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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Intro
2:17 - Bri Steves Returns! New Music & The Year of the Awakening
4:35 - Self-Accountability Records for Women
9:56 - Bri Steves - “Lonely With You” & Going Independent
10:41 - Bri Steves Detaching From A Major Label & Starting Over
16:57 - Bri Steves Opens Up About Losing Her Mother & Grandmother
19:25 - Bri Steves Producing & Recording Herself
21:10 - Women Producers
22:53 - What's the Bay Area Sound
24:33 - On The Even Platform
25:47 - Financial Literacy
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I just wanted to let that
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marinate cuz we are in the midst of a
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full circle moment Heather be yes
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sir I've been following this exceptional
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human being
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manifested personified as an artist by
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way of Philly mhm uh for quite some time
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now last time she was here on this show
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was 2018 that's crazy and we got a
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chance to sit and speak on this show I
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feel like we did MTV as well didn't we
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we did we did MTV TRL I brought her on
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TRL right cuz I was so enamored and
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wanted to support her movement so much
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cuz I always felt like you were a
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multi-dimension dimensional Talent um
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and I believe I was right and so I had a
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chance to follow you along the way you
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and I communicated from time to time via
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text message or so I'll tap in to let
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you know I see you because I still feel
1:00
the same about you sometimes people time
1:03
doesn't happen when they want it to
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happen or how they PL it you know and
1:08
sometimes you may not even realize it
1:10
it's six years ago we saw her but I dare
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say six years later she is so much more
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evolved um right now when she seems
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light you seem just excited you make me
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cry you seem exhilarated you seem
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rejuvenated this is the year of the
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Awakening
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there are there are corridors that are
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happening in in the metaphysical in the
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two dimensional oh you tapped
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in oh we don't even got
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okay you'll be we talk all right so I'm
1:47
understanding let me say that right and
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yes sir I think um that this year will
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be your best year if it hasn't started
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off that way so far I'm watching on your
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social
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media what you're radiating is um
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something that's positive is uplifting
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you know it's enlight enlightening um I
2:09
know you to be a well-rounded artist but
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I also know you to be a ferocious MC as
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well yes I am right and I'm excited
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about your new project on the even
2:19
platform it's TI titled R inbr tape yes
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it is okay you guys could check that out
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we got the one and only Bree Steves has
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returned
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[Music]
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we doing it we doing it for real
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Bri what is making you smile so
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hard mean besides you and your beautiful
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energy um oh thank you thank you hear
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that Mike m that was the perfect answer
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you ain't got to say nothing else
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honestly I'm really just excited to be
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back outside uh I'm a free agent um
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shout out to my attorney got me out of
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that Tena coach she did her thing uh
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yeah you know we got all our rights back
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uh but yeah I'm just decided to share
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this new music this new era that I'm in
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um I'm really just in an era of honestly
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self-accountability records for women
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self accountability records why what
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made you want to go that direction so
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I've been on my healing journey and you
