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Noadvisory Podcast
Behind the Carolina Music Video Awards: Process, Politics, and Perseverance
The room starts with jokes and shoutouts, then swerves into the kind of conversation you only get when the mics are open and the guard is down. We talk about the shock and fallout of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the fragile line between free speech and public risk, and why the news cycle feels more like a live wire than a headline. From there, we sit with the unease of a reported campus hanging and how communities process pain when official statements don’t feel complete. Then we confront a disturbing music scene controversy—an artist tied to a teen’s death, a spectacle of caskets on tour, social media as evidence—and ask where the line is between performance and exploitation.
Then the beat changes. Cammy pulls up—artist, producer, and the driving force behind the Carolina Music Video Awards, now in its ninth year. She opens her playbook on building a sellout show: mobilizing talent, vetting videos, recruiting hosts, booking performers like Fabo and Trap Dicky, and doing it all on a budget that rewards hustle over hype. Her voting system puts fans to work for nominations but lets quality decide the win—craft, concept, cinematography, and execution over clout. We get the truth about venues, sponsors, long nights in DMs, and the personal tradeoffs it takes to deliver a real stage for independent artists.
Charlotte’s politics get airtime too. Cammy talks cliques, gatekeeping, and how she refuses to bend to ego or status. The room pushes back with love: be louder about the good, “drop your nuts,” and turn the positivity up so high it drowns the noise. What comes out is a blueprint—protect the mission, lead with receipts, and let the work speak without becoming a spectacle. We close with what to expect Sunday: red carpet times, performances, a tribute to 803 Fresh, and why some categories are awarded offstage to keep the night sharp and respectful.
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SPEAKER_09:No, the guest ain't gonna do it.
SPEAKER_01:I'm in your house.
SPEAKER_11:Switch ain't seen, though. The dishwash nigga with more plates in the sink. If I'm capping, I'm napping, I'm wide awake.
SPEAKER_10:Yeah, all that. You know, you know he got all them acronyms, synonyms, antonyms, verbs, all that shit. Similes, all that. That's that's swishing tongue. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_02:That's me.
SPEAKER_10:That's swishing. Shout out my man DJ Polo on the ones and twos, on the boot order. Yes, yes, yes. We got a very special guest sitting here on the left of me, but we're gonna get to her later. She's gonna be intertwined with the show. We gotta bring her in a no advisory with no advisory way later on.
SPEAKER_08:She's hanging out. Right now, she's hanging out. We just kicking it.
SPEAKER_10:Just kicking it. Shout out my man Mel Silas in the back. What up, Mel? Mel. The best male RB singer, motherfucking Charlotte. Anybody got a problem? Come fight me. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_05:Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_10:Shout out my girl Des. What up, Des. She got behind the scenes. She got the camera and shit. You know, iPhones and shit is incredible. So she's gonna be behind the scenes and all that. That's a behind-the-scenes girl and all that. You know what I'm saying? Shout out to Katie, right? Shout out to Katie, BFF Katie. What up, Katie? Katie almost fucked it up. She almost didn't get the camera right. You know? It's okay. We got it right. You know what I'm saying? She almost didn't, but she got it. You know what I mean? Try that girl, throw shorty in the back. What up, throw shorty? Throw shorty in the building. Even though she ain't got no fro today. There's no floor today. Let's throw shorty in the back. Throw a shorty in the back. You know what I'm saying? Yes, yes, yes. We got a great show plan for y'all today, man. Listen, man, we we are we still are looking for a female host. You know, we're gonna be looking for a female host, personality. We got some spunk, you know. Come on, let me hit the DMs. We got you. A couple of y'all hit the DMs. I just didn't like y'all, so that's why I didn't reply back. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_11:Why do what you don't like about them though? You didn't even meet them.
SPEAKER_10:That's a that's a that's a huge scene. You ain't like you ain't like how they're gonna be. It gotta be a certain way. If you can't fill that.
SPEAKER_11:What's the criteria?
SPEAKER_10:Let the people so they can know the criteria, you just gotta be ill with it. You gotta have it. If you don't have it, then you're not it. That's it. You gotta have it.
SPEAKER_11:Give me an example of somebody told. No, no, no. If somebody inboxing you and you like, oh yeah.
unknown:I think.
SPEAKER_10:I'ma just look at them and then they ain't it.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, okay, okay, okay. Looks, looks, looks, looks, looks, looks.
SPEAKER_10:A couple of people, yeah. Like they ain't it. Yeah, they ain't it. You know what I'm saying? It gotta be a certain criteria. But the criteria, I don't know. I just when I see it, I'm like, that's it. You know what I'm saying? Time shit. Yeah, time of shit, time of shit. All right, somebody won't get these hot topics and birthday. Let's go. First birthday is Jada Pickett Smith. How old is Katie Katie? Huh? Katie Katie. Katie, your birthday. September 9th? That was like 30 days ago. Happy related birthday! We're gonna have to get her, Mike. Wait, Jada Pickett's today.
unknown:Oh, day?
SPEAKER_10:Yes. God damn, Katie. What the fuck is she smoking and drinking on?
SPEAKER_08:How long was she got? Hey, this little shrooms, nigga. You ain't take no.
SPEAKER_09:Well, happy birthday, Katie.
SPEAKER_10:Yes, happy birthday, though.
SPEAKER_02:We're gonna get you a mic, though. We're gonna get you a mic.
SPEAKER_10:Yeah, drink up and shit. Oh, yeah, let me get a mic, Low, so the um, you know, outside. People can be can be heard.
SPEAKER_02:You know what I'm saying? Yeah, we don't want you to have a blizz episode. Yeah, yeah, don't have a blizzard episode.
SPEAKER_10:That was annoying. He's so loud with no fucking mic. Shout out to my nigga Blizzzy, though. Shout out to Blizzzy. I love you to death. She turned 54 years old. 54? 54. 55. J the pictures. She still does that red table shit.
SPEAKER_02:That good skin routine.
SPEAKER_01:She don't think no more. I don't think she do that anymore.
SPEAKER_10:Yeah, she had to go after that Will Smith shit with all Cena. Yeah, that shit was dead. Yeah, yeah. Shout out to Will Smith. Yeah. Shout out to Will Smith. That's a strong motherfucker right there to be married to her, man. Uh Angela Simmons. Happy brother, Angela Simmons. Yes. Yes. They come down in the den. Yo, God, he broke up. They're done though. Oh, they done. Is they really done?
SPEAKER_01:I don't think they're done.
SPEAKER_10:I don't think they're done for real. Yeah, huh? They broke up. They broke up.
SPEAKER_02:I feel like he got all his legal shit going on. So he like, I don't want you to be in it, so we just gonna be low-key. Well, he probably said he's at war right now.
SPEAKER_10:Yeah, he probably said fucking. But you know, shout out your birthday to Angela Simmons. 38. And remember, who is this from Pit My Rod? Who's the main person that picked my ride? Exhibit, happy birthday exhibit! Okay, yeah, he turned 50. Oh, Angela Simmons, she turned 38, by the way.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_10:Exhibit turn older than me. Half a century plus one. Half a century plus half a century. Um 51. Thank you, Mel Silent. He did the math. Or else Polo. Polo did the math. 51. Yeah, half a century. 51. Yeah, 51. See, he got a lot of money. Polo got it. You ain't catch it.
SPEAKER_02:But Polo caught it. I did I didn't catch it. I'm done. Drop the polo, you small. I had a damn moment. Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_10:You did that math. That math was math in his head right there.
SPEAKER_02:Half a century class one. That's an ism right there.
SPEAKER_07:Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_10:Polo got it. You turn 51. Huh? Who got the trip in? Me? But Polo got it.
SPEAKER_09:Listen, this this doesn't account for the shrooms and smokers.
SPEAKER_10:If you're on shoes, if you smoke you on drink, you ain't gonna catch it because you're gonna sit there and be like, I knew the answer to that.
SPEAKER_02:That was a funny part. Mad problem.
SPEAKER_10:Yeah, in the middle of a podcast, mad problem is what we do. Ass, happy birthday to all y'all old motherfuckers. Happy birthday, y'all. But not um Katie, Katie, you young. Right, Katie? You 55?
unknown:No, I'm 29.
SPEAKER_10:Oh shit. She almost 30. You old now. Once you hit that age, you like uh look it though. That's it. Black don't crack. Black don't crack. There you go. Huh? Huh? Is that what?
SPEAKER_02:Oh, you 292 froze?
SPEAKER_10:Hey, 29 gang, 29 gang.
SPEAKER_02:You said you said you 25. She said you're 20. Hey, you made a blush. Shout out to the blush, you came.
SPEAKER_10:I mean, shout out to blush and froze shorty. He made a blush. She is fine. So she you know when somebody blush when they don't open their mouth when they laugh, they'll go.
SPEAKER_02:And still light up the room. That's the blush thing. Still light up the room. Jesus.
