Speaker 1: What's up is slip service. I'm Angela, Yie g Maguire,
Speaker 1: Stephanie Santiago, what's up. It's Brandy Evans. What's up, y'all,
Speaker 1: it's Nico on Andy quiet story story. We are so
Speaker 1: excited because they are the stars of p Valley. So
Speaker 1: you know, first of all, gig By the Way has
Speaker 1: been trying to get you up here for like since
Speaker 1: the show started. So we are so glad to have
Speaker 1: your Season two has already begun a couple of weeks ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so you know Nico as Uncle Clifford and you
Speaker 1: know Brandy as Mercedes, and we're just glad you're alive. Brandy,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. I'm glad to be here today.
Speaker 1: Thank you father, Thank you for getting me off that pole.
Speaker 1: I was scared here. I was scared. It was real
Speaker 1: Right when you did that the slide back, it was
Speaker 1: like I was like, oh, she missed the connect no,
Speaker 1: because it really felt like child don't get a ty
Speaker 1: So we was hanging up off that thing for real.
Speaker 1: So it was literally scary dropping down. And this is
Speaker 1: not a spoiler, but you know from episode two if
Speaker 1: you didn't see it, yeah, Mercedes does have a bad
Speaker 1: fall off the post similar to Tip Drill. Remember that happened.
Speaker 1: She was in a coma right for a while. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she literally broke her entire face and had to get
Speaker 1: reconstructed surgery. Her mouth was wired shut. She just posted
Speaker 1: a couple of days ago that when she did the
Speaker 1: bees in the Trap video with Nicki Minaj, that was
Speaker 1: kind of like her comeback after the fall, and she
Speaker 1: said that her face was swollen and her her moth
Speaker 1: was wired shut, but she was gonna be goddamn that
Speaker 1: She and Hope Way they shot that scene though, you
Speaker 1: knew because I was like, oh my god, I was
Speaker 1: watching it and I say, I know she got to
Speaker 1: You could just tell. It's the way like the climb
Speaker 1: up like girl she on her way down. I was shaking. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can tell to give out a lot of people
Speaker 1: don't notice. But the iron X is already us hard
Speaker 1: to stick anyway, So let me tell you that's the one.
Speaker 1: I don't even want to try to learn. What are
Speaker 1: you gonna do it? No, you're like X, yes, this
Speaker 1: is the pole and here, Yeah you're here and going out. Okay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So thank you for yes Is Sama and all my
Speaker 1: girls that were doing it for me because I did
Speaker 1: not do that one. I could not even begin to
Speaker 1: Maria j I could not even begin to try that
Speaker 1: one because it just I was like, if I turned
Speaker 1: the wrong way, I'm gonna poup my arm out, like
Speaker 1: it's not a game. And I was like, let me
Speaker 1: let the professionals do this one. Thank you ladies. And
Speaker 1: f I I just watching that because sometimes you know,
Speaker 1: you go to this strip club, but they don't really
Speaker 1: have skills, like you know what I'm saying, a little
Speaker 1: grind on somebody. But to see like that, because like
Speaker 1: you know, I used to go see g and Magic City,
Speaker 1: but that was like a real performance. It was like,
Speaker 1: how are they doing this the Snack Pack And that's
Speaker 1: kind of like what we saw. Yeah, the other two
Speaker 1: members of the Snackpack ak a extra extra, which are
Speaker 1: of these girls and they they went from last season
Speaker 1: kind of being a little bit in the background to
Speaker 1: this season really like they was killing a lis characters.
Speaker 1: Like they start off that the car was pussy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wanted to do money at the TV they're doing.
Speaker 1: So I'm so proud of proud of them. What I
Speaker 1: love is that how seriously they take this. So it's
Speaker 1: like they took this opportunity. And I remember being on
Speaker 1: the phone with China who plays Brazil and all the
Speaker 1: girls Simone, like they were really like, Okay, where can
Speaker 1: I take acting classes? All this? So, yeah, they deserve
Speaker 1: everything absolutely, learning about contracts, like the business of it.
Speaker 1: It's one of the things that like people talk about
Speaker 1: like the vibe of the show, like the family aspect
Speaker 1: of it. In real life, we do that like help
Speaker 1: each other, like get to the next step of like
Speaker 1: what you need or I was just talking to Cherokee
Speaker 1: actually the other day, just talking about like some contractual
Speaker 1: things to help her like get different acting agents and representation, right,
Speaker 1: because I don't feel like there's a need to hold
Speaker 1: informations of us everywhere. And we're so much stronger again stronger.
Speaker 1: And you came from off Broadway, right you also so
Speaker 1: you did the play version Pussy Valley, Yeah, before you
Speaker 1: actually auditioned and got the role as Uncle Clifford on Stars. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So what was that like for you? And what's the
Speaker 1: difference between the play and then being on the big screen.
Speaker 1: You know what the big difference is just the amount
Speaker 1: of people that come to see the show. You know,
Speaker 1: we're in everybody's home every night. It was crazy because
Speaker 1: when we did the first workshops of that that was
Speaker 1: here at the Lark Theater on forty at the time,
Speaker 1: it was on or something like that, it's no longer here.
Speaker 1: The COVID pandemic, you know, they crashed and closed during
Speaker 1: that um. But then it was workshop after workshop. Then
Speaker 1: we went up town to Hip Hop Theater Festival I
Speaker 1: think it was, and they did that with dancers because
Speaker 1: they kept saying that this story couldn't be told with actors.
Speaker 1: Actors will never be able to do this, and so
Speaker 1: a lot of the producers was like, oh, you have
Speaker 1: to get dancers, and so Quatori was like, okay, let's see.
Speaker 1: So they produced a workshop series with just the dancers.
Speaker 1: But because it's so script and story heavy, it's hard
Speaker 1: to do if you haven't had experience in terms of
Speaker 1: the acting components, you know what I'm saying. But there's
Speaker 1: room for everybody, and so she was trying to really
Speaker 1: communicate the fact that this is a world about story
Speaker 1: and these people in their lives. She wanted to bring
Speaker 1: like that kind of relevance and credence to it. So
Speaker 1: from there we went to Minnesota and it was like
Speaker 1: there's time in between. So when people talk about the
Speaker 1: time between season two one and two and like, let's
Speaker 1: take absolutely because it takes time. That's a lot of workers,
Speaker 1: ten months of our lives that we put together for
Speaker 1: season two. And when we did it out in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: there was a thing that I knew like, Oh, this
Speaker 1: is really, really, really gonna be it. We were doing
Speaker 1: a full on play. It was a mixed blood theater.
Speaker 1: And what happened was at the end of act one
Speaker 1: there was a fight that happens in the pink, similar
Speaker 1: to you know, Murder Knight. It wasn't Murder Night, but
Speaker 1: it was similar to that. And there were people in
Speaker 1: the audience, myself and the actress that was playing Mercedes
Speaker 1: at the time. We're hiding underneath the bleachers because it's
Speaker 1: the theater. We're waiting for the exit. We're waiting for
Speaker 1: the lights to go black, and like all right, let's
Speaker 1: hit it to the dressing room to change fact too.
Speaker 1: We're under there and the sound cues are going off.
Speaker 1: They were got up running. There was like five folks
Speaker 1: that got up. I was like, oh ship, motherfucker. The
Speaker 1: girlfriends okay, girlfriends, was like calm down, this is a play,
Speaker 1: and I was like what But because of the sound
Speaker 1: of music, you know, there was live dancing in the play,
Speaker 1: like so people get you. You get caught up in
Speaker 1: the world, so they forgot that they were watching a
Speaker 1: play versus they got everybody. They run, okay, terrible. I
Speaker 1: said that when Bigger used to perform party and bullshit
Speaker 1: and then he's like a fucking fight broke out. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I've seen him perform that twice and both times people
Speaker 1: ran because it was yeah, because it's a part of
Speaker 1: the song where it really stops, and then they started
Speaker 1: like play fighting on stage and so people were running.
Speaker 1: I think I was at Jones Beach one time and
Speaker 1: one time at Howard's homecoming and people ran out the
Speaker 1: party and couldn't get back in afterwards. My friends was
Speaker 1: outside crazy, did I listen. I'm got a band of
Speaker 1: running when something happens, I like hide behind something because
Speaker 1: that's like how you get trampled when you started running.
Speaker 1: That's how it was in Detroit, like we have parties
Speaker 1: and maybe like running something like I'm under the table.
Speaker 1: Want to run because that's how you get you know,
Speaker 1: you've seen squid game like good right here now, Bernie,
Speaker 1: for you right playing the role of Mercedes, how is
Speaker 1: that for you? Just even like, okay, this one scene
Speaker 1: and I want you all to be honest. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: So let's just say guy's married and he's his wife
Speaker 1: is okay with him just putting you up in a
Speaker 1: nice apartment taking care of you financially? You know, you're good.