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know as I've made mistakes and as I've
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you know dated people that I'm like man
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like do I keep running to the same
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person maybe it's not them maybe I'm the
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person that has you know an issue and
3:27
maybe I'm the person that needs to heal
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and do better because I looked around at
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my life and I'm like man if I don't like
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something I can change it and I feel
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like right now the industry you know is
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saturated with everybody just just
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disconnected from love you know what I
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mean I don't know when it became cool to
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be toxic when did it become cool to not
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give love to to not be vulnerable to not
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be transparent and I'm hoping with my
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project just telling about my true
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stories of where I was at that maybe
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people can start to heal from that and
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I'm just being honest like man I can I
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cut on here yeah go oh uh well I [ __ ]
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up too um and maybe I was the person
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that had bad [ __ ] management but I
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still want love and I actually want to
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figure it out and do better and I feel
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like that's the conversation that we
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need to have okay I love wants to go
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back to your management company but you
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saw my face cuz it lit up because
4:17
because we have a terminology in the DJ
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world called you know songs you want to
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make sure that you mix records at the
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right BPM uhhuh uh but you just took
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that acronym and made it into bad [ __ ]
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management song my project called called
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bad [ __ ] management oh my gosh I
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haven't heard the project ladies and
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gentlemen look at that BPM but so that's
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taking accountability yes it is because
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usually I own it I'm honest usually it's
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thrown on us when it's toxic or things
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go bad yes it's all about what the man
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did but you know what it is most girls
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lie I don't so that's what I'm on so
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give me an example what is what falls
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under the umbrella of bad [ __ ]
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management
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damn I can't believe in my years decades
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of my life I've been on the radio
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decades I've never got to say that well
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I mean I I've dated all types yeah go
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ahead I've dated all types I've dated
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you know the rich guy that you know
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treated me terribly you know I've dated
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the broke guy that you know actually
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treated me pretty good but he couldn't
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show up the way that I wanted and in my
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experiences that I found it's like one I
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realized the most important thing is
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let's bring back dating people that
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actually like you you know let's not do
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this dating people for oh he got to be
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six foot he got to be this he got to be
5:35
this he got to be this have standards
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yes but date people that actually enjoy
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you for you and I had to look around and
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I realized that I was dating people that
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I shouldn't have been dating and I had
5:46
nobody to blame but myself and most
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women sometimes we lie about it we be
5:50
like all right like I like this guy he
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cute or you know you fall in love with
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somebody for like the toxic reasons and
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then you realize like man do I just keep
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running into the wrong [ __ ] or am I the
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[ __ ] that got bad [ __ ] management and
