WEBVTT - ANAYA LOVENOTE - Mama’s Nachos 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.480 Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke. 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.040 I'm your host, Colleen Witt, and today we have a 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:09.440 very special guest, and Naya love Note is in the building. 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:11.520 You guys may know her from her. 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:15.400 Music because she is a recording artist hailing all the 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:18.599 way from Texas. Yes, which is different because when you 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:20.040 think Texas, you think Beyonce. 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:23.000 Yeah, you know, but she ain't the only one coming 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:25.600 out of Texas, not at all, not at all. 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:50.839 But before we get into all the behind the scenes 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:55.360 of what made a Naya love Note, let's talk about 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:56.840 what you're gonna have me eating today. 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:01.720 Oh honey, Okay, So I call it Mama's cooking. Okay, 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:03.640 because that's that's what I got it from my mama, 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:07.360 and you're not taking credit. So we gonna make Mama's 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:12.080 nachos today. We got the preference meat that you chose, 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:15.920 brown turkey. I love it. I've been working really hard 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:19.840 to be more healthy anyways, Okay, I love that you 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:20.600 really chose that. 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:25.680 Really? Yes, I'm allergic to red meat really yeah? What yeah? 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:28.920 So I guess you've never had anything with red meat. 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:30.039 No, I did. 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:32.959 I abused it for years and then I finally said, 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.679 I got to listen to the doctors. So I went 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.800 like ten years allergically eating red meat and getting sick, 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:41.160 and then I finally said, co grow up. 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:43.880 See, well give it up because red meat is already 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:46.039 unhealthy as it is, and you're allergic to it, so 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:46.679 that's like ten. 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:51.120 It's actually harder for the body to digest. Seriously, yes, 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:54.320 so because you're allergic, Well it could be that or 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.040 but it's funny because I was I switched to pork 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:57.720 and chicken. 0:01:57.760 --> 0:01:59.000 I was like pork's white meat. 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.600 But recently I realized I'm now allergic to pork, so 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:03.400 I'm heartbroken. 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:05.600 So there's no more ribs my future. 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:09.240 And you know, the older, you know more, you respect 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:12.200 like your body, your body's needs and commands. 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:13.919 So now no, no more red meat. 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:16.480 It definitely does start speaking up as you get older. 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.400 And we got the meat right here, we got the 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:24.000 about Vita cheese block. This is my favorite mild. I 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:26.720 chose mild because it definitely gaves like a little spice 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:28.560 to it instead of it just being like a regular flavor. 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:29.960 That's like a chili sauce. 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:30.400 Ok. 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:33.720 Yeah, And then of course the Texas chips, and then 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:35.120 we'll get to the seasons when we. 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:36.560 And then I see almond milk too. 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:39.720 Yes, I drink nothing about almond milk one because I 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:40.920 am lactose intolerant. 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.880 Okay, so wait, is velvet the cheese not? 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:45.360 Yeah, I'm like you, I just. 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:52.160 Okay, okay, okay, you ain't supposed to okay, okay, whoever's 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:53.080 riding back in the clover. 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:57.840 Yeah, look I did good by doing the almond meal. 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:00.360 Yeah yeah, but you know what this Can it be 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.440 real cheese because it was sitting on a shelf. 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.160 Yeah that's what I thought, because you know, real cheese 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:08.760 with rest has to be refrigerating it is. 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:10.799 So this can't be you know, I might, I might 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:13.840 get on the hook with Okay, okay, okay, I will say. 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.160 The price egg on this dish came out to like 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:20.760 thirty bucks or twenty bucks or something like that, which 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:24.200 would be considered pricier, but technically it's not because of 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:25.000 the serving size. 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.160 So well budgeted. Kudos to your mama. 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.320 So before you, well, I guess while you're getting cooking, 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:36.040 I want to know what was going on during the 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:37.880 time of the mama's nachos. 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:41.520 Oh my gosh, So you know, should I start cooking. 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:42.840 Now, yeah, you can start getting a kitchen. 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:47.320 So honestly, my foster mom, she's actually my foster mother. 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:51.760 And when I was in middle school, because she got 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.520 me when I was fourteen years old. By the time 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:58.600 I got to her home, I just could eat through anything. 