WEBVTT - Episode 164 "Coco Jones" 0:00:01.360 --> 0:00:14.160 Hold up, Hold up, Alert Show, what's your best friends? 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:17.120 See solom and this is the Fall Alert Show Podcast Home, 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:22.120 what's happening your boy building? What's probably occ So listen, 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:24.079 best friends. We're not gonna hold y'all. We know that, 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:25.800 y'all miss us. We missed you too. But we've been 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:27.720 outside work and doing what we do. Matter of fact, BT, 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:30.680 Ben all out on the road, hanging with celebrities, flying 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:32.560 private jets. That's what do you do? I don't know 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:37.199 what you're talking about. You do? I see Instagram? It's 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:39.519 all your Instagram friend, I saw you. It was a 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:45.720 music video. No allegedly. Where where are you this week? 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:48.600 B T? Where did you go this week? Come? I 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.360 was in Florida. I had to shoot a commercial because 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:53.560 I'm doing a brand ambassador deal with this company. So 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:55.640 you know, I'm just out here trying to get my coins. 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:58.480 You feel me? I love it brand ambassador. I would 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:00.600 ask O c T how she doing, but I would 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:03.120 rather to hear much about the Brandon dust and the 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:08.360 ship Solo. What you're doing henlous life of Sue Solo? Well, 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:10.040 I'm just trying to get Like BT, I haven't been 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.440 on a private jet before. So hint, hint, if you 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:14.760 feel like calling that, ain't got to let me know, say, 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:17.160 I'll break the Hennessy. We've been enjoying ourselves though, just 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:19.639 trying to get my bearings with like the thirty jobs 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:21.000 that I feel like I have right now, You've got 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:22.600 a lot of jobs. I do feel like I have 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:24.480 a lot of jobs. But they all go together. They 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:27.080 all go together, you see, Like Hennessey can support this event, 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:29.680 this events. You know, it's it's a fig I like 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:33.360 how you move Yeah, smart, not hard. Okay, let's get 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:39.720 into in case you missed it, So best friends Katanji 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:43.360 Brown Jackson. Jackson is now officially confirmed as the first 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:49.880 black female Supreme Court justice. People don't seem to understand 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:53.160 why this is a big deal, So I'm a fan again. 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:56.320 She'll be the first black female justice in the Court's history, 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:59.560 and therest justice in decades to have served as a 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.280 public offend herself. Basically, it just seems like she's very 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.800 well educated, she knows what it's like on both sides, 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:08.000 or will know what it's like on both sides, and 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:11.720 she seems the most eligible to possibly help make change. 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:15.280 I'm just saying like, throughout this administration. They're getting some 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:18.640 things right. You know, we're the first black woman vice president, 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:21.280 you know, the first black woman justice. You know, if 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:25.079 it's super in court, like what you want to tell 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:29.880 Joe Popping right now? What did you take my money? 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:32.679 But where's the vice president? Then? Where's she? What's the 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:36.720 next story? Yeah? Because I mean they might be putting 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:40.680 people in possess I mean she did. She did read 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:45.120 the confirmation with a head. She working, though she working. 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:48.079 All this Outsina is also working. He just released a 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:52.840 new to Hong call Shake the World Donations. She suddenly 0:02:52.880 --> 0:03:02.760 come back for me and crops and around, just get 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:09.799 it till a y'all. August, I've seen a fan. I 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:12.400 feel like August seeing you need to sat down. I 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:15.320 am in August. I'll seeing a fan. I'll consider myself 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:16.799 a fan. I do enjoy his music when I know 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:18.600 about it. It just kind of seems like he releases 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:23.480 stuff and it's music just not consistent, like right, and 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:25.840 it's just it's just mighty funny to me how it's 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:29.120 come around now, you know, with the Smith's in the 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.280 well not so good light, and he just wanted to 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:35.480 release projects and tell all books and all that I'm 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.520 just it's just the timing for me. I just missed 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:40.520 when you know, he was just putting out, you know, 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:43.840 music that didn't pertain nothing else. You know, he had 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:45.680 the short hair, that's what he was doing, this thing, 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:47.800 We had the short hair. When the songs did not 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.800 include his entanglement, because he definitely mentioned the entanglement with 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:52.880 in this song as well, I feel like that's the 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:59.200 whole promo for the album August real talk. I'm just 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.440 trying to figure out, like how much do you want 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:04.200 to shake the world like my guy? You had the 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:08.200 headlines in the Chokehold all last year, man Kevin Jada 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:12.119 came out about the relationship that Jada actually called an entanglement. 