Victoria Monet Reveals Jaguar II Deluxe Album On The Way, Working with Usher & Motherhood

Victoria Monet Reveals Jaguar II Deluxe Album On The Way, Working with Usher & Motherhood

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Tell me about you today, everybody.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
The last time I saw you, you were not the
Grammy Award. Well maybe you were before, but you didn't
get this. You didn't have this run. I didn't know
if as a writer, maybe.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
You caught There was nominations, but no.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
But not whins. And also this moment was the moment
it was different.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
That new artist category is like it's just like a
life changing moment, right, yes.

Speaker 4 (00:35):
Yes, Whenever I feel like you get to accept an
award on the stage, it's just a bit different because
I wasn't aware, like a few years back that like
there's also awards that happened before the actual awards.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Oh yeah, yeah yeah. I was like nobody really knows.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah, so they see three Grammys and they're like when
did you know?

Speaker 1 (00:52):
When did that happen? So did your life change? Like
are things different? Tell me how?

Speaker 4 (00:57):
Well, the next week or maybe it was two weeks after,
or I got invited to the super Bowl with the
CEO of Apple.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Oh okay, that people started treating you a little different.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
Yeah yeah, so I'm I'm not mad.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
I feel like it's been a long journey from being
like underdog to like visible, to.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Be the best new artist.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yes, right, so wait, so so the thing with that
category too is it's interesting because some people there's a lot,
a lot of expectation that comes with that win.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Right, So do you feel like, how does that definitely pressure?

Speaker 4 (01:33):
But I'm trying to make a diamond. You know, pressure
makes diamond. So but I still want to take my
time and not.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Really feel rushed by the pressure of it.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
Because if I wasn't going to put out a project
before that in this within this you know time frame,
I want to be true to that and so not
let an accolade sway the creative process. So we're still
being diligent and like making sure I'm making stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
I like, you're such a true artist. You're one of
those artists. There's like a group of artists.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
It's like, whether you have a song out or not,
you're going to be one of those artists that they
call for the Usher tribute or they call for the
Mary J.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Blige tribute.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
You know, Like, you know, there's just certain talent that
is so talented it goes beyond whatever the song that
you have out at the moment is. So I feel like,
do you feel like that do you get a lot
of those calls, alright, I.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
Hope, So I hope I can be the artist that's
bigger than just what's current at the time, because there
are times when I won't have music out, So I
want to be able to be in those rooms and
like contribute, you know, to society, the musical society, without
like a hit song at the time. So I do
want to make sure that it's deeper than just you know,
what's currently out.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
How was the Usher tribute? Because you bodied that? Thank
you so much about that.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Oh my god.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
The rehearsals were so funny. I have to find the
footage of it because we haven't done anything with it yet.
But me, both me and Tiana were like delirious, like
just because I had my own performance too. So I
had probably like eight to ten hour rehearsals and then
I would do the rehearsals for the Usher tribute.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Was this like a last minute thing about it too
rite or was it for her last mink something else?

Speaker 4 (03:11):
It was last minute for her. I was supposed to
do it. Actually, I got like hinted that I was
going to be asked, probably like a month before, but
we just weren't sure.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
The arrangement and who was going to do what.

Speaker 4 (03:26):
And like I think there was a couple of people
petitioning for a bad Girl. It's like a big moment.
But then when Tiana Taylor joined, it made so much sense.
And so our rehearsals together were probably like the last
three days before the awards. Yeah, so we were trying
to like really pull it together and like make sure
we did our due diligence. But I think we relate

(03:46):
in a lot of different ways that Like the kids
were in the rehearsals.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
With this, well not mine, my daughter was.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
She's like yet a little bit too young, but her
children were there and they were like showing us dance routine.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
So it just felt like a good family environment. Yeah,
it was really cool.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
She's amazing, by the way. Obsessed with your daughter. Thank you.
You should go if you.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Haven't seen, like you can go to Victoria's Instagram pages,
like videos of her singing in the studio.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
With the mic. She was the youngest nominated Grammy artist. Yes,
and of all time.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
I'm like, girls set and records. I'm like, if I
have a second child, what hell?

