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July 16, 2025 61 mins

On this episode of Club Shay Shay, Shannon Sharpe sits down with LSU basketball star, rapper, and Roc Nation signee Flau’jae Johnson — a true force in both sports and music.

She reflects on being discovered on Lifetime’s The Rap Game with Jermaine Dupri, seeing Latto on the show before her own rise, and meeting legends like Queen Latifah, Da Brat, Fabolous, and Rick Ross. She reveals her dream collabs — Missy Elliott, Nicki Minaj, Megan Thee Stallion, Cardi B — and shares her Female Rapper Mount Rushmore.

Flau’jae dives into her unforgettable America’s Got Talent moment and the impact of Simon Cowell’s words: “You’re going to be a star.” She gets emotional discussing the loss of her father before she was born, the pain of hearing stories she never got to live, and his unsolved case — including the powerful dream that brought her closer to him.

From performing in clubs at 8 years old to touring with Mindless Behavior, Flau’jae explains how music was always in her blood. She shares how Boosie, Birdman, and Jeezy respected her father, and how Boosie looked out for her early on.

She speaks on her respect for Coach Dawn Staley, while showing love to other coaches like Yolett McPhee-McCuin. Though her dream school was originally Georgia, LSU gave her the chance to shine — and under Coach Kim Mulkey, she never had to dim her light.

She breaks down winning the national championship, the bond with Angel Reese, Jasmine Carson, and LaDazhia Williams, and her take on women’s sports rising, Caitlin Clark, and whether there’s real tension in the WNBA. She addresses the media pitting Caitlin and Angel against each other, and celebrates Angel’s WNBA 2K26 cover.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
If I wrap it right, go ahead.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
And do that.

Speaker 3 (00:02):
Look, I'm so real to Mayor gave me a day
in my city. But it's so sad that I can't
even go and stay in my city shooting and killing
little kids, can't even play in my city. It's so wicked.
They killed my dad in broad day in my city.
But I still love them. I give them all the
time that I got. It's running out, but I give
you all the time that I got.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
You was the facus on my team and I'm just
finding it out.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
That made me sick into my stomach, about to vomit
it out, and I'm like ready or not, Man, it's
my time now. I done gave it everything I got.
It's time to shine. Now they donet blue the whistle
in my foot across the line. Now clock is ticking down.
They got no thirty second time out for real, though
I know I'm gonna make it because I don't seeking applause.
I i'd have never waste my voice if I don't
speak for a cause. I reminisce when I just thinking
I paused. My mama told me, you keep shooting for

(00:42):
the moon, You're gonna have a seat with them.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Stars of God.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
I like that.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
All my life, grinding all my life, sacrifice, hustle, back
the price, Want a slice the sat all my life
been grinding all my life, all my life, and grinding
on my life, shock fights, hustle, one slight, doctor, brothers,
swash all my life.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
I be gun in all my life.

Speaker 5 (01:11):
Hello, welcome to another episode of Club Shay Shape. I
am your host, Shannon Sharp. I'm also the proprid of
Club shay Shake. Stopping by for conversation of the day.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
No drinking. He's in training.

Speaker 5 (01:21):
A generational talent, one of the most marketable athletes in
college sport. She is a multi hyphenated dominating in basketball,
rap and in business. She helped the Lady Tigers win
their first ever national championship. A gold medalist, an AP
All American, First Team All SEC SEC Freshman of the
Year McDonald's All American, an accomplished artist athlete, and a businesswoman.

(01:41):
A true triple threat. All the way from the seaport, Yes, Savannah, Georgia.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Here she is. Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Fla je Johnson.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
So that's whoa.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
That sounded cool. That's cool.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
So thank you for stopping by.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Thank you for having me. Thank you so much.

Speaker 5 (01:59):
So how difficult was it for teachers and and and
and classmates and friends to pronounce that name?

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Oh man, I've gotten fly j flu ja fly all
type of j. They spelled it wrong, but.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
I don't take any offs to it be funny sometimes
when I go live.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
So they did say miss Johnson? Or did the teachers
even give up?

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Some time?

Speaker 3 (02:19):
They'd be like this, like, baby, I'm not gonna say
this name.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
What's your name? I'm like FLAWGJ like flawless?

Speaker 5 (02:29):
Is that a play and we're gonna talk about your
your your father? And is that a play off of
his name because he went by the stage name camouflage
and soul flage.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yep, that's it. That's it.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
It's yeah, his name is Camouflageween named me flage monet okay,
and the kind of rhyme.

Speaker 5 (02:43):
So so let me ask you this, how was it
growing up in Savannah? Because I went to school in Savannah.
I'm very familiar with Savannah.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Savannah was cool. Like I grew up, we was outside, Okay,
we was outside.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
I feel like I'm like the last of the people
who got to really be outside, like with your friends.
All day and it was just competitive. Like I was
around like an older crowd, but I never got to
like be with them, you know, so I just played
basketball all day. But Savannah was fun bro Like. Of
course it has its bad you know areas and stuff
like that, but where I.

Speaker 5 (03:13):
Was, it was from what's your best memory as a child.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Oh, my best memory as a child.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Probably when I played for the boys club Frank Callum
Boys and Girls Club, the cheerleader.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
I played baseball with the boys.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
I was a pitcher, and those times I really just
molded me into the person I am today. Like that's
why I think recreational centers and stuff like that for
the kids are so important because I had a lot
of coaches that was like father figures and I was
just like the prominent thing that I had in Savannah.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
For you do realize, like normally cheerleaders they're not playing
like basketball, you know, normally the cheerleaders they're cheers for
the athletes. They'll turn around it like, I mean, could
you like cheer like for Like I.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Wasn't a basketball cheerleader. I was cheering for the football.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
You cheered for the football.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah, basketball season was.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
My Mama made me cheer because I was athletic and
I could do like back handsprings, and I hated it,
Like I used to be so mad with my pom poms.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
I want to play football. I wanted to play football,
So I was just I was just.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
That's that's awesome. There's an intersection.

Speaker 5 (04:17):
And and you know, for people that's not familiar with it,
it's like in Savannah, they're Abercorn and then you got
West Montgomery cross Road. I mean you got the big street,
so you got like Abercorn Derhan and then you got
Skidaway and Victory and then you got I mean you
got an intersection.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, it's so cool.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
You got an innction.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
No, that was crazy.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
When they said it was giving me one, I was like,
like a whole life, but it's a really a whole interestation.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Now you drive this way, you see fly J. Johnson interstriction,
drive that way, and it's crazy because I remember taking
that same route to.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
Go to DA Park and go to Bacon Park and
go play at all these tournaments and stuff like that,
and just being like celebrated in that way like that
is big.

Speaker 5 (04:53):
I just spent a lot of time. They had a
I don't know if it's still over there. They had
an unbelievable Chinese restaurant with fried rice. I forget the name.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
It was like, boy, I know they don't building like.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
The five star one. I don't know if it was.
Where was that They had no fried guts.

Speaker 6 (05:07):
It was so good they gonna call us count.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
What that video you eating though?

Speaker 5 (05:17):
Oh yeah yeah yeah when I was talking about we
got ryed chickens, catfish candy, Yeah, maggot chee the.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Neck bomb, yeah, put that on the edit.

Speaker 5 (05:28):
So you played you played baseball, you played basketball. You
were a cheerleader, so you're you're a cheerleader for the
football team. Once that because normally, like cheering is a
year round, so you cheer for the football team, cheer
for the basketball team, and whatever else the rally you
get that going. So you was just like a one
sport cheerleader football season and it wasn't that was over.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
I had to made me y'all one time. I just
cried and I was like, I'm not doing this no more.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
She was like, you don't have to do anymore. You
can play basketball.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
What was your best sport coming up?

Speaker 2 (05:58):
My best sport? I was always good at basketball. I
was always good.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
You played with the girl.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
I met with the boys, you guys, because it wasn't
a girls team at that point.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
You know, this was back then, so it was only boys.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
And I grew up like me And I remember my
teammate monte Ken, all those guys, I used to play
with them at the boys and Girls Club.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
I was the only girl. Though.

Speaker 5 (06:18):
Do you think that's what helped you become the player
that you became, Because normally guys mature start physically a lot,
a lot sooner than than women. And you had to
because you wanted to compete, You wanted to get chosen,
You wanted to be out there on the court, so
you couldn't be like a liability, right, No, And.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
It wasn't never that. And I had a chip on
my shoulder. Shout out my coach Maurice. He was like
a father figure to me. Like I would cry, he
would he would treat me like the guys, like you
know what I'm saying, Like it wasn't though you a girl,
you're gonna put these shorts on, You're gonna play. And
he helped me accountable and he pushed me, and it
made me like I'm gonna beat all these boys, like
I'm gonna be better than all of y'all, and I
just really went That's how I went, like for real.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
But he helped me accountable.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
And he didn't let me cut corners if you know
how to run ahead and on the whole sprint like
everybody football field all of that. Like he he helped
me accountable. So I got really good. Like I got
really good.

