Chey Smith On The Blessing & Challenge Of Being Method Man's Daughter, Dating, Music Advice, + More
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
What's up? His way up with Angela Yee. I'm Angela ye,
And we've been trying to get you up here for
a while, but we have upcoming up and coming artists
Shy in the building with us.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yes, Hello, what's up?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I love how on your page is c h e
y and you like pronounced shy.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, because a lot of people call me Shay okay, yeah,
and I just my name is Chyenne, so it's not shan.
You just got to make it clear. Now.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Mana was here earlier and he was like he had
a story about you. Oh yes, he said he came
to your sweet sixteen.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Did he performed? Okay? He said he had no idea
like who he was coming for. They just told him
when he showed up, he seen me and he seen
my dad and it was just like a vibe.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Yeah, I'm gonna tell you what he told us before
you got here. He was like, oh, he was trying
to wait for you, but he's getting honored today or something.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
That's congratulations to Mano.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
So he was like, man tell her, I said, what's up.
But he said that he was going to make an appearance,
you know, at a Sweet sixteen And they were like
her dad is going to come give you the money.
And then he said, nobody told him who you dad was.
And then he showed up and it was method manic yes,
and she said, you know right, but he said it
was a vibe. So he was like, you know, tell
her what's up. And I played him some of your music,
(01:09):
did you Yeah, and he did really like hair and
Yale things.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, So he was like okay. He was like, okay,
she's alright, she's good.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I love like it's been ten years since he performed
at My Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
So she was like, let's be clear, I'm not sixteen
on more exact c all right, And then you did
the Hair and Nail's remix too.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yes, we just actually shot the video for that with
Maya V. Shout out to Maya V. It was just dope.
I like to do woman things, so just to have.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Like I could tell by looking at you, yeah, you.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Know, the female the future is female. So to have
her on the remix and it's like we're tapping into
like the younger age demographic and it's like putting on
for the girls and making the girls feel good. So
it felt really good to have her on the remix.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Now, let's get into some of your background. So you
grew up in Staten Island, yes, which you know, tell
me about Stanton Island, and like the music vibes there.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
The music vibes there. You know, everybody knows Wu Tang,
so like that was our main thing for a long time.
But we do have a lot of up and coming
artists coming out now. Everybody's pretty much doing their own thing,
but everybody puts on for themselves. I wish there was
a lot more unity with everybody. That that would be
fire because then we could basically take over New York
(02:20):
no fund to anybody else. But yeah, growing up the
music scene is just it's always been there. It's always
been prominent, especially in my life. My high school life,
I was performing arts major so yeah, everything was, everything
was great. I just loved music. It's always been a
part of everything that I've been trying to do.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
When did you first start tapping into your musical side?
Because you know I and I hate this too. If
you search your name, it's always like meta Man's daughter.
Yeah that's what it says in front of everything, which
it's a gift and a curse, all right, because it
is a gift because your dad is amazing and people
love him, you know, as an artist, as an actor
and everything. But it's also kind of like, I don't
want to be meta man's daughter.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
You know, I have my own name. You know it's shy,
but go off, okay.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
But talk to me about when you first started tapping
into the musical side of yourself, because those are some big,
big footsteps to following.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Absolutely so tapping into the musical side for myself, I
had to be very young. Me and my brother used
to put on concerts with each other, singing my dad's
songs and you know, all the songs that was out
in like the early two thousands. And then when I
was nine, I made my first this record, I guess
you could say a bully, a bully from school record.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah, tell me a little bit of it I wanted.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
It was called Don't Mess with Me, so I was
just basically telling her, don't mess with me, like girl,
like the same girl. You know, we're not even gonna
give her no sean God bless her, you know, Okay,
but she was bullying me, so you don't have to
do my little I don't remember the verse or anything.
But I do remember I made it was my first
ever email account because I needed to make the beats
to put on my Space. So my cousin made me
my first email. That's how I know what. I was
(04:00):
nine and I was like, it's lit, I got a song.
