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 studio hanging out with us all the way from many places. We'll get to that.
Teanna. Major nine. Did I say your name right?
[00:00:17] Speaker C: Yes, you did. Thank you.
[00:00:18] Speaker A: I said it right. Okay. I thought I was gonna fuck that up.
[00:00:20] Speaker C: Nah, nah, you go ahead.
[00:00:22] Speaker A: I guess we should just start with that. Like, why, like, are you a gang banger? What's the nine on your name?
[00:00:29] Speaker C: No, I'm a musician. I love music.
I love jazz.
The major nine is a chord.
[00:00:36] Speaker A: It is a chord.
[00:00:37] Speaker C: Yeah, it's a chord.
[00:00:39] Speaker A: I knew it. That's for the ignorant people.
[00:00:40] Speaker C: You knew? Yeah, you knew.
But yeah, it's a. It's a very. I didn't know that.
[00:00:45] Speaker A: You didn't know.
You didn't have to say that.
[00:00:48] Speaker B: I'm like, oh, that's them hoods over there.
[00:00:52] Speaker C: No, no, no, it's a chord. I love music. So, yeah, that's why I chose it.
[00:00:56] Speaker A: That's what's up. So Tiana, I know that's a real name, but the major nine, when did you adopt that as a part of your name? Like from a music standpoint? Was that always your music name?
[00:01:06] Speaker C: No, I was going by Tiana Thomas. That's my actual name.
But there's a writer.
[00:01:12] Speaker A: I know it's not. I'm just. I know it's not. It's not.
[00:01:15] Speaker C: No, I mean, it's all right. It's okay. But there is someone called Tiara Thomas and I wanted it to be like separate. I didn't want there to be any mix up or like just.
I wanted my name to be the only thing that came up when people searched me.
[00:01:31] Speaker A: See, you smart. It's called SEO. Search Engine Optimization.
[00:01:34] Speaker C: Yeah, I thought about that early on, but that was like after I came out of college and I was like, I'm gonna do music for real. And. Yeah, I just need a name.
[00:01:44] Speaker B: What was your major?
[00:01:46] Speaker C: I did songwriting. But our college is like high school for you guys.
[00:01:51] Speaker B: Oh, that's what we were called. So it was high school for y'.
[00:01:53] Speaker C: All.
We will call it secondary school. So we'll do primary school. Well, it start from.
Oh my God. Reception, which is kindergarten, Primary school, secondary school, college, university.
[00:02:08] Speaker B: So primary is elementary.
[00:02:10] Speaker C: Second. Yeah, elementary. Sorry.
[00:02:11] Speaker A: Yeah, college is high school.
[00:02:12] Speaker C: Yeah. But the ages are different though.
[00:02:15] Speaker B: I'm kind of still a little lost.
[00:02:16] Speaker C: Yeah, okay.
[00:02:17] Speaker A: So, yeah, she got a real degree. So you, you know, you Saying she got a diploma right now.
[00:02:21] Speaker B: Okay, so kindergarten.
[00:02:25] Speaker C: How old are you when you do college?
[00:02:27] Speaker B: We graduate high school at 18.
[00:02:29] Speaker C: Oh, okay. So okay, so our college is kind of like high school. So you start at 16 and you end at 18. And then after college you go to university.
[00:02:39] Speaker B: Y' all go to college at 18. Okay, yeah. Oh, okay. Which. I started at 16.
[00:02:45] Speaker C: No, wait, we go to. Wait, I'm confused. Now we go to college at 16 and then we go to university at 18.
Okay, yeah.
[00:02:52] Speaker B: So college is high school, university is college.
[00:02:55] Speaker C: It's like high school for two years, basically. Okay, yeah, got you. That makes sense.
[00:02:59] Speaker B: What's the, what's the, the academic though? Like, what do you like, are you guys learning in high school? Are you learning college level things or like is it behind? Is it forward?
[00:03:09] Speaker C: Like, I have no idea. I mean, there's different things when you take calculus.
[00:03:12] Speaker B: What?
[00:03:12] Speaker A: I mean, they don't have calculus.
[00:03:14] Speaker C: I don't know what that is.
[00:03:15] Speaker A: They have like a primary astronomical science.
What I fuck you with.
See, now you know how it feel to be lost.
