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DaniLeigh discusses her New Album "My Side", Her Friendships w/ Prince's, The Baby + More! · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Wake that answer in the morning. Breakfast Club Morning, everybody
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Speaker 1: is j Envy and Ngelue, Charlomagne the guy. We are
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Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building.
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Speaker 1: EP is out today, ladies and gentlemen, Danny Lay, good morning,
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Speaker 1: Good morning. How are you feeling? I feel good, AP
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Speaker 1: is out. Don't give us the generic answer, how do
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Speaker 1: you feel? No, My energy is good good. I'm glad.
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Speaker 1: You know. I was like, am I gonna be nervous?
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Speaker 1: But I feel like last time, the very first time,
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Speaker 1: like Breakfast Club, I was so nervous, But I feel
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Speaker 1: better now. I think that's natural. I think anytime you
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Speaker 1: have like this, this good anxiety and bad anxiety. Right,
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Speaker 1: So the good anxiety is just when something means something
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Speaker 1: to you're gonna feel something. Yeah, of course, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: And it's a big day for you, it is. I
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Speaker 1: saw one of your logs. You were going to audition
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Speaker 1: some backup dances in Miami, and you were nervous for that,
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Speaker 1: and you weren't even I know, I don't know. I
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Speaker 1: feel like I've been getting more nervous lately, Like I
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Speaker 1: feel like back in the day when I was younger,
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Speaker 1: like shows, I would just be it's late, Like I
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Speaker 1: would just be excited, and now I just feel like
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Speaker 1: I just get nervous. Could you older? You got more responsibilities?
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Speaker 1: I think the pandemic too. And then it was like
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Speaker 1: it took two years off from performing in front of people.
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Speaker 1: So it's kind of like all right, we're back again.
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Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. So taking two years off, it's such a
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Speaker 1: long time. And how's the baby. How's the baby? Doors?
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Speaker 1: She's good, She's about to be one in August. So
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Speaker 1: how I was leaving her home? This it's hard. I
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Speaker 1: like cried on the plane, like I'd just be so
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Speaker 1: like it's a lot to get away from her to
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Speaker 1: me because it's just like I work a lot. It's
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Speaker 1: been really busy for me right now too, so yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's a lot. You got a good sports system, I do? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I do. Yeah. So how do you send to yourself
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Speaker 1: when you're nervous, like when you dealing with things ziety?
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Speaker 1: What do you do to send to yourself? Hey? Okay,
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Speaker 1: that's why my biggest it's just pray before I step on.
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Speaker 1: So whatever I'm doing, I'm just like, okay, gott be
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Speaker 1: with me, all right. I also tell you post what's
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Speaker 1: the most taxic or what sign is the worst to date? Right,
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Speaker 1: let's talk about that. So you believe in signs astrology
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Speaker 1: a little bit, you know, I just feel like they're
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Speaker 1: so accurate. What's your sign? I'm a Sagittarius? Okay, so
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Speaker 1: what does that mean? Um? Our sign is very like
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Speaker 1: we're chilled. We're very like down to do like whatever,
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Speaker 1: very free spirited. I feel like that's how I am.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, ah, he's down to just do whatever everybody
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Speaker 1: wants to do. Um, we're very honest, Like we're very honest.
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Speaker 1: We just were sometimes too honest where it's like you
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Speaker 1: didn't even need to tell me all that. Um, what else?
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Speaker 1: What would you say? You're compatible? What signs do you like? Um,
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Speaker 1: I'm compatible with aries fire signs. I'm a fire sign.
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Speaker 1: So leo, my baby's a Leo. Um Sagistarius is we
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Speaker 1: get along with each other? Um? I think aquariuss. So
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Speaker 1: do you ask somebody before you date them, like, well,
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Speaker 1: what's your sign? Um? It's definitely a question. I feel
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Speaker 1: like I don't even date people for real, but I'm
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Speaker 1: saying like if I'm like, yeah, that's a question, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna ask and find out just to see. So what's
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Speaker 1: the hard nos you stay away from um guys scorpio.
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Speaker 1: I've never talked to a scorpio. I don't know any
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Speaker 1: personal Oh yes you okay, okay, I mean virgos. Virgos,
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Speaker 1: it's just not inpatible. Are you a vego? You're not
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Speaker 1: a little bit you know what it is? I think
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Speaker 1: it's because I'm very like like downs, like I said,
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Speaker 1: down to do whatever. I'm like, I'm not so precise.
