EP: 579- Lola Brooke Interview (uncensored)

Lola Brook Checked in with the Cruz Show & talked about her new album & why her Dad still speaks to her. She also explained why NY women are different + she showed love to Bryson Tiller & she had fun imitating L.A. "foos".

Episode Transcript

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Give me best, don't get Ican't. It's like a park Katie coming
straight out of Presto. You knowwhat I mean? I was the brook
never gain cells, it can neverBrooklyn brows some toxic like that. Lola

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Brook is here for that intro rightthere? No, that was that was
gonna have me going. Lola Brookis here. Man, Dennis daughter out
now, congratulations, thank you.I appreciate that. Dennis daughter, Dinni's
daughter, his daughter. Yes,I'm little d you know. Yeah,

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let's go, let's get it.Yeah yo. So yeah, the album
title obviously dedicated to your father.Yeah, who used to pick you up
from school? Yes, a dognamed Frankie. Oh right, yeah,
I know, I know, Iknow, I know what you got for
Christian were in the fourth grade.It's crazy, you know it all.
I know that the project is great. Congratulations, thank you. Yeah.

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A lot of emotion, a lotof uh, there's there's some depth there,
man. Yeah. I just feellike as humans, we have multiple
different emotions and sometimes you can't evenexplain it. So I'm just being very
transparent as much as I can be, and vulnerable because I don't know what

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other story to tell. But Min'syeah, that's it. Yeah, that's
a fact. With a song likeDear Dennis, right are you? And
that song, it sounds like asif you wrote it while you were in
transit, you were on the move, Yeah, happening around you. Yeah.
Because I'm always asking for him tovisit in my dreams. If he
takes too long, I get upsetand it'll really tweak my day. I'm

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like, look, listen, pleasejust at least let me just feel your
energy, regardless if I feel itother than in my dream. But it's
more personal when it's in your dreams, though, you know, so I
look forward to it. Say whenthey visit you in their dream, they're
visiting you, they're actually visiting.Yes, considered going to a psychic medium.
No, no, no, nono, because I feel like I

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have enough materials and memories from himthat I could just use that to figure
it out. Like I don't wantnobody else telling me. I get a
little offended. Dumb. Listen,I'm from Brooklyn. I'm like, you
know, it's crazy. We havea psychic medium that comes to the show

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all the time. Good dude,I'll get him on right now. He's
right behind time. Every every year, it's the same thing. I ask,
it's my pop checking in like youget any energy? Yeah, Pop's
never checking me. He never visitsme. My dad's never visited you.
What I'm saying he passed out sixteen. But I'm like, man, he
goes see to me in the halftheir life too, yo, you know

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what's so crazy? I was cool? No, no, no, no,
you know, I'm like, youknow you you're possible. Dream that's
nice. Maybe little jealous. It'sit's like the little things though, too,
because recently I went to go getsomething to eat. My brother took
me to go get something to eat, and I randomly just looked at the

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address and it said Dinnis Street.Whoa And I was like I never heard
no no street called Dennis. I'mlike, that's crazy. So I took
a picture and stuff. That's verysweet. Yeahs doing. She's good,
she's great, she's excited. Yeah, mom is being mom. What's your
relationship like with her? That's mybest friend. Like that's that's great,

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that's no, that's my I saylike this, that's my child. Now
we switch rolls like she's my babynow. Yeah, Like I'll be calling
her like where you at? No, that's too late. Who you went.
Literally one time in our family groupchat just recently, like my parents
weren't answering. My brother and Iwere literally about to call the cops,

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were like where are they? Like, what's going on? I'd be worried.
And I'm the only child, soI ain't got a sibling to call,
like we'rem my at right, right. Yeah, So it's just it's
you against the world that Yeah,you know, do you have like only
child syndrome? Is that a thing? I have only child syndrome. Yeah,
it's a lot, it's a lotgoing on. Yeah, I just
learned not to be stingy with food. I'm just learning and I share a

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little bit, right, I trya little bit, I t yeah,
and then you get a Well it'scrazy because you would think as the only
child, you get a lot ofattention. But with me, my mom
was working so much and I didn'treally get enough attention as I wanted to.
But when she did give it tome, it was phenomenal, Like
she made sure she she spent timewith me, in bond with me and

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took me places. So, yeah, our producer, his wife is an
only child. Yeah, I wishyour husband a lot of love. I
require a lot of attention, youknow, and I'm all crevy, so
sometimes I don't want to, butI want it. It's weird. Yeah.
See, I came from a bigfamily and just like you know,
in the sense that a lot ofus were all around each other. So
for her, all that ship waslike a shock, you know what I