[00:03:25] Speaker B: Okay, what. How old were you when you took pre algebra?
[00:03:29] Speaker C: I was pre algebra. We studied algebra in maths, like just from the beginning.
[00:03:34] Speaker B: It's just called that.
[00:03:35] Speaker C: Yeah, it's just in maths. I mean, I did, I did maths. That's the standard. But then I did like double maths, which is like a.
Even hard. I think it.
[00:03:44] Speaker B: I think when they start throwing letters in there.
[00:03:45] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, that. Double maths and then. Yeah, science, science.
[00:03:50] Speaker A: So when you. Okay, so is there such thing as a music doctorate degree like over in the uk? Like, is that a thing?
[00:03:57] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm sure, I'm pretty sure. I don't know personally, but I'm pretty sure there is. Yeah, you can go to the university.
[00:04:02] Speaker A: You can go to university for music.
[00:04:04] Speaker C: Yeah, I went for like a year, but then I just. I didn't want to do it. It was getting in the way of actually making music.
[00:04:10] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:04:11] Speaker B: Do you meet Americans who start mimicking you when you talking to them?
[00:04:13] Speaker C: Every time.
Every single time. I'm surprised you guys haven't done it yet.
[00:04:17] Speaker B: I'm doing it in my head.
[00:04:18] Speaker C: I know you're holding back.
I'm definitely doing it in my head.
I know you're holding back.
[00:04:24] Speaker A: Do we have an accent to you?
[00:04:25] Speaker C: Of course. 100%. Why do you guys say this all the time?
Everybody has an accent.
[00:04:30] Speaker A: What you mean why do we say it's different than we do? Are you from the same state we from here?
[00:04:34] Speaker C: Oh, you're from la.
[00:04:35] Speaker A: We're both from la.
[00:04:36] Speaker C: What about you? Are you from.
[00:04:38] Speaker A: We all from la.
[00:04:38] Speaker C: Where are you from again? You're from la?
No. You're born and raised in la.
Okay, well, you can tell the difference from LA and New York, right?
[00:04:48] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:04:48] Speaker C: Accents.
[00:04:49] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:04:49] Speaker B: Yeah. So right now you have hearing accents. When we talk, like, it just sound foreign.
[00:04:53] Speaker A: It sounds like.
[00:04:54] Speaker C: No, it does sound foreign. It sounds. Yeah, it sounds foreign, but it doesn't sound new. It doesn't sound like. Oh, my gosh. Because you hear Americans speak everywhere.
[00:05:01] Speaker A: Shit. Sound old.
[00:05:02] Speaker C: She said, aren't you weak?
[00:05:04] Speaker B: She got weak ass accents.
[00:05:06] Speaker C: I hear it all the time. I hear it all the time.
[00:05:08] Speaker A: It don't sound new.
[00:05:10] Speaker B: Do you know how to mimic us?
[00:05:12] Speaker C: Of course.
[00:05:13] Speaker B: You just did it right now?
[00:05:14] Speaker C: Yeah.
Nah, don't put me on the spot. Don't put me on the spot.
[00:05:17] Speaker A: Give me one more. No, that was good.
[00:05:19] Speaker C: What you want to hear?
[00:05:20] Speaker A: Say, say it's your favorite homegirl Gina views.
[00:05:26] Speaker C: Ooh, wait, hold on.
[00:05:27] Speaker A: In an American accent?
[00:05:29] Speaker C: No, I'm shy. Okay, let me do it later. Let me do it later.
[00:05:31] Speaker A: Later? Yeah, we ain't got that much time.
[00:05:33] Speaker C: Okay, it's later. What?
[00:05:35] Speaker A: How they say, it's your favorite. It's your favorite homegirl Gina view.
[00:05:39] Speaker C: It's your favorite homegirl Gina views.
[00:05:41] Speaker B: Now we gotta work on it.
[00:05:42] Speaker C: Okay, fair.
[00:05:43] Speaker B: That's fair.
[00:05:44] Speaker C: That's a good critique. Cause I already asked.
[00:05:46] Speaker B: Give us something to say.
Give him something to say.
[00:05:49] Speaker C: Me say, yo, Wagwan, I'm here with Tiana Major 9, singer, songwriter from East London.
