Bri Biase Stops By The Studio

Artist Bri Biase talks with Alexandria Ikomoni about new music, journey, and what you can expect from her.

Host: @alexandriaikomoni

Episode Transcript

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What's up, guys. He's agirl. Alexandria Ikamoni in the studio.
iHeartRadio with Brebee. I see howare you girl? I'm good? How
you the way, girl, I'mdoing well. Thank you. Happy to
have you in studio. By theway, thank you. I'm happy to
be here. Yes, you lookfabulous. Thank you. You looks great.
Thank you. I love the chainby the way. Okay, it's
a period. It's nice one.It's a really nice one. I need

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to get I needed. I needa minute to give me a bigger one.
Okay, Okay, it's coming togive me a bigger trank. Okay,
I need a big be a bigold bat. That is what I
want. That's that's gonna be nice. It's gonna be nice. Do you
shop around in Atlanta for your jeweler? You go elsewhere. I actually worked
with a jeweler in Tampa for thisone. I am ready to beat dog

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status yet. I got plenty ofjurors that I work with, which you
know it's on the way. Yeah, yeah, the funds are coming because
the music is flowing and it's hotand it's great. You're super excited about
what's to come. Okay, Sofor those who don't know you are an
Illinois born want to way, butyou came to Atlanta and I'm in Atlanta,
I'm in the A and you're doingbig things in a rap game down

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to Atlanta. Got it? What'sn'tlike? The strat was out and I
love it. I love it.How do you like living in Atlanta?
By the way, I like Atlanta. I like Georgia. I like the
I like the southern weather. Ilike the sun. I like the southern
hospitality. I like that. Youknow, it's always something to do,
even though I be at home mosttime if I booked or something. But
if I want to go outside,it's outside outside outside, be outside,

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outside, outside, be outside andoutside in Atlanta time, It's definitely a
good time. What's your favorite thingto do when you're in Atlanta. I'd
be liking to go out to themountain. I like to do them little
trails and stuff. I'm like anoutside girl. I'm like when it comes
to food, I like to goout to eating stuff like that. That's
cool, But like, don't spendout your money trying to feed me.

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Honey, Okay, take me somewhere. Let's go do something for let's go
outside of nature, and I don'talways want to go with a music loud
and a hookah and okay, let'sdo something else. So I like like
being you know, the nature trailsand stuff like that. Are going to
pee my park or on the beltline and stuff like that. That's what
I like to do. No,you know, I'm there for the sipping
paint or something. Listen, verydiverse or what you like to do in

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it. And I feel that speaksto your music too. You don't stick
to this one genre. You reallylay around, So tell people more about
your style of music and how youdescribe your music as well. My music
is it's so me and if youget to know me, I'm just so
like like you said, I didn'tknow what you was going well this morning.

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I'm just so you never know,I might pull up dressed like low
dog or something. I don't know. It just depends on how I feel.
I'm such a balanced person. I'msuper super super girly in feminine,
but also don't play with me.Think I put them tennis shoes on.
Okay, I put my earth firstones on. But yeah, it's just

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well rounded, you know. Andthen I just love music. So like
any kind of beat, any style, any instrumental you give me, I
can pretty much. If I feelit, then I could go. It
don't matter the genre, you know, like to me, like music is
music. I know we have genres, but I mean, if you f
you're a true artist, you canget on any instrumentation. You know what

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I'm saying. It's that's just howI explained it. I don't know that
it's just B B B B Ball over the places. Okay, what
are some of your favorites to reallytap into if you can? You know,
as far as music genres, youknow what I've been listening to lately.
Tell me some low fi neo soul. Okay, that's crazy. So
I was gonna tell my manager,but I'm just telling right now. So

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like after we drop this little superlit lit album that I'm doing dropping in
July. You know, we're stillworking on the title, but I think
it's gonna be called Bass, Okay, because bass has an acronym and they
stand for B. I ain't stoppingever, you know what I'm saying.
So it's for all the girls.It's for everybody who just standing on their
business and they not stopping as withwhat you've been Oh, I ain't stopping

