Speaker 1: And Money. Well take vala. We are the authority on
Speaker 1: all things ladies, and tell me what's going on. I
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Speaker 1: R and B. Who's the day in the building? Uh
Speaker 1: we we We talked about um new addition going from
Speaker 1: boys to men. This young lady has gone from young
Speaker 1: lady to grown woman. Um, right before our very eyes.
Speaker 1: She is gifted, she is beautiful, and she is none
Speaker 1: other then miss Ko. Welcome girl, girl? Did you hurt that?
Speaker 1: That was a good I just it just the lord.
Speaker 1: It is from me being a rapper before we get started. Um,
Speaker 1: tequila to you. Um. You went crazy on the Soul
Speaker 1: Training Awards. The Michael Michaels did nickas Mike's be off whatever?
Speaker 1: Oh this is delightful? Is this it's it's it's support
Speaker 1: of life that you know most privy tips to die
Speaker 1: you all is good? Yeah, because normally sequila comes with
Speaker 1: the side of burn, but this is good. It's comes
Speaker 1: to sneaker. Here comes with that is co cou You
Speaker 1: went so crazy on the Soul Train Awards. And I
Speaker 1: hate to start right here because we're going to go
Speaker 1: back to the beginning, right, But you were going so
Speaker 1: crazy and I actual so you didn't get to see
Speaker 1: the show because I was doing so much running around
Speaker 1: and I sat and watched the show on TV and
Speaker 1: you started singing, and I was like, that's singing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's R and B music. No, that's how you deliver,
Speaker 1: Mike on. Okay, you're giving them face fit. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. You drip everything. You're giving him the
Speaker 1: whole thing. That again, you're talking about my hair, be la.
Speaker 1: The hair was late. I mean, write that down so
Speaker 1: you know that next the hair was late, not dripped,
Speaker 1: because then drip was I mean, I just wanted to
Speaker 1: say dripped from head to talk. That's fine. Wanted to
Speaker 1: be just adding to your Lord, Jesus Lord. The last
Speaker 1: supper was out there. You know what you can say.
Speaker 1: I was eating like it was the last supper. You know.
Speaker 1: It makes me like you wrap two you can say that, Okay,
Speaker 1: you do you wrap? Can you wrap? I'm not even
Speaker 1: going to speak on that because the girls who really
Speaker 1: be rapping really be rapping. But sometimes I do surprise
Speaker 1: myself with a little bar. But I just don't see Baddy.
Speaker 1: I surprised myself too in my earlier days. Everything Okay,
Speaker 1: MC hurricane, I was, I started, I started, I was
Speaker 1: a terror in the hood? Was it really empty? Hurricane?
Speaker 1: Hurricane in the hood? I battle? You know, this ain't
Speaker 1: about you. It bothered me, and and and something you
Speaker 1: said that was really dupe before we started, Like you know,
Speaker 1: you're hearing you sing and you getting into that moment
Speaker 1: and delivering, and then the announcer the commercial comes up
Speaker 1: and starts talking while you're singing, and I get it. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I guess in terms of the format of
Speaker 1: the show or whatever they have to do to promote
Speaker 1: and all these cool things. Okay, well I look at
Speaker 1: it like this, right, That's why I said how much respect?
Speaker 1: But at the same time as a fan anger and
Speaker 1: when somebody getting busy, like the other young fellow cue
Speaker 1: getting get busy to go to fucking commercial. Okay, guys,
Speaker 1: First of all, it's a whole show, and they got
Speaker 1: to fit a whole school show into the lineup. They
Speaker 1: cut something else, not the singing. What they're supposed to cut.
Speaker 1: I don't know something I don't right, And then we
Speaker 1: gotta figure out, Okay, if there is a commercial then
Speaker 1: let's set aside. Let's find a moment to where that
Speaker 1: can be because it's going to be re aired, right,
Speaker 1: so let's find a moment for that full performance to
Speaker 1: be televised. That's a performance is available for people to watch.
Speaker 1: It's just not on the entire show. And they had
Speaker 1: already told me that before I even did my performance.
Speaker 1: But here's why I said humble beginnings, because a year
Speaker 1: ago I was watching it mad as hell? Why am
Speaker 1: I not on it? So now I'm there, and then
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be mad that they cut my performance a
Speaker 1: little bit. No, I know, it's just a start. You
Speaker 1: are doing it the right way. We're gonna be angry
Speaker 1: for you. Thank you. I'm gonna custom that's how I
Speaker 1: live my life because we are so oh you. He
Speaker 1: won't have my performance, said, he's not gonna get the
Speaker 1: fool me, then I'm not. I'm not coming. I haven't
Speaker 1: screamed one day, maybe one day. I just got here. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm just happy to be here. You're gonna be here.
Speaker 1: You're here, You're gonna be here, and we want we
Speaker 1: just we are celebrating. We are in the space of
Speaker 1: motivating and encouraging those kinds of moments. Those are the
Speaker 1: moments that are going to continue to inspire the next generation.
Speaker 1: As you are the new generation of R and B,
Speaker 1: but the next the kids coming. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: When I was a kid seven years old, you already
Speaker 1: had a record deal of anyway, when I was a
Speaker 1: kid seven, eight, nine years old watching amazing performers on television.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, those are the things that
Speaker 1: inspired me and so that you know, for me, your
Speaker 1: entire performance I felt, you know, wasn't necessary in that,
Speaker 1: but I digress. It upset us. Thank you and we'll move. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you doing this for me some training to um uh
Speaker 1: letkoko umleko ko man. You've referred to you as this.
Speaker 1: A few say it is they throw throw. Um Let's
Speaker 1: go back too, as you say, humble beginnings, the very beginning,
Speaker 1: Like when was the first time somebody said, oh, that
Speaker 1: baby right there got it? Or that you saw and
Speaker 1: felt that moment happening. He was like, ship, that's so
Speaker 1: funny that you asked that the first time somebody noticed
Speaker 1: that I could really sing? I don't even think I
Speaker 1: was two years old. So basically, my mom had her
Speaker 1: friend over and her friend was a violinist and they
Speaker 1: were talking and I was just watching Barnie. Literally they're
Speaker 1: talking and the ladies like, hold on, I'm sorry, she
Speaker 1: just stopped talking. My mom's like, what what, She's like,
Speaker 1: your kid, they're singing everything back in perfect pitch. Your
Speaker 1: child has a perfect ear. And my mom was like, okay,
Speaker 1: like period, when I tell you from then on, I
Speaker 1: literally have never stopped making sounds, singing, humming, like in
Speaker 1: all the baby videos. It's all I'm doing at all tonight.
Speaker 1: Literally it's crazy like I'm always making some sort of music.
Speaker 1: And that was the first time it was noticed, the
Speaker 1: first time I felt it was like I would come
Speaker 1: from athletes. My dad played professional football, so I know
Speaker 1: what it's like when you like score and everyone reacts
Speaker 1: to the score. It feels like you ate that. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. You feel that momentum, You feel
Speaker 1: that energy in the house with Mike Jones. When Mike
Speaker 1: when like Nick's just running around like going Mike y'all.
Speaker 1: First of all, but he's not the rapper one like
Speaker 1: the name Jones. Okay, like's not that one, but m Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'd be outside doing drills in the summer I'm like, sir,
Speaker 1: I'm in third grade. I don't know what this has
Speaker 1: to do with much, but okay, here we go outside
Speaker 1: with like. But I was also very competitive, like I'd
Speaker 1: be the one on flag football, like dodging all types
Speaker 1: of dudes and then like I'd go and score and
Speaker 1: then I like hose and they'd be like were period.
Speaker 1: Like I was always so competitive, so I knew that
Speaker 1: feeling of like doing something good and seeing the reaction.
Speaker 1: And I remember I had done like this little Broadway
Speaker 1: type show with my school like young kids, and I
Speaker 1: had a little solo and I remember seeing the reactions
Speaker 1: and I was like, this is the same reaction as
Speaker 1: when I score. I was like, what is this? It's
Speaker 1: giving everyone's cheering, so I'm like, what does this mean? Um?
Speaker 1: I say that was like the first time that I
Speaker 1: really noticed it really young though. All of this stuff
Speaker 1: was really young. You from the south, right, I'm from Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Was it country at first? For you? Was it country
Speaker 1: music or no? You know what's funny? It was definitely gospel.
Speaker 1: My mom was like, you are going to serve the
Speaker 1: Lord with this voice of yours. I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: She's like Courtney you will serve the Lord with this voice.
Speaker 1: That's my mom. And I was like, okay, I'm nine,
Speaker 1: so like whatever you want to do, that's what we're
Speaker 1: gonna do. Like what am I going to object? So
Speaker 1: my mom was trying to get me in all these
Speaker 1: gospel lanes and it just wasn't happening. It wasn't panning
Speaker 1: out like I was supposed to join the one Christian
Speaker 1: group like pure in RG help. You guys are a
Speaker 1: group right now. If you are, I'm out side. I
Speaker 1: hope you're doing well. If you are. It just like
Speaker 1: wouldn't work, Like the doors would just keep closing, and
Speaker 1: the doors that would openly wanted to pose. I did
Speaker 1: want to you for Christ you can post. Don't even
Speaker 1: do that. Don't put yourself in a box. Do what
Speaker 1: the post for crisis. It's like this, you not need
Speaker 1: to cross. I don't think that's gonna work. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's the heart. He didn't work. Now it works.