[00:05:57] Speaker A: That's a lot of shit.
[00:05:58] Speaker C: Okay, so, Wagwan, I'm here from. I'm here with Tiana Major 9.
[00:06:01] Speaker A: Wagwan, I'm here with Teyana Major 9.
[00:06:03] Speaker C: You said that in your own accent, actually.
[00:06:07] Speaker A: So what accent did I say? It is?
[00:06:08] Speaker C: Your own accent.
[00:06:11] Speaker A: All right, fuck it. I'm through with the accent.
[00:06:15] Speaker B: You took a hiatus from music for two years. Can you touch on the break? What were you doing within those two years?
[00:06:20] Speaker C: Yeah, I was figuring it all out.
I was coming from being on a major label and then trying to work out what I was gonna do if I was gonna go the independent route, if I was gonna go back into a major, working on a new team, working on music. So, yeah, just literally working it all out.
[00:06:40] Speaker B: Was it difficult for you to start back, getting into music, like, creatively? Did you have any. A hard time?
[00:06:45] Speaker C: Yeah, I had, like, writer's block for a while.
I was contemplating whether or not I actually wanted to do music for real. But I was just fooling myself. Of course I was gonna do music.
[00:06:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
How did you get back into the vibe of things?
[00:07:02] Speaker C: I just remembered who I was. I remembered my love for music and it's so much bigger than my fear of music and the music industry and all that other stuff. But yeah, I just, I just reminded, I just got reminded of who I was.
[00:07:17] Speaker A: Do you think that the two part question, first part is do you think that artists should come out the gate and get the big major label deal and be and get all of that.
[00:07:27] Speaker C: Or I think you should do the thing that works for you. I, I started off independent and then I went to major and then now I'm independent again.
It definitely helped me understand the industry that I'm in a lot quicker than a lot of other artists probably would if they like stayed indie. But it also helped financially put it, helped to put my music out. So I don't know. I think if that's what you want to do, then do it. But I don't think there's one way to do it.
[00:08:00] Speaker A: And then do you think that the system kind of like. I don't want to say jaded you, but did it turn you off to the point where you considered not doing music?
[00:08:09] Speaker C: Yeah, 100%.
I was just like, this just feels so much harder than it needs to be. Like, music is not rocket science. It's actually art.
[00:08:17] Speaker A: What part of it was hard though?
[00:08:20] Speaker C: I feel like the decision making felt really tough. Like what song we're going to put out, how we're going to do it, when are we going to do it? Like it just took the fun out of music for me.
It also made me like look, look into myself and feel like I, I wasn't me. Like I wasn't great. So that made it hard. I was just like, my self esteem is taking the hit and it doesn't need to because it's actually art and my art.
[00:08:47] Speaker B: So I went back to the, to the beginning of your YouTube channel.
[00:08:52] Speaker C: Oh my God. Really?
[00:08:53] Speaker B: The first video dates back seven years.
[00:08:55] Speaker C: What is on there?
[00:08:57] Speaker B: It's a song. Let it breathe.
[00:08:59] Speaker C: Oh, let it break, Let it break.
[00:09:01] Speaker B: Let it break. Let it break.
[00:09:02] Speaker C: Okay, okay. Okay, cool.
[00:09:03] Speaker B: What have you. How have you grown since then?
[00:09:07] Speaker C: How have I grown? I've definitely grown in age.
I have developed my writing style.
[00:09:15] Speaker B: Your track Shook one, would you classify that as a love song or a heartbreak song?
[00:09:21] Speaker C: Heartbreak song.
[00:09:22] Speaker B: Heartbreak.
[00:09:22] Speaker C: Okay. Yeah, 100%. It's about just being at the end of a relationship and just realizing this person ain't shit. Can I say shit?
[00:09:29] Speaker A: You can say whatever.
[00:09:30] Speaker C: Okay. Yeah. Realizing this person ain't shit.
[00:09:32] Speaker A: Who did it?
[00:09:33] Speaker C: Who? Who did what? Who ain't shit. Yeah.
Multiple people.
[00:09:38] Speaker A: Oh, damn.
[00:09:39] Speaker C: This is my advice.
Multiple people.
[00:09:42] Speaker A: Damn.
[00:09:42] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:09:43] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:09:43] Speaker B: What influenced you to rap on that?