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up, but what you mean,I'm working, So that's what my name
stand for. That might be thetitle of the project. But after that,
like I like low fighting soul,I be just listening to the instrumentals
and stuff. It's home, likewhen I'm cleaning up and you know,
just to relax with my son doingtoo much. I'd be like, let's

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relax and he really calm sound.And then it's like so many words just
flowing through me that I could getvery personal on my music, so I
might drop a real personal album.You know. The last one was kind
of freaky fine, this was gonnabe kind of lick okay, And then
I want the one efor to bejust like personal, like you know,
you can really listen to it andbe like, oh, I kind of

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feel like I've got to touch her, I feel her, I understand her
now, y'all know briefer, Yes, a lot of people don't really no
no what I came from, whatI've been through through struggles, the upst
the downs, and why I keepgoing. So I think I want to
get give me that with some soultype vib and I think I can never

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see the bike. So let's talkabout it. You have a project you
said coming out next month, it'smore July. It's hurry out. We
need more detail, so tell uswhat you can about it. Ain't got
no time. It's exciting though.How's it coming along? Let me tell

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you, and think I work verywell under pressure. I don't know when
it comes to a deadline, Iget it done. Like my manager challenged
me last Christmas and he was like, I need you to drop a Christmas
I think I gave him a projectlike five six songs in like what a
week something like that, and theywere all good. So I was like,

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I make music so fast because I'mengineer myself and I'll be creating from
my home studios, so I canmake it so fast. But to be
honest, this project right now,I mean, I know it's gonna be
lit, but it's it's coming.I guess it's coming. I'm here for
it. We'll wait on it.We'll be patient because we just gotta pick

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the songs and the yes. Butwe're gonna get it together. Yeah,
but we know it's list. Soclub bangers are gonna be a part of
it. Yes for sure, okay, songs for the girls. Definitely moneymakers
too, for sure, Oh sure, for sure, we got some definitely
definitely that Yeah, yeah, Iknow we're excited about it. So we're
just gonna wait. We're gonna stocksocial media, get the updates from there,

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so we'll hold off on that one. But you haven't putting out hits
one of your latest hits let meout too with Ni Choppa. Talk about
that one, talk about making thatrecord and you know what you can do.
So right now, y'all could justcall me Bebe Chopper or is it
n ll ebb yo n l ebb. Don'll call me nll ebb. You
know what I'm saying, So that'sthe new nickname. And no, but

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for real, it was like superdope cause you know, I'm I'm just
know for I'm no for going viral, going viral for dropping my freestyle stuff.
Right, so I had I've gotthe attention of quite a few people.
And then when I did and ElieChoppers he commented on it, and
I'm like, Okay, that's cool, that's what such. You know what

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I'm saying, People be coming andstuff. But then when he threw me
up on his page. I said, oh okay, let's go, And
that just opened doors for just alot of other things and a lot of
other people trying to connect and justyou know a lot of things to come,
you know what I'm saying. Yeah, and then shout out to DJ
five Venoms because that's the official RollingLoud DJ, and you know we might

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be there, we might, youknow what I'm saying, but yeah,
And then he dropped the he wasthe first to release the official like mashup
or whatever of the song, andit just went super crazy and they look,
Okay, I love it, yougot it. It's a hit.
It's a good time. So hashe had any kind of influence on your

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music as far as like your styleor anything business related, like, have
you been able to gain anything fromhim? You know what? The reason
why I really like all Chop becausehe is he is woke, that he
be up for real, like heyou know, I'll be big on how
I eat, the things that Iput in my body, how I meditate,

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how I pray, how I keepmy energy right, all of that
stuff. He even got like afoundation where he gives back to boys in
the community and people period. Andyou know, I got something similar called
the That's My Sister Foundation, andwe recently just donated a prom to a
young girl. You know, Igot a video coming on my YouTube I'm
dropping, So I need y'all tosubscribe to my YouTube. Okay, but