I'm about to make an album. And then after that,
I've just been like on and off my brother shout
out to Power and Intel, my cousin. I've just been
on and off their tracks. So it's just been it's
been in the background, you know. I wanted to finish
school first and do everything. So but I'm liking it.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
And your brother does music too?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Absolutely? Yes?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Is he in the video? He is in driving? Okay, yes,
I was like that gotta be her brother because yeah, yes,
I said, because if that was your mayor, he looked
too much like you.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Oh yeah, it looks just like my dad. He Actually,
he does do music. He just he put out his
latest project on SoundCloud. You guys can search it up
at fifth Power. It's five th hp x w e R,
so you can check him out. He's very like mellow,
like old nineties, like if you want to get into
that groove.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Okay, all right, So y'all are a little different with your approach.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Absolutely absolutely all right.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And now I know your mom is also with you
a lot and very instrumental in what you have going
on with your music. What did she think initially of
your music because it is a little different than like
what your brother's doing and then obviously what your dad did.
It's a whole new younger vibe. It's drill music incorporated.
So is that music that she was like, I get it,
I listened to this or was it like, okay, my
(05:14):
this is you know.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
She's kind of like because we listen to a lot
of different music around the house, so she's like hip
to it, but to like hear me doing it and
like to hear my voice behind the things. She's like
one of my biggest supporters. So it's like she's like
always that voice of my ear, like yeah that's that stuff?
Was fire what you got. So it was good just
getting that support from her and just from my whole
(05:38):
family in anything that I'm doing because that's what I
feed off of.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Right. And then even with the Wu Tang next generation,
y'all actually had done some music together too, Like I
think it was ghost Faces.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yeah, ghost Face song, I know, Young Dirty YDB, and
then my brother FO powered my cousin into we're all
the technically second generation. We're like a step down from
our fathers who started this big legacy. So we thought,
why not come together and just do something that can't
be done by anybody else, because who else can say
(06:12):
they're the second generation but the actual second generation. So
to come together with all of them, it's like a family.
It's always been a family. Most of them are actually
my family, right, so it's it's never anything like weird
or awkward. It's literally like love all the time.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
It feels like a reality show.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I don't know. I'm just saying, yeah, it could be.
It could be, honestly some of the stuff that happens.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Because I feel like we've never seen no like Staten
Island reality show before. And I used to work in
Staten Island when I went too Dang. I used to
work in the Bay Street office. It's definitely, Yeah, it's
definitely like a different whole vibe because I feel like
the way Stanton Island is set up, it's not even
as easy just to even take public transportation to get
to Manhattan Brooklyn. You got to take that ferry.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah, the ferry, the train, the baits, everything. Yeah, if
you're not taking the for everything, you're paying a million
dollars for toll. So it's like, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
M Now, how protective were your parents have you growing up?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Like as far as dating, Oh, they were very protective.
But I always kept in the back of my mind
that Staten Island is so small that whatever I do,
somebody knows. My parents definitely somebody's gonna tell them. I
remember when I first got my new car, my dad
took a picture of it in the parking lot of
my school and I'm like, how did you get here? Like,
please relax, but just sorry that just maybe laugh what
(07:35):
I want to answer your question fully. So yeah, as far.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
As like dating, yes, dating was it intimidating for guys
to try to approach you? Absolutely, and then you know
how it was like listen, I would hate for if
I was a guy, you know, met the man be like,
what do you want with my daughter? How did he
treat them?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
My dad? He's not like you can look at him
and be like, oh that guy, like he's mean, scary guy,
but he's really not, like he just he'd be like
what's up and go about his day. But then at
the end of the day he'll pull me asut, like
what's up with that? Who is that going on? And
all of that, because he's very like just like keep
it to us. But on the outside it's like, Okay,
I'm gonna check you mm hmm. See what you're looking like,
(08:14):
mm hmm. And then my mom is the same way,
but she's more like forthcoming with it. She's gonna check
you in your face, like what you got going on?
Spin a round?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Okay, okay, okay, not not strict, but paying attention.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Absolutely, just for the safety of myself, just for my protection,
because you know, people are not everybody's a good person, right,
so they just want what's best for me.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And what have they told you as far as you
doing a career, having a career in music, because it
also was not a very easy business to be in
and there's like a lot of crazy things that have
been happening. So what is some advice that you've gotten,
say from your dad or from your mom, because she
really grew up in this too. He was going to
start to get tampons and stuff at the early age.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
You know that story yes, so they just like one
thing that my dad said to me that will always
stick with me is just stay in order to stay
relevant because you know, music changes over time. The nineties
doesn't sound like what we sound like today. Just be
versatile and be open to everything. And that's what I
(09:17):
try my best to do. So my EP or my
album that's coming up, when we finish it, it's gonna
have a little bit of everything, just so I can
have a variety of sounds for everybody to hear and
get to know me from and from my mom. What
sticks with me every day is don't slow down. Like
as soon as you sit back and like get comfortable,
(09:39):
it's like somebody else is coming for your spot. Somebody
is gunning for you. So just keep going and keep trying.
