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KeKe Palmer Interview · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Real people, real celebrity joined the Breakfast morning. Everybody is
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Speaker 1: DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy. We all the
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Speaker 1: breakfast club. We have a young lady who came here
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Speaker 1: this morning. No security, no press. She's not young, no,
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Speaker 1: no man has been, no nothing. She was out there.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know who she was, what her mama, hem
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Speaker 1: wasn't even she beat her mom in here. No, my
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Speaker 1: mama was here and she's standing right behind you. I
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Speaker 1: know that's the best security. Yeah, she's not young, no more.
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Speaker 1: By the way, she's twenty one. Miss Kiki Parma. Would
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Speaker 1: you like some remy remy? Oh you're not in front
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Speaker 1: of mom. Okay, she's got work to do today. It's
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Speaker 1: early in the morning. My bad. What's going on, Kiki?
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Speaker 1: Nothing much, just working out here promoting brotherly love. I
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Speaker 1: saw it, by the way. I love that movie. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I thought it was great. So I'm so glad. I'm
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Speaker 1: so glad you did that fantastic job in that movie.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. I feel like I know you've been doing
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Speaker 1: a lot though you've been super busy. You got your
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Speaker 1: on talk show just kicking money out, and you got
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Speaker 1: a TV show coming yet Fox giving black people shows
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Speaker 1: like It's the Night. No, I retweeted you when you
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Speaker 1: said that because they had me cracking. Did they do
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Speaker 1: that after Empire or you had that already? No, it
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Speaker 1: was after Empire, but it's Ryan Murphy. But the show
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Speaker 1: is not like Empire at all. It's very different. It's
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Speaker 1: Ryan Murphy, so they do a lot of business with him.
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Speaker 1: So it just was, you know, ironic. It's like a
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Speaker 1: horror movie horror TV shows. Yes, it's like American horror
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Speaker 1: stories I would say, mixed with mean girls. So you
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Speaker 1: get like a little bit of the girl Caddy is
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Speaker 1: comedy from that type of film, and then also you
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Speaker 1: get the gore from like American horns. So you're killing people. No,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if I'm the killer. I
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Speaker 1: don't know what's going I don't know what what's gonna happen.
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Speaker 1: Don't tell They don't tell us. They don't tell us either.
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Speaker 1: It's crazy and I'm always trying to figure it out.
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Speaker 1: But Ryan, don't tell me. It is using you for promo.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna kill you first episode. You're black, you dieing
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Speaker 1: hard movies and TV show that's not that's not what
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Speaker 1: happens now. With black individuals and movies and Black Boy. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: with the successive Empire, successive Empire, you last, right, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: talk about brotherly love. We didn't see it, but we're
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Speaker 1: hearing this pretty good. Yes, we did well. One of
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Speaker 1: us did. One of us did. Yeah. Yeah. No, I
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Speaker 1: was very, very simple. I was like, I didn't be surprised. Huh. No,
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Speaker 1: I didn't know what the movie was gonna be about.
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Speaker 1: Number one. I was surprised because it's the first time
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Speaker 1: Team Quincy act in the movie. So I didn't know
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Speaker 1: how that Ny killer. He did a great job because
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Speaker 1: I didn't know we could act either. When he called
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Speaker 1: me and told me, I said, all this movie about it.
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie because you're like, Okay. I never
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Speaker 1: knew him to act in my entire I've known him
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Speaker 1: for very I know the sweet was kids. So I'm like,
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Speaker 1: he camed to him something, I want to introduce myself
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Speaker 1: as Chris. I'm like, what the hell. Then I'm like, oh,
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Speaker 1: he about to be in the movie. And I was like, Oh,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna see what's gonna be up with this? And
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Speaker 1: then when we got there, I was for real blown away,
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Speaker 1: like wow, he was telling me how he had started
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Speaker 1: acting and really started focusing on I'm like, dude, you
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Speaker 1: really gonna it was He's really good in the film.
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Speaker 1: And then Eric Hill was really good. I never yeah
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Speaker 1: he was. He's kind of new to Eric is one
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Speaker 1: of the main characters also, And that's why I feel
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Speaker 1: like everything with the movie was just faded to happen
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Speaker 1: that way because everything that wasn't supposed to happen happen.
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Speaker 1: We were able to get out there to start work
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Speaker 1: and we know we're gonna have the funds. Then we
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Speaker 1: found all the right characters. The casting was done properly.
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Speaker 1: Shout outs to Kim Hard. I mean, everything went so
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Speaker 1: so fluently, and it was in Failing. You guys filmed
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Speaker 1: in Philly. And how long did it take to do
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Speaker 1: the whole movie? Oh, we filmed it very quickly, maybe
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Speaker 1: like twenty six days. That's crazy. Yeah, it was. It
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Speaker 1: was a quick shoe. It was a quick shoe. But
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Speaker 1: we all had such a good time. It felt like
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Speaker 1: we were out there having like a little party. And
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Speaker 1: I never knew Philly was so cool to like being
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Speaker 1: and chilling. I like Philly. I used to do radio there.
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Speaker 1: But you you was just in the right place you
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Speaker 1: go torough the hood. You that got shot, he was
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Speaker 1: not getting shot in the hood. Okay, it's been much
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Speaker 1: more innocent people than keeping but you know it's great.
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Speaker 1: They did really have some nice to feel like it's
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Speaker 1: bulls you always. They mentioned that black thought was in
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Speaker 1: the movie. Yeah, we were trying to use like little
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Speaker 1: working like John Yea, all this stuff like that. We
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Speaker 1: tried to make sure we gave it the authentic, authentic
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Speaker 1: Philly vibe because the director and the writer is from
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Speaker 1: Philly and we were in Philly. So we wanted to
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Speaker 1: make sure, even though we weren't from Philly, that we
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Speaker 1: made it. You know, did I put our best foot forward?
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Speaker 1: You know? That's it weird like making out with Quincy
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Speaker 1: and steps since y'all with friends since you were little.
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Speaker 1: It was very weird. It was very weird to us.
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Speaker 1: It was very weird to us because you want to
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Speaker 1: especially when you're cool with somebody, you don't want to
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Speaker 1: be looking like you're doing too much on screen. You
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Speaker 1: don't want to be like, you know, doing too much.
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Speaker 1: So we tried to find a balance between making sure
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Speaker 1: we had that passion but still was laid back and
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Speaker 1: cool in it. Yes it. No, I'm kidding, I'm excited
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Speaker 1: about that. I can't say that was excited, but I
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Speaker 1: definitely like shout out, queens, you got me, you know
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Speaker 1: you got you got me a nice looking dude, because
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Speaker 1: Quincy is not bad on the eye scenes though, it's
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Speaker 1: like like do guys get like hard? Sorry, Mom, No,
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Speaker 1: She's like, you get mois um. You know, Mom's like,
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Speaker 1: let me because this is the thing about it, when
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Speaker 1: you were think in your mind naturally, Like, you know,
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Speaker 1: even when I did TLC with Evan, I used to
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Speaker 1: have the biggest crush on every I mean I was,
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Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, he's married. Now you know you
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Speaker 1: got trouble that before? Man, don't tell me, let me.
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Speaker 1: You know, I had a big, the biggest crush on Evan,
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Speaker 1: right and when I it was so funny because clearly
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Speaker 1: I had gotten over the crush as I grew up
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Speaker 1: and you know, had my own life and my own relationships.
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Speaker 1: And when I did tell see me, I'm like, wow.