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Right, right? Right? What does she get? Because I think
that because nominees does she get like a medal. Does
she get like she.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Does get a little metal? I don't. I don't. I
haven't received yet.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Actually you get on that. She needs that.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Actually, you're right. I'm like, hey, something to.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Show when she's like in kindergarten and it's like show
and tell.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Day, yes, or the certificate.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
She needs something.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
She's definitely gonna have that photo and that bar did
you see that on the Oh, there's a meme on
the carpet where like we brought her onto the carpet
because of course she's the youngest. We were like, we
should commemorate the moment with like professional photos and let
her see the experience.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
Hated it.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
It was like right around nap time, and so there
was an interviewer interviewing me and she wouldn't leave my arm.
She was like, I want to be with mommy. And
when the interviewer was trying to ask me a question, Hazel.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
Was like like looking at her like that.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
So the internet, yes, yeah, so she'll always have that,
but she wasn't.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
We were in matching for Sashe, which was like really amazing.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
But she got the she's got the thing right like
the bug. Yeah, yeah, she's got like the thing. Also
like she's like fearless and like.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
She's well, she'll be shy for a little bit, but
then when she finally does it, she'll end her performance
with like clap. Now everybody she'll like be like applaud me.
I went into her school to pick her up the
other day and her teacher was like, she's in the
mirror a lot and like dancing.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
I was like, Yeah, that's her, that's.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
My baby, that's my Grammy Award nominated baby.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
It's so fun. Yeah, she's the sweetest.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
How you managing that?

Speaker 2 (06:06):
The balance of mom and because I feel like the
timing was yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
It's really timing was crazy, right, It's really really hard.

Speaker 4 (06:15):
You know, I got kind of spoiled because during pregnancy
it was it was a pandemic, so it was like,
you know, I felt like I was missing much because
everyone was inside, and so when I had her, it
was kind of the transition when everyone can start going
back outside and then we can start working more outside
of home. So I think the best way for me

(06:35):
to balance it is just bringing her with me, which
exposes her to more music, which I like some things
I need to you know, plug your ears, close the eyes.
But I think the best way for me to maintain
that balance is like I got a bringer.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, you know that's a big shift for you though,
if you think about like you went from like you know,
your fame level hopped quickly at a time, and you
went you became a mom. Yes, and so there's like celebrity,
there's mom this. Like I just feel like there was
like a lot of changes in your life. It's like
a big shift for you.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
No, yes, but I feel like almost motherhood felt like
a super suit. It was like I put a battery
in my back and now I'm like the superversion of
whatever I was before, which is kind of even hard
to remember what I was and how my mindset was
because I've changed so much just instinctively with motherhood. So
I feel like everything that has happened, which at first was.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
Kind of.

Speaker 4 (07:33):
Like frowned upon, it's like I don't know if you're
going to try to do this career and baby, it's
gonna be hard, but like it actually I feel like
became like a gold charm, like it made everything even better.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah, and so I'm happy. I'm super happy.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
No, motherhood is the best thing ever, but it's also
you know it's hard. It's my God does hard.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
It will test and you know it's hard forever.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Right, It's not just hard when they're little, like I
have an eighteen and twenty one, it's still hard.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
Yeah, my mom lets me, she asked, It's like I'm
worried about you, you know, so I feel like it's.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
Always gonna it's always hard. Yeah, but it's kind of great. Yeah. Yeah,
you got a little built in bestie.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, it's so good.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
You Also we have we talk about like just like
daddy issues and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Especially in my podcast. I had a whole episode with
Kelly Rowland because you know, Kelly just reconnected with her
biological dad.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
We connect, we relate on that as well.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
But wait, have you talked have you met do you
know Kelly?

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yes, and you talked to her about this. Yes, Oh,
you did have this conversation.

Speaker 4 (08:31):
We had this conversation actually for Rolling Stones musicians on
musicians that I.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
Recently found out. What we found. We found we could be.

Speaker 4 (08:41):
We could be because we're I think we're more We're
similar in a lot of ways, just as far as
our upbringing. I met my dad for the first time
in my twenties. Really, yeah, we and we met at
an Atlanta hotel.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
Whoa crazy?

Speaker 4 (08:59):
And I found out that your dad's last name is
love It and my family's last name is love It.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
We have loved Funeral Home in Mobile, Alabama, lov Ett.

Speaker 4 (09:11):
Yes, okay, So I'm like, we might need to do
a little twenty three.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
You could get your family's from the South, and like,
I feel like like there's some I feel like there's something. No,
it has to be.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
Something, yes, and like come to find out her dad
has the same last name as my grandmother's families.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
It's like love it.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
So you found out that your biological sisters.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
We imagine we haven't done any DNA testing, but I'm like,
they're from the South. It's like, very there's a huge
chance people are like you guys look alike. We haven't
done it officially, like any testing, but I feel like
we're like your cousins anyway.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
Yes, yes, did you imagine we found out?

