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SIT DOWN AND LET’S POD I FEAT ASIA SPARKS I RTM PODCAST I SZN O2 | EP 18
Asia Sparks, the vibrant and talented artist known for her role in 106 & Park's Hip Hop Cypher, brings her infectious energy and unique journey to our latest episode. From battling type one diabetes and school bullying to winning Best Female Artist at the Philly Hip Hop Awards, Asia's story is a testament to resilience and strategic choices. Her experiences shine a light on the significance of consistency and the power of gratitude in the music industry. We also get an exclusive sneak peek of her unreleased track "Sit Down," and extend a heartfelt shoutout to her international fans, especially those in Brazil.
As we journey through Asia's musical influences, her millennial perspective with an old soul comes alive. She shares how legends like Teddy Pendergrass, Aretha Franklin, and Wu-Tang Clan molded her artistry. The episode dives into her personal battles and triumphs, highlighting encounters with industry icons and her decision to remain independent from major labels. We explore the shifting dynamics for women in music, celebrating trailblazers like Cardi B, and discuss Asia's strategic use of social media to elevate her career beyond traditional barriers.
Asia's journey is not just about music; it's about finding peace and purpose. Her candid revelations about overcoming addiction and embracing spirituality offer listeners a powerful narrative of personal growth. The episode is packed with wisdom on resilience, self-discovery, and the importance of community, all wrapped up with a fun segment of "Fast Track" where Asia shares her musical preferences. Don't miss out on the exciting news about her upcoming projects and collaborations, and remember to connect with Asia Sparks and show your support across all platforms. This episode is a celebration of perseverance, creativity, and the power of connection.
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Speaker 2:I'm White Boy.
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Speaker 1:Shout out to all my Sparkle Girls and Spark Boys out there hey In the world, pop it.
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Speaker 2:Why?
Speaker 4:Because it's free and if it's free, it's me, you dead.
Speaker 3:If it's free, I might be in that book, you feel me.
Speaker 4:If it's free, it's me.
Speaker 3:With that being said, you know how we carry it. You know what I mean. I want to just say how you doing today Cash. What's going on?
Speaker 1:I'm chilling man. Like I said, I'm at that moment where I got to just stay focused. I can't let nothing dictate what I'm doing and what I see for myself. I'm real focused on that right now. That's the best way I could put it.
Speaker 3:With that being said, I want to say you got a lot ahead of you, bro. You're in a great, you're in a great great position right now. You know I'm saying sometimes stuff going to happen we all got. Just pick our head up and just you know, life be, life, yeah, be life and bro.
Speaker 2:You know I'm saying yeah saying yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:We just always check on each other, make sure everybody good before we actually get to sit down and talk, and that's right. You know what I'm saying, because people be going through stuff, you know you never know yeah, you know what I mean. So how you doing white boy?
Speaker 2:I'm good man, I mean good day got asia next to me. We were ready to get the business, you know. Let let's go.
Speaker 3:How you doing Spark Tasia Spark.
Speaker 4:I feel good, I'm blessed. I'm blessed and highly favored. Yes, thank you, lord. I woke up another day. A lot of people ain't making it here today, but I am alive and I am well. That's what's up. Amen, I am alive and I am well and you know, I'm grateful and I'm humble to be here and I'm full of life. So get ready for the energy, because it's here.
Speaker 3:I'm feeling it. Fire, I'm feeling it.
Speaker 4:Kareem over there laughing.
Speaker 3:Like that's the spark. Yeah, she over there laughing.
Speaker 4:That's the spark.
Speaker 3:I love it. I love it. Yeah, I feel really the most. I feel like we in them pockets, we actually touching them events, we actually carrying it the way we supposed to, we working on being more consistent, it's time to start knocking on them doors. Out here, man, we about to start knocking on doors. Man, really the most podcast me in the building. I mean get used to us. With that being said how y'all want to do this. You want to go ahead and play something for Aja Real quick.
Speaker 4:So I'm on live. Make sure y'all go follow me at SparkleGirlA.
Speaker 3:But somebody told me to shout out.
Speaker 4:Brazil. So shout out to Brazil, shout out Brazil, man Sparkle, they tapped in. I put really the most podcasts, make sure y'all add somebody to add. Add somebody Shout out to Brazil Love you RTMP man Tap in.
Speaker 3:Shout out Brazil.
Speaker 2:Before we get into the the pod, we gonna play a little song.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I wanna hear a song we gonna play. Sit Down A single.
Speaker 4:Sit Down, sit Down by your girl. Asian Spark Exclusive Cause. I ain't drop it yet, but it ain't out yet. Yeah, yeah, okay, okay, okay, that's yeah, okay, okay, that's right, let's see. Uh huh, right now you can rap it On my feet. Every week we downtown them Southwest boys Keep you going out of town Looking for a ride or die In the pack to hold down the girls standing on business. You ain't with us. Sit down, sit down.
Speaker 4:If a girl standing on business, sit down, sit down. If you ain't with us, sit down, sit down sit down. If a girl standing on business sit down, sit down, sit down. What's up, dom Dukes Dom.
Speaker 1:Dukes.
Speaker 4:Dom Dukes, I be with some really pretty, pretty, pretty pretty girls Chasing this bread with some water than a Philly girl, Maybe Jersey girls, Maybe NYC All five girls. I'm a sparker girl. Hey, thanks girl. Yeah, what's up? Dom Yo, we tapped in. Dom came on the show.
Speaker 1:Yeah, dom, dom was on the I was going to show I peaked.
Speaker 4:That's my boy, he funny Make sure y'all go follow Don.
Speaker 2:He was hilarious yeah we got to get Don up there. Don's hilarious. I told him that last time I saw him.
Speaker 3:Got to get him and Marley up there. That's lit.
Speaker 4:That's lit, that's lit. We tapped in, we live. Yeah, y'all All right that was.
Speaker 2:That was Sit Down from Asian Spark Shop. Up here is my mind, up here I'm on the rise.
Speaker 1:If you spend the blizz, we don't miss every time, one of a kind, with me.
Speaker 4:You gonna shine, blowing them a kiss because they wish they was mine. Sit down. Sit down the girl standing on business, sit down, sit down. Yo y'all lit.
Speaker 3:I'm glad they've been going hard for me this whole time. I mean shout to you. Yeah, man, Appreciate it.
Speaker 2:So you know on really the most. We do our due diligence up here and, like you know, I always wanted to sit down and get your story, because it's always. I always like when I see you moving and doing your thing, I see a unique person that's like, that's adamant to go and get what she see for herself, and you been that since you came on the scene. So I just want the people to know. So, asia, where you from, I'm from South Philly.
Speaker 4:I'm from South Philly. I lived in Jersey for a very long time, back in 2012,. This is when I did the BET Hip Hop Cypher. I was getting interviewed by BET and they said well, what's one thing you want to inspire?
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 4:I told them. I said I want to inspire a new generation of hustlers.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 4:And so still, that was back when I was 19, 20, and now I'm 32. And so, yeah, I still want to inspire people to be a new generation of hustlers. Um, I want people to understand that, um, nobody's gonna believe in you like you believe in yourself no question okay, and the most important thing you can do after believing in God is to believe in yourself.
Speaker 4:That's what I believe, right? Um, I feel like I'm one of those people that like, um, oh, I, that's what I always say. I always say that talent will get you there, character will keep you there and that's that's real life like yeah you know, it's a lot of people with a lot of talent, but then they can't maintain those blessings that god do give them so it's like you know, you got to think, like the world that we live in today, you, if the kind of world we live in today, you can't deny that there's a spirit behind everything that we do.
Speaker 4:And so, knowing that I get all these good blessings, all these things come to me, all these uh, people say that I inspire them. I say it's not through me, because I don't even. I'm from south philly, how'd I get here? Right I don't know how I got here right.
Speaker 2:I got a gift so, yeah, like I ain't gonna front all right coming up, coming up in south philly is hard, like damn near the whole room from south philly we. So we understand the circumstances that you probably had to grow up in and it's not. It's not an easy place to come up out of and you know, growing up we be having influences. So I want to talk about that before we get in a in a few things like what were a few of your influences growing up? And I ain't really talk about music, I'm talking about the people inside your house or right outside the door.
Speaker 4:It was my mother. It was my mother, my mother. A lot of people know that my mom was my manager in the first half of my career.
Speaker 2:So you had a momager.
Speaker 4:I did A momager.
Speaker 2:I had a momager.
Speaker 4:But a lot of the times. Like you know a lot of people. I'm one of the oldest. So I have an older sister, but I'm like a year younger than her, so everything OK, so y'all like twins. Yeah, and my mom, you know she came up and so my mom's, like my mom's, struggle it wasn't, I wouldn't say necessarily a struggle. My mom was one of them get money girls so it was like we not gonna struggle.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we, we gonna struggle with hard work, but we not gonna struggle we for damn sure ain't gonna look like we struggling, even if we is.
Speaker 4:Yeah, we ain't going without yeah so, so, um, but even in that it's a lot of struggle, in that it's a lot of like tired nights, it's a lot of like okay, everybody, pull together, do your part so we don't struggle as a family. You know what I'm saying. It ain't about like the captain, it's about everybody. It's too many what they say, it's too many indians, not enough chiefs not in my household.
Speaker 4:It was like all y'all indians, I'm gonna teach y'all how to be a chief right, keep up, get good grades, do what you got to do, stay in school. If you get in trouble, make sure this is how you, this is how you stay out of trouble. But if you do get in trouble, this is how you get out of it. Um, but I, I had a hustling mother. That's dope. I had a hustling mother, I had a praying grandmother and, um and uh, and I had a praying mother too. I had a praying mother too, but my mom, my mom, was in the streets a little bit. You know what I'm saying. And me and my sister, my older sister, we, we grew with my mother. Okay, you know, we grew with my mother and now I see my mother. She's super successful. My mother is super, super successful and she's helped give me the foundation and the tools and the gems that I need to become successful in my own right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's dope.