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Speaker 1: I even called my sister like, girl, you've been all
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Speaker 1: them years. I loved Evan and now I'm actually about
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Speaker 1: to do all the you know, makeout scenes with him
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Speaker 1: because it's too awkward. It's not. You got people looking
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Speaker 1: at you, you know, you in each other's face, poles
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Speaker 1: trying to make sure you getting the right thing. It's
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Speaker 1: just it's weird. You're still line the mama telling you
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Speaker 1: a virgin maybe so you you know, she said, my mama,
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Speaker 1: noma s my mom talking about everything. And you had
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Speaker 1: a living boyfriend before anyway, So really a girl living
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Speaker 1: a life and doing her thing, living boyfriend. She talks
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Speaker 1: about it. When she was here, I talked about it
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Speaker 1: in my essence all this. I drink heavy. I don't
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Speaker 1: remembering this stuff. But now you're a single, right, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm single? Now? Okay she's single? Oh man, I got
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Speaker 1: a good m F Mary Kill for you too. What's this? Okay? Okay,
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Speaker 1: who's okay? Then this is how I'm gonna really tell,
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Speaker 1: because you know everybody's I was like, oh, she's didating
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Speaker 1: this person. No she's not. She's diding this person, No
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Speaker 1: she's not. So now I'm gona really be able to
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Speaker 1: tell where your head is at. Okay, Okay, let's do it.
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Speaker 1: Let's all right, F Mary Kill, little little Dirk yg
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Speaker 1: and august I sena okay, little Dirk Mary. Oh so
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Speaker 1: because that's just seeing him. The other day, Mary killed that.
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Speaker 1: I ain't got that Mary, little Dirk. Okay, um, who's
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Speaker 1: the next person? He said, August, I's seen it, And YG,
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Speaker 1: who are you killing? Oh? You know, we need another option.
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Speaker 1: We don't have to kill them. You have to kill
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Speaker 1: one of them, not killing the literal sense, just you know,
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Speaker 1: you're dead to me. Okay, okay, okay, okay, you're dead
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Speaker 1: to me. Yeah, but this person is not dead to me.
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Speaker 1: But this is the only choice that I have, Oh,
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Speaker 1: Doc going, Okay, I dead to me. I guess it
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Speaker 1: would have to be YG. I don't mean this, but
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Speaker 1: this is the game, the game, so maybe that will
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Speaker 1: be Maybe that will be killed. But he's about any
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Speaker 1: day now. We don't want nobody coming for you. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we're really cool. No, we're really cool friends now, but
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Speaker 1: it's not like that. You know, man, Hollywood. You know
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Speaker 1: how Hollywood always try to make whoever you hanging with,
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Speaker 1: that's got to be the person you're dating. You're with them,
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Speaker 1: y'all ride to die. Y'all got a fool dang gonna
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Speaker 1: love story that you never even knew before the end
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Speaker 1: of the week. So for me, it's just like you know,
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Speaker 1: every now and then, I do a little dating here
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Speaker 1: and there. But I'm I don't do a lot of
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Speaker 1: dating in the industry because it's not as it's not
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Speaker 1: as a relaxed as people thinking is. People don't immediately think,
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Speaker 1: let me date my you know, successful counterpart or because
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Speaker 1: you can't go anywhere without being harassing and pictures and
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Speaker 1: people commenting. It just seems like business with all guests
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Speaker 1: and like, oh he makes some great chicken. People went
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Speaker 1: crazy over that. But I would admit that was a
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Speaker 1: little bit funny though. Man just frying, no girl, no chicken.
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Speaker 1: You know, Okay, no, but he's from New Orleans, y'all.
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Speaker 1: He from New Orleans. You know how guys in New Orleans,
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Speaker 1: but they'd be cooking, they'd be ready to show off. Okay,
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Speaker 1: you scream married a little Dirk immediately that nobody tell you. No,
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Speaker 1: I would tell you that means he's telling you love
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Speaker 1: because he's a real dude. I mean, not that the
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Speaker 1: other guy's on the real dude. But you know, Dirk
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Speaker 1: is not petty, he's not gossipy, he's not I mean,
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Speaker 1: anytime I have a conversation with him, he's just about
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Speaker 1: doing right for his kids, staying focused right and all
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Speaker 1: the time, like god bless. Like he's just really very chill.
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Speaker 1: He's very chilly and nice person. We're both from Chicago,
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Speaker 1: so I think maybe we both see, you know, maybe
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Speaker 1: we have the same mentality. I don't know what it be, okay,
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Speaker 1: but he's a real good guy, so some potential there.
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Speaker 1: Maybe I'm not, you know, I always say never say never.
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Speaker 1: Got Brandy answer man, she wants your faith, you know.
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Speaker 1: I don't really don't know what happened with that, to
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Speaker 1: be honest with you. I think a lot of times
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Speaker 1: with social media again, people will see one little sound
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Speaker 1: by the one little thing and they immediately, you know,
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Speaker 1: add something to it. Who knows what somebody could have
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Speaker 1: sent her and showed her. She probably didn't see the
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Speaker 1: interview personally, and then she went back and looked at
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Speaker 1: it and was like, Okay, it wasn't like what people
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Speaker 1: made it seem like, yeah, exactly. And for me, it's
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Speaker 1: just like, I don't be I'm not the type of
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Speaker 1: I mean, look, you can't prove yourself to people. So
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Speaker 1: when stuff like that happens, what can you say. I'm
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Speaker 1: not trying to steal nobody's husband, right, that looks crazy
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Speaker 1: ready to go, And that's another thing. And plus, let's
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Speaker 1: be real, I grew up watching sister's sister, so to
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Speaker 1: you know me, even if I was just crazy, type
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Speaker 1: of hussy or whatever you want to call it, I
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Speaker 1: wouldn't be trying to steal one of my inspirations husband.
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Speaker 1: I mean, somebody I don't even grow up watching. I
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Speaker 1: just put out a statement. She cleared it up. She said,
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Speaker 1: y'all didn't have no be Oh good. I didn't even
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Speaker 1: see that, but I mean we definitely talked. We definitely probably,
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Speaker 1: like you know, always have talked and always been cool.
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Speaker 1: So when that happened, I'm like, yo, you know, at
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Speaker 1: the end of the day, I love God, love for
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Speaker 1: you and everything like that. So we you know, when
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Speaker 1: I see Corey Herd, I wanted to ask him about it,
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Speaker 1: but he scared me so much in the movie, I
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Speaker 1: ain't want to ask Y. Corey definitely can put on
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Speaker 1: this demeaner thing. You'd be like, oh, let me back,
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Speaker 1: let me back back. I want to do no problem, girl,
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Speaker 1: girl girl. In that movie, he really did. He really
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Speaker 1: did the thing in that movie. I feel really cool
10:33
Speaker 1: because people get to see a side of him that
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Speaker 1: they never seen before. Right, that's what he was saying.
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Speaker 1: I usually get to see him in the you know,
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Speaker 1: action flicks whatever like that. You never get to see him.
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Speaker 1: They don't get you do black movies. Really, what he
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Speaker 1: said and brotherly love. To me, I will be honest,
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Speaker 1: it's all black class, But to me, it's not like
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Speaker 1: just a black movie. It has such a strong message
10:51
Speaker 1: to it, you know what I mean? That could relate
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Speaker 1: to anybody of any race, of any environment setting, whatever
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Speaker 1: you want to call it. If you're a fan of sports,
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Speaker 1: that's something that you could watch fall and love you're
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Speaker 1: trying to make make sure your family's taken care of you.
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Speaker 1: Everybody could relate to those type of issues, right, middle class,
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Speaker 1: you know the class absolutely absolutely was you surprised at
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Speaker 1: the ending? I definitely was. And we can't say nothing
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Speaker 1: about it because they told me to not even say
11:14
Speaker 1: it was a twist, but I guess there is. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean it's you know, it's a little shakespeareance, you know,
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Speaker 1: hood love. Now, you haven't slowed down and taking a
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Speaker 1: break at all, and you've been doing so much since
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Speaker 1: you've been how old years old do you ever say, okay,
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Speaker 1: who I makes us that I just need to you know.
