WEBVTT - Episode 264 "Amy Luciani" 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:04.160 Word with me here. 0:00:04.200 --> 0:00:04.720 You know, b T. 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:06.800 It's just so low shot of O C T. No 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:10.200 real color what we see whole game? Ready, Butler bo something? Oh, 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:12.320 you can't stand on their own, Susie. I already know 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:14.560 you can't bother with me because up with the squad 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:20.560 on me. They get a little they called me love 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:24.240 he love but Alert. 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:26.000 Welcome to the Butler Alert Show. 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:28.240 Is O C T with us? This boy, you know 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:28.640 big T. 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:30.440 We got a special guest. 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:30.960 In the build. 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:33.320 Then you want to introduce yourself since you already doing radio. 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:35.199 Okay, you already know I'm here. 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:38.760 It's Amy Luciani, y'all, the bad Lady Detroit Stand Up, Atlanta, 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:39.920 stand doub Let's do it. 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:41.239 Talking about. 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.040 Yeah, make sure y'all like subscribe to all that. 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:47.479 Y'all finna get into it. 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:48.160 I'm ready. 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:49.519 I'm ready hosting the show with us. 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:54.320 I'm hosting the show. I feel really special? Am I important? 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:54.160 That? 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:57.160 Why you here? You know i'd be too humble. 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:59.640 I'll be coming places sometime and be like, y'all want 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:00.200 me here? 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:00.720 Yeah? 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:01.480 Hey, thank you. 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:04.480 Guys, you're shining and you're looking good. Thank you a 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:05.160 million buck? 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:05.600 Thank you? 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:07.360 All right, here we got I love Majory at home. 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:10.280 You got the earring zone. Don't get it twisted. 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.920 I got one in, I left, I lost the other one. 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:15.520 I don't know how. 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:24.280 Look, I got a secret looks Tory Lanez sen years. 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:26.839 What's your thoughts about that? Do y'all think it's fair? 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:29.000 I'm gonna say this. I'm not a girl who fears 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:32.840 cancelation of the culture. I feel like it was excessive. 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:37.959 I felt like ten it was so many loops in 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:40.600 this story for me that I literally couldn't pick aside 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:41.440 and go with him or her. 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:46.360 But I know, yeah, No, I think it was excessive. 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:48.880 I think it was a little bit of assessive as well. 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:52.840 The reason why I say that because honestly, I thought 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:54.200 Tory Lanez was gonna get off. 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:54.920 You did. 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:56.520 I honestly thought he was. 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:59.200 Gonna get off because and oh, cet, I know you're 0:01:59.200 --> 0:01:59.920 looking at me crazy. 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:01.919 This is why I'm going to say this, Because when. 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:04.240 They were it was so much stuff going on, like 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:08.080 back and like it was just such a great crowd, 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:10.520 Like it's like all the information, you don't really know 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:13.280 what's going on based on what they was telling us. 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:15.680 And I've seen where they said that they couldn't find 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:18.160 his handprints on the. 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:19.800 Gun that blew me away. 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.240 So and you know, I don't know. 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:25.399 I'm not a lawyer, but I'm thinking, like everybody else, like, okay, 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:29.239 if you can't if this guy supposedly shot her the 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:30.919 prince his. 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.440 Gun, that would be on the gun if you did it. 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:34.560 Yeah. 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:37.600 I think it was more so the cockiness and yeah, 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:38.560 spreading it. 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.280 It was an example being set. I love with this. 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:44.880 Because then they alleged was alleged that he was leaking 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:46.639 the information to academics. 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:52.960 Yeah, allegedly because Meghan posted that, Yo, how are you 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:56.239 getting this information? We ain't even went the we ain't 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:58.519 even inside the court room. Yeah, you know you posting 0:02:58.520 --> 0:02:58.919 this stuff. 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:01.120 So it was an area there was because it was 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:04.280 such a big conversation. I felt like on his end, 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:07.200 he was kind of coming out already like I'm gonna. 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.680 Win this, and and I was thinking the same thing. 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:11.560 I was like the way he was acting, because you know, 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:14.679 allegedly he punched august Alsina, he didn't. 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:16.520 He didn't relax when it was time to. 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:20.840 Roll aloud and he and he broke his you know, 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:22.760 he had to stay away from her. 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.000 So he was playing voicemails. I don't know if you knew. 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:28.000 It's like voicemails being played on one of his mixtapes. 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:29.480 They made him remove it. 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.160 I'm like, bro, you need to be quiet right now 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:33.480 and remorseful. 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:35.920 Essentially, what you're in court for is to prove that 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:39.920 you are a human being that's you know, privileged to 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:42.760 be out here in the world. But when you're doing 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:45.800 all these things outside of court, when you come in, 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:47.560 you just looked at as a minute, So it doesn't 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:49.080 matter how good of a lawyer that you have. 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:51.280 They looking at you. It's like, okay, you're you. 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:55.600 You want to convince the jury that you're innocent and 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:56.800 you're not capable of. 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:57.560 Doing something like that. 0:03:58.000 --> 0:03:59.920 But when we looking on the internet, it's suing that 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:02.400 you know, allegedly you punched August House Scene in the 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:04.240 face and you have said that you. 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:07.080 Didn't, and that kind of came That's what really affected him. Yeah, 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:10.440 he denied it fully, and then the clip came out 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:11.880 and it was like toy, what. 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:16.400 The yeah, and then he said that he would be 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:17.239 proven innocent. 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:19.480 That was one of his last tweets or something. 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.119 I think I stopped really giving my opinion on social 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:24.680 media because I was following following it like everybody else. 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.279 But when she said that they. 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:31.800 Were never sexual and that I promise you, that's when 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:33.720 I really was like, I went and took a lot 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:35.760 of tweets and I was like, let me just sit 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:36.800 back and just shut. 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:37.960 Up because you were staying with her. 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:40.279 At first, I was like, she's sleep with him, Like, oh, 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.359 maybe this was a reaction of a man being jealous 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:46.960 or whatever and being rejected. But when the courts proved 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:51.320 that they had been, you know, together, I was like, Amy, 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:52.720 shut up, don't even talk about this. 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:53.880 It was such a weird trial. 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:54.760 This is crazy. 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.120 But I think, you know, I think it's sat on 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:59.920 both parts man, because you know, Megan, this is something 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:01.480 she's gonna have to deal with the rest of her 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:03.880 life and her career. And we got to see another 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:05.599 black man, unfortunately, go to prison. 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:06.520 Career. 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.120 Yeah, he still has a chance. He's getting I just 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:11.240 saw he's getting out. I think at forty seven, if 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:13.599 he does the full time, he gonna do the full time. 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:18.120 No celebrity ever does the even a few years away 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:18.800 from your kids. 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:20.359 When it's like, oh, one. 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:22.200 Thing, we do know for sure, he going he going 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:22.880 back to Canada. 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:25.160 Oh deported. 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.000 Oh he is going back and as you're done here, 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:30.400 you're going back to Canada, buddy, they're not even about 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:30.719 to play. 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:31.320 Yeah. 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:33.640 I wouldn't wish prison on no old body. 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:35.159 Yeah, no, especially team. 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:35.560 I watched it. 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:38.560 I watched too many crazy prison stuff did you see 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:40.560 in movies? And I was like, that's not the place 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:43.560 that I think anybody should should be living here. 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.000 And then when you're coming from such a successful life 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:48.800 and on a fight all the money, imagine, it's different 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:50.680 being a mall time millionaire going. 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:52.760 To prison, and it's different being black going to prison 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.239 because I'm pretty sure his experience isn't the same as 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:56.160 Chris Lee's. 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:00.200 Oh no, but you know he's gonna he's gonna be 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:01.760 what I was reading about it. He's going to be 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:05.680 in higher power, which is protective custody, So he's going 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:07.600 to be on lockdown majority of the time. 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:09.840 Tori. Yeah, Oh I didn't know that. 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:13.039 Yeah, when you're a celebrity, you know, is that good 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:13.440 or bad? 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:17.000 All them years on lockdown and I don't know. They 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:19.640 put me out there with the wolves. I'm not trying 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:21.320 to be in my little corner cubicle on. 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:25.119 Yeah, because imagine you've been locked down for like ninety 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:25.960 percent of the day. 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:26.400 No. 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.760 Another sad case man, Raven Simone was encouraged to get 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:33.599 surgery by her father. 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:36.760 Had two breast productions in lipol before I turned eighteen. 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:42.520 My dad suggested strongly that I should get my breast reduced. 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:44.280 He was like, so you don't feel bad? 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.040 Is there anything you want? I was like what I 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:48.680 was like, Yeah, if I get lightpol people stop calling 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:49.159 me fat. 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:49.800 That's sick. 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:50.760 That is sick. 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:54.280 That six that's so sad man. It's like people don't 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:58.000 even allow people to be people. People who cares about 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:01.640 somebody being fat or skinned or big or tall. 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:03.480 And your dad is pushing it. 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.320 Who is her father telling her some stuff like that 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:07.240 before eighteen? 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:10.240 Yeah, like because she was She had a hit TV 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:11.320 show That's all Raven. 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:12.600 This is that's so Raven days. 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:13.720 You know, yeah, she. 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:18.080 But nobody, nobody on that show ever thought she was fat, 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:22.160 like I watched her, But she said. 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:25.120 She was being told that so Hollywood, you know. 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:29.160 Yeah, yeah, she looked like my cousin I was growing up. 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:30.360 That was normal for us. 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:32.440 Looking at her, It's just like Jennifer Husband. 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:34.320 She said she didn't know, she was fat until she 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:36.040 left Chicago, till she left. 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:36.600 Her comfort zone. 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:40.000 You know, we we don't see it as that, but 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:43.040 you know, when Raven was hot. She first off, she's 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:45.560 a child star. But when she really you know, came 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:49.000 and peaked, that's so Raven. You's got to think about it. 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.200 You know, he had all the skinny girls at that time. 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:54.040 They were trying to under one hundred pounds. 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:55.400 Guy. 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:58.200 But I feel like everybody in Hollywood, skinny. 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:01.560 Especially but especially trying to be are killing themselves to 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:02.840 become skinny like that. 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:05.600 Beyonce was skinny back then, you know, going on dice 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:06.960 to look a certain way. 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:11.600 Yep, that was that time. Now they're trying to look thicker. 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:14.400 Time has changed. 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:15.320 Time has changed. 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:17.040 You got the big girl supermodels now. 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:19.640 But that's why you shouldn't be helped telling kids to 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:22.400 change their body so early, because look how times have 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:26.160 changed where you at one point, obviously the BBO was 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:28.720 like the big thing in our community. Now if you 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:31.560 look all those celebrities that people went and followed, they're 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:34.560 going back to being slim, They're going back to being fit, 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:37.480 and now people are starving themselves to go back to it. 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:40.000 Like when I was growing up, I didn't even know 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:41.480 nothing about what surgery was. 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:43.440 I thought surgery was like if you broke your leg, 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:45.640 me too, you know what I'm saying, me too. 