Chanel West Coast chats her new single, Lil Bit of Country , balancing being a mom and full time career woman!

Chanel West Coast stops by Chanel in the City to chat with Chanel Omari about her new single; Lil Bit Country, diving in to the inspiration behind the hit single and her upcoming east coast tour! (Dates and venues listed below)! Make sure to get a ticket to the show that you don't want to miss! 

Chanel opens up about the obstacles it took her to get to where she is at with her music now and how we all have a "LIL BIT COUNTRY"  in all of us no matter where we are at in life or where we come from! 


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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
What's up, guys, it's her gro Chanel West Coast and
you're listening to me on Chanell in the City with
my girl Chanell Omari.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Hey, everyone, welcome back to another episode of Chanelle in
the City on iHeartRadio. I'm your host, Chanel Omari, and
I have a very special guest here today.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
She is a better Chanelle than me. I can tell
you that.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
She is a model, a rapper, a singer, a songwriter
all right, an actress.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
She kills it in each of these categories. Okay. You
might know her from her.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Amazing days on MTV Worldwide on Ridiculousness, but now she's
hitting the charts at her single with her single Little
Bit of Country, hitting out top of Spotify iTunes. You
can stream it all over. We're loving it.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Please help us. Welcome our friend Chanelle West Coast in
the building. What's up, girl? Hey?

Speaker 4 (00:58):
How are you good?

Speaker 3 (01:00):
How are you? I?

Speaker 2 (01:01):
I was telling you that you look like a reincarnated
right now, Marilyn and Roll, You're gorgeous first of all
in general, but you look beautiful. How's shout out to
your glam team.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
I did my own makeup, but did get my hair done.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Oh my God, that's amazing. We got to start learning
from you. That's the next book, that's the next song.
Let's talk about your new single. So I've been a fan,
We've been a huge fan of yours for a really
long time. You've been in showbiz. I mean now, it's
like forever. I was gonna say, it's forever. Even though
you look like you're twenty two, you are twenty two. Anyway,

(01:37):
you know, you've been in showbiz forever, whether it's TV
or acting or you know, hosting or music. And now
you came out with your country song and you've had
country music, which is amazing because when we see you
on other things, we think of you as like a
hip hop girl or a woman who just is independent
and does so many different things, which inspires all of us.

(01:57):
And now you're like, I'm gonna do what I'm want
to do. Can I read you a lyric from this song?
And I want to know what inspired it because it's
so amazing. It's called you guys have to stream it
right now. It's called a little Bit of Country. It's
so catchy, it's so deep, it's so amazing, and one
of the lyrics that spoke to me is this, I'm

(02:18):
an American girl and I'll be who I want. I
think we have a little country girl in US. I'm
a little big country, a little.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Rock and roll.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
I'm a wild child rock style, never doing what I'm told.
I'm choked up because that's really relatable cration again. Yes,
the inspiration about being American in freedom, yes, so.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
But behind that line I'm an American girl and I'll
be who I want, it's really just you know, owning
being an American woman.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
I'm America.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Speech about the American dream, about making your dreams come true,
and I feel like, you know, a lot of people
try to put me in a box as Chanel for ridiculousness.
Then I started doing music, and or I was doing
music before TV, but started being known for doing music.
And then I decided to do country music after hip hop.
And so I keep going, I keep breaking through these

(03:12):
barriers that people keep trying to put on me and
just showing people that I'm continuously trying to reinvent myself.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
I feel like I love all music.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
I've never been the type of person who's like, oh,
I only like rap, or I only like this, and
so I just started getting really into country music over
the past couple years, and.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
I'm a mom now and I have family.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
In Nashville, so so many different things were just kind
of like like all these things came together and became
the reason why I wanted to do country music. And
also a couple music producers were like, you know, have
you ever tried singing country? You kind of got a
country tone of voice, and I was like, no, I've
never tried singing country, but like, let's try it. And

(03:54):
so once I started dabbling and doing country music, I realized, like,
that's where my voice really shines. And I'm so excited because,
you know, I dropped one country song and I've been
getting so many, you know, tour requests, live show requests,
and I'm like, I don't even have all this new
country material out yet to perform. So I've been frantically

(04:15):
just trying to record new country music, trying to get
my debut country album done so that I can have
music to start performing because people want to start booking me,
you know, and I've been doing shows forever as a
hip hop artist, so it's it's cool to now have
the country world and all of those venues and those
people now really receptive to my music. I think, to

(04:38):
be honest, I think the country world might be bigger
fans of ridiculousness.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
I love that you said it, No, you nailed it,
because I also I'm like you. It's like and so
funny because we met through a mutual friend who's like you,
and I've been a fan of yours forever. You've inspired
me as a woman, a woman in showbiz, someone who
was also categorized and always put in a box. And
it's funny. I had one time a reality show, but
everyone's like Chanel West Coast, she's dope, and Chanel East.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Coast, and I was like, the reason I liked you.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
So much because you were so real and you were
so genuinely yourself on and off, like you're always nice
to fans, You're always cool with them, and I agree
with you. Country is mainstream, you know, people, I love
country even though I'm a hip hop girl.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
People don't realize that.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
And I think your voice is so beautiful that I mean,
I listen to a little bit of country, like literally
four times in a row. That's how much it spoke
to me. That's how catchy it is, and that's how
much it motivates me, if that makes any sense, because
we all have a country girl in us, would you
say like a little bit even though we're city.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
No, let's be real, that's what I think.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
You know, like that country lifestyle is like that laid
back lifestyle.

Speaker 4 (05:41):
You know, let's really talk my boobs and real quick,
make sure they're not.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
Oh it's okay, No, you look forward just too.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
But it's just like you know about that laid back living,
like you know, everybody wants to kick it with their
family and barbecue and out at the pool and just
you know, it's really like a laid back lifestyle. And
I think I think that's what also drove me to
wanting to do countries. It's like I always I love
the glam life of glam right now to go to
a dinner late that that country lifestyle just kind of

(06:09):
speaks to me. And that's that's why, I don't know,
I think it kind of fits me a little better.
As much as I'm a city girl, I'm a laid
back country girl.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
I like to just kick it in a flannel, make
some s'mores, you know.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
What I mean, and could beer. Yes, I know what
you mean.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Like I'm originally from Long Island. But people are like, oh,
it's that, that's not country. But it is like a
country soul, like a laid back girl who is in
a big city where you can relate to both identities,
which I think is awesome.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
No, it's crazy too because I didn't even know. You know,
my dad's from New York. I grew up kind of
by coastal and I actually didn't know as much that
there's there is a country scene there.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
You don't.