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:15.680 Got into an entanglement with a guess that's what I said, 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:18.200 which in mis means it's a little more than casual. 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:22.880 It was the thing like relationship. Yes, it was a relationship. Yeah. 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:25.040 I always thought that situation was just kind of like, 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:29.080 you know, weird because they never they never came out, 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:31.920 you know that they were you know, until they did 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:34.280 they did or whatever. We just used to see him 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:37.159 hanging out with the family. I thought he was friends 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:41.880 with her son. Do you think you know what I'm saying, 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:43.880 Like because the way it looked, because like the pictures, 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:46.719 he would like hang out with everybody. So I always 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:48.560 just thought he was just friends with you know, with 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:51.480 her son or something kind of like when Lori Harvey 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:57.159 was dating, did he somethinge um start out to Loria Harvey? 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.040 You know Michael B Jordan. They said, Michael, get that 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:01.760 hair back on your hand. Listen. They are doing their things, 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.960 so listen. On Twitter, user actually said something to August. 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:09.120 This girl said, when we're shaking my bed, and he replied, 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:12.520 I ain't having sex. I gotta keep harnessing my energy 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.560 and life force to continue suthoning energy for all the 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.400 spells that have been casted. You know a lot of 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:20.800 people believe in like, you know, voodoo, and you know, 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:23.680 because he's from from New Orleans and that's it's a 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:25.880 very big thing in New Orleans cultures. As far as 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:33.440 I understand, I apologize if I'm wrong, please yea. So 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:35.880 people thought he was tripping, like they thought something was 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:38.440 wrong with him, So sources reached out to verify if 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:40.840 his tweets were actually his tweets, and he said, yeah, 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.839 I said what I said, that's that's normal for people 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.920 to you know, feel like somebody casting spells and stuff. 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:52.680 I mean, that's what he's doing. So so he said 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:54.960 he's not having sex so he can harness his energy. 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:57.120 Is that something that you feel like you might ever 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:00.200 need to do in your life? Bet if need be 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:04.680 absinent to you know, you know I was using the Germans. 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:10.040 What'd you say? What you say? Do men hardness their 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.840 energy by refraining from sex? I mean I don't. I 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:16.839 don't know about everybody, but I know that I feel 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:21.560 like I feel like, you know, sometimes it does make 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:24.440 you more focused, you know, when you when you are 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:29.320 away from women and you know, not indulging in sexual activities. 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:31.920 You know, I find myself, at least for me, more 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:35.720 focused and you know, have more of a clear mind. Um, 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:38.039 you know, but I can't say for everybody. I don't 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.600 know about you know, all these long periods of times, 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:44.840 you know, I don't know about now. I don't know 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.280 about all that in a long period of time, I 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:53.680 got well. Russell waited for his marriage to Sierra. He did. 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:58.279 Is that why Channing Crowder is calling him a cornball? Yeah? 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:06.080 That will be with him. Russell Squaire had she she 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:08.920 has a good situation. But she was you gonna leave future, 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:18.600 She's get with Russell Wilson. I think that's future and everybody, Yeah, 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:21.240 that's true. Everybody has a top. You're gonna leave future 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:24.200 and get Russell when you get so god damned square 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:26.440 and I love him on the field. He's a square. 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:30.360 He's a square. He go from this level of toxicity. 