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we're gonna find some bologne, we too. Yeah, I didn't know if these guys we were just gonna cook the egg and melt the cheese on it. I didn't know. I've never actually had a bolognaian egg sandwich. Really. Yes, okay, well listen, I'm gonna put you on on So I like to start makes just a little warm, Yes, okay, I like to start with the bologney right because the bologne is gonna take the longest to cook. You feel me,

so one piece for you want piece of me? I won't be honest, though, I don't eat a lot of bologna these days. I like to keep it a little clean. I eat real clean now, but every now and then it's just, you know, I just be craving the things that I ain't growing up, you know what I mean.

And don't get it twisted, because I will go home to this day right now, and if it's four o'clock in the morning and me and my family, my mom, my dad, my brother, we're just up chilling and we just have one of those urges we we might make a little belonging. Friday was for real. Wow. So how does someone from Haynes, Florida, Haines City, Haines City, Florida, which I did look up. It was too small town,

very small town. How does someone go from a small town to you know, writing on Chris Brown's records, Kelly Rowland, Alicia Keye, Like how and you're banging out hits, but how do you go from you know, the small town to man? I mean, um, you know what I sang

everywhere growing up? I was saying at weddings, funerals by Mrs Talent, shows, malls like anywhere that I could, and um, you know, throughout the years, singing kind of led me into different spaces and led me into girl groups, would let me into meeting Chris Brown, which led me into writing for him, which you know, led him to me being able to write for other artists because of what I was able to do with him. So, um, it was just a it's just a crazy it's a crazy journey,

but I wouldn't trade it for the world. Was he the first person that you wrote for? He was my first placement. My first placement was a song called Yet three Times and um, yeah, it was my my baby. Was my first time that I was like left in a studio to to finish something up and I was nervous as hell. Um, but it was it was a good lesson for me because it was like, all right, but write the hell out of his verse or you know so, but you were now you were an artist, yes,

and then of course you're a songwriter. But how when it came to Krish Brown, he saw so he sees you, He's like, you're an amazing talent, come right for me? Or was it like he saw that you wrote a really good song. I literally we were working at the same studio with him. I was in a group at the time, and we were working at the same studio off the hall and I saw him in the hallway and I was like, hey, Chris, you know I heard it was about to go, right, can I come and

write with you guys? And honestly, I never had a righting placement. I never wrote had any placement. But I don't know. I just feel like that was God's saying, Okay, you should go ask him if you can write. Now. That was awesome. That's awesome that you didn't. Ye, man, listen, God is good. You gotta you weren't scared to do it, or you were just like mama artists were in the

same place. It's you know what, at that point in my career, you just learned that when you have the urge and the feeling and the inkling to do something, you probably should act on it at the moment. You know. You know, I don't like to have wasted opportunities, you know what I mean, And so I just I looked at it as an opportunity. Oh girl, we over here. It's frying, girl crying, it's frying and frying. Yeah. See, I like for it to get a little burnt and

little crispy, you know, little burn, little crispy. Someone let those you know, you won't let them sizzle a little bit? Yes, So you went from girl group to us independent just solo artists. And how was that transition? Did you lose friends along the way? You know? What that that transition, I will say, um, it was two folds. Um. In terms of me being a songwriter, it was so beautiful.

It was amazing, you know what I mean, because I got to be around a lot of amazing other songwriters and um, you know, like I said, I didn't have any place, but so I was really learning, you know, and you know, Chris's Fame album and chris Is Fortune album. I wrote seven songs with them on Fame, with seven songs with him on Fortune, and I was just surrounded by the most amazing creatives, Chris obviously being one of himself, but just um, just so he writes with you guys. Yeah,

he's an amazing song absolutely an amazing songwriter. So, um, I learned a lot. And so for my songwriting, it was amazing. In terms of um, my me being an artist. You know, I've been in girl groups pretty much all my life. So that was a little bit of a transition and kind of like okay, now you you know, you're on your own, you're solo. What do you want to sing about? What do you want to write about, and um, you know it was the beginning of me figuring out who I am in that sense, you know, yeah,

yeah that yeah. So when you were younger, did you know you wanted to be a songwriter or it just started to develop as your artistry grew, you know what being Um, I always wanted to be a singer. I did not realize the um, the value of being a songwriter. And I didn't realize how therapeutic it was. Like songwriting it's so therapeutic, even if I'm not writing for myself and I'm writing for other people. It's like, let me get these ideas and these emotions of offer me child.