Speaker 5 (07:06):
If you could have played football, what position were you
gonna play?

Speaker 2 (07:09):
So I'm playing quarterback.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
You want position, you know, kind of girl.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
Like this, and I thought me in spiral or that's
why I couldn't do a receiver because like bro Rode receivers,
like they're too athletic, dvs.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
That's the hardest that's the hardest position in Okay, So
I just know my role.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
What about a running back?

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Oh no, I'm not going I'm going through.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
But I love football though. I love football.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
So when you was playing against the guys, did you eat?
You beat them?

Speaker 2 (07:42):
Oh? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Like this was serious, Like I had smoke for them.
I was literally like, well, I think I was like
one of the best on my team, Like they knew
it was up. I was really good. But it made
me it made me better when I played against the girls,
Like it was like, okay, this because my pace I
think you know it was it was so fast, So yeah,
I was good. Though they know it's all my boys
on the boys Club.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
Y'all know what now, you know they telling the story
she ain't beat me.

Speaker 5 (08:05):
I wouldn't want the guys they know they know that
was That was I.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
Think it was.

Speaker 5 (08:10):
I don't know what Asia Wilson was on and she
was they were asking her could she beat an NBA
player because she I think it was Josh Hart and
she said she could beat Do you believe.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
That a w NBA player could beat an NBA player?

Speaker 2 (08:22):
I was just talking about this. I just don't. It's
not physically.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
Possible, you know what I'm saying, Like I could barely
grab realm you over the backboard, like.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
But like no NBA player, Like no.

Speaker 5 (08:35):
What about what about if we took let's just say
we took a top five w NBA player, So we
took Stewie, we took Asia, we put we took feed
and the feicial Collier. Who else you want to put it?
You want to throw a nest cool in there. You
want to throw Jean Cue Jones. I mean, you want
to put Kaitland Clark, whoever, and I'm gonna take let's
just say, for the saga argument, I take the twelfth guy.

(08:56):
Not not obviously Katie Lebron Luca, that ain't happening. But
I'm saying we're gonna take the twelfth, thirteenth or fourteenth guy.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
He don't get in.

Speaker 5 (09:03):
But like two minutes left in the game, when they
up by twenty five or they down by twenty five,
could they beat Wanna Bill?

Speaker 2 (09:11):
It just depends on the metrics, bro, Honestly, do.

Speaker 5 (09:14):
We gotta play It ain't no handicap. It's straight up basketball.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
Them guys can dunk. Them guys are all Americans. He
the hardest getting the NBA.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
I do it.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Literally.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
I got a new appreciation for Summer League cause I'm
like all of these girls, all these guys are playing
for like one or two spots, correct, and these guys
booming they seven foot is Bro.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
I'm not I can't get in that argument because I
know I know I can't.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
I'll tell you that, like you six eight in the
point guard, what am I about to do?

Speaker 2 (09:37):
I'm five to ten almost five eleven.

Speaker 5 (09:39):
Right, But if you could let me ask you question.
You say you like to play. When you were growing up,
you played played against the guys. Would you like to
train with the NBA players?

Speaker 3 (09:47):
Oh yes, Oh my gosh. I met Kyrie Iurvan yesterday
and it was so cool. I go a lot Vegasville,
but he was like, you know, I really respect what
you do. I love your raps, I love your basketball.
And I was talking one of his affiliates and he
was like, yeah, we're gonna get you kai in the gym.
And I was like, I'm trying to add like I'm
not tweaking out, but I'm like, okay, cool, Like.

Speaker 7 (10:06):
I'm like but And then I text Klay Thompson because
I always been this impressed with his balance and his footwork,
and I'm like, you know, I would really come just
love to watch you work.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
Sometimes you just want to see a person in their element.
And I was like, I want to come and watch
you work.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
He hit me. He was like, yo, when I get
back to Dallas, you know, we can definitely get some
shots up. So I kind of been reaching out, but.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, you know, he kind of busy.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Now, I know, I know when you get back.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
Okay, Yeah, but no, like you know, this is so cool,
like being respected by my periods.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yes, you know what I'm saying, because it's like I.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
Just want to learn, bro, Like especially in basketball, I
just want to learn. I just want to sit around
you and try to what's your routine? Like asking questions
like that.

Speaker 5 (10:47):
So it's super cool because you know, you do realize like, Okay,
you're going back to college, but you know this is
your gonna be your last year of college and now
you go to the w NBA.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
That's a real job.

Speaker 5 (10:57):
Ain't no more study, hall, Ain't no more child hall,
Ain't no more workouts. You are. I mean, you're a
grown woman now. But I'm saying you've grown. You're on
your own. You got to get your own housing, you
got to get to and from practice. You got to know,
you have to develop a routine, right and you know,
to get ahead started. Like God, let me ask you
a question, So what time is practice? If we have
practice at this time, what do I do? What do

(11:18):
I eat?

Speaker 1 (11:18):
And then I go to practice? Then what do y'all
do after practice? Is that? Is that some of the
information that you're trying to find out?

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Absolutely?

Speaker 3 (11:24):
But you know I'm excel in that category because I've
been on a five am routine since high school.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yeah, I've been disciplined since high school. I was.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
I first started getting the circuit at tenth grade. So
I told myself, I'm gonna become a McDonald's All American.
I did four workouts a day for three for two
years straight and became McDonald Americans. So, like, my my
routine is there, it's the little stuff that you don't
know that.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
You only know from experience.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Correct, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
I feel like I feel like I'm excel in a
WNBA because I ain't got too many stipulations.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
On me in college. Just a lot you gotta buy, buy,
and all of that.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
If you're telling me I could get my work in,
how I do per usual five to ten and I
got my.

Speaker 5 (11:59):
Last and I got rest to day. But how do
you budget that time? Because that's the thing. There's so
much free time, because you know, in college, you get
your work out in. I don't know if you guys
practice in the morning of the evening. Okay, you get
your work out in. Now you got study hall, now
you got weight training, now you got all this other stuff,
whereas in the WNBA or being a professional, you get.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
Your work in, you done. Yes, what do you do
with all that idle time?

Speaker 2 (12:21):
I ain't run businesses, I'm a rapper.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
I'll be in a studio a mentor. Like I do
a lot of stuff my time. I don't waste my
time like I'm an executioner. That's why I like to
call myself like I get a plan, I get an idea.
You I just got it tatted like I execute. So
I really don't play with my time and you I'm
gonna show you my notebook like I got time stamps
all day, like when I'm doing this time, like Tom Box,
I like to get stuff done. And you know what

(12:43):
in my profession, you know, keep the main thing, the
main thing. But all those hours you got, that's when
you build your dream at So that's the kind of
mentality I try.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
To keep going for.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
Who is your basketball item?

Speaker 2 (12:55):
Lebron?

Speaker 5 (12:56):
Okay, if you could ask Lebron's Okay, Lebron is Lebron
was sitting right here.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
What you want to ask Broun.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
I'm gonna ask.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
Lebron James, what is your mindset throughout those slumps like
you know what I'm saying, Because we go through these
slumps in the season, I want to know what the
greatest of all time?

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Where his mentality is like towards.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
It, Like you know what I'm saying, Like not when
the times are good, when it's bad, it's.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
Bad because we could all be good something like because
I always when I go through these slumps, he got
my coaches telling.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Me no, no, no no. But I'm like, man, come on.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
Like like but one of the greatest of all time.
I want to know, Like what's sure? Like how do
you get through that?

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Like you work through it? Do you know what I'm saying?
Your confidence? Like where your mom set?

Speaker 3 (13:29):
Because he don'et been through so many trials being a celebrity,
you know what I'm.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
Saying, being in the basketball world, how do you balance that?
He was seventeen exactly.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
He doesn't know what it's like not to have a
camera in his face. Literally, Yeah, he doesn't get to
go to the mall.

Speaker 5 (13:44):
He doesn't get to go to the movies. He don't
get to go the stuff that if you take for
granted acts it's like, wow, I mean I wish I
could just go to the movie with my kids, go
to the mall with my kids and go to dinner
with my kids and not have security and everybody.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
I'm starting to feel it because like I'll be going
I like to go to the movies. I'm in the
movie club at AMC. And you know, so I started
getting stopped, like you know what I'm saying. A lot
Like I'm saying, I'm like, I can't get my popcorn
no more. I send my boyfriend and get my popcorn
and I go up there. But it's like certain things
you can't do. And I can only imagine being on
Lebron statue, like he can't even eat dinner, you know
what I'm saying. So it's a lot that come with it,

(14:22):
like being the great.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
You go to savannahagh Beach.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
No, I didn't go to high school in Savanna.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
You didn't know what are you?