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.360 You just want something stable. You want the guy that 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:35.280 was sitting with that girl with that big old mom 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:37.360 at the draft, that was laughing and you knew she 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.360 deserved to be with the goofball. You want you want 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:45.040 to get goofball. That was that was messed up because 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.440 you can't say a man is a cornball because of 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:51.440 how he is in life and how he treats his woman. 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:54.840 I'm gonna say this. You cannot say a man is 0:07:54.880 --> 0:08:00.360 a cornball who has two hundred million dollars. I mean no, no, no, no, no, 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:03.880 no no no no no no. Women can do that. 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:05.800 Women can say I don't care how much money you got, 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:10.120 But as a man, you cannot say another man is 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:13.360 a cornball that got two hundred million dollars. Yes you can. 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.600 You can't. If you corny, your corny the money don't 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:20.120 make you un corny. I don't think he's corny. You 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:23.000 think I don't think he's corny. I think it's a 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.120 respectable guy. You know what I'm saying. Everybody do things differently. 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.760 That's their way. You know what I'm saying. Lead them alone. Yeah, 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:31.120 now with somebody would call me corny if I got two. 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:34.760 His whole point was to me. She she leveled up. 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:37.079 I feel like he said, you don't go from a 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:40.840 future to a Russell Wilson because clearly you have a type. 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:43.160 Now let me tell you something. Your type might not 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:45.360 be the type for you. Just because you have a type, 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:47.920 don't mean your type gonna work out when you're young. Yeah, 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:49.640 you want to date the dope boys in the trap. 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:51.280 You want to have fun, live wild life on the 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:54.439 wild side. What ship they play you on? Off? You're 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:57.760 ready for someone who is same. Like you just said. 0:08:57.800 --> 0:08:59.679 You go through periods in your life where you know 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:02.199 you having fun, you outside, you doing your thing, But 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:04.320 there comes a time when you're looking in the mirror 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:09.360 like baby, I'm only gonna be the young, but it's long. 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:11.160 You know what I'm saying. I need to secure something. 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:13.719 I need to secure my future. And I feel like, 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:17.120 you know, no, puney right, she realized what she was 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:19.200 worth and she decided to be with a man who 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:22.400 was specting that. That's like that. Everybody go through stages 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:24.439 in their life. You know what I'm saying. Shout out 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:27.480 to Russelan Sierra, because baby, somebody pulled up Channing Crowder's 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:35.560 high school photos show ugly. Now since he's talking about bodies, 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:38.880 it ain't no telling how many fifty cent got because 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:40.640 this man would not lead to here and a real 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:44.760 long money. She wants his money here, how much he 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:46.360 got in the bank. And I don't care either if 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:47.839 I if you want me two dollars, I want my 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:51.800 damn to a money, especially when you sued me and 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:56.040 it backfired, I definitely want my money. Okay, But listen, 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:59.440 you guys, it was wrong for him to repost that video. 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:04.720 He not have posted that on his Plassen Internet exactly. 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:08.160 So does that excuse any of this at all? On 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:10.960 the internet? It was, but come on, now, why would 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:15.160 he be We know he is a savage. Okay. I 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:17.520 just think it's heavy enough that she already has someone 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:21.199 that she trust without a video that she did not authorize. 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:24.280 You know, she was hurt. Now I can't understand the argument, 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:27.240 Like everybody, A lot of people reposted it, why fifty 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:29.440 Is it because he has the money? But I think 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:31.480 it's because he has such a big platform that it 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:33.800 it blew it up even more, you know what I mean. 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:35.720 I thought that was kind of tough toever he's gonna 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:37.240 throw a lot, but at this point says he's not 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.600 letting up. I heard he had investigated for on your 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:42.920 ass and he wants to bring you to the forefront 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.120 so you can pay him his money. Becoming like the 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:48.400 rs keep be talking about garnishing checks and all types. Ship, 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:54.240 I need my money by Monday. Now Shanty is getting 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:56.439 her flowers. She got a star on the Hollywood Walk 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.560 of Fame. Like some people are confusings as to how 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:02.719 that happened. But Shanty is very talented. She contributed a lot. 