Xania Monet’s Creator Speaks Out: $3M Deal, Tour Plans, Going Viral & Responding to Jermaine Dupri

Xania Monet’s Creator Speaks Out: $3M Deal, Tour Plans, Going Viral & Responding to Jermaine Dupri

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What's up?

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Its way up with Angela Yee. Jasmine brand is here
with me today. All right, Jasmine, you ready for this?

Speaker 3 (00:09):
I'm ready. I'm excited.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
We got Romeo Murphy here and Nicki Jones is here
as well. Thank you guys for joining.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Us, Thank you for having us, Thank you for having us.

Speaker 4 (00:17):
Now, Nikki, I've seen you on the news. I saw
you on Gil King. I know you've been making the rounds.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
You did Tamurn Hall, and you are what we say,
the creator of Zanaia Okay and romel you guys work together,
correct you and Nicki?

Speaker 4 (00:33):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Let me ask you first, how did you first like
come across her and decide this is who I want
to represent.

Speaker 5 (00:40):
So she's like family, we've known each other over ten
or twelve years, and so I have a music industry background.
So then when she created Zanayah and they started catching traction,
she reached out and then we put it together and
made it work.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Now you've been going so viral for this Zanaia monet
hitting the Billboard charts, but she's an AI artist, so
you're like, yes, we have so many questions because obviously
this was a topic of discussion up here.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
You actually write the songs.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
It's your poetry, it's your songs, it's your feelings, and
then you have an AI artist that can sing the
songs correct using the program.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
So no current okay. And somebody DM me when we.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Talked about it up here and they were like, I'm
a songwriter and I think this is amazing because I
can't sing, but I write these songs.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
And he said for him, he uses it to get placements.

Speaker 6 (01:30):
Right, they're fly away for writers to have a voice,
to have their own voice.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
So why wouldn't you just be a songwriter.

Speaker 6 (01:38):
Honestly, this was never intentional. It wasn't supposed to happen.
I'm not all saying it wasn't supposed to happen, but
it was never intentional. I was just mixing what I
love to do with tick and this was the outcome
that I got. But if it came about today for
me to be a songwriter, I will collaborate with other artists.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
Okay, so you're down to do that?

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 6 (01:58):
Tonight it just took off, took God, everything having so
literally in a matter of thirty days.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
I remember talking to somebody who is a songwriter and
they were telling me. One of the hardest things for
her was writing these songs that was so emotional for her,
but then people not singing it the way that she
wanted to.

Speaker 6 (02:13):
Exactly, Like, how can you expect somebody else to sing
your songs? They might not feel the same thing that
you felt, you know, or went through it, So how
would you get the same reaction or how would somebody
else put these songs out?

Speaker 1 (02:24):
How's naya do if.

Speaker 6 (02:25):
They never went through you know what I went through
or experienced it?

Speaker 3 (02:29):
How do you translate the emotion with just like you're saying,
but how does the artist able to you know, communicate
that when they give an artist a song, how are
you able to translate that emotion into your your artist?

Speaker 6 (02:42):
So a z Anaya she's just a lip singing you know,
she just cares and delivers Oh you know the songs
one hundred for seeing human feelings, emotions, right, and she's
just delivering them.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
So are you singing it? And then they translated to
I mean it is because I'm trying to figure out
how this work.

Speaker 6 (02:57):
So with soon though when I first did it, I
created persona persona I do like a voice over you
can sing or talk and from there.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
That's how we create the vocals for your artists.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Gotcha okay?

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Because I've seen some artists saying that they felt like
this was them and that they were planning to sue.

Speaker 5 (03:15):
Yeah, last week, it was two weeks ago, it was Beyonce,
then it was Kareeine Harthing, then it was Kay and Shell.
The fans say, it sound like somebody every day in
sanct So we just take it in and don't feed
into it because all those artists are exceptional. But Zania's
actually is Nicki's persona. It's just like if you go
in the studio. When you got any artists that goes
into the studio, I don't care how vocally talented they are.
They put a template and they put templates on their voices.