So um, you know, when I was younger, I didn't realize it. I just wanted to be a singer and I wanted to day Hanson. Um. You know, when songwriting came along, I started to realize there were so many more benefits for one therapeutic for two. Um, obviously the money is really great a lot more it pays really really be great, and it pays you for a very long time. And so um yeah, so it just kind

of came my baby too. Speaking of pay if you don't mind for us, that really We really don't know how the financials work because I know all the artists listening. They you know, they want to be mainstream. They want to be the seven mainstream. They're not thinking about the artistry and the and the and songwriting and the publishing. Can you explain kind of how that process works. First, I'm about to smother me some some smothering me some mayonnaise when its bread. Do you like mayonnaise? I love

may Okay, Mom, I got you. I'm glad you didn't say miracle with I case. I'm not only like miracle WITHO. And like potato salad, Okay, my grandma, my grandma Salaly makes like the best potato salad. My grandma laws and my grandma will. We do not get mad at me because y'all potato salad is good too. Okay. You have other things that there's like top tier. Um, but yeah, I love I love mayle, and do not like miracle whippop. Now, I will say this though I for years was never

a big mustard fan. Really they just kept up. But you know, the older you get, the more and I've had enough street callie dogs to know that throw all the condiments on. There are doing. The more the merrier you feel me like, put everything on my I need everything hallapenos like there for all of it. I need to look at my man too. So when did you move to l A. I moved to l A two thousand and two, So this is right when you're working with Chris, right when you're released. No, no, no, this

was early. This was in I was in a group. Then I was in a group called two and two was a group called T T four, And then a little bit after that, probably like maybe like five years after that, there was my other group, Rich Girl, and that was amazing, and then Chris came a little of it later. So it's been a little minute l A. It's kind of like a second home to me, um, and I just love it because it allows me to be my most creative self. Most of the most creative

people in the world out here. I love it. Did you move here everybody yourself? No? I moved here with my family, my mom, my dad, and my brother, which also my brother just so happens to um. He produced the record I'm Gonna Sit This Yes, nice and crispy

my brother. Um my brother actually produced the song on my recent album is called nasty girl in this speech from Via and you know, so it's like it's that was a really full circle moment for me because, like I said, I moved out here, moved out here with my family, so to look up and it some years later, I'm this is so fat and it's gonna be so good and fat. I love it so good, fat good, so so so good and fat. So this is a

family affair. It is my family. Like then my dogs, like I mean, it's my like my road dogs, say, called me down for a very long time. So from the beginning, you were like I wanted to do singing, and they said, all right, let's pack up our bags, let's support, let's put her in every and everything we need to be in. And you know, my brother played instruments from a very young gay so he's very musical too.

And yeah, I was in a girl group when I was fifteen years old, and me and my mother we moved to California first, my brother and my uh and my dad came like a year after that, and we just I worked in that group until you know, for a year or so, and then the group disbanded after a year, and um, my family and I we stayed in California for maybe like four more years, five more years, uh huh. And then and then we moved back to Florida. And when I moved back to Florida, that's when I

started to UM. I started to dabble in writing a lot more. I was working with the Runners, and you know, I've just gotten uh, you know, just kind of diving into writing a lot. I like a lot of pepper. Two by the way, Okay, I like that. I'm trying it. However you eat it, I'm gonna try it, and I'm gonna try to rate it too. Yes, I love a lot of pepper. So go back to the songwriting. I hate to read. Just to kind of educate everybody. How

does the process work? Do does the artists like say, at Licia Keys, Does she comes to you and say, hey, I'm feeling blue today, you write a song about me feeling blue? Or do you just come over to her house and hang out with her and swiss? No? Sometimes sometimes it works like that. Sometimes I like to um, I like to know what people are going through in their lives before I write songs about them, You know what I mean? UM. I think that's how how you

