WEBVTT - K Michelle 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:05.000 R and B Money. 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:06.120 We are. 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:10.280 Thank you take about the child. 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:14.560 We are the authority on all. 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:19.119 Things R and B. Ladies and gentlemen. My name is 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:22.840 Tank and this he left and already. 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:30.280 Already R and Money podcast, the authority on all things 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:30.600 R and. 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:31.479 B talk about. 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:37.159 Wow, yeah, Wow, here she's here. She you know, she 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:40.040 don't she don't be doing a whole lot for everybody, 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:44.080 not for everybody, but she pulled up on the family. 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:46.120 You know what I'm saying, this is this is this 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:48.599 is our loved one. I mean, she's she's just special 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:50.280 to me for so many. 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:52.560 Reasons outside of music. 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:57.520 You'll get to some of that too, But she's a singer, 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:02.920 a real one. Stomp down, black foot, flat foot, that's 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:03.320 what case? 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:06.320 What what y'all were you wanting? In? Whatever one? Whatever 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:11.360 one you want, y'all makes a noise because how you 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:16.000 want it? How do you feel? 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:17.880 Hey? 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:22.119 Brother? You pulled up you know, brother, put. 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:24.240 Up full glamor on us, Like I'm trying to understand 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:27.759 you trying to do for this is a real. 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:32.200 Ain't too many people pulling off the kneon? 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:34.720 Yes, yes, I want to do something different. 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:40.240 It looks good on you on your complexion, really looks cooking. 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:45.679 Blessed. Yeah, I'm blessed. I'm in a good place. 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:49.800 Come on in, brother, yea, yeah, just turn that, Just 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:55.760 turn that though, because them niggas don't pay us, don't give. 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:03.160 Don't you can. 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:08.840 Yeah, we don't put this off camera to your name 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:09.920 party pod. 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:12.160 So it's a clean pot to. 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:14.320 I mean sometimes we get to it. 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:19.680 No, talk your ship with y'all. 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:22.359 I'm gonna do that for me then, and you're gonna 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:22.880 get that for you. 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:28.959 Okay, all right, said listen, you won't sound. 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:29.560 No, No, I'm clean. 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:34.200 I'm clean today, clean today, I'm with you. No, that's 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:36.639 you know, that's that's what you do. Right then you 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:38.960 get that brown going. It's gonna it's don't get this. 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:43.000 It's don't get an aggressive interview. It's don't get aggressive. 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:50.120 All right, come on and show up. 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:54.680 I like that. You got you gotta on the beverage. 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:57.920 You know, you don't know what you're doing. You don't 0:02:57.960 --> 0:02:59.640 know what you have got yourself into. 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:00.560 I'm ready. 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:04.560 I can't wait to see. I can't wait to see. 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.639 I can't wait to see. Let's get to it. 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:13.480 Okay, First of all, we've been doing this. We've been 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:15.280 doing this for a long time. Yeah, you know what 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:17.160 I'm saying. We've been on We've been on a lot 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:18.079 of stages together. 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:20.440 Yes, yes, you know what I'm saying. 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:25.120 We've been We've been a lot of houses together, We've 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:30.560 been everywhere together, and and and just to say before 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:32.480 we get into anything, I'm super proud of you. You 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:34.640 know what I'm saying, because you know, none of this 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:37.480 is promised, you know what I'm saying. And along with 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:39.600 the hard work that goes into it, there are also 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:44.119 hardships and setbacks and things that we go through from 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.760 a business standpoint and a personal standpoint. And you've been 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:50.440 you know, you've been very, very extremely transparent, which I 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:52.960 would also like to get into just about the things 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:57.240 that you go through in an attempt to encourage people 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.000 to just keep on going, you know what I mean, 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.560 no matter what it is. So you know you you're 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.680 still here doing big business and not just in music, 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:06.600 but all over, you know what I'm saying. 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:10.320 So first, we're proud of you, and we appreciate you, 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:11.080 and we love. 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:13.320 You, thank you so much, and we support you. 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:15.480 One hundred percent. And you know we need to get 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:16.680 some food that you're established. 