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Hey, what's up world? Welcome
to season three of snack size, the
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podcast that will drag you into your
most fabulous life. It's a brand new
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year and it's a great time to
live the life of your dreams. You've
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got to do you because no one
else can, and, no matter what,
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you're happy and fulfilled life looks like. I want to help you get
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there. Are Time together starts now. You'll have it turned it up to
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see it with four bitches about to
go. When he hope? Yeah,
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running this Strey, but this concrete
back to be a home. Three clips,
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so three trees after that will be
as snipe killing about me handing standupus.
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You See why? That catfish the
limit, pepper, the white gourdess,
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Cinderella, shit birds and get served
box begetting good fellas badest bitch,
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you mad as shit, your song
and on thing loss hit Iraq, this
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Iraq you, but I pass on
a pirate. Hey, snack welcome back
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to snack size. I am so
excited for our guest today, who is
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not only pioneering hiphop as a black, transgender rap artist, she's also a
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longtime friend of mine. You just
heard a little bit of room music and
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there is no doubt she is going
places. Her bold lyricism and her aggressive
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yet relax vocal delivery make her voice
stand out in hip hop me music.
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What I love most about this artist
is that it doesn't matter what track you're
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listening to, her music makes you
feel confident and empowered. I'm so excited
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to discuss her life and her music
today. Now, just as a warning,
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this episode does feature some explicit content. So if the kids are in
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the room, you may want to
grab some headphones because, baby, we
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about to get into some real talk. Please give a snack size. Welcome
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to rapper, entertainer and upandcoming hip
hop icon, Miss P let's give her
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a call. Hi, miss be
welcome to snack size. Hi, Oh
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my goodness, I am so excited
to have you book girls. been too
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long. It has been way too
long. So, for those of you
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who don't know, miss me is
not only a fabulous rapper, also one
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of my friends from back in the
day. I think you are actually the
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first guest that could say they knew
me when I was just getting my start,
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and it has been an honor to
watch you grow on social media.
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I definitely keep up with you and
I am so proud of everything that you
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have accomplished. Really going out there
and chase it after your dreams is so
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inspiring to me, which is why
I had to have you so excited you're
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here. Well, thank you for
having me here and I appreciate you for
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having a platform for more artists to
shine. Let's talk about your music.
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In the interview with the wild report, you said that growing up, hip
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hop was your freedom. Can you
tell us a little bit more about how
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hiphop music has influenced you in your
life? I kind of related to like
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having a blanket when you're a little
child and you feel protected. It makes
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you happy, it makes you comfortable, it's therapeutic and whenever the world is
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crazy, the little child goes and
cuddles their blanket. And that's how I
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feel about music, you know,
like it was just something that really helped
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me explain how I felt and I
just felt like I could relate to it.
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How long to be done music?
Well, I dropped a shy,
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reck free style probably maybe three years
ago. I'll give you look at me.
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Remember, way back in the day, you had a song called Plastic
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Barber. That was my favorite song. It was my ring tone. For
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a long time, but definitely,
I would say, like which I rag
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you like arrived. So talk a
little bit about making that song and the
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response you received from listeners. I
Love Plastic Barber though. I appreciate that,
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but I just I was ready to
take it up a notch and,
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you know, take a sears and
everything, and shy reck free style was
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already out and it was so many
people during a Remix, so even you
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was seem like a few people from
Chicago, but not many, and I'm
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like, shy rack, you know, everyone nicknamed that for Chica, Chicago,
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and I'm not here to debate how
people feel about that word, but
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it was just something that represents Chicago
and I was like, you know,
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like as an introduction, this is
something I want to do. I didn't
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want to just drop single and single
first. I wanted to drop a freestyle
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to just kind of be an introduction
of who I am and just like a
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Chili Pot and you get to see
what I'm all about and what I love
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to do, and it was just
this song that just took to me and
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I was just like, and I
appreciate it the love that people gave to
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it because, although I am you
know, a hiphop artist, you know,
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but so much more to that.
You know that hip hop has birth
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and it doesn't have to be the
old fashion hiphop how used to be.