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I don't think girls is having that
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conversation wow wow Heather what you
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want to
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say I you know I agree I'm Amen in
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everything that just say I am because I
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talked it because it's true and I told
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sway just in like the female Circle part
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of it women lie too much we lie to
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ourselves and we lie to our partners and
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people who we are with about what we
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like and most importantly we lie about
6:30
what we don't like you know you just
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accept things you keep accepting and
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keep going along with the program
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because you following some kind of
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biological clock or because it's a good
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look or because you invested too much
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time or because so it it's the lies I I
6:44
agree with you I didn't want to know
6:45
about the bad [ __ ] management part I
6:48
understand what you said about the lying
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we that the lying has to stop and it's
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and it's mind you it's not about bashing
6:55
you know what I mean I'm not and it's
6:56
not preachy because the my my goal with
6:59
talking about self-ability is so that we
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can get to self love because I feel like
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what's missing is you know we as women
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and I'm sure there are people that are
7:09
way far along in their Journey than me
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but I found that loving myself and
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actually finding out who I am is what's
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going to bring me the person that I
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desire I'm not going to find that if I'm
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not happy and fulfilled myself I'm not
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going to I can't say I love myself if I
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keep making decisions that are bad for
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me I can't say I love myself if I keep
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uh uh having relationships with men that
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don't make any sense and don't even have
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the tools to love me properly facts you
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know so it's like let's bring that back
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choosing situations making decisions
7:38
that actually are for the betterment of
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your spirit and your emotional Soul 100%
7:43
PR Steves I'm loving this man sound
7:45
preachy as hell on no cuz I think
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there's a fine line this this a fine and
7:50
this you're not talking about other you
7:52
ain't telling people what they should
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you're talking about your journey I'm
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talking about yo I [ __ ] up I I'm just
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saying this is my journey you know you
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take it or leave it how you want to you
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know take it on to you but I'm just
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saying I found beauty and I Found Love
8:05
in myself by looking at myself in the
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mirror and being honest with myself and
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you know I want that for everybody I
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want that for every woman that's out
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there that's that wants love that wants
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fulfillment that wants happiness it's
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like you have all the love that you have
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inside of you already when you're around
8:20
people like that the conversation
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changes also like it's it's it's you
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attract different things when you're
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around other healed people and other
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women being truthful other peaceful over
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here it's very peaceful I ain't know
8:33
nobody told me about that it's real
8:35
peaceful we tried to tell you you
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couldn't hear it you making too many bad
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decisions cuz when I was up here in 2018
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I was making a lot of bad decisions you
8:44
know now was just we just looking at you
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okay Bri tell the family hi you know
8:49
what the family I had to I had to learn
8:52
I had to learn but you learned it Mike
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Muse say hi to Brie stev hey Bri St with
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that self- awareness has that changed
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the type of guy that you are now
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interested in dating and how has the
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conversations been uh if you had begun
