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Eve's Memoir: The Raw Truth Behind "Who's That Girl" is an unmissable episode of Sway In The Morning that dives deep into the life and career of the hip-hop icon, Eve. Join Sway as he unravels exclusive insights from Eve's new memoir, "Who's That Girl," which details her incredible journey from chart-topping rapper to philanthropist, actress, and now author. In this candid conversation, Eve opens up about her struggles and triumphs, revealing the raw truth behind her personal and professional evolution. From her early days breaking barriers in the male-dominated rap industry to her candid reflections on challenges like her DUI and the pressures of fame, Eve shares it all with honesty and courage. Don't miss this engaging and inspiring interview that showcases the power of resilience and reinvention. Subscribe to Sway’s Universe for more exclusive interviews and follow us for the latest in hip-hop and beyond.
CHAPTERS:
01:25 - Eve Returns
04:00 - Eve's Stripper Days
06:49 - Mase's Influence on Eve
09:00 - Jay-Z's Phone Call to Eve Before Her First Album Dropped
12:12 - Your Biggest Regret
15:14 - Your DUI Experience
18:50 - Your Controversial Sex Tape
22:41 - Caller - Love Is Blind Discussion
24:30 - Caller - Collaborating with Drag-On
27:30 - Book - Max Insights
30:18 - Book - Why You Slowed Down for Max
32:15 - Eve’s Residency at Steinhardt
33:18 - Book Review: “My Aunt Karen”
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come on man take a second for that
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one yes sir take a second for that one
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we had to take them back to 2015 come on
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Wow we can take them back further than
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1999 when her first album dropped that
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part
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1999 25 years
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ago wow tell me we're not in the
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presence of a legend right now citizens
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you couldn't convince me otherwise mhm
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when that first album came out she was
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one of only three women to ever chart as
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high as she did on the billboard I want
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to say 100 that's
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crazy at that time she came out you got
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to understand what it was she went
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through before she got to that point to
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understand what makes this so
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significant that now we are looking at a
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Goodwill
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Ambassador we are looking at a
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philanthropist we are looking at a
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mother yes we are looking at a wife yep
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and looking at a actress w a
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producer and a hip-hop icon welcome her
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back to the show give it up for
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eeve thank thank you I'm so happy to be
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back here thank y'all thank y'all thank
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you thank happy to you and we add author
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to the list of I'm an author now I'm an
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author
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now Y what up be what's up yo we got e
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back yo I know yo it's crazy yo when you
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listen to your old music we was just
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talking off mic first of all citizens
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her new book is called Who's That Girl a
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memoir perfectly titled uh alongside
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Kathy Ian doly yes um and in this
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book before we get to it uh you don't
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spare any story or moment that happened
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in your career no I was wondering if
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some of them you were going to talk
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about or not and and you do do this yeah
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man which it it it it made me believe
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that this Memoir wasn't just for your
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audience this was something you needed
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to do 100% 100% speak to that it was
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definitely scary going in I wanted to do
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it definitely um one thing Kathy said to
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me though right in the beginning when we
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had our first few like writing sessions
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she was like okay you can't approach
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this like an interview cuz I think when
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we were doing our writing sessions I
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kind of was like putting up the wall you
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know what I'm saying where I was just
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like going straight into oh I can know
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how to answer that question she was like
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no you thought you was on the radio
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yes okay basically um and then she was
