Episode Transcript
[00:00:04] Speaker A: Yo, it's effective immediately. I'm DJ Head.
[00:00:06] Speaker B: What up, Hip Hop Nation? It's your favorite homegirl, Gina Views.
[00:00:08] Speaker A: We have a special guest in the building with us, blessing our presence. Queen Nyjah's here.
[00:00:14] Speaker C: Hello.
[00:00:14] Speaker A: Hello. Thank you for pulling up.
[00:00:16] Speaker C: Thank you for having me.
[00:00:17] Speaker A: You back outside. You moving around.
[00:00:20] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:00:21] Speaker A: Finally, as some of your fans would say, you have a really interesting fan base. Because what I noticed about some of your fans is they're very possessive of you.
[00:00:34] Speaker C: Oh, for a fact.
[00:00:35] Speaker A: And I didn't know. Like, I knew, but I think when we. When I. When I. When we. Me and you, we sat down once before and I didn't. I found. I fucked around and found out how. Like, they know how they don't play about you.
[00:00:47] Speaker C: They don't.
[00:00:47] Speaker A: And I was like, bro, you don't even know her like that. Like, you know what I'm saying? But first of all, congratulations. Second of all is, how do you, like, I guess, go about amassing a fan base in that way? Like, how do you get people to buy into you? Or how do you get people so entrenched in your life to the point where they willing to crash out over you?
[00:01:06] Speaker C: Honestly, I do feel like this is something that I've built a while back, like, when I first started out. So these are the people that's just still rocking with me from day one.
Honestly, if I keep it real, I think I have to learn again how to teach them how to buy into me again.
[00:01:26] Speaker A: Oh, you want to recondition?
[00:01:27] Speaker C: Yeah, in a way. Like, I don't. I don't like to say recondition. It feels like I'm training dogs. I'm just a robot.
[00:01:34] Speaker A: I just speak like a robot, but.
[00:01:35] Speaker C: Like, you know, just to get people to, like, a new way to, I guess, rock out with me. But I still have that core that's still there, but I just got to find new ways.
Yeah.
[00:01:47] Speaker B: It feels like, though, it's probably because you humanize yourself so much with us.
[00:01:51] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. I mean, I kind of do talk to them. Like, they're my friends. I talk to them in the Discord. I'll go on Twitch. As of recent, I talk to them on Twitch, and I do converse with them, like, sometimes through group chats on.
Not my phone number, but, like, through DM and everything like that. So we kind of talk through that way. And they just feel like. But they're very helpful, you know, I don't want to always treat them like they're just fans. Like, they really support me and they Have a lot of good ideas and advice sometimes as well.
[00:02:23] Speaker A: You use fan. You use, like, fan ideas in, like, some of your music or videos?
[00:02:27] Speaker C: Yeah, sometimes I actually do. Yeah.
Well, not sometimes I've. I've done it before. I remember I was live on TikTok and I was, like, writing a song in real time, and, like, they were. They were like, put this, put that. And I'm just like, let me try how that sounds. And so, yeah, I probably used, like, a lyric or two. He was just happy for that.
[00:02:47] Speaker A: Publishing get tricky, like. Yeah.
[00:02:49] Speaker C: I told him, though. I said, hey, don't expect nothing. I said, just be happy, you know, Just be happy. Just happy. I used you.
But, yeah, I don't even know who it was, but I think I did use something.
[00:03:00] Speaker B: I want to talk about rain.
I love it.
[00:03:03] Speaker C: You love it?
[00:03:04] Speaker B: I love rain.
[00:03:04] Speaker A: I'm happy.
[00:03:05] Speaker B: Well, I like you, so I like the music. And you're one of those artists who you talk about, like, you keep the essence of love in R and B. You not. Talk about sliding on opps.
[00:03:17] Speaker C: Yeah. Oh, yeah.
[00:03:18] Speaker A: I can't.
[00:03:19] Speaker C: I don't do that. That's crazy. Not me. Yeah.
[00:03:21] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:03:22] Speaker B: But on Rain, you said, I need my soul back. Ooh, give me my soul back. What does that mean?
[00:03:29] Speaker C: Oh, Lordy.
[00:03:30] Speaker A: Okay, then who took that? Motherfucker?
[00:03:33] Speaker B: How did it leave you?
[00:03:35] Speaker C: Okay. I mean, basically, it's a sexy song.
This song is about.
Okay.
Okay.
[00:03:43] Speaker B: Nice visualizer.
[00:03:44] Speaker C: Yeah. Thank you. How can I. Rain is not really about rain. It's about the body being able to do things that would exemplify rain, if you know what I mean.
[00:03:58] Speaker B: Can I Compare it to SWV's rain, rain down?