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the dating process um
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um okay um well yes it has um because I
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think before I'm going be honest you
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know I think before I wasn't even
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focusing on my standards you know what I
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mean like I didn't even really know
9:23
myself enough to know what makes sense
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for me what do I actually need to feel
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love you know um and making sure that
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I'm the person that I'm actually asking
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for somebody to be
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um but yes it has changed I think that
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um my soul and my spirit is open but I
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think that now I make sure to like
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really sus people out make sure that
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they have the tools in order to show up
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for me properly just from getting to
9:50
know myself which I feel like every
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woman should do you know good Bree
9:54
Steves let's talk about it all right
9:57
Lonely with you back out yes colors
10:01
that's the new joint right yes it is yes
10:03
it is shot it in the Color Studio they
10:05
do great work over there in Germany yes
10:07
they do so much fun in Berlin but this
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is a part of the the the next chapter
10:13
right you're independent now can you
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speak about um a lot of folks are now
10:18
starting to understand the business
10:19
better A lot of the deals um that was
10:22
signed years ago were of the times times
10:25
have changed now you're doing a project
10:26
with even which is a relatively new pro
10:29
pro platform that allows artists to
10:32
enjoy the bulk of their revenue right
10:34
yes connect right to your fans connect
10:36
right to your fans similar to Galla what
10:38
Galla music does shout out TOA um talk
10:41
about the process how hard is it to
10:43
detach yourself from a a previously
10:45
signed contract and what was the steps
10:47
that Tanisha had to take and and and
10:50
were they playing
10:52
Fair um well shout out to Tania coats
10:54
you know she she did her thing T I
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apologize um honestly you know I've been
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in a major system and you know it's all
11:03
love for Atlantic you know I have no
11:05
beef with them they helped me out when I
11:07
was getting my start um shout out to
11:09
that top 15 Urban radio hit you know um
11:13
but honestly I feel like jealousy yes
11:16
jealousy yes yes yes um and it was a
11:19
great place for me but I feel like as an
11:23
artist I had to figure out okay what
11:26
works for me and and how can I execute
11:28
my vision and sometimes that's hard to
11:30
do in a major system you know and I feel
11:33
like when you're a free agent you have
11:35
the creative control and you know you
11:37
have your rights you can make a lot of
11:38
decisions that in my opinion um kind of
11:41
Get Lost in Translation when you are at
11:43
a major system so you know maybe I'll go
11:47
back into one I'm not really opposed to
11:49
it it just got to be the right situation
11:51
but I am noticing that most artists you
11:53
kind of able to build your own team and
11:55
kind of do it that way and and I
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actually prefer it that way mhm for me
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for you yeah that number that top 15
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number 15 on the on the Billboard charts
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rarely happens for Independent Artists
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yeah doors that open with major labels
12:12
are no longer available with Independent
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Artists but you know what we seeing a
12:16
lot of people that are doing their thing
12:18
though like look at Tommy Richmond with
12:20
you know billion dollar baby he just
12:22
kind of went up super crazy like it is
12:24
possible you know I think that people
12:26
are starting to wake up and realize like
12:28
you got everything that you need to do
12:30
and now we have the internet so you were
12:31
able to connect with people in a way
12:33
that you couldn't even do you know
12:35
before so yes labels are you know dope
12:39
and they can put gasoline on stuff but
12:41
honestly like do you really need it I
12:43
mean I don't do you feel too I think
12:47
sometimes people sign these major deals
12:50
prematurely like it don't sound like you
12:52
was an artist at that time that was
12:55
ready or should have been signed to a
12:56
major deal I mean I would say that
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things happened for me a little faster
13:02
than I anticipated okay um because I
13:04
felt like I still had a lot of growing
13:06
up to do I was what a senior at Temple
13:09
University and then I got my deal and I
13:11
was like my life just changed overnight
13:13
I'm going on tour with her um coming out
13:15
for Kendrick lar performance Mary J BL
13:19
opening up for her and for real working
13:21
with him working with Missy uh Ferg uh
13:24
Kendrick you name it and I was just like
13:27
I honestly feel like I needed to incub a
13:29
little bit more and find my passion and
13:31
find okay what do I want my vision to be
13:33
and I feel like I got thrust into a
13:35
major system really early where you're
13:37
having all these people throw things at
13:39
you you know do this do this do this and
13:41
it like it can get in the way of if
13:43
you're a baby artist you know what I
13:45
mean like actually honing in on yourself
13:47
cuz artist development is important but
13:49
I'm never mad about things because
13:51
timing is perfect you know you can't
13:53
even predict that and I honestly think I
13:56
was meant to go through the things that
13:57
