January 22, 2026 • 28 mins
Jenevieve came by the Cruz Show to talk about her music and recent iHeart Music award nomination. She also talked about her writing & song making process + how she ended up on the set of the Jim Jones Ballin' music video set when she was just 7 years old.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Genevieve and you're checking out the Cruise Show podcast.
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Genevieve is here. Let's get a Cruise Show real ninety
two to three. What up?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
How are you good? Good?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Good?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Good good? What's going on? Are we protecting the voice?
We're tired?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I mean no, I'm I'm yeah, I am trying to
protect the voice for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Always, it's the money maker. It's it's the it's your tool, right,
this is it. I was tour.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Oh, it was really dope. It's an experience that I'll
never forget for sure because that was my first American
tour on my own, because the first one I did
was We'll Give You On. So it was really interesting too.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Wow yeah solo, like y'all we're here now. It's crazy,
right Yeah, celebrating chrysalists, my saying that correctly, Christalist. Talk
to me about that and what that means to you.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I mean there's been a lot of growth and a
lot of like things happening in life, you know, Like
like I remember the album was sounding one way and
them my Wayla Pass, So I was like, yeah, we
got it, Like, you.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Know, did you scrap it and start over.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah kind of. I mean, you know, we just it's
crazy because some songs will be I work with this Elijah,
I know that's your guy. Yeah, and he he you know,
will like have songs that'll be one way and then
we'll switch it up and maybe it'll be like it'll
it could have been like an upbeat song and then
(01:27):
we turned it into like a slower song, you know
what I mean? So like yeah, yeah, m hm, so yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
The vibe I get is like retro eighties pop.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
A lot of people only on the Internet, and of
course they always have a lot to say, but the
Internet says it's healing. The vibes are healing, which has
to be a huge compliment to you, right, is that
the is that the goal? Are we healing ourselves through
this music? And you know, and and and hopes that
it reaches you know, others and does the same.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah. Definitely. I feel like even like when me and
Elijah in the studio, it could be hard for me
sometimes like to like because I could be going through
a lot, but you know, it is really healing for
me to like just let it all out, even though
you know what's going on. Is a lot, you know, like.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Sure, anybody proposed on the tour this time around.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Well, somebody in the crowd. Yeah, somebody in the crowd
got proposed.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
To Wow, what's that like? Do you know ahead of
time that that's happening or is this all?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
But I met them at the meet and greet, so
but they didn't tell me that they're but they said
that they were getting married, but they didn't say that
they were going to propose.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Oh god, So it was a surprise to you and
everyone else at the show. And you're okay with that, right?
I mean, no, I love that you were saying, no,
I don't want that. I love that.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I love that. I think that's really sweet and that
makes the you know, that just shows like what the
music does to people, Like it makes them, you know,
feel something, and that they want the fact that they
want to even involve me, and that is like really
special and I feel Yeah, I've never I've been to
like only a few weddings, not a lot, but like, yeah,
(03:09):
I love that, I love love soh that's great.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, did you grow up singing in church?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yes? I did briefly. When I moved to la there
was a church and they just they just wanted like
all the kids to try yes, So you know, they
convinced me, and I was very shy, so I was
really scared to do that. But then when I did it,
I was like, man, I love this. This is really cool.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Do you remember your first solo.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, it was like it was a song they mixed
it was like Tupac and I was like, uh, who
is like the Lord? Nobody who was like the Lord? No, no, no, no, no, no,
no about it. It was very like and then they
mixed like Tupac with it.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's crazy. No one complained like, hey,
that's a Tupac song.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
No, I think it's like a actual gospel song.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I think that's right.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Wow. Did you watch the Drew Ski skit on Pastors?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Oh wait, you got Lifted in the Sky?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, what did you think of that?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I saw briefly, but the locals.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeahs he created a lot of talk with that, right,
you know amongst a lot of people, you know they
go to church and especially megachurches like that. You know,
it's different, different vibes, right, singing in the church that
has to prepare you for a lot. Yeah, yeah, right,
because you're singing in front of adults and you know
other kids are there as well, and you know the
Lord's house, right, So like, yo, that's a lot of pressure,
(04:36):
especially as a kid, but a shy kid at that.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, yeah, but it was it was really nice, Like yeah,
I wouldn't want it any other way. Like that was
beautiful for me when I think about it.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
What an experience, right, head over heels, congratulations, crazy, How
do you feel about it?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Well, I'm really yeah, and it's say it. I just
can't believe it's being played on the radio and it's
just like everybody you know, it's it feels good. It
feels really good. And then being nominated for iHeart Radio.
That's that's insane. Yeah, I did not expect that.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
It's only the beginning though, right, it's only the beginning.
Does it feel that way to you?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, I mean coming from division to now right, christals right,
you had that gap obviously, where so you know you
can be creative and you can work and you can
deal with whatever you have to deal with. We're all
dealing with stuff as human beings, right, and growth obviously, right,
But it's still only the beginning. This is just the
second album of your body of work.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
It's only the beginning. Yeah, yeah, yeah, again, it's only
the beginning.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Man, that's right, that's right. It is it scary? Is
it still scary or you it's are you in motion?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I'm excited because, like you know, I would always watch
like you know, Whitneys and then you know all those people.
So it's nice to to be in that space and
experience it like you know, yeah, it's cool, Like yeah,
it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah. How do you feel about Haiku? I like Haiku? Yeah?
Was that? Was that a song that you quickly wrote?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Oh? Me and Elijah, Well, Elijah I just came together,
like is that flowing? Yeah? He you know, he had
an idea of Haiku, and yeah it took him minute
for us, but yeah, we we did it and then
we put it out and we were already in the Philippines.
