July 29, 2023 • 38 mins
Get ready to be taken behind the scenes of the music industry with Roxanne Luciano. Our high-profile guest shares her journey, revealing the ups and downs of her career, the preparation of her single 'Winning', and her unique experiences collaborating with other talented female rappers. To satisfy your curiosity, we also sneak in an exclusive listen to her hit song.
Roxanne gives us an insightful look into the making of music videos and her innovative strategies for navigating the industry. She opens up about working with Rene Rucci and Moisha, her plans to drop some European songs as singles, and how she tackles unexpected obstacles on set. Interestingly, she also spills some industry tea about Ray J's venture into showbiz before the Kardashian fame.
As we wind down our chat, Roxanne reminisces about her father, Tony Mercedes, his connections with the hit group TLC, and how it influenced her career. She highlights her preference for solo projects and how she balances her personal life with her music career. Wrapping up, she delves into her songwriting process, shares her collaboration experiences, and talks about how her father played a crucial role in shaping her sound and performance. This episode is a goldmine for anyone interested in or aspiring to be part of the music industry. So tune in and enjoy the ride!
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
I got a Scotty and a Froze.
A big boss like I'm, rose.
I see one of these guys at thehome made love baddie as she
home made you right.
My city at the home game up anddown and go golf raise and a
sprint is taking a bow flighthoppin' we swim in a package be
boomin'.
Yeah, we got it, we got it, gotit.
Cheap pickin' and choosin' andlove at the moment.
Yeah, we got it, we got it, gotit.
They cannot do it.
We doin'.
You see how we movin'.
(00:28):
We got it, we got it, got it.
Messwiththesquad, you try to tryto go against us.
How, holly does it all of mythrows?
We got itaji, they up for show.
We got it, got it.
Been on a road?
We got it, got it.
We cannot go without it.
Aya, messwiththesquad, you tryto try to go against us.
Holly, does it been on a road?
We got it, got it.
We cannot go without it.
H Haday, I be on the pack.
I can mess wit' a toxic, curvylil body gravas all on me
(00:50):
keepin' it spicy.
You know that I got it as sheneed it.
Just call on me run up the tab.
We runnin' it'd.
Yeah, Hopping.
We zoom in the package bebooming.
Yeah, we got it, we got it, gotit.
She picking it chosen and loveat the moment.
Yeah, we got it, we got it, gotit.
They cannot do it.
We don't.
You see how we move and we gotit.
(01:10):
We got it, got it.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Hey hey, what's going on?
Everybody, thank you forclicking that play button and
thank you for watching live andIf like the video, like
subscribe, leave a comment below.
Very special guest today wehave Roxanne Luciano coming back
on.
We have some technicaldifficulties.
Last time it was completely myfault, my microphone completely
suck.
You can go back and watch thevideo if you want, but it but
(01:35):
yeah, she's back on today.
So we're gonna, we're gonnamake that right.
So, without further ado, let'sbring her back on.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Hello.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Hello, thank you again for coming back on.
Like I said last time, liketechnical difficulties last time
with my microphone, I don'tknow why it does it, but it does
.
It's not the first time it'shappened either, but it's part
of the game.
It's part of the game.
(02:09):
But anyways, before we get intoeverything, go ahead and
introduce yourself to theaudience one more time.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Hello everybody, hello all of my rock sees and
hopefully my new rock sees.
I am Roxanne Luciano.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Awesome now.
How long have you been?
We're gonna get into a videohere really quick, but how long
have you been in the musicindustry?
In the music industry like justaround it?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I've been around it all my life, literally all of my
life.
I didn't really start pursuingmy music career until, I think,
the end of 2020.
I want to say time was gone soquickly.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Yeah, so it's like you started launching like your
individual career in 2020.
But that's when you started likemain focus.
That's.
That's it.
Yes, okay, all right.
All right, so we're gonna getinto, not your.
I Want to say I want to saveyour latest single for the end,
because you save the best forlast usually, so I am gonna get
(03:15):
into one.
We are gonna play one videoreal quick that I pulled off
YouTube.
It's the winning video.
Okay, if you want to go aheadand talk about that real quick,
like what, what did you?
What went into the making ofthis, the single-aim video?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Okay.
So Of course, we all know thatthe girls are winning.
The girlies are just doingtheir thing like amazing.
So One day I'm just sitting inmy room, I'm just like writing
and I'm like visual, staywinning every fucking night and
I'm like, oh shit, this soundspretty good.
(03:50):
And then I was like you knowwhat's not even better putting
more female rappers on there.
I got a hold of them and shoutout to Rene Rucci and Big Endo.
I got a hold of them and theywere with it.
We were supposed to do a video,but the time Restriction has
just gotten the way, so we kindof just put up a lyric video to
(04:11):
it.
So it's really just aboutluxury, lavish girls that are
winning.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Nope, that's right.
So yeah, let's get into thisvideo real quick and then we'll
be back with more RoxanneLuciano.
So now's the time to roll up,get her, get her ready, guys.
I'm a boss bitch.
I'm a boss bitch, real bossbitch.
(04:42):
Got a mind right.
Never, ever give a fuck aboutthe limelight Mung in my real
estate paid in my cash, right,I'm just gon' stay winnin' every
fuckin' night.
I'm a shit expensive but thatain't rent shit.
Big body, black tent, ass outracing.
Got these niggas blowing backto the nail.
Ass.
Tryna get a penis pumpEverything he ever wanted.
(05:03):
Real niggas fantasize about me.
I got that body.
I gotta keep that money on me.
Rope niggas can't do enough onme except LIT.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
They don't know me, bitch.
Diamonds all in my neck,diamonds all in my wrists.
Told you hoes I been at this.
They know ain't no stoppin'this, cause I I'm a murder on
the mic every fuckin' time.
This is like counting on mymoney while I sit.
My wife I 20 carries.
I'm gon' shine, said it's meand my prom time.
Kiss my ass if you don't like.
What the fuck I do, cause it'smy life.
(05:30):
Real boss bitch got a mind right.
Never, ever give a fuck aboutthe limelight Mung in my real
estate paid in my cash.
Right, I'm just gon' staywinnin' every fuckin' night.
Real boss bitch got a mindright.
Never, ever give a fuck aboutthe limelight Mung in my real
estate paid in this pussy.
Tight Got bitch.
(05:52):
Gon' stay winnin' every fuckin'night.
Real boss bitch.
You know what's up with me.
Pull up on your nigga.
Please don't have to shit getugly.
I only hang with winners.
If you broke it, you can't fuckwith me.
And he stuck with me.
Yeah, I keep it stuck with me.
Yeah, bitch.
Yeah, I can't hang with nohaters.
Kick a bitch from my boat.
Take a day, just mad, cause endup better In that pussy.
Be on weather.
I ain't fuckin' with no niggawho is not getting no chat as
(06:16):
long as he dropin' them EMC andhe can't get whatever.
I'm a real bad bitch.
I got my money right.
Never let a nigga fuck on me.
He talkin' bout his money tightand you don't design a pussy
nigga.
You pussy nigga.
I ain't standin'.
I push on rocks with the blueface.
I'm runnin' up in one night.
Yeah, real boss bitch got amind right.
Never ever give a fuck aboutthe limelight Mung in my real
(06:38):
estate paid in my cash.
Right, I'm just gon' staywinnin' every fuckin' night.
Real boss bitch got a mindright.
Never ever give a fuck aboutthe limelight Mung in my real
estate paid in this pussy tight.
He's a bitch for safe women.
He's a bitch for safe women.
I'm not my pussy tight.
Wallet bet is fucked Bitch.
Just think they fuckin' with me.
(06:59):
Hoes ain't keepin' up.
