Flau'jae Talks LSU Recruitment, Angel Reese & Caitlin Clark Not Making USA Team, + More
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What app It's way up it Angela yee. And this
is exciting because Flage is here.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yup, yup.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
I've been wondering when am I going to have a
chance to sit down and talk to you.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I know, this is great, This is full circle very much.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
So yeah, I'm excited. I was at BT of wards
when your project came out, Best of Both Worlds and
I was like, let me pop this on and see
what she's talking about and very impressive.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Thank you, thank you so much. That mean a lot
coming from me.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
So congratulations on that. And to be clear, like you've
been doing this since you were a kid.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yes, absolutely, I was a lot of people still know
me from the rap game, but I did that when
I was twelve thirteen. Then America's got talent, and then
you know the basketball thing. So I've been doing it
for a while.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
It's so funny that music came first for you, for real, yeah,
and then the basketball followed. But I mean it's been
working it, it's been paying the bills.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah, no, for real, it's been just doing this thing.
It's like, you know, it's kind of like you have
a vision for yourself, right, and then by the time
you get to the final thing for it to put out.
It's way different than you know what I'm saying, you imagine,
but you still get there.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
So it's the journey be dope seeing how it all folds.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Do you ever go back and watch the Rap Game episode?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I don't like watching myself lifeel like it's the most
cringiest thing ever. I never watched my performances, like, I
never watched the Rap Game.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I don't watch America's got talent. Wow, I don't know,
I don't know, it's just I can't do it. But
the only thing I have watched was the s performance.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Oh now that was fire. So I saw that too. Yeah,
and I saw Wayne in the little Wayne in the
audience and he's on the album right, you know, that
is an amazing moment. And to see how you was
out there, like, first of all, you seem so comfortable
on stage, and you got to credit that to all
the work you did when you were younger.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Facts. Man, it's been a long time. Been performing since
I was seven years old.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
My uncle Jee even taking me to rehearsal spaces and
you know, just getting my performance. So I always knew
I wanted to be a dope. Performer, because that's just
like how my personality is. But you know, I just
been working on it so long and in that time,
I wasn't even nervous. I was like, na, this is
my moment, like.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
This is the time everything even like this is the
time right here.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Did so you wasn't I'm not gonna lie. You look
so comfortable. I was like, does she get more nervous
when she has to perform or when you got to know?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
It's crazy because now I'm like, I wonder if I'm
gonna get nervous for games because usually before the.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Games, I'm always nervous to tip off like warm up,
I'm nervous, like I don't care. I have butterflies everywhere
and just like that before performances.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
But this time it was just like, you know, it
was kind of moments where you don't have a choice
to mess.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Up, like right, like you gotta go, and everyone was
in that room and it was on TV, and you
know what I'm saying that that's a huge deal.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
When I first got a call, I kind of cried
a little bit because I was like, bro, like it
don't matter how much time they give me on TV,
as long as they give me. Some times, most of
it it was like you got a minute on a
lot of TV.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I'll say, well that's all I need. I say, that's
all I need, and I just made it have Man.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
It's interesting too because with basketball being a team sport,
you would think you might be less nervous because it's
not just on you. I mean, people come to see you,
but when you're out there by yourself. Yeah, but on
that stage, all eyes just on you.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
And it don't It won't even be about the eyes,
I don't think. It's more so just about everything going
according to playing like anything. Because you know what I'm saying,
heaven and so for me, like on the team, I'm
still like a captain, so I still have to lead
fourteen other girls, you know, and give them confidence and
everything like that.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
So I really don't have time to you nervous. But
you know, it's it's all the same. Now.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Listen, you're from Savannah, Georgia. One of my fancy works
in the music business, Tracy's Tracy.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Oh my god, I love her. I love her.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
She loves you too. So that's too because I was
at I was with her in La. Yeah, so I
was listening and I said, oh, listen to this pleasure.
She said, you know she's from Savannah girl.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah, no, Tracy, I've seen her at the cash Money
party they did for Baby in La and we linked
up and I just did my gift bag and she
was like, then you gotta tell me next year.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I'm gonna make sure I help you with that. Boy.
She's good. People.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
It's dope seeing like successful people come out of Savannah.
You know what I'm saying, pour back into the city
because you know, you got a small city, so it's
dope to see that.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, Kwando Rondo, you know I interview him, he's Fromanah, Yeah, yeah, okay, see.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Look at that, like we like Savannah Small, you know
what I'm saying. So we are all got like family
and things like that, but Savannah Small, he was like
the first person that kind of like after my father.
I feel like, really like put Savannah on the map
for a for real like back and you know that's
all he talented for sure.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
And honestly, when I think about everybody watching LSU and
watching like the finals and how important women's basketball has become, right,
I think it's amazing, like just the progression because somebody
like you shows that you could be flying, right. I
think there was this misconception about like women basketball players. Yeah,
you know, and now it's like, okay, y'all see what
(04:33):
it really is, right right, And I think that's a
like amazing, wonderful thing. It's a great time. And it
took a long time for people to be able to
catch up.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, it did.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
And I think like women's basketball as far as the
competitiveness have always been the way it is. It's just
about like what the media put eyes on and what
makes it popular. You know, we're going through a tier
right now where women's sports is on the surge and
it's just the dope to be a part of and
just now understanding like learning about more superstars than people who.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Are in our you know what I'm saying in our league?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, because I've been going to w NBA games. I
used to yeah, way back in the day. I used
to do marketing for the Liberty. Yeah, I said you
with l E two by Ellie.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Ellie's a queen. I love.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
It made me feel like maybe you're gonna come play,
you know, when you're done with college. Whoever driven for
New York, I'd be so exciting. I just said, you know,
we would love to have You.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Know, I love New York. I fell in love with
New York.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I swear when I came up here from our last
press tour it was amazing.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
And listen, I see you already thinking about it. So
people are definitely talking about your line in the freestyle
four am in Miami and you're talking about it would
be ten million for you to join the portal. Yeah,
I know you see all the people talking about that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
No, no, that was just a cool line. I love
L s U. I ain't I intend to go nowhere,
but uh.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
It was just million anybody probably you know.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Ten millions. You know what I'm saying. I'd be like,
what's so L s U. Y'all gotta go with the
lim you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
But no, that was just a savy line I was
gonna put in there. When I put it in there,
I was like, should I say that? I was like,
I don't want both get mad.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And then Coach Mokei's seen it online or something like that.