(06:35):
I did a festival in the Philippines, so we shot
it in the Philippines and yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah, working while we're working. Mm hmmm. Flight Risk you
got to be proud of as well. Why.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
It's just a fun song and I feel like it's
you know, I feel like the time that it came out,
like it was a cool time to everybody enjoys it
on tour, like it's crazy, like seeing them get it.
It's just crazy that live is wild. Yeah, yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Hey, everybody's on this twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
We're back, Yeah, back twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
What was going on in your life back then?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I don't even remember. But honestly, like I'm really bad
at saving photos and stuff like that on my phone
because I've switched so many phones and broken so many phones.
So like, yeah, I was really bad with my iCloud
and stuff back then. But yeah, I probably I think
during that time my side was shaved. Yeah that's right,
(07:35):
I had my side shaved.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, twenty sixteen was a trip, man, right,
it really was. How are you treating social media in
twenty twenty six I mean.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I'm very like I'm not really on it that much, Like,
like I love my algorithm though, like I feel like
my algorithm knows me so well, so like some I
love funny videos and stuff like that, but like I
try not to be on there just from my mental health. Yeah,
but and there's a lot of scary shit out there,
(08:15):
so I just try to like not be on my
phone that much.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
That's everybody's waiting down to.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
It seems like twenty sixteen and then everyone now is
like made this push to go analog this year.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Yeah, like what do you do that's still analog?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Well, I have an old VHS camera. I just love
even like in my games, Like I love analog games,
like you know you already know, yeah, Like I just
love the way it looks. So I'm attracted to anything analog,
whether it's games, whether it's music videos, whether it's you know,
just like it's just it takes you to like another world,
(08:51):
like and I love that.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
A simpler time yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, a different time.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Or doing things like that, Like it's just it's so
weird how that feels good because we haven't done it
for so long.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yeah, writing a letter to somebody that sounds crazy, but
that was once done. Right. Are you writing music? Is
it handwritten? Are you on your phone? You got the
laptop out?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I mostly do it on my iPad and like on
my phone, but I really want to start, Like I mean,
I do have like a voice tape recorder that I
like is really old school, but like I like to
just like put ideas in there, even if I don't
use them, but yeah, mostly that I try to write sometimes,
like if I'm in a studio and I see a notepad,
(09:38):
I like to write things down. Yeah, my way. I
used to write to me, But that was when I
was young, when we first moved to LA and I
really wish that I like started, but I started learning
calligraphy shortly after. But then I kind of went away.
And I was also in poetry class, so it was like,
you know, I was writing more, but then like I
(09:58):
stopped because I wasn't writing that much. It was mostly
through the phone. Sure, and she didn't have a phone,
so I kind of like text her or whatever.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
But right, right, right, You must have nice writing.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Yeah, it's it's pretty nice. I would say it's clean.
I try to be as clean as I can.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Yeah, my writing, handwriting is trash. It's it's got awful.
It's really bad.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Tagger cool.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I tag everything.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
I love tagging.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
You love tagging?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Tagging?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I mean in school? Yeah, like you remember the dollars signs, like.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, that's right, that's right at
school s. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean that's just
that that's expression too, right, that's you know, that's that's something,
you know, you got to release. It's art, right, art,
you know, tagging is art where whether it's you know,
illegal or not. I mean, have you seen the graffiti's
hours out here in l A, No, no, downtown LA.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
In downtown Oh yeah, I'll just see graffiti.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
In But what do you mean by So there's these
old what were they condos or apartment buildings or maybe
office it's a huge tower of you know, just of
units and they're just they're tagged up there right across
from crypto dot com arena. Oh so they were abandoned,
right and then.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
From floor one.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
It's just it's wild though. Yeah, I mean it's a
nice sort of something, I guess, but like I don't know,
growing up in LA, right, you've been here long enough,
you see that it's just part of LA culture, right yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
We should go up there. Man, let's go drink some cansas,
just have some fun.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I do, like I do like watching YouTubers go into
like abandoned buildings and stuff like yeah, yeah, like that
type of stuff is cool.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
I like that stuff too, or like abandoned theme parks parks, Yeah,
I sometimes the rides are still there and the dusty
looking but like creepy looking. Yeah, like they were once
it was once a happy place. Yeah, those are the
weirdest things. Like, yeah, I love YouTube.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
It's really cool. Yeah, I love YouTube. I'm always on YouTube. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Do you prefer YouTube over TV over cable?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
I mean I have, I mean I have cable, but
like sometimes I'll watch it because I like when it'll
be like it'll be like Indiana Jones or like and
then I'll go into like Jurassic Park or something like that.
But yeah, for the most part, it's like Netflix because
I like to see what's out there, and uh Netflix,
Disney plus I like to B to Be's free. They
(12:24):
have cool movies on there too.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
They have cool movies, Yeah, they do. There's some stuff
there like don't sleep on t B. It's got some
stuff like there's like some clever programming in there, right yeah,
oh yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I just wish it would keep going somehow, but that's
just me.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I don't know new cast.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Or uh right, oh yeah, people like you know, it's
kind of like.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Mystery type stuff that would be cool.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
But were you satisfied with What do you think about
words is Alive?
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know.
I don't want to spoil nothing, but man.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I I love the cast.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I will say I don't want to spoil because just
in case, but like, yeah, I love the cast. And man,
it made me cry because like I saw the I
saw this little clip of Millie Bobby Brown doing the
last thing with Vecna and then she started crying.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yeah, I did see that.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Cast is so good and I love eighties anything like that.
