Victoria Monét Talks “Let Me,” Growth, Red & Green Flags, and Emotional Walls + More

Victoria Monét Talks “Let Me,” Growth, Red & Green Flags, and Emotional Walls + More 

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
What's up its way up at Angela Gee and my
girl Victoria money is here. Dan just told us don't
waste any more time because we've been chatting.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yeah, we're chid chatting. We haven't seen each other in
a minute.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
I know. I'm so happy you're outside promoting because you
have a new single. Let me yes, thank you listen.
And this is exactly who I look at you as. Yeah,
the person that can break down somebody's the walls that
they have up and the barriers.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
I love that. Yeah, I want to be that person.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
I think just thinking about masculine and feminine energy and
how in a masculine space there's not often enough regard
for the emotional weight that all of that, all that
we ask masculine energy to provide, can bring. So we
don't like seeing them cry or seeing people express their

(00:54):
struggles and stuff. Sometimes it can be frowned upon it.
And I think that comes all the way from the
way we're raised. Sometimes it's like if you start crying
as a kid, the response is usually like quit all
that crime, like right and.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Right exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
And I think that subconsciously manifests in relationships often too,
So you're harboring some type of energy that you're not
letting your partner in on.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
And I just.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Want to have, you know, show, Yeah, let me be
a soft space to land.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
I'm sure there's a lot of people that will sign
up for that. But I want to ask you what
is the balance of not wanting to have to be
the one that has to save somebody? Because there's that too, right,
there's times in relationships where you don't want to put
like you don't want somebody to just like lean on
you so heavily that you have a lot going on too,
Like where do you know? Okay, we have boundaries too.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
You know, I there is.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
That is a really great question because there is a
bit of a a balance because sometimes, for example, maybe
if you're a camp sir, you have so much empathy
for someone that you kind of pick your partner based
on the project. Like I have a project and I
can definitely do a makeover and I can make you

(02:10):
so much better, and that's how I'm going to receive
my validation because I can bring value to the table. Well,
what I'm saying is there should just be a balance
of vulnerability and being able to take care of your work,
not that someone should depend completely on you, because you
should know that your happiness is dependent on your own
self and your own frequency in your own mindset. But

(02:30):
just allowing someone to be there for those moments, even
if it's just by your side, not to fix the problem,
but to just know about it and to if they
can help offer that, but knowing that it is something
that you will have to constantly work on on your own,
and then having the feminine energy be able to do
that as well, Like it should be kind of this

(02:52):
nice figure rate of energy flowing through all the time
that you both can be able to lean on each
other that way.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
You feel like you have been in situation where you
were able to lean on the other person. Because sometimes
I also think as a super busy person as an artist,
you may also I've always looked at you as a
type of person who's and we're gonna talk about all
your multitask but it has tried to like handle things
on your own.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, I think that I could sing this song to
myself as well. Let let yo, let someone also be
there for you, because sometimes I think, and maybe you've
experienced this too, like your day is so busy and
by the time you get home and someone's like how
is your day? You just skip over most of it
because it's like if I start to tell you all
the little details all night, you just want to But

(03:41):
it is.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
I think it's just all about the balance.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
And even friendships too, can be applied to this song,
like let someone care for you that is your friend,
Like maybe you're not expressing yourself completely and you show
up to this event and you're trying to put on
completely because you don't want to mess up the vibe
and just finding those right moments to have conversations with
people that care about you, because I think.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
People get validation.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
And people feel good to be able to help or
be able to hear you out and express. So it's
almost like how you feel at Christmas, like you want
to be able to give somebody something and you want
to receive, like you want it to be both ways.
So just more of that in a relationship. And yeah,
because I like.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
To give, but that means also that I know that
people like to give to me too, right Exactly, I'm
so used to being like generous and giving that it's
hard to you know, some people that give risk some
people are I don't want to say takers necessarily, but like.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Bleachers, yeah for sure.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
But I think like when you think about what it
makes you feel when you give. When I started to
change my perspective about what that feels like for other people,
it's almost like, if I don't allow people to give
to me, I'm kind of being selfish and stealing.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
That emotion from them.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
So if you think about that, alle allowance as also
a form of a.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Gift to just be like thank you, you know, accept
it and let them feel good, because you.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
Don't want to be like, oh, you didn't have to,
Oh I didn't the person feel bad. You got to
get excited and say thanks.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
Yes, Like just that kid at Christmas that cries about
the bike, like that energy, because that makes the parents
feel so good that they were able to do that.
They noticed something and they you know, listened all year
to what the contact clues were and then they accomplish
something and that feels really good as a human to
have that emotion. I think that applies in a relationship
as well.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Now, so you posted about red flags and green flags
in a relationship, you ask people that I didn't see
your answer, what are your red flags and what are
your green flags?