I was like, what I got going on? I'm like,
I'm just raughing. I promise.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
And now you had said previously that you always knew
you wanted to play for her though, Yeah, for sure,
Coach Mokey, And I know she could. She gets a
lot of controversial people feeling different ways about it, but
she's been great for you.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah know, for sure.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I knew that when I wanted to play for her
when I seen her going crazy on the sidelines during
the March Madness Tournament but COVID year and I was like, yeah,
that's who I.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Want to play for.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
And she had already been recruiting me when she was
at Baylor, but I wasn't going to Baylor no, So
you know when she came to LSU and it was
really nothing going on at LSU, I was like, oh,
it's the perfect time, Like it was nobody there and
I just took a chance on her.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
She took a chance on me, and you know we
just built a great relationship. But uh, Coach Moki, she
that lady, she is.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
She the bestment And you know sometimes people might I
feel like I want to surround myself with like people
that already is a winning team, And you knew that
that was a good situation for you, yes see.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
And some people do that and they end up in
the wrong situation, you know what I'm saying. And I
was like, I'm gonna just bet on myself, you know
what I'm saying. That's what I've been the level whole life.
I'm just bet on myself in and I made the
right choice the first year we won the national championship.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
And now that you know the Buyrus High.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Yeah, yeah, I love that though. I only shoot for greatness,
Like you know what I'm saying. My mama always told me,
if you shoot for the moon, you don't land with
the stars, you know what I'm saying. So I always
shoot for the biggest thing, Like I got goal super big.
I didn't think I wrote it down to my vision board.
I wanted to win the National Championship and SEC freshman year.
My freshman year, I did both of those.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Like you know what I'm saying. I wrote it down
and I worked for it.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
So I think, like, if I put the intentions out there,
anything happened.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
When did you start doing vision boards?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Man?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
My freshman year of college, I started like just trying
to get more in touch with myself because I had
moved out seven hours away from my family.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
And I just like, I want to operate at the
highest level.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Start reading books, started just watching business stuff or your
leisure you know what I'm saying, assetts.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Of a lot of abilities, all type of that stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Just to try to get my mom going in a
different realm, you know what I'm saying, Because I knew
I didn't make all that money then, but I knew
I was gonna make a lot of money come like,
coming into college, I was like, I gotta study about
business and stuff like that. So my mom always kind
of been there and all the billing theres they say,
visualized and write it down and then go get it.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Man, that's dope. And let's say you also had an
anil deal when you were in high school, right, and
I see, I see that you're also responsible with your money.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yes, absolutely, I just we just put.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Your hand up again. I gotta see that.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
We just closed on like seven acres, so I just
got that up run. It was my first not my first,
but like one of my first investments.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
And you know it's big investments.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
You know how huge that is. Just think about nil
deals weren't even happening right before that, and which by
the way, everybody had a problem with. But the fact
that now it's like you can you can finish college.
You don't have to rush, it's beautiful, and to go
into the w NBA. You can also take care of
your family and you can also profit off of you
(09:07):
know what everybody else is profiting off of, with your
name and your likeness.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, and I think it's important.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
I feel like every time something new happeness, it's always
like a negative thing on it until it becomes the
new norm. But I think NIO is important for college
students only because like, if you know a college student
or you know an athlete, you know how hard we
were and you know how much money these institutions are making,
So like why not give them, you know, the opportunity
to make money off their brand. And I think NIL
(09:33):
is kind of not like a handout. It's kind of like,
you know, you work hard, you build your brand, and
you get paid for what you you know what I'm saying, what.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
You work for. So that's why I think NIL is
super important.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
And I want to help you know, guid young kids
and to make decisions like me. I just dropped the
album an EP, Best of Both Worlds and I'm going
to college, Like you know, that's important to show the kids.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
That's the both the world. I love the artwork on
the covert because you take the microphone on wesside. Yes
you see the basketball on a the side. And I
know at times people feel like there's so much dedication
to each one of those things that they'll try to
make you feel like you gotta choose. But I know
when you went to go to LSU, they took you
to the studio. Yeah, they took me to we got
your girl.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Oh my official vision.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
My whole recruiting process is kind of weird because as
soon as coaches would be like, well, so which one
you want to do? You want to play basketball, you
want to rap? I just hang up because I know
you ain't the school for me, Like you know what
I'm saying. I don't want even to waste your time.
