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Speaker 1: Angela yee, and as promised, because I've run into you

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Speaker 1: a couple of times and been saying I need you

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Speaker 1: on the show.

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Speaker 2: Nyla Blackman is here.

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Speaker 3: Hi, how are you.

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Speaker 2: I'm good.

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Speaker 1: Well, you look so beauty every time I see you,

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Speaker 1: though I don't think you're ever not camera ready.

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Speaker 3: Thank you. I definitely love myself.

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Speaker 1: Some clothes, yeah, listen. And some performances. Okay, top tier.

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna get into that. You're also doing the

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Speaker 1: Roots Picnic this year.

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Speaker 2: That's gonna be big.

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Speaker 4: That's gonna be huge. I'm really excited for it. It's

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Speaker 4: my first time doing something like that.

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Speaker 1: I think that it's gonna be good for you to

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Speaker 1: be there for everybody in the audience too, because I

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Speaker 1: like to see the expansion of you know, this culture.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm from the Caribbean. My mom is from

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Speaker 1: Montserrat and Saint Patrick's Day, which when we're filming this

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Speaker 1: is today, is their biggest holiday.

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Speaker 3: Oh wow.

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Speaker 1: And I saw a skinny fabulous was there and I

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Speaker 1: was like, man, that's amazing because we never get like

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Speaker 1: that many artists like that out there.

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Speaker 3: I was wondering what was Saint Patrick's they really about?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so I did a little deep dive into it

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Speaker 1: there because apparently it was like a lot of Irish

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Speaker 1: were trying to overthrow the you know, the slaves are

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Speaker 1: trying to overthrow them, and it got squashed. But it's

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Speaker 3: So it's a deep history.

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Speaker 2: How is Carnival this year?

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Speaker 4: Carnival was like how Carnival usually is a lot like

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Speaker 4: it was just somebody described it best like like a

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Speaker 4: million mini croachellas. Okay, it was just so many events

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Speaker 4: packed with people, like the energy was high. There was

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Speaker 3: I was like, oh my.

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Speaker 1: God, listen, I was dying at all the memes of

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Speaker 1: people in the airport and wheelchairs and people were like, man,

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Speaker 1: I'm so embarrassed.

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Speaker 2: I'm coming from Carnival. I'm in a wheelchair. I got

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Speaker 1: I thought it was hilarious when people that go out

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Speaker 1: there haven't been to Trinidad Carnival yet, but everybody says

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Speaker 4: Well, we are the beginning, so the mecca, you know,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's where it all starts.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: So aside from Trinidad, if you had to say, where's

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Speaker 1: the best carnival after that, what would you put second?

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, you're gonna get me in trouble for you.

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Speaker 2: It's an opinion, Okay.

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Speaker 4: Wow, I definitely think it would be Jamaica. Okay, I'd

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Speaker 4: have to give it to Jamaica and then maybe sim Vincent.

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Speaker 1: And I know you've also been to Caravan and has that.

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Speaker 1: I haven't been to that either.

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Speaker 4: I've been to Carabana, but I don't think I've really

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Speaker 4: Think I've had that full ex because I've been out,

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Speaker 2: I saw you posted it this year. You didn't go

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Speaker 4: I said to myself that, you know, I do this

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Speaker 1: I will say that's a fact because I've seen you

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Speaker 4: Well, I feel like there is a low key pressure,

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Speaker 4: to be be my childhood dream, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 4: I felt like, as children, like we have giant dreams

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Speaker 4: I'm not gonna be regular. I'm not gonna do regular.

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Speaker 4: I'm not gonna be what's expected. I'm always gonna be

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Speaker 4: more than that. So for me, there is an expectation

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Speaker 3: To do more.

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Speaker 4: So it's like I don't feel pressured from them. I

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Speaker 3: I feel more.

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Speaker 4: I feel more encouraged from from everybody looking on expecting

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Speaker 2: But you've been delivering.

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Speaker 1: What what is your childhood dream if you could describe it.

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Speaker 4: Well, well, my child dream was to be on Disney Channel.

