1 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:05,160 Speaker 1: What's up this lip service? I mean, I'm reading McGuire. 2 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:10,520 Speaker 1: I'm worry. Ow I'll tell you what. Where are you 3 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 1: right now in the world. I'm in Lagos, Nigeria. Okay, 4 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:21,279 Speaker 1: we're jealous. Yeah, we're stock. I'm stuck with my son. 5 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 1: I'm trying to find a way to get out. But 6 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 1: it is nice to be home. Your son is were 7 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:32,280 Speaker 1: five now? Yeah? Yeah, he just turned five two weeks ago. Um. Yeah, 8 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:37,159 Speaker 1: it's it's actually a blessing in disguise because you know, 9 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:39,920 Speaker 1: being an artist, I'm always on the road and I 10 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,319 Speaker 1: usually sometimes missed some special moments. So being with him 11 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:48,280 Speaker 1: for the past four months m has just been overwhelmingly incredible. 12 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 1: We had the blessing to see you perform and made 13 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 1: in America. Yeah, it was all good, like four years 14 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: or something like that? Was like three years, right, three 15 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:02,760 Speaker 1: years ago? Oh well I didn't. Time is flying. I 16 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:05,199 Speaker 1: feel like it was three years. I'm not a story. 17 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:08,039 Speaker 1: But remember when you went on stage, everybody ran over 18 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 1: there and so we were learning too. We was like, 19 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:18,480 Speaker 1: where are we going now? But truly amazing and I 20 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:20,959 Speaker 1: love your journey, just how you went from being in 21 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 1: the background to being in the forefront. I feel like 22 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 1: things like that making so much more grounded too when 23 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:28,399 Speaker 1: you finally do make it like having't started off how 24 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: you did, right, I mean, um, yeah, there's this quote 25 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 1: that I read recently and it's so true. It's like, um, 26 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 1: slow success build character, and fast success built ego. For me, definitely, 27 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:46,560 Speaker 1: this wasn't an overnight thing and it's definitely kept me 28 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 1: very very humble because I've seen, like you said, being 29 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 1: in the being in the background. Um, I've been able 30 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 1: to study people in line life, and I've seen how 31 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:58,680 Speaker 1: fickle the industry is, how you could be so big 32 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: right now and then to more. You can walk in 33 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 1: the mall and nobody's trying to take a picture, and 34 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 1: so me seeing that m has just really just in 35 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:10,119 Speaker 1: my head. I don't take where I am for granted. 36 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: Like I literally have to ground myself all the time 37 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 1: because I know it can go like that. You were 38 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 1: starts like George Michael j blives like crazy, How say, yeah, 39 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:24,679 Speaker 1: be honestly, how are they like? How are their egos? 40 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 1: When you are behind the scenes with some of these people, 41 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,520 Speaker 1: does that get you like you know, I know sometimes 42 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 1: we've had to work with people that might have big 43 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 1: egos and we feel a little jaded and stuff like that. 44 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 1: So how has that been for you? Just seeing how 45 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 1: they operate honestly, every single one, And I don't know, 46 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:42,519 Speaker 1: maybe I've just been really blessed. Every single person that 47 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 1: I've worked with has been really really just humble. But 48 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:50,079 Speaker 1: for me, um, seeing the kind of pressure they were 49 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:52,920 Speaker 1: under or they are under. And then sometimes, like you know, 50 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:55,920 Speaker 1: we've seen fans who have just seen them for the 51 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 1: first time and they don't care whether they're tired, they 52 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: haven't slept, They just want that moment and they just 53 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:03,959 Speaker 1: want to feel the energy. And and sometimes I'll just 54 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 1: be looking at them and I'll be like, because I 55 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 1: was on told Mary, and I'm like, I'll see how 56 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:10,960 Speaker 1: tired she is and and she just still has to 57 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 1: put a smile on her face and just tea and 58 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:17,119 Speaker 1: I used to just wander like, Yo, people have no idea, 59 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:20,920 Speaker 1: like these are human beings, um that still go through 60 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 1: Woke everybody else goes through. And you know, we as fans, 61 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:26,519 Speaker 1: we don't care at that moment. We just want to 62 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 1: picture and that's it. Yeah, that is crazy, because I've 63 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of people even recently complaining about 64 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 1: that because um, obviously you want people to give you 65 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 1: your space right now, or like you got a mask on, 66 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 1: you want to kind of distance, and I think either. 67 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 1: I think it was Peter Thomas from the Real Housewives 68 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 1: of Atlanta. Well he formally he had ended up getting 69 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 1: COVID and he said it was from like taking pictures 70 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 1: with fans and stuff like that, and they were asking 71 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 1: him like take the mask off, like I want you 72 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 1: to be in a picture without the mask on. So 73 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 1: I think this is a tough time even right now 74 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 1: because it's like what are you supposed to do, but 75 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:05,040 Speaker 1: that your fans might go off on you, like, oh, 76 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 1: she's rude just seeing her. You know. Yeah, it's hard, 77 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 1: especially for me and my son, Like sometimes like I 78 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:14,120 Speaker 1: have to like go out with him, Um, people just 79 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 1: want to drab him, and like they just want to 80 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 1: hug him. You know. I'm just like, yo, and he's 81 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 1: still a kid. He's so excited. He's just like you know, 82 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 1: walking up to someone or trying to hug someone, and 83 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 1: I'm just like holding him back. Like I tried to 84 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 1: find out balance where I tried to explain to them 85 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 1: like yo, this is my child, Like I'm the one 86 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:36,360 Speaker 1: that's in this. You know, he's he's he didn't ask 87 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:38,320 Speaker 1: for this, and I have to find a balance, you know, 88 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:40,920 Speaker 1: just to I have to protect him. It is hard, 89 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:43,919 Speaker 1: Like people don't understand that. So probably being famous is 90 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 1: also having your personal life out there. And we've seen 91 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,040 Speaker 1: that happen of course with like a Mary J. Blige, 92 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 1: and it's happened with you too. So how do you 93 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 1: handle things like that with your relationship being on Front 94 00:04:53,920 --> 00:05:00,720 Speaker 1: Street like that? Not because if you because of him? 95 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:05,160 Speaker 1: Oh that was God, you guys got me. I was 96 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 1: talking about this for years. Who um? That was? That 97 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 1: was tough. That was That was really tough for me 98 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:17,159 Speaker 1: because it was something I was trying to manage and 99 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 1: I didn't want out there. And when it got out there, 100 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 1: I felt like I had to defend myself and I 101 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: had to speak up for myself because a lot of 102 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 1: people were also involved, like a lot of names were 103 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 1: involved in it hurt because some of my family members 104 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:34,919 Speaker 1: were obviously involved. And so when I spoke up and 105 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 1: then I got backlash for speaking up, at that point, 106 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:41,800 Speaker 1: I was just like, you know what, fuck this, Like, 107 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: I'm sorry if my math friend, I was just like, 108 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,279 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna be me because I was trying to 109 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:49,279 Speaker 1: be that good girl, take the right boxes, went to school, 110 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:53,359 Speaker 1: got my degree, um, got married, had a child, like 111 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:57,039 Speaker 1: literally everything that my society says a woman should do. 112 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:01,159 Speaker 1: I did all of that, and then when everything went left, 113 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 1: I was still blamed. Something in my head was just like, 114 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:08,280 Speaker 1: you know, I'm living for me now, Like I went 115 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 1: and got a tattoo of my sleep I had, like 116 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:15,000 Speaker 1: the earliest I cut my hair. I was just I 117 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:17,159 Speaker 1: was just angry. I was just like, no, I'm gonna 118 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 1: do me because you guys are gonna judge me regardless. 