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like look I don't want to take you back
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to the trauma but you have to emote like
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so people understand where you were
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coming from at that time and once she
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told me that I was like all right well
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if I'mma do it I'mma do it word I'mma do
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it and I'mma Be Real vulnerable I'mma be
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real honest this book is not salacious
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it's not about nobody else everything
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about this book and moments in this book
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is about what I learned from it how I
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Grew From it um it yeah it's just part
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of the Journey of who I am now yeah can
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I ask um because you are married and
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clearly you respect the union of
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marriage like we all do but did you have
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to have a conversation with your husband
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first before you did this because when
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she said that to you to me I would just
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the Scorpio and me the woman in me the M
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all the things that we share in common
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would have just been like okay I got to
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go talk to my husband first let me oh
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yeah no definitely I what I wanted him
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to know cuz he was like he he did say to
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me like you mentioning boyfriends and I
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was
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like how far back in the
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past so I was like there will be mention
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of situations but the names don't matter
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cuz they were a blip in the universe you
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are you are my husband you are
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everything so I would never disrespect
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that yeah 100% got got I like that R you
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kicked at
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him a blip blip in the UN
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a blip in the universe yeah this is um a
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very honest book let's get into it okay
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first of all congratulations on the life
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you crafted for yourself amen the
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curated life that you had to take in
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your own hands and put yourself in
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different spaces each time right um You
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Were a dancer at one point Y when people
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talk about and see it's a lot of people
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used to put a stigma because a woman or
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a male may have danced for money right
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you know but that was the ends is just
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what do they say the ends justified by
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the means justified by the ends right um
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talk about that even because we have
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since seen cardi B yeah who talks openly
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about her what she did to get to the
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point where she's at yeah talk about
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that do you get girls who dance that
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come up to you at all well you know
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what's funny about that situation CU we
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I I went back and forth about putting
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that in the book Because I had talked
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about it I've been I have spoken about
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it a lot in my career and I kind was
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like do I want to put this in the book
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but I had to because it is such a big
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although it lasted two months you only
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stri for two months yes and I didn't
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really I was so that's why it's called
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the laziest stripper that's what that's
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why that's why that that that chapter is
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called that because I was still so
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focused on rapping I was still so
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focused on being signed and I was like
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only doing that like you said means to
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an end in a sense of like I do need
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money I want to get out my mom house I
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need to rap so it was two months the
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bigger part of that story is my meeting