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:48.120 That was like these kids nowadays, and you know, middle 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:50.280 school in high school, they know what like bbl yea. 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:52.840 I would never know what any of those things were. 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:55.400 You know, it's social media. 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.280 We're in a time where we are just overdoing a lot. 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:01.520 I'm around so many girls, they just change so quick 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:03.640 in front of me, and it's it's social media. 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:06.800 Well, you know, there's a lot of girls changing on 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:11.080 Lizzo right now because six more girls have come out 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:15.440 and uh said that she created a hostile work environment 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:20.360 and some of the new complaints saying that she's failed 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:23.280 to pay them all. These employees worked on her watch 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:26.520 Out for the Big Girls Amazon series and her tour. 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.360 What are they looking a game from this situation? Because 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:33.160 some money, some money. So Lizzo just paid these people. 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:34.360 So they go away once. 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:36.640 She starts doing that, and it's like, Okay, she's just 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:37.520 gonna pay out. 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:39.960 If she's stills salegations are wild. 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:42.280 Yeah, I think if she starts setting with people, they're 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:43.559 gonna think it's true. 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.160 It is, yeah, but if you don't pay them is 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:47.880 giving It's like she's just. 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:48.960 Gonna get dragged out. 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:52.000 Like you don't what always wonder This is what always 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.720 wondered every time we look up and we see like, 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:59.360 you know, celebrities, they're they're getting suit or allegations. 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.760 Why is always like it's twenty more people just come 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:03.120 out of. 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:07.640 The everybody's vocal suddenly everybody's That's the part that makes 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:10.000 it always sketchy for me because I'm like, dude, where 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.199 were you if this happened to you a year ago? 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:13.839 Why are you speaking of now? 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.679 Well, finally somebody use their voice while I'm feeling, you know, 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:18.720 brave enough to do it all twenty of y'all. 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:21.640 And I mean, if she did do that, you know, 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:23.880 I hope they get I hope they get paid, and 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:25.360 I hope they get taken care of it. If they 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:28.480 really were in a hostile environment and you know, they 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:30.920 were forced to do things that they didn't want to do. 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:32.360 It's just one time. 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.680 For me to feel like what these girls are seeing, 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:39.160 where was some sexual weirdness going on? I'm dismissing myself 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:40.199 and you don't got a worry about me? 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:40.600 Coming back. 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.760 I'm suing you because you got your one time to 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:44.800 put me in that position. 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:46.360 But they were a legend. 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:47.959 They just kept dealing with it. 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.079 And that's the part is like when is y'all where's 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:55.240 y'all accountability? If you kept coming with your crazy tell self, 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.480 you kept showing up, and it was just it got 0:10:58.480 --> 0:10:59.679 to the point it was unbearable. 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:01.880 You didn't have to come back after the first time. 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:06.880 If your boss did anything and told you to do 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:09.640 something that you were not comfortable doing, you have every 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:10.920 opportunity to. 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.560 Leave, every opportunity I had to. 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:17.200 I had to touch a dick and I like and 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:19.640 then they probably touched that dick and was like, I 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:21.520 probably get I could probably suit this bitch for having 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:22.000 to touch. 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:23.600 This dick because I'm just trying to see why did 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:25.679 Why would Lizzeo have had to be so hands on 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:27.439 to be like, come here, you're gonna touch this? 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:28.679 Like what's it? 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.880 Your team trying to hang out with her, like trying 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:32.480 to be cool. 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:35.880 And the thing is they don't know the difference, like 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.000 I'm not your friend, your boss, but. 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:39.559 A lot of a lot of a lot of these 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:42.160 like these workers they be trying to get with these 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:43.600 celebrities and be hanging around. 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:45.520 They like, damn, this nigga smoke crack. I didn't know 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:47.040 that he tried to give me to smoke some cracks. 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.040 That's why you gotta work. And then don't go with 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:50.480 your boss. 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:53.720 Don't hang out and have cocktails with your body fragnizing. 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:56.080 That's that's the real problem. 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.160 We'll be right back with more of the Baller Alert Show. 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.360 You're listening to a special edition of the Baller Alert Show. 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:06.080 What's Up? 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:09.880 Y'all's Amy Luciani and you are now tuned into. 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:10.720 The Baller Alert Show. 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.679 Back with more of the Butler Alert Show. Amy Luciani 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:14.559 hanging out with us. 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.880 What Up? Alert? And we've been doing some talking going on. 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.760 We've been I'm on my mind. I'm just thinking all 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:22.720 this mass is going on in the world. 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:24.439 Yeah, but now it's all about you, man. 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:26.200 We want to know a little bit more about Amy 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.040 l Yes, are you half Italian? 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:32.880 Or where's I am? Fully black baby? Okay with an 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:36.800 Italian stage name? Okay, but it's it's the story behind 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:38.520 it all right, Well, let us know where that came from. 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:38.800 First? 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:39.840 Where are you from Detroit? 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:42.120 You said, Yep, I've been in Atlanta for some years, 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:47.040 just pursuing the music, really just working my business, working 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:52.040 my brand. My government name is Ambarrolls, reallytic, yeah, hyphen a. 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:56.440 That's my first name, the real Ambarrolls. So I always 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:58.840 tell people, like so many people are confused when they 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:02.960 watch my Instagram or different platforms I'm on and my 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:06.240 original og fans that's been here from the beginning, They'll 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.040 be like, oh, I love that Ambrose or Ambrose, you 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:10.560 look so pretty at that and people like this, I mean, 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:11.839 why do you call her Ambrose? 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.600 I'm so confused. I'm like, see, y'all don't even know. 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:16.720 You don't even know. 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:23.480 It's no middle name, just ambar Rolls. 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:25.600 My grandmother's name is Rose Marie. 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:30.360 When Ambrose was like really popping and really like doing 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:33.320 her thing, this around Kanye time, I was doing a 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:35.560 lot of musical shows and open mic. This is like 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:38.400 the first stage of being a rapper. Like I'm in Detroit, 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:40.040 Yeah no, I was in Atlanta. 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:41.680 I moved here right out of high school. 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:45.559 Okay, So I was just doing a lot of performances. 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:47.960 And of course it's my government name, so it's Ambrose 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:50.240 on all the flyers, and it would be so many 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:53.000 awkward positions where I would be in, like where people 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:55.400 might show up at different events and be like I 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:58.920 saw the name of Ambar rolls on here, like you're black, 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:00.920 I'm so confused. Who were you? And I'm like, that's 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.760 my name? What's this other girl named Ambrose? And I 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.440 start getting hip to her and I'm like what the hell? 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:09.080 And from there, I was sitting there and I'm like, 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:12.600 I'm so tired of asking, i mean, being being asked 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:15.040 a question like why are you going with the name Ambrose? 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:16.880 Why'd you copy this girl from? 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:17.600 You know? 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:20.080 And I just got tired of pulling out the id, 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:21.360 like now, what were you saying? 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:22.760 Baby? So that's what made you say? 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:25.440 That's not her real name, No, shade, that's not her 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.080 real name. So I'm like, I'm copying the name. 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:28.920 That's not even her name. 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:31.400 This is my government name. So one day I just 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:33.120 came up with the artist's name. I was just like, 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.160 you know, let's switch it up, let's do a little 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:36.040 quick reinvention. 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:37.560 How'd you come with Amy? 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:37.840 Though? 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.520 I was always giving guys the name Amy in the club, 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:42.120 just like if I don't want to talk to him, 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:45.120 I was always Amy, So that was your alter ego. Always, 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.520 so many guys like you remember me Amy? I know 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:50.440 that was something I was ignoring. If a dude used 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:52.720 to say Amy to me, I knew I wasn't interest. 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.120 You'd be like you called me? What that was the that. 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.840 Was the yeah, or dude saying like hey Amy and 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:00.600 so and so like oh, I definitely not really want 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:03.040 to get him my number. So Amy was always a 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:05.520 funny thing with me and my friends like Amy. They 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:07.600 bring me to somebody like, yeah, you told me you're 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:08.280 you're Amy? 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:10.760 Yes, friend, I'm Amy. That's my name. 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:11.920 I think we all do that. 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:13.280 I haven't you do. 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:14.560 Different names though. 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:17.640 So that's the thing that women do. 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:19.720 It's a thing we do when we don't want to 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:20.440 be friends. 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:21.840 Know where you're going? Who are you gonna be? Okay, 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.080 I beat this, I'm all right. I never knew that. 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:25.800 Oh it's the thing. C B T. 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:26.520 You look good. 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:29.680 You know you probably wasn't getting that. We was giving 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.240 that to guys in the club for sure, So what's 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.400 the aim. I'd be like, oh, hey, sometimes I forget myself. 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.920 So when I was thinking of yeah. 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:42.000 Everybody ain't seen that Living single episode where Max gave 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:45.400 her name as Chakuan, and the dude was like, Shaquan. 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:46.240 You gonna ignore me all night. 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:47.120 I'm lame. 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:47.880 I haven't seen it. 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:48.680 I haven't seen it. 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:51.720 Either, Okay, I gotta watch I haven't seen it. 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:55.200 Don't don't take all black car now take it because 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:57.120 I still haven't. I'm not going there. I haven't seen 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:57.640 a movie that. 0:15:58.280 --> 0:15:58.800 Oh that was U. 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:01.520 That's living that's a show. Yeah, but it's a movie 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:03.360 I haven't seen. If I told y'all, but I'm not 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:05.360 tell us, y'all would take her. 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:06.720 No, you're. 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:13.200 No, I haven't seen Best Men. Oh are boys in 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:13.880 the Hood yet? 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:15.600 You ain't seen boys in the hood. 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:16.960 She's giving amy. 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:18.400 She's definitely given amy. 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:20.400 And if I react like that, I haven't seen boys 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:21.080 in the Hood yet. 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:22.240 That's a classic. 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:27.120 I tried to y'all, try to literally try to sit 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:29.480 and watch it. Something always happened. I never can watch 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:29.960 the like. 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:31.680 And then you'll see a lot of the stars in 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:32.800 there that are that are like. 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:36.000 Starch Chestnut and all the start. You know, she don't 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:36.800 seen Best Men. 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:38.840 So yeah, I haven't seen best You could play that 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:39.760 game before. 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:42.960 Fox, Yeah I have seen that. 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:46.320 Yeah, I'm gonna take gonna take back in the day. 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:47.400 You wasn't watching movies. 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:51.800 Girl, I've been doing the music since a kid, literally 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:55.280 on TV doing this. My mom did not play. We 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:57.240 was me and my sisters were in a singing group. 0:16:57.680 --> 0:16:58.480 We were on a tour. 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:00.360 We used to be the open act for five Wow 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:05.280 Maine dupri B two k Entrance was four little middle 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:08.200 schoolers wrapping Detroit, all four of us. So I didn't 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:10.280 get to really see a lot of the stuff. But 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:13.720 you know, I sit down sometime and when friends tell me, like, girl, 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:16.680 ain't no way you haven't heard this or watch this, 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:18.479 I'll sit down and catch up. 