, you know 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:16.320 a little something. 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:22.560 Yeah, yeah, we know that. You know music is you know, 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:24.800 music runs deep in your family. You know what I'm saying. 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.080 And so we want to get into that because what 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:30.360 we feel like is that R and B is not 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:33.400 It's not one dimensional. It's not It's not just about 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:36.280 the people who do it, who write it, sing it, 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:38.480 or produce it. It's also about the people who are 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:41.359 affected and influenced by it, who use it. 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:45.040 Yeah, yeah, all them dance moves you be doing on account. 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:54.000 Too. Yes, So let's get into let's get into where 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:56.840 where we're a little bit into where pretty V comes from. 0:02:57.320 --> 0:02:59.040 Let's start at the beginning where you're from. What is 0:02:59.080 --> 0:02:59.560 to talk about? 0:02:59.560 --> 0:02:59.960 Miami? 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:00.480 You know? 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:02.720 Day? 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:04.959 Yeah, County a day. 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:07.639 And then moved to Broward and then I transitioned. 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.040 My mom got married and moved to the Carolina, South Carolina, 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:12.120 and then I spent the rest of my high school there. 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.919 And then I moved from South Carolina and went to Rayleigh, 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:18.880 North Carolina, where I studied communication at Santagustine University HBCU 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:22.440 and all four years major with communications. And after that 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:24.360 I decided, like go back to Miami and figure this 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:26.400 thing out, you know, like what's going on. Then after that, 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:28.440 depression came because I was trying to figure out like 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:30.800 what God wanted me to do. And I was that 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.040 girl in college. And when you have that sauce coming 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:34.360 out in the raal wad, you're like, well where I 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:35.880 started at, I was lit in college. 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:37.320 Now I ain't lit outside of that. 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:39.120 So I got to figure it out and I applied 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.400 to so many jobs, radios and just trying to host stuff, 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:44.480 just doing so much and it didn't work out of 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:47.080 my favor. So I had to be still and hear 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:49.080 from God in Miami, and then I went back home 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:50.240 that adn't worked there, and then I went back to 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:52.440 South Carolina to see my mom and you know her 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:54.480 being a pastor, you know, speaking life into me, but 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:56.600 I still wasn't hearing her. And then you know, I 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:58.720 got a call to do promotions at a radio station 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:00.800 in Charlotte, so I moved there with my sister. And 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:03.000 then after that I got let off from that job 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.200 because it was like a seasonal job, you know. And 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:07.240 then after that I had my own radio show called 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:10.040 The VXO Show, where we you know, talk about current 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:11.640 events and entertainment and all. 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:14.160 That city Charlotte and Charlotte, Charlotte. 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:16.720 And then I got viral in that season too. I 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:18.760 think it was twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen. I was fighting 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:21.800 myself in the street. I was like, like, pokemon, I 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:22.640 saw all that stuff. 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.000 Yeah, I saw yeah, yeah, I saw that. 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:27.080 My best friend was like, girl, just do something so 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:28.680 you can go viral. And I was just like, girl, 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:29.560 what what's like? 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:30.880 What made you think that? 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:34.359 Though, like, well she thought of it. My best friend Anika, 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:35.960 and then I just act on it and then we 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:39.119 were just outside pulling my hand and I was like okay. 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:42.200 Then everybody, all the blogs had it like ball alert. 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:43.920 Shade was like okay, we lit. But then I was like, 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:45.599 you still broke, So what's going on? 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:46.120 Your job? 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:48.680 How trans Yeah? Lit into right? 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:50.880 How we turned funny into money at this point? Right? 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:54.839 So I got a I got a call from Arnold Teil. 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:56.680 Were you funny before that? 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:57.080 Oh? 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:57.480 For sure? 0:04:58.960 --> 0:04:59.920 Where did you know you were fun? 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.120 Middle school? Middle school? I knew that it was something special. 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:04.479 My mom already told me when I before I went 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:06.400 to high school. She said, God said, you're gonna be 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:08.120 in the arts. I'm like, is it gonna be painting? 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:09.479 Like what do you mean by the arts? 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:11.599 And then she's like no, no, no, no, what's you good at? 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:12.520 Making people laugh? 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:15.280 You know? Healing their days? You know, I'm the type 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:18.840 of girl child went before the cookout. Y'all gotta call 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:21.120 me like please, what be at? Because she gonna start 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:23.000 this party up. They wait on me to start the party. 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:24.960 So I knew it was something. And me being in 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:27.640 elementary school and middle school, I used to always get 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:29.720 called from the back of the front of the classroom, 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:31.440 you know. So it's just like it was something and 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:32.920 I was trying to figure what was Then I thought 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:34.799 it was radio. I was like, let me use my voice. 