CiCi’s Prayer

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Be like, hi baby.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
She was talking about when we argue, I get quiet.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
You know that you were gonna be like a legend
and Blackie dance like this.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Very surreal to see the thing that you dream of
happening happens.

Speaker 4 (00:26):
It's always so crazy. Never had any formal dance turns.
Family can dance. My mom and my grandma, they can
move in. I got loyaltyk he ever got them me.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
They're hanging in there. Russe and I were at a
wedding of our one of our dear friends and this
one girl she was going ham.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
On lose control.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
I was like, okay, I'm a jam I with her.
I went down kind of funny and I was like,
I ain't never had no feeling like that before.

Speaker 5 (00:52):
We have to talk about you know, Rush.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
That's the first time we even met each other in person.
He was talking to me and the words is going
over my head because I was just I was like,
oh my gosh, she's so beautiful. His eyes are so brown.
It's no one's ever said it that way, but that's
just what I was doing. I never had a connection.
The conversation and the way that we did like that
was God.

Speaker 5 (01:13):
I feel like you and Russell argue like I love
you more.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
No no, no, you name.

Speaker 5 (01:20):
Every time y'all argue a baby.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
No no, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 5 (01:23):
No propaganda.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
Okay, you'm not falling for it. Okay, the prayer is
all that you need.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Uh. You can't be a wife and a bass Motherhood
ends your career.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
This is a good one.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Let me tell you something.

Speaker 5 (01:42):
Okay, what's up? Y'all's your girl les Pete?

Speaker 3 (01:46):
And it's sure girl's ray in the call and you
are tuned in to another episode of poor Mind.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
Weear a drunk mind speaks sober.

Speaker 5 (01:54):
But we gotta guess today. We gotta guess today. Now,
hold on, hold on, hold on. Okay, First of all,
let me say this is the biggest guest had to date.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yeah, and when I tell you a legend, a singer, songwriter,
dance sir, an actress, everything, for everything you can name,
give it up for the one the only see.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
I'm so happy to be here.

Speaker 5 (02:31):
We're excited to have you here.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
Hey, the vines are right in here.

Speaker 5 (02:36):
Yes, before we start, let me ask how are you doing? Mentally?

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Because I feel like every time I go on your
page or I see you, you are traveling interviews.

Speaker 5 (02:47):
You are everywhere on top.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Of being a wise being a mimmy work everything. How
are you doing mentally?

Speaker 1 (02:53):
You know what I say. I'm out here grinding like
it's the two thousands. Yes, you know when I first began,
they send you on this crazy life promo run where
it's just NonStop and relentless, and I really feel like
I am back in that time. Obviously run my own label.
You know, it's like, I gotta do it what I
gotta do. But to your to answer your question, I
feel good. I feel really blessed. I feel I'm very happy,

(03:18):
you know what it is because I'm doing all things
that I want to do, you know, like it's a
really it's an exciting time. And I just think there's
a saying when you do what you love, you never
work a day in your life. And as of late,
a lot of the things that I've been able to
line up or have come my way have been like
all the things that I want for the most part. Yeah,

(03:40):
we know life's not perfect, so you're not going to
everything exactly want to.

Speaker 5 (03:43):
I can't tell no, Lie, I'm just well.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Listen, I'm making it look good. Seriously, you know, you
gotta sometimes you gotta fake it and you make it.
I mean, I literally just landed from Africa. I just
came from cold to New Benin and then I today
is Sierra Day. That's why I'm wearing a Sierra Day Sirs.
Thanks to Atlanta, the city and the state forgiving me
such a special honor. And I literally went from the

(04:15):
plane to the Boys and Girls Club today to to
to share or reveal our dance center that Rustling and
I created through our Wine Not You Foundations, called a
Why Not You Center. We made a dance space for
the kids at the Boys and Girls Club. So mind
you flying for seventeen hours landing to do that, then
being here with you, guys, I'm feeling good. I'm feeling blessed.

Speaker 5 (04:38):
Well, we feel good.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
That you just got off your flight and you came
to Kiki with us. Appreciate that. Yes, so I wanted
to ask you, So you just got your dual citizenship too, right,
is it, Bennie?

Speaker 5 (04:54):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Just have been how do I say, ben in the
wies just we have been? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (05:00):
Just sweet?

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Then to us, Yes, I am been in no, Yes,
so I got the cool opportunity His excellence, President talent,
gave me the opportunity to be the first person in
the world and been in to get the citizenship, and
I got a passport now, so when I fly into
Africa certain places of Africa, it's going to be easy

(05:23):
rolling because I'm going to be just like my people
in Africa. But yeah, it's kind of like going back
to my roots and just shining a light on the
importance of.

Speaker 4 (05:32):
What history has been there.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
And their mission is to really evolve things right and
let's grow, you know, raise awareness. You know, the people
of Africa need to be seen in the light that
they deserve to be seen. And there's such a beautiful place.
The culture is amazing, the soul, the dance, the music, everything,
there's so much goodness happening there and it's really fascinating

(05:57):
to hear how you know, a great bit of the
African population feel. You know, it was it was really
really interesting and really fascinating. I was, you know, revealing
my cover. I got the great opportunity to be the
first international artist on Rolling Stone Africa and at this place,
that this space, we were doing an interview and revealing

(06:18):
the cover. You know, artists were stepping up and talking
and they're so talented, and they were just talking about
how they didn't feel seen right, and it's so powerful
to know all this great talent, all these these beautiful people, hearts,
just so much goodness, Like it's time for the world
to evolve.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yeah, so you are you going to sign some art?

Speaker 1 (06:43):
And let me tell you, Okay this Mama God, I
got my faux precious babies at home, and Russ is
my fifth, my biggest one.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
He's my fifth one.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
This label thing, honey, Like I said, I'm ground, like
it's a two thousand. I ain't got no time. Yeah,
you know, we actually wrestling, had the great opportunity of
having an artist that was amazing. And you know what
was important to me through my experience especially, is that
I want to make sure I can give the time
to someone. So if I'm going to short change someone

(07:12):
on time just because of how my time is divvied up,
then I'm like, I don't want to like do that,
you know, I don't want to put that. I want
to do it right right, Not saying I won't ever
have an artist again, but I think I just got
to stay focused on a couple of things first right now.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
But do you feel like, Yeah, well, I was gonna say,
do you feel like it's awesol because you're still focusing
on your career. Yeah, well, you know what it is.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
It's the thing is is, yes I'm focused on me,
but it's all the other things that I have doing,
Like I'm folks on my music. But it's like, you know,
you guys have here my Tintu one rum that is
a very which, by the way, shout out to sorry,
shout out to tie Ka's tie you made a fire drink. Yeah,
I'm really focused on, you know, the business of ten

(07:57):
to one. I'm a wild co founder and investor and
owner and.

Speaker 4 (08:01):
That's a lot of work. Yeah, you know, So there's that.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
Then there's my skincare line OAM and trying to work
on that and you know, making sure I'm evolving there,
and I'm kind of in this like interesting transition point
where I'm figuring it out. It's a small business, even
though it's me, I'm still a small business, right, So
sworting through that, and then like you said, the music
and it's just in my kids, my baby's and my
honey is.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
But I commenced you for that because a lot of
people they try to do both and it doesn't work out,
and then people get mad at the artist that has
the label and they're like, why would you sign to
them anyway and things like that.

Speaker 5 (08:34):
So I can mind you, you know, for recognizing that.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
But you mentioned the skin care line because I met
you for the first time at the BT Awards, and
I'm not gonna lie. I had a conversation with my
best friend.

Speaker 5 (08:43):
I called her. I said, I don't know what this
girl put on her face.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
I said, I mean you were glowing. So I'm talking
about your skincare routine. Yeah, a skincare girl.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
I appreciate you. So I created my skincare line. It's
called om Skin and it stands for on a Sa'm
a woman of ambition on a mission in life, but
in this case and make clinical skin care symbol for all.
So I was excuse me, I was the girl that
used body lotion and body wash on my face, Like
I wasn't really putting the best efforten.

Speaker 4 (09:19):
I wasn't crying to.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
But I was just like, not really putting the best
care into my skin. And my my best friend, who
she's my makeup artist. She's been in my career since
my first professional photo shoot. Shout out to Yolanda Frederick Thompson.
But we're like twenty four plus years in not to
date myself, but you know, I started when I was
really young, so you know, anyways, we're rolling deep. But

(09:43):
she used to always say, Sierra, you know, do use
your I cream, use your ice cream. I'll be likea like,
did that stuff really work? Because she don't really believe it.
For me, I'm like, you got to really show me
that something works to believe it. And I'm like, do
skincare products really be working on some day? And then
it's like, wait a minute, she's right, Like if you
see her, she looks amazing, like she I will show
you guys a picture of her, Like it's insane, Like

(10:05):
she's one of my greatest inspirations from a female standpoint,
but she takes the best care of herself. So I
took it serious. And during the pandemic, I was pregnant
as all get out, so I had a lot of
fun and actually discovered ten to one during the pandemic
and oam skin was one of those things that I
worked on and I just begin to take I began
to take my skincare seriously or serious, and I'm so

(10:27):
proud that I did and what I did when I
say simple for all, giving you the one two step
process the level of your skin anyway, what I think
you know, I be staying bars or whatever. No, but anyways,
so what I did was I created a numbering system.
So basically, if you use the skincare regiment from the

(10:48):
beginning to the end, you have where to start and
we're to stop. Because when I would go into skincare
stores or sections, I'm like, it's so much product.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
I'm like, where do I start?

Speaker 5 (10:57):
Where do I stop?

Speaker 1 (10:59):
It's a lot going on. I got confident, right and
I'm like, there's just so much product.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
I'm like, guys, where do I like?