And that's how it's been my whole life. They told
me that like during school. So now that it's coming
to fruition in my actual adulthood life, paying some more
attention to it.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
So you know, I said, your dad said you perform
for the first time. Yeah too, So talk to me
and walk me through what that experience was. Like.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
I was so nervous. Actually, I love going to my
dad and Redman shows because they just put on a
great show. That energy is always so high. So me
coming into that, I performed like in the middle of
their set. So everybody's hype for mec Man and Redman.
They see this little girl come out, they like. So
I'm like, okay, So I just have to show myself
and I have to prove myself. And my dad introduced me,
(10:28):
and he did say I was his daughter, but I
still wanted it to be like, I don't know these people,
Like this is my chance to prove to myself and
everybody hear what I can do. And that's exactly what
I did. Shout out to my dances, T and T.
We went out there and we killed it. It was for
the bud Drop and then they came out and they
performed again. And afterwards my dad, he was just smitten.
(10:50):
He just told me how happy was with me, and
we have a great picture from that night, and I
was just I got chills. I was just very comfortable
and I was happy because even if something did go wrong,
I knew, like I had the protection around me that
I would be good.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
You know. I love the fact that you said you
and your dances and shout at them out because I
feel like live performances are so important, and since you
talk about method Man and Redman, they've always had a
great show even if there was no type of like
pyro technics, and they can get on that stage and
command attention. It doesn't have to be no extion, nothing,
But I do feel like it's so important to be
able to have that energy and the fact that you
(11:26):
had dancers, and really because I feel like sometimes people
get on stage.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
And just walk around back and forth. I don't want
to do it.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
If I want to see like some effort from you
dance because sometimes people are seeing you, are hearing you
for the first time that's at a show, and that's
going to make them go and listen to your music
and do research you more or not exactly exactly, Like Okay,
that was you know, so that's dope. And then I
saw you were in Detroit. Oh yes, and use with Trina.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yeah, shout out to Trina.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
So tell me about Trina because you shout her out
in the song You're the Baddest.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yes, Tina, tell China she the baddest. Well, we are
the baddest Trina. Trina knows that now and a lot
of people, A lot of people were coming from me like, oh,
Trina's not gonna like this. But when I met her
in Detroit, and well, first when she even invited me,
it was like an invited me. Yes, it's Detroit.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
This happened.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
So she reached out to her team, reached out to
my team, and they heard the song and they heard
me mention her and reference her her moniker, which is
the baddest bee you know, and she liked it. She
liked it a lot, so much so that they invited
me and my team to Detroit with my dancers, and
during her set, she brought me out so nice. She
was like because she likes to put on for like
(12:39):
up and coming artists and you know women and women empowerment,
so for her to do that for me when she
brought me out, I was just so like, whoa like this?
It was a sold out show, Like it was my
first time ever in Detroit. It was a lot going
through my head. But I just once I hit the stage,
just like boom, I'm here, and then Trina's co signing
(12:59):
and this got Trina's name in it. So it's not
even like it's a jab or anything. It just it
just felt amazing. And then staying there afterwards and seeing
Rick Ross implies and juvenile. This is the stuff I've
always done with my dad, right, and to do it
down him there, well, it's like so surreal for me.
Like I was on cloud nine for at least a
week after that.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Is so amazing. I saw all the pictures. My girl
Destiny of course we shot out to day was out
there too. I wish I would have been in Detroit
also because I actually just got back from there today.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Oh wow, so here I am. Welcome back.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yeah. So so performance wise, now, what do you have
lined up? I know you have an EP on the way.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Yes, EP. We're working on the EP. The video for
the Hair and Nails remixes coming out soon. That remix
just drops, so that's on Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube Music.
Performance Wise, we're working on things. You know, the summer's coming,
so we're trying to be outside all summer, all summer,
so I'm just gonna be everywhere, and I'm just very excited.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
What's the love like in Staten Island where you're from,
because like you said, it's just you know, everybody kind
of knows each other.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, I'm getting a lot of love from my people.
I love Staaten Island. I'm always in most of my songs.