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Speaker 1: I feel like virgos are very like perfection is, and
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Speaker 1: I'm not a super perfection Well, be a little sensitive,
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Speaker 1: I would say, perfectionist. Virgus can't make you calm. I heard,
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, I see that there's so many get you.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, you know what I see. Don't make
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Speaker 1: me say what she didn't see? Yeah, do you know
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Speaker 1: the story now? Now, everybody, we don't need to hear
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Speaker 1: a story. You. Me and my wife been together since
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Speaker 1: six I love it. Early on, I did not know
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Speaker 1: how to please, and I think we already and I
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Speaker 1: just brought up because I got my name. I thought
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Speaker 1: it was bang bang bang bang. No. I don't get
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Speaker 1: a twenty no good, just my my my third leg
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Speaker 1: wasn't too good, but we're good now. That was the
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Speaker 1: whole time we've been together. Twenty When did you get
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Speaker 1: it down? Sixteen se about twenty five, twenty six years old?
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Speaker 1: No years later, No, twenty five years into a relationship years.
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Speaker 1: She's so nice. She was just like, I love you matter.
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Speaker 1: So what is the that you can't compromise in a relationship?
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Speaker 1: Would you say for yourself moving forward? I'm it's a
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Speaker 1: lot now because I have a baby and I feel
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Speaker 1: like any man that's gonna be around me gotta be
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Speaker 1: you know that. So who knows when that time will be,
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Speaker 1: But you know so you don't care if you did
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Speaker 1: a man he can't give you to an orgasm? Oh
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Speaker 1: that I mean, I mean every woman wants that, Like
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Speaker 1: just joking, this is trigger into me. So that's the
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Speaker 1: IP has called my side. What made you feel like
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Speaker 1: you needed to do this? Because it feels like it
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Speaker 1: was a diary almost it was, you know, the time
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Speaker 1: that I created it, which was eight months ago, I
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Speaker 1: was in that space. I was in that space to
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Speaker 1: just sing about how I was feeling, and that's really
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Speaker 1: how I was feeling. Um, I hadn't really done that before.
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Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of my album's projects have
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Speaker 1: been kind of like a mixture of just different emotions
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Speaker 1: of you know, but this was just like my side
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Speaker 1: of exactly like how I felt in the moment of
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Speaker 1: you know, my past relationship. You feel like you have
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Speaker 1: to do it because you feel like the press, everybody
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Speaker 1: else's side and social media and you heard so many
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Speaker 1: different things and it was like, nah, this is my
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Speaker 1: side or what my real is or my truth is. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean I didn't. I feel like I didn't think
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Speaker 1: too deep into it. I really just culated music. I
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Speaker 1: really was just in the studio feeling that way, and
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Speaker 1: then once it came out to what it was, I
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Speaker 1: was like, oh, this is what it is. No one's
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Speaker 1: really hurt me. I don't speak that much on social media.
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Speaker 1: I feel like even things like I don't super respond
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Speaker 1: to things. So I was just like, it would be
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Speaker 1: cool to just drop music and you can hear my
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Speaker 1: side of what it is and just move past it too.
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Speaker 1: Artists always say the music is therapeutic for them, all right,
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Speaker 1: So was it like, after you did it, did it
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Speaker 1: really feel that way? Like? Yeah, it did, and it
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Speaker 1: feels like now just being able to drop it and
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Speaker 1: move past it, and just it almost feels like closure.
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Speaker 1: It feels like a chapter of a book where it's
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Speaker 1: just like I get to close it and move on
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Speaker 1: and then not be so personal. I don't want to
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Speaker 1: be super personal in my music. That's like this project
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Speaker 1: was just a lot for me to even, like least
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Speaker 1: in general, because it was just like, you know, it's
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Speaker 1: just so personal. So I was just like, okay, this
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Speaker 1: is the last little chapter of it all. Let me
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Speaker 1: just drop it and then move on. Does it stop
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Speaker 1: it or to keep the story going though, because now
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Speaker 1: people want to I know, and I'm not even that's honestly,
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Speaker 1: it's been a hard thing. Like I almost did it.
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Speaker 1: I almost cared with this interview because I was like,
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Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about nothing. I don't want
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Speaker 1: to understand. Yeah, so it was just like a lot
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Speaker 1: to even you know, but I know how to you know, answer,
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Speaker 1: And it's not like I'm in a bad place to
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Speaker 1: speak on things. I would never talk bad about nobody anyways,
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Speaker 1: Like that's not even the type of person I am.
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Speaker 1: I'm not trying to have negative press around me. I
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Speaker 1: don't that's not how I like to get down And
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Speaker 1: I hate to see that type of stuff, honestly. So
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Speaker 1: that's why you know, I ended the project with a
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Speaker 1: song for my baby, just to like, you know, ended
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Speaker 1: in a nice note and just like move on. See,
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Speaker 1: that's got to be confused when somebody be like, how's
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Speaker 1: the baby's It got me a little confused when I did,
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm not gonna lie question. I did for a second, No,
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Speaker 1: I didn't think that. Okay, what you mean, do you
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Speaker 1: feel like you have to step away from social media
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Speaker 1: because we used to We followed you, right, We followed
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Speaker 1: you when you first came out. I seen when you
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Speaker 1: purchased your first home. I think in the d I
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Speaker 1: think I've seen that. We've seen when you stop at
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Speaker 1: the gas stage and do the dances and all that.