It's just so good.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Yeah. Did you go to any of their pop ups
that they had.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
No, I wish, I wish I could have. But yeah,
that's such a good franchise. We only get franchises like
that like every once in a while. It's really good.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Yeah, it was cod and they had a drive through one.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
That was so bad.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
That's awesome that you really like they partnered with something
with a restaurant or something.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
No, it was like it was like in a I
think they us like a garage.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Oh cool.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
You would literally go levels and it would be like
the mall and then you go to the next level.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
It would be upside down.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
But they did it right.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
But man, in your car, in your car.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
During COVID, in your cart, you know.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Yeah, man, you just you forgot you were in your
car because, like you say, I mean, once you get
into that show, you kind of immerse.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Yourself and you really felt that way. Man. I think
they did such a great job.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
And you're right, like my kids, this will be their
breaking bad or this will be whatever show.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
That there's sixteen candles or their Ferris Bueller like Gremlins.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Gah, exactly right.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Well, the new Gremlins.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I can't wait for that, I know, right, are you like,
are you worried that it could disappoint though?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I mean, yeah, I'm really worried. I'm really worried because
that's like one of my favorites and like Ghoulies and
Critters and yeah yeah bro.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
And then they redo and you're like, oh, you shouldn't
have touched it. Yeah, leave it alone.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
But I have faith. I have faith because it's Gremlins.
They can't and especially with stranger things, I think it'll
be yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Should be good. There's people out there that can do this, right, Yeah,
you know, let's get it done. Yes, you know we
talked about head over Here, head over Hills, Haiku, flight Risk,
and party Crasher. How did that come about? Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Man, oh you have no idea a good time? Oh
my gosh, no, it's just been changed. And but like
it's I love party Crasher. That's a that's a song.
I wish it was in Stranger Things or something. Oh dope, yeah,
maybe maybe Dustin is dancing to it or something.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
You know, it's right right now, you got to say,
you gotta speak it right because it could land Party Crasher.
It's crazy that, you know. Is that a song easy
for you to write? I mean or to record?
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Well, I mean no, it was easy to record. It's
just we we switched it up so many times, even
if we loved it, you know, like so it's there's
so many different versions of party Crasher, which is cool.
I love I love stuff like that. I love when
songs it's like different versions of it. But yeah, but
probably the world won't hear those. But yeah, party Crasher
(16:26):
is what it is now and I love it now.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
It's permanent. Those other versions, where are they? What do
you do with them?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Somewhere?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yeah? Elijah has Elijah Elijah and you know, you know,
if it gets leaked, you know who did it?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course are you competitive?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
I mean if people are with me. Then yeah, then
I feel okay. But then I just try not to
be but like, yeah, it depends. It really depends because
some people I'm like, damn, we could have worked really
well together, and I you're this way all right, I'm
a home my grudge on that, you know.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's like I don't want a problem,
but if you want a problem, no problem. Yeah is
that the Florida?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Or is that the Cuban?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I gotta stop with that. Yeah, I gotta stop because
I'm chill. I like to be chill, but like things
bother me sometimes, so I'm like.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Okay, yeah, when do you feel most creative?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
M I feel most creative in the shower? Yeah, when
the mood is right in a studio, like if if
like the lights are low and there's something on TV.
Does vibe like Robot Chicken or something? Check and uh,
you know, it depends. The vibe has to be right,
(17:51):
or sometimes things just come up, like you know, maybe
I had like a really good conversation with somebody and
they made me smile and then I'm just like so
happy and then like I want to write something, you know,
it just you know, yeah, it depends.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
You ever write a song about a radio interview, radio
remix that man, that's great. No, And are you are
you happy? Are you happy with Chris List? Are you
happy with Division? Are you happy with the tour?
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Yeah? Yeah, I am. I'm definitely grateful and I'm definitely happy.
There may have been things that, you know, like lost
some soldiers on the way, but yeah, yeah, I'm really happy.
I think that also helps me feel more, you know, Like,
(18:47):
so I'm growing right and I'm really like I look
at the bright side of things and try to, you know,
think positive and you know, just try to like if
I need a second, maybe I don't talk, you know,
for a whole day or something, you know, but I
need that and then maybe the next day I'll be fine,
(19:09):
you know. Like so it's good to know yourself and
to know you know, like.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
You know what I'm trying to say, Yeah, who do
you listen to?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
I mean, I just listen to Verry White just now.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
I listened to him a lot though very white. Yeah,
like he's always like a thing for me to get
in my my mood or yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Very white a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
But I'm not gonna say it's like a lot. I fluctuate.
I'm like, oh Verry White, okay, then Cameo or then
okay Thundercat and then like I don't know, it's just
like all over the place, Like I don't know.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Yeah, because I find myself doing the same thing.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Like I get in a mood, go grab a record,
but then I'm wanna listen to ship else for like
a week and you stay that record say that for
some reason.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
For like a week.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, and then I'm like, man, I got crazy.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Yeah, and then and then another moddle hit and I'll
grab another and I'll sit in it for like a
week again, you.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Know, yeah that record, That's what I did getting ready
for the show or.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I feel like also like get stuck.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
In that moment.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Yeah, yeah, feeling.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Right, don't tap the glass? Did that for me for
like a month straight. That's it. That's all I'm listening to. Creator.
I'm just like, you know, before I come to work
and then all my way home, I'm listening to it.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah. I feel like I feel like I'm very I'm
very like I don't know, like maybe I'm watching like
the Bob Fosse on Hulu thing, so like I'm very
like Frank Sinatra as well, so like and then the
Verry White was just a little like you know, just
out of the you know what I mean, So like
like yeah, it just fluctuates, like yeah, what I'm what
(20:58):
I'm watching, what I'm listening to have a feeling like
because then I might listen to two of America's most
wanted like all of a sudden, like by Snoop and Chewbac.
