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INTERVIEW: Ciara Opens Up About Family, Independent Artistry, Russell Wilson, Rihanna, New Music + More · The Breakfast Club

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Every day up the Breakfast Club.
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: Finish for y'all morning.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody is DJ en Vy, Jess Hilarious, Charlomagne the guy.
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  Speaker 2: We are the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 3: Law La Rosa is here as well, and we got
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  Speaker 3: a special guest in the building.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: Before we start. I just got her up. My daughter
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: send the message to Charlamagne.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: The message.
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  Speaker 3: So the other day my daughters were dancing and they
• 0:28
  Speaker 3: my youngest one sent me a text and said, I
• 0:30
  Speaker 3: met Sierra. She spelled the s I E R A.
• 0:32
  Speaker 3: And I was like, I don't know who that is.
• 0:34
  Speaker 3: I said, you mean the singer dances Sierra. She was
• 0:36
  Speaker 3: like yes, I said, go tell him that. You know
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  Speaker 3: that my dad knows you. So she went and you
• 0:41
  Speaker 3: were very nice and she danced for you and everything.
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  Speaker 3: But she came back with a message. She was like, Dad,
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  Speaker 3: Sierra said, make sure that you and Charlemagne are very nice.
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  Speaker 1: To her when she comes on the show.
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  Speaker 2: And then she says, why are you and Charlemagne not
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: nice to her? I was like, that was so long.
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  Speaker 4: Let me tell you your daughter is insane. Both of
• 1:03
  Speaker 4: you. You have two daughters. They are incredibly and gifted. I'm
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  Speaker 4: telling you right now like I mean this, I know
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  Speaker 4: something special when I see it. Them little girls are special.
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  Speaker 4: And everyone listening remember what I said to you those
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  Speaker 4: little I'm telling you it's insane. Like my daughter's seeing it.
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  Speaker 4: Was there watching them, and I love that she was
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  Speaker 4: seeing a girl that looked like her, watching your daughters
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  Speaker 4: do what they were doing, and I think they hadn't
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  Speaker 4: been doing it for too long.
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  Speaker 2: Two years.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: No. They were doing gymnastics and they had two different
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  Speaker 4: styles of dancing. They both showed us their shows. They
• 1:40
  Speaker 4: were preparing for some performance.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, for the next season. I haven't seen any dances yet.
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  Speaker 3: I want to see it the first time.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no, you gots something specially going on telling
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  Speaker 4: you right now. So it was beautiful to see, you
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  Speaker 4: know what.
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  Speaker 3: I love seeing it just because when I go on
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  Speaker 3: these dance competitions, it's very really black, father.
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  Speaker 2: There's a black kids dancing very rarely. Father. So when
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: they get on stage and they get busy.
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  Speaker 3: Like they practice all day long, that's all they do,
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  Speaker 3: and they get busy, and it's so crazy to see
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  Speaker 3: people saying, like pointing at them in the winning because
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  Speaker 3: that's that's my best thing.
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  Speaker 2: The DJ this is cool, but going to see them
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  Speaker 2: dances like this special, Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 4: No. I literally went home and told Russ, I said, Babe,
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  Speaker 4: these girls because we're new to New York, so I'm
• 2:22
  Speaker 4: trying to figure out the places for our kids to
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  Speaker 4: you know, get active and do what they love doing.
• 2:27
  Speaker 4: And I'm like, that was so powerful to see, and
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  Speaker 4: especially because again the girls look my daughter looks they
• 2:33
  Speaker 4: look like my daughter. She gets to see that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you should be proud. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but don't be
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  Speaker 4: coming it crazy. I mean, like your daughter's sitting on me.
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  Speaker 5: What are you dumb?
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  Speaker 4: Listen, I'm really I don't remember. That was a good question. Listen.
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  Speaker 4: You know what, when you got your energy in a
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  Speaker 4: certain place, you can't remember everything crazy that someone does
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  Speaker 4: says about you. But I definitely would always remember Strala
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  Speaker 4: made along the Way and my journey coming up as
• 3:05
  Speaker 4: an artist. But you know, Charlemaine was being Charlamagne, So
• 3:08
  Speaker 4: I was on drugs.
• 3:10
  Speaker 2: That's a lot.
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  Speaker 6: I was just back, and don't try to like that.
• 3:15
  Speaker 2: That was I went back.
• 3:17
  Speaker 3: I went back down some of the pipeline. And we
• 3:19
  Speaker 3: won't say it, but I think you owe her an
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  Speaker 3: apology because you was crazy.
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, you said you went down did this pipeline? And
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: what happened?
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  Speaker 2: What did you say?
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  Speaker 4: Crazy?
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  Speaker 2: He didn't come up about this list?
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  Speaker 7: I have if I if I did do anything that,
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  Speaker 7: if that really offended you and hurts you, hurt you
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  Speaker 7: in any way here, I do apologize.
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  Speaker 1: Sincerely, but I really I'm not even joking. I really
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  Speaker 1: don't remember.
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  Speaker 4: Got only remember one thing. I really do you remember
• 3:50
  Speaker 4: one thing, which we want to say, the one thing
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  Speaker 4: It was.
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  Speaker 1: What I used to say Rihanna had the navy had
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  Speaker 1: to be had the cricket. Oh my, only I personally remember.
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  Speaker 4: That's crazy. Well, cricket is a turban loud.
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  Speaker 5: Ain't they? Here?
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  Speaker 2: Are you feeling?
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  Speaker 4: I'm feeling amazing. I'm feeling feeling real, blessed, feeling real blessed,
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  Speaker 4: feeling excited. This is really sweet. So it's kind of
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  Speaker 4: it's crazy. I've been doing it independently, so it's a
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  Speaker 4: beast like I'm literally NonStop. I'm like I'm out here
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  Speaker 4: ground like it's the two thousands right now. So it's
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  Speaker 4: just it's crazy. I really feel excited though, I'm ready
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  Speaker 4: to get this project out and I'm happy to be here.
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  Speaker 2: How'd you move to New York.
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  Speaker 4: It's amazing. You know, it's different when you come to
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  Speaker 4: New York. You know, it's one thing to come as
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  Speaker 4: a performer, but to come here, you know, to live
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  Speaker 4: like it's a whole different like feeling like it's a
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  Speaker 4: whole different perspective, and then also seeing New York through
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  Speaker 4: our kids eyes, it's really cool, you know. You know,
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  Speaker 4: Siena is we were preparing the clothes that we were
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  Speaker 4: packing and seen it had this really fancy pink outfit
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  Speaker 4: and she goes. I said, ceee, Mama, that's a lot
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  Speaker 4: going on. She's like, well, we're going New York. You know.
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  Speaker 5: She ready.
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  Speaker 4: She like what we're doing, you know. But to be
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  Speaker 4: able to be here with our family, obviously football is
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  Speaker 4: the reason why we're here. It's exciting, you know, but
• 5:09
  Speaker 4: it's New York feels more calm from this perspective, because
• 5:12
  Speaker 4: I think if like you're a visitor, like New York
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  Speaker 4: is like bright lights all this, but now it's like, okay, wait,
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  Speaker 4: how are we gonna how we're gonna sit by? What
• 5:19
  Speaker 4: are we going to be doing? Like how are we
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  Speaker 4: gonna live? Like hold perspective, But I love it. We
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  Speaker 4: love our date nights here. The food, they say, you'll
• 5:26
  Speaker 4: never have enough food in a lifetime eating in New York.
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  Speaker 4: So I've been loving the restaurant options. There's so many.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't realize how much a community that has grown
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  Speaker 4: the community, the communities that are creative have grown here,
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  Speaker 4: Like with playgrounds and stuff. There's so many playgrounds, which
• 5:43
  Speaker 4: you only see that because now I have kids, so
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  Speaker 4: I say differently. So I'm just excited. Everything you needed,
• 5:50
  Speaker 4: you want to find is right here. The beauty supplies, like,
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  Speaker 4: everything is all here. So I'm excited.
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  Speaker 7: I will say it's calm now and tell the giants
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  Speaker 7: start losing. Seriously, the giants are going.
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  Speaker 1: To be terrible.
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  Speaker 4: They're let me tell you no, no, no, no no, let
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  Speaker 4: me tell you right now. I love you dearly, but
• 6:08
  Speaker 4: you cannot look at me and tell me that the
• 6:09
  Speaker 4: team my husbands gonna be and it is gonna be terrible.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just not gonna allow that. You can feel what
• 6:13
  Speaker 4: you want to feel though, it's all I understand. Listen,
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  Speaker 4: I understand you know the history that franchises. They evolve
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  Speaker 4: and they go through things. But we're gonna speak life
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  Speaker 4: over here.
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  Speaker 7: So us I think he's gonna have a great season
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  Speaker 7: the Giants though, No.
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  Speaker 4: Sir, right, you can feel how you feel, but it's
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  Speaker 4: gonna be great.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna be a party that ever wants him to retire.
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  Speaker 4: No, I want for him to do it when he
• 6:39
  Speaker 4: wants to do it. But I think he still has
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  Speaker 4: a great story to tell. You know, he's been so
• 6:42
  Speaker 4: fortunate to you know, done all that he's done and
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  Speaker 4: you know, defy many odds, and so I think he's
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  Speaker 4: still got a lot more amazing football left in him.
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  Speaker 4: And so I'm just excited, you know, to support him.
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  Speaker 4: But whenever he wants to do that, you know, it's
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  Speaker 4: where we're it's organized chaos in our house, you know,
• 7:00
  Speaker 4: because his world goes, my world goes. So it's it's
• 7:03
  Speaker 4: like a really like crafting of schedules to make everything,
• 7:06
  Speaker 4: like you know, working makes sense. But we're having fun
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  Speaker 4: right now. And I really love football too, so I
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  Speaker 4: enjoy it. I enjoy watching him do his thing.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 7: Sometimes sometimes people say, like, you know, Sierra has more
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  Speaker 7: headlines for her relationship to her music.
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  Speaker 1: Does that bother you or do you just mean no?
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  Speaker 4: I think people are entitled to what they feel. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: that's up to you and what you want to feel.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm not her living, you know. I'm living my life,
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  Speaker 4: and I I mean a part of living in front
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  Speaker 4: of the world is people You're going to be open to.
