March 23, 2026 • 21 mins
Lebra Jolie came by the Cruz Show to talk about new music, her upbringing, the music industry grind & so much more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, it's good is boys?
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Jid?
Speaker 3 (00:02):
What what's good? Everybody?
Speaker 1 (00:03):
This is what's good?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 3 (00:12):
Joe Lee is here. It's a Cruise Show real ninety
two to three.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
What's up, y'all? We in a building? What's up?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Y'all? Let's talk better than yesterday?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Uh huh?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Why better than yesterday? We are? We are? We in
competition with ourselves? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I think that's the only competition. That's the right competition
to have. You should always try to outdo yourself yesterday.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I really like slogans, you know, like I like something
that even if people can't relate to the music and
relate to the artists, they can use that slogan. So
it still goes back to the artists. It still helps
the artist brand, it still builds and promotes at the
same time. So, how you feeling today better than yesterday
than yesterday?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
That's right?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
That's right, y'all? For real, feeling better than yesterday? And
that should be the answer. Yeah, right, some days are
better than others, right right, some days are and it
is what it is.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
But we learn from them. They're not losses, their lessons facts. Right. Fact,
you've been through a few lessons.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I've been through a lot of overcome a lot, yes.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Over here, Yeah, still standing facts.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
And you've you've gone on to say that you feel
like you're giving yourself this this year to really lock in.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Right, Is that true? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
But it's like, I mean every year I like in,
but with this year in particulars like I want to
let things go that have hurt me in the past,
or trials and tribulations and just you know, business situations
or whatever, every everything that you could think of when
you at a moment of weakness and you just like, dang,
this happened this person past, this happened in my life
(01:40):
at this time, I just want to let everything go
from there off right, and let's start new, Like, let's
not let our burdens and let let things burden us.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Let's move forward.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I think that gives you a different mind, right, and
which allows you to be flow, to flow and to
be free.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah, right, and to create.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Right, let's be genuinely happy and to.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Talk that talk which I told you what you're doing
better than yesterday? Yeah, your sexuality, you own your mistakes.
I guess that's fair to say, but you own your
truth as well.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Exactly. I think like we're better than yesterday.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
It's like with the slogan and the meaning, you would
think that the project will be one way, but it's like, no,
I shed everything and I'm gonna be show you every
version of me on this project. So through everything like
that could have occurred in your life or whatever, I'd.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Have had a lot of happy moments.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
So we're gonna dive into the happy moments and we're
gonna move forward with the happy moments. So that's why
we better than yesterday. So in this project, you're gonna
feel yourself. You're gonna feel confident, you're gonna feel you're
gonna look in the mirror're gonna want to go outside,
you're gonna cry, and then you're gonna wipe it off
and you're gonna use one of my quotes from the
song and get on Live, pick your cute little filter,
you're gonna post it, and you're gonna put my little
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caption on it.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yeah, that's what I'm to do. I want to make
people feel good.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Now, what was sad?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Do you go back and listen to that project you
spend time with that.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I think for me I have lately, but for the
longest it's like I never go really go back and
just dig in. I listen, you know, but I always
try to move forward.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah, moving forward.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
No, but I realize you have to, you know. I
think as an artist too, you create. The more new
stuff you create, you were more into the new stuff.
Everything else is like, oh, you know, but this was
the year between this year and late last year was
the year where I just really sat back and looked
at all my music videos, listen to all my music,
and I'm like, I needed to do this because you
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need to see where you were, where you and then
you need to appreciate what you put out in the
strip reflect like.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Yo, that was me. It's like looking at old pictures yourself.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Right, He's like, dang, I really It's like I did
everything I needed to do and wanted to to do.
Like hold on, okay, day, I forgot I did this.
