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it's your girl honey baby and I'm here with all hip hop period what's going on everybody it's
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your man Chuck Creek AKA jigsaw One World Studios we got honey baby in the
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building Horizon star from New Jersey now hold up you from Asbury Park New
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Jersey yeah that's a you know when I first met you I assum assumed even
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through Association you're from newk no I'm not from newk not from Nork I'm not
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from nework right not at all not even close so talk to me a little bit about your upbringing in like Asbury Park
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though cuz most people are unfamiliar it's small it's like one
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square mile I think it's really tiny everybody know everybody um and it's just like it's like your
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average Hood like it just MH everybody running around everybody doing what they need to do to survive um you make it out
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you don't nothing crazy yeah and it's near
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the beach right yeah we have a beach I've been on the boardwalk before yeah and we actually do got a really nice
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Boardwalk it's gentrified over there oh really there's parts of Asberry that are actually really nice okay okay like and
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I think that confuses people because I've definitely had people tell me like oh you from asbery um it's so like it's
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so nice over there and B and I'm just like yeah mhmh yeah I've seen some things the part
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that you're you're on over there across the tracks barely
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that but yeah we actually do have like a really nice Beach and we got uh good food on the boardwalk we got the best crepes on the boardwalk okay for sure
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mhm strawberry I'm going have to go back cuz it's been a minute MH so talk to us
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about your new song you got left eye mhm what made you do this song you've been
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in it pretty heavily mhm um this song was actually not my idea I actually did not like it at first
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okay um we were in LA and um I work with fresh a lot he's like one of my favorite
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people to work with and we were just working on my project and um uh we were
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outside like me and Miller and like K ma outside and I they were like working on the beat inside and when I came in I was
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like I do not want to do this sample I was like I don't want to do sample I actually don't want to do another sample I don't like this and then fresh was
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like okay he was like but I'm going to still do it he was like so you don't want to sit in here you don't got to sit
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in here okay and then I was like all right I'll let you finish the beat and then when I came back in um they already
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had like the first couple bars down and then I was like I'm not about to get my
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um not about to miss out on my writing CRS over right right right and then when I sat down and I was like you know what
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this is is not that bad and then you know I threw my ideas in and um we like we recorded all of that
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that whole song besides a second verse is the demo oh okay yeah we actually it came out so fire that we didn't have to
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redo anything wow and it was just the Synergy in the room was crazy um but yeah that song was not my idea but the
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left eye concept came after the first line was down like I was at the
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house into the ground I was like oh wow left I did that I first did that okay
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first did that okay yeah so the song triggered some people right am I right
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about that like you know left eye is not with us and she's also a figure that we
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I if I triggered anybody I don't know I thought you said that not on this song
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no nobody nobody got upset with you at all yet mm people were mad about me about [ __ ] him too we we going to get
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into that yeah we we we get into that we we jumping forward yeah nobody was mad
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to be about left ey I actually got no I was like I was thinking about it like are people going to come for me because
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like I'm what I'm talking about and then I was just like how you going to come from me over something somebody else did
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you can't come at me I'm not saying nothing bad about her I love her she's an icon like you can't get mad at me
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absolutely left that I met her once Believe It or Not y it was so Random I
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was in the city and I can't say too much about what I was doing at that time in
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my life but she was she just walked up
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real super small probably about your size actually and no makeup no nothing
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so she was kind of almost unrecognizable and I was like your left eye she was like yep nice meet you very
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yep super simple no nothing no or nothing I was pretty much shot speechless yeah so anyway I heard she
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has like a really good Aura yeah yeah there's a lot of stories around that so we'll we we'll skip all the way past
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that but do you identify with her at all as a person or a character or anything
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yeah I feel like she stands on her beliefs um I feel like she stands for who she is and I feel like she was very
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Unapologetic and um that's who I am as a person so it's like you get what you get
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if you upset that's not my problem take it up with your mama and so so here something so people
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always call you a rapper I don't know why there's no dots to to you and left
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eye in that regard right do you ever rap do you want to rap I do not want to rap I do not want to rap okay she's not a
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rapper not a rapper I do not want to rap it's never been a thing that I was like
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into right um I did try to do it at one point but not like because I was
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passionate about being a rapper I was just trying to be smart like where I was at in my life I was like all right I
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just need some type of exposure to get played in like a club or something and I was like okay let me just try to make