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:38.400 All through college, from my sophomore year onto graduating, I 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:40.240 had my own show called The Lounge twenty two. I 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:42.720 had radio. I was at, you know, programming the AM 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:44.919 radio station at Saint oh So I knew it was 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:46.960 something like what is it? So then I transitioned from 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:48.960 being from the back to the front and wanted to 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:49.840 act and wanted. 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:51.280 To get into the comedian side. 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:54.279 So yeah, it was a very familiar name. 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:54.760 She said. 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:59.000 She was leading to what the person you ran into 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:00.760 a Charlotte after you said you was trying to figure 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:02.400 out how to take funny to money. 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:06.640 Arnold Taylor, our god, our god, let. 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:08.000 Me continue that Arnold Taylor. 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.240 I was sitting outside and I was like, I want 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:13.200 to whoever is playing this music? Because I was already 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.360 I was downstairs from them, and they had a building. 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:16.520 It was like we were sharing a building. 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:18.920 Was Arnold South Coost Music Group, and then it was 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:21.440 my radio show, like who was playing this music? I 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:22.920 want to know who's because I wanted to be in 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:25.160 the entertainment industry. I didn't care what. I didn't know 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:26.440 if it's gonna be a video of X saying I 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:28.000 don't know where it was at, but it was gonna 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:30.080 be something. So then I heard I was like, oh 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:32.560 my god, who is seeing So then I sat down 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:35.960 and then this guy named Craig hit me and was like. 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:39.480 Hey, you still want that job at a working with Arnold. 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:40.279 I was saying yes. 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:42.200 I said, I'm working upstairs and how you know. He 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:43.760 was like yeah, because I remember you were talking about 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:45.600 it in the hallway. You heard me over the phone. 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:46.440 He was like yeah. 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:49.000 I was like, okay, yeah, I want that job. And 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:50.840 then he had baby Jesus, which is the baby now, 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:52.560 and I was doing all his adamic work. I was 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:55.360 booking the baby at different college shows like stuff. Yeah, 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:56.760 and we just seen each other. I just did the 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.120 music video last week and he was like, man, I'm 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:00.000 so proud of you. I remember. 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:01.480 So we had a moment like that. 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:07.400 That's crazy. Oh yeah, Arnold Taylor. Arnold Taylor uh told 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.320 me don't worry big out we gonna get maybe outserve 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:10.760 number one. 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:15.600 He was, that's my guy from We Love, We Love Arnold. 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.720 We were on the road together sharing sandwiches. Wow. 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:23.640 Wow, Like we go back like that. He's very expensive sandwiches. 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:29.760 It's like gold leaf sandwiches. Yeah, he's It's a whole 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:33.560 nother level. Now no longer is employed. 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.760 And in the midst of that, you know, me booking 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.320 for the baby and going to different colleges because you know, 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:41.960 my mom worked at Allen University. He had connections at 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:45.440 Benedict College in South Carolina. Then I had my connections 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.560 in Raleigh and Charlotte and he fired me. Arnold was 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:52.000 just like, you you're too focused on comedy. This is 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:53.760 not where you want to be. Because I was. I 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:55.600 was doing his work, but I was so late doing 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:57.280 it because I was working out, working on my skits, 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.240 and I'm like, can to apply for radio jobs? And 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:01.480 He's like, you're just not focus here, and I think 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:04.200 you need to go go pursue what you're trying to pursue. 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:07.480 And in that moment he pushed me to great. Yeah, 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:08.000 yeah it was. 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:09.720 It wasn't a fire to get angry at Arnold. 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:12.120 It was like thank you. So at that time, John, 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:13.600 which is the baby, he called me and was like, Yo, 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:15.840 do your ship, bro. Like you live like you funny, 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.040 like we're gonna be good. And then now look at him, 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:20.600 look at me, and that's crazy. 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:22.400 That's great. Yeah, that's great. 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:23.560 I would have never known that. 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.240 Yeah, yeah, yeah, that we were connected in that way. 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:26.640 Yeah. 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:28.440 I love Arnold because that's so solid. 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:30.880 That's my guy. Yeah, you know what I'm saying, Like 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:32.199 we saved Ronald's life. 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:34.120 I love Arnold. 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:37.280 He's so people trying to do something new, new new. Yeah, 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:42.760 not all Arnold Arnold, no way. We have the Goons 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:43.320 with us too. 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:46.199 Yeah. We love arn And that's my that's my story 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:49.400 coming into this space. And then twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:53.800 I moved by faith and moved from Charlotte to Atlanta 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:55.679 and our auditioned for a while and out live to 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:59.439 get on the show. I was like, said Carlos, I 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.120 said call it. This was my uncle, like cousin DC 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:05.080 was not like a friend that I knew. 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:06.520 Make it up to get in there. 