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Somebody make this simple for me. So I decided to
make it simple for people like I need it. And
it's just been amazing to see how there's so many
people that actually, you know, have been on the same
journey as me, was using regular body washing body lotion.
So that's been amazing. But when I mentioned to you
that the company is in a transition point, because I
know my fans are like, what's going on with OAM
is I believe that there's more opportunity for me beyond

(11:27):
the skincare realms. So I want to really tap into
the beauty space in general, and I want to kind
of like open up conversation. And so we're doing all
that because we've I've been we've been very fortunate to
sell out of a certain SKUs multiple times, and I
now just have left. My serum and my brightening pads
are two amazing products. But basically my point is is
that I say get them, ale, you can get them

(11:49):
because OAM is about to evolve into a I hope
a broader stratosphere and an exciting one, and.

Speaker 4 (11:59):
I all work is amazing. I thought it was yes.
And one thing we always say to on the show,
because we're both really into skincare, people have to realize,
like you have to be consistent. People think a product
is supposed to work, okay, as soon as you put
it on your skin, you're supposed to have this big transformation,
Like No, it's consistency. Consistency is consistency with anything is key.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
I agree, though, I mean it's funny because you know, luckily,
because I'm a part of the formulation process, I have
like extra stuff in the can, but there was like
a period because I'm like doing new formulations and stuff.
So there's it's going to be exciting the stuff I'm
working on. But I went for a couple of days
without a couple of my products.

Speaker 4 (12:41):
I'm like, oh, my lord, Like you.

Speaker 5 (12:43):
Notice the friends.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yeah, no, it's crazy when you're consistent and you change
it up.

Speaker 4 (12:49):
You see the difference. What you're saying is right, Yeah,
it's key.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
Now I want to get into your career for a second,
because you know, you came out like what two thousand,
two thousand and.

Speaker 6 (13:00):
Four, two thousand and four, and I, first of all,
I have to give you your flowers because I say
this all the time when we have like artists that
we see and now it's like a microwave thing, right.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
People want music, they want it. You drop a song
three months third, like, what's the next song? So the
fact that we grew up on you, we you know,
we write now with you and you're still and when
I'm like, yes, you know what I'm saying, like we
get to still enjoy you at your greatness. When you
first came in the game, though, did you know that
you were gonna be like a legend and like it

(13:33):
was gonna be all of this that you have now
go ahead.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
No, I was just gonna say an impact.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
So I no, first of all, thank you for that.
To be honest with you, I always very fearless, very
confident in what I believed in for myself. Like I'm
not gonna lie and be like I didn't think certain

(13:58):
things would happen, But it's very surreal to see the
things that you dream of happening happen. Right. It's kind
of like I do have pinch myself moments where I'm
like wow, Like even today launching our first why Not
You Center in the city that made me the see
that I grew up in, it's so significant. Like it's
like I remember years ago saying I want to do

(14:19):
something like that, and Russ and I talked about our
visions to have multiple Why Not You sinners years ago,
and then you look up and God has blessed us
so much that were able to raise enough money to
do things like that. Like that's the stuff like where
it's like I have pinched myself moments. But I'll be honest,
I really didn't believe in my journey. You know, I
was very fearless, very very confident, that I believe good

(14:42):
things would happen. I have faith, but you know, again,
surreal when certain things happen, like wow, like my dream
is really like real, Yeah, what I dreamt of and
it's really happening.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
You give me fearless because the way you crawled up
that car and oh.

Speaker 5 (14:57):
I know you didn't give a damn about nothing.

Speaker 4 (14:59):
Girl. And speaking of I just think it's always so
crazy how you have always said you never had any
formal dance train, So like, when did you realize I
really dance?

Speaker 1 (15:12):
When I was a little girl in my house with
my dad. My dad used to well, first, my whole
family can dance, my mom and my grandma, they can
move their hips really good. Yes, it's in my roots.
Say it's in me, It's in my DNA. I got
loyalty anyways. No, but I knew I could dance really

(15:39):
young because I have a jam out of my house.
I just like I could. It's like probably the first
thing I was really doing and I knew there was
something special happening. So it's kind of been since I
was really little, Like I feel like maybe back even
three years old, just how I would respond to music.
It's always in my jam and then you know, I
got a shout my dad one time because he was

(16:01):
the one that taught me my footwork in the house.
Really yeah, because again I didn't do any training and
take any classes. My dad can move his feet real smooth,
and I always want to do everything like my dad
pretty much. And so he was doing his footwork, you know,
and I'd be like, teach me, daddy, you know, and
in the living room stening it up. I'm trying to
figure it out. And I'd be in my room like

(16:23):
trying to practice it, keep it going. So I've just
always had like a strong connection with dance. And yeah,
it's just it's it's in me.

Speaker 5 (16:32):
It's natural, it is.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
I mean when people have conversations about the best dancers
and they talk about it's always.

Speaker 5 (16:38):
Men and see it.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
I mean, you say about all we try to learn,
they say Chris Brown, Michael Jackson and Sierra they do
like when we have the conversations about dancing, because it's
like it ain't all I can.

Speaker 5 (16:52):
Do is hit a little twirk. I got them knees.
He got the work.

Speaker 7 (16:58):
Needs still work, they still hanging in there. Exercise that
you have, I have decent needs.

Speaker 5 (17:10):
I don't got d drops it down load and I'll
just be like and up stretch every morning.

Speaker 4 (17:23):
No, I don't. I need to stretch more.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
It's funny because I was Russe and I were at
a wedding of our one of our dear friends recently, and.

Speaker 4 (17:32):
This one girl was going off.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
She was she was going ham on lose control like
they had him over there playing my mouth.

Speaker 4 (17:38):
She was control and one step.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
And you know, sometimes I get funny about dancing my music,
but I realized people like to have fun to dance
with me. So I was like, okay, I'm a jam
o with her. I went down kind of funny and
I was like, I ain't never had no feeling like
that before, and I've been dropping it low for years.
That was new, and I'm like, god, what does that mean?

Speaker 5 (18:01):
It's me?

Speaker 4 (18:02):
You know, I'm getting older. What does that mean?

Speaker 1 (18:04):
Like? And then I got like a little like I
used restless pet and then I was the next day,
I was back on heavy, be bad bad good. Yeah, yeah,
we back just a little little tweet. Yeah, just you know,
it's all about how you there's a technique to how
you drop it. And what I did was my legs
were positioned a certain way.

Speaker 4 (18:22):
So now I was like, Okay, we're gonna you know,
technical thing.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
There's a technicality to drop it.

Speaker 5 (18:28):
See, I'll just be dropping it and it don't come
back drop it.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
And I stayed up, you stay, let me just get
down here.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
You know what I'm saying my head a little bit exactly.
Can I wait till everybody turn around and.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
You get on that you don't know, this struggle be real?

Speaker 3 (18:44):
So you know we have to talk about you know, Russ,
you and Russ beautiful relationship. You know, talk about the
importance of having a supportive partner, because I noticed you
did say like y'all talked about years ago about.

Speaker 5 (18:58):
Having these centers and things like that, and.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
I I think it's important to have a partner who
y'all share the same dreams. And it's not like, oh
well I want to do this. I want to like,
what can we do together? So talk about the important today?

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Yeah, no, I think that. You know, when you're in marriage,
you know, we talk about being equally yoked.

Speaker 4 (19:15):
There's so much power in that.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
You know, there's power and being equally yoke because most cases,
if he has a vision or I have a vision,
we're pretty much aligned, and I think that like takes
away half of the battles versus if you're with someone
and you don't really share the same vision right overall,
like whether it's spiritually, emotionally, mentally, like we're very much

(19:38):
of we're a lot alike, and that makes it fun.
Like I think that's where like really amazing things happen
because he can have an idea and I haven't even
put our ideas together, and then it's the idea becomes greater, right,
you know, Or like I say, when you're equally yoked,
it's like if I'm out here grinding, like he's over
there grinding, he's in New York right now, I feel
like there's a parallel to what I'm doing and what

(19:58):
he's doing. Like I feel like we're pretty much always
on the same wave LinkedIn, and that to me is powerful,
you know, because it's like I feel like I'm you know,
everything that we're doing, Like even if we're in two
different places, we're building it together, right, We're building it's legacy,

(20:20):
and legacy is so important I think for for the
both of us, it is you know, what does he say,
it's this power gosh, I don't want to miss quote him,
but saying there's like power to in the in your name,
like the legacy, like you know, it's important. So I
don't know, being equally Yoka is huge because I think
we kind of like, I don't know, it's it's a

(20:41):
little less mixed, missing mixing matchy, like you know what
I'm saying, Like, yeah, so I'm trying to think about
how a way to put it all in words. But
that's just like I think the baseline is where we are.
When he's doing something, I'm doing something. We're like there's
like this invisible chord where we're both moving like this together. Yeah,
you feel like it's always been like that since day one,

(21:02):
and like is that one of the reasons why you
were like, okay.

Speaker 4 (21:04):
This is my person. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
When we were talking and our date, the first time
we met each other in person, I just remember like
when he was speaking to me first of all, like
for a second he was talking to me and the
words is going over my head because.