(03:38):
That's just a given fact. So that's all that we
did with the Sooner app. So is it AI? Yes,
but it still has Nikki's feelings in it. And I
had a writer from Billboard when they first started picking
it up because they were against Ai initially, and they
called they was like, this is something different. I said,
why do you say that? This is before it came
out that her voice was in a persona. They was like,
it feels like it's not as techy, it feels like

(03:59):
it's a voice behind it. And then I say yes
because she put her voice in the SOO, so I
mean it is Ai, but it still has her voice
and her presence in it. And then go back with
Jasmin said. And I tell other people when we talk
about it, they say, well, why doesn't a traditional artist
singer songs who can go touch anybody just named any
A list artists And say here, I'm a writer who
you sing my songs? Of course they'll come. Now, I

(04:21):
catch make some news just traction, but it's hard. I'm
gonna go to a business model. If I create something
innovative and it starts catching traction and it allows me
to create a multimanion dollar lane, am I gonna stop
and say? Okay, now let me give it to a
traditional artist That wouldn't make business sense in any business model.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
So there really is a three million dollar deal that
you signed for, because that's the number that was thrown
out right, So that's a real thing.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Yes, it is. The deal is there? Right?

Speaker 2 (04:50):
And so of course people are I mean, I think
you had to also think did you think it would
be this much?

Speaker 4 (04:54):
Backlash from it or.

Speaker 6 (04:57):
Oh yeah, I was prepared for, you know, as every
controversial topic and a space that a lot of people
is not ready to step into. So I knew it
was gonna be the good end of bed with me
being first. You know, I'm a guinea pig, so of
course I'm going to get everything that's thrown at me.
I'm a strong minded person on I'm handling it really well.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
I see there's a country song too, that's number one
on the chart, that's a AI song, and I don't
feel like it's getting the same amount of backlash.

Speaker 4 (05:22):
I could be wrong because I'm not in that world,
So I don't know.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
If, like I had to look much into it, I
saw it good song.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
Her song is good.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
This is a good song. How did you decide what
Zanaia was gonna look like?

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Znayo?

Speaker 6 (05:36):
When I first started learning the Teacher AI four months ago,
she was like my experiment, her and three all the
characters I created. It wasn't no certain way I created her.
I just was like, you know, give me a caramel
brown five seven lady, long black hair. And I went
with the first thing, said give me, give me, give
myself because I love that girl. Yeah, so that's how

(06:01):
I got her, and the music didn't come about until
maybe like a month after. I hate creator s Anaia,
So instead of creating a new character to lip sync,
I just repurposed her and merge up with the music,
put it out on TikTok again, just having fun with
tick and what I do.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
And the reaction is just.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
You know, people, One thing that people are asking is
how do they know that you're actually writing the songs?

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Right?

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Because of course now people are saying, well, why how
do we know she's not having AI write the song
for her? And I know you've said, these are your
real experiences, your real life things. But if somebody's asking
those questions, because clearly it's and I's gonna have to
do like a bunch of music now, right, you have
a deal, So how do you answer those questions? Because
I have to assume that now you got to make

(06:45):
sure you keep a record of like yourself, you.

Speaker 6 (06:47):
Know, writing, I got so many songs like, well, I
ain't gonna say songs. I have so much stuff reading,
like year's worth. So we're different, not running out. I
mean I can feel her meanmost in the songs. We
don't have too many artists. Now there's touching basis on
the things that I write about, but they are real.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
You How do you do you have proof that you written,
that you have written these songs?

Speaker 6 (07:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (07:14):
I have a journal.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Okay, yeah, like these are things that happened to me
and really right now, on the positive side, have artists.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
Come to you wanting to work with you?

Speaker 5 (07:22):
Now?

Speaker 6 (07:23):
I had a free reach out and we are looking
forward to working with a lot of who He's like, Yeah,
we have some artists.

Speaker 5 (07:30):
It's some a list artists, a list artists that we
are clapping with now. They wait on me to send
records over and then to go back to what you
guys asked about. How do we know it's real? I
tell people when they asked me that question, I said,
before Zanaia, it was twenty million subscribers on soon, No
after Zania's probably forty five million subscribers. Sooner might get mad.

(07:51):
It might be closer to sixty million subscribers right now.
So out of old sixty million, her has made it.
So it has to be some authenticity, authenticity because it's
connecting because she wasn't the first and after they saw
that number three million, they said, the subscribers went up crazy.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
I bet it did.

