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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is big Boy's neighborhood on demand, big neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
All right now, he Key Palmer, welcome to the neighborhood. Queen. No,
it is a pleasure to see you. Get right on
that mic too key.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Yes, I'm right here for you.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
It's a pleasure to see you. Man.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Man, it's so good to see you too.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
You know what, we were just having an all fair
conversation as well, where when you do certain things people
want live. Was just tilling said, man, my wife want
me to pull off thing impossible because when you do
certain things, people just feel like, oh it can happen.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yes, And I'm like, you got to be that as well.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
What happened to me?
Speaker 5 (00:32):
I showed up to work giving over one hundred and
ten percent. That's why I got so many jobs.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah, but you know what can and people tell Isn't
that a good thing?
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Though?
Speaker 5 (00:38):
It is?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
But I showed them too much.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
But you know what it is too when people are
supposed to tell you like, man, it's a blessing. Like
I know it's a blessing. But let me just talk
about this party. Let me just tell you that, hey man,
let me tell you. We were at the Hollywood Unlocked.
They're they handed you that mike in the audience and
that band broke into I'm going down and he key
you healed that.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Oh my gosh, thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
There are first love for you? Is it singing first
then acting?
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Or I mean I would say it's singing just because
I grew up in the church, and that's the first
thing I knew I could do that where I got
a reaction and a response.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I didn't find acting till later, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
But you know when you said later, how old were you?
Idn't find acting till like, oh my god, double.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
It was like no double digit, big, double digits. That's
when I found it. But you know, yes, singing was
the first thing I knew I could do well. I
saw my mama doing it. I tried it in church
and people say, oh, she could sing, And then that
was kind of my intro into acting because when you
were a little kid and people know you're not afraid
to do that, they'd be like, see here that's how
it started.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
What else can she do?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Right? Yeah, and this is why you got these fifty
five thousand jobs.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
If it's not you or Steve Harvey. You know we
can't get away in Steve don't play love that Ben.
Steve would be like, man, don't plan. So you grew
up in the church. I grew up in the church.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
My dad's actually a deacon.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
My mom was a choir director, and so I was
in church every Sunday and even some days where where
you didn't even need to be interested if.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
They want you to do gospel music or you were
so young, it wasn't even about a music career.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
It wasn't about a music career.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
But when I would talk about it, because my mom
did music right, So my mom would take me to
the studio with her. She'd be doing new music in Chicago,
always R and B. So my parents were never like,
oh no, you can't you know what I said. Yeah,
they never was on that.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I came from a religious family, but they wasn't like.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
They were kind of like God loves you, you love
God going to others as they want to do, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So it wasn't like it was strict but not too straight. No, no, yeah, yeah, gotcha.
So you found your voice early.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I found my voice early.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
But all kids can sing, you know, not in some kids.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I mean, it's like the reason why I say that,
king kids, because when you do a talent show, you
can't boodle lord, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
And so so all kids, even if they can't sing,
you're like, oh my god, we loved it, you know,
but you did you have it? You so you had
a voice that carried over.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I did.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
I mean I think I did. Now that you're saying,
it's like, maybe I could have been off, but.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I felt like my picture, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Sharon wouldn't play Sharon my mama.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
She don't lie.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
I had something to work with, you know. Jesus Loved
Me was my first little joint that up in the church.
And I'll never forget. My mom was like, you know,
my mom would always be doing runs and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
So she taught me how to do a little run.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
So it's like.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Jesus loves me. This sign on for all the Bible
tells me so little ones to him below there, but
he is strong.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I did that. I thought that.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I was like, I am Kimberra.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Right, Mom, put the tour together. I'm getting us out
of here. Did you know you were going to be famous?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
If I'm being honest, I think I did.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I did too.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
I don't know if I like if I was saying
the words fame in my mind, but I just knew
like the world was my stage. I always felt like
that as a little kid, and I thought everybody felt
like that.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I used to sign autographs on everything.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I used to sign autographs to people, and it was
like it always started for some reason to such whoever
the name was, and it said always was best wishes.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Oh I love best wishes. Mine was much love?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Right Oh yeah, yeah, see I do much love now
much love. But you knew it.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I did.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
I felt that something. I felt like that I was
walking with with somebody, you know what I'm saying. I
feel to this day feel like that. I credit that
to growing up in the church, you know what I'm saying,
Feeling like that, those early conversations in prayer really got
me in tune with myself.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Right.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
I feel like I still carry that through everything I do,
where it's like why not, you know, why can't I
do it? Why shouldn't I try?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
You know?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Why not?
Speaker 6 (04:36):
Me?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Ky key? We got more to cover, you know what
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Speaker 2 (05:00):
Are your parents afraid of you being in the business?
Speaker 5 (05:03):
You know, I think they were probably more afraid than
they let all. My mom more than my dad, because
you know how moms are.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
My dad was always like we we raised.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Her right sharing, you know, you know, trust that he
has a lot of faith, and not that my mom didn't.
But moms, we know, as a mom myself, we just
carry a little bit more. We don't want to see
you fall, even though we know you got to scrape
your knee.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
We just don't want to go. We don't want to
go through it for us.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And so you're a mother. I'm a mother, right, mother
of one, a.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Mother of one years old?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Too old?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah, yeah, he is really mean.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
What do you mean he is really mean that he
is bossy.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Very mean.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
No, mommy, I'm like mom, can mommy have a kids?
Absolutely not like He's like, no, he know what he wants.
He's like do this, like no, you need to stay here.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Now, very demanding. I don't know if like this is man, do.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
You ever feel like he was born before or like
he's older, Like this is a little like a little man, right,
he is.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Like a grown man. And then he acts like you
don't want to be bothered with me. But when the
fans come up or when something a lot is happening
around me, he started like my bodyguard.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Oh he just too, he's just too.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
What's his sign? He's a pisces?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Oh he's no.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
My mom, I've never made a paces. I didn't like
my mom pisces. My son Jayden pisces. My sister Sharnine
is a pisces. I'm a virgo and you're a virgo
as well.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
And by the way, our month is, I mean we
I don't know if you August is September?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
We own the way.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah, man, what are you doing for your birthday? Do
you plan out or you quiet?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
No?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I do try to plan out. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
I feel like I want to do something fun for it,
but I'm not sure exactly what you know, I'm getting old.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I'm like, do I want to just do it? Six?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I don't know why this is older?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
This is older. You know she do a little dinner,
you know, shell do a little trip.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
I'm trying to figure it out, but I definitely know
I need you know, we got to celebrate.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
What's your actual birthday?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
August twenty sixth?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
August twenty six Are you into like all that?
Speaker 5 (06:52):
You know?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
You know?
