Speaker 1: Morning, everybody.
Speaker 2: It's DJ Envy, Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 3: We got our Nyla hanging with us this morning.
Speaker 2: Yes, and we have a special guest who Charlemagne claims
Speaker 2: as a family. And we say this all the time
Speaker 2: because when we announced that your album came out, he
Speaker 2: didn't even know your album came out.
Speaker 3: And I forced him not true, but.
Speaker 1: That's not true. And we played the song.
Speaker 4: I played the Missy record and Chris Brown record that morning,
Speaker 4: but I had.
Speaker 3: To make him download the recless. He didn't even know.
Speaker 1: That's not true.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Now, that's right. You said you bought it, right, We
Speaker 1: don't download, but you said you bought it. Listen in
Speaker 1: pieces is out right now? Okay? Did you buy it
Speaker 1: all right?
Speaker 4: Did all your people's online complaining making noise by it?
Speaker 3: I streamed it?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 5: I feel great. I'm so happy. Like the past two days,
Speaker 5: I've been feeling like great, to be honest, the week
Speaker 5: and a half, like before, it was like a little rocky,
Speaker 5: but tour kind of been getting me out the funk
Speaker 5: because the shows have been amazing. They've all been sold
Speaker 5: out and everyone's singing every lyric to every song. So
Speaker 5: I'm like, the love is real and real life. So
Speaker 5: I've been feeling good.
Speaker 1: Why were you in a funk? I know you wasn't
Speaker 1: letting these digital dickheads on the internet GA.
Speaker 5: I mean like you're like, we're all human, so of
Speaker 5: course some things are going to bother you. And I
Speaker 5: think when you put so much time and effort into
Speaker 5: the art of everything, and it's really a conceptual album.
Speaker 5: My executive produced it. I produced on twelve out of
Speaker 5: the fourteen songs on there. I had a lot of incredible,
Speaker 5: like amazing talent on the project. So I was just like,
Speaker 5: it's okay, come at me, bro, So I'm ready for
Speaker 5: what's next, to be honest.
Speaker 1: What's the title mean? In Pieces?
Speaker 5: Yes, So in Pieces it's kind of like a double entendre.
Speaker 5: So in Pieces represents the pieces of my heart that
Speaker 5: has been left broken from live situations, relationships, things like
Speaker 5: that people seven you in the back. And then it
Speaker 5: also means what's left in Pieces is the box that
Speaker 5: people try to put me in on who they think
Speaker 5: Chloe is, and you know, I just have to speak
Speaker 5: for myself and break through it. So that's what it means.
Speaker 5: It's like the simp side and then the place of powers.
Speaker 2: It has to be difficult, yeah, because people who seen
Speaker 2: you grow up, so it's like we've seen you as
Speaker 2: this young girl, so now when you break it out
Speaker 2: into your own, it has to be difficult for your fans.
Speaker 5: I guess right, I mean maybe maybe not. I'm really
Speaker 5: proud of my sister and I because we've been branching
Speaker 5: out on our own successfully and people are getting to
Speaker 5: like know who we are individually. And I'm so blessed
Speaker 5: that I grew up with her in life so we
Speaker 5: could go through everything together, and it came to a
Speaker 5: point where we were so dependent on one another, like
Speaker 5: we were Siamese twins. So what forced us apart was
Speaker 5: her going to London to shoot Little Mermaid and you know,
Speaker 5: me being in la and especially with the pandemic the
Speaker 5: travel restrictions going to another country was crazy. So as
Speaker 5: stressful as it was for the both of us, we
Speaker 5: both had separation anxiety. It like forced us to figure out, Okay,
Speaker 5: who's Chloe, who's Hollie. So now when we come back together,
Speaker 5: it's going to be even stronger because now we also
Speaker 5: have a great sense.
Speaker 6: Of I like that she said that the love is
Speaker 6: real in real life.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I know, like online you put like a
Speaker 7: lot of the ugly comments that people say about you online,
Speaker 7: and one of your performance piece.
Speaker 6: Is that for every show, or that that's.
Speaker 5: For every show. The idea popped in my head like
Speaker 5: thirty minutes before the first opening show in Chicago, and
Speaker 5: I was just like, it's over the interlude of I'm
Speaker 5: Not Worried. It's like an a cappella arrangement of me
Speaker 5: singing it, and I was like, you know what, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna put that there because I'm not really worried about
Speaker 5: what people have to say. You know, it's just another
Speaker 5: notch on my belt.
Speaker 4: So did y'all recognize the growth in each other? You
Speaker 4: and Holly, Like, when y'all finally did get back together,
Speaker 4: did she see growth in you?
Speaker 1: Did you see growl friend?
Speaker 5: Yes, the crazy thing is growing up. It was me
Speaker 5: who was afraid to speak up, so like she would
Speaker 5: be the one speaking up for me, and like she's
Speaker 5: the aries. Yes, she's the like don't mess with her,
Speaker 5: and it would always be me like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 5: I like I don't like confrontation things like that. And
Speaker 5: so because of that. I had to force myself to
Speaker 5: speak up for myself because I didn't have my sister
Speaker 5: right there doing it for me. So now I'm very
Speaker 5: independent and very vocal and I say what I mean
Speaker 5: and I mean what I say, and she's recognized that.
Speaker 5: She's like, well, you're like a completely different person. I'm
Speaker 5: so proud of her because she's confident in who she
Speaker 5: is as an individual as well. Like we both were
Speaker 5: missing that and now we both found it.
Speaker 4: So it's like we're stronger, be dangerous though, because you
Speaker 4: are cancer, you know, saying, so you be in your shell,
Speaker 4: but boy when you come out that shell.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I wass.
Speaker 2: Did that change because you missed your sister? Was it
Speaker 2: a relationship that made you change? It was writ in
Speaker 2: your music that made you change?
Speaker 3: What was that change?
Speaker 5: That's a great question. I think it was a combination
Speaker 5: of everything. I think it got to a point where
Speaker 5: I realized, if I don't fight for myself, then I'm
Speaker 5: just gonna be left in the dust. And if I
Speaker 5: don't speak up for what I want and speak up
Speaker 5: for who I am as a human being, then like
Speaker 5: it's just going to fall on deaf ears and clothes
Speaker 5: mouths don't get fed. So you know, throughout the music,
Speaker 5: I was finding my strength because I was saying things
Speaker 5: that I was afraid to say or speak up to
Speaker 5: certain individuals. And then from there it just grew. From that,
Speaker 5: it was like it just kept growing and growing and
Speaker 5: now it can't really stop.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I feel like growing up as women were taught to
Speaker 6: like not be so vocal.
Speaker 7: So now that you are being vocal, do you feel
Speaker 7: like you're being a bitch or like, do you feel
Speaker 7: like like you have to turn on a new version
Speaker 7: of yourself?