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Speaker 1: But you got away from that. Was that a reason
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Speaker 1: why you just tie the people? Or because that was
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Speaker 1: the fun part of Danny right? It was. I used
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Speaker 1: to do that all the time. I felt like that
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Speaker 1: was my most like viral moments, like just my little
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Speaker 1: fro and me outside dancing to one of my songs. Um,
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Speaker 1: I guess it's just like you know, once I'm doing that,
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Speaker 1: that was just the vibe I was in and then
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Speaker 1: after you know, years, I just changed. I think I said,
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Speaker 1: when you got pregnant, you took a step away because
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Speaker 1: you didn't want to have it out there at first
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Speaker 1: until you were comfortable. Yeah, everybody's like, is she pregnant
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Speaker 1: it or not? And I was like, don't worry about it.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, I am very much so, but I'm not
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Speaker 1: gonna like share it with you guys right now because
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Speaker 1: I just wanted to keep something from me. But I
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Speaker 1: did definitely took a break off social media. I was
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Speaker 1: just it's just a lot sometimes like social media be crazy.
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Speaker 1: So I was just like, you know what for me,
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Speaker 1: delete the app. I actually deleted the apps because I
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Speaker 1: was just like, you know, that's how you know you
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Speaker 1: like almost addicted to Instagram because it's just like you
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Speaker 1: go to click on Instagram, it's not even there. You're like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: this is good discipline. I think it's the worst thing
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Speaker 1: for your mental health. I don't think none of us
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Speaker 1: are designed to get that many opinions about ourselves every
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Speaker 1: single day right in the place that we're in. And
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Speaker 1: what we do this all people are doing is like
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Speaker 1: we post the ouphe like, does everyone like it or not?
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Speaker 1: Like it. We're posted it for all these random people
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Speaker 1: in the world. But it's like, yeah, it's crazy put
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Speaker 1: out dead to me and people responding to that like
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Speaker 1: a little snippet. How did that feel? Because it seemed
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Speaker 1: like people were loving it when they heard a little snippet, right,
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Speaker 1: the reaction was great, It was it was crazy. It
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Speaker 1: was cool too, you know, because I have so many
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Speaker 1: different sides to me where I can come with a
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Speaker 1: little baby just to turn up, or I could come
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Speaker 1: with a easy and I felt like dead to me
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Speaker 1: was in my R and B bag. So I was
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Speaker 1: like happy to be in that space again and just
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Speaker 1: you know, seeing and just let people feel me. I
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Speaker 1: feel like it's a really heartfelt record, so people relate everybody. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: my dog went back to people were seeing my dog. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I thought it's so big. It's a cane course though,
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Speaker 1: knock it down. Yeah he's crazy, yeah, big boy. Do
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Speaker 1: you ever get to enjoy the moment like just and
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Speaker 1: like you know of your career or you know child
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Speaker 1: is just you just enjoying the moment. It's always different.
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Speaker 1: My life be so crazy, it's always bittersweet. They'd be
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Speaker 1: crazy moments and I'm not even enjoying them because of
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Speaker 1: real life is going on, you know. So it really
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Speaker 1: just depends on the place that I'm in. I could
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Speaker 1: be going through something and then great things are happening
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Speaker 1: and I'm just like, damn. Also makes me want to
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Speaker 1: appreciate everything that's happening. But it's also like it'd be
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Speaker 1: bitter sweet because I'm yeah, it'd be better sweet. You know.
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Speaker 1: It sucks some people, and I'm guilty of this too,
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Speaker 1: but I love those albums that are about heartbreak, Like
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Speaker 1: sometimes those are the best songs, honestly. I mean it's
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Speaker 1: about fashion, Yeah, some of those are the best, like
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Speaker 1: because I think the best almost, Like you can't really
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Speaker 1: like go wrong when you write music about love. Likes
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Speaker 1: everybody either loves or hates or you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: It's always that, like everybody's gonna through that, So it
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Speaker 1: is it actually love? Like when you look back on it, like,
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Speaker 1: what was that love? Oh yeah, baby, like of course, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was definitely love, all right. And then um, and
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Speaker 1: so for the baby your song, well not the baby,
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Speaker 1: the baby my baby to be clear. Yeah, so your
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Speaker 1: child your child actually even yeah, definitely is a joke.
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Speaker 1: It's always a thing I'm like, all right, guys, when
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Speaker 1: did you write the Last Time? I thought that was
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Speaker 1: a beautiful way, like you said to close out the album.