SPEAKER_10:Hey, as it gets hot topics, man. So, man, one of the biggest hot topics uh that's going around um, I think happened last week. Um, what's his name? Charlie. Charlie Kirky passed away. Well, he got assassinated. Let's put that in in the in the frame. Umless they can't. Right, see, white people, they could be 19 and they 55.
SPEAKER_03:Exactly. It's crazy. 35 and they could be 18, 17. That's right. Exactly.
SPEAKER_10:No, no, no, that's the complete opposite. You're wrong.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, see, black people, we be looking at the old people.
SPEAKER_10:No, she said what she said, she said they look old, but they could be 19. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's what you said?
SPEAKER_03:Oh we be looking literally like 20.
SPEAKER_10:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:And we be like 30.
SPEAKER_10:Okay.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, black people.
SPEAKER_10:You gotta cut her mic off. Yeah, cut her mic off. You gotta cut her mic off. Tell her Nick. They got one? Oh.
SPEAKER_09:Unless you do it. That's your you can put on the shirt.
SPEAKER_08:Unless you do it. Unless you do it. Let's get into the topic.
SPEAKER_09:Yeah, I guess I told you. Restarted her. We started Katie. Yeah.
SPEAKER_10:Alright, hot time is big. Yeah, so we like what's saying, Charlie Kirk, man, he got assassinated last week. Was it last week? He got assassinated. Um, yeah, about the age of 31, man. It's crazy. You know, it was a lot of uproar on social media about um not only his passing, but his political views. You know, he had the left and the right as they was just all up in arms, you know, talking about, well, this, that, and the third. I don't want to get into it because I'm not a politic type of person. And it goes.
SPEAKER_02:I didn't know he I didn't know he existed on planet Earth until he got. Absolutely. I didn't know him. Never heard of him. Exactly.
SPEAKER_01:Never heard of him. My whole thing is a man. You heard about Charlie Craig? I said, who?
SPEAKER_10:He did 20 V1s with the politics students. Uh we can't hear you though, bro. You need a mic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah, and I'm gonna talk about that too. Go ahead, man.
SPEAKER_07:Yeah, but he does he does the 20 V1s like uh with with uh all the students who study uh law and politicians, uh you know, things like that with the government. Uh that's basically what he uh was going big for. Them had millions of views on him. He was like a guest on it, you know, but it it kind of got like popularized around him because there's a lot of other people that do it, you feel me? A lot of different figures, but he was just one of the main ones that was like I don't know, they couldn't take him down or something, you feel me? And a debate. That's basically what you know he got big off of. Yeah.
SPEAKER_10:You know, I mean, you know, again, it was an uproar, and you know, uh his political views obviously didn't align with a lot of people's political views or ideologies, and uh, you know, that's okay. That's okay, but for him to lose his life over that, uh, you know, that's that's that was unfair to him and the people that, you know, looks up to him and and and watches him. Um so you know, rest in peace to that man.
SPEAKER_02:We gotta understand though, like politics is just like gang man.
SPEAKER_10:It damn sure is.
SPEAKER_02:Like, it's getting that real because these niggas that's doing the the shooting up the supermarkets and all this other shit, that's all like political and shit. Like that's all somebody having beliefs and die hard about it on some kamikaze shit. You feel me? Like, this shit is like if you a politician, you need to have arm security, a bulletproof vest. And you actually have a big thing. You gotta move like a rapper and a game banger, bro. Like, did you see how that shit looked?
SPEAKER_10:Yeah, it's crazy.
SPEAKER_02:I was like, damn.
SPEAKER_10:And just for it to be captured live like that, is gonna resonate with not only people that follow him, but just everybody that watched. You know, you watch the live assassination.
SPEAKER_02:So did the nigga shoot through social media. He shoot through the coat. Like, how do you not see somebody shoot a shotgun? Nah, it wasn't a shotgun. He got sniped. The dude who shot him said, I gotta get my dad's shotgun back. I gotta get my dad's shotgun back.
SPEAKER_10:No, that was a you can't shoot a shotgun from that.
SPEAKER_02:He had the scope on that thing. He said the shotgun gun. No, that wasn't a shotgun. He said the scope cost two bands. Yeah, because look how far away he was. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Shotgun, nigga. Shotgun. That's shot shit.
SPEAKER_08:That shit ain't gonna make it nowhere near over there.
SPEAKER_01:But my thing is everybody knows that right now we're really in some sensitive times. Yes, absolutely. So you can't just be going. I mean, you can if you, you know what I mean? But just expect that that comes with consequences.
SPEAKER_02:They tried to kill Trump twice. It's not the fuck.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, shut Trump!
SPEAKER_02:Ain't nobody safe. Ain't nobody safe. And Jimmy Kimmel got canceled for saying that.
SPEAKER_10:Yeah, Jimmy Kimmel got canceled. And I saw it because I was I wanted to, you know, know what I was talking about. You know, he didn't say nothing. All he did was reference something that President Trump said. You know, it was like, oh, well, you know, I don't want to say it because I don't want to get canceled, guys. But yeah, fuck it, cancel me. Um, so we can get popping. Trump made that call.
SPEAKER_01:He said, dude, you ain't Trump. You ain't me. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. But he didn't say nothing. He can't just be saying shit.
SPEAKER_10:He didn't say nothing. No, I don't order that. You know, and he's a he's a comedian. You know, he used uh it wasn't like he made up some shit and spun something around which put out false uh narratives out there.
SPEAKER_01:No, he says something that's like I said, we in sensitive times crazy.
SPEAKER_10:Freedom of speech ain't free no more. What do you say, Switch? It ain't gonna be no more Trump jokes. Ain't no Trump jokes? Shit, I'm gonna I'm gonna talk about Trump. I don't give a fuck. You know what I'm saying? I don't care. If you voted for Trump, that's on you, but I ain't gonna say it.
unknown:But yeah.
SPEAKER_10:And it's crazy that his last words was he's like counting or not counting gang violence. After that, about a um, it was a question that was asked about gang violence, and he said counting or not counting gang violence. Bam! So his last words was about gang gang violence, and he was an advocate about gun violence in the Second Amendment. And, you know, he was like, he didn't care. Pretty much saying, you know, if you live by the gun, you die by the gun. And that was his words that he spurred into the world.
SPEAKER_01:And look, somebody in the audience wasn't having it.
SPEAKER_10:Nah, yeah, he was on the roof or some shit. But rest in peace, man. He knows he had a family, had a daughter. Rest in peace, man. Charlie Kirk, man. Um, no, no, no. I don't give a shit. All right. Next side topic. Oh, this is wait, this is the whole same shit? Okay. Huh? No, I'm leaving it. This is all the same shit. Johnny Kimball. I don't want to talk about that. Okay, I don't want to talk about that. Okay. So on Monday. Huh? It was like all the same shit.
SPEAKER_05:Ain't nothing left on it.
SPEAKER_10:Huh? I know, no, we good. Yeah, we got it, we got that. So on Monday, September 15th, a body was found hanging from a tree. I heard about that. The guy at Delta Um State University.
SPEAKER_01:That's what they was talking about on the shade room.
SPEAKER_10:Mm-hmm. Yeah, he's found hanging from a tree. Um, some some was suspecting that it was foul play, but it wasn't actually, I guess when they did the autopsy, the finance, they said it wasn't foul play. Um, yeah, that's what they're saying. It wasn't. I mean, I guess it's like as far as his body parts, because some people were saying he got beat up, he had broken bones and stuff like that, but it was none of that. He just got hung. You know, um, yeah, they said exactly. Exactly. Um, uh, but give her a mic, because we can't hear her.
SPEAKER_03:If a black person is going through mid there, I'm not saying I know, you feel me? Because you don't never know what people going through, but at the same time, I feel like personally, why would he do it on display? I personally feel like it was just a per a careful person, just like that dude that got wrapped in the mat, that boy that got wrapped in the mat at school, they know good and well that boy Daddy was an FBI agent and took all his organs out. It just fell in the mat, he wouldn't be, his head wouldn't have been busted.
SPEAKER_02:And if he had a carpet, he would have been busted.
SPEAKER_03:So as far as just people are, they just getting more careful. That's all it is, too.
SPEAKER_10:Well, the authorities reported, like I said, the authorities reported there was no foul play. Um, they said the family of the guy named Trey Reed, the family of Trey Reed said the police told him that he passed away in his dorm. So I'm like, how do you, you know, the guy how in the dorm? Yeah, how they correlate. No, no, he was he was he in the dorm? No, no, he wasn't in the dorm. He was outside. Um, but they said that he passed away. The Doherty told the family that he passed away in the dorm. Yeah, it was a tree of the dorm. But they said he passed away in his dorm.
SPEAKER_01:So they saying that he did it to himself or somebody did it to him.
SPEAKER_10:They they they still investigating it. They don't, you know, because obviously somebody gotta take you, put you up there. That's not even funny. You ain't hanging out.
