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#BelAir Actor Simone Joy Jones Talks R&B Album Magnet, Coco Jones, Will Smith, And Future Dreams
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Jan 13, 2025
Simone Joy Jones, who sings as S!MONE, is a multi-talented artist whose star continues to rise. It was apparent, From the moment she walked into WonWorld Studios, that her light was brighter, too. Best known for her standout role on the hit series "Bel-Air," Simone is also making waves in the music world with her deeply soulful sound and personal storytelling. In this exclusive interview with AHH's Chuck "Jigsaw" Creekmur @ChuckCreekmur Simone opens up about her creative evolution, balancing dual careers, and the inspirations behind her latest project, Magnets. Simone’s journey is a testament to passion, growth, and the pursuit of artistry, from her early days in musical theater to her dream collaborations. Subscribe to AllHipHop on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/allhiphoptv?sub_confirmation=1 Check out more of AHH here on social media: https://allhiphop.com https://twitter.com/allhiphopcom https://facebook.com/allhiphopcom https://instagram.com/allhiphopcom Executive Producers: “Grouchy” Greg Watkins and Chuck “Jigsaw” Creekmur AllHipHop.com, a powerhouse in the Hip-Hop world, was established and brought to life in 1998 by the visionary CEOs "Grouchy" Greg Watkins and Chuck "Jigsaw" Creekmur. Over the years, AllHipHop has solidified its position as an invaluable hub for all things Hip-Hop on the web. With its daily dose of news, exclusive interviews, in-depth reviews, multimedia content, a newly-minted expanding community, and a treasure trove of other engaging material, it has garnered immense praise and a dedicated following. Renowned publications consistently turn to AllHipHop for their news and feature references, attesting to the site's unparalleled accuracy and trustworthiness. Additionally, AllHipHop has fostered strong partnerships with numerous offline print magazines, newspapers, television networks, and radio stations, further cementing its influence and reach in the world of #HipHop. #chuckcreekmur #allhiphoptv #allhiphop #grouchygreg
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[Music] hi it's Simone here with all hip hop and check out my new album magnet what's
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going on world it's your man Chuck creeker hey hey jigsaw and I'm here with a special guest Simone singer actor
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multiphen it how are you I'm amazing thank you for having me here I have to
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admit I'm a huge fan um particularly about you know your acting but thank you
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it's it's good to see you in person thank you and and moving like a whole New Yorker here I would she just pulls
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up to the studio unassuming if I didn't know you I you would have walked right past me I love that definitely yeah so
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first of all let's just talk let's get right into it your music is is jumping
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off right now thank you I love listen we're a hip-hop platform but I have to
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say that I'm you know really thinking about believe it or not okay going a
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full year without listening to Hip Hop what is that going to do for you I I
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don't that's the that's the thing I want to know what will happen will I be more at peace will I you know what I'm saying
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will I explore about input yeah exactly exctly so when I was listening to your music I was like well this is all right
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I was like this is something I could rock with and you have different styles
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I like that too so first of all tell us a little bit about yourself musically because I know you have a really vast
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past musically that what one might not know listening to the music actually
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yeah I'm glad to hear that I feel like I've been such a musical theater girl my
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whole life and I feel like that does inform the music because I feel like people ask me all the time you do when
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you want to do acting or music but I feel like the part of it that I love so much is the storytelling and I get those
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in both and that also bleeds into like the directing and stuff that I'm doing and all that um but I really found I've
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always been a fan of artists and they're writing like from Prince and Michael
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Jackson Anita Baker um big 80s baby okay um from due
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to my parents and everything um and so I
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think it's just a love for music and then I was like I've always sang my whole life my mom sang um in the choir
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and I watched her and it just was something that felt like it was a natural step rather than something that
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I aspired to do it was like oh this is what I do now yeah yeah did you ever sing in the choir I did sing in choir
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okay that's what I'm talking about yes cuz we were saying to ourselves you know we always talk about the state of R&B
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here in the studio and we were like man we we really need more people to come out to Church where are the singer act
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the real singers that's part of the problem but we'll talk about that later we'll talk about
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it later so um as you began to so let's
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just be clear you've been doing this you've been dropping little little you know not little and bad but you know EPS
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right exactly um how have you felt about the progression um of your Artistry
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great question I feel proud yeah I feel I always say like I I
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love a most improved award okay like that is really really special to me
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because like growth does not have a ceiling on it and the more that I learn cuz and I'm a person that really loves
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Perfection but knows the value [Music] of showing up as you are and so I listen
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back to my other AP and I'm like woo I do I do love it for who I was at the moment but just showing up in front of a
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mic not knowing much you know producing a little bit on the piano um having the
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people who are around me um and they taught me so much and got me where I am now and then even this um EP album feels
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a little bit farther from where I am right now you know so I'm really grateful for the
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progression um how is it for you being
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an act actor a celebrity and also being vulnerable like putting art out there
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then it's critiqued by people and social media or whatever um how how do you feel
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from that aspect of it it is an act of Bravery I think being an actor but an
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actor it's like if you didn't like the character it's like well I didn't write it you know I didn't produce the show
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you know that director was whoa whoa whoa but with music it's truly like if you didn't like it it's like you kind of didn't like me like are my personal
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stories you know that was my taste I stand behind every note every part of the mix you know I was in and sat there
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for yeah um but at the same time it's like I'm not for everybody and that's
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great um but I love a good notes but I'll never listen to notes that people I