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Speaker 4: But it's always just to be like a huge international,

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Speaker 4: like I always want people to know my music versus

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Speaker 1: But you already look famous, I think, not for real,

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Speaker 1: Like everywhere you go. I think people see you and

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Speaker 1: they're like, even if they didn't know, they're like, yeah,

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Speaker 4: That was at the beginning of everything. I was nineteen

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Speaker 4: I was doing my degree and I agree with music

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Speaker 4: bachelor's and performing arts. Yeah, I was doing opera. And

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Speaker 4: And I was like, okay, let's let's not try that war,

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Speaker 4: let's make a deal. You could take one semester off

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So I was like okay.

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Speaker 3: Like I don't know. I just maybe they.

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Speaker 4: Thought the industry was too aggressive for the kind of

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Speaker 4: It makes you more assertive, which I don't think is

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Speaker 1: Because you're classically trained exactly, you know.

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Speaker 1: I do think that's what makes your voice so special

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Speaker 4: Hear something different, you could hear something else. And I

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Speaker 4: was like, no, I want to do it because my

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Speaker 4: and I said, would you do Ahsoka. He's like, oh

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Speaker 3: And that same day we created workouts and.

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Speaker 4: He was like, oh, you should do this song with somebody,

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Speaker 4: Like who would you want to do this with?

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Speaker 3: Because it would help you to have a collaboration on

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Speaker 4: Cass because I love kus, I love his style, and

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Speaker 4: He's like, well, I don't think you're going to get

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Speaker 3: To challenge. I was like, watch me. I'd never met him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's that being assertive, because you know that

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Speaker 1: Oh, And I mean, first of all, amazing story. I

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Speaker 4: Well, I didn't know it was going to be opera.

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Speaker 2: That is so unique.

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Speaker 1: I feel like that's something you eventually could end up using. Yes,

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Speaker 2: So you do write your own music, ye you guys,

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Speaker 3: Well, actually, sweet and.

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Speaker 4: Local was not fully written by me. Sweet and Local

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Speaker 4: And then it was like, okay, every but he's working

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Speaker 4: I was uncomfortable with it. I wouldn't lie, But eventually

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Speaker 1: Yeah, coming from a SOCCA and Calypso family, how did

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Speaker 3: Then?

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Speaker 1: I know you said your mom said you could take

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Speaker 3: Oh? Hell no, I did not one semester.

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Speaker 4: After that semester, everything went so crazy that, like I

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Speaker 4: mapped out in a calendar, right, that's wild.

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Speaker 3: That was more shows than there are days in the year.

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Speaker 4: And it didn't like it was Carnival, which is at

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Speaker 1: I mean it worked though, Yeah, and sometimes you just

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I could do it because you know as well,

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Speaker 1: You know, why did you wear that? Is a like

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Speaker 1: that's a wild amount of work.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Now one of the people you collaborate with, Skinny Fabulous,

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Speaker 2: That's a great relationship and band.

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Speaker 4: Well, Skinny, that collab really changed a lot. I think

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Speaker 4: I was supposed to. I wasn't trying to figure out

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Speaker 4: So I did technique album, and I was trying to

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Speaker 3: He knows the story.

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Speaker 4: I didn't want to go to him to do this

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Speaker 4: he was sensitive. He didn't say He didn't say that

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Speaker 3: Like so like just not nice with me, like just

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Speaker 3: So I was like, who else. I was like, there's

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Speaker 4: So I ended up putting this song on my album

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Speaker 4: out only facts fae. So when we did this song,

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Speaker 4: were like, okay, let's buy guds, we buy guys. This

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Speaker 4: is we created an amazing baby together. Come Home was

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Speaker 4: of twenty twenty three, Like it did not leave the

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Speaker 2: That's an amazing come to kindivor come Home.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.

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Speaker 4: It was record breaking, like we want three awards for

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Speaker 4: this song. It definitely was just thought, it's a modern

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Speaker 3: It's a it's a classic.

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Speaker 4: Now, like when that song comes on, you can't help

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I saw you at the Caribbean Music Awards and you

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Speaker 1: well deserved and it was amazing to see you there too.