SPEAKER_02:How the fuck you hang yourself and die in the dorm? Like that's crazy.
SPEAKER_01:But that's what they'll put it on five days from now, they'll be like, oh, he did it himself.
SPEAKER_10:And they said um there was reports that he was being um assaulted on social media. They say that wasn't true. So it was a couple of things. They said a couple of students they seen Trey on Sunday night. He was in a heated discussion on the phone, and he looked upset. So they still still under investigation. So it's a lot of things. There was a there's another guy, uh, yeah, he got hung about two, three years ago. Um, that story came out. I forget the name of that kid, but I remember that too. Yeah, so it's like, you know, you know, these hangings, man. I don't know. They try to make it racially charged, but we don't know. Like I said, they're still investigating, but you see a black man getting hung, you automatically think some white man or you know, you know. Um what's that old school method? Oh I'm not laughing at that. Well, they didn't hear him, yeah. They didn't hear what he said. So yeah, man, man, rest in peace, man. Um Trey Reed, man. That's that's crazy. Like, you know, that's crazy.
SPEAKER_09:Uh oh. RP Trey Trey.
SPEAKER_10:Phone drop, phone drop. Who the hell is this? Um right there. Oh, so did y'all hear about the um the RB singer? What's his name? Dali Callie, what's his name? Cali Uches? That's his name.
SPEAKER_02:That's a girl, Cali. That's a girl.
SPEAKER_10:He's talking about D V, D four, and B D. Yeah, D for D. Yeah. David, that's his name, David. Yeah. Why the fuck is spelt that that's a little bit more?
SPEAKER_04:Callie spelling that uh feature on her song. And she said, all the songs with him, like he's doing it.
SPEAKER_10:Give it a mic. Good. Don't do this shit. What she said.
SPEAKER_03:He also doing concerts with caskets, and he got a tattoo of the 15-year-old girl that they sing. Yes, like that is crazy. Wow.
SPEAKER_04:Like, it's a um it's a video of her laying in a casket. I don't know if it's like laying in a casket. Laying in a casket with blood over her. She's wearing a white dress. This is fake? No. Like a video, like music. Yeah, he's on tour right now. Because I was confused. I don't even know who he was.
SPEAKER_03:Me neither, because TikTok, yeah, me too. I ain't never heard a song. I literally been on TikTok and I be so invested. So I seen a 13-year-old girl uh when she was 13, she went missing lesson. Why are you talking to a 14 year old? Let's start there crazy. But yeah, they got the same match of tattoos, and then it's videos of him pushing her out the video. And then he's having he's on tour right now bringing caskets to his tour. Like, yeah, he's letting people come and write letters to the deceased like he's having a film. That is weird.
SPEAKER_10:Like we're so they said they said that body was found, you know, in his rental, I guess, and registered in his name in the town. No, in his own car. Um, they said they responded to a foul odor out of Hollywood tow yard. They discovered a decomposed body wrapped in a bag, which is later identified as Celeste. So her name was Celeste Rivas Hernandez. She was 15. Uh, she was found missing on April 4th, and she was 13 at the time in California. That's crazy. So they know, like I said, she had a matching tattoos and a song named after her. Um right now they say it's not a homicide investigation, but obviously all the roads lead down to David. So they pretty much sooner or later gonna be like, okay, buddy, you know, we tried, but uh we need to bring her in, you know. They say he's cooperating with police and authorities and everything like that. Um, but it, you know, it's just too much. And social media has them is powerful. So they're gonna look on social media and be like, uh, uh, uh, uh, all right, David. Let's go, buddy. Like, we need to uh dig deeper into this situation. You know what I mean? So no arrest, they no arrest was made as of yet. So um, you know, David right now is on tour with caskets and shit. Uh he's on tour with caskets and shit. That's crazy. Unbelievable. And then that happened. Unbelievable. Wow. Unbelievable. Rest in peace to her, man. But yes, we got a very special guest on the left of me. Hold on, let me uh let me go right here and put this on here so I can make sure that I got it right. Uh let me put this down. Let me do it one more time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sometimes, sometimes the boy don't be cooperating with me. It's like I do it again. So we got a very special guest on the left of me. If y'all don't know, y'all gonna find out who she is right after I do this spill. She got a very big event coming up on Sunday that we're gonna be covering, by the way. No advisory. So let the people know three things. No advisory style. Who you are, where you're from, and what the fuck you do.
SPEAKER_01:Well, thank you so much for asking. I'll definitely let them know. My name is Cammy, I'm from Miami.
SPEAKER_05:Okay, yes, indeed.
SPEAKER_01:And I am an event planner. Um, and I do my own events, and I have a huge award show coming up this Sunday that I'm truly excited about. Definitely got some heavy hitters with it. But I'm literally over 300 events in, and I just love the events.
SPEAKER_10:Oh, hold on, man.
SPEAKER_01:What you doing then? Thank you. Anywhere from festivals, music, comedy, fashion, you name it, I've done it.
SPEAKER_05:Absolutely. Okay. Thank you.
SPEAKER_10:I've long, I've I've known you for how long now? Oh my god. I've known you for about what? We don't talk about that, but I know you for quite a long time. Yes. You know, let me tell y'all, man, before we get into it, she cooks some mean like vegan dishes and all that. Like, I've been coming to her getting some food for a minute. Like y'all think she's a vent planner, yeah. AKA cook. Yeah, let them know, cook.
SPEAKER_01:Chef Camille. Yeah, cool, cook, cuckoo.
SPEAKER_09:Yeah, man.
SPEAKER_01:I thought she was like, vegan and non-vegan food. Yes, I throw down. You gonna come.
SPEAKER_02:You gonna come bring us like uh some food one day?
SPEAKER_01:I definitely will. Yeah, why you ain't set that up?
SPEAKER_10:Because it wasn't about Chef Kimmy, it was about the wars tonight. Yeah, you know, so she wasn't in that element. I just had to bring it up because some people may not know. Still gotta salute black women.
SPEAKER_01:Thank you. Absolutely. I know.
SPEAKER_10:I be hungry and shit.
SPEAKER_02:The last episode we had um steps and had another episode, and that that fool was just he was over. Oh, you do trips. Did you like it? Oh shit. You tell him because you're bringing us on?
SPEAKER_01:Oh, I got the I got the meals, you got the sweet. Look at that.
SPEAKER_08:Good for Mills and Sweet Connect.
SPEAKER_01:Now we just gotta decide vegan or non-vegan.
SPEAKER_02:Non-vegan, thank you.
SPEAKER_10:I took both for me. I take both. Let's get down to the awards, man. So is this Sunday? Let the people know about the awards, what's going down this Sunday? I'm gonna let you know.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, so it is the ninth annual Carolina Music Video Awards. We sell out every single year, and this year will be no different. Red carpet is from four to six. The award ceremony starts at 6:30, ends at 9:30. So I ain't gonna keep you there too long. Just a little three hours. But we got everybody coming through, and I am so excited for this year's show. We're talking about 803 Fresh. I'm gonna have some line dances out. They're gonna be stepping, they're gonna be getting it in with the fans. So get ready to pop your fans. I got Trap Dicky, you know he's gonna turn up. So I got him coming out there. He's actually gonna be performing live. So you already know that's gonna go crazy. I got Fabo, you know he's gonna be geeked up coming out there to do it. Yes, yes, all that yelling. But you know he's gonna go crazy with it. So it is a huge, huge, huge year. Um, I've had probably over a hundred music videos this year. We celebrate all genres of music: rock, pop, RB, you name it, we got it. Um, people just submit their music videos into me from all over the world every year. And um, their videos just be amazing. It's incredible to see these artists' creativity and how far they could take it. So um sometimes it's hard like this year, I will admit, it it was hard deciding on who's gonna win. This was a tough competition. How do you do the um the voting?
SPEAKER_10:Because uh there's a lot of different platforms and awards shows out here. Um I feel like like sometimes their votings can be flawed in a way. So um explain to the people that don't know how do you do your voting system with the with the um music awards.
SPEAKER_01:So my voting system is very different because I just don't give it to you. You gotta earn it. You gotta earn it over here. So people submit their music video submissions to me. Um once that deadline approaches, they have to vote to become nominated. So just because you submitted it doesn't automatically make you a nominee. Like most shows, and you see all these thousands be, oh, I got nominated. No, that's not over here. Exactly. So once you submit your video, you have to vote to be you have to get everybody that you know involved to help you vote to become nominated. And then once nominations are done, I look at who has the highest number of votes. Highest number of votes. Those highest number of votes is who I show on a big screen at the theater. Because I can't show everybody's video.
SPEAKER_06:Right.
SPEAKER_01:And just because you're nominated doesn't mean you're gonna hit that big screen.
SPEAKER_06:Right.