Speaker 5: Absolutely not. There's it's not about what you say but
Speaker 5: how you say it. You can command a room without
Speaker 5: having to bark so loud, and as long as you
Speaker 5: believe in what you're saying and you don't change in
Speaker 5: that for anybody, people will respect you because at a
Speaker 5: certain point they know they can't ignore it.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: Yeh was pray Away based on a true story, Oh
Speaker 4: Nigga from Nigga.
Speaker 5: Yes, So I wrote that song with my girl Jossy,
Speaker 5: and I kept seeing her like three four times that
Speaker 5: week at every event, And I'm all about signs, Like
Speaker 5: I I don't feel there are any coincidences in life
Speaker 5: and I was like, so the final place I saw
Speaker 5: her sign that you're crazy, but I was like okay.
Speaker 5: So we passed each other going to the ladies room
Speaker 5: at the studio and I was like, I got back
Speaker 5: in my session. I said wait, So I texted her.
Speaker 5: I was like, can you come in here? And she
Speaker 5: played me a few demos and it was the skeleton
Speaker 5: of Pray It Away. It was originally called Church, and
Speaker 5: I was like, I'm in love with this because I
Speaker 5: loved how open it was. It was completely raw and honest,
Speaker 5: and for me, I've always learned to just be the
Speaker 5: bigger person and turn the other cheek. And it's like
Speaker 5: sometimes you do want to get down and dirty and
Speaker 5: get on that person same level, but I will never
Speaker 5: give anyone that power over me. So it's like, you know,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna pray it away. So it was quite easy
Speaker 5: to finish out the song because there has been people
Speaker 5: who have tried me and I love it. I really did.
Speaker 4: When the last time you really wanted a person hurt,
Speaker 4: because that's what the song, That's what the song is about.
Speaker 1: You want a person hurt, but didn't having to pray
Speaker 1: it away.
Speaker 5: You know, I think I've been growing. I think the
Speaker 5: last time I felt like I wanted somebody to hurt
Speaker 5: maybe five days ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, five days?
Speaker 5: How long? Yeah?
Speaker 3: What was the situation?
Speaker 5: What was the situation? There are several Jesus. Yeah, but
Speaker 5: I prayed away hurt though you.
Speaker 6: Don't really mean hurt. You just mean like you want
Speaker 6: them to feel how you feel.
Speaker 5: Yes, like, But the thing is, we never have to
Speaker 5: do the work like karma speaks for itself, you know.
Speaker 5: So never give someone power to get you out of
Speaker 5: your characters.
Speaker 7: And you've never been like or you don't believe in
Speaker 7: like Spike, like I gotta get my get back.
Speaker 5: I don't because I don't want it to come back
Speaker 5: to me in turn. So I just let them dig
Speaker 5: themselves in a ditch.
Speaker 1: You know. Wait a minute, Wait a minute.
Speaker 4: There's a record on the album that pisses me off,
Speaker 4: and it's opposite cheat Back.
Speaker 1: Pissed me off.
Speaker 5: So why is it? Why does it piss you off?
Speaker 7: That's cruel standard that okay, So let me ask you this.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm just I'm gonna swap the rolls, so say not.
Speaker 5: This is hypothetically speaking an alternate universe. You're with someone,
Speaker 5: She continues, to cheat time and time again because you
Speaker 5: love her so much and she keeps saying she's going
Speaker 5: to change. You stay. But at a certain point, aren't
Speaker 5: you gonna want to get something back so you don't
Speaker 5: feel like a yes, yes, okay.
Speaker 1: I'll just break up with her, though, will.
Speaker 6: You say okay?
Speaker 5: See my point?
Speaker 2: But have you ever been in that situation where you
Speaker 2: had to get your You say it's not revenge, but
Speaker 2: revenge that way, because that's revenge.
Speaker 5: So I have been cheated on a few times, and
Speaker 5: it's like, in my head, I feel like I got
Speaker 5: them back after the fact, after the relationship, and I'm like, hot,
Speaker 5: you'll never know. It's just for like a little internal damn.
Speaker 3: How did you kiss the person cheating?
Speaker 1: You said a couple of times? Jesus Christ.
Speaker 5: The two times I've been cheated on social media? Of course,
Speaker 5: social media and social media evidence. There was a phone. No,
Speaker 5: I've never gone through anyone's phone, Well.
Speaker 6: How'd you okay?
Speaker 5: What on social media?
Speaker 6: Like it was such and such.
Speaker 5: It was like, yeah, it was multiple things on social
Speaker 5: media and then evidence like panties and hair ties.
Speaker 1: Question when you asked him, did he reply yes, ma'am?
Speaker 5: No, they try to deflect.
Speaker 6: Damn, that's my sister's or something. Did they lie and like,
Speaker 6: that's my sisters and my cousins?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know how it goes.
Speaker 1: Cousins.
Speaker 3: They really said that was his sisters.
Speaker 7: And cousins A little something around but not another woman.
Speaker 3: Did you break up immediately or did you feel I did.
Speaker 6: Good for you?
Speaker 5: And I block because we're cancers so I don't want
Speaker 5: to see my phone blowing up. I don't want to
Speaker 5: see loving long text messages because I don't want to
Speaker 5: be a simp and crawl back.
Speaker 1: When you do, it's dirty, it's a rap.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Do you double double back at all?
Speaker 5: I did one time and I was like, nope, it
Speaker 5: ended for a reason.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, answer this question. What does cheating back actually accomplished? Lady?
Speaker 4: Seriously, when y'all really think about it, I.
Speaker 5: Could flip it right back. What does cheating in the
Speaker 5: first place accomplished?
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ?
Speaker 5: Does it just build up your esteem and ego?
Speaker 1: Damn?
Speaker 5: It? Is it just because it feels good in that moment?
Speaker 5: Like I feel like for women sex is about love
Speaker 5: and like the connection, and for men, I do feel
Speaker 5: like it's not as like connection based as it is
Speaker 5: for us. But at the same time, when you say
Speaker 5: you love and respect someone, you can't disrespect them publicly
Speaker 5: by like you know.
Speaker 6: And even spite like get back sex? Like is that
Speaker 6: a spite? The women don't really want to do it.
Speaker 5: We're really just.
Speaker 7: Doing it because we're so angry because the after feeling
Speaker 7: of the guy you did is like, what.
Speaker 1: Is y'all talking about sex?
Speaker 6: I'm just saying, like this.
Speaker 2: Conversation right, I'm over there getting.
Speaker 1: Upset, going dog, this is being hand in here just
Speaker 1: before we get back to music.
Speaker 2: Was that what changed you and make you more outspoken?
Speaker 2: Because you talked about outspoken because in those situations you
Speaker 2: now be quiet. You have to be outspoken to say
Speaker 2: your thoughts.
Speaker 5: That wasn't what changed me. It was other things that
Speaker 5: didn't have to deal with a man. And I'm happy
Speaker 5: to say that I'm not phased or the way that
Speaker 5: I love or go into relationships and stuff isn't phased
Speaker 5: because of how someone else has done me wrong in
Speaker 5: the past, because that's a them problem, not a me problem.
