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Speaker 1: Of that money log in the building, grab me with it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that for me.
Speaker 3: I love that for you too, cause you've been you
Speaker 3: have a journey you've been on I have. You know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying, How are you feeling though? Like I
Speaker 3: know you been diagnosed and you know you just recently
Speaker 3: said you had autism, Like.
Speaker 4: How is that? How's how are you doing?
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm still doing me. You gotta keep you pushing,
Speaker 2: you know. I think one thing that keeps me on
Speaker 2: the right path is just like knowing that everybody has
Speaker 2: their own journey and their own unique experience and it's
Speaker 2: my life and it's my responsibility to make the best
Speaker 2: of it. Sometimes it does get a little tough because
Speaker 2: it's like I have so much success based on like
Speaker 2: the standard right status quo that when I have my
Speaker 2: moments when I am down, it's hard for people to
Speaker 2: relate and so they be like girl. So I have
Speaker 2: to kind of struggle through those moments on my own sometimes.
Speaker 2: But God don't give you more than you can carry.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I've learned a lot through about loopus, through
Speaker 3: like Tony Braxton and people who have it, like those
Speaker 3: type of celebrities, and they say it inflame, like if
Speaker 3: you're if you're worked up or if you're you know,
Speaker 3: too excited.
Speaker 4: Have you had any flirps do to things like that?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? Mostly mine are like in my hands and joints,
Speaker 2: so sometimes I can't really like open things as you saw.
Speaker 2: But Yeah, it's funny because it's like it's a cash
Speaker 2: twenty two because with something like an autoimmune that is
Speaker 2: stress related, it's best if you don't talk about it.
Speaker 2: But yet if you don't talk about it, there's no representation,
Speaker 2: you know, So it's tough. I gotta choose moments when
Speaker 2: when I'm feeling good, when there is anything happening like
Speaker 2: right now where I'll share, and sometimes I'm just like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't really want to talk about it
Speaker 2: right now because I'm kind of going through it. But
Speaker 2: I think, you know, keeping your stress level of down,
Speaker 2: stand positive, eating right, getting sleep, and just not putting
Speaker 2: yourself in scenarios where you could be triggered, that's really
Speaker 2: the key. Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: You have a lot of support from your family and husband.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean I don't really ask for much, very
Speaker 2: self sufficient, independent. I like to be by myself. So
Speaker 2: when I do, they just give it to me. You know,
Speaker 2: it's like dad, can you make me a gro cheese?
Speaker 2: You know? So yeah, I'm very I'm very blessed.
Speaker 1: Now, if we could take it back a little bit.
Speaker 1: You're from Gifford, Florida, which is right by Vero Beach,
Speaker 1: a little bit south Florida.
Speaker 2: They pushing, they pushing the boundary to border.
Speaker 1: What do you say you from?
Speaker 2: You say you're from, Yeah, it's becoming smaller and smaller.
Speaker 1: I'm a Florida guy And I literally had to look
Speaker 1: that up. I was like, yeah, Florida from Okay, because
Speaker 1: I've been to Vio, but I didn't know right on
Speaker 1: top of Zo.
Speaker 4: It's okay.
Speaker 2: So we like a train track community, you know, like
Speaker 2: they put the MLK train tracks and the you know,
Speaker 2: Dollar General in the hood, and then right across the
Speaker 2: train track is the beach. So there's literally people from
Speaker 2: where I'm from that have never been to the beach
Speaker 2: ten minutes down the street because it's not it's a
Speaker 2: different neighborhood, you know, it's literally like driving driving hood
Speaker 2: hood hood, section eight housing, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: and then train track and then boom mansions.
Speaker 1: So how was it like for you growing up on
Speaker 1: your side on that side of the tracks? Was because
Speaker 1: I know somebody saying in the.
Speaker 2: Family mom My mom saying yeah, in the navy, my
Speaker 2: biological father, my stepfather worked for the Sheriff's department for
Speaker 2: many years, I think twenty plus. He still teaches in
Speaker 2: the town. Yeah, I I don't know. I was very
Speaker 2: so I actually grew up all over the United States
Speaker 2: in my younger years. It wasn't until I was about
Speaker 2: fourteen that we moved to give For which my mother's
Speaker 2: hometown where she was raised as Wabasso, was twenty minutes
Speaker 2: down the street. And I grew up on a farm,
Speaker 2: and I was very much like if I was hungry,
Speaker 2: you just go pick an orange off the tree. So
Speaker 2: I didn't really have an actual concept of like status
Speaker 2: or like we struggling because we literally lived off the land.
Speaker 2: But you know, I didn't have no Jordan's or nothing
Speaker 2: like that. Like we didn't have designer clothes. You know.
Speaker 2: We definitely was shopped at J. C. Penny, you know,
Speaker 2: buy one, get one for eighty eight cents jeans. So
Speaker 2: I don't know, I was very oblivious. It wasn't until
Speaker 2: I got older that I realized, like, wait a minute,
Speaker 2: that's not right, you know, I was. I wasn't. My
Speaker 2: mom did a good job with keeping us, keeping us
Speaker 2: shielded from that. Yes. I have two brothers, yeah, older
Speaker 2: one older one younger, and I had a step brother
Speaker 2: he passed away years ago. Uh so yeah, I'm the
Speaker 2: only girl.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, So you was out there you know with
Speaker 3: your milk and cows and stuff too.
Speaker 2: We had no cows, but I did feed the chickens.
Speaker 2: We used to fish in the pond. We had geese.
Speaker 2: I had a pet hog.
Speaker 1: Yeah they are pretty smart.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well they killed them and broasted them. Yeah you do.
Speaker 4: You s.
Speaker 2: No, I don't slaughter chickens when we don't do that.
Speaker 2: I did have to learn how to gut fish when
Speaker 2: I was younger, because again, we live off the land,
Speaker 2: so you wasn't allowed. You have to eat what you kill,
Speaker 2: so if you kill it, you got to eat it.
Speaker 2: I do and I don't particularly. Yeah, a long time ago,
Speaker 2: we used to shoot squirrels. I'm just throw it on
Speaker 2: the grid.
Speaker 3: But like you said, once you you know, hit your
Speaker 3: teenage years and stuff like that, you was in like
Speaker 3: a sheltered space with your parents and at home and
Speaker 3: stuff like that.
Speaker 4: But then you got on the internet and you.
Speaker 3: Started to do your thing in two thousand and four, right,
Speaker 3: two thousand and four was my first video.
Speaker 2: Yes, wow did your research?