I say you work by six figures.
That ain't big enough.
Niggas need a couple EM's justto try to eat me up.
Okay, just push his greatness.
The Chanel is the latest.
Drop a 10 piece of me, louisbag, goddamn bitch, we made it.
I ain't waitin' on.
No nigga with my hand out Itake.
I do one verse for a coupleracks.
I don't need no nigga to saveme.
(07:19):
I got my own motion.
Y'all paid.
I'ma take a dick.
I make one call in them niggaspull up, take your shit.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
I got so much game, I'll fuck around and take your
bitch.
Met a lot of bitches.
We never met a bitch like this.
Real boss bitch got a mindright.
Never, ever give a fuck aboutthe limelight Mung in my real
estate paid in my cash.
Right, I'm just gon' staywinnin' every fuckin' night.
Real boss bitch got a mindright.
(07:47):
Never, ever give a fuck aboutthe limelight Mung in my real
estate, I'm just gon' staywinning.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I been doin it for a long time real mama, I talkin'
real boss man ground up likeFuck it.
Real boss bitch got her mindright.
Never, ever give a fuck aboutthe limelight.
This is how real Gothещac paidin this pussy tight, awesome,
(08:19):
awesome.
Yes, I love it when I see it,when I have artists on and I
play their music on the air andyou just see them in the
backstage screen.
You just rocking out just toget down throwing shit.
I love it yes, yes, yeah.
The females are winning, oh goahead.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
I was just saying I love that song.
That is one of probably one ofone of my faves, one of the
faves Okay.
All right yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I did play one of one of your videos last time I was
up here.
You were here on the show andit was like it was like an ass
shaking video and it's prettymuch.
This one's got a little moretone down, but you can still
shake your booty to it.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Yes, yeah, he's come a long way.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
He's come a long way.
That's funny, but yeah.
So what made you want to getinto music?
Why did you pick up amicrophone?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
I've always wanted to do music.
I think it was is somethingthat I was born into with my
father 20 Mercedes.
He's a big producer, he'salways put me around music and I
just knew, like you know, yearsago I wasn't really ready.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
So here we are, at 27 and we're like fuck it, like
let's do it, let's do it.
It's the perfect time Now.
I'm ready.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Right, oh, to be 27 again.
I wish I was 26.
I'm a little on the older sidenow, but yeah, 27.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
You're never old until you say you're old.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
That's right.
That's why I always tell peopleand I was like I don't feel,
like I don't feel like I'm asold as I am, so I think I win on
that one.
But yeah, speaking of winning,you have a lot of female artists
in the hip hop game right nowand they're like household names
now, like Nicki Minaj and CardiB and a bunch of others.
(10:29):
I'm probably forgetting a bunchof them, but yeah, it's like
Eve.
Eve was a legend and I once Isaw this rap battle with Eve and
Brandi and it was on TikTok andI did not know that Brandi
could spit like that.
It was just amazing.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
I'm going to go watch that after we're done with this
.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
I don't like.
It seems like it was kind oflike polished up, you know, to
make it look good, but still shehad bars.
It was pretty good.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
That's amazing.
I love me some Brandi.
I love me some Eve.
I need to hear Brandi spitsomething.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Right yeah.
So, moisha, are you old enoughto remember the show, moisha?
Speaker 4 (11:05):
I remember a little bit.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yeah, I feel like that's more of my age.
But yeah, moisha, such a goodshow.
Ray J was on it too.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Yes, he was on it.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Before the whole Kardashian thing it was Ray J.
Before it was Ray J.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
But, yeah, but what goes into making a music video
for you, like what?
Does it have to be polished uppretty well, or are you pretty
much just like you know, justswing it and see what happens?
You?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
know, every time I do a music video it's different.
Okay, sometimes it's like we'reready to go, everything is
working the way it's supposed togo, and then you sometimes have
videos where you kind of justgot to wing it.
Like you kind of got to wing it, things might not go the way
(12:02):
that they're supposed to, thetiming might be off, something
happened with the location,something happened with the
people, you never know.
So you always just have to Stayready.
So you never have to get ready.
That's right.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Stay ready.
You gotta get ready.
Has there ever been like amoment and like when you're
shooting a video, you're justlike fuck it, like you, let's
just call it a day, likesomething went terribly wrong or
something went Completely funnyand just made you guys want to
want to go even longer?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Both, both.
I won't say so much like fuckit, I'm done, but there have
been moments where it's justLike little things what happened
, or like Just anything, and myanxiety is just horrible already
.
So, tom, sometimes I just getso overwhelmed and I'm just like
(12:53):
fuck this, like I just need asecond, but we still make it
happen.
We never leave until it's done.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Is there any like bloopers or anything that
happened on set?
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
I wish, I wish Start like recording, like behind the
scenes.
The bloopers are fun, they'refunny, like when you don't get
something right or maybe you dosomething, you're like oh shit,
this is different.
Like it's fun, it's creative.
Especially when you're in aroom with all types of creative
(13:28):
people, everybody's mind isgoing everywhere right.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yeah, you're just trying to get, trying to get
everything sorted out.
Music videos are like hectic.
I've heard people say that it's.
It's pretty much.
You're Constantly runningaround just trying to get the
perfect shot and I have peoplesay that no, it's pretty much a
breeze.
It all pretty much depends onwho you work with.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Yes, it depends, it's .
It's so many like Levels andobstacles that happen and things
might get me away or thingsmight present themselves and
like a way better Dang that youthought it was gonna happen
before.
So I mean, it all works out.
It all works out.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Now, do you have anything come like?
I know you have this one newsingle that you just released.
I believe was like a coupledays ago actually.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Or a week ago.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Yeah, but yeah, do you have anything else coming up
in the mix here?
Pretty quick Listen.
You've been driving signalsthat crazy so so the?
Speaker 4 (14:29):
so what's so crazy?
Okay, so here's another likelike obstacle type of thing that
Got in the way.
What didn't get in the way?
I traveled to Europe, oh Nice,I traveled to Europe to work on
my EP.
So it's six songs that havecoming out.
So instead of doing an EP I'mlike you know what fuck it like.
(14:50):
I'm still growing as an artistit will be better for me to just
drop singles rather than drop awhole EP and Expect the world
to just listen one by one.
Rather than doing that, let mesplit all of you songs up.
Everything's coming from Europe.
My next six songs, includingthe most recent one, and and we
(15:15):
are now moving on to pop oh,You're gonna be a pop star.
We're moving on to pop.
We're moving on to like rightbreak it on.
We're moving on to like Spanishstuff, and it's a totally
different ballgame.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I've heard of a lot of artists like are moving, like
a lot of like the, the softhip-hop, like artists are moving
towards the whole, the wholepop scene.
Now I've heard of some of themdoing that and it's just amazing
like they can, how they canjust like structure, like they
can do this or I can do this, itdoesn't matter because I'm good
at both.
It's just amazes me that I cansing but I can also rap too.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
So that's one thing that I never wanted.
Like when I first started doingmusic, I always said I'm an
artist, I'm not a rapper, I'mnot a singer, I'm not.
I'm an artist.
You can put me in any genre andI'm gonna eat it up a lot.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Right, yeah, I had a let.
I had a guest on probably abouta month ago.
A stray was on here and he wasand he starting out, he was just
, it was just a rapper, mix taperapper, you know, he was pretty
good, you know, had bars I had.
I got his independent album,his EP and stuff like that and
it's.
And then he just startedsinging out of nowhere and I was
(16:30):
like wow, I was like it's just,I didn't know he could have it
in him and I had him on the showand I was like I didn't know
you can sing like that back inthe day, because I knew him
growing up, he's just like hegoes, he goes.
I couldn't, he goes.
