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INTERVIEW: Lola Brooke Speaks On Becoming A Rapper, Industry Relationships, Upbringing Hardships + More · The Breakfast Club

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 2: Morning, everybody, It's tj Envy, Charlamagne de god nih La Simone.
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: We are the Breakfast Club. And we got a special
• 0:11
  Speaker 2: guest in the building.
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  Speaker 3: We got Load Labrook.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome.
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  Speaker 4: Tell them your real name, though, tell them it's Lola
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  Speaker 4: book because you've been booked in Busy all year.
• 0:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been a little crazy, but I ain't complaining.
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  Speaker 1: I enjoy it getting money.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I'm making money. I'm making money, making money.
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  Speaker 2: New album, Dennis Daughter is out right now, explain that title.
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  Speaker 3: Then his daughter.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, So I'm the only child raised by a single parent,
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  Speaker 4: my mom. But I used to hang out with my
• 0:42
  Speaker 4: father here in there here pick me up from school,
• 0:44
  Speaker 4: and everybody will always say little D. It will call
• 0:46
  Speaker 4: me little D when they see me my father or
• 0:49
  Speaker 4: then his daughter or whatever fits. They would always just
• 0:52
  Speaker 4: add him into my nickname. And I love this so much.
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  Speaker 4: So now I get to like relive it because my
• 0:58
  Speaker 4: father is deceased now, so I can't get that those
• 1:01
  Speaker 4: moments back, but I'm like creating new moments and I
• 1:04
  Speaker 4: still feel like he's still around.
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  Speaker 5: So was that like the inspiration behind the song? Vacant
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  Speaker 5: Heart as well.
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  Speaker 4: Vacant Heart was me just venting. I felt empty pockets,
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  Speaker 4: empty heart empty. You so feel empty sometimes like you
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  Speaker 4: just don't know. So that gotta be an old record
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  Speaker 4: because your pocket is not empty.
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  Speaker 3: Pockets like.
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  Speaker 1: Some people doing good.
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  Speaker 4: But is it an older record though, because it sounds
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  Speaker 4: like it, you know it was a time before now.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, I did that record this year.
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  Speaker 4: So basically, this whole entire project is me just reflecting
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  Speaker 4: all my life as I'm coming up. So I finally
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  Speaker 4: felt comfortable enough to finally just talk about my true
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  Speaker 4: feelings and what I was going through.
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  Speaker 3: So Vacant Heart is pretty pretty new.
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  Speaker 1: Was that a tough song to record?
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  Speaker 3: It was?
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  Speaker 4: It was so fast, like fifteen thirty minutes, like straight through,
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  Speaker 4: But that's just how you record because IVE been in
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  Speaker 4: the studio with you. You take like five minutes and then go.
• 2:01
  Speaker 3: Lay it and then you're done. And it's crazy because
• 2:03
  Speaker 3: after I was taking long, I'm like dad ny letting here.
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  Speaker 3: She probably like, yo, you not you still not finished yet? Nah,
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  Speaker 3: You're You're You're a beast with that.
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  Speaker 1: But emotionally was it tough though.
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  Speaker 4: I wasn't in the room, see when I'm recording, I
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  Speaker 4: don't really be in the room with a lot of people,
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  Speaker 4: so I'm very much comfortable. And whoever's in the room,
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  Speaker 4: I probably have been in a vulnerable space around them.
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  Speaker 3: Already cool. And then the engineer, I don't see the engineer.
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  Speaker 2: Like, now, let's start from the beginning. So for people
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  Speaker 2: that don't know Lola Brook, where did you? Where did
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  Speaker 2: you get your your start from? Why did you start rapping?
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  Speaker 2: And how did you get your deal?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, so honestly speaking, the people's chose well, I always
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  Speaker 4: say rap chose me. I didn't choose rap. It was
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  Speaker 4: just always there. And the people's like the citizens of
• 2:51
  Speaker 4: New York City. It was just like, yo, look, listen
• 2:54
  Speaker 4: you nice. I noticed a hobby for you, but you
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  Speaker 4: should take it serious.
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  Speaker 2: So what were you doing between Because you said it
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: was a hobby, So what else were you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Just working a nine to five? Like I was always
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  Speaker 4: a nine to five girl. As soon as I turned eighteen,
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  Speaker 4: the first thing I did was.
• 3:09
  Speaker 3: Go get a job. That was your first job, Little Caesars.
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  Speaker 1: Already, God is so amazing. God sense a human.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I would just go to the studio just
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  Speaker 4: for a hobby, I started taking this serious.
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  Speaker 3: It's another artist from Brooklyn, his name Bleazy.
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  Speaker 4: He wanted to do a song with me, so I
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  Speaker 4: featured a song on him.
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  Speaker 3: I went to the studio.
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  Speaker 4: I ended up bumping into his team Team.
