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Inayah Talks New Album ‘INSECURE’ and Dealing with Postpartum Depression | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Sep 15, 2022
Social sensation and songstress Inayah stopped by Sway In The Morning to talk about her new music and all the love she received when she openly talked about dealing with postpartum depression.
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0:01
[Applause]
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sometimes you got to hit him with a
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bottle
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wouldn't be a lyric in the song if that
0:08
wasn't true
0:12
they get out of line
0:14
you can't throw a paper plane at her
0:16
that ain't gonna have no effect tracy
0:19
can't throw a nerf ball or a pillow
0:22
sometimes you gotta hit that [ __ ] with
0:24
a bottle
0:26
that might be one of the most powerful
0:28
lines written in the past two years
0:33
it can apply to everything have it be
0:37
when you when you when you're laid on
0:38
your taxes and you're tired of the irs
0:41
harassing you what you gonna do hit that
0:43
[ __ ] with the button then you go damn
0:44
it come on
0:47
hold on i got you don't worry about that
0:49
there you go
0:54
appreciate it tracy somebody cutting you
0:56
in line you in the grocery store you're
0:57
at costco you've been waiting for hours
0:59
and then somebody cut you what you gonna
1:00
do hit that [ __ ] with a bottle
1:04
problem solver it's a problem solver
1:07
and it ain't a gender thing to the word
1:09
[ __ ] we know this now right somebody be
1:12
harassing on your dms i want you to play
1:14
the song and you don't even like the
1:15
song what you're gonna do
1:18
anyhow what you're gonna do hit that
1:20
[ __ ] with a [ __ ] boy a
1:24
night up yeah wait that last one was
1:27
really for you you don't want to be
1:29
getting harassed about playing the song
1:31
what you gonna do swag hit that [ __ ]
1:32
with a bottle
1:34
twice
1:35
a thick one i still can't believe that
1:37
even happened come on why not because
1:40
i'm still getting used to being in this
1:43
light
1:44
i'm not um you know i'm country as hell
1:47
i'm not used to this
1:48
you're not used to people noticing you
1:50
yeah i i'm still trying to like you know
1:53
on my climb even the way it happened i
1:55
went from i had 4 000 followers when i
1:58
went viral and then i woke up the next
2:00
morning and had 200 000 followers wow it
2:03
literally like overnight you know i'm
2:06
saying people started knowing my name so
2:08
is that a head trip though like you go
2:10
from 4 000. you wake up in the same bed
2:14
yep same house
2:15
same empty refrigerator yeah and now you
2:17
got 200 000
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no i i'm still now i've always known
2:30
that i would have that i would be this
2:33
this person i've had the same dream
2:35
since i was a little girl
2:36
but i never knew how it happened i did
2:38
competition shows contests i you know
2:41
would win all of the local stuff going
2:43
on in the city
2:45
but god ended up taking me all around
2:47
the world and i never even left my
2:48
living room wow that's powerful right
2:52
yeah
2:53
yeah anna followed she got 2 million i
2:55
was telling um heather when i first
2:58
found out about you you might i don't
2:59
even think you have 4 000.