But I picked up a couple of,like cassette tapes and picked
up you know, some stuff onYouTube and I just taught myself
how to sing.
I'm just like wow, right, I waslike okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
It's amazing when you can learn and you don't realize
that you you have.
You can do it Until you putyourself out there and get out
of your comfort zone right.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Yeah, it's just amazing.
It's just like, yeah, I just, Ijust Learned how to do it and I
did it.
I was like, well, I guessthat's this kind of true you
want to know how to do somethingbad enough, you'll learn how to
do it.
Absolutely you know I have tolearn Spanish because my son is
in kindergarten.
In knows Spanish.
That is amazing that theytaught my kids Spanish behind my
(17:29):
back.
I think I should have like somekind of saying this, because I
have no idea what he's sayinghalf the time.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
That is beautiful shout out to to my Panamanian
family, because I lost mySpanish as I got older.
It just it's gone.
I have to relearn everything.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Yeah, they're teaching.
Yeah, they're teaching thesekids Spanish now, like in
preschool.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
That, I love it.
I love it.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
It's cool and all, but I have to do this too, you.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
It's just like the whole new math thing I have to
relearn math now.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
That is totally different.
I got nope.
I don't want to do it.
No, it's it's.
It's so complex it.
Math has never been my bestsubject, but now it's just like
it seems so different,completely different.
I was like fuck this, fuck allthis.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I was like what was wrong with doing it there?
Was I wrong the entire time?
I was just wasn't doing right,it's just I don't get it.
I'm like you get the sameanswer if you do it my way.
I don't get it, I don't get it.
They said to do somethingdifferent, it do something
different, but anyways, have youdone?
Have you done like a, any, likea performances, like on tour or
(18:46):
anything?
Speaker 4 (18:47):
So I'm actually getting ready to go on tour.
My second single is coming out,I believe, on on the 11th of
August and then that next weekI'll be going on tour.
Oh.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Next week.
Oh, wow, so like now.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Yes, it's coming very , very.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Where are you touring to?
You come to the East Coast, sowe're going to.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
We're going back to Alabama.
Um, a couple of months ago Iwas in Alabama.
I did um.
I was in Birmingham, was aMontgomery, was in, yeah, those
two places and that was awesome.
I was just in Indianapolis.
That was cool.
(19:38):
That was really cool.
That was different for me.
I didn't even know that theylistened to me out there, so
that was really neat.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Awesome.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Yeah, yes, so we're going back.
We're going back.
I believe we're going back toAlabama and Illinois, a couple
of other places.
It's, it's, it's lined up, butit's a four-day Tour.
We're going to different placesevery day.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Oh okay, nice, yes, nice, yeah.
A lot of people, yeah, a lot ofartists that I know they're
going, they're just touring now.
It's it's that.
It's that time of year, it'ssummertime.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I don't think anybody ever tours in a winter time.
I think that would suck,especially around this these
parts, especially if you got toplay in Detroit we're.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
That'd be terrible to be, just no you know what, when
I went to Europe, I saidanything is possible.
It was so cold out there and Icaught the European flu.
Oh, while I was recording, likethe second day that I was there
, I Was, I was literally aboutto die like it was so bad.
It was so bad that my dad waslike just please, just get home.
(20:57):
Yeah, I forget to sleep.
My voice was halfway gone,shack out to all the producers
pill finger Louie, benjaminGlico, like Split.
Everybody helped me put this,all of these new songs together
because I was done for like Icouldn't breathe, I couldn't
(21:21):
smell.
It was what I would imagineCOVID would be like.
Like I couldn't smell, Icouldn't taste nothing.
That's a multiple COVID tests.
They all came back negative.
I'm like, oh my god, this was ahorrible flu and my producer at
the time he had the flu too, soit was just so bad.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Wow, it's like a disaster trip.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
It was.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
It was supposed to be something very nice and
pleasant.
You're supposed to explore newplaces and instead you're
exploring the hotel room and andHotel room to the studio, and
that is it.
Yes, that's terrible.
I Would love to go to Europe,but I would have to.
I would have to like go out anddo things.
That's why I don't like peoplethat just like go to like we're
(22:05):
just gonna go to a resort andI'm like I have never been to
the state before.
I want to explore.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
It was pretty awesome , like when I first got there.
I think, goodness, like thefirst day.
So the first day that I gotthere went straight to the
studio like as soon as I, and itwas a 13 hour flight.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
As soon as I got there I got off the plane, went
straight to the studio, did twosongs, went back to the Airbnb.
I went to a club out there.
So that was fun.
That was really me.
I got to, you know, walk arounda little bit and kind of get to
know I was in Copenhagen.
So it was nice until I got sosick.
(22:48):
But it still worked outperfectly Like we got the job
done and that is all I couldever wish for, right.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
You ever plan on going back to Europe?
Have you ever been back toEurope.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
No, but I'm definitely going to go back.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Yes, I have to go back.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
I'm afraid to fly.
I can't go in, I can't goplaces because I'm afraid to fly
.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
I hate flying.
So bad it might, like I said,my anxiety is so bad I don't
like to fly.
If I could drive everywhere, Iwould.
I do not like flying.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Right.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
But the flight was so smooth and I always heard that
international flights are waydifferent, like they're totally
different.
They're way more smoother andit was amazing.
Until I came back and I could,my ears were like it felt like
my brain was going to explode onthe way back.
It was so bad but I made it so.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Do you think that's because you're like maybe sick
or something?
Is that?
Yeah, yeah, absolutely the airpressure.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
It was so much pressure, so much pressure.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Yeah, that's insane, it's insane.
But yeah, who's?
Who's like your top, your topfive, your top five female
artists will do that way.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Top five female artists.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Missy Elliott Of course Missy, Of course Nikki.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Okay, geez, this is crazy because I it's like I like
so many people in so manydifferent ways so I don't know
if I could say they're myfavorite, like top five favorite
, but Missy Elliott, nikki, Iwould have to say they don't
have to be rappers either.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
They can be singers.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Lauren Hill.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Ndre there you go.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
And good old Megan Stallion, megan Stallion.
Okay, yeah, there you go.
Okay, I was expecting anAaliyah in there, but it's okay.
Because the whole, the wholeMissy thing.
I was expecting an Aaliyah topop up there.
I was wrong.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I love me some Aaliyah.
I do love me some Aaliyah, butI could fit Erica Baidu in there
.
It's so many different artists,especially female artists, that
I just I love Like I can listento them every day.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Right, yeah, I wasn't big on the Foojies.
I'm not a big Lauren Hill fan.
I don't know why.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
I just think her voice is so magnificent, it's so
different.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Like like she does have a great voice.
Don't get me wrong.
I'm not saying she's bad oranything.
I'm not saying it was that thatever since she left the Foojies
I wasn't just wasn't a bigLauren Hill fan.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Either Wyclef either.
Once the Foojies broke up, Ididn't like any of them.
To be honest with you, justcrazy.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
You're going to take him as a group or you're not
taking him at all.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
I mean, I guess Wyclef was okay, but it's, I
guess not, I don't know.
Foojies broke up.
It's over.
Do you ever see yourself as inlike, as in like a, like a,
maybe an all female group, orjust like a group in particular,
just like like the Foojies or,I don't know, like crime mob Is
(26:18):
that?
Was that one of them too, backin the day?
Speaker 4 (26:21):
That was a group I like don't get me wrong.
I think if they work, they workin there Like they're, they
balance off each other perfectly.
But I just don't know if Icould whatever do a group.
I just my brain just goes somany different directions Like I
(26:41):
, I just need to be my own lane.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Okay, the groups are weird.
I've had my issues withpodcasting with groups.