Speaker 4 (21:20):
I was just there.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
I was like, oh my gosh, she's so beautiful. His
eyes are so brown tone is so scared that you
know what, no one's ever said it that way. But
that's just what I was doing. I was just you know.
But when we talked and like really just like took

(21:41):
we took our time to talk. When he left out,
he said to his friend he was with because he
had his friend and because it wasn't like a formal date,
like he actually came to my place because it was
better to be more uh private, because when you step
outside and you get to know someone, they automatically label
you and that just gets in the way, like putting
the cart before the horse, like let's get to know
each other first. But when he walked away, he said

(22:04):
to his friend, he was like, you know, he basically said,
I was the one. Then I called my best friend
Yoly because she and he was coming over, and I
was like, Yolis, like I want gez anything. But I
think he said, and I didn't want to say, she's
like the one. I go yes, So you know, it
was different, you know, just to be honest with you,
I never had a connection the conversation in the way
that we did in all my years, like out the gate,

(22:28):
the way that it was like that was God, you know,
like I just know and we say when you know,
you know, we were just allied in all things. Like
we talked about things like wanting to build a school
one day, and like wanted to write books one day,
and like God is so good that we've launched a
school in Seattle. It's a charter school in Seattle, and
we've written you know, a book together? Why not you book?

(22:50):
And so I don't know, man, there's just power in
the tongue. Yes, right, there's power in the tongue. There's
power in what you envision, and there's power power in
who you envision things to get with. And I think
that when you you know, are in sync and you
are speaking life into things together, you just create more
opportunity for those things to happen.

Speaker 4 (23:08):
Yeah. Yeah, So when you got in this relationship, were
you like very intentional about I want to get married,
Like I want to be serious and I want to
make sure that this is actually going somewhere in the
direction that I'm trying to go. Or were you just
dating and it just ended up being your person?

Speaker 1 (23:28):
No? So before Russ came into my life, well, first
of all, I thought I was gonna be single for
a little bit.

Speaker 4 (23:32):
I was like really yeah, like let me just yeah,
let me just do me for a second year.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
Let me just like I just have my son, and
I'm like I want to like, let me just work
on me. Right, But before he came into my life,
I definitely had clarity on where I wanted to go
in my life next. Okay, Like I was very clear,
and I know I've talked about this before, but you know,
I think it just comes a time in your life
when you're ready, right, you know, you you start to

(24:01):
think a certain way, you start to see a certain way.
You know, you know sometimes you can you know, want
something for your life that you can taste it like
that to me is like that's a spiritual thing, right,
It's like when you feel through your body. So before
he came into my life, I honestly knew the level

(24:23):
of seriousness that I was ready to go to, right,
I knew it. I was very clear on it. And
that really that thought process like where the It's just
how I wanted to be loved, how I wanted to
be treated, like, you know, how was it? How was
a person going to speak to me? How are they
going to speak you know into me? Right? You know,

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how are they going to be?

Speaker 4 (24:46):
What do they feel like? What do they look?

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Like how do they walk like? I mean literally like
you know, because when you to me, when you start
to vision what you want your life, whether it's in
your relationship or your career, whatever it is, you see
it right away when it's in fun of you.

Speaker 4 (25:01):
But you can't see what you want if you're not
clear on what you want right.

Speaker 5 (25:05):
You have to know what the right.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
So once you start saying this is how I want
to live my life, then you also start to like
unsee things. You also start to be like that don't
look like that, you know what I'm saying, like or
it's just how it goes like with anything like relationship, business,
like your mind it starts here, starts spiritually first and

(25:29):
then and your eyes too, and then it's just like
it just it all like you just.

Speaker 4 (25:33):
See it, you know, and it makes it easier to
remove the things and the people that don't. Yeah, it
can be friendship outside of anything, right, And it's like, God,
you do the work, because I'll be trying to do
this work and some clearly something main work, you know,

(25:54):
you know, so it's like okay, God, let me, let
me let you jump up in the mix. You know
what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
Because I was saying someone like you talked to God
like he's your homie. Yeah, you go ahead, you go ahead,
take this real quick suicide. You know what I'm saying.
I'm gonna let you do your thing.

Speaker 5 (26:09):
I'm gonna let you leave me. I'm right. I feel
like you and Russell argue like I love you more?

Speaker 4 (26:15):
No, no, no, I.

Speaker 5 (26:19):
Said, I love you more like that's how y'all are
you made me? That's how I'm trying to love you more?
God damn it, Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
Have you guys seen those tiktoks where couples like argue
and they I think it's like they're in someone's face
and you have to be like you know what I'm
talking about.

Speaker 4 (26:43):
You gotta be like really close.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Yeah, like yeah, you gotta be like you know, how
do you do it? Why would you do that with?

Speaker 5 (26:51):
And what you say that turned me on?

Speaker 3 (27:02):
No?

Speaker 5 (27:03):
No, no, when the door for me?

Speaker 1 (27:04):
No no, no, no, that's not us.

Speaker 5 (27:05):
Say.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
First of all, I'm not gonna lie that we don't
argue often, but when we do it be because we
don't do it often. We have our process and I
will give my my honey some credit. He's really good
at this because I get quiet, like I get he'd
be like, he know when I get quiet, he will

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come back and be like, hi, baby, silly babe. Wait,
let me see the phone real fast.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
Bottom Too many times I'm here with the lady.

Speaker 5 (27:47):
Hello, how are you?

Speaker 1 (27:50):
We was talking about to now okay, so wait, babe.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
She was talking about when we argue, what it's like,
and I said, we don't.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 4 (28:00):
It's so loud.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
It's so loud. I was saying that we don't argue often,
but when we argue, I said, sometimes I get you smiling.
I get quiet sometimes, right.

Speaker 5 (28:12):
And then yeah, yeah yeah he said, yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
He gets hurt. He goes up here.

Speaker 5 (28:28):
Period.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
Okay, can I I'm gonna tell them what I did.

Speaker 4 (28:32):
And he said, he'll let me walk down the stairs
on myself. Oh hey, by, I gotta go.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
Your background is so loud that it's gonna be crazy
through the mics. Okay, I love you.

Speaker 5 (28:39):
Bye.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
You know that's right, baby, Bye.

Speaker 5 (28:46):
The goddamn phone. I said, I'm trying to glow with
my man.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
Oh my god, so funny. He said, I get quiet
and he gets loud when he said the one that
guy don't do is I don't let you walk down
the stairs by yourself. Because one time I was so mad.
I was no, I said, I about to go down
the stairs because I can't. He said, I'm coming with you.

Speaker 4 (29:05):
That's what he told me.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
Were like two little old folks. That's what I'm saying
in my head. But I was like, because I wanted
to be in my stubborn place so bad.

Speaker 4 (29:15):
But no, we don't argue often.

Speaker 5 (29:18):
When we do, I mean, every time y'all argue, a
baby pop up?

Speaker 4 (29:23):
No no, no, no, no, no, no no, no, listen,
it cannot be arguing.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
Baby happens. These guys have, Thank the Lord, we have
been blessed to have the babies and the timing that
we have hoped for. Okay, but yes, no on the
on the arguing side, it's funny because I do get
quiet and he gets here. But I will say, like

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I was saying earlier, what he does so sweetly is
he will come back around. Our pastor said, okay, first
of all the pastors like you can't he was talking
out in a sermon one days, like you can't use
the D word? Ever, what's the word if you're married?
What's the D word?

Speaker 4 (30:06):
That's the rule.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
That's the rule. And then he said.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
The boss no said speaking life, I am a tortured woman.

Speaker 4 (30:22):
We gotta get out of that.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
That's why I'm next to line.

Speaker 5 (30:27):
All your friends getting married?

Speaker 1 (30:30):
Please, Oh my god. Okay, wait, but let me stop.

Speaker 5 (30:38):
No, no, y'all, lord.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
Lord, Well she's trying to come out to date the
gate dropping them. She just said, you got to switch that. Okay. No,
what I was gonna say is you also have to say,
and this is hard because I'm stubborn, will you forgive me? Okay,
that is like a thing. That's a rule that we have.
And I want to say a pastor kick that off
for us or ruskin at all one take one or

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the other. But like that's sometimes hard to do. But
when you do it automatically, like you know, it shifts
the atmosphere, right, and then the Bible also talks about
like not going to bed mad at each other.

Speaker 4 (31:18):
Yeah, so it's very rare that we do that.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
But it does take time. You can take a couple
of hours to process. But thank the Lord, we bring
it back because we win.

Speaker 4 (31:28):
Me and one thing about us, we're gonna site me
gotta apologize, Like I know, he be apologizing.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
It depends on who's wrong, right, and again it's hard.
It's hard because I'm just stubborn by nature, like you know.
But you know, it's like, okay, let me if I
if I'm the one that, like you know, cause a
turn up, which you know, I'm very rarely the one
that cause a turn up. If I'm the one though,

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you know.

Speaker 4 (31:58):
Like this, and then walk out the door, like, let
me apologize first.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
Well I have to, because I mean, let's just start understanding.

Speaker 4 (32:09):
We have, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
So and again it's hard to you, but I don't know.
I think that when you you know, when you have
an understanding of what you want in your love, that
also impacts the decisions that you make. And then when
it goes back to love, like you know, the Bible
also says how love conquers all, right, and that was
a part of our vowels too, like when the pastor

(32:30):
was speaking as well, it's like love conquers all like
you know.

Speaker 4 (32:33):
The greatest of the effort. What is it.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
I don't want to start misquoting the scripture, but it's
in Corinthians, I want to say. First Corinthians thirteen but
it talks about like the power of love. It all
comes back to that, and then we say Jesus at
the center. So you know, sorry not to get too spiritual,
but that's just honestly the base.

Speaker 3 (32:50):
For us scripture because you are you are big on marriage.
Because I saw an interview that you did at the
BT Awards and I think you were talking to was
it Jim John? Oh, yes, get married, you know, and
everybody's like, oh, if you become Sierra friend, you know
you're finna get married.

Speaker 5 (33:06):
I made a joke.