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:30.120 We'll get whatever the specials is special whatever like we do. 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:32.240 Ok we like to do we like to start at 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:36.120 the beginning, Okay, and we like to start where it 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:38.200 wasn't even you you, you didn't even know what the 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:42.440 music business was. Somebody, somebody just knew that that that 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:46.520 good right there can sign downside that. 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:47.599 Good right today? 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:54.719 Yes, Memphis, somebody's Baptist church to somebody's. 0:04:55.760 --> 0:05:00.200 Convention. You know what I'm saying. That girl, whoever, whoever, all. 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:01.960 That is and that's what happened. 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:04.880 Okay, come on, give me, give me the identification of 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.320 I got it or she got it? When did that happen? 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:11.520 Dancy Hayes Ai Hayes wife. 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:15.560 Hold on, hold okay, we getting right to it. 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:20.200 Yeah you popping off already. 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:22.520 Yeah you heard her. 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:26.320 Dancy Hayes went to my church and I would always 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:28.479 sing at church, and she would tell my mama she 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:30.400 need to be in the music business. My mom say, no, 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:34.040 she's not. We ain't doing that. This girl going to college. 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:36.760 It's not what we're playing, which is not what we're playing. 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:39.800 And I was singing. I would look for her every 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:42.880 Sunday before I sing because I didn't know anything about 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:44.400 how to be famous or anything. 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:46.000 I didn't. I was that young. 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:48.760 I didn't even know Isaac Hayes. That made me like 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:51.760 listen to his music and say, oh my god. 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:53.520 And I would. 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:56.960 She had this like like copper like hair or whatever, 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:58.719 and I'd be looking for her when I would be 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.239 singing at church because I want her to make me famous. 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:06.160 So yeah, so that's how it started. And my mom 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.200 just realized she loved it. 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:13.480 She loved music. So she took me to Bob Westbrook. Hey, 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:18.440 God rest his soul. He trained justin Timberlake. He trained 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:23.360 Britney Spears, yeah, a lot of the Miss Americas things 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:23.800 like that. 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:25.040 And he was in Tennessee. 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:28.480 So my mama took me to him and he said, well, 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:31.560 who's our favorite singer And my mom was like, Whitney Houston. 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:34.560 And he was like, I know, you know, like big voice, 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:36.120 but I want to teach you how to yodel. 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:39.720 And my mama was like, what. 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:43.720 Are you talking about yodel? Like, we don't know nothing 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.760 about that. We telling the seat know about that. He said, 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:49.080 no offense if you let me talk to you, ma'am. 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:52.200 They're gonna see this little black girl with this big 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:55.040 voice and they're gonna expect for her to sing at 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.000 the talent shows Whitney, Houston. 0:06:57.720 --> 0:06:58.240 So can I. 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:02.000 Please teach you how to Yoda and teach to different things? 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:06.480 And that's when the real like training and different things 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:07.320 music came. 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:08.559 How old are you at this point? 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:11.160 I was still like ten? 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:12.280 Yeah? 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:13.400 Yeah? 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.120 He said, let me teach her how to yoda? 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:16.640 Yes? 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:20.320 And had you even heard anyone? 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:24.440 I know anything about that? I just know I love 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:25.200 we in Houston. 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:28.920 He was like, this is so far from Whitney, Houston. Yeah. 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.960 I was like, why are we doing this? I I 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:35.000 just remember my mom. But I love music, so I 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:36.880 ain't fight too much. I just know I ain't want 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:38.080 to do gymnastics. 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:38.880 I ain't had it. 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.600 What how did we go through? 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:51.080 Yoderlan was horrible, like hard boys, gym nasty, these little 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:51.760 knock mes. 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:53.720 I was secretary legs. 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:58.239 It was just not watch secretary legs got secretary. 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:06.400 They're supposed to be behind the desk. 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:07.800 Her legs, and they said she's not going to be 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:08.520 a gymnist. 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:12.240 So they put me in voice and all of that. 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:12.800 I play. 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.840 You know, I can read music, so I played piano 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:22.800 for nine years, read music. They were very big into music. 