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like a rap song that [ __ ] could shake ass to and then that'll be the last time I do it so that was like and then I was
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just trying to see if I could do it and I did it and it was cool but I would never do it again not out of um not me
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wanting to do it let me say that um but yeah no I was listening to you
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and touching and Buster was on remix and I was like here it is there's a chance
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no definitely not rapping against Buster no thank you I think people get confused because I sing like a rapper yeah like
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like the way I say things or just sometimes like the flow of things or the way I don't overly sing a song but it's
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like I'm still sing yeah I'm not rapping I'm not getting on the track like I set the house on
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fire No [ __ ] I'm singing I'm not a rapper like what the [ __ ] and you can
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sang sang yes which is which is refreshing I'm like okay she can sing
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really like you know everybody wants to be a singer and I'm like come on like calm down relax relax yeah so talk about
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that because almost feels like sometimes singing is out of style like people don't really want to do the hardcore
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singing or they have autot tune to back them up um I feel
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like I feel like there's a lot of singers but I feel like it's just like an era where people don't definitely
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don't want to hear like somebody overly singing all the time and I feel like that stopped a long time ago though like
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like there's like a I feel like there's a world where people do want to hear it like you got money long who sings her ass off and but she doesn't do it all
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the time right it's like I don't have to give you um full power of my voice all
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the time because that's not the strongest part of my voice anyway um my
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vocal teachers and just like people in general have taught me the strongest part of your voice and you know you're a
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stronger singer is when you could sing relaxed okay because what I also learned is I can um sing harder and like use my
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voice at full power easier than I can sing relax and it's like oh that that makes sense but I think people still do
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want to hear singers I think it's just about how it's done it's a new generation nobody want to hear [ __ ] trying to sound like the 60s or the90s
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even like it's 2024 we're about to go to 2025 it's a new era let's create 2024
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2025 music let's stop trying to recreate times and eras that's it's not going to
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happen is that why you were against sampling on on the left eye record or
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you know because you have sampled you know it brings back that that good old feeling to for some um I I didn't want
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to sample it because of that and then also I already had songs sampled I had touch and I had [ __ ] him too and it's
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just like I don't want to be known as the girl that samples music because everybody's sampling music and it's like
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I want to be the person that people are sampling and it's like or if I am going to sample I want it to be a song that
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nobody notices I don't want it to be so like in your face unless the song is hard like left eye was so hard I was
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like I could get I could get jiggy with this but like would I do that again
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probably no not right now yeah I think I'm definitely chill on the the samples I want to create my own my own lane so
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uh I'm SE into you by SWV is one of my favorite
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songs I was like what has she done so talk to talk
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about what that feedback was um on that record when you
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you're talking about somebody's man you're talking about him borrowing or
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taking or all I actually never said on the song that that was anybody's man I
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never said that I never said that that you're man I never said I'm [ __ ] your man I said I'm [ __ ] him too okay okay
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it's kind of like you could take from what I'm saying however you want to take it if you want to consider me [ __ ]
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somebody's man at school if you want to consider that we just may be [ __ ] with the same person then hey it's
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however you want to take it but you do say
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basically he's with me you can have him now when I'm done what are what are me
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to you toys to let me St oh my I'm young
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like right now honestly I'm not even into like dating and stuff like I I'll
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entertain something I'll have a crush here or there but like I just I I just
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my brain is not there right now my mental is not there so like I don't look at men right now and be like yeah I
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could I could really you know take him home and take him to meet my mom no yeah
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I barely want to bring you to my bed I've actually never even had like like a man at my house why is that because I
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don't like y'all why cuz I'm scared of them and I just feel like men just play
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too much and then it just comes to a point where I'm immature and I like to play games too and it's just it makes no
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sense yeah some of your records are scary I'm like man I don't know man it's truthful it's honest you have one song
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that's not so it's very honest tra trauma is kind of kind of a heavy record
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yeah so is that an accurate representation cuz I mean or is that a
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record no that was a accurate representation that was um a song
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that um my manager km he wanted me to be a little bit more vulnerable and just
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kind of just like talk about things outside of like relationships like like significant
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others and friends and stuff he wanted me to take my trauma and like things that I've been through and like put it
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on a song so like that's why like in the beginning of the song I was talking to
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everybody in the studio and I was like I don't want to do this song right now like I'm not mentally there but they