Speaker 3 (33:07):
But talk about that because since we talk about like
tiktoks and stuff, because I saw TikTok and they were like,
you know, Sierra be introducing the people and they get married.

Speaker 5 (33:17):
They like, is it my turn? But talk about that?
Is that like intentional or like?

Speaker 3 (33:22):
Because I do believe like black love is beautiful and
that's something that a lot of us want.

Speaker 4 (33:27):
So do you.

Speaker 3 (33:27):
Intentionally be like, you know what, this is a good
girl and I know this good guy and I know
they will work together, or it's just like you know what,
these two friends, let's see if it'll work. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
No, I do believe both rust and I love connecting people.
You know, I have people in my life, like it
can be my a doctor of mine that won't call
her out, but you know, or are people that know
I be like, she's been like at a firston, I
know it's been single for a Lunchi'm like, I've got
to find a guy for her. Like I just like,
I feel like everyone deserves to experience love in some
capacity that they desire. So I always want that for people.

(33:59):
I'm not gonna lie when I know they want it,
you know. And so Russe and I have been very
fortunate that we have, you know, had friends that you know,
like I've had my girl that's been a certain place
in her life and she's ready for love. And then
russ is knowing someone that a fellow that was like
looking for love and the guy bird you know, was
speaking about what he wanted and we're like, he should like.

Speaker 4 (34:23):
Yeah, it should be so.

Speaker 5 (34:26):
Inded love. You know what I'm saying, Come.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
On, well, what we're going to do though, because you
said you'd be talking.

Speaker 5 (34:34):
About, well, you know what I think it is.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
If I'm being honest, Hey, I think I have been
through so many like negative experiences and I just show
up as like my vulnerable stuff. Because when I was younger,
of course I was having fun, but like, as I've
grown into the woman I am and being more like
going to church and focusing on my career and stuff,
I'm like, Okay, you know what, this is the kind
of life I want and this is what I see

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for myself. And I feel like the higher my standar,
it's like the harder it gets for people that.

Speaker 5 (35:02):
They can't meet.

Speaker 3 (35:03):
And I'm and I don't even I don't feel like
I don't even be asking so much. But like you
said earlier, you were like, it's important to find somebody
that's equally yoked.

Speaker 4 (35:11):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
I'm not gonna lie. This sounds really really bad what
I'm about to say. I had a conversation with my
homegirl the other that I was like, and she's very
successful as well.

Speaker 5 (35:19):
She was like, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
I feel like as black women, the more successful we get,
it's like we're being punished because it's so hard to
find somebody with the same you know what I'm saying.
It's like the more successful we get, the harder it gets.

Speaker 5 (35:32):
Because when I was when I was broke, oh, I
was outside.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
To find somebody, but as you know, you get closer
to God and you get more successful, and the more
things you do, it's like the pool gets smaller and smaller,
and it's so it's very tough. I think you can say,
you know, kind of the same thing. Maybe I don't know,
how do you feel?

Speaker 5 (35:53):
No, Yeah, I can attest to that.

Speaker 4 (35:54):
And I feel like in my last because I just
got out of a relationship, So in my last relationship,
but I feel like I was very intentional and how
I was dating, and I do feel like i'm marriage
minded now, but it still didn't work out.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
Yeah, but it's like it's I think the thing with
love is like it's going to work out for you
when it's supposed to.

Speaker 5 (36:12):
I agree.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
I think if you start putting like a timeline on
something like, that's when it starts to get weird, you know,
like I think for us, because then you start to
feel like you're trying to like make something happen. And
it's like, when it's right, it's easy. They say, yeah,
and that's really true. But there's something you were saying
to you made me think about that. I wanted to say.
The thing about this is that when you you know,

(36:36):
aspire to to live life at a certain capacity within
yourself if you are trying to, like, you know, what
you're looking for is special. So it doesn't mean you
you just you just may not it may not be
like right there, or it could be right there. But
it's just like I think, trusting the process, you know,
like trusting the process because that person that's out out

(36:57):
there for you is like going to be special and
unique for you, right, and so it's like knowing that
is real, Like and you wanted.

Speaker 4 (37:06):
To be right.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
Yeah you know what I'm saying, Like you wanted to
be right, you know. So that's that's how I kind
of see that, you know.

Speaker 4 (37:13):
It's like, yeah, we got to take our time. We
do be patient.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
And like I say, you know, sometimes I think maybe
you might have to just put yourself in certain environments.

Speaker 4 (37:25):
You have to change up your environment.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
Yeah, I don't go nowhere. I'm okay.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
So let me tell you, are you guys my best
friend who I talk to you guys about, who's my
mention of honor? She was living with me or not
living with me, but we were inseparable, right and we
both were like in interesting points in our lives at
one point in time, and I just remember her, you know,
talking about love, and we always like worked and went

(37:52):
home and like luckily we had each other. Yeah, but
I'm like, Yolie, like if you want love, like you
have to like get out, we gotta you gotta put
yourself in.

Speaker 4 (38:03):
A place to like experience love.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
Literally, she went onto this matchmaking thing and now fast
forward to thirteen years later, she's been married, Wow.

Speaker 4 (38:16):
To the love of her life.

Speaker 1 (38:18):
But she put herself in the space like you ain't
gonna find your man sitting up in the house.

Speaker 5 (38:23):
Why be hoping he's just gonna ring my doorbell? No?

Speaker 4 (38:28):
And this one right, he is crazy?

Speaker 5 (38:33):
Lord, I love I'm a hug.

Speaker 4 (38:37):
I feel like so many people look at your relationship
with Russell and like so many other relationships that we
see online, and they're like, oh, I want that, But
you found your person, so it's different. I think sometimes
people do try to force relationships and force them to
fit into this box or make them work just out
of fear of.

Speaker 5 (38:56):
Being single again.

Speaker 4 (38:58):
Yeah, Like they just don't want to be single again,
or they don't want to reach a certain age. And
it's like, Zam, you still single, Zam, you still have
a handcage. Yeah, meatality, but you're miserable because this is
not your person.

Speaker 1 (39:10):
Yeah No, I think you gotta like you gotta want
what's for you when it's for you. I agree, Right,
I think that's important, like you know, and you want
it to be right, yea. And sometimes what I've learned,
especially for me, like even on the business side of life,
it's like I've seen so many women that have inspired
me that I'm like, you know what, God, you got
it for like the things that I aspire to do. Right,

(39:30):
It's like some women don't hit those moments until they're
fifty yep or sixty years old, even like you know,
like my best friend was like in her late forties
when she met the love of her life.

Speaker 4 (39:42):
Yeah right, it's like you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
So it's like perspective, like you just want it to
be right, and you want to be intentional, right, and
like I say, like the equally your thing is real,
Like I think that's you know, if I can reflect
back to me as a young woman and trying to
find my way, you know, and love. You know, sometimes
a person can be like very attractive on the outside, right,

(40:06):
and then maybe there's some pieces that you actually do
you relate on, but like it can't be a disparity
in like how one person likes to live versus how
you like to live, right, because that's when it starts
to become like you start to bump heads a lot,
and you start to like it's just kind of like
oil and water, right, because like one person loves to
club a lot and you don't like to club a lot.

(40:26):
I'm just making up scenarios, right, but you know it's
like one person, you know, likes to like I don't
want to say work out otherwise, know because sometimes Russ
he'd be gim ratt and I'd be like, I'm I'm
gonna sit up there. But no, okay, so let me
tell you we both love training the same. So let
me just say that like we both for app I'm

(40:46):
an athlete to you know, low key, I used to
run track and all that. So again we relate on that,
like you train together. But sometimes I do be tired
and I'd be like, okay, I seeing me come back. Yeah,
you know, but we do relay on the gym side.
But just saying, like, you know, it can't be like
polar opposites and the things that you like, like, and

(41:07):
I think sometimes for us as women, that's where we
get tripped up. Yeah right, I think does that sound right? No?

Speaker 4 (41:13):
I agree. I think women a lot of the time
they will try to make things work with men who,
like you, were already getting signs early on and he
probably wasn't the one, but you turned a blind eye
to those things because it's like, okay, well we agree
on this, and we agree on that. But I think
when it comes to the important things you and someone
need to align, you have to or it's also fear

(41:34):
of feeling that too.

Speaker 5 (41:35):
People don't want to give up.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
Like man because this isn't didn't work out, Like I'm
gonna look crazy?

Speaker 5 (41:41):
Do I fuck? Do I look crazy? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (41:43):
You know what I'm gonna say. And then I think
this is important in conversation, it's like, what's not right either?
Is that sometimes two guys love bomb people?

Speaker 4 (41:53):
Oh? I right, yeah, because that's not right either. I
was in a relationship like that, right.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
It's like you coming in all strong, you know, turned
up making it like you woo, and then you just
drop somebody off like.

Speaker 4 (42:08):
You can't do that, show up as yourself. That ain't right.

Speaker 1 (42:11):
It was representative. That's not right either, right, you know,
but you know though I do believe you know, like
you know, how does a person talk to you, how
do they feel, how do they move in a room,
how do they talk to other people?

Speaker 4 (42:24):
Like that's important, right, you see it? Like you know,
because you'll be out with the guy, he'd be talking
to the waiter crazy exactly, because that's what really makes
the person too.

Speaker 5 (42:39):
I say that all the time.

Speaker 4 (42:40):
It doesn't matter how people act when they're happy. It
really matters how they act when things are going wrong,
how they show up, how they respond when they're not
getting what they want.

Speaker 5 (42:55):
It was like, do you suffer? Well, oh yeah when.

Speaker 3 (42:59):
I when I go thout it things. I don't put
that on other people. I don't make you feel like,
oh you gotta suffer with me?