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:05.880 She's kind of young, though. We'll shout out to Shawn 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:08.920 t Man, shout out to my girls, scissors winning that 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:12.280 Grammy Jazz and something we're winning. I love it. I 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:16.400 love it. It's like, yeah, it's the black girl magic 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:19.280 for me. And speaking of black girl magic, we have 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:21.599 a very special guest coming in today. We're gonna be 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:24.439 talking to Coco Jones. If you don't know who she is, 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:27.640 you're about to find out Hillary Banks from Ben Larry. Y'all. 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:30.599 I don't want to give him a season. I just 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:32.160 want to let him know. Y'all need to come right back. 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:35.280 It's Bert right back period. We'll be right back with 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:40.040 more of The Baller Alert Show. Still listening to a 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:42.920 special edition of The Baller Alert Show. It's a special 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:45.680 cloth Alert. Well, you know I could be the person 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:49.920 on your team. I thought you had your own thing 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:53.640 though I do, but when I saw the boost that 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:57.040 you and I both got from one event, I realized 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.559 we can do a lot more together than alone. I 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:03.800 don't know Hillary. After a while, just going to upscale 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:08.160 adventisn't get played out, which is why I think you 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:14.240 should buy Kylo out of my influence. Posh, think about it. 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.880 We clear out Kylo and we rebrand as this female 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:22.559 forward space Foller Nation. Welcome back to the podcast. Is 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.560 your best Friends to solo and listen. We've been talking 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:28.280 about black Girl Magic and we might as well just 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:30.559 keep it going. Ladies and gentlemen, we are talking to 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:37.400 Coco Jones. No, I'm a little but her, because I 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:39.600 came in looking like radio, and since is out here 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:44.240 making her rounds. Okay, she's got the yes. I literally 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:46.360 ran from the studio to go get chat. You see 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:48.199 a little one too, And then I came here. She 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:52.240 did the one to and the three Okay cocko Johns. 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:54.720 Where the hell did you come from? Oh my gosh, Well, 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:56.440 a lot of people know it from Disney, and they 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:59.520 know me from leg Shine, But really, I'm from Tennessee 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:03.320 and I've been singing since before I could talk. Country girl. 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:07.719 My whole my whole life is singing Lebanon, Tennessee. I 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:14.400 never knew there was a Lebanon, Tennessee. Most people, she said, 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:18.480 I was sing every chance in l A and Disney 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:21.040 and all those cool things. You know. I was doing 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:24.280 talent competitions when I was younger, and I just wanted more. 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:28.319 I actually gave like this ghetto little CD than my 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:30.880 mama made on her windows PC. I gave this casting 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:33.240 lady at this huge casting call with like five thousand kids. 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:35.520 A year later, she asked me to be on Disney's 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:38.599 Talent competition. From there, I was auditioning for shows, not 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:40.560 getting them because I was not good then I got 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:42.720 a couple and then from there I got a movie. 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:45.840 And that's when it was like, okay, well most world 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:48.360 is different. Now you're a good thing. You didn't get 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:51.199 finesse because maybe maybe out here for ness and you know, 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:52.880 you go to them small town, they'd be like, yeah, 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:59.320 you want to be maybe a star. But my mom 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:01.360 is un and as of well, she's an entrepreneur. She 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:05.559 comes from an entrepreneur family. So she was like, Mom, 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:07.560 I know, I think it sold up. How you really 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:10.760 just took some accountability. What you said was you went 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:12.559 on some auditions, you tried for some things, and you 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:15.080 didn't get them because you weren't good. Most people will 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:18.120 not admit that. Oh no. I definitely looked back and 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:21.600 I'm like that was rough, like rooting for her, thank god, 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:24.360 But you know, everything is trial and error. And I 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:26.560 feel like, because I was so green, I didn't know 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:28.720 what work I did. I knew what didn't, so I 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:30.920 just had to, you know, evolve and adapt. But was 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:34.040 singing I can always rope somebody in Okay. I looked 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:38.080 online the little research and it says that you are actress, singer, 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:41.080 rapper and lord dancing. What BYA was this I've been 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:47.240 trying to work with you guys. When I used to 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:49.240 when I was younger, I used to wrap yes, But 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:51.720 now the girls really be rapping, So I don't even 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:53.840 want to put that when I don't want to, don't 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:56.320 want somebody to interview, like yeah, kid, the freestyle real quick, 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:01.320 also right, but also to their like, I really respect 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:03.480 the girls out here who are coming with them sickening 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:06.720 and so I'm like, that's not these girls, these dudes. 