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  Speaker 3: Eighty, my mentor eighty.
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  Speaker 4: I met him and then just being around knowing like, oh, okay,
• 3:48
  Speaker 4: this how music videos go. This is how the studio
• 3:51
  Speaker 4: process go. Like you get to like relax because when
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  Speaker 4: I was going to the studio two hours that's it. It
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  Speaker 4: was like forty dollars an hour. I got eighty dollars
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  Speaker 4: and that's it. But with them, they was just so
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  Speaker 4: relaxed and everybody was just so creative, and I fell
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  Speaker 4: in love with it, and I was like, wow, so
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  Speaker 4: this really is my destiny.
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  Speaker 2: So now when when you got your dre So I
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  Speaker 2: remember shout the Sab. I went to college with Sav.
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  Speaker 2: He called early on and was like, I got this artist.
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  Speaker 2: She's dope, and he was calling everybody that he knew. So,
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  Speaker 2: so how did you get with Sab and how did
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  Speaker 2: you finally get that deal?
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  Speaker 3: Sav stalked me.
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  Speaker 2: That sad of course, Like I went to college fat
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  Speaker 2: Man and school's brother as well. For people that don't know.
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  Speaker 2: You used to work for a Death Jam.
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  Speaker 5: And I didn't know. Sometimes sometimes I really jam with
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  Speaker 5: the GZ.
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  Speaker 1: And worked for.
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  Speaker 3: Simons.
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  Speaker 4: I know who Famine Scoopers and I know who Sabath.
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  Speaker 3: That's great.
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  Speaker 5: I knew that regular I don't even know I was
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  Speaker 5: in South Carolina and knew that for some reason.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I knew it was in South Carolina. I
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  Speaker 3: was ten. But go ahead, damn, I still knew that.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean, But go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he stalked, he was, and he was like, Yo,
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  Speaker 4: what's going on?
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  Speaker 3: Man? You dope? I need to know like who like
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  Speaker 3: with the squad that I need to speak to the man.
• 5:00
  Speaker 3: Let's figure this out.
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  Speaker 4: It just felt so natural though, meeting with Sath and Arista.
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  Speaker 4: They didn't want to change me or my team or
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  Speaker 4: what I.
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  Speaker 3: Brought to the table.
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  Speaker 4: They thought that it was just a good idea to
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  Speaker 4: just keep everything the same. So me just being me
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  Speaker 4: and I don't have to change nothing about me. That
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  Speaker 4: was the That was like a relief for me.
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  Speaker 5: Did you have any fear because you know they always
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  Speaker 5: say a woman artist, woman rapper can't pop unless you
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  Speaker 5: got like a big male co sign, especially from another
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  Speaker 5: male rapper.
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  Speaker 3: See that's not my case, but if it was, so
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  Speaker 3: be it.
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  Speaker 4: And also not in that era. What listen, the ladies
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  Speaker 4: is doing anything. Ladies is doing anything.
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  Speaker 5: That is true. This era doesn't really have that as
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  Speaker 5: much as past eras that's true.
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  Speaker 4: But back to meeting with sav, I will say, I
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  Speaker 4: didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: You were a fat man school brother. Don't know his name? Wow, disgusting.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: All I wanted to know was because you were saying
• 6:07
  Speaker 4: how he called everybody he knew, and he kept saying,
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  Speaker 4: like this record, don't play with it. I know it's old,
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  Speaker 4: but I know it's.
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  Speaker 3: A big record.
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  Speaker 4: Were you against repushing the record because I feel like
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  Speaker 4: artists kind of be over and onto the next, Like,
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  Speaker 4: were you excited about the push or like how did
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  Speaker 4: that go? I was excited because who's gonna say not
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  Speaker 4: to what? It didn't matter how long it took or
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  Speaker 4: how old it was.
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  Speaker 1: It's new to somebody.
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  Speaker 4: It's new to somebody, and this was my real chance.
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  Speaker 4: So I wasn't going to turn my chance down. I
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  Speaker 4: waited this, I waited for this moment all my life,
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  Speaker 4: and you got.
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  Speaker 5: Such a big voice. Is that something that's natural or
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  Speaker 5: something you practice? Because you know you are the smallest
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  Speaker 5: you wanted to sound.
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  Speaker 4: I mean when I'm mad. I took it like this,
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  Speaker 4: it's my mad voice. My rat voice is my mad voice.
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  Speaker 4: So it's still meagne Yo.
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  Speaker 5: Want to go back a little season.
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  Speaker 4: Back to your rap boy the at lip because I
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  Speaker 4: feel like your ad lib is infamous? How did you
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  Speaker 4: come up with that? I always wanted to stamp. I
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  Speaker 4: always wanted to stamp to I'm small, so I always
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  Speaker 4: want to be heard. So I was thinking to myself,
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  Speaker 4: like I need to find out a way to be
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  Speaker 4: heard without being seen or my presence is not in
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  Speaker 4: the room. And I sat with it for a very
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  Speaker 4: long time, so it started off as oh I do huh.