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Speaker 1: That would, by the way, enjoyed that show so much.

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Speaker 1: I had my homegirl jazzing with me. She'd be like,

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Speaker 1: of war show, because you know, sometimes you go to

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Speaker 2: But that was like action packed. It was amazing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it really was.

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Speaker 1: All right now, you also give back a lot and

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Speaker 1: that's important to you too. And I saw you when

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Speaker 1: I tell you, I felt like emotional seeing all the

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Speaker 2: How does that feel and why is that important to you?

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Speaker 1: Because everyone doesn't think that that's, you know, something that

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I remember my childhood like yesterday, and I

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Speaker 4: just fun, pack Like I did so much as a kid,

444
00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:23,359
Speaker 4: and I grew up with such an amazing family and

445
00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:26,240
Speaker 4: support and just everything, and I just had so much

446
00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:28,919
Speaker 4: fun as a child. And I remember that feeling, and

447
00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:31,760
Speaker 4: I remember what would make the biggest difference to me,

448
00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:36,520
Speaker 4: you know, and I feel like if I want, that's

449
00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:38,200
Speaker 4: where the creative mind starts.

450
00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:40,480
Speaker 3: Like everybody who's great today had.

451
00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:43,199
Speaker 4: An aha or a spark as a child, Like it

452
00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:46,120
Speaker 4: all started in that more where they're playing and they're

453
00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:49,080
Speaker 4: doing something and they feel unstoppable because you know, as

454
00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:52,359
Speaker 4: you get older, you start to weigh things in life

455
00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:55,399
Speaker 4: and be more realistic, and everything seems a bit more

456
00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:59,679
Speaker 4: dark or grim er, you know, more less feasible. And

457
00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:01,800
Speaker 4: when you a child, you're just unstoppable.

458
00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:03,200
Speaker 2: You just take those chances.

459
00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:04,879
Speaker 3: You think you could do anything.

460
00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:08,680
Speaker 4: You dream big, you don't put limitations on anything, and

461
00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:13,040
Speaker 4: that those minds are like so powerful, those minds will

462
00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:17,840
Speaker 4: change our future. And just invigorating those minds and making

463
00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:21,359
Speaker 4: those minds feel like they have the power to do

464
00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:24,520
Speaker 4: amazing things or just to make them feel amazing. It's

465
00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:27,800
Speaker 4: just something I would love to do, like I would

466
00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:28,720
Speaker 4: love to do even.

467
00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:30,480
Speaker 3: More than I already do. I mean we do.

468
00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:37,040
Speaker 4: Several like charity tries so Christmas or even like the

469
00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:41,640
Speaker 4: Down Syndrome Society or like you know, the different platforms

470
00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:45,480
Speaker 4: that have to do with kids to give back because

471
00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:48,200
Speaker 4: they are the future and they are most important.

472
00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:52,400
Speaker 1: And it's like they don't hide anything, so they're true

473
00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:53,040
Speaker 1: and it's real.

474
00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:54,600
Speaker 2: That excitement is real.

475
00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:57,800
Speaker 1: But when they like that, and that's something that you

476
00:21:57,880 --> 00:21:59,960
Speaker 1: go home, like those kids will never forget.

477
00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:01,320
Speaker 3: That, Yeah, they won't, they won't.

478
00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:04,760
Speaker 4: And just the smile of the impact that you can make,

479
00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:08,639
Speaker 4: like it it may cost something, but it costs nothing

480
00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:12,440
Speaker 4: if you think about it, Like for me, that's priceless, right.

481
00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:16,359
Speaker 1: And you also have children's books too, it is. Yeah,

482
00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:18,640
Speaker 1: so let's talk about that, okay.

483
00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:25,800
Speaker 4: Love Lala, Yeah, so Love Lala. It started as a

484
00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:29,399
Speaker 4: concert actually, so like I did my first children concert

485
00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:33,439
Speaker 4: back in twenty eighteen called Lalalan and Lala was my

486
00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:37,879
Speaker 4: nickname as a child, so people would always say on Nyla,

487
00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:41,359
Speaker 4: you're in Lala land, you know, what I mean, because

488
00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:43,639
Speaker 4: I really wasn't lalalan as a child, like I was

489
00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,840
Speaker 4: always singing, dance and playing like that was just I

490
00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:50,400
Speaker 4: was never taken on anything else around me, like, and

491
00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:52,280
Speaker 4: I felt like if that's.