Speaker 1: You've had some struggles, but you know, I'm broke. But
Speaker 1: this guy is like, like, my wife knows the deal.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put you up. You ain't gonna worry about nothing.
Speaker 1: You're good. Does that sound appealing in any way? You
Speaker 1: know what? Yes? No, yes, no, because it's just like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get this little coin she you know. But
Speaker 1: then it's just like, uh like Mercedes says, she got
Speaker 1: a little integrity, you know. Like so it's it's that
Speaker 1: moment of like the breaking of the bond of the marriage.
Speaker 1: In my mind, I'm like, you don't want to do that.
Speaker 1: But then I'm like, I think about me as a
Speaker 1: character for my mom, and I'm like, if I had
Speaker 1: the opportunity, what I do it? If I needed to
Speaker 1: to take care of her? And Mercedes is thinking I
Speaker 1: gotta try to get my daughter back right. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a hard one. I would just say, I'm not judging, yeah,
Speaker 1: because even not from your position now obviously, but from
Speaker 1: the position of that character, it's like, there's a lot
Speaker 1: going on I could be taken care of. So let
Speaker 1: me tell you. I had a situation like that back
Speaker 1: when I first decided to move to Atlanta. My sugar
Speaker 1: daddy at the time was like, don't go stay, I'll
Speaker 1: put an apartment, I'll buy you whatever car, I'll pay
Speaker 1: all your bills for two He was married, Yeah, and
Speaker 1: he's like, figure out whatever you want to do. And
Speaker 1: I thought you two years. But I'm like, no, I'm
Speaker 1: going to Atlanta because all I can think of is
Speaker 1: now you're going to be controlling me. Yeah. I got
Speaker 1: this fly yes condo on the water, and I got
Speaker 1: a bins or whatever car I want. But holidays, you
Speaker 1: ain't gonna be around. I can't hand nobody up in
Speaker 1: and out of here because you got a key and
Speaker 1: and you know, so it's just like I'd rather, even
Speaker 1: though that sounded amazing, I'd rather go on down this path,
Speaker 1: down the yellow Big Road to Atlanta and and you know,
Speaker 1: do my own thing, and yeah, that was a real
Speaker 1: situation for me. What about your staths? Um well, he
Speaker 1: wasn't bad looking either. You know, it would be different
Speaker 1: if he was like terrible. Alright, so of course Angel
Speaker 1: will put an extra sprinkle, so he's fine. He got
Speaker 1: a six pack, and he agrees to pay for my bills.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to say yes because because my bills
Speaker 1: are really hot. So I'm gonna be like, wow, this
Speaker 1: guy is really rich and his wife is okay with it.
Speaker 1: Maybe she's not gonna be friends. Okay. Is there a
Speaker 1: time limit on that there for you? Um? Whatever, this
Speaker 1: time Lemon wants to be on it, because how long
Speaker 1: you do you got twelve bands in mafire? How long
Speaker 1: do you want to do that for? As long as
Speaker 1: thank you for the break, appreciate because I know something
Speaker 1: he eventually he gonna he's gonna gets higher eventually. And Benny,
Speaker 1: did you get some new tricks from the show, like
Speaker 1: to try at home? Oh? Yes, thank you Jamaica someone
Speaker 1: virgo yes, And you know I got a pole in
Speaker 1: the house this season. So but first of all, my
Speaker 1: body needed a poll in the house because when you
Speaker 1: take a break, girl, it was like I couldn't climb again,
Speaker 1: like two years off. I felt like I was starting
Speaker 1: all over. So it definitely was hard. But it's been
Speaker 1: amazing and it feels good too because we have girls
Speaker 1: that are there. First of all, I'm a diehard Magic City,
Speaker 1: Like I've not found the club yet that I love
Speaker 1: better than Magic Like I have it, Like that's the
Speaker 1: place that you might not know this, but g McGuire
Speaker 1: was born at Magic City. Yeah, there was no Gi
Speaker 1: McGuire before Magic City, and I was somebody. I was
Speaker 1: somebody totally different. No, I loved it, and I remember
Speaker 1: my first experience there, so I was just like these girls.
Speaker 1: I remember like hanging from the celing. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: now this is what I'm talking about. It was a
Speaker 1: different experience and I thought what a strip club was.
Speaker 1: So it's been amazing to just learn it and then
Speaker 1: like to look over at the girls that do it
Speaker 1: and they're like, yeah, that's it right there, Like it
Speaker 1: feels good, like even if all these cars in my body.
Speaker 1: But I'm like, but I did this, yeah, and good
Speaker 1: at doing it. When I was a stripper back in
Speaker 1: the days, I used to be able to do not
Speaker 1: what does but like a little faig poultrick. It's been
Speaker 1: now forget it rever like you said when you stop
Speaker 1: over and it's paint for I'm about us to have bruises. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I love it. But the thing about it to me
Speaker 1: is that it's better than the gym. It is best
Speaker 1: on that pole. It's the best work out the classes
Speaker 1: and afterwards. Because yeah, you absolutely like somebody beat you
Speaker 1: in a dark alley with a bat like, but that
Speaker 1: body be ripped up in all these callouses? What's you
Speaker 1: kind of callous over? Real good? You'd be? Let me
Speaker 1: ask you a quest exactly on the whole have you
Speaker 1: she's watching that type of poe we're talking about that
Speaker 1: crime now chrome cholate. But okay, so you had a
Speaker 1: cute relationship, right, not acute relationship. See how she just
Speaker 1: missed the relationship calling him back right now. My whole
Speaker 1: thing is this, could you understand where murders coming from.
Speaker 1: He's trying to start his career as a rapper, and
Speaker 1: it's not an easy thing to do because hip hop
Speaker 1: can be really homophobic, and he's around people that are,
Speaker 1: you know, saying things that he feels like, Okay, I
Speaker 1: gotta play a certain role in order for me to
Speaker 1: even obtain any type of success. I do feel like
Speaker 1: things are different now, but you know, just set in
Speaker 1: that time period there in the South, like I think
Speaker 1: even the time, but I think the region because you
Speaker 1: just mentioned the South, right, so something like down down
Speaker 1: like the type of music that you do, so like
Speaker 1: Little Murder does trap rap right, trap wrap is different
Speaker 1: from like pop rap, you know what I'm saying. I
Speaker 1: think in a pop rap it's a little more acceptable.
Speaker 1: But to me Um as the character, I think that
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot that Uncle Clifford has been
Speaker 1: has worked really hard and a long time to like
Speaker 1: accept who she is and all of the things. And
Speaker 1: once you get a piece of knowing who you are,
Speaker 1: for somebody to come along in a relationship, regardless of
Speaker 1: how much money they got, how much how lost they got,
Speaker 1: how much loss, how fine they may be, it's like,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna give that away because it took me
Speaker 1: too long to get to this level of knowing myself.
Speaker 1: That's how I feel as Uncle Clifford, as Nico, I understand.
Speaker 1: I think that for me there's a level of just
Speaker 1: straight authenticity that can kind of cross those boundaries. I
Speaker 1: think my size affects a lot of people's views of
Speaker 1: Nico as a black gay man. Um. I think being
Speaker 1: from Detroit, like you could tell like, well, I don't
Speaker 1: know if I can really funk with her name, you know,
Speaker 1: like you know he ain't gonna just be no easy
Speaker 1: or you know what I'm saying, and you're gonna try, right.
Speaker 1: But I also like, I'm a warm person, but I
Speaker 1: am also the one like, don't cross me, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And I think that a level of
Speaker 1: I don't have to perform. I don't have to perform
Speaker 1: my blackness, my gayness, or my any nous for you.
Speaker 1: So I think sometimes that kind of comes across. So
Speaker 1: authenticity is the key. Can you forgive? You thinking Uncle
Speaker 1: Clifford forgive for real? Uh right there. I think it's
Speaker 1: more so about like something has to happen, Like you're talking.
Speaker 1: You can say sorry all you want, but what what's
Speaker 1: the what? How are you backing that up? Because you
Speaker 1: saying sorry on Murder Night? You know a little murder
Speaker 1: said sorry on Murder Night? Right? Trying too though, because
Speaker 1: you embarrassed me in public? Well what she said? What
Speaker 1: she said? And I think a lot of us have
Speaker 1: had an experience like that where somebody has maybe played
Speaker 1: you like you have your heart, you know, and it's
Speaker 1: like wait, no, no no, no, no no, no, like you really
Speaker 1: you're sucking up you, You're really messing up, like the
Speaker 1: way you're coming at me, you're not being full and truthful.
Speaker 1: So I'm out. But I think that for them, those
Speaker 1: two characters, I think that there's some life that has
Speaker 1: to kind of happen this season with them being in
Speaker 1: the pandemic. I think that there's a lot of, like
Speaker 1: we call it the pandemic pining, you know, where you
Speaker 1: touch hunk, Yeah, everybody, you just wanted to be touched,
Speaker 1: whether you're in a relationship or not. I know, I
Speaker 1: was stuck here on Street. I was tent stuck literally
Speaker 1: when the pandemic everything shut down and New York was
Speaker 1: shut down, down down, it was like scared ye, it
Speaker 1: was pleasu. All these zombies were all side It's for real.