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:08.400 So my home at the time, she was like, girls, 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:09.760 say that because that's what got me in there. But 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:11.520 you know when you when you when you But this 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:14.000 is the thing. I got the audition that they said 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:16.280 come on right and then I was like, Okay, I 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:18.720 got these peanut mom skits. I got my ghetto girls skids, 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:20.440 I got my share on skins. They gonna they gonna 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:22.559 pick me like I'm funny for real. So I was 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:24.360 in front of Nile, I was in front of Dolly, 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:26.080 I was front of all these producers of the show. 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:28.280 They was like, do this or and say this, or 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:29.719 how would you do this if someone came to you 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:31.000 and did this. Then I'm like, I would do it 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:33.760 like this. They were laughing. But then I didn't get 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:35.880 a call back right like they didn't want me, but 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:38.520 be some own got it, just hilarious, got it. Everybody 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:40.280 just moved. But I thought about it in that moment 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:41.920 as I got older, because that was when I was 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:44.800 like twenty five twenty six, I was like, when you're 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:46.400 doing it the right way, God is an honest God. 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:47.640 You're not gonna give it to you when you lie. 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:50.160 Right, You don't need to lie to get in God 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:54.480 is honest, yo yo yo. Your transition, your season is 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:58.120 ordained when you are following God and knowing like it's 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:00.560 an honest season and a journey. Ain't got the lie 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:02.000 to get in the door when it's for you. It's 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:02.240 for you. 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:04.440 You're I'm a preach. 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:10.000 Shout out to your mom, because give it to you. 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:13.240 You got to lie, cher. 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:18.360 Come on to the actual preacher. Man what yeah, not 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:18.920 the lie. 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:20.760 So I knew in that moment, I was all right, 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:24.040 it wasn't my season. But then twenty nineteen he called 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:25.160 me back. I didn't have to audition. 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.200 And I've been on the show for eight nine seasons 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:28.959 now because. 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:31.560 They do four seasons in one summer. 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:35.079 Look and you know they will say you home the 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:39.080 day of the show, like y'all get a thanks real time? 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:40.000 Oh now does it? 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.520 Nick don't care. Nick don't speak. He let the producers 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:43.719 do it. 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:45.800 Wild Out is a serious thing. 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:46.679 It's a serious thing. 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:48.200 It's a very serious thing. 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:51.079 I love it. Yeah, I love it. 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:51.920 We love the show. 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:55.960 I've been on there twice. You know, I've been blessed 0:10:56.000 --> 0:11:00.760 to be called a couple of times. I lied to 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:05.040 get on there with my comedic crowds. You know, as 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:08.960 I just stand up in all these things. They figured 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:13.480 out a way to turn for the money. I just 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:16.120 haven't taken the money. Money I'm supposed to get paid 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:19.839 money compared to my honest money. 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:23.760 Yes, it was little but it was like, but for me, 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:26.199 it was like I wanted to take the long route. 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:28.839 So for me, it was about doing you know, the 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:33.240 laugh factories and improvs. And I wanted to take that route. 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:35.000 And when they were like, well, you know, they're looking 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:36.160 at me as tank and like, well, how much you 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:38.200 want to get paid? I don't get paid nothing. Yeah, 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:39.719 you know what I'm saying. I'm just starting. I'm a 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:41.679 baby in this, you know what I'm saying. So like 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:43.320 when I get to a point to where it makes 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.439 sense to where these people are actually coming here for me, 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:49.200 because those two crowds are totally different. You know, I'm 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:51.040 in front of I'm doing stand up in front of 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:54.079 crowds that don't even know who I am. It's like 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:59.000 one person in the audience is like you know what 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:01.280 I'm saying, It's like give it up a tag, and. 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:03.520 I'm like mm hmm. 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:06.600 It's a different department, completely different department. 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:09.840 And so that's what I had to, you know, build 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:10.880 my set around. 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:12.839 Yeah, we don't got no rider or nothing. 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.800 I got nothing like no, no, no, fuck fuck you 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:18.600 talking about like management don't got no rider everything. 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:20.080 I'm here, buy my own. 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:22.360 Drinks and shit and chicken fingers. 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:24.520 I'm like, I don't pay for chicken fingers. 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:26.319 I wasn't a guy. 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.040 There's my artists up. I guess that's my artist. 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:32.960 Yeah, but you know, I'm glad I took the long route, 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:35.319 you know what I'm saying. I'm glad I was able to, 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:38.360 you know, get those reps in in front of people 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:41.160 who didn't know me, and I wasn't getting sympathy tank laughs. 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:43.040 I really had to make those people laugh. 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:47.839 So were you doing stand up before you got to 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:48.440 walling out? 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:49.040 I was. 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:51.200 I was doing stand up my friend at the time, 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.000 she took me on tour with her and Jess and 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:55.360 I think b was on it. 