[00:04:03] Speaker C: No, no, no. It's not the same. It's not the same kind of rain. I love it when you make it rain.
Gosh. I don't wanna say this.
[00:04:10] Speaker B: It's coming. Coming.
[00:04:11] Speaker A: Oh.
[00:04:14] Speaker B: Orgasm.
[00:04:16] Speaker C: A little something different.
[00:04:18] Speaker B: We don't satellite.
[00:04:19] Speaker C: Yeah, it's that same. It's in that same ring.
[00:04:21] Speaker A: Oh, she talking about. Yeah, that's the rain. I get it. No, no, no, no, I get it.
[00:04:27] Speaker C: It's. It's just a grow. Like, I'm just very tasteful with it.
[00:04:31] Speaker A: No, it's a metaphor.
[00:04:32] Speaker C: It's definitely a metaphor. And it's just. I mean, it's about.
I'm just grown, so, you know, I've never really made a sensual song like that or a sex. I really don't like to be that way. But, I mean, it's a part of me. I got two kids. Everyone Knows that.
[00:04:47] Speaker A: That's what I'm saying.
[00:04:47] Speaker C: You know what I mean? But it's not something I'm gonna just brand myself as. It's just something else to write about that is a part of my life and life.
[00:04:56] Speaker B: It works, though. Cause you have so much sex appeal.
[00:04:59] Speaker C: You think so?
[00:04:59] Speaker B: Yeah. Even, like the visualizer, really, that you.
[00:05:04] Speaker C: I mean, I'm real goofy, so, like, it's hard for me to try to be. Like, when I try to be sexy, I automatically laugh. It's just. It's really tough.
[00:05:12] Speaker B: I know what you mean. Cause I'm the homegirl, so I know what you mean. My homeboys get uncomfortable when I'm usually nude. Not all the way, but I don't wear a lot of clothes.
So when I come up.
[00:05:23] Speaker A: She never got no fucking clothes.
[00:05:25] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like, here, Gina, come.
[00:05:27] Speaker C: I love that negative shit. I love that for you.
[00:05:29] Speaker B: But. So I know what you mean about being sexy. How did you. Or if you've been. Well, we saw the visualizer, but was it hard for you to embody or embrace your sex appeal?
[00:05:41] Speaker C: I wouldn't say hard. I just say being under that water, having that oil run down into my eyes, and trying to look sexy. Still, it was just. It was hard, you know? But hopefully you couldn't tell.
Could you tell?
[00:05:55] Speaker B: No.
[00:05:56] Speaker C: So, yeah, no, it wasn't really hard. It's just. I had to make sure I did something stupid as well. That's why I had that other video of me just dancing like a lunatic.
So I had to make sure I just show both sides. Cause that's who I really am, you know?
[00:06:10] Speaker B: We need the rain back in music videos, though.
[00:06:13] Speaker C: I was saying that, too. The rain, the begging. Yeah, all of that.
[00:06:17] Speaker A: Please don't do that.
[00:06:18] Speaker C: Why? No, no, you just don't want to beg because, you know, you're a man. But y' all need to get back to that, honestly.
[00:06:23] Speaker A: Get back to begging?
[00:06:24] Speaker C: Yeah, get back to, you know, being vulnerable.
[00:06:27] Speaker A: And that's not true.
[00:06:28] Speaker C: Begging. Just beg.
[00:06:29] Speaker A: Okay.
That's insane, though. Think about this, right? She's a super RB fan. I'm not R B fan. I don't like it. I don't like all. I'm not emotionally intelligent enough for R B most of the time. I'm glad, you know, I'm 100 transparent. So for me, when you say, like, yeah, go ahead and beg, it's like, okay, but what is. What is it? The goal, like, is you never beg for a woman.
[00:06:53] Speaker C: You never. You never beg for a woman back.
[00:06:55] Speaker B: You should Hear the way he shoot.
[00:06:56] Speaker C: His shot, how you shoot it?
[00:06:58] Speaker A: I just. I don't do it traditionally, so. So I'm gonna show her the clip.
I'm very non traditional in the way that I in my dealings with women.
[00:07:10] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:07:11] Speaker A: Very traditional as far as like, protect, provide, like real man shit, take out the trash, that type of shit. But our engagement, and when it comes to the emotion, I don't really emote.
[00:07:22] Speaker C: You know what I mean?
[00:07:22] Speaker A: Like, I don't have a lot of.
[00:07:23] Speaker C: So you're not emotionally available, or is that what you're saying?
[00:07:27] Speaker A: I mean, that's the buzzword that people like to use, but I prefer the term that I'm a little emotionally constipated.
[00:07:33] Speaker C: What, you can't get it out?