492
00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:56,440
Speaker 3: Where my creative juices really like started to grow.

493
00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:00,959
Speaker 4: And I wanted to create a space and an event

494
00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,640
Speaker 4: that kids could come and feel like they're like how

495
00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:04,960
Speaker 4: I was in La La Land.

496
00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,200
Speaker 1: That's crazy because you put your single aut in twenty

497
00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:09,840
Speaker 1: seventeen and then the next year you are already ready

498
00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:10,920
Speaker 1: to start your own.

499
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:14,000
Speaker 4: Well actually, eleven months into my career, I did my

500
00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:17,040
Speaker 4: very own concert, so called Origins.

501
00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:19,680
Speaker 1: And that's like a certain business minded to not only

502
00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:22,080
Speaker 1: just be an artist performer, but to have your own.

503
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:24,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, to have my own show. And I've been doing

504
00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:27,280
Speaker 4: it for the past six years. This year it was

505
00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:31,240
Speaker 4: a six year. We started with having like twelve twelve

506
00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:34,359
Speaker 4: hundred people. Eleven months into my career, I had twelve

507
00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:37,720
Speaker 4: hundred people come to my show, and this year it

508
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:43,080
Speaker 4: was over five thousand people of my own people. Hard sales,

509
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:50,080
Speaker 4: just everything from stage lighting, the entire stage performance, everything

510
00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:54,280
Speaker 4: ban all me and my team, like from top to bottom.

511
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,160
Speaker 4: And it's a lot of work, and we've been doing

512
00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:00,560
Speaker 4: it for many years and it's just something that really

513
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:04,679
Speaker 4: builds your mind business wise and creatively as well, you

514
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:07,720
Speaker 4: know what I mean. So La La Lance started like that,

515
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:10,800
Speaker 4: and I didn't continue doing it because it was a

516
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:14,159
Speaker 4: huge undertaken and I was very busy. So but I

517
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:16,399
Speaker 4: wanted to have something because I have a lot of

518
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,480
Speaker 4: kid fans. I have a lot of fans that are

519
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:22,520
Speaker 4: really young, like babies, you know. So I thought it

520
00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:25,440
Speaker 4: would be amazing when I got this opportunity to have

521
00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:31,280
Speaker 4: Penguin House do a book, and I was like, this

522
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:33,920
Speaker 4: is perfect. I want the kids to have something of

523
00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:37,640
Speaker 4: me that they could have it. It's the first children's

524
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:41,800
Speaker 4: book that talks about Carnival, that talks about Trinad and

525
00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:45,439
Speaker 4: Tobago culture. There's even a glossary that speaks about that

526
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:49,359
Speaker 4: gives you a little meaning behind of like certain words

527
00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:55,600
Speaker 4: from Canada like the steel pan or like Carlolu or

528
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:57,000
Speaker 4: like different things like that.

529
00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:57,320
Speaker 1: You know.

530
00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:00,879
Speaker 3: It's culture driven. But it's also a riddle book, so

531
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:01,520
Speaker 3: it is for.

532
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:06,679
Speaker 4: Young children, and it features my granddad, the creator of

533
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:11,080
Speaker 4: Soca music, So it tells you but on Soca and yeah,

534
00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:12,560
Speaker 4: and it's it's just really fun.

535
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,000
Speaker 2: Did they say a chicken curry or curry chicken now?

536
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:18,199
Speaker 4: But you know we'll always be curry chicken. Come on,

537
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:21,840
Speaker 4: get it right, it will always be courage.

538
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:23,640
Speaker 3: Can you cook? I can't cook.

539
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:26,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't cook curry chicken too, so that I

540
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 4: can't cook. But I don't cook.

541
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,439
Speaker 3: I'm not. I'm not. I'm not a big cook. Okay.