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.800 For me, and I started to really love just like 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:29.880 country music. And I remember watching Oprah and the Judge 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:34.640 was yeah, and I knew every Christmas I would get 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:38.360 a cassette tape and I remember watching the Judge and 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:42.080 I was so infatuated and I said, Mama, I want 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:42.760 the Judge. 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:45.600 That's the tape I want. They was like, Okay, we 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:46.120 get it. 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:50.560 So I knew every Love Can Build a Bridge record, 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:55.080 So do y'all know right now? I just once God 0:08:55.120 --> 0:09:00.480 rest her soul. Naomi just passed like last year, and 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:03.040 her people who did all Love Can Build a Bridge, 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:06.880 they reached out to me. I am I for her 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:10.679 tribute album that actual song I'm singing, Love Can Build 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:14.360 a Bridge with Jelly Roll Yeah, and it's coming out 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.880 and it's like full circle, like people can count you out, 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:22.080 people can look over you like I love the Judge. 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:25.040 All of my R and B fans bring me Judge stuff. 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:28.920 I never got to meet meet her anything, but I 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:32.200 know every song with the Judge. So when she died, 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:34.320 I was like, oh my god, I never got to 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:37.840 meet her, and so I tweeted that and so the 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:43.160 original producers who found them everything, Thank God. I just 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:44.880 like a couple of months ago, got to get in 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:47.920 the studio with them. I was nervous, but I got 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:51.160 to sing love can build a Bridge and tribute her 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:52.440 and it's about to come out. 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:54.320 That's amazing. That's amazing. 0:09:56.280 --> 0:10:00.080 Congratulations on that. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:00.640 That's huge. 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.959 So that's how I just kind of started liking and 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:06.880 loving that type of music. 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:10.760 So do you you're talking about ten years old? At 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.839 any point out there? Are there talent shows? And is 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:21.320 there the high school I want today is popular ship Michelle? 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:22.960 So there's no one out there that can be like, 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:25.439 you know what, Yeah, I may not sing no more, 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:26.960 but you know that came Michelle. 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:29.760 Yeah, I won. 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:30.960 They can't get that off. 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:32.600 I won. I did. 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:37.160 And I used to do Miss America preliminaries, and I 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:39.600 used to Miss America preliminaries and I remember my butt 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:42.000 was big then and then they would like wrap my 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.400 mom and then wrap my butt up for the swim 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:46.640 suit competitions, like to push it in. 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:51.920 You can't have a lot of ass America. You know 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:57.719 it had to controled environment. Yeah, y, not about ass. 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:03.560 It's not Miss mephis what you. 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:06.920 Basically that's that's the one I'm trying. 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:12.360 To we need to go to the benefits preliminary. That's 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:20.559 where it sat this black away this week. And you 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:25.280 know there's a god somewhere they can take the picture. 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:26.679 Only God. 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:32.760 I care about this stuff already A. 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:36.160 Pageant girl, Wow, girl, you've been a show off. 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:39.080 That makes sense. You know it makes sense. 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:41.960 You finishing girl, show off? 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:48.000 Yeah, and I didn't really love it, but yeah, and 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.640 I just was saying and saying. Then it was time 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:53.800 for college, so I went and I went to I 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:56.480 went to do my scholarship at Florida and University. 0:11:56.559 --> 0:12:00.200 No, no, no, let's let's let's talk about scholarship. 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:00.800 Yeah, scholarship. 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.800 Wait, you get scholarships for yodling? 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:09.480 Florida A and M University's honored me. Uh huh, I 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:11.000 got a yoling scholarship. 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.360 You do, I'm doing it on this album. 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:16.200 I've never heard you yodel. 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.120 No one have, and I always have held it. 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:22.760 Are you going to yodel today on my album? Today? 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:23.800 We get yoda? 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:26.160 No, You're gonna hit on this album. 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.080 Every interview I've known for years, everybody have asked me yoda. 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:31.600 And then the people in college be like, yeah, that 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:32.600 was crazy. 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:35.680 They was They wasn't your brothers. Though it's fine. No, No, 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.040 it's coming, Jay, It's coming. When I started playing this 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:50.080 piano brown, let's get back to this though. Scholars scholarship 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:51.679 for yodling. 