You know, so I'm it just fluctuates. Yeah, it fluctuates, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Yeah, so nine hip hop is a thing too then
for you, Yeah, best and hip hop? Yeah, like ice Cube?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
I love ice Cube.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
What's your favorite album?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I can't think right now, but right now I'm just
listening to I'm not listening to albums. I'm just listening
to like the the main hits right now. I can't
think off the top of the head, off the top
of my head, but just waking up in the morning
for sure.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yeah, Bop Gun there's I mean, you know it's Cube. Bro.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
You gotta send me some stuff to listen to. My
favorite album that certificate crazy.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
There's a lot of political stuff that's not a lot,
but it's all man from front to back.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
There's not a lot of skips.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
I mean he's really talking about what's happening at that time,
and man, he's just that's good and it's all it's
all with great your production from DJ Pool.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Like it's really well done and that was a moment
in time as well. For sure. Are you in your
family speaking of Ice Cube? I mean crazy seguay, But
are you in your family discussing what ice is doing
in our communities?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Yeah, I mean it's crazy. It's it's really crazy because
I don't I don't like what's going on. It's really
like like I had to turn off the TV too,
and just like because it affects me a lot, like
where I'm like, oh, I don't even want to do anything,
(22:37):
like just like but yeah, also they're going to there
you talking about Trump, man, I know, but Trump going
to Cuba. I don't know. We'll see. But I don't
know what's going to happen in my ludo and all
that stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Just a lot, it's a lot.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
But I'm definitely I know what's going on. I'm okay,
are it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
It's crazy. We just gotta we gotta, you know, love
our people, right, be there for them. Know what's happening, right,
We don't necessarily have to talk about it out loud.
We should know what's going on at least, so, right,
and and pray for those that may be hurt by
by what's happening in the world. It's crazy, man. There's
music there though, too, right? Is there music there to
(23:24):
write from that? From that, from that perspective, from watching
what's going.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
On, definitely, I definitely feel inspired by what's going on,
but it's just very sad stuff for sad stuff, so
it's like, yeah, I'm like, maybe I'll save it for later.
I don't know, we'll see.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yeah, So Chrysalis, right, we name the album Christlas the
tour lead off the album with that as well, right,
So obviously extremely important to you, right, and like you
you put everything behind that, right, What was that decision?
Like just I mean, like it's like naming a child, right, Yeah,
(24:06):
I mean it.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
I mean when I feel like whenever you make music,
it's like that's your baby, Like each song is your baby,
because I mean yeah, Like so it to have it
out in the world is very like a little bit
because it's because it's just like it's crazy, it's out there.
(24:27):
We've had it for so long, so many of these
you know, it's it's it's crazy for it to be
out there, but a lot of people are touched by.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
It mm hm tremendously.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Yeah. Like I remember at the show in La, I
mean I was on stage, but I guess my mom
went to the bathroom and she heard her girl crying
in the stalls because I didn't perform one song. But
like it's like, but it was it was a very
slow song and I just wanted to keep you know,
the energy up. But I understand, but like it just
made me feel it all, you know, Like, but that
shows that people are connected to it, you know, and
(25:00):
that that's really nice and sweet, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Because Mom, say you got to add that to the
set list. We can't have people crying in the bathroom, right,
that's mom. Yeah, now you have to do it, and
you have to explain why not or you know, right,
but Mom, you gotta you gotta understand there's there's there's
a rhythm her right, and she uh, she's very instrumental
in your career as well. Right, did she do your
(25:26):
hair makeup?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yeah? Well, I mean my mom because she comes from
a dance background, you know she did mom and grandma right, Yeah.
Ma Willa had her own dance studio. So that's where
she learned hair makeup from mom really, and and then
when we moved to l A. She did a lot
of hair makeup on music videos and stuff. Sometimes I
(25:48):
would go on set and that's where I would like
learn a lot, like and I'm like, Okay, this is cool,
I want to do this.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Who set were you on? Do you remember?
Speaker 1 (25:58):
The first one was Jim Jo was bawling?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Nah? What how old were you? Like?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Seven? Yeah? Eight? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
And Jim Jones balling video shoot balling capo. That's crazy.
So when you see him now on the internet.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
When I hear that song is like, Welcome to La,
that's like my Welcome to La.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Songs La Jim Jones balling Yo. That's crazy though, that's history.
And she did the hair makeup for the Jim Jones
balling video.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
I think she just probably did either hair or makeup.
I don't know which one, but one or the other.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
And as a kid, what are you thinking?
Speaker 1 (26:36):
I was like, this is really cool? What an experience? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Yeah, that's crazy. And what does your mom say about? Like, hey,
people are going to be you know, these are adults,
they're rappers.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
No, yeah, no, I mean I knew. I knew it
was just music, like I knew with hip hop, like
that's what moved me, like music dance wise, you know.
So it doesn't like we would dance to Nelly is
getting hot in here in hip hop class, you know. So,
But like I wasn't thinking about like, oh, he's you
know what he's talking about. Like I'm just like, ooh,
the vibe of the song, like as a kid, you know.
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But I don't think you're thinking about words as a kid.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Really, No, no, no, you're just kind of yeah, feeling
what's going on there.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Yeah that's right. So so yeah, my mom moved to
LA with only three thousand dollars and no job yet
and just figured it out and.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Got to it. Yeah right yeah, yeah, no, that's why
you can't. We can't be lazy, bro, because look what
they did with nothing, and we're talking about we need
a day off, right. It's crazy, man, Chris lis is
the album. It's out everywhere. It's crazy. Congratulations on the tour,
Congratulations on the project. He's checking Rich from the Cruise show.