I've been in a group podcastbefore and they don't work out
because not everybody gets alongall the time.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Exactly Everybody.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
And you got to, you got to settle squabbles and I
don't like settling squabblesanymore.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
I doubt my own brain.
I don't think I need to.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
There's enough going on up here.
I don't need the outsideattention either.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Okay, okay.
So no groups for RoxanneLuchianna, just solo artists.
Only.
If you guys are looking for afemale in your group, it's not
her, so keep looking.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Keep going, you'll find it.
You'll find it, just not here.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Just not there.
Now what?
What was it like growing likegrowing up in the music industry
Cause, like you said, yourfather's, tony Mercedes and he's
he was like involved with thewhole TLC nose grubs thing that
went like crazy platinum and itwas so what was?
What was your like childhood?
Like was just like the starsrunning in and out of your house
(27:54):
Like hey, what's up?
Guys coming home from school.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
He kind of yeah, like , yeah, like it was.
I've never been star struck andI think it's just because I've
been around that lifestyle allmy life that it's like hey, oh,
my gosh, you're amazing.
All right, it's time for me togo do my homework.
It was never something that Iwas just like fan phase crazy
(28:24):
about, but I did.
I loved, you know, being a partof it.
I loved going to the studiowith him like I will literally
just stay the night at thestudio, like I loved being there
.
I loved being around Artistsand when she would do his music
videos, like he would alwaysbring me and that was really fun
(28:44):
, that was cool.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
So yeah, so it was so , he, he, so he kind of steered
you in the direction, like, okay, to the music direction.
He's just like, yeah, come on.
Yeah, kind of like pushing it,pushing it a little bit, but,
yeah, not so much, you just kindof just picking up on your own.
Yeah, it's it, yeah, it's crazy.
Um, I Always want, I alwayswant my son to follow my
(29:07):
footsteps, but it's kind of hardbecause I kind of want to make
his own decisions too.
But it's just, it is hard for aparent not to go.
Okay, go this way, because Iknow what happens.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
He's like I know he would support anything that I
wanted to do, but I think when Ifinally told him that, okay,
I'm ready, I think that made himlike Okay, it's time to go to
work.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
That's crazy, but but yeah.
Um.
So when, when you do perform,like on stage and everything, is
it like nerve-wracking?
You find it nerve-wracking ordo you find comfort in just
seeing all the people?
Speaker 4 (29:52):
So it's so crazy because you could put me in a
room of ten people that I knowand I would be Like my stage.
I have stage right right put mein a room of 5,000 strangers
and it's just like night and daylike I can go out there
(30:12):
effortlessly and just do it.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
So you're more comfortable in front of a large
group, like if it was like, say,five or ten people in the crowd
, would it be a little bitnervous or no?
Speaker 4 (30:22):
No, I would treat like it's five thousand.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
There you go.
That's just a mind trick foryou.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Yes, I meant to shows where it was not a lot of
people.
Like it, like I could literallycount on both hands how many
people were in the crowd and itwas still like it, like the
whole room was filled, right.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
So you don't look at the crowd and, just like you
don't lose it, lose enthusiasmand you look at like a small
crowd or anything.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
No, I have to look at once on one stage.
I'm on stage and that's a wrap.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Yeah, I've heard, I've had people say that when
they see a small crowd, theylike lose.
I don't want to say loseconfidence, but they're just
like, okay, what, what am Igonna go all out for?
There's like five people here.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Oh no, it could be one person and I'm gonna treat
the room like the room is packed.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Never know who those five people are, though exactly.
All right, say, miracles dohappen.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Absolutely.
You gotta keep your a game onevery time.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Exactly, you got to keep it on this, like well, she
said, like you said before, stayready, and you got to get ready
, exactly.
Alright, before we get into thelast video, we do already short
on time and I do want to thankyou for coming on and Chopping
it up with me and coming back on.
(31:48):
Actually you guys think.
You guys can't go watch theother video.
You can't hear me quite so well, but Roxanne's great so.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Thank you for having me again.
I was so excited, I'm so I'm so.
You know I love seeing yourface, so I I'm very happy to be
back.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
It's awesome, thank you.
But, yeah, it's, it's.
It's been a pleasure.
But before we go, I do want youto, I do want to get into this
the new music video that we'reabout to get into, called oh my
god, yes, yes.
So what went into the making ofthis video is pretty much just
like, because it seems likeyou're just like chilling around
(32:27):
.
It's just like, yeah, justchilling around hanging out.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Yes, so, so, oh, my god was actually when I first
met the producers in theengineers from Europe.
We were actually in LA when Imet them and we just vibe so
(32:53):
well.
The first day that we met we didthat song yeah and the engineer
, the producer, they put thespeed on and it was just it's
Amazing.
I'm like, oh, my god, likeliterally that's.
Oh, it went from there and shotthe video in LA.
(33:14):
Of course, though, it was oneof those Obstacles like the
video, it didn't go the way itwas supposed to go, but it still
came out pretty amazing, prettyamazing.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Awesome, awesome.
Yeah, we're gonna get to thatvideo everyone.
Um, if you guys want to followRoxanne are all her links are in
the description below.
Go ahead and check those out.
The links to the videos that Iplayed today are also in those
description below.
Um, also for it's for theaudience, but it's also so.
Youtube doesn't copy right me,so I kind of have to do that too
(33:51):
and to give credit where creditis due.
Actually go, yeah, go over tothe Roxanne's YouTube channel,
like subscribe if you haven'talready, and we're gonna get
into this video Again.
Roxanne, thank you for comingback on and hanging in with me
for a little bit.
Thank you so much for having me.
Yeah, you're more than welcometo come back on.
(34:11):
But everyone up, everyone outthere, go ahead and hit that
like subscribe and leave acomment below if you want to, if
you don't have to, but it'scool if you do and I'll get back
to you and we'll.
We're coming up next weekbefore we go next week, there we
go Messing up my own shit.
There we go next week with onAugust, saturday, august 8th we
(34:34):
have T res coming on From corpusChristi, from corpus Christi
recently signed, with 1836entertainment.
So we're gonna chop it up withme and talk about what he's got
going on in the near future.
I think things popping overhere and again.
Roxanne, thank you, and peopleout there, thank you very much.
I love you guys.
Stay up, peace.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
Like, yeah, I'm doing great little bitch, you just
(35:48):
doing fine, and they playing onmy records, it ain't cost a
fucking dime and you just lost adime Leaving out the clear with
your bitch while you still inline.
Ugh, and you were like a nine.
How you gonna be fuckin' withme when I'm in my prime.
One, two, I took your boo Three, four and I'm coming from 05, 6
(36:10):
.
Bet I hide Joe bitch and if youcan't count, bet I hide Joe
bitch, fancy, fancy and I likethem classy.
If I hit the gas and I swearthat they never catch me, oh my
god, oh my, oh my god, yeah, ohmy god, oh my, oh my god, yeah,
fancy, fancy and I like themclassy Boy, you should've told
(36:31):
me that your girl did you.
Fancy, oh my god, oh my, oh mygod, yeah, oh my god, oh my, oh
my god, yeah.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Who's at my door?
Do I know your girl?
Nigga, please, I got hoes.
I might parade them middle ofthe road.
Show them how we livin'.
I ain't fuckin' with the goatPimpin' pimpin' baby, I be
(36:54):
pimpin'.
Scirt off with your hoes.
Have a mood to my Olympics, meand Queen Money Machine.
Believe the gossip?
Shut down the strip club andturn it to a mosh pit.
One, two, I took your boo.
Three, four and I'm coming from05,.
6 Bet.
I hide Joe bitch, and if youcan't count, bet.
(37:14):
I hide Joe bitch.
Fancy, fancy and I like themclassy.