I went through even like even going in a
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major system in order to be the artist
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that I am today I like that Brie Steves
14:04
the other thing I like that you're not
14:07
doing and not no knock on other artists
14:09
but you're not knocking other artists
14:11
you're not saying I'm looking at all the
14:12
women out here right now with they're
14:14
not doing and you're not doing that
14:16
which no because you you got room to
14:17
love every single one of us you don't
14:19
have to choose you don't have to like oh
14:22
it got to be this or this or we got I
14:23
mean granted it's a competition like it
14:26
is a sport uh but other than that it
14:28
don't got to be no beef I don't got to
14:29
be no shade like I don't have no beef
14:31
with anybody I mind my business stay out
14:32
the way did you have to completely start
14:35
over when it's a situation like that um
14:38
did you find New Management new have
14:41
different people around you change your
14:42
C because to me I'm hearing you're
14:44
healing the entire time you're going
14:46
through all of these things and then you
14:47
have to regroup you know and so was that
14:50
a matter of like finding a new team as
14:52
well and if so how did you do that
14:55
honestly for me it started with uh f
14:59
focusing on the music that I wanted to
15:00
create what's the message that I wanted
15:02
to say um and you know I was still
15:05
working on my upcoming album um called I
15:08
just think it's funny how and I started
15:10
working on that off of my own dime you
15:13
know working with producers I love go
15:15
Grizz uh Soundwave uh Romano Haggler
15:19
naan and I was locked in and you know I
15:22
just started finding people that
15:23
naturally aligned with myself amen you
15:26
know I made a you know not to get too
15:28
deep for them intro but you know I made
15:30
a a a list of like how I wanted my life
15:33
to go and you know and I just actively
15:37
worked on fixing it and I was blessed to
15:40
find you know shout out Damen d dot um
15:42
he's been working with me on the
15:43
management side shout out to n coat
15:45
again you know on the attorney side d
15:47
dot Damian d dot Washington not the D
15:51
dot you think about
15:54
not okay oh okay my bad shout out him
15:56
though that's my man too but uh D she
15:58
said Daman oh D Daman he been in the
16:01
industry for a minute uh he been doing
16:02
his thing behind a lot of people that
16:04
you wouldn't even think um but the
16:06
natural people just kind of came to me
16:09
you know cuz you can feel it like
16:10
anything that's forced anything that's
16:11
not people that's not your tribe it's
16:13
always clear as day and I feel like the
16:16
more spiritual inner work that I did on
16:18
myself the more that I was able to find
16:20
things that were in alignment you know
16:22
for me yeah anybody could do that though
16:24
yeah 100% no but it can be scary
16:27
sometimes for folks to start over you
16:29
know start from scratch and just you
16:31
know for people that's listening and
16:33
that's going to see this conversation
16:34
that we having with you is I'm glad that
16:36
you shared that because people are
16:38
scared to take that step people some of
16:40
their worlds are over when once they're
16:42
not associated with a label or a big
16:44
situation it's like now what no I
16:46
believe in me so period you better that
16:50
a sheit going to stop me what's me for
16:51
me me but people need to hear that yeah
16:54
they need to hear that so thank you for
16:56
sharing of course Brie Steves is here
16:58
we're going to open up the phone lines
16:59
I'm going to play the song again go
17:01
Lonely with you back outside 888 742
17:05
3345 get the know citizens Philly stand
17:08
up she's one of yours we back
17:10
outside back outside again Lonely with
17:14
you back outside new single Bree Steves
17:18
I'm so happy to be a part of your legacy
17:21
yeah same here people saying that yeah
17:24
and dope dope man how's your family uh
17:28
so I mean unfortunately my mom did pass
17:30
away in 21 um but you know she is still
17:33
with me she her energy is still on me
17:35
and crazy enough my uh grandmother
17:38
actually just passed away uh this past
17:40
month I'm sorry to hear that no it's
17:42
cool it's cool you know I'm we we had
17:44
our our in touch conversations and you
17:47
know I was glad to have the time that I
17:48
had you know with my mother with my
17:50
grandmother and I feel like in a weird
17:54
maab way you know death does change
17:57
people you know it if if anything it
18:00
just helped me centering on you know you
18:01
have One Life to Live and you literally
18:04
don't have any time to waste and there's
18:06
nothing that's holding you back but you
18:07
in order to make sure you enjoy your
18:09
life on this Earth yeah so I'm just I'm
18:12
just really deeply spiritual with it MH
18:15
and you take your time give yourself
18:16
Grace when you had those kind of losses
18:19
very much so I lost my grandmother last
18:21
year um and um I had to give myself
18:25
Grace you know what I mean well like you
18:28
you know I put the time in I went every
18:31
month to Oakland to take my grandmother
18:33
on dates every month for 15 years so and
18:36
my grandma I like the casino she liked
18:37
the Cino M mine did too what is that
18:39
about I don't know what does she play
18:41
Slots she she likes Spades and like uh
18:44
Blackjack oh like blackj your
18:46
grandmother was sometimes the slots
18:47
thing I don't I don't really do gambling
18:49
but I was just there was willing her
18:51
around the based on the game she played
18:54
she was an intense Hustler your
18:55
grandmother was a hustler she was yes
18:57
she was so was
18:59
you know what yeah at that that's why we
19:01
got it in US woman you know let's say
19:03
the names three times mine go ahead you
19:05
go your bb Elsie BB Elsie Waters BB
19:09
Jones Elsie Waters B Jones Elsie Waters
19:12
B Jones say your mom's name too Kelly
19:15
Kelly what Kelly Stevenson Kelly
19:17
Stevenson Kelly Stevenson Kelly
19:18
Stevenson Kelly that's how we signify we
19:21
recognize them okay amen beautiful I
19:24
ain't mad at that now thing about Brie
19:27
Steves is she she's multi-dimensional
19:30
she sings she raps she's into fashion
19:34
producing producing yeah yes producing
19:37
songwriting we record ourselves we we we
19:39
in everything we don't always hear about
19:41
the women artists who actually
19:44
produce well you know when I started out