[00:09:44] Speaker A: So it's a diss record.
[00:09:46] Speaker B: Oh, it is a diss record.
[00:09:48] Speaker C: Yeah. It's a heartbreak diss record.
[00:09:50] Speaker B: Yeah. What influenced you to sing on that song?
[00:09:53] Speaker C: I just wanted to flip it in another way that I didn't want to rap. I didn't want to rap. I approached it as a rapper, but I didn't want to rap it. I wanted to sing it. I wanted it there to still be melody and. Yeah, for people that know my music to still connect with it.
[00:10:16] Speaker B: So, yeah, we gonna call it a diss track, though.
[00:10:19] Speaker C: Absolutely. It's a diss track.
[00:10:22] Speaker B: Bring the diss tracks back to R and B. That's what I miss.
[00:10:24] Speaker C: Yes, absolutely.
[00:10:25] Speaker A: What the hell does the person or persons know that it's about them?
[00:10:30] Speaker C: I have no idea what they're doing.
All of them.
[00:10:34] Speaker A: Damn.
[00:10:34] Speaker C: I don't care.
[00:10:34] Speaker B: I thought it was Shook One.
[00:10:36] Speaker C: It is Shook One. Yeah. It depends on who's listening.
[00:10:40] Speaker B: If the shoe fit.
[00:10:41] Speaker C: Yeah, if the shoe fit, then it's you.
[00:10:43] Speaker A: She put them all in one record. Like, y' all not finna get your own record?
[00:10:46] Speaker C: Yeah. No.
[00:10:46] Speaker A: Y' all gonna share this record?
[00:10:47] Speaker C: Absolutely.
[00:10:49] Speaker A: That's crazy for you. So when you go in to make a record, do you already have the concept or are you going off the beat? Cause I know with rap, they gotta hear the beat first, but R and B art is different.
[00:11:00] Speaker C: Yeah. So shookwan was actually written. The majority of it was written by this guy Progression, who's, like, one of my favorite producers ever.
And he.
I'm not sure how he approached it first, but when I touched the lyrics and stuff, I was like, wait, can you ask me the question again?
[00:11:21] Speaker A: Please do. Like, do you listen to the beat? Like, do you need the beat to craft the record? Or you already have a concept going.
[00:11:26] Speaker C: Into it most of the time. I need the music.
[00:11:29] Speaker A: I need the music.
[00:11:29] Speaker C: Yeah. I need to hear what is. I don't know. I feel like I need to hear the music to know what I want to talk about.
But, yeah, with Shook, as I was saying, with Shook One, that was already written for me, and I just put my own spin on it.
[00:11:44] Speaker A: I like that you gave credit to the writer, though.
[00:11:46] Speaker C: 100%. I'm a writer myself, so have to.
[00:11:48] Speaker A: In hip hop, that's the thing where it's a big topic of conversation, where people not giving credit to people who actually write and contribute, but R and B is welcomed. And I never understood why that's a thing.
[00:11:58] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, the song is king, you know, you have to give props to the people 100%. It's all about the music for me. Like, if it's a great song, like, I'm gonna touch every song that I put out because I am a writer. But if someone. If I hear something and I feel like, oh, I don't know if I personally would have approached it like that, but I really appreciate it, and they're presenting that song to me. I'm gonna take the song 100%.
[00:12:23] Speaker A: You were nominated for.
You had a Grammy nomination with Shot the Earth Gang.
Now, my question to you is, is that a big deal in the UK as it is here? What Grammys the gram, like. Cause the Recording Academy, I mean, I'm part of the. I'm on the Grammy board.
[00:12:41] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:12:42] Speaker A: Yeah, but the Recording Academy is not necessarily a UK thing.
[00:12:46] Speaker C: Right.
[00:12:47] Speaker A: So is that a big deal, like, over there? Is that as big of a deal over there as it is here?
[00:12:52] Speaker C: I would say so, but I think I'm just basing it off my own bubble. Like, everybody around me thinks it's a big deal. Music bubble, but. Yeah, I don't know. Yes, just music musically. Yeah, it's a big deal.
[00:13:03] Speaker A: Does the UK have their own version of this of like a big award show? What is that?
[00:13:06] Speaker C: Yeah, we have the Brit Awards.