SPEAKER_01:You gotta put some work into them votes. Because the reason why I do it that way is because of cross-promotion. You gotta promote the show just like I'm promoting your video. Right. Everybody who submits a video to me, I put it on the page. Now, some videos I can't put on the page. But for the most part, I will put it on the page.
SPEAKER_02:What can't you post? Like weed and all that other stuff, weed and too much booty shaking and stuff.
SPEAKER_01:Sometimes it's videos that get submitted to me and they're just not in the best of quality. And I gotta be mindful of what I post because I gotta keep my page and my brand of quality. Absolutely. You know what I'm saying? So without knocking too much, but um I I do that because when you're trying to build a brand, you gotta be mindful of everything.
SPEAKER_02:Absolutely.
SPEAKER_01:Everything that you post.
SPEAKER_02:But you know, you know, some videos now they're using a VHS like um editing and all of that. It looks like old school videos. Like a lot of the real popular people are using it. Would you still not want to use that in?
SPEAKER_01:I would still want to use that because to me it's all about creativity too.
SPEAKER_02:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:So when I say quality, I just don't mean how it appears. I'm talking about everything to a T. Not only how it appears, but the content, the the creative content that you put into it, um, from the writing to just the overall production. That's what I look at. You know what I mean? And if that's not there at all, I mean, like, I done got videos where it's like who shot that?
SPEAKER_08:iPhone 35,000.
SPEAKER_01:But even on the creative end, it's like, what were you thinking? Were you high when you did that? Like, you know what I mean? So it's like you really have to be mindful of what it is that you post and what it is that you submit. Like, as an artist, you should really want to tap into your creativity on the visual aspect. You done put all this work into the song itself, you gonna lack on the video? What you do the song for? So anyway, so, anyways, um, so they go through that voting process, and then like I said, the highest number of votes gets shown on the big screen. Um, but again, just because you have the highest number of votes, that doesn't mean that you win. You may have in your perspective category, you may have 3,000 votes, and somebody else may have 2,000, but because of their actual quality in that video, they're gonna beat you. You get what I'm saying? And then on top of that, the the twist that I have with that is just because you're actually shown on the big screen because you had the highest number of votes, the person over here that may not be shown a big screen, but they're still nominated, they can still compass it. It's all about quality, man. Quality, quality over quantity. Because I don't never want somebody to be like, oh, that person only got it because they're popular or because they got this or they cut got that. I don't want it to be about that. My show not about that. You got to work for everything in the show.
SPEAKER_10:What the fuck she said. Quality over quantity. Yes.
SPEAKER_01:Trash ass motherfuckers and a lot of artists they don't like my process, but it's okay.
SPEAKER_10:Listen, and it makes sense.
SPEAKER_02:Definitely makes sense. Definitely makes sense.
SPEAKER_10:I respect the process. Like you said, you've been doing it for nine years, right? So let them know how hard it is just to do it for a year. Because it's a very difficult and tedious process to put on an actual music video award show. And I've been a couple of them. Shit's, let me tell you now, it ain't no rinky dink shit. You ain't gonna come there. It's like, oh shit, nigga, like, yeah, let me go in the car and go ahead and go get a suit right quick. Cause shit be like that. You know what I'm saying? It ain't like how we're gonna talk about it too. I'm pissed with some shit. But um, it ain't like that. You know what I mean? So just let them know the process, just getting this together, getting the acts, getting, you know, actually the plethora of nominees coming in. Let's let them know that process.
SPEAKER_01:It is a process, it is a headache, but I love it. Um, just to let y'all know, because a lot of people don't know this. I started out as an artist before all of this. My love comes because I was an artist. You be ready because singing and rapping was in choirs coming up, everything. Even in college, was in the a gospel choir at college. But also rapping, but also rapping as well. So I started this whole journey as an artist. So when I say that I understand what y'all are going through, I understand what y'all are going through. That's why I don't charge a lot to perform. That's why I don't charge a lot for this. That's why I don't charge a lot for that and all the skill sets that I have because I do this for as a passion. And I always tell artists every day, don't give up. And the reason why I say that is because don't give up like I gave up. I say that because I gave up. So when I exactly, so when I say keep going, I mean keep going. Because I didn't keep going. I ended up going a whole nother direction. But I spilled that to y'all because I gave up, and sometimes I wish I didn't give up. I miss being in the studio. I miss recording. I miss this and that. You can still do that, though.
SPEAKER_02:You can still do it. You still right there. You still right there.
SPEAKER_01:Ghostface. Nah, it's all these OGs. But I got into this because I started out as an artist. And then I started working behind the scenes at major companies. So I worked for Fox News, Nickelodeon, The Home of the Time, Join a Morning Show, Disney, some of everything and everywhere. And then I got into managing artists, and then from there I said, you know what? I want to do events. And I started doing events in Miami, and then I took it all the way up and I'm here. So I done had just about every celebrity come through, every record label come through, you name it, I done had it at my events. And I just love doing events.
SPEAKER_02:See? You went to business school for this? Or did you just like start like pro bono?
SPEAKER_01:Honestly, um, I got my master's degree from Troy University and management. In management with a concentration, leadership, and organizational effectiveness. That's what my master's.
SPEAKER_02:You putting it to full effect.
SPEAKER_01:But no, like I said, I just love the industry. I got family that's in the industry, and we talk all day about stuff, and I just love the industry. That's why I'm in it. But to answer your question in further depth, it is a process. You gotta spend days in, nights into this. I be hitting up artists like crazy sometimes, nine o'clock in the morning, two o'clock in the morning. Three o'clock in the morning, just in their DM. Hey, you want to do this? Hey, I got this coming up. Hey, da da da. And it's just a grind. Like, you think I just got them videos just because, like, no, I had to put it out there and it came.
SPEAKER_10:Absolutely. And I know because, you know, I'm doing training day CLT and just dealing with artists, and you know, there's a lot of like trash out there. I'm just gonna I'll keep it a buck. A lot of trash, right? So, like, what was the worst video that was submitted to you? Don't even you don't have to say the artist's name. I I would say it if it was me, but who was the worst video that you ever got? Like, why the fuck would you submit this bullshit?
SPEAKER_01:It was so bad I can't remember. I'm the type of person where it's out of sight, out of mind. Once you gone, I can't remember names. I can't remember what happened. Out of sight, out of mind. But it's definitely been a few over the last few years. Now I just be looking like, what in the world, D Lee?
SPEAKER_05:What did I just watch?
SPEAKER_01:But yeah, man, like at first, you know, you gotta promote that the year's coming up, you gotta promote the music video submissions, then you gotta get your vendors, you gotta get your sponsors, you gotta just do the whole shebang. And I'm so used to doing it every year and with all of the events that I've done in the past that it's just second nature to me right now. Like, I just be going, trying to connect with everybody, get everybody together. I just the process is a love and hate type of thing. But then once I'm actually there at the show and I see that I done got all these people in one building, it's just an amazing sight to see.
SPEAKER_10:Absolutely. Go ahead, Swesh.
SPEAKER_02:Um, what was I about to say?
SPEAKER_05:I was about to ask you like it.
SPEAKER_09:I didn't want to overshadow you. I was like, I was trying to catch you. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:How do you pick your videographer for your event? Because you record your event, I'm assuming. So how do you decide, okay, who's gonna shoot for you? Or who is your videographer for your event?
SPEAKER_01:I mean, honestly, um, with all of the videos that I just received over the years, I've also built relationships with the different videographers. So I see whose work is what, and then I go from there as far as who's gonna film the show. So, yeah, that's how I do it really.
SPEAKER_10:Now, I know you you know you've been doing it for nine years, and uh there's a lot of artists that you have, you know, come across. Um, obviously you got the baby who's technically not from Charlotte, but he reps Charlotte. Um, so they look at the baby as the face of Charlotte as music is concerned. What is that one artist that that you saw that that came and you're like, yo, they gonna be that next one, but they didn't pan out. Who's that artist?
SPEAKER_01:Dang, can I plead the fifth?
SPEAKER_10:Nope. Nope. I mean, listen, it's just it is what it is. It's just sometimes sometimes they don't pan out. No? Who's that artist? I'm pleading the fifth. No, you cannot plead. Listen, every time somebody pleaded the fifth, I tell them. You see that name? No advisory podcast.
SPEAKER_05:Somebody, but it's gonna ruffle a lot. Who is the person?
SPEAKER_01:Who's the question? Exactly.
SPEAKER_03:Listen, listen. She has a mic. I'm just personally saying this. I'm just personally saying experience. Who is it? Like, as far as like people that didn't done music and was close, but didn't quite make it far, I would definitely say, and I'm sorry, I mean, people that's alive.
SPEAKER_10:Say the name of I'm gonna say. Yeah. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_03:I'ma say 704 Chop, bruh. Because he makes real good music, bro. Like, I'm talking about as far as like people that was like right there with a baby, because you on the level of speaking of, like, you're not picking up, speaking of upcoming artists. You're speaking of people that was in the industry but didn't quite make it far. Yeah. I feel like personally, 704 Chop don't get his flowers, bro. He really did make good music. Like, I'm telling you, like, he he made music like Kevin Gates, and like he made good music, bro. And I really wish he, out of Charlotte, I wish he would have made it far.