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mean, because it's like she wasjust used to being being on her own
and doing it, yeah, andall the little things. So it took
time. It was an adjustment,for sure, But I think she's used
to We have two kids, sonow it's you know, her family's bigger,
so she got used to it.But I was only joking with your
future. No, you're really notjoking him. Well, wish him well
right now. But I went andlooked. I went and made my own

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siblings, Like I went out tothe streets and found real brothers and real
sisters. And you can't tell methat's not my rether with my sisters right
right? So you know, yeah, man, but in that process,
you also have a few people thatare not there for your best interests that
you have to figure out for sure. Yeah, gotta move around the move
you got got cut that grass cut, that grass short, my Jane real

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short. Yeah you was the singleby the way, featuring Bryson Tiller.
You knew what Bryson Tiller was gonnado when you invited them onto the track,
right, He don't miss, Brisondoes not miss. So I had
to get bre and then this isa classic simple Yeah. So I needed
some help. I ain't going outthere by myself, like what. So

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I'm very grateful to have Bryson onit. He gave Bryson which I wanted,
and the field was good. SoI'm excited about the records. Man
and Pitt stop with French Montana's crazy. A lot of shit being talked on
that, you know. You know, yeah, I got the energy.
Yes, I feed off energy,like that's that's the only reason why I'm

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doing music anyways, Like I doit for a feeling. It's just a
gut feeling. Yeah. What isit about girls from like New York,
right, Brooklyn? Right when they'reflirting with you, you don't know if
they're flirting or they want to fightyou. Okay, so if I say
f you, I love you,that makes sense, Like yeah, that's

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just how it goes right, right, right, right, I'm listening on
TikTok though, it's like, yeah, you think you're cute whatever your mom
or lesbian, I love you.Yeah, what you better text me.
If you don't text me, it'sokay, But then you be at the
door boom boom boom boom boom boomboom. We don't you wat It's just

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I don't know. New York Girlsis crazy, but we love a buddo.
It's a different kind of love.It's tough love, and I've been
raised off tough love. So haveyou been as an only child? Have
you heard the truth your entire life? My moms giving me the nothing but
the truth, nothing but the truth. Like my mother is the person that
told me that my dad was anattic. So yeah, so I'm huh.

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But she kept it. She keptit low for a while until I
kept having like little episodes with mydad. I'm like, I'm wondering,
like why is he doing this?And why would he give me something and
then take it back? Like whyis he doing that? And she just
sat with me and she was like, listen, your father is attic.
He's on drugs. And I'm likeno. But I felt it though,
because I'm like, he's a littleweird. I just don't know what it

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is. You just getting with old? Were you when you had that conversation,
It's like I think eleven, Yeah, for such a long time.
Yeah, and she was getting tiredbecause every time he would give and take,
she would have to replace it.So she like, this is not
fear for me, Like I'm tryingto keep your secrets to myself, but
you just making it hard for meto raise our daughter. So now I

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got to tell what's going on.So she's not blond sided. Yeah,
so yeah, that's love too though. Yeah, it was love too,
and it made me closer to himbecause now I understood. I'm like,
okay, I didn't judge, Ijust understood. Like, so when you
see so coiler ray on, don'tget me started. Right, when you

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see her going through it with herdad publicly and you're missing your dad like
crazy ones, I'd be like alot of things don't be worth it.
But at the same time, whenit's blood related, you can't just say
oh, because we're blood that wecan't have no differences, or I have
to always forgive you or whatever.But I just pray that they figure out

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they relationship and solidate it because Ijust know with me and my dad,
if I could have a moment likejust one more, I like, I
go crazy for you, and youwouldn't, for lack of a better term,
you wouldn't waste it arguing. Butyou know, but one time I
had to sit with myself and Iused to me and my dad had an

(09:33):
episode. It was it was anepisode that we had and I didn't forgive
him, and I would just alwaysargue with him or whatever. And then
one time I sat and I waslike, one day I'm be a rapper
and I don't want my story tobe all rap a girl from Brooklyn got
daddy issues. I'm like, soI'm maybe I should just reach out and
try to fix it because I don'twant that story for myself because I know