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.480 I just would eat, eat, eat, eat, eat your seat 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:05.080 tiny big, that's what she would say. And I'd be like, mom, like, 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:09.920 I'm not gaining any weight. And she started making these 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:13.280 nachos and I just would It's so crazy. They would 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:16.599 call me like the human disposal in the house. So 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:20.000 I would eat like my nachos. If my sister didn't 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:22.800 finish her nachos, I eat her nachos. I'd eat the 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:26.360 pot nachos. And I just love these nachos so much, 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.279 to the point where by time I had to have 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:33.000 like a actual cooking schedule in the house because everybody 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:35.719 had to learn how to cook. I had this downpack. 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:37.359 My mom won't even let me cook it no more. 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:39.599 Oh wow, I would just eat it all the time. 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.440 What's interesting, a lot of our listeners don't know this. 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:45.839 Not trying to chime into your story, but trying to 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:49.240 chime in your mom. I think was the first person 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:50.480 to hit me on the DM. 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:55.880 So that was actually my biological So my foster mother 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:58.200 is the one who lives in Texas, and then my 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.760 biological mother she lives in Saint Louis. So my biological 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.599 mother she helps me out with my career sometimes because 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:08.480 she is also a female artist herself. Okay, kind of 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:09.480 where I got her from. 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:14.080 Wow, so you do have a good relationship with your biological. 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:16.440 I have a good relationship with both of them. 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:19.080 And there's no beef between the two moms. 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:21.880 At first, when I was younger, it kind of was 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.919 because my mom. When I first found my mom, I 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:28.960 found my mom on my Space. That's actually how I 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:32.240 found my mother. You're biological m I found my mama 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:36.920 my Space. And I remember, like in high school, I 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:39.640 was a freshman and I got on my Space and 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.720 I just DMed all of her friends because she took 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.599 too long to see my message. So I went on 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:47.560 there and I was like, Hey, I'm her daughter. I've 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:50.120 been looking for her, can you please call me. 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:52.760 You know that she was your mom because I've. 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:54.720 Had her when I was I mean i've had her. 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:58.720 She had me before I got taken, So I knew 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.680 my family before I was placed in care, so I 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:05.760 found her on my Space. And when I did find 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:08.440 my mom and I finally got in contact with her, 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:12.360 technically it was illegal because the state didn't know about 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:14.400 it and I was still in care of this at 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:17.520 the time, so I had to have a judge actually 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:21.000 okay to me to talk to my mother at the time. 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:24.919 And when she finally found out, she didn't really like 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.320 my foster mother that much. 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:29.839 Were you reaching out to your mom because you missed her, 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.520 or were you reaching out to were you beefing with 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:33.240 the foster mom. 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:35.039 I reached out to her because I missed her. I 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:37.919 always wanted to know my family. I actually got taken 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.919 at five years old, so I didn't have my mom, 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:44.920 my dad, no cousin's, no aunties, just like foster home shelters, 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:47.600 group homes, foster home shelters, group homes all the way 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:48.720 till I was like eighteen. 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:50.359 Do you know why you were taken? 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:51.240 Yes? 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.560 I do. Are you are you able to say without 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:56.680 making family members? 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:57.120 Oh? 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:01.440 Yeah, So when I was younger, I don't know. I 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:05.919 don't drink alcohol for a reason. I come from a 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:11.840 background of alcoholics in a way. My grandmother, she was 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:17.360 an alcoholic, and my great grandmother was an alcoholic, and 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:19.800 so I would see what that would do to people 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:22.960 when they would drink alcohol. And for me, as a 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:26.600 young kid, I would get whoopings a lot. And I 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:30.240 went to school one day and I the teacher saw 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:33.760 a bruise on my back and she asked me. She 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:36.440 was like, are you getting whoopings? Are you getting beatens 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.440 at home? And she put it in the same sentence. 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:42.320 And at the time, I had to be like four 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:46.480 going on five at this time. I was like, yes, 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:49.640 but you know, please don't pull anyone. But when I 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.600 hear the word whoopins as a kid and then you 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:55.800 put beaten with it, it just sounds the same in 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:59.560 a way. So that same day, CPS actually came to 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:02.760 my house and took us away. Wow. 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:04.080 So they took all of you guys. 