542
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:31,919
Speaker 3: I have people to do that for me.

543
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:39,359
Speaker 2: All right. Now, let's talk about new music. Feels like love.

544
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 3: That is.

545
00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:44,520
Speaker 1: That's a nice Felcus song, and you have Roy Woods

546
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:46,560
Speaker 1: on there, and I was wondering the connection. But then

547
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:49,399
Speaker 1: I saw you met him at Carabana, So talk to

548
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:52,280
Speaker 1: me about Roy Woods because it did feel like like

549
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 1: it sounds great, but I also was like, well, how

550
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:55,439
Speaker 1: did this even happen?

551
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:58,639
Speaker 4: Well, the thing about it is that he's Guyanese and

552
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:03,160
Speaker 4: so there's that current and connection there. I remember when

553
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 4: I first heard Roy Woods. I was in like high

554
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:09,120
Speaker 4: school and I'd love his song Get You Good, and

555
00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 4: I was like.

556
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:11,879
Speaker 3: So in love. I was singing that song in my

557
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 3: room and then like it was.

558
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:17,119
Speaker 4: A full circle moment meeting him in Carabana and getting

559
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:19,280
Speaker 4: the opportunity to put him on the track. I was like, Oh,

560
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 4: this is perfect for you because this song is very

561
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:24,639
Speaker 4: down soul influenced, but it's it's more like like a

562
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:29,359
Speaker 4: pop dance aul kind of vibe, and he still brings

563
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 4: that kind of arm and B hip hop flavor on it,

564
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:34,960
Speaker 4: and it still has a little Caribbyan twang. So the

565
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:39,960
Speaker 4: melting pot on this record is so beautiful, Like it's

566
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:43,240
Speaker 4: so beautiful and it's very flirty, very chill vibe.

567
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:44,200
Speaker 3: So I love it.

568
00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 1: And the album is called Borner Diamond Bad, So that

569
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,120
Speaker 1: is definitely coming out later this year.

570
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:51,640
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, if.

571
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:55,199
Speaker 1: I mean listen, I can already tell just from what

572
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:57,159
Speaker 1: I've heard so far it's going to.

573
00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:59,640
Speaker 3: Be it's gonna be amazing.

574
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:01,360
Speaker 2: Is it done or mostly done?

575
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 3: It's it's mostly done.

576
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,920
Speaker 4: I'm really excited for this project because I mean, I've been.

577
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:08,280
Speaker 3: Working for basically two years.

578
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 4: On this project, and I have so much music that

579
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:15,160
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh my god. But we really narrow down

580
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 4: the songs that are going to be on it, and

581
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:21,439
Speaker 4: it's gonna be different for me, but I think I

582
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 4: always do different but very unique, and it's Caribbean. It's

583
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:32,320
Speaker 4: so cobbed, it's not. You know, it's some it's world music,

584
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 4: really and truly that's just what I'm going to choke

585
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 4: it up to.

586
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:35,679
Speaker 3: It's world music.

587
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 1: Do you feel like right now the Caribbean is in

588
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:40,199
Speaker 1: a great space when it comes to the net, like

589
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 1: the the global platform of music, because I feel like

590
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:46,480
Speaker 1: so many people are borrowing from the influence.

591
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:47,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent.

592
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 4: Caribbean music has been thriving for a while now, and

593
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:56,159
Speaker 4: off flavor is unmatched. Off flavor is something that is

594
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,840
Speaker 4: so unique and it's always something that's going to get

595
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 4: the blood moving, always something that's gonna sound like, ooh,

596
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 4: what's that?

597
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?

598
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 4: Because even though people know the Caribbeans sound, it's still

599
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 4: an on top market, you know, it's still something that's

600
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:11,400
Speaker 4: yet to explode.

601
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 1: I was looking at because Vibes's Cartel is going to

602
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 1: be in Brooklyn, and those shows sold out so fast

603
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 1: they had to add a second date and then people

604
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 1: were complaining about the price, but they still buying the ticket.

605
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 2: To go see.

606
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 1: Who were some of your heroes when you were coming

607
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,479
Speaker 1: up in music outside of your family, because clearly you

608
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:30,600
Speaker 1: have a legendary family.