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When I went to Europe and even
performing in Germany and here, people say,
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I'm not really a fan of hiphop
like that, but I loved your
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music, you know, and I
just appreciate something like that that people could
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just find aggress to it. Yeah, actually, many people, and your
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like reviews and articles I've read about
you, describe your sound as a new
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era and hiphop. So in what
ways are you changing the game? And
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then what ways would you say that
you are inspired by artists that have come
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before you? Being Myself, being
not trying to fit to what others are
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doing, and I mean for me
and my brand, it's all about just
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confidence on it, your Shit,
but also having fun and feeling good about
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it as well. And you know, what's in and also what I like
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to listen to is, you know, I like to trierk and, you
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know, pop my heads and shake
my you know, you know. So
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I still want to make it related
to that and still be pleasurable to what's
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in right now, but also with
a message and I just feel like I
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would love to be part of that. They brings hiphop into such a deeper
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message as well as inspiration. Do
you have any influences from artists that have
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come before you? Yes, you
got me going on. Okay, Little
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Kim for sure. I mean it
was just the fact of like back fan
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when she was coming out and wasn't
that many women and it wasn't many women
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like that car being so soften,
the outfits, fashion sexy and everything,
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but when she rapped, it was
just like the rest of the guys,
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you know, and I remember watching
something they said that Biggie was like,
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you know, whoever got the best
rap can be on the song, and
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she outraps so many guys in the
studio and that's how she got on certain
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tracks and I just thought they were
so inspiring. Being who I am and
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growing up and feeling different, just
feel like, you know, like that
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was just so dope to say it
doesn't matter who's around your surrounding, you
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can always be up there too.
Absolutely, in fact, a lot of
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us are. Songs feature a really
unapologetic confidence and I think that many people
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go their whole lives and never find
it and where does that confidence come from?
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And your life, just like growing
up, like like I was a
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hard head child, you know,
like I wasn't a kid who could like,
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after get in trouble, I can
learn that it was a bad idea
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and get inspired to be better.
It wasn't the hole. Sit Down at
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the table and let's talk about why
your homeworks bad. Let's do this.
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I want you to not give up. It was more of like really be
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strong, powerful black women my life
saying, like, you not doing this,
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get the fuck up, you not. You know, like keep growing,
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you're not a failure. You won't
be up there. You I won't
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let you be a failure. I'm
going to feel like a bad bitch,
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which going to help you feel like
a bad bache, and I want you
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to go to help somebody else feel
like a babbage. And it was just
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a tough love. So that's what, like, really brought me into my
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wrap zone too, because, you
know, that inspire me and made me
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feel the way I am now.
So I just feel that somebody playing my
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track, either, you know,
just chilling alone or out or whatever you're
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doing. You just feeling good and
you're embodying yourself. I see a lot
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of artists that during Halloween people dress
up and you could tell all this guy
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got assistant and I think that's so
dope. But me as an artist in
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brand that starting to form, and
when I get to that point, I
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just want to try to be like
ourselves, you know what I mean?
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I just want to try to be
y'all and just be dope, and I
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want to see me in them.
Is like, wow, they wanted to
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give up a year ago. They
felt like life was over, but not
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a motherfucker running it, that bitch. Yes, I think that's great advice
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for people who struggle with finding their
confidence. What would your advice be to
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them? Own It. I feel
like just going to empty or ninety.
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It got to be empty, okay, it's okay. Got You going into
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a room alone and really just owning
it, turning up their music, replaying
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it, replaying and whatever makes you
feel good and just jamming to it,
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and I feel like that's kind of
like being out there in the world,
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you know, like just not caring
about just around. Is it just going
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forward and just letting it go,
you know, even if you don't believe
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it, even though if you don't
feel it yet, just keep it going.
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One thing I really enjoy about your
music is that you can tell by
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your lyrics that you have lived a
lot of life. So in life,
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what is the biggest challenge that you
faced? How did you evercome it and
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what did you learn? I think
finding my voice, finding my identity,
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of saying like this is how I
feel, this is who I am.
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It took a minute, you know
what I mean, and that's that's why
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I really wanted to take a break
before I came out with anything, and
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that's why it took a couple years
after to do Shiraq, because I wanted
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to feel complete. I just kind
of felt like, you know, I
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love everything back in a day,
but I didn't feel like I was completely
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myself yet. I didn't feel like
I was completely what God was ready to
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form. So I wanted to take
a break from that and just I give
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myself together and everything justify my voice
so I can be able to feel confident
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about that. And I think another
challenge is really just like being patient and
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not worrying about the fact that there
are a lot of artists out here who
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don't care to do it because it's
their heart that's beating and craving for this
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dream. They're just doing it because
it's in and it's fast and quick,
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and you know, some of them
blow up so fast because the begain mixed
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in a drama and this and that. And for me, as a real
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artist, that's not anything that I
want, because it's all about longevity.