119 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:21,479 Speaker 1: So I'm um. And I think that's where I got 120 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 1: the term African bad girl, because I I own it. Yeah, 121 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:31,239 Speaker 1: I don't give a f I was doing me like yeah, 122 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:34,360 Speaker 1: no matter what, we always must remember that we come first, 123 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:37,239 Speaker 1: and we had to do what makes us happy before 124 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 1: we try to pour into others or before we try 125 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:42,120 Speaker 1: to be what we think is the right way that 126 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 1: we should be. You know, you gotta be yourself because 127 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:45,800 Speaker 1: you'll never be true. We gonna give you n yourself. 128 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:48,680 Speaker 1: I think it's hard as a woman, like being a 129 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 1: woman in the industry. I think I think it's true, 130 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 1: like but it was a journey for me to get 131 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:57,520 Speaker 1: to what you're saying. And I'm still getting get into 132 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: that um destination on that point. But it's hard because 133 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 1: you don't want to be seen as like the diva 134 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,799 Speaker 1: when you demand certain things. You want to be liked 135 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:10,200 Speaker 1: as a woman. You want other women to like you. 136 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 1: Let's be real. That's another huge thing um for women. 137 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 1: It's like sometimes you get attacked by attacked by women 138 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 1: and you're like, yo, you should you should be on 139 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 1: my side. You should understand why I'm going through so um. 140 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 1: But now, like he said, I think having a child 141 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 1: has just made me really like I'm like a lioness, 142 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 1: Like I don't care as long as I'm good and 143 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:36,680 Speaker 1: my child is good. At this point, I really don't 144 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:39,680 Speaker 1: care whether you like me or not. I feel like 145 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 1: your life is like a movie already, Like this is 146 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 1: that it doesn't even coming from Nigeria and going through 147 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 1: what you went through getting band and everything early on 148 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 1: and having to deal with that, working with all these 149 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 1: mega stars and then writing your music for them, I 150 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:57,920 Speaker 1: think that's already like an amazing story. Going through the 151 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 1: relationship that you went through raising your son, and and 152 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 1: you lived in so many different places, like the biggest start, 153 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 1: you know, to the cover of Billboard magazine, Like journey 154 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:11,480 Speaker 1: to Me is so impressive, it's it's still so hard, 155 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:13,440 Speaker 1: Like it's still so hard because I feel like I 156 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 1: still have to like I still like I still have 157 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 1: to prove myself all the time, Like I still have 158 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 1: to work twice as hard. I still have to Like 159 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 1: you know, um, I'm gonna be really honest with you guys, 160 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:30,400 Speaker 1: Like I'm forty, and that's really hard for a lot 161 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:33,559 Speaker 1: of people to to believe that I got signed at 162 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 1: that age. It's just like yo, like how is that possible? 163 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 1: But to me, that's just God telling me, Like my 164 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:45,240 Speaker 1: journey is bigger than music. It's bigger than just being 165 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:48,880 Speaker 1: an African woman. My journey is like to show other women, 166 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:52,679 Speaker 1: like your life is not over because you're married, because 167 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 1: you have kids, because you're a single mom, because you're 168 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 1: not in your twenties or in your like in your teens, 169 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:01,640 Speaker 1: like you could start your dream when God says that's 170 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 1: when you're supposed to start, right And for me, like 171 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:08,840 Speaker 1: my story has to be that to women, why do 172 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,960 Speaker 1: you have to stop modeling at twenty something if you 173 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 1: still look good. It looks amazing. She is incredible, and 174 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:20,679 Speaker 1: the and the clothes she's wearing. Only people in my 175 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:25,800 Speaker 1: tax bracket can afford it anyway, right, Like, and then 176 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 1: a footballer, you're telling the footballer to retire at whatever 177 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 1: age if you're still fifty five and you could still 178 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:35,760 Speaker 1: kick that ball from this post another one. Yeah. I 179 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:38,760 Speaker 1: feel like we we do, we do. We are so 180 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:42,280 Speaker 1: unfair to ourselves. And I feel like God is literally 181 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 1: using me um just to encourage and to inspire young women, like, 182 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 1: don't beat yourself up if you're twenty six and you 183 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 1: feel like you haven't really started your career, like baby girl, like, 184 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:56,200 Speaker 1: trust me, you have your whole life to do this. 185 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:58,120 Speaker 1: And to me, I don't really know what I wanted 186 00:09:58,160 --> 00:09:59,840 Speaker 1: to be when I was in my twenties. I was 187 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 1: really comfortable with my skin till I was in my face. 188 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:05,600 Speaker 1: So it's really important for me to teach that to 189 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 1: young women. And let's be clear, you're giving these twenty 190 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 1: year olds a run for their money, because step it up. Listen, 191 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 1: you said you at forty. I'm saying here, like, why 192 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 1: she sitting here lying to us like this? Because you 193 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 1: I would have never like you know I know you 194 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 1: worked with people for a while, you but you know, 195 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:24,560 Speaker 1: and stuff like that. But I would have never guessed forty, 196 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 1: never in a million. But that's not and again that's 197 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:30,480 Speaker 1: not a bad thing like you're saying, because if it 198 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:34,199 Speaker 1: was a man starting at forty and music, nobody even 199 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:37,440 Speaker 1: questions it. Like some of the biggest artists are in 200 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 1: the damn fifties and nobody is saying anything about that. 201 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:44,440 Speaker 1: It's just like, Okay, jay Z my favorite rapper, you 202 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:46,560 Speaker 1: know what I mean. But they're not really sitting down 203 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:48,600 Speaker 1: and looking at it like that. They judge women so 204 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:52,240 Speaker 1: much more by by little thing. Yeah, you have to 205 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:55,120 Speaker 1: look a certain way. You have to like know, like 206 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:58,959 Speaker 1: I like listen, like I'm I want, I want to 207 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:01,920 Speaker 1: break all of those show was like beyond my music. 208 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 1: I want. I want my music to obviously be the 209 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:08,320 Speaker 1: starting point, but my my whole career is bigger than music. 