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  Speaker 4: People have opinions, but that's all right. You're entitled to it,
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  Speaker 4: you know. So I don't really worry about those things
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  Speaker 4: cause I am doing a lot. I am a mom,
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  Speaker 4: I am a wife, I am an entrepreneur, I am
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  Speaker 4: an artist, So you're going to say many things about me,
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  Speaker 4: and that's all good, you know.
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  Speaker 5: So you have been outside.
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  Speaker 6: It's been great seeing you in these spaces where you dancing.
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  Speaker 5: God grow up to you dancing and that's the thing
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  Speaker 5: you have not aged.
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  Speaker 4: But thank you.
• 8:00
  Speaker 6: You have really been like doing your thing when it
• 8:03
  Speaker 6: comes to promoting CC. Right, so let's get into the album.
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  Speaker 6: The name of it is called CC YEP and that's.
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  Speaker 4: Who you are, that's my nickname.
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  Speaker 5: It's personal to you, right.
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  Speaker 6: So in this album we're going to be getting an
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  Speaker 6: inside look on yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So it's really more so just my my token of appreciation.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's been twenty one years. This is my
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  Speaker 4: first album, you know, and so to be sitting here
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  Speaker 4: with the same passion and joy that I had as
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  Speaker 4: a little girl growing up, starting off my career and
• 8:31
  Speaker 4: to still be here with opportunity and it's still be
• 8:34
  Speaker 4: you know, fortunate to have some of the best fans
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  Speaker 4: in the world. You know, when people see me in
• 8:38
  Speaker 4: the streets that I say, well, hey, CC, I have
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  Speaker 4: like hey girl, But it feels real personal when someone
• 8:42
  Speaker 4: calls you by your nickname, and my fans have done that,
• 8:45
  Speaker 4: and honestly, like I said, doing independently, I would not
• 8:48
  Speaker 4: be here if it wasn't for my fans. I would
• 8:51
  Speaker 4: not be here if I didn't have the love and
• 8:52
  Speaker 4: support that I've had over the years. And so it's
• 8:55
  Speaker 4: just really a token of appreciation from me to my
• 8:58
  Speaker 4: fans to give them this project but also again try
• 9:01
  Speaker 4: and get back to CC because that's what they call me.
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  Speaker 4: So it's real personal for me. But it really is
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  Speaker 4: like it's an attitude of gratitude, Like it's not easy
• 9:09
  Speaker 4: to you know, to stand tall and to be still
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  Speaker 4: going at this rate and to have the level of
• 9:15
  Speaker 4: support that I've had is like it's just such a blessing,
• 9:19
  Speaker 4: you know. So you can't listen to the Charlamagne of
• 9:21
  Speaker 4: the world, you know what I'm saying, like, you know, say,
• 9:23
  Speaker 4: because if you do, then you won't. You know what
• 9:25
  Speaker 4: I'm saying. You want level up, right, you know what
• 9:27
  Speaker 4: I'm saying. You know what I'm saying.
• 9:29
  Speaker 3: So, but do you like the independent route because everything
• 9:33
  Speaker 3: longer label, it's no longer label, pushing the record.
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: You gotta love it. Kiss baby, shake hands, you got
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  Speaker 2: to do all that.
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  Speaker 4: No, it's amazing. Listen now, it's a grind. Like I said,
• 9:41
  Speaker 4: I'm ground like it's a two thousand, like we out sad,
• 9:44
  Speaker 4: like I go from the stage to the classroom to
• 9:48
  Speaker 4: the football field to support Russ to be here this
• 9:51
  Speaker 4: morning with you guys, and then I hit my son's
• 9:53
  Speaker 4: teacher up to talk about his Spanish exam thing he
• 9:57
  Speaker 4: has to do. Like it's NonStop. But I love the
• 10:00
  Speaker 4: independent route because one is nothing better than only your
• 10:02
  Speaker 4: master's right, there's nothing better than ownership. Like you think
• 10:06
  Speaker 4: about the math of what it is for us as artists,
• 10:08
  Speaker 4: it is hard to do the traditional route for a
• 10:10
  Speaker 4: long time. It's to me it's not sustainable for long
• 10:12
  Speaker 4: term you know purposes, So mathematically it's definitely much better.
• 10:18
  Speaker 4: But I love that when I have an idea, I
• 10:21
  Speaker 4: can activate on it when I want you how I
• 10:23
  Speaker 4: want to, and I may not get it right, I
• 10:25
  Speaker 4: may swing, I may fail, but I like my batting average,
• 10:28
  Speaker 4: you know, being able to do it my way. And
• 10:30
  Speaker 4: I've been very fortunate that over the years, even when
• 10:32
  Speaker 4: I signed a major's all my big moments, I was like,
• 10:36
  Speaker 4: this is the moment, Like I've always been that voice.
• 10:38
  Speaker 4: I've always betted on myself, But now I get to
• 10:40
  Speaker 4: read my full benefits of when I do take that
• 10:42
  Speaker 4: big risk and make that big bet. So I like
• 10:46
  Speaker 4: it this way. It's like I said, it's not easy,
• 10:48
  Speaker 4: but it's it's a good feeling though. I feel in
• 10:50
  Speaker 4: power like more than ever in my life. And also too,
• 10:53
  Speaker 4: you know, like where there's sinc opportunities like Level Up
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  Speaker 4: is a song that keeps on giving. It's almost three
• 10:58
  Speaker 4: times platinum. How many billion streams of that song alone.
• 11:02
  Speaker 4: I say it's a gift that keeps on giving because
• 11:04
  Speaker 4: I get these unique sync opportunities that just don't stop.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't have to go through these channels for approval.
• 11:10
  Speaker 4: I don't have to like get someone's like, you know,
• 11:13
  Speaker 4: is this okay?
• 11:14
  Speaker 2: Is it not?
• 11:14
  Speaker 4: It's like no, I like it. I want to do it.
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  Speaker 4: Let's do it, you know, and so it's it's a
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  Speaker 4: great feeling.
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  Speaker 7: I was on drugs and alcohol and retarded and a
• 11:25
  Speaker 7: little bit ugly, like.
• 11:30
  Speaker 4: He might have slipped a little something this morning.
• 11:35
  Speaker 8: Coming in hat, I saw the story that you told
• 11:38
  Speaker 8: and Forbes about the CEO from the label that you
• 11:41
  Speaker 8: left to become independent. Yeah, you didn't really feel he
• 11:45
  Speaker 8: wasn't really caring for you. You're trying to drop music. Yeah,
• 11:47
  Speaker 8: has that CEO ever reached out to you now that
• 11:51
  Speaker 8: the story is out there and it's the success after
• 11:53
  Speaker 8: leaving the label and been like I apologize.
• 11:55
  Speaker 4: So I ran into him shortly after level up, like
• 11:58
  Speaker 4: took off.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah that was a song level up, so his level up.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, I ran into him shortly after and
• 12:03
  Speaker 4: he was lost for words. And it's funny because I
• 12:06
  Speaker 4: almost didn't recognize him, Like I was so like in
• 12:08
  Speaker 4: my zone. I didn't even realize who I was looking
• 12:10
  Speaker 4: at because my period that I met with him was short,
• 12:12
  Speaker 4: Like he was a new CEO that just come in
• 12:15
  Speaker 4: and he was like, you know, trying to put the
• 12:16
  Speaker 4: plants together, and I had to talk with him, share
• 12:18
  Speaker 4: my ideas, see if he's gonna like it, like try
• 12:21
  Speaker 4: to convince him, and he literally looked at me like eh,
• 12:24
  Speaker 4: and I was like okay, and that motivated me. So
• 12:27
  Speaker 4: when I saw him, his face wasn't the most familiar
• 12:29
  Speaker 4: for me because I was already like it was just
• 12:32
  Speaker 4: you know, I was where I was at, you know, mentally,
• 12:34
  Speaker 4: but he was lost for words. So that said a lot,
• 12:37
  Speaker 4: you know, but.
• 12:38
  Speaker 8: It was crazy because you were a si era at
• 12:40
  Speaker 8: that point, like even like that, that's like such a
• 12:42
  Speaker 8: sign of disrespect, Like.
• 12:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know that happens though. You know, the music
• 12:47
  Speaker 4: industry is you know, it's not it's not cut for
• 12:50
  Speaker 4: the week, you know, And that's what comes with it, Right,
• 12:53
  Speaker 4: you're gonna be toltd. No, I've been told to know
• 12:54
  Speaker 4: a lot more a lot of times. You know, I'm
• 12:57
  Speaker 4: not gonna say a lot more than yes, but at
• 12:59
  Speaker 4: one point, especially, you know, you hear a lot of no's,
• 13:01
  Speaker 4: but it motivates you. And no matter how successful you are,
• 13:05
  Speaker 4: you're still gonna hear someone say no or you can't.
• 13:08
  Speaker 4: Like that's just what comes with that. I don't know
• 13:10
  Speaker 4: one great that I have admired that hasn't been told
• 13:14
  Speaker 4: they can or hasn't been chopped down by the world
• 13:17
  Speaker 4: or hasn't been said like you know, like they can't.
• 13:20
  Speaker 4: I don't know one great that hasn't experienced that. So
• 13:23
  Speaker 4: if you think about it, it's just like the path
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  Speaker 4: to success, like you're gonna be told no along the way,
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  Speaker 4: you're gonna be told you can't. You know, That's why
• 13:30
  Speaker 4: you have game changes that make things become possible that
• 13:33
  Speaker 4: they said weren't because you believe in yourself. So it
• 13:36
  Speaker 4: all comes back to me simply believing in you and
• 13:40
  Speaker 4: we all have to find that like within ourselves, Like
• 13:42
  Speaker 4: whatever path you're on, you all have to tap into that.
• 13:44
  Speaker 4: No matter how successful or you find your way, we
• 13:47
  Speaker 4: all can relate to that.
• 13:48
  Speaker 3: You feel like you slept on because of that, like
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: that people say no or they don't believe right away.
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: Or you have to fight through. Do you feel like
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: they always sleep on CC?
• 13:57
  Speaker 4: You know, I think listen are what what I say?
• 14:00
  Speaker 4: There's times, yeah, but I don't really worry about that,
• 14:07
  Speaker 4: you know. I just I like what I've been doing
• 14:10
  Speaker 4: and what I'm doing, and I'm happy with that. The
• 14:13
  Speaker 4: most important for me, The most important thing for me
• 14:16
  Speaker 4: is that when it's all said and done, like do
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: I have my sanity, Like do I know who I am?