Speaker 3 (05:43):
I think A red flag is inconsistency. Okay for me,
I think a red flag is if someone treats you
differently than they treat someone else. Like one big red
flag in a date scenario is if they're really nice
to you, but then they are me to the waitress
or like the person who was at the door, and
I feel like that's not an.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
That's that's a personality.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
Treat that's like a preview of what they could treat you, like, yeah,
they're kind of putting on a facade for you, yeah,
and then they're not nice. That is something too. I
look at how people treat people who they don't feel like.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Them exactly.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
How do you treat the CEO versus how do you.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Treat the Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
No, that's we're on the same page with that, as
I think that's very telling just about someone's spirit in
someone's heart, and I want to know all of it,
and so I'm looking for all those little context clues
to help me out. We don't really have time to
be you know, the trial and error period needs to
happen fast these days.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
But that's hard, you know, because it takes soul. It
does take time. Everybody's always like take your time, take
your time. But what's the green flags?

Speaker 3 (06:52):
Green flag, they talk to their family, green flag. Their
hygiene is incredible. Green, Oh my god, especially when you're
having a conversation, like a hygiene is really big.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
Green flag is.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
The way in which you communicate, asking the right questions,
the temperament in which you ask, because you could say
the same thing a million ways, but the way that
you ask to make me feel a certain way is like, Okay,
I think we can have these types of important conversations
and not make it an argument. It's just more of
a conversation or a debate, like versus like angry, and

(07:31):
you know.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Debates can be fun.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, it's like, okay, what's.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
Your point of view and then we come we can
agree to disagree and like we respect each other's perspective
and all of that. I think that's really important.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
It's the little things too sometimes that like the fact
that they listen and they can do little things. They're like,
oh my god, you were really listening and paying attention.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yeah, things that you didn't They don't have to ask,
you know, on your birthday, like what would you like
for your birthday? They kind of know because they spent
the three months prior with you, and they're like, hmm,
I noticed you like.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
This type of flower. Notice she like this item, or
she likes this type of date.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
Those little things. Being very observant is another green flag
for sure. And if you can cook, green flag, if
you're clean, green flag.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
I mean I'm pretty green. I'm pretty on the green side.
Let say that.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Now we got to get into this because I said,
you're a multitasker. Victoria Money is giving herself tasks to complete,
admissions to go on, you know when it comes to
I saw one carousel that you did of all the
different things that you've been doing my side, all of
your side pasts, and it is incredible and inspiring because
I'm like, if this girl could go on a world tour,

(08:38):
write an album, write for other people, raise a child,
and then also on top of that, have a book
that's you know, a children's book. And we'll discuss that
again too, because we talked about it at BT Awards.
But also just go through this intense training, also salsa dancing,
also a chef, and you went to culinary school. You

(08:59):
didn't just say let me take a class, You actually
went to school and you're going to be working in
a restaurant. Yes, yeah, yeah, that is I mean, this
is incredible. I don't even know how you managed to
do all this. But why was going to culinary school
important to you?

Speaker 3 (09:16):
That's actually something I always wanted to do. And one
big thing that happened in my life in two thousand
and nine was my grandma, who was my favorite person
in the world. She passed, but she used to cook
all the time, and she was singing and cooking and
making things feel festive for every holiday, and those qualities
I absorbed, but I wasn't old enough to care to

(09:38):
ask how she did certain things. I would just be like, oh,
thank you for this great meal, by go with my friends.
And so now I feel like I want to discover
what that feeling was. And it's another love language to me.
When you think about music, you think about how no
matter what language you speak, you can tell if that
note was beautiful, if those chords feel make you feel something.
And I feel like food is the same way, like,

(10:00):
no matter what language you know, if it's good or
bad like and I think it's able to connect me
to more people. Uh enables me to be of service
to friends and family. I took a health centered, plant
based course. So also was my intention to combat certain
goal certain diseases were predisposed to culturally. So what's the

(10:21):
healthy way to fry this chicken? What's the healthy way
to make this sauce? What other ways can we replace
these specific ingredients that may be giving us diabetes cancer?
You know, some mental ailments like I just wanted to
dig into that, and then also I just really love
cooking on a tourist, on a foodie. But it was