SPEAKER_01:You know what name I would say since he said that.
SPEAKER_03:Who? Don't get mad at me. No, you're probably gonna say who I mean.
SPEAKER_01:You know, I love you. J Wade Sosa.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, him too.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, Jay Wade. J Wade was like right right there. Right here. Literally, exactly. My shit together. Yeah. Right here.
SPEAKER_03:You feel me? Like, but if we was talking about people that pass, you feel me, like, don't, of course, but I'm like, like, as far as like people that like was right there in the industry, J Way and 704 Chop. Listen, this is no slightly. It's not like they really made it. You can read action, exactly. They probably see this like, you know what?
SPEAKER_10:Damn, they right. No, I live in the studio.
SPEAKER_03:And the only reason what made me think of 704 Chop is when you said the baby, and the fact that he was right there, like he didn't need no futures or nothing. Like, he just made like good music. Like his voice would just, he just glide on the beat.
SPEAKER_01:Like, you just don't but see when you like that, yeah, you could still music, bro. 704 and J-Way is them type of artists where they could they still got time to come back in the game.
SPEAKER_03:Like people that's like in Charlotte, like, and I mean if you're speaking in like different areas, it'd be different. But like you speaking of Charlotte artists, I just feel like if I I live in Gastonia, I'm from Virginia, but I live in Gastonia. But as far as like people that I would listen to like from 2014 and up, like I would think, like, of course, don't, but like 704 Chop and J-Wade, yeah, them too. Yeah, right. Like, she here where I'm here, but 704 Chop was there, bruh. Like, I wish he would have really No, I don't even really know, bro, like that, but I just feel like his music is just like music, like you just be like, damn, like somebody's like, once you listen to the old music, you be like, damn, yeah, you ain't make it, but you got them, you dare and got them in my radio shit.
SPEAKER_01:So here's what I will say 704 Chop and J-Way Sosa, y'all don't give up. Y'all get completely tunnel vision and annihilated. And trust me, you could jump back in and make your way back up there.
SPEAKER_02:I was gonna say me. I ain't gonna lie. But I'm I'm still striving, I'm still fighting. I'm gonna say me, though. I'm a big man.
SPEAKER_05:You're not from Charlie.
SPEAKER_10:Yeah. So, you know, like um, like what is the process uh like because you know you got Fable and those guys coming through, like what is the process for you to go out and reaching out to them and say, hey, I need you to come, I need you to perform at this event. Um, because a lot of times, you know, that brings their fans to the event. You know, some people are stooshes, they be like, I ain't doing that shit. You know what I mean? Like, I've been dealt with a lot of these motherfuckers. Uh so like what is your process like and how do you actually go to them like, hey, I need you to come out, I need you to perform. How's that process like?
SPEAKER_01:Honestly, I'm a very well-connected woman. And I utilize my resources.
SPEAKER_10:Absolutely. There you go.
SPEAKER_01:So all I literally do is go to my phone, be like, at first I already know who I want. So then I go to my phone and be like, who could get him for me?
SPEAKER_06:Right.
SPEAKER_01:And I just get scrolling, scrolling. I said, Oh, that motherfucker, he could hit him up. So that's exactly what went down with that. And then it just connected to another person and another person and another person, and then boom, got him. So yeah, like for me, I I'm not afraid to reach out to people and ask them for shit. Right. You know what I mean? Like a lot of people's egos and pride just be, you know, stopping them from asking. Me, I'm not that person. If I want something, I go get it. And I was just like, you know what, let me just go on my phone and ask them and see what they're gonna say, see what we can make happen, everything. And that's what I did.
SPEAKER_10:Yeah, your network increases your network. Exactly. This nigga stuff like the future, bro.
SPEAKER_01:At first, I tell you though, I ain't think none of this was gonna happen this year. But um, thank God. I kept I kept calling and be like, y'all coming out here, y'all. Like these type of artists, like, you really gotta be on it with them because they get so busy on tour or so busy in the studio that they can't get to their phone or they can't get to their DM or what have you. So these type of artists, like, you really gotta be on it on it. So I made it happen.
SPEAKER_10:That's what's up. And I was gonna I was gonna ask that. I was gonna say, you know, what difficulties uh that kind of is like, I'm gonna say hinder you, but kind of make you like, damn, I don't want to do this shit this year. You know, because a lot of times it's hard doing shit every year, you know. Um, because we was doing training day every week, and I was like, fuck, for like five, six, fuck this shit. You know what I'm saying? So, but you know, the Carolina Music Awards is a way bigger platform. Video Awards is a way bigger platform. So to do it every year, like where have there been a time where you say, fuck the Sean Wondro?
SPEAKER_01:Every year. Yesterday, yes. Earlier this morning. Like when I tell you, like, literally every year I be wanting to give up. I be wanting to give up. I'm for real. Do you get it?
SPEAKER_02:I'm sorry, I'm sorry, go ahead.
SPEAKER_01:Because it's like doing this show, like, and doing these shows, like you deal with a lot. There's a lot of stuff behind the scene that be going, then I swear if it was camera following me, y'all be like, is this real?
SPEAKER_02:Let me follow you. Let me vlog you.
SPEAKER_01:Bruh, follow me, bruh. Like, people be shocked, but I I I keep going. You know what I mean? Like, I'm so passionate about what I do that I don't let the negativity stop me. I don't let the haters stop me. I don't let the money stop me. Like, I keep going. Everybody think I got money. I ain't rich. I be doing this show off a shoestring budget. But I'm a hustler and I know how to go get it. I know that I I got a passion behind this. You know what I mean? So when you got a passion behind something and you believe really believing what you're doing, you're gonna do what you gotta do to keep that thing going. Like my first show, I sold out and I've been selling out ever since. And I didn't think all them people was gonna come. But they came. So I just think about all of that. I try to stay focused on the positivity and on, you know, what I've done before, and that's what keeps me going. But it is definitely, shh.
SPEAKER_02:I think nine o'clock this morning, I was like, you know what, I just want to get I think if people if people see that side of you, like, or just see that the gro the the all the work it puts in behind the scenes, though, that's gonna make a lot of people more drawn into it. Like, cause they they because they probably really don't they know you throwing it, but they probably so into the videos and stuff they don't know how much you really actually do put behind the production.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, and I mean that's why I say I wish you know I did have that camera person around me. I'm popping out so that they can't see the work that goes on behind it, because it's a lot of stuff that highest wish.
SPEAKER_02:I want to be there for the experience. Let's go. See that? Yeah, let's do it.
SPEAKER_01:But like it's a lot of things that I go through. It'll have the audience or whoever watching, like, wow, because you compete in with the show in your real life. So it's times where you can't eat because you gotta put this money over here to go buy a trophy. You gotta put this money over here to go pay for a host. These hosts ain't free. Everybody came with a check. You gotta put this money over here to go get a DJ, to go get the viny. The viny always the most expensive thing. So it's times where you gotta sacrifice something on your personal end in order to make that happen. And a lot of people be like, dang, you crazy, you did that shit? I'd be like, shit, I love this shit. Took out a whole loan on this video. I love this shit. Look, look. And the crazy part is I'm not the one getting no award. So I don't do this for me.
SPEAKER_05:Right.
SPEAKER_01:I don't even hit the I don't even hit the stage. This is for y'all moment as artists, for y'all moment as people and pillars in the community. This ain't for me. And the money that I receive, it goes right back into the show. You think Fabo free? You think this and that artist free? No, I wish. Now, sometimes people do look out for me because of the relationship or because they really want to do it, but then you got other people they want to get paid.
SPEAKER_10:That's facts.
SPEAKER_01:So therefore, you go ahead and you do it because you know you really want them there.
SPEAKER_10:But I mean, even though, so you know, they always say, man, you gotta spend money to make money.
SPEAKER_01:Exactly.
SPEAKER_10:So, you know, it's and do and it shows in the product, like, oh man, yeah, she she she you know. They can tell when they put your money and your time and effort into things, and they can tell when shit is half-ass. You know, so that gets to my next question. Uh, like navigating through Charlotte, through the awards, um, who who's been giving you like the most hate out here? Because Charlotte is very fucking clingy, and there's a lot of fucking haters and shit out here. Like, uh you know, just just is it? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, oh shit. So I am one of the at least he honest. At least he honest. You know what I mean? So it's it's a lot, you know. As he said, uh he's one of them, you know. So how has how have you navigated through that? Um, and I'm gonna get into something else, but how has you how have you navigated through that?