Speaker 4 (06:44):
You don't hear about it as much.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
But my dad was a hip hop DJ, so I
always was more familiar with that world, you know.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
But I've as I've started doing.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
Country, I've learned there's a lot of country fans in
New York as well. And I'm like, oh, that's crazy.
You know there is country fans even in the big
city too, you know.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Oh yeah, I would love for you to play at
the Cutting Room.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
I don't know if you've heard about the Cutting Room
in New York City, but they're all musical acts but
really focused on country, big musical acts.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
Actually, Kate Hudson.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Hatcheese was doing country, so she performed there and there
was like five hundred people like waiting down the line,
like I see such a First of all, you've been
in music your whole life, but I see I see
you as like the next you know, big Beyonce meets
Taylor Swift.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
It's like, but Chanelle West Coast, You're all.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
I see you dancing like Britney Spears at MTV the
Awards and whatever it is the Grammys, you know what
I mean, where we're like, yeah, that's with her.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
We're gonna be you know, her fans for life. You
know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
I think because you're so relatable, it's so genuinely you're humble.
Were you always like that or you because it's like
you said, you grew up in the limelight. Your father
was a famous DJ, right, So like I want people
to also understand it's not as.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
Easy for yeah, oh he was.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Okay, my dad was, you know, barely making the fucking
the rent.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
But you're but yeah, no, my dad was a DJ though,
So I was.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Always around music and and always like like there was
times where I'd be visiting him in New York and
he didn't have a babysitter and he would I don't
even know how it was like legal he would ask
the people like, oh, can I bring my daughter to work?
And I would go and I'd just be like kicking
it in the DJ booth like a little girl, like
under the DJ booth. People probably had no idea there
was a child back there, but like that, you know,
that's so much of what I grew up around. So

(08:31):
you know, I've always been really inspired by music and
performing and and.

Speaker 4 (08:36):
Yeah, no, it's it's it's uh.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
It's like I always say, if I wasn't on TV
and I didn't get like famous for doing ridiculousness, I'd
probably be the girl at the local bar performing because
like I just love music so much, you know what
I mean.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
I totally know what you mean.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
But you would still get you would still get famous anyway,
because you're that that's that girl, you know what I mean.
You go to that bar, you're like that woman. She's
so charming, she's so amazing.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
You know that that can't leave you, you know. So that's
what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
It's like, regardless, I think people shouldn't always believe in themselves.
I think you teach us, you know, don't put me
in a box. Believe in yourself. Do what you want,
you know, I don't know. It's hard to do what
you want, especially in this industry. Do you want to
talk about that a little like advice to women out there?
It's such a tough industry. What kept you going and
what kept you focused?

Speaker 1 (09:24):
You know, it's a really tough industry, especially because a
lot of people are willing to like compromise their morals
and beliefs.

Speaker 4 (09:31):
Just to get attention. And I've never been that type
of person. Probably why it's.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Taken me a lot longer to make it big like
I want to, because I'm not willing to do just
anything to get famous.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
I'm not willing to you know. I it's like, obviously
I'm a woman.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
I like to be sexy, but am I gonna go
above and beyond where it's like raunchy never so appreciate
a cute outfit and some Ryanstone boots here and there,
but they don't care about that as much, you know,
And and I feel like that that lifestyle just I
think it speaks to kind of being over like all
the fakeness of you know everything else, you know what

(10:08):
I mean.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
I totally know you say to one of your songs too,
I won't sell my soul. Yeah, and when I guess
and you know, listen, I try not to be emotional.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
And that's my next question to you. How do you
not break?

Speaker 2 (10:20):
You know, because these songs are so personal and like
I started crying because I think I can relate so much.
I think you talk for all women in different capacities,
in different situations. And what I want to say is
it's almost like endearing. So it's not that I'm crying
from sadness only, I'm crying from happiness because there's hope.
Yeah with your music, right, Like you're saying, if I'm

(10:41):
not going to sell my soul and look how I've
gone success, you don't need to sell your soul, you
know because I contemplate that sometimes too, which is why
I'm not where I need to be.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (10:50):
No, I'm telling you.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
It's like, you know that there's a couple of things
you can do type thing like oh if I just
did that, or like you know, and it's like and
you constantly thinking these type of thoughts. But it's like, dude,
my story, my boob is like falling out of this.
That's after having a baby. These boobs just got so big.
I can't keep them in control.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
Oh my god, you look amazing.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
Can I hope I look like you after I have
a baby, because that's that's what's scary.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
It took some time and some light bo.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Oh yeah, but you should be proud of it. Like
I'm very like you. I'm about boobs. I'm about very
usually I do have them out like I.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
Just have psoriasis.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
So that's my new insecurity and I'm trying to get
over that. But for like, that's what I love about
you is that I love your style on Ridiculousness too.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Now you change your outfits.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
You're very about self expression, Like I feel like I
know what you're feeling or thinking with your outfit, and
that's what makes like a trending star honestly, Like you
don't give a shit about what people think, and that's
what it's supposed to be.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
You're like, this is me.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
I'm classy, I'm gorgeous, I'm sexy, I'm driven.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
I can be all these things.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
And you know, thank you appreciating my outfits on Ridiculousness
because that's another reason why I started, Like you know,
I stopped caring as much about Like you know, I've
always been so into my style and my glam and like,
you know, I still love to get dressed up, but
to be honest, I feel like I was underappreciated for
a while. I'm like, I feel like I've been such
a style icon and never got my credit.

Speaker 4 (12:15):
And it got to a point where it was like,
what's the point of.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
Getting dressed up if nobody's gonna give me like my
my accolades.

Speaker 4 (12:20):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
It's like, if nobody's gonna shout me out and like, oh,
this girl has got great style, what's the point. And
that's when I became a little bit more appreciative of
just like wearing anything type thing, you know what I mean.
It's like it's like you don't need to have some
fancy designer outfit to look pretty. It's like, truth be told,
my boyfriend appreciates me more in like a basic little
white crop.