(10:42):
important to go to school, especially last year, knowing that
last year was the year of the snake. I had
so many changes going on, and.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
It actually I was shedding.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
I was shedding and then replacing it with something else
that stimulates my brain in a different way, which is learning.
I don't feel like I learned in a school format
since I mean really since high school.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
That's so funny that, yeah, that's that is so funny,
like having to take tests and then now you have
to listen because I find out my real estate license.
I'm like, dang, I haven't taken a course or had
to take a test in such a long time.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
Yeah, it isn't so interesting, Like did you feel like
when you were taking those tests, like do you feel
like it awakened a part of your brain or did
you feel like, oh that I'm kind of rusty aet
like memory.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
Yeah yeah yeah I felt both ways. But I studied
so hard so I could I passed the test on
the first track because yeah, yeah, so hard like studying
I was watching YouTube.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
I think it's interesting now is how you can study.
It's so different than like when I grew up, and
you really literally have to like read the book.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
Oh my god, find the page and then like fold
the corner like this is marked for this page highlighters.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yes, you don't have to do that anyway now, just
be folding closed, watching YouTube. Yeah, like going through everything
and we didn't have that and thinking about how like
Hazel's growing up now and the way that she's going
to be learning is so different then. I don't even
know like what these these kids know so much when
it comes to like technology.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
Yeah, Like she's on my phone doing stuff. I'm like, wait,
I don't even know you could do that, And how
do you know you don't even have a phone. Does
a friend at school have a phone? Like, how are
you like what's the discovery of all these things? But
it's very interesting to see how how children are learning
versus how we learn.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
I actually like it more.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
I feel like with children these days, the level at
which they're learning is a lot quicker, so I feel
like they can get to and explore more of what
they actually connect with and what resonates with them versus
the same exact curriculum that may be a little bit slower.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
All those things that we never had to implement in
real life to learn, Like why do I need to
know this?

Speaker 2 (12:52):
Never use geometry? Not once? Like you know, calculate, I
don't can't even remember.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
Yeah, but I want to doie do you take that?

Speaker 2 (13:01):
I know I'm gonna I'm about to find out in
a couple of years.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
So what is but cooking is something that awakens something
in you and it's also nostalgic for you.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
Yeah, it connects me with ancestor, but it also connects
me with I mean literally every human.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
We all have to eat.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
And I'm able to have different conversations with people now
that like, if they don't care about R and B music,
they don't care about fashion, if they don't care about
I definitely know they eat, so like, what's your favorite food,
what's your like, what's your palette?

Speaker 1 (13:32):
You know, how do you make healthy fried chicken?

Speaker 2 (13:35):
You know what? Probably an air fryer, I know.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
You okay, probably an air fryer or pinko. Maybe using
pink you could probably use that.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
I would also say, looking at the type of flour
that you use, like making sure that the flower is organic,
looking at the seasonings, like looking at the back because
sometimes seasonings that we were naturally used would have heavy metals,
and we don't even know where you get the chicken from.
Like all of these little things that can enhance it.
But if you want to do it the same exact recipe,

(14:03):
there's still an upgrade with the seasoning, with the with
the flour, with the type of milk.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
That you're using.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
Maybe you go to a farmer's market to get certain
things versus regular grocery stores, and maybe you go to
you know, someone who owns chickens and if you know
how to you know, fabricated chicken, maybe you do it
that way versus getting the store bought wings. Maybe that
have you know, different GMOs and all of that in them.

(14:32):
So just being aware of all those things and may
compare it with the salad.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
Because also traveling makes you realize that food tastes so
different in other countries. Right, there's things that we allow
here and chemicals and our food that they would have
been when it comes to candy, oh, junk food, food
that's in the supermarket, pesticides, all of those.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
I think my idea about that starts with the fact
that our hospitals are for profit businesses, so unfortunately they
our country would profit off of us being sick.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
So I wouldn't be.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
Surprised that if there's like manipulation done to the food
to contribute to those diseases. If you go to a
country that where their hospital is paid for by the government,
they're like, oh, no, you're about to use our budgets.
We need you healthy, so they treat things differently. I
have that rule too, like if I don't really eat
red meat here.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
But if I go to Brazil, if I go here,
like then I would try it there.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah, yeah, because there's certain things They'll be like this
is a level one precentergen but here we are having
it like all these processed foods, yeah, that we know
are causing cancer, but somehow this is still being sold
into supermarket and marketed towards us right.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
Also the names in the back of the ingredients. It
be so long that you're like, so what is actually.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
I don't know what? Like what did this means?