SPEAKER_01:Honestly, the only reason why people hate me here, and and just I'ma just say this, just flat out, I got haters and I got supporters. But the reason why I got a lot of haters here is because I don't cave into their bullshit. And because I'm not a yes woman, and because I'm not that person who gives a fuck about their status. Like, I don't care because you work for this person, that person. That don't I don't that don't phase me. Like, I'm not gonna sit here and be like, oh, you were with so and so, oh yeah, I need to suck your dick. No, what happened? I don't give a I know I kind of like completely flipped just now. Real Cammy is in the building. Oh, they need to look at finger, but um, like a lot of people don't like me here because I tell them no, and because I don't kiss their ass, and because I don't suck the dick. So but I got a whirlwind of supporters here, and I love them dearly. But the thing is, like with me, I put in way too much work behind what I do, and that's why I never let no hater stop me. I hey, there's been plenty of people trying to stop me. You see, I keep going. Even back through the radio ready days. Radio ready. I was, I kept going.
SPEAKER_10:Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_01:I remember that. But like, no matter how much hate I receive, they still be packing out my shows. I'd be like, dang, you hate me, but you hit thank you for your ticket.
SPEAKER_10:Right.
SPEAKER_01:Thank you for supporting me. Exactly.
SPEAKER_10:Like, I'm gonna buy the ticket show.
SPEAKER_01:But but thanks. So you don't hate me that much. You just hate me a little bit.
SPEAKER_10:Thank you.
SPEAKER_05:You bought the ticket. Thank you.
SPEAKER_01:But um, you just really gotta keep going. Like, through all the hate, through all the rejection that you receive at doing this music stuff, like you just really gotta keep fighting through it and keep going. Like, you got a vision in your head of where it is that you wanna be, right? Stick to that vision and fight through it. So that's what I do.
SPEAKER_10:Absolutely. Um, you know, and I ask that question because there's a lot of uh award shows out here. Um, in particular, we have one which is the um the Queen City Awards that we have out here. You know, shout out to Kavon Glover and and what he does and everything out there. Um I just feel like as far as the structure of the show goes is not conducive for people that's really out here doing what they do, right? Um and I just think that he needs to change it up a little bit. And this is just not coming from me, this is coming from people that have been going to the show year after year, and they say like it's really, you know, kind of like watered down dense. It's just like it's not catering to Queen City, you know, quote unquote. Um and so, you know, people you know, you know, hit me up in a damn all the time. Um, so my question to you is like in that, because that's probably other than I mean y'all are two different entities, but at the end of the day, I still award shows, right? So who has been like your biggest uh award show that has been like in the way, so to speak? That's that's in the way, but they shouldn't be in the way. Like, I see you smirking because you know who is that like and and yeah, talk about that. I played the fifth cammy. This is no advisory podcast. We don't give a fuck over here, all right? No advisory. Hold on, let me load you up. Let me load you up. I got two in a chamber. Yeah, we gonna talk about it. Yeah, yeah. Hang on. Ask the question. Huh? You know what the fuck the question was. You know somebody, a wise man told me was you say something like, huh? They heard you the first time. You heard me the first time.
SPEAKER_01:Let me say this.
SPEAKER_10:Yeah, say it.
SPEAKER_01:Say it. I'ma bypass that question. Say it with your chest, Kim. Because it's a lot of heat that comes with that conversation.
SPEAKER_10:It is. It is.
SPEAKER_01:It's a lot of heat that I could say a lot, but I'm not going to. Because we'd already done went through all that before.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:A lot of heat.
SPEAKER_10:You done a rabbit hole already?
SPEAKER_01:We done been down that rabbit hole when I first stepped in the building. So, um, in the Charlotte. So Okay. Yeah, we done been down that rabbit hole. And it was an ugly rabbit hole, and um, I do not want to go through that no more.
SPEAKER_10:Fair enough.
SPEAKER_01:But yeah.
SPEAKER_10:But I think, in my um, just generally speaking, that again, like Charlotte is very cliquish when it comes to things like that, or anything that somebody's doing that they feel like they're in the way of. And and again, it could be something completely opposite, like we're not even in the same lane. But because this says award show or something, they feel like, oh my shit, in a way. Instead of like, yo, I like what you're doing over there, let's come together and see how they can be able to do it.
SPEAKER_01:Exactly what you're saying right now is what I went through with the other show. That's exactly what I went through. So instead of us coming together, there's there's rift wrath. And it's like, dang, like, it didn't even have to be that way. You know what I mean? Like, we could have literally come together and really exploded this thing. But they chose not to bring it together.
SPEAKER_10:And why do you feel it's that way in sh here in Charlotte?
SPEAKER_01:What you just said.
SPEAKER_10:What I said.
SPEAKER_01:You said you are a good interviewer, I swear to God.
SPEAKER_02:I'm gonna tally up how many times you said, mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_01:But they wanted to be the only award show here.
SPEAKER_02:That's facts.
SPEAKER_01:So it when you really doing something for passion, that shouldn't even be in the mix.
SPEAKER_10:Right.
SPEAKER_01:When you're doing something because you love it, and because you want to help the artist, and because you want to put the artist on, and because you want to display the artist's talent, that's who it needs to be about.
SPEAKER_10:Right.
SPEAKER_01:It need to be about the people in the community, because we also do community awards. It need to be about that.
SPEAKER_09:Right.
SPEAKER_01:It don't need to be about ego.
SPEAKER_09:Absolutely.
SPEAKER_01:You ain't got a soldier boy everything. I'm the first, I'm the only. Like, who cares about all that? Right. What's this? Do this shit because you really want to fucking do it and put on for fucking people that fucking deserve it.
SPEAKER_02:What's your sign?
SPEAKER_01:I'm an Aries.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, Jesus.
SPEAKER_10:What's wrong with Aries? What's wrong with that? I mean, I I'm not an Aries, but I don't get into that zodiac shit.
SPEAKER_01:What sign are you?
SPEAKER_02:Scorpio.
SPEAKER_01:Oh my god. So what does that mean?
SPEAKER_10:What does that mean with Scorpio and Aries? What does that mean?
SPEAKER_01:Scorpios are crazy.
SPEAKER_02:Aries are meaningful. DJ Calvin. Libras are a bit. Oh my god. I never got into this zodiac shit.
SPEAKER_10:So what's wrong with Aries? What is the what is the uh perception about Aries? You like you a zodiac fucking master? What's the perception about Aries? Emotionally unstable. Emotionally unstable.
SPEAKER_01:They're definitely fantastic, definitely not stable. They're mean. They're very mean. Me? Aries? Mean? No. But they but with Liros, it's a good vibe.
unknown:I just know all that shit.
SPEAKER_10:You into that Zodiac shit? What's your thoughts of Aries?
SPEAKER_06:What's your thoughts?
unknown:I'm a Leo.
SPEAKER_06:Leo, okay. But like Aries. Why? You say every time you're gonna be able to do that. I never really dealt with Leo. Aries, Aries is like, like, first off, uh Scorpio, that's like blue flame. Aries. We're fire. Fire, like red flame. But they're the type that's like um a fire that rises. See a Leo, I'm always on fire. You feel me? But they a fire that rises. Oh, okay. And they very like comedic and funny. They see the bright side, like seeing the she's seeing the people person and all of it. Like, oh, it shouldn't be da-da-da-da. That's a that's a real Aries perception on like how they view people and how they people should treat each other. They they trying to take us all through there. Yeah, turn the mic, yeah. They trying to take us all through there. You get what I'm saying? So like the like how she when she was like, oh, it shouldn't be about the ego, da da da da da. In a way, but like honestly, in your position, like, because I'm an artist, I need somebody like you nuts dropped. Regardless if you feel like that ain't what's necessary, you being in position where you at, I need your nuts to be dropped. I can't, I can't, I can't count on you if it ain't that but the thing is you let cause you let uh uh somebody who go off of that, like um those perceptions, like that's all they do. We losing the people who is not as good as us. So you you gotta be good around the board.
SPEAKER_01:The thing is, when it comes down to ego, it's a time and a place for it. It's a time and a place for it.
SPEAKER_06:See, like and you gotta be careful with that. One thing I know about you is that everybody can't handle your ego. So go ahead and drop that shit. I get what you're saying, because it ain't as a person, it's not like your character, it ain't necessary. But like, it is now. Cause a motherfucker done tried you when you shouldn't be tried, like being trying to get. Drop your nuts. Thank you. You know what I'm saying? You being genuine and you open up the door for us.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:You know what I'm talking about? So like fuck them right now. You know what? We need uh you need to turn that fire to go from that little flame to go. Okay, yeah. You got a little flame to go big flame real quick for something like that. If if if if you is the vessel that I'm going through to be successful to get these wars, I need your nuts to be airware.
SPEAKER_02:Everywhere.
SPEAKER_06:Like real shop.
SPEAKER_02:That's crazy. That's crazy.
SPEAKER_08:That's some real shit right there. You heard that?
SPEAKER_10:When you walk out of here, you better drag them, motherfucker.