Speaker 1: It didn't work for a media. I think it was
Speaker 1: just like God had a different plan for how I'm
Speaker 1: going to impact you know, because you can be in
Speaker 1: the gospel category and be a light, and you can
Speaker 1: be in the secular music and be a light. It's
Speaker 1: about your actions. It's not about like what job you do.
Speaker 1: You can be a postman and be a light. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It's about what you're caring, what
Speaker 1: you're bringing to the world, what you're what you're offering,
Speaker 1: what you're talking about. So it just wouldn't pan out
Speaker 1: like that. But the doors that would open would be
Speaker 1: like like Kids Bob or like a commercial about like
Speaker 1: a broccoli cereal and I'd be like, I do it,
Speaker 1: and it would happen. And that's just kind of how
Speaker 1: it panned out. And you're doing this from Tennessee. Yes,
Speaker 1: I would um audition and they'd have like cattle calls
Speaker 1: and things like that, and I would do music there
Speaker 1: like as much as they could offer me. I mean,
Speaker 1: but I was also just trying to figure it out.
Speaker 1: Like my mom made this ghetto little EP on her computer,
Speaker 1: and I was like talking about basketball and singing about
Speaker 1: like sleepovers and stuff. But you know it was really dope.
Speaker 1: Was I would do all these live performances like if
Speaker 1: you want to pause there, sleep over something, I want
Speaker 1: to know what, you know what the basketball friends and
Speaker 1: they come over and then it starts. It's sleep. You know,
Speaker 1: stop playing with me because it would be giving soul.
Speaker 1: This one, this one about basketball, it was like, uh,
Speaker 1: it was like jump ball, Hey, kicking it to me,
Speaker 1: watch me you work. I'm jumping out of the gym.
Speaker 1: It was fire. It was fire. And then I had
Speaker 1: this other one about like doing char excuse me, don't
Speaker 1: play with me because I always was giving soul now
Speaker 1: and they had like a cute look. It was like
Speaker 1: funky like anyway because all that was like all these
Speaker 1: like older muic muic and guys like that's what they knew.
Speaker 1: They didn't know hip hop like always put the old
Speaker 1: niggas world. It's just so funny that that always happens.
Speaker 1: And it really did give that. Like this guy that
Speaker 1: was a judge at a talent competition that I won,
Speaker 1: he was like, I'll work with you for free until
Speaker 1: until when I saw he saw the talent so it
Speaker 1: would be him and like he'd be like Courtney, you're ready,
Speaker 1: I'm like here we go, rob jump out. I felt
Speaker 1: like I was personally eating a stop. Wait, why is
Speaker 1: what side is that it's actually giving that? Okay, I
Speaker 1: still don't like it. I don't care because if you
Speaker 1: listen to it, you'd be like, Okay, this kind of
Speaker 1: has a little sleep. I'll send it to you. I'll
Speaker 1: find don't I'm gonna find it. They always act everyone.
Speaker 1: My mom has every song of that. This is my
Speaker 1: camera right here, Mama Jones, Mama Jones, can you send
Speaker 1: this jump ball? Jumball? Is that what it's called. I
Speaker 1: don't know what we're gonna call it? Jump off? It's
Speaker 1: the basketball song. We need to hear the backs, the
Speaker 1: basketball song. My mom would also help me, right, I'd
Speaker 1: be like, thanks, girl, but you want to know something crazy.
Speaker 1: When I was also a rapper because I used to
Speaker 1: sing a rap as well. My brother, my older brother,
Speaker 1: would write all my raps about the sleepover, different ones. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm trying trying to flash. I'm trying to put two
Speaker 1: and two together. That's all. That's all I'm trying to do.
Speaker 1: There were other songs. It was what I was going
Speaker 1: through in my life, not doing chores, my best friend
Speaker 1: moving away, basketball sleepovers. I mean, I don't know that's
Speaker 1: what I'm actually with it. I'm what it is supposed
Speaker 1: to be. There. At that age, you were writing your life,
Speaker 1: which is crazy because that's when we preach right, you
Speaker 1: were literally like writing the very nuances and it sounds funny,
Speaker 1: but the simplest things those are hit records. Okay, sleepover
Speaker 1: record right now, my son will sing the mess out
Speaker 1: of a sleepover. That's what I'm saying. But we need
Speaker 1: those records again, we actually do for kids. Like when
Speaker 1: we we had Ray Parker Jr. On here and he
Speaker 1: talked about Riddy missed a telephone man for a new edition.
Speaker 1: Obviously you don't even need a telephone many more really,
Speaker 1: but in that when he wrote that record, when I
Speaker 1: was a kid and I heard that song, it connected
Speaker 1: to him. So we actually do need that again. We
Speaker 1: need younger artists, especially if you're you know, preteen or teenage.
Speaker 1: You should be singing about that. You shouldn't be singing
Speaker 1: about you know, we're growing up. We should not be
Speaker 1: a club in your song. Yeah, but you know what
Speaker 1: they do. They had kid clubs when I was young.
Speaker 1: I don't know, you never you could go outside. I
Speaker 1: went to a kid club. He went outside. You couldn't go.
Speaker 1: Oh he was religious. They had a bang called Black Saturday.
Speaker 1: Who boy. Okay, okay, mine was not giving your manager.
Speaker 1: She's from the bank should interesting. Yeah, yeah, but back
Speaker 1: to Coco Jones writing the songs about basketball, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: trying to install. I did play for a really long time,
Speaker 1: and then when I started singing, I was missing practice
Speaker 1: and stuff and I couldn't balance them both, and I
Speaker 1: just chose singing, all right, So we went to missing
Speaker 1: preg this is and so apparently at some point things
Speaker 1: started getting crazy. When was that? What? What? What time
Speaker 1: period was that where you just felt like there was
Speaker 1: an influx of demand for what you what? What's your
Speaker 1: gifts were? Um? Around twelve? Around twelve is when I
Speaker 1: did Next Big Thing, which is like American Idol, Disney's
Speaker 1: version of that. Actually Chloe and Highy were on it too,
Speaker 1: but I did that. And then once you kind of
Speaker 1: become one of the people that they go to, they
Speaker 1: send you out to a lot of things. So I
Speaker 1: was on tours, I was performing, doing our shows. I
Speaker 1: was getting into it. Yes, I was doing shows, and
Speaker 1: then I would be auditioning at the same time for roles.
Speaker 1: My acting was real, real crusty at that time. They
Speaker 1: say I wasn't getting a lot, but I was getting
Speaker 1: better and better with time, and I just would always
Speaker 1: be in l A and every summer I'd be like,
Speaker 1: all right, y'all, I'm gonna go be Hanna Montana. I'll
Speaker 1: see y'all. I don't know when i'mnna seyall again, but
Speaker 1: you know, you can definitely come to show. Whatever I was,
Speaker 1: I was just I knew I was going that way.
Speaker 1: I was like, is this for me? I don't know
Speaker 1: about job? So twelve years old, you get your ears,
Speaker 1: you get you get your you get your Mickey Mouse ears.
Speaker 1: I mean that's when I was really really working with
Speaker 1: um Disney Channel a lot. And I mean that's like
Speaker 1: the perfect place to be at the time, you know,
Speaker 1: because you want to be doing me personally. My mom
Speaker 1: is not a stage mom. My mom was like if
Speaker 1: you're not trying to work, I'm going home. I'm tired.
Speaker 1: So I was always the one like, Okay, what can
Speaker 1: I do more of? Like I was hungry for it
Speaker 1: this whole time, you know. So for me, it was
Speaker 1: like the perfect scenario, like I'm doing these guest stars
Speaker 1: and then I get this movie and it felt like
Speaker 1: a dream to me, Like it was just like a dream.
Speaker 1: Like I would go to the park and I'd sing
Speaker 1: there and then I get to ride rides, no lines
Speaker 1: like this was everything. This was everything I ever needed,
Speaker 1: you know, I was very very happy. But yeah, for
Speaker 1: you though, was it a choice to go to Disney
Speaker 1: Route or was that just what was available? It was
Speaker 1: it was just we didn't know anything. Like we were
Speaker 1: just like going, like I'm just grateful that my mom
Speaker 1: and dad had started some businesses, so they did know
Speaker 1: like certain things like Coco is is my business name?
Speaker 1: And I have like business you know, it's all business
Speaker 1: savvy the things that they did. But as far as
Speaker 1: like we have never stuff like that and like to
Speaker 1: protect me and whatnot. Um, but as far as knowing
Speaker 1: what we were doing in the industry, we were just
Speaker 1: going through the doors that opened. Like your dad still
Speaker 1: playing at this time. Oh no, no, no no, he retired
Speaker 1: when I was much younger. Okay, so they were able
Speaker 1: to focus on pushing your career. Well, yeah, my mom
Speaker 1: was really the one that like would be on the
Speaker 1: road with me, and then my brother and sister. They
Speaker 1: both played sports, so my dad would be like nurturing
Speaker 1: their careers, you know what I'm saying. And um, it
Speaker 1: was really just like whatever opens, that's where we're gonna,
Speaker 1: That's where we really go, you know, and my mom
Speaker 1: she did a really good job of just finding as
Speaker 1: much opportunity as she could. You know, for a while
Speaker 1: she was management, agent, stylists, you know everything. You know,
Speaker 1: that's crazy because it's like it's like it's so different
Speaker 1: because where I guess where we come from, or where
Speaker 1: I came from, anyway, we didn't. I just didn't know
Speaker 1: what that was. I knew I could sing, I knew
Speaker 1: I could write a song. I know I can make
Speaker 1: a track. I didn't know what to do after that.