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um I was really inspired by Missy
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Elliott and you know when I studied her
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career I was like man like she does she
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does everything she can she can sing she
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can rap she can produce she can she's a
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jack of all trades and I was like man if
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I want to be in this industry I want to
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be so good that they can't keep me out
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of no rooms you know cuz it's not it's
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not enough just to be like u a pretty
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girl you know what I mean like it
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matters more to me about okay is my
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talent does my work speak for me like
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how does my my my reputation speak for
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me and man I spent like the three grand
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that I had while I was still in college
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for my first car I spent that on uh my
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equipment just getting my speakers
20:29
getting my laptop getting my uh my my
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midi system and getting Logic the crack
20:34
version on my computer and I just
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started oh yeah yeah I got the crack
20:38
version uh crack version of waves 2 and
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you know I just started figuring out how
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to do it you know figuring out how to
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produce how to actually write songs what
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do I want to say what is my tone can I
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sing can I rap do both of it and you
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know in studios that actually really
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helped a lot you know I was able to
20:53
communicate with Engineers you know what
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I wanted um in some cases I was even
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able to engineer myself um but it it
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shows up you know for live performances
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and shows like just having that
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knowledge you know is invaluable to
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helping me with my career in every way I
21:10
just wondered because most in our genres
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of music most of the times it's a man
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producer a male producer and a lot of
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times even for the women it's male
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writers yep you know so what would it be
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like if a woman was the president and
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the you know and the vice president what
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would it be like if well shout out nja
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Charles you know she she write crazy
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records for everybody she's behind all
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the hits uh shout out Wonder Girl um
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she's she's amazing as well um there's
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there's a lot of women in this game that
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actually do put they put they you know
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stepping on people's necks it's just
21:44
time we talk about it more they just
21:45
more you know they were humble yeah
21:47
behind the scenes let's put them let's
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put them out there say their names Nija
21:50
Charles shout out shout out shout out
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Wonder Girl she do her thing as well um
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who are some of the artists that have
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come out since you've been here in the
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past six years that you look at it go
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okay they doing
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it definitely got to shout out uh TI
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wack wack can you get her up here we
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haven't had her up here yet tiar wack is
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cool she dope I would love to have her
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up here she around she around she around
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okay okay um you better hit Johnny see
22:17
what her schedule like okay I put I put
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you the task I'm like yo Bri what you
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going
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get like it's your homie okay go ahead
22:25
TI's dope uh foggy raw he's dope um on
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the album too okay um shout out Joey
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Badass that's my man's uh actually he's
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one of one of the reasons I actually
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inspired me to start rapping too his
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1999 album y that was classic classic uh
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shout out Cena wi Cena wi she's actually