Speaker 4:So I'm going to just give it all to my mom. And my sister, my sister, my oldest sister that was older than me by a year because she held me down too. It was just me and her.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 4:You know, Strong foundation. It was me and her and we had to follow suit, Like it was just me and her.
Speaker 2:We had little brothers and little sisters shout out to big sis. Yeah, so, so, so, with mom and big and big sis as your influences and and them being like close and you being able to like see, exactly like what it's going to take to be a woman and and be strong and to come up coming out of south philadelphia, south philadelphia, now I mean, give me like a few of your early musical influences, like early on, what was the soundtrack of your life, like in that time.
Speaker 4:Well, keep in mind, I'm 32, so I'm not that old, but I do again I have. I was used to being with my grandmother. My mom was like still young, so she was outside, you know what I mean, but I was with my grandmothers and my cousins on weekends.
Speaker 2:And I'm also.
Speaker 4:I'm a very old soul.
Speaker 2:I'm a very old soul.
Speaker 4:I'm a very old soul. I'm talking about my grandfather in the kitchen cooking chicken and my grandma cleaning up, folding, doing laundry, listening to. Teddy Pendergrass. We listening to Aretha Franklin. Anita Baker I meant to say Anita Baker you know what. I'm saying Chaka Khan.
Speaker 2:That type of stuff, that soul.
Speaker 4:But my mother, you know, we came up listening, like you know, back then it used to be real heavy on like Biggie Method man back in the day. You know Wu-Tang, like a lot of that, a lot of that like old school 90s hip hop stuff. But for me, because I'm so, I'm a millennial, I grew up and I like things that's good for the soul. I used to love Lauryn Hill. I still love Lauryn Hill. I'm like a Lauryn.
Speaker 4:Hill. I still love Lauryn Hill. Okay, I'm like a Lauryn Hill lover. I used to love.
Speaker 2:Eve.
Speaker 4:Okay, eve used to bring oh Eve used to turn us up on weekends.
Speaker 1:You feel me.
Speaker 4:And then I was also like you know when.
Speaker 2:I was a kid.
Speaker 4:It was funny because I got to work. It's funny because he's on the screen right now, but we used to listen to Young Guns and like no Better Love Don't stop giving me your loving. Yes, that's my shit. That bring me back. No Better Love.
Speaker 2:When that came out, I promise you that was my favorite. You couldn't tell me I wasn't a Young Gun back then. You couldn't tell me I didn't want a relationship. I had the whole costume on.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I want a Prada blue. Rock-a-wear-suit white, nike.
Speaker 1:My niggas like her. You know what I mean I wanted that Prada Blue.
Speaker 4:Nah, real talk. Oh, my bad, I didn't see you, but I was in my bag. That's how good music do you though?
Speaker 2:It bring you back to that time. No, in fact, that was a best time. You know what I mean.
Speaker 4:My niggas, like she, be with me through the grind. Girl, you better that top like real wife.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean.
Speaker 4:So I just, you know that type of stuff.
Speaker 2:So like, OK, so back then when you listening to Lauryn.
Speaker 1:Hill. State Property you know what?
Speaker 2:I mean Eve, a little bit of Teddy Pendergrass, a little bit of Anita Baker, like when you when you, when you, that's a good when you're a great mixer. I could be a DJ, so like when you, when you when you listening to these people and you coming up to like you thinking that you would be an entertainer or doing music like, how early on was you like music pop up in your head to for you to go at it?
Speaker 4:well, it's actually pretty funny because, like I always tell people, I'm not gonna say music saved my life now that I'm an adult, but back then music saved my life Like I was a sick kid, so I'm a type one diabetic. That's what this white thing on the back of my arm is.
Speaker 1:It's a sensor to check my blood sugar.
Speaker 4:I've been a diabetic since I was nine, so like I was a double zero, people always used to say that I was anorexic or like bulimic or I had cancer, just because I had eczema everywhere and I was really skinny. So like it's funny how I look now, because I used to be an ugly duckling back in the day, damn so that's how you felt.
Speaker 2:No, that's how they used to call me lollipop in school.
Speaker 4:Real shit like oh, excuse me, I'm trying to stop cursing but they used to call me a lollipop
Speaker 4:head, like you feel me, like you know me, and back, like I laugh at it now but back then, like I laugh at it now but back then. That was mean, like you know, and I never knew why I was so skinny. Come to find out I was sick. So and that alone was a whole other thing, because then I'm like going to school had to hide needles. Like I go to the nurse's office, they like they let somebody see a needle in my bag. They used to call me a drug addict, all types of stuff.
Speaker 4:I remember I was at the Philly Hip Hop Awards. I was at the height of my career, I won Best Female Artist and I went to the bathroom and it was this guy that came, like he was outside the dressing room and it was this guy and I was in the bathroom and I took some insulin and I brought my dancer with me and I was checking my sugar and he was waiting outside the bathroom for me. He was like Asia, let's take a pic. And he like pulled the pic up and was like so I had the deer in headlights, like the Meek Mill's, like. And so he went on Facebook the next day and told everybody I was on heroin sniff coke and I was in the bathroom taking insulin. But I'm just saying like kids is mean, like you know, people are mean.
Speaker 4:And so, like the position that I was in, no, I never thought that I would be doing music. I was alone or I was isolated a lot, and so that caused me to get into my imagination, get into my creativity, write music. Write genuine music, about anger, about um, about loneliness. So a lot of my stuff yeah, I do be writing about lonely stuff but honestly it made me fall in love with hip hop. I was talking to Teddy Riley he a good friend of mine and you know he trying not saying too much but he wanted to sign me. We was talking about working together. Same thing with Cisco from Drew Hill.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and a lot of people were saying yeah, you want to keep name dropping, go ahead. No, I mean we in an interview.
Speaker 4:Ain't nothing to talk about, but me.
Speaker 3:Pop it.
Speaker 4:I was talking to Teddy Riley. I come to find out I think we related. But I was talking to Teddy Riley and I was telling Teddy, like what he was saying to me, like you know, a lot of people were saying to me, like Asia, like people say that hip-hop is dead but they believe that, like you know, you, you like the 2024 lauren hill. A lot of people don't know I can sing. Yeah, a lot of people don't know I'm a grammy writer, so a lot of stuff I ain't even put. I got four albums. I'm sitting on all this stuff that you, you didn't see me do faja these are throwouts.
Speaker 4:I don't, I don't got, I didn't got, I didn't make money off of a few mixtapes you speed, yeah, keep running on go right but listen, let me run.
Speaker 2:I mean, there's plenty to talk about we's plenty to talk about.
Speaker 2:We got plenty to talk about. I got you, I got you All right. So look, look, look, look coming up right and you're a type one diabetes, so you have to deal with that. That's like a whole nother thing outside of you even like thing. And to do music. So, like, even before, the process of you even thinking to do music come about like, like. Was it the process of you even thinking to do music come about like, like. Was it a process of you even maintaining your health?
Speaker 4:to even yeah do the music yeah, a lot of people don't know. That's why I walked away from my deal with kevin lowes. Like I had a deal with kevin lowes he was the vice president of def jam at the time and um, a lot of the things that I would let him know that I was ready for, it always felt like it was like, oh, you're not ready yet, Like all these opportunities come, I'm just gonna take them as they come. Like a lot of people don't know, I was supposed to be on the same Love Hip Hop with Cardi B, season six Me, my mom, my sister. I had a boyfriend at the time. They wanted him on Love Hip Hop. We did it.
Speaker 4:Mona Scott, they wanted to break my music like K Michelle. Mona Scott had a meeting with Kev and then all of a sudden everything didn't go through and so at the time I'm like, damn, I'm a diabetic. I got to take care of all these people. I got five dancers, I got a live band. We got live shows. Every other week Just flew to California to do a 106 BET hip hop site, for the fly back to open up a little camp and I'm paying these people out of pocket or out of the money that I make from my shows and I'm moving like a whole staff independently.
Speaker 4:And so it got to that point where it was like kinda like Summer Walker. They said they had to pay her to stop working. Like that was me like and I found myself being tired. I went to nursing school. I graduated nursing school. I was in nursing school when I was doing 106 in park. I was studying for my NCLEX while I was on my way to 106 in park back in the day and, like you know, a lot of people don't know like school is expensive to. I'm still paying on my student loans. You feel me like?
Speaker 3:Like real red light really went to nursing school. Let's go a little bit before that, though, cuz I want to talk about, like how you really like alright, cuz, like it's a lot boy.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I'm sorry. No, it's cool, we got you, I got you I ain't finna move small though, but it is a lot, it's heavy.
Speaker 2:I got you. I got you, though, you gonna handle it All right. So, look, you tore the game up in a good 10-year span. You had this shit in the chokehold, and we gonna get into that right now, like all right, so and that, and that time you probably like build your name up to to be like one of the hottest females to come up out of philly, and in the midst of you doing that, you landed yourself a deal, right, or or the management, uh it was a management man.
Speaker 2:I was independent the whole time, that's great Management deal with Kevin Louse, yeah, all right. So before all of that, right, I want to talk about like the BET freestyle, like how'd you even get to that, the Faja, let's get to that, let's get to these like pinnacle moments of your career that had that kind of shaped you to even get the management deal All right, smooth.