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don't care about their work either so that rules out a lot of opinions right yeah yeah um how is it writing like so
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you you do write as well yeah I wrote everything on the project um with help
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from the people who are in the studio um so there are a couple more writers on the project who brought so much and grew
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me a lot but I love writing I think a lot of it feels like regurgitation because I'm like it just needs to get
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out you know um but it it is sometimes you feel like you
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have no skin cuz you're like damn did I say that for real you know like like even the silly of like short notice of
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like I'm coming over like what do my parents think like my mom loves that song you know so just being able to be
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myself and be happy as I was like you know it's it's funny you know I used to rap back in the day and I I I truly feel
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I never went as far as I could cuz I always had my parents and my mom my you
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know at my grandma at one point I was I was like H I don't I don't think I I
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don't think I want them to hear this at all like it wasn't and I and by the way
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I never really cursed a lot didn't you know but just even girl songs like right
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not really I don't want to talk about now you have some sexy songs I
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guess I don't know whatever you call them I don't know what you call them in R&B but they're sensual or mature adult
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yeah you're you know you're grown yeah you're grown right so so so how does
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that work with your parents like they they're just cool or your mom or whatever I feel like when I show it to
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them I watch their gears turn a little bit and then I'm like any questions like no further questions your honor so I
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feel like if you want to talk about and I feel like that's beautiful about music to open conversation if you'd like but a
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lot of times too it's like there's there's like what it's about and then there's an exaggeration around it too
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right and so um I first I was really worried about it
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and then I was like what am I going to do keep worrying about this and get in get in my own way yeah and I was like
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I'll deal with the consequences later and then there wasn't any you know and they were like really happy and they love the song so um I'm grateful for
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that too that's awesome um I love also the fact that you know folks are able to
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do multiple things and actually Master multiple disciplines which Ma I'm big
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advocate for Mastery like I'm like yo Focus 10,000 hours exactly okay so you know what I'm talking about exactly but
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it's it's pretty hard to get 10,000 hours in two things much less more so um
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is it is it just a natural and and by the way if it's a passion then those 10,000 hours are not
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like oh I'm doing 10,000 hours it's just very natural but how has it been for you I mean with the acting and the um
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the music the music and and anything else you might be into I tend to
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feel inadequate a bunch and I'm grateful for that feeling because makes me
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realize I'm very comfortable in feeling uncomfortable in because of school
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pushed me a lot and being in La not really even feeling super ready for a TV
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show but doing it you know I learned there's a lot it's a steep learning curve when you're just in it yeah um so
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my uh Yar shahii has a beautiful Ted talk about following your curiosity and
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I feel so at home in those words because just there is especially with social
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media and now there's a lot of pressure to be like really great at something and but the people that we look up to are
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really bad at things and are excited to be really bad at things for a while until you're not you know yeah so I'm
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still getting comfortable with that you know with new instruments and because I've always been surrounded by an
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orchestra or people who are phenomenal and put so many years on so I'm like why would I even touch that if you got it
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you know but learning that my experience is valuable and it's never
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going to grow if I don't if I'm not bad at it for a while yeah nice it's funny
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uh way back in the day I used to do uh I used to design websites that's okay how I got you know kind of into the space I
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for design I see thank you thank you and um I was an art student too by the way so a lot of my art talents transferred
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to the internet yeah and um I showed my cousin my first website and he was and I
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said what do you think I was like excited he was like yeah it looks like someone that just started doing websites
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and I was like D I never forgot that though and I was I just took it as a challenge to just to you know get better
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do better keep growing yeah yeah so you know I appreciate the journey in that
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respect too that's super dope it's like what you did with it a lot of people quit like oh damn right facts facts um
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wanted to ask you a little about your um specifically around Coco Jones and her
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as a singer actor and and if that played any role in you really stepping out and
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pursuing it um you know I know we talked about this
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off camera but I thought I'd ask it anyway yeah that's great Koko is just a beautiful person she's just
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so a lot of my inspiration has come with her coming into her success her new
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she's always been very successful before I came into the picture but watching her navigate her friendships her
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relationships and her work life yeah so it's a
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beautiful blueprint template prototype mm for when I'm in those spaces or just
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being a support system you know of like damn you had a long week I saw her fly four or five times you know I'm like
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what do you need you know or knowing that it's possible like
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having I love this I love the saying of like when somebody next to you is being
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blessed it means God is in the neighborhood I like that where did you get that from I don't know somebody told
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me that sobody I like that I'll take credit for it I but it's it's it really is you know of
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just like look what God look what doors look what's possible you know and
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so and then watching all of that and watching her be such a grounded person sometimes you think you have to get one
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or the other um so I feel like she's that's been a beautiful inspiration for