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:21.280 But I'm typically late to a lot of Yeah, mama 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:24.119 was Joe or something. She was definitely yes, And that's funny. 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:28.359 My mom name is last name was Jackson and first 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:31.000 name started with a J. So people my friends used 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:33.040 to be like, your mom is scary, she's Joe Jackson. 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:35.880 Like, are y'all still up there rehearsing? Yes, we still 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:36.840 are Wow. 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:40.679 But really that's good because listening to your story, it 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:43.000 kind of reminds me of like Coco Jones story, right, 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:45.439 Like how she was talking about how long she was 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:48.480 doing music and stuff like that. And it really just 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:52.359 shows you how long it actually takes to actually really 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:53.560 do this business. 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:57.080 It is not something that happens overnight. I just posted 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:00.440 a clip of my sisters and I on the Jenny 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:01.040 Jones Show. 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:05.480 I was twelve. I was twelve performing and. 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:07.359 So when someone sent in they said, ayy is this 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:09.439 you on this show? And I'm like, I was sewing beers. 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:12.159 I was like, oh my god, yes that was me 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:13.480 and your sisters. 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:15.080 Where are they at? Do they still do music? 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:18.720 So I will always tell people it doesn't happen overnight, 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:20.879 Like the success, don't even put a date on it. 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:23.800 If you really love what you're doing, is just gonna happen. 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:25.919 But if you sitting there like I'm giving myself the 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:29.240 next summer to become a baby, you and ron business already, 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:30.440 you already starting wrong. 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.280 So did your mom push you to go to Atlanta 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:34.520 to still do music? 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:35.080 She did. 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:37.480 My mom still manages me to this day. I'm still 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:40.159 my mama jer for all my sisters. One is a 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:43.119 tattoo artist, one is a set in design creative person. 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:46.119 So my mom definitely I told her right out of 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:47.640 high school, like, yeah, I'm leaving Detroit. 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:50.720 There's no way I'm gonna be here, like trying to be. 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:54.119 Great, and she was like, oh, you should go, and 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:56.920 then she moved the same year here. Okay, so now 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:59.880 we are all Now all of us are here, all your sisters, 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:00.480 all of us. 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:03.720 That's support right there. A lot of people don't get that. 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:05.479 My mom day one support. 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:06.560 So finding your. 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:11.399 Footing in music, what was the what was that breakthrough moment? 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:15.439 I would say the breakthrough moment for me was really 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:18.919 when I stopped trying to go after a deal and 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:22.480 really like, have these goals of I'm gonna sign to 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:25.520 this person. I was putting too much on the calendar 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:29.159 of like dates and timelines and deadlines, And when I 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:31.439 stopped doing that and was like, no, you're just gonna 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:32.120 go out there. 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:33.440 You're gonna be a music artist. 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:36.560 You're gonna meet people on network and let it come 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:40.399 to you versus I think every independent artist or artist 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:42.800 at that has a moment where it's like you feel 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:45.400 this little desperation you've been doing it for a minute. 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:47.840 You kind of felt like, no, like I'm gonna go 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:50.400 ahead and sign to them. I'm a When I stopped 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:54.680 looking at things like deadline dates, kind of I feel 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:55.480 like things change. 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:58.440 So now everything I do is like, this is what 0:19:58.560 --> 0:19:59.080 I want to do. 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:00.280 It's gonna come to me. 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:02.960 It's like everything changed in my career. 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:05.760 When I stop, I say being thirsty for it, but 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:07.560 people say, heyman, you've never been thirsty. 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:10.600 But I felt that I wanted it too bad at 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:12.960 one point and I was like, dang. 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:16.040 I'm like putting these dates and stuff. And I met 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:18.600 a person they were like, just do it. Stop trying 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:20.440 to put a date and cap a date on what's 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:22.880 going to happen. You love doing this, girl, Just wake 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:25.359 up and do it. And I feel like that's what 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:27.119 just changed everything for me. 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:30.080 That's what a lot of the Grace talk about as well, 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:34.239 about how people are, you know, they want to be 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:38.040 successful in this business so bad bad, and they forget 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:42.000 to like have fun, enjoy it. I think about the money, 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:44.080 and I think about those things because those things are 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:45.240 going to eventually come. 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:49.200 But I forgot who posted this on Instagram. 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:52.159 Somebody said, if you're not willing to be broke for 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:55.720 ten years, then don't get into the entertainment business. This 0:20:55.880 --> 0:20:58.639 is true, and that was probably the realist quote that 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:01.119 I've ever seen about the the entertainment business. 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:04.400 Yeah, if you know as an artist, what we really 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:08.280 go through, like one hundred doors to get one. The 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:11.600 average person can't take one hundred doors. It just breaks 0:21:11.600 --> 0:21:14.960 their hun My bad. Yeah, a lot of people cannot 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:19.480 take a hundred no's. It feels like, Okay, you have 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:21.480 a moment in your career, like maybe this ain't for me, 0:21:21.960 --> 0:21:24.119 but the ones that make it and they really go 0:21:24.280 --> 0:21:26.280 and have these long careers, I'll be sitting there like 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:29.439 I have nothing bad to say because to make it 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:31.480 that far, trust me, they sent a lot of meetings 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:34.400 where they were told not good enough, not pretty enough, 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:37.120 or he doesn't look good. And to make it, it's 0:21:37.200 --> 0:21:40.240 like if you knew what we go through, to break 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:43.199 a little bit of a stride is not an easy 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:46.040 thing to do. So I just got so much respect 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:47.840 for a lot of artists. That's why I don't really 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:51.560 pick the size on this girl that Nikki's the Cardi's. 0:21:51.640 --> 0:21:54.200 So that doesn't That doesn't upset you. 0:21:54.200 --> 0:21:58.120 Know you don't feel like the industry is like colorists, Yeah, 0:21:58.119 --> 0:21:59.280 I do, but. 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:02.840 I don't let it upset me. Yeah, Like I'm so different. 0:22:02.840 --> 0:22:05.600 The industry is very colorless, But I don't cry about 0:22:05.600 --> 0:22:07.520 it because I live it every day. Every day I 0:22:07.560 --> 0:22:10.959 wake up like this. I deal with it on so 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:15.280 many levels. But it's been happening so long that I 0:22:15.280 --> 0:22:19.000 feel like to start crying and complaining and overshadowing the 0:22:19.160 --> 0:22:21.520 music and what I'm here to do with the blogs 0:22:21.520 --> 0:22:24.119 eating up And he's talking about colorism again, like I've 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:25.080 already talked about it. 0:22:25.680 --> 0:22:27.120 People were like agreeing. 0:22:27.160 --> 0:22:29.439 A lot of big celebrities like right, and like, girl, 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:32.280 I've been through that. Keep your head up now. It's 0:22:32.400 --> 0:22:35.080 like you just gotta live around it and in it. 0:22:35.280 --> 0:22:36.720 But it is a real thing in. 0:22:36.680 --> 0:22:39.560 The industry, so you really feel like the labels are 0:22:39.640 --> 0:22:42.440 pushing light skin rappers or. 0:22:42.720 --> 0:22:46.400 For sure the numbers, the numbers prove it's a historic thing. 0:22:46.480 --> 0:22:47.360 It's not a new thing. 0:22:47.760 --> 0:22:51.440 It's a historic thing that lighter looks brighter and looks 0:22:51.440 --> 0:22:54.360 more appealing to the eye, and it looks more endorsable 0:22:54.520 --> 0:22:59.280 and more. It's true, you're gonna get maybe you have 0:22:59.359 --> 0:23:02.080 to get like one or two token black girls that 0:23:02.160 --> 0:23:03.400 really wrap in the game. 0:23:03.280 --> 0:23:06.240 Every so a couple of years, every couple of years, but. 0:23:06.160 --> 0:23:08.560 It's so many more of us that are so talented, 0:23:09.000 --> 0:23:11.520 and the conversation like why isn't so and so made 0:23:11.560 --> 0:23:14.159 and so and so, she's so talent talented, I'd be 0:23:14.160 --> 0:23:18.800 sitting there looking like I can assure you right now, 0:23:18.880 --> 0:23:20.920 if she bleached herself just a little bit. 0:23:21.520 --> 0:23:24.080 When a little blonde and did a little. 0:23:23.920 --> 0:23:27.560 Lighter, you will see a stride start happening little by little. 0:23:28.000 --> 0:23:28.720 It's factual. 0:23:29.280 --> 0:23:33.359 Yes, you share an experience of a color situation that 0:23:33.440 --> 0:23:34.760 you've personally dealt. 0:23:34.520 --> 0:23:40.360 With, Oh for sure, I'll share two actually, but one 0:23:40.440 --> 0:23:43.159 quick one. The first one that I encountered. It was like, 0:23:43.480 --> 0:23:47.800 WHOA a few years ago when I was doing like 0:23:48.240 --> 0:23:51.320 I would do video girl work, meaning on a professional level, 0:23:51.320 --> 0:23:53.760 if they needed a video model, I had a person. 0:23:53.840 --> 0:23:55.560 It was kind of booking me and I would go. 0:23:55.840 --> 0:23:59.240 And I remember one particular video I was invited out 0:23:59.480 --> 0:24:01.040 and it was a bunch of girls there and this 0:24:01.160 --> 0:24:03.399 is like one of the biggest rappers in the world 0:24:03.440 --> 0:24:06.520 still to this day. And I remember being in the 0:24:06.600 --> 0:24:08.480 back and it was me and it was about two 0:24:08.520 --> 0:24:11.280 other One girl was my color, but one was probably 0:24:11.560 --> 0:24:14.120 dark as this mic, but she was just gorgeous, drop 0:24:14.200 --> 0:24:16.760 that dead gorgeous, right, And I remember kind of being 0:24:16.760 --> 0:24:18.719 in the back and they had sub sandwiches for everybody, 0:24:18.800 --> 0:24:20.800 and we have to be in this one area where 0:24:20.800 --> 0:24:23.720 you can hear this. The artist when he walked on 0:24:23.760 --> 0:24:25.960 the set, he said it. It was not he tried 0:24:25.960 --> 0:24:28.000 to hide it. He didn't try to whisper it. He 0:24:28.080 --> 0:24:29.960 came on, was like, where the other girls at? Where 0:24:29.960 --> 0:24:32.560 the rest of the girls at the red Where the 0:24:32.600 --> 0:24:34.520 red girls at? You already know what I told y'all 0:24:34.640 --> 0:24:36.880 to bring. They were like, we have a lot of them. 0:24:36.920 --> 0:24:39.560 We have only like five brown skinned girl. He straight 0:24:39.600 --> 0:24:43.080 up was like, they're not doing get the girls. I 0:24:43.119 --> 0:24:45.600 asked for her to come and not hear. The girl like, 0:24:45.640 --> 0:24:47.119 I don't know she was an assistant, I don't know 0:24:47.160 --> 0:24:49.440 who she was, but we can hear. We were right 0:24:49.440 --> 0:24:51.119 there on the set, but we're kind of away, but 0:24:51.119 --> 0:24:52.560 I'm sitting there eating the sandwich like. 0:24:52.880 --> 0:24:54.119 He ain't even trying to whisper this. 0:24:54.800 --> 0:24:56.800 And the girls were like, we're used to this, and 0:24:56.840 --> 0:24:59.399 I said, it's sad, I've never encountered this. But the 0:24:59.440 --> 0:25:01.359 girl dark like this was like I deal with it 0:25:01.400 --> 0:25:02.560 every video I pop. 0:25:02.400 --> 0:25:05.080 Up too, And I was like, you still do it. 0:25:05.600 --> 0:25:08.359 He literally was like, this ain't what I asked for. 0:25:08.400 --> 0:25:11.119 Where's the light skinned girls, like one or two of 0:25:11.160 --> 0:25:14.119 them can stay, but all five of them no. I 0:25:14.160 --> 0:25:17.200 had never heard that before, and I'm thinking I ain't 0:25:17.240 --> 0:25:21.840 even that dark. But if I was, they dismissed us 0:25:21.840 --> 0:25:23.200 off to say, I promise you. 0:25:23.280 --> 0:25:23.560 Wow. 0:25:23.760 --> 0:25:25.720 First of all, we sat for about two hours, and 0:25:25.760 --> 0:25:27.840 I was sitting there like I should really get up 0:25:27.880 --> 0:25:31.080 and leave myself. But just being transparent, I was broke 0:25:31.200 --> 0:25:33.800 around that time. I had bills, we were getting paid 0:25:33.800 --> 0:25:35.960 a decent check, and I'm like, I'm gonna see this 0:25:36.000 --> 0:25:38.320 through because I need the money. But a little bit 0:25:38.320 --> 0:25:41.040 of me sat there and was just like, this is 0:25:41.119 --> 0:25:44.399 disgusting that we're here dealing with this and this person 0:25:44.520 --> 0:25:45.359 is blacker than me. 0:25:46.000 --> 0:25:47.359 This artist is darker than me. 0:25:47.400 --> 0:25:50.720 Who said it two times darker than me? And I 0:25:50.880 --> 0:25:53.560 just was like, dang, for sure, And. 0:25:53.480 --> 0:25:55.160 I'm pretty sure you probably was a fan of them, 0:25:55.160 --> 0:25:56.840 and then it probably kind of turned you off with 0:25:57.160 --> 0:25:57.720 their music. 0:25:58.119 --> 0:26:00.760 Look, I was definitely turned if I don't listen to 0:26:00.800 --> 0:26:02.920 this artist to this day. And this artist has said 0:26:03.040 --> 0:26:06.399 several things out loud about brown skinned women and liking 0:26:06.480 --> 0:26:09.160 them read better. He's still doing it to this day. 0:26:09.560 --> 0:26:11.399 But I stopped being a fan years ago. But to 0:26:11.440 --> 0:26:14.439 see when I see like black women still like common 0:26:14.480 --> 0:26:17.480 and supporting them. I just be still confused. But again, 0:26:17.680 --> 0:26:19.920 I'm a lane rider. I know how to shut my mouth, 0:26:20.200 --> 0:26:21.760 but I know I don't support. 0:26:21.440 --> 0:26:22.119 Them at all. 0:26:22.320 --> 0:26:28.320 So another time I was had opportunity through an agency 0:26:28.359 --> 0:26:30.480 I was with that they were looking for a model 0:26:30.520 --> 0:26:32.320 to be like on a book cover. It was a 0:26:32.320 --> 0:26:34.719 black author and they were the agency. You know, they 0:26:34.760 --> 0:26:37.359 pulled me in a couple of girls, and they accidentally 0:26:37.400 --> 0:26:40.480 put me in the wrong email chat where the person 0:26:40.520 --> 0:26:44.040 who book it was his agency hit the agency or 0:26:44.040 --> 0:26:46.160 the manager was like, he does not want a brown 0:26:46.200 --> 0:26:48.600 skinned girl like he wants blazing. 0:26:48.680 --> 0:26:51.320 He wants a black and agent, you know, a girl 0:26:51.400 --> 0:26:51.920 that's mixed. 0:26:52.480 --> 0:26:55.520 And everybody in the chat voted me to be on 0:26:55.560 --> 0:26:56.359 the cover of the book. 0:26:56.440 --> 0:26:57.120 I promise you. 0:26:57.400 --> 0:26:59.880 They were like, we don't care what all these people 0:27:00.000 --> 0:27:02.960 and it's chatter saying he does not want a brownskin 0:27:03.000 --> 0:27:05.760 girl on here. And this was again a person who 0:27:05.800 --> 0:27:08.560 was two times darker than me. So I was like, 0:27:09.119 --> 0:27:11.639 how did I It was several girls going for the 0:27:11.680 --> 0:27:16.000 book opportunity. However, that went and I was excited because 0:27:16.000 --> 0:27:18.200 after weeks of them doing a negotiation, when they added 0:27:18.200 --> 0:27:20.160 me to the email, they were like, Amy, they picked you, 0:27:20.600 --> 0:27:22.120 like everybody on here wanted you. 0:27:22.560 --> 0:27:23.800 And then a person came in. 0:27:23.960 --> 0:27:26.480 I'm sure she meant to send it separately, but she 0:27:26.600 --> 0:27:28.639 went into the email and was like, he does not 0:27:28.760 --> 0:27:30.320 want a brown skin girl on the cover. 0:27:31.119 --> 0:27:32.200 Like we made that clear. 0:27:32.560 --> 0:27:35.000 And next thing, you know, next day I got to text, sorry, Amy, 0:27:36.200 --> 0:27:38.000 you know we all picked you, but they want to 0:27:38.000 --> 0:27:38.640 go a different ride. 0:27:38.680 --> 0:27:40.560 I was like, I was on the email. I saw 0:27:40.720 --> 0:27:42.040 you weren't supposed to be on that one. 0:27:42.119 --> 0:27:42.560 Sorry. 0:27:43.160 --> 0:27:48.439 I was like, oh, that's weird, but okay, I just 0:27:48.440 --> 0:27:50.520 got to learn to live around it for real food. 0:27:50.920 --> 0:27:53.200 But it's the thing is very real. 0:27:53.960 --> 0:27:56.240 And does that make you feel any type of way 0:27:56.320 --> 0:27:59.119 towards lighter skin people. 0:27:59.000 --> 0:27:59.800 No, not at all. 0:28:01.240 --> 0:28:04.720 If anything, makes me feel sad for us as a community, 0:28:04.800 --> 0:28:07.399 because this is been something we've been dealing with for 0:28:07.480 --> 0:28:10.600 a long time. This isn't an overnight conversation. It's one 0:28:10.640 --> 0:28:14.320 of them conversations that when people have it, us brown 0:28:14.359 --> 0:28:17.600 skinned girls kind of look like crybabies, sort of save face. 0:28:17.680 --> 0:28:19.440 A lot of us don't talk about it, but it's 0:28:19.480 --> 0:28:22.600 a conversation that if you probably put ten dark skinned 0:28:22.600 --> 0:28:24.520 women in the room some of the stories will be 0:28:24.600 --> 0:28:28.240 probably horrific of how they tried to pin us against 0:28:28.560 --> 0:28:31.679 when it's like, my mentality is, you can be dark skinned, 0:28:31.720 --> 0:28:33.000 light skin, white brown. 0:28:32.800 --> 0:28:33.520 And be beautiful. 