• 14:21
  Speaker 4: Like you know, I think sometimes you can be chasing
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: a certain level of success and you may get there,
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: you may not get there. But like, what is your
• 14:28
  Speaker 4: definition of success? What is your definition of wealth? Mine
• 14:31
  Speaker 4: is health, Mine is my joy, Mine is my sanity,
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: Mine is like you know, I like living life in
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: the most least chaotic way possible. Like those are different
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: success metrics for me. So you know, all I can
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: do is, you know, do my best, you know, and
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: I can always be proud of that.
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 14:52
  Speaker 7: You know you had to adapt and survive a lot
• 14:55
  Speaker 7: of different areas of music. You had the R and
• 14:56
  Speaker 7: B and crunk and B and pop records and dance records.
• 14:59
  Speaker 7: What did you learn about yourself each time you had
• 15:01
  Speaker 7: to adapt?
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: That I can adapt. I learned that, you know. Listen,
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: I'm built for it, you know. I know I'm walking
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: in my purpose. I think my purpose is greater than music,
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: you know, And I do feel like over time I'm
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: starting to really find it even more, you know, or
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: not fine, but just like learn more, Like God, why
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: am I here? Like even through why not? You foundation?
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: Like being able to impact so many lives, being able
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: to raise millions of dollars to you know, save lives
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: and you know, be on that journey with Russ Like
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: that's a gift, Like that's a blessing, Like why did
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: God give me, out of the billions of girls in
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: the world this position?
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: Right, your prayer?
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: So you said, what, yes, I do pray? No, but
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: you ain't lying. I do you know I'm about to pray.
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: I'm about praying, shall I say?
• 15:50
  Speaker 9: But yeah?
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: No?
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 15:52
  Speaker 7: What do you think your biggest reinvention was, like the
• 15:54
  Speaker 7: one that like truly shifted how people.
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: Saw Sier My biggest well, obviously the beginning was the beginning,
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: but I think Goodies was such a significant moment for
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: me to step out into the world so boldly, you know.
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: And that song was obviously my first song and it
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: went number one, you know, for eight weeks long, which
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: is a blessing. Obviously, the second album was significant for
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: me too, with the evolution, right. What I loved about
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: that moment. I was just telling someone the other day
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: is that I had a song, the song Promise, and
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: I remember that time the CEO is like, this is
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: the worst R and B record? What And actually you
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: may be think about something I get to it, but
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: I remember him saying that to me, and I'm like, okay,
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: you're going to see So Polo produced that record and
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: we actually leaked the record and the record was a
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: hit record, and that week I came out, it was
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: Eminem Gwen Stefani and it was a crazy week and
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: I had my first number one album. So I remember
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: that moment and just like again betting on myself, and
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: that was a special moment. If I fast forward to
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: I think a really special moment was Level Up for
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: me because I again was entering my chapter of ownership.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: But I remember seeing in an office and someone questioned
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: me and they were like, how are you going to
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: stay young? How are you going to stay relevant? How
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: are you going to do to And it was almost
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: like they were questioning me like with my life also
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: as a mom, you know, and all these different things.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: And I was pregnant as ever when I was recording
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: Level Up with my friend Tehran. We were writing that
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: record and it was produced by j I Rhodam, and
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: I'm just like, man, it's a gift when you can dance, right.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: The power of dance to me is kind of ageless.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: So I feel so gifted that I can do it,
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: but I knew Level Up was going to be a
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: game changer. And again I was betting on myself. And
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: then fast forward to literally within forty eight hours, I'd
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: never seen anything like it. All these videos were uploaded
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: with people redoing the performance. In my video, I'm like,
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: oh my gosh, like period, yeah, And so you fast
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: forward to it's like at that point almost I don't know,
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: eighteen years or so, you no, maybe like sixteen years
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: since the beginning for me at that point, and to
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: like see that love like like it was all new
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: for me. It was like, Okay, we onto something like
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: let's stay the course, you know what I'm saying. So
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: I think that was another big moment for me, and
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: I think I can't wait for you guys to hear
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: this project.
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: Well, first of all, I already got two favorite songs,
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: be right back and run it up.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: Let's go girl, Let's go.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: Yes, are we getting any? Visuals?
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Are we getting any?
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: I'm excited because in this visual, first of all, you
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: know I'm from an atl but you know I jumped
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: to my West Coast bag real heavy with this record.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: It's my song Dance with Me featuring Tiger and I
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: had an amazing time on set and then I got
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: really we got blessed, or I could say I got
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: blessed to live out one of my dancing dreams like
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: this is this may sound random to sound, but my boy,
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: Russell Westbrook, he was since so we got together and
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: you know, because he always goes viral with his dance
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: the dances, and I'm like, babe, I til Russell, baby,
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: can you get the other Russ? You know? And so
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: Russ hit up. Russ we got the group chat going
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: and then he jumped in and he was like just amazing.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: And so I'm excited for this moment because again I've
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: always want to do this, but I mean I've never
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: danced the way I'm dancing in this visual, So talk
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: about reinventing. I really love that I challenged myself to
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: be a little like out of my normal comfort zone
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: and I mean we walk in and everything in this video.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: So I'm excited about that. And then there's a lot
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: of other cool visuals and I have visualizes that they
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: as they call them, that will go along with the project.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: And then I want to stay focused on the moment
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: of today because it is release Dave, but the deluxe album.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: If anyone is already pre saved or pre downloaded the
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: album and purchased this album, you automatically get the deluxe
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: version on the twenty fifth. And there is this song
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: called Low featuring Diamond Platinums that I want to play
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: you guys at video before I leave out of here
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: if I can. Yes, it's rough, but I w to
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: show y'all show you guys both videos. But I'm excited
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: about this. Diamond Platinums is from Africa, from Tanzania to
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: be exact.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: You're supposed to come last week.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, y'all get up here with but he is
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: like so dope and the vibes are just like I'm
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: just so happy, and I do feel like you will
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: feel growth for me as an artist on this project.
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: So yeah, just to see the excitement in your face
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: when you talk about your music, like you have you
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: ever had a moment right where you're where somebody play
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: something for you, but even the making of this album
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: right and you were like, eh no.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, we have those moments. But it's funny because
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: you know how you hear artists say like they have
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: hundreds of records I don't record tons of records. I've
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: never done that. I've always been very intentional about the
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: songs that I've written or record for my records, So
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: I don't have a lot of leftover records. But if
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: I start a record, I'm not feeling out just playing
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: like nah, you know, And sometimes you do get songs
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: you're like, that's not me. So yes, do I have
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: those moments. But I will say, all in all, I'm
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: lucky that I get to write on a lot on
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: my records, so you know, if I'm not feeling the
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: vibes and you're just gonna cut it short, you know.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: But yeah, you preview your music for your husband, Oh yeah, okay.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: He's he knows and sees everything. Like even when I'm
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: like in the process of thinking about stuff, you think
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: about Russ that I don't think people know is like
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: he obviously he's amazing on the field, but his creative
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: mind is like insane, Like he actually has really incredible
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: ideas that he'll throw my way and like he's in
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: it with me, which is so fun.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Like us don't seem like a dance to.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: Listen, I say, he dances really nicely in the pocket
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: get it, you know what I'm saying. But he actually
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: has a nice little groove. It was funny because the
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: other night him and all the qbs that he had
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: invited the fellows to come out QB Room to come out,
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: and they were all jamming and like James was like, Russ,
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: I know you had that in you like you know,
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: but he can sell us a little bit, you know.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: It's cute question. And this is not how I feel.
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: When you hear people say it's so funny city over
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: there waiting, like just wait, you.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Want to Russell Wilson is corny? What's your honest reaction?
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, that I don't. I don't have to
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: even reply to that, because you know, like that, Why
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: would I even respond to that? You know what I'm saying, Like,
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: I know what I know, and that's all that matters.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: But he's one of them. He is the most amazing
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: human being you can know, the smartest, most intelligent black
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: man that I have ever known, you know. And when
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: you what you see with him is really who he is,
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: you know, And so it's beautiful. It's different, you know,
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: But I don't doesn't.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Bother him because I feel like he gets it. Because
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: he takes care of his wife.
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: And we've had conversations up here as men saying like,
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: I don't understand why why he gets called a simple.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: Well, I think it depends on who Wait wait, wait, wait,
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: who's the man saying it. I'm not gonna go down
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: a specific lane because I'm just saying, who's the man
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: saying it? Right? It's like someone saying a person doesn't
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: love someone, But have you ever loved someone?
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: Have you ever been loved?
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: So sometimes people to me speak out of pocket because
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: they just don't know. So for me, it's versus being
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: mad about it, just like God bless them, you know,
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: like you know, God bless them, you know what I'm saying, Like, so, yeah.
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: Because it's obviously something that they're lacking.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: It's just, you know, everyone again, everyone's in toies to
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: their opinion. But it's like, you don't. We don't have
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: to live. I don't have to live my life to
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: prove anything to anybody, right, And so I think, you know,
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: sometimes two people have a perspective just because of how
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: they see life, and that just may be their way.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: But you know, to me, too bad for them if
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: they want to live life or so and wait and
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: love people a certain way. Too bad for them.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Atlanta wants to come out of you like one time,
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: like the Atlanta just say yo, suck from the back
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: like that.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: New York. That's a good time.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, you were silly. Let me tell you.
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: Do I want to say stuff sometimes? Absolutely? But is
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: it worth it? No what Michelle say when they go?
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: We go? Yeah, but is it really worth the breath?
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: Like you think? I think about how many people I've
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: seen come and I've seen go when I leave it there.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: So so you're telling me, yeah, I gotta prayer. But
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: she don't got a curse.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: She don't got a curse. No, but will she curse? Yeah? Yeah,
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: you know, pull up on me a certain way, I
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: might pop out. But no, no, no, no, no, Honestly, I don't know, man,
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I just or how I'm trying to
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: live my life. It doesn't have space for like a negativity.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: It just doesn't like you cannot like if you're trying
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: to go to a certain height and climb certain mountains
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: like that stuff is like down there, you know what
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: I'm saying, Like it's like I cannot if I choose
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: to entertain those things, and I'm taking away time from
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: myself going where I really want to get to, Like
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: so why would I do it? And then also wisdom
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: has showed me like you ain't gotta respond. People respond
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: for you, Like just watch those that have things to
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: say about you, just watch it, like they will respond.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: They'll they'll respond for you. They'll do it to themselves.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: I was gonna say, I saw that a lot people
• 25:43
  Speaker 8: are responding for you and taking up for you.