Speaker 1: My mama didn't know, you know what I'm saying. Father, military, mother,
Speaker 1: working two jobs at department stores. Did you do any
Speaker 1: like talent shows or anything? I mean, I was I
Speaker 1: was already already a professional gospel singer in high school.
Speaker 1: But if it wasn't church, yeah, I wasn't doing it.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't know much about it. I wasn't
Speaker 1: doing it, you know what I'm saying. So it was
Speaker 1: always choirs, and I had been introduced to John p
Speaker 1: Key and all these things at an early age, so
Speaker 1: that's you know, I still didn't know what it was
Speaker 1: on the other side of the teleged of the team stream, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I still didn't know how any of that work, because
Speaker 1: it sounds like from what you're telling us that you
Speaker 1: were the one pushing forward early, I mean finding these
Speaker 1: things to get involved in. Yeah. Yeah, I was very
Speaker 1: very passionate. Like I would wear like my pajamas to
Speaker 1: the studio because I knew I had to get up
Speaker 1: for school, but like I would rather be there doing
Speaker 1: that all night, and my mom will be like like, no,
Speaker 1: my one more try. And you know another thing too,
Speaker 1: Like I would sing all the way through. It was
Speaker 1: old as equipment, so I would have to sing the
Speaker 1: takes all the way through. I feel like a lot
Speaker 1: of the stuff that I do now is because of
Speaker 1: how hungry I was and just using whatever resources were
Speaker 1: around me. Yeah, it was definitely scaring, and my mom
Speaker 1: like she saw my passion for it. My passion for it.
Speaker 1: What is the moment if you're looking around and you're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I've arrived. We're not a national normal. I don't even
Speaker 1: using that I who N O N. But we call
Speaker 1: it l E V A N O N. My big break,
Speaker 1: My big break was definitely let it Shine. I mean
Speaker 1: that is still what people talk about and associate me with.
Speaker 1: First even with all this other stuff going on. Um,
Speaker 1: I remember like the audition process and pretty much everybody
Speaker 1: that we know was in that auditioning room. You know,
Speaker 1: all of us as little kids and young girls, young
Speaker 1: black girls, so like it would just get smaller and
Speaker 1: smaller and smaller and smaller this pool. And I think
Speaker 1: I auditioned like seven times, so that meant we had
Speaker 1: to come to l A multiple times. You know, you
Speaker 1: have to fly here to audition. Yeah. I didn't move
Speaker 1: here until I was an adult, okay, or like if
Speaker 1: it was important, important, then they'd be like, all right,
Speaker 1: let's get out. So what was the audition on their dime?
Speaker 1: Or you all had to pay for it to get
Speaker 1: got it? Got l O L got it? If you
Speaker 1: want it, you want it, come on, okay, you need
Speaker 1: to be there very much. It's giving or next. Um.
Speaker 1: So when I got that film and it came out,
Speaker 1: it was the number one TV movie that year, and
Speaker 1: I just remember the momentum like right after that, like
Speaker 1: it was like Okay, now you're gonna have this TV
Speaker 1: show and you're signed, you're at a record label. Dada
Speaker 1: da da da, Like it was just going so fast,
Speaker 1: and it feels kind of like now, you know, like
Speaker 1: all this momentum and and like building up to something.
Speaker 1: But I was fourteen, you know, and I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that that would ever stop. So I
Speaker 1: was like, so j'all, so y'all try to play here
Speaker 1: we go so but literally, like it was all these
Speaker 1: things that were supposed to happen, and I did put
Speaker 1: out a project. It's so crazy, like Victoria wrote on
Speaker 1: my first EP. Yes, and Tommy was on it too.
Speaker 1: Tommy produced it on it too, like all the people
Speaker 1: like we you know, we are all like doing big
Speaker 1: things now. But it was like Taylor Parks was on
Speaker 1: it too, like crazy. But it all was like going
Speaker 1: like this and then it just like stopped, but not drastically.
Speaker 1: In my mind, it felt like that, but it was
Speaker 1: more like, Okay, my management at the time did not
Speaker 1: know like what to do. They didn't know how to
Speaker 1: create opportunity. They knew how to keep because they know
Speaker 1: how to keep umbrella to right, What do you mean
Speaker 1: as far as like the movies, No, not even just
Speaker 1: the business side of it. From from your business side
Speaker 1: of I'm talking about the business that you guys were in.
Speaker 1: He's like you were signed to Hollywood Records, right, and
Speaker 1: they're connected to said, well you said it, I said,
Speaker 1: I did, you know what? But all of these companies
Speaker 1: were connected to each other though yeah, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: they kind of it's like a it's not a full
Speaker 1: package deal, but you kind of know if you have
Speaker 1: a show, you're gonna make music, and if you're doing
Speaker 1: really well, they're going to try to put you on
Speaker 1: a show, you know, and you're only going to do
Speaker 1: a deal with their company. You're you can do whatever
Speaker 1: you want to do. But at the time, I mean,
Speaker 1: when you're a young kid and this looks like the
Speaker 1: next obvious step, the whole golden ticket, that's what you're
Speaker 1: gonna do, you don't think like you know that I
Speaker 1: have leverage. Let's see what you can do for me.
Speaker 1: Like but I was like sign it, but my mom
Speaker 1: was like, mmmm, something in my schando since now. So
Speaker 1: I did do the record deal, but I didn't do
Speaker 1: the TV show. And I asked that because our podcast
Speaker 1: is informative, we wanted to be as informative as possible,
Speaker 1: and your situation is so unique for a guest that
Speaker 1: we've had. That's why I asked that, Like, you know,
Speaker 1: because it's kind of American Idol is like you said,
Speaker 1: like when you when you do American Idol, you're signing
Speaker 1: to a certain label that's connected to American Idol. It's
Speaker 1: not like, oh, I want American Idol and now I'm
Speaker 1: about to go do you know this this whole campaign
Speaker 1: and go meet all these labels, right, run it up?
Speaker 1: Ain't running it up? No, it's giving like we put
Speaker 1: you on, You're gonna stay right on. But like, these
Speaker 1: are all things that I wanted to I didn't I
Speaker 1: didn't know what shopping, wasn't going to other labels, and
Speaker 1: I didn't know any of that. I was like, I
Speaker 1: want to do. What can I do to be Raven
Speaker 1: Hannah Montana? Like what can I do? This is what
Speaker 1: this is what you do. This is what we're doing.
Speaker 1: You know. So at the time, like it looked like
Speaker 1: all of these things we're gonna work out, But there's
Speaker 1: also a formula, and if you're a black girl who
Speaker 1: can sing, you're not going to fit into that formula.
Speaker 1: Like you're already throwing throwing off the balance, you know,
Speaker 1: because I don't look like those girls that I said
Speaker 1: I wanted to be, Like, I definitely don't sing like them.
Speaker 1: I don't even the music doesn't even fit me that
Speaker 1: I'm being told to do. So what now what? And
Speaker 1: I didn't do the TV show? So now the main
Speaker 1: marketing strategy is not I didn't do that. Was there
Speaker 1: a reason you didn't do the TV show? Um? I
Speaker 1: think part of it, from what I mean, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't really know because I was much younger. But
Speaker 1: part of it, I feel like, was how long I
Speaker 1: was going to be under you know, that umbrella to
Speaker 1: keep being longer and longer. Yeah, um, and then a
Speaker 1: little record company and then also to like I knew
Speaker 1: that I wanted to like have a different type of longevity.
Speaker 1: And so I do feel like my mom was smart
Speaker 1: and like to thinking what we could get from the experience,
Speaker 1: but not diving so deep in that you're really really
Speaker 1: stuck as that character, you know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 1: stuck because it can happen. Yeah, and especially if you
Speaker 1: do it really really well. Yeah, you were that person
Speaker 1: you everyone foreverever in the transition. Is that much more
Speaker 1: difficult or growing up for that matter, Yeah, is that
Speaker 1: much more? Yeah? And I think I mean God was
Speaker 1: definitely protecting me, but at the time I was like
Speaker 1: so disappointed because it just wasn't I was like, this
Speaker 1: is what I was saying. I was going to do
Speaker 1: the whole time and didn't pan out the way you
Speaker 1: when you say slow down as you put it in
Speaker 1: that moment, What does that feel like to you? And
Speaker 1: what are you doing too? I guess feel the space
Speaker 1: or feel the time avoid that you're feeling. Man. Well,
Speaker 1: I was also trying to graduate early, so now I'm
Speaker 1: like fifteen, are you in school or homeschool? Homeschool? Trying
Speaker 1: to graduate early because I was like, I need to
Speaker 1: move to leg now. I need to move there because
Speaker 1: that's where the opportunities are. That's why I'm not like
Speaker 1: this big star, I'm here, I need to go. So
Speaker 1: I was trying to go like finished school and get
Speaker 1: out of there. And um, I also was like, I
Speaker 1: guess I was really in my religious mindset because I
Speaker 1: was like, where am I sinning? Because this isn't happening
Speaker 1: the way it's supposed to happen. So what man? What
Speaker 1: didn't I do? Right? And so I was like like
Speaker 1: my friends would call me like the Nune because I like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna sit this one out and let y'all have
Speaker 1: you're not feeling no, no, no, no, no, not that
Speaker 1: I'm not feeling that. I just don't understand that because
Speaker 1: I wasn't raised that way. So there is no there
Speaker 1: is no um there is there is there's nothing telling
Speaker 1: me because I did this, this is not happening right.