Speaker 5 (06:53):
I'm I know my rising is a cancer, my moon
is a sad.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I got a lot going on.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
How do you figure that out? Because when people ask me.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
I'm like, so you got to you gotta know your
birth time, see and where you was born and you
can do it all.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Really, I gotta find.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
On my time.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
You gotta find that birth certificate.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Really damn even have it.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Maybe I wasn't even born, maybe I'm not here, But
do you find that? Do you find that being accurate
where you say I'm a virgo and then cancer?
Speaker 5 (07:26):
I actually do look astrology. I like it for the
personality stuff more than the horoscope. When they start trying
to predict your life and stuff, it just doesn't add
up and it's like you're interpreting something. You could be
interpreting it wrong, like you're not about to predict it really,
you know what I mean? I don't love that. But
the personality breakdown, you know what you might be more
inclined to do, what type of things you might be
more interested in your character traits. I do feel like
(07:48):
that on some metaphysical vibe, it makes sense.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
I'm scared of that. I'm scared of too much information sometimes.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
I mean, that's valid because honestly, then that's why I
don't love the prediction, because where are you leading me?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
You're now leading me.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
And then you're living towards that. Do you do? Do
you do like palm readings and all that.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I've done it before.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I've got to do that.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I've done like past life readings.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
I did reiki one time I started crying on my chest,
so I didn't know if it was just hurting or
if I was emotional.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
What you say, ky child?
Speaker 5 (08:19):
So they lay you down and they're like, you know,
we calm you know, we're gonna just like work through things.
You know what I'm saying. They started like doing like
on your chests and everything like that, and that she
was going. I felt like I was feeling but also
it was hurting me.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Is it just hurting me?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I'm something emotional.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I felt like you're beating me.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Did for a part or something like that? Or you
a failt actress? All right, y'all, stick around, y'all, radios.
We got more with Key Key Palmer in the Neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
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like energy, Oh man to know the man, Thank you, queen.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
And there's so many people.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
I always say that, characters being what's said about you
when you're not in the room, and when you're not
in the room, people say the most beautiful things next
to your name. I haven't heard anything where it's and
plus I wouldn't believe it, but your name always has
this tone of where people just champion and they and
they love you. And I'm pretty sure that's not by design,
(09:25):
where it's like, oh, I got to do this and
do this and I want to send a representative and
let them know the real Meed but but where does
that energy come from, Kiki?
Speaker 5 (09:33):
You know what, It just comes from a little bit
what I was saying, like growing up in a church,
like having just a community background, feeling like if I'm
doing something and I'm shining, it ain't just for me,
you know.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I think that's just what I leave with. I want
people to have joy wherever I'm in the room.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
And you know, I think again, as I've grown, I'm
learning that that's not my.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Duty, Ronnie. I can't make everybody happy.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
But you know, coming from where I come from, that's
a lot of where my love for entertainment was born.
It was birth in Okay, we in poverty, things going on.
Let me let me crack a joke real quick, let
me sing a song.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Let me do a little something so you relief as well?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Absolutely you too.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
When you could see people aren't saying there's a lot
of things that's going on said, and a lot of
people don't know how to sam, and it's okay. If
they don't want to sam, I can feel them and
let me figure out how to shift the paradigm.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
And that's really where my love for performance was born.
With seven as a kid man, I'll be in it.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
We'll do the picnic, We'll do the backyard booget, get
out that dass Kiki. I started moving doing whatever, just
to see joy in the moment.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
What about early on when you get to you and
not even aequila, I mean early on, did you know
that that, aside from I want to be famous, did
you know you were so called different?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I did know.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
I didn't know that I was different because of the awareness.
I was always really sensitive. I would go up to
people like you sad you know what I'm saying, or like,
you know what's going on with pick up their vibe.
I've always been like very empathetic, and I think I
felt that that was weird a gift. It's a gift
in accurse and a lot of that you probably can relate.
That's a lot of where my humor comes from because
I'm trying to soften what I know.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
So I'm being like, so I.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Don't spook you, but I'm like, it's a rough day
to day, ain't you know?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
But I'm really trying.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
To like open up that door to talk about what
we really want to talk about.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Type vibe.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Where do you get that from?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Though?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Because you know how you could be the comic relief,
or you could be the shoulder, or you could be
the ear, Like where do you go? Because at some
point you got to you know how, It's like, oh,
I'm I'm so much for everybody else?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Man where do you find Key Key time.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
That's where I'm trying to figure out.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
You know, I think some of it is with my family,
because when I'm want my family, you know, people always
ask what do you in my family? I'm sometimes really quiet,
you know that I'm just the one sitting in the corner,
especially these days, like you know what i mean, unless
there's a moment or reason, I'm kind of like, hey,
I'm chilling everybody else talking, and they know that's just
Kiky being kiky. You know.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Do you ever get people that come up to you
and ask you what's wrong because I'm not performing?
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
It's just something Key Key, you got time to hang
out with us a little bit more, you know, I
got time. I'm glad you said that. All right, y'all
stick around, y'all radios. We got more a Key Key
Palmer in the neighborhood, Big boys neighborhood.
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Speaker 4 (12:15):
What's your motivation though, because and I'm gonna and the
reason why I ask you that, Kekey, is because, and
it may sound crazy, but I think a lot of
my motivation I'm.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Motivated by fear. That's really interesting.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
And the reason why I say that, Kekey, is because
I've been homeless, My family's been homeless, you know, and
not that you could lose it all and somebody probably
look at this and you know, diagnose me or therapy.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I've been through it. Yeah, but yeah, it's this thing
of I gotta do this.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
And that could even be a problem too, because I
always felt like I had to I was chasing something.
But I think my motivation and you can say motivation
for family, but then that comes back down to ooh,
I don't want to lose this motivation, you know.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
So do you know what your motivation is? Or is that?
Is that too much of a broad that's.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Not too much a brow stroke? And I do relate
to some of that fear thing.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
I do think that has existed in me for sure
of that, you know, scarcity mindset, you know of just like.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I gotta make it. I gotta make I gotta do.
You know, I can't let this in, you know.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
But then also I think on the other side, especially
as I've gotten older, it's become legacy.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
What am I leaving behind?
Speaker 5 (13:22):
And that started right when I did no, because I
felt like I had done the full circle from being
a child entertainer to now being an adult and having
this big moment and I said, okay, well, now like
I could keep doing stuff, but like what am I
turning it into? You know, Am I gonna be Mickey
Mouse forever? Or do I get to be walk Disney?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (13:38):
And so then it became like I want to be
like stay Lauder and leaving my son the company.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
You know, her sons run her company. Like when I.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Realized that Es stay Lauder was a real lady at
one time, you know, she had kids, and now they
run her company. I said, I want Leotis to be
able to run Keky Palmer company.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
I want him to be your Hey, dude, let me
tell you that's why your son is like that. Literally
he tapped into the old li Otises of the world. Man, there,
he's probably got to be the only two year old
li Otis.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
No, he has to be.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
I gave him such a were walking with Martin Luther
King names and Jackson.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Okay, hey, man, if that's not powerful, you know what
I mean?