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:06.920 You have siblings, wow, all of us, Me and my 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:13.640 two sisters. Wow. And it kind of was like, like 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:16.160 my grandmother kind of blamed me, but I was being 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:20.120 placed in cares. But I've definitely coming so young. Yeah, 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:23.120 I've definitely come to a conclusion now that I'm older, 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:27.280 like that, you know, it was it wasn't me, But 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:31.000 back then it was just like, dang, Like what did 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:31.240 I do? 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:32.360 Yeah? 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.400 I I grew up in upstate New York, and I 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:39.840 grew up in child of definitely child abuse for sure, beatings, whoopings, 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:43.599 and all of the above. But that the teachers and 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:47.040 everybody they would call CPS and CPS started getting a 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:48.760 bad rep of me and my siblings because it was 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:52.720 like y'all ain't saving us at all, And it's it's 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:54.200 crazy to hear that in your story. 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:56.760 They like snatched you all up so fast. 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:02.480 They take kids very quickly, like they instantly go when 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:06.800 it's teenagers. They don't come to a quick hurry. So 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:10.360 like I was four going on five, my little sister Brianna, 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:15.000 she was like two going on three, and my oldest sister, Latrice, 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:18.440 she was about six years old, and so all of 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:23.280 us was just wase and we all been away from 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:26.480 our family since then. So when I did find my mom, 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:29.200 it was just felt it just felt like I found 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:32.040 a part of me that I had not had for 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:32.920 my whole life. 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:36.640 Wow, so you were gone for what over almost ten 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:38.440 years away from her before you found her. 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:40.040 That's amazing. 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.880 And then I found my little brother on Facebook. I 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:46.000 found my little sister on Facebook. I've always had my 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:50.080 oldest sister and then the other two. I actually got 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:52.000 to get in contact them once I talked to my mom. 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.920 Wow, what was your mom's initial reaction when she heard 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:56.200 from you? 0:09:56.720 --> 0:10:01.000 She was so excited She's actually cried. She's like, I've 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:04.480 been looking for you my whole life. Like, I'm so excited. 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:06.960 How old you? How old are you now? Like just 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:10.240 like typical questions that a mom would ask. I think 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:12.760 when I was younger, I was more closer to my mom, 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:16.120 and then my sister she was closer to my grandparents. 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:18.840 So when I found my mom, it was more like 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:21.400 I was excited because I found my mom. My older 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:25.520 sister she wasn't really like around for it, so. 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:27.679 Was she does do all your siblings have a good 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:28.920 relationship with your mom now? 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:30.840 It's do you know? 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:39.800 We all are still too. We all have a great 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:41.560 relationship with my our mom now. 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:45.080 But because now that we're adults, we're going into that 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:49.080 phase where it's like we're adults now getting advice and stuff. 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:52.040 Sometimes is like, no, not thinking because I kind of 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:55.760 know myself now at this point. But for me, again, 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:58.800 I've always been closest to my mom. So I'm still 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:02.960 like Mama's baby still to this day. But I think 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:04.920 that's just because I share more in common with my 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:06.920 mom than the rest of my siblings. 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:09.559 In the music. Now does your mom rap? 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:13.440 Yes, she's a female rapper. She says, she be singing, 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:16.760 but Mama, you can't sing. Oh, she like Drake. 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:19.360 It's like I can't stand when Drake sings. 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:24.120 I love Drake's rap book, Please God, Please, I ain't 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:24.839 singing Drake. 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:28.320 Sometimes, Drake, sometimes you hit it with the note, and 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:30.199 then sometimes I'm like, you could have just wrapped that 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:31.640 dude anytime. 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:33.839 You know, when he does his records like split, I 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:37.440 don't even I won't even entertain the singing version. 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:40.880 I actually used to love his when he redid Jojo 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:44.080 Marvin's Room and he was trying to sing that one. 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:48.040 It actually came out really great compared to what I 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:50.920 thought it would at his singing days. When he left 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:51.559 the Grassy. 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:54.800 Okay, I never watched him on the Grassy me. 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:59.680 Either, Sorry, Drake, I didn't know you to have to digress. 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:04.360 I actually got to meet Drake, so too Short introduced 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:07.920 me to Drake, and we were at Poppies and Drake goes, 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:10.800 this is my idol right here. If he say clear 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:13.559 everybody out, everybody got to get out. I don't care. 