Speaker 5: And I think a lot of times us as women,
Speaker 5: when something like that happens to us, the first thing
Speaker 5: we think is what was it that I did. Was
Speaker 5: it was I wrong? Is there something I could have
Speaker 5: done better? Things like that? But no, that was like
Speaker 5: in the middle to the end kind of stage of it.
Speaker 5: I had COVID actually, and Toron, who I wrote Have
Speaker 5: Mercy With and Told You with Missy Elliott, he sent
Speaker 5: it to me. It was just the guitar and his vocal.
Speaker 5: It was the first two verses in the hook, and
Speaker 5: I was just getting out of relationship and I was
Speaker 5: like depressed and miserable. I had COVID in my apartment
Speaker 5: and I was getting cheated on. I was like, you
Speaker 5: know what, So I immediately I set up my stuff
Speaker 5: in my home studio and I recorded it and it
Speaker 5: just was so freeing. It was really great.
Speaker 1: What if he used COVID as an excuse? He was like,
Speaker 1: I wanted to be with you, but you had COVID,
Speaker 1: So I ended up shut.
Speaker 5: Oh no, But it was like this, you know, like
Speaker 5: when it's never like one thing. So it was like
Speaker 5: I found out then like the week later, I had COVID.
Speaker 5: So it was like you know, the second third week,
Speaker 5: when you're like not talking and getting over it, it's like, oh,
Speaker 5: but that's why I'm happy I have music to kind
Speaker 5: of really put my soul into. And I'm so damn
Speaker 5: happy Future hopped on the record, Like you.
Speaker 1: Got the most toxic person this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but even like his melodies and he's just really
Speaker 5: brilliant and you know, in terms of music, and I
Speaker 5: was happy that he got to speak up for the
Speaker 5: fellas in it.
Speaker 1: It's got a country feel to it almost.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: It kind of reminds me of like How to Love
Speaker 5: with Little Wayne, and it reminds me of four or
Speaker 5: five Seconds with Paul McCartney and Kanyet. That's why I
Speaker 5: loved it. Thank you. I wanted to keep a shit.
Speaker 3: One more thing about that, I want to go too.
Speaker 2: So does that mean the men that you do understand
Speaker 2: that you're going to put their stuff in this's all matter?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's ago. The thing about the thing about me though,
Speaker 5: is I'll never say names. I don't kiss and tell.
Speaker 5: I don't want them to put my business in the streets.
Speaker 5: And I kind of say to myself, I've been single
Speaker 5: for almost a year now, and I'm like, I'm open
Speaker 5: to whatever God has for me, but I'm not like
Speaker 5: hunting down for it. I'm like, whatever happens happens.
Speaker 4: How can you trust guys and not to put your
Speaker 4: business out there though because you are Chloe Bailey like
Speaker 4: you to.
Speaker 5: Talk of the town. No you should. Yeah. I think
Speaker 5: it's all about having discernment, like when you share your
Speaker 5: energy with the specific individual, like I try to pick
Speaker 5: knowing they have a good heart and they're not dumb.
Speaker 4: So any what you said on Cheapback on Cheapbacks that
Speaker 4: you say you're gonna find you a thug, that's basically
Speaker 4: what you described.
Speaker 1: He said you're gonna find you a hood dude with
Speaker 1: tats and all types of stuff. The cheat backs.
Speaker 6: Is that what you're into?
Speaker 5: Okay? So the thing is, I don't really know what
Speaker 5: I'm into. I don't discriminate, Okay, you know, I've like
Speaker 5: the really sweet nerds, not about the look like the thug.
Speaker 5: I'm from Atlanta, So it's just like whoever can stimulate
Speaker 5: my mind, Like, what can you teach me? Like, put
Speaker 5: me on game, teach me new words? Because I'm quite intelligent.
Speaker 5: I like this is where I get like, oh, so
Speaker 5: it really doesn't matter how you look. I mean it
Speaker 5: does because I don't want to wake up and be scared. However,
Speaker 5: it's about It's about it's about the spirits.
Speaker 4: First, my last question about that record because I think
Speaker 4: Future Think the Future said, if you said you can
Speaker 4: find yourself fucking on someone else, do y'all really believe that?
Speaker 5: Oh? So when I got the verse in, I felt
Speaker 5: that in my spirit because he was like, okay, so
Speaker 5: you finally know who you are as an individual because
Speaker 5: you had sex with another man and how like passive
Speaker 5: aggressive and so like? Oh is that statement? That line's
Speaker 5: my favorite? The I should have put cameras and the
Speaker 5: crib line is my favorite.
Speaker 6: Break that bar down, break that bar.
Speaker 4: I can't remember the exact bar is, but he said
Speaker 4: you can find yourself fucking on someone else.
Speaker 5: Yeah he said, he goes shot. He finally found herself
Speaker 5: fucking on someone else.
Speaker 6: But he found herself yes, right? Or he does?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 5: Oh he does.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 5: I don't like that, but like I the reason because
Speaker 5: I'm a pretty fair person. It's all about perspective. The
Speaker 5: reason why I love that line so much is because
Speaker 5: our power doesn't come from opening ourselves up to another individual.
Speaker 5: Our power comes from internal and self love. So it's
Speaker 5: petty as I am being on the song and it's like, yeah,
Speaker 5: I want to hurt you just as much as you
Speaker 5: hurt me. Even when I do that, will it make
Speaker 5: me feel better at the end of the day. And
Speaker 5: that's why I really love that line, because the only
Speaker 5: thing you accomplished was getting back at him, But you
Speaker 5: still haven't found yourself. You're still insecure and crime questioning
Speaker 5: why am I not good enough? So I like that.
Speaker 5: That's why I love that line because it was like
Speaker 5: I got to read the fellows and he got to
Speaker 5: read the ladies.
Speaker 3: Who do you talk to when you're going through all
Speaker 3: this stuff?
Speaker 5: My god, Mom, I call her. I ran me Her
Speaker 5: and Holly have a whole group chat man.
Speaker 3: God Mama never wanted to pull up on some of
Speaker 3: these dudes.
Speaker 5: Oh she has wanted to. She's from the Caribbean, so
Speaker 5: she's gangster. I love that.
Speaker 1: Ye of your favorite records is Body Doo right now?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 7: My favorite one is body Dude. I feel like that
Speaker 7: should have been the single like that one. That's a
Speaker 7: good especially that the weather's getting warm.
Speaker 5: And stuff like that.
Speaker 6: But why did you start the record like that?
Speaker 5: Why do you.
Speaker 6: Ever wonder who else is fucking your man?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 5: Okay, so I wrote Body Doo after I found the panties. Ah,
Speaker 5: And it's like, you know when someone's not good for you,
Speaker 5: but there's something within you that just misses them. You
Speaker 5: miss their touch, you miss like the connection that you have.