Speaker 1 (43:06):
You know what I'm saying, what you're saying is actually
I was thinking about it for you earlier. Yeah, you
were talking and you were saying, like you I forgot
you described like past relationships and the greatest thing is
oh you said like you didn't say I said PTSD
to you. But I think the greatest thing to your
point is like when you move forward in your life
whenever you're ready to do it. You have to leave

(43:29):
your past behind. Yeah, because it's not right. You know,
people talk about baggage. It's not fair for you to
walk into the door with this new person, new energy
and carrying old energy with them. Agreed, it's not right. Right,
we got to give the person that's in front of
us a new opportunity. Doesn't mean you be reckless. It
don't mean that you not like, let me just make
sure before I like give you all of me that

(43:52):
I can safely give you all of me.

Speaker 4 (43:53):
You need to be, you know, be cautious.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
But I think sometimes that's easier for people to do
than not is to walk in through the door with
the old bag versus like letting that be behind you
did a new chapter, newness, Like, I think that's really important.

Speaker 3 (44:09):
And I think a red flag too that I recently
caught on was like somebody who's always upset at something,
Like if the day starts and you're already complaining about something,
it's like it's always something because I feel like it's
just a matter of time before it's you that they're
complaining about. They're complaining about this person. The next day,
this person did something wrong. Next day, this person did

(44:30):
something wrong. It's only a matter of time, Like there's
always something wrong, Like are you ever happy?

Speaker 4 (44:35):
Because you're not waking up with gratitude? It's always something
to be gracious about. It's always something to be thankful.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
Yeah, yes, you know what that same idea to me
or to apply to friendships, like you know, how does
a friend speak? Or they always negative? And right? What
energy you be on? Yeah, all that stuff matters, it does.
But you know what, when people are mad like that,

(45:04):
it weighs you down. Yeah, right, it weighs you down,
like it's really heavy, Like life is too heavy anyways, right,
Like we really be all out here, like I'm just saying,
and I really believe it's all of us, like I am.

Speaker 4 (45:18):
Blessed, but we be shaking it up like.

Speaker 5 (45:24):
A girl.

Speaker 1 (45:25):
We'll be on this deep conversation.

Speaker 4 (45:26):
We need a drink, you know it up, we'd be
all out here like trying to like no, it's just
take it up exactly remix poor Mind's remix.

Speaker 1 (45:44):
Like we'll be out here trying to like, you know,
like live, like figuring it out, like life is way
too short, you know, and like there's too much opportunity
in life to be walking around will wait all the time.
I got time for that. Like that stuff will hinder
you relationship, friendship. If anybody's coming with negativity. Oh, if

(46:06):
someone's coming negativity all the time, it will get in
the way.

Speaker 4 (46:09):
Oh for sure, right you know. So like that, energy
is everything, and especially when you're a positive person. I
think a lot of the time people be like, oh,
well I'm positive, so I'm gonna come into this person's
life and be like the light in their life.

Speaker 5 (46:24):
No, they call them energy vampires.

Speaker 3 (46:27):
Yeah, because they will drain your Then they go outside
and a nice and treat everybody else well that they
come back to you and they're me but they suck
your energy.

Speaker 4 (46:36):
Out and that's too much weight.

Speaker 1 (46:39):
Anybody got time for that? No, we don't. Ain't nobody
got time. Myself turned up. It's really good, all right.

Speaker 4 (46:59):
So today's cock till it is bold, it's beautiful. It's
a banana Dacrie styles. So basically it's a little bit tropical,
it's elevated, and it's effortlessly cool, just like our girl
Sierra over here. And so because we were also talking
about this topic, this is called CEC's prayer because we

(47:19):
all need the prayer. Whatever you need, okay a friend indeed,
all right. So we have some of her beautiful ten
to one spiced rum. We have some banana lcour, some
lime juice, and then I made a vanilla and maple
de marara syrup, so it's just made of brown sugar,

(47:40):
just to kind of bounce off those notes.

Speaker 5 (47:41):
Of the rum.

Speaker 4 (47:42):
And then we have some crimber laid bananas, so I
put some of that brown sugar on top of the
banana slices and then I gave it a little bit
of a torch there. All right, send it on fire,
just like she do it. The charts. I had to say,
I want those six parts. Are you topping a chart?

Speaker 5 (48:03):
Influence?

Speaker 4 (48:03):
You're one of the reasons that I moved to Atlanta.
So this is to you. Cheers to you. This is
for leveling up. And I heard you say something on
your page and I've been It's been sticking with me
because it happened at the right moment. We are blessed
out and I'm less and I appreciate you more than you. No.
I love that it is amazing topic and they have

(48:27):
drinking amazing. Look, I'm a little I need to be careful,
and I do want to ask you. Yeah, that's what
I was going to ask you. What inspired you to
get into the leaquor business and investing and someone. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:41):
So it's funny because back when I was turning twenty one,
that was my first chance. I got to have my
first drink. So I have my first trink in twenty one.
And it's funny because you know, back in the days,
they would do you know, like MTV Cribs and all
the whenever someone does a show with the English accent,
it just sounds expensive. So they'd be like Paris Hillton

(49:04):
does is lovely parties one in Miami, one in England,
one here, and I'm like, i want to do.

Speaker 4 (49:11):
A party like Paris Hills. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (49:13):
I was like, I'm a ceasing about Paris Hills the stuff.
So then I had my team put together a whole run,
and my whole thing was I was looking forward to
having my first drink. So we started the party tour
and then by time we got to the third run, like,
it was actually in the Caribbean and the weather was
bad and I wasn't a party person like that, so
I'm like, all right, this party tour is a rap
because I mean, like, I'm good, like I'm trying to

(49:35):
do this thing, but that ain't really my jam, right.
So then the cool thing was that I actually, even
though I didn't finish my party run, I did have
my first drink. And my first drink was rum, so
I always had a strong connection to rum. And then
I knew I always want to be in the space,
but it was important to be authentically connected and tied
into the space. So it's just a matter of time,
you know, before getting into it. And then, like I

(49:55):
mentioned you guys, I was in the pandemic and you know,
I had just finished I had given birth to Win.
I was breastfeeding for like ten months long enough, and
it was time to celebrate that moment. And I had
my first drink and my first drink was ten to
one in a mohito, and I was always still talking.

Speaker 5 (50:11):
I was happy, I'm having a time right now.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
No, it's a vibe. So my partner, Mark Farrell, he
had actually started ten to one like shortly before we met,
and I got to shout him out because he's had
a great business story. But he was the youngest vice
president Starbucks.

Speaker 4 (50:30):
And then he.

Speaker 1 (50:31):
Went off and started rolling. And then Howard Schultz, who
was the reason why Starbucks exists, he invested into ten
to one and then I met Mark shortly along shortly
after along the journey and I joined me as a
co founder. But honestly, I just I loved what this product, well,
how this product was when I first tried it, which
matters most. It always comes back to product, right. Rum

(50:54):
was my first in my first spirit love and like
my jam, like whenever I would go out, I always
ask for so it was super authentic, you know, and
just the way the product was crafted. I'm like, it's
all the things that I wanted, the boxes to be
checked off on checked off. And the great thing about
Rum is like when it comes to the quote unquote
celebrity space and the gin tequilas and vodka spaces, there's

(51:16):
is super crowded and the Yeah and the Rum Tequila
and the and the Rum space, there's not that many
of us, but also women. So I just saw tremendous
opportunity to be in this space but with something that
I was authentically connected to from day one. And it's
just it's beautiful, Like it's honestly really special.

Speaker 5 (51:36):
Yeah, and that's so season I do.

Speaker 4 (51:39):
I feel like you were always such a seasoned woman
because my first drink was for loco?

Speaker 5 (51:45):
What is? What is? You went outside already reached was
in the That was freaking dom peron.

Speaker 1 (52:05):
God, y'all know, you know, just be under.

Speaker 5 (52:11):
It was a mock liquor.

Speaker 1 (52:12):
It was.

Speaker 4 (52:15):
Many right, it was like a forty but a little
more like you was doing it like that, but it
was like more fruity a can.

Speaker 1 (52:24):
It came into the jam.

Speaker 4 (52:25):
Okay, I know you heard a lot of marita. You
had a lot of maritas, right, girl, I.

Speaker 5 (52:34):
Heard really was in her bank. Probably don't know about
about marina. What about bo? No nouveau was one of
my first drinks soon and which one is new?

Speaker 1 (52:48):
Bo?

Speaker 5 (52:49):
He paints?

Speaker 4 (52:52):
Yeah, it was in a battle That was a good
but I was drinking whis I was like nineteen.

Speaker 1 (52:58):
He was, all right, you lived a little bit. I
missed college life. I didn't get to go to the Yeah,
I really wanted to. I want to go back at
some point.

Speaker 5 (53:08):
It was fun.

Speaker 4 (53:09):
I feel like you should, I mean go to school
at some point. Yeah, everybody should have that experience.

Speaker 5 (53:14):
But I feel like living way.

Speaker 4 (53:17):
Better than no no, wait, wait, listen.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
Now, I'm not saying I won't live in university.

Speaker 5 (53:20):
Okay, I'm saying I won't go back to school.

Speaker 4 (53:22):
Okay, I'm at my education.

Speaker 1 (53:24):
I want to level ve.

Speaker 5 (53:25):
Okay, yeah, you have way more of a time than this,
But no shout out to poor.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
The need to that is.

Speaker 5 (53:34):
Shut down.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
Everybody's saying, no, I heard this all.

Speaker 4 (53:41):
You know, I have loco.

Speaker 5 (53:43):
You know that she's.

Speaker 3 (53:45):
One too, you know, because y'all know what to call
coca cola. Oh they said they had a little one
and oh look that's what he allegedly. Allegedly they were saying,
what a loco.