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Speaker 1: You know sometimes I do say that. Sometimes I do
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Speaker 1: say that, but then in my heart it's like, look, baby,
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Speaker 1: we gotta keep on moving. We gotta keep on moving.
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Speaker 1: You got ideas in my mind, I'm always thinking, thinking, thinking,
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Speaker 1: thinking about different things. And so for me, it's like
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Speaker 1: I just want to put all that out into the
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Speaker 1: world and just use my gifts. You know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 1: Um give them away as much as I can. And
11:50
Speaker 1: so you know, it's important to take a break every
11:52
Speaker 1: now one theay because you gotta recharge and stuff. But
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Speaker 1: you know, I do find it to be hard for
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Speaker 1: me because I do have a high you know, drive
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Speaker 1: right music at the end and having a daily tuck
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Speaker 1: show that had to be really exhausting. Yeah. Just I'm
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Speaker 1: getting ready to start that May fifteenth, we start shooting
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Speaker 1: in La all right. Now, you know what Elside was
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Speaker 1: thinking about. Huh, you gotta say something. I'm just looking
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Speaker 1: at your feet. No, they don't hurt. I just hate shoes.
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Speaker 1: Shoes up. I ain't got none, neither with your boyfriends
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Speaker 1: and fight them. You know, It's really true. I've always
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Speaker 1: been very happy I've always been very heavy. That's so
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Speaker 1: brit Save. But you know what people tell me, that's
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Speaker 1: a Chicago chick thing. I'm like, is it? I have
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Speaker 1: no idea, but I'm very like it, like if I
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Speaker 1: like somebody like, So what you're doing? She don't just
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Speaker 1: got him off. She got her feet, ripping, the dripping,
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Speaker 1: the bottom of the girl chilling boom. That wasn't right there.
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Speaker 1: You know, you know your blood what is that thinking
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Speaker 1: back then? Oh? Yeah, you're a blood your girlhood mama.
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Speaker 1: You know your daughter was a block. That's why she said.
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Speaker 1: I know from Robin's mother, you'll stand up. No numb.
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Speaker 1: Are you from in Chicago? So it's what street? No,
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Speaker 1: I get out of here. I'm from the South suburb,
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Speaker 1: so I'm not from the city from angl No, I'm
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Speaker 1: from Robbin's. They're like Harvey, it's real country town. Okay, Well,
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Speaker 1: now let's talk about that talk show because I feel
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Speaker 1: like when you started doing that, that's when people really
13:34
Speaker 1: started just responding so much more to you as an adult.
13:37
Speaker 1: But I'm sure for you, your opinion got held so
13:41
Speaker 1: much more weight than it used to, and then you
13:43
Speaker 1: had to really defend yourself a lot did you feel
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Speaker 1: like when you started doing that show. I feel like
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Speaker 1: in general, you know, first of all, whenever you're you're
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Speaker 1: an entertainer of celebrity, whatever it is, whatever you get
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Speaker 1: popular for or whatever people start noticing you for, they
13:53
Speaker 1: want you to stay. It's just how human mind works.
13:56
Speaker 1: We want whatever we know something to be We wanted
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Speaker 1: to always stay that way. But especially for me, because
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Speaker 1: I started as a kid, I can't stay that way.
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Speaker 1: It's impossible for me to keep playing children roles if
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Speaker 1: I'm a grown woman. And so it came upoint in
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Speaker 1: my life where it's like, look, I want to make
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Speaker 1: sure it's a slow and easy transition. I'm not trying
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Speaker 1: to be like, okay, doing the most you know, different
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Speaker 1: thing from what they know. But I wanted to be
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Speaker 1: a slow, gradual climb. That's like with films like Brotherly
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Speaker 1: Love or with Joyful Noise or whatever it was. I
14:22
Speaker 1: always wanted to try to show myself coming of age
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Speaker 1: in the film, so it would be a gradual thing
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Speaker 1: when I did, finally, you know, you know, people would
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Speaker 1: finally be able to see that, Okay, I'm not a
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Speaker 1: kid anymore, you know me, I am a grown woman.
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Speaker 1: But it's been it's been a different transition for me,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like you put a picture
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Speaker 1: up and you had a piercing and people that she's
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Speaker 1: a thought And that was so interesting to me too,
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Speaker 1: because for me, it's like I'm not doing anything that
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Speaker 1: any other normal eighteen nineteen year old would do. I
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Speaker 1: like piercing. So yeah, I'll give my eyebrow Piers. I
14:55
Speaker 1: get my nose Piers, I get my tongue Piers. Whatever
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Speaker 1: I wanted to do, I'm gonna do that. It's the
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Speaker 1: way I expressed myself. People also don't understand I am
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Speaker 1: an actress, so I don't ever get to be myself.
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Speaker 1: Especially when I was doing Broadway at that time, I
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Speaker 1: spent the whole entire four months being Cinderella. I'm talking
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Speaker 1: about eight shows a week, two two shows on some days,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Like it was a crazy schedule.
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Speaker 1: So when I when I wasn't sleeping, I was on
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Speaker 1: stage being somebody that wasn't me, and that can be stressful.
15:21
Speaker 1: So when you're done with that, yeah, you're gonna break clues.
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Speaker 1: You're gonna have something. I wanted to get my nose, people,
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Speaker 1: I want to get this done. I want to get
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Speaker 1: my hair, you know. So it's like you have to
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Speaker 1: live your life for you and I had to. Really
15:32
Speaker 1: that was a really big time for me of understanding
15:34
Speaker 1: what that meant because it did hurt my fellows when
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Speaker 1: people say, it's like, y'all see me too. I'm always professional,
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Speaker 1: show up on time, punctual, take care of my career
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Speaker 1: and everything, like I spell really well, you know. And
15:46
Speaker 1: it's like people still want to want to find a
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Speaker 1: way to change it or whatever it is they want
15:50
Speaker 1: to do, but that but it has nothing to do
15:52
Speaker 1: with you, you know, it has something to do with them.
15:54
Speaker 1: It seems like you get a lot of flak oh
15:55
Speaker 1: when you speak out about social issues, like issues affecting
15:58
Speaker 1: the black community, especially during the Mike Brown situation. Why
16:02
Speaker 1: do you think that is? I think it's just like
16:03
Speaker 1: your family members, right, so you have I think a
16:06
Speaker 1: lot of times people see me is that because they've
16:07
Speaker 1: seen me grow up since I was you know, they
16:09
Speaker 1: see me grow up. So for them, it's a situation
16:11
Speaker 1: like if you know little T T, little T T T,
16:14
Speaker 1: what you know about makes you an authority, And I
16:19
Speaker 1: think that's all that it is. It's like people just
16:21
Speaker 1: have to get used to me not being a kid anymore.
16:23
Speaker 1: And that's not nothing I can force anybody to do.
16:25
Speaker 1: It's just over the course of time, you see the
16:27
Speaker 1: work that I do, you'll be able to see, you know,
16:30
Speaker 1: whatever did you choose to see? So for me, like,
16:33
Speaker 1: that's why it's so important for me to just focus
16:34
Speaker 1: on what I'm doing and I worry about that stuff
16:36
Speaker 1: because that is what it's like. It's like people see
16:38
Speaker 1: their little niece or their little cus or they little
16:40
Speaker 1: sizzin like she don't know. And not only that, you know,
16:43
Speaker 1: I think you know, people say, well, damn, she's been
16:45
Speaker 1: a star for a while. That too, she ain't grow
16:48
Speaker 1: up in the struggles. She don't know what it feels
16:49
Speaker 1: like to be in the hoods or you know, how
16:51
Speaker 1: is she speaking for us? And that's really important to
16:53
Speaker 1: me too. That's why I'm writing my first book right now.