3:01
and now you got 2 million followers and
3:03
the numbers keep climbing they keep
3:05
climbing what um best thing video got 48
3:08
million views
3:09
[Music]
3:10
so thomas went right there man come on
3:13
true story too
3:14
that best thing
3:16
you was giving them everything yeah and
3:17
then you you had to leave them mm-hmm oh
3:20
yeah i listen
3:22
she ain't scared to walk away now that's
3:24
hard to do though or not no it ain't
3:26
when i when i listened to the song i was
3:28
like this is an easier song written than
3:30
it is to actually walk away from okay
3:33
okay well i'll give you that yeah okay
3:35
it was it was a um it was it was a
3:37
challenging space to be in but you got
3:39
to get to a point where you choose
3:41
either the the turmoil or your destiny
3:44
and this was somebody that was keeping
3:46
me away from my my purpose so now best
3:49
thing wasn't by him not that one right
3:50
well that's her boyfriend right there
3:51
she introduced him to me like that so i
3:53
felt i felt right to say it shout out
3:56
i kept telling him are you
3:59
saying it to him you're the best thing
4:01
ain't you all about business yeah you
4:04
said something to the tune i'm
4:05
paraphrasing i gave you everything i
4:07
gave you all my love but you ain't [ __ ]
4:09
you know
4:10
space in my heart
4:12
but
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you ain't fit yeah i like how you put
4:17
that what does that mean he wasn't ready
4:19
um it's it's when
4:22
you're the giver and there's nothing to
4:24
receive you know what i mean i was i was
4:27
in love alone i was in love all by
4:29
myself i made plans for this person i
4:32
made space for this person in my life
4:34
and in my journey and it was it was
4:36
literally a blank space no reciprocity
4:39
at all
4:41
there was there was you can't um give a
4:44
spot to someone who isn't even fulfilled
4:46
in their own life and in their own
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journey
4:49
so i was in the studio real time real
4:51
tears
4:52
right
4:53
i was like
4:57
okay take it again i'm sorry i'm ready
4:58
this time
5:00
like i was literally crying through that
5:03
that record i was in the lab currently
5:04
so i'm sure he probably heard it oh he
5:07
know the song right he know the song did
5:09
that trigger him anyway and he knows
5:11
about him
5:14
he knows it about him
5:15
but i don't try to you know i don't give
5:17
him no
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royalties
5:21
but um yeah unfortunately he knows it's
5:23
about him but i i still thank him for
5:26
putting me in that space because i got a
5:28
whole gold plaque out there
5:32
with a bottle
5:35
fest up young dude how old was he uh i
5:38
don't even know i don't even remember
5:39
nothing about him oh you just said
5:41
everything now you don't remember
5:42
nothing nothing important he probably in
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his 30 he probably about 35 something
5:46
like that going on 40. he looks terrible
5:48
too by the way oh my god thirty-five
5:58
it's unfortunate but she's right like
6:00
you know that all the old folks say you
6:02
gotta go through to get through like you
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really have to go through sometimes some
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awful stuff to
6:08
get at your best
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you know like it makes your skin a
6:11
little bit thicker makes you a little
6:12
bit more protective like and when you
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come out on the other side of it you
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literally sometimes know who you are and
6:20
so you could just be like nah
6:22
no yeah like you know like that light is
6:25
so strong in you that you know that's
6:27
true it can also help with recognizing
6:30
like your own flaws too like when you're
6:33
able to see someone else she takes
6:35
accountability you say it then maybe you
6:36
find some compassion and it can help you
6:38
to be like damn yeah i actually have
6:40
because i'm thinking about most girls
6:42
yeah you know what i'm saying yeah yeah
6:43
and you got lines in most girls that
6:45
says like that's a song by the way y'all
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mm-hmm yes
6:50
my new single
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yeah but you speak about like putting
6:53
dude in positions that you're surprised
6:56
yeah he would still stick by yeah so to
6:59
turn the tables a bit what would you say
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are like your areas of improvement i i
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mean i you know in most girls i'm
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talking about how damaged i am from the
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last [ __ ]
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and and in turn i'm i'm putting this new
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wonderful guy
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through that just because of the damage
7:17