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Speaker 1: She's featured on the song you can hear her crying
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Speaker 1: and you're talking about how she's with you for life,
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Speaker 1: holding hands like just that. So when when did you
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Speaker 1: write that song? And did you always know this is
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Speaker 1: gonna be how I close it out? Um? Yeah, the
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Speaker 1: way the project was created too. Um, I don't know
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Speaker 1: if you guys know the project was executed by Rodney Jerkins,
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Speaker 1: so like it was, yeah, it was really cool. Like
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Speaker 1: I happened to go to Orlando and I knew he
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Speaker 1: was out there, so I hit him up. I was like, hey,
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Speaker 1: like we should work. And I went to meet with
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Speaker 1: him and he spoke to me and I was like,
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Speaker 1: I was like, you don't know what just happened, Like
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Speaker 1: obviously it was a viral thing, and he was just like, no,
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Speaker 1: I didn't seen it. I was like, oh wow. I
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Speaker 1: was like, so I kind of just explained everything and
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Speaker 1: he was like, oh, you got a story to tell
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Speaker 1: and I was like yeah. He had a whole writing
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Speaker 1: cap going on with writers and all that stuff, and
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Speaker 1: it was just focused on like demos and things like that.
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Speaker 1: He switched it all up, had everybody like focused on
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Speaker 1: me and make an EP. So it was really cool,
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Speaker 1: like we we had each song like this is exactly
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Speaker 1: what we need. We don't need that many songs. Seven songs,
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Speaker 1: and yeah we're gonna end it with fort of the
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Speaker 1: Lord to you know, make it a nice moment and
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Speaker 1: just go through the phases. I feel like it starts
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Speaker 1: strong that to me. Then it goes into heartbreaker when
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Speaker 1: you feel me um cap where I'm just you know,
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Speaker 1: more so talking my shit. Um, that's sim where we're like,
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Speaker 1: I'm not a sad bitch. I was never yeah, never,
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Speaker 1: And then um call me on my name, which is
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Speaker 1: more heartfelt and side and just more reflecting on you know.
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Speaker 1: So you're completely open for this. You were completely open
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Speaker 1: and just said this is my life and this is
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Speaker 1: what I'm gonna sing about. Yeah, it's nothing that you said,
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Speaker 1: well I'm gonna pull out, I'm not gonna use this.
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Speaker 1: You were just like, it is what it is. Um,
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Speaker 1: I probably held back a little bit on something. It's
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Speaker 1: just to not be so. Yeah, I should did change
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Speaker 1: a couple of lyrics on some songs or I was like,
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Speaker 1: I actually don't need to say things like that. Let
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Speaker 1: me be your bigger person because I don't want to. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And you even say it on one of the songs,
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Speaker 1: like you know your child is gonna hear this one day,
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Speaker 1: and so you want to make sure that later because
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Speaker 1: when we do things in the moment and then later
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Speaker 1: on years from now and everybody's in the better space,
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Speaker 1: like damn it still. Yeah, That's why I was very
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Speaker 1: careful with it, and I feel like I did. I
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Speaker 1: was respectful. It was just how I felt. You hear,
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Speaker 1: it's pure, like it's not me talking crazy, It's just
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Speaker 1: I was hurt, Like, you know, how hard is the incidents.
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Speaker 1: I was gonna ask without talking about the incidents. Everybody
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Speaker 1: knows everybody's seen as your family heal, that's not true.
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Speaker 1: Everybody knows Rodney Jerkins didn't know. And I think when
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Speaker 1: we say things like everybody don't say. I think when
14:44
Speaker 1: we say things like everybody, it fus with us even
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Speaker 1: more because we think every room we walk in, that's
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Speaker 1: what the person that's thinking about when they probably don't
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Speaker 1: even know a lot of people do know. It was
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Speaker 1: so big. I was just asking, has your family heal, Like,
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Speaker 1: have you had a chance to sit down with mom
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Speaker 1: and your brother and heal on that side? And even
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Speaker 1: co parent we are able to heal. Who at least
14:59
Speaker 1: you can get things on the co parents side. I
15:02
Speaker 1: can't control everybody, so I just gotta do what I
15:04
Speaker 1: gotta do, you know. But everybody's good. Everybody's good. Everybody's
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Speaker 1: good with you. Yeah, it's good. And so you have
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Speaker 1: new management now or how is that working? Your mama's
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Speaker 1: managing one time? Yeah? She was? She quit right, No, Mom,
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Speaker 1: that's just I still wanted to get along mom. If
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Speaker 1: your mom her, no, she see me kill me? That
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Speaker 1: conversation with that songs about stop it Danny like to
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Speaker 1: stop playing beat up at home with my mama. Now,
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Speaker 1: don't play with mama, Mama now you want too far? No,
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Speaker 1: my mom, she's a hard working woman. She's amazing. But
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Speaker 1: we just we're just both very strong personalities and like
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Speaker 1: I'd rather just not fight with you, like and it's
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Speaker 1: just like we just had disagreements when it comes to
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Speaker 1: music and different things, and it's just like I don't know,
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Speaker 1: I just rather you be my mommy. Now I got
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Speaker 1: a baby her grandma, Like I just want that family aspect.