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with mace and him being that person that
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was like what you want to do with your
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life being the person that asked me
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those questions that I already was
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thinking so he became like the messenger
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Mur ma yeah literally so like yeah I I
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so yeah I did it but it's so much bigger
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than just that that you know what I mean
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so but yeah it was two months and I
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wasn't that great you wasn't you know
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what's like your biggest KNE want my
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money back want my money back listen but
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I was great I was great rapping though
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so I would get tipped for rapping oh so
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you would dance and rap no listen so I
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would go guys would be like can I get a
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lap dance I'm like I'll let me rap for
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you if you think I'm whack I'll give you
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a lap dance for free wow and most of the
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time I wasn't um
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so and so and I would get tipped
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literally for rapping and like literally
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guys used to be like shorty you crazy
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like of course because what are you
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doing walking around a strip club
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rapping um but hey man I was like [ __ ]
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it everywhere's a stage I just didn't
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want to dance you a strip club a focus
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group that's genius she made her strip
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club a focus group that's how she got
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her marketing plan
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together your songs eventually play at
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strip clubs that's a wild full circle
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crazy you talk about wanting to rap
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right um I want to get to that but prior
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to what was your life like prior to that
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like what led to the strip club it was
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one of those things
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where I feel like in high school for me
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music had to be my life right but then I
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had made this promise to myself if I
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hadn't gotten signed by 17 then I'm done
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then it wasn't meant to be you know when
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you were a kid and you just like um and
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I had tried I feel like I had tried um I
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done every talent show I used to come up
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to New York I pourn things to come up
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here to like get my demo out stuff like
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that and it just wasn't happen and I was
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like out of high school I needed money
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um and I didn't want to ask my mom for
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money it was just one of those kind of
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things where I'm like you're 17 like
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stop 18 stop and my mom never she never
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put pressure on me she wasn't kicking me
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out it wasn't none of it was all me
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feeling like I needed to hold myself
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down and that's when I went to that
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route the dancing route like I met some
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girls who was like we go to the Bronx
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every weekend I'm like all right I'm
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coming in two months the last day you
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danc what what happened the last day I
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danced was so the night before is when I
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met mace okay and he was like what you
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want to do was a slow night and um he
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was like I was like I want to rap He was
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like well let me hear you and we wrapped
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a bit he was like yo yeah you're kind of
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dope like he was like why don't you get
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dress and we can we can ride around the
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city and we can just listen to music and
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I was like I'm not coming with you if my
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homies ain't coming I'm not coming I
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don't know like it was full on he was