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me in that regard yeah yeah she I mean really all of you you know it's funny
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I'm a big advocate for the an ancestors like like we're we look back on our ancestors and we are future ancestors
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right so you know I think a lot about what will they say about us or look back
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and see when you know when we're not here and I think about the folks that
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are doing us proud like now so coko Jones and yourself quite frankly but I
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think of her because she's a you know just a little more out there as a singer yeah um and and others I'm just like
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yeah when we look back at like actors or even R&B we're going to be pulling you
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know we're going to be listening to these records and these songs in the in the future yeah do you ever think of
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that what CU you know a lot of people today it's like now now now what's going to get me on you know viral or what's
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going to get me right what I need right now um which which is always going to be
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somewhat the case but you know what with your approach to music are you thinking in those terms
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Legacy or that was exact that was the word exactly I was goingon to say I'm I am always aware of my legacy even
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being a part of huge Legacy projects like the last movie I did was Don't Tell Mom the babysitters did that came from
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the one in 91 you know um and being a part of fresh prince of belir you know
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like that you know was these are huge Legacy projects and something that they build off of years after it has ended
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for them yeah so and being a student of the singers like Whitney Houston who her
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songs live so long and will live so long
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after I mean she is gone but you know we'll have that forever
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so I try not to get too caught up in it you know because I am because I think
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also in reading about um these the greats they were also very um
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present so they were thinking about you know Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson are thinking about how it's going to live on forever but it's their lived
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experience that informed it rather than them thinking like like oh I don't know because you
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never know you the future is something that you just don't know like being very grounded in the now but also not chasing
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the now just living in the now I like that's the difference that I want to maintain
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too I that yeah no definitely yeah um can you talk a little bit about your
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college experience you know I I am such I don't know I think I'm I don't know
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what it is but I'm a big advocate for college yeah and um and going to school not necess not necessarily sitting in a
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classroom though like I'm there's different ways of learning and I think it's a conduit to opening your world up
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so can you talk about your experience yeah I agree with you I am also a big
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fan of higher education and I
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mean I can say a lot about col say it say it no Ser no Ser I know I'm like
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choosing my words carefully but the institution of oh sorry I
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literally like hit my funny the institution of college itself you know is wild but higher education
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and the the connections you make there really really important and learning how to think yeah is I for do you know the
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Martin Luther King quote where he's talking about school and how to think maybe I don't dad all the time but
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anyways um but I went to carnegy melon and such a valuable experience for me
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just you know with with a small group of people who who who there something
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something so special about being with people who have have a same goal and the
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same lust for Learning and a an like unbreakable Drive yeah and uh
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yeah just willingness drive and the time so the time to work on your craft for
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four years for 10 hours out of the day before homework right you know so yeah
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but I was also in I I like Dabble in like the robotics program around you
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know um just hang out with the business people the mechan mechanic mechanical
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engineering people so it also opened my world up a lot and I think that is something great about college too yeah
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that I I don't know I you know I think what it is is I the further I get away from college the more I appreciate it
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it's like yeah I I kind of I hated and loved it at the same time but didn't
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know what it was doing for me while I was in it you know what I mean and now I'm like oh my God that was everything I
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know people had ask my friend today he sent me a pick a video of his work he
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literally works on defense systems for the United States what a missile defense
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I was like it gets real serious yeah it gets real serious so sorry about that
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y'all um no no not sorry about that I was thinking about experien CMU and using their work for Public Defense and
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I'm like I don't know how I feel about it but at the same time right of course course I mean it's it's just speaks to
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the breath of people us be I mean meet yes in schools my bet one of my best
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friends is doing things genius on genius level yeah anyway sorry cybar no no it's
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not um you mentioned the phrase I think it was like unbreakable will or something like that um speaking of will
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right like that uh Will Smith has he I mean he's
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he's one of my my you know one like her well hero Heroes is is a strong word
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right but when I look at people that might be a you know a little farther ahead than me or whatever or
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accomplished or have shown like Will Smith said I'll get on a treadmill and I will run till I like die right yeah like
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yo this is my spirit animal yeah um so I've studied him a lot um and I have
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started his book that's another thing you mentioned reading I his book is great yeah I've got to finish I have
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such a ADHD thing going on do the audio book okay all right all right okay yeah
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because it is hard to sit with a page because there's so many things happening and especially sometimes when we're
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conditioned with our screens not to tell you what to do but an easier option it's good it's great advice it's