If I hit the gas and I swearthat they never catch me, oh my
god, oh my, oh my god, yeah, ohmy god, oh my, oh my god, yeah,
fancy, fancy and I like them.
Classy Boy, you should've toldme that your girl did you.
Fancy, oh my god, oh my, oh my,oh my god, yeah, oh my god, oh
(37:38):
my, oh my god, yeah, oh my god,oh my, oh my, oh my god, yeah,
oh my god, oh my, oh my god,yeah, oh my god, oh my, oh my,
oh my god, yeah, oh.
I got a Scotty and a Froze.
A big boss like I'm, rose.
I see one of these guys at thehome made love baddie as she
home made you right.
My city at the home game up anddown and go golf raise and a
sprint is taking a bow flighthoppin' we swim in a package be
boomin'.
Yeah, we got it, we got it, gotit.
Cheap pickin' and choosin' andlove at the moment.
Yeah, we got it, we got it, gotit.
They cannot do it.
We doin'.
You see how we movin'.
(00:28):
We got it, we got it, got it.
Messwiththesquad, you try to tryto go against us.
How, holly does it all of mythrows?
We got itaji, they up for show.
We got it, got it.
Been on a road?
We got it, got it.
We cannot go without it.
Aya, messwiththesquad, you tryto try to go against us.
Holly, does it been on a road?
We got it, got it.
We cannot go without it.
H Haday, I be on the pack.
I can mess wit' a toxic, curvylil body gravas all on me
(00:50):
keepin' it spicy.
You know that I got it as sheneed it.
Just call on me run up the tab.
We runnin' it'd.
Yeah, Hopping.
We zoom in the package bebooming.
Yeah, we got it, we got it, gotit.
She picking it chosen and loveat the moment.
Yeah, we got it, we got it, gotit.
They cannot do it.
We don't.
You see how we move and we gotit.
(01:10):
We got it, got it.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Hey hey, what's going on?
Everybody, thank you forclicking that play button and
thank you for watching live andIf like the video, like
subscribe, leave a comment below.
Very special guest today wehave Roxanne Luciano coming back
on.
We have some technicaldifficulties.
Last time it was completely myfault, my microphone completely
suck.
You can go back and watch thevideo if you want, but it but
(01:35):
yeah, she's back on today.
So we're gonna, we're gonnamake that right.
So, without further ado, let'sbring her back on.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Hello.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Hello, thank you again for coming back on.
Like I said last time, liketechnical difficulties last time
with my microphone, I don'tknow why it does it, but it does
.
It's not the first time it'shappened either, but it's part
of the game.
It's part of the game.
(02:09):
But anyways, before we get intoeverything, go ahead and
introduce yourself to theaudience one more time.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Hello everybody, hello all of my rock sees and
hopefully my new rock sees.
I am Roxanne Luciano.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Awesome now.
How long have you been?
We're gonna get into a videohere really quick, but how long
have you been in the musicindustry?
In the music industry like justaround it?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I've been around it all my life, literally all of my
life.
I didn't really start pursuingmy music career until, I think,
the end of 2020.
I want to say time was gone soquickly.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Yeah, so it's like you started launching like your
individual career in 2020.
But that's when you started likemain focus.
That's.
That's it.
Yes, okay, all right.
All right, so we're gonna getinto, not your.
I Want to say I want to saveyour latest single for the end,
because you save the best forlast usually, so I am gonna get
(03:15):
into one.
We are gonna play one videoreal quick that I pulled off
YouTube.
It's the winning video.
Okay, if you want to go aheadand talk about that real quick,
like what, what did you?
What went into the making ofthis, the single-aim video?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Okay.
So Of course, we all know thatthe girls are winning.
The girlies are just doingtheir thing like amazing.
So One day I'm just sitting inmy room, I'm just like writing
and I'm like visual, staywinning every fucking night and
I'm like, oh shit, this soundspretty good.
(03:50):
And then I was like you knowwhat's not even better putting
more female rappers on there.
I got a hold of them and shoutout to Rene Rucci and Big Endo.
I got a hold of them and theywere with it.
We were supposed to do a video,but the time Restriction has
just gotten the way, so we kindof just put up a lyric video to
(04:11):
it.
So it's really just aboutluxury, lavish girls that are
winning.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Nope, that's right.
So yeah, let's get into thisvideo real quick and then we'll
be back with more RoxanneLuciano.
So now's the time to roll up,get her, get her ready, guys.
I'm a boss bitch.
I'm a boss bitch, real bossbitch.
(04:42):
Got a mind right.
Never, ever give a fuck aboutthe limelight Mung in my real
estate paid in my cash, right,I'm just gon' stay winnin' every
fuckin' night.
I'm a shit expensive but thatain't rent shit.
Big body, black tent, ass outracing.
Got these niggas blowing backto the nail.
Ass.
Tryna get a penis pumpEverything he ever wanted.
(05:03):
Real niggas fantasize about me.
I got that body.
I gotta keep that money on me.
Rope niggas can't do enough onme except LIT.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
They don't know me, bitch.
Diamonds all in my neck,diamonds all in my wrists.
Told you hoes I been at this.
They know ain't no stoppin'this, cause I I'm a murder on
the mic every fuckin' time.
This is like counting on mymoney while I sit.
My wife I 20 carries.
I'm gon' shine, said it's meand my prom time.
Kiss my ass if you don't like.
What the fuck I do, cause it'smy life.
(05:30):
Real boss bitch got a mind right.
Never, ever give a fuck aboutthe limelight Mung in my real
estate paid in my cash.
Right, I'm just gon' staywinnin' every fuckin' night.
Real boss bitch got a mindright.
Never, ever give a fuck aboutthe limelight Mung in my real
estate paid in this pussy.
Tight Got bitch.
(05:52):
Gon' stay winnin' every fuckin'night.
Real boss bitch.
You know what's up with me.
Pull up on your nigga.
Please don't have to shit getugly.
I only hang with winners.
If you broke it, you can't fuckwith me.
And he stuck with me.
Yeah, I keep it stuck with me.
Yeah, bitch.
Yeah, I can't hang with nohaters.
Kick a bitch from my boat.
Take a day, just mad, cause endup better In that pussy.
Be on weather.
I ain't fuckin' with no niggawho is not getting no chat as
(06:16):
long as he dropin' them EMC andhe can't get whatever.
I'm a real bad bitch.
I got my money right.
Never let a nigga fuck on me.
He talkin' bout his money tightand you don't design a pussy
nigga.
You pussy nigga.
I ain't standin'.
I push on rocks with the blueface.
I'm runnin' up in one night.
Yeah, real boss bitch got amind right.
Never ever give a fuck aboutthe limelight Mung in my real
(06:38):
estate paid in my cash.
Right, I'm just gon' staywinnin' every fuckin' night.
Real boss bitch got a mindright.
Never ever give a fuck aboutthe limelight Mung in my real
estate paid in this pussy tight.
He's a bitch for safe women.
He's a bitch for safe women.
I'm not my pussy tight.
Wallet bet is fucked Bitch.
Just think they fuckin' with me.
(06:59):
Hoes ain't keepin' up.
I say you work by six figures.
That ain't big enough.
Niggas need a couple EM's justto try to eat me up.
Okay, just push his greatness.
The Chanel is the latest.
Drop a 10 piece of me, louisbag, goddamn bitch, we made it.
I ain't waitin' on.
No nigga with my hand out Itake.
I do one verse for a coupleracks.
I don't need no nigga to saveme.
(07:19):
I got my own motion.
Y'all paid.
I'ma take a dick.
I make one call in them niggaspull up, take your shit.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
I got so much game, I'll fuck around and take your
bitch.