get the best performance. That's how people better, you know, best connect to the records. You know, consumers are smart and they don't give them enough credit, you know what I mean. For being smart, they can feel when things are not authentic, and you know, so I like to know what Like, for example, if I were writing a song about you, I would sit here and ask you, are you in love? Are you? Are you? Are you you know? Are you angry at someone? How do you

feel about yourself? You know what I mean? What? Um? What are your dreams? What are your goals? What are your insecurities? What are the things that you think make you bomb? Like? I want to know all of those things. So, um, that's a lot of the process. Well, that's a part of the process because you also have other times where like, for example, right now, I just put out my album Drunken Word, so with thoughts right and I have UM. When I finished my projects, I usually have a lot

of songs left over. So what I like to do is I like to shift those songs out to whatever artists at Nah, It's like whatever artist is looking because at this point I've got my creative juices off within my project, you know what I mean. So Um, I don't. I don't want to. I don't like to let records just sit lay dormant on my you know, on my hard drive. I want you know that the ideas came to me because somebody needs to hear them, so they don't do any good by just sitting on my laptop.

So I sell them that way too. How do you select the ones that stay and the ones that go? Now that that's the question I have been trying to answer for a very long time. You just know when you know, when you know what your body work is supposed to feel like. And it's one of those things no one can really tell you when that is, which is like, you know, for me, it's been a for year process, you know what I mean, you know, in between projects. And I wouldn't trade that for the world.

I don't apologize for it. I think it was very necessary and therapeutic, um in a lot of different ways. But yeah, you just know when you know when your project is done. You know, since you've been in the industry, have you had any hiccups? Um? I mean I think that kind of just comes along with it. Every artist has their story, you know, Um, every artist has been uh, you know, in situations that you thought we're gonna go well and then ended up taking a left turn and

then you have to pivot from there. But I think that that is that's just the part of it, and that's the thing that makes us. Uh, that's how you learn, you know what I mean. It makes you resilient. It you know, puts more tools on your tool bell. You learn how to you know, shake and move and and and that whole type of things. So experiences, yeah, I mean I've been in groups and groups have lost record deals I have. It's just been a lot of different things,

you know. I've had songs that I love, you know, get you know, look up and and the beats are gone because somebody's It's a lot of different little things I've had. Um, I've had people like within our industry like you know, try to stop certain you know, deals and things like that. So have I experienced it. I've experienced it all. But UM, at the end of the day, all it does is make me stronger. All it does is um, all it does is at you know, it

just makes me more resilient. It just puts an even bigger battery in my back, you know, does it like what pulls you out of it is your mom um coaching you through. Are you crying or well? What pulls me out of it is that I actually love what I do. So I think that it's it's like a little ludicrous um for you know, for people to there's nothing to put it this. There's nothing that's ever gonna happen. It's going to ever make me stop doing music. You feel me like literally nothing. And I never been a

time where you've doubted it. It's never been a time that I've doubted my purpose. There have been times where I've doubted, um, how things were going to get from one space to another, but I never doubted Can you give me an example of that, um, Well, in between deals, in between deals, in between albums, when you're when you're trying to creatively figure out where you're gonna go next, What is it gonna be next? What is your music gonna sound like next? You know what? What label are

you gonna be? A who's gonna understand your your art? Those people don't realize that the transitional periods in between when we give you guys one project to the next, that's a lot that goes on there. So you really have to um, you kind of and there you can't get around it. You just have to go through it, you know. So it's um. It's one of those things that I'm I'm so appreciative for it. I really really,

I really truly am. I really truly am Your parents make the adjustment from Florida, small town, small city in Florida to l A was a big investment. I had a match absolutely. So did you feel any type of responsibility like to pay back or do you feel pressure where they just like, no, my parents have never made me feel like that. They really honestly have it until this day. Like they are my writers. Like they go so hard. Anybody know me, they know they go so hard.