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:54.560 To Florida A and M University and that's a music And. 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:58.520 I did that and I went in there and sang 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:02.120 and told the same country they had. They didn't know 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:04.840 what they was shocked. And I say, you know, I 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:07.120 say my gospel songs. I sang all of that. I 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:09.040 did like ave Maria. You know, that was like the 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.920 basic song. You got to sing a Maria for a scholarship, 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:16.480 you know. So I went there and they gave me scholarship. 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.439 I won Miss Freshman my first year and Fam You, 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:24.560 and then I was in the show Quiet and did 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:28.040 all of that and Fam You and then I want 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.479 Miss fam You. 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:32.240 You're still doing your passion stuff there too. 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:36.160 Yeah, and I would do likes and stuff like that. 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:37.600 You have to wrap up your. 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:47.280 Yam you, you know, let her be her man. 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.080 Yeah, that's I think that's why I got to really 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:54.360 just not got to be me. It wasn't like to 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:55.320 fit into anything. 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:58.560 Yeah, it was like it's miss fam You today. 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:02.240 Yeah, yeah, he said, you. 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:05.199 Right, yeah, I bleed on your gree Yeah, yeah, that's what. 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:06.199 That's what it is. 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:11.240 Went there and did I want to say. 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:15.200 He used to sleep in my doorm? What we talked 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:18.920 about that all the time. He dated my roommate. And 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:21.320 I tried to drop out of school because Rico love 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:26.040 and my parents went crazy, what do you do? Because 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:27.760 I wanted to be a star, and he told me 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:29.240 to drop out of school with him. 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:36.720 He's coming with me, coming with me. 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.320 I can't introduce me to his manners all of this, 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:40.920 and I was like, I'm going, I am. 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.080 We used to sit on the bench before going into 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:46.600 the math class and all of that, and then I 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:48.520 know one day he ain't come back and I looked 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:51.360 up and he was like on Ush's cribs, And I 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:54.440 was so pissed in my parents mad. 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:56.640 I was like, oh my god. 0:14:56.440 --> 0:15:01.400 I should have went with Yeah, and it's my other 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:02.320 artist right here. 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:06.160 I could not believe it because we we would be 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:08.560 around it. So all we talked about. All we talked 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:12.960 about was music. Yeah, like music, that's all we wanted 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:13.440 to do. 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:15.600 At fail you So did you finish? 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:16.000 Yeah? 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:16.560 I finished? 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:20.200 You know what that come on here? 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:21.360 Yeah? 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:25.880 I didn't finish. I didn't go. So I got a 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:27.400 full scholarship to Morgan State. 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.560 Okay, okay, sing yes, okay. 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.000 The doctor Carter now got rest his soul. 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:35.720 And after about like two months, it was just like 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:39.080 you want you want me turned in my math homework. 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:41.200 Yeah, that's what I was feeling. 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.480 You want me to English? 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:44.800 Would you get your degree. 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:48.800 In psycho psychology? And I had a music minor? And 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:51.680 then I got a law school. Yeah, I got three 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:52.520 law schools. 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.360 What you got into? Three law schools and. 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:56.600 Three law schools? 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.640 Mm hmm, y'all looking at me. 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:06.160 It's amazing. It's that's amazing. I didn't discovery for us 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:07.920 like we know you for years. 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:11.480 But about it for years. Media don't ever they want 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:11.880 to do one. 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:13.840 I don't want to. They don't want to highlight that point. 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:15.840 But I gonna need somebody to go off. 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:18.440 They never that's never been a thing like I got 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:22.520 the Distinguished Alumni Ward from FAM you and all. 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:23.920 Of that, you know that type of thing. 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:28.080 I pledged Delta Sigma Delta, I did all of to 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:30.880 day and they never want to focus on that, you. 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:31.520 Know what I'm saying. 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:35.720 So, yeah, I graduated. I graduated. I had my son 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:40.560 in college. I graduated with twenty one credit hours and 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:44.040 two incompletes with a brand new baby still in four years. 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:48.200 Oh you got busy, you got busy. We're celebrating that 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:49.840 like that. 