So when they took me to the studio, it was like, yeah,
they get it. You know what I'm saying. Coach Mokey,
get it, you know what I'm saying. Then at say
I like, this is an old white lady, Like you
know what I'm saying, I'm.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
A rapping, like you know what I'm saying, like real,
and she giving me she's like I know my old whitelad,
you know what I'm saying, and she give me the.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Support like you know what I'm saying. So that was dope.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
That was very slick of her. That was very smart.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
She know what she was doing.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
But Coach Mokey loved music too, though she don't really
like rap music, but she like all that country stuff
and all of that the old country.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
So you know, she really understands where I'm coming from.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
As far as that, did you start listening in the
country music? Yeah, you know, yeah, she got me on that.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
She got me on some of it. She got me
on it. She played every.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Practice I saw you also did the song with Bea Lakiah.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yeah, that is really amazing because it feels like they're
embracing the fact that you're an artist back too in
the WNBA, and I see all of the WNBA players
showing love and support. That has to feel good.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
That feel great because it's like they get it, like
they know what it's like to play at the highest level,
so they kind of like wow, like there's no way
she's playing at the highest level and doing music at
the highest level, Like you know, it's crazy. And the
song would be being Lakia came about was with coach
of gym and they was like, you're gonna do a
w NBA.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Anthem and it was like that's having me on. It
just made sense, like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
And it was an honor though, Like that was a
that was a good decision that they made, been putting
me on.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yes, it was. I love seeing when you go to
the games and you show love too, and you'd be
like you get your jersey for what?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah, after All Star and that was the first time
I really got to go to like a real game
because I've been traveling so much, but I got to
see all of.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
My favorite players.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
And you was a fly too, trying to put it
on a little bit my styles chance, but I was
trying to trying to like I was just trying to
meet everybody, like I was like a kid in the
candy store because I've been trying to just meet them,
like what's up, Like ask some questions like how do
you do this? Like how you prepare, like just to
try to get intie their head. But y'all gott to
kick you with Page Beckers and we had a good time,
and yeah, it just made a lot of new friends.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
You know, when you weigh in on things like what
did you think about with the Olympics. You know, people
it was so much controversy over Kitlyn Clark and injuries
not playing in the Olympics. What were your personal thoughts
about that.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Yeah, I felt like, I know, like the behind like
all the camps and stuff that the people got to
go to the trials and all the stuff, and they've
been doing that for a long time, so it's kind
of like they already kind of had the team basically
together and practicing and you know how that go. But
I think like they could play on that team right now,
like you know what I'm saying, with the talent that
they got. They obviously wanted two of the top players
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in the.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
League, you know what I'm saying. So I think they
definitely could have played.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
But we're still gonna get that goal, Like you know
what I'm saying, We still dominating, So it's all good.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
And now thinking about how you came out playing right
you played with the guys pirs with the boys and
an AAU and everything. How do you think that has
affected your styling? Who did you watch when you were
like let me fashion my game after this person.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Yeah, it kind of just gave me that dog mentality
because when you play with the guys, you already like.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Cause men are dumb.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Yeah, yeah, nodding, because you know, you just gotta have
that mentality like you an underdog already, like you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
And I grew up who I played with.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
All my friends like mante Ken, all of them at
the Boys and.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Girls Club, my coach Marieze. They never gave me no
girl past. So like every hit that was got, I
got it everything.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
It was everything, like I always got that treatment like
you gonna come out here with us, youre gona play
with us. And I think that just kind of made
me strong and just gave me that dog mentality, like
just gave me that vibe.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
How does that help you with your music too?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Music? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Music is totally different. It's music is more so just
within me. But I'm starting to want to treat it
more like basketball, like you know, practicing, like you know
what I'm saying, because when you naturally give something, you
tend to just be like I'm gonna just rely on
my talent. But I just started to hold up my
skills more like become more skilled than what I do
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and try.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
To get better at it. It's like, you know, putting
up shots.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
In the gym, plus a lot of reference basketball and
their yeah and their music really authentic space.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
But Boss Mandilo is like the noise you got all
the references and it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
And you're like, I really know these people. I really
play this game.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yeah, I know for real. It's crazy. Bro.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
It's dope, like just seeing you know, the basketball community
extend their love to me, like I.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I can actually call NBA players like it, what's up? Bro?
You want to work out? Like it's crazy, Like.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
You know, called Damian Lillard and be like, look, get
on this song with.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Fat in facts and then they respect my handle because
they know, you know how much work I put in.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
So it's just.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Love and Little Wayne because obviously he's a huge fan. Man,
let's talk both ways. And he posted you he called
you to go. How did that fail? Because you're in
Louisiana too, bro.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Like, first of all, Lil Wayne is not doing songs
with folks like you know, this is Lil Wayne, Like
this is him, like one of the greatest all time.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
You're gonna go down? Is that?
Speaker 3 (15:05):
And you know, to have that STEMP from him, it
was insane, Like to have the feature for him took
my breath to get the video from him.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
It was like crazy. But to actually see that he
knew my song, like knew my lyrics. Like we was
at the video shoot. He was really chopping it up
and he was like, you know, whatever you need.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Came to support me at the s p's watched me
perform and he left like you know what I'm saying.
He really just stint in his hand and I just
appreciate him.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Bro, that is so dope. That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Man.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
He blessed me with a crazy verse. It's a top
ten Wayne verse.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Man.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Did he give you any advice or like what type
of conversations did y'all have?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah, I asked him. I was like, what's the best
advice you could give me? He just told me like,
you're gonna get pulled a lot of different ways, but
you just have to remain yourself.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
And you know your mom is very present and active, yes,
as fire as helping and making sure that you make
the right decisions and you have family around right, and
I think that helps a lot too. Yeah, keep you ground.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I definitely know that you know your company. You know,
people always say show me your friends, I'll show you
a future that's real.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
You know.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Even though looking at relationships that I had in high
school and things like that, I'm like, damn, glad I
stayed away from these people.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
We weren't on the same trajectory. So you know, it
really makes sense. That's why I keep a lot of
old people with me.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Like they don't like, they don't like that I call them,
but they're like over thirty, like.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yeah, we gotta we got to remember your age too.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Yeah, like they always talking about these old all the
old music.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I don't know about it and all these albums.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
So but know if they sample some old music. Yeah,
on your project, a.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Lot of it pop, good girls go back a lot.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Of You can't be saying that because you talk about
this old music, but you clearly are influenced by it.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Too, almost almost. I'm a hip hop head. I'm a historian.
I know about everybody.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
And your father had good relationships also with a lot
of other rappers too.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Yeah, like on Bootsy Bootsy.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
With tweeting like crazy y that's about LSU. So that
was really dope.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I know that he had a song with the Burnman,
he had a song with Baby Everybody, Geezy. Everybody knew
my dad. He was coming up in that era, all
of them guys. So they're respecting for sure.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
No, they loved him. And do you have like maybe
some old versus that never got put out that you
could Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
No, I just me and Fat Boy and Gee we
kind of putting some stuff together. I get real, like,
you know, touch you when it comes to you know,
you know, his music and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
But it's definitely something.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
That I want to I want to mess with because
Savannah will go they'll go crazy. And Savannah, if you
did something like that.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
I just want to do it the right way, you
know what I'm saying. I want to do it right,
and I want to do it with you know where I.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Can be enamored in it and immersing it. I want
nothing to be rushed, you know, right. And I'm about
to go out of school.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
So where do you see yourself as far as your
music career? Like, if you have to put that on
your vision board, what do you see for yourself with music?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Man, It's on my phone I see I see selling out,
selling out shows, our best new artist.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Next year when they start doing all of those things, Man,
I'm gonna go on an incredible run. It's gonna beautiful.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I want a career, like, I really want a career
in this music. I don't want to be an artist
that's like, oh yeah, she was hot for this summer
and then you know, things not down and she couldn't
like I want to. I want to set the standard,
raise the standard, and then keep.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Going with it. Like I want to etch my name
into the grades of the music.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
And where do you see yourself when it comes to
basketball and your vision board.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
In that same realm, trying to become the best player
that I could be, and I think once I hit
that mark, then that's.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Gonna be a lot better than a lot of other people.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
So, you know, I think if if I just focus
on myself, then everything is gonna happen for me. I think,
you know, I put in so much work and I
know how good I can be. It's just gonna be
about me being consistent enough to do it. So just
trying to pray for that consistency.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I feel like when it comes to endorsements and deals.