I forgot I did that. You need to remind yourself.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
So it was Cowgirl easy to make.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Cowgirl was It was easy to make well.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Because it was mainly about Houston, and so I was
able to like talk about like Houston streets and the
popular parts of Houston and kind of do it in
like this seductive sexual way, but also like kind of
half seen on the hook.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
And I think that's kind of different.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
It's not something I never did, but I think that, like,
I'm you know, you used to me being rowdy. So
when you hear that one, it's like, wait, hold on,
this is what I want to see from a girl
that looked like this.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
It's yeah, it's like boom boom boom.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yeah. Yeah, and then.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
It's beautiful and the video for it is even more beautiful.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
That's right. I ate was that was that fun to make?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I it was so raw to make. It was so
like I felt like I was I was in a
car right My producer was in town that like, I
had a song that went viral that got me my deal,
and then unfortunately we weren't working together anymore, yeah, behind
the scenes. So I missed him this whole time because
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that was why I found my sound, you know. And
so he was back in town. We were back recording,
and I was so excited that I'm playing a beat
and I'm driving to the studio and I just start
writing the beginning of it, and I was just so
into it. So I get to the studio, I sit
in a chair and then I said, all right, bet,
I'm ready. And so one of my other producers from Atlanta,
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he just happened to be there, so he was like,
after I did it, he was like, when you when
you wrote that, I'm like, right now, my day it
was yeah, And it was like I missed that because,
you know, we try to make music. When you when
you can freestyle and stuff like that, it's hard to
try to make a song. So I've been focused on
making a song. But for this record, it was like
I was able to like combine them.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
So I love the record.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Now. If you can combine that freestyle with a catchy hook,
a catchy hook, you got some. Yeah, but it's tough, though,
You're right, Freestyle and writing a song two totally different
things to totally different thing.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
It's like being funny on Instagram and being funny on
stage as a comedian, right, like, y, yeah, no, that's hard.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah. You travel a lot.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Yeah, yeah, you ever get into a waymo.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Those cars that drive themselves.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
No, I never did.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Have you seen them?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I see them on like social media?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I can't do it. I'm not doing it.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I never seen I've never been anyway.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Black and brown. We can't trust the car movement on
its own.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
We need somebody driving that case something goes wrong, we
could blame somebody.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
What if I get snatched with the car, like who we're.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Looking for, and theseos are getting stuck on train tracks.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
They are yeah, and they don't do it. Lock the
door automatically, I don't know. We don't know the safety feature.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
I saw a video and the to her phone and
she was dancing. So then the person came over the speaker.
It was like a customer service man, you need to
please put your seatbelt on, so they're watching you inside
the car.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
By AI dangle. I think that's too far.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I need to know I can stop this and I
can jump out, because what if you go on the
train tracks and then like the electricity somehow, I don't know.
What if it's just jams and you can't get out.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I'm breaking the windows feet.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
We don't even know.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
So you and I clearly have trust issues.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
That's what we can't trust nobody in this world.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Especially in the industry, right. But it is what it is.
That's why you got to stand on business and know
your business not facts, hand.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
It over, right. You have to you have to be
aware of what's going on. You got to be your
own office. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Facts.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
And I think it's harder for me because you got
to stand on business. But I'm a girl and I
gotta be nice at the same time, because then I
got to go around and say, oh, you know that
artists she mean, So then it's like you gotta find
a ballance.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Oh that's true, that's fucked up.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I mean, that's not okay, that's crazy because a lot
of men don't necessarily view it that way or don't
know that.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, it's like, dang, I gotta be cute and I
gotta be mean, and said you got to be nice. Well,
you know, like the industry that starts just everybody, Hey,
don't have her up there because she she she do
the most and then you like, you know what now
I heard she she caused too much drama.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
But you just was standing on business.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I know, I know, and you were just defending yourself and.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Not just sending my manager of mirror, he said on
business for me, and I'd be quiet shout.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Out to shout out to here. He sent me something
that I want to show you. He sent me like
a board like the n R boy.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Oh yeah, he did his thing.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
It looks like the work of a like a crazy person.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
We are crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I just I just admitted that I'm crazy. But he's crazier.
So it's like terms with it. Yeah, so I think
I was recording or whatever. And then, like you know,
sometimes as when you're a creator and you are a writer,
you get lost. You know.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Me back up, Maybe it's best that they can't crazy,
but you were saying, I'm sorry, but yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
So you as a creator, you might get lost because
you you you're the creator, so you have to stay
focused and you have to be like in your own
vibes or whatever.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Of course, and then sometimes.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
You got a person like me who feel like I
can do it all. I can do whatever type of song,
whatever type of beat. And so yeah, so we I
was scattered, and then I was coming back from Atlanta
and I'm like, oh my god, I'm sitting over here
spending all this time, and I got a bag of
mid What the fuck? I'm like, then where's the hits?
This ain't it?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
What's happening for you?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
So then he comes in and he and he just
gathered everybody together. He wrote on his board and he
was like, Okay, this is the topic. This is where
we're staying. He tell me, like, tell me all the
places that mean something to you in Houston. I wrote
him down.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
So then he just started like going from there and
just start like every producer that came in the room.