Speaker 5 (08:07):
So there. I'm sure some of them are using their
real life experiences, but most of them are probably using
chat GTP.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
And it's not catching. Bro.

Speaker 4 (08:14):
Did you get to deal with soon on?

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Now?

Speaker 2 (08:16):
I mean it feels like it would be the next
obvious thing.

Speaker 5 (08:20):
We have a partnership, we have a good partnership. We
have a good partnership and it works. We're pretty good.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
So is there a what's next for her? Is there
an whole album, a whole project?

Speaker 4 (08:32):
Or can you do a tour? Because that's another thing.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
When we were up here talking about it, we were like, okay,
so how does.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
Anaya like go on tour?

Speaker 2 (08:39):
I was like, these Hologram power have been any thing,
but like can they do the Chris Brown meet and greet?

Speaker 4 (08:45):
You know, like, how does how does this work?

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Now?

Speaker 6 (08:47):
Definitely Hologram tours. Every thought about the meeting Greece, so
Hologram tours.

Speaker 5 (08:54):
Hologram But it's gonna have a little more than just
a normal Hologram. We're gonna have a live band, We're
going to have a live man into it, and then
with the upcoming features, we're going to have those artists
at the shows.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
This feels like a good horror movie because I want
this to go left, like you know what I'm saying,
the horror movie. This could be great like Deny it
breaks free from this. I'm it could be Jamay Dupree
also commented on it. Right, I know you saw he said, Oh,
Millie Vanilly, they got mad at them for lip sinking.

(09:25):
But now we have these AI artists. How would you
respond to that?

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Hm, I don't. I don't respond to it. I haven't
responded to anything that none of the artists have said.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
Do you understand it all where?

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (09:40):
I do understand wherey're coming from, But I don't. I
just don't, you know, dig into it.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
How many people have hit you up and asked you,
I want to do what you're doing?

Speaker 1 (09:49):
Everybody the world?

Speaker 4 (09:50):
Yes, everybody's not gonna get no three million dollars exactly.

Speaker 6 (09:53):
And that's what I think a lot of them are
looking at. You know, it's a dollar amount, but it's
not really what I'm so much worried about. You know,
I've been having money, So.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
What are you worried about? You said you're not worried
about the money.

Speaker 6 (10:07):
What are you the most important thing for me is
like how I'm touching lives. You know, how I'm able
to be a voice for the people who felt like
their story could never get told. I have so many
people reaching out to me like, dang, you must be
in my head? Are you in my journal? Or how
you living the same thing I'm living. Of people are
reaching out to me telling me how much you know
I've impacted them, how they're counseling the third processions turning

(10:29):
on in my aya. I had two people tell me
that if they hadn't listen to my song, they probably
would have took their life.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
So yeah, like there in this every day y'all. Like
I'm getting hundreds of.

Speaker 5 (10:43):
Called me and I've had the merger in on freeway
at funerals and everything, and I'm like, Nick, I need
you to talk to this person. They talking about taking
their life and your song saving them, and they just
want to see if it's a real person behind it.
And go back to what you guys asked about the
Jermain Dupris and what I tell people. I tell people
I would have a conversation with Jamain and I was like,
I would tell you if you went from drums to

(11:05):
the beat machine. Before when te pain came out autotune
it was a problem. It's just music is evolving and
it's a tool. And who is to determine what an
artist is? I collect artwork. I like Andy Urhall. It's
an artist from Seattle named Arbiture. I love him. It's
contemporary art. You may like sculptures. Whoever created a sculpture?
So are you're telling me? We all know a painter
is considered an artist. A person who creates a sculpture

(11:26):
is considered an artist too, So who defines what an
artist is? Her poems or her life experiences. She's still
an artist regardless if she gets it to a traditional
singer or she puts it in AI form, She's still
an artist.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
You know you wanted to also address this, that this
has taken opportunities, our jobs away from black creators right.

Speaker 4 (11:47):
People are saying that if when people say that to you,
how would you respond.

Speaker 6 (11:53):
I don't think AI is taking jobs or replacing anyone.
I look at it as an expansion. I just tell
people to utilize it, see what it's about. But I
definite don't see it replacing anyone.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
Wait, you don't think AI is replacing people, not saying
in your sense, but you don't think AI is going
to be replacing people definitely.