So UM, any pressure to to know, not no pressure. That's family. That's what you do for family, you know what I mean. But I love um. You know in every way that I can for the rest of my life. I tend on repaying it and vote in different ways, you know what I mean. But it comes from a place of genuine love and not like pressure. Absolutely, I love that. I love that. That's prettiful. It's a blessing. So we're almost halfway through your meal. I'm excited to

eat it. I'm hungry. It smells good. I've never had a fried bologny egg sandwich, so I'm looking forward to this. Girl, I got you. Okay, So your favorite song on your album at the moment, My favorite song is a song called Fallback. So fallback? When you were writing this record, wrote it by yourself or with writers? I wrote it by myself. So what were you going through when I wrote Fallback? I was falling out of a situation with

someone and someone that I cared about very deeply. But um really started to realize that we were a lot more similar than I thought, and maybe not in in a lot of great ways, but also and not in not you know, not so good ways as well. Um, you know, we kind of live similar lifestyles and uh, you know, sometimes that can clash a little bit because people are um a little bit that they'll feel something but be a little bit hesitant to actually just, you

know what, just dive all the way into it. And so fallback is about, um, that space where you know that it could it could move forward, but for you know what, it's a little you know, a fallback. I won't hold that against you, because love is scary. Yeah. Yeah, So that's what Fallback is about. You've been in love multiple times, and I mean I think, you know, I've been in different versions of love, you know what I mean?

I like that, Yeah, because it's like I think I'm still you know, I think you never truly have this whole idea of what love is. I think that as I get older, I add a little bit more love knowledge onto my love to belt. So you know, I've been in love a few times. Your parents have been together a long time, Yes, they have. Feel like they're the bar. Um. I don't think there is a bar when it comes to to to love and relationships. I think it's a very you know, um, you know, what's

the word I'm looking for. It's a very singular thing. It's a very uh uh, you know, case by case thing, you know, a relationship by relationship thing. Every relationship has its own rules and ways and tribes and and whatever that is. It's like that's their business and that's what works for them, and that's what works for them, and that's what works for them. So you know, you find what works for you. Yeah, yeah, definitely. So what are your expectations for this next record? Like what would you

like to see happen? I would like to see all of my fans um to just I want them to get to a place where this song begins to speak for them, and the record of the product we're goin to speak for them. That's all I really want. I want them to feel like they I want them to feel seen and heard and understood. And if they don't have the words to express themselves, I want them to be able to put in the product to say this is exactly how I feel, because I think that that's

what music is about. It's about helping people, um, communicate and express themselves. You san it almost time, Yeah, exactly. We have a nice shop growing up. Who were your inspirations growing up? My inspirations were Um, Whitney Houston, right, Carrie? Um? Who else? Did I love? Brandy? Monica? And you wrote for all of them? Well, not all of them. You wrote for Brandy. You wrote for Brandy And that was like a game come true for me. Were you nervous at all? Or you get to actually work with them

or is it you send it in? No, I get to actually work with them, and uh it was I lost my mind when she walked in the studio. I really did lost my whole line and we wrote I wrote a song with Chris Um for her call Slower, and it was just at the first of all, she killed that record. Just to even hear her sing words that we had come up with, the melodies that we had come up with, was like some whole other ship for me. I lost. I lost my mind. Yeah, that

I lost my mind. And then seeing your name on her album, seeing my name on a Brandy album because all my life all I did was read the booklet. Yeah, I remember those days. I read them all. Remember those days when the booklet the booklets and you could read the lyrics. Yes, I would live. Yeah. So it was amazing. Wow. Did you did you go through the phase of recording the radio at any point? Recording the radio? You know, you put the cassette. This was before you know, you

had the cassette. You really couldn't. For nothing, you put the cassette and you record the radio. You know. I didn't record the radio. I didn't record the radio. But but the booklet vibe was definitely thing like, it was definitely definitely my thing. Well that's good. You weren't stealing music, little little music beat over here. Sorry, music lover music. I was music lover on a budget. Okay, listen here listening bro listen eating on eating broke music and you

have music while broke. Okay, music broke. You know. The second I had money, I paid for my record store. Man. You know. Amen, Today I want you to bite in it for it gets cold. Yes, I want to try this. Here we go. This looks delicious to look at the layers, crisp. It's pretty good, right, it's good warm, it's a vibe, it's a whole vibe. It's a classic a fried egg, bologna and cheese sandwich. And it's really quick and it's