0:28:33.840 --> 0:28:35.760 You can be light skin and not be that appealing 0:28:35.800 --> 0:28:37.800 to the eyes. You can be dark skin and not 0:28:37.880 --> 0:28:41.240 be appealing. But it's sad that it's our community that 0:28:41.320 --> 0:28:43.480 does it. You don't hear white people saying it. You 0:28:43.520 --> 0:28:48.160 don't hear even really Caribbean people. It's more of us, 0:28:47.600 --> 0:28:51.680 that conversation of she's lighter, she looks better. It's not 0:28:51.800 --> 0:28:55.200 even other ethnicity saying it. So to me, it's like, 0:28:56.560 --> 0:28:58.959 I don't know. I just try to be more inclusive 0:28:59.120 --> 0:29:01.520 with my music. I do a lot of music big 0:29:01.520 --> 0:29:04.320 and brown skinned women up. I have been on the 0:29:04.360 --> 0:29:07.560 chopping block for that. I just recently ended up on 0:29:07.640 --> 0:29:10.840 a blog for a comment that I responded to a 0:29:10.880 --> 0:29:12.720 song I put out, and the girl said, it's funny 0:29:12.720 --> 0:29:15.240 that you only put dark skinned women in the video. 0:29:15.480 --> 0:29:19.040 You're being just how you're saying people are. But my 0:29:19.160 --> 0:29:21.960 thought process was typically, y'all wonn't putting none of them 0:29:21.960 --> 0:29:24.600 in the video. I made sure I put all of them, 0:29:25.080 --> 0:29:27.560 and I purposely put some girls that weren't what you 0:29:27.560 --> 0:29:30.160 would call a fine girl. Some of them was big, 0:29:30.200 --> 0:29:33.800 some of them had what people would consider nappy hair. 0:29:33.960 --> 0:29:35.600 I was like, I love it. I want you to 0:29:35.640 --> 0:29:37.920 be in a video with your afro and on. And 0:29:37.960 --> 0:29:39.880 people were like, where are the light skin girls? Where 0:29:39.880 --> 0:29:42.760 are the white girls? You're really the prejudice one. And 0:29:42.840 --> 0:29:46.040 I'm like, listen, you can't win this war, but I'm 0:29:46.080 --> 0:29:48.480 going to make them feel beautiful for a time in 0:29:48.520 --> 0:29:50.960 a video. And I did it, and I felt good 0:29:51.000 --> 0:29:53.840 looking at the video, like they deserve a shine and 0:29:54.000 --> 0:29:56.360 be made to feel pretty, even if the world is 0:29:56.360 --> 0:29:59.080 saying they're not so child, I'm doing it for us. 0:29:59.600 --> 0:30:01.520 I'm in the a black woman experience. I'm a dark 0:30:01.600 --> 0:30:05.880 skinned girl with regular black woman hair under this wig, 0:30:06.360 --> 0:30:09.360 and I'm doing it for us. My experience isn'ten of 0:30:09.440 --> 0:30:12.480 white women or of light skiin so my music does 0:30:12.560 --> 0:30:15.680 typically be black girl puts you know, keep your head up, 0:30:16.240 --> 0:30:18.560 nappy head, black girl, The hair is beautiful. I have 0:30:18.680 --> 0:30:22.280 to say it because I live the experience of people 0:30:22.280 --> 0:30:24.320 don't say it to us enough, So. 0:30:24.160 --> 0:30:26.000 Why would I not say it in my music? 0:30:26.120 --> 0:30:26.640 You know what I mean? 0:30:26.720 --> 0:30:29.680 I don't really understand how people will be confused with 0:30:29.680 --> 0:30:31.800 me sometime when I'm like, you're black and beautiful, and 0:30:31.840 --> 0:30:33.920 I say it all the time, and. 0:30:33.880 --> 0:30:34.960 It's like, what about us. 0:30:35.560 --> 0:30:37.400 I'm not talking about y'all right now, I'm talking about 0:30:37.440 --> 0:30:39.920 what I'm seeing, and y'all need to see the reflection 0:30:40.040 --> 0:30:41.000 of how I look. 0:30:41.080 --> 0:30:43.920 You know, you look beautiful. Oh you can't win that. 0:30:44.040 --> 0:30:46.360 Basically right now. I think that's part of being a 0:30:46.480 --> 0:30:46.920 change you. 0:30:46.840 --> 0:30:49.480 Want to see, you know, and with you're doing that 0:30:49.560 --> 0:30:51.280 in your music and stuff like that, and it's just 0:30:51.320 --> 0:30:53.640 amazing to see how you persevere through all that and 0:30:54.080 --> 0:30:55.760 becoming a success that you are today. 0:30:55.840 --> 0:30:57.920 And that is very commend you to that. 0:30:58.040 --> 0:31:02.720 Thank you was one of your what was your successful moment? 0:31:02.920 --> 0:31:06.320 Like the moment that you was like, Okay, I got 0:31:06.320 --> 0:31:06.680 it now. 0:31:07.040 --> 0:31:12.160 I would say my first successful moment would be my 0:31:12.320 --> 0:31:15.160 first big writing session. A lot of people to know 0:31:15.320 --> 0:31:19.320 I wrote for people, but you know in that that 0:31:19.360 --> 0:31:21.360 part of the industry, you can't really be as vocal 0:31:21.400 --> 0:31:24.040 like hey, I wrote her song like my Name is on. 0:31:24.400 --> 0:31:28.040 So I felt really good that I always wanted to 0:31:28.040 --> 0:31:30.640 write for a big artists And when I got a 0:31:30.680 --> 0:31:35.200 call to be in a writing session with four of 0:31:35.240 --> 0:31:39.440 like some of the biggest songwriters in our area. Like 0:31:40.000 --> 0:31:42.120 when I called, I kind of felt like I am 0:31:42.160 --> 0:31:43.400 not supposed to be in this room. 0:31:43.520 --> 0:31:43.800 It was. 0:31:44.440 --> 0:31:46.600 It was crazy when I got there, and that was 0:31:46.640 --> 0:31:48.440 my first time my career feeling like, oh my god, 0:31:48.480 --> 0:31:51.760 it's actually you are being heard. Sometimes it feels like 0:31:51.800 --> 0:31:55.160 you aren't as an independent artist when you haven't made 0:31:55.160 --> 0:31:57.920 it big or the number one record, you know, like 0:31:57.960 --> 0:32:01.200 people say are charting and jen. So when I walked 0:32:01.240 --> 0:32:03.240 in the room and I sat there and people were like, 0:32:03.280 --> 0:32:06.000 heymy we heard some of your references, we heard some 0:32:06.000 --> 0:32:07.800 of your songs, we heard so and so song. We 0:32:07.840 --> 0:32:10.400 didn't know you wrote that or co wrote it. I 0:32:10.440 --> 0:32:13.520 was like, wow, I didn't even know y'all even knew 0:32:13.560 --> 0:32:17.400 me or were talking about me. So that really encouraged me. 0:32:17.640 --> 0:32:19.120 They were like, girl, we've been talking about you for 0:32:19.120 --> 0:32:21.760 about two years actually, and I was like, dang, you 0:32:21.800 --> 0:32:25.400 don't really know that some people know you and things. 0:32:25.480 --> 0:32:26.800 My mentality changed. 0:32:26.840 --> 0:32:29.000 I was like, get the stuff that your Did you 0:32:29.000 --> 0:32:30.600 have a manager or was it your mom? 0:32:30.720 --> 0:32:31.000 It was. 0:32:31.760 --> 0:32:35.080 I had a situation where Red Bull Publishing and was 0:32:35.120 --> 0:32:38.880 sitting down and was negotiating some work with them, and 0:32:39.040 --> 0:32:43.000 two other songwriters shout out to London Jay two, he 0:32:43.040 --> 0:32:48.040 writes to London, Yeah, definitely my homie and that's that's 0:32:48.080 --> 0:32:49.240 like a mentor to me. 0:32:49.760 --> 0:32:50.320 Spart. 0:32:51.600 --> 0:32:56.080 About a lot of a lot of he is the one. 0:32:56.960 --> 0:32:58.800 He is the one, like London, I do this to 0:32:58.880 --> 0:33:01.680 him when I see him, like so shout out to him. 0:33:01.680 --> 0:33:01.960 But yeah. 0:33:01.920 --> 0:33:03.400 I end up in a writing session with him and 0:33:03.440 --> 0:33:06.080 a couple other people and when they were like, yeah, 0:33:06.080 --> 0:33:07.560 we heard some stuff you wrote. What do you mean 0:33:07.560 --> 0:33:09.120 you're shocked to be here? I was like, I just 0:33:09.600 --> 0:33:13.160 because I haven't had this opportunity before. That changed everything 0:33:13.200 --> 0:33:15.800 for me because I used to From there, I was like, 0:33:15.840 --> 0:33:18.560 you got to stop working and being great to hear 0:33:18.640 --> 0:33:21.720 somebody say we heard it, Amy, because I learned that day. 0:33:21.920 --> 0:33:23.840 Sometimes they don't even tell you they heard you, but 0:33:23.920 --> 0:33:27.280 they're hearing you in fans and they were pulling up references, 0:33:27.320 --> 0:33:30.040 like we got this reference in our email with all 0:33:30.040 --> 0:33:31.800 these songwriters months ago and it was you. 0:33:32.000 --> 0:33:36.200 And I was like, what y'all in LA They're like yes, Amy. 0:33:36.840 --> 0:33:39.800 So from there, I'm like, girl, you are that girl period. 0:33:39.800 --> 0:33:41.840 What can you share some of the artists that you 0:33:42.360 --> 0:33:43.240 wrote for? 0:33:43.560 --> 0:33:46.400 I can tell you some writing sessions I've been in. 0:33:47.160 --> 0:33:51.800 That's how you have to do that legally. I'm into something. Yeah, 0:33:51.880 --> 0:33:52.560 I can tell you something. 0:33:52.720 --> 0:33:56.240 Yeah, just you know, just a couple of writing sessions. 0:33:56.360 --> 0:34:01.840 I have been in writing sessions for Cardi B And 0:34:01.880 --> 0:34:04.320 that's I'll leave it at that. That was the huge 0:34:04.320 --> 0:34:07.240 that was my most biggest opportunity. And I was the 0:34:07.280 --> 0:34:10.280 only girl in the room with all the male writers. 0:34:10.360 --> 0:34:11.520 So can you. 0:34:11.480 --> 0:34:13.759 Give us an example of what a writing session is 0:34:13.840 --> 0:34:14.640 like for people. 0:34:14.440 --> 0:34:19.680 Who yes, yes, so a writing session you'll get obviously 0:34:19.719 --> 0:34:22.160 you know your confidential email through whoever you're working with, 0:34:22.239 --> 0:34:24.200 if you have a pub deal or a label deal, 0:34:24.760 --> 0:34:28.800 and they will tell you, like which label is looking 0:34:28.840 --> 0:34:31.320 for songs, and they'll tell you what type of songs 0:34:31.320 --> 0:34:34.120 they're looking for a meaning so and so has a 0:34:34.160 --> 0:34:36.320 ten song album and it's about to come out. The 0:34:36.440 --> 0:34:40.720 last two records they wanted to be maybe club boppy 0:34:40.840 --> 0:34:44.360 fun or a deep record. It's like heartbro got dumbed. 0:34:44.360 --> 0:34:47.360 To let you know, and depend on what your writing 0:34:47.480 --> 0:34:50.600 cadence is, you might get the email like, hey, so 0:34:50.640 --> 0:34:51.719 a session coming in. 0:34:53.200 --> 0:34:54.279 You want to be a part of it. 0:34:54.440 --> 0:34:56.960 You don't know who you're walking in there, Like I've 0:34:56.960 --> 0:34:59.360 walked in with London j before and been like, what's. 0:34:59.280 --> 0:34:59.800 Up, London. 0:35:00.120 --> 0:35:01.400 I don't know how excited I am. 0:35:01.280 --> 0:35:01.960 To be here with you. 0:35:02.040 --> 0:35:06.000 But you don't know who you're coming into, and sometimes 0:35:06.400 --> 0:35:08.600 you don't even know the artists that you're writing for. 0:35:09.239 --> 0:35:11.960 Sometimes you might have a publishing deal of a pub 0:35:12.000 --> 0:35:14.680 deal and get in there and it's like, oh, yeah, 0:35:14.719 --> 0:35:17.200 you writing for I don't want to name somebody who 0:35:17.239 --> 0:35:20.960 writes for themselves, but whoever's been vocal about not writing 0:35:20.960 --> 0:35:23.399 for themselves. You might come in and be like, who's 0:35:23.440 --> 0:35:23.960 working on this? 0:35:24.120 --> 0:35:25.120 That never happens. 0:35:27.840 --> 0:35:30.480 You might come in and be like, I'm real, like 0:35:30.480 --> 0:35:32.680 how many songs does she need? Well, they really only 0:35:32.680 --> 0:35:36.000 need one, and it's literally twenty people sometimes trying to 0:35:36.920 --> 0:35:38.520 get theirs. 0:35:38.360 --> 0:35:40.760 To people writing on one song. For sure. 0:35:41.080 --> 0:35:42.600 Sean Garrett kind of shared that with us. 0:35:42.640 --> 0:35:44.319 It's like a whole bunch of people and they're just 0:35:44.360 --> 0:35:46.279 like fighting for that on the. 0:35:46.480 --> 0:35:49.520 Album, and sometimes you're not fighting that. That's the sentence 0:35:49.520 --> 0:35:51.759 a chance to be on an album, because sometimes you 0:35:51.800 --> 0:35:54.239 could write the whole verse and when you hear it 0:35:54.239 --> 0:35:57.080 and how y'all negotiating work it, it ended up being 0:35:57.120 --> 0:35:59.759 you only got one sentence of what you said it 0:35:59.880 --> 0:36:02.120 was dope out of it, and then this other songwriter 0:36:02.680 --> 0:36:03.840 he got the second sentence. 0:36:03.880 --> 0:36:04.840 You're like, damn. 0:36:05.160 --> 0:36:07.600 But then you know, the artists want to get their 0:36:07.680 --> 0:36:09.920 their credit too, so they can just take something they 0:36:09.920 --> 0:36:11.839 hear and then say, well, I want to rework it like. 0:36:11.800 --> 0:36:14.760 This, and now you're getting them on the split sheet 0:36:15.920 --> 0:36:19.319 always gets real ugly and dirty. You can, and that's 0:36:19.320 --> 0:36:22.800 why songwriters are always trying to write. 0:36:23.280 --> 0:36:26.440 I feel like at this point everybody has writers and 0:36:26.520 --> 0:36:29.279 it because you know, some of the biggest I don't 0:36:29.320 --> 0:36:31.640 understand why it's a big deal. Yeah, because when you 0:36:31.680 --> 0:36:34.560 look at some of the biggest artists in the world 0:36:34.600 --> 0:36:38.279 from you know, years ago, like you look at people 0:36:38.320 --> 0:36:40.839 like Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson wasn't writing no song right. 0:36:40.880 --> 0:36:45.320 The objective of the music game is to sell records, 0:36:45.360 --> 0:36:48.799 and whatever sells the best is what they want so 0:36:48.960 --> 0:36:51.960 bad you're writing something that sounds like on what's on 0:36:52.000 --> 0:36:55.160 the radio, you're more than likely gonna get that. 0:36:55.280 --> 0:36:57.279 Job and you're going to be on like a two 0:36:57.360 --> 0:37:00.600 year run because it's sounds in the end industry where 0:37:00.600 --> 0:37:02.920 it's a moment where it's like everything y'all remember the 0:37:02.960 --> 0:37:05.920 Roscoe Dash moment where everybody it was just a sign 0:37:05.920 --> 0:37:06.400 of music. 0:37:06.520 --> 0:37:07.120 Snap music. 0:37:07.120 --> 0:37:09.239 They're going to send in the power writers that are 0:37:09.320 --> 0:37:11.520 quiet in the back, like, oh, this is what I do. 0:37:11.680 --> 0:37:13.600 I write all the snap the finger type he is. 0:37:13.640 --> 0:37:16.960 It's like a cadence for every type of songwriter. London 0:37:17.040 --> 0:37:20.520 Jay works well with everybody, but he's really good with women, 0:37:21.000 --> 0:37:24.279 the female rappers. Able to write so much of that 0:37:24.320 --> 0:37:25.560 and he's like the most. 0:37:25.520 --> 0:37:26.400 That's what I heard. 0:37:26.480 --> 0:37:31.320 I heard, That's what That's why I was like, lont. 0:37:31.520 --> 0:37:36.080 What makes him a beast is because he's selling the records. 0:37:36.200 --> 0:37:37.640 He's selling the record and if. 0:37:37.480 --> 0:37:39.560 You are making the most money, they want you. 0:37:39.640 --> 0:37:43.719 Every time and he don't miss so so so basically 0:37:44.040 --> 0:37:46.879 you can write the record and then it can be ten. 0:37:47.080 --> 0:37:48.840 I've been in the session before and it was fourteen 0:37:48.880 --> 0:37:51.840 people there and I was just like, oh my god. 0:37:52.520 --> 0:37:54.319 And when I say they are hungry, they're not in 0:37:54.360 --> 0:37:56.640 their plan with you. I had to learn I was 0:37:56.719 --> 0:38:00.920 missing opportunities when I started because I'm I'm kind of 0:38:00.920 --> 0:38:03.360 I'm the humble girl, like I know my power. 0:38:03.400 --> 0:38:06.560 I sit there sometime and be like, you don't even 0:38:06.600 --> 0:38:07.800 know you're talking to sometime. 0:38:07.880 --> 0:38:10.400 But I was coming to them sessions so humble, and 0:38:10.440 --> 0:38:12.640 I was saying how aggressive they are and I had 0:38:12.680 --> 0:38:13.560 to learn quick. 0:38:13.920 --> 0:38:16.080 I was like, oh, because I remember I. 0:38:16.040 --> 0:38:17.640 Was in a session one time, my kid, you not 0:38:18.239 --> 0:38:19.960 I opened a moment as a songwriter. 0:38:20.239 --> 0:38:20.759 I went there. 0:38:21.160 --> 0:38:22.520 It was like, lay that part down, that was good, 0:38:22.520 --> 0:38:25.200 we like what you said. I go in there and somebody, 0:38:25.239 --> 0:38:26.920 a guy came in and was like, yeah, they want 0:38:26.960 --> 0:38:30.200 me to say my part, and I was like, what 0:38:30.560 --> 0:38:31.000 come out? 0:38:31.040 --> 0:38:34.000 I came out. They were like, yeah, we like that better, 0:38:34.120 --> 0:38:36.000 so you cancel that part that she said. 0:38:36.200 --> 0:38:39.600 Put his one sentence on there. It was aggressive. They 0:38:39.680 --> 0:38:42.440 was in there like we want the most on this publishing. 0:38:43.080 --> 0:38:44.680 We want to be the one to get the most 0:38:44.719 --> 0:38:46.640 out of it. And you got to be in there 0:38:46.680 --> 0:38:47.319 ready to fight. 0:38:47.440 --> 0:38:49.600 Not literally, yeah, because a lot of people behind the 0:38:49.640 --> 0:38:52.040 scenes they not making money like these artists. You're not 0:38:52.080 --> 0:38:54.839 going to do shows and stuff like that, so your 0:38:54.880 --> 0:38:57.359 only stream of income is like, I gotta get on 0:38:57.400 --> 0:38:59.560 this record to get this because it takes you know, 0:38:59.600 --> 0:39:00.520 a while to get paid. 0:39:00.640 --> 0:39:01.520 Is awesome. 0:39:01.680 --> 0:39:06.719 Not only that the producer getting fifty percent of it immediately, 0:39:06.920 --> 0:39:12.400 automatic immediately well and that's what we producers get fifty. 0:39:12.560 --> 0:39:14.920 You break down the split, so it's fifty percent for 0:39:15.000 --> 0:39:17.400 the songwriter, fifty percent for the producer. 0:39:17.560 --> 0:39:21.040 Now imagine ten people writing on that record, like you 0:39:21.080 --> 0:39:23.680 get ten percent, you get five, y'all. 0:39:23.760 --> 0:39:24.359 That's the five. 0:39:24.400 --> 0:39:26.520 And that's why it's like this big outrage, not even 0:39:26.600 --> 0:39:27.080 just with TV. 0:39:27.200 --> 0:39:28.000 It's a real thing. 0:39:28.080 --> 0:39:31.839 It's not you got ten people on here writing and 0:39:32.440 --> 0:39:34.080 you getting fifty because you made to B and I'm 0:39:34.080 --> 0:39:36.120 sitting there like you ain't really seeing no money. 0:39:36.200 --> 0:39:39.400 So what is this beef over songwriters with these females? 0:39:39.440 --> 0:39:41.680 Like the beef is so caddy, and a lot of 0:39:41.719 --> 0:39:44.520 it is calculated by the labels because the beef sales. 0:39:45.040 --> 0:39:45.839 So before you. 0:39:45.800 --> 0:39:47.640 Drop, if your name was so and so and you 0:39:47.719 --> 0:39:50.439 drop the week before you drop, you're most likely gonna 0:39:50.440 --> 0:39:52.840 be told of beef with me, fall out with me, 0:39:53.000 --> 0:39:56.120 do something weird where it's like, if everybody's talking about you, 0:39:56.520 --> 0:40:01.080 that means let me just say if I do Yeah, 0:40:01.160 --> 0:40:04.480 if I'm doing probably one point nine million impressions a week, 0:40:04.560 --> 0:40:08.040 the people who are superstars, they're probably doing twenty million. 0:40:08.400 --> 0:40:10.760 If I start a beef with you, that's twenty million 0:40:10.760 --> 0:40:13.000 people now watching to hear the beef, and then. 0:40:12.880 --> 0:40:14.680 You slide in your record on them. 0:40:15.040 --> 0:40:17.600 It's such a system that it makes they're watching you 0:40:17.600 --> 0:40:20.719 because you're beefing, sliding the album, sliding the new merch, 0:40:20.760 --> 0:40:23.360 slide in the tape to just drop. It's a system 0:40:23.400 --> 0:40:26.399 and girls have fallen so deep into it that now 0:40:26.440 --> 0:40:29.320 they're not relying on the lyrics no more like the music. 0:40:29.360 --> 0:40:31.040 It's like I could do some fake beef and go 0:40:31.160 --> 0:40:33.239 number one for real, for real. That's just how the 0:40:33.280 --> 0:40:36.120 game is going, because we're in a time where people 0:40:36.200 --> 0:40:39.440 love to see the girls take their heads off, take 0:40:39.480 --> 0:40:42.560 each other's heads. Think of this, and I always tell people, 0:40:42.920 --> 0:40:45.200 think of all the movies. Think of the movies people 0:40:45.200 --> 0:40:48.280 got Oscars for nobody's mad at them that somebody wrote 0:40:48.320 --> 0:40:51.680 them a movie that got them an Oscar. Nobody's mad 0:40:51.840 --> 0:40:55.480 Like this is hip hop where you got Angela? Bas said, 0:40:55.480 --> 0:40:57.680 you got Hayley Bear, you got all these greats, right 0:40:57.760 --> 0:41:01.879 Iola Davis. People wrote these movies for them, They Wakanda 0:41:02.040 --> 0:41:05.080 and they did all of It's sitting there in La 0:41:05.239 --> 0:41:08.600 saying who wrote the best movie for Angela? Who know 0:41:08.800 --> 0:41:12.040 you have never heard that? Them fighting over who wrote 0:41:12.040 --> 0:41:14.279 the scripts for the movies. Why are we talking about 0:41:14.320 --> 0:41:15.880 that in hip hop though? Why is that like the 0:41:15.880 --> 0:41:18.000 big thing with the girls? Like girl, when you get 0:41:18.000 --> 0:41:20.120 mad at somebody and you don't even write, it's. 0:41:20.080 --> 0:41:21.600 Like, yeah, that's that's all. 0:41:22.520 --> 0:41:24.359 That's all the beef that I ever see, Like all 0:41:24.360 --> 0:41:26.240 the beef that I see on the internet with female 0:41:26.320 --> 0:41:29.520 rappers is all about who writes what. 0:41:30.200 --> 0:41:32.520 And let me say this, I have never had a 0:41:32.520 --> 0:41:36.160 writer for my own music. I've never had I've never 0:41:36.200 --> 0:41:39.120 dealt with female that. I've never had one. 0:41:39.280 --> 0:41:41.000 Every female rapper stand on. 0:41:41.920 --> 0:41:44.160 But let me say this though, if the hit come, 0:41:44.760 --> 0:41:47.440 I take my Take me a damn rapper, take me 0:41:47.480 --> 0:41:48.120 a damn writer. 0:41:49.239 --> 0:41:51.840 People are so scared to be real these days. It's scary. 