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.120 I mean, look, you know, West females, we gotta work 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:11.200 harder just to get the same respect, which is not cute, 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.560 but per we do we do at school. You definitely 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:15.840 said that. So Strength of a Woman Festival is coming 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:18.040 up in Atlanta, May sixth to the eighth. Now it's 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:21.000 had like Mayor J Blige obviously and featuring some amazingly 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:24.440 talented women since you brought them up. You have legendary 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:27.080 artists like Shaka Khan, you have Escape, You even have 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:30.120 newer talent like Queen Nyja arm A Red of the Great, 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:34.000 who is in fact from Atlanta. So Coco, I think 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:35.960 it's safe to say that it really is the Year 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:39.480 of the Woman, Like women have music in a choke hole. 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:42.920 I'm not arguing with nobody. Do you feel like this 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:45.800 is your time to come in? And how or where 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:47.360 do you think you can actually leave your mark at 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:50.760 such a time where women are so oh well, I 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:54.040 definitely feel like people that can watch my journey, they 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:57.080 can put into perspective that things really do take time, 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:00.760 and hopefully they can stay motivated to continue on their 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:03.640 paths of achieving whatever it is that they dream about, 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:05.360 and that keeps them up the things that they can't 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:09.040 imagine not doing because people don't know, like I started young, 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:11.720 but like I've been doing this and I had a 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:15.320 long long time where everything was moving slow, you know, 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:17.800 and I watched like a peek and then I watched 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:19.480 a fall. But now I feel like I'm back at 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:21.000 the peak, and so I want to tell people, like, 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:23.160 just because you're in a valley doesn't mean you're done. 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:25.440 It doesn't mean your windows closed. It just means there's 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:27.440 gonna be a different route than what you thought. But 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:29.600 just keep walking in that route. You know? Now, is 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:33.240 the internet correct? One? It says shout out was wisdom 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:40.600 from a twenty four year old. Okay, put that back. 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:43.960 So tell me what came first, music or acting? Oh, 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:47.600 music for sure, Music for sure. I actually I won 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.120 this talent competition. I was competing against my age I 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:51.920 won that one, and then I competed against adults. I 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.400 won that one, and the judge was the one that 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:55.920 was like, okay, I'll work with her for free. He 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:57.440 worked with me for a year and that's when I 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:00.600 created that get a little ep if I like leapovers 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:03.960 at basketball. It was the start. It was. It was 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:06.280 the start. So singing was my first thing. And then 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:08.080 I was bothering my mom like what else can I do? 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:10.480 She was like, just audition for the Brocket commercial. I 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:12.360 don't know, child, So then I didn't. I was like, oh, 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:14.960 this is cute too, So I started doing both and 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.840 whenever one was like slower, the other one would be faster. 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:21.720 So you always have something something to do with. She's smart, 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:23.760 she know how. She like, I'm gonna work every angle 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:27.680 basketball music, I'm gonna do it all. Oh my god, 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:29.919 where did basketball come from? Is that a real thing? 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:33.560 Well for me, yeah, my dad played professional ball, so 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:35.760 I thought sports was going to be my way in. 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:38.960 But then I realized that you can get paid to sing, 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:41.000 and I was like, I'm gonna take a permit time. 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:44.720 So were you really not into sports? It was just 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:46.560 more like the family. Oh no, I was into it. 