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yeah, so I'm gonna drop thevideo where we did that. And yeah,
and he dope. He's super hardand he's fun. He don't care
what people say. When he droppedthat record, people people thought it wasn't
gonna work, and they were actuallycoming at him, you know, as
far as his sexuality because of whatthe record is saying and what he's doing,
and like they, you know,tried to shame him and x y

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Z and he like he stood onwhat he knew what was gonna work.
And now look you know, okay, yeah, and even even then when
the record dropped, like you know, it was like stuff all in the
shade room. I'm commenting, likey'all, X y Z is probably still
on their's receipts. And you knowwhat I'm saying because I just supported it
because he seems to be a veryvery great guy, you know what I'm
saying, Cool down to earth andhe woke. I like that. Yeah,

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you know what I'm saying. Healways praying to meditating and fast and
I do some of those same things. So yeah, just a chapel,
Okay, shout out to him doinggreat things on his and as well as
your end. So we love tosee it, not just in music,
but just wellness as a whole ingiving back to the community so important.
Yes, we appreciate that. Yes, all right. You also have an

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another record that recently came out.I like the money. I like money.
Hello, I'm running up a bigold okay's worry about that record?
That record? Okay, So whenI did that record, See, I
used to when I dropped stuff inmy freestyles and records, I used to

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just loaning up the chamber and justgood rapping so fast or just like just
giving it to them, just youknow, hardcore and stuff like that.
And so with this record, Ieven say it in the record it said
they like bb slow it down,thank you too slow? You know what
I'm saying. So I just wantedsomething. I just wanted something fun,

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something they could catch in the club, and you know, all of that
stuff and people like it. Theylike it, So I know, could
both like money. You know,I like money like money charge be mad
at me. Yeah, so yeah, I just felt like people would correlate

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who don't like money. Make itmake sense. It make it make sense.
So if you don't like the song, you still like money, so
you're like, all right, Ican rob with it. The beat is
a vibe. Yeah, so that'sjust how that record came about. You
just want some fun. Let's makesomething. Even if they drunk in the

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club, they can still say theworst and they be drunk in the club
by the time I get to thathook again, they sinking it with me
every time. So yeah, Ilike that song. I love it.
I love it. Definitely a fanfavorite. So KULDO, see you for
putting out some real hits. Andyou've been putting out these sets getting recognition,
like you said, and only Chopper, we have Missy Elliott and Trina.
How does it feel to how someof these trailblazers really notice your work?

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It feelt amazing. Treno was oneof the first regular trainer I love.
Yeah, she's such a girl's girl. Even just watching her, just
while I was coming up, justwatching her, She's always show love.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying, She's always I remember seeing her on
stage one time, like doing likea dedication performance or something to Nicki Minaj.

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Y'all remember that. It was along time ago. But yeah,
it's just she's always been a girl'sgirl. And of course Missy Elliott like,
hello, I'm her son. Ilove it. She birthed me in
another life. But yeah, andMissy Elliott did things that like Trina done
for me, Missy Yelli did forTrina. I was told, like,

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you know, Trina hit me upafter I dropped, after she discovered me
from my freestyles. She hit meup and flew me out to Miami to
perform at her festival, and everythingmade sure we me and my team was
super a one, you know whatI'm saying. So I'll never, never,
never forget what she's done for methere, you know what I'm saying.

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That also opened doors for me aswell. And she just she just
took me in so like I cancall in text Trina right now until I'm
going through something, She's gonna hitme back like that's my friend. That's
girl, what I'm saying. Yeah, and we gotta show. We got
a show on the twenty second atStatus out here in Atlanta. Love it
at Status Lounge just on the SouthSide, me and Trina taking over Status

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Lounge. So I need the girlyto get ready. And I know the
guys want to see the girls,but you know that's but a girl.
We're here. We're for the turnup. It's our moment. Yeah,
and I just love her, soyeah, that's awesome. So we can't
wait for that performance. Like yousaid, Trina as a girl's girl.
We love Trino over here as well. Missy Elliott. I mean I've seen
even rolling Loud or other places andoutlets saying that you are this generation's Missy

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Elliott day. How do you feelabout that? I feel listen, cause
you know how I'll be hearing someartists be like, you know, making
their own headlines and stuff like that, Like, no, this is what
they're saying. That's what they're saying. You made me be I love that
for me. I was like,you see what they said, Johnny.