Speaker 1: I like to look out the window and see four
Speaker 1: second Street and never happened. I was like, this really
Speaker 1: feels like the Walking Dead for real, real exactly. I
Speaker 1: was like, what's really about to go down? But I
Speaker 1: found myself cooking because I like to cook. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, I gotta keep the thingstic. But there's
Speaker 1: nobody here, and you're over here roasting these these nuts
Speaker 1: to put on this peanut butter and jelly sandwich with
Speaker 1: these fresh saying. I was cooking, and I was taking
Speaker 1: these extra layers and doing the cooking. I was like,
Speaker 1: you're not doing Julia Child's work. But there's nobody here.
Speaker 1: There's nobody that's going to appreciate this. So I feel
Speaker 1: like that layer of like the pining and the pandemic,
Speaker 1: it makes it harder and mix. You sometimes mix them
Speaker 1: reckless decisions. You know, as we see everybody knows somebody
Speaker 1: calls somebody there, we go shut up, Like I sent
Speaker 1: that text you up, yea, some good facetimes come ontime.
Speaker 1: I mean, what else can you do? And I was
Speaker 1: working from home every day, you know, it was so
Speaker 1: and I lived by myself and so but I did
Speaker 1: have my friend Jasmine. She came and she stayed with
Speaker 1: me for like months, so that was needed that Like
Speaker 1: you know, it wasn't always just about romance, so you know,
Speaker 1: like you know, sex or nothing like that was just like,
Speaker 1: oh yo, I actually haven't had a hug. We were
Speaker 1: going for once every day, like saying, I gotta go
Speaker 1: outside and just go for a while just because I
Speaker 1: needed like air, I needed to just be outside. And yes,
Speaker 1: yeah it was tough, and I know it was tough
Speaker 1: at you know, for pe Valley too. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: you're playing a stripper. Everything is about touch and closeness
Speaker 1: and intimacy. Yes, And even when we started filming, it
Speaker 1: was just like wait, can I wait? How can six
Speaker 1: feet right? Who doing lap dance? Six? I mean a
Speaker 1: couple of hook ups there, So I already know that
Speaker 1: the six wasn't stand came out of me. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: like women could do anything, like to see Jupiter up
Speaker 1: there and have What the fans don't know. What the
Speaker 1: viewers don't know is that she was really pregnant. She
Speaker 1: was absolutely she was really pregnant. She was literally really pregnant,
Speaker 1: still doing her stunts and everything. I remember how nervous
Speaker 1: she was to tell Katori and Kat was just like
Speaker 1: absolutely real. Actually this season's season two, Katori was pregnant.
Speaker 1: I'll just posting about having being a mom. Yeah, she
Speaker 1: literally just had her third day having her bag. She
Speaker 1: was directing us and everything. Literally the big old belly
Speaker 1: stepping up. No no, no no, no like there, y'all. There's
Speaker 1: nothing that y'all changes can reveal here now too, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: what would you like to reveal? It's been baking for why.
Speaker 1: I mean, we know this, but we've been you know,
Speaker 1: sworry busy, like you know since we have going Brandy
Speaker 1: Uncle Cliff at Mercedes. This makes sense. So in episode
Speaker 1: five of season two of Valley, I'm making a parents
Speaker 1: as myself, which is huge. That's like, look, I gotta
Speaker 1: look at this. Yes, yes, yes, So without giving up
Speaker 1: too much of what happens. Um as we know, there's
Speaker 1: a tour. So when um, when that tour stops in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: I'm in Atlanta. Yeah, I love it and I'm a
Speaker 1: I'm a legend. I wasn't rusty. Well I don't dance. Okay,
Speaker 1: you don't have this no more. I would have loved.
Speaker 1: I would have loved a little one two stuff. I
Speaker 1: would have But I mean, if they would to ask
Speaker 1: you to dance, I would have been ready. However, I
Speaker 1: do talk, and I have some conversation with Mississippi and um,
Speaker 1: it's it's me and a few other legends. In the
Speaker 1: Strip Club game. We all know and love. So oh
Speaker 1: my god, I'm so excited. I'm so excited for you too, honey,
Speaker 1: and you look good. We can talk about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did a d R and also UM for this interview,
Speaker 1: this one through five. What is it for you when
Speaker 1: you say, like, I get to be myself? It would
Speaker 1: it be more were you know, more nervous if you
Speaker 1: have to like play a character or what? UM? I
Speaker 1: think playing the character would have been a nervous situation
Speaker 1: for me because I'm not an actual I mean even
Speaker 1: though as entertainers, you know, we have to put on
Speaker 1: our stage face, right, so I probably think that I
Speaker 1: definitely know actually that I would have been able to
Speaker 1: help hold it down had they given me a character.
Speaker 1: But it's it's so much of an honor because as
Speaker 1: a dancer, and y'all, y'all everybody knows this, we get
Speaker 1: put down for using our body to make money. And
Speaker 1: they think there were hors and we stuck in digg
Speaker 1: in the back room, and you know, even though some
Speaker 1: girls do but all of us don't ship club. They
Speaker 1: think that. So they think that dancers are uneducated. They
Speaker 1: think dancers have pimps, They think dancers are drug addicted.
Speaker 1: They think dancers don't take care of their children, and
Speaker 1: that they are you know, sleeping on couches and arabis,
Speaker 1: and they spend all their money on we eve and
Speaker 1: whatever else and don't really take care of themselves as women.
Speaker 1: And I'm all about changing the narrative, you know, And
Speaker 1: this show is all about changing the narrative. This show
Speaker 1: gives you an inside look on the life of an entertainer,
Speaker 1: the life of a club owner, what actually happens behind
Speaker 1: the curtain when we in the dressing room, and so
Speaker 1: for so on. So to be able to be honored
Speaker 1: on a scripted television show on such a bit network,
Speaker 1: such a huge platform that you guys have provided breaking record,
Speaker 1: right okay, one thousand, yeah, over a thousand percent um
Speaker 1: rising viewership for the second season. To be a part
Speaker 1: of that as myself as the girl that was frowned
Speaker 1: upon because she was a stripper, the girl that you know,
Speaker 1: didn't get the opportunities because she was a stripper. For
Speaker 1: me to be able to, oh my god, I'm shaking.
Speaker 1: For me to be able to be honored in that
Speaker 1: light because I was a stripper is just such an
Speaker 1: amazing opportunity and I'm so grateful, grateful, I'm so grateful.
Speaker 1: Like from the time that I got the phone call,
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't give a fun y'all want
Speaker 1: me to put up some goddam attached shoes and make
Speaker 1: the cocktail on the top of the bar, I'm doing it.
Speaker 1: I didn't hear what they would make me a sweeper,
Speaker 1: make me a house my don't care what y'all. Happy,
Speaker 1: whatever y'all want me to do, I'm going to do it.
Speaker 1: And when I when I saw the script and I
Speaker 1: saw you know, the scene and everything, I was just like,
Speaker 1: y'all hit the floor like I couldn't believe. Legends. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's written the Legends. Yeah, it's the Legends. Well, I
Speaker 1: do you want to give too much? Can I? Can?
Speaker 1: I really say? Okay, yeah, okay, it's the Legends ball
Speaker 1: and again some of you guys is favorite strippers, term
Speaker 1: reality stars are are honored as well as myself and
Speaker 1: we had a great time. Now I'm said one thing,
Speaker 1: I thought I was coming to the pink season three,
Speaker 1: I was just say, who says that you're not gonna
Speaker 1: come to the paint Remember that last season with nine Yes,
Speaker 1: said Tony. Bryce was just like it was so much
Speaker 1: fun and lord, she and Megan the Stallions on this
Speaker 1: season and we already seen it. Snow. That's important that
Speaker 1: you know what's in line, um snow in Mississippi. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Yes, because it is. But
Speaker 1: you know, one of the things I feel like this
Speaker 1: season Katori and like the writers, they were so intentional
Speaker 1: and honoring. She had this idea of like standing in
Speaker 1: the sun, so like when you look at the lighting
Speaker 1: and things like that, you always you're gonna see a
Speaker 1: more dramatic um and intentional with the look of the show,
Speaker 1: that whole Delta noir Field. And she said this thing
Speaker 1: to me one time. She was like, I just want
Speaker 1: to be able to give us our crowns, you know,
Speaker 1: and so literally, like all of the different people and
Speaker 1: communities that the show represents, whether it's the dance community,
Speaker 1: whether it's the rap community, whether it's the gangsters in
Speaker 1: our in our hoods, whether it's the lgbt Q plus folks,
Speaker 1: everybody in our community gets celebrated this season. Politicians. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So like that was so important and intentional. So like
Speaker 1: I was like, yes and yes and yes. Because we
Speaker 1: even mentioned um in episode one. Yes, you know what
Speaker 1: they took it out. That was actually the pilot presentation. Yes, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: and yeah, and I was I was hoping that that continued.