• 25:45
  Speaker 9: Guys.
• 25:45
  Speaker 8: When people were having a debate about rust being a
• 25:47
  Speaker 8: stepdad or not, like early on, and people were like
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: why is that an issue?
• 25:51
  Speaker 9: Like why is their family united issue?
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: For you? A lot of people had that conversation. Yea,
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: And you say quiet the whole time you handle that.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: You ain't got to talk about that. You know, there's
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: beauty and love. It all comes back to love. I
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: think people when they talk about that type of stuff,
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: they forget about what matters the most in the situation.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: It's the child, right, It's not about the adult conversation
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: of it. All is the child being loved how they
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: should be loved. That's all that matters, right, And I
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: think that obviously, I know, like the beauty and a
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: blended family, right, there's no greater feeling than my kids
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: all feeling together and waking up and feeling loved the same,
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: all them feeling loved the same. That is a blessing,
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: you know. So, and I think that every child deserves
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: to feel, you know, that kind of love that I
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: get to see my kids have, you know. And so
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: you know, I think when things are new to people,
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: it just creates great conversation. But sometimes conversation is great,
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: you know, because sometimes conversation also opens up things for
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: people to really talk about things that they probably wouldn't
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: talk about, right. You know, maybe, like I said, at
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: my time when I was a single mom, I think
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: a lot of women were able to see my journey
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: to be able to be like, you know, just me
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: finding my way as a woman, right, And I thank
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: God that He's blessed me with this special love that
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: I have. But I think there's like again it goes
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: back to like why do I have this platform?
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: It's like if I can inspire someone in any kind
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: of way, like that to me is success, right, And
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: so I think oftentimes you don't know what that's like
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: until you're in that position, right and you're like, oh,
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: this is my life, Like, okay, let me figure this out.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: But I mean it's a gift when you know, I
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: think women can know, like life doesn't stop at a
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: situation for you, right, you know, life can't evolve and
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: grow how you want it to. And as it relates
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: to families and men, right, there's a difference between boys
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: and men, okay, And to me, men love a certain way.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: They have a certain standard of how they love and
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: choose to love and do things, you know, And I
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: feel blessed that when I look at my husband, that
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: standard is like it's top tier, right, It's like my
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: dad's love. Right, that's the truest love I've known from
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: a man, you know, And so to see that is
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: such a blessing. But I love that my kids when
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: they look up at each other and you know, future
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: out him, Him and a Mora are like our baby girl,
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: Like he's the sweetest with her Ena, And just how
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: when and how they all interact with each other's love,
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: that's all that matters. Right. So conversation is good though
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: sometimes it opens up things and hopefully it helps others.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Well, I would like to say, that is the most
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: perfect ponytail I've ever seen.
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: Oh my god, moving like doctor Strange cap now doctor
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: Strange Kate moves with.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: Him, Doctor Strange Kate, what is that, Doctor Strange? What
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: is that?
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: He had a life of its own.
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: So it's like certain times when you talk, it's moving
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: with your emotions.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: It's unbelievable.
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: But you said something earlier that made me think about something.
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: You think Black women in entertainment are allowed to evolve gracefully?
• 28:56
  Speaker 7: Are Do we only celebrate them when they're like young?
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: And oh?
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Man?
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: I think do I think people like when people are sad? Yeah,
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: but I think about like, you know, women that are
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: rocking it, Like I think, you know, people do celebrate you.
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: I think as a community though, you know, just outside
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: of artistry, I do think that the more we can
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: support each other, the better we will be. And I
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: think historically, because of what we've been through, like historically
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: as a culture, as a race, your condition to go
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: my mind mine, your conditioned to like you don't want
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: to share so much. And what I've noticed in my
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: communities of friends sometimes that don't look like me, they
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: will call me and be like Hey, Siera, do you
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: need help with da da da? How can I help you? Right,
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: that's a very common question I get asked, you know,
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: And I feel blessed to have the friends that I do,
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: and it makes me want to do that for people
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: that look like like me because we need that. Like
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: it's a real thing. Like think about just like why
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: we always be fighting crazy in our communities, like we
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: have more fights, I think, you know, and again I
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: could be wrong, but just the culture of us, like
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: we got that raw raw, like it's just in us.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: And I think there's something about history that's predispositioned us
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: that way where it's like how do we evolve like together,
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: like how do we eat together?
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: Like it's a real thing. Like I feel very blessed
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: to have the friend circles that I do, and like,
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: you know, it's like Jewish community like the way that
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: they like rock with each other is crazy amazing, Like
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: the Latino communities, like the way they rock is like beautiful.
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: Like by the way, I'm Blexican, Like I'm learning my Spanish,
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: so I say, I'm like black and Mexican.
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: Daughter is is birthday?
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: Okay, It's all right, It's all right.
• 30:59
  Speaker 10: Okay, okay, no, but you think about that love right,
• 31:19
  Speaker 10: Like it's a community thing that I think we as
• 31:21
  Speaker 10: a whole have to continue to evolve and.
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: Grow together with like let's lift each other up, like
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: in our big moments, like let's celebrate, like celebrate each other.
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: Let's not even like don't worry about you know. I
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: think sometimes you can get like a little distracted if
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: you don't feel like things are moving at the pace
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: you want them to. But it's like, celebrate the next one,
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: like your time's gonna come, you know what I'm saying.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: Like it's like that perspective, that's a real thing. And
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: I do think our culture, in the community of us,
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: we're just kind of we were kind of predispositioned to
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: like bark at each other and fight and like sometimes
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: it's hard to like celebrate, but like the more we
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: can do that together, the more we win.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Well.
• 32:02
  Speaker 7: The only than I asked you said, I don't know
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: if it was the CEO or somebody told you, how
• 32:05
  Speaker 7: do you stay young?
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: And I'm like, yeah, no, no, it's yeah, no, it's crazy.
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: But the thing is is, you know, you gotta grow,
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: you gotta evolve, right, and you go with your times.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: But it was very honestly, like I never wanted to
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: like walk out of a meeting in my career. Wow,
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: And I felt like, Yo, why are you coming at
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: me like that? And then my thing is too, It's
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: like what you asked me earlier is like why can't
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: she be a mom, a wife and still be great
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: at what she does? Like I'm a working mom, Like
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: that's just simple, like the everyday working mom in the world.
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: My job isn't being an entertainer, but I'm a working
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: mom and all of us are trying to figure this
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: shit out. I don't like cursing, but you know, I
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: get passionate. I gotta, you know, you know, so like
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: that's a real thing. Is like why y'all why you
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: questioning me on? Like you know what I'm saying, Like
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: why are you even coming at me like that? And
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: then just for what it's worth, like you know to
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: your point, like legacy is what legacy is. You can
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: never raise my legacy like never, Like that's just facts,
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: So like you can't take that from me, So don't
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: come and be crazy like I'm somebody that I'm not.
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: Like That's how I felt in that moment. I'm like,
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: hold up, what are you talking to? You know what
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: I'm saying? Like that was kind of crazy to me,
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: but it was actually, you know, she came around to
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: me later, you know, and she spoke you know, kind words,
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: and that was a real interesting place to be in.
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: But people, we do get questioned. I think sometimes as woman,
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: you question even more, you know. So, yeah, a lot
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: of titles.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: You've got a lot of titles. You gotta you gotta
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: add match maker to titles.
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: Yes, that's where I was going.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: Yes, now, Lauren right here.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Maker list.
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: Okay, So wait, okay, Norms and DK. That's family to us,
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: Like DK is like a brother to both Russ and I.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: You guys do normanis like a system to me. So
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: we can say proudly that you know, we we just knew.
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: Let's lead these two at the table and let them
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: do their thing. Let's make sure these two get to
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: the table so then we can let them do their
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: That was one, okay, so check. So Coco and Donovan
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: firstly shout out to them, and I love Coco. She
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: is so sweet and so funny. That girls, it's so talented.
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: But actually Rus and Donovan were doing their thing like,
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: I gotta give the Fellas their props because they were
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: talking about, like Russ know about Donovan's plans for a while,
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: and you know, Russ actually has he has a what
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: do you call it, like a luxury company that he's
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: building where you help like book travel and all that
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: kind of stuff. Luxury travel company and called West East Lux.
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: But anyways, Donovan was talking about his game plan and
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: then him and Russ linked up and then like it
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: was a beautiful, you know moment that came together. But
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: again Donovan led, So we got to shout out Donovan
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: for leading. That was all him wanted to make the
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: best plan for his girl. And the Fellas linked up and.
• 34:55
  Speaker 9: His company find the location.
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so they helped on the location and everything and
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: then fast forward.
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: No, no, we got it, random guys.
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: Wait wait, wait, Donovan actually did show love though, like
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: he reposted you know, the Fellas, But anyways, it's not
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: about that though. It's the moment it is, you know,
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: so amazing, and I'm so happy for them, and Coco
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: is my girl and they call we FaceTime and her
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: ring was blinging and it's awesome. So we're so happy
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: for them. But we do love we do love matching people. Yes,
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: Like we're really big on Like I'm always like if
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: somebody be like they're singing, I'm like, so, okay, let
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: me learn a little bit more about you, like what
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: you what do you hope for? And then my brain
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: starts working and then we're just fortunate to have like
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: amazing friends within their souls and we run across a
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: lot of people that we can be like, maybe y'all
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: too should like think up, so we like doing that
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: kind of stuff.
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: What about Tracy Ellis Ross that should be the next
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: person that y'all hook up? Because she had just sat
• 35:59
  Speaker 6: down and she has told somebody that she is single.
• 36:02
  Speaker 6: She don't want to be single forever. But she said
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: her friend Obama she had broke up with somebody and
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: she saw.
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: To get this out. She walked past Obama and.
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: She was like, yeah, well you know I broke up
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: with such as She was like, I could have told
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: you that, you know, so I think that's bad because
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: he was a bad friend on that part.
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: But you can help Tracy Ellis.
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: You know what, I love Tracy. I love her. She
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: is amazing though, like beautiful, She's like what the heck
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: like talk about like blacked on crap, like she's amazing.
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: You know, that's my girl. I'll just leave it at that.
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: That's an easy one.
• 36:40
  Speaker 9: What about Jim Jones and Christy. I didn't hooked them up,
• 36:42
  Speaker 9: but you put it for the weddow.
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: Where it was so passionate in the moment because I
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: haven't watched you know, those shows in a while, so
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: I just picked up where I left off. Was like, hey, remembered,
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: you know. And and I think Christie says something recently.