[00:07:37] Speaker A: Yes. It doesn't. Well, it doesn't come out in the way that you recognize, like, I'll show up for you, but not like I'm not finna tell you how pretty you are and all that type of shit all the time.
[00:07:45] Speaker C: Oh, my God, that breaks my heart.
[00:07:47] Speaker A: I'm okay with that.
[00:07:48] Speaker B: It's stinking here, don't it?
[00:07:49] Speaker A: So the way I do it is I'll tell you and then, like, I'll. I don't do compliments. I just tell you the truth and I can go either way. You know what I mean? So it could be like, I do.
[00:07:58] Speaker C: Think you're pretty, so if you're a woman.
[00:07:59] Speaker A: But if I think you're pretty, I want that to be sustainable until further notice.
[00:08:03] Speaker C: Okay? That's not. Yeah, that don't work for a lot of, you know, women.
[00:08:06] Speaker A: I know.
[00:08:06] Speaker C: I get people like me. I love words of affirmation.
[00:08:09] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm not a words of affirmation type.
[00:08:10] Speaker C: Well, you know what?
[00:08:11] Speaker A: Hey, so. So look, my question.
My. My question is when you say begging, you want the person to beg for the love or the person.
[00:08:23] Speaker C: I don't really mean. Okay. I don't really mean go beg for something. I don't think that anybody should beg for anybody. But I do feel like if just back in the day in the music, they used to do anything to get their woman back after they messed up, you know, like they used to have. No.
Or they didn't. It's not even about, like, after messing up. It's just about showing your love for a woman. And like, I feel like nowadays men don't like women. Y' all really don't, like.
I don't know about. I don't.
[00:08:51] Speaker A: I don't know.
[00:08:52] Speaker C: They.
[00:08:52] Speaker A: They.
[00:08:53] Speaker C: They don't really, like, they like Women for, like, their bodies and what they can give, but they don't like women for, like, how we operate and, like, just our emotions. And they think it's.
[00:09:02] Speaker B: They don't appreciate our feminine energy.
[00:09:04] Speaker C: Yeah, they don't, but they say they want it, but they don't. Yeah.
[00:09:07] Speaker A: So I think they appreciate. I think certain men appreciate it. Yeah.
[00:09:10] Speaker B: We were just talking about on our show the era, how we missed the era where music made you fall in love without having a love interest. And specifically with those love songs that were rap and R and B collabs.
[00:09:28] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:09:28] Speaker B: Where you will fall in love with the rapper. You do. You got your. You got the one with Durk. You got the one with Big Sean.
You participates.
[00:09:36] Speaker C: Yeah, I tried.
[00:09:37] Speaker B: Do you think that's becoming a lost artist?
[00:09:39] Speaker A: Um.
[00:09:41] Speaker C: I mean, we don't see it that much anymore. You know, honestly, I think. I can't really think of the last time. I mean, I know.
[00:09:49] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:50] Speaker C: I can't think of the last time. I know Mariah Scientist did something with Chris Brown and T Grizzly, but before that, like, I can't remember. I think I'm the one that tried to bring that back a little bit.
[00:10:01] Speaker B: It's kind of like how we had. It was like the Fabulous and Jagged Edge or Tamiya.
[00:10:06] Speaker C: I did a song with Fab.
[00:10:08] Speaker A: Really?
[00:10:08] Speaker C: Not out yet.
[00:10:09] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, it's on the album.
[00:10:11] Speaker C: Not on mine.
[00:10:11] Speaker B: Fab, My favorite rapper.
[00:10:12] Speaker C: Yeah. So I think it was super dope. That, like, you know, it's on his album.
[00:10:16] Speaker B: Fab Rapper Album.
[00:10:16] Speaker C: Honestly, I don't.
I gotta say it to you. Wait, no, I'm just saying, like, speaking of Fab, like, I remember being in the studio, but.
Yeah, that's.
Did I say too much?
[00:10:29] Speaker A: Hey, she brought up you having a lot of personal. Your personal life, which I will applaud you. Like, you're very transparent when it comes to your real life. Shit.
[00:10:38] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:38] Speaker A: You know what I'm saying? And then a lot of your personal life does transpire. I mean, does come across in the music. I want to know, from your perspective, is there anything that's off limits that doesn't necessarily belong in the music or for the public from your perspective?
[00:10:55] Speaker C: Honestly, I feel like everything belongs in the music as long as it's talked about and communicated so obviously beforehand. Yeah, I feel like it should be talked about. I mean, obviously, if I'm. I'm in a public relationship, you know, I don't really want to right now. What we're working on is, like, our individuality right now. But if we're in the same house together. We do. We should probably communicate about, like, hey, I'm about to. We went through this. I'm gonna do a song about it. And are you, like, not. Are you cool with it? But just, like, just letting someone know up front so they don't find out what everybody else. Like, this song's about that. I mean, because obviously he knows that I'm an artist and I'm expressive and things like that.