Speaker 6 (12:11):
I see Amazon just oh yeah, replaced like yeah, thirty
thousand people or something with robots.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
M h. It's just technologies. We have to work with it.

Speaker 5 (12:22):
But in the music space, pertaining directly to the Zenian project,
I don't think because I go down the list and
when I have a conversation, I say, our whole team
is black lid and from attorney, brand marketer, publicists, and
we created opportunities for them. And then when they say, well,
what about producers, I think, actually, Sono and what we're

(12:42):
doing elevates songwriters and producers and actually give them a voice.
So when we create, it's Nia's music and we it's
soon as a whole platform. Like in your studio, you
can pull the stems off, so now we go get
black producers to care recreate it. So when they say
we're taking jobs from creators, I would say, what job
have we taken the traditional singer? And that goes back
to my point. So you're telling someone who did something

(13:04):
and involved and it created a space she basically was
supposed to create that go get her publishing deal. Which
may be for five hundred thousand dollars, But go give
some traditional artist her songs that got ten million streams
so they can get a three million dollar check. That's
what you're telling me. We were supposed to do. That.
Don't make in no world does that make business sense?
It don't. I just can't. I don't understand how people

(13:25):
don't realize that. I understand you may be in your
emotions because you've been trying, you've been an artist and
you just didn't catch your break. But when you sit
back and take the emotions out of it and look
at the reality, they would do it too. They would
do the exact same.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
Thing, especially if that bag was involved.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Exactly how did you feel when you were approached to
actually get this opportunity to sign to a label and,
like we said, this three million dollar deal Hallwood Media.

Speaker 4 (13:49):
How did they approach you? How did this even go down?

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Server labels reached out at first.

Speaker 6 (13:55):
I wasn't responding though, because I never wanted to be
in the music industry.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
There was no my line.

Speaker 6 (14:01):
Again, I was taking what I love to do and meet,
never thinking it was gonna go this far.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
Running it by Romeo is what really you know made me.

Speaker 6 (14:11):
Say, Okay, I'll give it a try, but I still
be telling him like ro it's not what I want
or whatever the case is.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
But when they came with the numbers, it was mind blowing.

Speaker 5 (14:23):
When I negotiated, she was like, roll you lying, I said, Nicky,
I'm telling you what I just negotiated. So I had
to show it to him write and she was like
that just still ain't real because it did get overwhelming.
But when she started, it took off bicelf and took viral.
So we had the advantage because now you're looking at
in a matter of three weeks, you looking at ten
twelve million streams. Now, I put my business hat on

(14:45):
me in the music business, if that was a traditional artist,
I know what it would be, so I'm gonna take
in consideration it is AI. But we still got to
get closer to that number would because if that was
a traditional artist, that number would have been doubled.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
Right, And there's no overhead for this either.

Speaker 5 (15:00):
Make it makes sense. And then when we majors offered deals,
but I didn't want to go through the majors because
there's a lot of red tape. I wanted to stay
with the independent distributor, and it came down to two.
And then when we just looked at the infrastructure and
the conversation, and plus the money had a big part
in it. This made the most sense because it kept
her control. And that's one thing a lot of artists say. Oh,
a lot of people comments are saying they own all

(15:22):
of the masters, they own everything. They're just using her
as a face. That's incorrect. I negotiated one of the
best deals in history for a new artists. She on one
hundred percent of her masters, she on one hundred percent
of her publishing. We got all our brand and them touring.
We own everything.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
I cannot wait to see how this tour works out,
because that's gonna be interesting. So when you think about
the rollout for the album, what is that looking like
like this?

Speaker 5 (15:49):
So her we're going back and forth January where it
will be some new music out. But it just happened
so fast. And you got to think when she first
put her Life Stories out, it was for some songs
in a month, like you, that's four albums for a
normal artist. She just put it out there, and yeah,
so it's just like, okay, now we gotta sit back
and now we got to put a marketing playing together

(16:10):
and put a roll out on the strategy. But the
one thing we have we have to plan our favorite
is that the words and the lyrics are connecting because
their real life experiences. So we don't want to oversaturate
it and just force it and just become a traditional
artist and just let's keep on putting our songs on
one turn and one hit. We want people to live
with it and take it in because it is her experience.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
And then you don't got to worry about hair and
makeup for us and now overheads on.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
Time, you know, flight for her, he's still beget about
being on time. She's like the artist too, come downstairs.