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just all right all right enough enough said um has he imparted Ed any wisdom on
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you or taught you or showed you or anything I don't know I know it's not the show's not about him now but just I
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don't know absolutely yeah I mean from watching all of his
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movies as a kid and listening to like I know lost and found top to bottom I know
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big Willy style top to bottom like you know like just yeah I'm a I'm a student
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to his crafts 100% but face to face other than him employing
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me right um I his his grace in the room by being the
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biggest star and really giving you his full attention is so valuable and you
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know whenever he comes and we just have a chance to speak with him he is just so there and he really listens and then
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something I found um in Hollywood I guess sometimes people have like a
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blanket answer for things or like a blanket statement and I'm like thank you for that that was you know you never
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know what people are going through too I'm like whatever you need to do to get through the day I love it but he is down to like a a twitch of the eye he'll
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notice and he'll be like talk about I don't know just something that's very specific to your question your
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experience right uh I value that in people who aren't the biggest star ever
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so to have him do that and be there with us um is really nice dope nice nice now
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you know Bella air has just announced the final season I know yeah how does
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that feel like I mean I feel like we've even watched you guys kind of kind of grow
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up L key right yeah honestly how how does that feel I mean
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and also the second part is how has the cast bonded grown you know you're
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growing as the characters are growing yes yeah how's it been H Belair speaking
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of college it feels like four years feels like a college experience it was like we are in our senior year of entering the industry in this way in
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the TV industry for me I've done you know movies and a little bit TV before this but this was really like being a
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series regular is like you were on that all the time you know so I've just grown
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I've grown a lot as a person as a communicator as an advocate for myself
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um as um a friend um I feel like I feel
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like everyone to take an acting class because it's about listening and being
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present being there and so to practice that in my life on a level where people
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pay attention and where people are there with you as for a common goal is really
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really special I've never taken a single bit for granted like I've always stepped on set and been like like yes you know
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do a little dance in my trailer like I just love it my speaking to my cast all
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phenomenal yeah 10 out of 10's all of them MH um and you know you never
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they're co-workers at the end of the day so I never expect us to be friends you know I've had many casts in my life um
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but this one is really special like we're all pretty new names coming in you know other than um Adrian and um
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Cassandra Freeman um and Jimmy akingbola you know the um people in our cast um
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but to come in and for us to really Embrace each other and they come to my shows like they haven't missed a show of
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mine in La um for coko to take me on tour with her to open for her oh that's
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um you know like we just spent a month together on the bus and um to performing my music that I wasn't even sure about
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yet you know like not even being ready um um yeah to
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just these these people are truly the people I call and I answer at 5 o'clock
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in the morning when they need help right and I'm really grateful for that and
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yeah we're just kind of growing up together yeah which is insane and I'm
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I'm grateful I'm just grateful all around good good uh you know you live in LA now um and
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have been that's uh an interesting City it's funny I was just listening to a
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random song with uh Tam andala and um Love T and paa and yeah he's he's they
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they amazing but this particular song was with Thundercat and T power you say glazing no what' I say oh I don't know
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my I said who's that I don't know glazing is it something I've heard in
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ging you I'm like I like damn a compliment just one but anyway my fault
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I was all good no know like wait no no but it's Thundercat and Tam and P and
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the end of oh I love Thundercat the end of the record yeah he's they're both amazing the end of the record is this
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weird Soliloquy about um therapy vers you know therapy
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and and I'm sorry and all these things and then at the end he's like well I'm from La what what did you expect that
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was the end of it oh I listen to it I don't think I know what this track is I'll play it later okay it's it's a it's
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a good record it's a dope record it's it's kind of like Yacht Rock have you heard of that Yacht yach Rock it's like
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soft rock but it's really an amazing genre like Rich y rock yeah well not
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rich but it's it's sort of like RI it's like rock for for for
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like I don't know for like it's almost borderline elevator music but
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I got to get into so Soulful yeah okay I got there's a whole documentary on it
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wow yeah and um actually Thundercats in it so he kind of does yach Rock so anywh
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who um La is an interesting City like I have a tribe there that's not native but
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they kind of protect me from La when it when I'm in um so how has the city been
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for you or or or are you in this bubble um but but can you be in a bubble
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singing too right I feel like I did kind of first of all Simone as a person
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probably could never stay in a bubble no matter what like even in Pittsburgh when I was in school you know it's very
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tightnit the program and nobody kind of branches out but like I'm like I have to
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I didn't even know anything about music I just knew that it called me and so I was like I got to find the people who can help me with this right so that's
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how I met a bunch of people and grew as an artist that way just because I was