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:49.040 I'm so okay. I was. I was very into it, 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:51.639 but I was more like I felt more in my 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:54.560 passion bag when I was on a stage or when 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:56.280 I'm in a studio. So I had to chase that 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:59.760 how tall are you? That's a good height for like 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.120 women's basketball. I would never know. I'm not even five feet. 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:09.000 So I just so you definitely wouldn't relax. Okay, So 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:11.960 how the hell did you get the role of playing 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:16.240 Hillary Banks on bel Air Man? I mean, it's still 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:19.120 such a blessing. I literally whenever I see the advertising, 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:22.680 I'm like, thank you guys, thank you God. Because I 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:24.959 actually didn't want an audition for him. It came across 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:27.720 my my email like auditions do, and my team was like, yeah, 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:30.240 we think you should email for this, and you know, 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:32.720 I didn't want to. I have like this impression that 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:35.479 I didn't fit the role. I felt like if they 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:38.280 were doing a reimagination, if they were doing a recreation, 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:40.400 they wanted Hillary to look exactly like you did before, 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:41.960 and I was like, my hair doesn't do that. I 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:43.400 don't look like that. I'm not that shade. I don't 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:45.320 even want to do this. So I told my acting manager, 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:47.480 I was like, can I audition for Ashley? He was like, girl, 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:53.080 Ashley spoil if. I was like, hey, so I didn't, 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:55.840 and I honestly it was very strategic about it. So 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:58.200 then I had a conversation with Morgan Cooper, our director 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:00.800 and creator, and he basically was saying he had researched me. 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:02.680 He knows what I can do, what I bring to 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:04.320 the table. He was like, just do that. That's what 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:06.600 I'm looking for. So then I got to really play 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:10.240 Hillary with no restraints and no like no limiting beliefs 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:12.520 about myself of what they were looking for. I just 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:15.360 got to like, do me, and a couple of days later, 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:18.600 I got that's that's so. That's so dope. And I 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:21.680 also seen um in an interview where you were talking 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:24.920 about like how um, you know when you got the 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:26.920 role and everything, and you know, really how I made 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:29.280 you feel because you was like, I might not get this, 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:31.560 so I don't want to audition, but then you did 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:33.560 it anyway. But that just tells you you know things, 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:37.080 you know, life works in mysterious ways because there's so 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:39.080 many things that you know, you probably didn't want to 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:40.480 do and you did it and you got it and 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:42.920 you said, look, man, my whole life is changing all 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:45.119 over again. And I like how you talked about the 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:47.960 slow times in your career because a lot of artists 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:49.920 they don't talk about that. You know. Everybody just talked 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:51.879 about like, yeah, I went through the struggle, but you 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:54.440 know I made it out. But people never talked about 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:58.720 the slow times because you came from Disney and you know, 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:01.520 I've seen interview you was talking about like you thought 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:04.480 your life was just gonna blow up and just keep 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:06.960 increasing and stuff like that. So I really thought that 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:10.120 was that was dope too. So with this new found fame, 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:12.359 you know, with the with the new show, like, how 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:16.040 do you feel now? Do you feel different? Honestly? You know, 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:18.760 I have this one interview and the lady who interviewed 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:20.720 me said it best. She said, like, we're so happy 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:23.399 you're having your renaissance moment. And I was like, oh my, 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:26.119 that is literally it like it feels kind of like 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:30.600 deja vu because I remember when everything was so live 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:33.840 and everyone was talking about what I was doing and 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:36.360 I was a kid, you know, I was like so young, 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:38.680 I didn't know that that would ever stop. And so 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:41.320 for me now, I love that I get to have 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:44.920 this opportunity again to like kind of reintroduce myself, you know, 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:47.159 because now I'm growing, nobody's telling me what to say 0:20:47.280 --> 0:20:50.480