(27:54):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Genevieve is here. Let's get a Cruise Show real ninety
two to three. What up?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
How are you good? Good?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Good?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Good good? What's going on? Are we protecting the voice?
We're tired?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I mean no, I'm I'm yeah, I am trying to
protect the voice for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Always, it's the money maker. It's it's the it's your tool, right,
this is it. I was tour.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Oh, it was really dope. It's an experience that I'll
never forget for sure because that was my first American
tour on my own, because the first one I did
was We'll Give You On. So it was really interesting too.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Wow yeah solo, like y'all we're here now. It's crazy,
right Yeah, celebrating chrysalists, my saying that correctly, Christalist. Talk
to me about that and what that means to you.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I mean there's been a lot of growth and a
lot of like things happening in life, you know, Like
like I remember the album was sounding one way and
them my Wayla Pass, So I was like, yeah, we
got it, Like, you.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Know, did you scrap it and start over.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah kind of. I mean, you know, we just it's
crazy because some songs will be I work with this Elijah,
I know that's your guy. Yeah, and he he you know,
will like have songs that'll be one way and then
we'll switch it up and maybe it'll be like it'll
it could have been like an upbeat song and then
(01:27):
we turned it into like a slower song, you know
what I mean? So like yeah, yeah, m hm, so yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
The vibe I get is like retro eighties pop.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
A lot of people only on the Internet, and of
course they always have a lot to say, but the
Internet says it's healing. The vibes are healing, which has
to be a huge compliment to you, right, is that
the is that the goal? Are we healing ourselves through
this music? And you know, and and and hopes that
it reaches you know, others and does the same.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah. Definitely. I feel like even like when me and
Elijah in the studio, it could be hard for me
sometimes like to like because I could be going through
a lot, but you know, it is really healing for
me to like just let it all out, even though
you know what's going on. Is a lot, you know, like.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Sure, anybody proposed on the tour this time around.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Well, somebody in the crowd. Yeah, somebody in the crowd
got proposed.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
To Wow, what's that like? Do you know ahead of
time that that's happening or is this all?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
But I met them at the meet and greet, so
but they didn't tell me that they're but they said
that they were getting married, but they didn't say that
they were going to propose.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Oh god, So it was a surprise to you and
everyone else at the show. And you're okay with that, right?
I mean, no, I love that you were saying, no,
I don't want that. I love that.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I love that. I think that's really sweet and that
makes the you know, that just shows like what the
music does to people, Like it makes them, you know,
feel something, and that they want the fact that they
want to even involve me, and that is like really
special and I feel Yeah, I've never I've been to
like only a few weddings, not a lot, but like, yeah,
(03:09):
I love that, I love love soh that's great.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, did you grow up singing in church?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yes? I did briefly. When I moved to la there
was a church and they just they just wanted like
all the kids to try yes, So you know, they
convinced me, and I was very shy, so I was
really scared to do that. But then when I did it,
I was like, man, I love this. This is really cool.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Do you remember your first solo.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, it was like it was a song they mixed
it was like Tupac and I was like, uh, who
is like the Lord? Nobody who was like the Lord? No, no, no, no, no, no,
no about it. It was very like and then they
mixed like Tupac with it.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's crazy. No one complained like, hey,
that's a Tupac song.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
No, I think it's like a actual gospel song.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I think that's right.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Wow. Did you watch the Drew Ski skit on Pastors?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Oh wait, you got Lifted in the Sky?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, what did you think of that?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I saw briefly, but the locals.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeahs he created a lot of talk with that, right,
you know amongst a lot of people, you know they
go to church and especially megachurches like that. You know,
it's different, different vibes, right, singing in the church that
has to prepare you for a lot. Yeah, yeah, right,
because you're singing in front of adults and you know
other kids are there as well, and you know the
Lord's house, right, So like, yo, that's a lot of pressure,
(04:36):
especially as a kid, but a shy kid at that.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, yeah, but it was it was really nice, Like yeah,
I wouldn't want it any other way. Like that was
beautiful for me when I think about it.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
What an experience, right, head over heels, congratulations, crazy, How
do you feel about it?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Well, I'm really yeah, and it's say it. I just
can't believe it's being played on the radio and it's
just like everybody you know, it's it feels good. It
feels really good. And then being nominated for iHeart Radio.
That's that's insane. Yeah, I did not expect that.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
It's only the beginning though, right, it's only the beginning.
Does it feel that way to you?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, I mean coming from division to now right, christals right,
you had that gap obviously, where so you know you
can be creative and you can work and you can
deal with whatever you have to deal with. We're all
dealing with stuff as human beings, right, and growth obviously, right,
But it's still only the beginning. This is just the
second album of your body of work.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
It's only the beginning. Yeah, yeah, yeah, again, it's only
the beginning.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Man, that's right, that's right. It is it scary? Is
it still scary or you it's are you in motion?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I'm excited because, like you know, I would always watch
like you know, Whitneys and then you know all those people.
So it's nice to to be in that space and
experience it like you know, yeah, it's cool, Like yeah,
it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah. How do you feel about Haiku? I like Haiku? Yeah?
Was that? Was that a song that you quickly wrote?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Oh? Me and Elijah, Well, Elijah I just came together,
like is that flowing? Yeah? He you know, he had
an idea of Haiku, and yeah it took him minute
for us, but yeah, we we did it and then
we put it out and we were already in the Philippines.