I can't really be holding back because people don't. People value authenticity, and they know when you're being fake or, you know.
[00:11:44] Speaker A: So do you play the records beforehand? Like, you play like, hey, this what I. This is. This is, you know, what I was telling you about, or is it, like, something. It's just like, hey, I'm just giving you a heads up.
[00:11:53] Speaker C: And then I play records sometimes. Or, you know, sometimes I don't.
[00:11:59] Speaker A: I feel you.
[00:11:59] Speaker C: Like. I had good girls finish last.
Last year, and I don't think I play that one.
I didn't play that one first. I put it out.
[00:12:10] Speaker A: Hey, go to YouTube.com queen yeah.
[00:12:14] Speaker B: You know, there's about 20 albums that turned 20 this year. R and B albums. I want you to look at these and tell me, what's your top five?
[00:12:25] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:12:25] Speaker B: We'll edit it in for you.
[00:12:27] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:12:27] Speaker C: What's my top five?
Let me try to. Hold on. Let me see. I'm gonna put this right here. I want to mess up nothing.
[00:12:32] Speaker A: No, you're good. You're good.
[00:12:35] Speaker C: Wait, are these all 20 right here on the screen?
Oh, okay. Keisha Cole, for sure.
Rihanna music. The Sun. I love me some riri.
Don't. Don't judge me. Faith Evans, first lady. Amy Reed, Touch.
Oh, wait. Top five. Lord.
[00:12:53] Speaker B: See, it's hard.
[00:12:54] Speaker C: It's very hard.
[00:12:55] Speaker A: Pretty Ricky.
[00:12:56] Speaker C: I just grew up on pretty. Okay. I'm just saying. Pretty Ricky. Damn. MJB, Mary J.
[00:13:01] Speaker A: We was in here for 45 minutes trying to figure this shit. Yeah.
[00:13:03] Speaker B: We couldn't figure it out.
[00:13:04] Speaker C: I'm looking at the ones that stood out to me that I really, really listened to. I mean, those are the ones that I don't.
All these are. Damn, Chris.
I'm gonna get it back.
[00:13:14] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:13:14] Speaker C: It's just too many.
[00:13:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:13:17] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:13:18] Speaker A: Okay. So a couple things that I wanted to ask you about your debut album, which was misunderstood. That was my debut, um, 2020, which the fan base has been crazy, obviously, like, since then, but 2020, obviously. We had a Covid year. Yeah. I wanted to know what your experience. Cause I Never. I don't think I asked you about this, but your experience, being an artist that didn't really get to feel the impact of your music. You had a number one, like, R& B album. Like, what was that like for you?
[00:13:45] Speaker C: I mean, low key. That's low key. A flex for me, like, to not be able to go out, do interviews about it and just be stuck in a house and tour.
[00:13:53] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:13:54] Speaker C: And still do a great first album. Like, that just goes to show how.
I don't know how good it was or how much people rock with me or, like, loved it.
That experience 2020, like, life is not.
[00:14:12] Speaker A: The same because you a mom now and. But I mean, like, I've been.
[00:14:15] Speaker C: Yeah, I was a mom then, too. But honestly, I think I look at it more as a flex and a blessing. Like, I'm. I think now I'm trying to figure out, okay, if that went well in 2020 and we were locked down, and now that we're not locked down, like, this next has to do good or it's gonna be embarrassing. You know what I mean? So it's like, how do I follow up after that? How do I beat that? How do I.
How do I elevate? You know what I mean?
[00:14:43] Speaker B: You weren't dropping albums, but you were still giving us singles that were really. That was good.
[00:14:49] Speaker C: I was given single. I'm a very impulsive person, and I feel like when it's too quiet, you know, I'll be like, I need to drop something right now. Because people are like, I have this fear of people forgetting about me, you know, And I'm like, I have to just hurry up and drop. And then I have my. My supporters who, like, when is she gonna. You know, when is she gonna drop something new? And I just feel like all this noise around me, and even if I'm like. Even while I was in the process of trying to make the music that I felt like I wanted to put on my album, I feel like I still had to put something out, but I had no real plan afterwards. I was just. I was just kind of putting stuff out. You know what I mean?
But also, like, you know, for contractual reasons as well. Like, you know, obviously, you gotta keep putting.
[00:15:29] Speaker A: You gotta put out music.
[00:15:29] Speaker C: Yeah. You gotta put it out. So I'm just happy that I finally get to. That my projects are ready, you know, so why.