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I'm telling my mother, you seewhat they said. I love Missy Yelli.
I love Timbland and miss Yellow growingup, like man, I just
tried to make beats with my mouth. Never was successful. How Timberland does
and Missy yellick. She right,she wrapped, she sings, she did,
she go if she's fashion on fashionnis to fashion icon videos. Who's

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touching her videos? Go to gowatch her videos. Bro, like,
y'all not what I'm her son,She's like making me known. I'm her
son. I love a shirt thatsay Missy's son. Are you going to
the tour or the concert when it'shere in Atlanta? Yes? Okay,
what that's exciting. We can't waityou out there the night before. I

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don't know, wait, I needyou know. Her children gotta be taking
care of y'all. Be backstage.It's gonna be a fun time. Oh
I love it. Okay, Soyou are doing great stuff. We talked
about how the music is going great, the recognition. You were even offered

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a deal, a record deal forthree fifty k, but turn it down.
Let's talk about it. Let's talkabout why. Well, it's just
the terms wasn't right. So itdon't be about the money. And my
manager he not gonna just let mejust take any kind of money. He's
not gonna let me take we don'tyou know what I'm saying about the terms.
It be about the publisher, andit be it's really the black and

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white because they could put dollar sizein in anybody's face and then that money
ain't no money. So one SAT'sgone, then what you got, Yeah,
some bogus black and white that yougot to work your butt off to
either get out or just soaking brownnear. So yeah, so right now,

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I think the perfect situation for me, of course, would just be
it just you know, the rightsituation is coming probably right outside knocking on
the window. Yeah, no mattertime exactly. And yeah, because like
I'm not thirsty four and I likethe independent grind, Yeah, I really
do. It's a real hustle,and I mean it's there's nothing like it.

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There's nothing like it having that inyour back pocket of where you came
from. Truthfully, can I askthose who put out that record deal,
oh well, because you know theymight come back. You know, you're
right, and then the top okay, so we'll Yeah. So I'm very
professional, you know what I'm saying. And that's why we did not leak
any names or anything like that,because you know, I'm good for a

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good block, spear. Yeah,the door is still okay, Okay,
since you're talking about blocks and I'mto talk about that later with some love,
but I won't get into it rightnow. I'm curious since you say
it's been the block, I justwant to know. Okay, Okay,
okay, we'll get there once again. Alexandria Gamoni in the studio with Bree
b I see having a good time. We've talked about the music, but

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let's talk about your music inspirations.Okay, who do you love of?
Who really inspires you? And soforth? Well, we named a few
are ratings like Missi and Trina andTimberlain and Nikki and even to the guys
I mean, even to the soulsingles like like Mike, you know what

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I'm saying, Like Michael Jackson,like Prince I listened to. I'm so
influenced by all of these people.That's why I'm able to like make music
in all of these genres. Evenif I can't sing. Sing you give
me a girl who could sing.I bet you I can write a hit.
Okay, you know what I'm saying. So I was influenced by a
lot of people, even coming up, just maybe rappers like uh jay Z

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and Emminil and you know what I'msaying, Kendrick and Drake both of them.
You know what I'm saying to Chang, I love to love to chain.
Yeah, great inspiration, great inspirationalartists that are out there too.
Yes, yes, you can't forgetsome of the legendary ones. I'm the
nineties and two thousands. But alsospeaking of now and inspirations or just who

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you would like to work with,who's on the roster, who's on the
list, So anybody ever artist,Let's work. Okay, okay, let's
work. But of course my dreamcollab is Missy Elliott. That amazing,
like what Missy Elliott? And thenyou know anybody else? Yeah, yeah,
I just like to work. Soif I could work with all the
girls, if I could work withall the I would work. I just

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want to I just like to work. I feel like everybody contributes to the
music industry in different ways, withdifferent sounds and different vibes, and I
feel like I can match energy.Yeah, a lot of those people.
So I mean, I just Iwould like to work with whoever want to
work with me. You know,like they say, we show love were