(06:35):
I did a festival in the Philippines, so we shot
it in the Philippines and yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah, working while we're working. Mm hmmm. Flight Risk you
got to be proud of as well. Why.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
It's just a fun song and I feel like it's
you know, I feel like the time that it came out,
like it was a cool time to everybody enjoys it
on tour, like it's crazy, like seeing them get it.
It's just crazy that live is wild. Yeah, yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Hey, everybody's on this twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
We're back, Yeah, back twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
What was going on in your life back then?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I don't even remember. But honestly, like I'm really bad
at saving photos and stuff like that on my phone
because I've switched so many phones and broken so many phones.
So like, yeah, I was really bad with my iCloud
and stuff back then. But yeah, I probably I think
during that time my side was shaved. Yeah that's right,
(07:35):
I had my side shaved.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, twenty sixteen was a trip, man, right,
it really was. How are you treating social media in
twenty twenty six I mean.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I'm very like I'm not really on it that much, Like,
like I love my algorithm though, like I feel like
my algorithm knows me so well, so like some I
love funny videos and stuff like that, but like I
try not to be on there just from my mental health. Yeah,
but and there's a lot of scary shit out there,
(08:15):
so I just try to like not be on my
phone that much.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
That's everybody's waiting down to.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
It seems like twenty sixteen and then everyone now is
like made this push to go analog this year.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Yeah, like what do you do that's still analog?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Well, I have an old VHS camera. I just love
even like in my games, Like I love analog games,
like you know you already know, yeah, Like I just
love the way it looks. So I'm attracted to anything analog,
whether it's games, whether it's music videos, whether it's you know,
just like it's just it takes you to like another world,
(08:51):
like and I love that.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
A simpler time yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, a different time.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Or doing things like that, Like it's just it's so
weird how that feels good because we haven't done it
for so long.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yeah, writing a letter to somebody that sounds crazy, but
that was once done. Right. Are you writing music? Is
it handwritten? Are you on your phone? You got the
laptop out?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I mostly do it on my iPad and like on
my phone, but I really want to start, Like I mean,
I do have like a voice tape recorder that I
like is really old school, but like I like to
just like put ideas in there, even if I don't
use them, but yeah, mostly that I try to write sometimes,
like if I'm in a studio and I see a notepad,
(09:38):
I like to write things down. Yeah, my way. I
used to write to me, But that was when I
was young, when we first moved to LA and I
really wish that I like started, but I started learning
calligraphy shortly after. But then I kind of went away.
And I was also in poetry class, so it was like,
you know, I was writing more, but then like I
(09:58):
stopped because I wasn't writing that much. It was mostly
through the phone. Sure, and she didn't have a phone,
so I kind of like text her or whatever.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
But right, right, right, You must have nice writing.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Yeah, it's it's pretty nice. I would say it's clean.
I try to be as clean as I can.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Yeah, my writing, handwriting is trash. It's it's got awful.
It's really bad.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Tagger cool.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I tag everything.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
I love tagging.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
You love tagging?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Tagging?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I mean in school? Yeah, like you remember the dollars signs, like.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, that's right, that's right at
school s. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean that's just
that that's expression too, right, that's you know, that's that's something,
you know, you got to release. It's art, right, art,
you know, tagging is art where whether it's you know,
illegal or not. I mean, have you seen the graffiti's
hours out here in l A, No, no, downtown LA.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
In downtown Oh yeah, I'll just see graffiti.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
In But what do you mean by So there's these
old what were they condos or apartment buildings or maybe
office it's a huge tower of you know, just of
units and they're just they're tagged up there right across
from crypto dot com arena. Oh so they were abandoned,
right and then.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
From floor one.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
It's just it's wild though. Yeah, I mean it's a
nice sort of something, I guess, but like I don't know,
growing up in LA, right, you've been here long enough,
you see that it's just part of LA culture, right yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
We should go up there. Man, let's go drink some cansas,
just have some fun.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I do, like I do like watching YouTubers go into
like abandoned buildings and stuff like yeah, yeah, like that
type of stuff is cool.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
I like that stuff too, or like abandoned theme parks parks, Yeah,
I sometimes the rides are still there and the dusty
looking but like creepy looking. Yeah, like they were once
it was once a happy place. Yeah, those are the
weirdest things. Like, yeah, I love YouTube.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
It's really cool. Yeah, I love YouTube. I'm always on YouTube. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Do you prefer YouTube over TV over cable?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
I mean I have, I mean I have cable, but
like sometimes I'll watch it because I like when it'll
be like it'll be like Indiana Jones or like and
then I'll go into like Jurassic Park or something like that.
But yeah, for the most part, it's like Netflix because
I like to see what's out there, and uh Netflix,
Disney plus I like to B to Be's free. They
(12:24):
have cool movies on there too.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
They have cool movies, Yeah, they do. There's some stuff
there like don't sleep on t B. It's got some
stuff like there's like some clever programming in there, right yeah,
oh yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I just wish it would keep going somehow, but that's
just me.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I don't know new cast.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Or uh right, oh yeah, people like you know, it's
kind of like.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Mystery type stuff that would be cool.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
But were you satisfied with What do you think about
words is Alive?
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know.
I don't want to spoil nothing, but man.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I I love the cast.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I will say I don't want to spoil because just
in case, but like, yeah, I love the cast. And man,
it made me cry because like I saw the I
saw this little clip of Millie Bobby Brown doing the
last thing with Vecna and then she started crying.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yeah, I did see that.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Cast is so good and I love eighties anything like that.