Speaker 1: Don't but me ye. Now, let me ask you this.
Speaker 1: Another thing that happens, right, is how involved you get
Speaker 1: in somebody else's relationship when you see that things aren't
Speaker 1: going well, Like when do you say, okay, let me interfair,
Speaker 1: Like we see what's going on with keys Sean and
Speaker 1: Derek and Derek right, and you know she's coming and
Speaker 1: she's defending her man, even though he's abusive towards her.
Speaker 1: So if that happens in real life, when do you
Speaker 1: say I gotta step in and get involved or do
Speaker 1: you mind your business? That's a tough one. I think
Speaker 1: you need to know who you're talking to first, because
Speaker 1: you know you got those those some friends. Like for me,
Speaker 1: it's gonna hurt me, but tell me, tell me the truth.
Speaker 1: I might be mad, I'm a process it, but I
Speaker 1: want to know. I'm gonna be more mad if you
Speaker 1: don't tell me. Then you have some friends you know
Speaker 1: they're not ready to hear that truth yet, but you
Speaker 1: also want to have their backs. So I feel like
Speaker 1: in those cases, you just gotta be there, like I'm
Speaker 1: waiting outside the door, yep, and I'm ready or whenever
Speaker 1: if you want to fall, I got you here to
Speaker 1: catch you, sis um. But also trying to let them
Speaker 1: know some people just saying ready to hear it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think also you gotta h in speaking to that
Speaker 1: person and having the conversations know why they may be
Speaker 1: doing it, like or find out the why. When I
Speaker 1: think about Keyshan, especially as Uncle Clifford, we have had
Speaker 1: conversations that told me, oh, this is why you are
Speaker 1: in this situation, and it's it's much greater than just
Speaker 1: the fact that like he's just a man, you know,
Speaker 1: like you know, but that's more than just her baby's father.
Speaker 1: There's a reason why he is her baby's father. There's
Speaker 1: a reason why she crossed that color line, especially in
Speaker 1: the South, you know, crazy when they found out man,
Speaker 1: But is it any better if it was a black
Speaker 1: man exactly? Actually like that twist, yeah, because you know
Speaker 1: you just figured accustomed to dysfunction, right, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. I know Shannon, who plays Keyshan, has said
Speaker 1: that a lot too, because she would get comments and
Speaker 1: she's just like, I can't believe you lett a white
Speaker 1: man beat your ass, and they would say the turn
Speaker 1: she's like a man a man, A man is a man.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter even if you're yeah, and it's not okay.
Speaker 1: Domestic abuse is if your white fiend that came from
Speaker 1: the white guys with THEE and they would beat their
Speaker 1: wise and they started calling the white girls Puerto Ricans.
Speaker 1: But that's when that's a bill Callaway said, And what's
Speaker 1: love got to do with it? It's not all right
Speaker 1: to let some motherfucker pound on you, yound what I mean?
Speaker 1: Have you ever had to like interference? I had a
Speaker 1: friend that was getting abused, and when I tell you, like,
Speaker 1: her mom called me, can you talk to her? And
Speaker 1: everybody they tried to talk to her about it, she
Speaker 1: would just cut you off, you know, so something and
Speaker 1: then people feel like, oh, you're not a good friend
Speaker 1: if you don't say something. But then I was also
Speaker 1: aware that everybody and her family, her friends tried to
Speaker 1: talk to her and she wouldn't listen to anybody, And
Speaker 1: so I just was like, okay, I just tell it. Look,
Speaker 1: whatever you do, I'm supportive of whatever decisions you make.
Speaker 1: I just want you to know him here because she
Speaker 1: wasn't ready, and all it's gonna do is make her
Speaker 1: not want to communicate or not want to speak have somebody. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the next thing, you know, you'll not friends no more,
Speaker 1: you know, and then he hates you too, so now
Speaker 1: you really can't be around her and the kids. But
Speaker 1: she did eventually have to leave him, and I was
Speaker 1: there ready to drive at the police station to get
Speaker 1: that standing or my best friends. She she caught this
Speaker 1: guy that she was so in love with during the
Speaker 1: most she called him with dating man. She caught him
Speaker 1: doing a lot of different things, and she stood around
Speaker 1: and some of her friends that we all we you know,
Speaker 1: we grew up together. So a lot of the girls
Speaker 1: couldn't take it anymore and just stopped talking to her.
Speaker 1: And that was always my response to her, like whatever
Speaker 1: your decisions, I supported, you know, like I'm old, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna judge your decisions. That's what to her though. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I tried to support, but it worked out. Now she's
Speaker 1: with a better guy, more compatible match for hers. Looking
Speaker 1: like nowadays, now when you're lean over that shoulder, now,
Speaker 1: what's crazy? Like for real, a lot of people feel
Speaker 1: like I'm uncle Cquifford in real life and they come
Speaker 1: with this I'm sure fixed my life like Yana kind
Speaker 1: of a thing going on. So there's that, and then
Speaker 1: I have gotten a few that's like, you know, some
Speaker 1: raunchy pictures like I'm trying, I'm trying to get fluid
Speaker 1: out and I was like, dude, I'm trying to get
Speaker 1: literally and I'm gon telling those were some white folks
Speaker 1: that sent that to me. And I was like, no
Speaker 1: way to hold this reverse slavery? What's going on? You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, like they own some old fetish situation,
Speaker 1: but those they get to the restricted how restrict? Don't
Speaker 1: get back? What's that? At the same he ain't owned
Speaker 1: social media, he's supposed to think, no, no, don't tell
Speaker 1: me what. I never shake people because then they don't
Speaker 1: know they blocks that protect you also could just send
Speaker 1: them to the message request where you can see it
Speaker 1: all they don't know you saw it. That's where I'm see.
Speaker 1: I don't be doing all that. She called a number.
Speaker 1: I'm not all there's a partner like social media for
Speaker 1: me that it becomes a little much, especially because of
Speaker 1: the show, like I'm giving my all, I am bearing
Speaker 1: my soul. I'm using all that God has given me
Speaker 1: to tell these stories. I don't owe y'all the post
Speaker 1: I get to that ship when I get to it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And I feel like that's
Speaker 1: just my healthy way of doing it, because for me,
Speaker 1: what's most important is my art. The social the posting,
Speaker 1: the promotion of that. It is great. I absolutely love it,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna give it to you, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give it to you time I'm along stroke you do
Speaker 1: you understand what I'm saying, right, give it to you
Speaker 1: one to want to what's your DM thinking? Like Brandy
Speaker 1: chip Mine just want to talk to me like I'm
Speaker 1: a therapist. I don't know what's going on. I'm not
Speaker 1: getting no ratchet stuff. I tried to look through them. No,
Speaker 1: I do not. You ain't getting not one. I promise
Speaker 1: I don't have one. I have literally been looking for them,
Speaker 1: and I the man Sometimes I think we do too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't forget it from women. I haven't got I
Speaker 1: think because I talk about Mama so much, they like,
Speaker 1: we don't want to do that to her. So I
Speaker 1: get a lot of you know, I'm a caregiver or
Speaker 1: you know what I'm doing this with my mom because yeah,
Speaker 1: I get that, and then I get them roasting me,
Speaker 1: like I literally have so many dms right now, like, bitch,
Speaker 1: pull it together. If the funk that you fall like,
Speaker 1: you should know better. I have one from last night.
Speaker 1: I was like, so you're gonna let that girl from
Speaker 1: Snowfall come up in here out you are the face?
Speaker 1: How dare you? And they were like, they was like,
Speaker 1: do bad. I was like, yeah, I don't love listening.
Speaker 1: I love the new edition season too. It's something right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they to it. That's a little we don't know what's
Speaker 1: gonna end up happening, right, I'm here for it's it's
Speaker 1: all of the things. It's you know, the pink is
Speaker 1: the clubs in general. The door revolves to everything day
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, so okay, so no extending. Have you ever
Speaker 1: gotten dick pick in your life? Yes? But it was
Speaker 1: they could have kept that ship. It was weak, Like,
Speaker 1: first of all, I don't I don't really like it's
Speaker 1: just I was like, why it's so lame? It looked
Speaker 1: dirty in the background, like everything matters, Like you don't
Speaker 1: want to see your feet in the picture. I don't.
Speaker 1: We don't want to see you sitting on the toilet.