Speaker 5 (54:00):
That's why we was doing local. If I'm not right
right going local, literally, I'm wrong with her for a loco.
You hit it on the head.

Speaker 4 (54:07):
Drinking's all right, Dre, We're gonna move on to the
next time we.

Speaker 5 (54:13):
Have had a ball. I love it.

Speaker 3 (54:15):
I was like I was about to say early becau,
I'm a little tipsy. Now so you're my friend. Now
you're my friend. I wasn't so nervous.

Speaker 5 (54:23):
I was good. I was so nervous where you walked
in here, I was like, oh my gosh, Like, what
is she like? I don't know, but like you cool.
I went from nervous to calling her c I was like,
okay about sixteen.

Speaker 3 (54:38):
Oh my gosh, you're my dog nowe her?

Speaker 5 (54:49):
Oh my god.

Speaker 4 (54:51):
Let me get into topic number two. Want to play
a little game with you. We love a game. So
this is called are you falling for it? Propaganda that
you're not falling for it? Okay, and we're gonna see
what you think about it.

Speaker 5 (55:05):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
The prayer is all that you need, uh am, I
phone for it or not? Like no, all that you
need for like love or anything like hon it's not
all that you need. No, no, no, you need to pray.
But you got to pray and then you can I
expound on my answer.

Speaker 5 (55:23):
Yeah, so you have to.

Speaker 1 (55:24):
Pray, but you also got to follow through. I agree, Right,
you can pray about something, but what'll we be doing?

Speaker 5 (55:30):
Yeah, you can be like what I pray for this
is this?

Speaker 4 (55:32):
But I'm over here doing that.

Speaker 1 (55:33):
It's like I gotta pray for this, isn't I gotta
start walking like exactly.

Speaker 3 (55:37):
I've seen a clip that Tamar Braxton says, you know
what I went through? She said she went through a
tough time in her life. Financially. And then she said,
all of a sudden everything started happening for her. But
she said, I just gave it up and started praying.

Speaker 1 (55:49):
She said, but wait, but what I say earlier about
like letting God take over there, That's what she said.
But can I also tell you something on that note.
A lot of my moments, whether it's financial or successful
moments that have happened in my life one I spoke
life to them probably a while ago. But I also like,
the less I start trying to make it happen, the

(56:11):
more it happened.

Speaker 4 (56:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:13):
It's like when you like want money, money, money, It's like, wait,
like what does that mean? Waitmen, let me just let it,
let me, let me just do the work and it's
gonna come.

Speaker 3 (56:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:22):
So sometimes we forget about the process that matters the most,
which is the process before getting there.

Speaker 3 (56:29):
People always say like they want the money, you know what,
I promise this is a prayer that I have seriously.
So I just bought a house, right engratulation, thank you,
and I was like praying for this house.

Speaker 5 (56:41):
I was like, Lord, please let everything go through.

Speaker 3 (56:42):
And I'm like, you know what, Now that I got
this house, I pray every day that the Lord gives
me the discipline to keep.

Speaker 5 (56:48):
It, yeah, and to keep growing man found on it.
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (56:51):
Yeah, Like a lot of people pray for things, but
like even with poor minds, Like like I said, I'm
having a moment like I'm sitting with Sierra bro Like
you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (57:00):
So it's like I always you know what I'm saying. So,
but this is a big moment for us.

Speaker 3 (57:07):
And I do want to say that because it's a
big moment for us just because a lot of times
we feel like we be getting looked over, like like
you up here. So it's like, you know, the fact
that we were like Okay, we are in this, like
you know what I'm saying. So the fact that we're here,
it's like I always pray for us that we like,
you know, poor minds is great.

Speaker 5 (57:24):
But let us keep loving, let us keep it.

Speaker 1 (57:28):
That's the way to be.

Speaker 4 (57:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (57:29):
I appreciate you. I do, and I mean even for me.
I'll just share with you guys, like you know, as
blessed as I am. Like I literally was talking to God,
like I just randomly.

Speaker 4 (57:39):
Thought to God.

Speaker 1 (57:40):
I'd be like like even when I was in Africa,
like just the feeling I felt being there around the people.
I'm like, God, man, you brought me all the way
over here, like thank you, Yes, like I will not
stop saying thank you and I will not stop praising
him and like it's something I was doing with Russ
just recently, you know, or even like the joy in

(58:01):
my house with my babies and the joy that we
have with each other, and how I'm excited about life
with my family, Like thank you for that, Like never
stop thinking them and never stop praying over what you
have and God protecting it and covering it and you know,
like God shown me the way, you know, like never
what you're doing is like I believe in that.

Speaker 5 (58:22):
Yeah. Yeah, once you get the things that you want,
you can't stop praying over.

Speaker 4 (58:26):
Yeah, you got to keep praying.

Speaker 5 (58:28):
Yeah, gotta keep Okay, So now what is what is
his next one? Fall for?

Speaker 1 (58:37):
No? No, First of all, I won't get well now, listen,
I I do not roll that out. I'm falling for
that for sure.

Speaker 4 (58:50):
You know the right.

Speaker 3 (58:52):
But this ain't no fake because the way he called
and he said put on the I don't know's that.

Speaker 5 (59:04):
Time he said, excuse me? He said, get me to
my wof we're not God said, you can't be a
wife and a boss and the boss. You can't be

(59:24):
a wife and a boss.

Speaker 1 (59:25):
Oh you can be a wife and a boss. Hey,
you gotta your man's got to support what you're doing.

Speaker 4 (59:33):
Feeling like negative about that though, So I'm glad that
you're saying that.

Speaker 1 (59:36):
You feel like, Yeah, you need to be able to
live in your fullness of you and if anybody is
not allowing you to do that, then you gotta.

Speaker 4 (59:45):
Figure out out. They're gonna have to figure that out.

Speaker 1 (59:48):
Right, you know, there's there's you know, I think that's
that's important for us. Like whatever it is that throws
your cup, make sure you're able to do it. If
someone comes to your life and they stop you or
I feel like they're like not celebrating you and you
know supporting you, Like that's not the right energy.

Speaker 3 (01:00:06):
Yeah. I like to see couples that support each other,
like how you and rest are kevil Stage and his
wife Melissa Angela Bassett important event like I love to
see because it lets me know like there are supportive
men out there.

Speaker 1 (01:00:19):
Yeah, we got to be able to have that r. Yeah,
Like I think That's the way.

Speaker 4 (01:00:24):
I think a lot of black women get scared the
more successful that they get, because they feel like, Okay,
like the pool of black men that are really successful
is already small, so the pool of black men that
are going to be successful and supportive is even smaller.

Speaker 5 (01:00:39):
And I think a lot of the time men.

Speaker 4 (01:00:41):
Will be supportive until you get to that point where
they think you possibly might super serve them.

Speaker 1 (01:00:46):
Yeah, but that comes back to like confidence and insecurities
and like where person is in their lives true, right,
And I think it's so so too, like you know,
think as from a woman's standpoint, Like we talk about
like being submissive, m right, I do think there there's
also like I hope I say this right, but it's

(01:01:06):
like I like being a boss in my world, but
I like the heat. I sometimes I like I'll be
like is the boss man here? You know, Like I'll
say I like that I can like to pull back,
you know when I'm with him, But not I mean
that I didn't my life, right, It just mean like
I let him like lead, Like I think that's important.

Speaker 5 (01:01:26):
Too, Right.

Speaker 1 (01:01:26):
We can be bosses and then we can also be.

Speaker 4 (01:01:30):
Led to personally, I personally like that that makes sense.
I have a good question for you. Do you feel
like being submissive is something that people have to like
create the environment for or do you feel like, as
a woman, you just automatically should be there.

Speaker 1 (01:01:48):
The school that I come from in my mind is
that I believe like that is a part of the
and I want to make sure I'm saying this right.
But that's the pocket that I like to be in.
I don't want to be the one that's like yeah,
like I don't like I think that respect for my
husband is important, So I do believe in like being

(01:02:11):
that way. That doesn't mean that I'm not that I
don't have a voice, It doesn't mean that I don't
say when I feel something. It doesn't mean that i'm
my confidence shifts. It's just mindfulness to me, Like it's
you know sometimes because I'm so used to you know,
leading in my world or what I'm going to be
like ooh, I'm coming to the hat, you know, because
again I want to be respectful, but I am mindful

(01:02:33):
of that. Like I think being submissive is important.

Speaker 5 (01:02:36):
But do you feel like you're naturally that way or
brought that out.

Speaker 1 (01:02:40):
Naturally that way? Okay, Yeah, I'm naturally that way now
has he probably had to check me a couple of
times just because I'd be coming a hat, you know,
I get it right well, not like just in life
in general, Like you know, that's like natural stuff to
have was in a relationship where you sometime a girl
can come off too hot or a god can come
off like where you're coming from. You know, like that's
natural stuff. But like naturally that's always my way. What

(01:03:03):
do you guys think about that?

Speaker 4 (01:03:05):
How do you feel like it's okay? I don't want
to say it's conditional, but I just kind of feel
like if a man wants you to be a certain way,
he should create the environment.

Speaker 5 (01:03:16):
Like how do you.

Speaker 4 (01:03:18):
I feel like, how I'm naturally peaceful okay, but if
you creating chaos and it's gonna be kaoti, I'm not
gonna be peaceful and you not creating peace for me,
Like I kind of feel like it's a conditional thing
kind of, but I do feel like That's why I'm
glad you said that, and that's why I asked you,
because I feel like some women are just naturally that way.