Speaker 5: So what I really I wrote that song in five
Speaker 5: minutes because I was quite angry. But I love the
Speaker 5: juxtaposition of how fun it sounds like it's just shaking ass,
Speaker 5: but it's quite toxic and sad. And it's like, I
Speaker 5: can't trust you as far as I can throw you.
Speaker 5: I can't trust what you tell me, but I can
Speaker 5: trust what that body doing because you're right in front
Speaker 5: of me. Language, Yes, like what goes on behind closed doors?
Speaker 5: I think they were they were they were nice. I
Speaker 5: never hers. I never fault the other woman because I'm
Speaker 5: not in a relationship with her. I didn't do that.
Speaker 5: I didn't touch your smell.
Speaker 3: They're not.
Speaker 1: Kill them.
Speaker 5: I don't know. I didn't. I wasn't paying attention. I
Speaker 5: like that you said that.
Speaker 7: I've heard a few men say, like, why why do
Speaker 7: they never be mad at the woman for knowing I
Speaker 7: have a girl and they're doing X Y?
Speaker 6: Because like, and I don't agree with that sentiment.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's I don't like how society has taught us
Speaker 5: as women to compete with each other. Like if you
Speaker 5: flip it again, if two dudes find out about each other,
Speaker 5: they're not calling each other going back and forth. Oh
Speaker 5: so let's compare stories, right, they're just moving on because
Speaker 5: they're not you. Yeah, the immature ones.
Speaker 2: But I don't think no dude's gonna leave a sock
Speaker 2: and be like I want this other dude to find
Speaker 2: my sock or whatever.
Speaker 5: Men are petty.
Speaker 7: Men do a pull up, though, but definitely pull up.
Speaker 7: Try to make it awkward or something like that.
Speaker 5: Oh, that's never happened to me. Has that happened to you?
Speaker 6: That hasn't happened to me?
Speaker 7: But I watched it, friend, I'd be sitting there with
Speaker 7: some popcorn.
Speaker 1: Why did you say the panties were nice? Though? Like?
Speaker 5: They were cute?
Speaker 3: She left that there, she.
Speaker 4: Wanted scaring the hell out your your woman, be like
Speaker 4: I found some q PI. I found a q PA
Speaker 4: of panties.
Speaker 5: And I know they're not mine.
Speaker 1: WHOA I walked out the door. Damn yeah was he
Speaker 1: quick on his feet at least?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 3: What can you say? There's no answer to their mind?
Speaker 5: The thing about women, you know.
Speaker 1: That's a good one.
Speaker 3: He said, they're mine. They are mine.
Speaker 5: I've been like, you know, baby, do we need to
Speaker 5: discuss some things?
Speaker 4: Right? Yeah, I'm glad you have that conversation might be
Speaker 4: easier than another one, you know what I'm saying. I'm
Speaker 4: just saying, now, what was it like recording I want
Speaker 4: you to feel me cry and make it look easy?
Speaker 1: Because both those records felt very personal.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, okay, so this album is quite toxic. To
Speaker 5: be honest, feel me cry as emotional and sad as
Speaker 5: it sounds, it's actually a quite sexually liberated song. You know.
Speaker 5: It's double meanings to feel me cry and then with
Speaker 5: make it would make it look easy. That one was
Speaker 5: the most personal song in the record. I went into
Speaker 5: the studio trying to just like forget what was going
Speaker 5: on in my life, and I thought I was just
Speaker 5: gonna make like some fun shit, and I heard these
Speaker 5: simple chords and I just started writing. Usually I'll go
Speaker 5: in the booth and freestyl a bunch of melodies and
Speaker 5: then like Frankenstein it together. But I was just coming
Speaker 5: up with the melodies and writing it at the same time.
Speaker 5: And I was crying while I was writing it and
Speaker 5: cutting in the booth, and even after listening to the
Speaker 5: demo to hear if I wanted to fix anything, I
Speaker 5: couldn't listen to it for a while because for the
Speaker 5: people who know me personally, like it's a way deeper meaning,
Speaker 5: like with hidden messages and what certain things mean within
Speaker 5: the lyrics. So I'm really proud of myself for being
Speaker 5: so open and honest. And I was like, I can't
Speaker 5: create a conceptual album about heartbreak and being left in
Speaker 5: pieces without being completely honest, Like, yeah, I can talk
Speaker 5: about relationships and friends stabbing me in the back, but
Speaker 5: it's like, why not talk or cover the other things?
Speaker 5: Because mental health is real, Anxiety is real, Feeling like
Speaker 5: you're not good enough is real, Feeling like you don't
Speaker 5: want to be here anymore is real, and I've been
Speaker 5: through all that. So I was like, if I'm saying
Speaker 5: I'm going to be honest, and I should put it
Speaker 5: within the music. And I didn't really care if it
Speaker 5: sounded like a single or anything. I just wanted to
Speaker 5: speak my truth. So that was the last song I
Speaker 5: wrote that I put on the album.
Speaker 4: That's one of my favorite records on the album because I
Speaker 4: feel like, you know, thank you back in the day
Speaker 4: when we was coming up, you would see child stars
Speaker 4: and then you would all of a sudden see child
Speaker 4: stars just lose.
Speaker 1: It and go crazy.
Speaker 4: But nobody ever documents that. I feel like you was documenting. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that process in that record.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's one thing I'll say about myself. I'm
Speaker 5: a lot stronger than I ever thought I was. And
Speaker 5: I'm really proud because of the shit that I've been through.
Speaker 5: I have not let that change me or my character
Speaker 5: as a human being. And you know, hurt people, hurt people,
Speaker 5: and the cycle continues, and that's stopping. Like with me.
Speaker 1: You know, have you gone to therapy?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I have a therapist.
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
Speaker 5: I think it's really important to be honest. Like we
Speaker 5: go to the gym to exercise, we brush up on,
Speaker 5: you know, our last extensions and our hair and go
Speaker 5: into the barber. We should also do that internally.
Speaker 2: Had a session last night and it helps so much. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: Are you off the internet as much now? Because I
Speaker 2: know I know you're on it.
Speaker 1: You watch it.
Speaker 2: So here's the thing, because I show your therapist says
Speaker 2: that's the major thing.
Speaker 1: You got to stay off a soli.
Speaker 5: She does as well as my god, mom. She's trying
Speaker 5: to still she sees me going on it. For me,
Speaker 5: before it was easier to just like delete the apps
Speaker 5: off my phone. But now I'm on tour, I'm trying
Speaker 5: to promote my album. Like I can't just get off
Speaker 5: of it like I want to. It's a part of
Speaker 5: my business. So I have to like monitor myself because
Speaker 5: you can get down the rabbit hole and things like that,
Speaker 5: and I'm not going to sit up here and lie
Speaker 5: and be like, oh yeah, like nothing bothers me. I'm great,
Speaker 5: because that's a lie. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 5: it's like you have to fall so you can get
Speaker 5: back up and be stronger, and you dust your shoulders
Speaker 5: off and you get back up. So for me, I
Speaker 5: know the work that I put into everything. I know
Speaker 5: the good energy and the good person that I am,
Speaker 5: and that will just come back to me.