0:41:52.160 --> 0:41:54.760 Listen there of the game is a number one. 0:41:54.800 --> 0:41:56.320 Number one record, number one record? 0:41:56.320 --> 0:41:59.240 I think business? Or do you care about the girls 0:41:59.239 --> 0:42:01.200 being like Amy? If I got a number one but 0:42:01.320 --> 0:42:03.520 I once I wrote it, London, J can come right now. 0:42:03.520 --> 0:42:05.239 And write it. I would be right there rapping it. 0:42:06.480 --> 0:42:06.760 People. 0:42:06.840 --> 0:42:10.040 People have to understand that and change with the times. 0:42:10.120 --> 0:42:14.040 Like hip hop is far from you know, the street corners. 0:42:14.239 --> 0:42:16.400 We're in the business office. This is a business. 0:42:16.440 --> 0:42:17.880 You know what I'm saying, and we're just trying to 0:42:17.880 --> 0:42:20.400 get the best deals, so I understand that. 0:42:20.520 --> 0:42:22.560 Yeah, I had two labels. 0:42:22.600 --> 0:42:24.680 Came about three months ago to one of my sessions 0:42:24.680 --> 0:42:29.600 at Anywhere at the studio I go to, and I 0:42:29.680 --> 0:42:32.160 went in there and I recorded the song. At first, off, 0:42:32.200 --> 0:42:34.879 I don't even write my music. Oh, I don't write 0:42:34.920 --> 0:42:36.920 at all. And when I came out the label one 0:42:36.920 --> 0:42:39.640 of the labels, two guys he's like, yeah, that so 0:42:39.680 --> 0:42:41.040 and so was telling me that you're gonna write that 0:42:41.160 --> 0:42:43.520 you started writing two years ago, but we just had 0:42:43.520 --> 0:42:44.760 to see it because you're a girl. 0:42:45.200 --> 0:42:46.799 And I was like, well, damn, what did that mean? 0:42:47.200 --> 0:42:49.480 And they were like, well, we just watched it doesn't 0:42:49.520 --> 0:42:51.920 really happen like that. And I was like, well, how 0:42:51.920 --> 0:42:54.239 does it happen? Because I'm still fairly new to a 0:42:54.239 --> 0:42:57.440 lot of the process with the major female artist, I 0:42:57.480 --> 0:42:59.279 haven't been in there one on one to watch it, 0:42:59.360 --> 0:43:01.719 so I'm had to learn from them. And they were like, 0:43:01.920 --> 0:43:05.239 it's typically somebody in there telling them the cadence. No, 0:43:05.280 --> 0:43:06.960 you need to say it like this. You've got to 0:43:07.000 --> 0:43:08.239 raise your hand up a little more to make it 0:43:08.239 --> 0:43:10.400 come out more aggressive. And they were like, we were 0:43:10.440 --> 0:43:12.480 looking through the glass. We were looking for the notebook, 0:43:12.600 --> 0:43:15.120 we were looking for your phone. What are you writing 0:43:15.160 --> 0:43:15.440 it on? 0:43:15.560 --> 0:43:18.400 I was like, I'm not. I've been rapping since I 0:43:18.480 --> 0:43:18.839 was ten. 0:43:19.080 --> 0:43:19.440 I'm not. 0:43:19.640 --> 0:43:21.800 It's like it's kind of my brain at this point. 0:43:22.239 --> 0:43:23.760 But I will get me a songwriter. 0:43:24.120 --> 0:43:25.480 I respect it. Take all these. 0:43:25.360 --> 0:43:27.480 Thoughts out my head and give me that number one record. 0:43:27.560 --> 0:43:29.280 So you're like a jay z in a little Wayne, 0:43:29.480 --> 0:43:29.799 just going. 0:43:30.040 --> 0:43:33.000 I have been told that, and they feel very pressure. 0:43:33.040 --> 0:43:34.000 Pressure when I do. 0:43:34.160 --> 0:43:37.000 That's dope because you know it's it's really hard. I 0:43:37.040 --> 0:43:39.319 feel like to just like just go in there and 0:43:39.320 --> 0:43:42.560 be like, hey, I'm feeling this and just blurred out 0:43:42.560 --> 0:43:45.839 how you feeling and it actually comes out and you 0:43:45.840 --> 0:43:47.320 know it and it's dope. 0:43:47.400 --> 0:43:50.120 How does the payment work as a songwriter. 0:43:50.239 --> 0:43:50.920 It's different. 0:43:51.160 --> 0:43:54.000 So you can have a label if I when I 0:43:54.000 --> 0:43:56.520 say have a label, be signed to a label, or 0:43:56.600 --> 0:43:58.440 you can have a publishing deal which is just more 0:43:58.520 --> 0:44:01.040 about the song writing, or you can be like me, 0:44:01.080 --> 0:44:02.200 an independent artist. 0:44:03.400 --> 0:44:04.800 Me I've never been signed. 0:44:04.880 --> 0:44:07.560 So when I go into situations, for example, when I 0:44:07.640 --> 0:44:10.279 was dealing with Red Bull, I'm more so focused on 0:44:10.280 --> 0:44:14.000 the points which sometimes are more everlasting then the money, 0:44:14.040 --> 0:44:17.000 the little bit of money people are getting. So it's 0:44:17.000 --> 0:44:19.120 basically how they break it down, like you can get 0:44:19.160 --> 0:44:21.600 it for the rest remainder of the song, as long 0:44:21.600 --> 0:44:24.359 as you're getting points on the song. It's almost like 0:44:24.760 --> 0:44:27.600 it's like a contract basically saying i might be one 0:44:27.680 --> 0:44:29.520 of the six writers on here, but I'm getting some 0:44:29.560 --> 0:44:32.480 points on this record. The points kind of add up. 0:44:32.520 --> 0:44:35.600 If you keep doing different songs, which I haven't done yet, 0:44:35.600 --> 0:44:38.600 how many points can you get? So it's situational. I've 0:44:38.640 --> 0:44:43.000 had some people who are small time writers, but because 0:44:43.080 --> 0:44:47.280 they are have had more of a resume of getting hits, 0:44:47.760 --> 0:44:50.080 some of them get points where they get more points 0:44:50.080 --> 0:44:54.880 than like a London jay or a mega songwriter. Because 0:44:54.920 --> 0:44:57.480 it's like, look at my history. I'm not gonna come 0:44:57.480 --> 0:45:00.600 here if y'all don't give me this point or give 0:45:00.640 --> 0:45:01.600 me this percentage. 0:45:01.680 --> 0:45:04.200 It's kind of like the writer strike, right, Like, isn't 0:45:04.200 --> 0:45:06.040 that what they're essentially fighting for? 0:45:06.239 --> 0:45:08.720 Like they're fighting for residuals. 0:45:08.000 --> 0:45:11.400 And residual that's and the points are residual. God music, 0:45:11.560 --> 0:45:14.080 That's that's it. That's the word I was looking for. Anyway, 0:45:14.480 --> 0:45:17.160 points are residual to the same thing. As a person 0:45:17.160 --> 0:45:19.319 who wrote a TV show, I don't want to have 0:45:19.360 --> 0:45:21.439 a song on why it's on the radio getting money 0:45:21.440 --> 0:45:23.879 and then when it's not popular no more, I don't 0:45:23.880 --> 0:45:26.240 get no more money because it's still gonna play at least. 0:45:26.560 --> 0:45:29.560 But that's how a year, that's how artists go broke. 0:45:30.560 --> 0:45:34.680 After the song is no longer popular, the label is 0:45:34.719 --> 0:45:35.560 still getting paid. 0:45:35.680 --> 0:45:37.680 You ain't getting it's still getting paid. 0:45:38.080 --> 0:45:39.920 And it's like when people don't want to hear you 0:45:39.920 --> 0:45:43.080 perform that song anymore, you know, it's kind of like yeah, or. 0:45:43.040 --> 0:45:44.880 You can get smart and be like, no, I'm locking 0:45:44.920 --> 0:45:48.040 in long term because this song could a year from 0:45:48.080 --> 0:45:51.080 now end up being on a commercial Chick fil A, GMC. 0:45:51.640 --> 0:45:52.560 We see it happen. 0:45:52.960 --> 0:45:54.759 But a lot of the people who didn't know how 0:45:54.760 --> 0:45:58.120 to negotiate points, or didn't have a deal or somebody 0:45:58.160 --> 0:46:01.600 trust to represent them, they just coming in a situation like. 0:46:01.600 --> 0:46:02.160 I'll take that. 0:46:02.239 --> 0:46:06.239 I'll take that forty thousand or twenty thousand. And it's 0:46:06.320 --> 0:46:08.319 like if you had got the points on the. 0:46:08.239 --> 0:46:11.160 Red forever, how many points did you get from a 0:46:11.200 --> 0:46:12.680 CARTI This. 0:46:12.800 --> 0:46:16.200 Is legal stuff, okay, legal stuff. 0:46:15.920 --> 0:46:17.319 Okay, but it wasn't nice. 0:46:17.400 --> 0:46:20.319 Was it a no, And let me clarify the song 0:46:20.480 --> 0:46:21.760 session that I did for Cardi. 0:46:21.960 --> 0:46:23.840 My verse didn't get put on that album. 0:46:24.080 --> 0:46:26.280 Okay, so I didn't get no points from the CARTI, 0:46:26.760 --> 0:46:30.680 but I was a writer on the whole project, but. 0:46:30.640 --> 0:46:33.120 My particular tire project. 0:46:33.200 --> 0:46:35.200 No so and it don't go like that either. 0:46:35.520 --> 0:46:38.719 So basically, when they came to Atlanta, they put that 0:46:38.719 --> 0:46:42.000 Atlanta writers. They had sessions for her in California as well. 0:46:42.400 --> 0:46:44.360 They do this well, not just Cardi, all the artists, 0:46:44.360 --> 0:46:45.560 you know. I don't want to just single her out, 0:46:45.600 --> 0:46:50.000 but in the Atlanta writing session, it was about eleven 0:46:50.040 --> 0:46:53.480 of us there. I knew then, like I hope I 0:46:53.560 --> 0:46:55.520 just get a sentence on this song. I didn't know 0:46:55.560 --> 0:46:57.480 coming in it was gonna be that many people anyway, 0:46:57.760 --> 0:47:01.080 But this is the game. So I didn't expect in 0:47:01.120 --> 0:47:03.479 that situation, seeing London and seeing all these big people, 0:47:03.560 --> 0:47:06.280 me even really getting a point on the record. If anything, 0:47:06.320 --> 0:47:08.880 I would have took the money at that point because 0:47:09.120 --> 0:47:12.680 I wasn't. I'm just real, I wasn't the biggest person 0:47:12.920 --> 0:47:16.279 in writing for celebrities, but I was getting there from 0:47:16.360 --> 0:47:19.480 people talking about different situations that I had wrote for people. 0:47:19.480 --> 0:47:22.640 But so as a work for hire basically. 0:47:22.640 --> 0:47:25.960 And I'm independent, so like London and other people, they 0:47:25.960 --> 0:47:29.160 have situations. So when he coming in, I already know, 0:47:29.239 --> 0:47:31.359 like I don't have a person representing me where it's 0:47:31.360 --> 0:47:35.040 like we're negotiating. Miss Luciani's getting this, She's gonna leave 0:47:35.040 --> 0:47:37.680 with two points. Here I'm coming in by myself, So 0:47:37.719 --> 0:47:40.040 I'm sitting there like all of y'all here, He for 0:47:40.080 --> 0:47:41.799 sure getting point and I know he getting and she 0:47:41.880 --> 0:47:44.320 getting it, but me, hmm, you're. 0:47:44.160 --> 0:47:45.200 Just getting up front money. 0:47:45.480 --> 0:47:47.720 Let me, yeah, let me network and take some money 0:47:47.719 --> 0:47:49.640 out the deal, because it's not like I'm signed to 0:47:49.640 --> 0:47:54.800 dev Jim Hourly or it's a lumpsung just for being there. 0:47:54.960 --> 0:47:57.239 Just for being there, you can get paid from your 0:47:57.320 --> 0:48:00.640 label to just come and be a part of the 0:48:00.640 --> 0:48:04.320 the session. Typically that's not gonna happen, but some people 0:48:04.360 --> 0:48:07.440 have just been like, I'm just here giving you'all ideas. 0:48:07.719 --> 0:48:09.319 I'm not gonna get no points, but I want some 0:48:09.360 --> 0:48:11.520 money off of this. And may be the ones that 0:48:11.560 --> 0:48:13.560 you don't see the names on the thing either. A 0:48:13.600 --> 0:48:17.000 lot of the big megastars have had like five people 0:48:17.080 --> 0:48:18.480 that I know wrote a lot of them. 0:48:18.520 --> 0:48:20.279 His If you look it'd be like two names on 0:48:20.320 --> 0:48:22.759 the song. And that's not true. It'd be like five 0:48:22.800 --> 0:48:24.640 of them. They wrote that song. 0:48:25.040 --> 0:48:27.480 But the big dogs, they had the big rock a 0:48:27.520 --> 0:48:31.280 Feller label or so, and so they're gonna shine and 0:48:31.640 --> 0:48:33.720 they're gonna be the ones to get all the credit 0:48:34.000 --> 0:48:36.000 that you be having smaller people like I was just 0:48:36.080 --> 0:48:37.040 thankful to be in the room. 0:48:37.120 --> 0:48:38.480 I left with some money. 0:48:39.040 --> 0:48:40.880 I didn't get a long term deal like y'all, but 0:48:40.960 --> 0:48:42.000 I got a couple thousand. 0:48:42.000 --> 0:48:42.439 I'm cool. 0:48:42.600 --> 0:48:44.920 Yeah, that's what made me say that when you was 0:48:44.960 --> 0:48:46.680 talking about how like some people just go in there 0:48:46.719 --> 0:48:47.879 and get the money and get it. 0:48:47.920 --> 0:48:49.239 They don't get the credit on the song. 0:48:49.440 --> 0:48:51.200 Sometimes you don't even see the money for a year 0:48:51.280 --> 0:48:53.799 or two. So sometimes I be thinking, like, do you 0:48:53.840 --> 0:48:56.360 want to get a little forty upfront or twenty upfront 0:48:56.440 --> 0:48:58.680 or do you want to wait and maybe the person 0:48:58.760 --> 0:49:02.120 lose they deal next year. It's a lot they might 0:49:02.120 --> 0:49:04.439 get dropped next year. You sitting there like I'm about 0:49:04.440 --> 0:49:05.359 to get this big old check. 0:49:05.800 --> 0:49:06.080 Girl. 0:49:06.160 --> 0:49:08.160 This person had her baby, got married, She don't even 0:49:08.160 --> 0:49:09.919 wrap no more. You should have got the money up front. 0:49:10.160 --> 0:49:10.799 Now say that the. 0:49:10.760 --> 0:49:13.480 Back end doesn't even come. If something happens to the artists. 0:49:13.600 --> 0:49:14.640 It sometimes don't. 0:49:14.840 --> 0:49:17.560 The artists could have a situation with the label where 0:49:17.560 --> 0:49:19.960 they done dropped her and now they're acquiring all of 0:49:19.960 --> 0:49:20.440 her stuff. 0:49:20.520 --> 0:49:21.880 Now you're sitting there like, are. 0:49:21.719 --> 0:49:22.600 They shoving a record? 0:49:22.719 --> 0:49:22.879 Yeah? 0:49:22.920 --> 0:49:24.279 What I'm gonna do? I was there, I wrote it 0:49:24.320 --> 0:49:24.799 a year ago. 0:49:24.800 --> 0:49:25.160 What am I? 0:49:25.440 --> 0:49:28.160 Where's my money? Well, she's not with us no more. 0:49:28.239 --> 0:49:30.680 We're doing this, we're trying to figure this and that 0:49:30.760 --> 0:49:32.400 and third out, we're not even gonna put this album 0:49:32.400 --> 0:49:35.160 out now. He decided to go with something else. So 0:49:35.280 --> 0:49:38.880 much business and that's why people be really screaming and 0:49:38.920 --> 0:49:42.040 ripping hair out and be like, do a better system 0:49:42.040 --> 0:49:44.560 for us? This is not this has been going on 0:49:44.640 --> 0:49:45.480 for a long time. 0:49:45.680 --> 0:49:46.960 But you're also on TV now. 0:49:47.080 --> 0:49:49.520 But let's take it to Real Dreams before that, Yeah, 0:49:49.560 --> 0:49:51.439 you know, how'd you come up with that? 0:49:51.560 --> 0:49:52.799 And bag Lady and all that. 0:49:52.960 --> 0:49:53.240 Yeah. 0:49:53.280 --> 0:49:56.440 So, World of Dreams is a label that I started. 0:49:56.480 --> 0:50:00.000 I actually just started. It's not even a year older, 0:50:00.120 --> 0:50:02.480 be a year and probably about November so last year 0:50:02.480 --> 0:50:05.120 I started it, and I had just been doing a 0:50:05.120 --> 0:50:08.680 lot of research on just labels and music, and I 0:50:08.719 --> 0:50:10.960 always get asked a question, am I gonna stay independent 0:50:11.480 --> 0:50:13.719 or do I want to sign? And I always say 0:50:13.760 --> 0:50:15.640 I will signed, but it has to be a position 0:50:15.719 --> 0:50:18.040 that makes sense. I've been rapping for a while, so 0:50:18.440 --> 0:50:22.280 I've acquired the money. So now I'm not even trying 0:50:22.320 --> 0:50:23.960 to do it for the money. I'm trying to do 0:50:24.040 --> 0:50:26.560 it for a machine that can be like boom. You 0:50:26.600 --> 0:50:28.560 see her open up here, boom. You've seen her on TV, 0:50:28.600 --> 0:50:29.160 you've seen this. 0:50:29.520 --> 0:50:31.040 Press, press the button. 0:50:31.080 --> 0:50:34.160 The money, you can do it independently having fans with 0:50:34.200 --> 0:50:38.040 the money. So world a dream. Someone told me, they said, listen, 0:50:38.120 --> 0:50:40.920 you need to start your own label. You start educating 0:50:40.960 --> 0:50:44.360 yourself on the label, educating yourself on the points, educating 0:50:44.400 --> 0:50:48.560 yourself on the small print on these deals, and you 0:50:48.640 --> 0:50:51.160 might not actually ever want to sign. And when I 0:50:51.480 --> 0:50:55.680 researched that for months and months, I was like, oh, 0:50:55.800 --> 0:50:59.239 hell nah, I've worked too hard to end up in 0:50:59.600 --> 0:51:02.280 this type of label where, yeah, I got a million 0:51:02.280 --> 0:51:04.480 dollars up front that I could have made on my own, 0:51:04.920 --> 0:51:07.160 but I signed for this million. 0:51:07.200 --> 0:51:10.680 And I know that y'all own everything. 0:51:10.760 --> 0:51:13.400 You own Luciana, you own the name Luciani now like 0:51:14.120 --> 0:51:17.560 I'm your slave now. Basically, so I took my one 0:51:17.600 --> 0:51:19.799 of my musical mentors advice I started a world of 0:51:19.880 --> 0:51:23.520 dreams and the purpose of signing having your own label. 0:51:23.800 --> 0:51:26.240 When you sign, I'm sorry, when you start your own label, 0:51:26.680 --> 0:51:29.000 a label normally has a team. We got producers, we 0:51:29.080 --> 0:51:32.080 got songwriters, we got stylists, we got hair, we got glam. 0:51:32.440 --> 0:51:35.200 We giving you the umbrella for everything. You just get 0:51:35.200 --> 0:51:37.480 to show and be pretty. We got a team working 0:51:37.480 --> 0:51:39.880 for you. Or you can start your own label and 0:51:39.960 --> 0:51:43.200 you can go and bring in a producer to the label, 0:51:43.480 --> 0:51:49.760 another producer, the mixing person, the mastering person, a photographer, videographer, 0:51:49.840 --> 0:51:53.800 and have your own team where you can control it yourself. 0:51:53.880 --> 0:51:56.640 So when you go to a major label, they ain't 0:51:56.640 --> 0:51:59.000 gonna play with you. How they would play with the 0:51:59.040 --> 0:52:02.680 Amy lab year who was just sitting there like, I 0:52:02.680 --> 0:52:04.040 don't have a label, I'm not signed. 0:52:04.040 --> 0:52:06.600 It's just me. Oh, We're going to take you all 0:52:06.600 --> 0:52:07.399 the way up through there. 0:52:07.640 --> 0:52:09.600 But now that I have World of dreams, it's like, 0:52:09.600 --> 0:52:12.560 oh yeah, so y'all can't play with these budgets and say, 0:52:12.840 --> 0:52:14.600 the reason why we got to take all this money 0:52:14.640 --> 0:52:17.040 from you and you got to pay us back all 0:52:17.120 --> 0:52:20.040 of this money is because we had to get your producer. 0:52:20.080 --> 0:52:21.320 We had to get you a songwriter, we had to 0:52:21.320 --> 0:52:23.239 get your makeup, we had to get you a videographer. 0:52:23.640 --> 0:52:25.919 We had to get you somebody to make you a star. 0:52:26.480 --> 0:52:28.280 Now I'm in a position to say, no, you didn't. 0:52:28.480 --> 0:52:29.920 You didn't have to spend all that to do that 0:52:30.000 --> 0:52:32.960 for me. So I need more money up front, not 0:52:33.080 --> 0:52:35.799 on the back end, because I did y'all job. 0:52:36.160 --> 0:52:36.760 I have a label. 0:52:36.760 --> 0:52:38.520 It's called World of Dreams, and if you look under 0:52:38.560 --> 0:52:41.160 my umbrella, I have everything that y'all thought y'all was 0:52:41.160 --> 0:52:44.160 about to fake spend a million dollars on and weren't 0:52:44.200 --> 0:52:46.480 really spending a million on it. The respect is so 0:52:46.560 --> 0:52:49.200 different now, and I'll be oh, I should have did 0:52:49.239 --> 0:52:52.840 this two years ago. That's a good thing about learning 0:52:52.880 --> 0:52:54.920 though that, And that's why you're on rush it. 0:52:55.280 --> 0:52:58.040 Exactly because it's people that's going to watch this interview, 0:52:58.560 --> 0:53:01.520 and these are people that it was in your shoes. 0:53:01.640 --> 0:53:03.680 I mean, there's probably in your shoes how you was 0:53:03.719 --> 0:53:04.600 a couple of years ago. 0:53:04.600 --> 0:53:06.200 And a lot of people don't tell you it because 0:53:06.200 --> 0:53:08.879 a lot of people in this game feel like, well, 0:53:08.960 --> 0:53:10.920 I had to sign and paste four years of my 0:53:11.000 --> 0:53:13.640 career with a bad deal I'm not gonna tell you 0:53:13.680 --> 0:53:15.399 and stop. You just figured it out like I did. 0:53:16.320 --> 0:53:18.200 That's crazy. You can stop somebody. 0:53:18.480 --> 0:53:19.800 You guys did bag Lady. 0:53:20.000 --> 0:53:21.520 Yes, let us know about that. 0:53:21.840 --> 0:53:24.799 Yeah, shout out to bigger ranking. I put out a 0:53:24.800 --> 0:53:28.400 single car bag Lady, and it was just a song 0:53:28.600 --> 0:53:32.359 for women to just feel ownership and just being a 0:53:32.400 --> 0:53:33.200 business woman. 0:53:33.520 --> 0:53:34.000 You know a lot of. 0:53:34.000 --> 0:53:36.400 People say, like, bag Lady, you gotta have diamonds on 0:53:36.480 --> 0:53:39.080 all of this. I was a bag lady when I 0:53:39.120 --> 0:53:41.400 was literally a bag lady working at Walmart. Like the 0:53:41.440 --> 0:53:45.719 mentality was speaking it into it happening. So if you 0:53:45.840 --> 0:53:48.720 wake up and it's every day, you know, I'm getting 0:53:48.719 --> 0:53:50.520 my own bag, I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do that. 0:53:50.840 --> 0:53:53.719 I wrote the lyrics for More. It's like a more 0:53:53.719 --> 0:53:58.440 of a chant of speaking something into existence. So I 0:53:58.480 --> 0:54:02.759 wrote bag Lady talk about going from here to here 0:54:02.880 --> 0:54:05.160 to their baby steps going up and then in the 0:54:05.239 --> 0:54:07.960 end you got your success. But because you worked for it, 0:54:08.480 --> 0:54:10.799 you know you're the bag lady. Now people can't come 0:54:10.800 --> 0:54:13.319 and hold it over your head and say you did 0:54:13.360 --> 0:54:15.799 this to get here. Now you need to come do 0:54:15.880 --> 0:54:20.160 it like no. It's independency and having patience. These are 0:54:20.160 --> 0:54:23.320 two things that people struggle with because to be independent 0:54:23.360 --> 0:54:27.319 makes your journey longer. But if you stay independent and 0:54:27.360 --> 0:54:30.440 take your time, you can't really just be putting positions 0:54:30.440 --> 0:54:32.799 to be like, yeah, she had to do this to 0:54:32.840 --> 0:54:33.160 get on. 0:54:33.480 --> 0:54:35.880 Were you're putting yourself in bigger positions. Now you're on 0:54:35.920 --> 0:54:40.000 Love and hip Hop? Yes, how did you get that opportunity? 