Speaker 1: That's the best way that I can put it, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. There's no like commandments of I
Speaker 1: didn't follow that, so this didn't happen for me. I
Speaker 1: never think, well, I don't. I don't have that. In
Speaker 1: that church space that we were in, it was very
Speaker 1: much everything was connected to you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: The good and bad things were definitely centered around how
Speaker 1: are you living? You know, it could be anything anything,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like you said some bad
Speaker 1: words last week. That's why the Lord is you know,
Speaker 1: that's why this, this, this opportunity didn't come through it.
Speaker 1: You gotta slow that down, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I gotta trying to tell you something. You doing something.
Speaker 1: It's all it was. It's all it was always that
Speaker 1: you're not doing something right. Therefore, that's why this is
Speaker 1: not happening. Boy, very much done. But no, at the
Speaker 1: time like I really like was diving into that, like
Speaker 1: what exa. I was like, how do I live perfect?
Speaker 1: Because that must be why my prayers aren't answering. So
Speaker 1: I'd be the nun like the goody like I wasn't
Speaker 1: doing it. I was not doing nothing, but I just
Speaker 1: wanted to graduate and I wanted these things to work out.
Speaker 1: And then I got dropped and then I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: now I'm rebellious because something someone wide and I'm curious.
Speaker 1: I'm sixteen, I haven't done anything. All the girls are
Speaker 1: doing everything. I'm done, girl, I'm outside. You know, if
Speaker 1: this was really me talking to God, I'd be like, okay,
Speaker 1: what's that? He like? Are you being real? I'm like,
Speaker 1: I didn't do anything. I was sitting here and now
Speaker 1: and it's not okay, So I'm done. And that's really
Speaker 1: how I was like. And I mean I wasn't out
Speaker 1: here while because first of all, I was home school.
Speaker 1: It's not like I was about to go like I
Speaker 1: went to like some parties with the girls who would
Speaker 1: dance with me, like my dancers, and I'd be like
Speaker 1: sneaking out. Yeah, Like I was so not like really
Speaker 1: with it, you know what I'm saying, um, but then
Speaker 1: I did graduate. She's the greatest. This is great, literally,
Speaker 1: but you want to know something so funny? Can I
Speaker 1: can I tell a funny story? Okay? So this this
Speaker 1: was the first time I ever snuck out right, and
Speaker 1: my mom and dad went to go somewhere my sister
Speaker 1: for volleyball. So me and my brother were at the house.
Speaker 1: My brother was like, I'm sticking out and I was
Speaker 1: like what. He was like, I'm sneaking out. I was
Speaker 1: like I was older than him, Like I was I
Speaker 1: was sixteen. Yeah, I was sixteen and he was fifteen.
Speaker 1: He was like, I'm out. I was like where. I
Speaker 1: was like, where are you going? He was like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's gonna be outside. I was like, well
Speaker 1: what if? I mean like, I was just like, wow,
Speaker 1: we're rebellious. Okay, okay. I was like, so me too.
Speaker 1: I was asking my I was asking my dancer. I
Speaker 1: was like, where the party it. She was like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can come to me this party like it was
Speaker 1: like deep Nashville. Now, I don't really go outside like that.
Speaker 1: I was with my mom. I was very much like
Speaker 1: trying to like be booked. I was on set. The
Speaker 1: only times I went to Ashville. Was for the studio sessions, auditions, performances,
Speaker 1: and now I'm gonna go to the party. Right how far?
Speaker 1: It's like yeah, And here's the thing too, Like we
Speaker 1: had a long driveway, so I was driving with no
Speaker 1: lights on. I was like, I was sweating. I was like,
Speaker 1: I was it's forest because my neighbors are snitches because
Speaker 1: they was gonna tell. I was like, I was scared.
Speaker 1: I was driving, could not see. I have my glass zone.
Speaker 1: It's so much forestry and deers. I was like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, Bamby, please like I can't today. Okay. So
Speaker 1: I sneak out right and my mom sends like this text.
Speaker 1: She's like, thank you guys so much for like not
Speaker 1: having any attitude. And we were like stay home, we
Speaker 1: love y'all. And I was I was like, no, no problem, girl.
Speaker 1: I was at this party, right. I was at this party.
Speaker 1: And so then this guy that I had liked at
Speaker 1: the time, who also went to my church. I was
Speaker 1: such a square. He went to my church, but he
Speaker 1: was like the rebellious type. I was like, oh he's
Speaker 1: dead and at least sting okay, shurts that it was
Speaker 1: so hot, okay, So he was saying he was gonna
Speaker 1: come there or whatever, and I was like, okay. Period.
Speaker 1: So when I walked in or whatever, I remember it
Speaker 1: was like a cloud of smoke. This is my first
Speaker 1: time like even being around anything. I was like, oh
Speaker 1: my god. I was like, this is the haze. This
Speaker 1: is the this is the spirit, this is the dark
Speaker 1: spirit haze. This is that. I was like. I was
Speaker 1: like I should leave, and then I was like I
Speaker 1: must stay. So I went in there or whatever. So
Speaker 1: then I was like dancing with my friend and I
Speaker 1: couldn't find my phone. This was after my mom had
Speaker 1: texted me. My phone had like a bedazzled case, like
Speaker 1: somebody was going to see my phone. It was like
Speaker 1: pink bedazzled Claire's sparkles bright and so I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: where's my phone. Now I'm really freaking out because I
Speaker 1: didn't snuck out. I just responded to I said, you're
Speaker 1: welcome in the group chat. I'm scared. So then I
Speaker 1: was like I was asking my dancer. I was like,
Speaker 1: my phone, my phone, my phone, I can't find it.
Speaker 1: So literally all these girls, I felt like such sisterhood,
Speaker 1: very much cheated sisters. Literally all of us came together.
Speaker 1: We did like this and they had their phones with
Speaker 1: the lights and we went like all through the dance
Speaker 1: floor and like we didn't see it. So I was
Speaker 1: like freaking out. I was about to have a breakdown.
Speaker 1: And then the DJ was like, yo, we gotta pay
Speaker 1: phone at the d J booth. Pay phone at the
Speaker 1: DJ booth. I was like, oh, thank you Lord. I
Speaker 1: went and got my phone. I was like, okay, I
Speaker 1: really need to leave. That was the Lord's saving me.
Speaker 1: I should just leave. And then I was like I
Speaker 1: want to stay. And then I stayed. And then the
Speaker 1: guy that I like came and I was like he
Speaker 1: did church. I'm not saying his freaking name. You know
Speaker 1: who you are. That was nice to your little system,
Speaker 1: but she was bad. I was just trying to hang
Speaker 1: with shoot up. She was that. But anyway, so yeah,
Speaker 1: he came to the party or whatever, and then like
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, food up mooving it
Speaker 1: out of but anyway, Yeah, so then I went home
Speaker 1: and I didn't get caught or anything. But that was
Speaker 1: like my first time sneaking out fully sixteen is great.
Speaker 1: This is so yeah, that was my first time speaking out.
Speaker 1: You did get caught. I did not get caught. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm telling now, but girl, don't drive me mom anyway.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so I got dropped in stuff and like
Speaker 1: I was just I didn't know what was happening. You know.
Speaker 1: It's also so weird, Like I was watching a lot
Speaker 1: of interviews. I would watch like interviews like Beyonce being
Speaker 1: interviewed like Kobe, Like I would watch anything like just
Speaker 1: to see what these people that I looked up to
Speaker 1: what they were talking about, and like what they would
Speaker 1: say about the journey. And I'd be like, I always
Speaker 1: feel like they were not saying enough about the journey,
Speaker 1: like where's the bad parts? You know, like where are
Speaker 1: the where are the bad Like how long did it take?
Speaker 1: What did you do? Did you get dropped right? Like
Speaker 1: all of these things I was looking for, like to
Speaker 1: to make it feel normal that it wasn't happening good
Speaker 1: for me. So that's why I try to be like
Speaker 1: more transparent about everything that happened, just because I was
Speaker 1: like is this okay? Like does this mean I'm still
Speaker 1: when or what what does this mean? So yeah, that's
Speaker 1: kind of like what I was doing to feel the space. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you lived still with your parents at the time. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was sixteen. And then when I was seventeen, I
Speaker 1: graduated early and I moved to l A and I
Speaker 1: was staying with like kind of like godparents type, and
Speaker 1: then I got this opportunity to be on Broadway. So
Speaker 1: then I moved to New York by myself. And then
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I'm definitely not. I have a
Speaker 1: roommates in the same year in the same year book
Speaker 1: a Broadway show. That's so. Then I was in New
Speaker 1: York and all my family came to New York for Christmas.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, I was like there by
Speaker 1: myself seventeen and then I turned eighteen. I had my
Speaker 1: eighteenth birthday in New York. That's where were you staying
Speaker 1: in New York? I was staying they had like they
Speaker 1: had put me up in this like oh it's house.