Speaker 4:So, like back in the day, everybody used to like this is right, before like social media really started to take off and like twitter and I had, um, I had this song. I could always rap, right, but like I would go in and out of studios and people didn't want me there because I was a woman. It was real weird. And then I did this song, um, and I rapped it, and back then we was with wale on tour with the Ambitious Girls, right, we was just because, again, I'm surrounded by a bunch of women, so we always just come through with a bunch of women and I play my song Sparkle Girl, cypher for Wale, and Wale gave me the idea for the music video and he was like you should get a bunch of girls with different shirts on everybody with the same shirt on the. You always out with the girls, like. So we shot the video, um, then, like 24 hours, I just went ham, it was like 17 hours, 17 hours. I went ham, tweeting everybody tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet.
Speaker 4:And then 50 cent had wrote me back and said this is nice and then next, you know, all the 50 cent fans jumped on me right so this was in a matter of 20 well, 17 hours, but then when I woke up the next morning, I found out that 50 cent had reposted it, then fat joe, then trina. It was like a. It was like a chain reaction of like, and I can't take none of the credit for it had to be god how it happened. It was like 24 hours, 24 hours, and then um, after that, um, you know, I did this competition for Powerhouse. It was me and a couple other women. Now her name is Tierra Whack. She used to go by Dope Dizzle.
Speaker 2:That's my girl, though I knew her when she was like 15.
Speaker 4:Super dope, we doing shows and ain't nobody in the crowd type. You know, what I mean. Now. We on tour, we doing stuff, and you know people in the crowd.
Speaker 2:So it feels good.
Speaker 4:I love to hear a wig, but it used to be me, her and and, and it would be a lot of other females that that's coming up in the game. And so what was? What was crazy was Charlie Mac, my mom, my mom at the time oh, I saw, I won powerhouse. I did powerhouse. I got off the stage at powerhouse, charlie Mac, and I did powerhouse. I got off the stage at powerhouse, charlie Mack, and shout out to Charlie Mack, man, I keep telling my mom I sit down with my mom, charlie, if you listen to this, come help me, manage me. Come help me manage.
Speaker 3:Shout out Charlie Mack. Man Shout out.
Speaker 4:Charlie Mack, because it was crazy, because it was always like we was always side by side, but Charlie Mack always helped me.
Speaker 3:Tell me something good about Charlie Mack.
Speaker 4:Tell me something good about Charlie Mack. Charlie Mack always helped me. Charlie Mack was always the one. He always believed in me and it was crazy. He'd be like yo, asia should be doing a BET Hip Hop Cypher Call, asia should be doing this Call. It'd be like that, just on the strength. That's the reason why I was doing the BET Hip Hop Cypher. He's like yo tell Kevin to call BET Hip Hop Cypher.
Speaker 4:Because me and my mom was learning as we went along. We had a book from Mick Jagger Mick Jagger Manager called Everything you Need to Know About the Music Business. I promise you get it. It'll help you 100%. It'll help you make money. It'll help you make money on publishing.
Speaker 3:I agree.
Speaker 4:Make money off your songs. How you making money. How much managers should get? Give it to them again Everything you need to know about the music industry, and it's by Mick Jagger's manager. That's the best thing, and I'm not getting paid for it.
Speaker 3:I just got it. I forget who else we was talking to. They also brought that book up Donnie C, donnie C.
Speaker 4:Yeah, go get that book. And I used that book and me and my mom read it and we highlight it and as we kept going along in our careers, people don't even know I had to deal with Meek Mill back in the day on the table. Walked off from that respectfully.
Speaker 2:You walked away from a few deals.
Speaker 4:A lot of deals, a lot of deals, and even still to this day. It's funny because I've been getting calls from, like Def Jam, interschool, but but a lot of people don't. I can't say too much. I can't say too much but but I, but I like the independent, me I don't want, I don't even think that I want a label, and they know it. They know it, so they know when they come for me they gotta give me a label deal, because they know that how I'm coming right. Even even people have people reaching out to me asking me to manage them and I'm like, well, damn, like I gotta manage you, then I gotta myself. A lot of people don't know, you know I've been doing, I've been doing acting, movie production and films for the last 10 years and I don't have an agent.
Speaker 4:I don't have an agent.
Speaker 2:I've done so you land, you landed, you landed every role you ever acted and you landed it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, either either I audition or I, either I did.
Speaker 4:Remember I told you talent to get you there. Character, keep you there. No question, I landed a lot of those roles from my music. But um, but I'm also when I show up like if you, if you're in the acting world in Philly, you know everything is small. So like um, for me it was like I did extra work on Creed 1. They called me back um because I was so pleasant on Creed 1. For Creed 2, you didn't. You can you see me in Creeded one? But I had short hair. Creed two I was just in there working with felicia rashad. That was like my tv mom back in the day. So for me I was, I was, I was, uh, working with felicia rashad and sylvester stallone. I was the one and she probably gonna deny it we got our own story about this, but I was the one that taught tessa thompson how to say joan. So, but we got our own story, though, with the Michael B Jordan and all that.
Speaker 2:We got.
Speaker 4:We got our own story about that but like you know, but I like Tessa, that's my girl but um, and shout out to Michael B too. Then, from there, those same people everybody's so busy, worried about this main stars, they need to be worried about the people that's walking around with the walkie talkies on their hips and everybody union there and those people know when the next job is. So I did Creed 1, creed 2. From there, they called me to do Netflix Unbreakable, kimmy Schmidt. From there they called me to do Made in Chinatown with the Sopranos and the cast of Kung Fu Hustle. Then from there, those same people, like, a year later went by, got in good with, like Raymond Barry from Flubber and all them. They, like my uncles, italian uncles, got in from them. And then those same people hey.
Speaker 4:Asia HBO. I'm break uh pause with Sam Jay. They're doing a show Come through, come be in it. I just did a movie with Amari Hardwick. I played a cop, but it's called Fells High.
Speaker 3:Oh.
Speaker 4:I did another film I just produced another movie.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Moop is in that movie?
Speaker 1:yeah, yep, uh, tj adams uh a lot of people was cashing that, no, no uh, I wanted to ask you something, though, like because you was popping it, I had to just let you know you can't stop it.
Speaker 3:I had to let you pop it I promise, so there's a lot of.
Speaker 1:There's people out here that you know ain't even going through certain adversity and they having a hard time, like chasing a dream or getting things done. And you, as a person who going through something, you can't even control it, since you was nine years old you can't even control what you're going through, but you're still pushing through to do what you want and what you want to accomplish. You're doing it. You know what I'm saying. So I want you to explain some of the things like your strategies and your methods of pushing through and still getting things done, because people might want to hear it. It's somebody going through stuff like that right now that's going to watch this interview. You know what I'm saying, so what's some of the things that you do to like?
Speaker 4:I know I'm going through this, but I got to keep pushing like Okay, well, first of all, thank you for your, for your, for your consideration. Thank you for listening to that, because a lot of people don't understand when you're in a position of that they don't understand that, the responsibility that it comes with um.
Speaker 4:But I'm gonna just say this a method of mine is always prayer. I don't care what I do, I don't care what I go through, I gotta pray. I don't care, I gotta stay grounded in my spiritual faith. I have to because without that it would be no more redemption. This I'm in my spiritual faith. I have to Because without that it would be no more redemption.
Speaker 4:I'm in my redemption season. Everything that I'm doing, like I lost it all and I'm getting it back. But I'm like, how am I getting it back? And everything working backwards. That's God, that's Christ, thank you. Everything is working backwards and I ain't got no, I ain't got no. But what I'm doing is sometimes you got to cooperate. I believe I'm a full believer in the holy spirit. You gotta cooperate with the holy spirit. Everything around you will tell you what you need to do. Yeah, you tired you, you exhausted. Yeah, maybe you need to get some sleep, but, most importantly, maybe you need to prioritize your spiritual life yeah what you, what you, what you driving your energy into yeah what voices you listening to.
Speaker 4:I'm like, remember I told you I'm isolated a lot. So that's been happening since I was nine. I was always a loner. I was like isolating a lot. Don't underestimate the power of isolating being still hearing God voice, please don't underestimate it. And I still be having moments. I'm like all right, lord, we going into isolation again. Excuse me, damn Damn we going back into isolation. I be lonely Cause that's the hardest thing is to deal with your own stuff.
Speaker 1:Like I gotta use it.
Speaker 4:I gotta use my analogy, forgive me. I always say when you go through things, this is my analogy. When I go through things, it's like my foot is stuck in shit and I can't move and you just don't know which way to go. You just lost. And then when you decide, I don't want to live like this, no more. You got to decide for yourself. You don't want to live like this. You got to decide for yourself.
Speaker 4:I'm not going to be a victim. I'm going to be a victor. I'm not going to be a victim. I'm not going to allow what the world tried to do to me to kill, steal and destroy my life. You got to protect that with everything that you have. And that's why, right now, this mission right here, is personal. It it's personal. Every morning I wake up, I be like you know what you already know on your day to day. You know people going to try to cause I still got it like you know a nine to five On your day to day people going to try to destroy you On your day to day. They're going to try to put you down On a day to day. They're going to make me feel small when I'm out here just trying to do my best.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know that that's the people. For you, though, yeah, that's the people.
Speaker 4:But if you're not prioritizing if you really got to prioritize that, though, you got to prioritize protecting your gift Facts and was at the top I'm talking about picture next to Beyonce and Jay-Z and then vroom at the bottom with nothing. So look, had to grow that all back, so real quick. What I wanted to tell y'all is prioritize God. But most importantly, I'm going to tell you something Be careful. Watch the words you feed yourself. Even if you got, you make it, tell yourself that you are a winner, tell yourself that you are succeeding and I know sometimes it's easier said than done, because some days I don't feel like that. Some days I don't feel like that, but you got to surround yourself with people that believe in you, even if it's one person, even if it's one person that feeds you life. Be mindful of the people that feed you life when you ain't got much Right, because some people are Some people still around?