Speaker 2: So sometimes you gotta say fuck it though, Like I know, yeah,
Speaker 2: he doesn't have Twitter app on his phone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I only read the first ten comments.
Speaker 1: Those are the people that follow me.
Speaker 5: Everything else own or the spam.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't, but my wife does, and she reads
Speaker 2: every comment and sometimes you know it, she said, it
Speaker 2: doesn't affect it, but it has to all that. The
Speaker 2: negative energy has to affect you in some type of way.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, And what people were accusing me of like being
Speaker 5: somebody that I'm not, I saw myself turning into that
Speaker 5: just based off of what people would say. So every
Speaker 5: day I'm living my life unapologetically, like I'm very out
Speaker 5: there and bubbly. I've been that way since I was
Speaker 5: a little girl. That has never ever changed. And when
Speaker 5: I would see people say, oh, she does too much
Speaker 5: or she over sexualizes herself, I'm gonna be twenty five
Speaker 5: and like a couple of months, I'm a grown woman.
Speaker 5: But I think because people grew up with my sister
Speaker 5: and I when we were younger, they can't get past that.
Speaker 5: But I'm like, you know what, I'm grateful that I'm
Speaker 5: bree and whatever I'm stressing out about is not that
Speaker 5: big of a deal.
Speaker 4: So you said you became that, So what you started
Speaker 4: being more overly sexual on purpose.
Speaker 5: Or oh no, no, no, I was changing myself. I
Speaker 5: was trying to cover up. I was trying to be
Speaker 5: on stage like oh, because people are like, just have
Speaker 5: the mic and sing, I was like, okay, but I
Speaker 5: expressed with my body, you know, I grew up and
Speaker 5: dance when I was younger, Like it's a form of expression.
Speaker 5: I don't want to be predictable. I don't want to
Speaker 5: be mediocre. I want to be extraordinary and be like
Speaker 5: something you've never seen before.
Speaker 4: And it's shocking, isn't It's strange because I remember the
Speaker 4: first video that went viral. It was the busseet Chance
Speaker 4: and everybody loved you. And then and then after a while,
Speaker 4: I was like, Okay, now she's doing too much.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the crazy thing. Like even before Sis and
Speaker 5: I got our own Instagram pages, like that's what I
Speaker 5: don't like when people try to pit family against each
Speaker 5: other or compare sisters, like we're two complete individuals. We
Speaker 5: will not be the same. And if you go back
Speaker 5: and watch performances within the group, I was still the
Speaker 5: same passion it moving.
Speaker 6: Oh there's some funny video. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: And before people would like praise that, and it seemed
Speaker 5: like once I found confidence and my power within that,
Speaker 5: people would then try to weaponize it because no one
Speaker 5: ever likes to see a black woman be confident within ourselves.
Speaker 5: Once you claim that it's a problem.
Speaker 4: Speaking of pitting people against each other, the Internet. The
Speaker 4: internetfl like Beyonce should have done more in regard to
Speaker 4: promoting your album.
Speaker 1: What do you What do you have to say about that?
Speaker 5: I love b and she supported my sis and I
Speaker 5: since we had our little locks on YouTube, so it's
Speaker 5: all love over here. I love her.
Speaker 3: Do you feel like the label could have supported more
Speaker 3: and push more?
Speaker 4: Because that's what nobody talking about. Everybody want to blame Beyonce.
Speaker 4: Where was the label at? Well?
Speaker 5: I feel like it's all politics. But this is what
Speaker 5: I'll say. God's plan is always greater than any plan
Speaker 5: I could come up with. And I'll tell you why.
Speaker 5: I shot Swarm and Praise this last. I didn't know
Speaker 5: when those were coming out. Swarm, you know whether it's
Speaker 5: negative or positive. Everybody had my name in their mouth
Speaker 5: maybe a week or and a half or two before
Speaker 5: my album. Then I was able to use because praise
Speaker 5: this is with universal shout out to will Packarantina Gordon,
Speaker 5: I love them. I got to do this whole full
Speaker 5: press junket, go on all these morning shows, going all
Speaker 5: these talk shows, Jimmy Fallon, Drew Barrymore, all these great
Speaker 5: things to talk about the movie. And because God is
Speaker 5: so good, I was able to finesse that and also
Speaker 5: promote my album. So I am grateful that I have
Speaker 5: multiple avenues and multiple ways that I can make money
Speaker 5: and promote myself. And it's hard, but I love it.
Speaker 5: And because of that, that shows me that what God
Speaker 5: has for me will be for me. And I think
Speaker 5: that's what we all have to realize when we're fighting
Speaker 5: for ourselves and fighting for a dream, that no one
Speaker 5: can stop what God has for you. So and now
Speaker 5: I'm on to sold out tour. Like, as much as
Speaker 5: everyone was talking to.
Speaker 3: You know, how did that make you feel?
Speaker 2: Because I know you're on You watch your social media,
Speaker 2: so I'm sure you've seen you trending. And they were
Speaker 2: saying Beyonce didn't post it, and Beyonce didn't you know,
Speaker 2: everybody's into this list, Like if it's your birthday, nobody
Speaker 2: post your birthday. Is the same thing they said that
Speaker 2: Beyonce didn't post it, and people were talking about how
Speaker 2: did that make you feel?
Speaker 5: Of course, when people talk anything negative about me, it's
Speaker 5: going to hurt my feelings, but I was like, at
Speaker 5: least they're talking, and at least people go listen to
Speaker 5: the project. And as much as people try to bring
Speaker 5: up numbers and things like that. I'm trending every other day.
Speaker 1: Facts.
Speaker 5: Marketing can't buy that, A label can't buy that. So
Speaker 5: people care enough to constantly have my name in their mouth.
Speaker 5: So I'm doing something right. And you know, if it
Speaker 5: was real what people were saying, my tours wouldn't be
Speaker 5: sold out, people wouldn't be singing word for word on
Speaker 5: the album I just dropped a week and a half ago.
Speaker 5: So that's what I have to switch my perspective to
Speaker 5: instead of allowing others and people who aren't doing anything
Speaker 5: with themselves or their lives.
Speaker 4: Did my light And I told you it was a marathon,
Speaker 4: not a sprint, Like you got great records on this album,
Speaker 4: Like yeah, you could be platinum this time next year.
Speaker 5: Like yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: People don't know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like singles sometimes the biggest ones take like eight
Speaker 5: months to pop off. And that's why I love you,
Speaker 5: because your your love is real behind doors and behind
Speaker 5: the cameras and stuff. Because when I saw that, I
Speaker 5: was like, yeah, I don't want to be a flash
Speaker 5: in the pan. I'm in this for the long haul.