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Oh my god, I can't believe that your son named
you know, Liotis is one of my go to names.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Oh my god, man, it feels so strong.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
It's powerful though, feels very like yes.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
And I'm going to tell you if somebody say Liotis,
I know exactly who you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I'm not thinking of like, man white Liotis.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
You know what I'm saying, I'm not When you say Liotas,
I'm like, oh that's a brother.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Literally.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Okay, that's a powerful name too, though, thank you.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Yeah, that's what I wanted to give him, you know
what I'm saying, something that felt like it.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Had Rootsy you got time to hang out with us
a little bit more, man, you know I got time.
I'm glad you said that. All right, y'all stick around
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Palmer in the neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
So you got a project coming with with Eddie Murky
to pick.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Up on a prime on Pete Davison and Pete Davis.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
What is this?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Man? So this is like an action comedy. It's a
little I've seen it, but.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I could be wrong. Have I seen a trailer for this?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
You did?
Speaker 6 (15:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Okay, y'a can check that trader out.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
My character is kind of like a little like anti
you know, hero type of situation.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
She's the villain in the movie.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
She pretty much takes Pete and Eddie captive their two trucks.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I did see this Trader, yes, yes.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
So it's the action comedy kind of like a throwback
type vibe. But Eddie was I mean, it was so amazing.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Work with him.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Is that your first time working with and we grow
up on Eddie?
Speaker 5 (15:48):
I mean, who don't love Eddie Freak like dude? Working
with him was a dream come true. I'm like, damn,
this is crazy cakes.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
You working?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
You know? Okay?
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Did you learn from as much as you know, you
know what I'm saying, What did you learn? Did you
learn anything from Eddie Murphy.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
As I did watching him?
Speaker 5 (16:12):
You know, improv is something that I think when I
started really getting in the comedy was around like right
before Screen Queens, that TV show that I did with
Ryan Murphy. So I started like really getting into my
comedy bag and you know, nurturing that muscle of improvisation.
But when I did the movie with Eddie, watching him,
watching how his commentary is rooted in the situation, like
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it's the truth of the moment. He's never pushing or
trying to be funny, It's just he's the voice of
what we all are thinking in that situation.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
It really helped me with One of Them.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Days because I did pick up right before one of
them Days, and I feel like I brought a lot
of what I learned and watched in him to that movie.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
One of Them Days. Now that's you. I thought you
did it? You stop that.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
You know, really I can say our movie period period,
yeah man, and with you. And I thought that Sissa
did an amazing job.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Wasn't she great?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Yeah man? And was that Scissa's like first first.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Thing mayor first movie?
Speaker 5 (17:08):
I mean, I never known her to act ever, and
she was excellent from the chemistry rewek.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Could you see anything where it was like and not
insecurities because sometimes you know, you could be the queen
of the stage, Like even with me, I could be
in radio. This is my thirty first year in radio.
I could sit here and I can have the most fun.
But then when I go somewhere else, if I'm doing
a TV show, if I'm doing something else, it's a
different zone for me.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yeah, so I treat it different, not better or different, but.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
It's like, Okay, I don't want to miss nothing up,
I don't want to Did you find that with Scissa,
like this being her first thing.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Well, sister, I mean, I'm sure you probably could imagine
seeing how successfully successful she is. She's a perfectionist, so
she definitely brought the energy of Hey, this is all
new for me, so I want to make sure that
I get it right, especially on things that they never
really teach you about, like blocking.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
You know what I'm saying, Like these are all so
she's learning.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Learning on the drop of a hat. But she's doing
so great. But her perfectionism, she ain't gonna never live
in it. So she's kind of like, let's make sure,
you know, I want to get it right, you know
what I mean. So to see that from her, she
was really treating it like, you know, this is serious.
She wasn't just resting in it. She was every day
bringing her a game, making sure she was on point.
And I mean, that's why she is.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Who she is.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Key Key, you got time to hang out with us
a little bit more, man, You know I got time.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I'm glad you said that. All right, y'all stick around,
y'all radios.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
We got more with Key Key Palmer in the Neighborhood,
Big Boys Neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Big Boys Neighborhood on demand.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
For more, subscribe to our YouTube channel, big Boy TV,
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Speaker 4 (18:32):
Hig Boys Neighborhood, Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Ladies and gentlemen,
Key Key Palmer in the Neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
What's being mom like? Because you know what's wild about that?
Speaker 4 (18:42):
We did so much before we had our kids, and
we thought certain things were important, and then you have
that child, and what happens.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Life becomes so much more clearer.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
What really deserves your time and energy becomes so simple
to understand you're able to remove yourself say no to
things that you never thought you could say no too,
like your your self. Love becomes greater simply because you
know you got to be your best for that baby,
and so it becomes I mean, I think, how did
you think I realized until I have my son how
much I was giving out for free, right for free?
Speaker 4 (19:15):
But you know what's wild about that is did you
ever do you ever wonder, like, man, what was I
doing before this little one game?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Doing too much? Yeah, for no reason?
Speaker 5 (19:26):
And then when that baby comes, you realize, let me
really don't in and let me only do what I
need to do.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Only, let me only do what makes.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
It really becomes of what matters, what.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Matters, and what's also giving back to me because I
have no time?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Is this.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Figure, y'all?
Speaker 4 (19:41):
How do you and I always called it in the
neighborhood knows there's this thing that are called enoughs And
you got to have a lot of enoughs.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
You gotta be public enough, private enough, mom enough, actious enough,
queen enough, black enough, corporate enough hood enough.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
This How yeah, how do you handle those?
Speaker 4 (20:00):
No?
Speaker 5 (20:01):
You nailed it because I'm sure every artist thinks about that,
but when you are a black artist, the whole thing
of like my culture. But then I gotta speak the
language to let people know my culture in the certain rooms,
and I gotta butter still let them know it's a girl.
But I thought, hey, how y'all doing. You know, It's
like we've got to do a lot of thinking, and
I think how I try to get myself down to
(20:21):
the core of it is like what is true? What
is sincere? You know, cause you don't want a shuck
and jive for the shuck and jive, you know what
I mean. But you also don't want to feel like
you're hiding your truth or your culture. You know, I'm
a girl from Chicago. I am your girl, and the
gag is you know. But at the same time, like
that I'm not a monolith. That's not all I am.
And I think that's something that my parents would talk
(20:42):
to me about all the time, and they would have
me look at specific people, knowing that I was going
to be coming into this world as a black woman,
you know, dealing with assimilation, understanding what code switching is,
all these things that we had to deal with, and
she would say, well, look at Queen Latifa, She's always
who she is. She's able to be the cover girl,
and she's able to still be the girl to set
it off. You know, look at will Smith Fresh Princeville Air.