Speaker 2 (14:29):
I moved out there.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
I went to Sprayberry High School in Marianna. Yep, main
history there. They retired number four, They retired number four,
all time record leader, scoring leader, all of that.

Speaker 5 (14:41):
So ain't nobody as long as Sprayberry's in the district,
There's never gonna be a young lady that will ever
be able to don the number four unless they asked, Hey, and.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
You know I'm I'm for the kids.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
So if it's somebody that's hard and colder that's coming
out of Spraybury and you want that fault, you might
have represented that fall to the time to the.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Well what happened?

Speaker 2 (15:01):
She?

Speaker 1 (15:01):
Get it is? She ain't like that.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
You I ain't gonna give to you know, get it?
You gotta work, watch a film, or we don't work
out together like you want to know? You hit me,
Let me see what you got.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
You might have be to say that number for a
little flow. You're the first.

Speaker 5 (15:19):
You're the first girl to have her number retired at
that high school, school's all time leading scorer, Region six
six A Player of the Year, m VP of Brand
Jordan Classic McDonald's All American. Well that what was your
Let me ask you a question going into your senior year,
you said I wanted to be a McDonald's All American. Obviously,
you play basketball. I think everybody that plays at the
level you play jv. You want to play varsity. You

(15:40):
play varsity. You have dreams and aspiration of going to college.
You play college ball. Some people don't like Hey, just
as far as the train is gonna go for me,
and I'm cool with that. But talking to you just
a little bit, I've been talking to you. You always
wanted to go to that next step. So in high school,
your senior year, what were the steps? What did you
need to do to make sure you know what? I'm

(16:00):
a McDonald's all American, I'm a brand Jordan all American,
and I get a D one scholarship.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
It's only one thing a dog gonna do. Go kill
everybody at the.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
Top of the That's the only way I know how
to come out. I gotta go get big dog. If
I say on big dog. So everybody in my class,
like I had a screenshot on my phone and I'm
just like, yup, got you got you summertime, AAU tournaments,
wherever you at, We coming right.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
And that's how we came.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
And that's the only way I jumped from fifty six
in the nation to the number six guard in the nation.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
And then nobody heard of me before my tenth grade year.
Like you know what I'm saying. I was unheard of.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
And man, I worked hard, but I wanted to go
get everybody like I couldn't duct no smoke.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
I wanted all this. I wanted all the smoke and
it's it's on camera, it's on YouTube.

Speaker 5 (16:47):
You you played the iverson Classic. Yep, you was the
only young lady.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
Only girl ya shout out Raven.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
From South Carolina she did it and Raven Johnson and
then I did it right, and so it was super cool.
I'm not gonna lie, that's crazy because I seen AI
last night.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
I was like, Pretio Classic. He's like, I know you.
I'm like, I'm just letting you know.

Speaker 5 (17:08):
So, so what was it like? So now you have
this your senior year. You do everything that you said
you wanted to accomplish. But I'm sure some of these
McDonald's all American young ladies that you had never seen before.
So now this is the best of the best. You're
not a sprayberry where every night you step on the floor,
you're the best player. Now, all of a sudden, you
were with twenty four other young ladies and where they

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stepped on the floor, they were the best. And now
we got twenty four young ladies on the floor.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
What's your mindset?

Speaker 2 (17:37):
Man, I'm trying to destroy y'all. I'm trying to destroy y'all.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
Right, that's my mentality, I'm not your teammates, like you
know what I'm saying, Like.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
They picked us to see Like, okay, who are you.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
To talk about? Right?

Speaker 2 (17:52):
So that was my mentality going into it.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
I was so upset I did not play a good
game with a mcdonald' American game.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
I broke my finger.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
It's on my a YouTube series on Netflix. I broke
my finger in practice and it was I couldn't shoot.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
I was so upset. I was crying. After the McDonald's
All American.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
I was like, this was my shot, this is my shot,
and then you know, we had it again Jordan's.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
So I came back and I was MVP. I was cooked.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
Them like I did Slam. I did Jordan and then
I did McDonald's and I got.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Two out of three of the MVP's. Yeah. So in
high school, I was a minute. I'm chilling now.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
So did you get a chance to meet Mike? Was
Mike the Mike come?

Speaker 2 (18:33):
No? He wasn't even there. He was not there.

Speaker 5 (18:35):
What about the McDonald's All Americans, Because sometimes guys come
back and they see, especially if they were McDonald's officer
McDonald's All Americans.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
Did you come? So? So did you get the chance
to meet anybody.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
I met a lot of people that was a long
time ago I met.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
I met Bradley Beal was like I was like one
of his favorites and like, nah, that was That was
pretty much it. That was the highlight from that because
I was so locked in, like when I go to
those things, I don't really be into the semantics.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
I'm trying to.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Try to kill different business.

Speaker 5 (19:01):
Yeah yeah, so you go, we're gonna transition to your
other I don't know if it's a hobby, your passion,
your passion, your maine depreciow the rap game. You're making
your name as a rapper now it's I don't know
if they're like like a lot of time, like if

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my dad or my mom was a doctor or this
or that, you know, kids followed in that profession. I
don't know if they're like somebody has a dad that
was a rapper or a mob that was a rapper
and then the daughter tried to follow it in those footsteps.
Was that was that a conscious decision that you wanted
to be a rapper or was it something that just happened.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
It wasn't a conscious decision. It just got pulled to me, like,
excuse me.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
It was different from me because my daddy got killed,
Like you know what I'm saying. He got murdered, right,
and he was.

Speaker 3 (19:51):
Doing this and I just had such a strong connection
to him, to his music, right because I didn't know
him and I never got to meet him.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
So it's different from when I do.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
Music because it's really coming from within, you know, like
it's coming from the pain, you know what I'm saying,
of not having my dad and him wanted to live
out his dream and then they're being taken away from him.
But in some ways, I just feel like God gave
it to me. So I feel like that's why people
don't understand, like they think it low. She just want
to wrap and she want to hoop. But it's like no,
like I'm doing something bigger than me, Like I want
to fulfill my father's legacy and people can know his

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name more than mine, you know what I'm saying. And
so it's just a different duty for me. It's why
I just I worked so hard to balance it, you
know what I'm saying. But it's not like my dad
doing this, so I'm doing I never seen my dad
do it, right, you know what I'm saying I just
heard his music and I feel like that's our connection
only show.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
Did it help you advance your career in the rep what?

Speaker 3 (20:45):
I want to give a big shout out to Jamain
dupre Man. That show changed my life. Wow, bro, what
that show is coming on every Friday after Dancing Dolls
and ten pm on Lifetime.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
And people was tuned in.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
I remember one time it was like we was over
the Masters and like the viewership and airing and the
big old golf tournament.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
I was like, Wow, the Masters is big.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
Like this is big and so people still I'm twenty one.
I was thirteen on the Rap Game. They're like, oh
my god, you fly from the Rap Game, like they
remember me from the rapping. I'm like, bro, I do
so much now, like I go to LSU. You know
what I'm saying, But they know me from that. So man,
Jamaine Dupriex, he really did a big one with that.

Speaker 5 (21:20):
You got an opportunity to meet obviously JD is his
show be Queen Latifa, Rick Ross, Fab the Brat. Yeah,
how was it meeting there? Because excuse me the rap Latifa.
I don't think Latifa gets the credit that she deserves.
When they start talking about a women rapper, you know,
everybody naturally go to nick In rightfully so and Little
Cam and Foxy Brown, but Latifa mc light those are Missy.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
Like is a rock man.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
I'm like, well, those women right there, they're different. And
I say that because Queen Latifa is everything that I
really want to be as far as.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
All around goddess. The girl's the legend.

Speaker 3 (21:58):
She's from Cleo to miss Likeeople do everything. Then the music,
it made me fall in love with her when I
dug back into that because I didn't know, yeah, you
know my generation, she's just an actor. But then I
go back and she rapping with the lady from London
and they rocking on the tracks and like I was like, wow,
Like that's like perseverance.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
That's great, And I feel like for me, like, you
gotta respect the ladies that come before you. You know
what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
You have to learn from that because like you're gonna
get closer to your creativity. And when it was originated,
and I just feelt you gotta pay homage like Missy
she put on for the dark skinned woman and yeah,
she made everything cool, like she was.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
Wearing missus ahead of her time.