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like I can't stay here like hello so that's been happening in La too where I've was like okay and now you know you
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can look at the credits of songs of the songs that I love I'm like I'm GNA call them I'm them I'm see what happens and
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sometimes it works out sometimes it works out later you know yeah so um but
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I will say I have come to to LA with a job and a community and I feel like you
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know I can't be like what La is perfect you know cuz I realize I come with a job in a community and sometimes the hard
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tricky part about La is that you know there are people who either want something from
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you or like you conditionally so to be in a to come from a home and that has
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taught unconditional love for myself and to have that support system and be able to share that with my community and that
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to share with me I understand that I'm blessed in that way yeah so I think I've
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create rather than have a bubble around me I've kind of created armor that I venture out with gotta gotta makes sense
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yeah so um you've mentioned a few names throughout this interview but I wanted to get from you if you can okay your top
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five singers now the easy part I don't I I kind of want put a
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Twist on this and say your top five like from your birth year on can you do that
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cuz you mentioned some heavyweights Michael Whitney Quincy like okay now
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those are guar you know you can't lose but what about those that have come
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within your lifetime can you if you can't no where no
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pressure within my lifetime what do you mean within my lifetime like there's still since you were born I love raim oh
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okay well let's go let's keep going yeah let's Okay um just cuz I grew up on him
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and his lyricism what about him just the I think the samples that Eric B brought
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in and the production around um that that just like opened up a whole world because I loved Jazz and my dad love rap
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yeah and so just the the I don't know the meshing of that world to me was like wait a minute and the songs that I had
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heard before and then being a lover of music and then hearing the samples from like Bobby
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humfrey later on and being like that was that I didn't know that was that and you know so that was cool he's a student of
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jazz too by the way he's like a total music student I love Yeah miles right Wonder Miles Davis right yeah yes he
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developed his rap style through Jazz yes um yeah
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um me Jazzy Jeff was a dream of mine I'm not going to put him but but I was like when I met him and having him be so
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lovely too so great okay but I really love who am I doing 99 and
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on You Can Be You Can Have singers too right singers okay you know what just
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say anybody anybody I know because I feel like I have such a yeah yeah sorry I didn't want to look no no no this is
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not sorry I was a great question um I really should have like a
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set list or something because I feel like my mind kind of goes blank when people are like what's your favorite I'm
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like I don't know um we we got to come back to that I
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think okay I I think I some time we we'll we'll think on it so all right so
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let's get back to the album give everybody the the the the the you know
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the details on everything yeah the and including your favorite song
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okay the details on everything okay let's start with one I feel
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like I don't think I have a favorite song because the thing with this album for me
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is I wrote all of the songs with help but that's my the only through line if I
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look at other Studio albums being like a marriage between one producer and a
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singer or themselves producer I feel like this is a product of flings of what
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of flings flings yeah like I did short notice in Atlanta with Alex I um found
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Hayes or Hayes found me um Hayes banga um and we did Endless and borderline
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together um matter of time is with Solomon Fox and and searching for
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Sunshine and did a demo with these people in Long Beach with with homebody and circles so you know what I mean so
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like and and I was in Michigan for a show and I heard this band um that was doing was
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the backing band for the show and I was like y are crazy like the choices that y'all make are just like y'all are
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musicians y'all love music what are y'all doing after you know so that was
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Tangerine okay so it's been I've been
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grateful for all those experiences but they're all like so meaty for lack of a better ter they're
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so full you know um so they all have a different memory with them but I guess my favorite right now that I love to
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listen to is I would say I would
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[Music] say circles at the moment I would say
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circles at the moment okay because I really liked my writing style on that one I wrote with elizer too in Long
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Beach okay and I like things that are angular and asymmetrical and don't
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really have like a chorus and MH first like structure but that one did and but
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there was something so natural about it coming back and also the circular motion of it and the storytelling of just this
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guy who was talking in circles literally I was like he was like just let me explain myself just let me I said okay
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go ahead and he was like I was like right okay so that's based on a true
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story yeah all of them are okay I would say I like if you pick a song like every each thing is which also makes it very
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like vulnerable of like damn like this is really my life right right do people
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know this is about them my no I don't I don't ever tell them if it's about them
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would would they pick up on it like the mumbling guy like the guy that talked in circles would he I feel like because I
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have not had relationship with many people he probably would know he's a fan
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so he's a fan he's a fan he's a fan right okay I was going say Kendrick Kendrick is on that list Kendrick sh I
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love Kendrick I love Sia s okay that they kind of go together siza was such a big um presence especially growing up
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cuz I'm like a black girl from Suburbia and like I had never heard anybody talk about it like that and I was like