Speaker 1: It was not giving, but you know, um respectfully be
Speaker 1: giving overworks and underpaid. I wasn't living for that. Yes,
Speaker 1: I was like, isn't it labor of something? I don't
Speaker 1: know one to three, four, five, six, seven. It's almost
Speaker 1: like eight to nine shows a week, depending on what
Speaker 1: you want, okay. And then I was like, Okay, who's
Speaker 1: doing here? In makeup, They're like you. I was like,
Speaker 1: who's doing design you? Well, who's putting my MinC on you?
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, Literally I was over there. I
Speaker 1: was like, so it's the same scripts, same everything every
Speaker 1: day and we're doing this mostle time to day. Hey,
Speaker 1: yay guy, how long were you on bay? I did
Speaker 1: that like almost a year. Yeah, you were training for
Speaker 1: but that's a that's a deep training, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And it was at the time it feels
Speaker 1: a way, but that's real training. It was. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, y'all. Y'all deserve way more than this because
Speaker 1: this is a lot. Like it was the hardest job
Speaker 1: I think I've ever done, like being on top of everything.
Speaker 1: I remember the first couple of shows was like if
Speaker 1: I didn't know where I was supposed to be placed,
Speaker 1: like the other girls that played my friends and stuff,
Speaker 1: they would look at me and I'm like, this is
Speaker 1: a live show. Oh my god. It was too much.
Speaker 1: I was so I was so green, And then by
Speaker 1: the end of it, I was like, anyway, I got
Speaker 1: right there. I'd be like happily because I've done it
Speaker 1: so much. I go like a robot. You know that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then like at the beginning, I would always be
Speaker 1: nervous because I had to kiss this guy because we
Speaker 1: were in love, and I'd be like and then by
Speaker 1: the end, I was like, all right, anyway, let's get
Speaker 1: this over come on, Tom, give me literally, Like I mean,
Speaker 1: it was just crazy, like how how different my mindset
Speaker 1: was on it at the end versus at the beginning.
Speaker 1: But I don't know I would I think I would
Speaker 1: do it again, but it would have to be like
Speaker 1: definitely bossed up. And then also like it's not it
Speaker 1: would be like a very much passionate project. It's like
Speaker 1: when you do Broadway, you know it is a labor up.
Speaker 1: Yeah you know what I mean, and because you really
Speaker 1: did to show up in your tools, your tool and
Speaker 1: but it's like you never if you can have no no, no,
Speaker 1: if you can if you have to my life to
Speaker 1: pick the project, then that's uh, that's the plus. If
Speaker 1: you can pick the project in the moment, that's the plus.
Speaker 1: But but outside, but the work, I respected that how
Speaker 1: many we do okay, okay, how much right like um okay,
Speaker 1: But it was like it was the the best experience
Speaker 1: for me because of you know, of course the people
Speaker 1: that I was on the road with, they were like
Speaker 1: you know, from TV shows and from movies, and they
Speaker 1: were they were the real deal. I was this singer guy,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, who was the only singer
Speaker 1: guy on the stage in this you know, kind of
Speaker 1: prominent role. And they're looking at me like what you got?
Speaker 1: What you got out? I think it's so interesting because
Speaker 1: when I was doing it, I was like the girl
Speaker 1: from Disney. So they were like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: That's like, I really don't know. Actually, doesn't you're doing something?
Speaker 1: You got to go to the trenches. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's all preparation for all of these things that
Speaker 1: we're involved in. And it goes back to you're so
Speaker 1: trying to wards performance. You're prepared for those moments. It
Speaker 1: showed everyone is not prepared for when that light come
Speaker 1: on and when it's time to do your job. You understand, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is my spot, these are my these are my
Speaker 1: these are my notes, this is how I'm supposed to finish.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna handle this like a professional, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. You've got so many artists out here
Speaker 1: now and I won't even say now we've always had.
Speaker 1: We've always had some bullshit at times, but I think
Speaker 1: it's it's it's more. It's it's it's normalized now that
Speaker 1: people aren't ready ready. And I think also because we
Speaker 1: are in this fast culture, so then sometimes people do
Speaker 1: pop off fast because of social media and trends, and
Speaker 1: then it's like, yeah, what do you do when you
Speaker 1: were just singing and doing something on your computer? You know? Well,
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's like like if if
Speaker 1: we're saying, okay, this this record is jumping off, TikTok
Speaker 1: is going crazy, this major label comes in and say, hey,
Speaker 1: you're popping, We're gonna give you a deal, let's go,
Speaker 1: and then you just throw them to the wolves. And
Speaker 1: that's the part that the development costs money, but I
Speaker 1: want to spend that, but that's the part that's missing.
Speaker 1: So it's like that's why we have I think more
Speaker 1: of it. You know, We've always had the bullshit for sure,
Speaker 1: but I think we have more of it because there
Speaker 1: are more avenues for people to get cracking and people
Speaker 1: will just throw money at it as opposed to throwing
Speaker 1: some type of tutelage and education and I'm just standing
Speaker 1: at it it's a fun word to need it. We
Speaker 1: need it. And so um, let's get out of New York. Okay,
Speaker 1: back to back to BA. You're back to l with
Speaker 1: no roommate. I was blowing it. That was not a
Speaker 1: big Okay, that was not a big But I had
Speaker 1: all these you know, I had savings and stuff because
Speaker 1: I've been working since I was literally twelve. Yeah period. Um,
Speaker 1: so yes, I was back in l A auditioning and
Speaker 1: this was pre COVID when you would go into rooms
Speaker 1: and like meet casting people and stuff. It just seems
Speaker 1: so so long ago when we would go into rooms.
Speaker 1: But I'll be driving like all over the place, Santa Monica, downtown,
Speaker 1: North Hollywood, auditioning, auditioning, auditioning, auditioning, auditioning, auditioning, auditioning. Oh
Speaker 1: d Like, at least I'm grateful that, like I did
Speaker 1: have opportunities an audition. Some people just want that, you know,
Speaker 1: just the fact that they even are getting a shot
Speaker 1: to take It's like, oh my gosh, wow. But I
Speaker 1: think for me, like my pride was chacked because I
Speaker 1: had already expected it to go. I already thought I
Speaker 1: was at this level and go up from there. But
Speaker 1: it was like it doesn't matter what you did when
Speaker 1: you go into these rooms. They do not care your
Speaker 1: brand new. So I felt like I was constantly like
Speaker 1: just proving myself to people, like proving it, proving and
Speaker 1: proving it. And at the same time with music, I'm
Speaker 1: independent now, so like I don't really know what I
Speaker 1: want to sing recording to now when you come back
Speaker 1: to l as. Yeah, but like very much independent, like
Speaker 1: whatever I want to spend my money on to do,
Speaker 1: you know, because when you're independent, it's on you, and
Speaker 1: then the people that want to rock with you, you you know,
Speaker 1: maybe get it on the back end or like just believe,
Speaker 1: you know. And I had plenty of all of those
Speaker 1: different things. So like I would make music and then
Speaker 1: I was all to go into this music school. But
Speaker 1: that was just see I could feel my my family
Speaker 1: that I was in school, you know, because they were
Speaker 1: like when is she doing out there? And my parents
Speaker 1: would be like, she's in school, but um, I was
Speaker 1: doing that too. That was that didn't lead too much,
Speaker 1: and like it was so crazy because every time it
Speaker 1: would get to the point where it looked like I
Speaker 1: would need to pivot and like do something else, something
Speaker 1: would happen literally every time I would get something or
Speaker 1: like a song would pop off, or like I would
Speaker 1: get a sponsorship like a promo, like a content piece
Speaker 1: to do something on social media. And my numbers were
Speaker 1: not even giving like that. So it was just so
Speaker 1: they would come like something would always keep me going.
Speaker 1: I mean that it worked out, if that's what it was.
Speaker 1: If I was thinking if I was none none of that,
Speaker 1: I got thirty none steps. I got a question. Yes,
Speaker 1: some totally different. You mentioned it the school. Uh huh.
Speaker 1: What were your expectations of music school did you have?
Speaker 1: Did you walk into because you said something you were like,
Speaker 1: it didn't really pan out. So did you have expectations
Speaker 1: when you when you signed up for music school like
Speaker 1: this is going to help me through get X yres it. No,
Speaker 1: I did not expect that. I I only wanted to
Speaker 1: go to the school to network and to possibly learn.
Speaker 1: I was thinking I was going to learn how to produce.
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, I can learn that there, Lauren.