Speaker 2 (09:56):
If I would have known this earlier, I'd have had
a DNA expert in here today.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
We could have gotten to the bottom of It's not
too late.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
Maybe next time.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah, I love this. I would love that for you guys.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Yes, So what was the what was the overall kind
of conversation, And.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
It was just it's interesting.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
It's interesting to meet someone that you that's supposed to
technically be so close to you, like you know, you're
one one thing removed from them, and but you're just
meeting them for the first time. So the first time,
for example, when I met my dad, I was already
over twenty one. So the first time we sat down together,
we had a drink. I was like, this is interesting.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
And are you calling him dad because that's a weird thing.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
Right, Yeah, he did. He was like, call me pops.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
I was like, sure, Dad, Yeah, you leaned into that
right away, you know what, honestly, And I hope this
doesn't like feel like therapy. But I my mom got
married when I was sixteen, and I called her husband
to this day mister Michael because I reserved the title
dad for my dad. I felt like I was going
to find him someday, and so I think around twenty

(11:01):
two or twenty three is when I found him on Facebook.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
So so you went looking.

Speaker 4 (11:07):
Yeah, I had been looking since I was twelve, actually,
but he had an alias, so it was it took
some digging, but you know, as women were very good
was he looking? Apparently he was, but I don't know,
maybe not very well?

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Well, right, yeah, does he take accountability for that or no.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
We've kind of talked about, you know, talked about it.
But he seems like he's feeling more like a victim,
like maybe I was taken from him. I don't have
like a clear narrative that you're all that out.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, but you seem very like loving and forgiving about it.
You don't like you're not harboring.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
No, I have to let go. I think a lot
of it.

Speaker 4 (11:48):
From twelve to like twenty three, twenty four, there was
like a lot of like internal conflict of like confidence
and like maybe it's like he doesn't want to be
found or maybe he didn't want me, so like those
thoughts creep in. But now that he's in my life,
he's very adamant about like this, this is what happened,
This is what I'd like to see for us in

(12:09):
our relationship. And you know, I feel like whatever happened
between him and my mother is not my job to mend.
It's really just to move forward with love and respect
and understanding. Because they were both so young, it's like
nineteen twenty, so I can't imagine, like.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
I can't imagine at that age. Has it changed you though?
Does that change you a little bit? Because when you're
a kid and you have that thing missing in your
life and then all of a sudden you don't have
it missing, it's like I think that you know.

Speaker 4 (12:36):
Actually, we spent our first Father's Day together recently and
he was around the house like doing stuff, and I
was like, okay, like I kind of got a sense
of what it would have been like as a kid.
He was like oiling all the screws in the garage.
He was like, give me a list of like what
things I should have liked.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
Garden told her, he's yeah, house, yes, and it was.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
But I love that I got to see my mom
do that. So I feel like that's why I have
a good balance of masculine feminine energies because I got
to see her take care of business and she didn't
need anybody. So it's me now trying to take all
the groceries into one trip. Like you know, we're superhuman
as women. So I think the way that my life played.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
Out was exactly how it's supposed to be. And I
got a taste of you know what it would have
been like.

Speaker 4 (13:21):
But I don't think that if he was in my life,
maybe the things that I have today I wouldn't have
because maybe I would be too comfortable or.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, who knows why things, but you just kind of
have to move forward. I think I'm so happy for you.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
It does like change how what about relationship? Does it
change how you look at relationships?

Speaker 4 (13:39):
Or it kind of shows me a little bit of
like what I want so I can ask for it.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
It's like, what do you want, Let's put it in
the air.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
Alpha, you know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (13:48):
Sometimes because I want to I want to alpha sometimes,
but then I also want to have a say you
know what I mean. I want to be able to
say what I want and like also like one of
my love languages is like gift giving, so like I
don't want to be like the pillow princess.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
It's like, oh, just you know what I mean, like
take care of me. I want to be.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
Able to like I'm gonna pull up in the ferrari,
I'm going to like get the house, I'm gonna take
care of the bills. Sometimes, like I don't want there
should be a balance, but I mean it's empowering for
me to be able to give people something. So I
want to be you know, useful monetarily and like emotionally
and spiritually.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
You know, are you in the what did you you
posted something in the other day about being too sexy
to be?

Speaker 3 (14:29):
Oh, it's a lyric.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
Oh, I got it. It's a lyric.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
So it's a song.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Maybe you were having a moment and you were like reaching.