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  Speaker 4: Then when don't play with it, when I listen to
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  Speaker 4: the beat, it just came out. I'm like just stuttering
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  Speaker 4: or something and it felt good. So and then now
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  Speaker 4: it's that's like my Batman call.
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  Speaker 5: Regardless of the voice, you still have a big personality,
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  Speaker 5: Like when you walk in the room, you can feel
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  Speaker 5: your presence. When did you first become aware of that presence?
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  Speaker 4: My mom been telling me that since I came out
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  Speaker 4: with the womb, like leave my child alone, Like they
• 7:57
  Speaker 4: act like they I will go any my mom will
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  Speaker 4: take on trips and people would be so fascinated with me,
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  Speaker 4: and my mom would be so confused, like why they
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  Speaker 4: keep walking up to you, like just ask me random
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  Speaker 4: questions or just attachment, like people wild have attachment to
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  Speaker 4: me when I walk in the room with my presence.
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  Speaker 4: But I just I never thought anything of it. I
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  Speaker 4: just was being myself and little did I know I
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  Speaker 4: was a whole artist.
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  Speaker 2: Did you have relationships with a lot of the Brooklyn
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  Speaker 2: artists beforehand? Because when the record started to pop, I
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  Speaker 2: started seeing so many artists bringing you out on their sets,
• 8:29
  Speaker 2: whether it was Kim or whoever. Maybe did you have
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  Speaker 2: those relationships beforehand?
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  Speaker 3: No music broke me into these relationships.
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  Speaker 4: See me, I was so more. I was more focused
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  Speaker 4: on my craft. I went and like hang out so much.
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  Speaker 4: I was always in the studio, literally sleeping waking up
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  Speaker 4: in the studio, so I didn't really get to mingle
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  Speaker 4: as much as other artists did. I was just working
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  Speaker 4: on my craft. So when I finally felt like I
• 8:54
  Speaker 4: had a good body of work to put out, then
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  Speaker 4: I saw when I was going outside and then don't
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  Speaker 4: play with it? Start taking off and I started building
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  Speaker 4: my relationship.
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  Speaker 2: What all that supported you the most when he first
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  Speaker 2: started popping, but before or right when they don't play
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  Speaker 2: with it came out.
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  Speaker 3: It's a mixture of a it's I don't I can't
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  Speaker 3: even call that.
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  Speaker 4: What I can say is Meek called it out from
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  Speaker 4: jump like twenty seventeen, Meek was like my first co
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  Speaker 4: sign ever.
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  Speaker 1: So just a tweet. He just tweeted something he said.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, like he would comment on my stuff. He will
• 9:26
  Speaker 4: post me, his peopils will post me as well. He
• 9:29
  Speaker 4: will say it in his stories or just anything like
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  Speaker 4: that any way to be supportive within social media. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: he was.
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  Speaker 1: Did he trying to sign you to?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he was already.
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  Speaker 1: Signed at the time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It was like when the when the when the talks
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  Speaker 4: really came down to it was like it's already done.
• 9:52
  Speaker 3: It's already done, bro.
• 9:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: On Vacant Heart, you said you was heartbroken when your
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  Speaker 5: mom left for Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, why didn't you go to her?
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  Speaker 4: Because that was I felt like that was that was
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  Speaker 4: my moment to grow. I wanted to have some type
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  Speaker 4: of growth. I wanted her to trust me. I wanted
• 10:12
  Speaker 4: her to feel safe to what do what makes her happy?
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  Speaker 4: Because I can't stop my mom from this is this was.
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  Speaker 3: One of her dreams.
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  Speaker 4: You know, a New York always go to get a
• 10:21
  Speaker 4: house in Atlanta. This was part of my mom dreaming.
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  Speaker 4: Even if I ain't understand it. That wasn't my place
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  Speaker 4: to like not give her the support. So I just
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  Speaker 4: was like, you know what, when she left, I cried
• 10:36
  Speaker 4: like a baby.
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: Oh you.
• 10:39
  Speaker 4: How how long has it been? I don't know, but
• 10:43
  Speaker 4: this was like three years ago, three four years.
• 10:45
  Speaker 5: Ago, ten years ago, three.
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  Speaker 3: Four years ago. No, it was like three four years ago.
• 10:51
  Speaker 5: Well, as a rapper, Atlanta is like the mecca of
• 10:54
  Speaker 5: hip hop right now, so you didn't want to, you
• 10:56
  Speaker 5: know what, like maybe I should go to Atlanta.
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  Speaker 3: Too, and yeah, but I'm the only child. You gotta understand.