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love is shown, you know,so a lot of ways to collapse.
So looking forward to that. Fingerscrossed on that Missy Elliott Elliott, miss
Nikky it, you know, becauseI already got a record with Trina,
So that's all on the list.But it's not on the list no more
because that's done. Okay, shoutout to that being done. Yeah,

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we love it, We love tosee it. Okay. So let's talk
about the music industry in general.So we know you're in different genre,
so I'm not gonna say top femalerappers, but just say top female artists
because we know you're for the girls, your girls, girl too. Who
are some of your favorites that areout right now? My favorites that are
out right now? I just feellike I'm just keep yeah, yeah,

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yeah, I don't. I don'tparticipate in who beef and who and who
not getting along with any of that. Yeah, Like I said, I
listen to all music for the mostpart. So when it comes to the
girls, we are definitely definitely.I already said miss I'm not gonna Drew
y'all with the MISSI because I'm fun. But anyway, we're definitely we're definitely

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saying Nick of course, yes,we're definitely gonna say that. We already
said we're definitely gonna say Nikki.Okay, you know what I'm saying,
Cardi, Yes, even make thistime. You know what I'm saying,
like even the other girls coming upa glow of sexy rid Suki Hannah,
you know, just I'd be readyto work. I like all of the

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sounds. You know what I'm saying. Doc I like Dochi. Yes,
I really like that. She doesn'tget eno freaking Yeah, she's a good
one. Even the girl from outhere, Baby Tait. Yes, I
like Baby Tait too. Yeah.A lot of great artists, a lot
of great artists up and coming outright now that you love. So we
love the list. And of course, like you said, we're girls girls.

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We support the girls no matter thebee for the issues, we support
them by right one. Okay,So we know that you do have this
upcoming project coming out next month.Any other things you're working on for this
year or after we drop the project? What does life look like? Tour?
Okay? Yeah, so life islooking like tour in September and a

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big, big, big, bigfestival and this December maybe you know,
maybe out there in Miami maybe isthat Dingle? What is that? A
big festival? Okay in Miami inDecember in Miami in December, one of
the biggest festivals in Miami in December. I don't know, but yeah,
yeah we look it's like that andjust making a lot of moves, doing

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a lot, you know, justit's just so much, you know that.
We just every day it's some newinformation or new booking. Yeah,
new this and that. So I'mdefinitely gonna give y'all probably two or two
projects before the three maybe two three. Yeah, that's good because Johnny gonna
make me do that Christmas album.I don't know Clause or somebody, but

(21:44):
yeah, definitely an elf because hedefinitely be putting me to work. He
definitely gonna make me give you allthe Christmas album too, So yeah,
that's exciting. Okay, we cannotwait for that two to three projects coming
up this year after you dropped thefirst one next month, but once it
what are the summer plans you haveanything going on? Anything fun or gonna
chill? It come on in summertimeoutside. You know, work is fun

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because I do what I love,So work is fun, like it really
is. Yeah, unless I justget real real taling that's okay. See,
I don't know. See my managercan go all day with all of
his artists and still be there forevery artist. And sometimes I will get
a little tight that I've passed out, you know. But work is fun
for me. I like, Ilove what I do. I enjoy being

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on stage. You know what I'msaying. I might not be too much.
Let's go kick it, kick itpeople, person because I like to
protect my space and my energy.But when I'm in my element, when
you get breaby I se cheese,I love that, you know. I
love connecting, you know, justwith people who support my music and my

(22:51):
fans and stuff. I love doingthat. So that's fun for me.
Being on the road, being ontour, that's gonna be extremely fun.
That is the summer plan. LikeI love that for myself, you know,
absolutely, being booked and busy beingbut I like money. I love
it. That's fun for me.Said, My job is amazing. I
love what I do. Okay,we'll take it. We'll take it.