[00:13:09] Speaker A: And that's a. That's a music award or.
[00:13:11] Speaker C: Yeah, it's a music award. Okay. We have the Mercury Award, the Mercury Prize, which is an album based, project. Based award. It's just one category.
And artists win money, too. They get, like, the awards and the accolades, but they get money too.
[00:13:29] Speaker A: Really?
[00:13:29] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:13:29] Speaker A: Like a bag.
[00:13:30] Speaker C: Yeah, I think they get like 25k.
[00:13:32] Speaker A: Oh, shit.
[00:13:33] Speaker C: I mean, that's like, they up. No, no, no, no, no, no. But I mean, that could really change your life.
[00:13:40] Speaker A: Right?
[00:13:40] Speaker C: Right, Right. Yeah, if you use it right.
[00:13:41] Speaker A: I feel that.
[00:13:44] Speaker B: Was it, like, big for the UK to have the foreign films and movies and TV shows on Netflix? What you mean like, how now, like, on, like, on our side of Netflix is just like a bunch of, like. It's a lot of foreign films and stuff. So is that a big thing to you guys, like, for filmmakers to have that type of exposure on Netflix?
[00:14:03] Speaker C: I would say so.
I did. I don't. I can't remember the time where it was A real.
Where that shift happened.
But, yeah, I would say so Specifically in London. I think it is important that it is.
Netflix has become a bit more open and.
Yeah. Multicultural. Because London is such a melting pot. And England.
London is such a melting pot. So it's important to have foreign films. Yeah.
[00:14:33] Speaker A: And break down the diva thing to me, okay. Because I. I don't want to. I don't want to fuck it up. So just break it down to me, okay?
[00:14:40] Speaker C: So I just.
I.
I really love divas. I love Whitney Houston. I love Mariah Carey. I love Chaka Khan. And I just love the way that they approach music and they seem to approach life. And they are very unapologetic. Very much, like, know who they are and.
Yeah. Just incredibly talented, and people listen to them. So.
[00:15:11] Speaker A: So that's what you want to be known as.
[00:15:14] Speaker C: Like, 100%.
[00:15:15] Speaker A: I'm a diva. I'm not a Tiana. I'm not.
[00:15:18] Speaker C: Yes, 100%.
[00:15:19] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:15:20] Speaker B: 100%. You also influenced by Erykah Badu and Lauryn Hill.
[00:15:24] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:15:25] Speaker B: Has there ever been a thought for you to adapt to society norms, like dressing provocative or using vulgar lyrics?
[00:15:35] Speaker C: Adapt to it.
[00:15:37] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:15:37] Speaker C: There has been points in my life that I have, but I don't know. I think for the most part, I kind of, like, go the opposite way.
I like to wear baggy clothes and, like, just. Yeah, I just like to just wear baggy clothes and, like, not. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
[00:15:58] Speaker B: No twerking videos nowhere.
[00:16:00] Speaker C: No. Not for people to see. I'll do it for myself.
[00:16:02] Speaker A: You got twerking videos in your phone?
[00:16:04] Speaker C: Yeah, I went to a dance class recently.
[00:16:06] Speaker A: Oh, really?
[00:16:07] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:16:07] Speaker B: They teaching Twerking?
[00:16:09] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:16:10] Speaker B: The whole workout shit, that's like teaching the crib walk.
[00:16:13] Speaker C: No, it's different.
[00:16:15] Speaker A: It's different.
[00:16:15] Speaker B: They better not add twerk.
[00:16:17] Speaker C: As a dancer, you're literally squatting and, like, it's cardio.
[00:16:20] Speaker B: All right. But I went to.
[00:16:23] Speaker A: Right.
[00:16:23] Speaker C: You're right.
[00:16:23] Speaker A: You took a pole class?
[00:16:24] Speaker C: Yeah, I actually used to go to pole. I actually have a pole.
[00:16:28] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:16:29] Speaker A: At the crib.
[00:16:30] Speaker C: Yeah, I don't have. I don't.
[00:16:32] Speaker B: You got some shoes to match?
[00:16:33] Speaker A: Yeah, for sure.
[00:16:33] Speaker C: What you say?
[00:16:34] Speaker B: You got the shoes to match?