[00:15:37] Speaker A: So then on that note, why eps and as opposed to full albums? And then why, like, the visualizer for Rain as opposed to, like, a full video?
[00:15:47] Speaker C: Okay, I'll start With the first one. So just be transparent.
My whole album was done and I went to turn it in and basically they told me that I still owe them an ep and I forgot about it. Yeah, I had switched management or whatever, and with my previous management, I had agreed to do two album. I mean, two EPs.
And everything just happened so quick. Once I got with new management, did this ep, I mean, did my album, when I took it there, it was like, wait, you forgot something. So I'm like, oh, man. So I had to. I went to Miami, record a whole new EP and everything. And honestly, I mean, that music is dope too. So, like, I'm just. It's all a win for me.
So. And then why Visualizer opposed to music videos?
I would still love to do a music video. I just feel like people are. Have a short attention spans. People don't really value music videos the way that they used to, unless it's like a super crazy hit, you know what I mean? So. And a lot of money goes into that and you just gotta figure out where to put your budget. Like, what makes the most sense? Yeah, yeah, what makes the most sense? Of course my fans would ask me, like, hey, do a music video. But, like, if it don't make sense.
[00:17:05] Speaker A: Then can I ask you a personal favor? Because I'm consistently. I'm always in the studio. I got a lot of homies that do music. I'm always trying to articulate the music business to people who do music. What you just talked about is the music business side. Please start sharing those things. I know you don't have to tell people your business, but share these things. Because a lot of people have a misconception of what the music business is. And it's like, I'm always fighting against that because they think, oh, I'm supposed to get a deal and I'm supposed to do this. I'm doing it my way and I'm supposed to drop it. And it's like, bro, it don't work that way all the time. Sometimes it's shit that just. You change management or whatever is going on.
[00:17:42] Speaker C: But it's so much that goes in, like, behind closed doors.
[00:17:45] Speaker A: Correct?
[00:17:45] Speaker C: Yeah. That people don't know about. Like, just like how I told them this on Twitch too. Like, I. I don't know how many times I've said this, but people think that I could just go in the studio, record a song, then drop it. No, it's like you have to get clearance. You have lawyers going back and forth. You gotta get the producers to Clear the split.
[00:18:02] Speaker A: Split. Shit.
[00:18:03] Speaker C: So many things.
It's so many things, like, outside of just the music and, like, it could hold up the song from being dropped, you know? So. Yeah, I just wish that people understand, but obviously they want the music. They just want what they don't care about that.
[00:18:16] Speaker A: They don't care. Yeah, they don't care.
[00:18:18] Speaker B: I have an outdated question.
[00:18:19] Speaker C: What's up?
[00:18:19] Speaker B: I didn't know you when you dropped medicine. So who's Brian, Ryan and Lorenzo?
[00:18:26] Speaker C: Honestly, I don't know who Brian and Ryan is. It just rhymed. I low key, got the. That. I got that from Tink when I. I'mma call Brian FaceTime Ryan.
[00:18:35] Speaker B: Oh, right, right, right.
[00:18:36] Speaker C: But then Lorenzo, I had added him in there. That's my baby daddy right now. Oh, yeah.
[00:18:41] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:18:41] Speaker C: Clarence Lorenzo.
[00:18:43] Speaker B: Were y' all dating then?
[00:18:46] Speaker C: On a low low. We were friends with benefits.
[00:18:48] Speaker B: Okay, so you used his. You didn't just throw a random Lorenzo name in there. You were talking about somebody. Yeah, I'm really about to FaceTime Lorenzo. Yeah.
[00:18:56] Speaker C: And I did it clearly.
[00:18:59] Speaker A: Yeah, I did it clearly. You did.
[00:19:01] Speaker C: Yep. Now I got a little Lorenzo.
[00:19:03] Speaker A: Yeah, FaceTime worked. You know what I'm saying?
[00:19:07] Speaker B: I got another fan question.
Is Mary J. Blige anything like Monet?
[00:19:13] Speaker C: Okay. I didn't really watch all through, but watch all through, it was a power. Right, Ghost.
[00:19:23] Speaker B: Same thing.
[00:19:24] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. I didn't watch the whole season, but their facial expressions are definitely the same. Mary J sometimes just don't show an expression. But I went on tour with her.
[00:19:37] Speaker B: That's what made me ask you.
[00:19:38] Speaker C: Yeah, she's really dope, but she's definitely very East Coast.
[00:19:44] Speaker B: What is that like, being on tour with somebody like that who, for lack of better terms, raised us?
[00:19:50] Speaker C: I feel validated, you know, as an artist, I feel seen. I felt seen.