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damn damn you know listening and hearing her be honest like brutally honest for the F
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for the not for the first time cuz you hear people but in just a way that was like yeah I felt lonely and I wanted him
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and I took him and I was like oh God I didn't know we did that out here um
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Kendrick on tour is going to be crazy what I can't put my card out like all right let's just do this come on I love
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tank and the bangers do you know them they're a band in
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um Louisiana oh really from Nola I believe I'm not sure but they're
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great um yeah so give us your give us your top
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five influences on your style oh my gosh on my style okay I feel like PJ Morton
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influenced a lot of Tangerine mhm of just like sitting in the pocket of
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something and follow and a jazz and fluence mhm um I feel like okay I'll do
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it by song because I think it's really hard to do it by okay cool experience
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that's okay it's a matter of time like that you me baby I really like liked the
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way it sat in the back of the beat um so I feel like I mostly Elijah Fox and
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Solomon Fox are brothers and they're really really great pianists and but I
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feel like that had like a princey feel to it that I really liked I mean very audacious of to say anything that I've
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been inspired by you know come from Prince but like you know in that World um so that's really cool short
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notice [Music]
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um okay I feel like I set myself up in a little trap that I know it's okay but um
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you know it's you know as you say this but but the thing is is the music holds up so it's not like that's you know what
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I'm saying you I app it's not like oh some of the rappers I mean any you know
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a lot of rappers they come here yeah my and all I appreciate it um but being in
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Atlanta with short notice you know there a lot of that in Inspiration is just from the musicians who are in the room
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who just like you just go like that when they play you know and having something so sexy but
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fun um uh uh just even like I don't know
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like I I love like a little two-step situation like cupid like like the way that we all come together on a song in
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the way that way that's not left out of a cookout situation right you know um
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borderline there's this song from Spider-Man um um the one with Andrew
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Garfield um oh my God it's called Song for Zula okay by phosphorescence I
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believe and it has a very because borderline has
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the um but it's kind of interpolated from that song and I just love the way
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that made me feel soundtracks are a big thing for me too yeah I have a whole playlist of soundtrack music really
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please send it to me like I just watched Goodwill Hunting and I just found so much new music from that just like film
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of course I love acting is so the way those two marry in any way is like an
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intersection I'm always paying attention to um but yeah going through the album I feel would be a lot but yeah yeah um but
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my my Inspirations are just they're they're vast but I feel
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like I have been an amalgamation of all of them like just a little piece even
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the way like some people like take breaths or the way that they like um
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write or the way that they found a sample and and made made it their own
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you know so I feel like to have a direct line of inspiration is less common for
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me but to have a like the feeling when I'm listened to like Tyler the Creator for
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the first time like listening to she was like oh [ __ ] like we can be weird as
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[ __ ] like we can just be weird like listening to Acid Rap you know like listening to yba and the way that she
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just like holds her voice you know so it's just like a little bit of something
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from everybody I right I think that's the other thing about not listening to rap I have a wide palet of
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music I mean rap is actually in a good space but I love the fact that there is
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so much stuff out there that's formless or shape shapeless and it's just yeah Tam and paa is probably I mean love like
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just someone I keep going back to like by the way I was listening to borderline by T and paa and then I went straight to your border line right after I was like
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this is random what is going what does this mean what do this mean but yeah so you're mentioning names that I speaking
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of brandy brandy the way that she layers her vocals and she has a song called borderline too oh okay I'm going have to
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listen to hers later good speaking of well not Brandy per se but your dream collabo I was thinking maybe that would
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be that would work but who's your dream collab or collabs yes or will you collab
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cuz you know I would love to collab yeah okay yeah clab is the name of the game for me too
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um I would love to clab with Willow oo that would be clutch and by the way
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she's amazing she's amazing and I feel like not enough people know this that's
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really yeah I think they're going to find out because I saw her live with the
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LA Phil Orchestra MH she's just so cool and also just to like smoke a cigarette
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and then like belt I was you're cool as F you're cool like I like you um so I
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like her style and I like the way that she's like punk rock and she's just following whatever she feels like and
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now that she's just become super informed and the the Jazz space and like become a student again of that you could
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hear it in her music it's really cool would love to work with Willow yeah yeah
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I like um Jaden too Jaden's cool he he just doesn't okay I don't I'm sure he
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has all the Privileges and WR you know do whatever he wants but um as a as a rapper he's really talented and I was
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like please keep going just continue on yeah and um I think that's the thing you
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know when young people are you know I I don't even like the word privileged but what whatever the word is but it gives
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you the opport the ability to be free yeah and to explore and experiment without you know I completely agree I