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  Speaker 4: My mom treats me like she's gonna treat me like
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  Speaker 4: a baby forever. And I had to stand on my
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  Speaker 4: two feet and figure it out. So I didn't know
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  Speaker 4: what I was gonna do. She was telling me like
• 11:12
  Speaker 4: she left the uh, she left the apartment for me.
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  Speaker 4: It was on section eight. I ended up being on
• 11:17
  Speaker 4: section eight, so I still couldn't even really like pay
• 11:20
  Speaker 4: my rent. But I was telling her like I'm good,
• 11:23
  Speaker 4: like I got an income, like I'm straight, like you
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  Speaker 4: could go and she was like, okay, but it was
• 11:28
  Speaker 4: all it was by yourself.
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, damn.
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  Speaker 4: I like that Section eight is in there somewhere somewhere
• 11:40
  Speaker 4: in this project You're going here section eight. It definitely
• 11:42
  Speaker 4: is an adjustment when you leave home or when home
• 11:45
  Speaker 4: leaves you. I think people like sleep on that, but
• 11:47
  Speaker 4: it definitely pushes you. Like when my parents left me
• 11:50
  Speaker 4: for college, like they moved me in and left. It
• 11:52
  Speaker 4: didn't really resonate like, oh, y'all are leaving, like I
• 11:55
  Speaker 4: I gotta stay here and do everything myself. But yes,
• 11:58
  Speaker 4: you're never too old to like have for that reality check.
• 12:02
  Speaker 4: It's like the little things that I peat with my
• 12:04
  Speaker 4: moms that she would she wouldn't think that I know
• 12:06
  Speaker 4: how to cook, and I had to show her like
• 12:08
  Speaker 4: one things given I like cook, things given meal, like, no,
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  Speaker 4: I know how to cook. So that right there was
• 12:14
  Speaker 4: me thinking to myself, Oh, she don't like she think.
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  Speaker 3: I'm still her.
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  Speaker 4: Baby, Like she don't know that I'm grown and I
• 12:22
  Speaker 4: can take care of myself. That was like, yo, you
• 12:25
  Speaker 4: know what, just leave, ma.
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  Speaker 5: I don't want you to, but you gotta stand at
• 12:30
  Speaker 5: the stool, standing on a stool at the school.
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: The same.
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  Speaker 3: You know what you do, I'm told you right now.
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  Speaker 5: You know how to she is taller.
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  Speaker 2: What you do with your first check? When you got
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: your first check? Because it was on section A, What
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: did you do when you got your first check?
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  Speaker 4: What did you go my first check? I let go
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  Speaker 4: section I let go section eight and I got an
• 13:00
  Speaker 4: apartment and I saved up. I saved my money like
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  Speaker 4: I didn't go splurge it or anything like that. I
• 13:04
  Speaker 4: gave my moms a couple of dollars to of course,
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  Speaker 4: and that was it.
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: What was your first check off? Was it a show?
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  Speaker 1: Was it screaming or was it I was getting?
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  Speaker 4: It was like brown paper bags, you know, like go
• 13:15
  Speaker 4: hostings and stuff like that. My last question off of
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  Speaker 4: Vacant Heart, because I know we keep talking about this record,
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  Speaker 4: but I feel like it was just the most vulnerable.
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  Speaker 4: But you said, dealing with a man who ain't shipping
• 13:27
  Speaker 4: in with the bills. I feel like a lot of
• 13:29
  Speaker 4: women can relate to that at.
• 13:31
  Speaker 3: Some point, you know what I mean?
• 13:34
  Speaker 4: I mean, everybody go through they circumstances and I don't judge,
• 13:41
  Speaker 4: but if I'm going through it and you going through
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  Speaker 4: it with me, and I feel like there's no changes
• 13:48
  Speaker 4: I could do bad by myself, So I'm working with you.
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  Speaker 3: I don't judge.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like you got potentials, but obviously you don't
• 13:58
  Speaker 4: see it ain't for yourself.
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  Speaker 3: So I just gotta walk away from it.
• 14:01
  Speaker 5: And your experience is different because you went through it.
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  Speaker 5: You was on section eight. Yes, you hustled, you got
• 14:06
  Speaker 5: some bread, got off section that. You want to see
• 14:08
  Speaker 5: people who take those steps.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I was on section eight while I was
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  Speaker 4: on section eight, and I'm telling you all, I couldn't
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  Speaker 4: even pay my rent. And then I'm dealing with somebody
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  Speaker 4: that's like, they're not they're not a bad person. They're
• 14:21
  Speaker 4: actually a good person, but they're trying to figure themself out.
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  Speaker 4: And as they trying to figure themself out, it's dulling
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  Speaker 4: me down as well too, because I'm trying.
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  Speaker 3: To figure it out.
• 14:29
  Speaker 4: But so maybe we need a break from each other
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  Speaker 4: and we need to go our separate ways to figure out.
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  Speaker 3: What can we do in life to like motivate us.