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like all right be
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cool relax relax like my homeboy is with
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me they can drive in the car with him
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and they can drive behind us and that's
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exactly what we did literally drove
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around to the sun came up wow listen to
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music home girls in the back went to his
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sister's house that like when the sun
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came up had some food we fell asleep
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like the girls when I woke up he was
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gone and did not see him again and I
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stopped that day I was like never again
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I'm never going back mace was your sign
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literally give it up for mace man D like
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an angel just appeared and disappear
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Lally wasn't easy when you got in the
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music business because when you think
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about the '90s it was even harder you
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know it was the things that people like
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Heather being and yourself went through
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you were late 90s that made it possible
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for the gorillas in the cardies and the
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coiler rays and you know you guys had to
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you were the guinea pig so to speak and
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you talk about the atmosphere in the
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book what it was like before you was
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dropping your first album you even got a
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call from Jay-Z can you talk about what
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the atmosphere was like and then what
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that call was yeah I mean there was all
9:32
there was excitement of course I was the
9:34
new chick I was the one chick from rough
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you know it was excitement um so of
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course the the phone call was like oh
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[ __ ] Jay like you know um and he was
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positive
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congratulations um but don't be too
9:48
upset if it doesn't do well some most
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times female rappers don't do that well
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and you remember that H that kind of
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narrative people used to say hey I had a
9:56
conversation with Jay-Z but go ahead
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yeah [ __ ]
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um but yeah um he yeah he said that and
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it wasn't out of malice until this day
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like there was no meanness behind I know
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it wasn't I think he was trying
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to he was just telling me facts at that
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time but for me I took it as like oh
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okay I'mma show you so you you you came
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out your first album 99 my first album
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came out in 96 okay I saw Jay in the
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Palladium back when the he like when he
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walked in the Club it's like the Red Sea
10:30
parted yeah and somehow we locked eyes
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and he said I need to talk to you for a
10:34
minute I heard your project it's going
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to take you a long time I'm like what
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the hell kind of message is this JayZ
10:41
like how you going you just killed me my
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like no it's great he's like it's going
10:47
to take a while for people to understand
10:49
you you just have to keep going and it
10:51
was to your point it was probably not
10:55
what you necessarily wanted to hear at
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the time but I needed to hear and on
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them days because those are those I I
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lean back on those words even to this
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day you got to keep going got to keep
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going it's a battery in your back it it
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he gave me the battery it's the battery
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in your back CU I felt the same like I
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didn't feel there's no Mish there's
11:14
nothing there was no mean is about it
11:15
was facts at that time and trying to I
11:18
guess temper my expectations as someone
11:20
said to me before and I'm like yeah that
11:22
makes sense but for me it was like okay
11:25
let me see you know what I'm saying like
11:27
not to him and I feel like and I say
11:29
this in the book as well I think all of
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us in this world have that one thing
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that one person the one say somebody
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says something they don't even know you
11:36
know what I mean that helps you in some