[00:16:34] Speaker C: No, I can't do the shoes. Cause I'm clumsy. I would just twist my ankle, twitch my ankle.
[00:16:39] Speaker A: She be on TikTok, busting her head on the fucking pole.
[00:16:43] Speaker C: But I love pole. Like, yeah, pole fitness is crazy. And just. Yeah, big up the pole dancers.
[00:16:47] Speaker B: I bought a pole, but I didn't know how to install it. I thought you just opened it and.
[00:16:51] Speaker C: It just sticks kind of.
[00:16:53] Speaker B: So I like.
It just. It just looks stupid.
[00:16:56] Speaker C: Yeah, it just looks stupid.
[00:16:58] Speaker A: She thought you just.
[00:16:59] Speaker B: But I got, like, three pairs to let off.
[00:17:00] Speaker C: Just install it properly when you.
[00:17:02] Speaker B: No, I'm through with it.
[00:17:03] Speaker C: Oh, what? What?
[00:17:04] Speaker B: I'm through. I'm one and done.
[00:17:05] Speaker C: Oh, okay.
[00:17:05] Speaker B: If I can't figure. I just bought some wallpaper and returned it, so I can't figure it out. Like, you know what I'm saying? It's pressure.
[00:17:11] Speaker C: It's most like you have to twist it and it's like. Yeah, kind of a pressure ball.
[00:17:15] Speaker A: That's insane.
You helping her with the bullshit about a pole.
[00:17:23] Speaker B: What was your childhood career dreams?
[00:17:25] Speaker C: I wanted to. I've always wanted to do this.
[00:17:27] Speaker B: Really?
[00:17:27] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. This has always been the goal. The plan not announced, really. I mean, I have other things that I wanted to do on the side if it didn't really work out. But I wasn't ever focused on, like, a plan B. This was always the plan.
[00:17:41] Speaker B: How did your family receive you wanting to be in the music industry?
[00:17:44] Speaker C: Oh, they loved it. My mom was the one that was encouraging it.
[00:17:47] Speaker B: It's just.
[00:17:47] Speaker C: Yeah, my dad, too. So.
Yeah, everybody's just been on the same thing.
Yeah.
[00:17:53] Speaker A: I want to know how you collaborate, because it's not a lot of collaboration, and I want to know if that's intentional. Part one and then part two, how do you go? You are a writer and you've collaborate like you got the Bryson Tillers of the world. You got other people. How do you approach your versus theirs?
[00:18:11] Speaker C: As I said earlier, the song is king. I feel like I. I have a duty to do what the song requires with the collaboration with Bryson Tiller and Joe Corey.
They sent me the song with Bryson's vocal on it, and I just wanted to kind of match the energy, but also put my own spin on it in terms of collaborations for my own project.
I.
It depends on the song. Well, with Yabba, I have a song called Always with Yabba, and most of the song was written, and then I sent it to her and I just asked her to, like, sing on it. Please just. I love these lyrics, but if you do feel like you want to change the lyrics, then do that. But just keep. Please keep it the same and just do your own thing. And she said yes.
Other times, I would just send half of the song and then send it to people. Yeah, I hope that.
[00:19:09] Speaker A: Have you. Have you gotten one. Have you gotten something back? And it's like, this ain't it?
[00:19:13] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:19:13] Speaker A: And you just don't use it no matter what.
[00:19:15] Speaker C: 100%. 100%. I mean, there's one time I got a song back and I was like, you know what? I really love this artist. So it is what it is.
[00:19:24] Speaker A: Damn. That's.
[00:19:27] Speaker C: What it is. It's. I love it. I love them.
[00:19:29] Speaker B: Is your song Money about money or is that a metaphor for something else?
[00:19:32] Speaker C: No, it's definitely about money.
[00:19:33] Speaker B: Definitely about money.
[00:19:34] Speaker C: Yeah. About my relationship with money at different stages of my life and where I want my relationship with money to be. So. Yeah.
[00:19:44] Speaker A: Have you thought about. Not thought about. Have. Have you ever considered, like. Because you are Jamaican roots, have you ever considered, like, going that direction as far as, like, dance hall or, like.
[00:19:54] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:19:55] Speaker A: Other vibes of music other than, like, the sultry stuff that you're known for?