He was like, this is the vibe. And it literally
made shit ten times better. And now we have a storyline.
Now everything makes sense. Now everything flows. It's not a
bunch of random songs.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
It's a board and yeah it's a map.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, a map, a map.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
That's right. And we got there.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Yeah, we did get yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Better than yesterday.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Werow this ship ourselves?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
That's right. How tough is it?
Speaker 4 (10:39):
And you know what you said for a few minutes
ago when when you were writing the wrap in the car,
like you writing these bars?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Are you writing these wraps? Important?
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
It's important because I'm a competitor and it's like I
need to do I need to do it to keep
me excited when we collaborate or whatever. It's like, Okay,
it's cool, but it don't you don't it don't get
me going because I love this ship and I've been
doing this life.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
But when I was going and everybody let me be,
I just need time patience. I did what the fuck
I needed to do.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Okay, you say you need time and patience, right girl,
math skit. You're talking about how you told this dude
you need space and then you.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Got upset because he actually gave you space.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
That was a good way you You just slid in
like yo, bro, like why are we like this?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
We stupid?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
But yo, like, yo, you want space. I'll give you
space forgiving you.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah, because like why you ain't fighting for me? Why
you just gave me space? I didn't really want it.
I wanted you to say, like, no, we don't need
it and we should figure it out.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Sometimes and sometimes we say if I say I need space,
that mean I really don't. If I just stopped fucking
with you, that me I did need space.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
That's right. If you disappear, Yeah, like.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I'm trying to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
So a code we have to figure out this man.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, yeah, me be like you need space? All right?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Bet now we're mad because all you said was all right, bad?
You have nothing else to say?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Yes, no fighting for me, I fight for you.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Say what do we need space for it? Because I
just feel like, babe, I don't worry about I'm gonna
do better. Boom the conversation over with.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Even if that's not the truth, that's what you hear.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Yeah, holy shit, I'm doomed.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
I'm doomed a mad girl. That's crazy. Yeah. No, My
wife the other day was like, I don't feel loved.
I'm like, I don't feel loved you.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I'm going out here fighting for my life to feed
us and you're talking about you and feel love like.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I don't understand, but I'll figure it out. I guess
it means.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Even though you fighting everybody and you're coming back bringing
home everything, you make sure we stray, you love me,
hold me at night. I just want some roses today tomorrow.
I want you to just decorate the kitchen for a
little bit, do something nice.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Let's try to eat.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
But bring me an outfit to wear or something just
that's that means some something a little more like a little.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
More effort, a little more effort.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Yeah, it means getting born. Where's the excitement I could.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Be getting boring? I'll admit that.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
A straight face, man.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
I admit that. Yeah, but it's all good.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
I'm gonna figure it out, or we can figure it out,
or do I have to figure it out? It looks
like it seems like I have to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
I can give I can give tips and pointers.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
No, I know right, No, I appreciate it. Thank you,
thank you. I need to need your number so I
can later we could talk about it.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
You know.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Off your Chest is crazy too. Is that how we
finished the project with Off your Chest? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
So we finished I got yeah, I think so. Yeah, Yeah,
we finished with Off your Chest. Off your Chest almost,
I won't say it almost. Didn't make it all there.
But that's why it was kind of last because it
was like, okay, let's put it on the air. But
that was another one that was kind of that was
like one of the first few that we did when
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we were recorded. Then we started really getting in our bag.
But Off your Chest was a great visual. I really
loved the visual. It had like these lights flickering and
on and off that just kind of seemed like the
Grudge the Lady come out of TV and it was
I really loved the video. Yeah, that looked like Betty
Booper had like a little short dude, and I really
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loved that video.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Yeah, he had a good time with it and with
me as crazy as well. Congratulations on that one.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Ef with me.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yes, that's my baby, Yeah, because I feel like it's
no crunk music going on right now, you know, like
that music that make you feel energetic in a crunk
type of way. And that was one of the songs
I used to listen to, you know.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
And it's one of those songs you put on a
you're driving, it's gonna make you drive faster.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah, I like that. So then if a cop come,
it's like it was the music crazy No.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
But so that song I used to listen to at
the skating ring where I started rapping because I used
to fight there all the time. And that's actually the
skating ring that I recorded the video at.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah, And so that's.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Why it means so much to me, because I went
back to where I used to fight, where everybody used to.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Twirk, used to fight. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I wasn't cute all my life. I used to be.