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  Speaker 3: But I can't.
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  Speaker 4: I can't keep doing this because the growth is not
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: it's slow.
• 14:43
  Speaker 5: You that, yeah, you running the men who tried to
• 14:46
  Speaker 5: suppress your rise. Like they saw you growing, they saw
• 14:49
  Speaker 5: you becoming who you are who you are, and they
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: tried to stifle that. Yeah, you was on section eight
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  Speaker 5: who brand new dam I've.
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  Speaker 3: You know, honestly, it's not a lot of guys that could.
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  Speaker 4: No, I don't play the type of games like growing up,
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: my mom didn't have me around a lot of men,
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  Speaker 4: and if I was around someone, they was doing something
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: for me and her. So No, I didn't really have
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: I don't really have those stories with a lot of
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: gods saying I did this for you. I was very independent,
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: very independent and not saying that I don't want no help.
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: But I'm not. I'm not begging for no help though.
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: How were you navigating through the industry. We hear all
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: these horror stories of women trying to do things and
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: men trying to take advantage of that. Have you had
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: any of those horror stories?
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: No, I'm around so many men like men, men don't
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: get the chance to touch me. I'm like really well
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: protected and I'm very much blessed to even have that experience,
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: because I don't know what I would do if I
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: was in the industry and people was like hitting off
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: me for business or anything like that. But I've been
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: well protected. So shout outs to shout outs to my
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: team and the bros. We love that well, we know
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: you got angels obvious and in der Dennis, you're talking
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: about having a conversation with him on which is your dad?
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: When was the last time he visited you? In like
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: a dream or something like that.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why I'm like, it's sober him. It's been
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: a little it's been a little minute, Like I I
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: can't even.
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: You think you just have to question going on so
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: you can't receive it. Yeah, it might be that, but
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: sometimes I think to myself, maybe he feel like you
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: got it, like you don't you don't need me yet,
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: Like I come when when I feel like you need
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: some type of reinsurance.
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: It would be the worst ones like I've had, Like
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: my grandmother passed in six and I had like two
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: dreams about it.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: I be feeling the same way, like what's up with
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: see don't show me that you're still here?
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: But then you know, yeah, around it'd be like certain
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: signs that you feel but you like I need to
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: see you and feel you a little bit more like
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: where you at but it's been a little minute, but
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: I still feel him though, Like I like, it's days
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: where I be I stop, and I'd be like, all right,
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: I got you.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: You ever talked to a medium?
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: No?
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: You ever thought about it? No?
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: No, no, man, hold on.
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: But I actually spoke to a medium once by accident.
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: Somebody just came up to me and started volunteering information.
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: That happened to me, okay, And then another time I
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: actually scheduled an appointment with one much later.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: In my life.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I'm too I'm too nervous to do that.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: I'm with you.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: I ain't. So what happened when they walked up on you?
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Where was you at.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: About to do the b et cipher?
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: Wow?
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: L a he was. He was telling me about myself.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: But then after a while I was getting a little
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: scared because it was just.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: In the store, hotel.
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: No, he was in like and I don't know if
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: he was part of He told me who he was
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: to and I just got part of the non't I
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: don't even matter.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Was he right about some things? Did he?
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: He was right about some things about myself.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: And then after a while he was going a little
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: too crazy for me, Like I was just like like
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: he would say things like you're very nurturing and you
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: take care of people, like.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: If your mom, if you're a mom.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: And you're worried about more of them than yourself, and
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: it was so true.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: So I was like, oh, yeah, that's kind of big right.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: Now, I gotta get this.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm like, I'm about the stuff you talk about.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: What I do not feel like crying on that stage.
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: You don't got nobody to rescue you from situations like that, though,
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: this is what I'm saying, y'all need.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: A cold or something, yea tis or something.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: My eyes started like, oh, here we go.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: But he was honestly, it felt kind of genuine in
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: a sense though, so I didn't really trip. I was
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: more of being a listener than like trying to brush
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: them off. But then after a while I was like, Okay.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Miss, I'm not here to be emotional. I'm here to
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: put my feet on the gate right now.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: So what is the hardest part about being a new artist.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: The hardest part about being a new artist is when
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: all in reality really an old artist. So it's like
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: what you feel like you've been putting out a lot
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: of people don't know, so you have to cross that
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: bridge and know that it's a billion people in the
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: world that don't know your story, and you have to
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: retell it, retell it every time and don't be annoyed
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: by it because people are learning you.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: So how was the two being. I know you went
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: on a little HBCU run.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: It's been lit college kids, what man?
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: They show you so much love. And then on top
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: of that, it just feels so good because I always
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: wanted to go away for college, but I didn't get
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: the chance to.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: I went to college school.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Megavis is macgan EVAs an HBCU.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: Somebody I argue with.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Somebody, I don't think it is. Somebody told me I
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: read it was it is. No, I don't know.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: I don't think it can't. I wait, but you gotta understand.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: I dropped out twenty right, So I graduated high school
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: twenty twelve.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: I took a year off and I went twenty fourteen
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: and then it was just over.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: And it was over.