Speaker 1: We don't want to see the baby, but you cut
Speaker 1: morcharage your thoughts. Yeah, I don't like it, and I
Speaker 1: shaved done shaved. I like unshaved. I'm saying wrong. I
Speaker 1: like shape, like hair, like school like here, I don't
Speaker 1: have it and I don't like it like yeah, yeah, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I like a man's skate very well. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you want what you need, then that's I'm gonna need
Speaker 1: you to do what you need to dory. Yeah. People
Speaker 1: have to understand the art of the dick pick, and
Speaker 1: we always have, you know, discussed that and it's all
Speaker 1: about the angles. You know how we startain angles out
Speaker 1: but looks bigger, Yes, and it looks nice to I.
Speaker 1: Legs look longer when you same thing with the dick
Speaker 1: when you do you get this dick pick and it
Speaker 1: looks like it's like oh snap, oh it's fat. Always
Speaker 1: you think squeezing to make it look When you squeeze it,
Speaker 1: that's what you feel. So the visual is just what
Speaker 1: you're gonna feel on that posts. Nothing wrong with that, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, don't give me that. It is true.
Speaker 1: So what do you feel like when you you get
Speaker 1: this picture and you're just like, all right, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be good tends and this like solicited. That's exactly
Speaker 1: don't see me or solicited. I ask you for that,
Speaker 1: and like, I don't think God should send dick picks
Speaker 1: before you've seen their day agreed. See, now a lot
Speaker 1: of guys think that they should show you a pick
Speaker 1: so that I don't like that. I can. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you never sent one out, no, hesitated, He hesitated. It
Speaker 1: was a little drink. The drink never out of unsolicited. No,
Speaker 1: but he sent out in because I can tell you
Speaker 1: a lying about how you She said it right there, Okay,
Speaker 1: it was the requested package you because you know it's
Speaker 1: a whole package you. Have you ever been to a
Speaker 1: male review show? Yes, I have not, and I hear
Speaker 1: that there's a good one in New York. My friend
Speaker 1: I've already told me about it. Supposedly it's a good
Speaker 1: one out here. I have not been to it. But
Speaker 1: you know what, when I got married, so glad I'm
Speaker 1: out of that up when I got Yes, when I
Speaker 1: got married, I never wanted the male. I like the
Speaker 1: females better, Like I don't want to swing like the
Speaker 1: women until they go. Really, that's the thing you haven't
Speaker 1: been yet. I thought that too. I hosted a male
Speaker 1: review show a couple of times, okay, and so I
Speaker 1: never probably would have went if I didn't host. But
Speaker 1: it was actually really fun. And I've always wanted to
Speaker 1: do a lip service like male review show because I
Speaker 1: feel like we don't have those like with the guys,
Speaker 1: because they actually do a lot of tricks to they do. Yes, yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: been to like a male review But I've been swinging
Speaker 1: Richards a couple of times. That's the one that's at
Speaker 1: That's one I heard about. It's literally swinging Little Richard.
Speaker 1: It was not the tuy fruity I've been a few times.
Speaker 1: We used to just go just to have something to do,
Speaker 1: you know, like we get tired of the regular ship,
Speaker 1: so you want to try some the different. Then the
Speaker 1: gotta be a fun night out. Like it was different
Speaker 1: I want a few times. It was one time that
Speaker 1: I went and I had a guy friend that I
Speaker 1: was just you know, associated with through you know, being
Speaker 1: in the club and out the streets or whatever. And
Speaker 1: actually Cherokee is a good friend of his too, and
Speaker 1: I was in, um, I'm in the club and me
Speaker 1: and my home girl. We're just in there drinking and
Speaker 1: having a good time, and then we see him standing
Speaker 1: at the bar, so we go over, like what you're
Speaker 1: doing there? And he like, I'm gay? What y'all going
Speaker 1: in there? Like, I know this man for eight years,
Speaker 1: had no idea. He was game, and he was just
Speaker 1: like you know exactly what he said, Like, girl, you
Speaker 1: ain't know, I had no idea. Yeah, now, pretty when
Speaker 1: you're married for fourteen years? Wow, I know off of
Speaker 1: around like year seven though, so but it's the best
Speaker 1: thing for me. I was sad for a long time,
Speaker 1: but I'm like everything happens for a reason. I'm so grateful.
Speaker 1: Did he hit you up now, like seeing everything that's
Speaker 1: been happened. Oh, he got too much pride to do that.
Speaker 1: But you see it. You see he's saying from every
Speaker 1: end with the good lines. Yeah, right by his job,
Speaker 1: because you know that every morning that's good, always feels
Speaker 1: so good. You get married again. I would, I would,
Speaker 1: but right now I'm just chilling. I'm just I'm enjoying,
Speaker 1: just living. I don't know what I want right now. Okay, good,
Speaker 1: well you enjoy yourself, yea. How competitive is it in
Speaker 1: this ship club, Like, what are the rules when somebody
Speaker 1: has a guy that normally comes into regular, Yeah, they're regular, Like,
Speaker 1: but then another woman might approach tell me like how
Speaker 1: this works, so we know so case by case scenario.
Speaker 1: But normally, if there's a regular that comes in the
Speaker 1: club on the on the regular basis and he's always there,
Speaker 1: you know that he's such and such a right, So
Speaker 1: you're not going if you uh, an established girl and
Speaker 1: been at this club up for teen years and you
Speaker 1: know that Larry coming back, Yeah exactly. Ain't nobody going
Speaker 1: to approach coach because they know they come he come
Speaker 1: in here to see you. But you know, all the time,
Speaker 1: sometimes it might be a new girl. You don't know
Speaker 1: that Coach came to see Sadi's so she might, you know,
Speaker 1: go on and shake a little try to shake a
Speaker 1: little tail further. And it's usually the guy that will
Speaker 1: be like, I'm here to see you know, a specific person,
Speaker 1: or they might you know, buy your drink and get
Speaker 1: real a little conversation. Yeah, and just past the time.
Speaker 1: But it's it's a respecting you know, and it's kind
Speaker 1: of like an unspoken rule, like you're not about to
Speaker 1: step on the next next bitch told because you wouldn't
Speaker 1: want her to do it to you, but would make
Speaker 1: you not like somebody. Oh, it's a lot of reasons
Speaker 1: be line stealing, stealing. I think we'll be the number
Speaker 1: one reason. Now, how is it stealing work? I always
Speaker 1: wondered that because I went Spider took me and did
Speaker 1: research before episode one of season one, and she just
Speaker 1: made me pay attention to the girls and just watch stuff.
Speaker 1: And she was like, watch that because like people would
Speaker 1: like trying to move the money and with the foot
Speaker 1: and stuff, and I'm like, are you bold? Yeah, So
Speaker 1: the girl the customers be still in a lot. I
Speaker 1: used to watch. I used to watch it men customers.
Speaker 1: So you know, during the time that I worked at
Speaker 1: Magic City, it was from two thousand five to two
Speaker 1: thousand eleven, so in that six seven, eight nine period,
Speaker 1: it was the big make It Rain with the Little
Speaker 1: Wayne song, and you know all of the make It
Speaker 1: Rain error happened during that time at Jeez coming and
Speaker 1: Spen in thirty five thousand or whatever the case, right,
Speaker 1: So it would literally it would literally be a guy
Speaker 1: and I remember this one specificalities to come in the
Speaker 1: club all the time and we would call him that
Speaker 1: still in that nigger cousin the body, remember that. So
Speaker 1: he would have a sweat towel, so he would have
Speaker 1: his sweatsower. He would wipe his head and then he
Speaker 1: would drop the towel on the ground and when he
Speaker 1: would pick it up, he would pick up We gotta
Speaker 1: remember this, no, I mean he would pick up ten
Speaker 1: dollars at a time, so near the female starrted to
Speaker 1: dancer stealing. So you know we'll be on piles, right.
Speaker 1: So what that means is if say, for instance, um,
Speaker 1: that magical night that happened at Rain with so Um,
Speaker 1: I just was there, Yeah, at the club that I
Speaker 1: barked in that yeah, so um. So you see how
Speaker 1: we had the section and all of the money that
Speaker 1: was in the section was mine, but the money that
Speaker 1: was everywhere else was full or whoever? Right? So um
Speaker 1: remember when the one girl came and was dancing on
Speaker 1: Janette and I gave her money? Oh yeah, so I
Speaker 1: gave her money separately in her hand because she wasn't
Speaker 1: to touch what was on the floor. But there will
Speaker 1: be girls that would be like, oh, I'm on this pile.
Speaker 1: You cannot come in on money that's already on the
Speaker 1: floor because this already my money. Yeah, you wasn't here
Speaker 1: in the beginning. You ain't picking up none of this
Speaker 1: in the end, so you better act to get paid
Speaker 1: in your hand. But then they would be the girls
Speaker 1: that would make the big fuss about it, or when
Speaker 1: it comes to the pile, you would have the girls
Speaker 1: that would go and count the money behind your back
Speaker 1: and skin a little something on the top. Diamond, Oh,
Speaker 1: don't do a diamond. She was the biggest thief of
Speaker 1: Maga City for about twenty years. I'm talking about. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. I'm talking about a real situation that everybody knows,
Speaker 1: this girl's a thief. I ever got the question now
Speaker 1: because I went to the club with Tyler and Maine
Speaker 1: Um from our show as well. So how does it work?