SPEAKER_06:You feel me?
SPEAKER_02:That's some real shit, though.
SPEAKER_06:Oh, they can't be fucking with you.
SPEAKER_02:See, he's saying you the HBIC in charge. That's your production. So you you have every right to walk around with ego, is what he's saying. It's your shit. Pop it. Your shit, pop it.
SPEAKER_06:Don't hit open that door. They try it. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_02:Like, ain't like you giving a bullshit production. Your nuts growing right now.
SPEAKER_01:My nuts is hard. I know that was too much. That's Aries. Oh, boom, boom.
SPEAKER_02:That's Aries right there.
SPEAKER_01:You might be a scorpio. I'm not a scorpion.
SPEAKER_09:Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_01:I I do feel what you're saying.
SPEAKER_10:Um, my gosh.
SPEAKER_01:What happened? Oh. I do feel what you're saying. Um, but honestly, again, for me, like, when you get to a certain age, like the age that I'm at right now, maybe all that's cool, like when I'm in my 20s and 30s. But when you in your 40s and your late 40s, you ain't on none of that. It's either you see it in me or you don't. Like, that's how I feel. Like, I ain't gotta pop my shit, but I'm gonna pop my shit, but I ain't gotta pop my shit. And I ain't gonna let my nuts hang because either you see it or you don't see it. Some people gonna look at you and they gonna see it, right? Some people gonna look at you and be like, nah. Let them blind motherfuckers go. That's what the fuck I go through in this whole process every year. So when you ask me what I go through, this is what I go through. I go through a lot of blind people, and I go through a lot of people who can motherfucking see. Now, the crazy part is once the shit is pop, guess what? Blind people coming up and all of a sudden they can fucking see. Get your blind ass the fuck away from me. Because you ain't believing when I fucking told you. What you over here for now?
SPEAKER_10:Visually impaired, no offensive.
SPEAKER_01:So that's why I don't be like that 24-7. Because it's either you gonna see it or you not gonna see it.
SPEAKER_05:You get what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_01:Either you're gonna see my heart, either you're gonna see my work, either you gon' see my ethic, either you gon' see me or you not gonna see me. I ain't got to flash the money, I ain't got to have the fancy car, I ain't got to have this, I ain't gotta do this, I ain't gotta say, oh, I'm I'm the let me shut up. That's all right. You could tell you I ain't gotta do it. I ain't gonna do all that. Cause those that know and those that can see, them the only fucking people I care about. Everybody wants titles with their name. I ain't gotta have no titles with my name.
SPEAKER_10:Cause I was gonna do that next. So since no, no, that's good. So since you got that, we're gonna pass the mic around, they're gonna ask you a question. Okay. Alright, go ahead.
SPEAKER_06:Oh, I was gonna respond it when she's gonna be able to do that. Oh, go ahead, respond then.
SPEAKER_10:Respond.
SPEAKER_06:What I was saying is like the popping your shit, like push your positivity more than they push in their negativity. Like, I'm still hearing I'm not finna do it. Yeah, I'm still hearing I'm not finna do it. You get what I'm saying? When it's push push that shit more than what they pushing. Your repertoire, yo, you get what I'm saying? So say is the reason why this is what I mean by like dropping your nuts, right? It could be as simple as the artist that you are dealing with. You ain't really gotta you ain't gotta uh mirror their image. You ain't got to do what they do just to get, you ain't gotta get back. Keep doing you, but be loud about it.
SPEAKER_01:The reason why I don't wanna be, or why I'm not, is because I don't want people coming to me for the wrong reason. I want you coming to me because you really fuck with me. I don't want you coming to me because I got label connects, or because I done broke over 80% of the artist music here in Charlotte, or because I got this um going on that I done, you know what I mean, my work experience in the past and work with this company, that company. I don't want you to get a lot of money. Look at your never chat. But look at your look at your laid that out. But I need that. I know, but I don't need everybody to need it. Because you can't have everybody around you. You can't weed them out.
SPEAKER_05:That's true.
SPEAKER_01:But the the the loud.
SPEAKER_06:Allow this to do that too, though. Yeah. You feel me? And what we can't do is um try to say what's gonna happen before we know what's gonna happen. See, right now you're telling me what people are gonna do without the results. Like I don't know, but I say that's not gonna do the work.
SPEAKER_01:I say that because I've already been through it. That's why I say it. That's that's why now turn that positivity up louder than that negativity.
SPEAKER_06:Okay.
SPEAKER_10:That's a that's a that's a gem. Turn it, turn your positivity up louder than the negativity. That's another shirt, by the way.
SPEAKER_06:It keeps you from it keeps you from not being you. You get what I'm saying? So turn it up loud, loud. Oh, y'all don't like this? Turn it up. You get what I'm saying? Turn it up and drop your fucking shit. I I get I get and respect what you're saying, but I know it's hard, I know it's hard because you your own leader, you your own leader. Yeah, nobody's can press the button but you. Yeah, I understand it. But try to live, I I promise you. I promise you, I promise you.
SPEAKER_01:Trust me, they what I what I will say is they see my page, and my page is, and they know that I'm that. So I don't have to speak it, they gonna see it. You gonna see Eric Bellinger on my page, you gonna see Hot Boys on my page, you gonna see these record labels on my page. All you gotta do is scroll. I ain't got to speak that and say, Oh, I work with this person, that person, oh this whoop that I ain't I don't wanna be that nigga. Oh, for sure. I want you to see, I want you to see my work for yourself.
SPEAKER_06:That kind of stuff isn't it?
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Just go to my page.
SPEAKER_01:My page is loud. Go to at Simply Successful ENT.
SPEAKER_10:There you go.
SPEAKER_01:Go to at Carolina Music Video Awards. Shameless scrolling. So you gonna see my page?
SPEAKER_10:Let's go. Who got another question for Cam? Who got a question for Cam? Got a question? You got the mic. No, no?
SPEAKER_02:Come on, it is in this industry, is it harder because you're a woman, you feel like?
SPEAKER_09:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:I think that's most women in most industries. I feel like party planning and panning and stuff is like a woman, like a woman, like women are better at playing hindsight, you may think that.
SPEAKER_01:Uh you know, again, when it comes to doing it for music and doing it for different interests, that's where the male domination comes in. Like when you ask me about Charlotte, like it's a lot of men that do what I do, so therefore, they're not gonna like me because I'm coming in the game and I'm doing it soon because I'm actually successful at work. That's how that's how I started. Then they all stepped away and did their own thing instead of just staying in.
SPEAKER_02:She says she's saying she put y'all niggas on. And y'all not paying the queen homage. Y'all not paying the queen homage. She put y'all in the door, nigga. Like, what? Everybody, give me Brazil.
SPEAKER_10:So listen, right? This Sunday, the 21st. Yes, you know, the kind of music video awards. Huh? You got a question? We got a question. Pro Shorty got a question? Pro Shorty in a building. Okay. Pro Shorty building.
SPEAKER_00:Hello? Okay. Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Yeah. Yes. What's the most rewarding part about what you do? Like what makes it worth doing what you do? What makes it worth waking up and continuing to do it?
SPEAKER_02:Your voice isn't. Good question. Voices, man. Can you ask me a question next?
SPEAKER_01:Um, honestly, the part that I love the most is the show day and seeing everybody walk through that door. Because there's a lot of people that be like, oh yeah, I'ma come, I'ma come. And then they don't come. Facts. So when you actually there and you see all these people in one building come to come and watch something that you put on, like it's an incredible feeling. Like for me, it's a rush, yeah, exactly. Because it's one thing to vision what you want to do, but then when you see it come to life, influential, it's a beautiful fucking feeling. Yes. Like, because you you had a thoughts in your head all day.
SPEAKER_02:Doubting yourself.
SPEAKER_01:Exactly. Doubting yourself, putting yourself through all kind of emotion and just everything.
SPEAKER_02:Then you get there and you realize I was like, what?
SPEAKER_01:I went through all that bullshit for nothing. My mama, um, earlier today and yesterday, she like, you do it because you like the aggravation. I'm like, Mama, I don't like the aggravation.
SPEAKER_02:Sometimes you really psych yourself out and you really be really overly prepared.
SPEAKER_01:You will, but honestly, just seeing all of y'all walk through the door and then seeing the production on the stage, like, I love that type of stuff. Like, when I was a kid coming up in this, that's what I envisioned. Like, just being able to do stuff like this and do it doing real production type of shows and just everything. So that's a beautiful sight when you see music.
SPEAKER_02:Um producing a love show?
SPEAKER_01:A love show?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, like a flavor of love type shit.
SPEAKER_01:Yes.
SPEAKER_02:So I just think I want to be in it.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, so outside of outsider award shows, I'm a writer. So I have not only not only 300 songs, because I love writing songs, but I have four books, I have six movies, and six reality shows. And they all just chill. I ain't doing shit with it.