(21:04):
He also is I robot. You know, look at these
entertainers that have been able to, yes, always keep that
culture forward, but also know how to maintain being a
black person in America. And so I just think it's
something that we all have to think about. And even
if you're not an entertainer, if you're just that person
that's trying to climb the corporate ladder, trying to build
your enterprise, it is a lot, you know. And I
talk about that in my book Master of Me, where
(21:25):
at the end of the day, you know, we're not alone.
We're all dealing with the same things, and all we
can do is lead with sincerity. I'm being truthful, I'm
being honest. I'm not doing this for anything specific other
than to feed myself, feed my family, and create.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
What I love.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
That's it, Key, Key, you got time to hang out
with us a little bit more.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Man, you know, I got time.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
I'm glad you said that. All right, y'all stick around
y'all radios. We got more with Key Key Palmer in
the Neighborhood, Big Boys Neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
This is Big Boy on Demand, Big.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Boy's Neighborhood, Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Ladies and gentlemen,
Key Key Palmer in the Neighborhood. Why the title though,
and we've heard just Key Key before. Yeah, you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
But why that title? And I understand the low hanging
fruit of it?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Yeah, because at the end of the day, whatever it is,
you're just I'm just Kiki.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
I'm just a person.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
And I think because I've always carried that weight, you know,
I've always carried that responsibility of being the best, being
undeniable because I had to be.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
No, I had to be undeniable.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
My family drove four days and three nights to California
for me to pursue my dream.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
My dad pulled his pension. You know what I'm saying.
My parents were young.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
My mom was thirty two, my dad was thirty six,
and I had to succeed, you know, I had to succeed.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Could you feel that so called pressure then, man.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, And I think I pushed it
down like I just pushed it down because there was
no time. So now I'm dealing with all of that.
And so when we get to the point of the
album and everything that sparked the album, having my son,
the public fallout, all of that brought all that to
a head where it's like, let's not perform and do
this no longer for survival. Let's do it for the
(22:59):
embodiment of joy. Let's start responding, you know, Let's start
living in life from that place instead of feeling like
this is what I have to do because I have
to blah blah, no, no, no, let me do it
because I love it. At the end of the day,
y'all see it, y'all know it. Y'all have always known
me as Kicky Palmer, but I'm just Kiki at the
end of the day.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
And just let's meet each other here at this new phase.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
How can you keep yourself public in private at the
same time because everybody now, everybody wants more and they
feel like they deserve more, and this comes with the job,
you know, and now there's so many things that's even
more intrusive. How do you deal with that gift and curse?
Speaker 3 (23:38):
It's like I get that some of it comes with
the job, you know what I mean. You know, it's like, yeah,
I get it.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I hate that.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
I hate that though, because it's like, at the end
of the day, like we need to have a better
understanding of what parasocial relationships are. And I do try
to talk about that a lot, you know, both in
my book and the album, where it's like meet me
at like this is let me understand.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
This is my job, y'all.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
This is my job.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
And if you see me with my son on the streets.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
And say hey, but like I don't know if a
picture is right now, you know what I mean, Like say,
what's up, Let's give it more of a mayor energy. Fine,
you know, let's keep it so we can, like I
want to have a better relationship of respect between us,
and so I think, you know, I don't know that
there's any quick fix on that.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
But at the end of the day, you know.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
I'm being real with my audience, like it's like this
is the truth. You know, when I see them out,
I let them know, hey, I don't this is I'm
with my son, with my family. Ain't trying to do
that right now. If it's a time I say, okay, cool,
this is the vibe. But I'm really working on that because, yeah,
I want I want to be a human being, you know,
I want to be able to exist privately and still
show respect to the people that support my business.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Right, you know, how do you pick and choose, like say,
friends with the pickup?
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Right?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Do you auditions still or they just know they want
key Key Palmer.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
They know they want Kekey Palmer, you know. And you know,
the industry has ebbs and flows, it has waves. You know,
some people still want to, hey, let's do a chemistry
read or some people might say, hey, I wanted to
just meet with the director, just talk about the script,
you know. But then there's some things where it's just
like this is the offer, you know. And I feel
like I've worked so much with Amazon in the last
you know, five six years.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
That wow, where the so called what the studios are
now or where? Hey man, it has been a shift.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
It's been a I mean, when you see what I did,
let me tell how much something I didn't Amazon.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
I've done a book, I got an audio book. I
got books of my.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Character, whole franchise character Lady mister Jacqueline. I got my podcast.
I just did to pick up with them, about to
do another movie with them, to see what you know.
I'm big on entrepreneurship. Aside from me being Kicky Palm
and entertainer, I'm I'm an entrepreneur and I have partners,
you know. And Amazon has been a good partner to me.
Universal has been a good partner to me. Disney's one
(25:46):
of my oldest partners, you know what I mean. And
so for me, it's like I talk a lot about that,
Like you know, we no longer live in a time
where you can have and do one thing you want.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
You cannot depend on one business. Don't set us up
up for failion.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Now you be here today and gone tonight.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
So it's like I really love like people say, you
do so much what I have to.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Ki Kei Palmer, thank you for coming into the neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
For all those out there, you can find this entire
interview at Big Boy TV, our YouTube channel. As you're watching,
hit that subscribe button. Kekey Palmer, once again, thank you
for coming into the neighborhood. Big Boys Neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
Eighties.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
You're finding a Big Boy from Big Boy's neighborhood on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
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Speaker 7 (26:30):
Hey, sus, what you got, my brethren, This neighbor of
mine is just he is really pushing it, dude, he
really is pushing it. This guy about a new car.
He bought one of those hell cats or whatever it's called.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Give me hell.
Speaker 7 (26:42):
Ever, since it's so loud, I put my phone just
to like here the look, how loudest thing is.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
He?
Speaker 7 (26:56):
So he has to be Like twenty two twenty one,
I live next to Fraturnity. There was a party going on,
and I think that's what he was trying to, like
show off of the party.
Speaker 8 (27:06):
That's him in the passenger seat, Like come on, Brad, Yeah,
you guys, thank you for listening.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
It is upon a big boy, big boys neighborhood. You
can catch more of us right here on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
Big boy has left the building.
This is big Boy's neighborhood on demand, big neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
All right now, he Key Palmer, welcome to the neighborhood. Queen. No,
it is a pleasure to see you. Get right on
that mic too key.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Yes, I'm right here for you.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
It's a pleasure to see you. Man.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Man, it's so good to see you too.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
You know what, we were just having an all fair
conversation as well, where when you do certain things people
want live. Was just tilling said, man, my wife want
me to pull off thing impossible because when you do
certain things, people just feel like, oh it can happen.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yes, And I'm like, you got to be that as well.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
What happened to me?