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took that that voice not and they kept it in the song but yeah that was real I was like really about to cry in the
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studio I was like I don't want to do this and I don't want to do it in front of people I'm like vulnerable to an extent I don't like
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um like letting people know too much about me emotionally in certain aspects
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but I think as I get older I I feel like it's okay to come out and say certain things because music is a way that
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people get to express themselves or feel certain
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things without having to say it out loud in a certain way you know what I'm saying so I think I've had people that
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make music like that for me that made me feel a certain way and that help me and maybe I could just be that for the next
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gen so okay so I'm to be more vulnerable got it what's your sign I'm a Scorpio my
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birthday is what's today the 9th my birthday is in 17 more days
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yes it's my month okay and the October is all about me okay I got a Scorpio I
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got my birth day to add it on me okay and then I got oio because October is my
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month like I my birthday is a very special day it's a holiday I talk about my birthday all the time what
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Thanksgiving I mean not duh Halloween October 26th what's what's that holiday
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my birthday oh it's literally a holiday what do you mean no I'm thinking Thanksgiving Halloween myad
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the day I was born the day God blessed this Earth with a bad bit oh my God I'm so [ __ ] oh my God sorry I'm slow
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disrespectful I had I didn't have coffee today I didn't we got to get this man some coffee I didn't have coffee today
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I'm sorry I'm sorry um so you spoke about who you kind of came up on who did
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who did you look up to who did you idolize when you were um growing up I grew up listening to so many different
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people um I a 99 baby so came up in the early 2000s where like Alicia Keys was
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coming out um kha Cole was coming out we had Mary Aaliyah Destiny's Child Beyonce
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had just went solo I seen an article where somebody was like um I I think like people are starting to get confused
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about who I look up to because I Googled myself a lot and somebody was like um
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Ashanti is one of her um idols and that's not true okay though I love
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Ashanti and I respect her craft that is not somebody I looked up to as a kid
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like when I was a kid my first memory of looking at somebody and being like
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that's hard like I [ __ ] with that it was Alicia Keys really and it's because I
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I'm biracial so there's not a lot of biracial singers yeah and I feel like everybody has that moment where they
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look at somebody they be like oh my God they look like me Alicia Keys was that for me and then like that was my first
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like obsession with the album and everything um when it came to like R&B music but I grew up off of R&B music I
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grew up off of hip-hop and rap I grew up um listening to a lot of different music I had a lot of different phases of being
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obsessed with people I have an obsessive personality so okay who who are you obsessed with now me myself okay who
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else no as I got older and I started to figure out who I was I started to um
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like gravitates towards like kaani and Drake like as like my biggest insos but I listened to a lot of people when I
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started to find myself like I was big on like party next store like that whole like 2012 to like
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20145 era was like where I was like all right like this is all right I'm I'm set I've been thinking about this for a long
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time this is what I want to do let me start looking at who I like and um yeah like chance rapper was coming out too at
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that time he was like melodic rapping I was like oh people could do this too like that's dope tiller was coming out
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at that time um there was this girl named Alina Barz that was coming out like it was just a lot of different
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people when I was younger it was like all the R&B girls but Alicia Keys was the first one well outside of music or
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entertainment whatever what are you obsessed over outside of the the profession um movies and like TV like
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I'm like very cinematic and I like games what's your favorite movie my favorite movie Selena Coming to America and white
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chicks oo okay okay okay coming to America I watched that the other day that my favorite movie yeah yes yes [ __ ]
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you too I love that movie that was like a big movie in our household that and then blood in and blood out was like a
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really big movie in our household that's like the um like the Mexican version of boys in the hood oh okay I'm going go
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watch that it's so good my brother's nickname is from that movie okay what's what's his nickname Mick Mick and then
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the boy in the movie cuz my brother looks white but he's not he's Spanish okay the boy in the movie is a white
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like Spanish boy like raised by like Mexicans and stuff and they called him MOS okay so so you're black and I'm
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black Puerto Rican and Italian yeah oh okay okay okay okay did that factor into
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your up like or how should how did it factor into your upbringing I'm cultured
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yeah I'm cultured a lot of people like get confused because I don't speak
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Spanish but I was raised around my Spanish family like my grandmother my mom's mom um my family
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like my my mom's dad's family took her in so she's really really close with them she speaks like fluent Spanish and
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everything so she made it her duty to like keep us around my mom's family when my mom wasn't around so I grew up more
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more around my mom's family like my Spanish side than my dad's family okay got it my black side yeah but I grew up
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around both I never grew up around my Italian side yeah yeah very cultured