super quick, super duper quick. Okay, and the mustard as a nice kick, right, and then if you want, like you put a little lettuce and tomato on there, you know. But so, what is something that your fans don't know about you? You're loyal fans, by the way, because I see them on your and staff and then all the comments. But my fans, what don't they know about me? Um? I really want to think about that. Yeah, I think

about it because it would be nice. It would be nice to watch this episode and say, oh my gosh, I did not know that about seven. I mean, you don't have a crush on Chris at all. No. No, maybe maybe that's something that they would be surprised And no, no, like it was always just family. Whoever you worked with that you got star struck. Alicia Keys star struggle. Let me think, Alicia, Alicia's walked in here. I love Alicia. I definitely got started when it was Alicia, we are.

The way our session started was on his zoom, like on a on his zoom at the time. Yeah, and um, even through a zoom, I was like nervous as ship, like did you just make the disclaimer? Like look their Alicia Keys. No, I had to like put on a good face like yeah, look now I'm good, Like, yeah, what do you need for the record? You good? And then when we hung up, then I lost my mind. Then I lost it. But no, I love me some Alicia.

Did you feel like the day leading up to those moments where like, say, Alicia Keys, where you're excited Brandy, did you feel like knowing that was coming up in the middle of your day, in the beginning of your day, did you feel like the time takes a lot slower? Um, do I feel like it was the time was slower. Yeah. You know, when you're hot, you're anticipating something, Yeah, and you're like it's taking forever. You know, You're like, why

can't it be two o'clock? Um? Now I get lost in music when I do it, and I don't even have I don't even know what time is when I work. I really don't. I don't. And I'll stay up for days and just work and work and work. I'll work each shower, work each showered, work, each shower. I think there's something to be said when you do something that you genuinely are passionate about. You know what happens if someone hasn't found what they're passionate about. What advice would

you give them? Though? Um, For one, I'll say, I'll just tell them what worked for me. I mean, I have a really great relationship with God. I you know, I'd wake up every morning, I've watched my sermons, I pray, I meditate, I write all of my thoughts down. If I'm not writing them down, I'm recording them in my phone. Um, listen to yourself. Let you keep a path with you, or you just write. Um. Sometimes I keep a drawing on with me sometimes I do. Um, sorry, I'm about

to take a bite. Take a bite sous that you eat? Chairs, chairs, chairs to another successful episode of eating wall broom, m just so good. That was so good, Daddy, Mama Jay, I made Ardellico. Si. Okay, yes, come on, you know what time it is? Yes? I really wanted to know a time of something that your fans really don't know about you. I mean, okay, do me this one? In what area of my life? Personal? Personal? Okay? Love, family, girlfriends, love love? We always love love songs? Right, I do love,

I do? I do? Um okay? Uh? Past? Present, future? Which one is the juiciest? You let me know? You gotta pick a box past present. I feel like past it's gonna be juicier because future is always bright, right, I mean that's what we hope and present could possibly be bright. I feel like past is always drama filled. I'm gonna go with past. Past. Um okay, so past, real relationships, past, past breakups, past loves of my life? Past?

Uh past the best sex ever? Had? I think my friends pas, who did I write, you know, writing certain what were certain songs about in their songs that I wrote? Can I get multiples, just to multiples and I'll let you go. I promise you, all right, Okay, Um, we want to know the best sex for all the guys. Okay, okay, look guys behind the camera, like what and then what was all the one? I'm sorry, I got so excited. It's okay past Um we said, oh past songwriting like

writing songs? Yes, that one. Okay. Um, Well, if we're talking about sex, and I love mixing sex sets and food is actually a good limits a good some good food and some good little sexy food and having a good night and a good glass of wine and a good even like set it up. That's where that's where we really begin with like good sex, you know what I mean? Like you got wine and dine. It doesn't have to have to be super fancy. It could be

whatever it is. But um, some good food, some good wine, some good music, and you know, pay attention to you know, women were very sensual, pay attention to our bodies. We're gonna tell you exactly what it is that we like. We're gonna tell you what feels good. We're gonna at least,