that somebody else left me with the
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baggage yeah and and you you know you
7:21
it's unfair to the new love the the or
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the
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better or for better words the real love
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that you have now so
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he he makes me he he checks me you know
7:32
what i mean like hey uh-uh right i ain't
7:34
dude you know
7:36
yeah and i have to really register in my
7:39
mind like wait you're right you don't
7:40
deserve that yeah you don't you don't do
7:42
me the way he did that so that's
7:45
cross-collateralization trauma
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not for real yeah
7:49
what's your call
7:52
collateral
7:53
lateralization is the term they use in
7:56
in your contract probably your record
7:57
contract
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uh when you cross-collateralize uh debt
8:02
you take the debt from an old project
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and apply it to a new project
8:07
so you're taking the
8:08
trauma old trauma and applying it to the
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new trauma when you didn't properly
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probably
8:15
process it yourself and then in the
8:17
beginning i don't think you made it
8:19
clear perhaps what your goals were in
8:21
the relationship or got clarity from
8:23
that first guy right mm-hmm
8:37
you guys have expectations from guys
8:39
yeah no they not developed enough or
8:42
maybe the communication
8:44
uh wasn't clear clear enough well you
8:47
could have found all that out in the
8:48
beginning of the relationship yeah yeah
8:50
i guess i guess i could have but another
8:52
mistake that we make is we hold on to
8:53
the potential right and i think we fall
8:55
in love with the potential of what it
8:57
could be and we ignore what's actually
9:00
right in front of us she's so right yeah
9:02
when that real love as you say comes
9:04
along you know you've been in
9:06
dysfunction for so long yeah i think
9:08
it's normal you don't even know no new
9:10
dude is like what's wrong with you yeah
9:12
like that ain't normal
9:14
like girl go somewhere with all that we
9:16
have to do that here because you're
9:18
paranoid now yeah for sure like i can't
9:20
trust this yes absolutely i actually
9:22
have a record about that too
9:25
i have a my so the whole project is
9:27
called insecure
9:28
the um the record where i speak about my
9:30
paranoia is called in my head yeah so
9:32
it's it's me tripping out on my own
9:34
thoughts with all of this stuff that i
9:36
have piled in my mind from my past
9:38
making me paranoid and thinking that
9:40
this new guy is on that same agenda
9:42
right um again because falling in love
9:44
with the potential will make you see
9:46
something that ain't really there so you
9:47
get to you know tripping like smoky in a
9:49
chicken coop and [ __ ] after coming out
9:51
of your oh after coming out of the last
9:53
relationship how long did it take you
9:55
to be open for a new one how long you
9:58
know how did you guys meet
10:00
i'm still
10:02
navigating my way through this this new
10:04
beautiful channel what's his name jay
10:07
hey jay don't take nothing man don't
10:09
take no [ __ ]
10:11
be patient oh he don't okay don't don't
10:13
respond to everything that's that's the
10:15
yard mine right there oh you're from
10:17
jamaica that's right i saw you cooking
10:19
chicken feet yeah on your instagram
10:21
y'all jennifer lewis is waving hi to us
10:24
look at this oh my god hi mom we love
10:27
you we love you jennifer lewis
10:41
great good to see you love you come see
10:43
you soon
10:45
[Music]
10:46
[Laughter]
10:55
that just took me way too fast popping
10:57
right now wow gotta open the door liar
11:00
jennifer lewis she just came in hit you
11:02
with it and damn
11:04
hit you with a bottle
11:05
hit that [ __ ] with a bottle
11:08
i'm okay i'm trying now you want to play
11:10
a song to come back collect my we need
11:12
to take the princess intermission let's
11:14
go to most girls you got most girls
11:15
that's the new single since we've been
11:17
talking about it take it take your time
11:19
this is anaya's new singles
11:21
most girls is out now yeah
11:23
all right off the insecure ep here it is
11:26
j45 take a cry break i mean uh uh play a
11:30
song not for real a confirmation break
11:32
that's what that was
11:33
jennifer lew is one of the most powerful
11:35
actors of agent of our lifetime yeah
11:38
actresses i got a chance to post a post
11:43
tony
11:44
award um show for black um actors on
11:48
broadway a co-hosted with jennifer lewis
11:51
maybe my man karoo daniels connected
11:53
that for me to do and i'll co-host it
11:56
with her
11:57
and it was the first time i just watched
11:59
yes yes i just watched tonight i didn't
12:02
do she you know yeah i thought i was a
12:04
host until i saw her pick up that mic i
12:07
just kind of carried her cup yeah not
12:10
for real she's one of them ones that you