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very cult okay now when I met you for the first time you had on you were paying homage
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to Lil Kim mhm um what about hip-hop the hip-hop side of you um did you kind of
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come up looking at Kim or liking Kim or did that come later uh that came when I
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was in high school my mom introduced me to Kim in high school and um like really really introduced her to me like where I
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was like listening to her albums and my mom just like allowed me to be like really ghetto and Ratchet and open about
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it um so that's when I started to like look at Kim and like like look at the things she was doing and like who she
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was becoming in the fashion world and stuff like in high school there was like Tumblr yeah like so it's kind of like
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Pinterest so all these like like OD pages to like '90s hip hop and '90s R&B
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and even like '90s like pop culture period was like a thing that I started to become into so that's when I started
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to like look at different people as I got older okay but Kim was definitely one of them I love when she had that titty out at the
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B so yeah that was a moment that was a great moment yeah that was crazy now
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it's kind of common so it's kind of like oh okay nobody is popping out with they titty at the VMA true like nobody's
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doing that like they do not play that at the award shows now I think it's more
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more so like Kim like Madonna like they were like like the the like sexual
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always thank you Kim thank you Madonna yeah and I don't give a [ __ ] that's what's up that's what's up okay how was
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it that um we we missed each other in Wilmington Delaware during HBCU week D
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State Delaware State um how was that for you do you remember that like is it all
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a blur or I remember it it was fun it was a vibe yeah yeah I did I performed
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left eye for the first time okay there so it was good it was fun um I like
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being on stage I like attention so were are you an only child no how many
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siblings I had two older brothers from my mom and then I got a younger sister from my dad and then I have three step
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siblings okay where are you in the high are you the youngest I'm the youngest out of my brother so I grew up the the
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youngest child and the only girl very protected yeah and then my sister she's 11 what what do your family members say
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about your music like how do they feel um my sister feels like I'm a bank and
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she feels like nobody could like touch me in the world like she just thinks I'm
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like this she thinks I'm the biggest thing in the world like if you ask her um my mom is just the mom she's just
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really proud both my moms are um my brothers are really proud like my whole family is my my Nanie she texts me every
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day sending me prayers telling me how proud she is and yeah my mom's like
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whole Facebook is just me oh that's dope yeah I was looking at you know just
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following some of your journey and stuff and it's like you work really hard I I
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got tired of just looking at your hustle I was like oh my God it's really my team though like if I didn't have my
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team I don't think I would work as hard I think I want to strive to work harder yeah um I don't feel like I work as hard
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as I could okay like I feel like there's more that I could do but my team really does like strive to like have me do all
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these things and work harder because sometimes that [ __ ] is like like it could feel
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defeating from the artist standpoint like it just you could feel so defeated
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it just makes you want to like ball up sometimes and not want to do anything so it like takes back your motivation but
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when you find it it's like all right I'm up I'm ready I'm ready to do everything what y'all want me to do you want me to do that last week I'll do that [ __ ]
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today I got you I'll do it five times today yeah I'm not easy to work with like I'm easy to work with but me and my
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team we're like family so it's like arguing with your little sister or your aunties and your uncles and your dad and
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your mom that's really how it is so when you create that family Dynamic Outsiders don't understand so
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like they'll hear like me or like Miller like it's like talking to my big sister I get so irritated and I know she get so
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I hang up she hangs up on you oh man
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or I just be like or she be like you know I don't she I don't give a [ __ ] like go ahead y'all can't break up by
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the way we could never okay all right we get along really well if you don't argue
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with people they're not for you like if I cannot show you who I really am if I
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cannot show you when I'm frustrated when I'm happy when I'm sad when I'm irritated then you are not the person
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that needs to be around me I'm very emotional um I'm very sensitive I'm a girl I'm young and I'm still learning
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myself and I respect my team for realizing that at times because it's
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it's not easy dealing with a young girl like it's not easy sometimes it is easy
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and sometimes it's not like and I'm a Scorpio do you say sorry when you're wrong I do yeah I do okay like sometimes
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I don't realize when I'm wrong so they might not get it as much as they should but they're very open about like if I
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made them feel bad or or sometimes I'll be like I like I shouldn't have said that to you or I shouldn't have
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made things that difficult but I say sorry I'm sorry like I'm I'm I be holding myself accountable for
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situations sometimes it might take me a day but I always hold myself accountable I'm an aquarius I'll be like I regret
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what happens I regret what the events that
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caus our Clash sometimes I don't be sometimes
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like I get that cuz sometimes it's like I'm not sorry because some it's like