Speaker 5: Like you know, it's not my first project. The only
Speaker 5: thing that did sting is because as technical and musical
Speaker 5: that I am, I would be like in the studio,
Speaker 5: like nights and nights on top of nights, not sleeping
Speaker 5: like me and my female engineer shout out to her
Speaker 5: women it's them, but we would just be there burning
Speaker 5: the midnight oil. I would pay attention to the bpm
Speaker 5: transitions and the key changes into the next song. And
Speaker 5: it's truly a conceptual piece and body of work. So
Speaker 5: when you put so much time into that as a
Speaker 5: skilled musician who knows what they're talking about, when people
Speaker 5: like will just to be mean, say Empire music or
Speaker 5: things like that, it's like, well, maybe listen to the album.
Speaker 1: Yeah, great album. I'm sure.
Speaker 4: Also to Beyonce has done a lot for you. People
Speaker 4: probably don't see everybody for so much stock in social media,
Speaker 4: like you're here because of Beyonce.
Speaker 1: In a lot of ways.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like we would sing all her songs on YouTube
Speaker 5: and things like that. So it's funny. I've always loved
Speaker 5: her since I was a little girl.
Speaker 7: So you talked about stepping into your sexuality on the album,
Speaker 7: and obviously we've been seeing it in the music videos
Speaker 7: and stuff like that. But swarm that clip that was
Speaker 7: trending on Twitter. It was people were making it sound
Speaker 7: like I'm getting cross, like did you see?
Speaker 6: Did you see?
Speaker 5: I'm like, what I guess?
Speaker 6: I go look at it and then I look and I'm.
Speaker 5: Like, it's really not that. It's two seconds.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's really not that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Christ for Fall, but that's like ten minutes.
Speaker 1: Okay, So this is man, y'all. Don't ever think about us, right,
Speaker 1: I never think about.
Speaker 5: Us because God is good, lessons are flowing. I'm an
Speaker 5: actress as well, and what I love what about acting
Speaker 5: is that I'm not Chloe whenever I'm playing that certain
Speaker 5: character and shout out to Donald Glover, Jenny Neighbors, Dominique,
Speaker 5: Fishback and Damson like we had the best time. And
Speaker 5: when I was shooting on that set, I fell more
Speaker 5: in love with acting. I barely wore makeup. Everything was
Speaker 5: shot on film. In music, you win and thrive off
Speaker 5: of being this image of perfection or whatnot, Like you
Speaker 5: get clowned for messing up or tripping or falling on
Speaker 5: stage or looking a hot mess on the carpet. But
Speaker 5: with acting, that's where the beauty is, with all of
Speaker 5: the flaws and you know the imperfections and things like that.
Speaker 5: So I fell in love with the script. Now I
Speaker 5: totally like, didn't even connect. Oh I have to do
Speaker 5: a sex scene. I've never done a sex scene before,
Speaker 5: and I was like, okay, well, I'm not the focus
Speaker 5: of the scene. It's really about the shock value of
Speaker 5: Dre and Khalid watching each other and like you see
Speaker 5: the obsession between the sister's form at the beginning.
Speaker 6: Was it awkward shooting?
Speaker 5: No, you see me for two seconds in the mirror
Speaker 5: and and you did not see titties. You did not
Speaker 5: even see crack. You saw everything. You saw everything that
Speaker 5: you see from me on stage, Like, let's keep it real.
Speaker 2: Did you have to call like when you told your dad,
Speaker 2: Hey dad, this is the scene or you know what?
Speaker 2: How was that conversation The dad's still gonna be a
Speaker 2: dad my daughter's I don't care for sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I feel like dads will always look at their
Speaker 5: little girls like they're still little, and that's totally fine.
Speaker 5: I One thing I will say about my parents is
Speaker 5: that they know this is our job.
Speaker 2: And so what was it call you called that? Hey dad,
Speaker 2: Hi daddy, how are you feeling shooting?
Speaker 1: Did you shoot?
Speaker 7: Go?
Speaker 5: Okay, So it wasn't about the shoot. It was about
Speaker 5: when I first got it, and you know when the
Speaker 5: agents will call and be like congrats, da da da da.
Speaker 5: And after I got it, I think my dad read
Speaker 5: the script and he's like, oh okay, it's like yeah
Speaker 5: he deleted twitter O. No, it was just me. I
Speaker 5: had to hop on a flight right after I met
Speaker 5: you the.
Speaker 4: Inter And that doesn't realize how much more money they
Speaker 4: make you because if a two seconds scene cause them
Speaker 4: to lose their mind like that, all that's gonna make
Speaker 4: other people say is, oh, we got to get clothe
Speaker 4: in on movies.
Speaker 1: You gotta get clothing.
Speaker 5: God is good.
Speaker 1: God got to get Cloe endorsement deals.
Speaker 6: I like how you're said she.
Speaker 7: When you say, like acting, you can be imperfect and
Speaker 7: the music has to be perfect. Why can't you bring
Speaker 7: the imperfections to the music because I think, like like
Speaker 7: with dope about Cardi b is that you could hear
Speaker 7: she's from the Bronx, you know what I mean? And
Speaker 7: like the spanglish she uses sometimes like why can't it
Speaker 7: be both?
Speaker 5: Well, I do do both, but that's what people ridicule
Speaker 5: me for, Yeah, being imperfect, not being the type of
Speaker 5: image they want me to be. So people say they
Speaker 5: want certain things, and then when you do it, that's
Speaker 5: what they used to pick on you.
Speaker 4: The weirdest thing is when people say things like, she
Speaker 4: don't know who she is, she's not being herself.
Speaker 1: You don't know her, thank you, you don't even know her.
Speaker 5: I'm sure they'd like me if they meet me. I'm
Speaker 5: a really nice person.
Speaker 3: I wanted to ask you on a sold out tour?
Speaker 2: Yeah, does that mean that you're not going to be
Speaker 2: a special guest or that you are going to be
Speaker 2: a special guest on somebody else's store coming up?
Speaker 5: Well, I'm definitely. I'm definitely gonna see the show for sure,
Speaker 5: and it's been exciting, like seeing what I've been doing
Speaker 5: for myself. Like I've never headlined a solo tour ever
Speaker 5: SIS and I never got to do it for On
Speaker 5: Godly Hour because we were in the midst of a pandemic,
Speaker 5: so I really didn't know what to expect going into it.
Speaker 5: Like when I announced it, even before the album dropped,
Speaker 5: I was a little nervous, like, wo people want to
Speaker 5: come things like that? Every night, I'm like telling my
Speaker 5: Godma and my team, I'm like, what do you see
Speaker 5: out there? Like people out there like for some reason,
Speaker 5: it doesn't click that people are there to see me
Speaker 5: correct and it's sold out. And I think when you're
Speaker 5: constantly used to people telling you otherwise, a part of you,
Speaker 5: as much as you don't want to begins to believe it.