Speaker 3: Yeah, like you said, you were sheltered. So it's like,
Speaker 3: you know, I don't think many people you did sleepovers or.
Speaker 4: Seminaris something like that.
Speaker 3: You know, people on the internet now have friends like
Speaker 3: fans who are online, and that's kind of like what
Speaker 3: you kind of started doing at that time. You know,
Speaker 3: how did that shape you as far as doing your
Speaker 3: music in two thousand and four, I think it's kind of.
Speaker 2: Like two separate things. I think one my mom didn't
Speaker 2: let me do nothing, did lease squat. I remember one
Speaker 2: time this boy asked me to the movies for Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2: And we've known him, we've known each other since we were
Speaker 2: like seven, and he finally was like, yo, can you
Speaker 2: like can we go to movies? So I told my mom.
Speaker 2: I got all dressed out on my pink and red.
Speaker 2: She drove me to the movie theater. The boy came
Speaker 2: up to the car. He had chocolate to bear, flowers, balloons,
Speaker 2: whole nine yards like you know, miss Sheila. I was
Speaker 2: just gonna let her pick the movie, and my mom
Speaker 2: was like, okay. One second she rode the windor she said,
Speaker 2: y'all think y'all sleep, you know, and mind you. I'm
Speaker 2: so like not even I'm so green. I was just
Speaker 2: excited that she was lett me do something telling me
Speaker 2: about this lady rode down the window and said, you
Speaker 2: at the movies. Tell him by and all. I drove
Speaker 2: off and the boy was standing there like with the flowers,
Speaker 2: like oh, and I was just one little tear coming
Speaker 2: down my eye. It's literally for real. And I was
Speaker 2: so upset and so hurt. But that was my life.
Speaker 2: She didn't let me do nothing. So I think the
Speaker 2: computer became my escape right because I could talk to people,
Speaker 2: I could make videos and respond to comments, and I
Speaker 2: did develop relationships with some of my supporters I still
Speaker 2: talk to to this day from years ago. It's one
Speaker 2: girl named Liquida. She's buying me gifts and stuff. I'll
Speaker 2: invite her to my shows. You know. It's just like
Speaker 2: we do create a genuine bonding connection with our fans sometimes,
Speaker 2: and it's hard to do that now because people be
Speaker 2: like pushing it a little bit, like tellate what I
Speaker 2: need to do and talk it to me crazy and
Speaker 2: you forget. Like somebody said something like I was gonna
Speaker 2: beat your ass if you didn't. I said, who was
Speaker 2: gonna be? What?
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, like my favorite song? She said.
Speaker 2: They really they pushing it. They be pushing it. So
Speaker 2: sometimes I'd be having to like go in, like I
Speaker 2: went on on, went in on this girl on TikTok
Speaker 2: the other day. She couldn't take it, though, so I
Speaker 2: had to erase what I said because I'm like, okay,
Speaker 2: people are laughing at her a little too much, and
Speaker 2: you know, I know how that feels, so I'm gonna
Speaker 2: just take it down and give her a break. But
Speaker 2: I have to do that sometimes to let people know.
Speaker 5: She's like.
Speaker 2: She was just like, girl, you being you're doing too much.
Speaker 2: You're a celebrity. People gonna tell you what to do,
Speaker 2: you know, And I was like, so, I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: say what I said, but I basically gave her a
Speaker 2: taste of her own medicine gotch and she couldn't. She
Speaker 2: couldn't handle it.
Speaker 6: Most fans can.
Speaker 2: A lot of people just Internet people, and they just.
Speaker 5: Calm, you know, and a lot of people probably don't
Speaker 5: think that you're actually gonna see their comment.
Speaker 2: They don't. They don't. They don't think that I'm gonna
Speaker 2: say anything back. They expect me to be scary. They
Speaker 2: also don't expect me to have the personality that I
Speaker 2: have because you know, I'm from Florida. Like we we
Speaker 2: can't nobody talk junk like somebody from Florida. If you
Speaker 2: pissed me off, If you piss me off, I'm calling
Speaker 2: you all types of roly poly nick turtlehead.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: You know, if I'm Whitney, I'm Bobby and Whitney Whitney
Speaker 2: minus all the extra, you know what I mean. I'm
Speaker 2: very much like somebody asked me the other day, like
Speaker 2: what R and B songs am I listened to in
Speaker 2: my car? I'm like, I'm listening to Big Dude, I'm
Speaker 2: listening to money Bag, I'm listening to Key Clock. I
Speaker 2: ain't listening to it. I make R and B I
Speaker 2: don't listen to it.
Speaker 1: Is that like a cleanse for your ears? Sometimes you
Speaker 1: just hear it, you write it.
Speaker 2: No, I just want to jump on my bed and
Speaker 2: throw things like everybody else, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Like I used to remember, for like a year straight,
Speaker 2: I would put on bmf Rick Ross and that was
Speaker 2: my alarm. Literally, like I'll be in the bed asleep
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, it's like boom boom. I think, oh,
Speaker 2: big bitch every morning.
Speaker 3: And that's how people you know her Joe's story, Like
Speaker 3: as far as you're growing up, you was outside, you know,
Speaker 3: skinning fish, you know, playing with hogs. You know, you.
Speaker 1: Had a pet hog and then they killed it and
Speaker 1: ate it.
Speaker 2: Damn so that he was my pet. But they tricked
Speaker 2: me it into feeding it and fattening it up and
Speaker 2: making me feel like you know, I used to come
Speaker 2: home every day from school and be like, hey, Powder,
Speaker 2: talk to him. And he was a wild hog, so
Speaker 2: he used to he was he was, he was. It
Speaker 2: was a big freaking animal. And he would like he
Speaker 2: would charge at the fence for anybody else, but for
Speaker 2: me he was nice. He would walk over and like,
Speaker 2: you know, you talk to and he had these big tusks,
Speaker 2: and I would go in the house and get there.
Speaker 2: We had an empty chipling bucket that we used to
Speaker 2: put our scraps in, so I get the slop bucket,
Speaker 2: put it in the traw and sit there and talk
Speaker 2: to him. And one day I came home and the
Speaker 2: cage was empty. And mind you, my my grandparents lived
Speaker 2: on four acres, so it was huge. So I walk in.
Speaker 2: I go straight to the cage. He's not there. I
Speaker 2: go in the house. I'm like, Granddaddy, what powder. He
Speaker 2: took me to the window. It was a big, long
Speaker 2: window in the front of the house, and he pointed
Speaker 2: to the edge of the yard. So his cage is
Speaker 2: over here. He poured it over here, and powder was
Speaker 2: there roasting on the spit. And I just remember falling
Speaker 2: out and being like and I remember calling my mama,
Speaker 2: like mama daval and she said, we don't eat. I
Speaker 2: didn't the first day, I did not eat that second
Speaker 2: day it was so good. Yeah, he's with me forever.