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Speaker 1: Like I've been in this industry for so long, Like
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Speaker 1: I moved to LA when i was sixteen, so it's
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Speaker 1: just like I'm twenty seven now, so it's just it's
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Speaker 1: only being this, It's only been Hollywood, and I really
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Speaker 1: want to just really enjoy like real life and just
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Speaker 1: family and like really get to that place where it's
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Speaker 1: not industry and we're not talking about business, We're not
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Speaker 1: talking about none of that. Like, and I'm always holding
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Speaker 1: my family down, Like, yeah, I did it for my
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Speaker 1: family always, That's what I always say. I've always done
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Speaker 1: this for my family to help them, and you know,
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Speaker 1: so it's still that it's very good saying I rock
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Speaker 1: on my mom, don't do that now. When it comes
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Speaker 1: to having the lore having your child during the pandemic,
16:52
Speaker 1: how high was it for you to let Like when
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Speaker 1: at what point did you say, Okay, I'm gonna let
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Speaker 1: somebody else babysit. Oh my god, who is the first
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Speaker 1: person and I left her with? Ever? It was by
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Speaker 1: my family, my mom? Yeah for sure. Um, I have
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Speaker 1: a nanny now, but she's like one of my best
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Speaker 1: friends moms, so I've known her for years and years.
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Speaker 1: She's a Dominican lady and like, just you know, I've
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Speaker 1: definitely trusted she lives with me, So it's a blessing
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Speaker 1: because I wouldn't be able to do everything I'm doing
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Speaker 1: right now, so but I trust her. It was gonna
17:19
Speaker 1: be hard because I'm like, what am I gonna do?
17:22
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know. I'm like I can't take
17:24
Speaker 1: her everywhere, so I'm like, what am I about to do?
17:26
Speaker 1: So you know, I pray for that and I got it.
17:28
Speaker 1: So that was like the biggest blessing to be able
17:31
Speaker 1: to keep going. What are some of the things you've
17:34
Speaker 1: been doing for yourself also to make sure that you're
17:36
Speaker 1: like able to work, but also being a new mom
17:39
Speaker 1: is already not easy, you know, so what are some
17:42
Speaker 1: things and that you could say for all the new
17:44
Speaker 1: moms out there that might be having difficult times as well.
17:47
Speaker 1: Just you gotta you know, if your place that you're
17:50
Speaker 1: in is negative, you gotta just do it for your baby.
17:53
Speaker 1: Like that's what I do it for, Like that's my
17:56
Speaker 1: like everything, Like sometimes I don't want to do all
17:59
Speaker 1: this stuff and work and travel and all this stuff,
18:02
Speaker 1: but it's like, Okay, I know I need to get
18:04
Speaker 1: to that next step in my career, so I could
18:06
Speaker 1: really just sit back to and like really give her
18:08
Speaker 1: everything that she deserves. So that's really what I do
18:11
Speaker 1: it for. That's how you after you had the baby
18:13
Speaker 1: right during the pandemic, did you have postponum? Did you
18:15
Speaker 1: have to deal with it because you were stuck inside?
18:18
Speaker 1: So it's that like you can go out and at
18:19
Speaker 1: least experienced life like it was just you and the baby.
18:22
Speaker 1: So how was that? It was good? Honestly? I liked
18:24
Speaker 1: the downtime, like I appreciated being able to just be
18:27
Speaker 1: with her. I was excited. So has it been worth
18:30
Speaker 1: it thus far? Like this everything, like you know where
18:33
Speaker 1: you are in your career, your personal life, would you
18:35
Speaker 1: say this so far has it been worth it? Yeah? Okay,
18:38
Speaker 1: yeah I would have probably like stopped, I gave up
18:41
Speaker 1: maybe if it wasn't worth it and try to do
18:42
Speaker 1: something else. I wasn't happy and succeeding. I guess you know,
18:47
Speaker 1: we'll keeps you going other than your child. Um Um,
18:55
Speaker 1: I mean like is that it? I mean? I guess
19:00
Speaker 1: I love you know, I love performing, I love dancing,
19:03
Speaker 1: I love making music, I love shooting videos, I love traveling.
19:07
Speaker 1: So it's something I love. I've been doing it forever,
19:10
Speaker 1: so sometimes I feel like I don't love it anymore,
19:12
Speaker 1: but then I remember, like no, like that's really like
19:15
Speaker 1: what makes me happy, and I can't see myself doing
19:17
Speaker 1: anything else. So unless it's like within the industry, maybe
19:21
Speaker 1: like tapping into fashion and like different things like that.