11:38
way they don't even know and here's the
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hook that was 96 that was 99 and we both
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still here so you better talk about
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[Applause]
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it let there be e Rough Riders first
11:52
lady reach number one on the billboard
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200 yeah that album that album yep
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y I love it man Eve is here we're
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talking about her Memoir if you haven't
12:05
you got to get it uh who's that girl
12:07
tomorrow it's coming out tomorrow pretty
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incredible uh one of the things um you
12:13
you go into too is you know one of your
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biggest regrets to this day is when you
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got your TV
12:22
sitcom oh my gosh the culture did we
12:25
didn't know how to take that no you know
12:28
we saw had a sitcom will will had a
12:31
sitcom Latifa Latifa had a
12:35
sitcom uh but it was ensembles you know
12:38
right um it was about you yeah about Eve
12:43
right yeah and you had made a decision
12:45
to go into acting I don't know Troy was
12:47
your manager at that time you told Troy
12:49
if you Troy Carter salute to Troy Carter
12:52
said if I'm going to do this I want to
12:53
do it for real and you hire the acting
12:55
coach Tracy yes Tracy right um and it
12:58
seemed like were taking it seriously yes
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what
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happened um it's a lot of pressure being
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the person that the show is named after
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yeah there's a whole crew there's a
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whole cast I was still really in my
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rapper like I was still doing show I was
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still touring I was still doing so many
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things and I didn't know how to be
13:22
anything other than a person that was on
13:24
the road um so I was drinking and going
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to the clubs and and then trying to get
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to table reads at like 9:00 a.m. like um
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so I was trying I was just trying to
13:35
juggle both because I just didn't
13:36
understand um until it got I probably
13:40
say the third season is when I started
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seeing it but then I was like I could
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feel that it was too late to kind of
13:45
snatch it back like I was having parties
13:47
in my like dressing room like after
13:49
parties after the club like it was just
13:51
really bad like un unsanctioned parties
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yeah like IID be like we at the club
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let's go back to my dressing like after
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after after I know I know after the
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studio after the club I just go back to
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the like yeah really yes it was C to set
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yeah it was bad I'm sorry I'm just
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trying to it was bad I know it was bad
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it was bad so
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obviously and then right and then what
14:22
happened then yeah so like it is one of
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my biggest regrets in the sense that not
14:27
that I didn't take it seriously I think
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if I had to do it over I would have
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definitely just tried to find a mentor
14:34
okay and just help me because it's it
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was just so much pressure I was the
14:39
youngest on set everybody else was
14:40
either just being married just having a
14:42
baby just so it was I wasn't even in
14:45
that stage of life that they were just
14:47
yet um yeah so I I wish I would have
14:50
just taken it a bit more seriously did
14:53
any of the co-actors felt like damn Eve
14:55
you [ __ ] this up for us I never heard
14:57
it from them yeah ever
14:59
um and we still you know we'll talk
15:02
sometimes on IG or whatever so I don't
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I've never felt that energy ever I think
15:06
that's one of my personal things okay
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you know what I'm saying like you know
15:11
when you just look back I'm like nah you
15:13
could have done that better yeah you you
15:15
mention this this is fun because we all
15:18
been adjacent to each other all these
15:20
years I've seen E when she first came
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into the business right
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um you mentioned um that you got you
15:28
partied a lot right party hardy alcohol
15:31
drugs
15:33
right what was that definitive moment
15:35
that made you go uhoh if I don't stop
15:37
yeah this could come to an end end it
15:40
was my DUI because it was the first time
15:43
and not the actual accident but having
15:46
to wear the ankle thing oh the ankle
15:48
bracelet yes because I couldn't drink
15:50
for 56 days and I was so stressed and
15:53
scared about not drinking cuz I couldn't
15:55
remember a time where I hadn't been so
15:57
like where i' been sober
16:00
days beg lawyer do community service ATP
16:04
any hospital I do any I will clean up
16:07
the street like literally and she was
16:09
like no this is what they want for you
16:11
this is you have to do it and sitting
16:14
with my emotions saved me for sure cuz I
16:17
hadn't and and it gave me time to think
16:19
about like why are you drinking why are
16:21
you trying to numb yourself what what is
16:23
the problem um so yeah my DUI definitely
16:27
was that moment what was the answer to
16:29
those questions I think I was dealing
16:32
with a lot of anxiety [ __ ] that we
16:34
didn't talk about back then depression