It's just so good.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Yeah. Did you go to any of their pop ups
that they had.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
No, I wish, I wish I could have. But yeah,
that's such a good franchise. We only get franchises like
that like every once in a while. It's really good.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Yeah, it was cod and they had a drive through one.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
That was so bad.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
That's awesome that you really like they partnered with something
with a restaurant or something.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
No, it was like it was like in a I
think they us like a garage.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Oh cool.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
You would literally go levels and it would be like
the mall and then you go to the next level.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
It would be upside down.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
But they did it right.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
But man, in your car, in your car.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
During COVID, in your cart, you know.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Yeah, man, you just you forgot you were in your
car because, like you say, I mean, once you get
into that show, you kind of immerse.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Yourself and you really felt that way. Man. I think
they did such a great job.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
And you're right, like my kids, this will be their
breaking bad or this will be whatever show.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
That there's sixteen candles or their Ferris Bueller like Gremlins.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Gah, exactly right.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Well, the new Gremlins.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I can't wait for that, I know, right, are you like,
are you worried that it could disappoint though?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I mean, yeah, I'm really worried. I'm really worried because
that's like one of my favorites and like Ghoulies and
Critters and yeah yeah bro.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
And then they redo and you're like, oh, you shouldn't
have touched it. Yeah, leave it alone.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
But I have faith. I have faith because it's Gremlins.
They can't and especially with stranger things, I think it'll
be yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Should be good. There's people out there that can do this, right, Yeah,
you know, let's get it done. Yes, you know we
talked about head over Here, head over Hills, Haiku, flight Risk,
and party Crasher. How did that come about? Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Man, oh you have no idea a good time? Oh
my gosh, no, it's just been changed. And but like
it's I love party Crasher. That's a that's a song.
I wish it was in Stranger Things or something. Oh dope, yeah,
maybe maybe Dustin is dancing to it or something.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
You know, it's right right now, you got to say,
you gotta speak it right because it could land Party Crasher.
It's crazy that, you know. Is that a song easy
for you to write? I mean or to record?
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Well, I mean no, it was easy to record. It's
just we we switched it up so many times, even
if we loved it, you know, like so it's there's
so many different versions of party Crasher, which is cool.
I love I love stuff like that. I love when
songs it's like different versions of it. But yeah, but
probably the world won't hear those. But yeah, party Crasher
(16:26):
is what it is now and I love it now.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
It's permanent. Those other versions, where are they? What do
you do with them?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Somewhere?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yeah? Elijah has Elijah Elijah and you know, you know,
if it gets leaked, you know who did it?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course are you competitive?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
I mean if people are with me. Then yeah, then
I feel okay. But then I just try not to
be but like, yeah, it depends. It really depends because
some people I'm like, damn, we could have worked really
well together, and I you're this way all right, I'm
a home my grudge on that, you know.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's like I don't want a problem,
but if you want a problem, no problem. Yeah is
that the Florida?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Or is that the Cuban?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I gotta stop with that. Yeah, I gotta stop because
I'm chill. I like to be chill, but like things
bother me sometimes, so I'm like.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Okay, yeah, when do you feel most creative?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
M I feel most creative in the shower? Yeah, when
the mood is right in a studio, like if if
like the lights are low and there's something on TV.
Does vibe like Robot Chicken or something? Check and uh,
you know, it depends. The vibe has to be right,
(17:51):
or sometimes things just come up, like you know, maybe
I had like a really good conversation with somebody and
they made me smile and then I'm just like so
happy and then like I want to write something, you know,
it just you know, yeah, it depends.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
You ever write a song about a radio interview, radio
remix that man, that's great. No, And are you are
you happy? Are you happy with Chris List? Are you
happy with Division? Are you happy with the tour?
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Yeah? Yeah, I am. I'm definitely grateful and I'm definitely happy.
There may have been things that, you know, like lost
some soldiers on the way, but yeah, yeah, I'm really happy.
I think that also helps me feel more, you know, Like,
(18:47):
so I'm growing right and I'm really like I look
at the bright side of things and try to, you know,
think positive and you know, just try to like if
I need a second, maybe I don't talk, you know,
for a whole day or something, you know, but I
need that and then maybe the next day I'll be fine,
(19:09):
you know. Like so it's good to know yourself and
to know you know, like.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
You know what I'm trying to say, Yeah, who do
you listen to?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
I mean, I just listen to Verry White just now.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
I listened to him a lot though very white. Yeah,
like he's always like a thing for me to get
in my my mood or yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Very white a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
But I'm not gonna say it's like a lot. I fluctuate.
I'm like, oh Verry White, okay, then Cameo or then
okay Thundercat and then like I don't know, it's just
like all over the place, Like I don't know.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Yeah, because I find myself doing the same thing.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Like I get in a mood, go grab a record,
but then I'm wanna listen to ship else for like
a week and you stay that record say that for
some reason.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
For like a week.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, and then I'm like, man, I got crazy.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Yeah, and then and then another moddle hit and I'll
grab another and I'll sit in it for like a
week again, you.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Know, yeah that record, That's what I did getting ready
for the show or.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I feel like also like get stuck.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
In that moment.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Yeah, yeah, feeling.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Right, don't tap the glass? Did that for me for
like a month straight. That's it. That's all I'm listening to. Creator.
I'm just like, you know, before I come to work
and then all my way home, I'm listening to it.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah. I feel like I feel like I'm very I'm
very like I don't know, like maybe I'm watching like
the Bob Fosse on Hulu thing, so like I'm very
like Frank Sinatra as well, so like and then the
Verry White was just a little like you know, just
out of the you know what I mean, So like
like yeah, it just fluctuates, like yeah, what I'm what
(20:58):
I'm watching, what I'm listening to have a feeling like
because then I might listen to two of America's most
wanted like all of a sudden, like by Snoop and Chewbac.