Speaker 1: I was studying like music business, like entertainment law, like
Speaker 1: I was like, I want to learn what all of
Speaker 1: this stuff means. Those were the things that I really
Speaker 1: knew I could get out of it. But what I
Speaker 1: thought was gonna pop me off was a job like
Speaker 1: acting role. So that's where I was like, whenever I
Speaker 1: get this role, I'm out of here. I don't even
Speaker 1: care how long I was studying any of this. I'm
Speaker 1: gone because this is what is going to open the
Speaker 1: door for me, you know, because I think sometimes people
Speaker 1: it's a it's a weird space with um with the
Speaker 1: music business and music education, and I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people don't look at it as really a real
Speaker 1: resource into making it because so many people have done
Speaker 1: it without it. So it's I and I sit in
Speaker 1: a funny space because I didn't you, I didn't utilize
Speaker 1: I didn't go to school for music either. But I
Speaker 1: do understand the value of it, and I think sometimes
Speaker 1: it's it's not really it's not really brought up at
Speaker 1: all when people talk about, Okay, this person went to
Speaker 1: Berkeley School of Music or this person you know, they
Speaker 1: went to the engineering Academy and these type of things.
Speaker 1: And I personally think it should be promoted a little
Speaker 1: more because I do think we need more people that
Speaker 1: you know, have some form of education in music business
Speaker 1: and in music period. I think that as we look
Speaker 1: at a curriculum for music business. I don't think that
Speaker 1: that's been curated no properly. And I think that there
Speaker 1: are so many things, so many nuances and actual music
Speaker 1: business of us doing the music business that's not in
Speaker 1: a music business school, that at some point there's we're
Speaker 1: going to have to help curate that program so that
Speaker 1: when people come out of music school music business school,
Speaker 1: they're not starting over from the very beginning, because that's
Speaker 1: normally what happens. Now if you have the gift, like
Speaker 1: if you go to Berkeley or one of those schools
Speaker 1: and you come out in here, or you know, you
Speaker 1: technically savvy, you know how to you know, you engineer,
Speaker 1: you know all these cool things like there's a there's
Speaker 1: a there's a good chance that you can be a
Speaker 1: dope session engineer, or catch a tour and go on
Speaker 1: the road, or or catch a cool engineering job for
Speaker 1: up and coming rapper or something like that. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Like, but when it's just music business.
Speaker 1: The things that I've seen from music business school is
Speaker 1: that they it's a book thing for the more go go,
Speaker 1: you're awesome and all things. That's what you've told them. Okay,
Speaker 1: you told us without telling them if you flexed on them. Okay,
Speaker 1: since you were this high, you've been doing it at
Speaker 1: a high level. We're gonna get into your mind, your
Speaker 1: R and B mind, and be mind. Your top five?
Speaker 1: Why does everything sound like a bad beer commercial? This
Speaker 1: is the mop. Your top five singers and singers and
Speaker 1: singers and singings and singers, top five and be sunk.
Speaker 1: Can give us a little bit the next My tough
Speaker 1: five aready your top five R and B singers male
Speaker 1: or female? Okay, well, I already hit. I already thought
Speaker 1: about this. They're all female, um in no particular order,
Speaker 1: but five of them. Brandy, Jasmine selevant, you're going to heavy,
Speaker 1: go ahead? And her Yeah, Barrier Alia Wow, Oh that's
Speaker 1: the toughness. Who dangerous sounds like they check ball man?
Speaker 1: Whose monsters? Who want to go no one, no One?
Speaker 1: I feel like they all have different elements. Like Jasmine
Speaker 1: is like this raspy, soul, full type thing, and like
Speaker 1: Aaliyah is like this vibe you can't help but be
Speaker 1: like you. Her songs are magnetic, you know, and they
Speaker 1: stick in your head. Beyonce is the execution. It's going
Speaker 1: to be executed to perfection, you know, her is like
Speaker 1: artistry like all these instruments you know who that Brandy Yea,
Speaker 1: the vocal behind you already knew. I feel like as
Speaker 1: I listened to your music and your EP, like your
Speaker 1: body of work, you cover all of that ground, You
Speaker 1: cover all of your inspirations in your music, because it
Speaker 1: was like you, you really were morphing into different moments,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, which is tough to do,
Speaker 1: to be able to you know, cater your voice to
Speaker 1: the different sonics, into the different tempos, and like I didn't,
Speaker 1: I didn't lose anything from you from a tempo record
Speaker 1: to a slow record. Did you write all of them?
Speaker 1: I don't feel like you should stay here and now
Speaker 1: get better here or you should like everything was like okay,
Speaker 1: because and then that comes with the execution when you
Speaker 1: talk about Beyoncet like you didn't. You didn't, you didn't
Speaker 1: lay off on any of those moments, on any of
Speaker 1: those tempos, like we gotta nail that. Let's do that again,
Speaker 1: because if it's not the run, then it's got to
Speaker 1: be the swag. And if it's not the swag, then
Speaker 1: it's got to be the cadence. And if it's not
Speaker 1: like you were on all of that. Congratulations you're top five, Welcome, Welcome,
Speaker 1: R and B songs, Okay, um and no order, say
Speaker 1: my name, Disney's Child, thinking about you, Frank Ocean, Wow,
Speaker 1: when you touch me? Brandy, don't you do this today? Okay?
Speaker 1: Some spear fingers, you know that one? That's one of
Speaker 1: my favorite records of all time. Okay, um focused by
Speaker 1: her with the harps, It doesn't mean And then I
Speaker 1: said my own song, just my luck, Come on, shout
Speaker 1: out yourself. Why shouldn't your song we want of your
Speaker 1: top five? I mean I realized that the theme here
Speaker 1: is do whatever you play? And damn right, how you
Speaker 1: went to that? Brandy? When you touch me? Oh my
Speaker 1: gosh's listen? Brand be saying one time at this R
Speaker 1: and B with an R and B night that I
Speaker 1: used to host every Wednesday, and Brandy singing, came in there, singing,
Speaker 1: and I saw dudes huddled up, Oh my gods, huddled
Speaker 1: up together, shoulder to shoulder in frenzy. It's like I
Speaker 1: wasn't one of those guys. It was. I just wasn't
Speaker 1: women in this like an artists together. It was guys
Speaker 1: huddled together, strong, solid dudes that were had, there were
Speaker 1: they were, they were broken, they were emotional, Brandy had
Speaker 1: done that. Her vocal is serious. It is, it is.
Speaker 1: It's the backgrounds as well, like it's the detail. It's
Speaker 1: not she don't play, she don't. And it's like, what's
Speaker 1: crazy is you remember the song and you web were
Speaker 1: the ad libs? Like, that's a whole another verse is
Speaker 1: the ad litle You've been trying to sing all the
Speaker 1: parts running out of breath. It's a whole thing. I
Speaker 1: want to sing your ad libs in the backgrounds at
Speaker 1: the same time, at the same time, well along with
Speaker 1: this lead line that Rodney's playing, What is the lead line?
Speaker 1: I want to do all of that. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 1: You're making an R and B voltron Okay, we're building.
Speaker 1: We need the vocal performance, style, styling, and passion for
Speaker 1: the artist for this voltron Who are you getting the
Speaker 1: vocal from? Put your phone down? Put your phone down? Alright, alright,
Speaker 1: Google is not your friend. I was gonna say the vocal,
Speaker 1: I would say, Jasmine, I want Jasmine's vocal on this
Speaker 1: voltron Um. Vote you go on with that, Yes, Jasmine
Speaker 1: your vocal. I'm gonna say, I mean, I could say Brandy,
Speaker 1: of course, but but I love Jasmine. I love it.
Speaker 1: This is like, this is this is one of my
Speaker 1: vul Drahn's. This is one of them. Okay, this one
Speaker 1: you're just building here, you're gonna build another one that
Speaker 1: it already did. The Brandy one is like it's on
Speaker 1: its own, leading the pack. And then this is the
Speaker 1: second in command performance style on stage. Beyonce m would
Speaker 1: pick that as well. Yeah, did you go to them
Speaker 1: to run two two? Get on my nerves. I have
Speaker 1: a thing where I only want to experience these things
Speaker 1: at the top tier, Like I would rather I want
Speaker 1: to go to the concert. When she's like, hey, co going,
Speaker 1: I'm like hey, she's like, come to the concert. I'm like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm on the way. Where's it that? Oh that's a
Speaker 1: little she didn't know what the show was that you're
Speaker 1: not really proud of to be huh, like like the
Speaker 1: rest of us, I'm saying, like, I just I just
Speaker 1: wanted to be experienced that way as I was in
Speaker 1: the audience experience in Beyonce. I want to be like
Speaker 1: I want to come and say don't We'll talk about
Speaker 1: your membership after this. Um, Okay, styling of the artists.
Speaker 1: What you want put the trip? Who who put who
Speaker 1: put that ship on? Put that on? She did? She?
Speaker 1: I mean, the trends are still very much the trends. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: she definitely put that on. Absolutely, And I also feel
Speaker 1: like she was sexy. But it wasn't giving like, Okay,
Speaker 1: new mystery, huh, it's really we're all out here when aperio, Okay.
Speaker 1: It was more like how does she? What is that?
Speaker 1: What's under there? Like what is this? I'm captivated by
Speaker 1: the unknown? You know. I just feel like that's something
Speaker 1: that is not as popular anymore, like you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Especially like as women, you feel like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is what everybody doing, this is what this is
Speaker 1: what I gotta do what we do? Like, well they
Speaker 1: care if I don't, you know. Well, so I liked that.