Just like, I kind of blocked out all the noise of all the negativity because I'm like, bro, this is a legend. Like, I have, like, Baby Face being on his album. If I have people like that, like, vouching for me, it's like, none of what y' all say, you know?
[00:20:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:20:12] Speaker C: Really matters.
[00:20:14] Speaker B: What's been the one career defining moment for you? Like, where this one thing happened, or you talk to this one individual and you like, fuck. I made it.
[00:20:26] Speaker A: Um.
[00:20:29] Speaker C: A career defining moment for me. I think it was.
I think it was the Times Square moment that I had in. In 2018. I think when I went to go see my Billboard and we had, like, posted that we were there, and then that huge stampede of people. I seen Cardi B just did something like that.
It was just like so many people that came. I was like, oh, my God. And then, you know, obviously just seeing all my. Seeing all my accolades and my. I mean, something just. What? Just went double platinum.
Something just went double platinum.
[00:21:04] Speaker A: Oh, no. I got all your stats right here.
[00:21:05] Speaker B: Yeah, we were.
[00:21:06] Speaker A: That's crazy. Three billion streams, eight times platinum.
[00:21:11] Speaker C: That's all I can say. You know, so when people. So when people do say, like, oh, you know, just negative things, I just look back on those things. I'm like, wow, I really did. Like, I. I know that there are levels to this, and I know that it is time for me to elevate to, you know, higher. But I look back at all that I've accomplished, and I'm very grateful.
[00:21:30] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. But imagine having those accolades being that you came out or your album came out during COVID and you still being successful. So you didn't even.
Not to say you didn't experience because I don't know what you had to go through during that time. But I feel like people who came out during that time and the people that couldn't tour, they couldn't do shows and things like that, they're not as successful as you are.
[00:21:54] Speaker C: You know what the crazy thing is? I wouldn't know that because I really don't focus on other people, man. I just be focusing on trying to better myself. You know, I'm my own competition, so I'm trying to.
[00:22:06] Speaker A: What's the worst critique you have of yourself?
[00:22:08] Speaker C: The worst critique of myself.
My lack of. My lack of self control and discipline and not being able to commit to something.
I think this is outside of music, though.
[00:22:25] Speaker A: It.
[00:22:25] Speaker C: Yeah, I really don't have much to critique with my music.
I feel very confident about that. I think me as a person, though, if I better myself as a person, I'll get better in the aspect of my career too.
[00:22:36] Speaker A: Better career.
[00:22:36] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:22:37] Speaker A: Yeah, There's. Okay, so my last question about is, from a personality standpoint, most people found out about you from American idol.
[00:22:48] Speaker C: Did they?
[00:22:48] Speaker A: Like, way back in the day? Well, I mean, from my vantage point, from people who don't know you at all, it's like the first time seeing you. The first time ever seeing you on a platform for me. Right.
[00:22:59] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:23:00] Speaker A: And then now going back to what is it? I'm so random is what, like, to me, it's like, okay, reality. And then all the way full circle back to. Is. Do you see reality TV like, in your future?
[00:23:12] Speaker C: Yes, only if I Can control it though.
[00:23:14] Speaker A: You want full like creative control or you creative control so you enjoying an existing platform that does like.
[00:23:20] Speaker B: Like baddies.
[00:23:21] Speaker C: Only if they're. Hell no, I'm not joining that. Absolutely not.
No. But like if they were to agree.
[00:23:28] Speaker A: To my time, she need to work on her self control and sh.
[00:23:31] Speaker C: Yeah, no, honestly, I mean, no, I. I'm not about to go in there fighting and stuff. That's just not even me. But if I could. Yeah, if I could show my personality and it be on my terms, you know, I. I'm really involved when it comes to my. My edits and everything like that. I don't play that. Like you're not about to keep nothing here that I don't want in there. So only if it will work that way.
[00:23:53] Speaker A: But full creative control then you'll sign up?
[00:23:56] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean I've got. I remember, I remember a while back, you know, they wanted me to be on Love and hip Hop and I.
[00:24:04] Speaker A: Was just like, which one?
[00:24:05] Speaker B: Which one?
[00:24:05] Speaker C: You know what?
[00:24:07] Speaker A: Or it's like pick which one you want to be on.
[00:24:09] Speaker C: I'm not sure which one it was that it was the impact atl.
I had got talked with it but I just.
[00:24:16] Speaker B: Impact would have been good though.
[00:24:18] Speaker C: It could have been, but I just, you know, I was in a different.
And I just feel like at the moment I just really want to work on my music and I kind of don't want to be known from reality television.
I would like to just continue with what I was doing and if it works out in the future, you know.
[00:24:38] Speaker A: I feel you.
[00:24:38] Speaker B: Yeah. What's your sign?