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:57.839 But it was cool. It was fun, you know, I 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:00.560 think you know my my my fan was growing at 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:01.719 the time, so they knew how I was. But it 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.040 was still like, or do you want to do this? 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:05.360 Or do you want to host? Or do you want 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:07.040 to have your one woman show? Do you want to 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:08.280 have your skeed show? Like what are you trying to do? 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:12.439 It was no booze. It was maybe like a look. 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:14.120 It may be like a quiet vibe. 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:16.080 Yeah, it was like did you sweat? 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:18.400 I didn't sweat. It was just that that that that 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:19.679 pump of that. 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:22.440 Okay okay at the time and. 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:25.720 You start flashing your own life. 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:27.280 Yeah, okay, time up. 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.160 Well that's my time. Thank you man, y'all such a 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.560 great artist. I gotta get the out of here. 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:32.840 Man. 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:33.280 Yeah. 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:33.719 I got better. 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.000 And then then I was like, okay, I could do hosting. 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:38.199 And then next day they switched the host and I 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:38.920 was able to host. 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.839 So I'm like, oh, so you hop very smart. Yeah. 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:44.120 I was like, let's host because now when you know 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:46.319 your lane, I'm not. I'm not a grenad try so hard. 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:48.920 Like if that ain't for me, let's slide. Because this 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:51.480 world we live in, in life, you could dibble and 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:53.439 job and a whole bunch of different things. Like you 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:56.439 an artist, you tried stand up? You this you that 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:58.280 like you could try and see if it works for you. 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:00.320 So that's what I did. The same day, I said, 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:03.400 uh uh, get that mic up, I'm for the host. Yeah, yeah, 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:04.559 I ain't doing no fifteen of that. 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:06.880 I loved it. I mean I love it still. Yeah, 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:07.960 of course you know what I'm saying. 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.280 And I love stand up. I think it's dope. But 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:12.079 I also for like too, you could be creative in 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:14.240 your own way, because even when you do women shows, 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:16.560 you nervous up there too. You're gonna get the stairs, 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:18.760 You're gonna get like, can I go to the bathroom 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:19.120 right quick? 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:19.320 You know. 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:22.080 So it's more of those moments. So it's still preparing 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:25.280 you to be confident on stage whatever you do. You know, 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:28.360 as an artist, you sitting there and just you know. 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:30.200 I think my advantage is that I had so much 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:35.000 stage time to where the crowd couldn't really shake me 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.200 one way or the other. Like for me, it was 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:42.440 just about finding the thing that worked. And so like 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:51.080 I'd watched so many comedians build their sets to understand that, okay, 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.760 when the joke, When that joke didn't work, cool, and 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:54.680 they just get to the next one. 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:56.480 See if that one works. It didn't work, it's get 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:58.160 the next one. That one works right there. 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:00.880 And I watched them like, oh, so you're not here 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:05.080 to make everybody laugh in every joke. You're saying, you're 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:08.400 really here building the material and seeing where the moments are. 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.120 And then by the time you get up build all 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:13.400 of those moments after so many clubs and all of that, 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:16.800 now you got thirty forty minutes to an hour of 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:21.080 real shit storytelling and the story it's a I'm a storyteller, 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:21.720 I'm a songwriter. 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:22.080 Yeah. 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:23.760 So by the time I got on Stay, I was like, 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:27.680 oh shit, if they want to just leave, I'm gonna 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:29.840 just look, take my shirt off and sing a song. 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.920 But I think that now, with you having so much 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:40.200 stage time under your belt, I feel like stand up 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:41.800 will be way different for you. 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.960 I think it'll be way different for you. You know 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.280 what I'm saying, just in terms of your confidence and 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:49.640 even terms of your the material. You've been writing so 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.200 much up until this point to where you can dial 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.480 up so much shit it's a drop of a dime 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:57.040 and you'll kill them. 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:00.240 So don't be scared of that special. Yeah, because we 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.240 would tune into a pretty be special. 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:03.000 Would you guys? 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:09.480 Absolutely, I want to see all the characters. I'm seriously yeah, 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.320 because then you have your time to really you know. 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:16.160 Just like go coming coming. I was gonna do my 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:19.560 first sketch show in a bucket theater doing the Mary J. 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:23.440 Bli Summit with Live Nation, but they kind of switched gears, 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:25.160 so it was okay because I know for me, when 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:27.280 that happens, that means I need to do it. The 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:29.920 VN a way, you know, and nothing was wrong with it. 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:31.720 It was just more of like, Okay, maybe that's the 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:33.760 timing they wanted, but I know my time and I 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:35.560