You know, so I'm it just fluctuates. Yeah, it fluctuates, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Yeah, so nine hip hop is a thing too then
for you, Yeah, best and hip hop? Yeah, like ice Cube?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
I love ice Cube.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
What's your favorite album?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I can't think right now, but right now I'm just
listening to I'm not listening to albums. I'm just listening
to like the the main hits right now. I can't
think off the top of the head, off the top
of my head, but just waking up in the morning
for sure.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yeah, Bop Gun there's I mean, you know it's Cube. Bro.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
You gotta send me some stuff to listen to. My
favorite album that certificate crazy.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
There's a lot of political stuff that's not a lot,
but it's all man from front to back.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
There's not a lot of skips.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
I mean he's really talking about what's happening at that time,
and man, he's just that's good and it's all it's
all with great your production from DJ Pool.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Like it's really well done and that was a moment
in time as well. For sure. Are you in your
family speaking of Ice Cube? I mean crazy seguay, But
are you in your family discussing what ice is doing
in our communities?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Yeah, I mean it's crazy. It's it's really crazy because
I don't I don't like what's going on. It's really
like like I had to turn off the TV too,
and just like because it affects me a lot, like
where I'm like, oh, I don't even want to do anything,
(22:37):
like just like but yeah, also they're going to there
you talking about Trump, man, I know, but Trump going
to Cuba. I don't know. We'll see. But I don't
know what's going to happen in my ludo and all
that stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Just a lot, it's a lot.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
But I'm definitely I know what's going on. I'm okay,
are it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
It's crazy. We just gotta we gotta, you know, love
our people, right, be there for them. Know what's happening, right,
We don't necessarily have to talk about it out loud.
We should know what's going on at least, so, right,
and and pray for those that may be hurt by
by what's happening in the world. It's crazy, man. There's
music there though, too, right? Is there music there to
(23:24):
write from that? From that, from that perspective, from watching
what's going.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
On, definitely, I definitely feel inspired by what's going on,
but it's just very sad stuff for sad stuff, so
it's like, yeah, I'm like, maybe I'll save it for later.
I don't know, we'll see.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yeah, So Chrysalis, right, we name the album Christlas the
tour lead off the album with that as well, right,
So obviously extremely important to you, right, and like you
you put everything behind that, right, What was that decision?
Like just I mean, like it's like naming a child, right, Yeah,
(24:06):
I mean it.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
I mean when I feel like whenever you make music,
it's like that's your baby, Like each song is your baby,
because I mean yeah, Like so it to have it
out in the world is very like a little bit
because it's because it's just like it's crazy, it's out there.
(24:27):
We've had it for so long, so many of these
you know, it's it's it's crazy for it to be
out there, but a lot of people are touched by.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
It mm hm tremendously.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Yeah. Like I remember at the show in La, I
mean I was on stage, but I guess my mom
went to the bathroom and she heard her girl crying
in the stalls because I didn't perform one song. But
like it's like, but it was it was a very
slow song and I just wanted to keep you know,
the energy up. But I understand, but like it just
made me feel it all, you know, Like, but that
shows that people are connected to it, you know, and
(25:00):
that that's really nice and sweet, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Because Mom, say you got to add that to the
set list. We can't have people crying in the bathroom, right,
that's mom. Yeah, now you have to do it, and
you have to explain why not or you know, right,
but Mom, you gotta you gotta understand there's there's there's
a rhythm her right, and she uh, she's very instrumental
in your career as well. Right, did she do your
(25:26):
hair makeup?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yeah? Well, I mean my mom because she comes from
a dance background, you know she did mom and grandma right, Yeah.
Ma Willa had her own dance studio. So that's where
she learned hair makeup from mom really, and and then
when we moved to l A. She did a lot
of hair makeup on music videos and stuff. Sometimes I
(25:48):
would go on set and that's where I would like
learn a lot, like and I'm like, Okay, this is cool,
I want to do this.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Who set were you on? Do you remember?
Speaker 1 (25:58):
The first one was Jim Jo was bawling?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Nah? What how old were you? Like?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Seven? Yeah? Eight? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
And Jim Jones balling video shoot balling capo. That's crazy.
So when you see him now on the internet.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
When I hear that song is like, Welcome to La,
that's like my Welcome to La.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Songs La Jim Jones balling Yo. That's crazy though, that's history.
And she did the hair makeup for the Jim Jones
balling video.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
I think she just probably did either hair or makeup.
I don't know which one, but one or the other.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
And as a kid, what are you thinking?
Speaker 1 (26:36):
I was like, this is really cool? What an experience? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Yeah, that's crazy. And what does your mom say about? Like, hey,
people are going to be you know, these are adults,
they're rappers.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
No, yeah, no, I mean I knew. I knew it
was just music, like I knew with hip hop, like
that's what moved me, like music dance wise, you know.
So it doesn't like we would dance to Nelly is
getting hot in here in hip hop class, you know. So,
But like I wasn't thinking about like, oh, he's you
know what he's talking about. Like I'm just like, ooh,
the vibe of the song, like as a kid, you know.
(27:10):
But I don't think you're thinking about words as a kid.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Really, No, no, no, you're just kind of yeah, feeling
what's going on there.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Yeah that's right. So so yeah, my mom moved to
LA with only three thousand dollars and no job yet
and just figured it out and.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Got to it. Yeah right yeah, yeah, no, that's why
you can't. We can't be lazy, bro, because look what
they did with nothing, and we're talking about we need
a day off, right. It's crazy, man, Chris lis is
the album. It's out everywhere. It's crazy. Congratulations on the tour,
Congratulations on the project. He's checking Rich from the Cruise show.
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