12:11
got like i was i was telling them on the
12:13
break she jennifer lewis and loretta
12:15
devine are two uh
12:17
hollywood actresses black hollywood
12:19
phenomenal actresses that have like set
12:21
paths for for all of us that are
12:23
aspiring actresses and now that i'm
12:25
getting into the lane of it her and
12:27
loretta divine are two that i've always
12:30
studied so i know she probably was like
12:31
why is this damn girl calling me mom but
12:34
it was it for me in my mind if she was
12:35
like my tv mom like she's one of the
12:37
ones that i studied so for her to just
12:40
walk in here like that just took me way
12:42
too fast y'all yeah that's just
12:44
confirmation anaya like you you got god
12:46
will do that sometimes yeah i heard you
12:48
say hi mom through the glass i'm like
12:50
that's
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amazing congratulations for that moment
13:05
that's beautiful for you yeah your
13:07
career has been that way to me you know
13:10
um i think it was
13:12
let's play the one that really kind of
13:13
set it off for i thought uh was when you
13:16
did your interpretation of booed up by
13:18
ella
13:19
let's play that let's take them back for
13:21
a second yeah it's called the what the
13:23
ooey gooey
13:25
ew
13:26
but this this was um this maxwell
13:29
tiffany had it all these different
13:30
people started reposting it and and you
13:33
got on that radar right yeah yeah and
13:36
then and then what did trick daddy do
13:39
oh my goodness this i love to tell this
13:41
story
13:43
trick trick call me
13:44
first he he reached out to me on ig and
13:46
was like yo what that dude hit my line
13:48
and send me his number i was like
13:50
okay
13:52
so i called him i was like hey trick
13:55
what's up
13:56
he was like yo yo man you know you you
13:57
got something out here you you're gonna
13:59
be one of them one so you know we
14:01
chopped it up he
14:02
he gave me all my flowers he called me
14:05
about a week after that and say hey i
14:07
got somebody on the line uh that i want
14:08
you to talk to
14:09
clicked over um oh sorry
14:13
i'm getting emotional again it's okay we
14:15
got the tissue all day
14:16
that's what helps with writing
14:19
dang it
14:20
it's okay okay and it was betty right
14:23
wow on the phone yes come on and uh
14:27
that's his guy mama
14:29
she was like baby
14:31
that sugar daddy song that's some of my
14:33
type of writing right there
14:35
and i was just like on the phone like
14:37
miss betty do you do you know who you
14:38
are
14:39
like you talking to me like like we just
14:41
um she was like baby i want you to come
14:43
to my house i'ma cook some dinner for
14:44
you i want to sit down and talk to you
14:46
about the rights to you i'm owning the
14:47
rights to your music and your royalties
14:49
and these contracts and like she wanted
14:51
to
14:52
protect me
14:54
she and and never met the lady a day in
14:56
my life and it was just again divine
14:59
appointments
15:00
um and she invited me over for dinner
15:02
and said that she wanted to sit down and
15:04
go over rights and and all of that and i
15:06
never i never got to have dinner with
15:08
her because she passed away oh oh my god
15:10
i never made it i never made it to her
15:12
but you made it though
15:14
you had the conversation yeah and she
15:16
said what she needed to say now you just
15:17
got to go behind it and do the work she
15:19
told you what to look out for
15:21
and i keep i run with that yeah i run
15:24
with that and god bless me with a
15:25
manager that i can trust with my life
15:26
kenny hamilton kenny what's up man
15:28
that's a little this is legendary
15:31
i met kenny running around with justin
15:32
bieber when justin had a screwed up
15:34
haircut yeah oh oh okay
15:38
it wasn't that tight in the beginning
15:40
well he had the the
15:41
thing he was younger
15:45
justin like earl young
15:47
baby justin we spent a lot of time
15:49
together yeah uh when i was doing a lot
15:52
of stuff with mtv talented individual
15:55
that's what i like most about on this
15:57
you know the way he played instruments
15:58
the way he performed regardless of all
16:01
the headlines that came post all of that
16:03
stuff that just comes with the territory
16:05
and i say that to say when kenny told me
16:07
about you i don't have to second guess
16:09
oh yeah he's yeah kenny
16:12
he's got an eye for it ear forward heart
16:14
for it
16:14
um when we first met though and yes i'ma
16:17
tell this story okay when we first met
16:20
it was at some exclusive fancy-ass
16:23
restaurant called nice guy had never
16:24
been there in l.a and kenny's sitting at
16:27
this big boss ass godfather ass table
16:30
yeah and um i walk in and uh tina
16:33
introduced tina davis that's my other
16:35
industry mom introduced me to you know
16:37
where she's from that's where she's from
16:38
yeah she's from she from cali yeah yeah
16:41
that's bad okay that's my girl okay she
16:43
don't play by me and i don't play by who
16:44
okay and um and then we walk in and
16:47
kenny's sitting there at this big ass
16:49
table and tina introduces me to him and
16:51
i'm sitting down like
16:52