Speaker 5 (22:35):
I don't know how much of her videos that you've seen, man,
but her videos are all futuristic. They would be I
mean that was in the nineties, in the early two
thousand and they would be ahead of their time to today. Yeah,
that's how That's how great she was and legendary she was.
And as far as the video, we you know, we
know a music, we know a rap. Okay, this is unprecedented,
Lauren Hill.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yeah, like you talking about death and like soul real deep,
like she's connected.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
What do you think the number one thing that you
learned from being on that show?

Speaker 3 (23:04):
Ooh, how to command and have that and have that
have that presence, you know what I'm saying, Like you
how to be a star kind of you don't have
to walk in and be loud and be boastful and
be arrogant, you know what I'm saying, to be a
star like it's just your or it's just your aroma.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
So you know, I just was taught to be laid
back and cool like JD. He laid back and cool,
he JD. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
So it just taught me, you know, how to be professional,
how to have studio etiquette and you know, just doing
the right things as an artist that could be like
lost in this art. Like really it was like artist development, right,
and that's what a lot of artists don't have.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
It's artist development. That's why it don't last.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
So you know, just you I really understand, when you
get that opportunity, you gotta take heed in that.

Speaker 5 (23:44):
Why do you think JD's had so much success with
kid bow Wow, Chris Cross?

Speaker 1 (23:50):
He's had such success with young.

Speaker 5 (23:53):
Teenage I mean, I mean bow Wow was so young
when he got bow Wow Chris Cross, and he said
I think he said he saw there in the mall
one day and people were going crazy, Like what do
I don't know about them?

Speaker 1 (24:03):
Why do you think he's had such success?

Speaker 2 (24:05):
Bro? Like some people just know the blueprint.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
Like even these kids you see on social media, You'll
be like what they doing, but they making millions on
social media because they understand Like, yes, he understood it early,
and just how he came back and doubled back with
the rap game.

Speaker 2 (24:17):
He understood it again.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
You know what I'm saying that I feel like he
could do it again, you know what I'm saying. So
I think he just understand that blueprint. And some people
are just gifted, you know what I'm saying, and they
really work hard and explore their talents.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
A lot of people don't. But he had the eye
for it.

Speaker 5 (24:31):
That's what I think Loto was on. Was on that
rap game and she won. Did that make you want
to get what?

Speaker 2 (24:37):
Yes? When I was, I got you. I think I
was like twelve.

Speaker 3 (24:41):
All I see is kid rappers, and I'm a kid rapper,
I think I am. And I see all these kids
and I'm like bro. First first season, I seen a
lot of little Niko. I think it was like young Lyric.
I was like super PG. Today was all walking and rapping.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
I was like, oh my gosh, this is so cool.
I was the mission.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
That was my mission was to get on that show.
I had no other mission. I was like, I'm gonna
get on that show.

Speaker 5 (25:05):
Didn't did the rap at that point? At that juncture
of your life? Was rap more important than basketball.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
At that point? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (25:12):
Because with basketball I was just going on the court
every day working myself out. I never had a trainer,
walk into La Fitness, playing the guys all day, like
that's all I did until, like, like.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
My coach J shout out coach j He he was like.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
FLA, like you could play in like you could play
in college, Like you can go to college for this,
And we're like, no, I can't. I didn't know, like
the WNBA wasn't prevalent or nothing like this, So I'm
thinking about rap.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
I'm like, I just do this on the side.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
He'd be like nah.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
Like and then like coach Yo from Old Miss, she
was like, I'm offering you a scholarship. And I was like, Wow,
That's when I kind of started believing in the basketball.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
But you still have never left that rap.

Speaker 5 (25:47):
Even though you think about basketball and you devote a
lot of time to basketball, and you make sure you
get your shots up, you make sure you get your rest,
and you make sure you hit the training and the
weight room, but still there's something about that rap that
just hugs that fly.

Speaker 3 (26:02):
It because so many people doubt me, like and I
feel like people don't give me a chance because I
play basketball, Like you know what I'm saying, they don't
really give a chance to it.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
But it's just something that.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
Just when I can't stop, I can't stop recording, I
can't stop making music. Like when you know you get
that joy from something, that joy where you could be
doing it for.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
Hours and you don't care.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
That's the joy I get from making music, And that's
the same joy I get from being in the workout right.
So it's like, I know I'm supposed to be doing this.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
I can't put it down.

Speaker 5 (26:28):
What you're unique in that way because it's not like
Nicki has another hobby that she's probably just as passionate about,
or she's just as good at as rap. You happen
to be an athlete that can dribble the basketball, can
shoot to put the ball in the hoop at an
elite level, but you also equally a breast at getting
on the mic and floor.

Speaker 3 (26:47):
Yeah yeah, Nicki and I don't come get me the barbs,
but not.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
Like that set me apart. Yes, you know what I'm saying,
that's what I like that. I love that's different one
on one. I got that.

Speaker 3 (27:02):
Energy, you know, like, but that's everybody got that, you
know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
I feel like everybody got that gift. I just understood. Mind.
I had a mom that was like, no, you're gonna
do this, and if you're gonna do it, we're gonna
do it.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
Do it, okay, Yeah, that was Mom Deuke.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
But she was like that makes Flach different, like Fla
just different. And I was like, why are you right?

Speaker 5 (27:19):
Like nobody doing this women rappers, if you could kill,
You're like, you got your choice. I'm gonna give you four.
You only get four past or present that you could
collab with who you jumping on the mic with.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
I gotta go, Missy, just got to got to. I
gotta go NICKI like Nicky. Nicky ran rap as long
as I was alive, till I got old. You gotta go,
Nicki oohs.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
From your A.

Speaker 5 (27:50):
You got float Melee, you got glow Riller, you got Meg,
you got Lotto, you got I Spice, you got sexy Red.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
I ain't even we ain't even mention your little kill
and Foxy.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
I'm gonna go Meg, and I'm gonna go Carty. Okay, yeah,
because let me tell you all of them different.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yeah, Nicky, she ran the game.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Lauren Hill, Queen, Maggie Carty. I feel like Carty came
up different.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
Like I feel like Carti really was the well, it's
like the biggest female that came out in that social
media era. You know, people knew Carty be on her
social before they before they knew her from music, and
then she blew up number one record like she finally
about to drop again.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
That's gonna be dope.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
And then Meggan like, I feel like she really came
in a roup, like you know what I'm saying, a
lot of people they came out, but she really care out.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
So I would say, give me a Mount Rushmore.

Speaker 5 (28:40):
Bruh, you do really on the forward because y'all've had
people that give me Mount Rushmore and they be trying
to put five six heads.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
I'm like, did y'all go.

Speaker 5 (28:46):
To school, did y'all do anything in history? You know
there's only four heads on Mount Rushmore? My female rappers,
female rapper Rushmore.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
Okay, I gotta go Lauren, gotta go, Nicky. I know
I ain't said her, but Eve is on there for me. Damn.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
You ain't want to do no colloubd with it, but
she on your mouth rush More, Eve, you ain't done.
You ain't put on that though I do.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
I take it back. I gotta take somebody off.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
Well who you take it off? Nothing?

Speaker 2 (29:16):
I add another head on. I love Eve, bro Eve,
talk to the soul that love is blind. You don't
mess me up, bro, I don't even know no more.
And Nikki.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
So you got Nikki, you got Lauren Hills, you got Eve.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
I said nice, you said.

Speaker 5 (29:36):
Nigga, you got so we got Nikki, we got Eve
and we got Lauren Hill. So you get one more.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
We was up there for sure, no doubt about it.
I'm trying to trick me up.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
We're gonna come back to you it. We're gonna take
some of the heads up right right right. I love it.

Speaker 5 (30:00):
Everybody America's got talent. Yes, so you get on, you
get the call, you go on, America's got talent. What
was that experience?

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Like?

Speaker 3 (30:08):
Oh it was beautiful right cause I already knew I'm
a young black girl. Yes, this this demographic is more
so you know, like a Caucasian artists, white artist. I'm like,
I love this, Like I want everybody to listen to
my music. I don't want a fan base of where
it's just like, you know, people that look like me,
because people that don't look like you still go through

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similar battles and a different fund. I will say, we
all live in saying life different fun. So I'm like
everybody going through something, so like I want to connect
with everybody. I want to see if my words are
so powerful that I could connect with people that's not
from my background.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
And they could feel what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
And that's what I did on America's Got Talent, went
on there and told my story, wrote a song called
guns Down and Honor my father, and then a high
school shooting at that time had happened in in Florida,
so it was like I put I wrote that and
man like they connected and Simon Kyle came to the
back of the of like on the stage, was like yes.
He was like, one day You're gonna be a superstar.