Speaker 4 (12:41):
Top and like jean shorts.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
You know, Like I think that that that also was
something that I got a.

Speaker 4 (12:49):
Little a little tired of.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
You know.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
It's like I'm still gonna always have that side of
me and always want to get glammed up, but I
do love just being able to kick back and be
myself and not feel like I need to do so
much all times.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
You know what I'm saying totally.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
And I'm telling you you've been a lot of people's
fashion icon and I understand when it feels what it
feels like to feel under appreciated and credit undercredited.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
H and you are a fashion icon.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
I want you to know that you are one of
probably the most followed for fashion. Like maybe you don't
maybe people don't tell that to your face, but like
always tell you, Hey, Chanelle West Coast, I want to
look like her, or I want to have this outfit,
Like for stand up comedy for example, a lot of
the girls are taken after you because it's almost like
they're doing now rap battles meets comedy and so they'll

(13:34):
be like, oh, I love Chanelle West Coast style from
ridiculousness up until now. She likes evolves, you know, like
a crop top with gene shorts and let's say fish nets.
There was one time I even like copied that style
from you, you know what I mean. Sorry, it's just cool,
you know, It's like that's part of being a trendsetter.
How did you cope with that during that time when
you felt like, Wow, I'm working really hard and I'm

(13:55):
putting all my talent and I just don't feel.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
Hurd Like what did you hawd? You cope?

Speaker 4 (13:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
The thing is is I just love making music and
I love being creative. So I'm always gonna do that,
you know, regardless if anybody's.

Speaker 4 (14:08):
Listening or seeing it or not.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
It's like I like to write a song to get
my emotions out, and like I'll be on the plane.

Speaker 4 (14:14):
I tend to write a lot of music on the plane.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
I'll be on the plane flying somewhere and I'm just
like bored, and I'm like, you know what, I get
started getting in my feelds. It's funny. It's like that
Landy Wilson song. She has a song to h what
is it? Somewhere over Laredo. But in the video, I
was like, oh, dang, I should have made a video
like this because I relate. Like in the video she's
singing the lyrics of the song or talking about like
being on the plane and writing the song about the guy,

(14:37):
and I'm like, I can relate to that so much,
you know.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
So well, yeah, That's why I'm like, you're like our
like our voice.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
You know for the man, which I'm going to get into.
We're going to talk about that now. A lot of
your music is also based on like breakup stating, making
sure the man respects you for who you are and
your worth and if they're not kind of walk away.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
In so many words, you say better than me.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Any obstacles during your music journey and dating, Like I
guess women want to know, how do we cope with that?

Speaker 3 (15:07):
How how do we separate that? Right? We go through breakups,
So we go.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
Through men kind of putting us down, or dating doesn't
go work out and then we got to go to
our job the next day, or you need to go
on live television to promote your music, how do you
do that?

Speaker 1 (15:21):
I've had to go through a horrible breakup and then
go laugh and you know, thank god, you know, Rob
and Sterling and Ridiculousness is a very funny show to
be on to cheer.

Speaker 4 (15:33):
Me up in some of those situations.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
But to have to go to work and smile and
put on this space while you're really going through personal issues.
That's what people I think don't realize is like like
I think a lot of people don't understand, is like
I'm known for laughing, smiling that that side. But I've
been through a lot of stuff in my life, and
I've had a lot of battles that nobody's seen or

(15:55):
heard about.

Speaker 4 (15:56):
Ridiculousness is not a show about me, you know what
I mean. Nobody's getting here my story there. So it's
been a little hard.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
To to, you know, to have people kind of judge you, like,
you know, when they don't know anything about you type thing.
But I started to ignore hate and stuff like that
because I realized that like most of the people who
hate on you are not that happy themselves, you know
what I mean. They're not usually in like the greatest

(16:24):
scenario in their life, and that's what makes them be
like this. And so you have to kind of just
feel bad for those people and ignore it and and yeah,
just keep you know, just keep going.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
And you're so right, that's like the best ever focused ignore.
Everyone's gonna say something, you know, anyone's gonna no one's
ever really one hundred percent love because you now that
it's they're not happy with themselves. How did you meet
your wonderful boyfriend and cope with also or handle your
business woman? You're a singer now like you're out there.

(16:55):
You've been a singer, but I'm saying, like now the
singles out.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
You have a baby. Hell's the baby.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
She's gonna be three in like a month. I still
call her baby. She's a toddler.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
I'm sorry, she's a toddler. She's that's so cute. That's
I have a niche. She's three.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
That that's the best age. That's by the way, congratulations,
that's amazing. How do you stay fit? Looks so good?
Focus on business and be a mom and be a
loyal girlfriend?

Speaker 3 (17:19):
Is there a secret?

Speaker 1 (17:20):
Because I can barely take care of myself going crazy?
Like I'm not joking, like I'm always going crazy, But
I just I always tell myself, like a little bit
every day, right, like never get everything done in the day,
Like you tell yourself, Oh, I'm gonna get all that
done tomorrow, and it never happens.

Speaker 4 (17:36):
It never does, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Like every day I just try to tell myself as
long as every day I get a little bit of
time and my daughter. Every day I get a little
bit of time to work. Every day I get a
little bit of time to work out and take care
of my health.

Speaker 4 (17:51):
It's just like it's all about balance, you know.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
And even like this week, for example, I'm leaving for
tour on Sunday. So this week I've tried to make
sure I am extra around for my baby, to give
her extra extra attention because mommy has to leave next
week for a whole week straight. I come back for
a couple of days back and forth for the tour.
But you know, it's like it's all about balance, Like
I know I'm gonna have to leave her, so every

(18:14):
day this week it's more about the baby, you know.
And then yeah, it wasn't on going on tour, i'd
be I'd still have to balance the time of like okay,
well this day I gotta work in the studio or
this day I gotta you know, and then having to
bounce the schedules with Dom, my boyfriend, my baby's father.
You know, he's busy too, and but luckily we both
have like the type of lives where it's very flexible

(18:36):
and like random. He's a model, he does real estate,
he's a cookbook. Everything we do is kind of like
aside from you obviously performing, it's kind of from home.
So we're lucky to have a lifestyle and businesses where
we can do a lot of it and still play
with our baby, still have her by our side, you
know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
I love that that's so important that you said that
because you put them, You put your family first, even
though your career is your baby too. And that's where
I think we're all like pulling tugs sometimes because I
want a baby in a family. But I'm like, now
I'm ready. I'm forty.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
I'm like, now I'm ready to give up a lot.
If that makes sense.