Speaker 1: For me, it was like, oh wow, she gets to
Speaker 1: like not have to do that. You just gotta decide
Speaker 1: what you want to be on and and not you
Speaker 1: and stand on the right. Of course you do. But
Speaker 1: then you know, as a girl, as a young girl
Speaker 1: coming up, all you see is the certain things that
Speaker 1: are like it right there right. I just feel like
Speaker 1: she for me was like a breath of fresh air.
Speaker 1: I could wear that too and feel like that's something
Speaker 1: I would wear. I would want to do that, not
Speaker 1: feel like, Okay, I have to do this to keep up.
Speaker 1: You know, passion of the artists who you don't get
Speaker 1: the heart from. Then, because Beyonce also has a passion
Speaker 1: as well, I'm going to say, Michael Jackson, mm hmm,
Speaker 1: oh you want to rehearse eight to ten hours a day.
Speaker 1: I don't want to play with it. Yeah, the passion
Speaker 1: was passionate. Yeah, you don't want to play with it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm playing with it. Yeah, he didn't play car being polished.
Speaker 1: That's man, that's yeah, it's different. I love it different.
Speaker 1: That is different. That's a great vultura. That's a great vultura.
Speaker 1: And then I also had to say dancing. But you
Speaker 1: guys didn't ask me that well, performance style. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: that is that is fact. Yeah, come over here, thank you.
Speaker 1: And I'm sad. None ain't nothing. I'm no, ain't nothing, right,
Speaker 1: don't make me regret? Oh yeah, in fact? Okay, oh yeah, okay, sorry,
Speaker 1: we got listen, we got we got we got something
Speaker 1: else for you. Lord what and don't go to your
Speaker 1: damn phone for it. Neither. You can't get this out
Speaker 1: your phone. I ain't singing no names. I have to guess.
Speaker 1: I ain't saying no names there. Who's doing you gotta
Speaker 1: looking to the clouds when he's saying might have been me?
Speaker 1: Might have been there? I don't know what it was
Speaker 1: like singing no names like you saying no names? You
Speaker 1: say names? What is this? What happened? I might you
Speaker 1: need a breakdown. You listen his song first, though, you
Speaker 1: see you see what you see what he's doing? Huh?
Speaker 1: You might catch you by the four seasons playing the
Speaker 1: piano the lobby. You what I ain't saying no name?
Speaker 1: Definitely master your second floor? Second, no names, get to
Speaker 1: it extra garlic like my steak oscar style. What is
Speaker 1: going on? So we have a portion of the show.
Speaker 1: Segment of the show. It's called I ain't saying no names.
Speaker 1: Will you tell us a story? Funny or fucked up?
Speaker 1: Are funny? Oh? I was over here trying to guess
Speaker 1: the song. I was like, no names, names And the
Speaker 1: only rule to this game. You can't say no names.
Speaker 1: We don't do no snitching here. You can't say nobody
Speaker 1: name tell your story though, Um, come on, listen. Let
Speaker 1: me think, because me telling this story, I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: in the stories. So I'm like, what do I want
Speaker 1: to say on the interwebs to win? So I like it?
Speaker 1: I like it. I like, give me. You can't say
Speaker 1: it was me Mini and Mickey do that? Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: And I told a good story already and didn't say
Speaker 1: no name. Let me think. M I'm scared. I'm also
Speaker 1: a little naive. People you got them, you got you
Speaker 1: got the stories, and now you got the stories. M
Speaker 1: h yeah that's the one when it hits you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh mm hm oh yeah. Should I thank you management?
Speaker 1: I love that management. I love that Yeah. Yeah, oh no,
Speaker 1: I have to keep that in mind. Say no names. Okay,
Speaker 1: so before you saw this is Coco Jones, I ain't
Speaker 1: saying no names. Whoa um, okay, I'm going to talk
Speaker 1: about a first date that I here went on. So
Speaker 1: basically this okay, fine checked. So this was a recommendation
Speaker 1: from a friend. My friend was like, I think you
Speaker 1: guys would really hit it off because the impression that
Speaker 1: I get from this guy is that you guys were
Speaker 1: really match. You know what I'm saying. You guys seen
Speaker 1: birds of a feather flock together type and I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: my friend had never recommended me do any first dates
Speaker 1: and nothing like that, so I was like, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna see what's talking about. So the first kind
Speaker 1: of date was like all like kind of a group
Speaker 1: hangout type thing, like to get just get the vibe.
Speaker 1: And then like you know how, girls were like, are
Speaker 1: you gonna go the bathroom? So basically means like you
Speaker 1: want to go talk to it in the bathroom, and
Speaker 1: so it's like, yes, I do. Great, So we're go
Speaker 1: in the bathroom. And after I had met him, like
Speaker 1: I thought, he was like mad fine, like da da
Speaker 1: da da da tall. You know, in l A it
Speaker 1: really be giving like you're either five eight or year
Speaker 1: six spot. Like it's rare for me because I'm tall.
Speaker 1: I'm always like year five ten. Okay, all right, I'm
Speaker 1: five ten anyway, so I was like he's actually tall,
Speaker 1: Like oh my god, he's cute, like funny da da
Speaker 1: da da da, Like I was a girl, I think
Speaker 1: you ate that. She was like okay, par so cool.
Speaker 1: So after the group haying, he was like, yeah, let's
Speaker 1: hang out one on one and I was like yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, so he like he was like, you want
Speaker 1: me to pick you up? Da da da da das
Speaker 1: and the carbos like whatever. I was like, you know,
Speaker 1: like you can pick me up whatever. Yeah, Okay's friends
Speaker 1: charming and like, you know, I had these impressions like
Speaker 1: he's like cool, like suave type, you know, like the
Speaker 1: like with a little side of like corny, which I
Speaker 1: like that, like I don't like, like yo what I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I can't read you. He's so scary, like I like
Speaker 1: a little fun because I'm like a little corny too,
Speaker 1: you know. So we go on this date or whatever,
Speaker 1: and um when he gets there to pick me up,
Speaker 1: I get in the car and there's a balloon ball Yes,
Speaker 1: there's a balloon, a happy birthday balloon. And it's not
Speaker 1: my birthday, and I don't think it's his, Like why
Speaker 1: would you want to hang out with me on your birthday?
Speaker 1: I just met you? This is crazy. So I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm like what is it? What's that? And he's like okay.
Speaker 1: So he's like I wanted to do something a little different,
Speaker 1: you know, like and it was like hard to get
Speaker 1: a reservation. So I told him it was your birthday.
Speaker 1: So we got to like pretend it's your birthday, like
Speaker 1: is that okay? And I was like okay, Like I was,
Speaker 1: I was thinking this is different. I'm never gonna forget this.
Speaker 1: But then I was like, do you buy a balloon
Speaker 1: for every girl? Like it's a lot of balloons. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know how you get down, but like, is
Speaker 1: this what you're doing? Every time? I was like is
Speaker 1: he doing this? Because like I'm in the industry and
Speaker 1: I like, like the raw raw, Like what's happening. I
Speaker 1: was like okay, But in my mind, I'm like, but
Speaker 1: I think he's being like nice and trying to be different. Okay. Cool. So,
Speaker 1: like we drive and we go to the wrong destination first,
Speaker 1: the old restaurant, and it wasn't even there anymore, so
Speaker 1: that we had to go to the other one. And
Speaker 1: so it's kind of like a longer drive, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: let's play some of our favorite songs so that we
Speaker 1: could like not have to like sit here and talk
Speaker 1: all the time, Like we got a long drive. So
Speaker 1: he plays some of his music and I did not
Speaker 1: like any of it. Like that was also very concerning.
Speaker 1: I was like, what are these songs? Like I've never
Speaker 1: heard them and I don't like them at all. So
Speaker 1: I was like okay, and the balloons like bouncing around
Speaker 1: the background, I'm like oh. I was like oh, I
Speaker 1: was like okay, next, so so literally like he gets
Speaker 1: he was like, I just have one more song, like
Speaker 1: I need to play it, like this is my favorite cover,
Speaker 1: and I was like, okay, a favorite cover, Like okay,
Speaker 1: so no names, it's this song, this cover and I
Speaker 1: can't even sing the song because the song would give
Speaker 1: it away. Well, no, it's a cover, okay. So I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna say a hypothetical song and pretend to be
Speaker 1: him because I need to play this out. We're driving
Speaker 1: or whatever and he's singing his heart out and I
Speaker 1: just met him, so let's pretend it's uh revo uh.
Speaker 1: And so he's like zlight and it's not on tune
Speaker 1: like he's he's not giving it's like zat I don't
Speaker 1: wagon like he's singing, and I'm like all the cool
Speaker 1: points went out the window, Like I said, I like cool,
Speaker 1: I like cool, what the what? The song outside not
Speaker 1: not the main dish, like save that on the side
Speaker 1: so I can dabble in. It's not not even family
Speaker 1: style honestly like kids, a kid's portion of corn, kids portion,
Speaker 1: like you can fit it in the small plate that
Speaker 1: the couple one. And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait,
Speaker 1: this is not who I met the other day, Like,
Speaker 1: what's going on here? The balloon? I'm like, oh, the balloon.