Met a lot of bitches.
We never met a bitch like this.
Real boss bitch got a mindright.
Never, ever give a fuck aboutthe limelight Mung in my real
estate paid in my cash.
Right, I'm just gon' staywinnin' every fuckin' night.
Real boss bitch got a mindright.
(07:47):
Never, ever give a fuck aboutthe limelight Mung in my real
estate, I'm just gon' staywinning.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I been doin it for a long time real mama, I talkin'
real boss man ground up likeFuck it.
Real boss bitch got her mindright.
Never, ever give a fuck aboutthe limelight.
This is how real Gothещac paidin this pussy tight, awesome,
(08:19):
awesome.
Yes, I love it when I see it,when I have artists on and I
play their music on the air andyou just see them in the
backstage screen.
You just rocking out just toget down throwing shit.
I love it yes, yes, yeah.
The females are winning, oh goahead.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
I was just saying I love that song.
That is one of probably one ofone of my faves, one of the
faves Okay.
All right yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I did play one of one of your videos last time I was
up here.
You were here on the show andit was like it was like an ass
shaking video and it's prettymuch.
This one's got a little moretone down, but you can still
shake your booty to it.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Yes, yeah, he's come a long way.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
He's come a long way.
That's funny, but yeah.
So what made you want to getinto music?
Why did you pick up amicrophone?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
I've always wanted to do music.
I think it was is somethingthat I was born into with my
father 20 Mercedes.
He's a big producer, he'salways put me around music and I
just knew, like you know, yearsago I wasn't really ready.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
So here we are, at 27 and we're like fuck it, like
let's do it, let's do it.
It's the perfect time Now.
I'm ready.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Right, oh, to be 27 again.
I wish I was 26.
I'm a little on the older sidenow, but yeah, 27.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
You're never old until you say you're old.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
That's right.
That's why I always tell peopleand I was like I don't feel,
like I don't feel like I'm asold as I am, so I think I win on
that one.
But yeah, speaking of winning,you have a lot of female artists
in the hip hop game right nowand they're like household names
now, like Nicki Minaj and CardiB and a bunch of others.
(10:29):
I'm probably forgetting a bunchof them, but yeah, it's like
Eve.
Eve was a legend and I once Isaw this rap battle with Eve and
Brandi and it was on TikTok andI did not know that Brandi
could spit like that.
It was just amazing.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
I'm going to go watch that after we're done with this
.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
I don't like.
It seems like it was kind oflike polished up, you know, to
make it look good, but still shehad bars.
It was pretty good.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
That's amazing.
I love me some Brandi.
I love me some Eve.
I need to hear Brandi spitsomething.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Right yeah.
So, moisha, are you old enoughto remember the show, moisha?
Speaker 4 (11:05):
I remember a little bit.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yeah, I feel like that's more of my age.
But yeah, moisha, such a goodshow.
Ray J was on it too.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Yes, he was on it.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Before the whole Kardashian thing it was Ray J.
Before it was Ray J.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
But, yeah, but what goes into making a music video
for you, like what?
Does it have to be polished uppretty well, or are you pretty
much just like you know, justswing it and see what happens?
You?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
know, every time I do a music video it's different.
Okay, sometimes it's like we'reready to go, everything is
working the way it's supposed togo, and then you sometimes have
videos where you kind of justgot to wing it.
Like you kind of got to wing it, things might not go the way
(12:02):
that they're supposed to, thetiming might be off, something
happened with the location,something happened with the
people, you never know.
So you always just have to Stayready.
So you never have to get ready.
That's right.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Stay ready.
You gotta get ready.
Has there ever been like amoment and like when you're
shooting a video, you're justlike fuck it, like you, let's
just call it a day, likesomething went terribly wrong or
something went Completely funnyand just made you guys want to
want to go even longer?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Both, both.
I won't say so much like fuckit, I'm done, but there have
been moments where it's justLike little things what happened
, or like Just anything, and myanxiety is just horrible already
.
So, tom, sometimes I just getso overwhelmed and I'm just like
(12:53):
fuck this, like I just need asecond, but we still make it
happen.
We never leave until it's done.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Is there any like bloopers or anything that
happened on set?
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
I wish, I wish Start like recording, like behind the
scenes.
The bloopers are fun, they'refunny, like when you don't get
something right or maybe you dosomething, you're like oh shit,
this is different.
Like it's fun, it's creative.
Especially when you're in aroom with all types of creative
(13:28):
people, everybody's mind isgoing everywhere right.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yeah, you're just trying to get, trying to get
everything sorted out.
Music videos are like hectic.
I've heard people say that it's.
It's pretty much.
You're Constantly runningaround just trying to get the
perfect shot and I have peoplesay that no, it's pretty much a
breeze.
It all pretty much depends onwho you work with.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Yes, it depends, it's .
It's so many like Levels andobstacles that happen and things
might get me away or thingsmight present themselves and
like a way better Dang that youthought it was gonna happen
before.
So I mean, it all works out.
It all works out.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Now, do you have anything come like?
I know you have this one newsingle that you just released.
I believe was like a coupledays ago actually.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Or a week ago.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Yeah, but yeah, do you have anything else coming up
in the mix here?
Pretty quick Listen.
You've been driving signalsthat crazy so so the?
Speaker 4 (14:29):
so what's so crazy?
Okay, so here's another likelike obstacle type of thing that
Got in the way.
What didn't get in the way?
I traveled to Europe, oh Nice,I traveled to Europe to work on
my EP.
So it's six songs that havecoming out.
So instead of doing an EP I'mlike you know what fuck it like.
(14:50):
I'm still growing as an artistit will be better for me to just
drop singles rather than drop awhole EP and Expect the world
to just listen one by one.
Rather than doing that, let mesplit all of you songs up.
Everything's coming from Europe.
My next six songs, includingthe most recent one, and and we
(15:15):
are now moving on to pop oh,You're gonna be a pop star.
We're moving on to pop.
We're moving on to like rightbreak it on.
We're moving on to like Spanishstuff, and it's a totally
different ballgame.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I've heard of a lot of artists like are moving, like
a lot of like the, the softhip-hop, like artists are moving
towards the whole, the wholepop scene.
Now I've heard of some of themdoing that and it's just amazing
like they can, how they canjust like structure, like they
can do this or I can do this, itdoesn't matter because I'm good
at both.
It's just amazes me that I cansing but I can also rap too.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
So that's one thing that I never wanted.
Like when I first started doingmusic, I always said I'm an
artist, I'm not a rapper, I'mnot a singer, I'm not.
I'm an artist.
You can put me in any genre andI'm gonna eat it up a lot.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Right, yeah, I had a let.
I had a guest on probably abouta month ago.
A stray was on here and he wasand he starting out, he was just
, it was just a rapper, mix taperapper, you know, he was pretty
good, you know, had bars I had.
I got his independent album,his EP and stuff like that and
it's.
And then he just startedsinging out of nowhere and I was
(16:30):
like wow, I was like it's just,I didn't know he could have it
in him and I had him on the showand I was like I didn't know
you can sing like that back inthe day, because I knew him
growing up, he's just like hegoes, he goes.
I couldn't, he goes.
But I picked up a couple of,like cassette tapes and picked
up you know, some stuff onYouTube and I just taught myself
how to sing.
I'm just like wow, right, I waslike okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
It's amazing when you can learn and you don't realize
that you you have.
You can do it Until you putyourself out there and get out
of your comfort zone right.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Yeah, it's just amazing.
It's just like, yeah, I just, Ijust Learned how to do it and I
did it.
I was like, well, I guessthat's this kind of true you
want to know how to do somethingbad enough, you'll learn how to
do it.