Speaker 4 (19:11):
Oh I let me tell you.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
I've always been such a career career, career like career woman.
Like I was the type of girl like people are like,
they'd be like thinking about you know when a girl's like,
oh my future wedding dress, and I'm like, oh my god,
I've never even thought about my future wedding dress. I
was thinking about, like what will I be wearing when
I win the Grammy? Yes, girl, Yes, I've always been
like such a like focused on my career person. But

(19:35):
I will say since having a baby, it's it's fully
changed me. Like I still love my music. I still
am going to pursue my passions. And like I said,
even if I wasn't pursuing my passions as a career,
it'd be my hobby because I love to do it,
you know.

Speaker 4 (19:48):
But where was I going with this?

Speaker 3 (19:52):
But the baby.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
The baby's the like changing changing gears. Being a mom
is different, you're different now.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
She totally changed me. That's that's really what it is.
It's like, I just want to be a mommy as
much as I can now. I like, she makes me
so happy. It's like I've been through a lot, Like
in the past couple of years, my dad passed away
a lot of things that I'm so sorry about that,
oh thank you, a lot a lot of things that
you know, brought down the vibe of life. But having
this adorable little baby who is just so happy and

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sweet and cute and innocent and just a ball of joy,
it makes every day easier.

Speaker 4 (20:25):
It really does. As hard as she makes it.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
Because she's a lot of work, she somehow makes it easier.
Like all the stress I'm dealing with from my career
and stuff, she makes that easier, even though she's also
making it harder because it's hard to balance taking care
of her, entertaining her, and then also making stuff to
entertain my fans, which is what pays my bills.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
Of course, that's but she's gonna she's knows that.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
I feel like she's gonna be so proud of you,
like especially with really making a stance for music for women,
I'm sorry, and general human beings through your music, Like
that's awesome to have a little one of you, you know,
and like a legacy.

Speaker 3 (21:04):
I'm just like, just one. I just need one.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
That's how I kind of feel now. I'm like, I
kind of want another one, but I also like don't
want to have to like deal with the whole weight
gain and loss again. It was like so much work,
and you know, I don't know, we'll see, we'll see.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
Do you think you'll share it in your music?

Speaker 2 (21:22):
Being a mother and going through those transitions, like you know,
I don't think we talk about it a lot, like
losing weight, losing or kind of putting ourselves second, which
we're not used to. And I don't know why I
say we because I'm not a mom yet, but I'm
an aunt and I can't I can only barely know
what you guys deal with. I'm like, how do you
do this? Twenty four seven?

Speaker 3 (21:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (21:40):
Yeah, no, it's it's it's hard, dude.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
I think about it all the time, Like all of
my girlfriends who like, I'm going to a dinner tonight
with a couple of my girlfriends and even them, I'm like,
I'll see them like doing the thing, and I'm like, damn,
why did they get time for their kid? You know,
I know people are wondering the same about me. Like
it's just like you, just like I said, every day,
you just like keep going. Joked a lot that it's

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like being a mom is like being on autopilot, like
you don't even know like how you're doing it.

Speaker 4 (22:07):
Sometimes.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
Even I'm going through my baby's coloring book today with her,
and I saw a whole picture I colored.

Speaker 4 (22:13):
I barely remember doing it. I was like, dang, I
colored that.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
It's just I'm always playing with there're always doing so much,
you know. It's like I almost like forgot I colored
this cool picture. And I was like, oh, that's a
really good one, Mommy, did I forgot when I did that?
Because it's just like I'm doing so much, you know
what I mean.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
But that's awesome that you make time for equality, time
for your kid. That's why none of us have an
excuse out there In general, when we see women like
you do it all, we have to kind of do better,
do you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (22:42):
Yeah, tell, that's what I joke.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
Before I had my baby, I would always be like,
there's not enough time in the day. Oh my gosh,
there's not enough time in the day. And I'm like,
what the hell was I talking about? I had so
much time. Then I'm like, now that I have a kid,
there's really not enough time to day. So that's the
best advice I could give to any women who haven't
had a child yet is like, really enjoy your time,
like like utilize it to the fullest, and do everything

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you want for yourself, you know, and travel as much
as you can and and do all that, because once
you do have a baby, it's like it's hard.

Speaker 4 (23:13):
It's like you got to balance everything, you know.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
I love that advice.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yeah, that's a good advice because I think even and
that brings me to my next question. A lot of
us single ladies, we get a lot of audience calls
and texts like what do I do This guy.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
Doesn't like me. I'm I dated this guy he liked me.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
He leaves like, what's your philosophy in general, and you
can answer this in two ways. Men in the industry
who say no, you know, like the boys club, and
men who say no in real life and dating, like
are you that woman that says f that walk away?

Speaker 3 (23:42):
Like talk us through that a little bit.

Speaker 4 (23:45):
Yeah, So I don't know what.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
Like, honestly, I found my boyfriend now is like, you know,
the greatest guy ever.

Speaker 4 (23:51):
I'm so blessed to have found him.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
Like before I found him, I feel like maybe I
intimidated guys or something. I don't even know, Like I'm
a very self sufficient person, and then you know what
I mean, Like you know what it is, because sometimes
I felt like, why is there not like more good
catches trying to come after me? I'm like, I don't
even get it, you know, but it's all I see
now that I have this baby and this man, that
it was a you know, God's plan type thing and

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the best advice though I could, I feel like i'd
give to women as far as dating is like what
I used to be, you know, and I'm still attracted
to these qualities that my boyfriend doesn't body. He's a hustler,
he's funny, But those used to be things I looked
at first, right, like, oh, like like, is this guy
a hustler, like, you know, is he wealthy type thing?
Like never been a gold digger. But that was always

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like a very like like a big.

Speaker 3 (24:38):
Fighter, a equal provider.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
I get that, yeah, And and also like, oh is
he funny? Like like you know, I feel like I
was looking for like the wrong type of things, right,
And then I met my boyfriend and I realized I
was like this, he is literally the nicest, most.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
Genuine man I've ever met.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
Like he is not one of these douchebag guys that
cares about you know. And when I first met him,
I thought the opposite. I'm like, oh, he's the hottest
guy in the world. He must hook up with everybody, you.