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my dad loved me. He justcan't help himself. So I went and
try to fix it. But youknow, sometimes that's just me being in
this space wherever I'm at, andI figure it out. A lot of
people don't figure it out. SoI pray that Corey can't figure it out,
because sometimes you do get lost andyou just don't know what to do.
As a young female trying to likemake away life. Yes, and

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as a parent myself or I don'thave a daughter, have sons, right,
but I know that I'm not goingto beef with my kids like I
beef with my dad growing up,right, And he's right, but like,
I'm not going to have that.I don't think I will have that
relationship. You never know. ButI'm gonna be my best. What You're
gonna do your best? But you. But then again, another thing,
I feel like in the public,a lot of people don't know. Like

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I'm just now telling my story andI'm pretty sure a lot of people don't
know what I've been through. SoI don't know what's going on behind closed
doors with her and her dad.I don't know if she probably don't try
to reach out or he probably don'ttry to reach out multiple times. You
just never know whatever's on the public, That's what people judge. Yeah,
is there any hesitation when, likeyou said, you're now starting to reveal
a little bit more about yourself?Is there hesitation with like maybe I shouldn't

(10:58):
say this always Always I'll be like, oh, maybe that's too much to
give right now, Like you know, like just take taking my time.
This is the first chapter. Thesecond one is gonna start being created,
like, let's take my time.Sure, yeah, there's time, God
willing, there's time for everything.Yes, But I think the transparency is

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gonna, you know, keep makingyou the hometown hero. You know,
yeah, because my hometown see mego through it. You know, like
situations that I've been through. Peopleseen it. They just probably didn't say
anything because they I guess they respectme enough to not tell my story.
You're gonna let me tell it myselffor sure. Do you ever do you
ever have to suppress the Brooklyn accent? I do see, I don't even

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be really I got a strong Brooklynaccent. I don't think so, no,
But I don't know. I'm beingI'm drinking coffee today, you know
what I'm saying this morning time,So I probably did go cool like how
good is your house? I likecode switching, you know, like I
could switch it up. I Ihope I can switch it up. Customer

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ser What does your customer service voicesound like? Hello? Hello, Hello?
This is Shinese one now, butmy my my accent is type deep
though I'll be trying to I don'tknow. I don't try to do anything,

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and how I speak as how Ispeak, but sometimes it comes up
right and it's and it's even deeperwhen I'm mad, Oh my god,
when I'm mad. That's why myrap voice is the way it is.
Because when I'm mad and I feelseven foot told, that's a beautiful thing.
Man. What do people from lA sound like? I do it?

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Do it? I used to knowhow to do it the way?
Hold up, buster, okayster,bust your ass trick buster, you ass
trick eight fool? I did,I got it. That's Mexican vibes.

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Was ful fool a chicle. Yougot sugar over there? You got sugar
on right right? You talking aboutwhen you're in the studio, what's what's
that? What's that process? Like? What do you what? What?

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What can you have in the studio? What can't you have? You need
everybody to leave the studio or thezone. They could, they don't have
to leave, but they just can'tbe in a place of work. They
can go on a lounge and mybrothers like to just act out and just
go down memory lane and you know, tell their wool stories and stuff.
So y'all could y'all could sit inthe lounge and whenever y'all ready to motivate

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the records, come on in andbe like, yeah, I jacked that.
Nah, it ain't it says youcan go you can go harder.
If it ain't that, get out. But I do need hookah, water,
a little tequila. Yeah, yeah, some things up a little bit
right right? Yeah? Man,you said hookah too, hookaha? Yes,

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I love well. I only smokecucka when I'm in the studio or
like at events. Okay, okay, okay. It doesn't affect your voice
anything. No, I don't likeYeah, it's almost like a shock vibe,
you know what I'm saying. That'swhy I like, I choose.

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I choose to do it when Ican, and I'm trying to discipline myself
as much as I can as well. Like I don't smoke cooler in the
house like I done tried it andI'm like, nah, this ain't it.
We're not doing that. No,Nah, if you weren't an artist,
what would Lola Brook be doing?I just be a mom. But
you know, it's so crazy.When I was a kid, I think

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I wanted to be an ice skater. Wow. When I used to figure
skate and I used to watch itwith my Grandma's all the time and just
be glued to it, Like didyou play get skates? I mean I
went to you know, roll bouncedtype skates. That's as close as I

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got to it. I mean Iice skated before, but it ain't worked
out. So that's when I knew, Okay, girl, this ain't this
catjack this this ain't for me.It ain't for me. Word, what's
up, Jackie? We're both shorties. What's a short people problem that you
like? Just absolutely? That's whyI don't really like to I can't reach

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anything, man Like I know howto climb one thing I do, how
to do I know how to climbto get there. One way I would
get there one day, and thesearms is strong, like I hold my
weight up. You know what I'msaying, calm anything in woman. I
always tell people, I'm like lookbecause like people always say like, oh,

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you're so short that to me,and I'm just like, let me
put it this way. At thetarget. At target, like the shoe
racks, I can't see over them. They're like really like, yeah,
oh people can see over there.I didn't. Yo. It's become you.
It's like part of your life thatyou don't even think about everyone else's
point of view. You just likethis is how is it? Man?