Speaker 4: Did you ever write a song about powder?
Speaker 2: I didn't know too much.
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Speaker 1: I do want to acknowledge the fact that you were
Speaker 1: doing all this and this was dope left well, I
Speaker 1: don't want to say it's dope eating powder or dope.
Speaker 1: You know, your mom leaving to board the young man
Speaker 1: at the movie theater. So when did music come into play?
Speaker 1: Was mom singing all the time in the house and
Speaker 1: then as we started singing too, and she was like,
Speaker 1: oh god, you can sing, or she.
Speaker 2: Says she knew I could sing at two years old. Really,
Speaker 2: we used to living in Connecticut and there was this
Speaker 2: commercial that used to play. I actually remember this too,
Speaker 2: and it would go Spirit of Hampton Roots like you know,
Speaker 2: it was like a airport commercial or something like that.
Speaker 2: And so yeah, and she says she heard me doing
Speaker 2: that one day and she looked with the TV was off,
Speaker 2: so she knew that it was me nice. And there
Speaker 2: was always music in the house. My biological father played
Speaker 2: the trumpet. We had pianos in every house that we
Speaker 2: were in, upright piano. My mom was always singing. There
Speaker 2: was always music playing. She used to have like those
Speaker 2: CD towers full. She had like three of them, so
Speaker 2: it was like always music every get in the car.
Speaker 2: She had the CD book. So, I mean, it was
Speaker 2: just kind of like I thought everybody could do it
Speaker 2: because that's just how we were in our house, even
Speaker 2: my grandma be you know, humming and cooking. My biological
Speaker 2: father also could sing. He had like one of those
Speaker 2: like high pitch temptations, you know, yes yes, and then
Speaker 2: even writing songs like I wrote my first song when
Speaker 2: I was eight, and I remember I was vacuuming and
Speaker 2: just walking down the hallway. I'm looking at the skyllay
Speaker 2: and my brother was like, what song is that. I
Speaker 2: was like, I made it up. He's like, no, you didn't,
Speaker 2: and I was like, yes, I did. We started arguing,
Speaker 2: so we went to my mom and my mom was like, well,
Speaker 2: I never heard it before, and then she bought me
Speaker 2: a composition notebook, and I started making my own songs.
Speaker 2: I just thought everybody did that, And it wasn't until
Speaker 2: I started sharing it online, like fifteen sixteen years old
Speaker 2: that people were like, will you be making that stuff up? Really?
Speaker 2: Even now, people still do that to me. When I
Speaker 2: come up with something, they'd be like, you just wrote
Speaker 2: that right now. So it's just my gift. Everybody's not
Speaker 2: very talented.
Speaker 3: So you're writing the songs. You know, you're on the internet.
Speaker 3: Two thousand and eight, you decided to go to La?
Speaker 3: What decided that in your mind? I'm going to go
Speaker 3: to LA and do this thing?
Speaker 2: I think I had reached the ceiling here in Atlanta
Speaker 2: my first record deal. The guy who signed me, him
Speaker 2: and his lawyer made more money than me on the
Speaker 2: first record deal I had, and so eventually that money
Speaker 2: ran out very quickly actually, and I was like, well, damn,
Speaker 2: you know what am I going to do? I found
Speaker 2: out about songwriting and I was like, well, I don't
Speaker 2: want to go back to Gifford because he need nothing
Speaker 2: to do there. But you know, have babies and so yeah,
Speaker 2: and get married. I have babies and you know, be
Speaker 2: a mom, which there's nothing wrong with that, but that's
Speaker 2: not what I wanted, and so I was like, well,
Speaker 2: let me go to La do some sessions. I had
Speaker 2: no idea that I was going to grow in notoriety
Speaker 2: so fast as a songwriter. But when I got out there,
Speaker 2: I was doing like five sessions a day every day,
Speaker 2: two songs minimum in every session. My first session, I
Speaker 2: got a placement with this UK artist named Cheryl Cole
Speaker 2: that went number one over there, and then after that
Speaker 2: it was just like Selena Gomez who says Chris Brown
Speaker 2: doing me at Rihanna, it was like boom boom boom,
Speaker 2: you know. But I think it was just because I
Speaker 2: was working so much that I had so it's like
Speaker 2: a you know, the ratio of songs I had to
Speaker 2: choose from made it possible for me to have that
Speaker 2: kind of like Snowball.
Speaker 1: Are you married at this time? A relationship and get married?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been married for nine years.
Speaker 1: Okay, So so you got married when like where were fifteen?
Speaker 1: Where were you then? In Florida?
Speaker 2: Uh, California.
Speaker 1: You're in California. So how was that like? Because you know,
Speaker 1: being married is not easy, that's a whole different job. Yes,
Speaker 1: definitely happily married, but she crazy and I'm crazy, so.
Speaker 5: It's a little lift.
Speaker 1: So I'm just saying marriage is a job. It's so
Speaker 1: much communication that needs to be happening, and someone will
Speaker 1: like you that has a crazy schedule, and then I'm
Speaker 1: not sure you know who your husband is, but how
Speaker 1: is that conversation with him when you guys communicating like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: I have to go to the studio and you might
Speaker 2: be on all day. I think there has to just
Speaker 2: be a mutual respect, right because it's like this, I've
Speaker 2: been working to get to this moment for seventeen years.
Speaker 2: You know, you wouldn't want to stop the person that
Speaker 2: you love from doing something that they're obviously, you know,
Speaker 2: blessed with that is my gifting. But I definitely made
Speaker 2: it very clear like you're not stopping nothing. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: I'm gonna work, That's what I'm gonna do. And I
Speaker 2: think also too, it's just like there's no formula, there's
Speaker 2: no one size fit all. You have to communicate, you
Speaker 2: have to make time for what's important to you, and
Speaker 2: you can't be prideful, which I think that stops a
Speaker 2: lot of people sometimes from thriving into relationships because you know,
Speaker 2: you don't want to admit when you mess up. You
Speaker 2: don't want to be soft, be vulnerable. And also the
Speaker 2: death of relationships is trying to please anybody else outside
Speaker 2: of the two of you. You know, if you're doing
Speaker 2: things for you boys, if you're doing things for the
Speaker 2: general public, the perception you already lost. It has to
Speaker 2: be a real genuine respect, mutual connection, respect, communication, maturity,
Speaker 2: all that.