You're so marketable just because you have the talent and
skill that it gives you an edge over everybody because
not only can we use her for our brand, but
she also could do a song exactly, she could do
a video.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Yeah, and that's the kind of things that I've been
trying to intertwine, Like we didn't experience deal and you know,
have my music in the background playing on the commercials,
so you know, those the things that I always try
to you know, incorporate in the new came Out of
Beast video.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
I got my JBO headphones in and things like that.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
So with brands, I'm always trying to show love to
my partners, but also have them show that love and return.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
You know, right.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
And I love you talking about being financially responsible because
you are getting to be clear, everybody listening millions of
dollars already right now at a young age though, and
that's the time when people could blow it.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
So the fact that you're investing in you said you
bought Acre is what do you plan to do with that?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Man? I'm about to build. I want to build a
conplex on it. And I've been getting into like apartments.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
And I've don't like Airbnb's but I really.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Just been investing to myself. Like I have a record label,
I'm on my own record label. I have a distribution
deal with rock Nation, okay, but I still run my
own label and you know, they just distributed, so you know,
just putting resources back into the things that I keep
going up. I think it's just important for me to
just continue building my portfolio and my knowledge in business
so that you.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Know, you know, but byby moving and shaking with the
right people. Though, Like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
I went over to can for the film festival can Lion.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Marketing, uh and I met so many ceo cmos and
all those people, and they were just just picking their brain.
So business is like gonna be my final.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Like legacy, right like you know, going through phases in
my career, the music in the that is gonna be
the platform for what I want to do in the
business world.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
And you know, people thought that you were signed with
rock Nation, but now it makes sense. You have a
label that's distributed through rack Nation, and I know everybody
is trying to come at you right now. So how
do you figure out what is something that you're interested in,
like what are the things that how do you filter
through that?
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Yeah, it's nerve wracking, but I kind of got like
spiritual discernment, like you could kind of tell when somebody
just want to be on something just because it's like, oh,
it's sizzling, like you know what I'm saying, it's.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Hot right now.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
I kind of just like to work with people who
actually see the vision and who have a history of consistency.
Like I don't want somebody who've been hopping from here,
he was at this place. No, I want somebody who
stayed somewhere and built some you know what I'm saying,
and now what they probably doing their own thing or they.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
So just people with longevity and consistency, because right now
it's not a lot of that, especially in the music industry.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
So just being particular about that is going to be
important for me.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
All Right, So the project Best of Both Worlds is
out now. It's an EP. You also have NL Chappa
on there.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Yes, yes, that was a nice.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
You know what I was thinking about too when I
was listening because the lyrics they're dope, but it's nothing
that's going to be too controversial. So is that something
that you have to think about because of the space
that you're in. I saw you said that all these
young people are looking up to you, which is not
something you ever necessarily anticipated. But when it comes to
your lyrics and your content, how does that play into it?
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Yeah, I know, I've been thinking about this a lot
because I older, right, and it's like, you know, it's
certain things that I'm gonna talk about, certain things that
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
But I think it's just for me. I kind of
just rap with a little bit of decorum, you know.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
I probably I get my message across without you know,
being too vogue or being too this, or It's not
like I'm ever gonna do like, I'm not gonna say
this because I'm gonna step on somebody toes now, because
then that would like silence a little bit of my artistry,
and that's not why.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I do this.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
So it's just gonna be about me making decisions about
like you know, some people, people not gonna like everything,
you know, but I'm not gonna silence myself just to
please everybody. That's how stuff go bad. You gotta stay out.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Thinking to you if you like, you like it, don't.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
You don't, And I feel like that's not necessarily you either.
Like just the impression that I get from hearing you
speak and haven't seen other interviews that you've done, you
don't strike me as somebody that's gonna get up there
and start talking crazy.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah. Yeah, And it's like I don't need to it.
I think, Yeah, that's like my lane, Like you know
what I'm saying, that's like my thing.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
And I think, you know, I just I have so
many different kinds of fans because of that, you know
what I'm saying to because everybody could kind of relate.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Sure, it's in the locker room. Do y'all be freestyling
like any of the other players.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
I'll be freestyling. I'll be trolling them real bad, like
that a wrap. I was disting them on the bus.
I remember one time. I'll be distant, Coach Morgan. I'll
be dising the whole team.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
They know what it is.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
She must really like you, no love me?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
She called me a who whatever that means.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Yeah, well, listen, I really enjoy having you come up here.
Like I said, I've been saying I need to talk
to you. I know you were at BT Awards, but
they was flocking you in the media room. But I'm
glad we had an opportunity to sit down and after
I had a chance to hear the project and everything.
And I'm so happy for you, rooting for you. Always
cannot wait for the next season to start because but
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you're up for it.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
I'm up for it. It's gonna be great. I've been
getting stronger, I've been getting quicker. I'm just more more smart,
like on the court.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
So it's gonna be great.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
And they have your breath control on stage.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Yeah, no, I'll be running a mile. Yeah, gotta be
all right.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Well, thank you so much for coming through and guys,
best of both worlds to make sure you guys listen
to that. All right, you're gonna do it all so
I'm not worried about you.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
All right, It's way up, way up.