Speaker 3 (15:50):
So I wish you know, the companies were required to say,
like for red Bull, if it's actually you know, the
rumor about it bullpissed, I'm like, is it whoa is
it red Bull? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (16:06):
I mean I don't know, like what are what is
actually in this?

Speaker 1 (16:10):
You know what's also hard to I never know what's
real and what's not anymore. I'll look online and see
your story and be like, I can't tell that this
is true. I gotta double check, triple check sources. Some
trying to prep because with people like doctoring things or
just putting out fake stories to get some clicks and views,
that's hard to for sure.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
I mean, that's a whole whole conversation.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
I'm like, if if companies, like like bread companies or
milk companies, they would be a sponsor for what schools
show as the food pyramid, or like you know, if
you look at the cancer websites, sometimes the things that

(16:53):
contribute to cancer are sponsored by those companies, like the
ads against certain things milk, like.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
But you should be you should be drinking milk. But
also it's causing this.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
So I'm glad that you do the research when you're
looking at stuff to say like, well, who's who is
this message coming from, and what would be the benefit
of them telling me this and who's profiting from me
buying it? So it's tough, like we don't want to
have to do all that can I can? There was
a one month course of baking in my culinary tough.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
I feel like you think baking is harder than I
think it's easier.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
It's so exact.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
It goes by grams and if you do the recipe exactly,
then you it comes out the same every time. It's
about temperature, it's about the exact measurements, it's about the
order in which you do things and not over mixing,
and all that stuff comes into play. Now when you
get to cooking, it's like, okay, maybe this time.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
You put a little more salt.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Yeah, it's like not as consistent unless you really go
buy grams when you cook as well, which I think
usually people are cooking from the heart.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
And soul and they're just throwing stuff in the des yeh.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
Yeah, they might try something else from the cabinet, like
let me just try this this time, but baking is
just so accurate.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
It's a goal for you to do something in that space,
like yeah, okay, because I know you'll be working at
a restaurant and you have to do that while you're
also getting ready for the Mars tour. That's what I'm
talking about with this multi which is insane.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
I know, you know.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
My team was like, I was like, I'm going to
go to culinary school. They were like, what are you
serious about your Do.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
You want to do music anymore? For real? Like yeah, Like,
I'm going to do both. It won't even affect the schedule.
You won't even know I'm going. Don't worry about it.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
But I definitely had, yeah, four am mornings to tenant
ten pm nights to you know, finish the album in
school and work out and vocal lessons and spend time
with Hazel and all that compounding. But I think it's's
it felt so invigorating and now I'm like, what else
can I fill my day with?

Speaker 1 (18:50):
It's psycho because I'm like, when do you you must
be exhausted by the time.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
You get home, so real good and tired.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
And then you've been on this press run too to
promote the new single, and I'm like, dang, you're traveling,
you're doing all of this. Yeah, and so you're going
to Europe on tour with Bruno Mars. Yes, let me
tell you something. Bruno Mars puts on a show. I
went to his first ever show that he did in
New York. No way when he first got signed, because
you know he was on Atlanta.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yes, that's right.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Yeah, so being there, so I went to go and
see that show.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
What was What was the venue?

Speaker 1 (19:21):
It was a I think it might have been Irving
Play It was a smaller venue because it was too early.
But then I went with now Rogers to see him perform.
I think it was at Terminal five, Okay, and that
was so amazing, just to see like when he first started,
because he's always been a showman for sure, and to
see where he ended up. So tell me how this
even happened. You going on tour with Bruno Mars.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
So I I've won. Let's start at Atlantic is when
he was at Atlantic? Oh, well, he's at Atlantic. I
was there at a point, and I looked at how
he was successful with Bob's hit Beautiful Girls, and at
a point I was I was like, I want to
be like Bruno and be catapulted into this really amazing

(20:04):
top ten category with a rapper, and then from there
do my own things. So at a point I was
just writing hooks only like all these hooks. I remember that, right,
I was like the hook person. So that's how I
ended up with Nas and Ti and like became the
go to person for just like rap hooks.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
So that was inspired by Bruno for years and years ago.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
That's interesting. I didn't even think about that.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah, I was trying to look at how success was happening.
I was like, maybe the Bruno way is the way
because he's at Atlantic. I'm at Atlantic. Maybe that'd be
a good place because Atlantic has so many rappers. Let
me just send them all my rap ideas. And then
fast forward to twenty twenty. I was about four months
pregnant and I recorded this live performance of my song Jaguar,