I was ugly as mother.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Used to pull up and fight people.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah, well walk up. I used to walk up. I
ain't have have a car.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Like people that you had a problem with or did
you look for trouble? He was looking for trouble.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
I'm like, now that I'm growing, I'm like, damn, what
was my problem? I was so angry.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
For the main part.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I used to like taking up for people. I used
to be in people business, and so I was like
like when, yeah, when I feel like like you you
a little soft and they they you know what I'm saying,
and I'm seeing you kind of but it's like, damn,
well watch they don't even know who they did.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
So I used to start shipped.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Too much of my girl. Now.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I used to be messy as hell too, But yeah,
all of that came from that, that that place, that
skater ring, and so I wanted again to tie in
who I want to basically tell my story of who
I am, where I'm from through the music in different ways.
It's not going to always be in the song. You
know what I'm saying, but it might be like with
f and with me. That's what trivilla a little scrappy.
(16:37):
That's Atlanta, but the video and the visual is Houston.
And then it comes from a time that this song plays.
So it's certain ways that I put that up that's
my baby.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Yeah, yeah, man, I never been there right, So to Houston, right,
I'm under San Antonio.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Essay, my essays.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
That's that's what that's what the money at anyway. But
I would say that right now was the time to
be going to Houston. You see, they making Houston a
thing right now. The spring break rodeo, we can't even
go to rodeo no more. A lot of talent, it's
been fucking it up. You can't even breathing that motherfucker.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
It's not a time.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Who do you.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Find inspiration from Houston artists like male female rab Who
was there anybody that collectively kind of you know, got
into your consciousness and mold.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I would say, I really used. I really loved Mike Jones.
And the reason why with Mike Jones is because I
liked his beat selection of it didn't really just stay Houston,
but he represented Houston. He just showed a different way
to represent Houston. And like even with Sunshine, it was
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so cute and sweet and it was just worldwide. And
so I just I think a lot of people don't
really just say, like Mike Jones, We say the usual,
you know, the slims, the little key keys, and of
course they uh you know, shaped, Yeah, of course they
shaped everything but Mike Jones. And then it's a guy
named Jada and he real popular in Houston and I
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grew up on him too. He used to make me
want to fight all the time.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
So yeah, they can fight music. I love a good
fight song though, Yeah, kill Me.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
And Little Flip.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Because it was it was similar to Mike Jones, the
beat selection and all of that vibe.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Right.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
You know, when I listened to Better Than Yesterday, I
understood that the beat selection was extremely important to you, right,
those everything everything comes out.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah, It's like I'm trying to see like she with
with with with vibes y'all, like you know, and I
just again, I want it's all particular.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I want everybody to feel this ship.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Fat yo. Turn me up is crazy, don't panic is crazy?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Oh wait, turn turn me up my baby too. You
know why I turned me up as my baby. It's
because I freestart that whole damn song.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Like I was.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I was in the fucking studio and a beat start
just talking to me, and the first thing he said
was turn me up like me.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Can't like me, can't look like me?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
And then from there, I just I just kept like
I freestout the whole song, and I felt like, for
the first time at that time in a minute, I
felt untouchable, unstoppable. I felt confident again. I felt like, bitch,
I've been waiting on this libor to come. What's she being?
I feel happy?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
That's right, and whole thing. You should describe whole thing.
I can't.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
You know how niggas be like, just give me this.
Describe it, you know, niggas be like, just put the
tip in. Just give me the tip, just that, just
what just the tip?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Just yo, the two yo. Let me just get too crazy.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Just let me put the tip in beleeve. It's like,
I want to tip. I want to here's a tip.
I don't want the tip. I want the O day.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
That's it. No, man, you feel me.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Fact.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
You should tell him what you want, tell me what
you want. Man, better than yesterday, Joe Lee, congratulations.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Thank you so many time. Man, it's love. Next time,
we gotta knock out Lama Lama RepA Jama as well.
Team you know right, team is here. We gotta do it.
Are you in l a off?
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Don't forget you said it. Okay, Now, y'all remember he
said that ship. So when I come back looking for him.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
We got on. Yeah. Now, when the whole team is here,
you know, we're just kind.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Of like, don't have me calling him, and then he
just all of a sudden, he's missing. He out of town.
He took a leave.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
That's great. Are you in LA often?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Oh yeah? Okay, yeah all the time.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
So let's get to it.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
We're bessies.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I helped him with his wife all day.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
You did. I appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
I'm gonna try to figure this out. Thank you so
much for stopping by.