609
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, some of my well, as you say, vibes divorce.

610
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 4: He he's legendary in terms of Caribbean.

611
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 1: Music, yeah, or music in general. It could be any

612
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 1: genre because.

613
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 4: Okay, well, for our starts on Caribbean music, well, Bob

614
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 4: Marley has always been there, Alison Hines, destro Gacia Cuss.

615
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 4: I've always loved casts, so that was great that I

616
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 4: got to do my first song with him.

617
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 3: Well Nevado, Yeah, Nevado.

618
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:13,480
Speaker 4: And for people from my influence outside of the Caribbean, uh,

619
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 4: Amy Winehouse has always been up.

620
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 2: Okay, we love any wine house.

621
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love me some Lana Delry. I like all

622
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:28,080
Speaker 4: music like Frank Sinatra and Billie Holiday. Okay, that's always

623
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 4: been there five and John Legend I.

624
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 3: No, you don't even you don't even know.

625
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 4: I can't eagine what your playlist like my playlist, my

626
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 4: playlist go ODI like it feels like it's always on,

627
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 4: like shuffle because I have so many categories. Like I

628
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 4: love all kinds of Nicki Minaj like I was. I

629
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 4: was a Bob like from the beginning, Like I was

630
00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 4: twelve years old when she did her concert in Trinidad

631
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:04,640
Speaker 4: and her first concert in Trinidad, and my brother bought

632
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 4: me tickets I think it was for my thirteenth birthday

633
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 4: and I went to the front of that stage and

634
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 4: I got a T shirt and I hung that T

635
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:14,080
Speaker 4: shirt up on my wall and I'd love Nikki from

636
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 4: that happening.

637
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, that Pink Friday T shirt was there

638
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 3: the whole time.

639
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 2: I'm saying, I could see that collab happening. Yeah, I

640
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 2: could see.

641
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,440
Speaker 3: I always love Niki. Yeah.

642
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,400
Speaker 4: To be honest, my I listened to all kinds of

643
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 4: Taylor Swift. Was there from the beginning for me, when

644
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:37,240
Speaker 4: she was just doing her singer songwriter, her first album

645
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 4: where it was just her and the guitar. Like, that's

646
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 4: when I started listening to Taylor Swift, and that's what

647
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,280
Speaker 4: I fell in love with. I mean, Miley Cyrus has

648
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 4: always been you know. I told you that that Disney

649
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 4: Channel dream me like watch come on, you know what

650
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 4: I mean. So it really like my music tastes.

651
00:30:58,320 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 3: Really varies, you know.

652
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:01,440
Speaker 1: Because you have the ability to sit up there with

653
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 1: a guitar and do something just you, your voice and

654
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 1: that guitar.

655
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, so I.

656
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 2: Could see listen all the things. You know. Congratulations to you.

657
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:11,719
Speaker 1: I'm really excited for you, and I'm glad we had

658
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:13,840
Speaker 1: a chance to sit down and have a conversation.

659
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 2: And I know, what do I know? Every time I

660
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 2: see it like when are we going to do it?

661
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 1: But no, honestly, when the album comes out too, we

662
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,240
Speaker 1: got to make sure we get like some exclusives, you know,

663
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 1: andother sit.

664
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:25,360
Speaker 2: Down would be nice, indeed.

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Speaker 1: But I appreciate you so much and congratulations for everything,

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Speaker 1: just because you're not just a talented artist, but you

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Speaker 1: do so much to give back and it's authentic and

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Speaker 1: I love that because some people feel like just because

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Speaker 1: I'm an artist, that doesn't make me a role model.

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Speaker 2: I don't have to do X, Y and Z.

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Speaker 1: But clearly it's something that you take the time out

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Speaker 1: of your three hundred and thousand shows a year to

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Speaker 1: be able to do that, and that's, oh my god,

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Speaker 1: that's important.

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Speaker 2: But you also got to take care of yourself exactly.