210 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 1: It's it's definitely a journey. Now, you name the new 211 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:16,280 Speaker 1: album after your mom, Celia, and so what's your relationship 212 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:17,960 Speaker 1: with your mom? And then I want to also ask 213 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 1: you with your parents, what was their relationship like with 214 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 1: each other and how did that influence you? Oh my god, 215 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 1: when they see this, they're gonna kill me. I can 216 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 1: still get time out, you know, my mom, she don't 217 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 1: um my mom. I named it after my mom because 218 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 1: when I wanted to go into music in my culture, 219 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:40,520 Speaker 1: it was just like, are you crazy like music? Who's 220 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:42,440 Speaker 1: gonna marry her? Like she has to either be a 221 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 1: doctor or housewife or you know. Um, And my mom 222 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 1: was like no, Like I'm going to support her. I'm 223 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:51,640 Speaker 1: gonna push her. She moved me to UM the UK. 224 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:53,679 Speaker 1: Then she got me to go to Berkeley College of 225 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:56,400 Speaker 1: Music to study music. So and she got a lot 226 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 1: of backlash from family members who said she was crazy 227 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:02,280 Speaker 1: for supporting to be a musician. So for me, like, 228 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 1: I want to pay homage to her because without her, 229 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:08,760 Speaker 1: obviously I wouldn't be right. She supported me against you know, 230 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:12,400 Speaker 1: everyone's who wish And because I see her, I see 231 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:16,440 Speaker 1: her resilience, I see how humble but hard working she is, 232 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:20,679 Speaker 1: and she just represents the modern day woman of color 233 00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:23,840 Speaker 1: to me, like a woman who's not afraid to be 234 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:26,960 Speaker 1: submissive to her husband, but who still works her nine 235 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:29,320 Speaker 1: to five to put food on the table for her kids, 236 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:34,720 Speaker 1: and who is very spiritual but also very modern, Like 237 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:36,679 Speaker 1: she came with me when I got my piercings in 238 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 1: my tattoos. But she's up every morning at six am 239 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:44,560 Speaker 1: praying so for me, she just embodies everything. Um, and 240 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 1: it's just I also wanted to celebrate women of color 241 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 1: because I feel like, first of all, apart from being 242 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 1: a woman, being a woman of color, we we go 243 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:58,400 Speaker 1: through so many challenges and I wanted this album to 244 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:01,560 Speaker 1: just to just celebrate, to celebrate us. I want us 245 00:13:01,559 --> 00:13:03,679 Speaker 1: to get all flowers. Well, we're still alive. How did 246 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:06,280 Speaker 1: your dad tell about that? Yeah, your dad kind of 247 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 1: a game at the beginning. He was just like, so 248 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:11,840 Speaker 1: so because my dad was like no, no, no, no no. 249 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 1: I had to study business and accounts as my first degree, 250 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:18,679 Speaker 1: and then I had to work as a trainee accountant. 251 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:20,360 Speaker 1: And then at one point I was just like, you 252 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:23,679 Speaker 1: know what, Dad, this is your certificate. I'm going to 253 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:26,640 Speaker 1: do what I want to do right. But now my dad, 254 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:30,280 Speaker 1: oh my goodness, everywhere we go he'll be like, that's 255 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:33,280 Speaker 1: to your savages. You were like, well, you don't get 256 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:37,360 Speaker 1: an album named after you because my back he's the 257 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:42,319 Speaker 1: same energy what you wanted me to be. Let me 258 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 1: be super because in your culture, I don't know if 259 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 1: I'm a hundred percent right, but I have a couple 260 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 1: of friends that are Nigerian. They told me, like they're 261 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:54,559 Speaker 1: not allowed to leave out of the house until they're married. 262 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:57,720 Speaker 1: So not like to go out obviously, but like, um, 263 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 1: they can't move without being mary, Like they can't live 264 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:03,840 Speaker 1: on their own. Yeah, a lot, a lot of it, 265 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 1: A lot of I mean apart apart from the fact 266 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:11,080 Speaker 1: that it's not that safe as well. Um traditionally, Yeah, 267 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:13,440 Speaker 1: when you leave your parents house, you leave to your 268 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 1: husband's house. You're not going to get a house with 269 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:18,559 Speaker 1: your friends or get roommates or nothing like that. So 270 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 1: you're like untouchable at that point. You're no one wants 271 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:24,200 Speaker 1: to marry you if you're living with other people or 272 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 1: it's something like that. That's like, I mean, it's changing. 273 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:30,120 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. It definitely is changing a lot 274 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 1: because a lot of the Africans who lived in the 275 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 1: the aspects are moving back, and a lot of the 276 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 1: women are saying like, no, we we're not just going 277 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:39,840 Speaker 1: to go from my parents house to a man's house. 278 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 1: A man we don't know. We want to live life, 279 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 1: we want to experience them, we want to travel the world. 280 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:46,720 Speaker 1: We want to get our career first, because I'm not 281 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 1: going to move into a guy's house and then I'm 282 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:52,920 Speaker 1: depending on him for bills and everything I want to build. 283 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:56,080 Speaker 1: So a lot of women are speaking up, and it's 284 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 1: it's really good to see, however, present for you to 285 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:02,280 Speaker 1: tell your parents that her marriage wasn't working out, because sometimes, 286 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 1: first of all, I'm sorry it was something that you 287 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:06,400 Speaker 1: had to deal with like internally before you even was 288 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:08,200 Speaker 1: able to go to that. And then I know you 289 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:10,920 Speaker 1: probably knew they would be so protective over you and 290 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:14,120 Speaker 1: angry about it. So what was that like for you? 291 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:22,200 Speaker 1: I was, I was. I was embarrassed, so I think 292 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:25,480 Speaker 1: I tried to cover up. We both tried. I even 293 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 1: have a song on my album called Us and it's 294 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:31,800 Speaker 1: it's about how my marriage fell apart. I think my 295 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:36,680 Speaker 1: mom knew. UM. I think mothers always know, UM, and 296 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:39,720 Speaker 1: I wasn't prepared to tell them until everything just kind 297 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:41,800 Speaker 1: of like when I'm Lyne, and then I had to 298 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 1: kind of like tell everyone that we've been struggling with 299 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:50,240 Speaker 1: this for a while. UM. It was it was hard 300 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:54,200 Speaker 1: for my for my brothers and my my father. UM, 301 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 1: but my mom was I think she she kind of 302 00:15:56,880 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 1: already knew, so she she handled it a lot. That's 303 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:08,480 Speaker 1: how do guys approach you now? They don't Are you 304 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:10,520 Speaker 1: kidding me? Not even in the d m s or 305 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 1: anything that's crazy. I mean in my d MS, I 306 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:16,680 Speaker 1: get stuff like, um, please my tuition bills? Duke, can 307 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:20,680 Speaker 1: you can you help me? I don't girl, you do 308 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:23,880 Speaker 1: got it. You said you wanted a man, right, You 309 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: ain't saying he had to be rich school and make 310 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:32,120 Speaker 1: him whatever you want him to do. I don't know. 311 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. They don't really, I don't know. 312 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 1: Or maybe I honestly, I'm so focused. I don't know. 313 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:42,200 Speaker 1: Maybe I just missed it a lot of the times. Yeah, well, 314 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 1: it's the last time you've been on a date. I mean, 315 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 1: I know the pandemic is going on one, but I 316 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:53,920 Speaker 1: haven't been on a proper date and he is m hm, damn, 317 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:56,400 Speaker 1: we're about to set this up. I know. I felt 318 00:16:56,440 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 1: like show for Aron catch you guys really need to 319 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:04,320 Speaker 1: help me out. I'm being like my manager is always 320 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:06,320 Speaker 1: trying to hurt me up with some football or some 321 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:14,399 Speaker 1: basketball players. We just talked about them, really, we wine, 322 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:19,280 Speaker 1: why did you just pick up your like yeah, a man, 323 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 1: do you think cheat? Honestly? I think I agree. I 324 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 1: would say nineties seven y'all are wrong. Let me ask you. 325 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:37,720 Speaker 1: Let me ask you guys this, do you honestly think? 