Speaker 4 (14:37):
On Twitter because you know, I feel like everybody on
Twitter is like all my fans who follow me are like, well,
at least the boys, they're not interested in me. They
want the other boys. But you know, it's just a lyric.
I was just teasing a lyric from my song s
O S with Usher. So it's like the first line
in the hook.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
Mean, did you connect with Usher when you did that tribute?
Is that when this was.

Speaker 4 (15:01):
The first time I met him, was we have the
same vocal coach. So his name is Nick Cooper. Shout
out to Nick Cooper.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
Hi, Nick Cooper, Yes, Hi, Nick Cooper.

Speaker 4 (15:11):
So I was going in for a lesson and he
does Usher And Nick Cooper's always trying to like make
connections and like put people he loves together.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
So he was like, ushers, you just come and say hi.
So I was like, are you sure it's gonna be
okay with like me coming to ushers.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
In the room doing what like me me and me, Like.

Speaker 3 (15:28):
Well, he was finishing.

Speaker 4 (15:29):
I feel like he was putting on his shoes or
something by the time I walked in, because they had
just wrapped up. But he introduced us, so he kind
of like put the bug in his ear, like she's.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
A really talented artist writer.

Speaker 4 (15:38):
So we met. The next time I saw him was
at the Vegas Residency. Incredible show.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
I saw it twice. It's amazing, it's crazy. So I
went back to back, two nights in a row, two
different experiences. Right, He's just he's just king. It's just crazy.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
It's really incredible. I actually just saw Bruno in the
same venue.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
Bruno's great too, by the way, Like.

Speaker 4 (15:56):
Oh my god, superstars and the catalogs people have. So
I'm like, very very inspired by just even the fact
that you can have a Vegas presidency at this age
when I used to think of Vegas Residency, I mean older.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
No, but not anymore. And I'm like I'm hoping that Beyonce, Like.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
Is that what you're putting in the air. You would
like to see Beyonce.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
But at the dome, like at the what does it?

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Did it?

Speaker 2 (16:21):
It would be it would have to be bigger than
anything that anybody's ever seen.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
All the Vegas.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
Yeah, it would be.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
The entire Vegas is shut down because Beyonce is coming.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
Yes, yes, yes, yeah for sure.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
Just so inspired by my you know, people I've I've
watched come before me, and so it's just an honor
to be able to have.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
Wait, but how did the Usher thing? So then he's there,
he's putting his shoes on, does he like know who
you are or anything?

Speaker 3 (16:45):
Seem like it? Okay, but I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
Then how did you get to a point where you're
making a collaboration?

Speaker 3 (16:50):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (16:51):
So my manager, which excuse me, is Executive of the
Year for Billboard.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
Congratulations.

Speaker 4 (17:01):
She I have another song with Usher, and how that
song came about was by her sending it to his
team in La read and I feel like we sent
it through a couple of people.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
So you said the song first, and then he likes
the song.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
Say yes, yeah, and then he reached out.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
So got it? And are you in the studio together.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
For this song.

Speaker 4 (17:18):
Yes, yes, when he recorded his parts together, we were together.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
So what is that? What's happening in the studio?

Speaker 4 (17:24):
Literally he's in the booth for shells outside the booth,
and my assistant Molly's outside the booth, so like I'm
kind of like not vocal producing because I don't want
to tell him much. But he's like asking, like, Okay,
is that cool. I'm like, yes, amazing, great, don't you
don't need for another take?

Speaker 3 (17:39):
I turned around.

Speaker 4 (17:39):
I'm like what, Like I'm freaking out, but I'm trying
to like keep it cool.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
But it was incredible.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
It was so baby. Did you give him any notes?
Were there any notes? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (17:49):
Like very small?

Speaker 4 (17:51):
And then he allowed me to comp his vocal. So
I'm like in the studio, like in the headphone, just
like picking which ones and let him hear it back.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
He's like, I like it.

Speaker 4 (17:59):
So my confidence just went like a couple not just
I'm like, oh my god, it's such a cool experience
to be able to like elaborate with the legend like that.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
That's amazing.

Speaker 4 (18:08):
And we were there for like till like five am.
I was like, Oh, this man doesn't sleep, huh.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
I mean you shouldn't be surprised if somebody like him
will have a work ethically right, right, right right, they
probably have a similar work ethic.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
No, well, I was.

Speaker 4 (18:19):
Also there and I had a Vogue shoot at the
call time with seven Wow. So yeah, I think we're
just very committed to the craft and when we're inspired
by something, we stay so dope.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
So then wait, I saw images. Did you see some
of the comments under the images of you and Usher?