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We appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Congratulations better than yesterday.
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (00:02):
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This is what's good?
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
What's up, y'all? We in a building? What's up?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Y'all? Let's talk better than yesterday?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Uh huh?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Why better than yesterday? We are? We are? We in
competition with ourselves? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I think that's the only competition. That's the right competition
to have. You should always try to outdo yourself yesterday.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I really like slogans, you know, like I like something
that even if people can't relate to the music and
relate to the artists, they can use that slogan. So
it still goes back to the artists. It still helps
the artist brand, it still builds and promotes at the
same time. So, how you feeling today better than yesterday
than yesterday?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
That's right?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
That's right, y'all? For real, feeling better than yesterday? And
that should be the answer. Yeah, right, some days are
better than others, right right, some days are and it
is what it is.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
But we learn from them. They're not losses, their lessons facts. Right. Fact,
you've been through a few lessons.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I've been through a lot of overcome a lot, yes.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Over here, Yeah, still standing facts.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
And you've you've gone on to say that you feel
like you're giving yourself this this year to really lock in.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Right, Is that true? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
But it's like, I mean every year I like in,
but with this year in particulars like I want to
let things go that have hurt me in the past,
or trials and tribulations and just you know, business situations
or whatever, every everything that you could think of when
you at a moment of weakness and you just like, dang,
this happened this person past, this happened in my life
(01:40):
at this time, I just want to let everything go
from there off right, and let's start new, Like, let's
not let our burdens and let let things burden us.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Let's move forward.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I think that gives you a different mind, right, and
which allows you to be flow, to flow and to
be free.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah, right, and to create.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Right, let's be genuinely happy and to.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Talk that talk which I told you what you're doing
better than yesterday? Yeah, your sexuality, you own your mistakes.
I guess that's fair to say, but you own your
truth as well.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Exactly. I think like we're better than yesterday.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
It's like with the slogan and the meaning, you would
think that the project will be one way, but it's like, no,
I shed everything and I'm gonna be show you every
version of me on this project. So through everything like
that could have occurred in your life or whatever, I'd.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Have had a lot of happy moments.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
So we're gonna dive into the happy moments and we're
gonna move forward with the happy moments. So that's why
we better than yesterday. So in this project, you're gonna
feel yourself. You're gonna feel confident, you're gonna feel you're
gonna look in the mirror're gonna want to go outside,
you're gonna cry, and then you're gonna wipe it off
and you're gonna use one of my quotes from the
song and get on Live, pick your cute little filter,
you're gonna post it, and you're gonna put my little
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caption on it.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yeah, that's what I'm to do. I want to make
people feel good.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Now, what was sad?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Do you go back and listen to that project you
spend time with that.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I think for me I have lately, but for the
longest it's like I never go really go back and
just dig in. I listen, you know, but I always
try to move forward.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah, moving forward.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
No, but I realize you have to, you know. I
think as an artist too, you create. The more new
stuff you create, you were more into the new stuff.
Everything else is like, oh, you know, but this was
the year between this year and late last year was
the year where I just really sat back and looked
at all my music videos, listen to all my music,
and I'm like, I needed to do this because you
(03:44):
need to see where you were, where you and then
you need to appreciate what you put out in the
strip reflect like.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Yo, that was me. It's like looking at old pictures yourself.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Right, He's like, dang, I really It's like I did
everything I needed to do and wanted to to do.
Like hold on, okay, day, I forgot I did this.