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:16.400 I'm clearing out this whole club. Whatever this man say 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:21.280 is whatever goes too short, too short. It's his idol, 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:24.480 the man he looks up to his whole life. That's 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:27.360 what Drake says. Yes, and the way. 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:27.559 That I do. 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:31.880 Yes, I'm not knocking on too short, but Drake really, But. 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:34.080 You know, the way that I met him, for me 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:36.679 to be an artist was amazing because I could have 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:39.760 met him any other way, but to be introduced to 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:43.440 him by his idol as an artist, it was like, Wow, 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.160 that's a lot of respect. Instead of meeting him like 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:48.720 in the club. Hey, yeah, so I thought I was 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:49.720 like pretty dope. 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:55.200 Yeah, that sounds pretty dope, y'all. I love Drake. 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:57.120 The only way I'm gonna see him again is if 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.040 I go to one of his concerts. While the brawls 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:02.680 can toss thumbs hilarious, you know, I'm gonna have to 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:04.040 catch one of them because I heard he give me 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:05.160 out burning bags. 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:06.440 Too, really at his show. 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:08.559 He just posted it. He gave me out pink burning 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:12.080 bags at his show. Drake, I look save one of 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.920 them burning bags, just put it on the shelf, don't 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:15.440 worry about it. 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:20.839 So from the okay, so you start making this dish 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:23.679 with your foster my foster mom. 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:25.600 Your foster mom, okay. 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.960 And she had other foster children, but she just she 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:30.520 didn't house any of your siblings. 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:35.280 She ended up taking my oldest sister in My older 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:37.840 sister ended up being in foster care with one of 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:44.280 her family members at the time, and I was like, mom, please, 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.679 like please, please, please take my sister. I don't want 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:50.400 to be by myself. Yeah, And I was fourteen by 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:52.560 the time she got us. And then my sister was 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:56.679 like seventeen years old, and foster homes don't take teenagers, 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:58.520 and it wasn't a lot of foster homes that my 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.080 sister could go to the more she got older, So 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:03.120 she ended up taking my older sister and so she 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.880 could be with me. And then when I found my 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:09.360 little sister, she ended up allowing my little sister to 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:12.160 come and stay as well. So I actually got to 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:15.360 have my siblings after high school. 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:16.120 Okay. 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:21.400 And it's interesting because you call her mom. Yes, was 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:23.560 that a hard hurdle for you because you said you 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:25.320 didn't get to her till what fourteen? 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:29.280 Right? Yeah? So when I got there, I used to 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:31.440 we would call her by her name, which would be 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:36.760 Mama Ray, and then eventually it just became mom. I 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.360 was with her all the way, so I was grown 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.120 and still to this day like that's Mom. I would 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.120 call her and my I need advice with this, or Mom, 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:48.600 I need help with this, and that's that's my go to. 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:49.800 It's my mom. 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:54.880 Wow, Okay, Okay, that's that's that's cool. That's cool. 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:57.280 But I do the same thing to my biological mom too. 0:14:57.360 --> 0:14:59.720 So do you let them know that you get a 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:00.800 pai from each other? 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:04.800 Yeah, Like, yeah, they know each other. They're like now 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:08.000 they're cool with each other, you know. They my mom 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:10.280 will ask about Mama Ray a lot, and Mama Ray 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:14.920 will ask about my mom. So it's more like our girls. 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:17.960 Okay, Okay, like that now. I like that. And then 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:19.400 as far as. 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:22.200 The addiction on this in your family, has it like 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:24.040 subsided or yeah? 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:28.920 Honestly, I just found my biological family. I got to 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:32.520 meet my aunts, my cousins, and they gave me so 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:35.200 much insight on my background and where I come from 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:38.240 and a lot of things that our family struggled, which 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:41.720 was like alcohol abuse at the time. So a lot 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.960 of my family member isn't alive, to be honest with you, 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:47.640 But me, I've never had to drop an alcoholic day 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:48.120 in my life. 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:49.520 Good and you're gonna keep it that way? 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:50.320 Yes, I am. 