[00:19:59] Speaker C: Yeah, 100%. I have a song called Think about yout, which is, like, inspired by.
It's very, like, reggae based.
But I would love to tap more into other genres of Jamaican music. Mentos, ska, reggae, dancehall. I love it all.
[00:20:16] Speaker A: So, yeah, I'm talking about, like, a whole project.
[00:20:18] Speaker C: Yeah, 100%.
[00:20:19] Speaker A: Oh, okay.
[00:20:20] Speaker C: 100%. Yeah.
[00:20:21] Speaker A: All right. So that's coming.
[00:20:22] Speaker B: Yeah. The album is called November Scorpio, so I'm gonna assume you a Scorpio, right? So I found some red flags. Scorpio. Red flags on TikTok.
[00:20:31] Speaker C: Where did you find that one?
[00:20:32] Speaker B: On TikTok University.
I wanna know if you. If you subscribe to this theory about your zodiac sign. So I'm gonna read you off the red flags, and you let me know if it's true or not. And be honest with us. This is effective immediately.
[00:20:45] Speaker C: 100%.
[00:20:47] Speaker B: So the first red flag is your favorite time of the day is revenge.
[00:20:54] Speaker A: That's crazy.
That's insane.
[00:20:58] Speaker C: Maybe that's an October Scorpio thing.
[00:21:00] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:21:01] Speaker A: Yeah, okay, I can see that.
[00:21:03] Speaker C: Yeah.
I had never met a November Scorpio.
[00:21:08] Speaker B: He's subbing a very famous Scorpio.
[00:21:10] Speaker A: I'm not subbing either.
[00:21:11] Speaker B: Ovo's very own.
[00:21:12] Speaker A: That's insane.
[00:21:14] Speaker B: Easily.
Cause I can see that it's crazy. Okay, how about this one? Easily irritated.
[00:21:22] Speaker C: Yes, 100%.
[00:21:24] Speaker B: You would kill if it was legal.
[00:21:27] Speaker A: Hold on. Before you answer it.
[00:21:28] Speaker C: I'm not sure.
[00:21:28] Speaker A: Nah. Remember them three N that went on that one record? It was three niggas.
[00:21:35] Speaker C: Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. Absolutely not. No, I don't condone that.
[00:21:39] Speaker B: You want all the focus and attention.
[00:21:45] Speaker C: I do need attention. Yeah. I do like attention, but not all the time. And from specific people at specific times.
[00:21:53] Speaker B: Are you jealous and possessive?
[00:21:57] Speaker A: I'm really.
[00:22:00] Speaker C: I can be. It can be, but I hold it down though. I don't. I try my hardest to not project it. I definitely like it. Just bubbles within me sometimes, but I'm working on it. Okay. I don't project it.
[00:22:13] Speaker B: Are you stubborn?
[00:22:15] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:22:17] Speaker B: It's difficult for you to see others point of view, which makes it hard for you to compromise sometimes.
[00:22:23] Speaker C: But not all the time.
Hardly.
No. Not all the time. Not all the time. No. No, no. I'm very considerate and try to.
[00:22:31] Speaker B: If you had to hit yes or no, which one would you hit?
[00:22:33] Speaker C: I would say no. Yeah.
[00:22:36] Speaker B: Okay, so tell us, what are some Scorpio green flags?
[00:22:40] Speaker C: Passionate.
[00:22:42] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:22:43] Speaker C: Romantic.
I think mystery is a green flag. You don't have to know everything about everybody all the time.
And yeah, I would say those three. Those are my top three green flags.
[00:22:59] Speaker B: Those are good.
[00:23:00] Speaker A: I like.
I like that. You honest.
[00:23:04] Speaker C: Thank you. Oh, yeah. And honest.
[00:23:05] Speaker B: That's a green flag.
[00:23:06] Speaker C: Absolutely. Yes, yes, yes. I can be like too honest sometimes.
[00:23:10] Speaker A: What's the last time you were too honest with someone? You don't have to say who it was, but what were you honest about?
Because I get in trouble with this all the time.
[00:23:18] Speaker C: I'd be. Sometimes I'd be too honest in interviews. I'm like, okay, I don't need to give too much. Like right now I've given you things too much. Gave a shit. Okay, yeah, no, this comment. This comment. Okay, maybe. Yeah, maybe it feels like too much, but. Because I just don't really like to give a lot.