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: I did see something she recently talked about something is
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: I just think she's so dope.
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: Oh my god.
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: I think she's so beautiful, you know. And I think
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: as a woman, I think for all of us, like
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: you know, when you get to see someone live their
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: life like on the screen and the way that they have,
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: you do feel connected to someone sometimes. So again it's
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: just like you just want love for people. And what
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: I see is like, you know where you come from
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: and life doesn't determine how far you go. I've always
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: said this, right, like you're not limited by your circumstances,
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: like you know, and there's no perfect way to love.
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: So that was my greatest thing, is like, yeah, people
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: mess up. People don't get it right all the time.
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: But love is love, Like you can't beat that. So
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: when I saw Jim, you know, I just got excited,
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: you know, because I also was like, you know, I
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: just want good things for them, and you know, and
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: we got to see how they've like done things a
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: little bit, you know, and the and the bits that
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: they've shared with us. So you know, I'm rooting for
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: I'm room for the Christies of the world.
• 37:56
  Speaker 7: I love that.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: I want to get back to your music. But I
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: just have one more question. Do somebody hook you up?
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah? Nobody, A good friend.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: A good friend gotch.
• 38:06
  Speaker 7: So mentioned goodies, right, And we were having this conversation yesterday.
• 38:11
  Speaker 7: I feel like Little John is the most unappreciated, underrated
• 38:18
  Speaker 7: producer and cultural figure and hip hop. So how was
• 38:21
  Speaker 7: it getting with a guy like him to make R
• 38:23
  Speaker 7: and B smash?
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: Oh, it's amazing. You know. At that time period, he
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: was just you know, entering the scene with his special sound,
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: and at that time period, it was just really amazing energy.
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: Like there were a lot of songs that came out
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: of our sessions, songs like frequently was produced in the
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: same session, and so you know, Lou John was on
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: a something so special and you know it's a Southern thing, right,
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: So when I'm listening to the record, like, oh this
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: is different, Like we got to figure this record out,
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: Like it literally took me a month to complete that record.
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: So I start out with the song it was called
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: cookies because remember backing there was some song it was
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: like with cookies was a Florida song. I forget what
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: the song was, but the keyword was cookies and it
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: was really popular and I like that word, so I
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: was trying to play with it. But I'm like, that's
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: just not like broad enough, like it's not right, it's
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: not quite cutting through, like it needs to like how
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: we make this thing like expand and so literally, goodies
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: was like the word I landed on like probably a
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: month later, but I would ride in the car and
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: every melody on that hook was so important to me,
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: and I would play the track over and over and
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: over and like go line by line to make that song.
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: But Lo John is special. You know the era that
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: we released music in, you know, through his production was
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: so special. And the cool thing is timeless and Lo
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: John has evolved, like he's out here killing DJ shows
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: like massive you said, right now, I'm so good. Yeah,
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: you know, the growth, the level up is real for
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: John you know, so I just feel blessed. I would
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: it would be a part of such a special moment
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: because that blessed me, you know in a big way,
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: coming out as an artist, like it was, it was
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: a big moment for me.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: What was back then?
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: My intention was to set the tone, set the tone,
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: set the base layer foundation.
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: It was just the beginning for me, you know, coming out.
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: So it was like, Okay, what am I going to
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: say to the world, How am I going to say it?
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: How are they going to receive it? Like I was
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: really intentional on all of that, and I just wanted
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: to make sure that when I planned my feet, I
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: said I'm here, Like that was really my ultimate goal.
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: And then I wanted I wanted to put on for
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: my city. You know, coming from Atlanta's a city that
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: made me and I just wanted to make my city
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: proud because there was so much talent that came from Atlanta,
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: Like it's such a special place and to be able
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: to be put alongside the many amazing arts have come
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: from my city, like is that's special?
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 40:56
  Speaker 7: I'm glad you said that, because if it does feel
• 40:57
  Speaker 7: like your debut shaped the whole generation of young women
• 40:59
  Speaker 7: in and R and B, do you feel like today's
• 41:01
  Speaker 7: artists understand the responsibility of influence the same way you did.
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: I don't know, to be honest with you, I think
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: that this social media world makes things feel more light
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: taken lightly, you know. I think some artists get it,
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: you know. I've been fortunate enough to meet some amazing
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: artists that are young and coming up that get it.
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: And I think some think it just like falls in
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: your lap. It's like if y'all knew what we had
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: to do, like before we had the digital age, like
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: we was hopping on planes to go to London. I
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: would be talking today and I'd be PLAYE the London tomorrow,
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: and then we're planning to go to Japan the next
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: week and then just to move everything. And you still
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: do travel, but the social media world makes everything move
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: faster and makes everything feel like bigger, you know, So
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: I think it can give you a false perception of
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: where you really are. And I do think that the
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: rise to fame can happen like even faster because of
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: social media. So sometimes you can lose perspective on like reality,
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: you know. So I I do think that this new
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: age does make things kind of uh flow like that sometimes.
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: And then there's some artists you meet that like they
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: get it, you know. I actually have a song on
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: the deluxe album with Mollie an ox Lade, and Mollie
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: is like this really sweet, like bright, young girl. She
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: came to me at the Liberty Game here and she
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: wanted to do a TikTok thing for a song, move
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: on to the next. If you've done with your ex.
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: We went to the like, so I did the thing
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: with her. But I loved her humility, I loved how
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: sweet she was. And you know, I think about artists
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: like her, like just have such good attitudes and like
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: the hunger, you know. So some artists they do get it,
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: you know. Shout out to Lady London as well, and
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: my John Bank and my girl, my girl, my gosh,
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: Lady London, my other girl. What the heck.
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: From New York?
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: Why am I a blank right now?
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: These are my girls. I'm so sorry. I can't even like.
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: This is literally my mind not working. My mind was
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: liching because that's my girls. I just literally had a
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: brain fart. But I got to shoutout to those girls
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: because like the sweetest souls like and so humble and hungry,
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: you know, like so some artists they get it.
• 43:24
  Speaker 7: What do you think car and needs right now to
• 43:26
  Speaker 7: reclaim like that same cultural dominance it had, you know back.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: In that era.
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: I think the more we can I don't know, if
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: I don't know, if it's like originality, the more we
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: can like keep I don't know. I think back in
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: that time it was like a comedy. It was so
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: raw something like you can ever go back and like
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: recreate that. Because I was going to say originality, but
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: I think there's such like so much great talent that's
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: actually like doing dope fresh things. And I think things
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: happen in seasons too, right, It's like there's a time
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: where hip hop is dom and there's a time when
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: like R and B is super dominant, And I think
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: the most important thing is like just stay consistent, you know,
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: like every gammer rises in its moment, Like country is
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: like such a big moment, right, Like that's just like
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: the waves of music. But the thing we do know
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: is R and B will never die. It will never die.
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: That's what we do know.
• 44:21
  Speaker 8: Is it true that meeting that we keep talking about.
• 44:23
  Speaker 8: You walked out of that meeting with your masters for free?
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: I did, but yeah, they didn't believe. Oh it was
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: a it was a total blessing.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: So it was like, so you own all your masters?
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: No, all, I'm close to owning all of them. I
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: have a few more years before I get the whole thing,
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: and I'm counting to day. No, but what I is
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: in that meeting, I said after that meeting, you know,
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: I walked through it, and I was like, you know what,
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: I feel like I'm about to go into my independence
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: chapter that I was really wanting to do, like I
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: really was. I was like, man, I can't wait to
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: be independent because I just really think it's going to
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: be so much better. And it's funny because Russell and
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: I were up late night, three o'clock in the morning.
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: He was research with me, like who's had labels before?
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: Blah blah blah. We were doing a whole thing digging
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: before this meeting happened, and then that meeting happened. Then
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: I was like, shoot, well, I know I believe this
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: level of record's going to be special. Like I got
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: the video I'm like, I know this is something. So
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: I'm asked if I can just can you just give
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: me my master's back? And they gave them back to
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: me for free. And so that alone lets you let
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: you know how much they didn't believe you know what
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: I'm saying, Like it lets you know, like, oh, you
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: really didn't believe in me, Like it's crazy. But it
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: was like one of the most unfortunate moments happening in
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: one moment, and then the most fortunate moment happening right
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: after it all in the same breath, because that was
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: the moment that I was praying for, Like talk about praying.
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: I was praying for that moment, and I couldn't have
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: been more ready to do it. And like I say,
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: it goes back to the fans, because what I learned
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: in that moment, I learned the power of my platform.
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: I learned the power of the connection to my fans
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: because literally I was intentional about building my connection with
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: my fans in my platforms. No label told me to
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: do that, and then within one click of a button,
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: my fans stood up in the world like rock with me, right,
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: And that bypassed the opinion or decision of any ceo,
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: do you know what I mean? Like it bypassed that chain,
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: like that whole channel of like flow you had to
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: go through. It's like, no, then it was probably like, honestly,
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: at that time period, one of my little I didn't
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: spend that much money on the visual just to be
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: honest with you. You know, Paris, God will tell you today's
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: price is not yesterday's price. You know. She really she
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: went off and she's doing her thing. But I mean,
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: I bet on myself real big, you know, and it's
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: just amazing to see like when you do that, like
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: you can take a big risk and you again you
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: may not get right, but when you do, like, oh
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: my god, you know what I'm saying. So no, it
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: was just really I'm so glad that I did it.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: Why did you want to be independent?
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: I was just tired of the traditional ways of doing things,
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: you know. I felt like like that process of sitting
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: in meetings and like everybody have and I say it,
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: they like it. If they don't, then like are we
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: gonna roll with it or we not? Then if I
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: invest my own money, y'all read the full benefits. The
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: royalty rates are dumb, Like just think about the math, right, Okay,
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: you have depending on your structure, which I don't have
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: traditional management. I kind of manage myself. But I have
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: an amazing team. It shout out my project manager Dimples
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: as well and my boy Marcus Grant. But I have
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: a small group of us and I actually like it,
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: like it's way more lean and I'm still building. What
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: I was gonna say here, The royalties are dumb. Yeah,
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: so you go. So basically, if you have traditional management
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: structure in the beginning, it's a big percentage chunk.
• 47:47
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: Then you have an attorney okay. Then you may have
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: an agent, okay. Then you have to pay your team.