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It's on video, go get it. And he said, one
day You're gonna be a superstar. You don't know what
that different my confidence?

Speaker 2 (31:08):
I walked wrong, but I walked around everything. I'm like, y'all,
I'm a star.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
Yeah, you say what Simon said.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
Y'all heard what Simon Simon said.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
Yes, Simon said no literally, But when he said that,
it was like confidence because I didn't think I had
it in music.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
Because America's Got Talent called me after the Rap game.
You know what I'm saying. That's why I'd be like
when yo, when you get take your l.

Speaker 3 (31:31):
You got to learn the lesson, and the lesson from
the Rap Game was to get ready for America's Got Talent.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
Because when I lost the Rap Game, I was so hurt.
I went up to my room. I was writing.

Speaker 3 (31:39):
I ain't even leave my room for about a mother too,
Like I was just writing, like I'm upstairs writing in
my book all day. Then America Got Talent called, and
I was prepared because I took that L. So I
was ready, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
And man, but my life changed after that. And on
America's Got Talent for sure, you.

Speaker 5 (31:52):
Mentioned that when it wasn't your time in the Rap Game,
you lost that you said, I just I took my L.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
But how were you? I mean, you're so young.

Speaker 5 (32:03):
Yeah, and that's that's the hardest part is to is
dealing with disappointment because we want what we want when
we want it, and we cannot see past that moment.
But you were mature enough to understand this isn't the end,
this is only the beginning.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
Yes, that's why I knew I was different. And you
know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
I ain't know what it was, but I knew I
was different because some folks would crumble and was like, Okay,
I'm like, I'm just chilling the music.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
But it made me mad, like you know what I'm saying.
It made me mad like I was.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
Mad at jab became me more driven.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
What Yes, I was mad at you made the pre
you know what I said. But now that I look
bad like you made the right decision, I'm like, you
ain't gonna pick me? He know who? I like?

Speaker 3 (32:42):
It took me there, So it's how you use that
adversity though. You know my dad always say, you know,
take the d the disc off a disadvantage, you know
what I'm saying, and.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
You can really see your future. Then I just knew
I was gonna be big.

Speaker 3 (32:54):
I don't know how, I know why, but I was like,
if I go on this stage on America Got Talent
and rap to these people and they feel me, anybody
could feel me, you know what I'm.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
Saying, And you started crying.

Speaker 5 (33:03):
Yeah, what was it about that performance that connected you
with you and touch you so much that the emotions
spilled out?

Speaker 3 (33:12):
It touched me so much because I was every day
I was watching America's Got Talent videos just trying to
make myself cry.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
I don't know why. I used to just love to
watch the Golden Buzzers and the stories. You know what
I'm saying, I don't know why.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
And when I seen that confetti falling, and it was
just like a realization of like, Wow, your dreams can
come true. You know what I'm saying, Like your dreams
can come true if you stay prepared, persevere poor preparation,
prevent poor.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Performance, stay prepared, and you make it happen. And it
was just it was it was too much for me.
That's why I was crying. But it was really a realization.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
And then I thought I couldn't get the Golden Buzzer
because I didn't know how to pro pross work. I
had judge cuts and a new judge came because they
gave all their golden buzzes away before I performed my
first song. Oh you know what I'm saying, So I'm
going to the next round.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
I'm like, bro I got so when he hit that,
I was like, oh, this is a miracle. I was like,
oh my gosh, and this I knew, like I could
do music.

Speaker 5 (34:08):
Your dad, if I'm not mistaken, I'm I don't know
your dad personally, but obviously I went to school in Savannah.
I spent time in Savannah, so I know who he is.
And if I'm not mistaken, he died before you were born,
even though you did not have a personal physical connection

(34:29):
with him, how did that impact you growing up?

Speaker 2 (34:33):
It hurt me. I ain't gonna lie, like, because.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
So many people knew your dad is your dad was
a thing in.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
Savanna what And it sucked being reminded of that. A story.

Speaker 3 (34:47):
That is, everybody got a story, and it just hurt
because it was like I never.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
Could make no stories with him.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
You know what I'm saying, y'all telling me stories how
he was the coolest cat. He just like you, y'all
just solike, and it's just like what I'm gonna do
with that, I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
So that's I was. I was angry when I was
a kid. I was wool, I was bad, and I
was angry. And I was trying to forget why I
was so angry.

Speaker 3 (35:06):
Because I didn't think it was because I was missing
my father, because that was the only thing I knew.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
That was my normal, right, So I didn't think it
would hurt me. But as I got older, I started seeing.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
Like, okay, kids bringing the kids, their dad going to
the game, watching.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
Them the game, they dad training them. They my friend's
telling me my dad making me mad, he making me
go to practice. I'm like, I wish I could have.

Speaker 3 (35:26):
That's what I'm saying in my head. I wish my
dad had made me. You know what I'm saying, Yes,
but I'm making myself go every single day. I'm walking
myself to the gym like I don't have nobody.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
So that was irritating.

Speaker 3 (35:36):
I'm not gonna lie, like, I understand the trauma coming
from it, and I just feel like if my dad
was here, I wouldn't have had to go through so
many situations, right you know.

Speaker 5 (35:45):
Hold on, I also read that at the time, and
because I, like I said, I knew he was holding
a child when he got shot.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
Yeah, mm hmm, yeah, it's a it's brother. Okay. Let
me tell you.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
So this is how the people describe it. He was
really there, you know, he was at the studio, you know,
and then people rolled up broad daylight. He had the
kid in his hand, and they shot him, killed him
broad daylight with the kid in his hand, and he
thought the kid was his At the time, but they.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
Ended up getting like the blood working.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
It wasn't his kid, but that's like evil, like you
know what I'm saying, like with like with the kid,
the kid don't have nothing to do Like That's that's
when I was like whoa And it really that really
hurt me to my core cause it's like, bro, like
I was one decision away from my life being different,
that's all, and it broad it's just who growing up
it was hard and then you know, people knew me,

(36:43):
so they star to talk about it and used to
irk me with it and I used to crash out
and bruh.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
But it was hard to go through and I.

Speaker 3 (36:49):
Couldn't understand if you don't if you don't have that,
it started to play tricks with your mind cause it
would be like how do I miss someone I never had?

Speaker 2 (36:57):
So it's a it's it's different.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
Does it bother you that the case remains unsolved been
after all these years?

Speaker 2 (37:05):
Nah, it don't bother me, you know it don't. It
don't really bother me because what's gonna happen. It's gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
As you sit here and do this interviewer, you're the
exact same age as your father.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
Was that's crazy when he lost his life.

Speaker 5 (37:22):
Man, do you think think about it, how much you've
done at the same age and he can go no
further and you just have so much if the Lord's willing, Yeah,
it go with so much further.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
And it's crazy, brother, because I don't even think like
they're like all the accolades that you said before my
name and you know that's just all basketball, like you
know what I'm saying, Like just think about that.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
And I'm only twenty one. And my dad, I think
he just would have loved to see it, like I
ain't gonna lie like.

Speaker 3 (37:51):
No crazy stuff like my dad came to me in
a dream one time. Did Yeah, it was crazy, brother,
Now I remember, and it was vivid and I was
I was like focused, like I was thinking about giving up,
like because it was so much going on. I think
this was like college, probably like my sophomore like I'm
gonna going through it.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
I'm not sticking to my team. I'm just falling off
the mouth.

Speaker 3 (38:11):
And I just had a crazy dream and it was
I heard his voice, seen his faces like hey, like
like locking kind of on that top like get it together,
like you know what I'm saying get it together, and
it was just a check for.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
Me, Like I don't know, like for me, it's just
like you know, you you you see certain things, you
see a certain number, and you'd be like, oh, yeah,
you're watching over me. But I feel at that time
it was like it was something I couldn't go on too.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
If your dad was sitting here now, yeah, his baby.

Speaker 5 (38:36):
Yeah, all that she's done the basketball college y'all All
America and the SEC Freshman of the Year, All SEC.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
National Champion, She's gonna go play in the w NBA.
What do you think your dad would say to you? Proud?

Speaker 2 (38:51):
My mama don't know how to act, so my mama.

Speaker 3 (38:55):
Bro made me feel like Beyonce, So I know he'll.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
Just be off the wall. And my stepdad he is
insane too, Like, oh my stepdad, he jumping for joy.
But I just would I just wish I could have
took him more out of Savannah. You know, he probably
would have been a big star or whatever. But you know,
just you know, to see the things and the places that.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
Basketball has taking me and my family, me and my mama,
you know, Bro, Like, I just think he'll be proud
of the way I'm taking care of my mom and
my family, and you know, putting myself in position to
be more than just basketball, more than just music, like
pouring into the community because he loved the kids and
I love the kids, and just giving back, like I
think he'll be proud of me.