Speaker 2:That's all I'm going to say. You deep, I like you.
Speaker 2:I'm so deep you be kicking it, but listen. So look what I noticed right as you coming out and you moving through your career that you embrace your sexuality. And you know, like you don't mind showing a little skin on camera. And like I know, like by you saying, like you was the ugly duckling growing up, like I really wouldn't thought, like you said we wouldn't have thought that because, like, when we see you, you always look beautiful, like talk, talk about embracing your sexuality, like being one of those entertainers or rappers that embrace your sexuality, all right.
Speaker 4:Well, I've been trying to get a little better at that, because a lot of people don't know. For the last three years I've been celibate For real, for real, for real. So lately it's been again. It's been a battle between my flesh and my spirit. And is it funny? Is that funny why?
Speaker 3:is it so funny? I'm telling the truth, it's just some real deep.
Speaker 2:But I know like fuck no three years.
Speaker 4:That's a long time.
Speaker 2:No, it's just like that he, he hears stuff like that fuck no, three years, that's a long time no, it's not a long time when you're looking at your options.
Speaker 4:Okay, it's not a long time when you're looking at your options. It's not a long time when you work, when you work that hard to find your worth and become like real right it's not that hard when you've worked very hard to become the woman that you, or the woman or the man that you are, and you realize that the reason why you've lost that person was because you got distracted by loving the wrong person. Ugh.
Speaker 3:Come on, Karima, you over here, I hear you uh-huh Like come on, Some people don't realize that stuff until it's like later in life.
Speaker 4:It goes for both ways.
Speaker 3:No, both ways though You're hitting it on the nose. So I feel like you got to know when it's time to readjust yourself.
Speaker 4:Or rebrand.
Speaker 3:Rebrand, however you want to put it.
Speaker 4:And this is why I made a vow, this is why I stopped. I transitioned from doing film to music Because, once I realized that a lot of people wanted to give me sexual we call them honeypot roles, I decided you know what, asia, you, you gotta stop doing movies now, because now they're exploiting you and do things. Take your power back, take your power back and do things in your own way. And so even now for me, like back then, even, like you know, at that time, when you see me with some clothes on, whatever I'm, so I model, like I model for swim week. I ran for Miss USA this year, for Miss New Jersey. I was a state finalist for Miss New Jersey and we have swimwear competitions.
Speaker 4:You know what I mean. Like butt, cheeks be out, tits be out, and so I don't think that there's nothing wrong with showing yourself, but I have to respect the fact. On Sundays, like, I have to still keep my faith and respect the Sabbath, and like cover myself up. And then, as I get older, I'm like I start to want keep my faith and respect the Sabbath and like cover myself up. And then, as I get older, I'm like I start to have one, to have children. Now, like you know, slowing down a little bit, I kind of want to slow down. When you've lived a fast life, like me, it's like you start to value the little things. You start to value the slow things, like I used to be outside at a very young age. And now it's like you know, I kind of just I don't want to, no offense, like respect, all respect, all respect, but I don't want to be pregnant on stage, happen to have thing to work to make my money and make my ends meet.
Speaker 3:I kind of just want to be pregnant with my feet up and walking on my plush carpet and just like money to like say I'm doing this though, damn, I'm a rapper right now. You just was rapping with the elites. You just had Speedo. Who else was in that room? It was four other elite rappers.
Speaker 2:It was.
Speaker 3:Dice Raw.
Speaker 2:Dice Raw Vodka, speedo Vodka, what?
Speaker 3:And you rapping in a cypher with them. Type of dudes. I was the only female in that one, that's what I'm saying, Like how it feel to even know, like you in that room, as a rapper.
Speaker 4:I felt good because of all the flowers. I felt good because of all the flowers. It wasn't like they was just like. I get a lot of flowers everywhere I go.
Speaker 2:If you don't know, my face.
Speaker 4:You know my name.
Speaker 2:So you dope, so you're a dope individual. You're a dope, so that's God given. So at the end of the day, you just gotta embrace what God gave you and push that. See like we get into the business and sometimes we get sidetracked by these devices and what people say, but at the end of the day it's all about how you feel and what you really think, like what people say those small celebrations count too, man, but you celebrate yourself.
Speaker 2:Yeah, celebrate yourself I did that, I did that, I did that and I'm doing that, and I did it for myself right.
Speaker 3:You see what I'm saying. Like you just said some things that I know rappers in this city wish they could.
Speaker 2:Be no, you accomplished it like you, accomplished, accomplish things that I watch rappers try to accomplish for 20 years, seriously, seriously, like you, it's like you do it easily. So for so, like, like you got it is there, acknowledge it and and and push it to the world. And like the best way of doing that is giving them the best feeling. And, like you know, I did that for me and it feel good. When I did it, it felt good. You know what I mean.
Speaker 4:To God be the glory yeah.
Speaker 2:All the time.
Speaker 4:And another thing is you can't really say you chosen if you ain't never questioned the calling on your life, if you ain't never questioned it and say, dang, why did I do this? I had a moment like that and it was crazy because my mom I used to quit all the time. Back in the day I quit.
Speaker 3:It was crazy because my mom I used to quit all the time back in the day I quit.
Speaker 4:This is too hard, I quit. Yeah, this is the stuff.
Speaker 3:I want here right here.
Speaker 4:So my mom was like you better make a choice. You better make a choice because you can't just keep going and quitting, because I'm helping you and I'm putting money behind you. You ain't going to play with my money, yeah, mom.
Speaker 3:Dukes wasn't playing.
Speaker 4:You going to quit or to it.
Speaker 4:I'm gonna stick to it and then now so now but years later I tell people yeah, I was crazy, I'm a little bit, it's a little, it has to be a little bit of insanity. Because if you see all that I've sacrificed, meaning like I don't have children, you know that's something that I really want. I say I don't have, I'm not a mother, but I'm a mother of many and and god has blessed me with that like I got a citation from the city of philadelphia, um, for my community service and my dedication to the youth. I'm more of a big sister. That's the only reason why I ran for Miss USA is so I can be able to all of my initiatives and all of the funding that I was putting. I've done a lot of work with the Horticultural Society.
Speaker 4:A lot of people don't know. When Walter Wallace got killed, I brought in like 100,000 people. I had Black Lives Matter and Until Freedom with Samika Maury. They was all I. I had Black Lives Matter and Until Freedom with Samika Mowry. I was in the middle. Like who invited all these people into the city? And they like this girl, asia Sparks. Like who is this girl, asia Sparks? I'm on the phone with people, certain people, government people and they like who is this girl that brought all these people into the city, all on a call to action. And so I wear a lot of hats. And I said you know what, I'm a follower of Christ. And I said you know, I got to stop trying to destroy everything. I just need to start in the word it says you know, I'm not here to destroy, I'm here to fulfill. And so I became. I became that and I said you know, I'm a rough from this USA, I don't want to destroy nothing, I just want to fulfill I want to fulfill whatever, whatever the purpose or whatever callings on my life.
Speaker 4:That clearly is something, because I, even when I quit and I tried to do a regular job, like I for real I quit, I tried to have a regular job going to nine to five. It did not work. God was like oh you think you're gonna run?
Speaker 2:get over here, get back to it, and it was like that.
Speaker 4:It'd be really like that it'd be like that and he'll put your back up against a wall where you're kind of forced to do it make your decision and ain't gonna make no decision with god. It's like either you gonna do it or life gonna get real hard, and I didn't want my life hard. I'm like all right this is hard, but life without it is way harder. This is hard, this career is hard. I might not have everything that I want. This career is mad hard, but life without it is harder.
Speaker 2:Tell me um, no, tell me how I was uh working with uh Neve Buck.
Speaker 4:Oh, that's my brother, that's my brother, I got a banger.
Speaker 2:That's like a forever banger. A jack in a box that jack in a box is a forever banger.
Speaker 4:Neve, ne, the music stuff. You feel me Like. Neif is like my brother. Um, we, we we've had. I gotta send you some pictures too, but we on my birthday, my 28th birthday, I was like I just want to feel young again. I didn't invite it like 50 people to six flags. Neif had came out, neif always coming to me like if I'm, if I got a premiere and I might do something intimate at my house with all my family, neif will come through. That's my brother, for real. That's my brother and I'm just really like, just really appreciative. He actually hit me up to do Jack in the Box.
Speaker 4:He like you know I need this voice on Jack in the Box and I need you to put your thing on there or whatever, when you go into the studio. So I told him I'm at the studio now Because I used to stay there and he hit me up and that's probably one of Listen.
Speaker 2:I told you off camera. I'm thorough, so I'll tell you on camera. This is really the moose that's your pocket. Yeah, what the I'm telling you that Jack in the Box pocket Baby. My number don't mean you get in this box. That's your pocket.
Speaker 4:Let me get a new watch couple, Chanel bags and a full lift box. My ass sitting right beneath the gym doing squats.
Speaker 2:I got a Jack in the Box. I'm telling you, jack in the Box, that's just that pocket for you. Philly's got that record and that's like what nine, 10 years ago. Look at what they talk about now.
Speaker 4:Yeah, they still love that record.
Speaker 2:Like look at the sexy reds, the glues, the green, and I ain't gonna lie, that's where my next question was coming in at.
Speaker 1:Like you know, hip hop 50 years old. You know what I'm saying. Ever since it was created, for a long time it'd be like they only let one or two women in. It wouldn't be never a time where Rob.
Speaker 2:Markman, Everybody hitting the lid, all the women.
Speaker 1:Rob Markman. It ain't the time where they let more than three to four women be at the top. All the women is at the top, like all the women. That's in the game.