You hear me reference Staaten Island in some way, just
so I could let people know like we may be small,
but we're very, very mighty, like don't sleep on Staten Island,
Like we got a lot coming for us, and I'm
getting a lot of love. I'm getting a lot of
love from my people, and I appreciate it because that's
where I started from.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
You feel like the barrel doesn't get as much respected as.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
It should not as a whole. No, and that's okay,
That's fine.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
People never be like Stanton Allen, you were here.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
No, Nikkas said our name once? That was that was cool.
That was cool Nia. You know she had to include us.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
If you could think about some dream collaborations for yourself,
who would it be.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I always say, like, if ever she wanted to return
to music, Queen Latifah. Okay, but that's like my number one.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I'm not mad at that.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
No, I really really like just you know, the soulfulness
and just everything about her I love.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Maybe you should mention her in this sound like you
did Trina, And then you know what I'm.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Saying, but definitely her, I like, you know, vibing, so
Mary J Blyse and I'm Jay Cole. And then for
like party records, I'm going like Lotto and maybe Bobby
Schmurder in there. You don't get it, boom boom booming.
(15:19):
She I just I just want to encompass everything. So
I want to do soulful music and party music and
you know, something you can just vibe out to. So
I just want to touch everything.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Did you used to go on the road like when
you were a kid?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
We did. My mom always tells me the story about
how we went and met all these people, but I'm like,
I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
We didn't have camera phones back there no pictures evident.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I do remember one time going to the Deaf Jam
building and meeting DMX. I remember that like I could,
like I could step into the room and I'm there
and it was like a bunch of just guys in
the room and he's like standing at the head of
the room like the powerful man that he was, and
it was just very dim and he was just like
(16:03):
he just seems so assertive to me, like he seems
scary to me as a kid.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
But I'm like that guy like he commanded the room.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yes, all these people is being quiet for him. Yeah,
it's like, hmmm, I might need to find out who
this is?
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Who is that?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
So my dad used to take us around a lot. Yeah,
great memories.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Do you are there times that you ever like fanned
out when you were young? You remember running into somebody
and being like, oh my god, yes, who.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Is so embarrassing? I have one story. It was O Marion.
He was on the phone. He was on the phone
with my dad, and my dad usually did this thing
where he would call me in and he just gives
me the phone. So I'm like hello, and he's like, hello,
this is O Marion. I'm like, I say, no, O Marion,
give my dad back the phone. He's like, you don't
want to talk to O Marion. So I picked up on,
(16:50):
oh Marion, this is you for real? You work with Chrismil.
So he said, yeah, I just started screaming. I'm like, firstville,
O Marion, don't want to hear all that screaming. They
just calling to have business and now this little girl
is screaming somewhere. So that was that was a little
bit embarrassing, and but like one of my greatest memories
was meet and Chris Brown when I was I think
it was for my eighth birthday. My dad's surprised me
(17:11):
were tickets.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
You were spoiled. I'm the only girl I met Chris Brown.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I was the only girl, my dad's baby girl. Were
like this, we got the same initials and everything. So
we're here, We're here. So when I met him, it
was we got backstage and I met his mom. It
was amazing, just amazing.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Like certain things I remember, I remember being eight backstage, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I remember a lot in details. It's like my key thing.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
All right, Well, tell us what we can expect from it.
Like you said, it's gonna be different genres that you'll
be representing on this EP. What's the plan Like, is
it to sign to a label? Is it to stay independent?
What was shy like to happen?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Well, right now, I'm leaving my options open. I am.
I am independent. I do like where it's going right now.
But you know, whatever the future, whole, whatever God has
and planned for me, That's what I'm gonna go with.
As far as like my music and things, I'm still
in the studio. I'm still creating and writing every single day.
So I have a lot of unreleased stuff that I'm
(18:13):
just feeling to put out. So it's gonna be a
lot and people are gonna get headaches and I'm like,
it's okay, I'm here, I'm making my way all right.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Well, you got a lot of energy, so I love
to see it. I love to hear it.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yes, thank you.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
How can people follow you?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
You guys can follow me on Instagram at I'm Shy.
That's just an I and a m c h e
y two underscores everywhere else Shy music.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
We gotta figure out this underscores Da da da da.