326 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:42,160 Speaker 1: Do you think men? Because if I'm gonna go biblically 327 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:44,840 Speaker 1: and you know, back in the in the in the 328 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:49,760 Speaker 1: Bible days the multiple wives, concubines and stuff, do you 329 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:53,680 Speaker 1: think a man can really be with one woman? Yes, 330 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:55,479 Speaker 1: A lot of the guys. A lot of times when 331 00:17:55,520 --> 00:17:58,399 Speaker 1: I speak to men, they say to me, when they 332 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:01,800 Speaker 1: have sexual relations to other women, it's not their heart 333 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:05,199 Speaker 1: is not attached, it's just but their sperm is, and 334 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 1: let me set you have have it. And but I 335 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:10,240 Speaker 1: feel like this, I feel like men though, don't get 336 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:12,679 Speaker 1: that way until they get older and have experienced a 337 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:15,520 Speaker 1: lot of stuff. Like I feel like when they're ready 338 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:17,440 Speaker 1: to settle down is when they're just tired of having 339 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:19,920 Speaker 1: to spend all this money and run around and do this, 340 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:22,560 Speaker 1: and but they still do bullshit though, like they'll do 341 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:25,120 Speaker 1: some sleek sneak sit on the side though. I felt 342 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:28,879 Speaker 1: like even still, yeah, I I agree, I definitely raising 343 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:32,720 Speaker 1: the sun. I think that they grow up and learn 344 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:36,719 Speaker 1: that I don't think they're born with that instinct and 345 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:41,119 Speaker 1: people excise it like it's normal. That's more than women. 346 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:44,360 Speaker 1: So you mean when okay, let me ask you this, 347 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:47,680 Speaker 1: performing right, being on tour and everything, like you don't 348 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 1: have guys approach you then like yo, it's good. No, 349 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:54,760 Speaker 1: because honestly, I know it's gonna be a really hard 350 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 1: to believe. But I after performance, I don't really go 351 00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:01,159 Speaker 1: out to off the parties like not. I want the 352 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:04,479 Speaker 1: MTV and me UM A couple of years ago and 353 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:07,120 Speaker 1: there was an after party. I think Nikki was there 354 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:09,679 Speaker 1: and some other people, and I went straight to sleep, 355 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:13,679 Speaker 1: like I just, I don't, I don't, damn it. We 356 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:19,920 Speaker 1: didn't celebrate. I literally, I don't know. I'm just I 357 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,000 Speaker 1: just I just wanted to be in my room. And 358 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:23,600 Speaker 1: I just want to have a lot of female friends, 359 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 1: like girlfriends that you hang out with. No, if there's 360 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 1: a guy that you find attractive, are you gonna approach 361 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:34,960 Speaker 1: him or now? I think now because i'm quote unquote 362 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:39,240 Speaker 1: your sava. And if I if I have a little 363 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:42,639 Speaker 1: help from certain you know, if I drink or something 364 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:47,400 Speaker 1: I don't want to say the other thing, they might 365 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:52,000 Speaker 1: arrest me. Nigeria, Oh my gosh, I have to see 366 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 1: what you're gonna say. I got it. You know, you 367 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:58,280 Speaker 1: guys know if I'm on that level, I think I 368 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:01,520 Speaker 1: would approach I'll say something, or I'll I'll try and 369 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 1: be funny about it. Yeah, where's your type? Though? Um? 370 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:13,719 Speaker 1: He just I mean two eyes, two years, definitely a 371 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:20,040 Speaker 1: penis one. But yeah, he only has one ball long 372 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:22,920 Speaker 1: as I think is big. I'm like, but I don't 373 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:26,879 Speaker 1: know if I if we talk about this, yeah, I 374 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:30,879 Speaker 1: don't know if I really like really huge pisses. That's okay, 375 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:35,359 Speaker 1: I make you, I don't, right, I just want you 376 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 1: to know what you're doing. I think when it's too big, 377 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:40,680 Speaker 1: it's it's I don't want you to hit the laws. 378 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 1: I don't want you to destroy them. Don't knock them 379 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:48,520 Speaker 1: down now, right? What about small? What if he's small? 380 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 1: No no, that's no, no, no no no, you need 381 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:56,480 Speaker 1: to go like right, you need to fix that. There's 382 00:20:56,480 --> 00:21:03,439 Speaker 1: so much amazing and every other way. Yeah, it's still enough. Okay. 383 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 1: What if you've got just right, but he needs to 384 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:12,879 Speaker 1: help getting through college and he's letting your m to 385 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:21,440 Speaker 1: sitution before, Oh my god, but no, for imagine that. 386 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:24,239 Speaker 1: Imagine you meet a guy, and you're out right, and 387 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:26,320 Speaker 1: then he's like, hey, you know, after a while, y'all 388 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:28,879 Speaker 1: follow each other on Instagram and you see that he 389 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:32,040 Speaker 1: sent you a message back in the day, like maybe 390 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 1: like a few months ago, and there was some crazy 391 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:37,639 Speaker 1: weirdo ship. Would you would you kind of? Because you 392 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:39,920 Speaker 1: know how people say say it's a picture of his dick, 393 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 1: because we get that often. Oh my god, that's disgusting. 394 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:45,840 Speaker 1: Would you continue? But he's a nice guy, he doesn't 395 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:48,160 Speaker 1: swept you off your feet and everything, But nine months 396 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:50,479 Speaker 1: ago he sent you a picture of his dick? Would 397 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 1: you continue to talk to him? No? He's probably sent 398 00:21:57,119 --> 00:21:58,960 Speaker 1: out to a lot of people, like why would you 399 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:04,879 Speaker 1: he's Have you ever sent news? No, not even to 400 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:08,120 Speaker 1: your husband, but I have. I have said like bikini's 401 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 1: and stuff, but not completely Okay, okay, what if that 402 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:14,240 Speaker 1: were just not your faith in it? Vikini with a 403 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:18,200 Speaker 1: nipple hanging out or like oh you guys, I'm gonna 404 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:26,520 Speaker 1: trend so bad after that? We just wonder, all right, 405 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 1: but listen, you said that this new album is gonna 406 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 1: be a lot more personal, right, and you'll be talking 407 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:34,679 Speaker 1: about a lot of things and addressing things. And so 408 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 1: we've heard the song Dangerous Love, and so let's talk 409 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:43,840 Speaker 1: about that song. And I feel like we kind of 410 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 1: know what that's about. Yes, So I've been in that 411 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:51,280 Speaker 1: situation a couple of times where like I literally know, 412 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:55,840 Speaker 1: like this isn't going anywhere. I know he's f boy, 413 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:58,639 Speaker 1: he's a dick. He I know he's seen other people, 414 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:03,800 Speaker 1: but there's just this chemistry and it's just like, you know, 415 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:06,240 Speaker 1: I'll tell him like, this is it, this can't work. 416 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 1: We don't talk for a while, and then he calls 417 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:12,400 Speaker 1: me out of the blue, and then I give him 418 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 1: and then I go and see him next morning. He 419 00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:20,600 Speaker 1: stops calling me again, and I'm like, so that's it's 420 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:23,160 Speaker 1: a It's dangerous love. Is that cycle? Like a lot 421 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:26,640 Speaker 1: of girls, I'm sure have experienced that, and you try 422 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,480 Speaker 1: and lie to your friends, like you try and pretend 423 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:31,840 Speaker 1: like you know into him, or like you were just 424 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:35,760 Speaker 1: with him the night before. Yeah, that's what that song is. Like, 425 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:37,879 Speaker 1: I feel like, whenever you're lying to your friends about 426 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 1: your relationship, you know you don't sunk up because when 427 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 1: you get honest with your friends, you're embarrassed. Yeah, exactly, 428 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:51,959 Speaker 1: left that I want, but not just really tell them 429 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,480 Speaker 1: what's going on, Like what if you like secret, but 430 00:23:54,520 --> 00:24:00,680 Speaker 1: you're not lying A that's lying. That's like change, that's 431 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:05,439 Speaker 1: lying with a different namely to y'all, I do as 432 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 1: a lying bitch, you don't really touch your friends because 433 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 1: if they're like your sisters, like your friends. I like 434 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:16,560 Speaker 1: to Angela, like a time, y'are lie to me, and 435 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,200 Speaker 1: it should be like, Okay, I have to tell you something. 