16:56
Speaker 1: And I and it's like everybody has struggle. Everybody struggle
16:59
Speaker 1: comes in different forms. Okay, I mean I grew up
17:02
Speaker 1: in a home where I was the financial breadwinner. It's like,
17:06
Speaker 1: imagine what that dynamic was like. That's not something that
17:09
Speaker 1: anybody you know, I mean, that's not something anybody. I mean,
17:13
Speaker 1: that's just the facts of you know what I mean.
17:15
Speaker 1: You know, I made so much money that there was
17:17
Speaker 1: no reason for my parents to work. Well, that shifts
17:20
Speaker 1: the family dynamics, or the fact that I was all.
17:23
Speaker 1: I gave up my entire childhood to be an actor. Now, yeah,
17:26
Speaker 1: I got something wonderful in return, But imagine what that
17:29
Speaker 1: might have felt like when I'm filming a movie and
17:30
Speaker 1: I can't see any of my friends. You know, all
17:33
Speaker 1: most of the films I did were with adults. But
17:37
Speaker 1: that's so true because that is how it's people, is
17:41
Speaker 1: how it sounds. But my my real point is to
17:43
Speaker 1: say everybody has struggles in a different form. No, you
17:45
Speaker 1: don't have to cry about mine, but we can relate
17:47
Speaker 1: about ours. True, we don't have to be sad about it.
17:50
Speaker 1: But understand, I know where you're coming from. A lot
17:51
Speaker 1: of these child actors end up going crazy too, you know,
17:54
Speaker 1: and it's and it's in a lot of people go
17:57
Speaker 1: crazy in general. But you don't really see anybody else
18:01
Speaker 1: go crazy or quote unquote I should say crazy, other
18:03
Speaker 1: than a child actor. And what is exactly crazy? Because
18:06
Speaker 1: somebody is different from what you knew them to be
18:08
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like if all of a
18:09
Speaker 1: sudden stopped dressing like how I do now, and all
18:12
Speaker 1: of a sudden start dressing like lista bonnet, but then
18:15
Speaker 1: you know you do he as crazy. It's different from
18:18
Speaker 1: what people see you do. Hear a lot of tragic
18:20
Speaker 1: stories though, Like about child stars. I mean they do
18:22
Speaker 1: specials on it, on VAH one and everything. I think
18:26
Speaker 1: because the child actor can be a high stress job.
18:29
Speaker 1: You're working like I know. I known how to work
18:31
Speaker 1: as an adult since the time I was tea. Now
18:34
Speaker 1: you are grown up, like you speak, grown like you
18:38
Speaker 1: see like a grown woman. I know. But she seems
18:41
Speaker 1: very mature, right, I mean even though you're sitting at
18:44
Speaker 1: bad foot on your shoulder. Damn, I hit my face.
18:48
Speaker 1: Picture right now, you can look a little crazy. What
18:54
Speaker 1: sign are you can cancer? Okay, you don't even know
18:59
Speaker 1: what at me? You just cancers. I know a lot.
19:02
Speaker 1: I'm very into astrology, soul. I know I'm a virgal girl.
19:05
Speaker 1: Beyonce Michael need to say more? Okay, September third, every
19:09
Speaker 1: day all day? So you know what I knew that
19:12
Speaker 1: was love? I knew there was some love here people.
19:15
Speaker 1: What's onn to you capricorn. Oh you know we're a
19:17
Speaker 1: perfect match. Yeah, I can't studying back to y'all should start, Davis,
19:22
Speaker 1: I'm married, young lady. You are? Yes, well, you know
19:25
Speaker 1: what what's up with that? I never hear radio personalities
19:28
Speaker 1: talk about their lives? What's up with y'all club? Then
19:32
Speaker 1: you must not married with a six year old and
19:34
Speaker 1: the child on the way, And then it's called the
19:37
Speaker 1: players curts. I got two girls, not the players cards
19:41
Speaker 1: playing these women. I mean I used to I'm not
19:42
Speaker 1: an If I was a guy, I honestly do think
19:44
Speaker 1: I might would be a player. And let me say,
19:47
Speaker 1: y August out a little dirt and if Charlottie was
19:51
Speaker 1: a female, he would be a thought. Okay, you a
19:55
Speaker 1: ball because I'd be married a soccer player or baseball player.
19:58
Speaker 1: Ye trapped somebody. His advice is always get pregnant by him, girl,
20:03
Speaker 1: and let's get this money. What but what if they
20:05
Speaker 1: happened to you? You ain't never thought about that honestly now,
20:11
Speaker 1: I mean, even though you've been popping for a while,
20:13
Speaker 1: you ain't never was with somebody and he was like, yo,
20:14
Speaker 1: he got it. You had an aunt Obama by this
20:18
Speaker 1: is you know what that is. First of all, that
20:21
Speaker 1: is one hundred percent truth. When you are in an
20:23
Speaker 1: entertaining when you're a young entertained or something like that,
20:26
Speaker 1: and you're around a lot of successful men, you do
20:29
Speaker 1: have a lot of women, older women in your life,
20:31
Speaker 1: like girl, change your life. It's like you'll be like
20:36
Speaker 1: little girl, I can change my whole life. But I
20:38
Speaker 1: will say there is when people say, oh, so soals
20:41
Speaker 1: a gold jigger, so so only about the money. I
20:43
Speaker 1: don't think that's always a situation or the case at times,
20:45
Speaker 1: because sometimes it just comes down to you wanting to
20:47
Speaker 1: feel like somebody also can sometimes take the bill, or
20:51
Speaker 1: somebody can direct something, and somebody can be you know,
20:53
Speaker 1: they can lead you as opposed to you leading them.
20:56
Speaker 1: Because right so I do understand that, how do you
21:01
Speaker 1: feel about dating guys that you have a lot more
21:03
Speaker 1: than Like what if this is a guy who's an
21:04
Speaker 1: struggling actor, he hasn't never had a big bro but
21:07
Speaker 1: he's really cute you Like, I'm just I'm like you,
21:13
Speaker 1: how you down with that? Um? Well, that's all I
21:16
Speaker 1: have really dated, you know, I never really dated everybody
21:19
Speaker 1: that you know, maybe let's say, made the same amount
21:21
Speaker 1: of money as me. Mama, come on, I talk to
21:23
Speaker 1: your daughter now. Situation never allowed it to happen. Mom.
21:29
Speaker 1: This is this is that's that's. I've never dated anybody
21:32
Speaker 1: that you know, like I said, like maybe had the
21:34
Speaker 1: same amount of money as me, because for me, it's
21:36
Speaker 1: always been important on how I vie with somebody. What
21:39
Speaker 1: a head, it's a heart and the right place and
21:41
Speaker 1: all that type of stuff, But it is important. It's
21:43
Speaker 1: the difference between somebody that has a good heart and
21:45
Speaker 1: somebody's working towards something. And that's definitely a lesson that
21:47
Speaker 1: I've had to learn. People love somebody for being who
21:50
Speaker 1: they are, but it don't mean that you need to
21:51
Speaker 1: be with them and all this that and the third
21:53
Speaker 1: if they don't know how to uh, if they don't
21:56
Speaker 1: know how to man just said, I ain't dating no
21:59
Speaker 1: broke people on my level. I say it. I'm sorry,
22:03
Speaker 1: because the dynamics shifts in a bad way. Right. If
22:06
Speaker 1: somebody don't have their own thing going on, they feel
22:08
Speaker 1: bad about themselves. It's gonna feel bad about themselves. It
22:10
Speaker 1: creates resentment in the relationship, it creates cold dependency. It's
22:13
Speaker 1: nothing but bad that could come eventually. They're gonna beat
22:15
Speaker 1: you because they're gonna be all time. Are you making
22:20
Speaker 1: more money to me? But it's different for women, you
22:22
Speaker 1: feel like, because women, guys can date a woman that
22:24
Speaker 1: doesn't have as much as they have, because that's the
22:27
Speaker 1: thing that you know. Once again, that's a double standing
22:30
Speaker 1: in the row reversal. You could be a boss and
22:32
Speaker 1: be sexy at the same time. That's why I love
22:33
Speaker 1: about Beyonce. You could be feminine and be a businesswoman.