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: I had to sit down with my mom.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: I was like, look, listen, this ain't for me. I
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: don't think this is my destiny.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Ma, I don't know. I'm gonna figure it out. I'm
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: gonna come back.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: I told her, like, I'm gonna take a year off
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: from school and then I'm gonna go to college.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: But ma, I don't think. I don't know.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: I feel like I'm important to the world. I was like,
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: I feel like I'm a star in some way. I
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: don't know what it is, but I'm gonna figure it out.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna come back and tell you.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: And she was like, Okay, love that now.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: One of my favorite records on the project so far.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: I feel like it changes often. But don't get me
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: started with Coroy. So I want to talk about how
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: you guys collaborated because you guys are two of the
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: biggest in the Tri state right now. Okay, So Coy
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: is a ball of energy, just like me. Very Petitue.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: It's another artist on there as well. She started off
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: as a songwriter Nija.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: I got n on there. She's from Jersey as well.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: So I wanted to do a New York cross over
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: to Holland to New Jersey because it's the East Coast
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: and just united and then we all Patitue girls. So
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: I knew it would look so good on the screen,
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: you know, Like I didn't really see too much Petitue
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: girls me growing up, that's.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: My that's my voice, that's my.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: No.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Everybody was just.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: I was always on in the front of the line,
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: like it's every time.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: You know, line enough for the line. In elementary school,
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: I was always in the front. It felt good to,
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: you know, know.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: That I could be a part of girls that's my size,
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: put and on in music and confident as well.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Y'all did records before though, right now y'all have.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: I'm on Choy project. Yep, okay okaya got yeah on
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Coy Project.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: So y'all been collaborating, y'all been there?
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we've done like been performancely broke me
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: out at Rolling Loud in Florida, So Miami, Florida.
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: How is it to have that person that you can
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: reach out to and talk to about things that's going
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: on in the business and industry and they understand.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: We have like we tap in here and there, but
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: I feel I'll be feeling like we're so busy that
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: sometimes as an artist, you don't even really get to
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: tap in to your emotions as you work in like
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: it'd be just so much and then when you do
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: finally have the time to like vent, you don't even
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: want to.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: You'd be like, man, I got it. I'll be all right.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: We have prep talk to yourself.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: That's good when you say the emotions, because I don't
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: think people talk about that enough to come from basically
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: doing you know, not doing anything like like you know,
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: just trying to figure it out, fulfilling your dream and
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: to actually having success. Like that's gotta be a different
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: way of different waves of emotions.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: Right now where I'm at, I just think about where
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: I came from and saying to myself, what if I
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: would he gave up because it's people that doubted me,
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: and there's people that told me that I should stuff,
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: but something in me told me not to stop. So
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: like this is like my glory journey right now. Just
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: told me not to stop.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Now you sampled the record with Foxy, Get you homes?
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Do you kick it with you?
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Kick with Foxy at all?
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: I kick it with Foxy Foxy don't play what She'd
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: be like, listen, do it and don't stop, and if
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: you stop, I'd be like I got you, don't eat
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: your body.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: I got you.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: But she's very supportive, like I could text her anytime.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: And the night she hit me randomly sometimes too. Just
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: I'll be neating that though, because Brooklyn Anthem is one
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: of the songs where I would tell you, yeah she
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: got she put the deep voice on similar.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah Brooklyn beef. Who want that? So I'm like, it's
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: nothing wrong with how I am.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: I'm aggressive, i might be petitue, I'm outspoken, but I'm
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: a Brooklyn girl. I used to be so embarrassed on
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: how my image was as an artist because you know,
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: people have their opinions.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Oh she's too rough. I'm from New York City. I
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: don't know what to tell y'all. Like, I don't know.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: I can't be anybody else but myself.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: So how do you develop a relationship with fox?
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: She hit me up on Instagram?
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Wow?
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, she was like, Yo, where are you from? Like
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: I'm from the Star She like, oh word, that's my hood.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: I'm like yeah, and then we just yeah, we just
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: connected from there. I think she she I feel like
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: she herself yes and me Yeah. And it makes sense
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: because when looking at her, I was like, I get
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: why I'm the way I am, Like she's.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: From where I'm from?
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: What game is she giving? You?
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: Don't the grind? Don't stop like keep going, don't don't
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: do down. Keep working on your craft is very important,
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: like put on for Brooklyn girls. What about your relationship
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: with Kim as well?