[00:24:40] Speaker C: A Libra.
My birthday's next month. I'll be 30 in October.
[00:24:46] Speaker B: Want to play a game?
[00:24:47] Speaker C: What is it?
[00:24:48] Speaker A: It's her card game. She got a card game.
[00:24:50] Speaker B: Okay, wait. It was one I wanted to remove.
[00:24:54] Speaker C: Is it real freaky deaky?
[00:24:56] Speaker B: They are, but I didn't put it.
[00:24:57] Speaker A: It ain't rain freaky.
[00:24:58] Speaker C: Oh, okay. Yeah, Lord.
[00:25:00] Speaker B: I already took it out. So this is my card game from my podcast called Hoefessions.
[00:25:05] Speaker C: Oh.
[00:25:06] Speaker B: Where I getting people business. Would love for you to come on.
It's kind of like lip service.
[00:25:11] Speaker C: Okay, so.
[00:25:13] Speaker B: So you just read the card and answer it. If you don't want to answer the question, you could pass DJ head the card and make him answer.
[00:25:19] Speaker A: Okay, that's cap.
[00:25:21] Speaker B: Well, I didn't put none of the nasty ones in there.
[00:25:23] Speaker C: Okay. Who isn't? Who was ushering LA with. I don't. I don't know.
[00:25:28] Speaker A: It's a lyric That's a song. Oh, that's R B.
As you thought.
[00:25:35] Speaker B: I was like, I do not. I just told you, I don't worry about other people.
[00:25:38] Speaker A: No, that's a song.
[00:25:39] Speaker B: That's song lyrics.
[00:25:41] Speaker C: Yo, I'm not the right person to play these games.
Spit a freestyle or let the next.
Or let the person next to you search your phone for the word swallow.
[00:25:56] Speaker A: Is she thinking.
[00:26:01] Speaker B: You can skip it?
[00:26:02] Speaker C: Okay, yeah, Freestyle. Yeah. Swallow. Nah, that's insane. Where did Jagged Edge want to meet it? Oh, y'. All. Oh, is my black card revoked?
[00:26:12] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:26:15] Speaker C: Meet me at the altar. He wanted to meet at the altar. What time was. What time was Pretty Ricky having fiance?
5 in the morning.
What time was genuine. Wait, what?
9 o'.
[00:26:29] Speaker B: Clock.
[00:26:29] Speaker C: He was not. He was at home 9 o' clock all along. Okay, wait, it's not revoked. I think they know a couple of. Okay, where did 112 want to make love at?
What song is that from?
[00:26:43] Speaker B: Anywhere.
[00:26:45] Speaker C: Wait, wait, wait.
I don't know.
[00:26:49] Speaker B: That's the answer.
[00:26:50] Speaker C: What?
[00:26:50] Speaker B: Anywhere.
[00:26:51] Speaker C: Anywhere.
[00:26:52] Speaker A: I don't know that one either.
[00:26:53] Speaker B: We can do it in the shower.
[00:26:55] Speaker A: Oh, we can do it anywhere. We can do it anywhere.
[00:26:57] Speaker C: Oh, anywhere. Oh, what did Yang Yang twins whisper in lil mom's ear?
I gotta Something that you like? Something that you wanna hear?
[00:27:07] Speaker A: Something that you.
[00:27:08] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. Something that you like. Something that you wanna hear. What is the worst thing you found while going through your boyfriend or girlfriend's phone? I'm not going to.
[00:27:15] Speaker B: That was actually the one I meant to remove.
[00:27:17] Speaker C: Oh, okay.
What was Lloyd's players.
Yeah.
Name all the.
[00:27:25] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:27:25] Speaker C: Moesha's boyfriends.
I'm the wrong person. This is a great game, though.
It really is.
[00:27:31] Speaker A: You got to give her one.
[00:27:32] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:27:33] Speaker A: But no, the other thing that I want to tell you is I think that was dope is like, staying in touch with fan base. A lot of people don't know how to make that pivot. Yeah, like, a lot of people just kind of still do the same things over and over again and expect it to work. Whereas a lot of people who are smart, they like, oh, if my fans are engaging this way, I'm gonna engage with them this way. So you mentioned the twitch and you mentioned, like, different ways to, like, the discords. Like, a lot of people ain't on that shit.
[00:27:58] Speaker C: Yeah, I be trying, man.
[00:28:00] Speaker A: So that's dope that you do.
[00:28:01] Speaker C: That you gotta move with the time.
[00:28:02] Speaker A: So that's dope that you do.
[00:28:04] Speaker C: And I'm an old lady. I really, really am. So it'd be Hard for me to learn.
[00:28:07] Speaker A: You just said you finna turn 30.
