Z100 Jingleball Diaries: Shaboozey

Backstage at our Z100 Jingleball presented by Capital One, Elvis, Danielle and Gandhi interviewed the biggest stars of the night! 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Live from the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge. We are backstage
with Shuboozy and it has been a crazy year. Happy holidays,
first of all, Happy holidays, you too to be doing
this with you and we know that you've been in
New York City. You're at Madison Square Garden. Are you
enjoying the holidays here in the city. What is your

(00:20):
favorite part?

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Oh my gosh, I just love how festive it gets
out here, the Christmas markets, you know, getting getting, you know,
being able to layer. I love layer and stuff, so
same it being cold enough to wear jackets is nice.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Nice. And you just did SNL SNL one of my
favorite shows. How like surreal is doing a show like that?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Oh ze, it was really fun. You know, the crew
was amazing, the cast was amazing. You know, Paul was amazing.
We had fun after we definitely had definitely had to
the party a couple of shots. Yeah, we definitely got
tipsy that night.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
I see what you did there, I understand it. So
looking forward to twenty twenty five, what do you see
for yourself or were seeing collaborations bucket list stuff that
you're like, this is what's gonna.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Happen with a lot of it. You know. We're just
I'm just really excited to get in the studio make
some new music. You know, I'm really I think we
had a great year. We made a lot of like
year and this for the album and the songs, and
I'm excited to just knowing what I've known now and
all the things I've learned to just make some just
make more music. You know.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Can I say one thing? I love that you and
lil Na's X have had this record breaking time on
Billboard as to black country artists. It warms my heart. Congratulations,
Thank you so much, Oh, thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Shout out.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
Now it's seventeen times that you were seventeen weeks that
you were number one.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
We don't even keep.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yeah, I don't know, you have to keep track.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Get out of here.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
You don't know what So next year, what are we
going to expect from Shaboozi?

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Just you know, I'm just really excited. I can't speak
too much about it, but you know what I think
I pride myself most of my career is just being
able to always grow. So if you know, if anybody
knows me, you know that that's all whatever we did,
you know, now it's gonna be better next time. Yeah,
we can't getting better and better and better.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
We can't wait.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Don't go too much or the tallest person in.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
This Yeah, seriously.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
We know that you played the iHeartRadio Music Festival, which
is back in September, and you had a huge year. Yeah,
do you have highlights, favorite moments from just.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
So many to count? You know, I think a lot
of like what's happened to us this year, I think
happens to people over five years, you know, but we
were able to compact it into one. So this is
just so much, you know, Grammy nominations, a lot of
dreams came true, CMA nominations, performing at the BT Awards,
CMA Awards, all of them. Every day it's something, it's

(02:41):
a new it's a new blessing. So you know, I
was able to, you know, thank God earlier and it
was crazy. I hadn't done that in a long time,
and I was so overwhelmed. I was just like, man,
it's been so many things to be thankful for.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
So all right, New Year's Resolutions, we're going into twenty
twenty five. It's almost the end of the year. Give
us your biggest resolution, man.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Get in the gym, Get in the gym, up the
dunk food. Honestly, yeah really really just get just taking
care of my you know wellness.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Man.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Every day we were we were in a new city.
We probably touched so many cities this year. I just
want to get you know, next year, to be able
to just work on myself, you know, yeah, of course.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, Well, thank you for joining us again. We are
live from the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge with Shaboozie. He's
going to open the show. You're so excited.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Thank you guys,