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:55.080 Yeah, Jacob, make that one of the highlight post got 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:56.120 highlight posts. 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:58.680 Yeah, it's incredible. 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:01.040 I did that. And in that time, it was a 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:02.120 lot of distractions. 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:04.880 Like not Rica wasn't a distraction, but it was let 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.080 me know, you know, I wanted to do music. Then 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:08.760 I said I was gonna run away to Broadway and 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:10.560 my mom was like, well, you're gonna lead his car. 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:12.720 You're gonna lead his car. 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:17.120 You're going to Broadway, walk, gonna walk, You're gonna pay 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:21.000 your own bills. My daddy is a college professor, and 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:23.080 my daddy is the Morning on Black Kids. 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:25.840 She teaches history. My dadd college professor. 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:28.560 So he was living in the house with educated. 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:28.840 Yeah. 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:31.639 Yeah, that's My mother was miss Laying college. She was 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:32.880 her college queen. 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:34.040 So they weren't playing with you. 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:40.480 They My grandmother was the dean in the school, teacher superintendent. 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:42.280 She was all that was not playing. 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:45.280 It was not playing at the church. Dean of the 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:48.159 National Baptist Congress and I don't none of that. 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:49.480 None of that. 0:17:49.600 --> 0:18:03.320 My family, man, we saw so much dope. Man, that. 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:07.440 Makes sense, make. 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:10.480 Sense because even in that like I'm still from Memphis, 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:11.640 of course, and. 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:14.879 You know I always it's so crazy. 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:17.240 Do y'all like see people now, like y'all see like 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:20.280 young men and stuff like that, they want to be 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:23.359 gangst so bad, like you know, they won't Like I 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:26.680 was always super rough, I would like super rebelled. 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:29.480 They wanted me like my family would call me Hillary. 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:32.720 Banks my mom's side, and I would be so angry. 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:34.080 So I would go hang out. 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:36.080 I want to hang out in the hood, and I 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:37.320 would get in trouble and do. 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:39.000 Stuff you the girl that would get us to rent 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:39.399 a car. 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:50.040 Yeah, stuff like that, Yeah, coming down here to get it. Yeah. 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:52.640 Yeah, just get in trouble on your own. You didn't 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:54.240 even have to do what you just did. 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:54.600 Girl. 0:18:57.119 --> 0:18:59.840 Yes, And that's why I choked. 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:02.360 Too. 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:03.680 I do all of it. 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:07.240 And that's why I showed, yeah to hang with like, 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:09.280 and I chose because my dad was my family and 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:11.280 I'm wanted to go to this side of the family. 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:12.480 You know what I'm saying. 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:19.800 I would not take that back because all the ship 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:23.280 that I did, and that was with my cousins, you 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:23.960 know what I'm saying. 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:25.480 And that's how only wanted to be with my cousin. 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:29.760 I didn't want to be with the pageant girls though, 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:34.600 without Memphis white Haven. Yeah, that's why I went to 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:38.399 school and haven View. We called it black Haven, but 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:39.800 it was called white Haven. 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:42.840 We call it black Yeah. 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:47.120 So yeah, I'm very Memphis. And my daddy always would 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:49.560 be like, that's my son. I never had that girl, 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:51.080 that's my son's son. 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:53.760 So you was definitely gave them here. 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:55.440 Yeah I did a little bit. 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:59.080 She's fresh out of college, new baby. 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:01.200 Yep, yeah, yep. 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:04.679 Where is your mindset at this point? 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:09.800 Because they kept telling me my life was over, Like 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:13.320 you know, you got me fucked up? My life ain't over. 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:17.760 So my mom was really big and FedEx. If you're 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:19.800 from Memphis and you get a corporate job, you work 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:24.520 at FedEx. That's all Memphis head corporate. So soon as 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:26.800 I got out, I got in law school. I didn't 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:29.280 want to be a lawyer. My parents like about to 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:32.080 like write me off, girl, if you're gonna be a 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:32.760 lost I want to. 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:36.720 Be a singer, and they was like no, no, no, no. 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:38.480 No, any other singers in your family. 0:20:39.200 --> 0:20:43.159 My granddaddy sing and my on my daddy's side, my 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:47.280