(20:47):
and I waited to put it out a little bit
because I wasn't sure if I would be able to
go on tour. The world was kind of like shut down.
And was obviously pregnant too, So I was gonna wait
a little bit for that content. But I had a
feeling when the world opened up that Silk Sonic would
tour because their album came out that year as well,
and so I put this video out as my audition

(21:09):
tape to open for Silk Sonic.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
I was like, I think, are we musically align?

Speaker 3 (21:13):
I work with dmil, they work with demails very much
a seventies influence body of work. Maybe I could open
for them. So I tweeted it and I put that
out into the universe.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Because I would think you wouldn't even have to put
that out.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
Like that, But you know what, I am not too.
I'm like, whatever it takes, I will still do that.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yeah, just see you making a call and being and
then being like absolutely, but go ahead.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (21:38):
I mean I I would have asked Dmile, but I
felt like that puts them in a weird place too,
you know, knowing someone and be like yeah, this girl
that I work.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
I feel like men are better at asking for things
like that and for women. Sometimes we don't want to
put somebody in a bad position. We're very considerate, right, Yeah,
But it's also kind of like, are we not getting
everything we could because if we don't ask that's true,
you know, but that's.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
True like that, if you don't get anything that you
don't ask for, well that's not true.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
What did they say? This quote? Is you miss one
hundred percent of the shots?

Speaker 1 (22:10):
You don't take that?

Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yeah, So I shot my shot in front of everybody,
radio silence. It was like, I mean, maybe they liked
the tweet or something, but it wasn't like, yeah, you
should actually do this. And I don't even think they
actually went on tour. I think Bruno went and they
did a residency which with no opening act, and I

(22:34):
didn't even get to see it, which is crazy.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
So you did go see Bruno in Vegas.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
I did go see Bruno, and I just also saw
him this past weekend in Vegas for his tour. So
I got to see DJ Pee Wee, I got to
see Leon, and I got to see Bruno. Just trying
to get a scope of what, you know, I would
take the slot where Leon is for the summer, so
getting a scope of what that will be like. But
then also just really enamored by how they captivate a

(23:01):
stadium full of people and the energy that you feel
going towards the stage. But yeah, the tour, I felt
like it was a long time manifestation. And I got
the call from my managers probably in December shook.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
I was like, oh my god, it's happening. I'm just
so happy.

Speaker 3 (23:18):
So yeah, it was just And then also where I
was making my album is where Bruno was making his album,
so Dema was kind of going back and forth between
the room, so maybe I was top of mind there too.
I let Bruno hear some of the music as well,
So maybe that was just a part of God's plan
to just you know, put me right right there just so.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
That And I'm glad you did that. And I feel
like this is going to be an amazing tour because
you both have and Leon Thomas too, like to your point,
have such an amazing stage presence too, And I think
that's important, right because you're captivating. I've been watching these
videos of you also going Spellman yeah at Berkeley College
of Music. Yeah, And how exciting is that for like

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these students to have so fun Victoria Monette.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
I love their energy.

Speaker 3 (24:03):
I felt so much love and like I think when
you're in LA there's so many successful people that maybe
you kind of the people in La get jaded because
they're seeing everyone from Leonardo DiCaprio at the dinner tables,
Beyonce maybe passing through. It's like people are used to
it when you go to another place. They make you
feel so special.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
You're like, oh for me, you love thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
And I really was honored by what Berkeley did. They
did a whole performance at the end of the night
with my music, Like they had sections of the show
with my music. They had had my MD come in
and help them arrange the show, and like there was
horn sections and dance and I was like blown away
by the talent and the love that I felt there.
So I just want to do a college tour at

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this point.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
College be amazing. Yes, I just do that because I'm kids.
I just think about when I was in college and
we had certain artists come and perform, and how I
remember the day Last Soul came and perform. Ooh, I'm
trying to think of like some of the other big
ones that we had we.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
Have for like home homecoming.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
It was called spring Flaning. So every Spring Fling it
would be outside on the hill and it was just
so chill where did you go? Wesleyan in Connecticut?

Speaker 2 (25:13):
Okay, Yeah, so.