Speaker 5: But then when I step out on that stage and
Speaker 5: I see it and I hear it, it's not like
Speaker 5: people are just watching me being quiet. They're singing the
Speaker 5: words back to me. They're giving me that energy and
Speaker 5: that love. You can't fake that, you can't buy that
Speaker 5: and and make up numbers. You can't do that with that.
Speaker 5: That's real. So as long as I'm connecting with the
Speaker 5: ones who love me and I'm doing what makes me happy,
Speaker 5: that's really all. Then that matters.
Speaker 4: It was also okay to have your people say, don't
Speaker 4: ask me no Beyonce questions. I love Beyonce and I'm
Speaker 4: my own inthity a right, because I mean, I'm sure
Speaker 4: Kelly Michelle, everybody's gone through that.
Speaker 1: That is stitding next to that great person you called Beyonce.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, I mean she is Beyonce.
Speaker 5: Everybody wants to know about her. So I'm just like cool,
Speaker 5: like I don't really look much into it.
Speaker 1: Are you gonna be open enough for her?
Speaker 5: About Beyonce my family.
Speaker 1: Practice? Are you gonna be open enough for Beyonce?
Speaker 5: I plead the fifth They don't o no, no, no,
Speaker 5: no no. I'm nice and you're my family now I
Speaker 5: do cuss.
Speaker 1: Are you gonna be opening up for Beyonce?
Speaker 5: I don't know?
Speaker 3: Take that clip going no fucking questions beyond everywhere?
Speaker 5: That would be great.
Speaker 1: Now with all a critique you get from being.
Speaker 2: By the way, she said, she didn't know, She didn't
Speaker 2: say no, she said, she says, says she's not sorry.
Speaker 1: We heard.
Speaker 4: Just if all a critique you get from being a
Speaker 4: music artist, does it make you just want to stay
Speaker 4: in acting because of because of the freedom that you're
Speaker 4: getting acting.
Speaker 5: That's a really great question. And in this past week
Speaker 5: that crossed my mind a few times and I got
Speaker 5: over it like two three days ago. Really yeah, And
Speaker 5: I was like, when people make you doubt, and especially
Speaker 5: as creatives, we already doubt everything we do, so you
Speaker 5: begin to think like, oh, well, maybe this isn't for me,
Speaker 5: But then I would be going against the exact reason
Speaker 5: why God put me here, So why like pray it away?
Speaker 5: Never lessen yourself to please somebody else. And that's in everything,
Speaker 5: not even just me, not people in the business, not,
Speaker 5: it's with everything, And I think why I love Make
Speaker 5: It Look Easy so much. I was in New York
Speaker 5: a couple months ago, and this was when I was
Speaker 5: like listening to the mixes and like, I'm so technical,
Speaker 5: I will obsess over the two empty seconds at the
Speaker 5: end when it comes to mastering. Anyways, I was listening
Speaker 5: to it and I saw a single mom with her child.
Speaker 5: I saw a man who kind of looked really sad
Speaker 5: with his briefcase, and I saw a homeless man all
Speaker 5: while like make it look easy, make it look easy,
Speaker 5: make it look easy, was playing, And in that moment,
Speaker 5: I said, Okay, I'm doing what I've been praying for.
Speaker 5: That I healed through my music because it's bigger than me,
Speaker 5: Like when I leave this world, I want my music
Speaker 5: to make a difference when people come to me and
Speaker 5: tell me because I'm open about my mental health journey
Speaker 5: and you know how I was struggling with even still here,
Speaker 5: they say that that saved them because they felt less alone.
Speaker 5: So that on its own holds so much more weight
Speaker 5: than anything you could ever put in comparison to that.
Speaker 5: When you get stuff like that, numbers don't matter, awards
Speaker 5: don't matter. I'm not doing it for that. I'm doing
Speaker 5: it because it makes me happy. It's literally like my
Speaker 5: favorite thing in the world.
Speaker 3: Love that so well.
Speaker 2: I I got to ask you about they're making me
Speaker 2: ask about Iheartland.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, Iheartland.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that is.
Speaker 5: I know I do, I do, I do. Shout out
Speaker 5: to our heart, hut out to our heart. Thank y'all
Speaker 5: for playing my songs, Thank you for me. I did
Speaker 5: like a five song concert and it was amazing. I
Speaker 5: got to do it in front of an audience like
Speaker 5: one hundred and fifty people I think of like my
Speaker 5: closest fans. And this was before the album even came out.
Speaker 5: So it was the best. It was me with a
Speaker 5: band and it was great. So I actually really love it.
Speaker 5: It turned out really nice, to be honest.
Speaker 2: So it is this Friday at seven pm. They haven't
Speaker 2: told me where Charla it is my heart the metaverse,
Speaker 2: you see, they didn't tell us much about it. They
Speaker 2: just said, ask about I Heartland.
Speaker 5: That's what following for you.
Speaker 4: Oh iHeartRadio dot com slash I Heeartland. You know that's
Speaker 4: that is heart radio dot com slas Heartland. I'm sorry
Speaker 4: that such a journey.
Speaker 6: You're good following for you you're talking about I don't
Speaker 6: need a man. That's the interlew Right.
Speaker 7: Yes, we're like, where were you at when you came
Speaker 7: up with that? Okay, it happened, So that's not me speaking.
Speaker 7: So it's my Godmom and I had my phone out.
Speaker 7: She gotten and she's from the Caribbean.
Speaker 3: Where islands you from? What island you're from? Godmom?
Speaker 6: She covered her face.
Speaker 5: She even hates the camera.
Speaker 1: Oh, I was just was just there. I was there
Speaker 1: two weeks ago. I loved it at a ball.
Speaker 5: So we were in the car and God bless his soul,
Speaker 5: he was really great. He got us there safely. The
Speaker 5: driver from a shoot. He was opening up to us
Speaker 5: about his love life, his personal love life. It was
Speaker 5: me and my Godmama and my stylus in the car,
Speaker 5: and so it started branching out, like the double standards
Speaker 5: with men and women and things like that. So I
Speaker 5: pulled out my phone to record the back and forth
Speaker 5: because I wanted to send it to Halle and Joe
Speaker 5: and Branson. And I was dying laughing. It's a ten
Speaker 5: minute conversation. And this was when I was filming Praises
Speaker 5: at the time, so I was in the studio with
Speaker 5: Dream and I played it for him like the whole
Speaker 5: ten minutes because we were just laughing about it. Shout
Speaker 5: out to him, I love him, he's family, and he
Speaker 5: was like, you need to make this into an interlude
Speaker 5: or I'm gonna take it and do it. I was like,
Speaker 5: you think so He's like, yes, like take a portion.