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But how about a weekend vacation?Is that coming up? You said,
bacation ship? I sure did vacationjust carrying. I mean, you know,
hey, you know, if ithappens, I'm asking, who is
it? Do we have somebody?Oh? Reggie, She said, who,

(23:34):
just tell me more about what yourpersonal life is like. If you
want to share, you know,that's fine. Well, you know what
right now, music is just takingso much of me right now. That's
my first love right now, Sooutside of my children, you know,
it's the music, and you knowthat's it, she said, not say

(23:57):
anything else. I see the look. But let's talk about the family.
Family time. I mean, talkabout the influencer, the motivation. Your
family reallyhis on you, especially yourkids. Oh, my family, My
family is my support system, youknow what I mean. How do you
think i'd be outside because they gotto keep but yeah, so she knows

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what I'm doing, She understands that, she believes in it. She's always
believed in it. So that's myrock, you know what I mean?
Yeah, home, because who cannakeep that wild on the world? Okay,
you gotta gotta be somebody who loveand trust somebody love love them as
much as you love them, rightthat somebody that love you as much as
you love your children. So yes, I love that. For me,

(24:48):
I love that I have that.Yeah, and that's that's when when it
comes to my family. You know, we don't slide every time about each
other. I love it, Yeah, I love it. We love family,
we love family, we love ourmoms, and we're here for it.
Any last words you want to leavewith the people, with the people?
Yeah, first of all, followme, stream all my music.

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That's the number one and number two. Just don't give up on yourself.
Keep working. It's like I alwayssay, your music, or you're telling
your music your gift. Your businessis like a baby. You have to
feed your children every day, yeah, or they gonna come take it from
you. They gonna come take themchildren. What you call us chopping cps.
Them folks don't come take your babyif you don't feed it every day,
just like somebody gonna take your spotif you ain't on the pot.

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You know what I'm saying. Soevery day you need to be doing something
for your music career, for yourbusiness, or whatever you do. Every
day you need to be doing somethingto get closer to reaching your goals.
I don't care if it's sending emails, contacting people, telling folks to follow
you, sending your song out tothe DJs, and stuff like that.
Because I work every day. Iwork all day, I work all the

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time. Some days I work extracase I want to take tomorrow. You
know what I'm saying, Like yesterday, yesterday I literally did I think like
fifty two DJ drops, broke themdown individually and sent them out directly to
the DJs. You know what I'msaying. So like, yeah, just
stop making excuses. Stop saying,oh, I can't do this because I
don't have no team, I don'thave no manager. This is that I

(26:18):
was out there by myself. JohnnyCobell didn't just walk up on me like,
hey, yeah, I want tomanage your girl. I'll pick you.
What I had to, I hadto beat down his dog like you
see me, You see me.Kids, You know what I'm saying.
So, like, you gotta understandwhen you're making noise on your own,
more people want to invest in you. More people wanted. Like I said

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in the NL Chupper song, Isaid, if I was original, I
want to bless me too. Puta bag up and invested me too.
Keep behind the brain, get achat with me too. Okay, And
then he supposed me because he richand he knew you know, surret.
But yeah, keep going, don'tstop stop making excuses, Get off Instagram

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and get on YouTube. Figure itout. YouTube is like free university.
Yeah you don't know how to dosomething. Yeah, you need to figure
it out. I'm with you onehundred percent. And how I know you
mentioned people can follow you, butgo ahead and put out the handles out
there. For social media, it'sat breb C so b our I B
I A S E. And that'son everything that's on all streaming, all

(27:22):
social media platforms, dot com.You know what I'm saying. Yeah,
black planet, black people meet Christiansingles because let me tear it up in
case. Yeah, you know,in case somebody you know, she said,
just in case dodging. Okay,So I the DM. That's what

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she's saying. I'm kidding. I'mkidding. That's what I'm saying. That's
what I'm saying. That might getbig on the ankle by a little chihuahua
that I got. She crazy,But anyway, I love it. I
love it, Breabe, I see. Thank you so much for coming into
the studio, you for having me. We loved having you here. Can't
wait for all the good stuff that'scoming up this year. It is your
year. We're excited for you,by the way, supporting you, and

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we love you. Yes, yes, yes, yes so once again Alexandre
Kaimoni in the studio with iHeartRadio