436 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,119 Speaker 1: But I didn't really want to put it out there 437 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 1: until I'm for sure that it was gonna be a 438 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:26,960 Speaker 1: thing again. So I just kind of kept it to myself. Well, 439 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:31,320 Speaker 1: I liked because I was embarrassed and I thought it 440 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:33,760 Speaker 1: was gonna happen, and I thought it would work again. 441 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:36,919 Speaker 1: Obviously I wouldn't have fell back for it, but you know, 442 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:39,080 Speaker 1: in the midst of it, like I'm an idiot. Like 443 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:41,159 Speaker 1: so that's why I don't want to share with my friends. 444 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:42,960 Speaker 1: I don't need her to tell me I'm an idiot 445 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:47,360 Speaker 1: on top of the back, they've never used those words. Well, 446 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 1: I felt like an idiot and I did such a dumbask. 447 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:53,840 Speaker 1: We're even entertaining him and trying to think I'm hard 448 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 1: to talk to yourself like that. So it was just 449 00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,440 Speaker 1: like when I feel like it's gonna be a thing, 450 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:02,879 Speaker 1: then I'll let everybody know. But we're spend way too 451 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,760 Speaker 1: much time together, and yeah, we're too closed and I 452 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:09,920 Speaker 1: can't just make up stuff. So I telling myself when 453 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:13,280 Speaker 1: remember and I had to tell you at the airport. Yeah, 454 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:16,440 Speaker 1: she tells me because and she you can't help yourself. 455 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 1: It's bed to tell me. But some things you'll keep 456 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:23,320 Speaker 1: and some some people like and you know that she's 457 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:25,560 Speaker 1: gonna be a little more harsh, so you kind of 458 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:27,800 Speaker 1: keep it from her for a little bit. I am 459 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:30,960 Speaker 1: pretty nice about it. Still, I could be way more harsh. 460 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 1: She's nice, but she's like me, like we take jabs. 461 00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:36,960 Speaker 1: But when I know that somebody doesn't want to talk 462 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:38,760 Speaker 1: about it, I'll let it go. But and was still 463 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:40,400 Speaker 1: take a job at you and you'll be like, bitch, 464 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:44,600 Speaker 1: I knew I should have told you why thinking friends 465 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,560 Speaker 1: like that though, because it's just like it's too fun 466 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:50,399 Speaker 1: heavy heavy, you know what I mean. Like she's just 467 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:52,960 Speaker 1: making it like, I don't know, making you feel comfortable, 468 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,359 Speaker 1: like yo, it's not that serious, like in a bad way. 469 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 1: It's more of a you know, a jab and a 470 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 1: joe people. Yea, I always would have somebody, my friends, 471 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,480 Speaker 1: I would always have your back to like you doing 472 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,520 Speaker 1: you know I make fun of but if yeah, but 473 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:10,440 Speaker 1: it's still if you hear anything, if you're like, yo, 474 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 1: this didn't work out, I need to come like I'm 475 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:15,840 Speaker 1: gonna be like, yeah you will, and so I think 476 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:18,040 Speaker 1: that's the most important thing. But can I trust you 477 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:20,000 Speaker 1: guys to hook me up with someone because you guys 478 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,560 Speaker 1: as oh no, no, no, the person the people we 479 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:26,080 Speaker 1: got wrapped up with is the same person for each other, 480 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:27,800 Speaker 1: like not the same, but you get what I'm saying. 481 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:30,639 Speaker 1: It's the same person. I'm talking about her person. It 482 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,640 Speaker 1: is always the same person that was kept coming back around. 483 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:37,120 Speaker 1: It wasn't like different guys. You would be a gem 484 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,119 Speaker 1: for somebody, but we gotta we gotta check you out first. 485 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,720 Speaker 1: Now ever, being like you might be the one that 486 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,720 Speaker 1: have you ever broken somebody's heart, because there's some broken 487 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:49,080 Speaker 1: hearts out there because of you. Keep it real. No, 488 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:51,760 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm pretty I'm pretty open. I'll tell you 489 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:55,920 Speaker 1: from the stop like, no, I wouldn't. I'm I'm so gentle. 490 00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:58,920 Speaker 1: I'm so I would never. I wouldn't be sleeping like 491 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:02,160 Speaker 1: like I would never to do that break someone's hat. 492 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,200 Speaker 1: I mean maybe not on purpose, but you know, maybe 493 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,119 Speaker 1: they wanted to be in a relationship. It was just 494 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,879 Speaker 1: the situation ship and then he wanted to take it 495 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:13,400 Speaker 1: further and you were like, na, she'll be I would 496 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,920 Speaker 1: definitely saying I wouldn't be that harsh. I would definitely 497 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,280 Speaker 1: tell you from from the start if I if I'm 498 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:21,679 Speaker 1: if my head is even there and not like because 499 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:25,600 Speaker 1: I'm so into music I just got signed, Like, I 500 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:29,680 Speaker 1: wouldn't even like you would have to really really get 501 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,520 Speaker 1: to my heart for me to even make room for that. 502 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:37,920 Speaker 1: How do you break things off with someone I've never 503 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:41,960 Speaker 1: I've always they've always broken up with me. See you 504 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:49,080 Speaker 1: what are You're a little crazy, it's all all. It's 505 00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:52,520 Speaker 1: just as I promised you. I'm really I'm really not. 506 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:57,040 Speaker 1: I'm you know what, I'm so, I'm so easy, Like 507 00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,840 Speaker 1: my friends tell me that that's why people take advantage 508 00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 1: of me, because like I'm so like if I would 509 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,119 Speaker 1: Robbily tell me cheating and we work work at it 510 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,680 Speaker 1: and even if I find out it's like I would hut. 511 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,040 Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever had a situation where I'm 512 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:15,320 Speaker 1: shoting like you motherfucker, I'm break like I've never had 513 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 1: that situation. I ain't never been alive then now I'm joking, 514 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:25,400 Speaker 1: that's not I'm joking. I literally would just hurt myself 515 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:27,960 Speaker 1: and walk away and just I don't know, and I'll 516 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,160 Speaker 1: still be the dumb one calling and be like, oh 517 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,320 Speaker 1: I saw you just got engaged. Your wife is so beautiful, like, 518 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:35,320 Speaker 1: oh my god, can I cook her? And not to 519 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:40,080 Speaker 1: do against what's the registry to damn nice? Yeah, we 520 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,560 Speaker 1: gotta toughen that up. All right. Let me ask you this. 521 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:47,800 Speaker 1: Have you ever stopped somebody or popped up unannounced once 522 