SPEAKER_02:Put that shit up. Put that shit in the up. Put it on the flow. What's one of your reality shows, man? Tell me one of your reality shows. I want to hear one.
SPEAKER_01:Um, one of my reality shows is I'd rather be a side chick.
SPEAKER_10:I'd rather be a side chick. That is like this!
SPEAKER_05:Tell me or just all myself.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:There you go. All right, all genres of music, male and female. Or. And they all just chilling. Side chick shit. Yeah, I should have been a shit. I'd rather I'd rather be a side chick. Because there's women that honestly don't care for the girlfriend and the wife title. They just rather be a side chick.
unknown:Really?
SPEAKER_05:A lot.
SPEAKER_01:And they don't have like no.
SPEAKER_05:I'm like, that was the universe. Oh Lord, I must see so funny. So that's one of my realities.
SPEAKER_01:That'd be fire though.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_10:Listen, man. Let them know, you know, the 21st. Let them know once one more time what's going down on the 21st Sunday.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, 21st, ninth annual Carolina Music Video Awards hosted by Wildin' Out Comedian, Tyler the Chronicles. Oh, I also have Mr. J Wood, Steven the Dream.
SPEAKER_08:Um, I don't know what the fuck he's doing.
SPEAKER_10:Oh shit.
SPEAKER_02:I place the same. He changed the fucking shit. That's a lot of people. I'm not trying to make up.
SPEAKER_01:You and I clearly said the wrong name. I'm so sorry. I I said the wrong name.
SPEAKER_08:No, you said the right name. I'm sorry. You said the right name. Don't need to apologize. We just gonna bypass that.
SPEAKER_02:Light skinned, dark skin war would never be over, bro. Tell these folks. I thought it was over. We're still out here into it.
SPEAKER_01:Sorry, audience. Forgot what platform I was on for today. Don't advise me.
SPEAKER_10:They should have advised you when we kept winning.
SPEAKER_01:All right, let's just jump back in. I'm afraid to say other names, guys. Royalty from uh K97.5. We also have her. Um, you threw me off with that one. Ooh. Um, anyways, let me get back on script. Uh so we got a ton of hosts, we got a ton of artists performing. We got um Trap Dicky, we got freaking Fable. He's performing live. We also be doing a tribute to 803 Fresh, and that's gonna be crazy dope. I got some steppers coming out to do a tribute with him. He will be receiving Best Song of the Year, of course, because everybody was popping them fans this year, so he definitely deserves that. Yes.
SPEAKER_02:We were at the event Sunday, and they pulled them fans out. I thought it was switches in that moment. They ain't never been in a line at that. And they pulled it out of the day, bronze, everything, they back next to it.
SPEAKER_05:What the fuck the fuck? You play 30 minutes.
SPEAKER_01:So you already know he deserves that award. Um, we have a ton of artist videos that we'll be playing. I don't play the whole thing. We just play seconds and then we go on to the next one because we ain't got time to be there all night. Um, we got incredible lineup of indie artists performing as well, anywhere from Mary Mac to um you name it. I got Hot Boy Shaq. Yeah, we definitely got a long, good lineup of artists performing. Um, so I I'm just ready. I'm ready. It's been a it's been a lot to put on this show.
SPEAKER_08:We do a media. Yes.
SPEAKER_01:We do a media, of course the media.
SPEAKER_08:Yes, we said that in the beginning.
SPEAKER_09:There's no advisory will be in the building covering media. Yes, we'll be in the middle of the day.
SPEAKER_01:I'm gonna made it, I'm gonna be at the award. And you guys are nominated for best podcast. Oh, number two, yes.
SPEAKER_10:And uh, yes, I had no choice.
SPEAKER_01:Y'all been doing it for a very, very long time.
SPEAKER_10:Yes, absolutely.
SPEAKER_01:We have so you definitely didn't.
SPEAKER_10:I'm gonna go grave over the years.
SPEAKER_01:What are they gonna vote?
SPEAKER_02:I'm gonna tell the people go vote. Where are they gonna vote? It's already done, bro.
SPEAKER_01:It's already done, bro. Done. Just about announcing the winner now.
SPEAKER_02:You ain't tell me I was a nominated for an award. Like, what's going on with you, bro?
SPEAKER_10:Listen, at this point in time, man, any award show that has podcasts, no advisors is gonna be in a nomination. I'm gonna find the tux.
SPEAKER_01:It's just there because I mean, who else?
SPEAKER_10:Who else got this?
SPEAKER_01:So here's what I here's what I'm gonna say. I got a lot of categories, but every category won't be given on stage. Some categories will be just like Grammy style, where they'll be given on the red carpet. So that one y'all is one of the categories that'll be given on the car.
SPEAKER_02:I'll fuck with the red carpet. That's right.
SPEAKER_10:I'm happy for a nomination.
SPEAKER_02:That's why I still relevant this market.
SPEAKER_10:Another round of applause for us.
SPEAKER_02:I ain't gonna lie, though.
SPEAKER_01:But we'll be there all night if we just did all the categories on stage. Yeah, that's the yeah.
SPEAKER_02:But you'd be mad if like somebody did a Kanye West with one of the categories. Like, I think that's a viral moment.
SPEAKER_10:So I wouldn't be opposed to that. They're gonna clip that shit like a motherfucker on TikTok. Yeah, TikTok.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, I'm not gonna lie to you. I kind of expect that this year because it's a little bit of hateration going on. So I'm kind of expecting that, but I'm just praying that they behave. But that's why, but that's why I put those problem categories way at the end of the show. So that if the majority of the people leave it, you know, go before the drama to go down. Don't this is like one of those shows where it's like, please don't stay to the end.
SPEAKER_05:It's like that. That's crazy. Please don't stay to the end.
SPEAKER_09:That's messy.
SPEAKER_01:I also did like I also did like take out some of those categories from this stage because it is such a problematic category, and I threw them on a red carpet.
SPEAKER_10:Which category is that?
SPEAKER_02:Uh you know it's gonna happen.
SPEAKER_01:You know what's going on. I mean, you do see who else I got in the best podcast category, right?
SPEAKER_10:Well, you got um you know um um ugly money is in there. You don't know ugly money? No, yeah, podcast, though. He probably he actually was gonna come on the show, but we couldn't line it up. Oh, yeah. Yeah, ugly money. I mean, shout out to them. I'm not gonna hit up my fault. Unless they really trash, I'm like, it's no fucking way. That's it.
SPEAKER_01:You know? You got Ugly Money, you got Mother N Out Podcast, you got Renata Sow, you got D D Leggett and Core Queen podcast.
SPEAKER_10:It's that it's a lot of heavy hitters. So for North Ross we'd be nominated in that, I'm shit. Fuck, I take that. That's a W fucks. That means we still relevant as motherfucker.
SPEAKER_02:Look who we got on the on the couch. Like, shit. How are we not relevant if we got her here? Absolutely. Was he on their podcast? Who? Was he on their podcast? Who? The ones you just nominated. Was he on their podcast? You said was you on their podcast?
SPEAKER_10:Oh, no. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_08:Okay.
unknown:Leave it right there.
SPEAKER_08:Leave it right there. Leave it right there. Hey, revelation. Let's get a round of applause. Fire girl came in to meet any other.
SPEAKER_01:I don't do this for everybody.
SPEAKER_10:Yeah. So I don't, you know.
SPEAKER_01:I did this for him because our relationship.
SPEAKER_02:We appreciate you for coming.
SPEAKER_01:That's what it's all about. Yes.
SPEAKER_02:What part of New York are you from?
SPEAKER_10:She's from Miami.
SPEAKER_01:God damn it.
SPEAKER_08:Yes.
SPEAKER_02:But on that note, on that note, she got a New York accent. Did you live in New York for a while? That's from a horrible B. Jesus. That ain't no Miami accent.
SPEAKER_01:Yes.
SPEAKER_02:I was setting up the camera. I was setting up the camera. I missed that part.
SPEAKER_01:But I do have a lot of family in New York, so that it probably isn't the thing. That's terrible.
SPEAKER_02:You can't put it on the city.
SPEAKER_01:But I and I will say this, I do appreciate your advice tonight.
SPEAKER_02:Just gave it ism, brother. That was dope.
SPEAKER_10:That was that was great dialogue, right there.
SPEAKER_01:We was kind of going at it, but great dialogue, man. I appreciate it. Yeah.
SPEAKER_10:But yo, man, it's a great episode, man. No bossy podcast. This is September 21st. September 21st, Sunday. You know, we'd be in the building. Um, the ninth annual Carolina Music Video Wars, right? Yes.
SPEAKER_02:Be in there with my light blue, my light blue tugs. Sky blue.
SPEAKER_01:What you wearing, McLean?
SPEAKER_10:Uh we're gonna talk about that off air.
SPEAKER_02:But Joey man is your boy, Syl McLean. Ariola. Ariola. We out. Hey.
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