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It's so good though a little hopdon't hurt nobody? Right, easy,
too easy? That's survival. Yeah, I don't how to survive. Sure
people know how to survive. Right? Are you twenty one yet? Twenty
nine? Oh? I thought,wait, what what the hell? I
thought you weren't twenty one yet?No. I was gonna say, what
we're doing for your twenty first birthday? Well, my birthday is February first,

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So I'm going to you going away. Yeah, I'm going on vacation,
y'all. I'm doing that island.I'm going to turn to something or
something like that somewhere. Yeah,you're gonna turn off your phone, Yeah,
turn off the phone, turn offthe phone. You bringing mom with
you? Of course I'm gonna doone with her and then pack up and

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not like though, you know,no, I'm gonna be watching her like
like she's the baby your mom I'veI've had. My mom used to take
me on vacation all the time.She took me to the Dominican Republic,
she took me on a she triedthat, but I'm I'll say, miss,

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you're grounded. Yep, you wannapunishment. She had came to our
house. I see like a hookahset up. I said, take this
out the house right now. I'mnot playing. Take it out the house.
She like, girl, please,I'm grown. I don't care.
Like, no, you get older, Mom, I just can't happen.

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You got to look out like that. You're trying. But she's pretty.
She she she be holding it down, like you smoked weed with your mom,
right, I just smoked. Listen. My sister was very like she
smoked a lot of weed. AndI used to tell her, hey,
listen, if you don't think there'sanything wrong with it, you got nothing
to hide from my mom. Youknow, sherace you. So I was
like, yeah, let's let's getsmoking mom so she could understand why you

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smoke. She said, you know, your point is it relaxes you,
It calms you down, calms downyour anxiety. So she needs to understand
from that perspective. So yeah,we got high on my mom and like
cool, cool. She was laughing, was eating, and that was the
only time she was able to understandmy sister's point of view. Did you
smoke weed with you. That wasthe time he finally told his mom all
the things he didn't want to tellher. Now that you coming out,

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she can't remember girls over to herhouse. There's a lot of a lot
of crimes being committed. When Iwas younger, I remember like I was
well, I wasn't too too young. I was like just I was smoking
weed. And then I basically waslike, come on, man, you're
being nosy man, Like, what'sgoing on? I tried to you know,

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when you late for work and youcome in like you're so mad,
like, don't talk to me.I tried to walk in with a purpose.
Ye look busy, Look busy onyour phone. This way. Nobody
wants to you know, nobody talksto you because you look busy. Yeah,
but my moms don't play like mygrowing up, my mom's was so

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strict. But it's so crazy thatnow and I'm getting older, like it's
I'm like, I could I coulddo that, Huh. I could do
whatever I want. So we getcloser. You know. What was her
review of Dennis daughter. She waslike, oh, like she was emotional
and then happy because it's so crazy. My mom never knew my dad was

(19:55):
living with my grandmother, so Iused to always go to my grandmother house
to visit and my mom I neverknew I was like attached to my grandmother.
That's what my mom knew it.But she didn't know that I was
bonded with my dad. So eventhough she would know times he picked me
up from school, but she thinkinghe picked me up from school, dropped
me to grandma house and go abouthis business, but he would really take
me outside and we would really likebe chilling, like I had a full

(20:17):
day with my dad on the weekendsand come in the house and chill with
Grandma at night. And she justnow finding that out. Literally, I
was telling her, and this wholetime she was like, I did not
know that she was bonding with yourdad the way you was like, I
didn't know. I thought he wouldjust leave you in the house, but
she was like, that's why Iwas like, I just I just thought

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you always want to be at yourgrandmother house because your cousin was there and
you always under your grandmother. Butno, I was bonding with my dad
too. It's great, man,Yeah, it shows in the project.
Congratulations, thank you. Then itstarted out. Now all streaming platforms.
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