Speaker 1: I'm holding the balloon and I don't like the song
Speaker 1: and he's singing his heart out and then he like
Speaker 1: takes my hand and he's like, z this is I'm
Speaker 1: like so I'm like, I'm telling my hand is the
Speaker 1: mic and I'm like holding the balloon and I'm like okay, wait,
Speaker 1: wait wait, I'm just like what happened? Where did the
Speaker 1: cool points go? So then we pulled up to the restaurant.
Speaker 1: I didn't even get to play my songs, you know,
Speaker 1: I didn't get to play anything. And he's still singing
Speaker 1: and the ballet is like are you So he's looking
Speaker 1: in the window and he's like dah and I'm like okay,
Speaker 1: and the guys that are you coming out like I
Speaker 1: don't know and he's like we just gotta finish this
Speaker 1: real quick. And he's like like literally, I don't know
Speaker 1: what was going on. I didn't know what was going on.
Speaker 1: So I'm like I'm getting nervous because I'm like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, like what did I sign up for? What? What? Where?
Speaker 1: Who is this man? So anyway, the song finally ends
Speaker 1: like and I was like trying to like get get
Speaker 1: that over with. So I was like, I was like,
Speaker 1: come on, let's go. I was like the valets like
Speaker 1: waiting on us, like come on, and he's like okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: I was like come on please. So then we get
Speaker 1: out or whatever and he's like, well, is that too much?
Speaker 1: And I was like no, no, no, no, it's fine.
Speaker 1: But I'm like so I'm like carrying this balloon. I'm
Speaker 1: like walking past people like ah, you're Darren. So this
Speaker 1: date was on Halloween, so just think about that. This
Speaker 1: was on Halloween. So I'm carrying this balloon and people
Speaker 1: are like Halloween Birthday, Like oh my gosh. They're like
Speaker 1: they're like, get Jerry Jerry. Jerry Jay comes out. He's
Speaker 1: like I do not see a lot of Halloween birthdays,
Speaker 1: but man, oh man, aren't we special hall And I'm
Speaker 1: like yes, yes, So it's so nice. And then the
Speaker 1: guys like it's I tell her all the time, like
Speaker 1: it's her birthday, like you know, she gotta live it up.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, like, this is so not what I
Speaker 1: thought was gonna happen. Not what I thought was gonna happen.
Speaker 1: So literally like that's where we're like the balloon is
Speaker 1: settled because it was messing with the heat lamps and
Speaker 1: so I had to like I was like sit your
Speaker 1: as the balloon was like settled there, and like I'm
Speaker 1: talking to him and everything, like I would say, it
Speaker 1: would give like oh yeah, like your wifey. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh first, it was like it was like your cap
Speaker 1: because there's no way he did. I was like, you
Speaker 1: don't even know me. I'd be like, oh, yeah, I've
Speaker 1: tried that that that food before. Like shrimp is really good.
Speaker 1: He'd be like, shrimp, he's good. You're so wifey, Like yes,
Speaker 1: I'd be like a protein. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think that qualifies me. I haven't asked me
Speaker 1: like any core questions about myself, but shrimp he is good.
Speaker 1: I guess like yeah. So like we're talking or whatever
Speaker 1: and the progresses or whatever, and I know I'm like
Speaker 1: not really feeling it if I'm just ready to go,
Speaker 1: Like you know when you really like somebody. You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a little lounge waking. It's kind of
Speaker 1: cute like whatever. But then I was like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: so so tired working, working, you know, man working, So
Speaker 1: I just need to go. I'm gonna rest, like I
Speaker 1: need to rest. And he's like, yeah, no problem. He
Speaker 1: drops me off whatever whatever, and then um, he like
Speaker 1: walks me to the door, and I was like literally
Speaker 1: I was looking at him and I feel like I
Speaker 1: literally gave him telepathy. I was like, you are going
Speaker 1: to get embarrassed. I would really appreciate it if you
Speaker 1: just settled the score and leave. And then I felt
Speaker 1: like he was like understood, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: telling me I will head out, so anyway, he didn't.
Speaker 1: It gives me whatever, but I get into my house
Speaker 1: or whatever. And then he texted me and he was
Speaker 1: like I just cannot get over how beautiful you looked.
Speaker 1: He was like, thank you so much for spending time
Speaker 1: with me. Sleep well, and um text me tomorrow. And
Speaker 1: then he was like good night me and more I
Speaker 1: was like damn. I was like, man, I said good night,
Speaker 1: and yeah, that was an interesting story. I don't know what.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that was. I really don't excited. Why,
Speaker 1: like what see and that's what that's what's not gonna
Speaker 1: work for me. It's like, yes, for sure, yes this
Speaker 1: is all very much young because even the verbage that
Speaker 1: shrimp is nice your wife, like that's a very young
Speaker 1: I don't like they throw that out like that, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying to It was just like I
Speaker 1: felt like, I don't like to feel I feel I
Speaker 1: want to feel valued and like, oh you you are
Speaker 1: treating me like a prize. You know, yes, I want
Speaker 1: to feel that, but I don't want to feel like
Speaker 1: you're you're you're looking at me up on this pedestal
Speaker 1: like wow, hope one day I can get up there,
Speaker 1: because then I'm like that means I'm looking down at you.
Speaker 1: Why am I on a date with you and I'm
Speaker 1: looking down at you? You know, I don't want to
Speaker 1: feel like that anyway. If that was a funny ish story,
Speaker 1: kind of cringe, let me use that. But I didn't
Speaker 1: count them out that. I didn't count the out. You
Speaker 1: didn't count you gave him another day? Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: actually did, like, oh, ship, but don't be over here
Speaker 1: buying balloons for the first day. That's not hot. It word.
Speaker 1: It did not work. No, no no, no, no, no, no
Speaker 1: one here, it did not work. I I liked him,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't giving that, so you liked him. I
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know that happy birthday balloon,
Speaker 1: you little corny fellas. Okay, it's but corn is memorable.
Speaker 1: Corn is memorable, rememberable doesn't Corn doesn't break down anyway.
Speaker 1: I thought he was a good guy. That's why I
Speaker 1: gave him more of a chance because I was thinking
Speaker 1: about it and I was like, Okay, he definitely went
Speaker 1: all the way corn city with it. But the opposite
Speaker 1: of that is the too cool for school like I
Speaker 1: do this, like I say everything. Everything that I'm saying
Speaker 1: sounds rehearsed, Like I'm not nervous at all. You don't
Speaker 1: give me no type of butterflies, like whatever, you know.
Speaker 1: I don't want that. So I'm going to give the
Speaker 1: guy a chance. Yeah, yeah, you know what I like,
Speaker 1: Did you get a chance? Yeah? Yeah, Because you just
Speaker 1: never know. You never know, you never know, you never know,
Speaker 1: never know. I've seen some odd couples wherever like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you don't look like it's her birthday. I know. I
Speaker 1: was like man, what y'all really got me? Carrying it
Speaker 1: balloon around? Literally, always remember it. I will never forget it.
Speaker 1: I'll never forget it. I'll never forget it. And I
Speaker 1: still like, I still think the guy has great qualities
Speaker 1: and all of those things. It's just giving. That's not
Speaker 1: how it was gonna pan out. But if a guy
Speaker 1: was corny on the first date, I'm definitely gonna have
Speaker 1: another day with him because I'm like, you're nervous and
Speaker 1: you're trying. The effort is there. We'll take that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: come on, now the level of corn watch this and
Speaker 1: be like, you know, when I get my change. This
Speaker 1: is a little side right here, just enough to compliment
Speaker 1: the entree, just enough to compliment. Don't over don't be
Speaker 1: overbearing with the core. Like half a cob, half a
Speaker 1: cop at best, a whole car right there with it,
Speaker 1: right there with it. Just a spoonful of sugar makes
Speaker 1: medicine go down. You know, you get it. Um Coco Jones,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. Um we we we think you're
Speaker 1: really dope. Thank you. We appreciate the light. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: appreciate your energy. Um pure in r G. Don't do
Speaker 1: that because they could be a whole group right now. Great,
Speaker 1: bringback Greg. That's what I did. I'm never gonna live.
Speaker 1: You're still high up on the cool with us. Still
Speaker 1: you got it. I see so much um, so much
Speaker 1: dope shit in your future than you and I see it, um.
Speaker 1: I see it in the very simple space of you
Speaker 1: just being you. Thank you. You know what. I absolutely
Speaker 1: that you will never you will never have to compromise
Speaker 1: who you are and people are going to love it.
Speaker 1: They're already gravitating to it. And it's just gonna keep
Speaker 1: taking you higher and higher and higher. So from R
Speaker 1: and B Money, Um, you have our support. You have
Speaker 1: anything you need from us that goes without saying thank you.
Speaker 1: I need a hit song with a duet. Let's get
Speaker 1: into that sounds simple, Yes, that's easy, that doesn't sound
Speaker 1: all Yeah, okay, great, that's done. So listen you just
Speaker 1: heard it first. There's gonna be some music. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: just poke some R and B money Koko Jones. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I done for Jones. You're saying to get a little chance,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about it. We're gonna talk about it.
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