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:51,920 Speaker 1: we knew you were crazy? Said lay it out as 523 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:56,400 Speaker 1: we're happening. I like it literally like this person was 524 00:28:56,560 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 1: literally taking the pits like I was the was considerate 525 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:04,400 Speaker 1: person and something happened. I was calling like back to 526 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:06,880 Speaker 1: back to back, like and I was sick as well. 527 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,400 Speaker 1: I was ill, and I was just like yo, like 528 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:11,959 Speaker 1: calling back to back, and he just like maybe fifty 529 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,760 Speaker 1: calls and I knew exactly where he was. So I 530 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:16,360 Speaker 1: just got in the car and I was just like 531 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:20,560 Speaker 1: driving then, like just angry, speeding, and when I got there, 532 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:24,880 Speaker 1: he had just left with the girl like m So 533 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,280 Speaker 1: I'm just that situation. But god knows, I probably wouldn't 534 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,880 Speaker 1: have done anything. Wait, my god, he just would have 535 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:34,000 Speaker 1: looked at them, Like day, I knew it. Did you 536 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:35,600 Speaker 1: talk to him when he called you the next day? 537 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:42,840 Speaker 1: I had known him for two days and then I 538 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:46,760 Speaker 1: picked up the caller to your your name is savage. 539 00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:48,440 Speaker 1: We gotta live up to that. I know this is 540 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:55,040 Speaker 1: not adding up. Oh my god, I shouldn't put this 541 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:57,680 Speaker 1: out there like now. I think it's hilarious and sometimes 542 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,280 Speaker 1: you gotta pop up. No, yeah, you got a don't know, 543 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,520 Speaker 1: but you wasn't doing you was popping up for nothing though, 544 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:04,760 Speaker 1: that's the only bad thing. We need to have a 545 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:10,760 Speaker 1: water balloon or nothing. You have up but thanks to friends. 546 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:12,720 Speaker 1: I need to have friends to just be like riding 547 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:14,480 Speaker 1: with me, like, you know, I need, I need, I 548 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:16,440 Speaker 1: need to get I need to get this. Yeah, we 549 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:20,560 Speaker 1: had to figure this out. What are some other things 550 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:22,920 Speaker 1: on the album that we can expect some some of 551 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:29,200 Speaker 1: the themes. So, um, I have a record with Sam Smith. Um, 552 00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:33,440 Speaker 1: I know it's Oh my goodness. He was incredible on it. 553 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:35,880 Speaker 1: He was the only person I could hear on the record, 554 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,160 Speaker 1: and I was so blessed that he you know, agreed 555 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:41,800 Speaker 1: to it and and did it. I have a record 556 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,480 Speaker 1: with Steph London and Dies. I have this record with 557 00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:49,480 Speaker 1: David Oh and I have I have a song UM, 558 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,320 Speaker 1: like I said, call us and it's basically the first 559 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:57,480 Speaker 1: time I'm really really addressing um the situation UM about 560 00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:00,520 Speaker 1: my divorce. And I also have a I also have 561 00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:04,360 Speaker 1: another record called Celia Song, and it's basically a prayer 562 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:08,240 Speaker 1: song UM about sometimes when you just feel like giving up, 563 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:11,160 Speaker 1: you really don't feel like getting out of the bed, 564 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,280 Speaker 1: and you don't know what else you can do. You 565 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:16,000 Speaker 1: feel like life has knocked you down and it keeps 566 00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 1: knocking you down. UM. It's just one of those records 567 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 1: where you're just looking to guard and you're just like, 568 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:24,120 Speaker 1: what else can I do? Because I'm at the lowest 569 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:27,200 Speaker 1: low So wow, you know, and I'm used to you 570 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:32,960 Speaker 1: having like really love happy like you know, this is different. 571 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:35,520 Speaker 1: It is. I just feel like I've grown and I 572 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:37,680 Speaker 1: just feel like, you know, I do have a lot 573 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:39,800 Speaker 1: of love love songs, but I feel like as an artist, 574 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:43,640 Speaker 1: we are we're responsible to talk on things that or 575 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:45,600 Speaker 1: to be a voice to the voiceless. And I feel 576 00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:48,680 Speaker 1: like I'm at that point where I just want to 577 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:52,720 Speaker 1: be real, Like I've been through some stuff and I 578 00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:57,080 Speaker 1: I used other people's music to get me through certain situations, 579 00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,320 Speaker 1: and I want to be able to do that for 580 00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:04,800 Speaker 1: somebody else. Have you forgiven your ex husband? Oh? Yes, 581 00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:09,000 Speaker 1: Like I have to take responsibility. In the song, there's 582 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,680 Speaker 1: a line that says, um, I wasn't enough. You weren't enough. 583 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:16,960 Speaker 1: Even my even our mother's prayers wasn't enough to help this. 584 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:22,080 Speaker 1: And it says even jamil Um couldn't keep us together. Um. 585 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:25,280 Speaker 1: So it's not a situation where I'm blaming him um 586 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,160 Speaker 1: or blaming myself. It's just one of those things where 587 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:32,520 Speaker 1: both of us couldn't save it. So um yeah, I definitely, 588 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,480 Speaker 1: And it's in my best interest for him to be 589 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:38,880 Speaker 1: happy and for him because I want I want my 590 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:41,200 Speaker 1: son to not just look up to me. I want 591 00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:43,120 Speaker 1: to look up to both of us. You know. I 592 00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:46,160 Speaker 1: think a lot of times women that women get that 593 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:49,280 Speaker 1: wrong and they feel like, you know, if you're really 594 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:52,560 Speaker 1: thinking about your child and you want your child to 595 00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,880 Speaker 1: grow up like, you know, just being balanced, he needs 596 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,560 Speaker 1: to have both parents just doing good. So I pray 597 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,000 Speaker 1: for him. I really pray from my husband, I pray 598 00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:06,000 Speaker 1: from all the time. Yeah, definitely special and different because I, 599 00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:08,320 Speaker 1: you know, have the things you're saying. I ain't never 600 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,720 Speaker 1: hearing nobody talking like that. But what about him? Does 601 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:15,160 Speaker 1: he date other women? And how did that play apart 602 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:18,160 Speaker 1: when it comes to your son being involved? So we 603 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:23,480 Speaker 1: don't really have that conversation anymore. Um, but um, he 604 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:27,040 Speaker 1: he is involved in my son's life. They they they're 605 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:30,400 Speaker 1: so close, they skype and face time all the time. 606 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:33,720 Speaker 1: And yeah, he's he's he's good. He's good to my son. 607 00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:36,520 Speaker 1: So H well, I think that's great. Did it take 608 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:38,080 Speaker 1: a while to get to this point because I'm sure 609 00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:40,480 Speaker 1: you weren't like that at first. You know, we're talking 610 00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:42,680 Speaker 1: about how great a mature. But it does take some time. 611 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:46,000 Speaker 1: With THEO, I went for a time where I really 612 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:48,600 Speaker 1: was angry at him. Then I went through a time 613 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:50,920 Speaker 1: where I was angry at myself. I went through a 614 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,920 Speaker 1: time when my confidence was like, oh my god, Like 615 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,520 Speaker 1: I was just say, maybe if I was a little 616 00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:58,760 Speaker 1: lie up, maybe if I had more hips, maybe this, 617 00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:00,720 Speaker 1: maybe if I was this to be like, I was 618 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:04,320 Speaker 1: literally just blaming myself and I was like and then 619 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:07,200 Speaker 1: I just went through a period where I was just numb. 620 00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,279 Speaker 1: I just I just thought to myself, I never want 621 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:12,359 Speaker 1: to be in a relationship. I never I just want 622 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:14,080 