Speaker 4: An he seems supportive of you.
Speaker 2: He named your label, he came up with the name. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but also too, I think that's part of it, right,
Speaker 2: Like sometimes it's just kind to like allow your partner
Speaker 2: to feel as if yeah, like of course I don't
Speaker 2: need anyone to name anything or write anything, but you know,
Speaker 2: if he comes up with a name and it's cool,
Speaker 2: why not use that thank you? You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: like versus being like no things like it's just it's
Speaker 2: there's it's not it's kind of productive. There's no purpose
Speaker 2: for me to do that. And that's with anything like hairstyle, nails, outfit,
Speaker 2: you know, video treatment, Like if you have a dope idea,
Speaker 2: why not share?
Speaker 1: Do you guys have fun? Time to date each other.
Speaker 2: It's a little tough, but I mean again, every day
Speaker 2: is what you make it, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I'm happy with walking around the block like I'm happy
Speaker 2: with that that, you know, or just sitting outside looking
Speaker 2: at stars or Netflix and Jill like, I'm very simple.
Speaker 1: How did he get you or how did you get him?
Speaker 1: How did y'all get each other?
Speaker 2: You know, I honestly don't even I just remember liking,
Speaker 2: uh no, That's why I thought he was going to no.
Speaker 2: I just remember liking the fact that he was taking
Speaker 2: care of me, like health wise, so you know, we
Speaker 2: were working out a lot. I had like holistic medicines
Speaker 2: and stuff. He was making sure I would take it
Speaker 2: because sometimes I don't. I'm not the best way remembering
Speaker 2: to take my medicine. So those are the things that
Speaker 2: made me be like.
Speaker 1: Hmm, you really care about me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're really love me.
Speaker 3: I know you mentioned in one of your interviews about
Speaker 3: industry grooming and things like that.
Speaker 4: Can you just shed light on.
Speaker 3: That a little bit.
Speaker 2: I think as I grow, just like as a woman
Speaker 2: in maturity, as a creative, I realized that every single
Speaker 2: thing I went through was tempering me. You know for
Speaker 2: the for where I'm at now, like I was not
Speaker 2: prepared at any other time or moment before now, I
Speaker 2: wasn't ready. And also as I grow in wisdom, I'm
Speaker 2: able to see people, like really see them, and I
Speaker 2: can tell like who knows themselves, who's being authentic, who
Speaker 2: is being led by an external locus of control meaning
Speaker 2: you are moved by outside opinions other than your own
Speaker 2: that do not originate f himself. And then internal locus
Speaker 2: of control meaning you get your guidance from your intuition,
Speaker 2: your gut, what's on your heart. I call it the
Speaker 2: God whisper. You know, when you get that instinct to
Speaker 2: like grab your coat before you walk out the door,
Speaker 2: and then you grab it and then it rains, or
Speaker 2: you know, you get the instinct like I don't know
Speaker 2: why someone telling me to bring these flip flops, but
Speaker 2: I'm gonna bring them, and then you end up needing it.
Speaker 2: That's the God whisper. That's what I call it. A
Speaker 2: lot of times people ignore it, but when you get
Speaker 2: to a certain place of like trusting that and understanding
Speaker 2: those are little taps from God, from the universe, from
Speaker 2: your angels. You in the right direction. You learn how
Speaker 2: to operating that, and so I can recognize when somebody
Speaker 2: is doing that. I think when I was younger, I
Speaker 2: didn't have that, so I was trusting and putting my
Speaker 2: faith in other people. So appreciate you, Shay.
Speaker 4: I know that.
Speaker 3: You are signed now rights or deal.
Speaker 2: I have a partnership with Definitely me, I'm signing myself.
Speaker 1: Partnership is dope.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I know that Hours and Hours helped that, right the single.
Speaker 2: I think the Hours and Hours was a tipping point.
Speaker 2: But I had already built a catalog, a nice little
Speaker 2: like catalog about thirty songs, and a bunch of them
Speaker 2: were doing really well in terms of independency, Like I
Speaker 2: had multiple songs that were hitting a million.
Speaker 4: For your Yourself under your Name, My Moneymoon.
Speaker 2: And so hours and Hours obviously that's my biggest song.
Speaker 2: I think it's got half a billion streams, which is
Speaker 2: amazingaire Right, Well, I ever see the other one too?
Speaker 4: Me too?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I think it was definitely Hours and Hours.
Speaker 2: But I think what the reason why I was able
Speaker 2: to get what I was able to get as far
Speaker 2: as partnership and revenue share and all that is because
Speaker 2: they saw, like, it's not just one. It's not just
Speaker 2: a one hit of quitter like she has built. She's
Speaker 2: going somewhere with her brand. She has identity. And I
Speaker 2: think the true test came recently with like can she
Speaker 2: do it again? You know? Is it? Was it just
Speaker 2: lightning in a bottle? Was it just luck? And I
Speaker 2: think what made for me now is doing the same thing.
Speaker 2: Is going viral on TikTok. We got number one at
Speaker 2: urban radio. We just released a video yesterday, so if
Speaker 2: you haven't seen that, go check that on YouTube, featuring
Speaker 2: Lou James, directed by Trinidad James, and that's gray and
Speaker 2: I think they're seeing like, oh wow, she does know
Speaker 2: what she's talking about. She does know what she's doing.
Speaker 2: And it's not any specific formula. It's just the relationship
Speaker 2: that I have created with my supporters. It took a
Speaker 2: lot more on groundwork, right. I actually have to, like individually,
Speaker 2: like every comment, respond with a genuine response, not just
Speaker 2: like a mooji like yeah, like I have to actually
Speaker 2: right now, I mean just this is just real, like
Speaker 2: this is this is how I'm doing it. I'm actually
Speaker 2: imagine this is what I was saying to my manager Shaka,
Speaker 2: he's over there. I was like him and Jeff. What
Speaker 2: the music industry has done in essence is put the
Speaker 2: power in the hands of the creator, demographic, your niche.
Speaker 2: It's not you the creator. You don't have the power
Speaker 2: and neither does the label. Where you get the power
Speaker 2: is Imagine if you're in a stadium and it's the
Speaker 2: field is crowded, Imagine you the star player walking through
Speaker 2: that crowd and not getting attacked, not getting touched, not
Speaker 2: getting hounded. If you can do that, then you are
Speaker 2: the captain of the ship. There's not a lot of
Speaker 2: artists who can do that. Nicki Minaj can do it,
Speaker 2: you know, Kanye. Kanye can do it. But it's very hard,
Speaker 2: and it's like you have to be so like confident
Speaker 2: in who you are to be able to control that space.