Speaker 4 (25:04):
Know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
But he wasn't like that. He was a really good, genuine, soul,
good person. And I became a I know, people are
saying I'm lying because he's so freaking hot, but I
became attracted to him because of what a good person
he was. And I think a lot of girls look
for the wrong things in men and and they end
up miserable. They end up with some guy who's maybe

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like controlling or abusive because they were looking just for
the money or whatever.

Speaker 4 (25:31):
And it's like, if you just look.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
For a good person, a man who who's who's grounded,
who has a good head on his shoulders, he doesn't
have to be rich, but he has to have a
good plan, he has to be working hard, you know
what I mean. And I think that a lot of
girls are just like overly picky, even girls who sometimes
like I don't know, if you've.

Speaker 4 (25:49):
Ever had that friend where you're like, this girl thinks
you could get the hottest.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
Guy the he jokes about that in the stand up. Yeah,
Like I'm like, I look on hows and.

Speaker 4 (25:56):
You think you don't.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
I mean, that's like the third Like come on, I'm
getting the bald ones who are broke, who are abusing me,
and then they're telling everyone, yeah I dated, like you know,
Joe Peshi and Barber Streisan's daughter who they should have aborted.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
I mean, god forbid.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
But I'm just saying like, yeah, I get you, and
I'm like, what's going on with these guys?

Speaker 4 (26:15):
Sometimes people are aren't fully realistic. Guys are just like
what what is what do I have to work with here?
You know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (26:23):
Or they're like s boys.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
Sorry, but like like you said, you thought dom at
first because they're good looking, or they're not, they're just
arrogant the right.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
I was like.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
Actually hesitant to maybe like flirt with him or whatever
because I'm like, oh, this guy's so hot.

Speaker 4 (26:34):
He probably hooks up with every girl. Like you just
don't see a guy that like is that cute sometimes
and you're like, oh.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
He's definitely like a v bag, you know, but especially
in LA especially being a model, you know. But he
was totally the opposite. And and I'm happy that I
took the time to get to know him and like
just you know, went for who's inside, because like it's
been the best relationship in my life. And and I

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think that that, yeah, like that's what more girls need
to just you know, need to go for the good guy.

Speaker 4 (27:06):
We're all, I think kind of now bad and that's
where it always goes wrong.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
And so why I'm literally.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
Like nodding my head ten times. You you need to
write a book, first of all. I mean, I know,
I'm like it's like, shut up, Channel, you're not her agent,
but you need to write a book because I would
put it on an audio every day. You would help
a lot of women. That's so true, go for the
good guy. I'm sometimes not even attracted to the good
guy and I'm good and I'm like, why why am
I not physically attracted? What happened to me in my

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childhood that I want the guy that you know wants
to ignore me and talk to the other.

Speaker 4 (27:41):
Girl watching in the Disney movies.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
I was The Beasts the other day with my daughter,
and I'm just like this movie literally like trains you
to be like, oh, well, he might be an ugly.

Speaker 4 (27:52):
Beast, but you know if if I speak to baby.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
Yeah, it's funny.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
And then you get to teach though at least your
daughter like the reality and then what she can what like,
she can do what she wants to do with it,
you know what I mean? Not this isn't really real.
Disney movies are like you know, they're stories. I know
we have to wrap up soon, but I wanted to
also talk about how did you when you transition? And

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like you said, you've been doing music forever, even before Ridiculousness.
When was the moment that you said, I don't want
to be known for just ridiculousness or a movie I
just did, or hosting a gig like I want to
be known my music. I want to be known as
Chanelle West Coast, the brand, like you know, because there's
a lot of people in Hollywood whole say no, I

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mean you've been you've been on a reacity, you've been
on this show or this show. I can't see you
as this or at least I've been told that as
you know, an aspiring actress or a comedian.

Speaker 3 (28:52):
I guess what it have you been through that? How
did you get through that?

Speaker 2 (28:55):
Obviously there's you're not going to tell us the whole secret,
but yet.

Speaker 4 (28:59):
It's I mean, like it's such a long story.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
But I've always just aspired to do music, and like
through doing music, I and making connections there, I somehow
met Rob deer Deck, somehow ended up on Rob shows.
So I've always seen myself as an artist. I was
a school who, like I was a performing arts kid.
I was always in choir like orchestra, you know, drama, dance, cheerleading,

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hip hop. I was in hip hop dance and hip
hop drill teme since like second grade, and so I
always saw myself I also, like me and my little
girlfriends in school, we would always do the talent shows,
and like we would always win the talent show that
there was never a.

Speaker 4 (29:36):
Talent show we didn't win.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
And I grew up just kind of in this mindset
like I'm a performer, I'm good at this, Like this
is what I do. And so I got on TV
and that's what I just became more known for. And
people had no idea, oh, this girl like does music
because it was on such an independent, low level, you know.
And as time went by, more and more people got
to know I did music. And so I've always is

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in my head been like dang, I'm really lucky to
have like the coolest, like like day job, I guess
you could say, like Ridiculousness to me was like, oh,
this is a really great job to be able to
pay my bills, but like also pursue my passion. Whereas
if I was still working at my old, you know,
real estate job, or at the Chinese restaurant I used

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to work at, I wouldn't have as much time to
pursue what I really love, which is music, you know,
So I love doing Ridiculousness. It was such a fun show,
such a fun job, but was it my passion?

Speaker 4 (30:33):
No, So in my head.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
I always just looked at it like, dang, I got
a really good day job, but like when I get home,
I can't wait to make a new song.

Speaker 3 (30:40):
Yeah. That's like that's how we should all think, right.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
Like It's like kind of like with stand up I
say that the comedians we have like three jobs sometimes
and then we think we're stuck.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
It's like, no, you can do something.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
You're not that passionate about to pay the bills you
have to and then you put it in your passion
But you're so But you're known now as Chanelle West Coast.
That's what I love about you. It's like that's your breath.
Like we know you as an entity as yourself, not
associated with this specific thing or that and your music
first and foremost. It's like, really, I associate you with
your music. So you really like inspired a lot.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
Really happy because I do have a ton of fans
who you'd be surprised. There's some fans who know my
music that don't even know freaking ridiculousness. And I'm like, yeah,
I'm like what even my JDJ Kitty, she first discovered
me through like one of these like kind of you know,
those like hip hop sites where the DJs get their
music or whatever. Yeah, had originally reached out because she

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just knew me as like this girl, this up and
coming rapper. And so then she found out, like as
after we met or whatever, that I was like famous
for TV because she never really watched TV.