okay he must really be somebody
16:54
important cause drake walks in and comes
16:56
right to his table and greets him and
16:58
then chris brown come in after that and
16:59
i'm just sitting there like tina who the
17:01
[ __ ] is we sitting with
17:04
all these famous people coming over to
17:05
shake kenny's hand and stuff and then
17:07
you know as as uh fate would have it we
17:10
later i'm connected and he's he's my
17:12
manager now what was it though man
17:14
that's a beautiful story he's a
17:15
trustworthy person but how do you
17:17
how do you know he's not the first
17:19
person you worked with how do you know
17:21
like for up-and-coming artists what
17:22
should they look for i
17:24
for me it's um
17:27
it's that
17:29
that good feeling that i that i don't
17:33
get about being that the nervousness the
17:35
the butterflies of uh second guessing a
17:37
person
17:38
i don't get that with kenny
17:40
i it's as calm as like
17:43
god's love there's no i don't have to
17:46
think about it and i'm an overthinker i
17:49
over analyze everything
17:51
but um me and kenny is just a genuine
17:55
divine
17:56
match
17:57
um and we argue a lot
18:00
but um
18:02
we all know what the bigger picture is
18:04
here and you know even though he get on
18:06
my nerves he got my best interest at
18:08
heart that's your best interest i like
18:10
that this is anaya follow her
18:13
h
18:14
i'm trying to tell you citizens when we
18:16
have these artists come up here in a
18:18
year from now you'd be like oh my god
18:19
and the winner is all right
18:22
what happens all the time
18:24
yep started with lizzo or whoever name
18:28
uh
18:29
i can't think of everybody but yeah it
18:31
started with liza lindsay let's go with
18:33
lizzle sway do you remember when we
18:35
first ran into each other was it at
18:36
south by um it was at the one hotel and
18:42
that was the weekend of
18:43
the what event was that the the marley's
18:46
um
18:48
in florida no i was in it was in l.a
18:51
there was some big event at grammys
18:53
grammy it was a grammy
18:58
and then um and i and i had just talked
19:00
in the corner yep you was coming out for
19:02
your car and i was standing up waiting
19:04
on my car yeah and then i seen you you
19:06
turned around i said [ __ ]
19:11
and then you was like yeah i like you
19:14
and we dabbed it up i said i'm coming
19:16
i'm coming to your show i'm gonna be
19:18
there i don't know when but i'm gonna be
19:19
there and and and here we go
19:30
let me bug you out that was the week i
19:32
hosted bob marley's 75th birthday
19:35
celebration for the marley family wow
19:37
and that was the week colby passed
19:39
yes that was the weekend
19:42
yes it was and it was weekend so cold in
19:45
l.a that day yeah oh my god i remember
19:48
that it was a crazy thing it was it was
19:50
it was a very eerie feeling in in la
19:53
that day everybody was like trying to
19:55
continue with their day but that news
19:58
hit the city it was it was that was yeah
20:01
it was devastating
20:02
but we met that week in ireland
20:04
[ __ ] i
20:08
what's your story
20:09
like you started
20:11
from houston yeah houston texas born and
20:13
raised um my family country though we
20:16
from a real small town in texas like the
20:18
population is like two
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okay wow
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and
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every and they are my cousins
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both of them right both of them um and
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my mama and my my parents they uh my
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mama was raised on a farm you know
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worked with her hands on with her hands
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for real i um i'm a first generation
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millionaire in my family like i i have
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that responsibility absolutely
20:43
say that out loud there's a lot of
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security yeah there's a lot uh i don't
20:49
have a choice but to be great at this
20:51
you know god gave me this platform and i
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have to execute there's i don't there's
20:56
no backup plan you know what i mean my
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mama did the best she could with us we
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ain't really have much but we had a good
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life me and my sisters i'm the baby of
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three
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i have uh two boys that i birth and a
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bonus baby now
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so i got a chaotic-ass house full of
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kids
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and i don't got no you know no nanny my