Speaker 5: So then when I sent it to Halle, she said
Speaker 5: the same thing, and I was like, God, are you
Speaker 5: trying to tell me something? And there was this interlude
Speaker 5: that I just had the hook on that I really
Speaker 5: had nothing left else to say on it, and I
Speaker 5: was like, Oh, I got it. That's it, because I
Speaker 5: the juxtaposition of in the beginning it's like, yes, I'm
Speaker 5: falling for you, I'm losing myself because of how much
Speaker 5: I love you. But it's like it flips when you
Speaker 5: hear her come and say, fuck that ship. I'm not
Speaker 5: laying down and giving myself to a man just to
Speaker 5: lose myself. So it really as a cancer because when
Speaker 5: I'm in love, I give my all and I think
Speaker 5: that's why I needed to be single this past year,
Speaker 5: so I could put all of the attention and focus
Speaker 5: on myself. So I love it so much. It even
Speaker 5: starts off the tour at the top of the show.
Speaker 2: I love it well, I'm I represent you God Mom.
Speaker 2: And since we didn't get clearance for that record, we
Speaker 2: need PC.
Speaker 1: Did you voice? We need PC.
Speaker 2: You need to take it to court or you know,
Speaker 2: you can pay a sitiside whatever whatever you prefer.
Speaker 7: Come on, Yeah, the record that you did with Missy Elliott.
Speaker 7: Did you guys do that together? I want to know
Speaker 7: what is it like working with Missy Elliott?
Speaker 4: Another cancers and studio same birthday July first.
Speaker 5: Okay, so first off saying because of her, it gave
Speaker 5: me confidence as a black woman to produce and let
Speaker 5: my nerd kind of fly in that way. So around
Speaker 5: Grammy weekend, I got the call from Grammys and Harvey
Speaker 5: Mason because he did the music for Praises, and they
Speaker 5: were like, oh, we want you to honor Missy at
Speaker 5: BMC Black Music Collective. I was like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 5: I love her, Like, out of all the tributes I've
Speaker 5: ever done, this was the one and even her manager
Speaker 5: Mona Scott. She said that I was on her wish
Speaker 5: list of people, so it was a surprise that I
Speaker 5: was supposed to be there. So I was already freaking out,
Speaker 5: one because I knew I'd be singing in front of her,
Speaker 5: and two to know that she even likes me and
Speaker 5: knows of me. So I got out on that stage
Speaker 5: and I saw her, I was like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 5: And I sang one in a million and one minute man.
Speaker 5: And after I got off that stage, I held her
Speaker 5: so tight and I was like, thank you for everything
Speaker 5: that you've done and inspired me with. And that was
Speaker 5: when I was finishing the final mixes of my album.
Speaker 5: And like two days later, I was listening to Toldia
Speaker 5: and the beat is heavily inspired by her, as a
Speaker 5: lot of the tracks on there are, and I looked
Speaker 5: at my god mom, who's my manager? I was like,
Speaker 5: what if we got Missy on Toldia? And she gave
Speaker 5: me the eye. And then maybe a few hours later,
Speaker 5: I got a text from a random number on my phone.
Speaker 5: It was Missy and she was thanking me for the
Speaker 5: tribute and how much she loves me and to keep
Speaker 5: going and to keep God first and she does not
Speaker 5: know how much her saying that coming from her meant
Speaker 5: to me, and I got her verse super Bowl morning.
Speaker 5: I literally cried out on the floor in the hotel room,
Speaker 5: like for twenty minutes because for some reason, whenever I'm
Speaker 5: like going through something, I like make high energy songs.
Speaker 5: That's how I have mercy got started. It was like to
Speaker 5: clap back at all the people saying I show my
Speaker 5: ass too much and told youa I was in the
Speaker 5: studio with Taran again was like, man, people are telling
Speaker 5: me I can't do this, they're underestimating me. And he's like,
Speaker 5: you know what, We're gonna tell those motherfuckers. So that's
Speaker 5: why it's called I told you so. Even though it
Speaker 5: sounds like from such a big place of confidence, it
Speaker 5: really came from a place of feeling so small. So
Speaker 5: with all of that being said, to have an icon
Speaker 5: like her put her stamp of approval on a song
Speaker 5: that I wrote because I felt like I wasn't good
Speaker 5: enough to do this, that's that meant so much to me.
Speaker 4: I've seen the change, Like there was a time where
Speaker 4: it was still Chloe publicist talking points.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you ripped that up in the last last month,
Speaker 1: or so I've seen. Yeah, I've seen.
Speaker 5: You're human. You Yeah, we're human like none of us
Speaker 5: are perfect, and it's boring to act like we are.
Speaker 3: So you want to you got another question? You want
Speaker 3: to get into a joint?
Speaker 1: Off anything else?
Speaker 6: Now we can get into it.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: I just want to tell my cousin that, you know,
Speaker 4: she knows our love her, and you know, I want
Speaker 4: to tell you it's better if it's something my therapist
Speaker 4: told me. Actually, it's better to be slandered than ignored, right,
Speaker 4: and all anoise.
Speaker 1: Is the price you pay for all of the good
Speaker 1: you do in the world.
Speaker 5: I love that.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, ain't downloaded? Don't know?
Speaker 5: Shut up?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 5: Did you did you download the album?
Speaker 3: I streamed it?
Speaker 5: Okay, So what was your favorite song?
Speaker 1: Good? Now you got them? Now you got it?
Speaker 5: You keep one of those the bus? Tell me your
Speaker 5: favorite song.
Speaker 2: I'm a DJ, So I played the records in the club?
Speaker 2: So which one the club?
Speaker 5: Which did you play from in pieces? Because have Mercy
Speaker 5: isn't on in pieces?
Speaker 3: It might be that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Chloe, but I want to hear from the
Speaker 4: album right now. And even though I don't personally, you know,
Speaker 4: I love I love the song sonically, but I don't
Speaker 4: like what it stands for A cheap my future.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's because I think that's it.
Speaker 3: We're gonna get into it now.
Speaker 1: You are DJ. What you think is the hit by body?
Speaker 3: Do it?
Speaker 6: Got that energy? The weather is warm now?
Speaker 2: Both both both that's Chloe Bailey, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3: Thank you for joining.
Speaker 5: Thank you guys, I love you.
Speaker 2: And it's the Breakfast Club is Chloe Bally one said,
Speaker 2: we gotta just do some for BT.
Speaker 3: Cool Hi, we.
Speaker 2: Got more with Chloe Bailey when we come back, Don't Move,
Speaker 2: It's the Breakfast Club on BT. We got more with
Speaker 2: Chloe Bailey. It's the Breakfast Club on BT. We got
Speaker 2: what when we come back? We got more with Chloe Bailly.
Speaker 2: It's the Breakfast Club on BT. Don't Move, Don't go
Speaker 2: anywhere Chloe Bailey when we come back on BT.
Speaker 3: That was Chloe Bailey on BT rumors on the way.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Thank you,