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was like I hope I plan on having my children have a
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a huge nepotism right um upbringing and and
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because working is beautiful and everything it's done for me is
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incredible but to have the freedom and space to follow who you are and like is
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is really beautiful like I love when I see a black person skating at 2 p.m and then like have a fashion line like yes
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like like why are why are we nepo babies and they're like you know others I
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should say who have come up in the same manner are just you know whatever
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Geniuses or just astute business I'm just saying why why we got to be nepo
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babies I I think guess maybe I don't know Nea babies maybe have the wrong connotation but I want
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um I would like the my parents also gave
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to me what their parents didn't have and I wanted to build and grow so that can my parents and my kids something that
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they never had um and and I think there's no shame in that right so at
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100% I I think you know there's something really special about coming from the actual ground um but when your
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ancestors and your parents have done that and giving you um a platform and
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just living in their dreams I think to to do nothing with it is fine but to do
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everything with it and go beyond and make a whole new universe which I think
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not to speak on anyone else's experience but I think Willow and Jaden have done yeah yeah it's gorgeous yeah yeah so
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what do you do when you're not when you're just downtime what do you just
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when I'm just downtown what do you what is your downtime when you're just being
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Jazzy oh my gosh so when I'm just chilling yeah um do you right that's so
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funny um even I had a large gap of time because
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I'm filming something for play bill and I had an audition earlier so I had to be in New York for a longer time than I
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would have planned I feel like um I learn a skill you know I always learn a
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skill okay I was thinking about like I was going to say my downtime kind of was like I don't do downtime like I I like
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to be very productive um but in between season 1 and season 2 was my first time
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off of acting that I ever took mhm um because we knew we had two seasons and I
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went to Greece and I got my yoga teacher certification oh nice nice so that in
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turn taught me a lot about being still yeah instead of again I can have drive without anxiety anxiety doesn't have to
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be my my Force um my love and passion can be my Force um so that was a skill
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that I use all the time I've done yoga I didog I did uh summer solstice I did
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that okay and I did bium one time okay cool yeah but I have to get back to it
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because I do want to um everything can be associated with like aggression like I think kind of you
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mentioned anxiety but you were talking about grind grind no brakes all what is it all gas no brakes but yeah yeah all
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good I'll get i'll copyright that one that other one's taken but yeah um I I I
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do appreciate yoga and by the way um a certain MoGo in hip-hop invited me to do
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yoga like way back in the day and I was like dude what are you talking about like nobody's we don't do yoga right and
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then I you know I dated someone who was way into yoga and that opened my eyes to
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it and I was like damn I was like really playing myself back in the day didn't even understand something you weren't
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ready for until you are that's fine that's true that's true I feel like a girl will always do it a partner will
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always always do it true like what yeah facts facts but Greece is nice gree is
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the best place I've ever been um I mean Africa is Africa but I I was in South
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Africa so that's a little different yes I got to explore the continent more but but I loved Greece it was beautiful I
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just love the way speaking of just like all gas no breaks like going so fast
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like it I realize in traveling it is such an American thing to work yourself to death and work to
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live yeah and live to work like or you know what I'm saying and and having
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being I was an I'm going a ghost like an island and they like start 11 you know
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they go their own food they share they go to work because the Americans are
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coming in the summer but other than that you know like like and being in Mexico
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where they all live on the they build everything around around them that they need and they're like why would I work
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till I die why would I do that in this lifetime and I'm like wait you know just challenging my own ideas about how my
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relationship to work yeah too so you know travel yeah travel yeah definitely
46:43
travel travel travel travel um okay well we've had a great conversation this has been very
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refreshing very refreshing yeah um yeah I could keep going but um let's
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just final thoughts final thoughts thank you
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for having me grateful for that grateful to be here um thank you for
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listening um final thoughts I have so much music and I would like to hear even
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after what songs you liked or what stood out to you because there are different
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genres on this and I felt like this was it's called magnets there's actually a good B of it's called magnet because I
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want to bring the people who get me towards me people who want to help me people who go ah something's something
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could be I want that I want all of that okay so and you know magnet is just very
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effortlessly attractive and so that's what this is about it's not like oh my
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like debut it's like here's what I do I sing just so y'all know sing sing I sing
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sing for real for real you know and I love music for real for real um so so
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yeah I I would like to hear your thoughts time okay I we will we will do a deep dive I will personally and I'll
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bring Wonder with me and we'll both yeah definitely and we'll we'll definitely give you feedback the the way we would
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give a friend feedback which is different right that yeah yeah I love and I don't like this that's great your
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stylization of your name so as you can see I love exclamation points yes I