[00:23:37] Speaker B: You're self aware though. Too transparent.
[00:23:39] Speaker C: Absolutely.
[00:23:40] Speaker B: Those are green flags.
[00:23:41] Speaker C: Thank you.
[00:23:43] Speaker A: Yeah, you do. You good with me.
[00:23:44] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:23:45] Speaker A: You know what I'm saying?
[00:23:45] Speaker C: I like you too.
[00:23:46] Speaker A: You're cool now. Now I want to re. Before. Before we let you go, I wanna. I want to revisit this accent thing. I want to see if you can do.
[00:23:52] Speaker C: Oh, my God.
[00:23:53] Speaker A: All right, just do. Do me.
Just. Just do whatever. Whatever. However you want it. Whatever you want to say.
[00:23:59] Speaker C: I don't know. I don't want you. Okay.
[00:24:01] Speaker A: I did you.
[00:24:02] Speaker C: I did you.
[00:24:07] Speaker A: Kelly, get her the fuck out of here.
I'm fucking with you. I'm fucking with you. I fucking with you.
[00:24:12] Speaker C: No, when you did it earlier, it was followed.
[00:24:15] Speaker B: I was like, wait, you got me earlier.
[00:24:19] Speaker A: Hey, no, I fuck with you though.
[00:24:22] Speaker C: Thank you for having me, man.
[00:24:23] Speaker A: And I also think that, you know, just from a biased standpoint, like I'm not. She's a big R and B fan.
[00:24:29] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:24:29] Speaker A: I'm not that big of an R and B fan. Why not?
[00:24:32] Speaker B: What?
[00:24:32] Speaker A: It's an emo. I'm not in two line Emotions.
[00:24:34] Speaker C: Oh, okay, Fair. That's real.
[00:24:35] Speaker A: I'm not, you know, but I think that your music to me just as a request. As a request. I would like to hear more of the Shook one stuff.
[00:24:44] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:24:44] Speaker A: I like the love shit.
[00:24:45] Speaker B: Cool.
[00:24:47] Speaker A: I like these diss records. You know what I'm saying? Okay.
[00:24:50] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:24:50] Speaker B: I even enjoy you doing a flip on a rap beat. Like, and that's a big record. That the instrumental is big. Is very unrecognizable. So that's like familiar to rap fans. And like, like he said, I'm an R and B fan but also rap as well. So literally when I saw the title, I'm like, oh, shoot. But I didn't think it was gonna be that. But then it was that.
[00:25:10] Speaker C: But then you like talking shit, you know.
[00:25:12] Speaker B: Yeah. So that's cool.
[00:25:14] Speaker C: That's great feedback.
I love hip hop too, so I'm definitely gonna tap more into it in the next thing. But yeah, that's great feedback. Thanks.
[00:25:24] Speaker A: I appreciate you for being here.
[00:25:26] Speaker C: Of course. Thank you for having me.
[00:25:27] Speaker A: How long are you in the States?
[00:25:29] Speaker C: I live in New York.
[00:25:30] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Well, how long are you not in that cold ass weather?
[00:25:33] Speaker C: Oh my gosh. I go back tomorrow.
[00:25:35] Speaker A: Yeah, good luck with that.
[00:25:36] Speaker C: I just realized I was.
I changed my flight and I was like, wait, hold on. It's gonna be so cold and rainy tomorrow. But it's okay. I'll be back.
[00:25:46] Speaker A: You just put on a big coat. I mean, you can. What does your shirt say?
[00:25:49] Speaker C: It says Black Trans Love.
[00:25:51] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:25:52] Speaker C: Yeah, I got loads of these, so.
[00:25:54] Speaker A: Okay. The same shirt.
[00:25:56] Speaker C: I got two. I got two.
[00:25:57] Speaker A: Okay. Cause people don't think you're wearing the same sh.
[00:26:00] Speaker C: You know what? I wear my clothes. I'm sorry. If you buy it or if it's yours, wear your clothes. It's okay.
[00:26:05] Speaker A: For sure.
[00:26:06] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:26:06] Speaker A: Well, thanks for coming through.
Teanna Major 9 is here. It's effective immediately.