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from uh Portland um and and she rap she
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spit real crazy too um I can go on and
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on in this list okay um you you got what
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is it about the Bay Area that you like
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uh besides guad Oakland in particular
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yeah Oakland well because she done songs
23:04
with Simba and guab Dad both that's
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where I'm from he I got to speak to that
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right they got like a vibe to them
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though like a little I don't know what
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it is tell the world about it I don't
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know what so so I haven't met too many
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you know Bay Area women um I have met a
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lot of Bay Area men and I don't know if
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it's like a it's like a I don't want to
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not saying right but you know it's like
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a like a like a funky little like like
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sweat but they like a they like a little
23:30
nerdy but it's like cool though it's
23:33
like like I oh boy she not talking about
23:36
juice sound like it I'm from Oakland but
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it's like it's like in a in a very like
23:41
like I very strong way the nerd thing is
23:45
really bait okay it's Fool's Gold
23:50
H then you get with them and find out
23:52
wow these dudes got layers of wisdom
23:55
they have that's what I'm saying they
23:57
got so many layers to
23:59
but they actually be like you know what
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it is I feel like people from the bay
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they just not afraid to be themselves
24:04
you know many people are afraid to
24:06
express this is what I like to do like I
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like anime ain't nothing wrong with that
24:10
and the and the you know and the music
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is just got a little like that that West
24:15
Coast kind of feel to it it's so much
24:16
different than East Coast Music but it's
24:18
like a little make you want to kind of
24:20
Bounce right okay yeah what's that let's
24:23
dance okay all right that that I don't
24:26
know if that's ba but that I get what
24:27
you mean it's B
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B motiva Bri this is what I want to do
24:34
when so the project is on the even
24:36
platform yes so that's the arm bre tape
24:38
um I gave my fans my true supporters my
24:40
true day ones um it's a little taster
24:43
from the fulllength project I just think
24:45
it's funny how that they're going to get
24:47
um so they can go on there you want to
24:49
support me directly as the artist you
24:51
know we cutting out the middleman
24:52
definitely go and purchase that tape
24:54
it's on the even platform Link in my bio
24:56
everywhere so you can find that follow
24:57
her at
24:58
Brie Steves it is b r i s t v s on
25:03
everything name your crew members we've
25:05
been having crew members get props now
25:07
because we never get to hear about t
25:10
Team Ty get them on camera I got my boy
25:12
Chris har in here you can't walk in this
25:14
room chis upis model photographer
25:17
extraordinary yo I was going to say
25:18
Chris that's a nice shirt man you look
25:20
like you ready you ready for the camera
25:21
say F yeah okay I'mma bite your whole
25:24
style all right who else we got I I like
25:26
his style I like his y we we got we got
25:28
we got T Co in here again you know my
25:30
attorney you know she'd be doing her
25:32
thing we got Brandon my production
25:35
assistant what we doing man let's win
25:37
this everything right and then we got
25:38
Stephanie Reyes St we see you executive
25:41
assistant okay great damn you got an
25:43
executive assistant I know
25:45
right crazy wow cool okay how have you
25:48
done how have you done because a lot we
25:51
hear a lot of horror stories about
25:52
artist and money what have you learned
25:54
in the past few years invest in real
25:57
estate to uh
25:58
yeah yeah yes invest uh I honestly think
26:01
that it's really important to talk about
26:03
financial literacy especially for black
26:05
people for artists because most of the
26:07
times we make our money through deals
26:10
and advances um which is great but I
26:13
feel like what they're not teaching you
26:14
is okay how do you take that money and
26:15
make that money work for you so that you
26:17
can always support yourself no matter if
26:19
you want to I don't know read make a
26:21
book do a cook show you know do a
26:23
mixtape whatever and I feel like it's
26:25
important to get into investment you
26:28
know stocks portfolios IA accounts you
26:30
know things with high you know return
26:32
and real estate PR she wasn't she wasn't
26:36
talking like this on TRL Mike it's
26:39
talking about that money make for you
26:41
she didn't know I didn't
26:44
know Lear I love the growth and one
26:47
thing about Bri is as much as she's
26:50
grown sometimes people grow and they
26:52
forget where they came from and how they
26:54
got there what was the Catalyst to the
26:57
to the growth you know what was the
26:59
nucleus what was that the nucleus when
27:01
the expansion started to be made the
27:03
expansion that's what it is right I mean
27:06
it is an expansion I don't know if it's
27:08
necessarily like one person that I can
27:10
accredit to this besides you know what I
27:13
will say like I think losing my mom you
27:16
know changed things for me I think you
27:19
know I wasn't really happy like you know
27:21
I I liked the label system but you know
27:24
my previous team you know my my previous
27:27
situation
27:28
I just wasn't I don't feel like I was
27:31
able to be the artist that I really was
27:33
you know and it's no bad blood it's just
27:36
all right man like I got to kind of step
27:38
out on my own and and I'm not afraid of
27:39
doing the work in order to find out who
27:42