22:36
Speaker 1: I think a lot of times when a woman is
22:37
Speaker 1: a businesswoman, she feels as if she's lost a bit
22:41
Speaker 1: of her femininity or that she can't be sexy and
22:43
Speaker 1: she can't be that sweet, sensitive thing. It's like you
22:45
Speaker 1: got to pick one or the other and it's not true.
22:48
Speaker 1: And I've run against that myself as well, being a young,
22:50
Speaker 1: you know, woman out here doing her thing. It's like, okay,
22:52
Speaker 1: wait a minute, am I gay? Or you know, I
22:55
Speaker 1: feel like it makes you feel what do you mean?
22:59
Speaker 1: Are you like you have a moment of feeling as
23:02
Speaker 1: if like, no, it has a feeling of feeling as
23:08
Speaker 1: if why do it? Why does it feel as if
23:10
Speaker 1: guys aren't attracted to that or they don't Why does
23:14
Speaker 1: it feel like it's a role reversal. It literally feels
23:16
Speaker 1: like it's a role reversal. It's like, Okay, the guy
23:19
Speaker 1: completely changes and I don't know how to explain it.
23:23
Speaker 1: And then you they turned into the it's really weird,
23:25
Speaker 1: that's your question. Act like your mama not in the room.
23:28
Speaker 1: Do these guys start acting like this after y'all have sex?
23:32
Speaker 1: Because if they start acting like that after y'all have effect,
23:34
Speaker 1: I mean he already got what he wanted to begin with. No,
23:36
Speaker 1: it's not a situation where they stop talking to you
23:39
Speaker 1: as a situation where everything becomes a problem. It's an
23:42
Speaker 1: insecurity issue. It's not an issue of I don't want
23:44
Speaker 1: to call you no more. It's an issue of what
23:45
Speaker 1: you're doing, where you're going, who you with verse they're
23:49
Speaker 1: okay with it, and then and then it's like and
23:51
Speaker 1: then it's it becomes a whole thing of you know,
23:54
Speaker 1: it's just weird and it's so crazy because you feel,
23:57
Speaker 1: all right, I don't feel bad that I'm making more money.
24:00
Speaker 1: You don't know, I don't feel I'm not gonna slow down, right,
24:02
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna slow down, But you I can't help it.
24:04
Speaker 1: If that's what you what if you need your help.
24:07
Speaker 1: But if it's like can you you know, I want
24:09
Speaker 1: to listen for this role and I know you know
24:10
Speaker 1: this person, would you make that call? You know, I'm
24:16
Speaker 1: very big on sharing, you know what I mean. I
24:18
Speaker 1: want to be able to share whatever knowledge I got
24:19
Speaker 1: with anybody. You're giving abundance, You're getting abundance. It's you know,
24:23
Speaker 1: it's a revolving door. You know, nobody's blessing is gonna
24:26
Speaker 1: take away your blessing. So it's important to me to
24:28
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, I want to be around people
24:30
Speaker 1: that I want to share it with. But it's also
24:32
Speaker 1: a sticky place because I don't want to be around
24:34
Speaker 1: somebody that only want me to just help them with stuff.
24:37
Speaker 1: And so that's when your intuition has to come in.
24:39
Speaker 1: You have to allow yourself to be sensitive to people's
24:41
Speaker 1: energies and vibes, like does this person really trying to
24:43
Speaker 1: be in my life because they want to get to
24:44
Speaker 1: know me, care about me? Or this person just trying
24:47
Speaker 1: to be in my life because they want to come up.
24:48
Speaker 1: And sometimes you may get screwed over. You might've gotten
24:52
Speaker 1: you I've gotten screwed over. I'm just saying I've got
24:54
Speaker 1: screwed over before, but you live and you learn. Do
24:56
Speaker 1: you get sick of guys? Like do you be with guys?
24:58
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden you realize, like, oh, I
25:00
Speaker 1: want to be with you. You're calling me all the time,
25:01
Speaker 1: You're stressing me like that. I think the truth is
25:04
Speaker 1: I think a lot of times at my age, people
25:06
Speaker 1: feel like they want to be in a relationship. But
25:07
Speaker 1: the truth because you really don't. Like I used to
25:09
Speaker 1: think that I should want to be in a relationship
25:11
Speaker 1: because I'm Kicky. You know, I'm the good. Because I'm Kicky,
25:19
Speaker 1: I should be the good. You know, I have a boyfriend,
25:21
Speaker 1: that's what you know, All these things are gonna help
25:24
Speaker 1: me identify who I am. And then I realized, I
25:27
Speaker 1: really don't care about that. I really only care about
25:30
Speaker 1: getting out there recording my music, being in the studio,
25:34
Speaker 1: doing my doing, just Kicky doing this film idea I
25:37
Speaker 1: just had writing this book, coming up with this that
25:39
Speaker 1: that's really what I care about and I shouldn't have
25:42
Speaker 1: to feel like I need to be defined by social
25:44
Speaker 1: necessities in order to feel like I'm being who I am.
25:46
Speaker 1: And that's really what it boils down to it, Really,
25:48
Speaker 1: I really, you know, I really don't. Guys, aren't my
25:51
Speaker 1: first idea thought in my mind? Good? You know, it's
25:54
Speaker 1: like my first one in my mind is where I'm
25:56
Speaker 1: going after right now? And it must be fun to
25:57
Speaker 1: be singing. I mean, you were a lot down for
25:59
Speaker 1: quite Sometimes it's very fun to be single because you
26:02
Speaker 1: know what happens. You find yourself. You understand what it
26:04
Speaker 1: means to love yourself instead of putting all this energy
26:08
Speaker 1: into give and tug in a relationship, because that's what
26:10
Speaker 1: happens when you first fall in love. Everything's all gravy,
26:13
Speaker 1: it's all good, it's all clean, and then you start
26:15
Speaker 1: depending on the other person for your happiness, and then
26:17
Speaker 1: it becomes a pull and tug between your egos. You
26:20
Speaker 1: want them to go your way and they want you
26:21
Speaker 1: to go they way. And if you have that love
26:24
Speaker 1: within yourself, you won't be looking for somebody else. So
26:26
Speaker 1: you'll be able to give and give and give without
26:28
Speaker 1: feeling like you need to receive, because you receive it
26:30
Speaker 1: from yourself. Listen, I got questions for you, and I'm
26:32
Speaker 1: gonna tell you why, because I got a six year
26:33
Speaker 1: old daughter, another girl on the way, and I like
26:36
Speaker 1: how well rounded you are. I like the fact that
26:38
Speaker 1: you got your head on your shoulders, right, Did your
26:40
Speaker 1: parents put that in you young? Because I got my
26:41
Speaker 1: daughter reading Don Miguel Ruise right now at six. You know,
26:45
Speaker 1: I got her doing a whole bunch of activities my
26:47
Speaker 1: parents did. My parents really did? I you know, the
26:51
Speaker 1: mom been married all my life and you know, and
26:54
Speaker 1: I say that to say, like, I'll always be you know,
26:57
Speaker 1: I talk to God, I'd be like, what I do
27:00
Speaker 1: deserve of just a mom and dad that loved me.