Speaker 2:They, they the ones running it.
Speaker 1:So I was going to ask you like what you think changed, like with that, like what you, what you think as a woman, change for it to be like, y'all get took more serious, uh, and y'all able to like outdo the men, like, like um, it was.
Speaker 4:It was a lot that changed. I think the mindset, first of all the, the mindsets of the women that were on top. Back then it was like nah, I can't share this it wasn't just like it wasn't just like the industry, cause it was the industry, but some of them women didn't want to share.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Until some, until some women made them share um, a lot of that and I, I ain't gonna lie, I will give uh, I'm going to give Cardi B the credit for that. I respect Cardi B that much.
Speaker 1:Damn, I respect Cardi B that much.
Speaker 4:Damn not Nicki. No, nothing against Nicki. I give Cardi B that. That's why Cardi B gets so much respect and she ain't even got to push out that much music Because, cardi, you notice, every person that get on Cardi B put up like Cardi B will hop on any female track, glorilla, lotto, like she. You know. And for so long I'm not gonna say, I'm not gonna say nikki's, not that either, nikki, nikki, nikki, show love. But what I what I will say is is that it took, it took cardi b. It took cardi b to really push through the game and really she dealt with a brunette, though she did, she dealt with a brunette, the brunette stuff, and that's what they want.
Speaker 4:You know, as some of these labels, they'll put you up against certain people. They'll still sit you there in the rooms. I've been in plenty of them. They'll sit you there in the rooms. I've been in plenty of them. They'll sit you there in the room and be like, oh, she might got a chance at running against her. That's how they come. It can only be one. That's how they come. I've been in those rooms and I hated that. I absolutely hated that. I've been in those rooms.
Speaker 4:I don't like it and they expect it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I don't like it, so I ain't going to hold you right. You said something earlier about songwriting. You know, is you heavy in that field, or it was just like a couple?
Speaker 4:Real heavy.
Speaker 1:Real, heavy Real heavy.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I'm a writer for Grammy Phi. With the Grammy Foundation, it's like they got different associations, so they got Grammy Chi, grammy Phi, grammy Chi, like California, and so I've been a part of Grammy Phi since 2012,. I believe.
Speaker 3:How you go about doing something like that.
Speaker 4:Oh, they got the office right down there by Rec Philly right there downtown. You go up in there and you tell them that you want to write, and you show them I got invited. I don't know the process, but if you go on their website Grammy, grammy Association, grammy-fi you go and you pay your dues, and I spoke on a lot of Grammy panels with Jalo Beatz and Pop Winslow. Pop Winslow, I did that. That was a long time ago, though, but I used to do that too. I'm looking at the screen, y'all. This is the John 16 of Better Idea with Sue Surf.
Speaker 3:Jack Thriller. That's what I'm saying. You rap with a lot of elite rappers.
Speaker 4:That's what it is Jack Thriller, my guy. We just did the Reloaded John.
Speaker 2:That's what I'm saying, Listen with everything that you did in your career. That's far right. Most of it has been independent.
Speaker 4:Everything has been independent. Everything, everything, so like Including my acting, I don't have an agent.
Speaker 2:So like moving forward, god's word Moving forward out here, like that's how you continue to want to move as independent, I think so, I think so, I think so.
Speaker 3:What would it take for you to sit down with somebody?
Speaker 4:A lot of money.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Because you're not just buying a rapper, you're buying a singer, you're buying a songwriter, you're buying a movie director, a movie producer, a principal actress, and you're buying a, a, a woman with a personal brand, a humanitarian side, someone who has ran for miss usa. You're buying someone who not only does acting, but also can film her own movies in 2020, in 2020, back when covid happened, when everybody was inside, I was outside, and so we were filming movies. That's one thing, because they would stick that thing up your nose every time you would film a movie. So I was working, and I was kind of grateful for COVID, because I felt like the world was moving so fast and I was moving slow, and I was like Lord, I need to catch up to the world, and he slowed it right on down. They was like Lord, I need to catch up to the world, and he slowed it right on down. They was inside. I was outside working. Yeah, oh, this is my chance, I'm out, I'm out, I'm running fast, fast, fast.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I did like five movies during COVID, damn, and so what the heck was I saying, though? But what I wanted to say was is that, like, all I gotta do is catch the right play I got. I got nine scripts that I'm currently writing um. I got a lot of mentors, too, um the executive producer upon. I used to live in california. I did.
Speaker 3:I did a show called double cross um I was pretty much was talking about like how much it'll take you to sit down yeah, I know, but I'm gonna tell you why you did a lot so I did a show called double cross Cross.
Speaker 4:It was the number one show on All Black Network and WE tv and it's out. Now it's on season three, episode 11. So doing Double Cross, doing that, I met a lot of people. I met Preston Whitmore he was the director and the writer of this Christmas, one of the executive producer of Punk Bezo Shout out to him, he owns Bob Marley Kent papers and billionaire hemp ribs. And then Marcus Polk. Marcus Polk was my ex-boyfriend. Oh Damn, did I really tell everybody?
Speaker 4:But, sorry more and I just didn't want to go to Arizona like that was my, that was my ex-boyfriend who miles, the airs, the mouse, he don't care. He wanted to marry me, so I don't care, so I don't care. He know what time it is. I could call him right now he going to pick up. He know what time it is, but that's my boy, though.
Speaker 1:We past that stage Like that's my ace.
Speaker 4:So what I'm saying is these are the people that I like learned under. Then I went to go sit down with Spike Lee and I sat with Spike Lee and I gave them all of my like you know my ideas and not gave it to them, but I sat down with them knowing that I have 50 Cent Like, knowing that I know 50 Cent and that I can get to 50 Cent, like it's nothing With all of these things that I'm building and producing. I'm saying do I need a label? No, I don't. All I got to do Spike Lee told me if you got 25,000, you can shoot your movie and as long as you got one star, you can sell it for 3.5 to 5.5 million dollars.
Speaker 4:Not to mention we're not talking about movies, though let's talk about, because that's a harder game, but let's talk about TV shows. You could take a nobody and make it, make them famous If it's a good script. Difference is, if Spike Lee tells me I could take 25,000, make 2.5 to $5.5 million, why would I need a label? Correct, oops, I don't. I got my own brand. I have multiple businesses. I got a party rental business. I got an event business.
Speaker 3:I own two nursing agencies, family businesses. So you got to back yourself yourself.
Speaker 4:for real, for real, not really though, because as much as I'm trying to do, as much, like Biggie said, more money, more problems.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Way more problems than it is money.
Speaker 2:You hear me.
Speaker 4:Way more problems than it is money. So that's, but again you got to move with the times.
Speaker 3:When.
Speaker 4:COVID happened and everybody had a restaurant. Everybody's shit shut down and ain't nobody have no other way. We from South Philly, what do you do? You find another hustle.
Speaker 2:Pivot.
Speaker 4:If my business isn't doing well with certain things, what do you do? Pivot, you take it and you do something different with it. You got to know the times that you in and when you start to see a shift, and my mom told me this if you start to see a shift in your business, you need to find another avenue in that same business or how you can do it you go from dining in to deliveries.
Speaker 4:Okay, you feel me okay so, so, yeah, I'm not, I'm not rich. You feel me and who's to say but I not rich? But at the end of the day, I am rich because my mindset I'm not rich, but I'll never be broke, right, you feel what I'm saying? I'm not rich, but I'll never be broke. That's why we say we rich, we not rich, but we'll never be broke.
Speaker 3:What's that line you be saying, white boy, I'm rich already. We just short on cash. There we go.
Speaker 4:I'm not rich, but I'll never be broke. I'm definitely wealthy, though. I'm definitely wealthy yeah.
Speaker 1:Definitely I ain't going to man, like I always say man, black woman is a beautiful thing. You feel me? Because like even the stuff y'all go through on a daily basis, like, for example, like you being in the music industry, the stuff that women go through in the music industry and the actor industry, and then y'all got to come outside and face adversity, like everywhere, like from every angle. You know women, period, face it, but black women it's just a little more and we know why. But for you to be able to like, do that and have a catalog you have and song write and play a movie, then you might be looking at it a different way because it's you doing it yeah, but you tremendous for real.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's shit on another level though, because a lot of people have problems doing one thing you feel me.
Speaker 1:Facts. So it's like you doing all that, so, like we, we don't go unnoticed with us, because we, we know certain stuff and we think a certain way. People don't think. But with that being said, though, um it's hard.
Speaker 4:Yo pay attention to hard work. No, it's hard. Yeah, it's hard and um some days.
Speaker 1:I'm at the point of exhaustion.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's hard, yeah, it's hard, and some days I'm at the point of exhaustion.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:It's hard, so what keep you going?
Speaker 2:God.
Speaker 4:God and I promise you that I'm in my Bible multiple times a day. I go to church three times a week. I'm an usher at church, not because I'm religious, but that's how much I love God. That's how much I love God, I love God. I love God so much.
Speaker 4:I love him so much I love God, I don't love him for the things that he's done for me. I love God Because when everybody left me for dead, that's why I said in generational curses I don't know if y'all seen that, jordan, I was like all those generational curses. Tell me, was it worth it breaking down your sons and daughters? That won't make them perfect. Wanting them to be you instead of their own person got them following the leader, idolizing worship on the path to destruction, blind, leading the blind. We trust in ourselves instead of trusting god. We neglect our health, wealth, self and then we die, taking our dreams with us because we didn't try. And even if we did, the hurt still ain't subside. Because every time we needed help we got pushed to the side. And and every time I vented, you just spread it and lied, told the truth false, admitted on the phone. I cried, I had to face my fears. The shame made me hide. I was feeling insecure from all your names and smiles, told me to grow up, but I grew up in denial. I thought love would lift my spirits, but it broke me down. I got creative. No one hears it. I gave up my sound Head down and no one noticed. I stopped coming around, depressed, stressed, upset, wasn't even my style, but they left me for dead. I'm alive.