What app It's way up it Angela yee. And this
is exciting because Flage is here.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yup, yup.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
I've been wondering when am I going to have a
chance to sit down and talk to you.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I know, this is great, This is full circle very much.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
So yeah, I'm excited. I was at BT of wards
when your project came out, Best of Both Worlds and
I was like, let me pop this on and see
what she's talking about and very impressive.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Thank you, thank you so much. That mean a lot
coming from me.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
So congratulations on that. And to be clear, like you've
been doing this since you were a kid.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yes, absolutely, I was a lot of people still know
me from the rap game, but I did that when
I was twelve thirteen. Then America's got talent, and then
you know the basketball thing. So I've been doing it
for a while.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
It's so funny that music came first for you, for real, yeah,
and then the basketball followed. But I mean it's been
working it, it's been paying the bills.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah, no, for real, it's been just doing this thing.
It's like, you know, it's kind of like you have
a vision for yourself, right, and then by the time
you get to the final thing for it to put out.
It's way different than you know what I'm saying, you imagine,
but you still get there.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
So it's the journey be dope seeing how it all folds.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Do you ever go back and watch the Rap Game episode?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I don't like watching myself lifeel like it's the most
cringiest thing ever. I never watched my performances, like, I
never watched the Rap Game.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I don't watch America's got talent. Wow, I don't know,
I don't know, it's just I can't do it. But
the only thing I have watched was the s performance.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Oh now that was fire. So I saw that too. Yeah,
and I saw Wayne in the little Wayne in the
audience and he's on the album right, you know, that
is an amazing moment. And to see how you was
out there, like, first of all, you seem so comfortable
on stage, and you got to credit that to all
the work you did when you were younger.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Facts. Man, it's been a long time. Been performing since
I was seven years old.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
My uncle Jee even taking me to rehearsal spaces and
you know, just getting my performance. So I always knew
I wanted to be a dope. Performer, because that's just
like how my personality is. But you know, I just
been working on it so long and in that time,
I wasn't even nervous. I was like, na, this is
my moment, like.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
This is the time everything even like this is the
time right here.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Did so you wasn't I'm not gonna lie. You look
so comfortable. I was like, does she get more nervous
when she has to perform or when you got to know?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
It's crazy because now I'm like, I wonder if I'm
gonna get nervous for games because usually before the.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Games, I'm always nervous to tip off like warm up,
I'm nervous, like I don't care. I have butterflies everywhere
and just like that before performances.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
But this time it was just like, you know, it
was kind of moments where you don't have a choice
to mess.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Up, like right, like you gotta go, and everyone was
in that room and it was on TV, and you
know what I'm saying that that's a huge deal.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
When I first got a call, I kind of cried
a little bit because I was like, bro, like it
don't matter how much time they give me on TV,
as long as they give me. Some times, most of
it it was like you got a minute on a
lot of TV.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I'll say, well that's all I need. I say, that's
all I need, and I just made it have Man.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
It's interesting too because with basketball being a team sport,
you would think you might be less nervous because it's
not just on you. I mean, people come to see you,
but when you're out there by yourself. Yeah, but on
that stage, all eyes just on you.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
And it don't It won't even be about the eyes,
I don't think. It's more so just about everything going
according to playing like anything. Because you know what I'm saying,
heaven and so for me, like on the team, I'm
still like a captain, so I still have to lead
fourteen other girls, you know, and give them confidence and
everything like that.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
So I really don't have time to you nervous. But
you know, it's it's all the same. Now.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Listen, you're from Savannah, Georgia. One of my fancy works
in the music business, Tracy's Tracy.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Oh my god, I love her. I love her.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
She loves you too. So that's too because I was
at I was with her in La. Yeah, so I
was listening and I said, oh, listen to this pleasure.
She said, you know she's from Savannah girl.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah, no, Tracy, I've seen her at the cash Money
party they did for Baby in La and we linked
up and I just did my gift bag and she
was like, then you gotta tell me next year.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I'm gonna make sure I help you with that. Boy.
She's good. People.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
It's dope seeing like successful people come out of Savannah.
You know what I'm saying, pour back into the city
because you know, you got a small city, so it's
dope to see that.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, Kwando Rondo, you know I interview him, he's Fromanah, Yeah, yeah, okay, see.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Look at that, like we like Savannah Small, you know
what I'm saying. So we are all got like family
and things like that, but Savannah Small, he was like
the first person that kind of like after my father.
I feel like, really like put Savannah on the map
for a for real like back and you know that's
all he talented for sure.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
And honestly, when I think about everybody watching LSU and
watching like the finals and how important women's basketball has become, right,
I think it's amazing, like just the progression because somebody
like you shows that you could be flying, right. I
think there was this misconception about like women basketball players. Yeah,
you know, and now it's like, okay, y'all see what
(04:33):
it really is, right right, And I think that's a
like amazing, wonderful thing. It's a great time. And it
took a long time for people to be able to
catch up.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, it did.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
And I think like women's basketball as far as the
competitiveness have always been the way it is. It's just
about like what the media put eyes on and what
makes it popular. You know, we're going through a tier
right now where women's sports is on the surge and
it's just the dope to be a part of and
just now understanding like learning about more superstars than people who.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Are in our you know what I'm saying in our league?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, because I've been going to w NBA games. I
used to yeah, way back in the day. I used
to do marketing for the Liberty. Yeah, I said you
with l E two by Ellie.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Ellie's a queen. I love.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
It made me feel like maybe you're gonna come play,
you know, when you're done with college. Whoever driven for
New York, I'd be so exciting. I just said, you know,
we would love to have You.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Know, I love New York. I fell in love with
New York.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I swear when I came up here from our last
press tour it was amazing.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
And listen, I see you already thinking about it. So
people are definitely talking about your line in the freestyle
four am in Miami and you're talking about it would
be ten million for you to join the portal. Yeah,
I know you see all the people talking about that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
No, no, that was just a cool line. I love
L s U. I ain't I intend to go nowhere,
but uh.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
It was just million anybody probably you know.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Ten millions. You know what I'm saying. I'd be like,
what's so L s U. Y'all gotta go with the
lim you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
But no, that was just a savy line I was
gonna put in there. When I put it in there,
I was like, should I say that? I was like,
I don't want both get mad.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And then Coach Mokei's seen it online or something like that.