Speaker 5 (00:32):
I showed up to work giving over one hundred and
ten percent. That's why I got so many jobs.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah, but you know what can and people tell Isn't
that a good thing?
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Though?
Speaker 5 (00:38):
It is?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
But I showed them too much.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
But you know what it is too when people are
supposed to tell you like, man, it's a blessing. Like
I know it's a blessing. But let me just talk
about this party. Let me just tell you that, hey man,
let me tell you. We were at the Hollywood Unlocked.
They're they handed you that mike in the audience and
that band broke into I'm going down and he key
you healed that.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Oh my gosh, thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
There are first love for you? Is it singing first
then acting?
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Or I mean I would say it's singing just because
I grew up in the church, and that's the first
thing I knew I could do that where I got
a reaction and a response.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I didn't find acting till later, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
But you know when you said later, how old were you?
Idn't find acting till like, oh my god, double.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
It was like no double digit, big, double digits. That's
when I found it. But you know, yes, singing was
the first thing I knew I could do well. I
saw my mama doing it. I tried it in church
and people say, oh, she could sing, And then that
was kind of my intro into acting because when you
were a little kid and people know you're not afraid
to do that, they'd be like, see here that's how
it started.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
What else can she do?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Right? Yeah, and this is why you got these fifty
five thousand jobs.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
If it's not you or Steve Harvey. You know we
can't get away in Steve don't play love that Ben.
Steve would be like, man, don't plan. So you grew
up in the church. I grew up in the church.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
My dad's actually a deacon.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
My mom was a choir director, and so I was
in church every Sunday and even some days where where
you didn't even need to be interested if.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
They want you to do gospel music or you were
so young, it wasn't even about a music career.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
It wasn't about a music career.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
But when I would talk about it, because my mom
did music right, So my mom would take me to
the studio with her. She'd be doing new music in Chicago,
always R and B. So my parents were never like,
oh no, you can't you know what I said. Yeah,
they never was on that.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I came from a religious family, but they wasn't like.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
They were kind of like God loves you, you love
God going to others as they want to do, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So it wasn't like it was strict but not too straight. No, no, yeah, yeah, gotcha.
So you found your voice early.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I found my voice early.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
But all kids can sing, you know, not in some kids.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I mean, it's like the reason why I say that,
king kids, because when you do a talent show, you
can't boodle lord, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
And so so all kids, even if they can't sing,
you're like, oh my god, we loved it, you know,
but you did you have it? You so you had
a voice that carried over.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I did.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
I mean I think I did. Now that you're saying,
it's like, maybe I could have been off, but.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I felt like my picture, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Sharon wouldn't play Sharon my mama.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
She don't lie.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
I had something to work with, you know. Jesus Loved
Me was my first little joint that up in the church.
And I'll never forget. My mom was like, you know,
my mom would always be doing runs and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
So she taught me how to do a little run.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
So it's like.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Jesus loves me. This sign on for all the Bible
tells me so little ones to him below there, but
he is strong.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I did that. I thought that.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I was like, I am Kimberra.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Right, Mom, put the tour together. I'm getting us out
of here. Did you know you were going to be famous?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
If I'm being honest, I think I did.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I did too.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
I don't know if I like if I was saying
the words fame in my mind, but I just knew
like the world was my stage. I always felt like
that as a little kid, and I thought everybody felt
like that.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I used to sign autographs on everything.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I used to sign autographs to people, and it was
like it always started for some reason to such whoever
the name was, and it said always was best wishes.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Oh I love best wishes. Mine was much love?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Right Oh yeah, yeah, see I do much love now
much love. But you knew it.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I did.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
I felt that something. I felt like that I was
walking with with somebody, you know what I'm saying. I
feel to this day feel like that. I credit that
to growing up in the church, you know what I'm saying,
Feeling like that, those early conversations in prayer really got
me in tune with myself.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Right.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
I feel like I still carry that through everything I do,
where it's like why not, you know, why can't I
do it? Why shouldn't I try?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
You know?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Why not?
Speaker 6 (04:36):
Me?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Ky key? We got more to cover, you know what
I'm saying? We got more? Key, Key, Palmer in the Neighborhood,
Big Boys Neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Big Boys Neighborhood on demand.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
For more, subscribe to our YouTube channel, big Boy TV,
and check out Radio big Boy dot.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Com, Big Boys Neighborhood, Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Ladies
and gentlemen, Key Key Palmer in of the Neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Are your parents afraid of you being in the business?
Speaker 5 (05:03):
You know, I think they were probably more afraid than
they let all. My mom more than my dad, because
you know how moms are.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
My dad was always like we we raised.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Her right sharing, you know, you know, trust that he
has a lot of faith, and not that my mom didn't.
But moms, we know, as a mom myself, we just
carry a little bit more. We don't want to see
you fall, even though we know you got to scrape
your knee.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
We just don't want to go. We don't want to
go through it for us.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And so you're a mother. I'm a mother, right, mother
of one, a.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Mother of one years old?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Too old?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah, yeah, he is really mean.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
What do you mean he is really mean that he
is bossy.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Very mean.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
No, mommy, I'm like mom, can mommy have a kids?
Absolutely not like He's like, no, he know what he wants.
He's like do this, like no, you need to stay here.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Now, very demanding. I don't know if like this is man, do.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
You ever feel like he was born before or like
he's older, Like this is a little like a little man, right,
he is.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Like a grown man. And then he acts like you
don't want to be bothered with me. But when the
fans come up or when something a lot is happening
around me, he started like my bodyguard.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Oh he just too, he's just too.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
What's his sign? He's a pisces?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Oh he's no.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
My mom, I've never made a paces. I didn't like
my mom pisces. My son Jayden pisces. My sister Sharnine
is a pisces. I'm a virgo and you're a virgo
as well.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
And by the way, our month is, I mean we
I don't know if you August is September?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
We own the way.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah, man, what are you doing for your birthday? Do
you plan out or you quiet?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
No?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I do try to plan out. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
I feel like I want to do something fun for it,
but I'm not sure exactly what you know, I'm getting old.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I'm like, do I want to just do it? Six?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I don't know why this is older?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
This is older. You know she do a little dinner,
you know, shell do a little trip.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
I'm trying to figure it out, but I definitely know
I need you know, we got to celebrate.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
What's your actual birthday?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
August twenty sixth?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
August twenty six Are you into like all that?
Speaker 5 (06:52):
You know?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
You know?