Speaker 1 (01:03:40):
Yeah. No, I just I think like if a person's
creating chaos, and that's like something else. I do think that,
you know, respect is earned, you know. But at the
same time, I do think there's a stand up baseline
with men and women, and you know, you gotta feel
safe to like move a certain way someone, right, But

(01:04:02):
I think that a man should make you feel sure
enough and feel good about being submissive.

Speaker 4 (01:04:09):
I agree.

Speaker 1 (01:04:10):
I think that's important, right, you know, it's like don't abuse,
like you know, sometimes a person can like take advantage
of like when you're trying to like operate with them
a certain way and then they just really feel like
it's like, no, it's not that kind of energy, but
I am actually that way.

Speaker 4 (01:04:25):
And see I feel the same way, Like I feel
like initially I'm always that way, and then depending on
what happened, Yeah, that's well, you're going to protect mode.
We're going to protect mode.

Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
Like sometimes a person can make you like be like
something about you is making me preserve ten percent of
myself Now I.

Speaker 5 (01:04:42):
Don't know if I can give you.

Speaker 1 (01:04:45):
And then now when it's like that and something is
at least yeah, it's probably not right.

Speaker 5 (01:04:50):
Yeah, you know, we getting some good advice.

Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
We are.

Speaker 5 (01:04:53):
It's made out of wifey material. Oh my god, I'm learned.
Pay I'm learned. Pain, You ain't wrong, legs going wrong.
I'm just it's getting good. Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:05:09):
I want to ask I want to ask this when
I'm gonna skip down. Okay, motherhood ends your career.

Speaker 4 (01:05:15):
No, this is a good one.

Speaker 5 (01:05:16):
Yeah, I definitely, because we don't have kids yet.

Speaker 1 (01:05:18):
And let me tell you something. Okay, this is a
lot of work having my precious babies and like being
there for us and trying to run my own label,
and like.

Speaker 4 (01:05:28):
It's a lot of work. I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 1 (01:05:30):
But what I have learned and what's important to me
is to live. I remember talking to a few of
my friends that are really successful in entertainment, and they
both said to me in the same conversation, man, I
wish I would have had more kids, and they can't
have kids anymore because now they've reached that point. And
I knew where they were coming from because at that time,

(01:05:51):
I think I was like just pregnant with my second child,
and I just think, more often than not, in my industry,
people give so much to end up with nothing. And
like in the Bible it says, what good is a
man to gain the world and lose his soul.

Speaker 4 (01:06:10):
And that's a real thing.

Speaker 1 (01:06:12):
Right. I've realized that I love being an artist, but
I love something that would never love me back how
I love it.

Speaker 4 (01:06:19):
I love music.

Speaker 1 (01:06:20):
I love being successful, but it's never it's not going
to be forgiving. Like I may have a really successful day,
and then I may have a really bad day, and
it's like, Okay, what's my baseline of success?

Speaker 4 (01:06:32):
What is my baseline of wealth?

Speaker 1 (01:06:33):
Right? You have to start really having clarity and like
how you see life as it relates to those things,
because if you put your validation the value of your
validation in man or things, you will be forever disappointed.
So it's like, my baseline of success is me living
my life as a woman, living my life, you know

(01:06:54):
now as a mom. You know, like people oftentimes really
lose it mentally because they're not giving space for themselves
to do those things. Like too many of the people
that I admired and looked up to either or not
here because they sacrifice everything for the game of music
or entertainment or right now are in.

Speaker 4 (01:07:12):
The weirdest place. And that's scary for me.

Speaker 1 (01:07:15):
So I have decided I'm going to live my life
and it's a lot of work, it's a lot of sacrifice.
I honestly be tired, you know, probably often times and not,
but it's a season for that. But I believe that
I can go live my life and you know, be
like as a human and still go and be successful,

(01:07:38):
you know, as an entrepreneur.

Speaker 5 (01:07:40):
Why not.

Speaker 1 (01:07:42):
I honestly feel like empowered through my journey as a mom.
I feel empowered through my journey knowing that my kids,
these beautiful, precious babies of mine, especially my girls, they
see me doing my thing and then they can be
inspired to go and do their thing.

Speaker 4 (01:07:57):
Like that's legacy for me.

Speaker 1 (01:07:58):
So like, I don't know, I'm not going to always
be able to be strong KD gangs forever. I could
be forever, you know, matrix and I'm not when I'm
I will say this whenever I've spoken about something out loud,
in most cases has happened. I don't think I want
to be fifty five trying to hit the matrix, like

(01:08:18):
I hope, I hope I have the matrix of zero's
in my account at that point. But like living, yeah,
just the fun of it, you know, because the account's
so nice, you unit stands you know, but my point
is is that, you know, no, I just want to
be able to, like, when I get to certain point

(01:08:38):
in my life, I'm going to be able to really
even like live through my my cares through my kids.
Yeah this doesn't last forever, right, but like legacy that does,
you know, Like, and I just that's important to me.

Speaker 4 (01:08:52):
Yeah, yeah, I agree. I mean I don't have kids yet,
but that's something that I always think about to I
want to like build with a legacy and like just
give my kids like a fun life and a good
time because when you get older, so many people always
say that like you take for granted the chaos, like
how you said, like, oh, I be tired a lot

(01:09:13):
of the time, like we booked out, But people take
that for granted, and then when you become an empty nester,
you miss it. You're like, oh, I miss the chaos
of my kids all being yeah, us having these these
times together. So it's like it might exhaust you at
the time because you're trying to balance motherhood and career,
but it's worth it.

Speaker 5 (01:09:32):
It is worth it.

Speaker 1 (01:09:33):
This is so much better for me that I get
to take my kids around the world with me and
I get to like share it with someone, and like
you know, I was trying. I've been trying to think
to God, like man, like how do I like when
I'm thinking about like Russ and I doing life together,
Like how do I describe it? Like I'm always trying
to find the words like how do? And I'm like

(01:09:55):
the love that I feel from the legacy for building
together through my family, that's different, Like that's a different
level of love from my perspective, Like I feel like
I'm really doing something by what we're when I look
at our babies and how we're loving on them and
how we're raising them together, Like there's so much power
in that part of our love. Like that's a part

(01:10:16):
of my identity. And like oftentimes we did come from
a world where CEOs and labels would like look down
on you if you.

Speaker 4 (01:10:26):
Decided to have a child, Like I think they still
do that.

Speaker 5 (01:10:30):
They still do that, and.

Speaker 1 (01:10:31):
They just behind because ain't nobody living like an'tybody.

Speaker 3 (01:10:34):
When I seen cardibal Bus that's split on stage just
still went and won her Grammys, I was like, you
know what, go ahead, girl, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (01:10:44):
Why not?

Speaker 5 (01:10:44):
I love it?

Speaker 3 (01:10:45):
And I just love this for you like I just
felt like, like I said, the longevity that you have
had in your career and to see you just thriving,
still making great music because we finna talk about some
music because now it's time to get into the bop.

Speaker 5 (01:10:59):
Hey bou boubou bow bow. So you just dropped a
song with a lot of so talk about that collab
and how it came about.

Speaker 1 (01:11:14):
Yeah, So this right here, that's the name of the song.
I got a shout out Jazzy Fay because as you
guys know, he was a big part of where everything started.
And it been like almost it had been like almost
eighteen years we worked together. Yeah, so it was long
overdue for us to you know, to join forces again.

(01:11:35):
And so, uh, this song this right here. Actually my
friend Taran, who I executive produced my project with, he
was over at Jazzy's and then he was like he
played the songs he see and I'm like, play me
the record. And then I heard the record, like, oh,
this right here is like this right here, yeah, like
the Jazzy and I synced up and then I said,

(01:11:57):
you know what this is atown love, this is so sickignificant.
I hit up lot On, I said, Lotto you know,
will you would you join me on this record? You
know it's it's me and Jazzy and she answers so fast.
She got in the booth so quick. Miss so sweet,
she got on it right away from me, and I

(01:12:18):
just thought it would be the perfect fit, you know,
because Lotto is really carving out a lane for herself
and she is a true at L girl, and I
love her sauce and just how she like flows. So
it was just a perfect combination of everything. And it's
just true at town love. This right here is super
a town.

Speaker 4 (01:12:34):
It's very nostalgic too.

Speaker 5 (01:12:35):
It is the background. Yeah, yah yah, I said, I'm
ready for the video. I can't wait. You know what
I'm saying. Now, let me ask you this, because you
got the album, you're working on the album? Yes, what okay?
Because we're happy that Jazzy fabite. When don't we gonna
get that? Missy? Miss well?

Speaker 1 (01:12:55):
You know it's a funny because Missy and I we've
been so fortunate a lot of our big songs that
have happened, and the both of our careers have been together.
I feel like me and Missy we just always picked.
We just find the right time in line. Okay, we
just did tour together, which was really fun, and you know,
like I say, you know, she joined me on a
level of remix which was amazing. We just always and

(01:13:17):
then obviously we have goodies and uh sorry not goodies.
We have one two steps and lose control and uh
my song work. You've actually had a great bit of songs.
So I feel like, okay, where there it is. I
like that.

Speaker 5 (01:13:32):
I like that.

Speaker 1 (01:13:33):
I like that I'm always loving me and my sisket together.

Speaker 5 (01:13:36):
Okay, period, that's right. Okay. Now do you feel like
you give good advice? I know you give good advice.
I think I do.

Speaker 1 (01:13:45):
Okay, I think I'm okay.

Speaker 5 (01:13:48):
I mean you're great.

Speaker 1 (01:13:49):
You know what I do more than anything is I
give advice with love. I just I may not be
right all the time, but it's always in my place
of love.