Speaker 1: to be with me and my son. I never want 623 00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:16,560 Speaker 1: to like just go through this pain because it was 624 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:19,880 Speaker 1: there's a difference when you break up with someone, and 625 00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:21,600 Speaker 1: there's a difference when you break up with someone in 626 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:26,960 Speaker 1: the public eye. Like I can't I can't even explain 627 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:30,960 Speaker 1: just so many people were having an opinion about what 628 00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:34,840 Speaker 1: what happened and nobody really knowing. So I was in 629 00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:40,759 Speaker 1: my room for months where I would cry every night 630 00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:43,359 Speaker 1: like I would. I was just like, how did I 631 00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:45,920 Speaker 1: How did I miss this up? And I felt also 632 00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:48,200 Speaker 1: guilty for my son because I was just like, man, 633 00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:51,200 Speaker 1: like I didn't want him to grow up like this, 634 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:54,160 Speaker 1: like sometimes when I go to school and like they 635 00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:56,560 Speaker 1: do like Christmas plays and I'm like the only parent 636 00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,920 Speaker 1: there or and I see how he'll be looking at 637 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,840 Speaker 1: other people with their mom and dad, And I was 638 00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:05,920 Speaker 1: just blaming myself for that too. But I definitely on 639 00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:10,120 Speaker 1: a stage where I accept what happened, I accept responsibility 640 00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:13,160 Speaker 1: for what I did, and I just know that at 641 00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:15,319 Speaker 1: the end of the day, God, God has all of us, 642 00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:18,080 Speaker 1: and that's the only thing I can hold onto How 643 00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:22,919 Speaker 1: did you snap out of that love point? It wasn't 644 00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:26,120 Speaker 1: over night, you know it was. I can't tell you 645 00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:30,239 Speaker 1: when it happened, but I do remember that it took 646 00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:35,600 Speaker 1: a long time, like a long time where the pain 647 00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:40,520 Speaker 1: was like overwhelming and it was just I don't know. 648 00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:43,239 Speaker 1: I think I just I just consumed my mind with 649 00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:47,480 Speaker 1: music and just and work and like family and my son. 650 00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:51,000 Speaker 1: So it's like, you know, like when you're climbing the mountain, 651 00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:53,440 Speaker 1: like like you just get to the top and you 652 00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:55,359 Speaker 1: look down and you're like, yo, how did I get 653 00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:57,680 Speaker 1: up here? Like I honestly can't tell you when that 654 00:35:57,760 --> 00:35:59,560 Speaker 1: moment was when I'm like, oh, this is the day 655 00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:01,960 Speaker 1: when I cup and it was well gone, Like I 656 00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:04,560 Speaker 1: just I just know that now I'm a bit of place, 657 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:06,920 Speaker 1: But I don't really know the exact time when I 658 00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:10,080 Speaker 1: was just like, oh, the pain has gone. So the 659 00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:13,840 Speaker 1: album was therapeutic for you, I would assume, oh yeah, yeah, 660 00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:17,320 Speaker 1: absolutely not just because of that, just the struggles of 661 00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:22,160 Speaker 1: being a woman, just just just just trying to put 662 00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:28,480 Speaker 1: out something successful from an African afrobet female, because I mean, 663 00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:30,759 Speaker 1: you're you're a fan of the genre, and there's not 664 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,120 Speaker 1: that many of us that get that much hi, and 665 00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:38,160 Speaker 1: it's just it's just sad, Like it's really sad. Yeah, no, 666 00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:40,719 Speaker 1: and I'm that's why I was excited when they said, oh, yeah, 667 00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:42,719 Speaker 1: I want to you and said I said yes, absolutely, 668 00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:45,560 Speaker 1: and really like the first time I really knew about you, 669 00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,000 Speaker 1: we was a made in America and that performance was 670 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,759 Speaker 1: what made me do like, okay, yeah, get some more 671 00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:52,600 Speaker 1: into this and do my research and then just to 672 00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:54,560 Speaker 1: see all the doors you broke, and like I said, 673 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:56,840 Speaker 1: I love a story, right, and I know that that 674 00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:00,120 Speaker 1: is your life, but it's relatable to me, Like are 675 00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:02,399 Speaker 1: so many women who are going through things. To see 676 00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:04,840 Speaker 1: you go through it, come through on the other side 677 00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:08,319 Speaker 1: and prosper and then be able to express yourself and 678 00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,720 Speaker 1: be honest about it. I think those things are really important. 679 00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:13,200 Speaker 1: That's what we look for an artist, just real life 680 00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:17,480 Speaker 1: people just like us, you know. So I know it sucks, 681 00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:19,920 Speaker 1: like to feel like you have to go through some ship, 682 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,920 Speaker 1: but I think I think we all go through so 683 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:25,640 Speaker 1: much ship and to see somebody that we look at, 684 00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:28,080 Speaker 1: we're like, yo, she's so dope. She's got, you know, 685 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:31,200 Speaker 1: a hundred million followers and she's on the cover of 686 00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:33,880 Speaker 1: this magazine, sold out, these shows, got her Grammys, all 687 00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:38,359 Speaker 1: of those things, but she still has real life issue right, 688 00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:40,400 Speaker 1: like as that makes us listen to the music and 689 00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:44,480 Speaker 1: feel it that much more true. Absolutely, absolutely, And I 690 00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:47,040 Speaker 1: feel like even though, like you know, I'm a freaking 691 00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:50,520 Speaker 1: and I still feel like as women, we all go 692 00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:53,399 Speaker 1: through the same thing. And when I when they told 693 00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,680 Speaker 1: me that I was going to be on the show, 694 00:37:55,719 --> 00:38:01,400 Speaker 1: I was so nervous because I just congratulations, by the a, um, 695 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:04,000 Speaker 1: you know all of that. That's amazing. So for me, 696 00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:06,759 Speaker 1: I was just you know, don't want to interview me? 697 00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:08,759 Speaker 1: And and they were like yeah, and I was like, 698 00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:10,759 Speaker 1: oh my god, like what am I gonna say? So 699 00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:13,239 Speaker 1: and being that you guys are women, I was so 700 00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:17,000 Speaker 1: comfortable because I knew that you guys would understand a 701 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,799 Speaker 1: lot of my journey and I felt open and I 702 00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,279 Speaker 1: felt free that you know, They said, would I be 703 00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:24,920 Speaker 1: comfortable to talk my certain things? And I said definitely, 704 00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:28,279 Speaker 1: because I've been I've been a fan obviously, UM so yeah, 705 00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:33,480 Speaker 1: this is always a safe space and right and we 706 00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:36,839 Speaker 1: are always appreciative of those who come through and open 707 00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:38,960 Speaker 1: up and really share with us and not just make 708 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:42,239 Speaker 1: it a robotic interview, and it's more organic when you know, 709 00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:45,799 Speaker 1: you really feel the freedom to be able to express yourself. Absolutely, 710 00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:48,279 Speaker 1: I still gonna get you on Breakfast Club though, you know, 711 00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:52,280 Speaker 1: you gotta get that that. I'm gonna be sweat important. 712 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,480 Speaker 1: I know that's like crazy. I'm gonna be looking at 713 00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:01,080 Speaker 1: you like, oh my god, be nice to me now. 714 00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:03,640 Speaker 1: But listen, I think it's important because just as A 715 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,200 Speaker 1: and I don't even know like what John are, necessarily 716 00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:09,000 Speaker 1: to put your music in. You just make amazing music, 717 00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,799 Speaker 1: really good. We do our part and let it, you know, 718 00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:14,960 Speaker 1: And I know you know millions of people obviously you 719 00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:16,440 Speaker 1: know who you are. I know about you, but I 720 00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:19,360 Speaker 1: want to make sure here more people are put onto it. 721 00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:22,000 Speaker 1: So no, I said, listen, I'm a new artist, like 722 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:25,879 Speaker 1: I can't. I'm definitely that's that's a new market for me. 723 00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,960 Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna lie it's it's definitely a new market. 