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: Then you have to pay your taxes, like yes, yes,
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: think about like with that, like that is real. And
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: then if you don't have you don't have ownership on
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: your publishing, you don't write, which I did thankfully and
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: I do. You don't have ownership on your masters, or
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: you busting your butt like you're working hard like I'm
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: talking about with the passion, like I learned. I said,
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: I love something that will never love me back how
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: I love it. Music will never give me back what
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: I give to it.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: Well, you love music, but the music business is different.
• 48:33
  Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying. The industry, right, the music will
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: feed me. But that's correct, right, the industry. Like so
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: when you understand that, like I say, what are we
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: pumping for? Like what are we doing? That's real? So
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: it's like something has to change, like the traditional structure
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: has to like adjust, which I think labels are going
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: to mark my words. It is changing a lot, like
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: and you see it, like unfortunately, there's many jobs that
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: have been lost. It's a real thing like ownership. To me,
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: I encourage any person like to know that. Listen, I'm
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: not going to like knock systems because I don't want
• 49:06
  Speaker 4: to be that kind of person. And you do what's
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: best for you. But the most important thing to me
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: is the deal you have and if you can own
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: your masters, like your platform is significant, Like think about
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: all these artists that have now broke Like this is
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: one thing I do appreciate from the platforms is how
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: it's giving people opportunities to go and be their own
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: self made millionaires or self made like artist, Like no
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: one will be able to find they might not be
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: able to find a Teddy Swims like you know, like
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: that easy you know if he didn't have his platform
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: to like go and like build this whole thing, like
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: you know, like it's a real thing. Like there's this
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: actress I was talking to on the Today Show I
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: was hosting with Jenna Bush, and I hate that I'm
• 49:44
  Speaker 4: forgetting her name, but she's in a really big movie
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: right now. But because she started being doing her comedy
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: on her Instagram. So like, your ownership is right there,
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: like you're starting it, just make sure you have the
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: right distribution partner, you know what I'm saying, Like that's
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: what I would encourage someone to do, because these labels
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: are trying to find it and to be truthful with you.
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: Oftentimes the labels look at you like tell me the plan.
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: I'm like you telling me, tell you the plan.
• 50:06
  Speaker 9: You get a lot of money.
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: We got figured people in this building, and y'all trying
• 50:09
  Speaker 4: to tell me to tell you the planet. I'm gonna
• 50:11
  Speaker 4: tell myself to plan under my own rules, you know,
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: and I'm gonna do it my way. Like that's I
• 50:17
  Speaker 4: tell them.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: Niggas that all the time.
• 50:19
  Speaker 7: I literally told somebody from the label last week, that's
• 50:21
  Speaker 7: why all of y'all keep getting fired mm because they
• 50:24
  Speaker 7: don't have a plan.
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: For these thoughts.
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: You gotta have a plan someone, Like some of.
• 50:28
  Speaker 7: These artists have amazing music and there's nobody helping them
• 50:33
  Speaker 7: to push it.
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they don't back on you, and then guess what
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: they do? They shell you. Mmm, Like that's crazy town.
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: Like that's a crushing place for someone to be in,
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. Like, And I've had moments
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: where I remember I I actually remember talking to an executive.
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: I just remember this when I was uh it was
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: back when I was signed a jive and I was
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: a little girl, like baby girl, but I was like
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: so afraid of being shelved and I had to ask
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: to be let off. I didn't that's my master was
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: then because I wasn't ready for the independent chapter. But
• 51:02
  Speaker 4: I just remember like being this young girl. I'm like, Okay,
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: I got to find my way through my emotions, and
• 51:06
  Speaker 4: I'm like we're not seeing eye to eye. I really
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: don't rock with how y'all doing stuff. But that's not
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: the way to walk into the meeting. And luckily I
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: was able to get off and like, you know, in
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: a good way, you know. So, But yeah, did you.
• 51:19
  Speaker 7: Ever feel like the industry was trying to push you up,
• 51:20
  Speaker 7: because it felt like there was a stretch where it
• 51:22
  Speaker 7: felt like they did just stop betting off their.
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: No, I wouldn't say the industry was trying to push
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: me out. I think it probably was just more so
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: seasons with people you know, but not the industry. Like
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: you know, I do feel blessed that, you know, I
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: can call many people you know for a favor or
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: advice or for anything like my to me, one of
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: the most important things you have to have as an
• 51:49
  Speaker 4: entrepreneur is your relationships. And I've always taken pride in
• 51:53
  Speaker 4: my relationships and I feel fortunate to have the rolodex
• 51:57
  Speaker 4: that I do and I've been also I've had great
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: mentors in the industry too, you know what I'm saying.
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: So I wouldn't say the industry. I think it's just
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: it's ebbs and flows. Like I said, I don't know
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: what great like you name one. Tell me what great
• 52:13
  Speaker 4: that has either sat in this chair, has you know,
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: had tremendous success, has been told you can't do it again.
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: It just comes with it, you know. So did I
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: have a moment like that? For sure?
• 52:25
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: And I plan on climbing higher heights, so it might
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: happen again.
• 52:29
  Speaker 7: But isn't that whack though, because you have an executive
• 52:31
  Speaker 7: that might have believed in you so much, you had
• 52:34
  Speaker 7: the success, yeah, and then for whatever reason they stopped believing.
• 52:38
  Speaker 4: Well, the thing was at that time period, it was, Yeah,
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: it was the person that signed me was different the
• 52:43
  Speaker 4: person that came in.
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: That's how it always is.
• 52:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, So that's also not fun too, is going through
• 52:48
  Speaker 4: the rotating door or the changing of the guards. Like
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: it's like, okay, wait, we were about to go with
• 52:52
  Speaker 4: this project. And mind you, I was pregnant when I
• 52:55
  Speaker 4: signed that deal. So I got a shout out Monty,
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: who was the A and R at that time over
• 53:02
  Speaker 4: at the label. He said to me, I said, I
• 53:07
  Speaker 4: was so scared, And I said, babe, because we were
• 53:09
  Speaker 4: supposed to sign the deal way earlier and then it
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: was taken longer. And I'm like, oh my gosh, now
• 53:13
  Speaker 4: we're caring they gonna do this deal with me, you know,
• 53:16
  Speaker 4: And then you know, Manty was like, Sierra, don't worry,
• 53:19
  Speaker 4: like you go do what you need to do. Monty
• 53:21
  Speaker 4: Olsen got his name right. There's several Monties, but Monty Olsen,
• 53:25
  Speaker 4: he's like, you do what you gotta do. We got you.
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: We'll move wherever you need to move. So that was amazing.
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: I had a champion, you know, on my project, and
• 53:31
  Speaker 4: the CEO at that time was all connected with him.
• 53:34
  Speaker 4: But then that guy changed. So then I'm like, Okay,
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: now I have to sell this idea all over again,
• 53:39
  Speaker 4: you know, to the new person. And like a new
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: person came in with new energy and it wasn't a lie,
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: but it was the best thing that could have happened.
• 53:47
  Speaker 4: Because now I sit here talking to you and like,
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: like I said, level of it's almost three times platinum,
• 53:51
  Speaker 4: it's billions of streams you know at this point, and
• 53:56
  Speaker 4: just my projects in general, Like I'm looking back at
• 53:59
  Speaker 4: my cat that I proudly own and it's just continuing
• 54:02
  Speaker 4: to grow every day, Like it's kind of crazy. Like
• 54:06
  Speaker 4: my song how we wrote Chris Brown is almost platinum.
• 54:10
  Speaker 5: Okay, thank.
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's almost platinum, right and and so but here's
• 54:17
  Speaker 4: the thing she said, she's also one of course. But
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: let me tell you, though I think about this, when
• 54:24
  Speaker 4: I reflect on everything, I'm not doing anything differently than
• 54:28
  Speaker 4: I was doing when I was signed. The difference is
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: just I own my stuff like I was always running
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: around like trying to figure it out. My features I
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: made happen like I made phone calls to my friends,
• 54:39
  Speaker 4: you know, like, and I got a shout out everyone
• 54:41
  Speaker 4: that showed up on this project. I got a shout
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: out a little baby, I got a shout out Freed,
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: I got a shout out Tiger, I got a shout
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: out Lotto, I got a shout out Diamond Platinums.
• 54:49
  Speaker 5: He said as well, for.
• 55:00
  Speaker 4: Got to shout him out. Just everybody. Everyone pulled up
• 55:04
  Speaker 4: and showed up for me in such a big way.
• 55:06
  Speaker 4: That's respect to me, Like that's love. And I said,
• 55:10
  Speaker 4: Molly an Ox late, I'm in Platinums man like, and
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: I it's like and I feel so good because it's
• 55:17
  Speaker 4: like we're doing this like I'm actually I'm living out
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: my dream. Like when you do what you love, you
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: never work a day in your life.
• 55:24
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: I feel so blessed that I wake up every day
• 55:27
  Speaker 4: doing what I said I wanted to do, Like that
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: is the best feeling in the world, right, And so
• 55:34
  Speaker 4: to be doing it my way, Listen, who knows how
• 55:37
  Speaker 4: it goes. I'm proud of what's happening. You know what
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: I'm saying. And I know that I'm building and working
• 55:43
  Speaker 4: towards something even greater, and most importantly, I'm having fun.
• 55:48
  Speaker 5: And that lady asked you how you was going to
• 55:50
  Speaker 5: stay young, because I deal with it's crazy.
• 55:55
  Speaker 6: Not doing anything different than you were doing the differences
• 55:57
  Speaker 6: you own it.
• 55:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and by the.
• 55:59
  Speaker 5: Way, you killed color purple.
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you so much.
• 56:05
  Speaker 7: At one point because you said you was pregnant at
• 56:07
  Speaker 7: one point during that process, did you ever feel like
• 56:10
  Speaker 7: you had to choose between being Sierra the superstar and
• 56:14
  Speaker 7: a wife and mother ever cross your mind?
• 56:16
  Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, no, because that's all a part
• 56:19
  Speaker 4: of me, right is I've already I had already done it.
• 56:22
  Speaker 4: I have my first born already, so I was on
• 56:24
  Speaker 4: baby number two, you know, so this was like, Okay,
• 56:26
  Speaker 4: how are we gonna do this? You know how we
• 56:28
  Speaker 4: were gonna make this make sense? Because like this is
• 56:31
  Speaker 4: a part of me, Like these are the things that
• 56:32
  Speaker 4: feel me, that feed my soul. And I thank god
• 56:35
  Speaker 4: that I have a partner that supports me. You know,
• 56:38
  Speaker 4: like he'd be like, go do your thing, Like he'd
• 56:41
  Speaker 4: be like what if I got to what? He's just
• 56:43
  Speaker 4: he's in it with me, Like he'll pull up if
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: you gotta pull up.