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Speaker 4: I feel the importance of that this year, especially because

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Speaker 4: as a musician and as a creative, you find that

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Speaker 4: you don't have the creative that you require if you're

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Speaker 4: in your spread to sin And I'm like being able

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Speaker 4: to be full, Like being full you can you can

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Speaker 4: fill other people if you're full, you know, what I mean,

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Speaker 4: you can't feel other people if you're empty.

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Speaker 3: So just for everyone listening.

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Speaker 4: On, be selfless, give back, be empty yourself, but make

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Speaker 4: sure and fill back up yourself as well, because.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you don't want to say no and I feel

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Speaker 1: but you're like, there's always going to be something you're

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Speaker 1: not going to want to say no to.

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Speaker 2: And the power of being able to be like you

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Speaker 2: know what, I just.

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't have the I already know I

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Speaker 1: have X, Y and Z, because sometimes we try to

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Speaker 1: pack our schedules and do it all and then the

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Speaker 1: day camps and you're like, what did I agree to do?

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Speaker 3: We don't.

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Speaker 4: I don't try to pack my schedule, but my schedule

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Speaker 4: packs itself.

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Speaker 3: My schedule has hands and feet and.

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Speaker 2: They just like everything I just gotta show up.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god.

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Speaker 4: But you know, I just look at it like blessings.

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Speaker 4: I'm like, God don't give you more than you can handle.

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Speaker 4: So if if my schedule is this, because I can

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Speaker 4: handle it, and I'm just grateful for all the blessings.

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Speaker 1: And it is also a Women's history month. As a

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Speaker 1: woman in this business, yes, tell me some of the

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Speaker 1: things that have made this like really that have been

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Speaker 1: powerful for you being a woman, because I know we

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Speaker 1: always talk about there's a lot of obstacles and a

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Speaker 1: lot of things that I think men could never understand

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Speaker 1: that women have to go through.

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Speaker 2: But for you, how is that a superpower for you?

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Speaker 4: It's always been a super power for me because I

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Speaker 4: do not look at obstacles like obstacles. I look at

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Speaker 4: them like opportunities because it's all everything is perspective and

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Speaker 4: everything that can be a disadvantage can also be an advantage.

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Speaker 3: It's just how it works. It's about how you use it,

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Speaker 3: you know.

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Speaker 4: And like as I love being a woman, like I

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Speaker 4: want to say big up to all the women out

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Speaker 4: there right now, because we are so we are so great,

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Speaker 4: like we literally have superpowers, like the things that we

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Speaker 4: are in will to accomplish. It's just it blows my

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Speaker 4: mind all the time. And we can handle way more

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Speaker 4: than we think we can. So if you ever feel

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Speaker 4: like you know, I can't handle it, know that you can.

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Speaker 4: And if you feel like I can't handle it's probably

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Speaker 4: because you don't want to and don't do things you

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Speaker 4: don't want to, don't do things that you feel like

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Speaker 4: you you're like you're forcing yourself like, no, treat yourself

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Speaker 4: with love. I feel like women we don't always treat

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Speaker 4: ourselves with the love that we require.

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Speaker 1: You know, sometimes we feel like we have to do

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Speaker 1: so much more in order to get recognition, and then

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Speaker 1: sometimes that recognition isn't even the same for all that

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Speaker 1: we've accomplished. Yeah, but you're right, we got to treat

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Speaker 1: treat ourselves better.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: You know, once you treat yourself great, you'd find that

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Speaker 4: everyone else will just follow suit. It's just the rule

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Speaker 4: of tom Yeah.

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Speaker 1: She's born a diamond. But thank you so much now

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Speaker 1: that black Ma make sure you guys follow her. We're

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Speaker 1: excited for the album this summer. Yes, okay, all right,

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to ask you a day because it

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Speaker 1: could change, but congratulations.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much for everybody that's listening out there.

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Speaker 4: You guys can follow me on Instagram and TikTok at

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Speaker 4: Nyla Blackman. Make sure and follow me on Spotify as well.

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Speaker 3: This album is really dear to my heart and I'm

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Speaker 3: really excited for the world to hear it.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so you're going to enjoy it as we're here,

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Speaker 2: up

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Speaker 3: Way up,