724 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,319 Speaker 1: And it's exciting for me to even start on such 725 00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:37,280 Speaker 1: a platform like this, like it's a new market. Definitely. Alright, Well, Salia, 726 00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:40,239 Speaker 1: it is that on the twenty eight? Is that correct? Eight? Yes? 727 00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:46,319 Speaker 1: Now you're excited. We're excited to have you guys been 728 00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:52,800 Speaker 1: to Nigeria or Africa. I wanna be a Johannesburg, Yo, Joe, 729 00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:57,920 Speaker 1: but essay is amazing. I've I've only been to Morocco 730 00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:02,359 Speaker 1: and I stayed for like one day. I know, we 731 00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:04,920 Speaker 1: were like stopping there. So it's just I want to 732 00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,680 Speaker 1: go so bad though I've been telling ye, you know 733 00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:10,839 Speaker 1: that's gonna be Listen, Y're not having us right now 734 00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:15,440 Speaker 1: because our president is coronavirus very well, and we don't wanna. 735 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:18,600 Speaker 1: Nobody wants us. But as soon as we're allowed to come, 736 00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:22,759 Speaker 1: we are there. I always I wanted to go as 737 00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:25,239 Speaker 1: a private jet. So I'm sending them over and then 738 00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:29,960 Speaker 1: see if you guys are free, We're ready today. Okay, 739 00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:35,560 Speaker 1: we're here. We my bags, tack y'all bags back? Yeah, 740 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:40,719 Speaker 1: back the bag just like this. No, but listen, I 741 00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:44,200 Speaker 1: seriously was and I know Nigeria Legos is way different 742 00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:46,759 Speaker 1: than Johannesburg, but I had so much fun when I 743 00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:48,520 Speaker 1: when I tell you, I can see why people would 744 00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:51,439 Speaker 1: be like, I'm just moving here, I'm out like yeah, 745 00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:53,560 Speaker 1: and I heard the guys, which I don't understand why 746 00:40:53,600 --> 00:41:00,400 Speaker 1: you heard that. Guys is fine. African man are definitely special. 747 00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:03,040 Speaker 1: I love them. Like, you know what I wanted to 748 00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:06,239 Speaker 1: ask you because you worked with Beyonce, and um, I 749 00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:10,719 Speaker 1: got into it on one of Jasmine Brand's post and 750 00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:13,000 Speaker 1: it was with the girl No Name, and she was 751 00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:18,440 Speaker 1: basically talking about Beyonce's movie Black Is King, and she 752 00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:21,839 Speaker 1: was basically saying like this is what was she saying? 753 00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,759 Speaker 1: This is capitalism and this is that. And then third, now, 754 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:28,040 Speaker 1: as being an African woman, do you look at stuff 755 00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:31,080 Speaker 1: like that and be like, oh, this isn't a good representation. 756 00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:35,160 Speaker 1: Because it was a little confusing to me why people 757 00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:38,440 Speaker 1: were kind of attacking Beyonce. But I figured maybe because 758 00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:41,800 Speaker 1: you know, I'm not African, so maybe there's something that 759 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,560 Speaker 1: I don't know about that you know, you would feel 760 00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:48,560 Speaker 1: offended by. So so what you're you're saying that she 761 00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:56,120 Speaker 1: was creating the culture? Yeah, basically yeah. Um, and as 762 00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:59,200 Speaker 1: an American or just me in general being a Beyonce fan, 763 00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:01,759 Speaker 1: I actually book that she was celebrating the culture, right, 764 00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:04,320 Speaker 1: saying that they were in Africa, and then it was 765 00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:07,720 Speaker 1: so many African people, you know, the whole cast basically 766 00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:11,520 Speaker 1: besides the celebrities, we're African. And I'm like, yes, you know, 767 00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:14,959 Speaker 1: we need this, we need to now I would to go, yeah, 768 00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:17,239 Speaker 1: that's how you know for her to say that I 769 00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:20,040 Speaker 1: was shocking the call like I which I kill, well, 770 00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:24,080 Speaker 1: I am shocked and too, to be honest, like it's 771 00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,879 Speaker 1: that's crazy because how can you how can you say 772 00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:31,719 Speaker 1: an African American woman is appropriate and African culture, Like 773 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,440 Speaker 1: you can't steal what's yours? That's what I thought today, 774 00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:42,160 Speaker 1: Like she's we're we're all originally African, so she's she 775 00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:46,160 Speaker 1: can't really say that she's appropriate and African culture because 776 00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:51,160 Speaker 1: she is originally her bloodline is originally African, and she 777 00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:55,480 Speaker 1: was celebrating the culture. Um, like she said, put a 778 00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:58,920 Speaker 1: little artists, a little creatives um on Black his King. 779 00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:01,840 Speaker 1: I don't think anybody that watched that would not feel 780 00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:05,919 Speaker 1: some kind of great emotion or just me just being 781 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:09,160 Speaker 1: proud to be African or of African descent if you're 782 00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:13,120 Speaker 1: not African. So I personally didn't feel that. Um. I 783 00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:15,479 Speaker 1: think it was iconic what she did. It was great. 784 00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:18,719 Speaker 1: She didn't have to do it, and she did it. Um. 785 00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:22,399 Speaker 1: And again I honestly stand by my words. I don't 786 00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:26,480 Speaker 1: really think you can still what's yours real or African 787 00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:29,440 Speaker 1: So you think you could be with a man like 788 00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:39,320 Speaker 1: get married again if he was an African. I'm just 789 00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:41,200 Speaker 1: trying to figure out who we're gonna send your away. 790 00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:45,839 Speaker 1: I love I love, I love black men. So yeah, 791 00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:48,759 Speaker 1: I mean, he doesn't have to be African, but I 792 00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:54,160 Speaker 1: need that you need going to be black. I'm with 793 00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:56,560 Speaker 1: you have I'm too light give for a white guy 794 00:43:57,120 --> 00:44:00,200 Speaker 1: anything like that. We're just gonna have clear kids and 795 00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:07,960 Speaker 1: I need MYKDS, some color Claire kids. Yeah. I don't 796 00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:09,640 Speaker 1: really waiting on you to hook me up with some 797 00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:12,719 Speaker 1: of you know you become Jake. I was wanted to 798 00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:17,440 Speaker 1: make sure he has someone that is in the back 799 00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:19,359 Speaker 1: of my mind. But the only reason why I don't 800 00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:21,080 Speaker 1: want to do it is because he is a basketball 801 00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:23,800 Speaker 1: player and I wouldn't trust him to be like faithful 802 00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:27,000 Speaker 1: to you, but he would be. Mind would you mind 803 00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:30,160 Speaker 1: somebody younger? You want somebody older? Doesn't matter? I don't. 804 00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:33,480 Speaker 1: I don't mind age like ages like, yeah, I mean 805 00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:39,879 Speaker 1: I wouldn't date a sixteen year old, hopefully, But what's 806 00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:41,879 Speaker 1: like the what's the lowest you you have to play? 807 00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:46,160 Speaker 1: I don't, I don't know, I just I mean, it 808 00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:49,359 Speaker 1: just depends on his maturity. Like I don't really look 809 00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:51,320 Speaker 1: at the age. You look so young. I felt like 810 00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:53,320 Speaker 1: you could date the twenty six year old and just 811 00:44:53,400 --> 00:45:01,960 Speaker 1: get away with it. Right young, but my boned Your 812 00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:09,520 Speaker 1: penus not too big? Yeah yeah yeah, alright, well see 813 00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:11,920 Speaker 1: we scavage again. Thank you so much. We really appreciate you. 814 00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:13,719 Speaker 1: We had a great time with you today. Thank you. 815 00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:18,000 Speaker 1: We're coming to visit you girl. Make some stakes us 816 00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:23,360 Speaker 1: get the jet. Thank you for having me than I 817 00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:26,279 Speaker 1: like that hashtag get the jet, get the jet. Let's go, 818 00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:30,799 Speaker 1: all right, Thank you. Hi