[00:28:09] Speaker C: No, but deep inside there's an old lady named Esther living inside of me.
[00:28:13] Speaker A: Why Esther?
Who the fuck is Esther?
[00:28:16] Speaker B: You don't got a old song, cuz you should knew some of them.
[00:28:18] Speaker C: There's an old lady named Esther. She's inside of me. And you know.
Yeah, she's there.
[00:28:23] Speaker A: What's her favorite food?
[00:28:25] Speaker C: Esther loves some pinto beans and cornbread.
[00:28:27] Speaker B: What's Esther's favorite show?
[00:28:29] Speaker A: Huh?
[00:28:31] Speaker B: No, not favorite show. What's Elter's Guilty Pleasure?
[00:28:34] Speaker C: Esther's Esther. Oh, Lord, looking at young men.
[00:28:41] Speaker A: Let queen go.
[00:28:43] Speaker C: 30 year old men.
[00:28:47] Speaker A: Looking at young men. Okay, well, shit, you know, talk about.
[00:28:51] Speaker B: The 30 year old.
[00:28:52] Speaker A: She over there, she be in the bathroom hiding.
[00:28:54] Speaker C: Not old, though.
30 is a new 25.
[00:28:58] Speaker A: Do you ever. Do you ever.
This is my last question for real.
[00:29:01] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:29:02] Speaker A: Do you ever look at some of the things that you've done in the past and be like, I would change this or I would change that? Or do you live with no regrets? Because I know a lot of people who tend to be creatives, they was like, oh, this is art for me. Or this is like my life experience.
[00:29:17] Speaker C: I don't have no regrets.
Yeah, I think everything happened the way, even if it wasn't supposed to happen, I learned from it. And, you know, that's what life is about. It's about trial and error. So, yeah, I don't regret a thing.
[00:29:32] Speaker A: Do you have road rage? Random question. I can see that. That's why. How I could just tell. I know you'd be crazy. You be. I know you trip.
[00:29:40] Speaker C: So I have road rage, but I try my hardest not to curse.
[00:29:42] Speaker A: I know you got it. I could just tell by the. Because, like, you seem like you do a lot of work.
Like you say you want to improve on yourself. I pay attention when you talk. People who do that much shit is suppressing some demon shit in there. Like, you got me fucked up one day, like on the freeway. Yeah, you very sweat.
[00:29:59] Speaker C: Really? That's.
[00:30:00] Speaker A: That's especially for your age.
[00:30:01] Speaker C: Oh, wow.
I told you, it's an old lady in me.
[00:30:04] Speaker B: Yeah, that's Esther.
[00:30:05] Speaker A: Oh, that's Esther.
All right.
[00:30:08] Speaker C: Yeah. But I do have road rage, but I do things like.
I don't call people like the B word or anything like that. I call them like big long neck, giraffe, big back.
[00:30:17] Speaker A: That's worse though.
[00:30:18] Speaker C: Yeah, like it's.
[00:30:19] Speaker B: You call me a bitch.
[00:30:20] Speaker A: Yeah, don't say no hurtful ass shit. That's why your mama Got.
[00:30:23] Speaker B: I be looking in the mirror second guessing myself and then I be like, long neck bitch.
[00:30:28] Speaker C: Yeah, I see. I do all that. I be like, okay. God forgive me. I should have had that posture. I should have done that.
[00:30:33] Speaker A: Well, congratulations on everything. Being able to still be here and put out your music and have a fan base that's willing to crash out about you, it's a blessing, you know what I'm saying? Thank you. I know officially there's no album, like release day, title, et cetera. What can people expect?
[00:30:55] Speaker C: I think people can expect elevated production, definitely some more upbeat vibes. Cause I'm known for my slow heartbreak.
[00:31:03] Speaker A: Yeah. Give me something that I could play.
[00:31:05] Speaker B: And look, I like the slow shit.
[00:31:07] Speaker A: I love.
[00:31:07] Speaker C: I mean it's still some slows on there For Rain is one of them. You know, I think it's another one you really going to like too. Okay. But versa, versatility. I'm not going to be afraid anymore to show my alternative side as well.
And yeah, fun and fun. Light hearted and like free. Free spirited, you know, like not super serious with this next project. I don't even want to call it an ep. We're going to call this just a project or like a pre album like before, you know, like something of that sort.
Yeah, it's. It's. I think it's just too good.
[00:31:42] Speaker A: And keep educating. Cause we need people out here to fight that good fight.
[00:31:45] Speaker C: I'll try.
[00:31:46] Speaker B: Keep doing everything you do. We love you.
[00:31:47] Speaker C: Thank you.
[00:31:48] Speaker A: Queen Nyjah is here. It's effective immediately.