Speaker 1: Like we already had our dances going and stuff, and
Speaker 1: then the girls were coming up trying to get in
Speaker 1: on it. Is that the example you're talking about, because
Speaker 1: it's just like so now you have to as a
Speaker 1: as an entertainer, you are supposed to know how to
Speaker 1: handle that situation. If it already girls dancing and and
Speaker 1: somebody called you over and the crew, you know, it
Speaker 1: was three four y'all right, so you already got girls dancing,
Speaker 1: but you know, man see somebody that he's interested in,
Speaker 1: and he wanted to, you know, start up a conversation
Speaker 1: that he Okay, go here to dance. It's up to
Speaker 1: her to say, well, I'm not entitled to any of
Speaker 1: this money that's already on the floor. So if you
Speaker 1: want me to dance, either I need a separate pile
Speaker 1: or you can just pay me in my hand. God.
Speaker 1: So that's how that goes. Is the economics and the
Speaker 1: business of the business. This is not just shaking. It's
Speaker 1: your club. The only girls, like everybody hated was the
Speaker 1: ones jerking guys off in the Love Dancer. It's like
Speaker 1: at least taking to the champagne room for that brow all.
Speaker 1: You ruining the whole game, everybody, everybody, everybody, because that's real.
Speaker 1: You're just messing up everybody's money. It's horrible. And then
Speaker 1: you're making the other girls feel like this is what
Speaker 1: you have to do to get this, and I'm expecting
Speaker 1: that one girl gonna do it, then they're all gonna
Speaker 1: do it. And it's like we ain't all that I'm
Speaker 1: not a rat. But girls used to go and tell
Speaker 1: the owners and get girls. Father. So I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you all from my experience and all the years that
Speaker 1: I danced, I would say that the most trifling, cutthroat, nasty,
Speaker 1: down gut of girls that would just do anything was
Speaker 1: the ones that had pimps oh for me because it
Speaker 1: was there, you know, they had it back and they've
Speaker 1: always a girl who got a man waiting for her. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Got to be a consultant on the show. I like,
Speaker 1: it's actually interesting to see like that's a position. It
Speaker 1: is a show consultant, that that's a producer. Really is position,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I think because of the
Speaker 1: research has been done on the show and the dancers
Speaker 1: like that. One of our writers used to be a dancer. See,
Speaker 1: you know, I feel like a book, Like everybody goes
Speaker 1: through something in this life and it's not for not
Speaker 1: do you understand what I'm saying, and like to be
Speaker 1: able to use that pass it on and pass that
Speaker 1: knowledge and stuff like that. It's real, it's real. Monetize
Speaker 1: it as well as get your own dreams. You know.
Speaker 1: I remember telling me your name when I first got
Speaker 1: the job. Like, these are the type of women I'm
Speaker 1: envisioning for Mercedes and you were one of the people,
Speaker 1: and I was like, research some great videos. There's so
Speaker 1: let me tell you, there's a long list of similarities
Speaker 1: Angela has. Right, But when the when the show first started,
Speaker 1: I got phone called at the phone call at the
Speaker 1: d M, at the d M about everything Last Dance, Hurricane,
Speaker 1: katrain A, first name, last name, Snackpack, Trinity, Like, it's
Speaker 1: so many comparisons, and people would be like, oh, you
Speaker 1: at check and I would be like, no, they don't
Speaker 1: like my my strip club life and and countless other
Speaker 1: women lives have been used as mused music for this storyline,
Speaker 1: and I have no issue with that because I would
Speaker 1: rather the show be authentic than some made up ship
Speaker 1: that never really happened. Like the fact that there are
Speaker 1: similarities and I know that again someone is also kind
Speaker 1: of like a liaison to help us authentic the script
Speaker 1: outside of being the actress. And I was so proud
Speaker 1: of her for that because it's like, yes, girl, let
Speaker 1: them know. You know what I'm saying, like, don get
Speaker 1: money doing like that. I don't care how many point
Speaker 1: I'm told, you know, but it's it's so many similarities.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, again, I'm honored, like I
Speaker 1: wouldn't ever think of being like taking it in a
Speaker 1: negative light. It's it's all. It's definitely been all positive
Speaker 1: from season what from before it show even started. When
Speaker 1: someone told me that they were casting in what the
Speaker 1: show was about, I was just like, okay, go here,
Speaker 1: you know, like go girl, go um And then again
Speaker 1: to get the phone call for season two, you were like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's And when I first sat down, the first thing
Speaker 1: I said was like, are you happy with it? Because
Speaker 1: that's what feels good, because it's like, I don't know
Speaker 1: this world. I'm portraying it, you know, and so it
Speaker 1: feels so good. When they always ask me in the press,
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I want to hear from the women
Speaker 1: that actually have done it, man, like if they are
Speaker 1: happy with it, I don't give ship with nobody. I
Speaker 1: gotta say, out of everything, that last stance is the
Speaker 1: biggest homage because I don't know if you'll know this,
Speaker 1: but I created that. No, I did not know that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So when I decided to leave Magic City, it was
Speaker 1: because I was in a relationship with um, a well
Speaker 1: to do man who's in the music industy three, and
Speaker 1: he just didn't want me in the club anymore. And
Speaker 1: we had a conversation and that conversation ended with Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna quit. So I literally went to work that
Speaker 1: Monday and went straight into the office and to aligement
Speaker 1: that this is my last day. So they're like, okay,
Speaker 1: but you're just not gonna quit, Like this could be
Speaker 1: your last day working, but this ain't gonna be your
Speaker 1: last day on the stage, Like you are not the
Speaker 1: average woman that came through this club. You can't just
Speaker 1: walk away, like you have to give the family, friends
Speaker 1: and followers something to remember, like your fans deserved that,
Speaker 1: you know, Like I literally was the one that they
Speaker 1: would come in the club asking for, like Mercedes, you're
Speaker 1: Kelly and Michelle. That was me, Um Jupiter and extra
Speaker 1: extra like me, We're on someone home. We were the Trinity,
Speaker 1: we were the Snackpeg was that destinely child of the club.
Speaker 1: So they were like, Beyonce just can't leave, like how
Speaker 1: dare you? So that He's like you have to give
Speaker 1: one last performance, right, So I was always the queen
Speaker 1: of the themes. Every birthday, probably did a Sess in
Speaker 1: the City theme. I did a majest City Tokyo theme,
Speaker 1: like I'm big go on like creativity and like really
Speaker 1: giving that um performance aspect to strip because I come
Speaker 1: from a dance background. Me and Cherokee both come from that,
Speaker 1: and China as well. We all come from that, from
Speaker 1: that dance background exactly. So I'm like, okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have a final performance. Right. It took me seven months.
Speaker 1: I had a choreographer, I had props. I had fifteen
Speaker 1: other women besides the snack pack to help with the production.
Speaker 1: I had celebrity drops. Angela was there, right, and so
Speaker 1: I have I'll send you, I'll send you on your toe,
Speaker 1: I'll send you the twelve minute UM recap of it.
Speaker 1: So Flash Dance the So that was my finale. So
Speaker 1: I danced to you know, it was a medley of
Speaker 1: music that we danced to. It was a twenty eight
Speaker 1: minute performance and it was a medly of music that
Speaker 1: we danced to. And at the end for my finale performance,
Speaker 1: I changed my whole entire costume. I put a chair
Speaker 1: on the stage and the hire time there was this banner, um,
Speaker 1: you know, the ring. I'm so glad you brought the
Speaker 1: ring to so the ring right so across the stage
Speaker 1: was a banner that said Gi McGuire, But what it
Speaker 1: really was was one of those balloon drops, but it
Speaker 1: was filled with two thousand ones and iridescent confetti the
Speaker 1: mal like water. So at the end of my performance,
Speaker 1: I danced to Beyonce Dance for You and um, yeah
Speaker 1: that daddy, you know what's up. At the very end,
Speaker 1: I did the whole flashdance thing with the chair and
Speaker 1: then I grabbed the cord and the money in the
Speaker 1: coffetti flew down on me like it was water. So
Speaker 1: since it was the flash dance theme and it was
Speaker 1: my last time dancing on Magic City stage, I literally
Speaker 1: recreated the Flash Dance DVD cover for my photo shooting
Speaker 1: for my promo Matarial and I crossed out flash and
Speaker 1: covered it with lass. So the name of the party
Speaker 1: was called the Last Dance. I had it filmed for
Speaker 1: DVD and I sold over five hundred copies and it
Speaker 1: was like a huge deal. I made close to thirty
Speaker 1: that night. It was a huge deal, right so um
Speaker 1: So after me, Jessica Dome was the first UM reality
Speaker 1: star to have a last dance on TV. Her Seeing
Speaker 1: on Love and Hip Hop, her opening Seeing on Love
Speaker 1: and Hip Hop, her introduction to the show was her
Speaker 1: leaving a club in Miami and having a last dance.