Speaker 5 (39:34):
So I do it in his honor right because you see,
you see like Jason Tatum and his mom and his son,
and you see that early on in the beginning, you
saw a lot of lebron and glow his mom.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
But to see that like so light man, because I
had the same thing.

Speaker 5 (39:51):
My dad died at a very young age, and he
didn't get an opportunity to see my brother and I
accomplish what we accomplished. Although you know, not physically, we
know the spiritually heath whe but to be able to
have my dad in the locker room, or to have
him in the stands and say, like my boys, and
and and in what three weeks, my brother's gonna join
me in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. I can
just imagine my grandfather and my father actually seeing the

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actually witnessing what we've become. And for your dad capouflage
to actually see his girl from from this big to
go to here, and to go and become an All
American in high school and McDonald's All American, win the
MVP at Brand Jordan and go to l s U
and be Freshman of the Year in the Southeastern Conference,
and to win a national championship.

Speaker 1 (40:33):
Man he'd be doing back now. You know a song,
you know you put that in a song.

Speaker 2 (40:43):
It don't seem real.

Speaker 5 (40:44):
Sometimes every year, your mom throws a birthday party for
your dad, and eight years old, you perform.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
That was crazy.

Speaker 3 (40:53):
Let me tell you, my mom used to do these
parties right, and I used to hate what she used
to do because she used to go to the club.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
I thought the club was bad. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (41:00):
When I was young, all my things, I'll go to
the club, but you know she I was, but I
figured out these parties. I'm like, mam, let me perform, Like,
let me rap. And my uncle's like, yeah, let her rap,
don't need like, let her wrap, let her up. She's like, no,
you're not gonna be a rapper because she knows. She
felt like rap bad because.

Speaker 1 (41:14):
My dad, Yeah, what happened with you dad?

Speaker 2 (41:16):
I'm like, mom, please just let me. She's like, you
ate you're not going in the club, don't read some
book to me? And my uncle.

Speaker 3 (41:21):
My uncle started writing me wraps and I started going
to the studio or the court woll like, my look,
I got songs like you know what I'm saying. I'm like,
literally seven years Old'm like, are you gonna let me wrap?

Speaker 2 (41:29):
She's like, all right, bro co on. So my mom said,
if you're gonna do it, we're gonna do it. She
had me in the.

Speaker 3 (41:33):
Camouflage pants georgia puffer vest, who was went to sleep
at the club, woke up on my sleep, performed, and
then left. And that was the first performance I ever did.
She posted on YouTube and people were like, do you
do bookings? Like, so I was booking in Savannah, doing
birthday parties and stuff, and then I end up going
on tour with like Miles's behavior and dang, so.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
You making you've been making brand for it, we've been
moving Nah.

Speaker 3 (41:55):
No, it was no start up day, so I wouldn't
say we were making no brand, spending more, you are
losing more.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
But it was just the experience and the opportunity and
you know what we were trying to build.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
Do you remember the song that you performed.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
What Yeah, I had, Seaport Jig, I had swag. Oh,
oh what I had I had? Yeah it was Seaport
Jig and Swag that was the best ones.

Speaker 1 (42:17):
How often do you find yourself how often do you
listen to some of his music?

Speaker 3 (42:21):
Ooh, all the time, like if I'm before a big
game or something like if I need my dad energy,
like I'm gonna turn that music on, like and I
like the Pain stuff like no Love having Not Too Far,
Like I like the Pain, Like I like that I
Represent album. I listened to it a lot, like I'm
I probably streamed it more than anybody in the world.
I used to go to sleep to it.

Speaker 5 (42:40):
Really yeah, But is it true that your dad knew
I don't know if you've heard this, maybe your mom
if related to you that he knew Little Bootsy, he
knew Birdman, knew Jezy.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
Yeah no, like literally, my mom told me that all
of those rappers like really respected him, like t I
Rick Ross cause they was all coming up at the
same time. Then my dad just ended up dying, right,
But Boosie he was the one that just he came
and looked after.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
Me like really yeah, Like if I ever needed anything.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
Like big, Like my mom never asked him for nothing,
but if I needed it, he was like, I can't
My mama said I can't do it.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
Boozy'll come through. And he always kept it a thousand.
Like I used to go up to his mansion and
like see his play with his kids, like me and
Ivy were close to this day. It was just crazy
to me because I never had a father figure, you
know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (43:22):
So just to see this man and his big old mansion,
he got all his kids. We just eating popsicles all day.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
At the pool, we can play basketball, we could do whatever.

Speaker 3 (43:31):
I was like, Wow, Boots really showed me like like
black like you know what I'm saying, Like he building
his own house and excells.

Speaker 2 (43:38):
I was like, okay, but that was that was it.

Speaker 3 (43:40):
Like and then I as I meet these artists like
Ti and all of them, they're like, bro, we love
your dad, We respected your dad and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
So that'd be cool.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
What do people get wrong about Boozy?

Speaker 2 (43:51):
Okay? You know, like you've been sitting me stuff. I
can't defend him all the time because like he be saying.

Speaker 3 (43:59):
So I'd be like, that's my uncle man, you know
what I'm saying, I'm a man I don't know.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
But what they don't know is that man got a
heart of gold.

Speaker 3 (44:07):
Wow, Boosy got a heart of gold, like he'd give
you his shirt off his back, like heart of gold.
And I've seen that just off the strength of what
he did for me, because.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
He had no he didn't even know he Boosey said
in his song.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
I met him one week. The next week he died.
I almost cried, and he said, I don't want to
be like camouflage. I met him one week, the next
week he died. I almost cried.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
And damn, you ain't knew my dad for two weeks.
Probably didn't even you know what I'm saying. I probably
you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (44:30):
You came and yes, loved it, took care of me
like I was your child when I was in your presence.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
So he always had my respect. But he is a
little off the wall. I've been looking at having to
be dying, y'all. Ain't just see him.

Speaker 3 (44:42):
Jump on the deck, say closed the water slide. He
jumped on the water slide, no ride for nothing, like
he gonna live his life.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
To the floods. That's my dog.

Speaker 5 (44:50):
But hold on whether this year or was a couple
of years ago that South Carolina got They beat you guys,
and they played your dad's song after the victory.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
Yeah, they got you. I did it.

Speaker 2 (44:59):
Oh. I was upset, Bro. I wanted a crime.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
I was so mad in the stadium.

Speaker 3 (45:05):
First of all, we had already lost, Like I was mad,
like this was fourth quarter, we already lost.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
And then I was really looking on the bench. I
was looking. I was in there, ma, I was looking
for the DJ moth, like where's the DJ before I
was on that, Like you know what I'm saying. I
was upset about that.

Speaker 3 (45:18):
And then the next day I ended up seeing her
like trolling it on social media, and so I was like, Okay,
I felt you was trying to be weird, but I
now I knew you was trying to be funny, like
you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
Didn they apologize?

Speaker 2 (45:29):
I think she ended up apologizing. I don't really know.
I kind of lifting at that, but that was a mess,
Like you don't do nothing like that, Like you know
my dad, did you know? He a big rapper? Like
you trying to troll me.

Speaker 3 (45:38):
On in an arena for fifteen thousand people for what
But that was just that was weird, That whole situation weird.

Speaker 5 (45:46):
Why did you pick LSU because at the time you
picked the l s U. Yeah, they had some good players.
They had what Simona Augustus went there. I think Phylvia
Files went there, so you had they had some names,
but they ain't went on nextoral Championship.

Speaker 1 (45:57):
They weren't on the map.

Speaker 5 (45:58):
I fenced those Simona us Just and Selvia File, so
they had you know, they weren't like South Carolina on
the come. They weren't like U car They weren't no
to Dame or Standford, to some of these other prominent programs.

Speaker 3 (46:09):
Why l is you, Well, I've just said because Coach
Mokey like really believed in my want to do both aspirations,
and I felt LSU brand was big enough to catapult
me that to that level.

Speaker 2 (46:20):
I knew that you could go over to France and
somebody their friends could be like, let's shoot you know
what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (46:25):
So I was like, I want to be around a
recognizable brand. But also Coach Mokey was so gangster and
laying it out like you could wrap you could go
to the moon and log with you back at one
thirty for practice.

Speaker 6 (46:37):
What you do?

Speaker 2 (46:38):
So I'd say I can work with this lady. Him,
This white lady got some swag, you know what I'm saying.
And you know, she just been my dog. We've been
like then. But she really told me like you could
do both. She ain't dim my light. And it's great
because coach, mok. She's a business woman. But she didn't
deal my light. And she was like, if you go
play basketball, you're gonna give me everything you got, but
you're gonna do music.