19:24
Speaker 1: But yeah, are you planning a tour? I am. I
19:28
Speaker 1: am planning a tour in September. So it's a US
19:31
Speaker 1: tour that's Virgal season by the way, September. Oh my god.
19:35
Speaker 1: She likes labors better, so it starts to at September ninth. Yeah,
19:39
Speaker 1: and it's like us. I'm excited because my last tour
19:43
Speaker 1: was what two years ago, my beer Self tour. It
19:46
Speaker 1: was dope because it was my own tour as well
19:48
Speaker 1: and sold out. So I was getting prepped for my
19:52
Speaker 1: next tour. Then COVID happened and I was like, dang.
19:54
Speaker 1: I was like excited to get to the next step.
19:55
Speaker 1: But now I'm at that next step, so I'm like cool,
19:58
Speaker 1: everything's timing everything, just you. Are you going on towards
20:01
Speaker 1: somebody else? Yeah? Just me. I'm sure we'll find somebody
20:03
Speaker 1: to open. We don't have nobody yet. But yeah, who
20:06
Speaker 1: do you like? Who do I like like a newer artist?
20:08
Speaker 1: Like he was saying, um, I don't know, there's so
20:12
Speaker 1: many dope artists. Like everybody's so different, right, Like, I
20:16
Speaker 1: don't know, there's so many good artists out there. I
20:19
Speaker 1: don't know who would make sense though to like open
20:21
Speaker 1: for me. That's like, I'm sure you've been thinking about it. Yeah,
20:23
Speaker 1: I've been thinking about it, and I've been seeing like
20:25
Speaker 1: certain girls and like, I don't know, I've been sending
20:29
Speaker 1: some videos certain girls. I can't remember their names, but
20:32
Speaker 1: they're dope. I don't know. You know, people ask the
20:34
Speaker 1: cliche question like how did motherhood change you? But did
20:37
Speaker 1: it because it clearly change you, but do you remember
20:39
Speaker 1: when you actually felt the change? Yeah, I felt like
20:46
Speaker 1: with everything and like to play something now, I just
20:49
Speaker 1: feel like I really like I've been such a person
20:52
Speaker 1: that like really lives life for like everybody else, I
20:55
Speaker 1: feel like, and I feel like now I just I'm like, okay,
20:58
Speaker 1: what do I want to do? What am I gonna do? Like,
21:02
Speaker 1: so I feel like that has helped me. And I
21:03
Speaker 1: don't know if that's necessarily motherhood, but just as a woman,
21:07
Speaker 1: I feel like it's helped me to be more stern
21:10
Speaker 1: on what it is that I want in life and
21:12
Speaker 1: like things like that versus what everybody else wants from me.
21:15
Speaker 1: What are those dms looking like my dms? Girl on Fire?
21:21
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we don't know. D you don't know.
21:26
Speaker 1: I mean I don't know. I've been getting some dms.
21:28
Speaker 1: I don't opening dms. I'm not worried about nobody right now, Like,
21:32
Speaker 1: but I'm just saying, you're a little curious when you
21:34
Speaker 1: get like somebody with a botle. Yeah, I'm like, look
21:36
Speaker 1: at their page. I'm like, like, you you already know
21:40
Speaker 1: what you about, Like, buy your page. I could just
21:42
Speaker 1: tell because the man you did have to have children too. No,
21:46
Speaker 1: And it's funny because I'm like, I don't really want
21:49
Speaker 1: nobody with children. But then I also thought about it.
21:51
Speaker 1: I'm like, it would be nice to have somebody that
21:53
Speaker 1: knows how to be adapted to Yeah, so it just
21:56
Speaker 1: gotta you know, makes sense. You're like, I have not
21:58
Speaker 1: thought that far ahead yet. Yeah, I didn't you have
22:00
Speaker 1: a relationship with Prince of Friendship, not because I'd be
22:04
Speaker 1: seeing blogs Saint used to didn't stopped playing like yeah, yeah,
22:12
Speaker 1: yeah I did, And he was amazing. I really like,
22:15
Speaker 1: was super cool him. I used to run his Instagram.
22:17
Speaker 1: What print Instagram? That was like my first job. And
22:21
Speaker 1: I used to post pictures and like make the captions.
22:23
Speaker 1: If you guys go look at the page and still up.
22:25
Speaker 1: That wasn't me posted everything. He would just send me
22:27
Speaker 1: the pictures. How did you meet Prince? Um? He found
22:30
Speaker 1: me online? Like I used to do vine a lot,
22:32
Speaker 1: and he used to like my vines because I guess
22:34
Speaker 1: they were like pretty funny and I'll just be like Prince.