Speaker 4:Underground Strongholds had me bound, but I'm free from it now, sobered up. Dirt was stuck past her round and round like a merry-go-round, but the light I found. I jumped into that water purposely trying to drown, but Christ picked me up and then gave me my crown. I done, learned so many lessons, sermons on the mounts. It was death to my flesh. I walk in spirit now. Now I got so many blessings I can't even count, don't listen to the chatter because I block them out, my pockets getting fatter and I like my pounds and they got no guidance, just like Chris Brown. But I see right through them like an ultrasound.
Speaker 4:Now I got my sound back from the impound just to announce that hurt people, hurt people can't go it out, but healing is necessary. In your house, my head facing north, so we don't go down south. A family who pray together, stay together. A family who face the weather, hell of heaven. Seek wisdom in the word or from this letter. If we could see through it, we'd be much better. Those generational curses, tell me, was it worth it? I ain't gonna keep on going, but I got. I got four albums and a lot of the things that people see. They. They see the singles of me turning up and everything just because I want to see what people into. But I gotta. I got albums where I'm discussing that pain, the pain that I went through, the healing that I went through, what it took for me to go through that Right and God got me through that and I don't think of anything else.
Speaker 4:You know how hard it was to sober up for me Like I'm with someone that was like I'm at South by Southwest.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:And you know.
Speaker 1:Let's talk about it.
Speaker 4:You know drinking drugs, all of that Right and I'm not ashamed of it no more. Thank you, Christ, he took my shame away. I can talk about it now somebody. People come to me all the time like how you do it right how you sober up.
Speaker 4:You know how many people I know that can't function without it. I know because I was one of them. Hello, I was dependent on it. You know what I mean. Like I was, I couldn't function, I would snap out, I couldn't. I couldn't deal with real, I couldn't deal with real life. I couldn't deal with real life stuff because of my affliction. And we all go through it. And now that I'm sober I realize I was doing it for a reason. I'm not just smoking because it feel good to me. I'm doing it for a reason. I'm not just drinking because it feel good to me. I'm doing it for a reason why. So I got down with it. I said God, what we doing. He said you want what I got for you? Give it up. He ain't take it from me. He said give it up. And I'm like all right, I promise it's the last one. He like got my Bible I'm top of smoking, bible flip. You. Make a promise to god. You make you better. Make sure you keep doing it.
Speaker 1:Oh, my goodness god is listening.
Speaker 4:He's watching no real rap like people think it's spooky, but it's spiritual, real rap. And so for me y'all know how hard that was that was the hardest thing I ever had to do, besides walking with christ. That was the hardest thing I ever had to do was give up smoking, give up drinking, because I've depended on it. I depended on it so much so those false idols, I depended on that yeah, and now and now look at me I got my health back.
Speaker 4:I got my youth back strong people were saying I was looking old you know what I mean like I'm handling.
Speaker 4:I'm handling conflict in a, in a, in an adult, mature way. It's like I'm in a, I'm in a storm, but I'm in a storm, but how I get so much peace in the storm. I call this season singing and dancing in the rain. Singing and dancing in the storm because you, looking at me, like, oh, tremendous, tremendous, oh, look at all these blessings, but y'all don't even know, right now, where I'm sitting. I'm in a storm, I go, I'm under, I'm under the care of a cardiologist right now, my health is taking its toll and he's, they saying because because I, I, you know, you, you've worked your heart to exhaustion, heartbreak. Damn, that's god, though, because still, in the midst of it all, I don't look like my affliction, yeah, yeah, and still got peace, yeah, and still hungry, yeah, and still going for it. Like, but I, but that, I had to do the work. I had to do the work, you know in the hardest thing I ever had to do.
Speaker 3:I said the most likely life in it is.
Speaker 2:Oh my goodness, I'm going to keep it real with you, Like.
Speaker 1:and one thing I do appreciate you coming up here and being vulnerable and then expressing and open and expressing how you feel, because you know, like them type of words and that type of energy that you're putting out helps people Like I done. Had multiple people come to me about and they opened up about certain things. I had somebody come to me and tell me how it was that, how it was real, or they needed to hear that, or damn, I ain't even look at it like that now. I'm looking at it like that. So I always, I always um be rooting for when artists, comedians, whatever, come up here and be vulnerable and then not only only that tell us how they could all. Right, I'm going through this, but I did that and now I'm cool. You feel what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:So, I appreciate you for that.
Speaker 4:And Maruka, let me say this too Don't let nobody stunt your growth. I'm not coming here in no judgment. I'm telling you what saved me. I'm telling y'all I don't think weed smoking is a bad thing. I just don't. I'm sorry, but I tell my friends all the time whatever you do more than giving God the glory, that's where it's coming at you, feel me. For me, it was like I was getting out of hand.
Speaker 1:I was getting out of hand.
Speaker 4:I'm talking about out of hand with my, with my smoking. I was getting out of hand with my drinking. And so, just because I come, come to y'all, sober and growth, don't let nobody stunt your growth, even if I'm telling y'all where I'm at, don't I? I hate. Comparison is the killer of all success. Compare, if you want to stop from progressing, start comparing yourself. Oh, this person walking with god more. Nah, I'll be telling all my friends, my friends, be coming to church, smiling like weed, listen, listen, you all right, you all right. Don't be judging them either. Like, don't be judging me over there, shirley. You mean like, let them let them come to church too, because I love the Lord and it's a, it's a work. It's a work that you, that you. I got saved, I got baptized. I always been saved, but I got baptized and I was still doing. I was still doing my thing. I was still. I was still drinking. I'm still at the clubs. I'm still in the clubs now.
Speaker 4:I'm still in the club but, I don't drink, I don't smoke and I can get right up the next morning, go right to church, I can get right up and go to work and I'm but I'm still there and I'm still proclaiming the name of the lord and I'm still there, and I'm still there and I'm not denying my faith and I don't think there's nothing wrong with it. I'm not. I'm not here to preach to the saints, I'm here to preach to the sinners. And y'all ain't even get that version of me yet, because we stuck on the old stuff. But we also stuck. We stuck, and I'm in that position where I'm still trying to figure out moves to get over that hump that I've been avoiding for the last few years. Yeah, it's a process.
Speaker 4:No seriously, so yeah it's tremendous, but when you done as much as I've done, you got to think of all the progress that you have to make and all the things that you still have to continue to do. There's still work to be done.
Speaker 3:Always, never feel like you've arrived ever, or you'll never cease to exist. Never get comfortable, for sure. Never get comfortable. With that being said, make sure you share, like, subscribe, comment, repost, tag. If you don't, you're a motherfucking hater.
Speaker 1:Why.
Speaker 4:Because, it's free, and if it's free, it's me.
Speaker 3:We got Asia Sparks in the building.
Speaker 2:And I'm going to keep it real she is popping it.
Speaker 3:There's a lot going on, man. I'm telling you like for her to say the things that she accomplished. A wonderful soul, man.
Speaker 2:Some of the things she's been through. It's real, it's just real.
Speaker 4:I've been getting that a lot lately. That's been a compliment a lot lately. Oh, you got such a good spirit.
Speaker 3:Even though you have like your situations with your health, you know, you know you still like just keep that energy alive, even when you walk in your age of sparks. You know you pop it. So that energy right there just have people like, damn, why am I complaining? You know I'm saying like I come, I come in here with a problem, like, let me say, like me not having enough of something you know, but that's a want, you know. I mean, yeah, people out here need things. Yeah, hell, yeah, you know I mean so bad health and keeping a good smile.
Speaker 2:People here can't pay the rents and shake and keep this, we're saying it to people out here yesterday. Got motherfucking holes in these sneakers. And we complain and we complain about not having enough sneakers and shit. I'm saying all y'all look blessed Got to be thankful, we got to be, we got to be thankful for what we have and more appreciative of the things that, like I put it on my gram today, like I, I work. I worked hard for every privilege I got no, I used.
Speaker 2:I like that like I'm saying somebody and that's a fact. You know what I said? It go nice man. Yeah, I work for every privilege I got.
Speaker 1:I work for everything yeah, like we just was interviewing somebody yesterday, shout out to justin my god dc watching dc.
Speaker 1:He got all this stuff going on and he said he not satisfied at all. And I told him like bro, can't think like that, bro, because there's people out here who can't get up and do one thing, half of a thing. You got like four or five situations going on and I get you come from the, the family and the, the corporate, whatever that you come from, but right now, in 2024, you gotta you get it's. It's hard out here and it's crazy because it's the easiest to get something going, but it's the hardest as well, because, like music, the music infatuated.
Speaker 1:Everybody want to be this, everybody want to be that. So you got more competition. But it's easier ways to get it. You could just pull out your phone, do something and then it go viral, like. So it's easier but harder. But yeah, I ain't going to lie, man, I definitely could see the South Philly in you, though, like girl because I be around South Philly people, I'm the only person who be with us.
Speaker 1:that's not from south philly okay, yeah so I definitely, I definitely see it in you. So do you think that that's how you? That's why you are who, what? How you is like when it come to you hustling and getting things done or just that's, just instilling like your family?