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 56:46
  Speaker 4: It's like that, that's where the fun happens to me.
• 56:49
  Speaker 4: Like I love that, you know, I can pop out
• 56:52
  Speaker 4: a baby and then we can go you know, go
• 56:54
  Speaker 4: ahead and get it back together and then do my
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: thing Like that's a good feeling, you know what I'm saying.
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: Like so I've never had to split the two because
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: that just what it makes sense for me where I
• 57:07
  Speaker 4: am right now, you know what I'm saying. Now, what
• 57:08
  Speaker 4: I will say is I'm working towards you know, I
• 57:13
  Speaker 4: have goals so that I can, you know, really spend
• 57:17
  Speaker 4: even more time with my babies and my family. Like
• 57:19
  Speaker 4: I don't want to be grind like it's two thousands
• 57:22
  Speaker 4: every day and I'm trying to be sixty six years old
• 57:24
  Speaker 4: hitting the matrix to do that, you know what I'm
• 57:27
  Speaker 4: trying to do incredible.
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: If you can still hit the majors, you need to
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: do it.
• 57:31
  Speaker 4: Let me tell you though, Now y'all know what they
• 57:33
  Speaker 4: say Strony Games most likely gonna be able to do it.
• 57:36
  Speaker 4: But you know, I want to choose to do it,
• 57:39
  Speaker 4: not like I have to do it. You know what
• 57:41
  Speaker 4: I'm saying.
• 57:41
  Speaker 7: And I'm gonna tell you I am First of all,
• 57:44
  Speaker 7: your snap back game has always been impeccable. But whatever reason,
• 57:47
  Speaker 7: I'm just finding out your half Mexicans. So now I'm
• 57:49
  Speaker 7: even more impressed.
• 57:50
  Speaker 4: Please No, I'm saying because I love the Latino culture.
• 58:04
  Speaker 9: Black woman.
• 58:06
  Speaker 5: That I wanted to ask you she was a Mexican
• 58:09
  Speaker 5: from Atlanta.
• 58:10
  Speaker 4: Listen, Spanish was good. That means my Spanish.
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: But I did want to ask you know, yes, with
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: your daughters and your son, would you want your son
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: to play football? And would you want your daughters to
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: join this industry?
• 58:27
  Speaker 11: Uh?
• 58:28
  Speaker 4: The industry is always scary for me more than football. Yeah,
• 58:32
  Speaker 4: because it's not easy, y'all. Like you said no, But
• 58:38
  Speaker 4: to be honest with you, I wasn't do they want
• 58:39
  Speaker 4: to do? You know, like our kids are so talented.
• 58:43
  Speaker 4: Future definitely loves playing football. When just started playing football,
• 58:47
  Speaker 4: Future can spin that ball like the way like I
• 58:51
  Speaker 4: watched Russ teach him how to throw a ball, and
• 58:53
  Speaker 4: it's crazy to see like how he done, Like it's
• 58:56
  Speaker 4: just in him. And he can play baseball really well.
• 58:58
  Speaker 4: Baseball is like is jam like just he got so
• 59:02
  Speaker 4: much swag to him when he's out there on the field.
• 59:05
  Speaker 4: You know, Sienna does like to follow in mommy's footsteps.
• 59:09
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you guys saw the interview she
• 59:11
  Speaker 4: did with me, but she is funny. She's really confident,
• 59:15
  Speaker 4: like whatever she does, she's gonna run it.
• 59:16
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 59:18
  Speaker 4: She does love music, and she'd be trying to copy
• 59:21
  Speaker 4: my moons, too many of them. Y'all don't want to know.
• 59:24
  Speaker 4: Because we were on tour and I'll never forget. I
• 59:27
  Speaker 4: was like getting ready and mom was like Ceci was like, Mommy,
• 59:31
  Speaker 4: you did his move on stage and said what was
• 59:32
  Speaker 4: and she started doing his ride thing. I said, oh, no, no, no, no,
• 59:39
  Speaker 4: you know, but she watched me so like proudly, and
• 59:42
  Speaker 4: she looks up to me, which is so sweet. She
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: plays flag two, well, you know that's not what she's
• 59:47
  Speaker 4: going to do. But I whatever, whatever they want to do,
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: I want to support them because listen, I didn't have
• 59:53
  Speaker 4: much growing up, but one of the greatest blessings that
• 59:56
  Speaker 4: my parents could have ever given me was a chance
• 59:58
  Speaker 4: to do what I wanted to do and for me.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 4: So that's my greatest thing. I always hard to remember,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: Like my dad would drive to the studio, be sleeping
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 4: on the sofa while I'm recording in the studio to
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 4: drive me back home. That was one of the best
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 4: gifts that my parents could have ever given me because
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 4: we didn't have much, but they gave me support. So
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 4: I'm just big on, like, let me support your dreams
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 4: as long as it's nothing crazy, like we're doing no
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 4: heavy metal type stuff. You know what I'm saying. But
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 4: I'm supporting my babies.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: I spoke to you a long time ago and you
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: were learning how to cook.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, did you figure it out?
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 4: We should come back to that. Okay, let me tell
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 4: you no, No, can I cook? Yes? Can Ceci throw down
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 4: one hundred when I it's been a wow. The thing is,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 4: it's been a while, so you know, like Russ, he
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 4: surprised me or did I surprise him? It was for
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 4: a birthday and we made sushi together. And also Chef
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 4: Morimoto taught us how to make sushi on our anniversary trip.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 4: That he surprised me, so I we loved doing that
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 4: kind of stuff. I do like I can make a
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 4: mean turkey, I can make good mac and cheese, I
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 4: can make stuffing. I can make everything when I'm focused
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 4: and I have time. I just don't get the time
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 4: to be in the kitchen like I like to. But
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 4: can I cook?
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: Yes, giving I.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 4: Don't do it most of the time. But have I yes, No,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 4: I have done it. It's been it's been a while.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 4: I made mac and cheese like a few years ago.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 4: But I like to kick my feet up at that
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 4: point because well, you know, it's like that's the time
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 4: to debreath and just like not have to worry about nothing,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 4: but just eat and go back for the leftovers.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 6: Now, last question for me, do you want more children? Like,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 6: do I have like a quota?
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 4: Like listen, if y'all asked Russ, we ain't gonna stop.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 4: I'm like, that's just disrespectful, you know. Literally after I
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 4: gave birth to Amura, He's like, so you know, on
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 4: the next one, you know, I'm like, what we talking about?
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 4: You know? No, but I think we probably will have one.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 4: We're god willing, you know, God willing. I think we
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 4: can get there.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 4: The problem, I say is wrestling are kind of fertile
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 4: myrtle together, so it's like and then when you look
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 4: at me that belly starts to grow. No, he said,
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 4: Mexic kid, they do have large families Lexikan typically, But yeah, no,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 4: I I think we'll probably get to one.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: More.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 4: But again, God willing. You know, I don't know when,
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 4: but I'm down. I'm down for sure.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 7: Becoming a mother changed the way you define success and happiness.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, it's huge being a mom, Like it
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 4: puts the p in purpose for me. It's like it's
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 4: I feel like I'm really doing something, you know, Like
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 4: when I leave you guys today, I'm going to go
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 4: back and be with my babies for a little bit
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 4: and then I'll go do something else this evening for work.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 4: But it's it's the best, Like I feel like I'm
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 4: really living. Like it's like I'm I'm really pumping for something,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 4: like for our family, Like you know what I'm saying.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 4: Like it's different, and I'll be honest with you, guys,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 4: I'm so glad that I committed to living. And what
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 4: I mean by that is that I think oftentimes in
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 4: our world, you're constantly chasing success that you forget to live.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 4: And I think that's how unfortunately a lot of people
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 4: that I've admired kind of lose it because you're so
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 4: focused on that that you forget the life part of it.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 4: And again, it goes back to like back in the
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 4: earlier days when I first came out, if you had
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 4: a child, like you all of a sudden old, or
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 4: you're not as hot anymore, and it's like, wait, we
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 4: can't live life like that because they were not living
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 4: like I remember one of my girls telling me. That
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 4: was two of my girls and the same conversation. They
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 4: were both really successful and they were saying, you know, man,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 4: I wish I would just kept going with half of
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 4: my babies they have, like one of them had two
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 4: and one had one. And I remember when they said
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 4: that to me, I'm like, I would never forget it.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 4: And I'm like, I'm gonna keep going because I know
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 4: what they're saying, like because once time passes us woman by,
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 4: we can't go back. So like we got to live,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 4: like you got to make sure to me on the
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 4: path to success and when you're trying to achieve, you know,
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 4: big things, like they focus on it, but you can't
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 4: forget to live. And the Bible it says, what good
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 4: is it for a man again in the world and
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 4: lose his soul? That's a real thing, you know, Like
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 4: I want to know who I am when it's all
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 4: said and done, and I want to live and I
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 4: love being a mama is the best feeling in the world.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 4: I got the mommy choir popping off, mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 4: You know, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 4: And literally more kids, mo issues, mo tissues, more problems,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 4: because I swear to you'd be like we all on
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 4: the right track. Then either someone hit someone or someone
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 4: is sick. Then the next one is sick, then the
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 4: whole house is sick, and then it's like we wait,
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 4: and then you got it. You have the layers of everything,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 4: like we're about to do school shopping. I like taking
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 4: them all on their little trips. But you got that,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 4: and then they everything cow I'm like, it's cool. I
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 4: already know.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: Charlotte got four, she got two.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 9: That's crazy because your baby girl interviewed you.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 8: She is come on Instagram, she knows what she wants.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 4: She is really confident and she don't take no mess.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 4: But you know, I wouldn't have it any other way.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 4: Like I love that chaos, Like I that that honestly,
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 4: having my family was a part of my dream in
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 4: my life. Like and I feel like I'm living out
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 4: my dream, you know, being this little girl from Kata Georgia. Uh,
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 4: you know, envisioning my life as a woman, you know,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 4: Like I just feel so blessed that I you know,
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 4: I have what I wanted in my life, you know,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 4: with my family and my babies. And I did say
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 4: years ago in an interview, I wanted five kids. So
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 4: it's crazy, but I don't know why. But I'm only child,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 4: so I think, you yeah, my desire was like I
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 4: just always wanted siblings, and so I it's one of
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 4: that like you know, love and yeah, you know.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 7: People see you and Russell and they see our relationship
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 7: as goals.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: Do you feel celebrated for that or boxed in by
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: like that narrative?