Speaker 1: To this day, I can scroll down Instagram on the
Speaker 1: explore a page and I'll see random flyers for girls
Speaker 1: having their last dance. Never was supposed to be a thing.
Speaker 1: That was just the theme of my party because it
Speaker 1: was right, but because it was such a big that
Speaker 1: made it to the blogs like such a Because such
Speaker 1: it was a big deal, it became a thing. And
Speaker 1: to this day, this was two thousand eleven, here we
Speaker 1: are almost twelve years later. People have this last dance
Speaker 1: in strip clubs all around the world. And when I
Speaker 1: saw that part of p Valley, I just I lost it,
Speaker 1: Like the amount of emotions that overcame me, just knowing
Speaker 1: that something I created that wasn't even intended to be
Speaker 1: a thing not only made it to so many different
Speaker 1: strip clubs around the world, but that made it to
Speaker 1: a script of TV. Do you love her some Damp Valley.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I I know everything was like only
Speaker 1: the episodes that have come on TV, because I didn't
Speaker 1: want to know too much because then I'd be like,
Speaker 1: I like to watch it when everybody's watching it. So
Speaker 1: you could go online and joining the Twitter party and
Speaker 1: find everything. But I mean, is it already a season
Speaker 1: three coming? Do we know that we praise? So we
Speaker 1: wait on the call to I mean, there's no way
Speaker 1: the numbers listen. Stranger things have happened for stranger things
Speaker 1: have happened. But you know I've been in that's right,
Speaker 1: happening in this game longer enough that you know I'm
Speaker 1: not counting nothing until we get the contract. You know,
Speaker 1: I would be shocked either way. Um not either way.
Speaker 1: I would be shocked if we did not, but it
Speaker 1: ends so beautifully that I would still be so proud
Speaker 1: season two does. Yes, Um, I wouldn't be one though
Speaker 1: the way with the season one ended. Season one ended,
Speaker 1: and my my truth, I was afraid. I just didn't know.
Speaker 1: But I mean, we got picked up so early. We
Speaker 1: got picked up after episode two and season one, so
Speaker 1: before I can even get to the point of wondering,
Speaker 1: Like I feel like season two is way better than
Speaker 1: season one, and I just know what's to come, Like
Speaker 1: I loved one, I really loved too, and then as
Speaker 1: it goes, I swear it gets better. So I would
Speaker 1: that one would her because I'd be like, for real,
Speaker 1: like this is really good. But then I'm like, but
Speaker 1: we killed that ship. If this is the end, we
Speaker 1: killed it. Yeah. It's this thing of literally like what
Speaker 1: you're waiting for, there's no need to wait to be great? Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like like get in here and like let's let's duke
Speaker 1: this out and let's let's do it. And I love that.
Speaker 1: I of that, and I feel like if there is
Speaker 1: a season three, it's going to be even more because
Speaker 1: like where it's going, where it's going, where it's going
Speaker 1: is eag for real. It's it's the thing of like
Speaker 1: I just thought about the finale, y'all ain't ready. I
Speaker 1: don't even know people wait for me, like what she
Speaker 1: was saying episode She's gonna watch it tonight, all of them.
Speaker 1: It's about the creativity. Like I'm here, I'm sitting here
Speaker 1: across from you. Listen you tell that story, Like that's amazing.
Speaker 1: You know, people one don't realize all that goes into
Speaker 1: what they think that you know, you just put on
Speaker 1: some flaws, it's nothing. One thing that's also great about
Speaker 1: the show is that you guys really put a spotlight
Speaker 1: on the art of the performance, like Jamaica did that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like the rehearsals that happened that you got to go
Speaker 1: through a week and a half. Even that's fast as
Speaker 1: an actor. There were days I snuck in season one,
Speaker 1: we were at a pair of studios, snuck into there
Speaker 1: to do that. The episode three with Coach picked him
Speaker 1: up from the airport. We had just met. My past
Speaker 1: worked and I was like, let's rehearse, and literally rehearsed.
Speaker 1: There are times when Nico would be like, what you're
Speaker 1: doing here? He would come out, what you're doing here
Speaker 1: sitting on clippered offs, I'm on the pole, like because
Speaker 1: we're really just working, really working, because it takes that
Speaker 1: much to do this and to make it look the
Speaker 1: way that it looks. You know, whether that's oh you're
Speaker 1: just a natural, think it. We just really grass. And
Speaker 1: it also made me mad at myself for being so
Speaker 1: ignorant in the past because I didn't know what all
Speaker 1: went into it. I thought it was one thing, and
Speaker 1: then I think, like it's sore and all this thing on.
Speaker 1: Did you just really throw ten dollars and that's it?
Speaker 1: Like you realize how hard rehearsed, how how much this
Speaker 1: this trip. I've been working on this trip for years.
Speaker 1: My makeup my lashes and I'm touching up in between,
Speaker 1: like as an after I'm trying to keep it together
Speaker 1: and I gotta stay fresh for you. And that's all
Speaker 1: you gonna give me. It's the whole thing. I can
Speaker 1: only imagine that, So you don't want that afternoon shift sometimes. Listen.
Speaker 1: It was also really wild when we would film. Sometimes
Speaker 1: when we're filming, you have to we have like earwigs
Speaker 1: in our ear so we can hear the music because
Speaker 1: sounds rise, it can't play. And so when you when
Speaker 1: those moments happened, and like the background actors are there
Speaker 1: and they are hearing the sweat, the heaving, the skin burning,
Speaker 1: you know, when they're hearing all the pot one scene
Speaker 1: I'm sorry ahead in season one when you got the
Speaker 1: red outfit on and they cut all the music and
Speaker 1: all you hear is when I tell you that's so
Speaker 1: real and you grunting and breathing it. Oh, yes, that
Speaker 1: was a real day. I didn't realize that even in
Speaker 1: season one, if I'm honest, because Spider did that trick
Speaker 1: for me on the ceiling in season one. Season two,
Speaker 1: I learned how to do more things and I'm dropping
Speaker 1: in when you like head first and squeeze. I'm like
Speaker 1: the thighs that burn and all. And I was just like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh. And I remember the audience members an
Speaker 1: episode two, an episode two when we were like those
Speaker 1: heels and they would be like hold on, I'm like
Speaker 1: locked up there on the pole. They're they're like one second, Brandy,
Speaker 1: and the audience is literally looking at me going the
Speaker 1: our background going it's okay, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta,
Speaker 1: and you gotta because and You're still holding up there
Speaker 1: and I'm like I'm dying and I'm burning right now
Speaker 1: on my heels on fire. Yeah, you know, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you would see their faces and like down, you know,
Speaker 1: and it's like cut, we can't use that, guys. You
Speaker 1: guys are supposed to be amazed, having fun, like hyping
Speaker 1: her up, and it's like because you dropped down, they
Speaker 1: see my hands bleed and I'm like it's okay, okay,
Speaker 1: and they're like put a band and I can't because
Speaker 1: then I'll slip on the pole and I gotta just
Speaker 1: let this just go, Like y'r rold, don't you well listen,
Speaker 1: you don't have to do none of that, but keep
Speaker 1: watching who says that, you know the reason why the
Speaker 1: pank even exist is because she took the club and
Speaker 1: made it from the juke joint that grandmother Ernestein had
Speaker 1: played by Laurena Divine and turned it into a shake
Speaker 1: johnk you know, and the shake junk comes from Uncle
Speaker 1: Clifford being a dancer and and really being in love
Speaker 1: with that aspect of life. So you know you're getting kidnapped. Okay,
Speaker 1: Oh god that my friends had to do some sh
Speaker 1: like that. No, no, no, no, like for real, like
Speaker 1: it was a very serious thing. For real died someone
Speaker 1: could have really died. But I think that they knew it.
Speaker 1: And for grandmother to set it up like, you know,
Speaker 1: take the rest that I have my hair stylars there,
Speaker 1: but I have my makeup artists you know, that can
Speaker 1: send it and get it all in. When she's like
Speaker 1: you are, we're gonna have what she saying a birthday
Speaker 1: party with the boom booms over said, We're gonna have
Speaker 1: a boom boom zoom with your ace boom. Come. Isn't
Speaker 1: nice to whether she's like a legend, No, that's exactly
Speaker 1: what it is. I remember we were speaking of legend
Speaker 1: y'all know we was filming this pandemic child. We were
Speaker 1: all like, that was all of our grandmama for real.
Speaker 1: Remember we were in that house and we was opening
Speaker 1: windows because she was sitting there, was watching a project
Speaker 1: runway and was waiting forever to film, and we was
Speaker 1: all in there and it was me, it was Virgo
Speaker 1: on the bed, and who else was in the china.