Speaker 4:that's just who I am I move authentically and a lot of times people don't like me. I ain't gonna lie like people love me. But then a lot of time people don't like me because they think it's fake. Until they really get to know me, like oh yeah, she's standing on business, and then that's when jealousy or competition comes in. I am the type of person who I know that there's a lot of reasons to complain. I know there's a lot of reasons to complain. I got a million reasons to complain, if I'm going to be honest. But the thing that keeps me joyful and the things that keep me kind of like, kind of happy a little bit, is the fact that I ask myself every single day I was, I was, this is a sober thing. Now my mind went. I said forgive me, lord, because I'm about to cuss. What the fuck am I in a rush? For? That's what I said to myself. I said what the fuck am I in?
Speaker 3:a rush for.
Speaker 4:In a rush to go to the grave, because that's where surely all these young boys going to, we're surely in a rush to go where. And then, as I got older, into my 30s, I said to myself like I like the slow life, I like the slow life, I love it. I love the slow life. Slow life is where, where, where, where happiness lies. The only the fast like you. Be all in competition, you ain't got enough.
Speaker 4:You moving too fast, nigga, slow down, chill out, chill out, move slow. Stop trying to fall in love so fast, stop trying to have fast friendships where you're not testing the times, where you're not testing the morals of these people. You just trying to be around this person because this person got the weed. You trying to be around this person. They be trying to be around me because I be in them spots. But slow down, we in a rush too fast, we just moving too fast. It's not. Life ain't meant to happen like that. Oh, all this technology, all this technology got you feeling like, and all this, all this Instagram, got you feeling like you got to compete and move fast like this person. Oh, I want it. It's my life and I want it. Now. Hit me at the button Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.
Speaker 4:So that's when I decided I'm moving slow, people kept trying to rush me to do this music stuff and I was like, and then that's when I started to feel that spirit of like, I'm not good enough, I'm not good enough, I'm not producing, I'm not producing. But everybody know and if you a Christian or a believer, you know that it's a seed. Everywhere you go and everything you do, you're planting a seed. Right now we're planting a seed. We're planting a seed. We're planting a seed. But guess what? A lot of people don't know when you plant a seed, the seed grows down into the dirt before it grows up until when it blooms.
Speaker 2:So it gets dark before it gets light.
Speaker 4:With that being said, if we know that you have to make sure, while you're watering it, you're surrounded with people. That's watering it and not drying you out, not pulling from you, siphoning your energy, allow the main source, which is God, to shine his light and his face upon you. I promise you this is thank you, lord. But also just know that everything happens in due season. If you won before, you'll win again. If you lost before, you'll win again. If you lose, if you lost before, you'll lose again, like you gotta expect if you, if you've been in a good season, no, a bad season is coming anytime. I know that I've been in too good of a season. I know something bad coming. That's why I said but then your mindset changed. When people make me upset or make me mad, I I don't get mad no more, because I'd be like. I asked all my friends are you surprised? They'd be like no, I'm not really surprised. So why are you reacting like that when you know what's up?
Speaker 4:yeah you shouldn't. You should be expecting it, learning the game and getting yourself prepared so that. So yeah, I'm not. I'm not always, I'm not always happy, go lucky and jolly jolly, but at the end of the day I wake up and I'll be like there's many reasons to complain. But why I complain? I'm prepared. Mentally, I'm prepared. I ain't talking about what my life look like, I'm talking about mentally I'm prepared yeah. I've been through hella storms, bad storms where you wouldn't even want to wake up in the morning, storms but I'm here.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Prepared. Right, I done overcame. This too shall pass. Yeah, that's my mindset. So maybe it's a relentless mindset, like I have this relentless mindset. I have this like like it's not even that I'm going to go get it and win, it's just that you cannot beat me. I'm undefeated. It's not even that I'm gonna go get it and win, it's just that you cannot beat me. I'm undefeated. That's how? Because attacks gonna come, so I'm not even, I'm not even coming at you like I want to win and I want to beat you to the finish line. I'm in competition with myself. But one thing I am every day I tell myself I would never let you defeat me, ever so. I don't know that's a lot, but like somebody needs to hear that in the world my spirit was is talking to somebody.
Speaker 4:Somebody needs to hear it.
Speaker 2:When we going to get one of these four albums, Like like when we going to get one of them. I want to hear some some music.
Speaker 1:What the queen with the plan? Yeah, I need to hear you.
Speaker 2:You got a beautiful voice. I want to hear, we need to hear you sing it. You can rap your ass off. I need to hear you rapping. When is we going to get these four albums?
Speaker 4:When the right people align. I don't like to say you don't need nobody, because you really it's been me holding it down for a minute, but when the right people align.
Speaker 4:Right now I've been in the season of like kind of just picking the weeds out and trying to figure out who, because god, sometimes god won't bless you with, with those he ain't gonna say god ain't gonna say no to a blessing, he's just gonna say no, not with them around, right, god gonna do that, yeah, and for, especially for the type of blessings he promised in me, he, like I, can't bless you with this person around. God know everything he and I and I be, and now me and god locked in twin. I'd be I. I know that he's stopping some things just for certain people being around. Okay, he'll literally like he's been doing. I say lord, remove him.
Speaker 4:And I used to be. I used to be scared to ask god to remove all the people from my life, because then next you know, like your boyfriend fall off or your best friends fall off. Now I'm like god, remove, god, remove them. I'm ready, I'm strengthened for that now, like, remove them, get them out the way so I can go to my destination, cause I can't see with all these people blinding me.
Speaker 4:That's real rad.
Speaker 2:No, it is.
Speaker 4:Remove them and increase my discernment as new people come in. So I don't self-sabotage the people, but I also recognize the people that gotta go remove them.
Speaker 1:I used to be like no.
Speaker 4:God, don't remove them. I need them. Don't remove them. Only got two friends. Don't remove them. God, remove them. Remove them all. Get them out the way. It's me and you now. So that's pretty much it. That's where I'm at with y'all soldier. I'm in the trenches. We got these games we play up here.
Speaker 3:Hey, yeah, you wanna play a game with us?
Speaker 2:I'm in the trenches. We got these games we play up here. Hey, yeah, you want to play a game with us.
Speaker 4:You want to play games? I love games. Let's get it.
Speaker 2:Come on, we're going to play. And somebody said white boy in my live.
Speaker 4:Yo, I'm live, I've been live this whole time. Somebody said white boy, I don't know. Let me see, let me go back down.
Speaker 3:Hold on, thank you. Make sure y'all share, like, subscribe, comment. That's the really the most podcast we got. Sparks in the building Asia. Sparks in the building South Philly, new Jersey.
Speaker 2:Stand up, all right, so I'm saying on really the most, we play a couple games on here. This game right here called fast track. It ain't not too crazy, it's just we say a few things, that you pick one or the other. So, being as though we from Philly, I gotta start with this question, okay let's get it, we in the female rappers to I'm extremely competitive, let's get it, let's go. That just went. All right, go ahead. All right, you ready.
Speaker 3:Go ahead, you got it.
Speaker 2:State property of major figures.
Speaker 4:Oh my goodness, oh my goodness, oh my goodness. All right, don't be mad at me. I love all y'all, you know y'all, all my family, dutch girl, all over Bianca. But I'm gonna go with state property. I'm gonna tell you why. The branding they had, the coats, they, it was just, it was just smarter. They had coats, they had movies, they had did state property one into and and they still torn together or they still tore into this day.
Speaker 2:So yeah, okay, I like that. Okay, okay, I like it. Alright, okay, okay, lil' Kim or Foxy, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:Lil' Kim. Lil' Kim is queen bee, so you best take heed. Shall I proceed? Yes, indeed, yeah, I love Lil' Kim. I love Lil' Kim is queen bee, so you best take heat. Shall I proceed? Yes indeed yeah, I love lil kim. I opened up a little camp. I love lil kim because she, she, just, she, just, she just had that style lil kim. She still was making music. She put out more albums like I love lil cam nikki fawkesy too.
Speaker 4:Nikki o'carly. Oh, I hate that. Um, I hate it too, but I don't like it I geared it right to it.
Speaker 2:I don't like it. I geared it right to it. I don't like it either.
Speaker 4:Nikki, you can't get the. Not a respect on Nikki. Put respect on Nikki. Name man. She didn't. She didn't made it from the mixtapes to the. I'm a mixtape Queen, so I get. I love the mixtape. I love the mixtape era. I love Nicki Minaj in a mixtape era. I just went to go to Pink Friday World Tour 2.
Speaker 2:And I love the fact that she's still touring and I love nick minaj.
Speaker 4:Read dollars to joey jack, come on, like she told my couple, like they make it sound real hard, I ain't gonna like this, but I don't. I know y'all gonna like it for real read. I'm gonna go with my boy, reed dollars, you feel me you bad.
Speaker 2:Bad but all right. But listen what what'd you say?
Speaker 4:cool, it's cool. You ain't like that one.
Speaker 2:No go ahead, do your thing, I'm gonna go with reed.
Speaker 4:I'm gonna go with reed because he was, he was like he was, like he kind of made my like headshotters, bloodhound era, like he made that for me, okay, coming up like it's nostalgic. And then you know, I've done some work with reed too, so that's my boy and joey, though shout out to joey. Joey, my guy too, I ain't even gonna lie. Joey, you my boy too. Spark up, get a couple off too.
Speaker 3:Go ahead, alright. Lauryn Hill, jill Scott.
Speaker 4:What? Oh my goodness, y'all making it hard and I'm mad at y'all. How? Because I'm real mad at y'all, for real, like Lauryn.
Speaker 2:Hill and.
Speaker 4:Jill. Scott, I'm going to go with Jill Scott because she's from Philly, but Lauryn Hill from Jersey, but she's from North Jersey, jill.
Speaker 2:Who don't?
Speaker 4:love Jill. Is it the way? No, no. She said let's take a long walk around the park at the dark yeah, come on, jill.
Speaker 3:Shout out to Jill For us to spark conversation, the locks or diplomats.