Speaker 2: You're at a spiritual level. You got to be able
Speaker 2: to push your aura out to let people know like, yes,
Speaker 2: I'm here, I'm with you, we're in this together. Hey,
Speaker 2: how are you? You're beautiful? Oh my gosh, like and
Speaker 2: you really it has to be genuine because people can
Speaker 2: smell the fear. You can't fake it. So I think
Speaker 2: think where my power comes from is I really know
Speaker 2: my audience. I really know what they want to see
Speaker 2: for me, what they want to hear, and I protect it.
Speaker 2: I do not let you know. Sometimes people at the
Speaker 2: label will be like, oh, can you do this? And
Speaker 2: can you do what this? And can you make a
Speaker 2: post about this. I'm like, that's whack. They're gonna know
Speaker 2: you know that it's not me. And it's not to
Speaker 2: say that people's ideas are whack. It's just they know
Speaker 2: my voice and they can tell when I'm trying to
Speaker 2: sell them something or when I really am genuinely like, y'all,
Speaker 2: I found his lotion, you know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 2: it drives my value up because I'm only going to
Speaker 2: advertise and stand behind things that I actually believe in.
Speaker 2: So when I do speak about something, you know, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go get that because she don't. She don't
Speaker 2: just be feeding us, you know, force feeding us stuff.
Speaker 2: But it takes longer because I have to actually vet
Speaker 2: these things and you know, try things out and spend
Speaker 2: my own money, and you know, before I bring it
Speaker 2: to my people, I have to have warned, you know.
Speaker 2: So it takes longer, it takes more resources, and it's
Speaker 2: not like the cool route, you know what I'm saying
Speaker 2: where like a lot of these influencers, they're wearing and
Speaker 2: testing the hottest stuff as it's you know, blowing up
Speaker 2: is about timing for me and finding the right partnerships.
Speaker 2: But in the end, at the end of it, I'm
Speaker 2: creating this foundation that is very strong, and you can't
Speaker 2: it's not shakeable. It's unshakeable. So like if I do
Speaker 2: mess up and I have a moment that isn't so great,
Speaker 2: it's overshadowed by all the times that I made the
Speaker 2: right choices, and I'm fine with that. Like my goal
Speaker 2: was never to be uh famous. It's to be able
Speaker 2: to express myself at a high level for a very
Speaker 2: long time until I get tired of it. And of
Speaker 2: course being successful in having brand recognition and people knowing
Speaker 2: who I am visually and knowing who I am as
Speaker 2: a personality helps to be able to do that to
Speaker 2: bring in more opportunities, But that's not the goal. So
Speaker 2: I think, as I said before, I wasn't ready before
Speaker 2: and now I wouldn't have been able to understand that.
Speaker 3: You know, ten years ago, do you think this power
Speaker 3: came from when you stepped out of priscillating into money
Speaker 3: long I.
Speaker 2: Think it so in that transition period, yes, but it
Speaker 2: didn't have anything to do with music. It was just
Speaker 2: I had asked an old friend of mine, Wilmer Valdorama.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you guys watched our seventies show.
Speaker 2: He's a fez for an exchange student, and of course
Speaker 2: he's grown, he's done, he's on like ncis now. But
Speaker 2: I asked him a long time ago. I was like, Wilmer,
Speaker 2: how do you know when it's time to grow up?
Speaker 2: I think I was like twenty when I asked him this,
Speaker 2: and he was like, when you get tired of making
Speaker 2: the same mistakes over and over, you start changing things
Speaker 2: and tweaking things and doing things differently. And that really
Speaker 2: hit me. I had to think about it for a
Speaker 2: long time, like what do you mean? What do he
Speaker 2: mean by it? And so I started watching how I
Speaker 2: talk about myself, watching how I talk about others, watching
Speaker 2: when you get that little envious feeling when you see
Speaker 2: somebody doing something that you wish you were doing, changing
Speaker 2: the momentum of that thought into like, so now instead,
Speaker 2: when I see somebody doing something that I want to
Speaker 2: be doing, I don't even feel envy anymore. I'm remembering
Speaker 2: to say, that's for me. I would love to experience that,
Speaker 2: you know, and so you're calling these things into your
Speaker 2: experience with a positive polarization versus like the opposite of
Speaker 2: that would be dang, how come it? You know it's
Speaker 2: never works out for me, mag get right there. It's
Speaker 2: always something you gotta watch that. You can't talk like that,
Speaker 2: and it takes literally you have to brainwash yourself. So
Speaker 2: I was listening to self help books, meditations ask formations,
Speaker 2: so basically affirmations in the form of a question, like
Speaker 2: why am I so successful? Why does it everything always
Speaker 2: happened for me so easily? Why is my bank account
Speaker 2: so full? You know, things like that. Before I go
Speaker 2: to sleep, first thing in the morning, I'm listening to
Speaker 2: my books. I'm turning on It's so much stuff on YouTube,
Speaker 2: like for free therapy rey key. Yeah. So, like I
Speaker 2: did a very holistic like rebranding as well internally, and
Speaker 2: then what you guys see is the product of that
Speaker 2: very surface level. You know, how I address how I talk,
Speaker 2: my music, my videos, But there's there's so much more
Speaker 2: deeper work that I've been doing.
Speaker 4: You said you had that conversation with fez. Well, he's
Speaker 4: never really fizz.
Speaker 3: But at twenty and twenty one, you became a millionaire
Speaker 3: or he made the first million.
Speaker 4: This is the Bler Alert Show. And just to touch on.
Speaker 3: The financial aspect of it, can you just shed some
Speaker 3: light on financial decisions and when you get into making money.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think I've seen so many interviews where
Speaker 2: like people will share when they first started get and money,
Speaker 2: they blew it. And I definitely blew a lot, not
Speaker 2: understanding just how business works and taxes and what you
Speaker 2: can write off and what you can't, and rent and
Speaker 2: loaning people money and you know, thinking you're going to
Speaker 2: get it back and you never, you never will. You
Speaker 2: don't get it back, They don't give it back.
Speaker 3: We just had Atl Jacob and he blew his money,
Speaker 3: like told him he was gonna blow it. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Atl Jacob said that Future said, every every person in
Speaker 5: the industry that makes a lot of money goes broke
Speaker 5: the first time.
Speaker 2: Around second third because it's like you think that when
Speaker 2: you get this amount of money, it's gonna change your life.