I was like, what I got going on? I'm like,
I'm just raughing. I promise.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
And now you had said previously that you always knew
you wanted to play for her though, Yeah, for sure,
Coach Mokey, And I know she could. She gets a
lot of controversial people feeling different ways about it, but
she's been great for you.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah know, for sure.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I knew that when I wanted to play for her
when I seen her going crazy on the sidelines during
the March Madness Tournament but COVID year and I was like, yeah,
that's who I.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Want to play for.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
And she had already been recruiting me when she was
at Baylor, but I wasn't going to Baylor no, So
you know when she came to LSU and it was
really nothing going on at LSU, I was like, oh,
it's the perfect time, Like it was nobody there and
I just took a chance on her.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
She took a chance on me, and you know we
just built a great relationship. But uh, Coach Moki, she
that lady, she is.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
She the bestment And you know sometimes people might I
feel like I want to surround myself with like people
that already is a winning team, And you knew that
that was a good situation for you, yes see.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
And some people do that and they end up in
the wrong situation, you know what I'm saying. And I
was like, I'm gonna just bet on myself, you know
what I'm saying. That's what I've been the level whole life.
I'm just bet on myself in and I made the
right choice the first year we won the national championship.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
And now that you know the Buyrus High.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Yeah, yeah, I love that though. I only shoot for greatness,
Like you know what I'm saying. My mama always told me,
if you shoot for the moon, you don't land with
the stars, you know what I'm saying. So I always
shoot for the biggest thing, Like I got goal super big.
I didn't think I wrote it down to my vision board.
I wanted to win the National Championship and SEC freshman year.
My freshman year, I did both of those.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Like you know what I'm saying. I wrote it down
and I worked for it.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
So I think, like, if I put the intentions out there,
anything happened.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
When did you start doing vision boards?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Man?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
My freshman year of college, I started like just trying
to get more in touch with myself because I had
moved out seven hours away from my family.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
And I just like, I want to operate at the
highest level.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Start reading books, started just watching business stuff or your
leisure you know what I'm saying, assetts.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Of a lot of abilities, all type of that stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Just to try to get my mom going in a
different realm, you know what I'm saying, Because I knew
I didn't make all that money then, but I knew
I was gonna make a lot of money come like,
coming into college, I was like, I gotta study about
business and stuff like that. So my mom always kind
of been there and all the billing theres they say,
visualized and write it down and then go get it.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Man, that's dope. And let's say you also had an
anil deal when you were in high school, right, and
I see, I see that you're also responsible with your money.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yes, absolutely, I just we just put.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Your hand up again. I gotta see that.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
We just closed on like seven acres, so I just
got that up run. It was my first not my first,
but like one of my first investments.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
And you know it's big investments.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
You know how huge that is. Just think about nil
deals weren't even happening right before that, and which by
the way, everybody had a problem with. But the fact
that now it's like you can you can finish college.
You don't have to rush, it's beautiful, and to go
into the w NBA. You can also take care of
your family and you can also profit off of you
(09:07):
know what everybody else is profiting off of, with your
name and your likeness.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, and I think it's important.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
I feel like every time something new happeness, it's always
like a negative thing on it until it becomes the
new norm. But I think NIO is important for college
students only because like, if you know a college student
or you know an athlete, you know how hard we
were and you know how much money these institutions are making,
So like why not give them, you know, the opportunity
to make money off their brand. And I think NIL
(09:33):
is kind of not like a handout. It's kind of like,
you know, you work hard, you build your brand, and
you get paid for what you you know what I'm saying, what.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
You work for. So that's why I think NIL is
super important.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
And I want to help you know, guid young kids
and to make decisions like me. I just dropped the
album an EP, Best of Both Worlds and I'm going
to college, Like you know, that's important to show the kids.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
That's the both the world. I love the artwork on
the covert because you take the microphone on wesside. Yes
you see the basketball on a the side. And I
know at times people feel like there's so much dedication
to each one of those things that they'll try to
make you feel like you gotta choose. But I know
when you went to go to LSU, they took you
to the studio. Yeah, they took me to we got
your girl.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Oh my official vision.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
My whole recruiting process is kind of weird because as
soon as coaches would be like, well, so which one
you want to do? You want to play basketball, you
want to rap? I just hang up because I know
you ain't the school for me, Like you know what
I'm saying. I don't want even to waste your time.