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For me, telling myself it's okay
to be patient, way for your time,
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when it's really for you and it's
your dream, it's going to show
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and it's always going to last forever. You touch on something that I think
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we have in common as artists,
is longevity. What is your key to
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keeping your selfgoing and your fans interested? I feel like always be yourself,
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because that's what made them enjoy you
at the beginning. I feel like a
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lot of artists mess up because they
start to forget what the people who were
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there for them want it and it's
all about knowing how to have a balance,
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have it a bit of what they
want mix with just like if you
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want to experiment with certain alternative or
sounds or any type of thing. You
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know what I mean. Absolutely so
anyone who follows you can see that you
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are out in the world making your
dreams happen. What advice would you have
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for people that have a dream and
want to start making it come true?
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Stay consistent and just do it.
And it's all about the battle between the
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good and the bad in your mind, and it's more getting into your head
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telling you you're not good enough,
you can't you should way, hold on,
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wait for this. What about this? What if they don't like it?
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But it's all about keep going no
matter what, and having that warfare
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is really just believing into the true
thing, that the true voice in your
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head that says anything is possible.
That is really great advice. I appreciate,
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of course. So this is the
question I asked on every episode.
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In your opinion, what is the
key to living a happy and fulfilled life?
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Forgiving. I feel like we as
people, tend to steal live our
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lives with giving the microphone to our
past instead of living for our president and
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creating for our future. And it's
all about forgiving your past, forgiving anything
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that hurts you. You if course, of course, it's a lot of
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stuff that we all want to change, but the point of living is learning,
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and if you didn't if you didn't
know what you were doing, you
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can't get mad because you, you
know, you didn't learn from you know
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you had to learn in order to
know what you're doing. I don't even
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believe in working hard, I believe
in working smart. And we're okay.
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But well, help you okay,
because when this meant for you, you
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already got it. So it's now
it's all about you just staying in that
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line and on that lane it.
Does your music have a part in the
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way? You will forgive anything in
your past. Yeah, definitely. I'm
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being, like I say, with
the music, is being my freedom.
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You know, it really was my
exhale at times that I felt like it
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was over whatever, I didn't feel
good or strong enough to keep going,
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like people taking boxing classes or whatever, to just release all that and let
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it out, you know, to
me. And definitely, yeah, it
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just helps me let go and not
be so mad of things that I can't
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change. I think you've touched on
the really important part of what it means
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to do what you love. Not
only do you find success, you're able
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to release the negativity in your life
by really driving in your lane and following
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your dreams. So thank you for
that. That's an awesome perspective thing.
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And when my family want to say
like a lot of us, tend to
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stop right away because we are expecting
fast results, but that is not going
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to help. A cut does not
heal in two seconds. You have to
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have time and patient and keep just
building a foundation and then you'll get there.
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Let's talk about what's next for you. What's coming out? Okay,
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first off of I decided to come
out with the EP. So I did
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nine songs and I wrote them all, and then now I'm doing the engineering,
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editing. You're almost finishing up with
it and everything, and I have
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something really big news I can't wait
to say eventually, because the bitch all
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water Calais, so this b hard. I get that. Awesome. You
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produce a lot of your own stuff
by yourself now, so I have a
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producer produced by P and he is
awesome, and we just been doing that
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back and forth, and then we'll
go to the heels the desert, far
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away. We've run it there BINGB's
that coach just so we can found.
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So I've also been filming a lot
of behind the scenes footage on drones.
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Oh my God, should beautiful footage
and just so much getting prepare for this
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EP. And just like I kind
of behind the scenes of me being so
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new and how I worked my way
for this. I am so excited to
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see that. So whatever, you're
ready to release the INFO. Where can
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we follow you? Well, my
instagram is am I sspd doubles. Why?
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Why? Because I said so.
Were all right, like spotify or
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apple? I really just want people
to follow in love more with the artist
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and then if you want to love
the person, it's fine, but listen
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to my stuff and feel like a
baddy, bad bitch, bad guy who
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lover. Well, thank you so
much for coming out to snack side and
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ferry your story. It has been
such a pleasure and I am looking forward
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to whatever is next for you.
I will be keeping my eyes field,
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and thank you, Lona. I
continue to be awesome and I really appreciate
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this. Is Very Professional. This
was dull and yeah, everyone who's listening,
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keep following Lalla is. Well,
you're gonna have a work honey.
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All right, snacks. Until next
time, go be fabulous. Hey smack,
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