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mom no shade to anybody who does
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you know everybody to each his own but i
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leave my kids with my mama when i'm gone
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mm-hmm and when i'm at home i'm in my
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muumuu and my bonnet
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as you should be i don't you know you're
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okay with that today
21:39
all right he's okay with that that's a
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look okay
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he ain't but
21:43
he's being nice right now okay but no i
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uh
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you know this is i i turn this on when
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it when i have to but the the priority
21:52
is is it's going to always be home and
21:54
family i love it and now yeah good to
21:56
hear that what was your first was
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boot up your first yeah break break yes
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boot up went crazy i just happened to do
22:04
that at the right time um i've always
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worked uh for it i work for a jingle so
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i have a jingle company yes that i work
22:10
for and i've i never quit my job people
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be so shocked when they hear that i
22:13
still work for the jingle company i
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still work there till this day
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give me a pen because i got an idea i
22:18
knew you had a jingle and i um i worked
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i still worked there i did the boot up
22:24
remake just playing around put it on
22:27
instagram and like i said the next
22:30
morning y'all the next morning i put it
22:32
up at like maybe six in the afternoon or
22:34
something by the time i woke up the next
22:36
morning it was like 10 a.m and i went
22:38
from 4 000 followers to 200 000
22:40
followers overnight oh my gosh but a lot
22:43
of people make the mistake of thinking
22:44
that
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the
22:46
the success came overnight right
22:50
and it did not right that just happened
22:52
to be the one yeah the popularity went
22:55
went somewhere overnight but i've been
22:57
i've been singing since i was two i
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wrote my first song when i was 10 years
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old
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um i had a record deal at 14 that
23:05
flopped because it was terrible it was a
23:07
gospel label actually
23:09
um that's my roots gospel
23:12
my mama my mama brought us up on lashon
23:15
pace yolanda adams you know the isley
23:18
brothers johnny taylor too many memories
23:20
is my favorite song
23:21
that's my favorite song can your sister
23:23
sing too hell now
23:26
can't hit a note to say they lie really
23:28
i'm serious i'm serious it's not a uh
23:31
it's not in but they're talented in
23:33
other ways right of course but no they
23:34
can't sign that can't sign your older
23:36
sisters huh yeah yeah did they bully you
23:39
as a child at all you know what we was
23:41
boys
23:42
like we acted like boys we was tomboys i
23:45
just started getting like cute and
23:48
pretty because i'm in this light like i
23:50
don't really like makeup and all that
23:53
other stuff i told you moomoos and
23:54
bunnies
23:55
you okay with that
23:58
keep checking
24:00
check yeah is it the other way but you
24:02
know see when you see can you read my
24:04
writing what you got for me what it says
24:06
yes i can read this i think
24:09
what this says
24:10
sway in the morning
24:12
we i can't read billy talk billy talk
24:14
aka heather b that's me
24:16
with t
24:17
aka tracy g
24:19
and the citizen shay 45.
24:22
i thought maybe what are we doing
24:24
i don't know i mean let me tell you it
24:27
seemed like she wanted to write it over
24:28
huh
24:29
one time one time we had naj on our show
24:32
right and we were talking to him about
24:35
his pen game how great it was and we
24:36
wanted to see his process
24:38
so we threw a beat on and now start
24:40
writing to it we came back like a song
24:42
or two later and he had wrote a hook
24:44
same thing happened with jay-z mm-hmm i
24:47
kid you not it's all on record i'm not
24:49
lying okay okay sorry
24:52
okay same thing happened with jay-z we
24:54
had jay in front of us it was like hey
24:56
man they say you freestyle we want to
24:58
see it and can you come up with
24:59
something on the spot you know
25:02
and both nas and jay did it yeah so you
25:05
write jingles we need a jingle for our
25:08
morning show wow
25:09
and i thought maybe we could take some
25:13
you know i time know like we could play
25:15