Speaker 1: It was all just sitting in there, and we was
Speaker 1: like texting. We're like, girl, do you realize what is happening? Right?
Speaker 1: Y'all got them windows up in there for my grandma.
Speaker 1: You know, we got a legend in there. I'm like,
Speaker 1: don't worry, not like y'all better brand z make sure
Speaker 1: the windows is open and getting when just the opening
Speaker 1: weird in the back she is about to see me
Speaker 1: by herself. But it was just a beautiful moment. It
Speaker 1: sound like you had so much fun, just even be
Speaker 1: hind the scenes we had. We had to be so
Speaker 1: many long hours and cold, like towards the finale, Please
Speaker 1: know that it was snowing when you start seeing these
Speaker 1: scenes that are outside cold cold, cold? Is the next episode?
Speaker 1: I think when I'm running out, Maybe no, it's later on,
Speaker 1: it's later on, but I mean it started raining, it's cold,
Speaker 1: and you just got to act and act like it
Speaker 1: ain't happening. And that's when you just look over your
Speaker 1: girl like bitch. But we live in our dream and
Speaker 1: right if people would die to be here, be grateful,
Speaker 1: so well, listen, we appreciate you so much, honestly, like
Speaker 1: it isn't honor to have you guys here, because we
Speaker 1: do love p Valley and we support the show so much.
Speaker 1: I know DS having her moment here too, so I
Speaker 1: love that though, just even here you express how you
Speaker 1: feel about the representation on the show. That makes me
Speaker 1: so happy, and you really killed it. I cannot wait
Speaker 1: to see you on the pole, Okay, Nico, I mean Clifford, well,
Speaker 1: the one you were talk about earlier. Congratulations to you.
Speaker 1: What I just want to say, I'm loving seeing this
Speaker 1: moment for you, and you deserve all the flowers and
Speaker 1: all of the success. I really pray that your career
Speaker 1: goes beyond your wifest imagination. Thank you, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: It's just an honor to be here with you guys,
Speaker 1: and I know a Memphis they must be so proud
Speaker 1: of you too. It's amazing. Child of a school teacher,
Speaker 1: I told high school English. So my students are gagging, yes,
Speaker 1: and it's it's beautiful because I would tell them all
Speaker 1: the time, you can live your dream. But then deep
Speaker 1: down and sometimes I'd be like, I'm getting older though,
Speaker 1: but that and I was like, nope, keep pushing forward.
Speaker 1: So it's a beautiful moment now when I have students
Speaker 1: like miss Evans, thank you. You told me. You know,
Speaker 1: you're showing us what you taught us in the classroom.
Speaker 1: So and Miss Evans on the pole, I didn't know.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. I did get one pick and I
Speaker 1: deleted it so fast. I've forgotten to this one moment
Speaker 1: from a freaking student and he told about some Miss Evans.
Speaker 1: I'm grown now, and I swipe deleted so bad. I
Speaker 1: just remember right now. I deleted so fast. I was like, boy, boy,
Speaker 1: I'm grown now about that? Yes, Brandy, that's how you're
Speaker 1: teaching the ABC listen. I was thinking, like, wow, she
Speaker 1: must have had a lot of money. How was I
Speaker 1: was teaching English and stilettos like like, wasn't like miss
Speaker 1: Evans now me and you, Miss Evans, I had a
Speaker 1: bad teacher at high school. I forget her name, but
Speaker 1: she was so flush or what's here? Then? She always
Speaker 1: had some nice shoes on, nice and bag a Fendi bag.
Speaker 1: I'll never forget her work bag was a Fendi bag.
Speaker 1: One of my eyes like to teach her growing up,
Speaker 1: and she was to this day. He's the most glamorous
Speaker 1: woman I ever saw in my life. Anyway, when teachers
Speaker 1: end up with one of the students, because I didn't
Speaker 1: seen somebody, she just to my old high school to
Speaker 1: married one of my Oh you didn't want to go
Speaker 1: coming up here tonight? I saw one of my students.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that it was her. She was just
Speaker 1: like Mr Nico, you don't remember me. And I was like,
Speaker 1: she just called my name, and I just thought it
Speaker 1: was someone who made know the show or something like that.
Speaker 1: And I was just like, hey, you know exactly. She
Speaker 1: was like, you don't remember me, so and so from
Speaker 1: you know, Greenberg, you know, upstate New York. She was like,
Speaker 1: you know, used to be my teaching was I was.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, snap, grown, she's grown. And her
Speaker 1: boyfriend as an engineer coming up here. They have their
Speaker 1: sessions and stuff like, and I was just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that. Like the most important jobs honestly, like to
Speaker 1: be a teacher and influence those kids and then for
Speaker 1: them to see this now in a weird way, it's
Speaker 1: the thing to me, that kind of teaching helps to
Speaker 1: teach you, you know, because you consistently are seeing like,
Speaker 1: oh I can do that better, I didn't make that mistake,
Speaker 1: or I'm pouring into you what I wish what I
Speaker 1: poured into me, you know what I mean, And like
Speaker 1: that's just dope. Like when you have that perspective, you know,
Speaker 1: it's hard. It is a thankless job. You are not
Speaker 1: making the money all the things, but like so anything
Speaker 1: you got to get connected to, like why you're doing it? Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: absolutely well I love it. But thank you guys. I
Speaker 1: cannot wait till y'all come back and then we can
Speaker 1: talk about season three, you know, maybe the end of
Speaker 1: this season, like by the finale, who we gotta go back.
Speaker 1: I'm here for you, gonna definitely want us back for
Speaker 1: the we said actually do it in Atlanta. We can
Speaker 1: more girls because girls the magic we definitely be I
Speaker 1: would love that magic actually do it. That's when we
Speaker 1: met actually Magic during the pilot. Yep, that's my daddy,
Speaker 1: I know that did not. Yeah, I love I told
Speaker 1: you g McGuire was born at Magic City. Like those
Speaker 1: are the lines that Uncle Clifford's head to Mercedes. So
Speaker 1: what you're gonna do when you leave? You want to
Speaker 1: know what I did when I left opened the pole
Speaker 1: dance studio. Girl. That's what I did with my lance.
Speaker 1: That's what I do with my lands stance and my
Speaker 1: last dance dance studio. Yes, I did. That's so that's
Speaker 1: why I gotta show you this list research. I really
Speaker 1: am the one. I'm gonna know so much about time
Speaker 1: I see you again. But again, we appreciate you all
Speaker 1: so much for coming. Honestly, BRANDI thank you. We will
Speaker 1: see you at the end of the season and then
Speaker 1: we'll celebrate the new season. Were doing in Atlante and
Speaker 1: would do that Magic City all right? Yeah for that?
Speaker 1: Here was that. Thank you all for keeping you know,
Speaker 1: the show and us on the tongue of the people.
Speaker 1: For me, I just want to say one last thing
Speaker 1: before we leave, in regards till my episode is that
Speaker 1: I'm having a viewing party at the club that I
Speaker 1: barttend that rain and this is really for the people
Speaker 1: because I did a birthday set when I My birthday
Speaker 1: was last month and I did a birthday set and
Speaker 1: I danced that night, which was the first time since
Speaker 1: my last dance that I danced. So I didn't tell
Speaker 1: anybody that I was dancing. I just kind of did it,
Speaker 1: so so many people got mad at me, like I
Speaker 1: would have came if I don't say how would have
Speaker 1: came if I knew. So July second, which is a
Speaker 1: Saturday night at Club Brain, we are having a watch
Speaker 1: party for episode five and I am hitting the stage.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get going to dance with me but
Speaker 1: but but she big business now, I'm about to have representation,
Speaker 1: so I don't know if she'll be able to do it.
Speaker 1: I don't know my girl bigger than me these days,
Speaker 1: so I don't know if she's gonna be able to
Speaker 1: do it. But I did talk to her about it.
Speaker 1: We're trying to figure out if she'll be a but
Speaker 1: I'm definitely hitting the stage. So this is another announcement
Speaker 1: for those that missed the first one. There will be
Speaker 1: an encore coming out of and then guess what, and
Speaker 1: that's gonna be the last time because bitch, I'm tired, tired. Okay,
Speaker 1: oh baby, I showed up and showed out for the birthday.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm definitely dancing. Aga. You gotta show on
Speaker 1: the picture that night the other night, like I almost fainted.
Speaker 1: I was like, you're looking so good, almost her like
Speaker 1: a winky heart about she put you on your feelings.
Speaker 1: It was like it was totally unexpected, Like I really
Speaker 1: didn't tell nobody. I was actually in the office downstairs
Speaker 1: talking to Andrew. We were like in conversation and the
Speaker 1: picture just came out and I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: look at these pictures. I stopped the conversation. I'm like
Speaker 1: to see this pe Valley. Okay, let's go season three. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Sunday