16:37
didn't even know the terms we didn't
16:38
even know the word like imposter
16:40
syndrome all of it oh all of it all of
16:42
it like is this what I really want for
16:44
my life is this where I'm supposed to be
16:45
like what is happening like then I think
16:47
also I was going through a weird
16:50
transition of are you going to be actor
16:52
do you still do music the music was kind
16:55
of coming down I was the label situation
16:57
was different like it was so much [ __ ]
17:00
going on um that for me I was just like
17:03
I don't want to deal with it I don't
17:04
want to think about it I don't want to
17:05
deal with it I don't want to think about
17:06
it I just asked real quick because I
17:07
also just quit drinking I lost my mom
17:09
back in April and for some reason it was
17:11
just kind of like I didn't see a reason
17:13
like you were just saying why am I
17:14
drinking so much so often like and was
17:16
usually finding some way to rationalize
17:19
it for myself I quit cold turkey and I
17:22
really had no problems you know no kind
17:24
of like feeling did you do cold turkey
17:25
or did you kind of slowly get off it
17:27
just in case there's anybody else who
17:28
might want
17:29
I slowly did for me and I still did
17:32
drink I just was able to pull myself
17:35
back I have friends I did go to AA I did
17:37
I had friends who really were people who
17:39
couldn't even smell alcohol or they'd be
17:41
on a bender for 10 days so then I
17:43
started paying attention to stuff like
17:45
that like so yeah I mean once I found
17:50
some answers I was like that's not what
17:52
you need that's not where you need to go
17:53
so it it was I was able to just kind of
17:55
pull it back a bit Yeah Eve is here man
17:58
this is great man who's that girl by Eve
18:02
I feel like I got permission to just be
18:04
all up in your
18:06
business when you write a book like yo
18:10
it's I swear to God before before the
18:12
run like when I was looking at the
18:13
schedule and stuff I was like oh my God
18:15
I feel so naked like I feel naked
18:18
naked it's crazy it is crazy it's crazy
18:22
but at the same time
18:25
honestly it's necessary for me like you
18:28
said this was a book that became
18:30
necessary for me to get some things out
18:32
to get rid of some things to shed some
18:34
things I don't want to bring anything
18:36
into how I'm raising my kid yeah you
18:39
know what I'm saying like it's he's just
18:41
so important to me that I just want him
18:43
to be wild and free like his name wild
18:45
like you know and yeah it's it it's a
18:48
big deal a b big deal it is you're very
18:51
fortunate too cuz when when your when
18:53
your sex tape came out um you like how I
18:56
brought that up that was a long way to
19:00
this [ __ ] wow I thought we were
19:05
friends I'm like damn I didn't even
19:08
realiz
19:12
canc I could turn to the page a she
19:15
talks about it you know read reading
19:18
from what you
19:19
said a really even want to say it I'll
19:21
say it for you this [ __ ] goes
19:24
bring this I got you I got
19:26
you but you talk about
19:30
I didn't know what happened but you go
19:32
behind the scenes like this thing was
19:33
leaked you know you were pissed at it it
19:36
was a clip from seven years prior former
19:40
relationship y got the investigators
19:42
involved yep that person got caught yep
19:45
the whole nine it was such a shocking
19:48
thing it was at that time it was crazy
19:51
it was shock crazy like like is that Eve
19:55
we didn't believe it was you when
19:57
somebody I I
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no I was like wow somebody called me I
20:02
was like how you get a phone call about
20:04
this how do you deal with
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this I called
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Troy yes no it was crazy yeah did you
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feel like cuz at that time it was new
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like and it was pre social media right
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but it could make you feel like damn it
20:22
this is going to end my I thought it was
20:23
going to end everything I was so EMB
20:27
embarrassed for my mother mother I swear
20:30
to God I thought about my mother first
20:32
but then me I was like God damn like
20:37
Mommy I had nothing to do with this no I
20:40
was embarrassed for my I was so like wow
20:42
but I was also so [ __ ] hurt yeah I
20:45
was so hurt because I was like wow this
20:47
was me in a relationship with I done
20:50
stuff that millions of [ __ ] do
20:53
with their boyfriend all the time yes it
20:55
was so crazy and I was so scared about
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my career I was was so scared and at
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that time I had fetish uhhuh
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um that wasn't part roll part of the
21:08
roll out that was not part of the plan
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my
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bad no Shannon damn
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it
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on she said it wasn't part of the wasn't
21:21
part of the that's the new one she said
21:24
she didn't PL it that's a good one put
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sharp around
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here stupid
21:29
is it crazy though to see there's many
21:31
of people that have capitalized on a sex
21:33
tape now are you shocked to see that n
21:36
man listen if you want it go get it like
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if that's your thing go get it but I was
21:40
like no bro like I don't want that's so
21:43
crazy and I remember actually I was on I
21:45
don't remember if I I do put this in the
21:47
book I should remember I may have put
21:48
this in the book I think I did I'll let
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you know go ahead um I was on an episode
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of what was that show with Joan Rivers
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where they did the fashion I
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and she brought it up and was like she
22:02
was like what's wrong with you kids
22:04
bringing out sex tape I was like you I
22:06
don't I was not in part of done none of
22:08
that I'm not I was so and then it
22:10
brought it back because it had gone away
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and it slapped me in my face again where