Speaker 5 (06:53):
I'm I know my rising is a cancer, my moon
is a sad.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I got a lot going on.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
How do you figure that out? Because when people ask me.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
I'm like, so you got to you gotta know your
birth time, see and where you was born and you
can do it all.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Really, I gotta find.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
On my time.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
You gotta find that birth certificate.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Really damn even have it.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Maybe I wasn't even born, maybe I'm not here, But
do you find that? Do you find that being accurate
where you say I'm a virgo and then cancer?
Speaker 5 (07:26):
I actually do look astrology. I like it for the
personality stuff more than the horoscope. When they start trying
to predict your life and stuff, it just doesn't add
up and it's like you're interpreting something. You could be
interpreting it wrong, like you're not about to predict it really,
you know what I mean? I don't love that. But
the personality breakdown, you know what you might be more
inclined to do, what type of things you might be
more interested in your character traits. I do feel like
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that on some metaphysical vibe, it makes sense.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
I'm scared of that. I'm scared of too much information sometimes.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
I mean, that's valid because honestly, then that's why I
don't love the prediction, because where are you leading me?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
You're now leading me.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
And then you're living towards that. Do you do? Do
you do like palm readings and all that.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I've done it before.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I've got to do that.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I've done like past life readings.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
I did reiki one time I started crying on my chest,
so I didn't know if it was just hurting or
if I was emotional.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
What you say, ky child?
Speaker 5 (08:19):
So they lay you down and they're like, you know,
we calm you know, we're gonna just like work through things.
You know what I'm saying. They started like doing like
on your chests and everything like that, and that she
was going. I felt like I was feeling but also
it was hurting me.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Is it just hurting me?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I'm something emotional.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I felt like you're beating me.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Did for a part or something like that? Or you
a failt actress? All right, y'all, stick around, y'all, radios.
We got more with Key Key Palmer in the Neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Big Boys Neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
This is big Boy on demand, Big.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Boys Neighborhood, Beautiful day in the neighborhood, Ladies and gentlemen,
Key Key Palmer in the neighborhood. You have the greatest
like energy, Oh man to know the man, Thank you, queen.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
And there's so many people.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
I always say that, characters being what's said about you
when you're not in the room, and when you're not
in the room, people say the most beautiful things next
to your name. I haven't heard anything where it's and
plus I wouldn't believe it, but your name always has
this tone of where people just champion and they and
they love you. And I'm pretty sure that's not by design,
(09:25):
where it's like, oh, I got to do this and
do this and I want to send a representative and
let them know the real Meed but but where does
that energy come from, Kiki?
Speaker 5 (09:33):
You know what, It just comes from a little bit
what I was saying, like growing up in a church,
like having just a community background, feeling like if I'm
doing something and I'm shining, it ain't just for me,
you know.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I think that's just what I leave with. I want
people to have joy wherever I'm in the room.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
And you know, I think again, as I've grown, I'm
learning that that's not my.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Duty, Ronnie. I can't make everybody happy.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
But you know, coming from where I come from, that's
a lot of where my love for entertainment was born.
It was birth in Okay, we in poverty, things going on.
Let me let me crack a joke real quick, let
me sing a song.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Let me do a little something so you relief as well?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Absolutely you too.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
When you could see people aren't saying there's a lot
of things that's going on said, and a lot of
people don't know how to sam, and it's okay. If
they don't want to sam, I can feel them and
let me figure out how to shift the paradigm.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
And that's really where my love for performance was born.
With seven as a kid man, I'll be in it.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
We'll do the picnic, We'll do the backyard booget, get
out that dass Kiki. I started moving doing whatever, just
to see joy in the moment.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
What about early on when you get to you and
not even aequila, I mean early on, did you know
that that, aside from I want to be famous, did
you know you were so called different?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I did know.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
I didn't know that I was different because of the awareness.
I was always really sensitive. I would go up to
people like you sad you know what I'm saying, or like,
you know what's going on with pick up their vibe.
I've always been like very empathetic, and I think I
felt that that was weird a gift. It's a gift
in accurse and a lot of that you probably can relate.
That's a lot of where my humor comes from because
I'm trying to soften what I know.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
So I'm being like, so I.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Don't spook you, but I'm like, it's a rough day
to day, ain't you know?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
But I'm really trying.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
To like open up that door to talk about what
we really want to talk about.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Type vibe.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Where do you get that from?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Though?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Because you know how you could be the comic relief,
or you could be the shoulder, or you could be
the ear, Like where do you go? Because at some
point you got to you know how, It's like, oh,
I'm I'm so much for everybody else?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Man where do you find Key Key time.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
That's where I'm trying to figure out.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
You know, I think some of it is with my family,
because when I'm want my family, you know, people always
ask what do you in my family? I'm sometimes really quiet,
you know that I'm just the one sitting in the corner,
especially these days, like you know what i mean, unless
there's a moment or reason, I'm kind of like, hey,
I'm chilling everybody else talking, and they know that's just
Kiky being kiky. You know.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Do you ever get people that come up to you
and ask you what's wrong because I'm not performing?
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
It's just something Key Key, you got time to hang
out with us a little bit more, you know, I
got time. I'm glad you said that. All right, y'all
stick around, y'all radios. We got more a Key Key
Palmer in the neighborhood, Big boys neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
This is big boy on Demand, Big.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Boys, neighborhood, beautiful they in the neighborhood, Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Key Key Palmer in the neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
What's your motivation though, because and I'm gonna and the
reason why I ask you that, Kekey, is because, and
it may sound crazy, but I think a lot of
my motivation I'm.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Motivated by fear. That's really interesting.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
And the reason why I say that, Kekey, is because
I've been homeless, My family's been homeless, you know, and
not that you could lose it all and somebody probably
look at this and you know, diagnose me or therapy.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I've been through it. Yeah, but yeah, it's this thing
of I gotta do this.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
And that could even be a problem too, because I
always felt like I had to I was chasing something.
But I think my motivation and you can say motivation
for family, but then that comes back down to ooh,
I don't want to lose this motivation, you know.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
So do you know what your motivation is? Or is that?
Is that too much of a broad that's.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Not too much a brow stroke? And I do relate
to some of that fear thing.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
I do think that has existed in me for sure
of that, you know, scarcity mindset, you know of just like.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I gotta make it. I gotta make I gotta do.
You know, I can't let this in, you know.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
But then also I think on the other side, especially
as I've gotten older, it's become legacy.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
What am I leaving behind?
Speaker 5 (13:22):
And that started right when I did no, because I
felt like I had done the full circle from being
a child entertainer to now being an adult and having
this big moment and I said, okay, well, now like
I could keep doing stuff, but like what am I
turning it into? You know, Am I gonna be Mickey
Mouse forever? Or do I get to be walk Disney?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (13:38):
And so then it became like I want to be
like stay Lauder and leaving my son the company.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
You know, her sons run her company. Like when I.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Realized that Es stay Lauder was a real lady at
one time, you know, she had kids, and now they
run her company. I said, I want Leotis to be
able to run Keky Palmer company.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
I want him to be your Hey, dude, let me
tell you that's why your son is like that. Literally
he tapped into the old li Otises of the world. Man, there,
he's probably got to be the only two year old
li Otis.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
No, he has to be.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
I gave him such a were walking with Martin Luther
King names and Jackson.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Okay, hey, man, if that's not powerful, you know what
I mean?