22:37
Speaker 1: Yeah huh. He liked him under another name or something
22:43
Speaker 1: him Yeah, um, what do you mean like his Instagram? Yeah,
22:46
Speaker 1: he didn't have Prince. Prince wasn't like his Prince. It
22:48
Speaker 1: was called Prinstagram. How old were you that I was eighteen?
22:53
Speaker 1: Did you understand this is Prince? No? I mean yes,
22:56
Speaker 1: of course, because I know, like the legendary Prince. But
22:59
Speaker 1: you know it took him inute to really like, especially
23:02
Speaker 1: after he passed too. I'm just like, dang, like I
23:04
Speaker 1: had a song with Prince like really video for Prince
23:09
Speaker 1: like yeah, it was really crazy. So he liked your
23:11
Speaker 1: stuff and then y'all ways started communicating damn. Yeah through
23:15
Speaker 1: Twitter DM. That's how we would always talk to ms right,
23:20
Speaker 1: just Twitter. So he when did he finally like pick
23:24
Speaker 1: up the phone and call you and say, hey, I
23:25
Speaker 1: want you to come direct this video? Um? Yeah. It
23:27
Speaker 1: was like first, um Nandy and Maia who used to
23:30
Speaker 1: be his dancers, reached out to me through email and
23:32
Speaker 1: they're like, Prince to Artists wants you to submit a
23:35
Speaker 1: video of you dancing to his song. So I did
23:38
Speaker 1: the choreography they like sent it to him and he's like, okay,
23:41
Speaker 1: now he wants you to direct the video. Write a
23:42
Speaker 1: treatment like okay, So I just wrote around them treatment
23:45
Speaker 1: and then then I got on the phone with him. Wow. Yeah,
23:48
Speaker 1: and it was like his voice was so deep and
23:50
Speaker 1: I was like hello, It's like how amazing that is? Yeah? Yeah,
23:54
Speaker 1: I was like this is wild. Did you ever meet him?
23:57
Speaker 1: I did? Yeah. A couple of times. He flew my
23:59
Speaker 1: family out to Paisley Park, like he used to like
24:02
Speaker 1: have movie theaters. One time he like rented out a
24:05
Speaker 1: whole movie theater in LA and like his whole bands,
24:07
Speaker 1: all of us came. Um. He went to like this
24:11
Speaker 1: like Latin restaurant in LA. One time they had dancing
24:14
Speaker 1: and I don't really know what it's called. But that
24:16
Speaker 1: was one time we met up with him. Um went
24:19
Speaker 1: to Pass Parker. I think a couple of times. Do
24:21
Speaker 1: you keep in touch with any of those people that
24:23
Speaker 1: was around him? Not really, m No, I was just
24:27
Speaker 1: really cool with him. I met your mom was like, yo,
24:29
Speaker 1: you made it right? That might have been it. Yeah,
24:33
Speaker 1: my little sister like sang for him, like, because my
24:36
Speaker 1: little sister sings to it. She's like a crazy singer.
24:39
Speaker 1: She's sang like at his concert like that he had
24:42
Speaker 1: at Haisley Park. You guys are like family, No, for real.
24:45
Speaker 1: He really looked at us like family. Yeah, how did
24:48
Speaker 1: that in peg? You? It was crazy. I was in
24:50
Speaker 1: Toronto and I heard it and I like literally talked
24:53
Speaker 1: to him the day before, so I was just really yeah,
24:55
Speaker 1: I was crying, like that was that was hard because
24:58
Speaker 1: I was like, dang, like I wanted to make it
25:01
Speaker 1: and you would still be a part of me co
25:03
Speaker 1: signing me like you know. So it was what was
25:06
Speaker 1: the conversation the day before the day before? Um, I
25:11
Speaker 1: think it might have just been, like I swear I
25:14
Speaker 1: could look it up. Probably, UM, I can't remember. It
25:18
Speaker 1: was probably just about Instagram at that time. Like I remember,
25:21
Speaker 1: he used to send me like memes and pictures all
25:24
Speaker 1: the time. So he was a goofball. I know you
25:25
Speaker 1: guys heard that about him. Yeah, so did he allow
25:28
Speaker 1: to pick? You know, he was not big on taking pictures. No.
25:31
Speaker 1: He would tell everybody put their phones away from Pizzy,
25:33
Speaker 1: like we had to put all of our phones away,
25:35
Speaker 1: so you don't got no pictures. No, I don't got
25:38
Speaker 1: no pictures. And he just been lying for the last time,
25:42
Speaker 1: all these great stories. I gotta pick like a guitar pick.
25:45
Speaker 1: That's his Prince. You know, he signed no like being printed. No,
25:54
Speaker 1: I'm always treating by the stories because I I heard
25:57
Speaker 1: Lizzo say the same thing, and I'm like, damn, Prince
25:58
Speaker 1: was really like tapped into you're saying. No, Prince was
26:02
Speaker 1: really tapped into like the like the up and comers,
26:04
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, right, Yeah, Yeah, he really
26:08
Speaker 1: did love like artistry and artists and stuff. You could
26:11
Speaker 1: tell he's so he was, you know, he's a musical genius.