Speaker 4:Oh, come on the locks. We've seen the verses. Yeah, we've seen the verses. Shout out the dip set. Uh, I mean, you said diplomat um, um usher or chris brown usher. I'm a. I'm a. I'm an usher fan. I had a day I shared a dance with usher I know chris brown too monica keisha cole that's a good job right there.
Speaker 4:that's hard because I know both of y'all really making it hard because I be knowing these people, monica or Keisha Cole. I'm going to give it to Keisha Cole because Keisha Cole, she posted Spaja a couple years ago and I love Keisha.
Speaker 3:Cardi B, remy mom.
Speaker 4:What? Cardi B or Remy, I'm going to go with Remy. When it come to bars, I'm gonna go with Remy.
Speaker 2:Sorry.
Speaker 4:I'm gonna go with Remy when it come to bars. I like Remy bars.
Speaker 2:All right, this one gotta go. What? We're gonna say four people. It's kind of the opposite. So we're gonna say four people and you gotta pick one to lead to go. Okay, and we're gonna start with the Philly one.
Speaker 3:Y'all, let's go with Philly real quick.
Speaker 2:All right, some Philly females.
Speaker 3:I could do one and then you could pick up. You want to pick up after that?
Speaker 2:I mean go ahead.
Speaker 3:All right, miss Jade Eve, I'm going say Nino Ross, he's J E Nino Ross.
Speaker 4:Bianca gots one gotta go.
Speaker 2:Yeah, one gotta go.
Speaker 4:And what they mean.
Speaker 2:Like just for now or no, they like, they music has never Like they music has their music.
Speaker 4:They never came out.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they erased you deleting them.
Speaker 2:They done, yeah, they erased they all. The existence is gone.
Speaker 3:And we love all of them. Let's go.
Speaker 4:That's messy, no comment.
Speaker 1:Yo.
Speaker 4:No comment. That's messy. The ones who know know that's messy. Hey yo, yo Cut the cameras off. Ain't no, keep them running. Nah, that's messy. Cut the cameras off. I ain't picking.
Speaker 2:What's wrong with this nigga man? That's not messy, Isn't?
Speaker 4:that messy. It's messy because you ain't do your research.
Speaker 1:It's messy because you ain't do your research. It's messy because you ain't do your research.
Speaker 4:Bianca, you ain't do your research. Oh, you ain't do your research. It's messy, I ain't picking.
Speaker 2:All right, so we're going to move on.
Speaker 4:Next Sound Felicia's up Yep next.
Speaker 2:We're going to Tia Gucci Jeezy Yo Gotti One gotta go.
Speaker 4:Tia Gucci.
Speaker 2:Jeezy she is shy.
Speaker 3:This a good joke too. Yeah, it is, go ahead, man.
Speaker 2:Tia Gucci Jeezy. Yo Gotti One gotta go.
Speaker 4:It's not gonna be Jeezy Cause it's not gonna be Jeezy Because Recession got me through it. It can't be Jeezy, it's Gucci T, recession got me through it. You can't be cheesy, it's tia, tia gotta go. Damn, I'm gonna put tia out there because you know, I don't think no change, like you know listening to tia I ain't, I ain't like gucci man was a big part of me a little bit.
Speaker 4:Yo goddy, yo goddy, yo goddy. You just gotta have your goddy in there like you gotta have your god in there. I gotta remove ti dang.
Speaker 2:But he had some joints all right, so we're gonna go here. Meek one gotta go meek reed I like ti meek reed joey, jag quillie mills, one gotta go that's messy too one gotta go one gotta go let's kick go One gotta go.
Speaker 4:Quills. My homie Can't be Quills. Who else?
Speaker 2:Joey Jack, I ain't talk to Joey in a minute, but Joey, my homie.
Speaker 4:Meek Mill and Reed.
Speaker 3:Yeah, everything going they ever did.
Speaker 1:Mmm.
Speaker 3:Just remember that Mmm who you getting rid of ever did.
Speaker 4:Let's remember that. Who you getting rid of? Damn, I gotta get rid of Reed.
Speaker 3:That's crazy. I can't get rid of Reed. Alright, so let's do one. Let me do one more, one more. I can't get rid of Reed, I want to do all the new people. So I'm going to say Ice Spice, glorilla.
Speaker 4:Ice Spice Glorilla.
Speaker 3:Ice Spice Glorilla.
Speaker 4:Cash Doll.
Speaker 3:And Lotto.
Speaker 4:And Lotto.
Speaker 3:I love all of them.
Speaker 4:Ice Spice got to go.
Speaker 2:It would be Ice Spice. For me, it would be Ice Spice for me.
Speaker 4:I love Glorilla, I love Lotto. And who was the other?
Speaker 3:one Cash Doll.
Speaker 4:Can't be Cash Doll, nope, sorry.
Speaker 1:Alright, we gonna do one last, john, just remember. I mean, everything they did like ever is gone. No personal stuff, no what they did in their personal life, none of that, just music, just business. All that, uh, birdman, dr jay jay-z and p diddy oh what, what do I?
Speaker 4:gotta go yeah, I already know who.
Speaker 3:We don't know Because it's not personal.
Speaker 4:Too many people. Attached to Birdman, bloodline Meaning like Too many people. Too many people were successful off of Birdman Can't be, him. Too many, all of them, too many people were successful off of Jay-Z. Diddy got to go.
Speaker 3:Diddy got to go, diddy no.
Speaker 4:Diddy the Lox, not Diddy, gotta go. No Diddy, not like no Diddy, no Diddy, but no Diddy, we gotta get, we can't, oh damn.
Speaker 2:Biggie Kim.
Speaker 4:Oh my gosh, y'all Damn Carl Thomas, carl Thomas too. Total Wait, wait, wait. No, no, let me take it back.
Speaker 2:No, that's hard I don't like y'all now. I don't like none of y'all.
Speaker 4:Because then everybody got to go. What they did Now I don't like none of y'all, because I don't like that. You could, you could. That's not fair. That's not fair and I don't like that.
Speaker 3:A lot of people you know Asia, Harlem shaking and all that Y'all ain't right. Y'all ain't right, y'all ain't right, all right, bye, diddy, you got to pack up. That was hard Cash.
Speaker 4:That's why I see you sitting over there quiet, you coming with all the smoke and I don't like that. That's how you going to put me on the front line to say something like that.
Speaker 3:That's hard you can't really exit out like that.
Speaker 2:So Dr Dre will go for me because I think I could live without the West Coast music, even though it still would be hard, because I like a lot of See. That's what I was about to say. I love Blue Carpet Treatment and Drop it Like it's Hot. Bro, when Drop it Like it's Hot came out, I was in school. I had the Nextel. That was my ringtone, that was my bro all right dr dre.
Speaker 4:But then without dr dre we wouldn't have beats headphones, we wouldn't have 50 cent. We even have eminem kendrick, we wouldn't have. Oh, my goodness, like y'all I'm over here. I'm over this this is which one you picking? Oh, jay-z got rihanna beanie seagull, jay cole oh yeah, jay-z, jay-z, so you don't care about yeezys or none of that right? No, I don't. I got a couple of beer, but no, I don't I don't, you could do without the yeezys yeah, okay jay-z.
Speaker 3:Sorry, jay, sometimes they gotta go jay-z, but then without jay.
Speaker 4:Is that Jay has?
Speaker 1:to go for me too in that list.
Speaker 3:Yeah, to be honest, Rihanna and them, yeah, Nah.
Speaker 2:I'm never getting rid of Benny C.
Speaker 3:I don't go for a full signing. I can't get rid of Rihanna and all of them.
Speaker 4:That's crazy, Rihanna also, like he elevated Beyonce, even though she still would be here.
Speaker 1:Certain records like number one no, I'm mad at y'all people gotta understand and know hove is my favorite rapper period. But what people gotta?
Speaker 3:come to them them.
Speaker 1:People is the reason hove is who he is. If it wasn't a kanye or rihanna or a beans, oh wouldn't even be who he was it.
Speaker 1:Nah, the other people, it is the other people they is who they is because of Birdman, because of Dre. Hov is who he is because of them. Like when everything was dying down, then Umbrella came out, the nigga got right back up Like if he didn't get the people, he dropped Blueprint 3 Shit was light, cold. Came around. Now Roc Nation back up. He just a good businessman, he know how to move. The only thing I would be fucked up about by putting him off the list Is his albums himself. Besides that, I could do without him.
Speaker 1:You know, what I mean.
Speaker 4:He did contribute a lot to the culture.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he did For sure, for sure, man, without.
Speaker 3:Jay-Z Rock aware.
Speaker 2:There's no Jay-Z Remember that, oh my goodness, rick Ross, no.
Speaker 3:Ross.
Speaker 2:Remember that All them early guys over there he ran Def Jam for a long time Y'all gotta
Speaker 4:remember this. It was a lot of people Dipset.
Speaker 3:These is the people that Jay-Z said Come on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, dipset was on that one. You on. Come on, you on, even though that was a Dame Dash play you didn't find them though
Speaker 3:bro, I mean, he is Dame.
Speaker 4:Shout out to Dame.
Speaker 3:Dash, I mean he gave them the opportunity at that point, Like it wouldn't be no Jeezy without Coach K no, the bull um shocker bro.
Speaker 1:Shocker bro, he died, he passed away.
Speaker 3:It was the man, the bull that said what y'all doing with all these cars like can't put jeezy at the level he at no, I'm telling you it was shot.
Speaker 1:No all right, all right, but yeah, um, we appreciate you for coming up here man you gave us a great interview we appreciate you. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3:You gave us a great interview. We appreciate you. Thank y'all for having me.
Speaker 4:We had ups and downs on this. My dog for life.
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