Speaker 4 (31:44):
She was like a music head, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
And that's what I've always That's how she became like
my tour DJ and one of my best friends, was
because I loved the fact that I'm like, Okay, this
person isn't just trying to hang out with me because
I'm Chanell from Ridiculousness, Like she genuinely believes in my
music and is a good friend like and so yeah,
so that's how you know, that's kind of why I
stuck with her for years. You know, she's still my
poor DJ till today. She can't do every gig with

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me these days because now she's popping in the real
estate game. But you know, that's what I loved about
her was it was it was cool and refreshing to
meet somebody who's not just trying to be my friend
or work with me because of being the girl from
the MTV show.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
You know, I love that too.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
Yeah, because your music is so important right now, especially
these days, and I want everyone to really like stream
your music and understand, like listen to the lyrics, like
really sit there, like like I sat there on my terrace.

Speaker 3 (32:38):
I meditated to it. I brought it in.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
I know I sound corny, but it's true. It's like
once you have that song or that artist you follow,
you can really change. You can change your own life.
Like everyone comes to me and they're like, how do
you become happy sometimes? Or I'm not happy sometimes? How
are you happy?

Speaker 3 (32:53):
Or how are you coping?

Speaker 2 (32:55):
I said my celebrity guest. They're the ones who take
me through everything. I look at you, I talk to you,
I hear you, and I'm like, okay, I want to
be more in her direction. I want to go more
in her direction, you know what I mean. That's part
of inspiring.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
That's to be probably super cool, like your job, getting
to talk to so many different people and get like
a little piece of inspiration from everyone, you know.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
Yeah, because it's it's important, you know, And I think
it's important that, like you said, we we don't get
to hear your story, the long, the long version of it.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
You just you know, sometimes you have to come. You
push the music.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
Of course we have to promote and everything, but it's
nice to hear that like you put so much time
and so much thought and so much of your own
soul and your own personal experience in it.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
You're also going to be in City Winery right.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
Yeah, yeah, I'm four with City Winery venue. The first
show is in Philly this Monday. Okay, the best day
to start off a tour. I was like Monday, God dang,
but I start in Philly and there's seven cities, seven
or eight cities.

Speaker 4 (33:56):
And all with their with their venue.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
I'm literally going to be from my old from my
last album California State of Mind. I'm gonna be doing
some of my viral cover songs because people like are
obsessed with the cover songs I've been dropping.

Speaker 3 (34:10):
And then by the way, starting to work.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
Gen Z is like dming us like crazy, they know
you not through like those.

Speaker 3 (34:17):
Clips just so you know, like their research.

Speaker 4 (34:20):
I love that.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
I love sorry, I just need to say that, Well,
go on you again.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
Gen Z like they're people who a lot of gen
Z kids have discovered me just through social media. They're like,
what's ridiculousness and I'm like, where did you come from?

Speaker 3 (34:34):
It's still on because the red Beats are still on,
and I'm like.

Speaker 4 (34:39):
Top is crazy.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
But luckily I looked cute in all those episodes, so
yes you did.

Speaker 4 (34:44):
I don't mind. But but yeah, no.

Speaker 1 (34:46):
I'm so excited for this tour and I'm going to
be performing a couple new, unreleased songs, So this is
like a really special show for my true fans. Like
my new music is so good. I'm so freaking excited
to put it out. And it's like I said, it's
crazy that I booked this tour off of one country song,
you know, I drop. I dropped the song actually a

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couple months ago, so it's not even brand new.

Speaker 4 (35:09):
But it's still picking up.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
Traction because I'm independent, you know, I didn't have some
crazy marketing budget, but just naturally, it's been picking up
more and more traction. More and more venues have wanted
to have reached out wanting to book me, and so
I just can't wait to get this new music out
because I know once.

Speaker 4 (35:25):
That music drops, the bookings are gonna go through the roof.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
Oh yeah, I'm telling you it's gonna it's going viral,
Like and I was gonna ask you, what do you
think is better because you have both experiences getting a
huge marketing machine to push you or letting it go
viral naturally, like kind of it's gonna I feel like
it's this song.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
I'm telling you guys, I know it. I have a
god feeling.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
It's it's just everyone's gonna start talking about it more
and more and more and more and more.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
So I feel like if you can make something go
viral independently, that's way better because then you you own.

Speaker 4 (35:57):
The masters to music. You have so much more so,
so much more creative freedom.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
I'm like, you know, yeah, y'all, y'all are popping on
every billboard that are signed to a label, but you
don't have a lot of creative freedom. And I know
that for a fact because of my few experiences working
with major label situations, almost being signed to a certain
major label, just the immediate feel of like the controllinginess

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with my creativity. And it's like, look, I wanted to
I went from hip hop. I wanted to make a
country song. If I was at a label, I might
have I might've had to literally fight somebody, like you
know what I mean, Like I probably would have had
to get out of that record deal just to go
and change genres, you know. But that's what I love
about being independent, is like I could do whatever I want,
whenever I want, And I think that that freedom is

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way better because you know, good, good things catch on.
So it's do you rather, you know, have a song
that isn't as good that you know, be blue up
because of millions of dollars in marketing, or would you
rather have a song blow up because you know it
was like newinly good, you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (37:01):
Right? Second option?

Speaker 2 (37:02):
And look, it's so crazy coming from you, someone who's
literally been in showbiz longer than most, someone who's built
her brand upon corporate But I know what you mean
because which we're not supposed to talk about secrets of
the business. Meaning I've been in reality but and regular TV.