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I was like that's so crazy like that you
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would think that that's something I
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would do to promote on purpose like yeah
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it was nuts nuts no no
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punish I hate
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yall it's way
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[Music]
22:31
all right no hold on man stop no really
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this eve take her seriously stop all
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right let me let me get to the we got
22:37
people on the phones hold up we got
22:39
people on the
22:42
phon Crystal's on the line from Houston
22:44
Crystal say hi to Eve heyst hey
22:49
y' what's up girl what's up Crystal hey
22:53
oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God
22:55
God okay okay so I just want to tell you
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this because of
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you I I love hip-hop and I'm going tell
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you why the song um Love is Blind yes
23:07
when that was released in 98 97 9899 I
23:12
was literally like seven years old and I
23:16
had a sister that was going through the
23:17
same exact thing W so that
23:22
song man just to like go through that
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and see that and then you right about it
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and thankfully my sister didn't you know
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that didn't overcome her and it didn't
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you know but I just want to tell you
23:36
that so I listen to it it's on my faves
23:40
and I just love you I love how far you
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have come the things that you have done
23:44
the things that you have continued do
23:46
and I'm so proud of you you know having
23:48
your son and everything so thank you I
23:50
just want to let you know that I love
23:52
you and I'm proud of you and I'm so
23:54
thankful for you thank you so much thank
23:56
you thank you thank you for that thank
23:58
you that was amazing Crystal Crystal you
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can show her how much you love her by
24:01
getting her new book who's that
24:05
girl okay show her I'm tell Amir y'all
24:08
said hey just so y'all know tell that's
24:10
her son Amir he's the most adorable dude
24:12
but he's like our biggest listener but
24:15
he's like eight years old what how old
24:17
is he now he's nine nine oh he turned
24:20
nine we've been with him since well how
24:22
long we' been with a here for about for
24:25
about two years two three
24:27
years tell them we said hi okay you a
24:29
citizen all right all right we got Al
24:32
from Baltimore go
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[Music]
24:38
ahead it's on the line go ahead Al hello
24:41
yeah Al speak my my I'm sorry I my bad
24:46
I'm sorry hey good I'm great morning to
24:48
everybody I got two quick questions for
24:50
Eve
24:51
yeah go um one is um have you ever
24:56
considered doing an album with drag on
24:59
because the way y'all two just went at
25:01
with each other and just like just
25:03
bounced off each other I think that
25:05
would be a great album and two being on
25:08
the label with with you know some of the
25:11
big dogs and like you said pitbull in
25:13
the skirt what was your motivation to go
25:16
in there and write those lyrics to show
25:18
that you could swing with any any and
25:20
everybody um one I never thought about
25:23
doing an album but I Lov always when I
25:26
was in the studio with drag drag is to
25:28
me still one of the dopest MC's
25:31
ever is like got to find a way to get on
25:34
that
25:35
Spotlight cuz he deserves it and he's
25:37
the [ __ ] um so I never thought about an
25:39
album but he is everything he's the [ __ ]
25:41
um and two honestly my motivation was I
25:45
had I had to show up period I had to
25:47
show up um we it was boot camp like the
25:49
I always say for me ru Riders was
25:51
hip-hop boot camp and it was healthy
25:54
competition and everybody wanted to be
25:56
that next player and was my motivation
25:59
right there and I never also I never
26:01
wanted to feel like they had to carry me
26:03
I had I I needed needed to be their
26:06
equal so yeah that was my motivation hey
26:08
Al that was a great question man you're
26:10
a super citizen morning hey Al did you
26:12
hear about her new book her
26:14
Memoir oh yeah I just heard about it
26:16
comes out tomorrow correct yeah you you
26:18
gonna get that go ahead and buy a hard
26:20
copy oh I'm definitely going to get that
26:22
I'm definitely gonna get that man I love
26:24
me some eeve man I mean I I mean I know
26:26
it sound real cliche but I love me some
26:29
Eve and one other
26:31
thing I apologize for everybody about
26:34
this but um I'm I'm hating because
26:36
that's Stephanie Mills interview I'm
26:38
really hating on
26:40
you jealous are you jealous or you
26:42
hating which one which one is it I'm
26:47
both why you hating bro Stephanie came
26:50
up here Eve had a great time Stephany
26:52
Mills we gave her a a high frequency
26:56
interview like conversation
27:04
mirror book all right all right let's
27:07
take one more all right
27:09
funny what' that say Max a million Max a
27:13
million that's a good story let's talk
27:15
about Max ailon yeah you don't take the
27:17
call or talk all right you said you wait
27:20
what one you said one more one more to
27:22
get the caller ask about Max well I
27:25
loved what you said sorry caller we love
27:28
you citizen
27:31
um I love that you recognize the
27:35
immediate connection that you had with
27:37
Max and that it was worth an investment
27:40
but I love that simultaneously you did
27:42
not force the pace and he came to you he
27:45
clearly knew what he wanted yes and he
27:48
came to you but there was a line I had
27:49
to highlight it cuz I was like
27:53
bro we all got not in the book I said
27:56
this is my one okay so for Citizens when
27:59
you get the book and you read about this
28:00
you're going to see that they were you
28:02
know because Max lives in Europe in
28:04
London and Eve is over here in the
28:06
states so they had a long-distance
28:08
relationship but it came to a point
28:10
where it's like okay somebody is going
28:12
to have to make the heavy sacrifice and
28:14
compromised by moving so Eve recognized
28:17
it was her so she's talking to one of