0:54:40.080 --> 0:54:40.680 Opportunity? 0:54:41.200 --> 0:54:43.640 We'll be right back. Stay tuned with more of The 0:54:43.640 --> 0:54:53.960 Baller Alert Show. You're listening to a special edition of 0:54:54.000 --> 0:54:54.919 The baller Alert Show. 0:54:55.040 --> 0:54:55.400 What's Up? 0:54:55.480 --> 0:54:58.759 Yall's Amy Luciani and you are now tuned into The 0:54:58.760 --> 0:55:01.839 Baller Alert Show. Love and hip Hop actually has came. 0:55:02.080 --> 0:55:03.879 Shout out to Love and hip Hop two shout out 0:55:03.880 --> 0:55:06.279 too and swhen that media shout out to MTV. 0:55:09.320 --> 0:55:11.560 A bunch of shoutouts and is. 0:55:12.440 --> 0:55:18.920 But Love and hip Hop actually has came for me 0:55:19.040 --> 0:55:22.279 a few times over the last couple of years, and 0:55:22.400 --> 0:55:26.319 each time it was just didn't even make sense to 0:55:26.360 --> 0:55:29.440 me personally. A lot of the times, the situations and 0:55:29.480 --> 0:55:32.080 the stories and the people that I was around it 0:55:32.160 --> 0:55:34.719 they wanted to kind of highlight it just never made 0:55:34.719 --> 0:55:39.879 sense for me. So this year they came talking right, 0:55:40.440 --> 0:55:43.000 and it makes sense this year. So who was the difference. 0:55:44.000 --> 0:55:49.080 The difference this year was me really Now I had 0:55:49.239 --> 0:55:52.719 myself together, my life together, so they had to come 0:55:52.760 --> 0:55:56.719 at me different, whereas before when I was really going 0:55:56.760 --> 0:55:59.520 through trying to figure out just all this just artists 0:55:59.719 --> 0:56:04.200 and a creative people, big, big, big institutes can see it. 0:56:04.360 --> 0:56:06.040 And now they have more power to be like, Yeah, 0:56:06.040 --> 0:56:07.560 we're gonna put you on here and you're about to 0:56:07.560 --> 0:56:10.040 be fighting with her, and we're gonna make you go 0:56:10.120 --> 0:56:12.279 do this and fake date this person. 0:56:11.960 --> 0:56:13.920 And then somebody gonna throw some water in your face 0:56:14.239 --> 0:56:14.799 and I might. 0:56:14.760 --> 0:56:16.800 Have to catch charge again because you know what I'm. 0:56:16.640 --> 0:56:23.040 Saying again again, A charge for before. Listen the ones 0:56:23.080 --> 0:56:28.680 who know me my past lie which was first, that 0:56:28.840 --> 0:56:33.480 is Amber, which is react first, apologize. Second, that's no 0:56:33.560 --> 0:56:34.000 longer me. 0:56:34.800 --> 0:56:36.520 But I in Detroit. 0:56:37.200 --> 0:56:39.480 That was right here in Atlanta and Clayton County, to 0:56:39.480 --> 0:56:40.279 be exact. 0:56:40.480 --> 0:56:41.280 That's outside. 0:56:41.440 --> 0:56:44.080 Yes, I And it's so funny. I just did a 0:56:44.080 --> 0:56:48.680 big charity event with my old bunkie from jail. She's 0:56:49.120 --> 0:56:50.200 went on to do great things. 0:56:50.480 --> 0:56:51.520 How long you was in jail? 0:56:52.640 --> 0:56:57.000 I have I have had my fighting moments. Yeah, and 0:56:57.080 --> 0:56:58.279 I have had some time. 0:56:58.360 --> 0:56:59.240 Oh you're just fighting. 0:56:59.239 --> 0:57:03.879 Okay, Yeah, I was fighting and then yeah, but no 0:57:03.920 --> 0:57:07.080 more of that. Okay that my I see, I've walked 0:57:07.080 --> 0:57:09.319 so many shoes. I was a bartender for years. I 0:57:09.400 --> 0:57:12.000 worked in the club, so I was in that lifestyle 0:57:12.080 --> 0:57:15.319 where it was like you drunk, but you're coming at me. 0:57:15.560 --> 0:57:20.120 I gotta let you down. I have been picked up 0:57:20.120 --> 0:57:24.480 from my job and locked up behind bartending in some mess. 0:57:24.520 --> 0:57:26.280 But that is all the. 0:57:26.400 --> 0:57:32.160 Time coming inbar get drunk at me. 0:57:32.400 --> 0:57:34.520 Yeah, And so that's why I really was not doing 0:57:34.520 --> 0:57:36.360 the show for a long time, because I knew, like, 0:57:36.720 --> 0:57:37.680 she don't really like me. 0:57:38.280 --> 0:57:40.320 That's my old boot, which is not her new boot. 0:57:40.320 --> 0:57:41.320 I'm had to beat her up, and. 0:57:41.720 --> 0:57:45.440 You know, like no, So it makes sense. Now the 0:57:45.480 --> 0:57:48.200 show is really good. It's highlighting a lot of the music, 0:57:48.680 --> 0:57:52.000 the brand, my products, and I just feel like it's 0:57:52.000 --> 0:57:54.280 the light that I wanted them to highlight. 0:57:55.120 --> 0:57:58.840 Cell Now, yes, no, you're talking about your past. 0:57:58.880 --> 0:58:00.400 It seemed like it was about to go back to 0:58:00.440 --> 0:58:04.720 your past in the past episode where. 0:58:03.920 --> 0:58:08.000 You had I was going there, y'all, and I felt 0:58:08.040 --> 0:58:10.440 so disappointed at the end of that because I'm like, 0:58:11.480 --> 0:58:12.160 you felt the. 0:58:12.120 --> 0:58:13.920 Test and it was a test that I have. 0:58:14.000 --> 0:58:17.560 Passed, like seven years in a row, where for seven 0:58:17.640 --> 0:58:20.760 years a girl couldn't even get me upset. 0:58:21.280 --> 0:58:24.120 I would be like next and y'all was arguing over. 0:58:26.720 --> 0:58:27.200 A record? 0:58:27.440 --> 0:58:28.360 Yes, what happened? 0:58:28.480 --> 0:58:33.160 Writing over I mean arguing over writing, arguing over what 0:58:33.240 --> 0:58:36.520 we was just talking about? Long story short, and shout 0:58:36.520 --> 0:58:39.240 out to Rennie because we have since came to a 0:58:39.280 --> 0:58:41.640 cordial level where I can't say friends, but now we 0:58:41.680 --> 0:58:43.520 actually can sit in the scene together and be like. 0:58:44.240 --> 0:58:44.800 Let's see you. 0:58:46.920 --> 0:58:48.880 We're looking at each other. But were able to be 0:58:48.880 --> 0:58:51.000 on the scene, not get our bag before. It was 0:58:51.000 --> 0:58:53.080 not that it was on site. It was on site 0:58:53.080 --> 0:58:55.760 for real, for real, but just to speed through it 0:58:55.800 --> 0:58:57.720 because I don't even want to dwell on that too long. 0:58:57.800 --> 0:59:01.520 But again, I was in a session with a bunch 0:59:01.600 --> 0:59:04.120 of men. I was the only girl. Again, no, I was, 0:59:04.160 --> 0:59:07.440 and I was with one other female writer. Shout out 0:59:07.480 --> 0:59:10.960 to Pineapple City from California. She and I were the 0:59:11.000 --> 0:59:12.480 girls that were there, but we were in a session 0:59:12.520 --> 0:59:15.680 with about eight nine people, and longstory short, she and 0:59:15.680 --> 0:59:19.160 I wrote a song together and in that session we 0:59:19.160 --> 0:59:20.160 were writing. 0:59:19.840 --> 0:59:20.680 For other artists. 0:59:20.720 --> 0:59:22.120 You and Pineapple City, are you me? 0:59:22.200 --> 0:59:26.760 And Pineapple City. Pineapple City and I wrote a record, 0:59:27.320 --> 0:59:30.200 and a year later we didn't do anything with the 0:59:30.240 --> 0:59:32.360 record because we were in there a writing session. 0:59:32.440 --> 0:59:33.600 So we're all on the email. 0:59:33.640 --> 0:59:37.280 We're just doing reference tracks, reference tracks, remember this word. 0:59:37.880 --> 0:59:39.600 And a year later, you. 0:59:39.520 --> 0:59:41.760 Know, once you do your reference track, the label that 0:59:41.800 --> 0:59:44.440 you're there for, they got all your information, you know, 0:59:44.600 --> 0:59:46.440 so a year later, if they don't decide to do 0:59:46.520 --> 0:59:49.240 the song, it's the name of the game. But then 0:59:49.400 --> 0:59:52.640 somebody said me a DM of an artist performing the song, 0:59:53.160 --> 0:59:56.600 and I was like, yeah, Pineapple City wrote. 0:59:56.720 --> 1:00:03.280 I was like, how does this work? Is Rennie Grouccie 1:00:03.360 --> 1:00:03.800 rapping it? 1:00:04.440 --> 1:00:04.640 Oh? 1:00:05.000 --> 1:00:05.480 She and I. 1:00:05.480 --> 1:00:09.000 I reached out to her, as I'm finding out now 1:00:09.040 --> 1:00:13.160 after we almost came to blows. It was the people 1:00:13.200 --> 1:00:17.000 she was working with, her label, Yes Song, presenting her 1:00:17.080 --> 1:00:20.880 songs as if these are reference records. This Pineapple City 1:00:20.920 --> 1:00:23.120 and this Amy Girl. This was just reference records. This 1:00:23.160 --> 1:00:25.520 could have been for any artists, which was so far 1:00:25.560 --> 1:00:27.600 from the truth. Luckily, we in a time where we 1:00:27.680 --> 1:00:31.240 record everything. The whole session, me and her, we got videos. 1:00:31.320 --> 1:00:33.520 We're texting, Okay, what you want to like? What are 1:00:33.560 --> 1:00:35.440 you thinking about the song? Do you want it to 1:00:35.440 --> 1:00:38.720 be a song we used. You got a deal, I'm independent, 1:00:38.800 --> 1:00:39.960 we can run with this record. 1:00:40.360 --> 1:00:42.880 I'm cool with the people over here. Red Bull like, how. 1:00:42.760 --> 1:00:43.640 You want to do the song? 1:00:44.400 --> 1:00:48.840 They were gonna give the song to another female artist 1:00:49.120 --> 1:00:51.000 that they were possibly going to pitch the record to. 1:00:51.560 --> 1:00:54.600 Nothing came about from that song, so we were just like, 1:00:54.600 --> 1:00:57.280 how did it get in Rennie's hand? How did that go? 1:00:57.760 --> 1:01:00.840 So I reached out to the person who was signed 1:01:00.880 --> 1:01:04.040 to the person that she is signed. Well, I don't 1:01:04.080 --> 1:01:05.360 know if she's still with them, so don't let me 1:01:05.400 --> 1:01:08.040 be wrong. Was or still is, and he was signed 1:01:08.040 --> 1:01:09.720 to her. He was one of the beat makers in 1:01:09.760 --> 1:01:13.240 a session with us, So of course we pulling layers 1:01:13.240 --> 1:01:15.960 down and we figure out who it was. But her 1:01:16.120 --> 1:01:19.360 and I our beef started was when I reached out 1:01:19.400 --> 1:01:19.600 to her. 1:01:19.640 --> 1:01:22.920 I was respectful. I'm like, hey, I'm Amy Luciani, Like I. 1:01:22.880 --> 1:01:25.720 Wrote this record with this girl. I noticed this on YouTube. 1:01:25.760 --> 1:01:27.880 You're performing it. I don't know if you know about this, 1:01:27.960 --> 1:01:30.360 but this song is a year old. I send her 1:01:31.160 --> 1:01:32.880 anything as an artist that you would have needed to 1:01:32.960 --> 1:01:35.560 be like, oh hell no, let me call on somebody, 1:01:35.840 --> 1:01:39.400 actual factual, factuals and she went off and blocked me. 1:01:39.880 --> 1:01:41.840 So from there, baby, I'm from Detroit. It was up 1:01:41.880 --> 1:01:44.120 after that or was she trying to say she wrote 1:01:44.160 --> 1:01:49.200 it or she was saying basically, have to take that 1:01:49.320 --> 1:01:51.800 up with whoever you was in the studio with that day. 1:01:52.440 --> 1:01:55.920 And I felt disrespected behind it, because I felt like 1:01:55.960 --> 1:01:57.720 if had it been the other way around, I'd have 1:01:57.800 --> 1:01:59.439 been like, hey, I want to say it too much 1:01:59.480 --> 1:02:02.640 to incriminate myself, just like she didn't. But I would 1:02:02.680 --> 1:02:04.680 at least been on some Let me figure out what happened. 1:02:04.800 --> 1:02:06.560 Did she take parts of the record, because like we 1:02:06.560 --> 1:02:09.760 were just talking about how rappers want to take credit 1:02:09.760 --> 1:02:11.840 for writing their own raps and stuff like that. Was 1:02:11.880 --> 1:02:14.080 it the entire record she took or just pieces? 1:02:14.200 --> 1:02:18.160 It was a two verse record in the first verse 1:02:18.400 --> 1:02:19.480 was my entire verse? 1:02:19.920 --> 1:02:23.240 Okay, entirely, And you ain't getting no money, so you lucky. 1:02:23.280 --> 1:02:23.920 I got nothing. 1:02:24.160 --> 1:02:26.480 I was sitting there for a year, like I hope 1:02:26.480 --> 1:02:28.520 something come about this because we were in there for 1:02:28.840 --> 1:02:31.680 days doing this. But again, you might get a call 1:02:31.840 --> 1:02:34.000 in three months hey that record, or it could be 1:02:34.040 --> 1:02:36.400 two years, So you don't call and be a buggable 1:02:36.480 --> 1:02:38.120 and be like, hey, what about that? Record, you just 1:02:38.320 --> 1:02:42.000 sit back and let the thing do his thing. So 1:02:42.480 --> 1:02:45.479 I felt disrespected from her message. Long story short, which 1:02:45.600 --> 1:02:48.560 led to me taking to social media because I knew 1:02:48.560 --> 1:02:50.880 this gonna get my answer, and it did. As soon 1:02:50.920 --> 1:02:53.560 as my video went up, the song was taken down. 1:02:53.920 --> 1:02:56.360 Although it was put back up at some point, it 1:02:56.400 --> 1:02:58.600 was put right back up. At some point, it did 1:02:58.640 --> 1:03:00.520 get to down. It was a couple I'm a major 1:03:00.720 --> 1:03:04.120 artists on her deal that had reposted it. I looked 1:03:04.200 --> 1:03:06.440 up they took it down. So I'm thinking, like, okay, 1:03:06.440 --> 1:03:09.040 we're about to handle the business. Because I'm not a 1:03:09.120 --> 1:03:11.400 drama person. I just want to handle the business. I'm 1:03:11.480 --> 1:03:14.360 owe some money if your label gonna pick up the song. 1:03:14.440 --> 1:03:16.480 But how y'all gonna pick up a song that me 1:03:16.520 --> 1:03:20.080 and this girl wrote? How does that work? So I 1:03:20.200 --> 1:03:21.880 was just vocal that you're like, y'all not gonna keep 1:03:21.880 --> 1:03:23.840 playing with us girls like this. We know it'd be 1:03:23.880 --> 1:03:26.400 a lot of y'all guys that do these writing sessions, 1:03:26.440 --> 1:03:29.680 but we're here now and we're slowly in here writing. 1:03:30.200 --> 1:03:31.840 Give us the credit because if it was a guy, 1:03:32.160 --> 1:03:34.000 they would have been in there ready to fight instantly. 1:03:34.280 --> 1:03:36.280 They wouldn't even play with them like that, the men. 1:03:36.440 --> 1:03:37.800 So did you ever get your credit? 1:03:38.160 --> 1:03:38.280 No? 1:03:38.320 --> 1:03:40.040 I never got my credit still to. 1:03:39.920 --> 1:03:42.400 This day and it's. 1:03:41.440 --> 1:03:43.080 Still up to this day. 1:03:43.960 --> 1:03:45.400 Did you never want to take it to court? 1:03:45.640 --> 1:03:48.680 Or I honestly was gonna take it to court? Me 1:03:48.840 --> 1:03:51.440 and the artist, me and Pineapple, we were in chat 1:03:51.560 --> 1:03:55.720 with she signed and her people was I only bring 1:03:55.760 --> 1:03:57.160 him a part of the mess. But we were all 1:03:57.160 --> 1:03:59.160 talking like what are we gonna do legally? 1:03:59.160 --> 1:03:59.320 Now? 1:03:59.320 --> 1:04:01.439 We're not gonna play it homegirl game. 1:04:01.480 --> 1:04:04.280 This is legal, this is this is theft right here, 1:04:04.800 --> 1:04:07.000 and we were going back and forth about it, and 1:04:07.080 --> 1:04:08.800 a lot of people around me on my team and 1:04:08.840 --> 1:04:11.960 friends in the industry were warning me and telling me, like, 1:04:12.000 --> 1:04:13.680 you know, you always got to play as smart and 1:04:13.880 --> 1:04:16.600 think on your emotions when you want to go big 1:04:16.880 --> 1:04:18.120 on these people that she signed to. 1:04:19.160 --> 1:04:20.520 It's like, do you know what she signed? Do you 1:04:20.520 --> 1:04:21.200 know what she signed to? 1:04:21.400 --> 1:04:22.520 Yeah? I know what she s? 1:04:23.120 --> 1:04:26.640 Like, do you want to go she s? Yeah, which 1:04:26.640 --> 1:04:29.240 is the entity of QC. Yeah, which is an entity 1:04:29.280 --> 1:04:33.000 of it and the big yeah yeah, a big umbrella. 1:04:33.120 --> 1:04:37.200 So do you want to essentially fall out with people 1:04:37.240 --> 1:04:40.800 with these people because they could just blackball you that 1:04:40.880 --> 1:04:42.800 happens every day. 1:04:42.960 --> 1:04:44.920 So are you scared of that is a question. 1:04:45.600 --> 1:04:47.800 I'm not scared of it. But I'm a money maker. 1:04:48.120 --> 1:04:51.440 I'm wise enough to control my emotions and be like So. 1:04:51.440 --> 1:04:53.840 That's why you guys are not You can be in 1:04:53.880 --> 1:04:56.440 the scene, but you would feel better if you got paid. 1:04:56.720 --> 1:05:00.360 For sure, we should be paid. Yeah, but we should 1:05:00.360 --> 1:05:02.320 one hundred percent be paid. We should have been paid. 1:05:03.280 --> 1:05:12.080 But this industry is, it's it's so many unfair situations 1:05:12.120 --> 1:05:14.000 that I don't want to be the artist to keep 1:05:14.000 --> 1:05:16.760 being vocal about because I been meaning people to stand 1:05:16.840 --> 1:05:20.760 with need look yeah, and I don't want to be 1:05:20.840 --> 1:05:21.400 that person. 1:05:21.600 --> 1:05:23.960 I'm not able to be that person. 1:05:24.040 --> 1:05:25.240 I don't want to be that person. 1:05:25.440 --> 1:05:28.080 I silently throw my little chips out and be like, yeah, 1:05:28.640 --> 1:05:31.120 us girls do be kind of done unfairly when they 1:05:31.160 --> 1:05:33.440 come down to these writing sessions and writing boards and 1:05:33.480 --> 1:05:35.720 references and stuff. But I don't want to keep saying 1:05:35.720 --> 1:05:37.840 it because now that's overshadowing what I'm trying to do 1:05:37.880 --> 1:05:40.040 and who I'm trying to be. And then you also 1:05:40.080 --> 1:05:42.320 coming up. You gotta be careful with who you really 1:05:42.800 --> 1:05:44.800 ready to go to war with. At certain points of 1:05:44.840 --> 1:05:47.600 your career, it's not like I'm the biggest artists in 1:05:47.600 --> 1:05:49.360 the world and to be sitting up there like I'm 1:05:49.360 --> 1:05:53.320 taking y'all down or take yourself down. 1:05:53.400 --> 1:05:56.160 Yeah, now you're on the same playing field with her. 1:05:56.280 --> 1:05:58.600 But that's how God work and that's why I wasn't 1:05:58.640 --> 1:06:01.240 never tripping because I know how it worked. 1:06:01.320 --> 1:06:02.440 So now it's funny. 1:06:02.160 --> 1:06:05.040 Because it's like God to do that loop real quick 1:06:05.080 --> 1:06:07.480 and you just be sitting back like I remember me. 1:06:08.280 --> 1:06:10.800 When was her reaction when she first seen you on set. 1:06:10.720 --> 1:06:11.760 What y'all saw on TV? 1:06:12.440 --> 1:06:14.600 Didn't want to speak, didn't really look at me, didn't 1:06:15.120 --> 1:06:18.880 Oh no, it was what you saw clipped down because 1:06:18.880 --> 1:06:20.000 it was a long conversation. 1:06:20.440 --> 1:06:22.520 So it's what y'all saw clip down for sixty second. 1:06:22.600 --> 1:06:23.560 Yeah, it was like instant. 1:06:23.560 --> 1:06:26.720 It's like, it's because what I when I saw the clip, 1:06:27.000 --> 1:06:29.000 I was like, damn, like. 1:06:30.640 --> 1:06:32.960 Outside of this because it was like as soon as. 1:06:33.160 --> 1:06:35.920 It was so much more and just how I am 1:06:35.920 --> 1:06:38.640 with everybody. I just like I said, I know my power, 1:06:38.760 --> 1:06:41.600 so I know how to talk to people in conflict 1:06:41.600 --> 1:06:43.960 because it's either two things. We're gonna talk in conflict 1:06:44.120 --> 1:06:48.000 or oh my old background, my old thinking. 1:06:48.040 --> 1:06:49.400 It was okay, because where I'm from. 1:06:49.760 --> 1:06:52.760 We can't go back to Detroit now was progressive? 1:06:52.800 --> 1:06:55.960 Now conflict gonna be talkable or we're gonna fight, one 1:06:55.960 --> 1:06:57.760 of us gonna get hurt out the situation. 1:06:57.480 --> 1:07:00.280 And how do you find the balance of giving you know, 1:07:00.400 --> 1:07:03.080 your new opportunity on Love and hip Hop what they want, 1:07:03.120 --> 1:07:06.800 which is drama field, yeah, and trying to highlight your 1:07:06.800 --> 1:07:08.880 businesses and your music at the same time. 1:07:09.640 --> 1:07:10.680 How you said, what was the question? 1:07:10.720 --> 1:07:11.200 How do I say? 1:07:11.240 --> 1:07:12.600 How do you balance them both? 1:07:13.360 --> 1:07:15.680 I'm still learning how to do it to this day. 1:07:15.560 --> 1:07:17.120 Because it's your first time with love and hip hop? 1:07:17.200 --> 1:07:19.800 First time, Okay, this is my first time. How I'm 1:07:19.840 --> 1:07:22.440 balancing it out is I think it's just having a 1:07:22.440 --> 1:07:23.160 strong mind. 1:07:23.320 --> 1:07:25.000 I was a fan of the show. 1:07:25.240 --> 1:07:28.320 I watched reality TV anyway, so I knew one hundred 1:07:28.320 --> 1:07:32.000 percent what I was stepping into. But I just felt 1:07:32.000 --> 1:07:35.280 like with my approach was different because shout out to 1:07:35.280 --> 1:07:37.280 a lot of the girls that were on the show 1:07:37.320 --> 1:07:40.320 before me, but my situation is different in terms of 1:07:41.000 --> 1:07:43.640 I have kind of the opposite of what a lot 1:07:43.680 --> 1:07:47.880 of girls needed when they started the reality show, started 1:07:47.920 --> 1:07:49.440 loving hip hop or these other shows. 1:07:49.920 --> 1:07:52.680 My career worked in opposite. 1:07:52.000 --> 1:07:55.680 I had businesses that made millions of dollars, and I 1:07:55.720 --> 1:07:58.680 bought the mansions. I drive all these cars off of me. 1:07:59.640 --> 1:08:02.320 I just and have the musical success. A lot of 1:08:02.360 --> 1:08:05.480 girls had the opposite starting off, they were super broke, 1:08:06.480 --> 1:08:08.480 but they had the musical cloud. 1:08:08.560 --> 1:08:09.960 So my stuff worked in reverse. 