Speaker 3 (37:15):
Same thing they own you.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
You can create an idea and it's your show and
they're like, oh no, honey, we own eighty percent, you
own twenty And I'm like, wait, I just made it.
I just came up with It's like you're writing the lyrics,
this is my song. I agree with you. I think
people are too scared. So that's why everyone's like, no,
I need someone to finance me and invest in me.
That's why I was like, I love your opinion on
that because that can inspire a lot of people to
be creative on their own, right, Like I think they

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should be doing it on their own.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
Just too, as much as you can on your own.
Social media is like the greatest freaking cool. Lizzo did
like a post talking about it the other day or
something too, and she was like, dude, like, you guys
have this in the palm of your hands, just you know,
put it out. And that's what it's about, is just continuously,
you know, putting your content out and eventually something by it.
So it's like, you know, even with tit to tiktoks

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are gambling. I always say, it's literally like the slot
machines in Vegas.

Speaker 4 (38:04):
You post four videos and it might be the dumbest video.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
It could be a video of somebody farting and that
one gets five million views, but the ones where you
were like singing like Whitney Houston get none.

Speaker 4 (38:14):
It's just it's so random.

Speaker 1 (38:16):
So you just got to put so much out there
that eventually something picks up, you know, and takes.

Speaker 3 (38:21):
Off and not care what other people think.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
I'm assuming like not be like, oh are they going
to think this is cheesy or not?

Speaker 3 (38:27):
Yeah, you're right, Like, who cares what people think? Dude.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
I'm like a couple of these influencers that I've come
across on TikTok, some of them are just known for
just like kind of being a hot mess. And it's
like because they don't care, they just post whatever. But
people are entertained. Kids are entertained, they like watching the stuff,
So you know, I think people just have to care
a little bit less.

Speaker 4 (38:47):
About what people think.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
And I'm not saying to go and be like reckless
and just like be like a hot mess, but just
care a little bit less what people think, because like
I said, it's usually the most the people who are
sad or not that happy in their life were the
most opinionated.

Speaker 3 (39:02):
So true they are, they're the most opinionated.

Speaker 1 (39:05):
I see somebody and I, you know, I believe in
the Bible, so like, but it's funny with the Bible
verse in their freaking bio hating.

Speaker 4 (39:13):
On me always. Dude.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
I'm like, I go to look at the page and
they've got like, you know, a quote from like Corinthians Dad,
And I'm like, you got a Bible quote in your bio,
but you just wrote the nastiest, meanest thing to me,
like make it make sense.

Speaker 4 (39:25):
You know.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
I was gonna ask you too.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
A lot of people want to know, would you ever
mix stand up comedy with music in your tour?

Speaker 3 (39:31):
Kind of like wilding out?

Speaker 2 (39:32):
Because you're really funny and you have really good You're
a really good joke writer.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
Do people tell you that?

Speaker 4 (39:37):
So? So, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (39:39):
I'm one of these people that's like more naturally funny
that like sometimes when I try to be funny and
like I just got to be talking and like saying
what's all my mind? Like wam bam, and like funny
stuff comes out. But I've thought about doing some sort
of like you know, live comedy thing where maybe it's
like I'm the host and I bring you know, com comedians.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
When you perform.

Speaker 4 (40:01):
Yeah, I wanted yes to be something like that, you know.

Speaker 2 (40:05):
I would I think that would be I do I
love because I think both of your you're so talented
that I just see a vision. I guess It's not
like I'm trying to pressure you, not trying to Chris
Jenner you or anything.

Speaker 3 (40:14):
But I'm just saying, like, you know, that could be cool.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
Like I think a lot of people were like, oh,
she's so funny, does she like does she do stand up?
I'm like, no, she's funny naturally she's a rapper for
a singer and a songwriter and actress.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
But I think that's really cool too.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
I just wanted to touch base on one more song
about your inspiration. I just want to give you the
title the audience, the one we were looking through. It
was about you and the name I forgot the name,
but you talk about selling your soul in it.

Speaker 3 (40:46):
We touched briefly on it. What inspired you with that song?

Speaker 2 (40:49):
Because I have a feeling that song is also going
to like hit number one.

Speaker 4 (40:54):
That's funny.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
I wish it did, but it probably won't because of
the subject. But I just, you know, I wanted to
make a song just like you know, talking about how
I feel like that's at the time too. During the pandemic,
I mean, it was like freaking little Nausets came out
porking on.

Speaker 4 (41:13):
The devil's dick and then like doja.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
Cat dropped, you know, the ooh Shia devil tea bad
like it just felt like everything was very dark and
like demonic and like that was the stuff that was
doing the best. And I was like, dude, do I
have to literally go make a song about the devil
for somebody to like give me a record.

Speaker 4 (41:30):
Deal or like pay attention.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
And that's kind of why I made that song because
I was like, dude, like I'm not gonna do any
of this weird shit these people are doing. I will
never sell my soul, like like I just I felt
like I needed to make a song saying that because
I was repeatedly saying it so much in studio sessions.

Speaker 3 (41:49):
I think it's a great song. I think people should
be streaming. They can stream it now as well.

Speaker 4 (41:52):
On Uh, talk is cheap.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
Talk is cheap. Thank you, Talk is cheap. That's what
it is. And that's you know, that applies to every
man too. Most men that I've been dating or women
coming to me for advice. It's like, don't come to
me for advice. Listen to this interview with you. You
have the best advice. But like a lot of men,
talk is cheap. A lot of people, talk is cheap.
Like you said, hater's opinionated, that's talk is cheap, like,
let's do something about it.

Speaker 3 (42:16):
Don't sell your soul. Like I love all the things
you stand by.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
We we're very similar because I'm I believe in God too,
and I'm very about the Bible.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
I'm very about like do want, you know, treat people.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
With respect and love and kindness even though it's hard sometimes.
That's why I'm like, when you get angry, is there
any tip, like if somebody's triggering you, any tip for
us to work on.

Speaker 3 (42:34):
For mental health?

Speaker 1 (42:35):
Oh, I got a great tip because I used to
get answered very easily, and I think us and I
tried to explain to my boyfriend the other day because
I'm not an angry person. I'm like the happiest fricking
person around. But I feel that there was a period
of my life where I think almost people get jealous
of pure joy sometimes and then they like sabotage you

(42:56):
and make you out to look like you're not this
happy person, like you're not this joyous fall of sunshine
because they're actually jealous of what you embody, so they
try to they try to bring anger out of you
or whatever, you know, And like I was blind to
seeing that that's what maybe some people in my past
were trying to do is that they maybe weren't as
happy with themselves, a little jealous of me and trying

(43:19):
to bring this anger out of me, and I would
get angry easy or snap or you know. And I
realized firstly, and during the pandemic, I got really into meditation,
so that calmed me down a ton. And meditation and
prayer are you know, one and the same. So I
just believe having a really close relationship with God is
what just helps you deal with anger periods. Like I

(43:41):
don't get angry like I used to because I've gotten
closer with God. I meditate more and stay try to
keep myself calm and like grounded. And you know, there
was a period of time in my life where it
was like I wasn't that close with God, I wasn't meditating.
I was just doing so many different freaking things going crazy,
you know, and and and that's when I feel like
I had more anger. So I feel like it's all

(44:03):
about keeping yourself grounded and meditation and God and you know,
things like yoga.