Speaker 3 (18:40):
People? People are crazy on my nerves.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
No, people are crazy.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
Some of them were funny in light though there was
a little because you know, it's like it's tricky with
Usher because he's the sex symbol.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
He's he's in Vegas.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
I mean, I saw what happened with Kiki, He's so happened.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
With you see what happened with all the girls.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
But then he's also married, so this is like a
respect that everybody has, and so everybody in the comments
was was I don't know, I feel that's happening.

Speaker 4 (19:04):
I feel like it's expected when honestly, every almost every
collaboration I've had, I get those types of comments, like
my features with Kaylani, my future was lucky, my future
was ushers.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
They want to pair you as if it's a romantic
thing happening.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
Yeah, but I guess it's because of the song, your
subject matter, and like people, they're allowed to fantasize.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yeah, it's a free country.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
So sure it's part of the experience too, right, that's
part of the art of like creating a song and visuals.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
Is there gonna be a video? Is there?

Speaker 4 (19:34):
We did a visualizer with his schedule, probably not a video.
He actually made time to do, you know, photo shoot
and visualizer in the midst of his tour and everything
else he's doing, so super appreciative for that.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
So you don't want to push it, be like, so, well,
there's a second song.

Speaker 4 (19:53):
So I'm like, well, maybe I save that ask for
the other songs, you know, and then hopefully we can
have time to actually do biography because I feel.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
Like, yeah, you can't do a videos and not have core.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
You gotta dance, So like, I'm excited to do that.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
You've been dancing your whole life, right.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
Almost a lot of it, probably since I was I
took it serious, maybe starting at like twelve. I literally
just found this when my cousin sent me this video
of me on the news.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
Oh my God, it was eighth grade.

Speaker 4 (20:22):
I was on the news because I started a drill
team in eighth grade and so they named me the
Unsung Hero. And I've never seen the footage since, but
it's like me talking about how I had to write this,
you know, this proposal to Coca Cola to get sponsorships
and like bringing uh, you know, people to help. But
there's like eighty people signed up for this drill team.

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So I'm like skipping around and teaching them. And at
the end of the video the interview, I'm like, if
you want to do something, you just gotta go for it.
You can't just sit there and wish for it. I'm like, yeah,
you sounds like it sounds like my mom. I'm like, yeah,
she was training me up. But it was so cool
to see you were yeah kind of like Hazel, right,
she's a way more advanced than me. Like I definitely

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wasn't doing this at two and three and.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
Not Grammy common hated at too. It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
I love that you did our little question, our green
room Q and a oh.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
Yeah, oh so we're bringing this in the interview.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
I wasn't planning to, but I saw some of these
things that I wanted to ask you about and but
one year celebrity crushes Halle Berry. Yes, I believe it's
probably everyone's right.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
Have you met her?

Speaker 4 (21:28):
No, but she did repost when I won the Grammys,
like my speech and I was freaking out, and she
was like something to the likes of like you know
that little girl and you was so proud somewhere around that.
But I was just like, oh my god, Holly Berry
reposted me it's crazy.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
Is that why she's your crush or she's your crush?

Speaker 3 (21:48):
No, she's been.

Speaker 4 (21:49):
She's actually been the she was inspiring as a kid.
She played Dorothy Dandridge. I feel like that was the
first time I was like, oh my god, I love her.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
I love you.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
Bucket list is Bali. Everybody's going to Bali. Now this
is the thing. Yeah, are you going to go there?

Speaker 2 (22:07):
To what heel or just to I mean, I just
want to see what's up, what's over there. At the
end of the day, we're like, we should do a
group trip because everybody's there.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
We want to go. We want to just like be
nosy and see like what is.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
What is happening?

Speaker 1 (22:20):
Is the thing.

Speaker 4 (22:21):
But my friends did go. Then they were like, yeah,
we got the best massages for two dollars.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
I was like, what, I got two dollars? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (22:27):
Literally, but I guess that's like a lot of money.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
You know what surprised me about your Q and A,
there's no. One of the questions is what is your
go to CAO karaoke song? You have none?

Speaker 3 (22:37):
No, I don't really like karaoke. What no?

Speaker 4 (22:41):
I like seeing people do karaoke, but when I get
into the karaoke it feels like, Okay.

Speaker 3 (22:46):
This is my workspace. I need a performance.

Speaker 4 (22:47):
I need choreography, I need like script visualizers, like I
need light, low lying fog. So I'd rather like just
like have to see people around me and like y'all
saying it.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
You know, so you've never do you ever do it?
Or you don't? Not really? Will?