I forgot I did that. You need to remind yourself.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
So it was Cowgirl easy to make.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Cowgirl was It was easy to make well.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Because it was mainly about Houston, and so I was
able to like talk about like Houston streets and the
popular parts of Houston and kind of do it in
like this seductive sexual way, but also like kind of
half seen on the hook.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
And I think that's kind of different.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
It's not something I never did, but I think that, like,
I'm you know, you used to me being rowdy. So
when you hear that one, it's like, wait, hold on,
this is what I want to see from a girl
that looked like this.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
It's yeah, it's like boom boom boom.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yeah. Yeah, and then.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
It's beautiful and the video for it is even more beautiful.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
That's right. I ate was that was that fun to make?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I it was so raw to make. It was so
like I felt like I was I was in a
car right My producer was in town that like, I
had a song that went viral that got me my deal,
and then unfortunately we weren't working together anymore, yeah, behind
the scenes. So I missed him this whole time because
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that was why I found my sound, you know. And
so he was back in town. We were back recording,
and I was so excited that I'm playing a beat
and I'm driving to the studio and I just start
writing the beginning of it, and I was just so
into it. So I get to the studio, I sit
in a chair and then I said, all right, bet,
I'm ready. And so one of my other producers from Atlanta,
(05:41):
he just happened to be there, so he was like,
after I did it, he was like, when you when
you wrote that, I'm like, right now, my day it
was yeah, And it was like I missed that because,
you know, we try to make music. When you when
you can freestyle and stuff like that, it's hard to
try to make a song. So I've been focused on
making a song. But for this record, it was like
I was able to like combine them.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
So I love the record.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Now. If you can combine that freestyle with a catchy hook,
a catchy hook, you got some. Yeah, but it's tough, though,
You're right, Freestyle and writing a song two totally different
things to totally different thing.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
It's like being funny on Instagram and being funny on
stage as a comedian, right, like, y, yeah, no, that's hard.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah. You travel a lot.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Yeah, yeah, you ever get into a waymo.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Those cars that drive themselves.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
No, I never did.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Have you seen them?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I see them on like social media?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I can't do it. I'm not doing it.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I never seen I've never been anyway.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Black and brown. We can't trust the car movement on
its own.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
We need somebody driving that case something goes wrong, we
could blame somebody.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
What if I get snatched with the car, like who we're.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Looking for, and theseos are getting stuck on train tracks.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
They are yeah, and they don't do it. Lock the
door automatically, I don't know. We don't know the safety feature.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
I saw a video and the to her phone and
she was dancing. So then the person came over the speaker.
It was like a customer service man, you need to
please put your seatbelt on, so they're watching you inside
the car.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
By AI dangle. I think that's too far.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I need to know I can stop this and I
can jump out, because what if you go on the
train tracks and then like the electricity somehow, I don't know.
What if it's just jams and you can't get out.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I'm breaking the windows feet.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
We don't even know.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
So you and I clearly have trust issues.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
That's what we can't trust nobody in this world.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Especially in the industry, right. But it is what it is.
That's why you got to stand on business and know
your business not facts, hand.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
It over, right. You have to you have to be
aware of what's going on. You got to be your
own office. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Facts.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
And I think it's harder for me because you got
to stand on business. But I'm a girl and I
gotta be nice at the same time, because then I
got to go around and say, oh, you know that
artists she mean, So then it's like you gotta find
a ballance.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Oh that's true, that's fucked up.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I mean, that's not okay, that's crazy because a lot
of men don't necessarily view it that way or don't
know that.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, it's like, dang, I gotta be cute and I
gotta be mean, and said you got to be nice. Well,
you know, like the industry that starts just everybody, Hey,
don't have her up there because she she she do
the most and then you like, you know what now
I heard she she caused too much drama.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
But you just was standing on business.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I know, I know, and you were just defending yourself and.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Not just sending my manager of mirror, he said on
business for me, and I'd be quiet shout.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Out to shout out to here. He sent me something
that I want to show you. He sent me like
a board like the n R boy.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Oh yeah, he did his thing.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
It looks like the work of a like a crazy person.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
We are crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I just I just admitted that I'm crazy. But he's crazier.
So it's like terms with it. Yeah, so I think
I was recording or whatever. And then, like you know,
sometimes as when you're a creator and you are a writer,
you get lost. You know.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Me back up, Maybe it's best that they can't crazy,
but you were saying, I'm sorry, but yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
So you as a creator, you might get lost because
you you you're the creator, so you have to stay
focused and you have to be like in your own
vibes or whatever.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Of course, and then sometimes.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
You got a person like me who feel like I
can do it all. I can do whatever type of song,
whatever type of beat. And so yeah, so we I
was scattered, and then I was coming back from Atlanta
and I'm like, oh my god, I'm sitting over here
spending all this time, and I got a bag of
mid What the fuck? I'm like, then where's the hits?
This ain't it?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
What's happening for you?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
So then he comes in and he and he just
gathered everybody together. He wrote on his board and he
was like, Okay, this is the topic. This is where
we're staying. He tell me, like, tell me all the
places that mean something to you in Houston. I wrote
him down.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
So then he just started like going from there and
just start like every producer that came in the room.
He was like, this is the vibe. And it literally
made shit ten times better. And now we have a storyline.