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:56.920 Yeah, I just got my husband is a alcohol alcoholic 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:00.360 and recovery or what have you. And I'm just now 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:04.760 like it took me, Like it's so hard for me 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:07.920 to understand the concept of it because for me, it's 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:11.240 not the most logical concept. I'm like, wait, you're gonna 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:16.160 just drink all day? Yeah, you're you know, like logically 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:18.960 it doesn't make sense. But now I'm starting to understand 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:21.760 like addiction is because it feels real to them. It's 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:23.280 like I love this or I like this and I 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:25.840 know I get sick without it or what have you. 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:30.320 It's a dangerous situation because if they can't identify that 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:33.840 they have an issue, it definitely can turn into a 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:39.120 generational situation. And I think I was the one who 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:42.680 identified the issue in my family. We decided to change 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:44.400 the generational. 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:45.680 So they weren't like living in denial. 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:49.080 So like my sister, my older sister, she doesn't drink. 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:52.680 I don't drink. My little sister she doesn't drink. A mom, 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:56.520 she doesn't drink. Wow, we all decided we was just 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:57.680 not gonna. 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:59.680 Oh, your mom didn't drink. She never drank. 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.200 She did when she was like younger, but she doesn't 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:03.400 drink at all like now, so. 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:05.600 Awesome, awesome, I like that. I like that. 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:10.359 So let's get past this little bump and get onto 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:14.919 the next chapter. What was the next milestone from Nachos 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:16.359 heading towards your career? 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:22.280 Honestly, I just always knew I was gonna be something 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:27.080 or someone, and I would tell my foster mom all 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:30.800 the time, I just need to leave home, like I 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.399 just would like to leave home. I know if I 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:37.760 leave then I'm gonna make it. And at the time, 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:41.639 I could not keep a job. Every job that I 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:44.159 had I just kept losing, Like I just could not 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:48.679 hold down a nine to five job at all. School. 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:52.439 I wasn't doing that great in school either, and I 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:55.520 just felt like this is not for me, Like I 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:58.760 have to leave Austin. There's nothing any here for me. 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:01.880 And after I lost my job at foot like at 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:05.280 City Trends, my mom picked me up and I had 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:09.119 got the opportunity to actually go to Atlanta, and I 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:10.959 told her. I said, I looked her in the car. 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:12.800 We were sitting in the car and I looked her 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:15.520 in the face and I said, Mom, I'm leaving, And 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:17.360 she said, where are you going? I said, to Atlanta? 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:20.000 And I said, I just need you to trust that 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:22.280 this decision is going to be great. And when I 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.360 just know, like, if I leave, Mama, I'm gonna make it. 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:27.600 And she's like, I just want you to be happy 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:30.639 and stabled, and whatever you choose to do, you know 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:33.720 I'm going to support you. And I never looked back 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:35.600 since I haven't been back home in ten years. 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:36.719 And what age were you? 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:39.560 I left when I was twenty one. 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:42.200 Twenty one, and but knowing you were twenty one, you 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:43.960 knew exactly you were going to go into music. 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:46.840 But my mom, my biologic mom was big on me 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:51.600 finishing school, so I wanted to get an education before 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:54.760 I decided that this is going to be whatever I do. 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:57.800 And it worked out for me. 0:18:58.359 --> 0:18:59.679 So you went to college or. 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:03.240 So I started off in college and after I did 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:05.800 my first year, I got the opportunity to up and 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:10.879 move to Atlanta. Okay, okay, wait, so this is this. 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:12.679 Is my mess up? Guys, here we go, Here we go, 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:13.200 Here we go. 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:15.160 I'm like, is this on your powdery? 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:15.520 No? 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:18.560 No, that's all purpose seasoning. I think this is all purpose. 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:21.600 Look I just shopping for the show, but I was. 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:26.000 I don't I love how you called it out, Like 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:28.720 what is this? Wait a minute before my. 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:30.520 Disch start tasting a little funny? 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:32.200 Okay, okay, sorry, my bad. 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:37.040 We're gonna we're gonna hilarious this right here. Yeah, we're gonna. 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:40.200 We're gonna have to MANI The situation at Walmart was like, look, 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:41.879 this is technically all purpose. 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:47.640 I said. All purpose comes in like the little red bottle. 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:49.560 I know, but they didn't have any more of that bottle. 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:51.840 So she was like, this will do. And I said okay. 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:54.240 And then here you are Anaya calling me out like 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:55.040 what is this? 0:19:55.680 --> 0:20:00.960 What is this? Those she I you know? I should 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:02.840 have to try it? 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:04.840 Just try it, try it. 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:09.240