Got a little complicated.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
We gotta gotta y'all gotta fix that.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
But no, honestly, congratulations on everything. Make sure y'all check
out the hair and nails remixes out right now you
just did. The video is fresh off the press, and
thank you so much for coming through. I cannot wait
till after the EP comes out and we do some
follow ups and see what's going on now.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Absolutely, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I write its way up
What's up? His way up with Angela Yee. I'm Angela ye,
And we've been trying to get you up here for
a while, but we have upcoming up and coming artists
Shy in the building with us.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yes, Hello, what's up?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I love how on your page is c h e
y and you like pronounced shy.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, because a lot of people call me Shay okay, yeah,
and I just my name is Chyenne, so it's not shan.
You just got to make it clear. Now.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Mana was here earlier and he was like he had
a story about you. Oh yes, he said he came
to your sweet sixteen.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Did he performed? Okay? He said he had no idea
like who he was coming for. They just told him
when he showed up, he seen me and he seen
my dad and it was just like a vibe.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Yeah, I'm gonna tell you what he told us before
you got here. He was like, oh, he was trying
to wait for you, but he's getting honored today or something.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
That's congratulations to Mano.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
So he was like, man tell her, I said, what's up.
But he said that he was going to make an appearance,
you know, at a Sweet sixteen And they were like
her dad is going to come give you the money.
And then he said, nobody told him who you dad was.
And then he showed up and it was method manic yes,
and she said, you know right, but he said it
was a vibe. So he was like, you know, tell
her what's up. And I played him some of your music,
(01:09):
did you Yeah, and he did really like hair and
Yale things.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, So he was like okay. He was like, okay,
she's alright, she's good.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I love like it's been ten years since he performed
at My Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
So she was like, let's be clear, I'm not sixteen
on more exact c all right, And then you did
the Hair and Nail's remix too.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yes, we just actually shot the video for that with
Maya V. Shout out to Maya V. It was just dope.
I like to do woman things, so just to have.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Like I could tell by looking at you, yeah, you.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Know, the female the future is female. So to have
her on the remix and it's like we're tapping into
like the younger age demographic and it's like putting on
for the girls and making the girls feel good. So
it felt really good to have her on the remix.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Now, let's get into some of your background. So you
grew up in Staten Island, yes, which you know, tell
me about Stanton Island, and like the music vibes there.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
The music vibes there. You know, everybody knows Wu Tang,
so like that was our main thing for a long time.
But we do have a lot of up and coming
artists coming out now. Everybody's pretty much doing their own thing,
but everybody puts on for themselves. I wish there was
a lot more unity with everybody. That that would be
fire because then we could basically take over New York
(02:20):
no fund to anybody else. But yeah, growing up the
music scene is just it's always been there. It's always
been prominent, especially in my life. My high school life,
I was performing arts major so yeah, everything was, everything
was great. I just loved music. It's always been a
part of everything that I've been trying to do.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
When did you first start tapping into your musical side?
Because you know I and I hate this too. If
you search your name, it's always like meta Man's daughter.
Yeah that's what it says in front of everything, which
it's a gift and a curse, all right, because it
is a gift because your dad is amazing and people
love him, you know, as an artist, as an actor
and everything. But it's also kind of like, I don't
want to be meta man's daughter.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
You know, I have my own name. You know it's shy,
but go off, okay.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
But talk to me about when you first started tapping
into the musical side of yourself, because those are some big,
big footsteps to following.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Absolutely so tapping into the musical side for myself, I
had to be very young. Me and my brother used
to put on concerts with each other, singing my dad's
songs and you know, all the songs that was out
in like the early two thousands. And then when I
was nine, I made my first this record, I guess
you could say a bully, a bully from school record.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah, tell me a little bit of it I wanted.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
It was called Don't Mess with Me, so I was
just basically telling her, don't mess with me, like girl,
like the same girl. You know, we're not even gonna
give her no sean God bless her, you know, Okay,
but she was bullying me, so you don't have to
do my little I don't remember the verse or anything.
But I do remember I made it was my first
ever email account because I needed to make the beats
to put on my Space. So my cousin made me
my first email. That's how I know what. I was
(04:00):
nine and I was like, it's lit, I got a song.