26:15
Speaker 1: Like so it was cool to even be acknowledged by
26:17
Speaker 1: Prince because I'm like, okay, so when you get a
26:19
Speaker 1: cold signed by somebody like Prince, why would you ever,
26:21
Speaker 1: let like the opinions of social media impact you in
26:24
Speaker 1: regards to your music. I mean it's hard, Like you know,
26:28
Speaker 1: I'm a person like at the end of the day,
26:30
Speaker 1: you imagine like the whole world like writing stuff about you,
26:33
Speaker 1: Like you gotta be real tough and like have thick
26:37
Speaker 1: skin for that. So but I learned to get to
26:40
Speaker 1: that place. And you know, how is the writer's camp
26:43
Speaker 1: since you were talking about that a little bit earlier
26:45
Speaker 1: with Rodney Jerkins, how does that work? Like you sit down,
26:48
Speaker 1: you tell what you want, and then you write part
26:50
Speaker 1: of the song and then the people chime in. How
26:52
Speaker 1: do you Some actually like had a couple hooks in there,
26:56
Speaker 1: and then I would write verses or we would collib
26:59
Speaker 1: It was just like each song was kind of different,
27:01
Speaker 1: but I think everybody was really on the same page,
27:04
Speaker 1: like on like what would be the perfect project with
27:08
Speaker 1: topic and exactly each song and everything. So they were
27:11
Speaker 1: all really young too, and just R and B heads
27:14
Speaker 1: like like Telly Risa, like they all just like they're
27:19
Speaker 1: so talented, Like they would just be running and singing
27:21
Speaker 1: in the hallways and I'm just like, dang, like you
27:23
Speaker 1: could just felt like you could just feel like it
27:25
Speaker 1: was just so authentic, like great vibe. I would definitely
27:29
Speaker 1: work with them again for like album or something. But
27:31
Speaker 1: it was there, the chemistry and everybody was just comfortable.
27:34
Speaker 1: It was comfortable. I didn't even know them, but it
27:36
Speaker 1: just felt right. So was anybody scared to be a
27:38
Speaker 1: part of this project because it's kind of like a
27:40
Speaker 1: Thiss album? Oh my god, um no, no no, you
27:46
Speaker 1: don't look at it as a dis album. I don't
27:48
Speaker 1: look at it. It's your side, yeah, And it's like,
27:51
Speaker 1: you know, I don't look at it this album. I
27:54
Speaker 1: try to just I look at it. It's like I
27:59
Speaker 1: almost like feel like it's for my fans as well,
28:02
Speaker 1: because it ain't even like super on the place that
28:04
Speaker 1: I'm in anymore, because obviously that's a more darker space
28:08
Speaker 1: and I don't feel that way. Me and Jonathan are
28:11
Speaker 1: great co parents, like we work like we're good like,
28:14
Speaker 1: so it's not like that. It's not really super real.
28:18
Speaker 1: But it's also like I was so mad at that time,
28:20
Speaker 1: That's how I felt, And there's women right now at
28:23
Speaker 1: that place too, So it's like it's for my fans
28:27
Speaker 1: more so than for myself. But of course it's for
28:29
Speaker 1: myself to release. But it's more so for than I
28:32
Speaker 1: feel like, right or with that tattoo on your hand,
28:35
Speaker 1: which one it's like a figure? Oh where were so
28:40
Speaker 1: many tattoos? Well, let's play let's play a record off
28:43
Speaker 1: that what you want to hear? Whoa, let's say no,
28:48
Speaker 1: that's like the same, because I got a whole bunch
28:50
Speaker 1: of a man in the room anything, and it's for
28:53
Speaker 1: you guys. I'm seeing that little bad right there. Oh
28:56
Speaker 1: my god, I'm as so many. It's expensive because you
28:58
Speaker 1: plopped it like it's huge, like put it down, like
29:01
Speaker 1: gonna put it got a drazzy to be honest, I
29:03
Speaker 1: just bought it, so it literally doesn't have anything in it.
29:07
Speaker 1: It has straps and probably the receipt. Yeah, there are
29:11
Speaker 1: a little mini bags that's so in right now. It's Diesel. Yeah, okay, okay, okay,
29:17
Speaker 1: he said, like what it's like it's Diesel like you
29:19
Speaker 1: she said, you just bought it. I was like, y'all
29:20
Speaker 1: gotta take Danny somewhere better than Canal screet That's what
29:23
Speaker 1: I thought myself. All right, Well we go get into
29:28
Speaker 1: the song right now. It's the same. It's the Breakfast Club.
29:30
Speaker 1: Come on and thanks for joining us.