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that's how I felt but I'm sorry for making you feel that way like if I hurt
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your feelings I'm sorry for hurting your feelings but the way I feel is how I feel that means you care about them yeah like but I didn't I there's a way that I
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could have went about it like so I get that I think but I do be feeling sorry if I make somebody feel bad about
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themselves like I don't want to make you feel bad I don't like I don't I don't like beefing with people either cuz I
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shut down don't talk to me I won't talk to nobody all day yeah yeah you won't re you don't laugh out though right cuz you
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have me worry sometimes I be like oh my God she's my lashes are calm I have two
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every two months I do have a week where I I'm just a spaz okay like I'm just
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Tweaky like everything is like it's like about to pop a bubble okay and then
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after the week is over I be like damn I was such a spaz like you ever been in a fight
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[Laughter] I'm from asber I didn't want to assume I
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I didn't want to assume yes I've been on a lot of fights when's the last time you got in a fight like a fist fight
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yeah um when I was when I was 21 really did you win yes
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I did good glad to hear I took one L ever in my life okay one one yeah and
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after that I was like I will never be embarrassed ever again I don't do public embarrassment
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yeah I don't [ __ ] around like I don't [ __ ] around I think people take like the fact that I'm so like bubbly and Giddy
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and I don't um I'm not well with like confrontation with people I don't know like if I don't know you I don't want to
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argue with you cuz I want to fight yeah and I don't need to be fighting yeah too pretty for that yeah and my nails be
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done and I wear wigs you've never had your wig snatched though right not by a girl by a man yes
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oh no yes I did nasty work it was nasty work and I whooped his ass I sure did
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but I do not condone domestic violence I am that was two years ago oo that was
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two and a half years ago oh my God I won't do that okay don't do that don't do that
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again just don't don't touch my hair bet um have have have industry dudes tried
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to holler all the time right just Could you um you know we have this whole thing
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this cleansing of the industry it's all older people I want I want to
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throw some younger people in the mix respectfully it just depends on what
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side of the industry you're on what do you mean it's a lot of young people yeah it's a lot of
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us it's just you probably be around a whole lot of old [ __ ] oh
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wow wow I I be in my house first of all
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that's what I do you know mean cuz I'm not trying to get in nobody's mess that's a fact so I'll be by myself first
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things first but I will say this a lot of my people that I know are very scared
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so they worried and I'm worried for them worried for about what because they they used to party all the time they used to
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do their thing some of them were at the white parties I was not by the way you was at the freak offs no no no no no no
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not me I I wear all black I just started wearing colors recently so I ain't going
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to no allh party where I can spill any pasta sauce on me no thank you no thank you I'm cool you toured
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with sexy red how did that go it went really good mhm it was like nerve wono
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cuz a R&B singer on a [ __ ] rap tour it's crazy it's crazy but I did really
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good really good it was fun it was a Vibe I [ __ ] with it that's dope that's dope um
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goalwise you know we're starting out your career on a good note but as you
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know we we're we're in it for the long haul right yeah right so going down the line sort of you know what where do you
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see yourself where do you want to end up do you do you manifest do you envision
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the future for yourself yeah I want to be like a mogul I want to be like Rihanna I want to spend a lot of time
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making music and becoming a household name as artist and then I want to venture off and like I said I'm like
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really big in a cinema so I want to be on the screen and you know I want to own very successful businesses like Rihanna
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has Fenty Selena Gomez has like rare Beauty like all of those things um so I
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definitely want to have multiple things on my on my back yeah um or what is it
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on my card whatever the [ __ ] it is but I want them to be super successful I don't want to be the [ __ ] that's just doing
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[ __ ] just to do it it's like I want to be very successful in anything I do and when I am no longer on this Earth I want
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that [ __ ] to last like I need to live like Marilyn Monroe yeah like like that 100 years from now the [ __ ]
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kids Better Know Who I Am that's what's up that's what's up all right any last words anything you want to uh get across
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my name's honey baby I'm a bad [ __ ] I just dropped left eye make sure you go stream it and I have a lot more
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coming oh yeah album album when when do you think that'll drop I know you dropped the
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EP I'm not dropping an album soon but I am coming out with another project
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really soon a project yes very fire project it does not sound like the last
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one at all I'm really excited for this one I feel like this one feels a lot more youthful youthful youthful what
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does that Define youthful um I feel likees that sound like not like my last
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project okay no samples only left eye okay okay yes only left eye is only
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sample okay on this project all right sounds good I'm I'm going be here for the ride yeah it's going to be it's
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going to be a long one all right