1:08:10.360 --> 1:08:11.800 So where a lot of the girls came in the 1:08:11.840 --> 1:08:14.800 show and were going through real life situations. Some were homeless, 1:08:14.800 --> 1:08:17.679 some were really coming out to strip club, really moving 1:08:17.680 --> 1:08:19.800 to Atlanta homeless, and the show threw them to the 1:08:19.840 --> 1:08:24.000 woods out there, like, let's show us how homeless stripper is. 1:08:24.560 --> 1:08:26.880 My situation is different because I'm company, and I was like, 1:08:27.240 --> 1:08:28.960 it's different, like I'm good. 1:08:28.840 --> 1:08:31.800 And real quickly for the audience, what were the businesses 1:08:31.800 --> 1:08:33.720 that really set you up financially? 1:08:34.000 --> 1:08:38.719 So my first business that took off was a hair business. 1:08:38.720 --> 1:08:41.840 I had a hair company called Luciani Lux Hair, and 1:08:42.640 --> 1:08:46.200 my hair just took off. I started off when the 1:08:46.360 --> 1:08:50.240 buy it, selling vendors and building people's websites before e 1:08:50.280 --> 1:08:54.040 commerce was like a conversation. Luckily, I had a neighbor 1:08:54.120 --> 1:08:55.960 that was in it, and he taught me about it 1:08:56.000 --> 1:08:59.000 and we started this big e commerce business with hair. 1:08:59.439 --> 1:09:00.080 So we. 1:09:01.400 --> 1:09:02.280 Just to speed through it. 1:09:02.280 --> 1:09:05.280 We would either build you your full website, get your hair, 1:09:05.400 --> 1:09:08.560 get your website, get your tags, get your ALC. 1:09:08.200 --> 1:09:10.160 Get your EI. In we did everything. 1:09:10.200 --> 1:09:12.759 You will wake up the next day for a small 1:09:12.800 --> 1:09:15.400 fee of a couple thousand and wake up to a 1:09:15.439 --> 1:09:19.679 fully running business. ADS just everything people are doing now, 1:09:19.880 --> 1:09:23.640 one stop shop, one stop shop. I was blessed and 1:09:23.720 --> 1:09:25.600 jumped on that wave when I first heard about it 1:09:25.680 --> 1:09:26.160 years ago. 1:09:26.439 --> 1:09:27.200 It just took the chance. 1:09:27.240 --> 1:09:28.519 So it was like, I don't know what e commerce is, 1:09:28.560 --> 1:09:32.400 but let me try it. I build a wholesale hair 1:09:32.520 --> 1:09:35.040 I didn't build one of my partners. Build a wholesale 1:09:35.280 --> 1:09:39.080 business where you never had a business before, where hairstylists 1:09:39.120 --> 1:09:41.720 could come to my website. We know you need hair 1:09:41.800 --> 1:09:44.519 all week long, your hairstylist. I set it up where 1:09:44.560 --> 1:09:46.360 I was having it like you can buy a wholesale 1:09:46.400 --> 1:09:48.360 for me. I got everything you need. You need tags, 1:09:48.360 --> 1:09:52.160 you need bags, you need lashes, glue, everything wholesale. So 1:09:52.240 --> 1:09:57.280 I just came into, honestly a lucky position before this commerce, 1:09:57.560 --> 1:10:00.720 a blessed position. Before it was like versus the way 1:10:00.840 --> 1:10:03.960 now everybody dropped shipping. I was doing it six years ago, 1:10:04.520 --> 1:10:07.960 so that started it which led to my product that 1:10:08.000 --> 1:10:11.240 I have now, which is called My Pretty Kitty. It's 1:10:11.280 --> 1:10:15.360 a bikini product for your bikini area. It's a three 1:10:15.400 --> 1:10:18.639 step kid like nare or something. Yeah, but it's all natural. 1:10:18.680 --> 1:10:21.240 So mine is all turmeric based. I have a turmeric 1:10:21.640 --> 1:10:24.719 bar of soap, I have a cream and a turmeric oil. 1:10:25.200 --> 1:10:29.439 So my Pretty Kitty is what kind of did the 1:10:29.479 --> 1:10:31.600 rest of everything how it's supposed to go? 1:10:31.800 --> 1:10:32.160 Okay? 1:10:32.200 --> 1:10:34.160 So, yeah, you got products to sell, man, you ain't 1:10:34.160 --> 1:10:37.080 got time for the driving. Yeah, we know Renny is 1:10:37.120 --> 1:10:40.920 not one of your favorites, anymore of your least favorite cast. 1:10:40.680 --> 1:10:48.360 Members Autumn heifers. To be careful now that jump. 1:10:51.040 --> 1:10:56.680 You know what, it's reality TV. Everybody got a personality. 1:10:57.080 --> 1:10:59.439 I have come on the show on a scene where 1:10:59.439 --> 1:11:01.000 I had a lot of stuff and I wasn't the 1:11:01.040 --> 1:11:03.559 most pleasant because I got real life. Now, I got 1:11:03.600 --> 1:11:05.320 this camera in my face and I really don't like you, 1:11:05.720 --> 1:11:09.320 and I half like you. So uh, it's just reality TV. 1:11:09.439 --> 1:11:11.799 I don't look at any of them, even on the renting. 1:11:12.160 --> 1:11:15.960 We we just we're out the country together and like. 1:11:17.720 --> 1:11:19.679 That's my stomach growl. It's just business. 1:11:19.720 --> 1:11:22.280 Yeah, it's just business, and it's a show, and I 1:11:22.320 --> 1:11:26.280 feel like with all the adversities, the best part to 1:11:26.360 --> 1:11:28.560 prove you're a business woman you want to be successful 1:11:28.720 --> 1:11:30.439 is I try to think of the money and I 1:11:30.479 --> 1:11:32.120 look at stuff like I'm not trying to chase the 1:11:32.160 --> 1:11:34.920 bag away and you do too much, You be too 1:11:34.920 --> 1:11:37.840 ghetto because you could push the ghettle envelope. You can 1:11:37.880 --> 1:11:39.840 share the money off. You could do too much, you 1:11:39.840 --> 1:11:42.160 can say too much. And although I'm on the show 1:11:42.200 --> 1:11:45.400 that I know is more drama driven, I'm standing behind 1:11:45.439 --> 1:11:47.639 my products on the show so we can do all 1:11:47.640 --> 1:11:48.280 this cat and. 1:11:48.280 --> 1:11:51.160 Audiot, we're gonna highight, were gonna highlight my products. 1:11:51.160 --> 1:11:53.160 I don't come on set without it. I don't come 1:11:53.200 --> 1:11:54.120 on set without it. 1:11:54.160 --> 1:11:56.960 Andy does that on The Housewives, like give them what 1:11:56.960 --> 1:12:00.799 they want. But at the same time, multi product these products. 1:12:00.800 --> 1:12:03.599 You know what I'm saying, because why would you be. 1:12:03.520 --> 1:12:06.880 On this national TV show not with show products. 1:12:06.479 --> 1:12:08.160 Squandering your opportunity. 1:12:08.200 --> 1:12:09.840 But you won't believe how many of them on your 1:12:09.920 --> 1:12:13.120 doing it, not showing and have products and services. 1:12:13.120 --> 1:12:14.559 And just I'm on TV, so let. 1:12:14.479 --> 1:12:16.000 Me just be the baddie. And I'm sitting up there 1:12:16.040 --> 1:12:17.960 like baby, I'm not. 1:12:17.800 --> 1:12:21.640 Trying to I'm trying to be the bad lady, not 1:12:21.760 --> 1:12:25.120 the baddie. But it's TV, so some people get it confused. 1:12:25.160 --> 1:12:28.400 I'm on here for a purpose, and although I'm loving 1:12:28.560 --> 1:12:32.599 just the new opportunity, it's so different just being miked up, 1:12:32.640 --> 1:12:34.760 having just I've never been in a place where I 1:12:34.800 --> 1:12:36.439 walk into and it's a few girls that don't like. 1:12:36.439 --> 1:12:38.800 Me and we all in the ruin. I'm looking like, oh, 1:12:38.840 --> 1:12:40.439 we can't be on those streets stuff. Today. 1:12:40.880 --> 1:12:41.599 We're miked up. 1:12:41.640 --> 1:12:44.600 We're really TV stars now our ten personalities. 1:12:44.960 --> 1:12:45.960 I'm being taught. 1:12:46.000 --> 1:12:48.519 I'm learning stuff too in this experience, because I'm like, 1:12:49.000 --> 1:12:50.439 typically I wouldn't even be in a room with you, 1:12:51.080 --> 1:12:53.000 but I have to now, and I gotta be nice, 1:12:53.360 --> 1:12:54.840 and I gotta listen to you talk. 1:12:54.920 --> 1:12:56.360 I really want to flap you a little bit. 1:12:56.400 --> 1:13:00.200 But you know, Okay, Well, Ferrari has been tech to 1:13:00.240 --> 1:13:02.320 me and he won't leave me alone. 1:13:02.360 --> 1:13:04.680 He told me, uh, asks you. 1:13:05.680 --> 1:13:08.799 Ferrari said, he thinks you and Mazie are back together. 1:13:09.000 --> 1:13:12.360 Oh my god, I was sitting on that mail at night. 1:13:13.320 --> 1:13:17.479 Okay, whoa I was with that ex last night, y'all? 1:13:17.640 --> 1:13:18.200 What happened? 1:13:18.320 --> 1:13:19.840 Let me tell you how to tell the truth without 1:13:19.840 --> 1:13:21.120 making them look so bad again. 1:13:22.360 --> 1:13:22.519 Uh. 1:13:23.560 --> 1:13:26.360 We were together six years and the last year of 1:13:26.400 --> 1:13:30.000 the relationship, which was last year, when I broke up 1:13:30.000 --> 1:13:33.479 with him, dumped them, left them like a bad habits. 1:13:33.560 --> 1:13:37.640 I No, it just wasn't working out the way it 1:13:37.760 --> 1:13:39.760 was going the first couple of years. I think that 1:13:40.320 --> 1:13:42.840 when we kind of start coming into money and finances 1:13:42.880 --> 1:13:44.960 and it's like, oh, we in his mansion, Oh look 1:13:45.000 --> 1:13:48.880 at our cars, my mentality was, oh, we got to 1:13:48.920 --> 1:13:51.080 keep these things that we acquired, like now we got 1:13:51.080 --> 1:13:55.800 to work more. And just our backgrounds were different. He's 1:13:55.840 --> 1:13:57.439 not the only child, but he has a little brother 1:13:57.479 --> 1:13:59.600 that's like two years younger than him, so he was 1:13:59.640 --> 1:14:00.759 raised an only child. 1:14:00.920 --> 1:14:02.040 I got a full siblings. 1:14:02.200 --> 1:14:06.800 I always was like, do more, do more, safe, be responsible. 1:14:06.840 --> 1:14:10.760 So I think our backgrounds once we came into money, 1:14:11.479 --> 1:14:14.639 money can he didn't change because money I didn't change. 1:14:14.680 --> 1:14:17.599 But I saw it like, oh, shoot, we were supposed 1:14:17.600 --> 1:14:20.080 to be like planning for this big wedding and I'm 1:14:20.160 --> 1:14:22.640 saving up my half what we're supposed to do and 1:14:22.680 --> 1:14:24.519 you're supposed to be working on this. And I think 1:14:24.560 --> 1:14:27.680 that when we came into the money that his mentality 1:14:27.680 --> 1:14:30.280 felt almost like we kind of made it, and I 1:14:30.360 --> 1:14:32.120 was just like, we have not made it yet. 1:14:32.080 --> 1:14:33.040 And your his is more. 1:14:33.080 --> 1:14:34.600 We can relax a little bit, but he's got a 1:14:34.640 --> 1:14:37.280 little comfortable and you were like, no, we're still on edge. 1:14:37.360 --> 1:14:39.559 We have to I feel like it's worked to get in, 1:14:39.680 --> 1:14:40.959 but work harder to stay. 1:14:40.720 --> 1:14:43.200 In, right, And I can't I can't hurse on here, clearly, 1:14:43.880 --> 1:14:45.080 Oh I can't say whatever you want. 1:14:45.520 --> 1:14:47.439 I would have been cussing like a motherfus I know. 1:14:47.600 --> 1:14:55.120 But he told me that when we became financially more 1:14:56.000 --> 1:14:59.919 financially stable or successful, that I turned into a bitch. Basically, 1:15:00.080 --> 1:15:03.040 he said, I turned into like I will wake up, 1:15:03.080 --> 1:15:05.680 and this was true, like I have vision boards and 1:15:05.720 --> 1:15:08.480 I would be waking like okay, so why are you 1:15:08.479 --> 1:15:10.639 You were supposed to do this, like because now again 1:15:10.680 --> 1:15:13.400 we have to keep these things we acquire. So in 1:15:13.439 --> 1:15:16.080 his language, a bitch was like you a little more 1:15:16.120 --> 1:15:18.200 like act like my mam, and now like we're gonna 1:15:18.280 --> 1:15:20.200 keep this house, We're gonna keep these cars. But for me, 1:15:20.320 --> 1:15:22.280 I felt like we have to sleep less. 1:15:22.360 --> 1:15:23.839 Now look at this big ass house. 1:15:23.680 --> 1:15:27.320 We just got, like the scariest It's like, yeah, are 1:15:27.360 --> 1:15:29.519 you you're the oldest right of your fore siblings. 1:15:29.520 --> 1:15:32.360 No, I'm the second, second oldest, three younger and one older. 1:15:32.400 --> 1:15:34.240 But you still have a responsibility. You screw up with 1:15:34.240 --> 1:15:38.200 a responsibility. Sure, you can't like just drop the ball, 1:15:38.280 --> 1:15:41.559 because if you don't work, you ain't eating for sure. 1:15:41.720 --> 1:15:42.759 Do you guys have kids? 1:15:43.000 --> 1:15:44.760 No, we don't have kids. I don't have any kids. 1:15:44.760 --> 1:15:48.080 He has kids, Okay, so that was another thing. I 1:15:48.160 --> 1:15:50.240 kind of felt like I don't have kids yet. My 1:15:50.360 --> 1:15:52.759 goal was I wanted to buy my house. I wanted 1:15:52.800 --> 1:15:55.240 to get married. I know, I'm I'm backwards. A lot 1:15:55.240 --> 1:15:57.080 of people say get married in the house. I knew 1:15:57.120 --> 1:15:59.000 I wanted to get the house. I want to live 1:15:59.040 --> 1:16:01.360 with you. I wanted to then I want to get married. 1:16:01.400 --> 1:16:03.479 Then I wanted to have a kid. So we had 1:16:03.479 --> 1:16:05.479 so much in order, and I felt like when the 1:16:05.560 --> 1:16:07.400 money came, it was like a shock for me and 1:16:07.439 --> 1:16:10.639 it was a shock for him. We reacted two different ways. 1:16:11.000 --> 1:16:14.479 He reacted in like we never had money before, like 1:16:14.560 --> 1:16:16.800 let's just enjoy it and live it, like we look 1:16:17.000 --> 1:16:19.240 look at today right now, let's go shopping. And I 1:16:19.320 --> 1:16:22.519 was like I started acting broke her when I got paid. 1:16:22.560 --> 1:16:28.960 I was like, understand that because you don't want to 1:16:28.960 --> 1:16:29.360 go back. 1:16:29.600 --> 1:16:31.760 No, And so we were arguing a lot, and he 1:16:31.880 --> 1:16:33.920 used to be like, you're not my mom. You act 1:16:34.000 --> 1:16:36.640 like a little bit and I'm not trying to be 1:16:36.760 --> 1:16:39.280 like you like mother. Hen holding onto the money and 1:16:39.520 --> 1:16:41.080 how much did you spend on that trip hike? 1:16:41.160 --> 1:16:43.679 And I was older. Those rich people do and that's 1:16:43.680 --> 1:16:44.240 what I am. 1:16:45.080 --> 1:16:48.240 And people say, steam, you know you save your money, 1:16:48.240 --> 1:16:49.240 Your money will save you. 1:16:49.439 --> 1:16:51.320 Yeah, you save your money, Your money will save you. 1:16:51.680 --> 1:16:54.680 I tell people that all the time. I tell family members, man, 1:16:54.760 --> 1:16:57.519 don't ask me for no money. Man, save your money, 1:16:57.680 --> 1:17:00.320 because my money gonna have to save me eventually at 1:17:00.439 --> 1:17:01.280 some point in life. 1:17:01.479 --> 1:17:04.160 Just imagine how many people were scared when the pandemic 1:17:04.280 --> 1:17:07.720 happened and still stay to build themselves back up. 1:17:07.960 --> 1:17:10.400 And we our lives were the opposite when the pandemic 1:17:10.439 --> 1:17:12.920 because we were the YouTube couple of the year for 1:17:12.920 --> 1:17:13.760 the last couple of years. 1:17:13.840 --> 1:17:15.439 So with us, we. 1:17:15.280 --> 1:17:18.120 Came into so much money during the pandemic that was 1:17:18.240 --> 1:17:21.559 almost wasn't fair. It was like people in the pandemic 1:17:21.600 --> 1:17:24.599 are not watching YouTube more. Yep, So our stuff went 1:17:24.680 --> 1:17:25.599 up five times. 1:17:25.720 --> 1:17:27.280 We was already killing it. 1:17:27.439 --> 1:17:30.960 I was thinking like during the pandemics, like, oh my god, look, 1:17:31.040 --> 1:17:33.519 we bought the mansion in the pandemic. We bought the 1:17:33.560 --> 1:17:36.479 cars in the pandemic. And I was thinking, like, when 1:17:36.520 --> 1:17:38.559 I started seeing the pandemic, I was affecting people. 1:17:38.600 --> 1:17:41.880 I started trying to hold on and you know what 1:17:41.960 --> 1:17:42.280 I mean. 1:17:42.320 --> 1:17:44.960 And I felt like with him, we just had two 1:17:44.960 --> 1:17:50.160 different mindsets. He he lives like today, this is today. 1:17:50.240 --> 1:17:52.200 We got this today. You want to go on another trip, 1:17:52.479 --> 1:17:55.240 And I'm so the opposite. And I'm like, h we 1:17:55.280 --> 1:17:56.320 could be broken a year. 1:17:56.479 --> 1:17:58.200 But that's how y'all got it, though, That's how we 1:17:58.240 --> 1:17:58.639 got it. 1:17:59.160 --> 1:18:02.360 And a biggering got too much and then you I'm 1:18:02.360 --> 1:18:04.559 sure from a male perspective, when we start doing too 1:18:04.640 --> 1:18:06.839 much bitching and stuff, it just go downhill. 1:18:06.840 --> 1:18:07.559 But I'm not gonna stop. 1:18:07.680 --> 1:18:10.280 Yeah, yeah, it's just go downhill because I feel like 1:18:10.280 --> 1:18:13.080 in y'all situation, you guys are business partners and then 1:18:13.120 --> 1:18:16.960 y'all have to be relationship and you know, googlely goggly 1:18:17.080 --> 1:18:19.599 and stuff like that. And I think you know, as 1:18:19.640 --> 1:18:21.840 a man, it's like once it was like once you 1:18:21.960 --> 1:18:23.160 start doing the bitching. 1:18:24.760 --> 1:18:27.880 But then from a woman perspective, you know what I'm saying, sis. 1:18:28.000 --> 1:18:30.759 When we start looking like I'm supposed to be marrying 1:18:30.760 --> 1:18:34.799 you and then we got to share the money. 1:18:32.720 --> 1:18:37.639 You got to look for yourself, come on like and 1:18:37.640 --> 1:18:40.160 it's not even to be a selfish or anything like that, 1:18:40.200 --> 1:18:42.960 but you know you could be left in destitute. 1:18:43.000 --> 1:18:43.679 You know what I'm saying. 1:18:43.760 --> 1:18:46.680 Actually, you have to look out for yourself because if 1:18:46.680 --> 1:18:47.960 you've been broke before. 1:18:47.760 --> 1:18:49.600 And you got some money, you do you do not 1:18:49.680 --> 1:18:50.360 want to go back. 1:18:50.439 --> 1:18:51.599 You do not want to go back. 1:18:51.600 --> 1:18:53.760 You almost do anything to not go back. 1:18:53.840 --> 1:18:55.839 You know how people call me help. 1:18:56.400 --> 1:19:00.519 When I came into my financial blessings, I became the 1:19:00.600 --> 1:19:02.760 cheapest person. I used to spend more money when I 1:19:02.760 --> 1:19:05.200 was broke. I didn't even have it, but I used 1:19:05.240 --> 1:19:07.880 to somehow. I always was That's how it goes. Somehow 1:19:07.880 --> 1:19:09.920 I had it. I always had it there and I 1:19:10.040 --> 1:19:13.280 was broke. Well my money now, my mom, she laugh 1:19:13.360 --> 1:19:16.040 at me. I what I even talking about? 1:19:16.080 --> 1:19:16.559 The number? 1:19:17.000 --> 1:19:19.599 I was somewhere with somebody and I was I got 1:19:19.600 --> 1:19:21.600 them to go so long on their number. And my 1:19:21.640 --> 1:19:24.280 mom is over my business, so she obviously is overshopifyed. 1:19:24.360 --> 1:19:27.320 She see what the products do. When we walked away, 1:19:27.360 --> 1:19:30.760 she said, bitch, you bet at ever, come in here 1:19:30.800 --> 1:19:33.400 with your jurery on and get nobody to go down 1:19:33.439 --> 1:19:34.280 on they price like that. 1:19:34.360 --> 1:19:35.320 I can't believe he did it. 1:19:35.400 --> 1:19:37.240 I said, yeah, this is what I that's a good 1:19:37.240 --> 1:19:37.840 business woman. 1:19:37.880 --> 1:19:39.479 But you know what, white people's been doing it for 1:19:39.520 --> 1:19:41.559 you for a year, rich white people. 1:19:41.680 --> 1:19:42.680 That's why they stay rich. 1:19:42.720 --> 1:19:45.679 You're not in designer Like to this day, I don't 1:19:45.680 --> 1:19:48.320 wear designer. The only thing I care about is I 1:19:48.439 --> 1:19:50.880 just like jury for some reason. But I don't wear 1:19:50.920 --> 1:19:51.400 a designer. 1:19:51.479 --> 1:19:56.120 So what's been your dumbest purchase since you've gained money? 1:19:56.360 --> 1:19:57.200 A bad person? 1:19:57.240 --> 1:20:00.679 I bought before? How much was it? S? Six hundred? 1:20:01.160 --> 1:20:03.160 And it was so stupid when I when I left 1:20:03.200 --> 1:20:05.639 back when I left with it and just kept looking 1:20:05.680 --> 1:20:08.280 at it. I started adding up all the studio hours 1:20:08.280 --> 1:20:10.200 and how much it costs and how much. I said, 1:20:10.240 --> 1:20:12.160 you could have got four music videos out of this. 1:20:12.200 --> 1:20:12.920 You could have did this. 1:20:13.360 --> 1:20:13.680 It was the. 1:20:13.720 --> 1:20:14.719 Dumbest thing ever. 1:20:14.800 --> 1:20:17.040 But I got hyped up again, used to be a 1:20:17.040 --> 1:20:19.760 bro bitch, had a little dollar that day. I was like, 1:20:20.160 --> 1:20:22.280 I've never done this. Why would I not have always 1:20:22.320 --> 1:20:25.040 actually wanted that? As that broke me. That was my 1:20:25.120 --> 1:20:27.120 one time doing it though, that's the difference with me 1:20:27.160 --> 1:20:28.800 and a lot of people. I did that once. 1:20:29.120 --> 1:20:29.680 I respect that. 1:20:29.800 --> 1:20:30.759 But sometimes it's. 1:20:30.640 --> 1:20:33.519 Okay to work hard and then reward yourself with some things. 1:20:33.720 --> 1:20:37.400 What number do you think you would feel comfortable enough to, 1:20:37.920 --> 1:20:39.519 you know, spurge on yourself a little bit. 1:20:39.840 --> 1:20:45.479 Another splurge would happen when I make another million dollars. Okay, yeah, 1:20:45.520 --> 1:20:47.800 Because if you if you make the million, which I 1:20:47.800 --> 1:20:50.800 have made it with Pretty Kitty, I've done it more 1:20:50.840 --> 1:20:54.160 than once. You take off half of that away because 1:20:54.200 --> 1:20:55.639 you had to put it right back in your product. 1:20:55.760 --> 1:20:57.639 Now you took the five hundred off the one million 1:20:57.680 --> 1:21:00.759 that you made, that's gone, and then x five hundred. 1:21:00.840 --> 1:21:04.000 You go about to spend fifty to seventy a month 1:21:04.360 --> 1:21:07.240 on advertisements, which is gonna make you probably spend fifty. 1:21:07.280 --> 1:21:08.960 You probably might make one hundred and fifty off of 1:21:08.960 --> 1:21:11.640 the fifty you spent. But that million go down so 1:21:11.720 --> 1:21:13.400 fast you ain't got time to be talking about one 1:21:13.439 --> 1:21:14.679 hundred thousand dollars shopping spree. 1:21:14.800 --> 1:21:16.479 How hard was it to get the first million? 