Absolutely you know I have tolearn Spanish because my son is
in kindergarten.
In knows Spanish.
That is amazing that theytaught my kids Spanish behind my
(17:29):
back.
I think I should have like somekind of saying this, because I
have no idea what he's sayinghalf the time.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
That is beautiful shout out to to my Panamanian
family, because I lost mySpanish as I got older.
It just it's gone.
I have to relearn everything.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Yeah, they're teaching.
Yeah, they're teaching thesekids Spanish now, like in
preschool.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
That, I love it.
I love it.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
It's cool and all, but I have to do this too, you.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
It's just like the whole new math thing I have to
relearn math now.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
That is totally different.
I got nope.
I don't want to do it.
No, it's it's.
It's so complex it.
Math has never been my bestsubject, but now it's just like
it seems so different,completely different.
I was like fuck this, fuck allthis.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I was like what was wrong with doing it there?
Was I wrong the entire time?
I was just wasn't doing right,it's just I don't get it.
I'm like you get the sameanswer if you do it my way.
I don't get it, I don't get it.
They said to do somethingdifferent, it do something
different, but anyways, have youdone?
Have you done like a, any, likea performances, like on tour or
(18:46):
anything?
Speaker 4 (18:47):
So I'm actually getting ready to go on tour.
My second single is coming out,I believe, on on the 11th of
August and then that next weekI'll be going on tour.
Oh.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Next week.
Oh, wow, so like now.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Yes, it's coming very , very.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Where are you touring to?
You come to the East Coast, sowe're going to.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
We're going back to Alabama.
Um, a couple of months ago Iwas in Alabama.
I did um.
I was in Birmingham, was aMontgomery, was in, yeah, those
two places and that was awesome.
I was just in Indianapolis.
That was cool.
(19:38):
That was really cool.
That was different for me.
I didn't even know that theylistened to me out there, so
that was really neat.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Awesome.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Yeah, yes, so we're going back.
We're going back.
I believe we're going back toAlabama and Illinois, a couple
of other places.
It's, it's, it's lined up, butit's a four-day Tour.
We're going to different placesevery day.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Oh okay, nice, yes, nice, yeah.
A lot of people, yeah, a lot ofartists that I know they're
going, they're just touring now.
It's it's that.
It's that time of year, it'ssummertime.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I don't think anybody ever tours in a winter time.
I think that would suck,especially around this these
parts, especially if you got toplay in Detroit we're.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
That'd be terrible to be, just no you know what, when
I went to Europe, I saidanything is possible.
It was so cold out there and Icaught the European flu.
Oh, while I was recording, likethe second day that I was there
, I Was, I was literally aboutto die like it was so bad.
It was so bad that my dad waslike just please, just get home.
(20:57):
Yeah, I forget to sleep.
My voice was halfway gone,shack out to all the producers
pill finger Louie, benjaminGlico, like Split.
Everybody helped me put this,all of these new songs together
because I was done for like Icouldn't breathe, I couldn't
(21:21):
smell.
It was what I would imagineCOVID would be like.
Like I couldn't smell, Icouldn't taste nothing.
That's a multiple COVID tests.
They all came back negative.
I'm like, oh my god, this was ahorrible flu and my producer at
the time he had the flu too, soit was just so bad.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Wow, it's like a disaster trip.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
It was.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
It was supposed to be something very nice and
pleasant.
You're supposed to explore newplaces and instead you're
exploring the hotel room and andHotel room to the studio, and
that is it.
Yes, that's terrible.
I Would love to go to Europe,but I would have to.
I would have to like go out anddo things.
That's why I don't like peoplethat just like go to like we're
(22:05):
just gonna go to a resort andI'm like I have never been to
the state before.
I want to explore.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
It was pretty awesome , like when I first got there.
I think, goodness, like thefirst day.
So the first day that I gotthere went straight to the
studio like as soon as I, and itwas a 13 hour flight.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
As soon as I got there I got off the plane, went
straight to the studio, did twosongs, went back to the Airbnb.
I went to a club out there.
So that was fun.
That was really me.
I got to, you know, walk arounda little bit and kind of get to
know I was in Copenhagen.
So it was nice until I got sosick.
(22:48):
But it still worked outperfectly Like we got the job
done and that is all I couldever wish for, right.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
You ever plan on going back to Europe?
Have you ever been back toEurope.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
No, but I'm definitely going to go back.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Yes, I have to go back.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
I'm afraid to fly.
I can't go in, I can't goplaces because I'm afraid to fly
.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
I hate flying.
So bad it might, like I said,my anxiety is so bad I don't
like to fly.
If I could drive everywhere, Iwould.
I do not like flying.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Right.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
But the flight was so smooth and I always heard that
international flights are waydifferent, like they're totally
different.
They're way more smoother andit was amazing.
Until I came back and I could,my ears were like it felt like
my brain was going to explode onthe way back.
It was so bad but I made it so.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Do you think that's because you're like maybe sick
or something?
Is that?
Yeah, yeah, absolutely the airpressure.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
It was so much pressure, so much pressure.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Yeah, that's insane, it's insane.
But yeah, who's?
Who's like your top, your topfive, your top five female
artists will do that way.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Top five female artists.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Missy Elliott Of course Missy, Of course Nikki.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Okay, geez, this is crazy because I it's like I like
so many people in so manydifferent ways so I don't know
if I could say they're myfavorite, like top five favorite
, but Missy Elliott, nikki, Iwould have to say they don't
have to be rappers either.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
They can be singers.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Lauren Hill.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Ndre there you go.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
And good old Megan Stallion, megan Stallion.
Okay, yeah, there you go.
Okay, I was expecting anAaliyah in there, but it's okay.
Because the whole, the wholeMissy thing.
I was expecting an Aaliyah topop up there.
I was wrong.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I love me some Aaliyah.
I do love me some Aaliyah, butI could fit Erica Baidu in there
.
It's so many different artists,especially female artists, that
I just I love Like I can listento them every day.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Right, yeah, I wasn't big on the Foojies.
I'm not a big Lauren Hill fan.
I don't know why.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
I just think her voice is so magnificent, it's so
different.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Like like she does have a great voice.
Don't get me wrong.
I'm not saying she's bad oranything.
I'm not saying it was that thatever since she left the Foojies
I wasn't just wasn't a bigLauren Hill fan.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Either Wyclef either.
Once the Foojies broke up, Ididn't like any of them.
To be honest with you, justcrazy.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
You're going to take him as a group or you're not
taking him at all.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
I mean, I guess Wyclef was okay, but it's, I
guess not, I don't know.
Foojies broke up.
It's over.
Do you ever see yourself as inlike, as in like a, like a,
maybe an all female group, orjust like a group in particular,
just like like the Foojies or,I don't know, like crime mob Is
(26:18):
that?
Was that one of them too, backin the day?
Speaker 4 (26:21):
That was a group I like don't get me wrong.
I think if they work, they workin there Like they're, they
balance off each other perfectly.
But I just don't know if Icould whatever do a group.
I just my brain just goes somany different directions Like I
(26:41):
, I just need to be my own lane.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Okay, the groups are weird.
I've had my issues withpodcasting with groups.
I've been in a group podcastbefore and they don't work out
because not everybody gets alongall the time.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Exactly Everybody.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
And you got to, you got to settle squabbles and I
don't like settling squabblesanymore.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
I doubt my own brain.
I don't think I need to.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
There's enough going on up here.
I don't need the outsideattention either.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Okay, okay.
So no groups for RoxanneLuchianna, just solo artists.
Only.
If you guys are looking for afemale in your group, it's not
her, so keep looking.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Keep going, you'll find it.
You'll find it, just not here.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Just not there.
Now what?