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 4: I think that's so sweet, you know, but listen, we're
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 4: not perfect. I do want to say that we're not perfect.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 4: But I think it's I think it's a sweet thing,
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 4: you know. I think people are just showing love to
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 4: love for sure, you know, and I think it's I
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 4: think it's awesome. I think it's inspiring. Uh, it's it
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 4: feels good you know to uh, you know, run into
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 4: girls or guys or couples and we have a couple
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 4: of conversations like I like that, you know, it's like
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 4: we all kind of feed each other without knowing it sometimes.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 4: So I think it's a sweet thing, you know, Like
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 4: I say, we're not perfect, you know, we're just like
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 4: everybody else trying to figure out life and like we don't,
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 4: we don't always get everything right, but we do have
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 4: each other and it's just a it's a blessing. And
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 4: so I think it's sweet.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 7: What about your old friend group that's no longer married,
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 7: like you know, like like you know, I love oh
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 7: my girl Kim, Like they're not married anymore.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: You you still mixed with them like that?
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 4: Of course, what do you mean? I still mixed with this.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 9: Talking about he means because the.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: Now, what did you just say to her?
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 8: First of all, they're not married, that's what he's talking
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 8: to her, Like I got to do it.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 9: He just wanted.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 4: He just want to put about a hat. Boy, he'd
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 4: be waiting to go. Listen, I'm gonna shout my girls
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 4: out because there's some boss mm hmmm. You know what
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 4: I'm saying. Bosses And everybody has their journey, right, Like
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 4: that's what friends are for. Like I've had my journey
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 4: and I thank God for my friends circle that has
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 4: been there for me. And like I say, you're not
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 4: going to always get it right, but it's a blessing
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 4: when you have boss bad a s s. You know, intelligent,
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 4: no nonsense, strong girls. And all of my girls you know,
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 4: are amazing, you know, all my girls, Kelly, Vanessa, you know, Rina.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 4: I just feel blessed to know the girls that I
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 4: know in my life. And obviously La La you know,
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 4: she's amazing, you know, and she's the sweetest heart, like
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 4: the sweetest heart, Like she's like the life of the party,
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 4: you know, And so you know, I'm glad she was
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 4: there for me in my journey in my life when
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 4: she was because that's huge, you know, to have a
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 4: strong support circle and system.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 8: What was it like for you being there for them
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 8: during their time when they were because it's a public
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 8: with Kim Diverse and Kanye and La La divorce, and like,
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 8: what was that type of support like from you as
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 8: a friend in return?
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 4: Listen, I think I think that you know, friendship is friendship.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 4: You're gonna always be there for your friends no matter what,
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 4: you know. Yeah, and just like any friendship.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 5: You know, I can't relate, no, no.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 4: No no, because we've all been through somethings, you know
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 4: what I'm saying, Like we've all been through stuff, you know,
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 4: like and nobody's perfect and we don't always get it right.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 4: Like that's the thing. It's like, it's like that's life.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 4: Like all of us in this room do not get
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 4: it right all the time, none of us like so
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 4: it's like we're all trying to figure this thing.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 5: Got it wrong yesterday. Look, I'm like, what I know, right,
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 5: But it's all right.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 8: So you were talking about your legacy earlier and it made
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 8: me think I was like the BT Awards and you
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 8: weren't a part of the one who six in part tribute.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 8: We all thought you were going to be, especially when
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 8: the when like you came out like you?
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 7: Why didn't you By the way, I didn't need you
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 7: on like you.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: I did not need like you I wanted. Yeah, two question.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 4: I do think that would have been amaz to, you know,
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 4: be able to have my own set. But no, listen,
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 4: this show was amazing. First of all, I think it
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 4: was one of the best shows that we've ever seen
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 4: in b ET show history. When you all say that
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 4: it was great, yeah, And I think programming just happened.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 4: How programming happened, happened and.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 11: Reached from one from one two step to lose control
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 11: to oh what Ludacris uh all the way back to
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 11: goodies that we could have had a whole.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 4: Y'all need to go talk to bet. That's what happened,
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 4: That's what need to happen.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: Debut.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, So that was actually my first, my very first
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 4: live performance, live performance that it was live, first live
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 4: television performance. And it's funny because I was, I mean,
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 4: the world was going so fast, like no lives, Oh
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 4: my gosh, like and mind you, before that, I hadn't
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 4: done a lot of performances, so it was like I
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 4: was sixteen years old when I saw my d air
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 4: and I had showcases. But my my story is kind
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 4: of raw, like I wasn't trained to do what I did.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 4: I just had a gift to do it. And I
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 4: knew I had a gift to do it. So I've
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 4: been like literally learning in front of the world, like
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 4: a lot of my journey and my performances have happened
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 4: like it's like being thrown into the fire. Now back
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 4: in the days they had artists development, they don't have
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 4: that anymore, you know, But yeah, I remember like the
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 4: special days of pulling up you know here in New
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 4: York and the fandom, like, I wish we had that
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 4: kind of stuff, but we don't have that anymore.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 9: That was such a mismooning.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: How the hell didn't reach out this year. We said that.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 8: People were so excited to see We just all knew
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 8: at some point it was we were like even their backstage.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 8: I remember people being like the Indian people were like, wait,
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 8: Sea didn't go on stage.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 6: We were ass, y'all are so funny, y'all plan about
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 6: that type of stuff what you see listen.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 4: I I do like Charlemagne's idea. I do think that
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 4: it would have been amazing to be able to rock
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 4: up there with the full on set.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 4: We were having conversations about things like that for sure.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 4: But again I got to shout out the team at
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 4: BET because they really are amazing, you know, Jesse Collins
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 4: and everyone. I don't want to ever speak you know,
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 4: you know, out of pocket for them, but they're amazing,
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 4: and you know, BT is a necessary platform, you know,
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 4: because I know that BT is like you know, like
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 4: all networks, it's a journey. So I gotta shout them out.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 4: But yeah, I think it would have been amazing to
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 4: definitely have, you know, to be able to rock rock
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 4: the stage in full. But it was a great show.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 4: It was a fantastic show.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 8: And this is my last question. I'm out of your business.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 8: What I want to know what the conversation was when
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 8: you and Rihanna, when y'all patched it up?
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 9: Oh what did that look like?
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 4: I would say patch it up like it wasn't like
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 4: a patch up conversation. But you know, we actually saw
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 4: at the met gala and obviously she shared her bump,
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 4: her new bump with one. I think she just had
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 4: her baby, am I right? Yeah, Congress gratulations to rebe
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 4: because listen, I think it's such a beautiful thing when
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 4: we get to live our lives, right and especially as mom,
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 4: like live your life. But when we saw each other,
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 4: it was so sweet. It was her asap, me and
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 4: Russ and we were all just chatting it up and
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 4: you know, talking about kids and mo kids and just
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 4: like normal, you know, just like girls would do. So
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 4: that was really sweet, you know, it was. It was
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 4: the best energy, you know, and CC got loved for
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 4: re read you even bring up the old.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 5: It was like babies, you know she are now.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, she sent me this really sweet message like a
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 4: while ago before we saw each other, and she was
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 4: like saying, I'm so proud of you, you know, and
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 4: I thought that was so so sweet, you know, for
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 4: her to say that, and I really respect her, like
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 4: I admire what she's doing and what she's done. Like
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 4: I remember meeting us, meeting each other for the first time.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 4: You know, it's babies, and you know, I started a
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 4: looking before her. But to see how she's like, you know,
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 4: like leveled up and like built her empire, Like to
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 4: do that in our industry is not easy. And she's
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 4: you know, putting on for Barbados, as she would say,
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 4: in such a big way. And I think us women
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 4: were just like, you know, we're women, you know, and
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 4: like brown like you know, so it's all that kind
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 4: of energy.
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: But that dump duging on Twitter used to be fun
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: to watch.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 4: Oh my god.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 7: I remember when I got punched in the back of
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 7: the head in Sierra had a Field.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: I remember that because I was laughing because.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 7: I'm like, you know what, I deserve it, And she
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 7: was like, I bet you Adidas.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: You ain't using Adidas.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 4: Listen, you gotta get Charla Mayne with something because this
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 4: man right here.
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 5: Oh my god. Oh yeah, definitely, yeah, yeah, no, listen.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 4: You gotta listen to Charlamaine's of the World. I tell
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 4: you you don't forget them. That's what though. You don't forget,
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 4: you'd be like, just lets some if something not let some.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 4: But if something haven't, you'd be ready to be like, hey,
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 4: actually I see the creaked and they ain't saying nothing.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 7: My last question, if you script away all the titles
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 7: you know superstar wife Mom, who is the ara at
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 7: her core today?
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 4: My core? Oh my gosh, you said take away mom?
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: I wife just you person?
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 4: She an bouse mhmm, I love that. Yeah, no, no,
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 4: I mean yeah. She is a woman, uh say, A
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 4: woman of ambition on a mission was always my jam.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 4: She's trying to figure it all out, you know, just
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 4: trying to grind every day, figure it out. She's a woman.
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 4: I'm a wan that loves to serve. I love to
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 4: give and I love to leave.
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: Let's get into a joint. Off that what you want
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: to hear.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 4: Let's go, Okay, we're gonna play this song that I'm
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 4: excited about. I told you all. The video is out today.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 4: And this is my song Dance with Me, feature my
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 4: boy Tiger and check it out.
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: Right now, what else do you want.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 6: To celebrit Yes, there we go, No tell us what
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 6: you want to run out?
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 4: I love you, I love both of those. Way can
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 4: we get to those two?
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: Absolutely? All right, ladies and gentlemen. Next time you see
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: my daughter, tell her he was nice.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, I'm gonna tell you.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: She was on me.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 4: She's so cute. She said, I think you know my
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 4: dad And I said that she said, and I was like, yeah, I.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 5: Know your dad.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 4: I was like, oh my gosh. And they showed up.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 4: I was like, that might not be your dad.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 5: I with him.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 3: Because out today Sierras, the breakfast club, Good morning.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 7: Hold up every day I wake up, pack your ass
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 7: up the breakfast club.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: You'll finish for y'all done