Speaker 1 (46:55):
You do it.

Speaker 3 (46:56):
She loved my music, you know what I'm saying. She
me telling everybody, but she she just respected us. So
it was perfect, especially with Nil right.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
But she tough. She tough bro. She tough, She tough.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
Boy.

Speaker 1 (47:10):
And she played the position. She played the guards. She
was on the lady teams, the tech.

Speaker 3 (47:14):
Let me tell you why the monkey tough because she
don't play mind games with you like some coach. They
want us to play mind game improved points. Coach, you
can't gonna prove no point. She gonna tell you when
you're wrong, like she gonna chew you out, and then
she gonna be like you ready to ball? And so
like you gotta take that, eat that and be ready
to perform, because she.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
Don't take stuff personal. She just want to win.

Speaker 3 (47:33):
So like that's what like Brolly, it's hard playing on
the Herbert bro I think I think she took me
to another level though, of.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
Other name, what are some of the other schools that
you could have gone to?

Speaker 2 (47:43):
You know, I always shout out coach Yo at Old
Miss that's my dog. She was one of the first
people to ever offer me ever d one, I think
for sure. And then Don Staley of course.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
You ain't gonna get Lady game Cox. Huh the Lady
game calls been nice.

Speaker 3 (47:59):
When like when I was getting on Yeah, yeah, they
had Asia Wilson everything.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
But yes, that that wasn't my fit, you know what
I'm saying, Like that wasn't my fit. That wasn't my fit.
My dream school was Georgia. Bro.

Speaker 3 (48:13):
They was playing with me doing recruitment, did me? They
ain't recruit me for real? And I wanted to go
there too, But I landed.

Speaker 5 (48:20):
Where I was supposed to be sure facts end up
winning national championship.

Speaker 1 (48:25):
What was that? What was that experience?

Speaker 3 (48:26):
Like, man, that was the craziest experience It's just like
you want of the best, Like you're the best in
the world. You know what I'm saying, Like everything that
you did from October to now, it I'm paid off.
You was able to be mentally locked in for those
long months, that long period of time, and then when
you get when it got the crushed time, you just
elevated your level of play. That's different, and so it

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just felt beautiful all the things that came with it,
all the NI opportunities, but all the opportunities of people
to watch women basketball and the game growth.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
It's like, Bro, people don't know.

Speaker 3 (48:56):
We have mountains of little girls now that want to
play basketball elite level. You know what I'm saying, Like
women's sports is on the rise, and you know, I
was just happy and grateful to be a part of that.

Speaker 2 (49:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (49:08):
Is it true that your teams didn't want to play
with you in the open gym because you was talking track.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
How you go? How you go? Just step o camp?
But they just start talking I learned my.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
Lesson, bro.

Speaker 3 (49:17):
They literally stopped doing the runs.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
They was like, fly, we don't want to play with you.
Like I was talking crazy though, Like I was coming
on that hard marking for no reason, Like I would't say.

Speaker 3 (49:28):
Now that I look bad, Like if a freshman came in,
I'd be like, bro, what's up with her? And like
they didn't want to play with me no more? And
so I was like, why nobody want to do runs?
No more?

Speaker 2 (49:36):
Folks don't want to get better. They had me in
a little circle or whatever. They was like, yeah, you know,
we just want to talk to you.

Speaker 3 (49:42):
You know, certain players like I could play, but they
don't want to. They don't talk like that. You know
what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
You gotta chill.

Speaker 3 (49:47):
And I was like, bro, if y'all had a problem,
y'all could have just told me to fly and I
would have shut up, like you know what I'm saying.
But that's how I play, Like that's how we puppet.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
But yeah, they don't want to play with me. They
want to play with y'all. Was a bad little freshman.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
But you so how did that? How did because your
teammate did you? You and Angel came in together with
you a year older?

Speaker 2 (50:06):
She I was a freshman.

Speaker 1 (50:08):
She was she transferred in.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
Yeah, I think she was a junior or sophomore. So
she transferred and.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
Y'all, you know she was a part of that. So
how do you guys make each other better?

Speaker 2 (50:16):
Big part of it? Well, I just think like she's
just like a dog, like like when you play with
somebody like that.

Speaker 3 (50:24):
That made that game easier and you don't like bro
like twenty rebounds a night, that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
So it was that whole team. Like you had Andrew,
then you had Jazzmine. You had to shoot it like
on the team, and she lit it up in the
championship game.

Speaker 3 (50:37):
Do you have the Danjel Williams And she was like
playing with Angel but like a like they quiet, so
she knew her role. She'd have a big game if
you needed too. You had the point guard insane but
like a really good point guard. And so like you know,
like we had a great team and I was a freshman,
so I was able to learn from everybody.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
But like they were, there was some dogs and I
had to keep up with them. Yeah, yeah, for sure.

Speaker 5 (51:02):
That game, it was the most national championship game between
LSU and IOWA was at that point in time. It
was the most watched women's college basketball game in history.
A little ticker under ten million view the rematch, y'all
came back and did twelve point three. Yeah, obviously, Kaitlyn Clark.
She's National Player of the Year. She has unlimited range.

(51:23):
I mean the US defense system don't have range, have
range like where you could shoot the ball from. You
understood this, simon. You know eyeballs are gonna be watching you.

Speaker 2 (51:32):
You know this.

Speaker 5 (51:34):
You know losing was not gonna be an option in
this game, right, So what's what's going through Flag's mind.
It's a national championship, a moment that you dreamed and
waited a lifetime for.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
I'm like, we're feeling who, like I knew, like their
national trip game, I'm not Kaitlyn not finna beat her.
It's like you know what I'm saying, Like like she like, no,
I'm not her. I mean Kaitlyn could beat us. Her
other teammates ain't finna beat us, right.

Speaker 1 (51:57):
Like you know, so y'all you get your on Kaitlyn,
but y'all other folksy'all didn't get nothing.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
Kaylyn go for fifty, Like you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (52:03):
That was like the mindset, but we gotta, like you
know what I'm saying, play these other make her teammates better?

Speaker 1 (52:07):
Right?

Speaker 2 (52:09):
It was?

Speaker 1 (52:09):
It was bro Yes, Yes, so how was it because
the build up.

Speaker 5 (52:15):
I mean, look, there have been some great, great women
college players, and I molded up to remember them all right,
the way way back from when La Tek wanted the
one back to back to beat change stays.

Speaker 2 (52:26):
You've seen that, Yes, that's what coach Monkey players.

Speaker 5 (52:29):
Yes, there you are all, Yes, I remember, yes, yes,
And I watched USC beat Coach Monkey them and I
watched Clarissa Davis and them Texas teams forty five and
beat them and all the way on. So there have
been some great women college basketball players. And maybe not
because we're in the social media era, but nobody's had

(52:50):
to hype like Caitlin and Maya Moore was tremendous.

Speaker 1 (52:54):
Canada's Parker was tremendous.

Speaker 5 (52:56):
I mold up to Mayor min Sheriff's who dropped forty eight,
dropped forty eight in the championship game against Ohio State,
and Katie Smith like that.

Speaker 1 (53:03):
Yes, but.

Speaker 5 (53:06):
So you've heard this all year long, Kaitlyn, Kaitlyn, Katelyn
and the and she was letting it go now in
the in the tournament, she was letting me go fly.

Speaker 1 (53:14):
Yeah, I ain't gonna hold you on that one now,
she was, he would get put to work what she doing.
But you're like, damn man, we can't lose.

Speaker 3 (53:23):
Nah and b we had some dolls Like that team
was so loaded it didn't matter if one person had
a bad game, it was somebody coming to pick him up.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
Yeah, and so it was.

Speaker 2 (53:32):
It was just perfect.

Speaker 3 (53:34):
Like it's it's a lot of like Caitlyn really did,
like she was a talker that that whole tournament.

Speaker 2 (53:40):
They wanted that storybook ending.

Speaker 3 (53:41):
We came even did that though, Yeah, wonder like you're
gonna be Yeah, they counted us oop for show, but
you know, l s U we came out on top.
But now just the influence of women basketball, like bir
it's crazy right now, it's insane. Like you said, Marin Moore,
you got Stewie, not not Stewart, you got super Birds.
I just be like, it wasn't the time, It wasn't

(54:02):
the time yet, and now it's the time. So when
I just gotta keep pushing and keeping.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
Kaitlyn talk talk trash.

Speaker 2 (54:08):
You know, when we're playing, I ain't hear too much.
Maybe she'd be talking to herself.

Speaker 1 (54:11):
And she's been talking.