What was it like growing likegrowing up in the music industry
Cause, like you said, yourfather's, tony Mercedes and he's
he was like involved with thewhole TLC nose grubs thing that
went like crazy platinum and itwas so what was?
What was your like childhood?
Like was just like the starsrunning in and out of your house
(27:54):
Like hey, what's up?
Guys coming home from school.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
He kind of yeah, like , yeah, like it was.
I've never been star struck andI think it's just because I've
been around that lifestyle allmy life that it's like hey, oh,
my gosh, you're amazing.
All right, it's time for me togo do my homework.
It was never something that Iwas just like fan phase crazy
(28:24):
about, but I did.
I loved, you know, being a partof it.
I loved going to the studiowith him like I will literally
just stay the night at thestudio, like I loved being there
.
I loved being around Artistsand when she would do his music
videos, like he would alwaysbring me and that was really fun
(28:44):
, that was cool.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
So yeah, so it was so , he, he, so he kind of steered
you in the direction, like, okay, to the music direction.
He's just like, yeah, come on.
Yeah, kind of like pushing it,pushing it a little bit, but,
yeah, not so much, you just kindof just picking up on your own.
Yeah, it's it, yeah, it's crazy.
Um, I Always want, I alwayswant my son to follow my
(29:07):
footsteps, but it's kind of hardbecause I kind of want to make
his own decisions too.
But it's just, it is hard for aparent not to go.
Okay, go this way, because Iknow what happens.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
He's like I know he would support anything that I
wanted to do, but I think when Ifinally told him that, okay,
I'm ready, I think that made himlike Okay, it's time to go to
work.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
That's crazy, but but yeah.
Um.
So when, when you do perform,like on stage and everything, is
it like nerve-wracking?
You find it nerve-wracking ordo you find comfort in just
seeing all the people?
Speaker 4 (29:52):
So it's so crazy because you could put me in a
room of ten people that I knowand I would be Like my stage.
I have stage right right put mein a room of 5,000 strangers
and it's just like night and daylike I can go out there
(30:12):
effortlessly and just do it.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
So you're more comfortable in front of a large
group, like if it was like, say,five or ten people in the crowd
, would it be a little bitnervous or no?
Speaker 4 (30:22):
No, I would treat like it's five thousand.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
There you go.
That's just a mind trick foryou.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Yes, I meant to shows where it was not a lot of
people.
Like it, like I could literallycount on both hands how many
people were in the crowd and itwas still like it, like the
whole room was filled, right.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
So you don't look at the crowd and, just like you
don't lose it, lose enthusiasmand you look at like a small
crowd or anything.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
No, I have to look at once on one stage.
I'm on stage and that's a wrap.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Yeah, I've heard, I've had people say that when
they see a small crowd, theylike lose.
I don't want to say loseconfidence, but they're just
like, okay, what, what am Igonna go all out for?
There's like five people here.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Oh no, it could be one person and I'm gonna treat
the room like the room is packed.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Never know who those five people are, though exactly.
All right, say, miracles dohappen.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Absolutely.
You gotta keep your a game onevery time.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Exactly, you got to keep it on this, like well, she
said, like you said before, stayready, and you got to get ready
, exactly.
Alright, before we get into thelast video, we do already short
on time and I do want to thankyou for coming on and Chopping
it up with me and coming back on.
(31:48):
Actually you guys think.
You guys can't go watch theother video.
You can't hear me quite so well, but Roxanne's great so.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Thank you for having me again.
I was so excited, I'm so I'm so.
You know I love seeing yourface, so I I'm very happy to be
back.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
It's awesome, thank you.
But, yeah, it's, it's.
It's been a pleasure.
But before we go, I do want youto, I do want to get into this
the new music video that we'reabout to get into, called oh my
god, yes, yes.
So what went into the making ofthis video is pretty much just
like, because it seems likeyou're just like chilling around
(32:27):
.
It's just like, yeah, justchilling around hanging out.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Yes, so, so, oh, my god was actually when I first
met the producers in theengineers from Europe.
We were actually in LA when Imet them and we just vibe so
(32:53):
well.
The first day that we met we didthat song yeah and the engineer
, the producer, they put thespeed on and it was just it's
Amazing.
I'm like, oh, my god, likeliterally that's.
Oh, it went from there and shotthe video in LA.
(33:14):
Of course, though, it was oneof those Obstacles like the
video, it didn't go the way itwas supposed to go, but it still
came out pretty amazing, prettyamazing.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Awesome, awesome.
Yeah, we're gonna get to thatvideo everyone.
Um, if you guys want to followRoxanne are all her links are in
the description below.
Go ahead and check those out.
The links to the videos that Iplayed today are also in those
description below.
Um, also for it's for theaudience, but it's also so.
Youtube doesn't copy right me,so I kind of have to do that too
(33:51):
and to give credit where creditis due.
Actually go, yeah, go over tothe Roxanne's YouTube channel,
like subscribe if you haven'talready, and we're gonna get
into this video Again.
Roxanne, thank you for comingback on and hanging in with me
for a little bit.
Thank you so much for having me.
Yeah, you're more than welcometo come back on.
(34:11):
But everyone up, everyone outthere, go ahead and hit that
like subscribe and leave acomment below if you want to, if
you don't have to, but it'scool if you do and I'll get back
to you and we'll.
We're coming up next weekbefore we go next week, there we
go Messing up my own shit.
There we go next week with onAugust, saturday, august 8th we
(34:34):
have T res coming on From corpusChristi, from corpus Christi
recently signed, with 1836entertainment.
So we're gonna chop it up withme and talk about what he's got
going on in the near future.
I think things popping overhere and again.
Roxanne, thank you, and peopleout there, thank you very much.
I love you guys.
Stay up, peace.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
Like, yeah, I'm doing great little bitch, you just
(35:48):
doing fine, and they playing onmy records, it ain't cost a
fucking dime and you just lost adime Leaving out the clear with
your bitch while you still inline.
Ugh, and you were like a nine.
How you gonna be fuckin' withme when I'm in my prime.
One, two, I took your boo Three, four and I'm coming from 05, 6
(36:10):
.
Bet I hide Joe bitch and if youcan't count, bet I hide Joe
bitch, fancy, fancy and I likethem classy.
If I hit the gas and I swearthat they never catch me, oh my
god, oh my, oh my god, yeah, ohmy god, oh my, oh my god, yeah,
fancy, fancy and I like themclassy Boy, you should've told
(36:31):
me that your girl did you.
Fancy, oh my god, oh my, oh mygod, yeah, oh my god, oh my, oh
my god, yeah.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Who's at my door?
Do I know your girl?
Nigga, please, I got hoes.
I might parade them middle ofthe road.
Show them how we livin'.
I ain't fuckin' with the goatPimpin' pimpin' baby, I be
(36:54):
pimpin'.
Scirt off with your hoes.
Have a mood to my Olympics, meand Queen Money Machine.
Believe the gossip?
Shut down the strip club andturn it to a mosh pit.
One, two, I took your boo.
Three, four and I'm coming from05,.
6 Bet.
I hide Joe bitch, and if youcan't count, bet.
(37:14):
I hide Joe bitch.
Fancy, fancy and I like themclassy.
If I hit the gas and I swearthat they never catch me, oh my
god, oh my, oh my god, yeah, ohmy god, oh my, oh my god, yeah,
fancy, fancy and I like them.
Classy Boy, you should've toldme that your girl did you.
Fancy, oh my god, oh my, oh my,oh my god, yeah, oh my god, oh
(37:38):
my, oh my god, yeah, oh my god,oh my, oh my, oh my god, yeah,
oh my god, oh my, oh my god,yeah, oh my god, oh my, oh my,
oh my god, yeah, oh.
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