Speaker 5 (16:42):
I'm like, okay, And so y'all say no hair and makeup.
That's what I thought initially she got to have hair
and makeup. That's why she's like, bro, let's get over
this press and all this this this pressed up and
then we can just go back to doing. But it's
it's still an overhead.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
What y'all got to worry about her having a sore
throat getting sick press?

Speaker 3 (17:00):
But what genre is this?

Speaker 1 (17:01):
Is the artist R and B gospel?

Speaker 3 (17:04):
Okay, Because I was thinking when you were talking about
how inspiring it, I'm like, oh, you can do gospel.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
So I have two gospel songs that God is number
on the chart.

Speaker 5 (17:14):
So that's another first one.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
I'm gonna make the gospel people pissed.

Speaker 5 (17:18):
Because I have, like, I have a gospel label and
I used to manage gospel artists and do marketing for
Ernest Pugh Jaathan Grinld, so I know the Gospel Lane
and the Stellar Awards. So it was a little pushback.
But they know that's where I come from. And then
she comes from the church. She's singing her church choir, So.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
So can you sing?

Speaker 1 (17:38):
I can sing. But if you asked me if I
can heat them and no, you can say you can't.

Speaker 4 (17:44):
I hear it.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
Saying what about guest appearances on the album, because like
people are now saying, I'm down to do like a
works works because they some people probably nervous.

Speaker 6 (17:59):
Yeah, get I think a lot of them are forward,
but they're skilled of the big last. You know, they
don't want to come and say, hey, let's do a
song their way.

Speaker 5 (18:06):
No.

Speaker 6 (18:06):
I think once we come out with these artists, that
we're coming out with everybody else gonna try to.

Speaker 5 (18:11):
Come on for I just I wonder I want. We
can't talk about what artists. I just wonder hows and
I would do on a on a reggaetone afro beat
Jamaican with a big Jamaica artists, and y'all just go
from there with.

Speaker 6 (18:21):
It, Jake, Like, I think that's one of the top
like supporters like countries.

Speaker 5 (18:26):
So y'all just pick and choose a female artist is
just huge in that lane and put one in one
equal to together.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
Now you're thinking about expanding maybe like putting together a
group where she's the lead singer because there's so much
you could do.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
It's so much you can do with it.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
But that's about another artist too, Like so now she's
just a focus now Angel, this.

Speaker 5 (18:46):
Like a real extension of her, Like I didn't came
with stuff. She's like, ro I'm not doing it. Nope,
nobody's singing is an eye Nope nope. So she really
takes this is really her real strict Yeah, it's my baby,
like no roll, no mother AI.

Speaker 6 (18:57):
Or they came like we're gonna get somebody that looked
like her and it's gonna do it. I said, Nah,
we ain't doing all.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
It have you had to lawyer up with people threatening
this sue and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
I had one of the best lawyers around.

Speaker 6 (19:08):
I never really worried about the legal I don't even
feed into it, like I told you anything negative.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
I don't really get into it.

Speaker 6 (19:13):
Like when my people called me be like, you see
what so and so said, I'd be like, no, stop
looking at it, right.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yeah, but I definitely have one of the best lawyers around.

Speaker 5 (19:21):
Bernie Bernie, and Bernie is already in the tech space,
so it worked out perfect.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, she teaches AI to college in Oama.

Speaker 5 (19:27):
So she was It was like the perfect scenario. And
then it's a strong black woman because I was intentional
about that, Like Bernie, I put Felicia Fine as her publicist.
I was real, Yeah, I was real purple. I was
real strategic because I can protect her and I can
teach her business, but I can't love on as a
black woman. And I was real intentional about that because
I knew all the lashing was gonna come back, Like

(19:47):
Gail King was the first interview then Temn Hall, I'm
real strategic and we sitting here with you. I'm real
strategic because I know the backlash, So I want people, Yeah,
you got to do your journalists job and be tough,
but I wanted to understand she doing something like Steve Jobs,
the Black Steve Jobs, like they thought he was crazy
when he made an iPhone. So she's the forefront of something.
We're sitting at the table and not getting crumbs and

(20:09):
brook the brand helps us with the brain. And she
said something that I didn't. I didn't think about it,
and then when she said it, it made sense. She said,
like Romell, we're disrupting something like Nikki is really changing
something that's been there for years, and music is the
one great connector. So I need strong women around her
because I can't pour into her that way, right.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
I am going to be honest. I do feel like
it's going to be less real life singers in the future.
I feel like this might be the new wave of
what music is like. And you know that's I think
this is what it's going to be, hopefully just some mixture.