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Oh my god, I can't believe that your son named
you know, Liotis is one of my go to names.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Oh my god, man, it feels so strong.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
It's powerful though, feels very like yes.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
And I'm going to tell you if somebody say Liotis,
I know exactly who you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I'm not thinking of like, man white Liotis.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
You know what I'm saying, I'm not When you say Liotas,
I'm like, oh that's a brother.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Literally.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Okay, that's a powerful name too, though, thank you.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Yeah, that's what I wanted to give him, you know
what I'm saying, something that felt like it.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Had Rootsy you got time to hang out with us
a little bit more, man, you know I got time.
I'm glad you said that. All right, y'all stick around
your radios. We got more with Key Key Palmer in
the neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Big Boy neighborhood is big Boy on Demand, Big.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Boys Neighborhood, Beautiful in the neighborhood, Ladies and gentlemen, Key Keith.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Palmer in the neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
So you got a project coming with with Eddie Murky
to pick.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Up on a prime on Pete Davison and Pete Davis.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
What is this?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Man? So this is like an action comedy. It's a
little I've seen it, but.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I could be wrong. Have I seen a trailer for this?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
You did?
Speaker 6 (15:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Okay, y'a can check that trader out.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
My character is kind of like a little like anti
you know, hero type of situation.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
She's the villain in the movie.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
She pretty much takes Pete and Eddie captive their two trucks.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I did see this Trader, yes, yes.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
So it's the action comedy kind of like a throwback
type vibe. But Eddie was I mean, it was so amazing.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Work with him.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Is that your first time working with and we grow
up on Eddie?
Speaker 5 (15:48):
I mean, who don't love Eddie Freak like dude? Working
with him was a dream come true. I'm like, damn,
this is crazy cakes.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
You working?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
You know? Okay?
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Did you learn from as much as you know, you
know what I'm saying, What did you learn? Did you
learn anything from Eddie Murphy.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
As I did watching him?
Speaker 5 (16:12):
You know, improv is something that I think when I
started really getting in the comedy was around like right
before Screen Queens, that TV show that I did with
Ryan Murphy. So I started like really getting into my
comedy bag and you know, nurturing that muscle of improvisation.
But when I did the movie with Eddie, watching him,
watching how his commentary is rooted in the situation, like
(16:32):
it's the truth of the moment. He's never pushing or
trying to be funny, It's just he's the voice of
what we all are thinking in that situation.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
It really helped me with One of Them.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Days because I did pick up right before one of
them Days, and I feel like I brought a lot
of what I learned and watched in him to that movie.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
One of Them Days. Now that's you. I thought you
did it? You stop that.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
You know, really I can say our movie period period,
yeah man, and with you. And I thought that Sissa
did an amazing job.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Wasn't she great?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Yeah man? And was that Scissa's like first first.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Thing mayor first movie?
Speaker 5 (17:08):
I mean, I never known her to act ever, and
she was excellent from the chemistry rewek.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Could you see anything where it was like and not
insecurities because sometimes you know, you could be the queen
of the stage, Like even with me, I could be
in radio. This is my thirty first year in radio.
I could sit here and I can have the most fun.
But then when I go somewhere else, if I'm doing
a TV show, if I'm doing something else, it's a
different zone for me.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yeah, so I treat it different, not better or different, but.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
It's like, Okay, I don't want to miss nothing up,
I don't want to Did you find that with Scissa,
like this being her first thing.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Well, sister, I mean, I'm sure you probably could imagine
seeing how successfully successful she is. She's a perfectionist, so
she definitely brought the energy of Hey, this is all
new for me, so I want to make sure that
I get it right, especially on things that they never
really teach you about, like blocking.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
You know what I'm saying, Like these are all so
she's learning.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Learning on the drop of a hat. But she's doing
so great. But her perfectionism, she ain't gonna never live
in it. So she's kind of like, let's make sure,
you know, I want to get it right, you know
what I mean. So to see that from her, she
was really treating it like, you know, this is serious.
She wasn't just resting in it. She was every day
bringing her a game, making sure she was on point.
And I mean, that's why she is.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Who she is.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Key Key, you got time to hang out with us
a little bit more, man, You know I got time.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I'm glad you said that. All right, y'all stick around,
y'all radios.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
We got more with Key Key Palmer in the Neighborhood,
Big Boys Neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
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Speaker 1 (18:26):
For more, subscribe to our YouTube channel, big Boy TV,
and check out Radio big Boy dot com.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Hig Boys Neighborhood, Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Ladies and gentlemen,
Key Key Palmer in the Neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
What's being mom like? Because you know what's wild about that?
Speaker 4 (18:42):
We did so much before we had our kids, and
we thought certain things were important, and then you have
that child, and what happens.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Life becomes so much more clearer.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
What really deserves your time and energy becomes so simple
to understand you're able to remove yourself say no to
things that you never thought you could say no too,
like your your self. Love becomes greater simply because you
know you got to be your best for that baby,
and so it becomes I mean, I think, how did
you think I realized until I have my son how
much I was giving out for free, right for free?
Speaker 4 (19:15):
But you know what's wild about that is did you
ever do you ever wonder, like, man, what was I
doing before this little one game?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Doing too much? Yeah, for no reason?
Speaker 5 (19:26):
And then when that baby comes, you realize, let me
really don't in and let me only do what I
need to do.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Only, let me only do what makes.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
It really becomes of what matters, what.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Matters, and what's also giving back to me because I
have no time?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Is this.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Figure, y'all?
Speaker 4 (19:41):
How do you and I always called it in the
neighborhood knows there's this thing that are called enoughs And
you got to have a lot of enoughs.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
You gotta be public enough, private enough, mom enough, actious enough,
queen enough, black enough, corporate enough hood enough.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
This How yeah, how do you handle those?
Speaker 4 (20:00):
No?
Speaker 5 (20:01):
You nailed it because I'm sure every artist thinks about that,
but when you are a black artist, the whole thing
of like my culture. But then I gotta speak the
language to let people know my culture in the certain rooms,
and I gotta butter still let them know it's a girl.
But I thought, hey, how y'all doing. You know, It's
like we've got to do a lot of thinking, and
I think how I try to get myself down to
(20:21):
the core of it is like what is true? What
is sincere? You know, cause you don't want a shuck
and jive for the shuck and jive, you know what
I mean. But you also don't want to feel like
you're hiding your truth or your culture. You know, I'm
a girl from Chicago. I am your girl, and the
gag is you know. But at the same time, like
that I'm not a monolith. That's not all I am.