I am yeah you know I love it man give it
27:44
up for Brie Steves
27:46
hey Bri you know where you are right now
27:48
say my [ __ ] you could do it too you
27:50
know where you are right now oh where am
27:53
I at you ain't in Philly dog oh this
27:55
ain't Oakland dog oh oh oh oh oh oh
27:58
Valley of the
27:59
hyena you know where you at Bri I know
28:02
where I'm at I know who I came to see
28:04
come on you know who you came to see DB
28:07
drop a beat on her turn that [ __ ] up in
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my headphones
28:11
please all right yeah turn that beat up
28:16
sway you know I do this [ __ ] in my sleep
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[Music]
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man s the morning sh by have the be yeah
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Miss left H son on the East Coast keep a
28:32
red rose if he go ghost get a new boot
28:34
cuz I ain't emotional Miss ha a [ __ ] on
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a [ __ ] talking like a starting a want a
28:38
ring sound like J know damn well Daddy
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ain't coachable Miss take a [ __ ] [ __ ]
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body brick moving money Mitch take a
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[ __ ] [ __ ] by The Click I'm just
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talking [ __ ] you know I get I'm a star
28:50
on Britt hits on my stun [ __ ] put that
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beside you can get like me just be who
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you are I'm that baby sugar daddy TI
28:56
flow [ __ ] going to win a Grammy only few
28:59
understand me if he like me he sniffing
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panties I might just be the [ __ ]
29:01
problem my S can't keep it platonic he
29:04
going to die about this [ __ ] like he AMA
29:06
been LED I had to switch that I'm
29:08
throwing hissy fist like a [ __ ] that
29:09
can't get his [ __ ] back been going hard
29:11
like a [ __ ] in the gym trying to get a
29:13
sixpack small fries trying to dip in the
29:15
[ __ ] of a Big Mac fans asking where I
29:17
been at damn I'm trying to get my get
29:19
back huh it's up and if it's up
29:25
St H AR [ __ ] body your [ __ ] body I
29:30
don't even got to say too much champagne
29:31
made me Dr [ __ ] up Bri ain't the one
29:33
to save in a tuck Puff Daddy couldn't
29:35
pay me the [ __ ] [ __ ] ain't paying me
29:37
enough [ __ ] bragging on [ __ ] they
29:38
ain't touch who [ __ ] who [ __ ] rap ain't
29:40
selling no more so [ __ ] you going to do
29:42
I'm rapping singing circles round [ __ ]
29:44
labels exposed rap [ __ ] ain't
29:46
clearing no more everything goes she got
29:49
her only fans now why you do that no h
29:52
man how you pay the bills though I'm bed
29:54
up shorty i'' been locked in like a
29:56
chain gang dress to my ass I'm a sexy
29:58
little thing thing tell them I'm that
30:00
[ __ ] when you speaking on my name gang
30:02
don't put me in no group CH me the
30:04
[ __ ] ain't in the same Lane my pocket
30:06
stay fat big b just like a thick [ __ ]
30:08
going tell them that [ __ ] whack don't
30:09
care about what she say that dick di
30:11
talk about you pe got no Plex you ain't
30:13
on [ __ ] [ __ ] I can't let a buff no
30:15
[ __ ] neck till I'm rich
30:18
rich like work tell them I do this [ __ ]
30:21
in my sleep sleep she do it in her sleep
30:23
August 1 August 1 we in New York we
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getting rich Rich we getting rich
30:30
rich and let me tell you
30:33
something there's levels to this not
30:36
everybody can spit on that beat hea 100%
30:39
100% I know I know we go some real MC
30:43
[ __ ] now this is Shades off Mike m
30:46
Shades off [ __ ] I ain't even put the
30:48
sunnies on for this you have to take
30:50
them off look them in the eyes it's
30:51
levels to this levels level to find that
30:55
pocket to sustain that Cadence
30:58
did you see how she dissected in between
31:00
that pocket you breaking it down you see
31:02
The Melodies that she flipped all those
31:04
different patterns can you even memorize
31:07
that you wack rapper not you whack
31:09
rapper a you think you dope cuz you
31:14
charted come on man I could pay for your
31:16
position wack rapper talk about youin
31:19
got no ain't on [ __ ] [ __ ] come on
31:22
yeah World it Bree stes World stes a
31:27
true M see yes sir y'all go back and
31:30
dissect everything that was said but not
31:32
only that how it was said yeah talk to
31:35
[ __ ] she talked her [ __ ] thank you what
31:38
you say about sniff wait hold up what
31:40
you say about sniffing panties what was
31:41
that oh said if a [ __ ] like me he's
31:44
sniffing panties you know I might just
31:46
be the [ __ ] problem honestly damn sh
31:51
I didn't get that line but now I like
31:52
freaks I like freaks is something wrong
31:55
with that no no no man you like what you
31:57
like how come that was the first thing
31:59
you remember I don't know sniffing
32:00
panties just stuck out it's a good
32:02
trigger term I feel like every woman
32:04
likes that would like does he really
32:07
like you if you don't want to sniff your
32:08
panties be for real well look at Heather
32:11
don't look at me but you know what you
32:14
looking at me for Scorpio it a
32:17
nothing n you got it the sniff test is
32:19
necessary anyway M okay Bree Steves look
32:23
how he got out of that yeah yeah I was
32:25
looking for my Pivot damn it not the
32:27
pivot looking for my Pivot Bri you are
32:30
superiorly talented thank and the way
32:33
you weave in and out of singing and
32:34
mcing is pretty damn incredible I
32:37
appreciate that yes and I'm looking
32:39
forward to hearing the entire project
32:42
okay and it's called I just think it's
32:45
funny how make sure to come and see me
32:47
August 1st we in New York we got a
32:49
headlining show up here okay if y'all
32:51
want to see me in person make sure to
32:52
come out come on everybody tick this is
32:54
live August 1st come and see me we will
32:57
be there Lonnie light is going to be my
32:59
my my guest on the guest list all right
33:03
my plus one Bri we made it happen we
33:05
made it happen Brie shout out to your
33:06
whole team yeah man thank looking
33:09
forward to all that's coming your way y'
33:11
can get at Brie St where at BR r s t v s
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on everything
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