Speaker 2: When you get this car, when you get this jewelry,
Speaker 2: when you get that's what you think. And then when
Speaker 2: you get it you realize like, oh, hey, you know
Speaker 2: that has nothing to do with it, and that's why
Speaker 2: you like, you know, you'll see people who are really
Speaker 2: wealthy weren't flannel shirts and birkenstocks because it's like none
Speaker 2: of that stuff really matters. Money is just a means
Speaker 2: to be able to maneuver in the world. So like,
Speaker 2: if I want to get up at two am and
Speaker 2: fly to Dubai, I need to make enough money where
Speaker 2: I can. I can do that and the rules do
Speaker 2: not apply to me because I make my own magic.
Speaker 2: And the only reason why I understand that is because
Speaker 2: I've tried it every other way. Right, So like, as
Speaker 2: much as you don't want your baby, I don't know
Speaker 2: if you have kids, as much as you might not
Speaker 2: want your baby to touch that hot stove, they gotta
Speaker 2: touch it to see. See, that's why you don't do that,
Speaker 2: you know. And so like, there is something very in
Speaker 2: the humanness of like existence, right if that doesn't even
Speaker 2: make sense, but you get what I'm saying. There is
Speaker 2: just something about us where we gotta see for ourselves
Speaker 2: and experience it for ourselves. There is no better teacher
Speaker 2: than experience. It doesn't matter how much I tell you
Speaker 2: that that's not gonna out good. You're not gonna really
Speaker 2: understand it. Yeah, you're not until you you know it,
Speaker 2: don't matter how much your mama tell you, or your
Speaker 2: sister or whoever, be like, man, treat that girl right,
Speaker 2: do the right thing. Until you lose her, You're not
Speaker 2: gonna get it. You're not gonna understand. And so I
Speaker 2: would just say, man, like, if you plan on being
Speaker 2: really successful, plan on losing, plan on losing, you will,
Speaker 2: but get back up, Like, get back up, don't let
Speaker 2: that stop you. I failed. I can't even tell you
Speaker 2: how many times, but I got back up, and I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: you know what else am I gonna do?
Speaker 1: Is that why you made your name? Money long?
Speaker 2: Money long? It's definitely an affirmation for sure, because it
Speaker 2: looks like when you look at it, you say, it's
Speaker 2: oh it's mooney long, but it's money long.
Speaker 1: Yes, why am you?
Speaker 2: And I you know it's gonna be different. Also, there
Speaker 2: was nobody else with that name. It was nowhere. It
Speaker 2: did not exist when I've heard first changed my name.
Speaker 2: Now you go online, there's a bunch of I googled it.
Speaker 2: I always do that. I do that with like song titles,
Speaker 2: any ideas I might have. I Google to make sure
Speaker 2: that it doesn't exist exist so that I can own it.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I just, uh, there's a bunch of money
Speaker 5: loans on the internet.
Speaker 3: Now, Yeah, I want to know, how do you how
Speaker 3: do you approach a song when you're writing, good question.
Speaker 2: I'm channeling so almost like a freestyle most of the time.
Speaker 1: Do you have to be there with the producer making
Speaker 1: it from scratch too?
Speaker 2: Or I don't have to that's ideal though, that's the ideal.
Speaker 2: So that's what I've been doing on this project. But
Speaker 2: now I could do it to a track like with
Speaker 2: Hours and Hours. That was a beat I found on YouTube.
Speaker 2: I was just I was washing dishes and I was like,
Speaker 2: extremely bored. I hate cleaning up.
Speaker 1: Found that beat.
Speaker 2: Found that beat. That's a long story, yeah, because I
Speaker 2: bought it, but the producer didn't actually have the right
Speaker 2: to sell it to me. So it turned into it.
Speaker 2: It turned to do a huge thing. We're not gonna
Speaker 2: talk about it.
Speaker 1: I got flowers on that song because that's a very
Speaker 1: slow song on the DJ and in Atlanta, you had
Speaker 1: to play that in the club and.
Speaker 2: It's the slow you know. I still haven't heard that
Speaker 2: song in the club. You haven't heard the song I
Speaker 2: heard of the Magic City. But even when you went
Speaker 2: to Ladies of R and B, of course, But I
Speaker 2: mean like in the club, like everybody's singing it long.
Speaker 2: I've never because during the peak of it, it was
Speaker 2: COVID and I was not going outside Atlanta. I was
Speaker 2: in l A compromised at all. I was not going outside.
Speaker 2: I got people are trying to book me. It was
Speaker 2: getting mad, like, yo, we got this money for you,
Speaker 2: Like you also have to co you know you can't.
Speaker 3: You can't play with lupis. That's an auto immune disease.
Speaker 3: Like you can'tnot do.
Speaker 2: That, yes, because then I'll be in the hospital bed
Speaker 2: and you knows all I was trying to do is smoke.
Speaker 2: Hookah is not Atlanta has a hookah problem. I'm sorry. Listen,
Speaker 2: I've seen somebody at the bus stop with a hookah
Speaker 2: at the bus stop. No, it wasn't a portable one
Speaker 2: was the glass with the whale at the bus that's
Speaker 2: the home. That's the whole Atlanta. Mind you, I live
Speaker 2: in l A. I've been there for a decade. And yes,
Speaker 2: it is in the sense that you would go to
Speaker 2: like the Mediterranean spower the spot and then you could
Speaker 2: do hookah at night. They give it to you with
Speaker 2: like milk to make it smoother. They put like the
Speaker 2: fruit around the rims, and it's the it's the sheisha,
Speaker 2: which is like the jelled tobacco. Bro they not giving you.
Speaker 2: You're getting regular tobacco and a hookah, and it's not
Speaker 2: the coal. They're supposed to come around and tap that
Speaker 2: coal every few you know, thirty minutes to tap off
Speaker 2: all the soot. So next time when y'all go do
Speaker 2: hookah and you pay attention, they're not doing that. But
Speaker 2: the call is getting smaller and smaller, so it's not
Speaker 2: it's going in the air. So like if you're in
Speaker 2: the hookah spot and your throat is burning, when you
Speaker 2: go home and you blow your nose and see how
Speaker 2: much soot is in your nose, it's so unhealthy. And
Speaker 2: then you're not supposed to be smoking out the plastic
Speaker 2: because that plastic, all the microplastic is going in your throat.
Speaker 2: It's supposed to be a wooden nozzle.
Speaker 4: Teach them.
Speaker 2: So I'm just like y'all not doing y'all are doing
Speaker 2: spook up. That's not who spooky. Yeah, that hooka is
Speaker 2: killing young.