And I think that's something that my parents would talk
(20:42):
to me about all the time, and they would have
me look at specific people, knowing that I was going
to be coming into this world as a black woman,
you know, dealing with assimilation, understanding what code switching is,
all these things that we had to deal with, and
she would say, well, look at Queen Latifa, She's always
who she is. She's able to be the cover girl,
and she's able to still be the girl to set
it off. You know, look at will Smith Fresh Princeville Air.
(21:04):
He also is I robot. You know, look at these
entertainers that have been able to, yes, always keep that
culture forward, but also know how to maintain being a
black person in America. And so I just think it's
something that we all have to think about. And even
if you're not an entertainer, if you're just that person
that's trying to climb the corporate ladder, trying to build
your enterprise, it is a lot, you know. And I
talk about that in my book Master of Me, where
(21:25):
at the end of the day, you know, we're not alone.
We're all dealing with the same things, and all we
can do is lead with sincerity. I'm being truthful, I'm
being honest. I'm not doing this for anything specific other
than to feed myself, feed my family, and create.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
What I love.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
That's it, Key, Key, you got time to hang out
with us a little bit more.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Man, you know, I got time.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
I'm glad you said that. All right, y'all stick around
y'all radios. We got more with Key Key Palmer in
the Neighborhood, Big Boys Neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
This is Big Boy on Demand, Big.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Boy's Neighborhood, Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Ladies and gentlemen,
Key Key Palmer in the Neighborhood. Why the title though,
and we've heard just Key Key before. Yeah, you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
But why that title? And I understand the low hanging
fruit of it?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Yeah, because at the end of the day, whatever it is,
you're just I'm just Kiki.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
I'm just a person.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
And I think because I've always carried that weight, you know,
I've always carried that responsibility of being the best, being
undeniable because I had to be.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
No, I had to be undeniable.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
My family drove four days and three nights to California
for me to pursue my dream.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
My dad pulled his pension. You know what I'm saying.
My parents were young.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
My mom was thirty two, my dad was thirty six,
and I had to succeed, you know, I had to succeed.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Could you feel that so called pressure then, man.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, And I think I pushed it
down like I just pushed it down because there was
no time. So now I'm dealing with all of that.
And so when we get to the point of the
album and everything that sparked the album, having my son,
the public fallout, all of that brought all that to
a head where it's like, let's not perform and do
this no longer for survival. Let's do it for the
(22:59):
embodiment of joy. Let's start responding, you know, Let's start
living in life from that place instead of feeling like
this is what I have to do because I have
to blah blah, no, no, no, let me do it
because I love it. At the end of the day,
y'all see it, y'all know it. Y'all have always known
me as Kicky Palmer, but I'm just Kiki at the
end of the day.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
And just let's meet each other here at this new phase.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
How can you keep yourself public in private at the
same time because everybody now, everybody wants more and they
feel like they deserve more, and this comes with the job,
you know, and now there's so many things that's even
more intrusive. How do you deal with that gift and curse?
Speaker 3 (23:38):
It's like I get that some of it comes with
the job, you know what I mean. You know, it's like, yeah,
I get it.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I hate that.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
I hate that though, because it's like, at the end
of the day, like we need to have a better
understanding of what parasocial relationships are. And I do try
to talk about that a lot, you know, both in
my book and the album, where it's like meet me
at like this is let me understand.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
This is my job, y'all.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
This is my job.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
And if you see me with my son on the streets.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
And say hey, but like I don't know if a
picture is right now, you know what I mean, Like say,
what's up, Let's give it more of a mayor energy. Fine,
you know, let's keep it so we can, like I
want to have a better relationship of respect between us,
and so I think, you know, I don't know that
there's any quick fix on that.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
But at the end of the day, you know.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
I'm being real with my audience, like it's like this
is the truth. You know, when I see them out,
I let them know, hey, I don't this is I'm
with my son, with my family. Ain't trying to do
that right now. If it's a time I say, okay, cool,
this is the vibe. But I'm really working on that because, yeah,
I want I want to be a human being, you know,
I want to be able to exist privately and still
show respect to the people that support my business.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Right, you know, how do you pick and choose, like say,
friends with the pickup?
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Right?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Do you auditions still or they just know they want
key Key Palmer.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
They know they want Kekey Palmer, you know. And you know,
the industry has ebbs and flows, it has waves. You know,
some people still want to, hey, let's do a chemistry
read or some people might say, hey, I wanted to
just meet with the director, just talk about the script,
you know. But then there's some things where it's just
like this is the offer, you know. And I feel
like I've worked so much with Amazon in the last
you know, five six years.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
That wow, where the so called what the studios are
now or where? Hey man, it has been a shift.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
It's been a I mean, when you see what I did,
let me tell how much something I didn't Amazon.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
I've done a book, I got an audio book. I
got books of my.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Character, whole franchise character Lady mister Jacqueline. I got my podcast.
I just did to pick up with them, about to
do another movie with them, to see what you know.
I'm big on entrepreneurship. Aside from me being Kicky Palm
and entertainer, I'm I'm an entrepreneur and I have partners,
you know. And Amazon has been a good partner to me.
Universal has been a good partner to me. Disney's one
(25:46):
of my oldest partners, you know what I mean. And
so for me, it's like I talk a lot about that,
Like you know, we no longer live in a time
where you can have and do one thing you want.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
You cannot depend on one business. Don't set us up
up for failion.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Now you be here today and gone tonight.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
So it's like I really love like people say, you
do so much what I have to.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Ki Kei Palmer, thank you for coming into the neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
For all those out there, you can find this entire
interview at Big Boy TV, our YouTube channel. As you're watching,
hit that subscribe button. Kekey Palmer, once again, thank you
for coming into the neighborhood. Big Boys Neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
Eighties.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
You're finding a Big Boy from Big Boy's neighborhood on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
We have the most fun on your radio.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
Hey, sus, what you got, my brethren, This neighbor of
mine is just he is really pushing it, dude, he
really is pushing it. This guy about a new car.
He bought one of those hell cats or whatever it's called.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Give me hell.
Speaker 7 (26:42):
Ever, since it's so loud, I put my phone just
to like here the look, how loudest thing is.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
He?
Speaker 7 (26:56):
So he has to be Like twenty two twenty one,
I live next to Fraturnity. There was a party going on,
and I think that's what he was trying to, like
show off of the party.
Speaker 8 (27:06):
That's him in the passenger seat, Like come on, Brad, Yeah,
you guys, thank you for listening.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
It is upon a big boy, big boys neighborhood. You
can catch more of us right here on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
Big boy has left the building.
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