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designed our logo by the way I love art designer yeah so I was like oh she has s
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exclamation point yes you're right what what made
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you do that I've as a kid I just always wrote my name like that okay and it was
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like in my D I'm a big doodler like me too me too you know like so wherever my brain went for the win there's a little
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bit of Genius in that I got in so much trouble in school for doodling yeah a lot like until you start doing sh you
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know what I'm saying and then you were like I was paying attention it was going in but you know other things had to come
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out I feel like so yeah bet fired me because of doodling I should I I I I
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want to mention this oh don't mention it around I'll take that back I take that back bet did not fire me because of
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doodling but they but somebody at bet who knows who you are tried to set me up
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cuz I was I'm sorry I'm triggered I'm triggered but yeah I was in the meeting doodling but they didn't think I was
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taking notes or paying attention so I was paying attention taking notes dood
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and on my phone well I don't know if it was a phone back then but
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anyway I'm sorry I was so triggered just now cuz damn I didn't mean to trigger you it's gotten me in trouble a lot in
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my life but um anyway well I mean that's something to pay attention to like but here's the other okay so I know
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I meant to stop but here's the other thing yeah um do you or I I know that
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most people I hang out with have multiple talents like my boy who's the the guy that shoots the the rockets at
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the missiles that might come to the United States he also has like all these other talents and my other friends are
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comic nerds and we go to ComicCon all the time do you have any other me out right now I had to recover from that
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keep going keep going what what what no I'm just Kidd keep going keep going keep going what I what I do keep going I'm
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just saying that Mo I think it's enjoyable I guess the way I fre should say this is It's dope to see people
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doing multiple things I know that I know I said it earlier but it really is refreshing because some of
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us uh myself included might have you know just was like oh the world only can
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see me this way or I can't be known for this and that yeah you know what I mean
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and now it's pretty like much you can do whatever you want and and almost
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everything is available for you to do so the question is what are your other
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talents yeah doodling is one of them yeah yeah um if any I I get to I feel
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like there is a set of voices that has either been Amplified or quieted
51:04
depended dependent on your algorithm of just people trying to tell you that a niche is the only way that you will be
51:12
successful right you know um so I I I mean my dad has introduced me
51:20
to vision boards um and so I really want to put my dad through pilot school you
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know he's a dream of his and so he put me in a on a flight so I flew a plane a
51:31
couple weeks ago um yeah and so that has been a it doesn't light me up like I see
51:38
my dad you know and he loves cuz he loves being a pilot um but uh I I love
51:45
learning new things um so yes I teach yoga um I on belir actually I've
51:53
shadowed many directors who have come through because I'm direct um I don't
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love writing right now okay because I feel like it's hard and I feel like I'm in that stage of like this I'm really
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bad I'm really bad right now as a writer yes you should hook up with my niece she's a um she graduated from NYU wow
52:13
Tish School of uh the Arts or whatever but to no not whatever I'm so sorry no
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no no but like to your point of like just speaking about the things that I'm like I'm so interested in and keeps like
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poking at me um and just putting some stuff on on the page I've become a better writer um so that and I'm a
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dancer as well I've been dancing my whole life starting when I was like 12
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okay um yeah I mean I'm I'm a big Sports person who's your
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team because an of course I'm a Sixers fan okay yeah okay I can get behind that
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yeah but they suck right now but it's you know we'll be all right they have their moments all the time I'm also a
52:54
Giants fan oh really I'm sorry to hear that H it's it's been a rough I'm an Eagles fan and the Eagles are I'm sorry
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A1 right now I'm also like the Steelers Steelers we play them Sunday going to beat them stay in first place I know
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they all do really well this season um but I like the Steelers Steelers are cool uh but I I played I ran I love
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running track that was also my favorite thing growing up other than basketball um and I did Karate really a
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lot yeah okay martial arts I really do love nice
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so yeah all right last question dream rooll do you have a dream role and uh oh
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I'm sorry okay would you like to be in a comic franchise or superhero or
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something and who would that be I was really inspired Growing Up by Iron Man and Robert Downey Jr just as an actor
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right I love the way that he he just was Iron Man like there was nothing that
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separated him from the story it was like him you know so all that drinking paid
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off Robert dowy J I love I would love love love to do something with him and
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his work cuz he's phenomenal yeah okay um yes I would love to do Marvel stuff I
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want to be a superhero yeah 100% we had to figure out a role for you cuz some of them are taken like Iron Heart
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the black Captain Marvel was taken exactly I'm GNA think on that and I
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would love to play a Villain Like and that's something that really interests me
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yeah yeah okay but I don't know if our my dream role has been written or
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realized yet I don't know if it would want to I don't know if it would be something that we've seen before I feel
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like I have joined Legacy projects it's something I want to come off of now understood yeah and you know than having
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somebody with a name sake and you know I love that when people think of me they think neong big blessing in my career
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big blessing in my career shout out to Nia shout out to Nia Long the goat the goat Lally greatest and so something
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that when you know when they see Simone Joy Jones they go oh she did a phenomenal job with this and I want to
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be like her yeah shout out to Simone Joy Jones shout out to Simone Joy Jones all
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right and
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