you know, we should. I think women should be more vocal about that too, yeah, yeah, like all in the facing owning and we don't do that's I think, And I hate to be fully transparent, but I think that really comes down to like how comfortable you are with yourself, Like you gotta get with yourself first before gate with someone else. I hate to say it, but it's true. To be comfortable with you'll get to know yourself. You know yourself, No, no one makes yourself tick, you know

what I mean. It's a very important thing. Um, and then be with some you know, when when sex is with someone that you're really comfortable with, it's a really beautiful thing. It's a really really beautiful thing. And you know, I have a record on my album call change my Mind, and change my Mind speaks about being in such a space with someone to wear. Um, you may try a few things that you didn't think that you would want to try before a life before and you know, so

all of it goes hand in hand. I like to write about real life and um, you know, me and my girlfriends have juicy conversations and a lot of my like my brother type guy friends. You know, I write with a lot of men, so these are like a lot of our dialogue and like studio. And that's how we how y'all think we write the sex records and how we write it's these conversations that makes sense. Yeah, we're human. It's human nature, all right. Now, love one. Um,

we're gonna hear a name drop here. I don't know. We were trying. We're trying to hear name drops on both Okay, so go on new name drop. You know, it's just it's just one of those things I just I love to pull from. Um. You know, I'm a very I'm a first of all with cancer, so I'm very into with my emotions and very sensitive and um, but I think that that's one of my superpowers. And you know when I have records like say like it won't Stop, or like before I do, or even on

on my new projects songs like you know Taboo. Taboo was a beautiful record about um. You know, if you you ever meet someone and things feel so great that you know, naturally we like to go is this too good to be true? Right? That's a normal thing, because let's be honest, meeting people that you actually vibe with and you know, you can check off a few that it's it's rare. But when you know you know it's so taboo is a song about um not being afraid of that you know, uh, you know too good to

be true thing. It's like, too good doesn't have to be taboo. Why can I just want to be with you? Why can you just want to be with me too? You know what I mean? So um in terms of love, I've definitely experienced that before, So that record is drawn from that situation. I like that. I'll say this for myself and then I'm gonna let you go because I know you're on a very crazy schedule. Two things I

learned when it came to relationships. One, when you meet someone and you guys have this like this, like why are we just so in sync? And I went to counting. What they had said was whatever feelings and emotions you had from your childhood are being a like brought up and that's why you feel that stronger connection. But sometimes it's good and bad, you know, and you don't realize it's bad. Told something you carry over that needs to be left in your name. You don't need to carry

those on. And then some things you know they do. But that's why it's important death conversations about it to talk about it, and then for people who don't know how to talk about it. That's why I take what I do so seriously because music really is a universal language. I don't care. You don't have to speak English, Spanish, French, whatever. If you feel something and music can help you express it, all you gotta do is press play. Yeah, you know

what I mean. Everybody's not good and expressing how they feel, so you know music can be that tool. Yes. And then the last thing I wanted to say was, and I don't know if you've had this discussion with your girlfriends, but when girls pick guys, we tend to lean towards what's safe. Well, actually, I take that back. I feel like when guys date, they date, when they make it a girlfriend or wife, they make sure she's safe. When girls, they we tend to like be drawn to the players

and the more riskier guys. I mean, we have a balance definitely between hot and cold. But I definitely think women take the most risks when it comes dating, dating and serious relationships. I think that I don't I don't think I won't say the most, but we do take risks for sure, because you always hear um, you know, we always hear that good girls like bad boys. We get that. But also I think that it just sometimes

it's seemingly sometimes. Um, you know, let's say, men may think that things are one way, but then you know, things turn out to be a whole other way. Like you can never judge a book by its cover. So we tell my hobby that all the time. Girls, you know what I'm saying, very ill, my brother that all the time. Yeah, don't never get a twisted girls and girls are very smart. Okay, yes they are. Um. Anyways, I just wanted to say thank you so much for

coming out feeding me. I look forward to sharing this recipe and the Eating Wall Broke book. You guys can check out sevens recipe and eat what we eat while you listen who our episode, Yes and thoughts. Yes, please please go out check out the album. I know I'll be listening to it on the way home. Thank you, all right, have a good bunny, guys. Fine For more Eating While Broke from I Heart Radio and The Black Effect, visit the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever

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