Speaker 3 (23:07):
I know? Interesting like this, maybe you can change it.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
This is not fun for me?

Speaker 3 (23:12):
Is work?

Speaker 2 (23:13):
This is funny too. What's the last thing that sent
you down a TikTok rabbit hole? And you went down
a life rabbit hole?

Speaker 1 (23:19):
How did that? It's such a mom thing?

Speaker 3 (23:23):
Why is it on my for you page? First of all?

Speaker 4 (23:26):
Because what did I type in to make y'all think
I want to see this, but I do want to
see it.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
I kind of you actually see the you.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
Get to see like great because now you're talking to
me now my phone, you're gonna go now it's gonna
be on my phone.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
Yo.

Speaker 4 (23:39):
The phones are wilent. My assistant said something the other
day and she didn't summon Sirie or anything.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
Her phone said, that's not nice.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
No, it happens all the time. It does. It's crazy. No,
it's crazy.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
But yes, she wants to see some lights video.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
I don't want it anyway.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
Well, post the wrestler, people could see all these other
things for you. But congrats on the song. What do
people need to know? What's coming up? What's the next
phase of this? Well, Victoria Monet, is there a deluxe album?
I'm hearing is deluxe?

Speaker 4 (24:13):
I was debating about it because I thought the Grammy
wind would be like a nice like bow on the chapter.
But I did promise fans that I would have a
deluxe And there's so many songs that I've made. It's
happening on October fourth.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
Oh like soon like okay, good.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
Like almost exactly one month from now?

Speaker 1 (24:31):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (24:31):
Yeah, yeah, super exciting.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
And what is it? What's on there. What are we
going to get? Well?

Speaker 4 (24:35):
Sos is the first single off of it. After that,
I'm kind of letting people side. Yeah, what do you
want to hear more of? What do you want you
know to us to focus on? Would you want a video?

Speaker 1 (24:46):
What are you still recording?

Speaker 4 (24:48):
I'm always recording as long as I can get into
the studio. I just want to keep making stuff, you know.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
So all right, so the Deluxe, we get the Deluxe
on October four. Yes, the video, there's no video there.
Maybe a video for the second Usher.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
Song, I hope.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
So the Usher song is out and touring shows what?
What's what about that?

Speaker 4 (25:08):
I think that I would tour, do my own tour
after the next album, Okay, which I don't know when
is coming.

Speaker 3 (25:14):
I'm still working on that.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
Girl, you got to get on it. I know I
want it.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
I know I want it now.

Speaker 4 (25:20):
Well, you know what I think the soonest way for
me to tour is if someone asked me to open
for them.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
Okay, let's put that in the air. Who is the
person who would be the dread?

Speaker 3 (25:29):
But Yonce, she don't need no opener, She.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
Doesn't need an opener, but she ever wanted one?

Speaker 3 (25:35):
Right?

Speaker 2 (25:36):
Also, she also needs a break because she went from
tour to tour to you know, tour.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
To album album.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
Yeah, yeah, you know, she's incredible.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
Okay, Beyonce would be the dream? Is there anybody? I mean,
there's probably a few others that.

Speaker 4 (25:48):
Oh yeah, I mean there's quite there's quite a few
artists that I really like. But I think timing and well,
I think majority of the of it is like timing
when we could go and if I'm done with the album,
because I want to make sure I'm done with that
before I just hop on the road unless we have
a studio set up on the road.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
Making sure I can get the work, get it all. Yeah, yeah,
and I can't.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Next time, you should bring Hazel Oh to tour to
the show so we could talk to her, to talk.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
To her here.

Speaker 4 (26:22):
Okay, she's going to be ready soon. No, seriously, she's
on her way. Yeah, no, she's ready.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
It's so good to say, baby everything. I don't know anything.
People need to know anything you want to leave them with.
October fourth.

Speaker 4 (26:36):
October fourth is really the jam. Potentially Christmas things okay
too late now, yeah, Christmas things potentially, and then new
music after the deluxe of course. Oh I have features
coming out too, with like some approbeats artists, so I

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announce on their own time.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
It feels like.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
Great video like visuals, video content. I just TikTok videos, dances.

Speaker 4 (27:08):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, I have to come in next
time and we'll do a TikTok together.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
Oh God, Okay, I'm gonna do it. I'll do it. Yeah,
I'll do it.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
Man, I'm talking about that everybody.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
But I want to pay point one. I don't know
what the hell. I just committed to you. Yeah, I
committed