Speaker 3: When you need to do some some jingles you got,
Speaker 3: can you jingle us to a break?
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Speaker 2: What's Up? It's your girl money Long and you are
Speaker 2: now watching the Baller Alert Show on what do you want?
Speaker 4: On the Bowler Alert Show? Made for Me? Where did
Speaker 4: you come up with this?
Speaker 2: So I did on the bet Soul Train Awards this
Speaker 2: past November, I did a rendition of May for Me
Speaker 2: that had a bridge which featured vocalists choir vocalists of
Speaker 2: my favorite vocalist, and I did the arrangement for that
Speaker 2: with a young man named Juwan who was also singing,
Speaker 2: and walteron Millsap and I just wanted, like, sometimes choirs
Speaker 2: can be a little cringey, right, but I felt like
Speaker 2: this song gave, especially those core changes on the bridge.
Speaker 2: It definitely gave like praise and worship because I used
Speaker 2: to lead the praise and worship team like when I
Speaker 2: was heavy in the church, because that's all my mama
Speaker 2: would let me do. Uh. So I decided like, okay,
Speaker 2: let me go back to my roots and bring that
Speaker 2: into the performance. And it was also probably one of
Speaker 2: my more simpler performances I've ever done, because I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 2: you know, the only thing you can do is if
Speaker 2: you keep going I want up, up and up, you
Speaker 2: gotta bring it back down to bring it back up.
Speaker 2: Otherwise it's just as you gonna end up like hanging
Speaker 2: off the roof by your pinky toe, so you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. So I had to bring it back
Speaker 2: down do something a lot more simple. And then for
Speaker 2: the music video, I wanted to do something around Halloween
Speaker 2: where it was like Frankenstein kind of I lose my
Speaker 2: lover and then I go to the morgue and I
Speaker 2: get all these body parts and sold them together and
Speaker 2: make my perfect person. But that was a little bit
Speaker 2: too gory. And also like sometimes as a black female artist,
Speaker 2: you have to understand that while you might not be
Speaker 2: because black women are not a monolith. There's email girls,
Speaker 2: there's luxury girls, there's the hood girls, there's the bookworm,
Speaker 2: nerdy girls, city girls, city girls, you know, so it's
Speaker 2: like there's so many different kind of Black women but
Speaker 2: what the general public wants to see from a black
Speaker 2: woman is a small set of things that they will accept.
Speaker 2: And so I kind of understood that, like, Okay, even
Speaker 2: though that is going into like the sci fi anime bag,
Speaker 2: everybody don't want to see that from me, So let
Speaker 2: me just temper it and like turn it down a
Speaker 2: little bit. So I teamed up with Trinidad James and
Speaker 2: Des Gray and they tweaked my treatment to make it
Speaker 2: be AI robot, black people in text, black people in tech,
Speaker 2: and so without giving you too much, basically, the concept
Speaker 2: was that maybe if you you know, when you think
Speaker 2: about the conversation on Twitter and Spiritual World posts a
Speaker 2: lot about relationships and the arguments that are happening between
Speaker 2: black men and black women and how people feel like
Speaker 2: the dating pool is pissed. Thank god, I don't have
Speaker 2: to do it, but you know, if you listen to
Speaker 2: what the streets are saying, it's hell out here. And
Speaker 2: so I remember maybe twenty years ago, thinking, wouldn't it
Speaker 2: be cool to see the person that you're talking to
Speaker 2: you on the phone and then boom, we have his time,
Speaker 2: And so I'm wondering, you know, just putting it out
Speaker 2: there especially. I don't know if you guys follow like
Speaker 2: any AI pages on Instagram, you're already using it.
Speaker 4: No, I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: AI is going to take everybody job you're already using.
Speaker 5: It's already talking about the AI that they're trying to
Speaker 5: prove and the entertainment business to where they trying to
Speaker 5: license our voices and face and all this stuff too.
Speaker 2: I mean that just becomes a human rights issue, right,
Speaker 2: But you're using AI every day, Okay.
Speaker 5: I like AI in their term, not the terms where
Speaker 5: they trying to legalize.
Speaker 3: I will say, Luke James played a good AI at
Speaker 3: the end when you yeah put him back together?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, did that James come from too. I've known him
Speaker 2: for a while. I was working with him as a
Speaker 2: songwriter producer, and I saw that he was doing a
Speaker 2: lot of sexy red stuff. So he transitioned from just
Speaker 2: being an artist and being you know, the representative to
Speaker 2: now assisting other people when it comes to like style,
Speaker 2: creating content, shooting videos and so saw him doing this
Speaker 2: thing with sexy read and I was like, man, that's
Speaker 2: good for you. And one thing about me, I never
Speaker 2: like to engage or reach out to people until I
Speaker 2: actually got something for you to do. So I put
Speaker 2: it on my list of like I really want to
Speaker 2: work with him on something, and I hit him and
Speaker 2: he was like, let's go. I'm ready. And when I
Speaker 2: tell you like they really like delivering on everything that
Speaker 2: they said they was going to do. Because that's another thing,
Speaker 2: is like, it's priceless when you can find someone who
Speaker 2: can do what they advertise right. And in this business,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of people who will say one thing
Speaker 2: and then as soon as you get a little cloud,
Speaker 2: get some success, they switch it up and then you
Speaker 2: know they want to own everything. They want to take
Speaker 2: credit for everything. That's whack. It's very whack. But then
Speaker 2: there are some people, very few and far between, that
Speaker 2: if they say I can get you this, they get it.
Speaker 2: They deliver, sometimes they over deliver, they deliver on time,
Speaker 2: they do it without complaint. Those are the people that
Speaker 2: you want to surround yourself with, and Trinidad is definitely
Speaker 2: one of those people.
Speaker 4: Okay, is this a song leading into a project?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? I have album. I just finished it. Actually, That's
Speaker 2: what I'm here for in Atlanta to finish my project.
Speaker 2: I'm working with Tricky Stewart Ricky. Yeah, he's executive producing it.
Speaker 2: I got songs with Tommy Brown and mister Franks who
Speaker 2: did a lot of the Ariana Grande hits that we
Speaker 2: know and love. Toron Thomas who did like a bunch
Speaker 2: of the stuff with Lizzo about them. Tommy one Record
Speaker 2: of the Year, Song of the Year last year, he's
Speaker 2: nominated Rock City. He's nominated for Songwriter the Year this
Speaker 2: year at the Grammys. I've known him for years. He's amazing.
Speaker 2: And then the dream worked with him, and then Ku Carell,
Speaker 2: who does all like my background vocals and my vocal production.