28:19
her girls Aaron and Aon says I can't
28:22
believe that you're going to do all of
28:23
that without a ring 's response was look
28:27
I'm doing this to see if if I want the
28:29
ring 100% And I thought that was so
28:31
important because we often times hear
28:34
that where some women are like no no no
28:36
no I'm going to hold on that I don't
28:38
want anything to feel like a rehearsal
28:40
if I don't have the ring then it's not
28:42
worth the sacrifice it's not worth the
28:43
effort talk about slowing down to fully
28:48
know if you want the Ring versus nah
28:52
everything begins once I receive the
28:54
ring no man like like you said we were
28:56
so long distance for so long would have
28:58
these trips where I was doing like club
29:00
shows Europe club shows and stuff so
29:02
he'd be like all right we'll come to
29:03
London or I'll meet you in Paris or I'll
29:05
meet you in Germany or like you know so
29:07
everything was great because we would
29:09
have these two one week together two
29:11
weeks together and then when it got
29:13
serious it was like okay also he had
29:16
four kids yeah you know what I'm saying
29:18
so I was like we need to live in the
29:20
same city for a while even if it's like
29:22
five months six months to see do I want
29:25
this life taking on four kids moving to
29:28
new country I can always move back um
29:31
but I was like I don't even know if I
29:32
want this because do I want to take on
29:33
the responsibility like um and I do
29:36
think sometimes we put so much pressure
29:38
on oursel to like you said to get the
29:39
ring or whatever but sometimes yeah
29:42
sometimes it's just about figuring it
29:44
out because you need to know fully who
29:47
this person is and who you are with that
29:49
person before going marriage is a lot
29:51
talk about it marriage is a lot it's not
29:53
easy it is [ __ ] hard all the time
29:57
every day it's hard but if you do it
29:59
with the person you choose you know what
30:01
I'm saying and you do it with your eyes
30:03
wide open then you know then it could be
30:06
great it could be fun you know what I'm
30:08
saying it's never perfect it ain't [ __ ]
30:10
perfect nothing perfect but yeah no I I
30:13
wanted to yeah I needed to figure that
30:15
out yeah definitely yeah proud of you
30:18
Eve thank you know thank you no I'm
30:20
proud of you cuz you know you could you
30:23
could [ __ ] around in hip-hop for decades
30:25
and Never Grow Up y real that's what you
30:27
be saying real
30:28
how many years I've said that you could
30:30
be you pushed out kicked out kicked P
30:33
out you can shelter yourself in this
30:35
going through this Loop y every year
30:37
just enough to be there but not enough
30:39
to get where you want to go and years
30:41
pass by and you don't evolve and you
30:43
don't grow up and you don't grow and so
30:45
and you see a lot of I speak to the men
30:48
in in our culture having a hard time
30:52
growing up yep right and so the
30:54
conversation is rather adolescent you
30:58
know you see the meaning the reasons
31:00
behind the moves that are being make
31:02
made are kind of adolescent so when I
31:04
watched you it's like yeah keep
31:06
ascending because we're not just this
31:09
yes this gets us to all of that yes
31:11
right 100% so you personify that I'm I'm
31:15
very thankful that
31:17
I'm I guess recognized how to Pivot I
31:22
will say that's not just me I think that
31:24
is down to who you know it was Troy and
31:27
the beginning 100% um so and he was very
31:32
much big on like Longevity if you want
31:34
longevity you need to be doing this you
31:36
need to be trying in this and thankfully
31:37
I was open to that because I think
31:39
that's also the other thing is you got
31:40
to be open to the other opportunities
31:43
yeah but being in this business will
31:45
make you feel like that's why a lot of
31:47
Reason even if I wasn't with my husband
31:48
I don't think I would live in New York
31:50
or La I think I still would be living
31:52
somewhere else because it make it breeds
31:55
that I got to keep up I need to see what
31:57
else is next what's going is anybody
31:58
checking me all like that [ __ ] is tiring
32:01
as [ __ ] like it really is like and and I
32:05
think a lot of my drinking came from
32:06
that exhaustion as well you know what
32:08
I'm saying so yeah no I just I'm I'm
32:11
grateful that I've been able to PIV
32:13
pivot very grateful and you've shown up
32:16
every time we didn't get to talk about
32:18
the talk but congratulations for that
32:20
that stint on the talk as well and why
32:24
shout out to steinart what are you doing
32:25
over there you teaching a class yeah
32:27
they let me do whatever I
32:29
want really literally they're like
32:32
whatever you want to do I was like okay
32:34
so yeah it's a yearlong residency my
32:37
first official kind of like meet and
32:39
greet with the community is next
32:40
Saturday I'm really excited about it um
32:42
but I get to build curriculum how I want
32:45
there's a big thing in in the spring I
32:48
have another one in November um we'll
32:50
talk actually CU um but yeah so I get to
32:53
do whatever I want so which is very kind
32:56
of them because they I could come do
32:57
what it's once a month or no so I
33:01
technically I only have to do three or
33:03
four a year so I have to do two here and
33:06
I'm gonna do one in London um well three
33:08
here it'll turn out to be and I'll do
33:09
one in London on their campus there so I
33:11
think Heather and Tracy will be great
33:12
speakers I I see a woman's panel
33:14
absolutely no that's why I said we going
33:16
to talk real [ __ ] I'm dead ass I I ain't
33:19
bullshitting all right hey hey this is
33:22
Eve man listen we going to leave some of
33:23
we going to leave a lot of these stories
33:25
she do get into the talk goodie
33:29
thank you shout out to Kathy okay shout
33:31
out to Kathy shout out to your mom
33:33
everybody out to my M Franco from
33:35
Georgia Kareem and Maryland uh emis in
33:39
Pennsylvania that person in Arizona hit
33:41
up Eve directly mallerie malerie and
33:44
Arizona hit up Eve on our social media
33:46
ask her the questions you wanted to ask
33:48
us the real Eve congratulations than
33:52
round you your thing you broke your [ __ ]
33:55
off on this book
33:58
yo it's a great ass book easy read too
34:03
from the first shout out to your aunt
34:06
yes my Aunt Karen may she rest may she
34:08
rest shout out to Aunt Karen man that's
34:10
nice all right hey and we're going to
34:11
say wow we had Hal Berry here too we had
34:14
two
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powerhouses full spectrum of
34:18
entertainment
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