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: Always phenomenal.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: She brought me out to Apollo for the first time ever.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: I've never been out there a day of my life.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: So I'm on stage like looking around, observing the auditorium
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: because I've never been here.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: Then I'm like, oh, Kim right here. Oh, I gotta
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: mike you my hand. Always people go, oh, I'm performing.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: She doesn't send me some flowers and things like that.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: She just embraced me. She embraced me a lot.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: And it feels good because I'm telling you me, growing up,
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: I didn't have that much confidence in myself.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: I was the only child. I ain't have nobody to
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: really speak to.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: Moms at work all the time, doing doubles two jobs,
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: so it's sometimes you.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: I felt lonely as an only child, lonely.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: So these two female artists from Brooklyn, And it's crazy
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: because I wouldn't say that I grew up on their music,
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: but I'm from Brooklyn, so I grew around their music.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: You know. It was like you had to know who
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: Fox was. You had to know who Ken was, Biggie,
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: you just had to know.
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: So what gave you the confidence? Like what started instilling
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: confidence in you?
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Just I had journals.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: I had diaries, just writing out how I felt, what
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: did I do that day? What do I feel I
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: should do better for myself? Just just venting in journals.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: That was my thing. I will always bug my mom
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: to get me a journal so I could just vent
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: in them.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: A song like a God bless all the rappers.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: That I'm a rapper, Like, I gotta pray harder on
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: rappers because now that I feel I can benefit from
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: this career, I have to say speak up for my
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: community because it's a lot going on and moments happened,
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: and the moments are forget forgotten literally the next following week.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: So I wanted to bring awareness to that, like this
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: is an ongoing thing, like don't forget.
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: So did you ever feel like being a rapper was
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: too dangerous? It's like so like to chase the dream
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: to want to actually be one Because you sampled Jim Jones,
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: you know when he was talking about you know, being
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: around yeah occupation.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: No, I never see rap for me. It was just
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: a hobby. I never thought of any consequences from it
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: or benefits from it.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: It started with me, it was therapeutic.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: So when I finally got into the game and now
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: I'm around the business, I'm starting to feel like, oh,
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: since I'm part of this community, things.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: Could get real deep, really quickly.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: So if you don't speak on it now, it's gonna
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: get buried under the rug.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: You think once you become a rapper, you should leave
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: all the street stuff alone, though, because even even when
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: I listen to the record, I'm like a lot of
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: these individuals sometimes bring that side of the game into
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: the rap world. It's like, Yo, you're a professional. Now,
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: you got an occupatient, you make legal money. You don't
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: gotta still be moving like you're.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: In the street.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't say forget about the streets though, not forget
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: like not forget, but you don't have to.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's time to pack it up. What's the point.
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: What's the point of pursuing this career to talk about
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: your pain to still be living in it or like
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: like that just don't make no sense. So yeah, I
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: would say the better yourself. But you know, you come
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: back to give back. That's the only time you come
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: back is to give back. I think, sorry to go
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: back to don't play with it, but I just want
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: to rough on the tongue. It's such an infamous line. Now,
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: is that what you're looking for in a man?
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Like?
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: What are the things that Lola is looking for? Because
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: now you're in a new place, I know you're not
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: having a hard time finding somebody to.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: The same question.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: Right, you want a rough.
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: Nigga, wanted to I don't even mean a rough neck
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: nigga on the tongue, do good as all.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: I can tell you just what the tongue? What? What's
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: what you underlining? And what were you circling?
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: Okay, I want a rough nigga on the tongue, like.
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: Like with his that you want what I'm gonna break
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: the ice today?
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: And I know a lot.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: Of people, but you're definitely right. That's that's that was
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: the first idea of it.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: What was it? A lot of people don't.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Know that, but you on the tongue means on your tongue.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So I'm like, I'm confused.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, now.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: You confused rough nigga on the tongue. I always thought
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: this whole time, he just wanted to send me. Automatic
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: would have Drum asked me if I'm finished? Not that
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: whole line.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: Was about for play. Oh yeah, ask me if I'm finished. Nine, bitch,
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: I just begun. I ain't giving out no noney to
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: know nigga just for fun?
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: No, you dumb? But that's a whole four play line.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: I just giving yeah.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: But but honestly, it goes for both. But the first
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: thought of it was yeah, but it goes for both.
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: It's four play the whole first right now, the first
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: four bars.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: Is four play. I knew it was four player. I
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: just I looked at it as receiving back and forth.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: Though No, I just want to rough neck nigga on
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: the tongue he just wanted to send me. Automatic would
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: have Drune asked me if I'm finished?
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: Nah, we just were gun. I ain't giving out nonnies,
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: no niggas just for fun. Are you dumb? Like we
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: ain't here for no reason? Got it?
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: You should have did the genius little breakdown like I
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: tried to keep it.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: But you know I tried to keep it PG you know, so.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well you did a good job of that. Can
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: you tell us what are you looking for?
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: Man?