Speaker 6 (20:41):
Hope hopefully because we still won't the human tour feeling.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think about him. You know, I
still want to go see some of them.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
Yeah, nothing's replace that, but you know what else I
want to say too. When streaming first started, I remember
people at it like that was the devil. They were like,
we are knocked to put the songs that they were,
And then labels ended up having to cut deals to
be able to have these songs on streaming services. And
now that's how we always listen to the music.

Speaker 6 (21:08):
I ain't know what streamer was, Rod. I was like,
you got this mean stream? I'm like, what is that
she did?

Speaker 5 (21:12):
When I tell y'all this was it was just God.
I ain't gonna say it was accident. God had this
plan because when she was asking me stuff, I mean,
I'm asking her like how many numbers this stream number?
I don't know nothing about that. Then labels saying, are
the boxer campaigns? What is about le? What is a campaign?
She knew none of that music stuff, which is why
it worked. Like her songs aren't sixteen bars a hook.

(21:34):
People will tell you to make it hit records, you
need to hear the hook twice in sixty seconds.

Speaker 4 (21:39):
And all that it'll be a certain BDM.

Speaker 5 (21:41):
She knew none of that, so that's why it's working.
If you look at her song structure, one verse might
be twelve, then the next one be eighteen a pre
hook might not have a bridge in this song, but
that's why it's connecting, because it's just authentic. It's going
back to the music we grew up on while I'm
aging myself because I'm forty seven, but back to real
R and B. It's going back to that. It's telling
a story something people getting really and I think that's
why it's working.

Speaker 6 (22:01):
Yeah, I've been seeing a lot of those in the
comments of people saying this the old R and B.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
Feeling and.

Speaker 4 (22:08):
Who whatever thunk it?

Speaker 6 (22:11):
I'm saying, I'm still people be like you so calm,
Like I'd be like, yeah, I don't know what to say.

Speaker 4 (22:17):
Let me see if you're real.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
Some of the people be coming with the AI jokes.
Now are you even real this AI?

Speaker 4 (22:25):
I'm like, man, well, we appreciate you.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
I know you got a flight to catch, You're all
over the place, but thank you for coming through because
I'm so interested in all of this.

Speaker 4 (22:34):
Yeah, thank you for sitting down with that. And I
tell you walk through.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
Gel came through the whole process of how to I
see people online doing videos like I just did the
same thing she did in five minutes.

Speaker 4 (22:45):
Like I've seen all of that.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
It's still not that easy like what people think.

Speaker 6 (22:48):
Because just because I hear create and get two songs,
they don't mean it's gonna be the perfect one.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
Sometimes I'm sitting.

Speaker 6 (22:54):
There for hours going through hundreds of songs, and so
I get the one that I.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
Think sound how I wanted to sound?

Speaker 4 (22:59):
How did you feel me feel?

Speaker 1 (23:01):
Back home?

Speaker 6 (23:03):
Everybody like the love is it's crazy because you, like
I said, hot the Springs, Missippi and miss Tennessee, we're
all one, you know, back home, so like from our areas.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
Yeah, I can't destrive it. It's crazy.

Speaker 4 (23:15):
So thanks giving it your house.

Speaker 5 (23:17):
They do that anyway.

Speaker 6 (23:20):
I'm a family friends person, So every Sunday I cook
five my people that come to my house.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
Every friend that was even before that that it's me.

Speaker 6 (23:29):
I'm like the junction with anybody. I tell them just
come eat and bring nothing. I've been doing it for
like the past year.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
I love my family. I try to you know this
how I stay grounding and stay rooted.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
Hate.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
Yeah, so I do love cooking. Okay, love it all right?

Speaker 2 (23:47):
Well, Nikki Jones Romel Murphy, thank you so much for
joining us.

Speaker 4 (23:52):
Thank you for joining us.

Speaker 5 (23:56):
I appreciate it