Speaker 4 (01:13:56):
I think CCT I feel like she gives great advice.
I wanted to before we get into the advice. So
I wanted to do the week and I wanted to
give you with some products. Yeah yeah, from I have
a cosmetics flying it's called Colation, it's called Beauty Collection

(01:14:18):
dot com. And I just wanted to give you with
a whole bunch of goodies.

Speaker 1 (01:14:24):
So tell me about your goodies.

Speaker 3 (01:14:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:14:26):
So it's lip glosses, it's lip liners. Mad like with lipsticks.
We also have some jelly bushes, mascara, eye line, jelly blushes.

Speaker 5 (01:14:37):
Oh I like that.

Speaker 3 (01:14:38):
Let me can I tell about the jelly I'm sorry, okay, So,
because I know you you fresh.

Speaker 5 (01:14:44):
So when you and Russ on vacation and you ain't
makeup just a little bit, it's a little bit that
jelly blush. Oh girl, limp and you.

Speaker 4 (01:14:55):
Can put it on your lips to it. It's like
a lip saint, yeah, gloss on top. But it's really
really good. It's like a little jelly stain on your cheeks,
no makeup needed. It gives you like a nice little glow.

Speaker 1 (01:15:06):
I love that.

Speaker 4 (01:15:07):
I'm gonna check it out. Thank you, pocast, thank you,
thank you. Yes, let's get into pour your heart out.
So first question, Hey, lex Andrea, I just wanted to

(01:15:30):
say I love the podcast and thank y'all all for
the last and joy I've been a listener for about
two years now. I'm a twenty two year old black
girl in a big world and I'm currently serving in
the Air Force.

Speaker 5 (01:15:40):
On active duty.

Speaker 4 (01:15:42):
I work in security forces, military police. I need some
advice on loving myself. Older people and everyone around me
always preach about self love, but I'm not sure where
to start or even what that really looks like. It's
easy for me to love and care for others, but
when it comes to myself, I truly don't believe I
deserve that love. If I could just get a nugget

(01:16:03):
of your wisdom, I'd really appreciate it. Thank you for
your time, love, y'all. That's really good.

Speaker 1 (01:16:09):
Self love is the best love, right, I think self
love is. It's very even for me, like being married
and have my kids, Like I have to take moments
and just love on me because I feel like if
I don't take care of myself at some point, like
I'm not going to be good for the house. So
I think that, like, what are those things that you
love doing, like like watching TV shows? Like something I've

(01:16:30):
been really loving lately is taking baths, Like it's just
so peaceful. Like I'm normally a shower kind of girl,
but I'm like something about I always shower. Do you
shower and then bathe?

Speaker 5 (01:16:40):
I'm not a bath.

Speaker 1 (01:16:41):
Girlhower, Yeah, so I shower and then I sit in
the back anyways, whatever TM, I maybe maybe that makes sense.

Speaker 5 (01:16:50):
Because I'm care of girly, so that's when I I'm
just sitting there everything.

Speaker 1 (01:16:53):
Yeah, but it's like, you know, I like doing that
and it's so simple, but sometimes I'm just need to
do those things for me. So I would encourage her to,
you know, think about those things that she loves doing, right,
and like literally carve out your schedule. You can carve
out your schedule to fit you as best as possible,

(01:17:14):
and sometimes we have to intentionally make time for those
things so that we can actually do those things. And
I promise you there is a one hundred percent sex
sex success success rate.

Speaker 5 (01:17:27):
And we didn't even get into the bedside of that
ten to one.

Speaker 1 (01:17:32):
One hundred percent success rate that when you carve out
time for yourself, you are going to feel better.

Speaker 5 (01:17:43):
I agree to.

Speaker 3 (01:17:44):
And the way you love yourself reflects and the people
that you surround yourself.

Speaker 4 (01:17:47):
Oh my gosh, it's huge.

Speaker 3 (01:17:49):
Oh it definitely helps, like when you love yourself properly.
And this is coming from like I struggle with that
a lot in my twenties of like not having confidence
in myself and not really believing in myself and who
I was as a person and my personality always feeling
like I'm too much, and I was like, you know
what it was when I got around like Drea and
my other friends are like, girl, you're not doing too much.

Speaker 5 (01:18:08):
The people around you just not enough, you know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (01:18:10):
So when you love yourself, you attract the right people
and you are in the right spaces.

Speaker 5 (01:18:15):
So you are going to thrive in life when the
first step.

Speaker 3 (01:18:20):
Is loving yourself and going we will deserve and feeling
like you truly deserve all good things.

Speaker 4 (01:18:26):
Yeah, well, Seer has spend the time of my life. Literally,
I am so glad that you came on the show today.
She appreciate you so much. And I know your new
album is coming out on August twenty.

Speaker 1 (01:18:42):
It's a second Baby pre safe pre download.

Speaker 4 (01:18:44):
And so tell us a little bit about the album.
Obviously we will even tell them where they could find you.

Speaker 5 (01:18:49):
They already followed.

Speaker 1 (01:18:51):
The album is called to CC and CC is my nickname,
as you know, no because y'all my girl, Okay, but
she's been saying that a yeah, So it's it's CC.
That's my nickname. My fans have called me that for years,
and I feel like there's something personal when someone calls
you about your nickname and also my family that's just

(01:19:15):
been kind of like the name that I've you know,
got my nickname I've gone by. So there's just something
about that when you say go see see go seec go,
like there's an andergy that comes with it. You know
what I'm saying exactly, Yea, all that all that.

Speaker 4 (01:19:29):
Don't come out live tr you know.

Speaker 1 (01:19:34):
And then most more than anything, I think this might
be like I sometimes do my life in chapters. Yeah,
so I say like, this is the chapter of gratitude
for me, and it's me just reflecting back on the
journey and just thinking like, man, God, you're so good.
It's twenty one years since my first album. I'm so thankful,
and I want to say thank you to my fans
because what I've been doing with this project is I
was I released the first half or the beginning of

(01:19:55):
the project and an EP and then like songs like
how We Roll, which almost platinum thanks to everybody, how
You're Preaching Breezy, and then but I kind of like
I have been releasing songs like in moments like when
I was on tours giving my fans songs like I'm
sitting on all these songs.

Speaker 4 (01:20:13):
That they haven't heard yet.

Speaker 1 (01:20:14):
Let me just give them the full project because again,
I just want to say thank you ready for I'm excited.
The CEC album is really fun, feel good. Shout out
to everyone that joined me. Also shout out to Tiger.
We have a really fun record that we recorded live.

Speaker 4 (01:20:27):
One is stream.

Speaker 1 (01:20:30):
Called Dance with Me and look out for visuals for that.
And then there's some other.

Speaker 5 (01:20:36):
Who else who else?

Speaker 4 (01:20:37):
There's some other.

Speaker 1 (01:20:41):
Wait, I gotta live bit for the release lead phenomena.

Speaker 5 (01:20:49):
Now I know that album release, I expect to see
an invite.

Speaker 1 (01:20:52):
Yes, ma'am, you will see it.

Speaker 5 (01:20:54):
And I'm gonna show up. And even if you don't invite,
might be about remember.

Speaker 1 (01:20:57):
You said they say listen, okay, we get it right here.
I'm gonna hear it okay in the building. I need
an energy in the party.

Speaker 5 (01:21:09):
No, okay, I need that drance on the whole time.

Speaker 1 (01:21:13):
Yes, ma'am, CEC, thank you like I cannot.

Speaker 3 (01:21:18):
This is really fun, so much fun I had with you,
so I love you down, thank you so much. Joy
you got anything to be Before we get out of here.

Speaker 1 (01:21:25):
I do know.

Speaker 5 (01:21:26):
I don't have anything cross y'all. Make sure y'all caught
that album and we'll see y'all next week.

Speaker 1 (01:21:35):
Yay, thank you guys so much. Man, Yeah, I shall
not fit on man but God, yea man but God.
So walk through the valley of death. Hey, I said,
so many tears for all. Wait, Please God welcome me,
grab it and take me to whoa.

Speaker 5 (01:21:53):
He said that. I know he said that.

Speaker 1 (01:21:56):
Hey, listen back in Element you read, I thought, I
don't mister read, let me alone. I grew up most
of died read.

Speaker 5 (01:22:03):
It'said.

Speaker 1 (01:22:03):
My mind can't find a place of rest until I
got that thug.

Speaker 4 (01:22:06):
Life tat no my chest it can you feel me?
I'm not living in the past.

Speaker 1 (01:22:10):
You want to last, Just be the first to blast.
Remember Cato. No longer want to see the seas, call
on the sirens, see the murder in the streets. Now
rest in peace is there heaven for ad g Remember
me so many homies in the cemetery, shed so many tears,
I said, for thugh some years, and shed so many tears.

Speaker 5 (01:22:32):
For through some years.

Speaker 1 (01:22:34):
Hey, I saw so many and shot so many tears.
Now that I'm struggling in this business by any means.
Let me be greeting, getting greed, but seldom seams at
the world because I'm cursed. I'm having visions leap in
there here when the hurst God, can you feel me,
take me from away from all the pressure and all
the pain, Show me some happiness.

Speaker 4 (01:22:54):
The game, oh coming bly.

Speaker 1 (01:22:55):
I spend my time to sell and living well. I
know my destiny is what did I fail? My life
is in denial and when it died baptized in the
turn of five, shed so many tears. I shot so
many tears.

Speaker 4 (01:23:13):
Hey, hey, los amitikins and shot so many.

Speaker 5 (01:23:21):
Ts know that learn or work?

Speaker 1 (01:23:24):
Bo bo Hey, that's a backup, faul back.

Speaker 5 (01:23:31):
I need her, I need hers come back. Damn damn right.
I read f and that around

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