27:03
Speaker 1: Besides the fact that they changed their life to help
27:05
Speaker 1: support my dreams, they just simply love me, period. And
27:09
Speaker 1: that's something that only only way. I think That's probably
27:12
Speaker 1: another reason why I stay so focused, because I'm like,
27:14
Speaker 1: I want them to be proud. I want them to
27:16
Speaker 1: do and I'm doing something with that gift. With the
27:18
Speaker 1: fact that they were a part of my life. My
27:19
Speaker 1: mom would always been a part of my life. Even
27:21
Speaker 1: before I was in in acting, she was there. She
27:25
Speaker 1: was there, you know, when I was at school. If
27:26
Speaker 1: somebody says something, she go down there and she makes
27:28
Speaker 1: me feel like I was important. I was the all mom,
27:31
Speaker 1: you don't have to cry. You know, I was the
27:32
Speaker 1: only black kid in my class, and my mom would
27:34
Speaker 1: come in and I would feel bad and stuff like that,
27:36
Speaker 1: and she would go to you know, you made my
27:37
Speaker 1: daughter feel bad? Tell them how how they made you feel?
27:47
Speaker 1: You know, That's why I think why I have the
27:50
Speaker 1: extra added of you know, keeping my head on straight
27:53
Speaker 1: or where you want to call it, because I know
27:55
Speaker 1: what they did for me, and I showed that gratitude
27:57
Speaker 1: and everything I do. Tell me what Daddy did. Did
28:00
Speaker 1: he tell you stay away from those boys? Like how
28:02
Speaker 1: did Daddy raise you? Because I gotta raise my daughter
28:03
Speaker 1: the right way. No, my dad, it's very different than
28:07
Speaker 1: my mom. My mom is very neurotic. She's always she
28:09
Speaker 1: really is. She's always worried, you know, worry, worry, worry,
28:12
Speaker 1: wor worried. My dad is the epitome of love. He
28:15
Speaker 1: trusted us and even when things got weird or or
28:19
Speaker 1: you know, I maybe was drifting away from the family
28:21
Speaker 1: or whatever, did things happen, because you know, things change,
28:24
Speaker 1: my dad always trusted that I would find my way
28:26
Speaker 1: back and my mom will be nervous. Mom would be scared.
28:28
Speaker 1: And my mom has told me conversation that they've had
28:30
Speaker 1: even to this day where my dad would be like
28:32
Speaker 1: kekey is intelligent. You have to trust her and let
28:35
Speaker 1: her do her thing, because that's how real love is.
28:37
Speaker 1: You gotta let go. And that's know when you did
28:39
Speaker 1: he did a good that's knowing that they did a
28:41
Speaker 1: good job, so they trust you even still did the
28:42
Speaker 1: right things in you Like I know you don't even
28:44
Speaker 1: how to keep your lips on the mic because I
28:45
Speaker 1: know they did a good job. You did your mom
28:50
Speaker 1: and daddy help come to your rescue now. So when
28:52
Speaker 1: it's problems or this stuff in the press that they
28:53
Speaker 1: come like I got I hand list myself like in
28:55
Speaker 1: the press or anything. My parents, my mom. There used
28:59
Speaker 1: to be a job in the acting community, like in
29:01
Speaker 1: the kid actor's community, and I feel bad that I
29:04
Speaker 1: can't impersonate the curse words that need to be said
29:06
Speaker 1: in order to really see this. Okay, look, so there
29:08
Speaker 1: will be like there would be like literally this is
29:11
Speaker 1: me going into the times people would tell me when
29:14
Speaker 1: I was a little kid that people would talk to
29:15
Speaker 1: be like yo, Kicky Palmer's mom. If you mess with Kicky,
29:19
Speaker 1: she whip your ass. I ain't playing with you. Don't
29:21
Speaker 1: say no, she gonna hurt you. Because my mom always
29:25
Speaker 1: she don't she do not when somebody says something bad
29:28
Speaker 1: about me, I can bring up. Let's say this dude
29:29
Speaker 1: Tony yelled at me when I was not. The next
29:32
Speaker 1: time my mom see Tony, even if it's at the
29:34
Speaker 1: age of twenty one, she gonna give him the meanest shade.
29:36
Speaker 1: Honey you I mean, it's crazy. My mom can't help
29:40
Speaker 1: but always be at my rest. Chic can't help mom
29:43
Speaker 1: on the micro use come in, come in, she said.
29:47
Speaker 1: I just want to know what was the biggest hurdle
29:50
Speaker 1: you had to face as a mom and you could
29:52
Speaker 1: be real mom the biggest hurdle, Yeah, I think it's friends.
29:57
Speaker 1: I think they the friends come in and and the
30:01
Speaker 1: child actor. Since they spend so much time working, Like
30:04
Speaker 1: she said, then the friends come and go because like
30:07
Speaker 1: if you go off and do a movie and you
30:10
Speaker 1: know you left your friends back, you go back. Their
30:12
Speaker 1: life is evolving in another direction, so you know that
30:15
Speaker 1: connection is gone, and then they want friends, and so
30:18
Speaker 1: sometimes the friends come into their life and they're not
30:21
Speaker 1: the best friends. I think Kiki has done a really
30:24
Speaker 1: good job and you know, discerning who her friends are.
30:28
Speaker 1: But as a mother I have set back and watch
30:31
Speaker 1: people come into her life that I wanted to say no,
30:36
Speaker 1: he ain't no good or she ain't no good, and
30:39
Speaker 1: I told her and then the reaction is, you know,
30:41
Speaker 1: you're just being an over protective mom. And then like
30:44
Speaker 1: eight months later, she'll come back and go, I'm not
30:47
Speaker 1: kicking it with that person anymore. So, and I'm very
30:50
Speaker 1: careful not to say I told you so, because that's
30:53
Speaker 1: not good either. I didn't like it when my mother
30:54
Speaker 1: told me so. I don't tell her. But I think
30:57
Speaker 1: that's the biggest obstacle that a parent has with a
31:01
Speaker 1: child in this industry is the friends and the relationships.
31:05
Speaker 1: Because she didn't go to high school, and the best
31:07
Speaker 1: thing about going to high school is a socialization. You
31:11
Speaker 1: learn who do you kick it with, who not to
31:13
Speaker 1: kick it with? Who you was hanging with freshman year,
31:15
Speaker 1: you're not hanging with senior year. You start evolving. And
31:18
Speaker 1: she didn't have that. So her socialization is happening right now.
31:23
Speaker 1: Her college is happening right now, and so there's going
31:27
Speaker 1: to be trial and error and a lot of people
31:29
Speaker 1: have motives. I'm sure, absolutely absolutely, And how did you
31:32
Speaker 1: get over your parental paranoia? Because I suffer from that now,
31:34
Speaker 1: like I'm the same way I'm not worried about what
31:36
Speaker 1: my daughter every day. I worry about what other people
31:39
Speaker 1: are gonna do to my daughter. You know what I'm saying,
31:40
Speaker 1: I follow my daughter. I don't think you ever get
31:43
Speaker 1: rid of that. I mean, you know, my mother didn't
31:45
Speaker 1: get rid of it. I was, you know, thirty years
31:47
Speaker 1: old and moved out to California, and my mother got it.
31:49
Speaker 1: I think it comes down to what she's. My husband
31:52
Speaker 1: and I are such I'm very high strung and energetic,
31:57
Speaker 1: and he's very laid back. And I think it's what
31:59
Speaker 1: kikiS said that he talks to me. He tells me, look, sweetie,
32:03
Speaker 1: we didn't raise these kids. We put them in church.