So when they took me to the studio, it was like, yeah,
they get it. You know what I'm saying. Coach Mokey,
get it, you know what I'm saying. Then at say
I like, this is an old white lady, Like you
know what I'm saying, I'm.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
A rapping, like you know what I'm saying, like real,
and she giving me she's like I know my old whitelad,
you know what I'm saying, and she give me the.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Support like you know what I'm saying. So that was dope.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
That was very slick of her. That was very smart.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
She know what she was doing.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
But Coach Mokey loved music too, though she don't really
like rap music, but she like all that country stuff
and all of that the old country.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
So you know, she really understands where I'm coming from.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
As far as that, did you start listening in the
country music? Yeah, you know, yeah, she got me on that.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
She got me on some of it. She got me
on it. She played every.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Practice I saw you also did the song with Bea Lakiah.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yeah, that is really amazing because it feels like they're
embracing the fact that you're an artist back too in
the WNBA, and I see all of the WNBA players
showing love and support. That has to feel good.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
That feel great because it's like they get it, like
they know what it's like to play at the highest level,
so they kind of like wow, like there's no way
she's playing at the highest level and doing music at
the highest level, Like you know, it's crazy. And the
song would be being Lakia came about was with coach
of gym and they was like, you're gonna do a
w NBA.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Anthem and it was like that's having me on. It
just made sense, like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
And it was an honor though, Like that was a
that was a good decision that they made, been putting
me on.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yes, it was. I love seeing when you go to
the games and you show love too, and you'd be
like you get your jersey for what?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah, after All Star and that was the first time
I really got to go to like a real game
because I've been traveling so much, but I got to
see all of.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
My favorite players.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
And you was a fly too, trying to put it
on a little bit my styles chance, but I was
trying to trying to like I was just trying to
meet everybody, like I was like a kid in the
candy store because I've been trying to just meet them,
like what's up, Like ask some questions like how do
you do this? Like how you prepare, like just to
try to get intie their head. But y'all gott to
kick you with Page Beckers and we had a good time,
and yeah, it just made a lot of new friends.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
You know, when you weigh in on things like what
did you think about with the Olympics. You know, people
it was so much controversy over Kitlyn Clark and injuries
not playing in the Olympics. What were your personal thoughts
about that.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Yeah, I felt like, I know, like the behind like
all the camps and stuff that the people got to
go to the trials and all the stuff, and they've
been doing that for a long time, so it's kind
of like they already kind of had the team basically
together and practicing and you know how that go. But
I think like they could play on that team right now,
like you know what I'm saying, with the talent that
they got. They obviously wanted two of the top players
(12:46):
in the.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
League, you know what I'm saying. So I think they
definitely could have played.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
But we're still gonna get that goal, Like you know
what I'm saying, We still dominating, So it's all good.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
And now thinking about how you came out playing right
you played with the guys pirs with the boys and
an AAU and everything. How do you think that has
affected your styling? Who did you watch when you were
like let me fashion my game after this person.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Yeah, it kind of just gave me that dog mentality
because when you play with the guys, you already like.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Cause men are dumb.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Yeah, yeah, nodding, because you know, you just gotta have
that mentality like you an underdog already, like you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
And I grew up who I played with.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
All my friends like mante Ken, all of them at
the Boys and.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Girls Club, my coach Marieze. They never gave me no
girl past. So like every hit that was got, I
got it everything.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
It was everything, like I always got that treatment like
you gonna come out here with us, youre gona play
with us. And I think that just kind of made
me strong and just gave me that dog mentality, like
just gave me that vibe.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
How does that help you with your music too?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Music? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Music is totally different. It's music is more so just
within me. But I'm starting to want to treat it
more like basketball, like you know, practicing, like you know
what I'm saying, because when you naturally give something, you
tend to just be like I'm gonna just rely on
my talent. But I just started to hold up my
skills more like become more skilled than what I do
(14:08):
and try.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
To get better at it. It's like, you know, putting
up shots.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
In the gym, plus a lot of reference basketball and
their yeah and their music really authentic space.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
But Boss Mandilo is like the noise you got all
the references and it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
And you're like, I really know these people. I really
play this game.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yeah, I know for real. It's crazy. Bro.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
It's dope, like just seeing you know, the basketball community
extend their love to me, like I.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I can actually call NBA players like it, what's up? Bro?
You want to work out? Like it's crazy, Like.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
You know, called Damian Lillard and be like, look, get
on this song with.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Fat in facts and then they respect my handle because
they know, you know how much work I put in.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
So it's just.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Love and Little Wayne because obviously he's a huge fan. Man,
let's talk both ways. And he posted you he called
you to go. How did that fail? Because you're in
Louisiana too, bro.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Like, first of all, Lil Wayne is not doing songs
with folks like you know, this is Lil Wayne, Like
this is him, like one of the greatest all time.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
You're gonna go down? Is that?
Speaker 3 (15:05):
And you know, to have that STEMP from him, it
was insane, Like to have the feature for him took
my breath to get the video from him.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
It was like crazy. But to actually see that he
knew my song, like knew my lyrics. Like we was
at the video shoot. He was really chopping it up
and he was like, you know, whatever you need.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Came to support me at the s p's watched me
perform and he left like you know what I'm saying.
He really just stint in his hand and I just
appreciate him.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Bro, that is so dope. That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Man.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
He blessed me with a crazy verse. It's a top
ten Wayne verse.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Man.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Did he give you any advice or like what type
of conversations did y'all have?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah, I asked him. I was like, what's the best
advice you could give me? He just told me like,
you're gonna get pulled a lot of different ways, but
you just have to remain yourself.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
And you know your mom is very present and active, yes,
as fire as helping and making sure that you make
the right decisions and you have family around right, and
I think that helps a lot too. Yeah, keep you ground.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I definitely know that you know your company. You know,
people always say show me your friends, I'll show you
a future that's real.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
You know.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Even though looking at relationships that I had in high
school and things like that, I'm like, damn, glad I
stayed away from these people.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
We weren't on the same trajectory. So you know, it
really makes sense. That's why I keep a lot of
old people with me.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Like they don't like, they don't like that I call them,
but they're like over thirty, like.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yeah, we gotta we got to remember your age too.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Yeah, like they always talking about these old all the
old music.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I don't know about it and all these albums.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
So but know if they sample some old music. Yeah,
on your project, a.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Lot of it pop, good girls go back a lot.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Of You can't be saying that because you talk about
this old music, but you clearly are influenced by it.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Too, almost almost. I'm a hip hop head. I'm a historian.
I know about everybody.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
And your father had good relationships also with a lot
of other rappers too.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Yeah, like on Bootsy Bootsy.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
With tweeting like crazy y that's about LSU. So that
was really dope.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I know that he had a song with the Burnman,
he had a song with Baby Everybody, Geezy. Everybody knew
my dad. He was coming up in that era, all
of them guys. So they're respecting for sure.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
No, they loved him. And do you have like maybe
some old versus that never got put out that you
could Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
No, I just me and Fat Boy and Gee we
kind of putting some stuff together. I get real, like,
you know, touch you when it comes to you know,
you know, his music and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
But it's definitely something.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
That I want to I want to mess with because
Savannah will go they'll go crazy. And Savannah, if you
did something like that.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
I just want to do it the right way, you
know what I'm saying. I want to do it right,
and I want to do it with you know where I.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Can be enamored in it and immersing it. I want
nothing to be rushed, you know, right. And I'm about
to go out of school.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
So where do you see yourself as far as your
music career? Like, if you have to put that on
your vision board, what do you see for yourself with music?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Man, It's on my phone I see I see selling out,
selling out shows, our best new artist.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Next year when they start doing all of those things, Man,
I'm gonna go on an incredible run. It's gonna beautiful.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I want a career, like, I really want a career
in this music. I don't want to be an artist
that's like, oh yeah, she was hot for this summer
and then you know, things not down and she couldn't
like I want to. I want to set the standard,
raise the standard, and then keep.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Going with it. Like I want to etch my name
into the grades of the music.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
And where do you see yourself when it comes to
basketball and your vision board.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
In that same realm, trying to become the best player
that I could be, and I think once I hit
that mark, then that's.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Gonna be a lot better than a lot of other people.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
So, you know, I think if if I just focus
on myself, then everything is gonna happen for me. I think,
you know, I put in so much work and I
know how good I can be. It's just gonna be
about me being consistent enough to do it. So just
trying to pray for that consistency.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I feel like when it comes to endorsements and deals.