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: What is those looking for is.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: Just that reinsurance.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: I want to feel protected even if he's not around.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: I want a gentleman, and of course the gangster for sure,
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: but a former gangster.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: A former a reformed Yeah yeah.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah understood.
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: I feel like that look and don't play with it.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: The music video was just my Chef's kiss. I love
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: the bra led the orange under eye like and that
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: was before you have money. I feel like like those
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: were the best looks.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: The girl made that bra. I went, I went to
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: what is that? That's spot cool and j I think, I.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: Don't know, but I went to a triment. It's like
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: a I'm in store, just different things. I brought patches,
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: I brow some fabric glue. I had a dinner. That
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: bra was like a bikini denim bra. I put the
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: patches on it. That's why I had like the taxi
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: and State of Liberty and all that on there. And
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: and then the shorts was like pants.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: I cut them. And then it was May.
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: So you know when New York once it was cold,
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: but once May come, New Yorkers be like, oh yeah,
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: let me put on put on my summer fits. So
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: that's why I look like I'm hot and anybody else
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: looked like they.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: That's your language. Now she's speaking your language.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: I love the creativity.
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and then see, I mean I get that from
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: my mom though, Like I'm like, you know what, I'm
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: gonna just make this from scratch and then I'm on
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: a budget, like I ain't got I got some old
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: pins that I don't wear no more, cut them off.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: Put them into show. Though I still do it the
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: custom avern Rex. But see I hold on, hold on,
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: hold on, hold on. Yeah, but I'm I'm small, I
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: can't it swallows me. We like it.
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: We're here for it.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I mean I.
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: Still but no, like I still I shop anywhere and
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: then just make it look good.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: Like I'm not really quote off materialistic things for sure.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: I mean I like it. Don't get me wrong, I
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: like materialistic things.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: But I'm not the I'm not the artist where if
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: I don't have a particular certain name brand to wear anything,
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: I'll come in the studio or come here with sweats
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: and a white beatle.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: On and not be straight.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Are you people proud of you?
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: Very proud that it is, very proud, very proud more
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: than me.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Because they work hard to salute to everybody over there.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: I like that just the beginning.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: That's right, Yes, it's just the beginning. I'm just grateful
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: to be here.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: I haven't called me since that first record too. By
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: the way, he ain't call me no more.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: Do I feel pressure, No, because my expectations for don't
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: play with it wasn't what it is right now.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: I didn't. I didn't.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: I mean, I felt good about the record, but I
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: didn't know that the record was going to be a hit.
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: I thought it was just gonna be legendary in the
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: city of New York City.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: But I'm not pressured.
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: I've been putting out music for so long, and the
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: song went crazy the next two years. So if I
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: put out something today and it don't go crazy the
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: next six months, I ain't tripping about it because I
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: know the next two years it could. So I got
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: that blessing to know like that is possible. So I'll
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: be taking it easy and I just keep it as
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: the therapy for me.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: It's just therapeutic.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: What does your mom saying that?
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: My mom's just so excited, she's oh my god. I'd
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: be like, my okay, it's not that serious. She'd be like, girls,
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: you crazy? You is buddy, you is.
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: It's a star, You're talented, and I'd be like, oh, man,
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: come on mine, but she was. She was my mom's
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: was down from the start, like she's the reason I
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: resigned from my job.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: She's the reason I got the job. No no, no, no.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: See that was my first job.
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: But the last job that I had before I pursued
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: this rap career was residential ad at a shelter and
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: my mom was a supervisor. Well, I'm a shelter baby,
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: so she worked her positions in the shelter. I ended
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: up being old old enough to work in the shelter.
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: She got me a job there, and I remember coming
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: from coming home from studio. I would come home from
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: studio like six in the morning, and I had to
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: be to work at eight. So I get in six,
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: I get ready to get shot wing dressed, no sleep,
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: leave out seven, get there for eight.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: I had to take a bus to two trains. Job
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: was in Queen's and she would just cold.
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: I could tell like she felt she felt for me.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: She like, listen, I don't know if you feel like
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: you want to resign from the job, you can like
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: you got my full support, and that's all I needed.
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: To hear, because I'm like, listen, my moms don't play.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: She got me this job, and who am I to
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: say I don't want it no more because I want
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: to pursue something else. Wow, But she was the reason
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: why I resigned. But I ain't burn that bridge. I
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: resigned from my job. I didn't quit.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: I resigned.
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: But also too, that gives you real purpose and attention because,
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: like you said, you was a shelter baby, so you know,
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: you know what those kids are lacking and what they need.
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: Now you got the resources you can go back and.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: And go back and provide. Yes, that's my plan for sure.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: Well, Dennis's daughter is out right now. Make sure y'all
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: go get it. And we appreciate you for joining us.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Lola, Big Lola, it's Lola Brook.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: It's the Breakfast Club.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Good morning, Wake that ass up in the morning. The
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Breakfast Club.