I'm about to make an album. And then after that,
I've just been like on and off my brother shout
out to Power and Intel, my cousin. I've just been
on and off their tracks. So it's just been it's
been in the background, you know. I wanted to finish
school first and do everything. So but I'm liking it.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
And your brother does music too?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Absolutely? Yes?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Is he in the video? He is in driving? Okay, yes,
I was like that gotta be her brother because yeah, yes,
I said, because if that was your mayor, he looked
too much like you.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Oh yeah, it looks just like my dad. He Actually,
he does do music. He just he put out his
latest project on SoundCloud. You guys can search it up
at fifth Power. It's five th hp x w e R,
so you can check him out. He's very like mellow,
like old nineties, like if you want to get into
that groove.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Okay, all right, So y'all are a little different with your approach.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Absolutely absolutely all right.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And now I know your mom is also with you
a lot and very instrumental in what you have going
on with your music. What did she think initially of
your music because it is a little different than like
what your brother's doing and then obviously what your dad did.
It's a whole new younger vibe. It's drill music incorporated.
So is that music that she was like, I get it,
I listened to this or was it like, okay, my
(05:14):
this is you know.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
She's kind of like because we listen to a lot
of different music around the house, so she's like hip
to it, but to like hear me doing it and
like to hear my voice behind the things. She's like
one of my biggest supporters. So it's like she's like
always that voice of my ear, like yeah that's that stuff?
Was fire what you got. So it was good just
getting that support from her and just from my whole
(05:38):
family in anything that I'm doing because that's what I
feed off of.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Right. And then even with the Wu Tang next generation,
y'all actually had done some music together too, Like I
think it was ghost Faces.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yeah, ghost Face song, I know, Young Dirty YDB, and
then my brother FO powered my cousin into we're all
the technically second generation. We're like a step down from
our fathers who started this big legacy. So we thought,
why not come together and just do something that can't
be done by anybody else, because who else can say
(06:12):
they're the second generation but the actual second generation. So
to come together with all of them, it's like a family.
It's always been a family. Most of them are actually
my family, right, so it's it's never anything like weird
or awkward. It's literally like love all the time.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
It feels like a reality show.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I don't know. I'm just saying, yeah, it could be.
It could be, honestly some of the stuff that happens.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Because I feel like we've never seen no like Staten
Island reality show before. And I used to work in
Staten Island when I went too Dang. I used to
work in the Bay Street office. It's definitely, Yeah, it's
definitely like a different whole vibe because I feel like
the way Stanton Island is set up, it's not even
as easy just to even take public transportation to get
to Manhattan Brooklyn. You got to take that ferry.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah, the ferry, the train, the baits, everything. Yeah, if
you're not taking the for everything, you're paying a million
dollars for toll. So it's like, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
M Now, how protective were your parents have you growing up?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Like as far as dating, Oh, they were very protective.
But I always kept in the back of my mind
that Staten Island is so small that whatever I do,
somebody knows. My parents definitely somebody's gonna tell them. I
remember when I first got my new car, my dad
took a picture of it in the parking lot of
my school and I'm like, how did you get here? Like,
please relax, but just sorry that just maybe laugh what
(07:35):
I want to answer your question fully. So yeah, as far.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
As like dating, yes, dating was it intimidating for guys
to try to approach you? Absolutely, and then you know
how it was like listen, I would hate for if
I was a guy, you know, met the man be like,
what do you want with my daughter? How did he
treat them?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
My dad? He's not like you can look at him
and be like, oh that guy, like he's mean, scary guy,
but he's really not, like he just he'd be like
what's up and go about his day. But then at
the end of the day he'll pull me asut, like
what's up with that? Who is that going on? And
all of that, because he's very like just like keep
it to us. But on the outside it's like, Okay,
I'm gonna check you mm hmm. See what you're looking like,
(08:14):
mm hmm. And then my mom is the same way,
but she's more like forthcoming with it. She's gonna check
you in your face, like what you got going on?
Spin a round?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Okay, okay, okay, not not strict, but paying attention.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Absolutely, just for the safety of myself, just for my protection,
because you know, people are not everybody's a good person, right,
so they just want what's best for me.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And what have they told you as far as you
doing a career, having a career in music, because it
also was not a very easy business to be in
and there's like a lot of crazy things that have
been happening. So what is some advice that you've gotten,
say from your dad or from your mom, because she
really grew up in this too. He was going to
start to get tampons and stuff at the early age.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
You know that story yes, so they just like one
thing that my dad said to me that will always
stick with me is just stay in order to stay
relevant because you know, music changes over time. The nineties
doesn't sound like what we sound like today. Just be
versatile and be open to everything. And that's what I
(09:17):
try my best to do. So my EP or my
album that's coming up, when we finish it, it's gonna
have a little bit of everything, just so I can
have a variety of sounds for everybody to hear and
get to know me from and from my mom. What
sticks with me every day is don't slow down. Like
as soon as you sit back and like get comfortable,
(09:39):
it's like somebody else is coming for your spot. Somebody
is gunning for you. So just keep going and keep trying.