1:21:16.640 --> 1:21:19.640 It really wasn't hard for me, honestly, Again, and I'm 1:21:19.680 --> 1:21:23.160 being humble when I said, my mom has always been 1:21:23.160 --> 1:21:26.480 an entrepreneur. My mom had a cheering hip hop business 1:21:26.720 --> 1:21:29.240 my whole life. My mom has always had a business, 1:21:29.280 --> 1:21:32.120 so I've always been a frugal person to know about 1:21:32.160 --> 1:21:35.840 saving because of her. So I made the million and 1:21:35.960 --> 1:21:39.080 it was like I kind of really for real real 1:21:39.160 --> 1:21:41.360 made it in seven months when I made my product, 1:21:41.600 --> 1:21:45.880 and I was like, oh, shoot, and then spend a 1:21:45.880 --> 1:21:47.599 lot of it to do it again. 1:21:47.720 --> 1:21:48.559 That's just how I go. 1:21:49.040 --> 1:21:51.240 But to go back to your relationship and you guys, 1:21:51.640 --> 1:21:54.000 essentially it was money that it was at. 1:21:54.040 --> 1:21:57.240 You guys, what happened with the channel? What channel was it? 1:21:57.240 --> 1:21:57.519 It was? 1:21:58.160 --> 1:22:00.880 We had a not a family channel with a couple channels. 1:22:00.880 --> 1:22:03.719 It's called the Amy and Mazzie Show on YouTube. 1:22:03.720 --> 1:22:05.800 Did you guys divide it or is just there? 1:22:06.160 --> 1:22:06.760 Or no? 1:22:07.000 --> 1:22:10.720 He kept the channel, and I was vocal about I 1:22:10.720 --> 1:22:12.639 didn't feel like he was supposed to keep the channel. 1:22:13.560 --> 1:22:15.519 A lot of people said he should have, but he 1:22:15.640 --> 1:22:19.160 started the channel years ago before we ever met, but 1:22:19.200 --> 1:22:20.360 he never posted on it. 1:22:20.720 --> 1:22:22.679 So now you and me and we're together and. 1:22:22.560 --> 1:22:25.200 We're been like this viral couple for a little bit, 1:22:25.520 --> 1:22:27.599 so we take it to YouTube. I felt like, honey, 1:22:27.640 --> 1:22:29.519 when we broke up and I dumped your black ass. 1:22:29.880 --> 1:22:32.360 This is our channel, and I felt like I should 1:22:32.360 --> 1:22:34.960 get the revenue still fifty to fifty like we've been 1:22:35.000 --> 1:22:38.760 doing for years. But he felt like, no, this is 1:22:38.800 --> 1:22:40.479 my channel that I had three years before I ever 1:22:40.600 --> 1:22:44.559 met you, and we're not together. Go start your YouTube channel. 1:22:44.600 --> 1:22:48.320 This is my channel, and he took all our videos off. 1:22:48.320 --> 1:22:50.479 But I kind of felt like, you still getting the 1:22:50.520 --> 1:22:52.840 revenue from the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands 1:22:52.880 --> 1:22:58.240 of subscribers that I helped build. But our breakup was 1:22:58.360 --> 1:23:01.639 just so different. It was so weird because I kind 1:23:01.640 --> 1:23:03.719 of felt like I kept the house. 1:23:03.800 --> 1:23:05.800 I kept a lot of the stuff that was in 1:23:05.880 --> 1:23:07.760 my name because I had the good credits. 1:23:08.120 --> 1:23:09.840 And then I was like, you had a YouTube, You're 1:23:09.840 --> 1:23:11.360 about to make a lot of money off of it. 1:23:11.439 --> 1:23:13.479 I didn't want him to go down and just be 1:23:13.600 --> 1:23:17.160 depleted without that's crazy, So I walked away from the YouTube. 1:23:17.200 --> 1:23:20.400 My team was like, this is legal, you shouldn't do it, 1:23:20.479 --> 1:23:21.559 but it's like, this is my ex. 1:23:22.400 --> 1:23:23.519 I'm not trying to go to war. 1:23:24.000 --> 1:23:27.240 And although in a nutshell you can say we broke 1:23:27.320 --> 1:23:30.920 up for money, I think that when we really did 1:23:30.960 --> 1:23:33.439 the breakup, I realized like looking at him and him 1:23:33.479 --> 1:23:34.200 looking back at me. 1:23:34.640 --> 1:23:35.479 I'm not changing. 1:23:36.040 --> 1:23:39.559 I'm gonna always be that girl that is frugal, that 1:23:39.680 --> 1:23:40.559 watches the money. 1:23:40.880 --> 1:23:42.160 I balance it well. 1:23:42.400 --> 1:23:43.639 Didn't ever get back together. 1:23:44.200 --> 1:23:48.719 What we Yeah, somebody gonna have to change that part. 1:23:48.920 --> 1:23:50.800 I had him blocked for a year, and on our 1:23:50.840 --> 1:23:55.720 one year anniversary, I unblocked him. And when I unblocked him, no, 1:23:55.800 --> 1:23:57.960 he caught in text and I was like thinking, what 1:23:58.400 --> 1:24:00.679 how did that happen? Like, I just literally I'm blocked 1:24:00.680 --> 1:24:03.200 you. You wouldn't know I ain't blocked you whatever. And he 1:24:03.360 --> 1:24:06.280 was like, I literally every couple of days text you 1:24:06.360 --> 1:24:07.360 and been doing it for a year. 1:24:07.800 --> 1:24:08.080 Wow. 1:24:08.200 --> 1:24:10.479 And I was like, I'm missing you too. 1:24:11.160 --> 1:24:15.960 But you think, what kind of person do you think 1:24:15.960 --> 1:24:16.559 you would need? 1:24:16.840 --> 1:24:20.439 I want a person that's business minded. I like a. 1:24:19.920 --> 1:24:21.360 Person when I wake up in the morning. 1:24:21.880 --> 1:24:24.720 I like to talk about business in the morning, or 1:24:24.920 --> 1:24:28.839 hypothetical business or a business idea. I just I'm turned 1:24:28.880 --> 1:24:31.479 on by business. Even watching other people be great, I 1:24:31.520 --> 1:24:35.360 love it. I just be like like, I just like business. 1:24:35.400 --> 1:24:39.840 So I'm attracted to people who go get it, talk 1:24:39.880 --> 1:24:41.440 about bullshit. 1:24:41.560 --> 1:24:45.120 I like a guy who hold me accountable if I. 1:24:45.040 --> 1:24:47.479 Say I'm dropping a mixtape on my birthday June third, 1:24:47.479 --> 1:24:51.000 and on June second. I like a guy like, what's up, accountable. 1:24:51.040 --> 1:24:53.040 I don't like a guy to let me lead because 1:24:53.040 --> 1:24:57.240 I'm aggressive already. So so you want an alpha, gotta 1:24:57.280 --> 1:24:59.760 have an alpha, but then you gotta let me be an alpha too. 1:25:00.080 --> 1:25:03.680 That's why this kind of gets weird. Yeah, that is 1:25:03.760 --> 1:25:06.599 one of my personal struggles because I am very alpha 1:25:06.720 --> 1:25:09.960 like my mom and my ex fiance is an alpha 1:25:10.040 --> 1:25:10.439 for sure. 1:25:10.760 --> 1:25:15.200 But my thought is, you can't be an alpha. How 1:25:15.200 --> 1:25:15.960 can I say it nicely? 1:25:16.080 --> 1:25:18.320 You need more of a laid back alpha versus a 1:25:18.360 --> 1:25:20.800 dominant one, and sometimes you just got to be a 1:25:20.840 --> 1:25:22.639 season where you got to be less of the alpha 1:25:22.680 --> 1:25:22.920 than me. 1:25:23.040 --> 1:25:25.680 So if I have showed you, like with these business practices, 1:25:26.000 --> 1:25:29.240 even down to his businesses helping him, he starts it, 1:25:29.280 --> 1:25:31.799 but I'm behind it. I know the credit, I know business, 1:25:31.840 --> 1:25:33.720 I know loans, I know all of that thanks to 1:25:33.720 --> 1:25:36.360 my mom. If I'm the one helping doing it, now, 1:25:36.400 --> 1:25:37.760 look at all the money you got now. 1:25:38.200 --> 1:25:38.720 I feel like. 1:25:38.720 --> 1:25:41.840 People should learn to for a short season. It don't 1:25:41.840 --> 1:25:44.200 got to be forever. But in a relationship, I felt 1:25:44.200 --> 1:25:46.040 like it was a season where he needed to be 1:25:46.120 --> 1:25:49.680 like Lou, which is what he called me, she know 1:25:49.760 --> 1:25:50.160 a business. 1:25:50.240 --> 1:25:50.840 Let me step back. 1:25:50.880 --> 1:25:53.479 See, I'm good with the YouTube and he's an artist. 1:25:53.560 --> 1:25:55.800 He good with that, but my girl is good with 1:25:55.840 --> 1:25:58.320 the business. If you too stuck on being an alpha 1:25:58.560 --> 1:26:00.320 and you know you're not good at that, but because 1:26:00.360 --> 1:26:02.599 you're in alpha, you gotta act like you're good and 1:26:02.640 --> 1:26:05.519 be over me telling And that's what I felt like 1:26:06.120 --> 1:26:10.080 started started happening because my success in my businesses. I 1:26:10.080 --> 1:26:12.040 felt like with him, he started kind of looking like 1:26:12.680 --> 1:26:14.800 you a little rich, used to be broke bitch when 1:26:14.800 --> 1:26:17.360 I met you, and now you're acting like I know 1:26:17.439 --> 1:26:19.519 it all, bitch. You were broke when I met you. 1:26:20.280 --> 1:26:23.120 We have so much, it's so many lad with you. 1:26:23.640 --> 1:26:26.800 That is how I felt. I felt like he thought 1:26:26.800 --> 1:26:29.479 we had made it, and it started scaring me. We 1:26:29.520 --> 1:26:31.600 had a wedding plan eight months before I broke up 1:26:31.600 --> 1:26:33.840 with him, and I was like adding it up and 1:26:33.880 --> 1:26:36.519 I was just like, maybe we rushing this, Like I 1:26:36.560 --> 1:26:38.120 don't like how you are with money. 1:26:38.800 --> 1:26:40.679 You don't like that you say. 1:26:40.479 --> 1:26:43.320 That I talk and you felt like I'm the alpha 1:26:43.680 --> 1:26:47.040 man over you when you're the man and I ain't changing. 1:26:47.240 --> 1:26:49.000 But you're not gonna do better with your money, but 1:26:49.080 --> 1:26:52.360 I gotta quiet down, So I broke up with him. 1:26:52.400 --> 1:26:55.200 Did y'all ever want to do therapy or seek therapy 1:26:55.280 --> 1:26:56.160 before that happened. 1:26:56.479 --> 1:26:59.120 No, I'm different. I don't believe in that. I don't 1:26:59.120 --> 1:27:04.160 believe that. If you find a person who is proved 1:27:04.160 --> 1:27:07.720 to show like I keep everything everything in my name, 1:27:07.760 --> 1:27:10.320 I hold me down, and now I'm with you and 1:27:10.320 --> 1:27:13.320 suddenly I need a therapist to work and date you. 1:27:14.240 --> 1:27:18.040 I just don't believe in that. I don't believe in that. 1:27:18.280 --> 1:27:18.840 Is that wrong? 1:27:18.920 --> 1:27:25.200 Like, no, I do if I became the problem. But 1:27:25.280 --> 1:27:27.160 if the only thing you saying I need some therapy 1:27:27.640 --> 1:27:30.920 is because I'm too alpha, I challenge you and say, 1:27:30.920 --> 1:27:31.639 why do you think I got. 1:27:31.680 --> 1:27:32.400 To be so alpha? 1:27:32.760 --> 1:27:35.880 You're not being responsible with our money, so you're turning 1:27:35.920 --> 1:27:38.720 me up more because I'm kind of like hyper dry, 1:27:38.760 --> 1:27:40.000 I'm like kind of nervous now. 1:27:40.120 --> 1:27:42.479 But what if it's not just for you, but like 1:27:42.600 --> 1:27:44.760 for him to understand you, a person that can a 1:27:44.800 --> 1:27:48.160 third party that can like help you guys understand one another. 1:27:49.680 --> 1:27:51.919 Before we get to that point, he has to understand 1:27:51.920 --> 1:27:54.000 that it's just you need to save your money. 1:27:54.439 --> 1:27:56.840 We can't skip over it. But that's that's why most 1:27:56.840 --> 1:27:58.360 people divorces is over. 1:27:58.240 --> 1:27:59.479 My money, and it ain't that. 1:27:59.520 --> 1:28:02.519 It's also gold digging stuff because he good and I'm good. 1:28:02.520 --> 1:28:03.240 I don't need you for. 1:28:03.280 --> 1:28:04.320 Money, you don't need me. 1:28:04.840 --> 1:28:07.559 It was over money because we're about to become one. 1:28:08.000 --> 1:28:09.880 I'm about to be your wife. I'm gonna have my 1:28:09.920 --> 1:28:13.320 first damn baby, Like I don't. I'm not comfortable. And 1:28:13.600 --> 1:28:16.400 I felt like I was screaming it and it got 1:28:16.439 --> 1:28:18.439 to the point where it was like you ain't hearing me. 1:28:18.880 --> 1:28:19.920 So we got to break up. 1:28:20.120 --> 1:28:22.800 But y'all, are you know, kind of ining at each 1:28:22.800 --> 1:28:23.840 other's lives right now? 1:28:24.520 --> 1:28:25.120 Right now? 1:28:25.800 --> 1:28:26.760 I have forgiven him. 1:28:26.800 --> 1:28:28.600 He has forgiven me because we did a lot of 1:28:28.600 --> 1:28:32.360 social media mess that he did it first and then 1:28:32.400 --> 1:28:35.839 I followed it and it wasn't right anyway. I followed 1:28:35.880 --> 1:28:38.559 it with some ignorance matching his energy, and it was 1:28:38.640 --> 1:28:40.960 just disappointing to the fans for both of us to 1:28:41.000 --> 1:28:41.240 do it. 1:28:41.320 --> 1:28:44.600 So where we are right now, believe it or not. 1:28:44.680 --> 1:28:48.240 When I left my my ex fiance, I left him 1:28:48.240 --> 1:28:50.680 to get back with him. It was supposed to be 1:28:50.680 --> 1:28:52.880 like a shake up almost like okay, So I've been 1:28:52.880 --> 1:28:55.040 saying this for about two years. Now, we've had money 1:28:55.040 --> 1:28:58.479 for two years. You're not listening. Watch this. We're done, 1:28:58.640 --> 1:29:01.120 and here's the ring. That was what it was supposed 1:29:01.160 --> 1:29:03.400 to be. I didn't think it was gonna last fifteen months. 1:29:03.760 --> 1:29:06.560 But now fifteen months went by and I'm blocked, and 1:29:06.640 --> 1:29:10.000 I'm like, dang, it's been a year. I actually unblocked 1:29:10.080 --> 1:29:12.560 him right around two days after. 1:29:13.800 --> 1:29:14.280 Take off. 1:29:14.360 --> 1:29:18.320 Unfortunately passed away cause it was like on my heart, 1:29:18.320 --> 1:29:20.519 I'm like, dang, life is so short. He was such 1:29:20.520 --> 1:29:22.280 a fan of him. It just reminded me so much 1:29:22.320 --> 1:29:22.639 of him. 1:29:22.880 --> 1:29:23.320 I'm telling you. 1:29:23.360 --> 1:29:26.080 When I unblocked him, he was texting and he's like, 1:29:26.120 --> 1:29:28.080 I've been texting you, like all those things that you 1:29:28.160 --> 1:29:30.720 said I had to get together fifteen months later, but 1:29:31.479 --> 1:29:33.360 sending me the business to. 1:29:33.439 --> 1:29:35.519 This the bank account, and I'm just like. 1:29:35.960 --> 1:29:38.559 This is all I ever wanted from you, So come. 1:29:38.439 --> 1:29:40.040 Over here and get this cookie. 1:29:42.280 --> 1:29:43.760 So he's giving you what you want. 1:29:43.880 --> 1:29:44.120 Now. 1:29:44.439 --> 1:29:46.080 Do you see the change in him? 1:29:46.160 --> 1:29:50.120 I see the changes, and I'm very happy, although we're 1:29:50.160 --> 1:29:51.880 still taking this slow because now I was like, we're 1:29:51.880 --> 1:29:53.360 living in two different places now. 1:29:53.439 --> 1:29:54.840 We were together in one. 1:29:54.720 --> 1:29:55.960 House for six years. 1:29:56.600 --> 1:29:59.200 I see the changes and I'm so happy, but I 1:29:59.360 --> 1:30:02.280 want him to keep doing his thing, and I feel 1:30:02.320 --> 1:30:05.559 like naturally will come back. I'm kind of not kind 1:30:05.600 --> 1:30:09.080 that I've learned to enjoy liking my place too much 1:30:09.120 --> 1:30:13.320 by myself, and he's liking he is too. And it's 1:30:13.360 --> 1:30:16.000 weird because now I'm like, I feel like my fiance 1:30:16.200 --> 1:30:19.360 is like just my little boo who just pull up 1:30:19.400 --> 1:30:20.479 and leave and pull up. 1:30:20.520 --> 1:30:21.599 But it's good. 1:30:23.400 --> 1:30:26.800 Well, no, no, I don't think I missed fiance still. 1:30:26.920 --> 1:30:28.720 I think when I called off the wedding and gave 1:30:28.800 --> 1:30:31.240 the ring back that I think now I'm just like 1:30:31.320 --> 1:30:32.439 his ex fiance. 1:30:33.080 --> 1:30:35.000 Now, just say, you just said fiance is like my 1:30:35.000 --> 1:30:35.479 little book. 1:30:35.640 --> 1:30:40.920 Yeah, habit is a habit. He ain't get back yet, y'all. 1:30:41.200 --> 1:30:44.879 Y'all without therapy though. 1:30:44.760 --> 1:30:46.400 Right without therapy. 1:30:46.479 --> 1:30:49.760 I'm willing to do therapy with him because I know 1:30:49.800 --> 1:30:52.479 I got some stuff I gotta do alone. I need 1:30:52.560 --> 1:30:56.120 therapy for some alone issues, I know for sure, and 1:30:56.160 --> 1:30:58.400 he knows for sure he does. But I don't want 1:30:58.439 --> 1:31:02.000 to be the couple. It's like, let's go together, and hell. 1:31:02.439 --> 1:31:05.160 Let's do it separately. So you're open to therapy for sure. 1:31:05.240 --> 1:31:05.719 For yourself. 1:31:06.200 --> 1:31:07.600 I'm currently in it. 1:31:07.760 --> 1:31:08.880 Oh how's that going? 1:31:09.000 --> 1:31:12.360 It's going. Well, That's why I'll be able to be like, okay, girl, 1:31:12.880 --> 1:31:15.559 are you done? Okay, God is good and walk off. 1:31:16.680 --> 1:31:19.559 I'm there. And he was doing it for a minute. 1:31:20.000 --> 1:31:22.160 And I don't want to get into his business too much, 1:31:22.160 --> 1:31:23.240 but he was doing it for a minute. I don't 1:31:23.280 --> 1:31:25.160 know if he's still doing it, but I know in 1:31:25.200 --> 1:31:27.800 the beginning of the breakup, before I blocked him for real, 1:31:28.320 --> 1:31:32.160 when he took stuff to social media, he was actively 1:31:32.200 --> 1:31:34.680 in it, and like I was like, because I know 1:31:34.760 --> 1:31:36.519 he needed it for certain things, and I did it 1:31:36.960 --> 1:31:39.680 and I know I needed it, but I feel like 1:31:39.720 --> 1:31:42.040 some of that kind of helped. And I think sometimes 1:31:42.040 --> 1:31:44.880 you gotta leave a nigga. Sometimes you just gotta leave 1:31:44.960 --> 1:31:47.519 him and be like, hey, just let him know that 1:31:47.560 --> 1:31:50.360 you're serious, yeah, because they probably don't believe it. And 1:31:50.400 --> 1:31:53.519 as in love as I am with him, still, he 1:31:53.600 --> 1:31:55.519 knew how crazy I was over him, So I ain't 1:31:55.520 --> 1:31:58.320 blame him for being my girl. I'm still making the 1:31:58.320 --> 1:32:00.439 money and blowing the money. You still here six years, 1:32:00.439 --> 1:32:03.160 you know what I'm saying. Why would he think? Why 1:32:03.200 --> 1:32:04.800 would he think I was gonna be forell. But when 1:32:04.800 --> 1:32:08.240 I really left, that's great advice. But he got it together. 1:32:08.360 --> 1:32:11.559 That's great advice for someone. 1:32:11.120 --> 1:32:13.560 To, you know, to really do it because men go 1:32:13.720 --> 1:32:15.559 call your bluff every time, every time. 1:32:15.880 --> 1:32:18.360 But that's good that you guys are doing the work individually. 1:32:18.520 --> 1:32:22.519 It's you know, and him actively doing his part shows 1:32:22.520 --> 1:32:24.080 that he really wants to be with you, and you 1:32:24.120 --> 1:32:25.519 guys want to be with one another. 1:32:25.720 --> 1:32:26.680 Yeah, you know in the. 1:32:26.680 --> 1:32:29.760 End, and he's he's got some really big things he's 1:32:29.760 --> 1:32:33.120 been working on. Like I'm just happy it's the same 1:32:33.160 --> 1:32:35.439 person that I met and fell in love with years ago. 1:32:35.560 --> 1:32:40.919 But again, the money, the money will show you deeper 1:32:40.960 --> 1:32:42.280 of a person's upbringing. 1:32:42.560 --> 1:32:45.559 And you don't got to settle and be. 1:32:45.600 --> 1:32:47.400 Like I must just be challenged for the rest of 1:32:47.439 --> 1:32:49.759 my life for the name and the sake of love, 1:32:49.840 --> 1:32:52.519 because it can't be loved and coexisting when two people 1:32:52.560 --> 1:32:55.759 got two different boundaries, and people try to say stuff 1:32:55.800 --> 1:32:57.200 like all you left me for money, ain't me you 1:32:57.280 --> 1:32:59.760 came up money ain't everything. Money is everything. That's why 1:32:59.760 --> 1:33:02.120 you take it has to work every day because without 1:33:02.160 --> 1:33:05.880 it there is nothing. So money is everything, but it's not. 1:33:06.800 --> 1:33:09.280 It shouldn't be everything. Where one person has to be 1:33:09.360 --> 1:33:12.639 like dating someone and feeling uncomfortable, like I could see 1:33:12.720 --> 1:33:15.439 us in the year not having nothing. That is not 1:33:16.240 --> 1:33:17.200 that's not right. 1:33:17.400 --> 1:33:21.479 We have a bunch, but nay, we could talk to 1:33:21.479 --> 1:33:24.800 you all that you are so funny, you are a storyteller, 1:33:25.040 --> 1:33:26.360 you have great information. 1:33:26.520 --> 1:33:28.120 You need to start a podcast booth. 1:33:28.240 --> 1:33:29.919 Everybody say that, yeah, because. 1:33:29.800 --> 1:33:31.560 You got a lot, you got a lot of a 1:33:31.680 --> 1:33:34.479 life that you have gyms. 1:33:34.600 --> 1:33:36.240 But we appreciate you for stopping by. 1:33:36.360 --> 1:33:38.160 Man, I could like, I could literally sit here and 1:33:38.560 --> 1:33:40.280 talk for a whole nother hour, but I know we 1:33:40.400 --> 1:33:42.080 gotta go, uh before. 1:33:41.800 --> 1:33:42.920 We get out of here, though we do have a 1:33:42.920 --> 1:33:43.479 pep talk. 1:33:43.600 --> 1:33:45.120 What's up? Y'all's Amy Luciani. 1:33:45.120 --> 1:33:47.479 You already know the bag lady shout out to the 1:33:47.520 --> 1:33:50.320 baller or learn for having me dropping some gems and 1:33:50.360 --> 1:33:52.960 I'm learning some gems. I definitely didn't want to leave 1:33:52.960 --> 1:33:55.559 the conversation with I'm letting you know you gotta bet 1:33:55.560 --> 1:33:57.840 it on yourself. A lot of us are sitting here 1:33:58.160 --> 1:34:02.520 putting time frames on our six says. Timeframes are our relationships, 1:34:02.560 --> 1:34:05.920 timeframes on our businesses. If you really are doing what 1:34:05.960 --> 1:34:08.000 you do from the heart and it's your skill and 1:34:08.040 --> 1:34:12.800 it's your calling. It's gonna happen naturally, So Sis Rebrah, 1:34:13.080 --> 1:34:16.840 work your move. Don't worry about how fast things are happening. 1:34:16.960 --> 1:34:19.400 They happen right on time, and it's not on your time. 1:34:19.720 --> 1:34:23.200 It's on the universe's time and everything around you. So grime, 1:34:23.360 --> 1:34:27.360 stay in your bag, get that money, stay focused, stay 1:34:27.360 --> 1:34:28.000 in grime mode. 1:34:28.040 --> 1:34:28.679 It's gonna happen. 1:34:29.680 --> 1:34:30.320 Ball Alert. 1:34:30.439 --> 1:34:32.479 You can't get enough of baller Alert. Follow us on 1:34:32.520 --> 1:34:35.680 all social media platforms at baller alert, loog on to 1:34:35.760 --> 1:34:37.040 baller alert dot com.