Speaker 5 (54:12):
I mean, and you watch on TVNBA, she and the
grilled fly Bro.

Speaker 2 (54:18):
It's getting lit.

Speaker 3 (54:20):
I've been seeing them little memes like oh like the
Sophie and all of that. I ain't really knew what's
going on, but they getting active. I gotta get my
weight up. I've been in the weight room.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
What they ain't gonna be tossing me around? Oh no,
I'm old.

Speaker 5 (54:35):
Dad, Let me make this. Do you think do you
think women that's in the w NBA do you think
they hate Kaitlyn?

Speaker 1 (54:44):
No?

Speaker 3 (54:44):
But I think it's competitive and I think everybody always
wanted not to talk dog all And I don't know,
I think like it's kind of what because how was
I mean, how was I was?

Speaker 1 (54:55):
Like?

Speaker 3 (54:56):
I feel like, how was Lebron when he like when
he came into the league. What was the energy around
him in the league?

Speaker 5 (55:01):
I don't remember. Look, it was hell, it was more
from his own teammates. Didn't think he would would they
gonna be that good or could to elevate them. But
I think the thing is is that the eyeballs that
she's brought. It's like and when you say somebody's brought eyeballs,
that doesn't diminish what maya Moore or Kemis Parker or

(55:24):
some of the other greats have done. But like you said,
maybe it wasn't the time for people to galvanize behind
for whatever reason.

Speaker 1 (55:32):
It's so stupid.

Speaker 3 (55:33):
I don't understand it because it's like either way they're
watching what I'm trying to say, it's gonna help everybody else.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (55:39):
Maybe that's my mindset, and I have to address this
right now because everybody try to put two people against
each other, like you know what I'm saying, and they trying.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
To put me in a bit of it. You know
what I'm saying. I don't got nothing to doing that,
Like you know what I'm.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
Saying, Like you could be like this is the thing,
like like you can be friends with people that you
play against that you don't like. We are all like
you know I'm saying so, But it's it's weird like
in the W and BA right now, because you can't
be a fan of somebody and like somebody and yeah,
you gotta.

Speaker 1 (56:07):
Choose one of the other. I can't. If I like Caitlyn,
I gotta hate Angel. Yeah I think that was like Angel,
I gotta hate Kaitlyn.

Speaker 3 (56:13):
I think that's so you gotta appreciate both greatness, like
they're both breaking records, Like Kaitlin ain't having the best
season this year, but they're both breaking records.

Speaker 2 (56:22):
They both all stars.

Speaker 3 (56:23):
So like, I hate being in the mix of that
because I really like both of them. Our respect Kyveen Clark,
love Angel, We want and Natty together. But I had
to say that because br It's like, you can't be
a fan of one.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
If you hate the you gotta hate the other.

Speaker 1 (56:33):
Life No, they want you to pick a pick a celebration.

Speaker 2 (56:36):
I just love greatness, bro.

Speaker 4 (56:37):
Now.

Speaker 5 (56:37):
It seems to all started from I think when our
they were beating Louisville or they beat Louisville and she
did this.

Speaker 1 (56:47):
You can't see you can't see see o see you
had to put that work in. You can't see this.

Speaker 5 (56:52):
Okay, come to the National Championship game they died by
twenty and you're like, you can't see this. And if
it took off, I mean it was the same gesture.
It was the exact same gesture that Kitler had done
two nights earlier. And then when Angel did it, all
hell broke loose.

Speaker 3 (57:11):
Yeah, but man, when she did it being bean Bong,
that is when women's sports went.

Speaker 1 (57:17):
Like, oh my god, and maybe that's what we needed.
Maybe we need to maybe we like the NBA didn't
really take off until Burning Magic.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
I don't care how to get done, It got done. Yeah,
you know what I'm saying, Like, you gotta like that's
pinna be.

Speaker 3 (57:31):
People watch that money, people watching money adds and we
get into that bread. Yeah, that's all I think about
why they want to try to do all that and
put all those things on the blogs, like it's more eyeboss.

Speaker 2 (57:43):
For the WNBA that in that moment when she did
all this, I can't see you now.

Speaker 1 (57:50):
It's up right.

Speaker 5 (57:53):
Two K twenty six cover Angel Rees you know that
cast him, you know that calls him hold on how
she get on the cover and not I'm like, with damn,
why she can't.

Speaker 1 (58:06):
Be on the cover?

Speaker 2 (58:08):
Bro was on the color She's killing right now?

Speaker 5 (58:12):
Yes, I guess Then somebody tweeted and they you know,
and I think this is where r G three stepped
in and and and had say you got something to
say about him.

Speaker 1 (58:22):
Don't you.

Speaker 3 (58:22):
I didn't see it, but I keep seeing I seen
Joe Budden saying, so see, I don't be on Twitter
like that.

Speaker 1 (58:27):
No, more because I makes blood ball with you talking
crazy her.

Speaker 3 (58:32):
I don't like that because I feel like it's it
ain't no room for that, right, you know what I'm saying, Like,
at the end of the day, we is doing something
that nobody else is doing. Coming out of college rich
right from N I L or whatever, then building a
platform for yourself to where now boom you get deals
here here, here, here.

Speaker 5 (58:50):
Yeah, because the more money come in, that means there's
more money in the pot for everybody to the end goal.

Speaker 3 (58:57):
You know what I mean? Two K covers is gonna
be Like you know what I'm saying, It don't matter, Bro,
long did you get to the wind?

Speaker 2 (59:02):
Bro? And I think that's what people forget.

Speaker 3 (59:04):
And that goes again putting pitting women against each other,
trying to create a narrative that's not even there.

Speaker 5 (59:09):
Wow, Okay, let me ask you this, how did it
feel that you didn't win BT Sports Woman of the Year?

Speaker 2 (59:16):
You get upset, nah, cause that you gotta keep working.
I feel you want one of them.

Speaker 1 (59:20):
You want to get that thing one time?

Speaker 2 (59:22):
Yeah, but I ain't.

Speaker 3 (59:23):
That ain't my goal, Like you know what I'm saying, Like, Bro,
Like I'd be happy to go to the VT Awards,
like I'm I'm a young girl from Savannah, Like I
used to watch it on my TV every time. Right,
So I'm there, like I'm on the carpet, I'm meeting
my idols, I'm talking to people, I'm in rooms.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
So it'd be cool to get nominated.

Speaker 3 (59:40):
But I feel like i'd be more mad about Like
if I was nominated for a music stuff. Yeah, then
that's when I'm you know what I'm saying, but you know,
not gonna crash out.

Speaker 2 (59:50):
You just gotta work harder. But like you know, that's
when I'll be more upset about it.

Speaker 5 (59:53):
But because some people, like Carrista Shields, he got upset
because Angel running for the third year of the Row,
Like I thought, I thought aklas matter, bro, like bro,
because normally, because normal normally would like like all these
wars like the Oscars, the Grammys, the Tonys, like everybody, like,
it's just such a huge honor to be nominated even
though I didn't win. Congratulations, you know they lie because

(01:00:17):
you got when you get nominated, Bro, You're like, yeah,
I don't never think like that, no.

Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
More, I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:00:21):
I don't have too many l's. I always prepare for
the words. I ain't gonna lie. I would be surprised
if I hit. You know what I'm saying, I prepare
for the worst. Every time you get yours.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
That's bad.

Speaker 6 (01:00:33):
You're getting a crashposed to But you know what, but
you know what, Yeah, but when you go there, I
remember sitting there and me and by Jordan's I'm sitting
there and I'm thinking, I'm like, man, I could bet
I could really.

Speaker 1 (01:00:46):
Win Entertainer of the Year.

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
Yeah, I mean the nb A C P M Majory.
That's what it was like. I could really win.

Speaker 3 (01:00:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
And I was like.

Speaker 5 (01:00:56):
Yeah, you know, I'm like, hey, you know, I got this.
I got my speech ready with man like that, gonna
speek ready. They said, key, Paul, you had to you
had to hit that. I was like, yeah, matter of fact,
she was right across the alpha but I was. But
I had already Water Award. I hadn't won Podcast for

(01:01:16):
the Year, so I was good. I mean, I didn't
leave you up to handy. I was like, Denzel, I'm
leaving with something.

Speaker 3 (01:01:23):
Even Dad's was like, you know, do you have a
speech ready? I'm like I'm gonna Thank god. Then my
mom and I'm gonna I'm gonna go from there. I
am not doing all of that, not getting my host high.

Speaker 5 (01:01:31):
This concludes the first half of my conversation. Part two
is also posted and you can access it to whichever
podcast platform you just listened to part one on. Just
simply go back to club profile and I'll see you
there
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