And that's how it's been my whole life. They told
me that like during school. So now that it's coming
to fruition in my actual adulthood life, paying some more
attention to it.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
So you know, I said, your dad said you perform
for the first time. Yeah too, So talk to me
and walk me through what that experience was. Like.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
I was so nervous. Actually, I love going to my
dad and Redman shows because they just put on a
great show. That energy is always so high. So me
coming into that, I performed like in the middle of
their set. So everybody's hype for mec Man and Redman.
They see this little girl come out, they like. So
I'm like, okay, So I just have to show myself
and I have to prove myself. And my dad introduced me,
(10:28):
and he did say I was his daughter, but I
still wanted it to be like, I don't know these people,
Like this is my chance to prove to myself and
everybody hear what I can do. And that's exactly what
I did. Shout out to my dances, T and T.
We went out there and we killed it. It was for
the bud Drop and then they came out and they
performed again. And afterwards my dad, he was just smitten.
(10:50):
He just told me how happy was with me, and
we have a great picture from that night, and I
was just I got chills. I was just very comfortable
and I was happy because even if something did go wrong,
I knew, like I had the protection around me that
I would be good.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
You know. I love the fact that you said you
and your dances and shout at them out because I
feel like live performances are so important, and since you
talk about method Man and Redman, they've always had a
great show even if there was no type of like
pyro technics, and they can get on that stage and
command attention. It doesn't have to be no extion, nothing,
But I do feel like it's so important to be
able to have that energy and the fact that you
(11:26):
had dancers, and really because I feel like sometimes people
get on stage.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
And just walk around back and forth. I don't want
to do it.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
If I want to see like some effort from you
dance because sometimes people are seeing you, are hearing you
for the first time that's at a show, and that's
going to make them go and listen to your music
and do research you more or not exactly exactly, Like Okay,
that was you know, so that's dope. And then I
saw you were in Detroit. Oh yes, and use with Trina.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yeah, shout out to Trina.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
So tell me about Trina because you shout her out
in the song You're the Baddest.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yes, Tina, tell China she the baddest. Well, we are
the baddest Trina. Trina knows that now and a lot
of people, A lot of people were coming from me like, oh,
Trina's not gonna like this. But when I met her
in Detroit, and well, first when she even invited me,
it was like an invited me. Yes, it's Detroit.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
This happened.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
So she reached out to her team, reached out to
my team, and they heard the song and they heard
me mention her and reference her her moniker, which is
the baddest bee you know, and she liked it. She
liked it a lot, so much so that they invited
me and my team to Detroit with my dancers, and
during her set, she brought me out so nice. She
was like because she likes to put on for like
(12:39):
up and coming artists and you know women and women empowerment,
so for her to do that for me when she
brought me out, I was just so like, whoa like this?
It was a sold out show, Like it was my
first time ever in Detroit. It was a lot going
through my head. But I just once I hit the stage,
just like boom, I'm here, and then Trina's co signing
(12:59):
and this got Trina's name in it. So it's not
even like it's a jab or anything. It just it
just felt amazing. And then staying there afterwards and seeing
Rick Ross implies and juvenile. This is the stuff I've
always done with my dad, right, and to do it
down him there, well, it's like so surreal for me.
Like I was on cloud nine for at least a
week after that.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Is so amazing. I saw all the pictures. My girl
Destiny of course we shot out to day was out
there too. I wish I would have been in Detroit
also because I actually just got back from there today.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Oh wow, so here I am. Welcome back.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yeah. So so performance wise, now, what do you have
lined up? I know you have an EP on the way.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Yes, EP. We're working on the EP. The video for
the Hair and Nails remixes coming out soon. That remix
just drops, so that's on Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube Music.
Performance Wise, we're working on things. You know, the summer's coming,
so we're trying to be outside all summer, all summer,
so I'm just gonna be everywhere, and I'm just very excited.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
What's the love like in Staten Island where you're from,
because like you said, it's just you know, everybody kind
of knows each other.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, I'm getting a lot of love from my people.
I love Staaten Island. I'm always in most of my songs.