Speaker 1 (25:14):
That was like what we look forward to all the time.
So imagine like Victoria Monet, and I think just certain
things that you've done really speak to that experience for people.
It's relatable for them.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
Yeah, no, I really.

Speaker 3 (25:25):
I mean honestly, I wanted to go to uh HBCU
when I was in high school, just never got there.
So doing these things make me feel like I'm getting
the experience. I always think of the movie drum Line.
I'm like, that's so cool.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
You would have loved to have that experience.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
But this is a way for me to give back
and like you know, inspire firsthand, because I want people
to know that maybe it feels far away, but it's
really not that far. Like you could based on the internet,
you could do it tomorrow, you know, just giving people
that advice or whatever short cut I.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Can offer for them.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
You know, I do really enjoy the way that your
mind works as a songwriter. But even when you talked
about your the book and the book that you have
that you wrote with your daughter, Yeah, with Hazel, and
it's everywhere you are, And even when you describe like
the stars and the you know, just the constellations and
why you wrote this book and how you wanted her

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to feel and what this represents. But even the way
you talk about and describe things to me, it just
feels so poetic. Just you say, think, where does that
even come from? Like because a lot of people feel like, oh,
you know, they listen to lyrics and your songs, and
you've write songs for a lot of people, But how
does your mind even Like were you always like that?

Speaker 3 (26:44):
I think maybe maybe so, Like I feel, maybe it
comes from being an only child and having my own imagination,
And I think in a way having a sibling may
have influenced me to be more like what they're doing.
Like if I had an older sister, I might be
interested if she was a softball player, I might be.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Like around behind yeah, yeah, because it looked that make
everything look so cool.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
Or maybe a younger sibling knowing that she's watching me,
maybe I wouldn't have danced a certain way, like I
might just pick a different path. But being my being
an only child or being raised as one may have
had some like there wasn't really the limits of like
how I how I speak, and ALM was like you're
so weird, like no one was like doing any of

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that kind of in home bullying. I was kind of
in my room culminating and brewing, like just thinking of
being imaginative and being like my own little Disney World
fantasy vibe.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
So maybe it still comes out today. But I also
have a.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
History of writers in my family, and my great grandmother
was a She used to have speeches, she was in
the community. My grandma, there's like speeches that she's written,
her calligraphy, cursive, just words have been in the family
for I think just generation.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
So you were born with it, you got it from
your mama, your grandma, everybody. Yeah, yeah, grandma, that's right.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
And the new album you are you finished?

Speaker 3 (28:14):
Yeah, I'm pretty finished. I'm waiting on a couple of
features and then there's like one or two things I
want to like recut. But yeah, I'm like rapped and
it's it's it's a long one too, is.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Surprising, Okay, Yeah, you're allowed to say a lot.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yeah, it's allowed to say. I shed a lot.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
But then I just took on a lot of words
as well, just long winded on this album. But hopefully
it still feels like the run time of the album
is about an hour, So even though it's a lot
of songs, it's still.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
Like, even this song is five minutes long, this song.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
Is long, right, I appreciated that.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
Okay, some of these songs be like two minutes and yeah,
two minutes. I'm like, it's over already. But right, you
have some things you need to get off your chest
on this project. Do we have a title? I do?

Speaker 2 (28:58):
We do have a title, and that's all you can say.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
Yes, no, because I'm doing something really special with the
announcement of the titles in partnership with something else.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
That I'm launching, So I want to wait on it
so much.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
Girls certification, No, you know what I did.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
I was like, maybe I could be a notary republic.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
Maybe I just need to do stuff an ordained priest,
like just do all the stuff.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
I was like, let me take these online doula class.
I do every time I get inspired when I see
something and I'm like, oh, I'm interested in that. I'm
not gonna lie. When I saw you were going to
culinary school, I was like, I wonder if I should
go to culinary school. Yes, it's to the culinary Education
right here.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
That's my school. Okay, it's just an la version. I
actually I want to see the one here.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
That's beautiful. I saw like the radio one class there
and you did what was the class for making drinks?

Speaker 2 (29:49):
Yes, yes, mixology. We should do that together. I would
that would be so fun.