Speaker 2: He also is part of the reason why I feel
Speaker 2: like we won Best R and B Performance for hours
Speaker 2: and hours after Grammy's last year.
Speaker 3: So Dream Team, I'm excited. Man, you're excited about this
Speaker 3: because I love your voice. I like your style, like
Speaker 3: you have nostalgia in your voice too, you know, And
Speaker 3: I even like watching your perform like that that one
Speaker 3: performance that went viral when you're like, what did I do?
Speaker 2: I just love having fun, man, being silly and is like,
Speaker 2: I gotta always keep that. I gotta always keep that
Speaker 2: because you know, people like they turn into it now,
Speaker 2: mind you if it's funny. I'm gonna laugh. It was
Speaker 2: just one dude that he took that sound and he
Speaker 2: made it like when you get in the car and
Speaker 2: you'll see hot. Yeah it was.
Speaker 5: That was funny that you can laugh at yourself though,
Speaker 5: because I feel like a lot of artists do not
Speaker 5: like the antics on social media.
Speaker 2: But that's just because I know who I am. It's
Speaker 2: like that ain't it ain't or nothing.
Speaker 5: But you know, when a song came out, I was like, man,
Speaker 5: y'all are wearing this song the haters.
Speaker 1: I makes me think about my wife.
Speaker 2: I love that song, but I did wear it out.
Speaker 5: I'm one of those people that would listen to a
Speaker 5: song twenty times and one day when I first hit
Speaker 5: and what, I really like it, But I don't want
Speaker 5: the internet to be playing it too, Like I don't
Speaker 5: want to get on the internet. I didn't listen to
Speaker 5: this twenty times in my car.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's, you know, blessed in a curse
Speaker 2: because while I'm super grateful and a lot of times
Speaker 2: to the way the industry set up. Now, if your
Speaker 2: song is not doing that on the internet, they won't
Speaker 2: even pay you dust. So it's like you kind of
Speaker 2: need it. But I only I only truly appreciate it
Speaker 2: when it's organic, Like you know, I did not pay people.
Speaker 3: Like the maid for me is like organic because I
Speaker 3: think a girl in some blue pants, blue.
Speaker 2: Girl in the blue pajamas. It's a lot of beef
Speaker 2: going on on TikTok out there because it's two creators
Speaker 2: that one guy, one guy named Reuben J. He did
Speaker 2: he made a parody making fun of my soul Train performance,
Speaker 2: just like walking in the wind because it was crazy
Speaker 2: cold and wendy. So you know, his wig is like
Speaker 2: doing like this. You know, it's super funny, super funny,
Speaker 2: and like he made it like kind of like the
Speaker 2: good Christian Sancti Vibe version. And then the young girl Marie,
Speaker 2: she took it to the hood. You know, she was
Speaker 2: in what was it, TJ Max or something like that,
Speaker 2: and some pajamas. I almost bought those same pajamas from Target.
Speaker 2: I got the green ones and she was in there,
Speaker 2: you know, just like she nugged it out a little bit.
Speaker 2: And that's what people are arguing about, like, oh, she
Speaker 2: started it first. He started first, Like guys, we all
Speaker 2: win it. You know, I'm not mad. I'm not mad.
Speaker 1: I do got a question. So when did this guy
Speaker 1: Shata come into the picture. Man, it's a good guy,
Speaker 1: a good guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. I've been working on Chaka for maybe like
Speaker 2: six eight months now, I don't know, I'm like six yeah.
Speaker 2: Always obviously been a fan from a distance, and he
Speaker 2: him and Jeff really like take care of me. And
Speaker 2: it's hard for me right to listen to other people
Speaker 2: because I'd be worried, like you're just trying to benefit,
Speaker 2: you know in some way, like what's the catch. But
Speaker 2: they're not like that at all. It's like they can
Speaker 2: actually give me advice and give me the reason why
Speaker 2: I shouldn't be doing it or I should go this
Speaker 2: way versus this way. And we have a great chemistry
Speaker 2: where I trust them, you know, And that's like it's
Speaker 2: very Yeah, it's very important, especially being a woman, right,
Speaker 2: you know, them working with Luda for all these years
Speaker 2: is totally different.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: I gotta get hair and make up styling before I
Speaker 2: do anything. I gotta I gotta be looking right. I
Speaker 2: cannot go outside without makeup on or people are like,
Speaker 2: well she looks sick, you know what I'm saying, And
Speaker 2: I just look regular. So they understand that they fight
Speaker 2: for me as a performer. There are certain things that
Speaker 2: I need. Like I went to the Chantey Mor concert
Speaker 2: last night and she said it was hot in their
Speaker 2: and I was like, this is just me, and then
Speaker 2: she said it. She was like, thank y'all for boiling
Speaker 2: for me, because I can't sing with the air on,
Speaker 2: you know, just certain things like that, or like you
Speaker 2: going too a venue and they don't want to cut
Speaker 2: the air condition off, so they're blowing all this dust
Speaker 2: and cold, they're into your lungs, and then they expect
Speaker 2: you to go out there and sing for an hour
Speaker 2: and hit these you know, vocal cords. Is that why
Speaker 2: she said, shyn your vocal cords. But also like when
Speaker 2: you warm up, you're literally imagine like you know, you're
Speaker 2: a runner, you're an athlete, and you warm up, you
Speaker 2: run around the track, and then you sit in the
Speaker 2: cold for twenty minutes, so now you're tight again and
Speaker 2: you can hurt yourself that way, you know. So it's
Speaker 2: like it's the same thing with a singer. I do
Speaker 2: all those warm ups and then you get ready to
Speaker 2: go perform on these award shows and right before you
Speaker 2: walk on stage, there's the air blowing right on top
Speaker 2: of your head. You know, and they got to keep
Speaker 2: all those lights cool. So you understand that. But at
Speaker 2: a certain point, you know, you need people back there
Speaker 2: like Shaka fighting for you to be like, hey, cut
Speaker 2: that air off five minutes. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: It's very important, man. It's like just those little things
Speaker 2: because those womans live forever. It's like, you know, it
Speaker 2: might only be a four minute performance, but they're gonna
Speaker 2: watch it over and over for years to come. It's
Speaker 2: got to be right, you know, it's your legacy.
Speaker 5: I gotta say a shout out to J D and
Speaker 5: B cox Man because when I tell you every Wednesday
Speaker 5: at Ladies of R and B, your songs are in rotation.
Speaker 4: You're part of keeping alive. Thank you for real.
Speaker 1: Rotation.
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Speaker 4: Exactly?
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