32:06
Speaker 1: We told them about the love of God. Now we
32:09
Speaker 1: gotta let them fall off, fly and at the end
32:14
Speaker 1: of the day, because it's not gonna help Kickie for
32:16
Speaker 1: me to keep having the safety net under her, so,
32:19
Speaker 1: you know, whatever happens, when stuff happened in the press
32:21
Speaker 1: or whatever like that. I think she's very classy and
32:24
Speaker 1: I think she handles herself very well. And no, my
32:27
Speaker 1: husband not. We don't behind the scenes. We don't control her.
32:31
Speaker 1: We let people say what they're gonna say. If people
32:33
Speaker 1: are gonna judge her off of what they want to
32:36
Speaker 1: judge her offer off. That's home. Now she can't live
32:38
Speaker 1: her life for other people. Now, Mom, wall made you
32:39
Speaker 1: stare at the same penis all these years. Well, it
32:42
Speaker 1: was very good. Right, what's the most embarrassing thing. Let's
32:51
Speaker 1: talking about this earlier this week. What's the most embarrassing
32:53
Speaker 1: thing your mom did to you. I'm so excited to
32:55
Speaker 1: tell you this. So yesterday, right, it's so funny. I
32:59
Speaker 1: was reading like my mom's no morology number was saying
33:02
Speaker 1: all this stuff about how, you know, you need to
33:03
Speaker 1: make sure that you get some good exercise and you know,
33:05
Speaker 1: burn off some of this energy that you have because
33:07
Speaker 1: you have such you know, ambitious nature blah blah blah
33:09
Speaker 1: blah and all this stuff. Right, so I'm at the
33:11
Speaker 1: end of it. Then my mom says, yeah, well I
33:14
Speaker 1: just like porography, Like you know, my mama, Yo, When
33:19
Speaker 1: I tell you, I was like, it's so funny, Mama
33:21
Speaker 1: that you said that, because literally I have a little
33:22
Speaker 1: brother and sister they're twins. Right, I'm like, it's so
33:25
Speaker 1: funny that you said this, and I love you so
33:27
Speaker 1: deep I have feel damn, it's it's funny though, Mom,
33:37
Speaker 1: why are you there? Is? Now? Look I gotta deal
33:41
Speaker 1: with though with my bad mom. It's funny. So look
33:44
Speaker 1: the little my little brother, it's funny. I don't know
33:49
Speaker 1: what's wrong here. So look, my little brother says here.
33:51
Speaker 1: Literally it was so funny that she was so honest
33:53
Speaker 1: about it in that moment for no reason at all,
33:55
Speaker 1: because literally two weeks before, my little brothers said, we
33:58
Speaker 1: saw the parents compete uter and they forgot to take
34:01
Speaker 1: away their Google log. Wasn't mom or Dad? They were
34:05
Speaker 1: like mom, he said, Big Black Brothers. And now and
34:14
Speaker 1: now and now we joke. My my public is my
34:17
Speaker 1: hair and makeup cue nickname her BBB. So now I
34:22
Speaker 1: have this play. Okay, I've been married to their years.
34:24
Speaker 1: I'm on the road. You know, I'm to explaining Mom,
34:26
Speaker 1: everybody watches for Big Black Brothers to go that when
34:35
Speaker 1: I get home today, it's normal, Mom, billion dollars industry class.
34:44
Speaker 1: You're not paying though you're getting the free I'm getting
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Speaker 1: free clips. Okay, I just make it sure. I know,
34:51
Speaker 1: but I love. What do you think about what's going
34:55
Speaker 1: on in Baltimore? You know, it's such a loaded thing
35:02
Speaker 1: because there's not a a I feel a lot of things.
35:07
Speaker 1: You know, I feel like we're in such a time
35:11
Speaker 1: where the negativity is being so plaster everywhere that it
35:16
Speaker 1: instills more fear that it then begots more negativity and
35:19
Speaker 1: more negativity from whether it be you know, the communities
35:25
Speaker 1: or the people that are supposed to be helping the communities.
35:27
Speaker 1: It comes from everywhere because everybody feels like that's the
35:29
Speaker 1: reality that they're living in, So it just keeps in
35:32
Speaker 1: continuously perpetuates itself. I just feel like I want us
35:36
Speaker 1: to come together, not just as black people, but as
35:39
Speaker 1: people in general. You know what I'm saying. There's so
35:41
Speaker 1: many other issues that are going on that that that
35:44
Speaker 1: bring us together, then that separate us, you know, not
35:46
Speaker 1: just I think we sometimes get so stuck on the
35:49
Speaker 1: differences that we don't see in the ways that we
35:51
Speaker 1: need each other, you know what I'm saying, with things
35:54
Speaker 1: we got in common, you know, I mean instead of me, oh,
35:56
Speaker 1: I'm from this culture, here from that culture. Like how
35:59
Speaker 1: about we both need our rent page, how about we
36:01
Speaker 1: both need a job, we both need to not continuously
36:05
Speaker 1: be held down financially. You know what I'm saying, There's
36:10
Speaker 1: so many other issues that connect us then that separate us,
36:13
Speaker 1: you know what I I mean people in general, we have
36:14
Speaker 1: more more things that are alike than we do different.
36:17
Speaker 1: And I think that a lot of these when these
36:19
Speaker 1: when these things happen, it gets so focused on the negative.
36:21
Speaker 1: That's that's all that your mind can be filled in
36:23
Speaker 1: to the point that you can't think clearly or see
36:25
Speaker 1: how to better approach the situation. The only thing you
36:28
Speaker 1: can think of is to fight darkness with darkness. But
36:30
Speaker 1: that's not how we go. You can only drive out
36:32
Speaker 1: darkness with light. I mean MLK said that we can
36:35
Speaker 1: only go somewhere if we're together. And and it's the
36:38
Speaker 1: unity that scares whoever you think that don't want you
36:42
Speaker 1: to win. It's the unity that scares them the most.
36:44
Speaker 1: It's not the fighting. As long as you're fighting, I'm
36:46
Speaker 1: winning because you're not talking, you're not seeing that actually
36:50
Speaker 1: we're on the same page. Instead, you're casting this person
36:53
Speaker 1: out and casting that person out. But if you actually
36:54
Speaker 1: take time and say, look, let's stop fighting each other
36:56
Speaker 1: and actually think about who we really need, what we
37:00
Speaker 1: need to be talking about, and what we really need
37:01
Speaker 1: to be trying to set up and put in order
37:03
Speaker 1: in order to change what it is we want to change,
37:06
Speaker 1: But when there's so much negativity going on, you can't
37:08
Speaker 1: think that way. You can't see clearly. You're seeing that
37:10
Speaker 1: in Baltimore. Now you're seeing like boods and crips coming together.
37:12
Speaker 1: But it's interesting how the media trying to put it
37:14
Speaker 1: out like, oh, the bloods and crips are fighting each
37:16
Speaker 1: other and now they want to kill other cops. And
37:18
Speaker 1: they came out and said, no, we're not trying to
37:20
Speaker 1: kill cops. We're actually all coming together, actually are on
37:24
Speaker 1: the same team. You know what I'm saying. Not every
37:26
Speaker 1: cop is a bad cop, right, There's some good cops too.
37:29
Speaker 1: I mean I grew up with some of them. And also,
37:31
Speaker 1: just like with anybody, you know, some good people and
37:33
Speaker 1: some people some bad people. So you can't just cast
37:36
Speaker 1: everything one way and then expect things to change. You
37:39
Speaker 1: have to seek what it is you're looking for. You
37:41
Speaker 1: have to be the change that you want to see,
37:42
Speaker 1: and that's what'll start coming to you. But if you're
37:44
Speaker 1: just being honed in and allowing anger to completely consume you,
37:48
Speaker 1: I've been there, you know, we've all been a place
37:50
Speaker 1: of self pity. Man. It's hard. I'm a black woman,
37:53
Speaker 1: you know, I'm a woman and I'm a black woman.