Speaker 3 (29:56):
I've seen them and come to my classes, like for
their wine courses and stuff. There's like a bread baking
deep dive. They've done it. I took a tea making
deep dive. But the only thing about that school, we're
changing the logo because you know, it says ICE.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
I know, and I like.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
The culinary education, but they are changing the logo. We
talked to that guy, so it won't say that any.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
Because I hate it's called ICE right now.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
No, seriously, because I like, even just coming out of school,
just walking around, I was like, I'm so proud to
be in school, but I just got to like put
tape over the over the logo. So they're changing it
by the time I graduate, which is May fourth, So
it's really I'm happy that they took initiative to do that.
My suggestion was making calling it the National Institute of

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Culinary Education.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
We would say, nice, that's beautiful. Look at that how
your mind works, I know.

Speaker 3 (30:47):
But they were like, because there's a California one and
a New York one, the laws and trying to change
it by graduation was just a lot of work. So
they're just changing the logo.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
And you're involved in this process.

Speaker 3 (30:59):
I told them, I was like, I gotta you got
I want to talk about the school, but that I
don't rock with.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
Yeah, I can't say that it was inspiring to me though,
because it's something I always thought about that. I'm like,
I have a beautiful kitchen at home. It's a shit. Yeah,
I often feel like why do I have this kitchen? Oh?

Speaker 2 (31:15):
But so you don't have time to cook really?

Speaker 1 (31:18):
Probably not not really, And then it's not like sometimes
cooking for just yourself feels like a lot of work
prep and clean up, and yeah, for just me to
be able to do that.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
So for sure.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Now I want to ask you a couple more questions
because I know you got to go. This is the
year of the horse, yes, and you're it seems like
you talk about Chinese astrology. You talk about it was
a year the snake and what that meant. What does
this year mean for you?

Speaker 3 (31:42):
Oh my god, it's definitely moving fast. I feel like
I'm on fire, like just the heat is on the urgency.
The schedule feels like everything, even time is feeling like
it's moving faster. And I know we probably say that
every year, but how is it already April? And I'm like,

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I know that every day is actually moving by like
points zero zero one second faster the way the world
is spinning now interestingly enough where our days are getting
a little bit shorter by by like milliseconds. But I
feel that I feel like this galloping towards the horizon,
towards this, like this this really big goal, which for

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me is this album and the tour right now, because
I do and my spirit feel like this is one
of my best bodies of work.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
Oh for sure, that's a huge undertaker, because between Jaguar Jaguars,
I mean, that's a huge statement.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
I know, I know, but I do. I stand by,
I stand by.

Speaker 3 (32:43):
I think it's the spiritual work that I was doing
last year in alignment with creating the album, you know,
my side quest, the tai Chi, the box and the
culinary school, you know, you know, being closer to Hazel,
the shedding of certain energies around me, all contributed to
how I feel about the album and how I made it,
and yeah, I think it's the best.

Speaker 1 (33:06):
When you write songs, are they ever about certain people?

Speaker 2 (33:08):
For sure?

Speaker 1 (33:09):
Okay, are we going to be able to tell? Has
anybody ever wrote a song about you? I'm asking?

Speaker 3 (33:19):
Yeah, yeah, no, people have written songs about me, say
the songs. Yeah, especially when it's a really good song.
I'm like, I love to be amused and I love
to be inspiring in any way. Now if it's like, uh,
I hate you song and be like no, it's come on, no,
not yet, and I haven't gotten that response yet.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
But a beautiful breakup song is nice too.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
Yeah, Like, yeah, I'm not mad about that, especially if
it's like a successful song. I feel like, I like
like being a part of someone's life and being influential
enough to inspire something great for them. I'm so happy about.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
It, right, And that's type Yeah. I can't wish to
hear yours. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
I got to send you the link girl.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
Yeah, okay, yeah, I'll keep it a secret.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
Yeah, no, seriously, because it's I think it's really one
of a masterpiece for me, and I just I'm hoping
that that resonates with other people.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
But even if it doesn't, I feel.

Speaker 3 (34:16):
So proud to say that I love this album. I
love this album, so I'm so excited to share it.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
All right, Well, I am excited to hear it, and
I appreciate you for always taking the time to stop by.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
I love seeing you. I want to hang out.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
We can, but you have you have a lot of
things going on. You're working in a restaurant. We could
do this.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
You gotta find time for mixology, for sure.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
Okay. On top of that, let's go to Nice.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
Okay, yes, it's nice. That's right.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
Well, Victoria Money, congratulations. I'm waiting to find out what
the title of the album is. I'll be waiting for
that link too. Yeah, and that link up. But thank
you so much for coming through.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
Thank you for having me.