Speaker 4 (44:08):
You're taking care of your health.

Speaker 1 (44:09):
All that stuff actually keeps you like a more calm
person and makes it easy to not get angry at
all the craziness going on in the world.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
I love that because that, yes, that's a great tip
because a lot of people are dealing with the mental
health stuff and like, you're right, it's not worth snapping.
It's not worth it's not worth snapping about anything. I
get very sensitive a lot a lot, especially during comedy,
and it's like you can't take it to heart. Yeah,
I'm like the klind of ground, like, oh yeah, you
want me to take off my earrings and I change
into Jokeashi's order. I'm like, I meet me in the

(44:39):
parking lot. They're like, whoa, whoa, whoa. I love that though.
That's amazing advice.

Speaker 3 (44:44):
I love that to be too.

Speaker 4 (44:46):
By the way you it too, I mean a little bit,
you know, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
I don't know if you saw me on Love and
Hip Hop, don't watch it if you didn't. But that
was like one of those times where like they caught
me just being a little crazy.

Speaker 3 (45:01):
You know.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
No, I think we all have it in us and
like it's okay to like talk about it, express it.
But you were right, like sometimes you'll express that stuff
to people and then they'll make you look like the villain.

Speaker 3 (45:12):
You know.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
That's the only thing is like, that's why I love
your confidence, because you're like, I know who I am.
I know, I'm happy. I know you know that I'm
you know, working with this. Anything else you want to plug?
Where can they get the City Winery tickets?

Speaker 3 (45:23):
Now?

Speaker 1 (45:24):
It's in my bio on my instagram, on my TikTok.
I've been posting the link in my story a ton like.
Just go to my instagram, go to my TikTok link
and bio.

Speaker 4 (45:34):
Hit the link.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
It has the link to every single city you can
get tickets. And yeah, you know, we kick off on
the East Coast. I know, I'm fun know West Coast,
but it's more of an East Coast tour. So it
starts in Philly on Monday night, and yeah, I'm really excited.
That's where you'll get to hear some uh some unreleased
new music. So if the fans want to hear it,
they should come see me live.

Speaker 3 (45:57):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (45:58):
That's amazing, honest, Like it's going to be sold out,
so yeah, I would say, get your tickets now.

Speaker 3 (46:04):
I hope. I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
Sorry, my niece and nephew just came in. I'm just
finishing with Chanelle West Colts. Can you give me one
second and I'll say goodbye?

Speaker 3 (46:13):
I love you? Okay, I'm sorry. They're big fans of you.

Speaker 4 (46:15):
Two.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
They're very young, though, she says, Hi, she has a
kid two that's three. I'm sorry about that. We'll edit
that out. But I just always try to make sure
they see love. They're like my aunts ignoring me and what.
But I also love the fact that any oh, the
audience wants to also know anyone you want to collaborate with?

(46:36):
Is there any country artist or even of any kind
of artists, any kind of music artists that you want
to collaborate with?

Speaker 1 (46:44):
Uh? These days, I've definitely I've been saying, you know, lately,
I've been listening to so much Laney Wilson. I would
love to collaborate with Laney Wilson or Post Malone. I
feel like and I are similar to we both come
from doing hip hop into now doing country, and I
feel like I feel like if we did a song together,
it would be a hit hit.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
I want you to I'm telling you it's gonna be
a hit one hundred percent worldwide. Would you do like
hip hop country together like or would you just it
doesn't mentally matter.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
I don't know, probably a little blend, since that's kind
of like what we both do, you know, like a
little bit of both.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
I love that that is we're putting that in the universe.
That is gonna be on every radio station, that's gonna
go viral. I love that because I still like hearing
music like not only on YouTube and the streaming services,
but also on radio stations as well. I believe you're
gonna be all over, like I just I believe, and
I love you.

Speaker 3 (47:36):
I think you're such an inspiration.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
I think you're a great artist, and I think we
can learn a lot from you, you know what I mean.
I think I want my audience to know the people
they should learn from and really invest in and really
go see their shows, and they're gonna I feel like,
if anybody sees you show, they're gonna leave happy, you
know what I mean, They're gonna leave in a good mood,
if that makes sense.

Speaker 3 (47:56):
Is there anything else? Oh? Any movies? Books? We should
look forward.

Speaker 1 (48:01):
To working on a book really soon, and I might
be coming out on another TV project, but I can't
talk about it yet, so well, when that happens, I'll
follow up with you.

Speaker 2 (48:12):
I am so excited for that, because that's we're so excited.
Where we really are, you know, excited for that? Like
we love you any oh in New York City? Before
I let you wrap up, any place you want to
check out that we should check out. That's your favorite place,
like a restaurant, a.

Speaker 1 (48:28):
Vibe like you could also say, la, I've been to
so many I mean, I've been to like so many
different restaurants in New York. That's kind of a tough one.
I mean, my favorite, like little Italian place is Sarafina.

Speaker 3 (48:44):
I love Sarafina.

Speaker 4 (48:46):
I love Serafina. It's so good you come.

Speaker 3 (48:49):
I have to take you on me.

Speaker 2 (48:50):
Oh my god. My friend runs the place. Also, you'll
meet him.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
He runs it. So it's like, that's so funny because
I love it.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
Also a lot of people like say I feel like
a lot of people have it secretly but they.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
Don't say it. That's a good one. I love that.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
I'm so excited for your career. I'm so excited for
your journey. And really, thank you for taking the time.

Speaker 4 (49:08):
No, thank you for having me. I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (49:10):
Guys, And we're gonna also we're gonna share a clip
of your song a little bit of country on the
show so people can listen to it. And if they
want to listen to the full song, they have to
come straight to your website or Spotify or your Instagram.