Now everything makes sense. Now everything flows. It's not a
bunch of random songs.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
It's a board and yeah it's a map.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, a map, a map.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
That's right. And we got there.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Yeah, we did get yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Better than yesterday.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Werow this ship ourselves?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
That's right. How tough is it?
Speaker 4 (10:39):
And you know what you said for a few minutes
ago when when you were writing the wrap in the car,
like you writing these bars?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Are you writing these wraps? Important?
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
It's important because I'm a competitor and it's like I
need to do I need to do it to keep
me excited when we collaborate or whatever. It's like, Okay,
it's cool, but it don't you don't it don't get
me going because I love this ship and I've been
doing this life.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
But when I was going and everybody let me be,
I just need time patience. I did what the fuck
I needed to do.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Okay, you say you need time and patience, right girl,
math skit. You're talking about how you told this dude
you need space and then you.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Got upset because he actually gave you space.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
That was a good way you You just slid in
like yo, bro, like why are we like this?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
We stupid?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
But yo, like, yo, you want space. I'll give you
space forgiving you.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah, because like why you ain't fighting for me? Why
you just gave me space? I didn't really want it.
I wanted you to say, like, no, we don't need
it and we should figure it out.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Sometimes and sometimes we say if I say I need space,
that mean I really don't. If I just stopped fucking
with you, that me I did need space.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
That's right. If you disappear, Yeah, like.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I'm trying to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
So a code we have to figure out this man.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, yeah, me be like you need space? All right?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Bet now we're mad because all you said was all right, bad?
You have nothing else to say?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Yes, no fighting for me, I fight for you.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Say what do we need space for it? Because I
just feel like, babe, I don't worry about I'm gonna
do better. Boom the conversation over with.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Even if that's not the truth, that's what you hear.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Yeah, holy shit, I'm doomed.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
I'm doomed a mad girl. That's crazy. Yeah. No, My
wife the other day was like, I don't feel loved.
I'm like, I don't feel loved you.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I'm going out here fighting for my life to feed
us and you're talking about you and feel love like.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I don't understand, but I'll figure it out. I guess
it means.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Even though you fighting everybody and you're coming back bringing
home everything, you make sure we stray, you love me,
hold me at night. I just want some roses today tomorrow.
I want you to just decorate the kitchen for a
little bit, do something nice.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Let's try to eat.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
But bring me an outfit to wear or something just
that's that means some something a little more like a little.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
More effort, a little more effort.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Yeah, it means getting born. Where's the excitement I could.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Be getting boring? I'll admit that.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
A straight face, man.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
I admit that. Yeah, but it's all good.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
I'm gonna figure it out, or we can figure it out,
or do I have to figure it out? It looks
like it seems like I have to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
I can give I can give tips and pointers.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
No, I know right, No, I appreciate it. Thank you,
thank you. I need to need your number so I
can later we could talk about it.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
You know.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Off your Chest is crazy too. Is that how we
finished the project with Off your Chest? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
So we finished I got yeah, I think so. Yeah, Yeah,
we finished with Off your Chest. Off your Chest almost,
I won't say it almost. Didn't make it all there.
But that's why it was kind of last because it
was like, okay, let's put it on the air. But
that was another one that was kind of that was
like one of the first few that we did when
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we were recorded. Then we started really getting in our bag.
But Off your Chest was a great visual. I really
loved the visual. It had like these lights flickering and
on and off that just kind of seemed like the
Grudge the Lady come out of TV and it was
I really loved the video. Yeah, that looked like Betty
Booper had like a little short dude, and I really
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loved that video.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Yeah, he had a good time with it and with
me as crazy as well. Congratulations on that one.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Ef with me.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yes, that's my baby, Yeah, because I feel like it's
no crunk music going on right now, you know, like
that music that make you feel energetic in a crunk
type of way. And that was one of the songs
I used to listen to, you know.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
And it's one of those songs you put on a
you're driving, it's gonna make you drive faster.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah, I like that. So then if a cop come,
it's like it was the music crazy No.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
But so that song I used to listen to at
the skating ring where I started rapping because I used
to fight there all the time. And that's actually the
skating ring that I recorded the video at.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah, And so that's.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Why it means so much to me, because I went
back to where I used to fight, where everybody used to.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Twirk, used to fight. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I wasn't cute all my life. I used to be.