37:55
Speaker 1: I could sit there and think about that all day,
37:57
Speaker 1: and some people say all things are never going to change,
37:59
Speaker 1: and that's a terrible defeat his attitude. When I think
38:01
Speaker 1: about slavery, I get so inspired and say, whoa, look
38:05
Speaker 1: what I came from. Damn, I could do anything. And
38:09
Speaker 1: people say they will never be a black president, and
38:11
Speaker 1: we got a black president. You know what I'm saying.
38:12
Speaker 1: Because it's all about where your mind is at. It's
38:15
Speaker 1: all about shifting your paradigm. It's all about allowing positivity
38:18
Speaker 1: to feel your life and not letting this other stuff
38:20
Speaker 1: change your perspective. It will really mess you up if
38:22
Speaker 1: you allow the outer things to change. You think about it.
38:25
Speaker 1: When I wake up in the morning, I don't The
38:27
Speaker 1: first thing I say is I'm love. I'm love. I'm
38:33
Speaker 1: like and that's why I carry throughout my whole day.
38:35
Speaker 1: And that's what I ended up end up seeing. That's
38:37
Speaker 1: what the eyes on which I see the world. And
38:40
Speaker 1: so you have to wake up every day and allow
38:41
Speaker 1: yourself to be that glory, be the glory of God.
38:44
Speaker 1: Don't chake that take that away from yourself by allowing
38:46
Speaker 1: everything you see to tear you down. Instead, see how
38:48
Speaker 1: you can fix it by looking through the eyes of him.
38:50
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying right now? In the position
38:53
Speaker 1: you're in, do you have people that say to you
38:55
Speaker 1: you can't speak out about that now, lead that alone.
38:57
Speaker 1: You got sponsorships, you got a TV show coming? No,
39:00
Speaker 1: you know, I'm so glad I don't have that. You
39:03
Speaker 1: know me. I would used to watch as a kid,
39:04
Speaker 1: you know, you see on the TV shows and they
39:06
Speaker 1: would be celebrities or somebody like that, and they want
39:08
Speaker 1: to say stuff or be a part of things, and
39:09
Speaker 1: people would be like, no, no, that's not true, that's
39:11
Speaker 1: not me at all. I'm there, I'm I'm the one
39:15
Speaker 1: that runs my career thankfully. So I'm in a position
39:17
Speaker 1: where I can do stuff like just Kiki and I
39:19
Speaker 1: can talk about the stuff that I want to talk
39:21
Speaker 1: about in the issues that I feel like are important
39:22
Speaker 1: to my generation, not even just racial issues, but even
39:25
Speaker 1: talking about technology and understanding what that's doing to us.
39:29
Speaker 1: You feel like crap because you're comparing your life to
39:32
Speaker 1: every person that you swipe pass on Instagram. They do
39:35
Speaker 1: say that because of social media as hard people to
39:37
Speaker 1: get married nowadays, because we're sitting up in bed with
39:39
Speaker 1: on our Instagrams and on our twitter we're not paying
39:42
Speaker 1: attention makes you. We're about the wrong things, because that's
39:44
Speaker 1: not the reality that's in front of you. If all
39:46
Speaker 1: day I look up at everything that's going horrible in
39:48
Speaker 1: the world, I won't even be able to realize what
39:50
Speaker 1: I can do with what's in front of me, because
39:51
Speaker 1: all I keep seeing my eyes through is the world
39:54
Speaker 1: of being negative and terrible and all that type of stuff.
39:57
Speaker 1: Or if I look online, I'm looking at everybody in Cali,
39:59
Speaker 1: you know they live in a perfect life. I look around,
40:01
Speaker 1: I'm in Philly, Well, yeah, I might feel bad, you
40:04
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, because I'm trying to compare my
40:06
Speaker 1: circumstances to someone else's. But everybody's journey is different, everybody's
40:09
Speaker 1: life is different, and it's not necessarily the best thing
40:11
Speaker 1: to see somebody else's life evolved in action. That's not
40:14
Speaker 1: the way it should That's not the way it should be.
40:15
Speaker 1: You're seeing every single step that's not normal. It's never
40:18
Speaker 1: been done before, and we'll find out in years to
40:20
Speaker 1: come what maybe those effects were. You know what I'm saying,
40:23
Speaker 1: Because we're the generation that's we're the guinea pigs to it. Well,
40:27
Speaker 1: since we're talking about technology, you got caught up in
40:29
Speaker 1: that hacking scandal. Yeah, yeah, I ain't. And this was
40:38
Speaker 1: the such a thing about it is that the main
40:41
Speaker 1: thing I wanted, the main thing that upset me about
40:49
Speaker 1: it was like, why do you want me to explain
40:51
Speaker 1: something that you that that has nothing to do with you?
40:53
Speaker 1: And that's the biggest issue that I have, not even
40:56
Speaker 1: just as a celebrity, but in general people be on
40:58
Speaker 1: Internet trying I found out something about you. Why are
41:01
Speaker 1: you happy about that? Why are you happy that you've
41:03
Speaker 1: got into something? It's like cracking into somebody's mind. Yeah,
41:06
Speaker 1: Gabrielle Union actually went off about that because it just
41:08
Speaker 1: don't make no sense. I mean just honestly, if you
41:11
Speaker 1: went and took a picture of somebody in the window
41:13
Speaker 1: at a house, that's you a peep in time, you
41:16
Speaker 1: should go to jail. But because we're on the internet,
41:19
Speaker 1: this makes sense and there's something to be laughing and
41:22
Speaker 1: funny fun about. You just have to take in a
41:24
Speaker 1: stride because you have you have. There's no way to
41:27
Speaker 1: to to move forward from that other than to say,
41:29
Speaker 1: you know what, they don't know any better that they
41:31
Speaker 1: didn't mean any harm. They don't know any better from that.
41:34
Speaker 1: That has to be a devastating feeling to wake up
41:36
Speaker 1: and see all that on your people come and he
41:38
Speaker 1: is a devastating feeling because there's nothing you can say right,
41:41
Speaker 1: there's nothing you can there's nothing you can. You have
41:44
Speaker 1: to just let let it go. Let it. You gotta
41:46
Speaker 1: take the ail, because what are you gonna do. Write
41:49
Speaker 1: a whole long host on your about that it's got
41:55
Speaker 1: a loss, you learn from it. You're a winner, you learn.
41:56
Speaker 1: That's what I like to say. I love that because
41:58
Speaker 1: usually when I think about the ale, I think about
41:59
Speaker 1: the law you learn and that's real. Though that's true.
42:04
Speaker 1: That's either it's either how you choose to see it
42:06
Speaker 1: and I choose to see it like I'm learning. I
42:09
Speaker 1: choose to see it like you know what. I'm greater
42:11
Speaker 1: because it is right, but it is. It does suck.
42:13
Speaker 1: I mean it sucks anytime somebody UH find out something
42:16
Speaker 1: that you didn't tell them. We appreciate you joining us
42:19
Speaker 1: man me too. My final credit, I'm reading your name, Laurene.
42:25
Speaker 1: How you get My sister had imaginary friend when she
42:27
Speaker 1: was younger. Sorry, I'm embarrassing her to um. She had
42:31
Speaker 1: imagined her friend named Kekey when I was born. She
42:33
Speaker 1: wanted my name to be Kecky, but my mom was like,
42:34
Speaker 1: she can't go through her whole life with a name
42:36
Speaker 1: like Key, and look at that. I go through my
42:39
Speaker 1: whole life with Lauren. Hilarious. Well, we wish you the best.
42:48
Speaker 1: We know what to send mom for Christmas. Yeah, yeah,
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