You're so marketable just because you have the talent and
skill that it gives you an edge over everybody because
not only can we use her for our brand, but
she also could do a song exactly, she could do
a video.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Yeah, and that's the kind of things that I've been
trying to intertwine, Like we didn't experience deal and you know,
have my music in the background playing on the commercials,
so you know, those the things that I always try
to you know, incorporate in the new came Out of
Beast video.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
I got my JBO headphones in and things like that.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
So with brands, I'm always trying to show love to
my partners, but also have them show that love and return.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
You know, right.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
And I love you talking about being financially responsible because
you are getting to be clear, everybody listening millions of
dollars already right now at a young age though, and
that's the time when people could blow it.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
So the fact that you're investing in you said you
bought Acre is what do you plan to do with that?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Man? I'm about to build. I want to build a
conplex on it. And I've been getting into like apartments.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
And I've don't like Airbnb's but I really.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Just been investing to myself. Like I have a record label,
I'm on my own record label. I have a distribution
deal with rock Nation, okay, but I still run my
own label and you know, they just distributed, so you know,
just putting resources back into the things that I keep
going up. I think it's just important for me to
just continue building my portfolio and my knowledge in business
so that you.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Know, you know, but byby moving and shaking with the
right people. Though, Like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
I went over to can for the film festival can Lion.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Marketing, uh and I met so many ceo cmos and
all those people, and they were just just picking their brain.
So business is like gonna be my final.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Like legacy, right like you know, going through phases in
my career, the music in the that is gonna be
the platform for what I want to do in the
business world.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
And you know, people thought that you were signed with
rock Nation, but now it makes sense. You have a
label that's distributed through rack Nation, and I know everybody
is trying to come at you right now. So how
do you figure out what is something that you're interested in,
like what are the things that how do you filter
through that?
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Yeah, it's nerve wracking, but I kind of got like
spiritual discernment, like you could kind of tell when somebody
just want to be on something just because it's like, oh,
it's sizzling, like you know what I'm saying, it's.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Hot right now.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
I kind of just like to work with people who
actually see the vision and who have a history of consistency.
Like I don't want somebody who've been hopping from here,
he was at this place. No, I want somebody who
stayed somewhere and built some you know what I'm saying,
and now what they probably doing their own thing or they.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
So just people with longevity and consistency, because right now
it's not a lot of that, especially in the music industry.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
So just being particular about that is going to be
important for me.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
All Right, So the project Best of Both Worlds is
out now. It's an EP. You also have NL Chappa
on there.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Yes, yes, that was a nice.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
You know what I was thinking about too when I
was listening because the lyrics they're dope, but it's nothing
that's going to be too controversial. So is that something
that you have to think about because of the space
that you're in. I saw you said that all these
young people are looking up to you, which is not
something you ever necessarily anticipated. But when it comes to
your lyrics and your content, how does that play into it?
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Yeah, I know, I've been thinking about this a lot
because I older, right, and it's like, you know, it's
certain things that I'm gonna talk about, certain things that
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
But I think it's just for me. I kind of
just rap with a little bit of decorum, you know.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
I probably I get my message across without you know,
being too vogue or being too this, or It's not
like I'm ever gonna do like, I'm not gonna say
this because I'm gonna step on somebody toes now, because
then that would like silence a little bit of my artistry,
and that's not why.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I do this.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
So it's just gonna be about me making decisions about
like you know, some people, people not gonna like everything,
you know, but I'm not gonna silence myself just to
please everybody. That's how stuff go bad. You gotta stay out.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Thinking to you if you like, you like it, don't.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
You don't, And I feel like that's not necessarily you either.
Like just the impression that I get from hearing you
speak and haven't seen other interviews that you've done, you
don't strike me as somebody that's gonna get up there
and start talking crazy.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah. Yeah, And it's like I don't need to it.
I think, Yeah, that's like my lane, Like you know
what I'm saying, that's like my thing.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
And I think, you know, I just I have so
many different kinds of fans because of that, you know
what I'm saying to because everybody could kind of relate.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Sure, it's in the locker room. Do y'all be freestyling
like any of the other players.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
I'll be freestyling. I'll be trolling them real bad, like
that a wrap. I was disting them on the bus.
I remember one time. I'll be distant, Coach Morgan. I'll
be dising the whole team.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
They know what it is.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
She must really like you, no love me?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
She called me a who whatever that means.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Yeah, well, listen, I really enjoy having you come up here.
Like I said, I've been saying I need to talk
to you. I know you were at BT Awards, but
they was flocking you in the media room. But I'm
glad we had an opportunity to sit down and after
I had a chance to hear the project and everything.
And I'm so happy for you, rooting for you. Always
cannot wait for the next season to start because but
(23:49):
you're up for it.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
I'm up for it. It's gonna be great. I've been
getting stronger, I've been getting quicker. I'm just more more smart,
like on the court.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
So it's gonna be great.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
And they have your breath control on stage.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Yeah, no, I'll be running a mile. Yeah, gotta be
all right.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Well, thank you so much for coming through and guys,
best of both worlds to make sure you guys listen
to that. All right, you're gonna do it all so
I'm not worried about you.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
All right, It's way up, way up.
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