I was ugly as mother.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Used to pull up and fight people.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah, well walk up. I used to walk up. I
ain't have have a car.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Like people that you had a problem with or did
you look for trouble? He was looking for trouble.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
I'm like, now that I'm growing, I'm like, damn, what
was my problem? I was so angry.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
For the main part.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I used to like taking up for people. I used
to be in people business, and so I was like
like when, yeah, when I feel like like you you
a little soft and they they you know what I'm saying,
and I'm seeing you kind of but it's like, damn,
well watch they don't even know who they did.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
So I used to start shipped.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Too much of my girl. Now.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I used to be messy as hell too, But yeah,
all of that came from that, that that place, that
skater ring, and so I wanted again to tie in
who I want to basically tell my story of who
I am, where I'm from through the music in different ways.
It's not going to always be in the song. You
know what I'm saying, but it might be like with
f and with me. That's what trivilla a little scrappy.
(16:37):
That's Atlanta, but the video and the visual is Houston.
And then it comes from a time that this song plays.
So it's certain ways that I put that up that's
my baby.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Yeah, yeah, man, I never been there right, So to Houston, right,
I'm under San Antonio.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Essay, my essays.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
That's that's what that's what the money at anyway. But
I would say that right now was the time to
be going to Houston. You see, they making Houston a
thing right now. The spring break rodeo, we can't even
go to rodeo no more. A lot of talent, it's
been fucking it up. You can't even breathing that motherfucker.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
It's not a time.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Who do you.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Find inspiration from Houston artists like male female rab Who
was there anybody that collectively kind of you know, got
into your consciousness and mold.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I would say, I really used. I really loved Mike Jones.
And the reason why with Mike Jones is because I
liked his beat selection of it didn't really just stay Houston,
but he represented Houston. He just showed a different way
to represent Houston. And like even with Sunshine, it was
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so cute and sweet and it was just worldwide. And
so I just I think a lot of people don't
really just say, like Mike Jones, We say the usual,
you know, the slims, the little key keys, and of
course they uh you know, shaped, Yeah, of course they
shaped everything but Mike Jones. And then it's a guy
named Jada and he real popular in Houston and I
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grew up on him too. He used to make me
want to fight all the time.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
So yeah, they can fight music. I love a good
fight song though, Yeah, kill Me.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
And Little Flip.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Because it was it was similar to Mike Jones, the
beat selection and all of that vibe.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Right.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
You know, when I listened to Better Than Yesterday, I
understood that the beat selection was extremely important to you, right,
those everything everything comes out.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah, It's like I'm trying to see like she with
with with with vibes y'all, like you know, and I
just again, I want it's all particular.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I want everybody to feel this ship.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Fat yo. Turn me up is crazy, don't panic is crazy?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Oh wait, turn turn me up my baby too. You
know why I turned me up as my baby. It's
because I freestart that whole damn song.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Like I was.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I was in the fucking studio and a beat start
just talking to me, and the first thing he said
was turn me up like me.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Can't like me, can't look like me?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
And then from there, I just I just kept like
I freestout the whole song, and I felt like, for
the first time at that time in a minute, I
felt untouchable, unstoppable. I felt confident again. I felt like, bitch,
I've been waiting on this libor to come. What's she being?
I feel happy?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
That's right, and whole thing. You should describe whole thing.
I can't.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
You know how niggas be like, just give me this.
Describe it, you know, niggas be like, just put the
tip in. Just give me the tip, just that, just
what just the tip?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Just yo, the two yo. Let me just get too crazy.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Just let me put the tip in beleeve. It's like,
I want to tip. I want to here's a tip.
I don't want the tip. I want the O day.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
That's it. No, man, you feel me.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Fact.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
You should tell him what you want, tell me what
you want. Man, better than yesterday, Joe Lee, congratulations.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Thank you so many time. Man, it's love. Next time,
we gotta knock out Lama Lama RepA Jama as well.
Team you know right, team is here. We gotta do it.
Are you in l a off?
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Don't forget you said it. Okay, Now, y'all remember he
said that ship. So when I come back looking for him.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
We got on. Yeah. Now, when the whole team is here,
you know, we're just kind.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Of like, don't have me calling him, and then he
just all of a sudden, he's missing. He out of town.
He took a leave.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
That's great. Are you in LA often?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Oh yeah? Okay, yeah all the time.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
So let's get to it.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
We're bessies.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I helped him with his wife all day.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
You did. I appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
I'm gonna try to figure this out. Thank you so
much for stopping by.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
We appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Congratulations better than yesterday.
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