You hear me reference Staaten Island in some way, just
so I could let people know like we may be small,
but we're very, very mighty, like don't sleep on Staten Island,
Like we got a lot coming for us, and I'm
getting a lot of love. I'm getting a lot of
love from my people, and I appreciate it because that's
where I started from.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
You feel like the barrel doesn't get as much respected as.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
It should not as a whole. No, and that's okay,
That's fine.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
People never be like Stanton Allen, you were here.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
No, Nikkas said our name once? That was that was cool.
That was cool Nia. You know she had to include us.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
If you could think about some dream collaborations for yourself,
who would it be.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I always say, like, if ever she wanted to return
to music, Queen Latifah. Okay, but that's like my number one.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I'm not mad at that.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
No, I really really like just you know, the soulfulness
and just everything about her I love.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Maybe you should mention her in this sound like you
did Trina, And then you know what I'm.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Saying, but definitely her, I like, you know, vibing, so
Mary J Blyse and I'm Jay Cole. And then for
like party records, I'm going like Lotto and maybe Bobby
Schmurder in there. You don't get it, boom boom booming.
(15:19):
She I just I just want to encompass everything. So
I want to do soulful music and party music and
you know, something you can just vibe out to. So
I just want to touch everything.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Did you used to go on the road like when
you were a kid?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
We did. My mom always tells me the story about
how we went and met all these people, but I'm like,
I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
We didn't have camera phones back there no pictures evident.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I do remember one time going to the Deaf Jam
building and meeting DMX. I remember that like I could,
like I could step into the room and I'm there
and it was like a bunch of just guys in
the room and he's like standing at the head of
the room like the powerful man that he was, and
it was just very dim and he was just like
(16:03):
he just seems so assertive to me, like he seems
scary to me as a kid.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
But I'm like that guy like he commanded the room.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yes, all these people is being quiet for him. Yeah,
it's like, hmmm, I might need to find out who
this is?
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Who is that?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
So my dad used to take us around a lot. Yeah,
great memories.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Do you are there times that you ever like fanned
out when you were young? You remember running into somebody
and being like, oh my god, yes, who.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Is so embarrassing? I have one story. It was O Marion.
He was on the phone. He was on the phone
with my dad, and my dad usually did this thing
where he would call me in and he just gives
me the phone. So I'm like hello, and he's like, hello,
this is O Marion. I'm like, I say, no, O Marion,
give my dad back the phone. He's like, you don't
want to talk to O Marion. So I picked up on,
(16:50):
oh Marion, this is you for real? You work with Chrismil.
So he said, yeah, I just started screaming. I'm like, firstville,
O Marion, don't want to hear all that screaming. They
just calling to have business and now this little girl
is screaming somewhere. So that was that was a little
bit embarrassing, and but like one of my greatest memories
was meet and Chris Brown when I was I think
it was for my eighth birthday. My dad's surprised me
(17:11):
were tickets.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
You were spoiled. I'm the only girl I met Chris Brown.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I was the only girl, my dad's baby girl. Were
like this, we got the same initials and everything. So
we're here, We're here. So when I met him, it
was we got backstage and I met his mom. It
was amazing, just amazing.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Like certain things I remember, I remember being eight backstage, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I remember a lot in details. It's like my key thing.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
All right, Well, tell us what we can expect from it.
Like you said, it's gonna be different genres that you'll
be representing on this EP. What's the plan Like, is
it to sign to a label? Is it to stay independent?
What was shy like to happen?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Well, right now, I'm leaving my options open. I am.
I am independent. I do like where it's going right now.
But you know, whatever the future, whole, whatever God has
and planned for me, That's what I'm gonna go with.
As far as like my music and things, I'm still
in the studio. I'm still creating and writing every single day.
So I have a lot of unreleased stuff that I'm
(18:13):
just feeling to put out. So it's gonna be a
lot and people are gonna get headaches and I'm like,
it's okay, I'm here, I'm making my way all right.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Well, you got a lot of energy, so I love
to see it. I love to hear it.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yes, thank you.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
How can people follow you?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
You guys can follow me on Instagram at I'm Shy.
That's just an I and a m c h e
y two underscores everywhere else Shy music.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
We gotta figure out this underscores Da da da da.
Got a little complicated.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
We gotta gotta y'all gotta fix that.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
But no, honestly, congratulations on everything. Make sure y'all check
out the hair and nails remixes out right now you
just did. The video is fresh off the press, and
thank you so much for coming through. I cannot wait
till after the EP comes out and we do some
follow ups and see what's going on now.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Absolutely, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
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