a b we take our time we got about five
25:17
to ten minutes okay something like throw
25:19
a beat on real quick maybe to give her
25:21
some inspiration you need to rewrite
25:23
some of those words okay let's see let
25:25
me read it you want to rewrite it
25:31
[Music]
25:41
you want me to use these words if you
25:42
could put those in there but talk about
25:44
you know living your best life in the am
25:47
getting out in the world winning like
25:48
you winning whatever you want to you
25:50
know
25:51
you can talk about these suckers out
25:52
there so if you want to put that in
25:54
there you sound like you want to be on
25:55
it with bars what you doing i might talk
25:57
out of it you might talk out of it you
25:59
might ask something you got to introduce
26:01
her you should do the intro i think sway
26:03
okay i could do that find out when she
26:05
get ready you do the intro houston's
26:07
finest issues okay i'm gonna practice my
26:09
intro practice your intro over this beat
26:11
i love this track okay you need some
26:12
time with this right she she getting she
26:14
in his own right now
26:16
all right all right
26:18
ladies and gentlemen introduce it to you
26:20
houston's finest
26:22
[Music]
26:24
in the morning wake up yawning going on
26:27
and on and on and on and
26:29
yeah with billy
26:31
aka
26:33
heather b
26:34
yeah witty money yeah aka tracy g yeah
26:39
the citizenship 45
26:42
yeah you know we're live
26:45
[Music]
26:46
[Applause]
26:56
[Music]
27:04
i love seeing god like we're we're all
27:07
people of faith to some degree but you
27:10
know those prayers that you pray in
27:12
private that you'd be so scared
27:13
sometimes they even share with like your
27:15
best friend
27:17
and to witness a person
27:19
receive an answer prayer that you know
27:21
it was a prayer in private yeah it was
27:23
just beautiful today like oh yeah those
27:25
tears for you and i just think it's
27:26
incredible to see god at work yeah
27:29
i'm still trying to
27:30
keep it all together still trying to
27:32
process how quickly all of that just
27:34
happened crazy and and you know that
27:37
just goes to show that
27:40
when something is for you
27:43
you don't you don't have to chase it
27:45
mm-hmm
27:47
it it comes right to you you attract it
27:49
yeah and it'll sit itself right in your
27:52
lap you know what i mean just like just
27:54
like right now
27:56
just like today you you told us it was
27:58
gonna happen yeah like i didn't have no
28:00
choice in this yeah
28:05
that's the only thing i said when i seen
28:07
them because i i had already been
28:09
i had already been attracting that in my
28:11
in my mind that whole uh
28:14
that whole weekend i was telling uh tina
28:17
everything i wanted to try to knock out
28:18
while we were you know
28:20
um and then i had so much that i was
28:22
just trying to do because i was
28:24
pregnant
28:25
and i was trying to like you okay with
28:27
that jay
28:30
i was pregnant and we was trying to like
28:32
get as much done before i had to go you
28:34
know on my little break right and then i
28:36
seen sway and i was like okay god i i
28:38
hear you we took a cool picture too that
28:41
was right i was about to walk up the
28:43
stairs yes we did he verbally assaulted
28:45
me and i'm a poster yeah post that you
28:47
know what you do you you take the audio
28:50
from this story
28:51
yeah right and you put that post that
28:53
picture with the audio from this story
28:55
yeah and talk about how you manifest it
28:57
yeah and that was back in twenty twenty
29:00
that happened in 2020 right 2020. that
29:02
was 2020. look at us now come on man now
29:05
2020 kenny mary j blige
29:10
who are some of those artists that's
29:11
embraced you
29:12
oh so
29:14
maxwell off top wow uh i i was like
29:19
you know i couldn't even speak when he
29:21
was like yo you are a star you are light
29:24
you got something i was like maxwell
29:29
maxwell jamie foxx tiffany haddish um
29:32
oh my goodness uh fendi
29:35
um finney is finding is here yeah
29:38
um
29:39
fendi got that now
29:40
yeah he do yeah he do he's around stars
29:43
yeah all the time
29:45
there it's just it's too many to name i
29:47
can't even remember but everybody that
29:49
has um and jamie even
29:52
still to this day we you know he he hits
29:54
me up we speak he reposts my stuff all
29:57
the time he reposted the um
29:59
my clip from the miss pat show mm-hmm
30:01
that's dope yeah
30:04
yeah
30:05
he's he's really supportive he always be
30:07
looking out for me me and him we're
30:08
going to work we're going to be gonna
30:09
get it right yeah what's what's next for
30:11
you we got the project yeah so insecure
30:14
is dropping on the 19th um
30:18
insecure is a
30:20
very
30:21
23rd on the 23rd we moved that day let
30:24
me start over so insecure it's dropping
30:26
on the 23rd
30:28
um
30:29
it's a true story of my journey through
30:31
postpartum i had a very very rough
30:33
postpartum journey after my my baby
30:36
my unexpected baby
30:38
and
30:40
it it walks people through the moments i
30:42
had when i thought that i lost my
30:44
relevancy when i lost my my voice
30:47
i lost my pen i couldn't write a song
30:49
for [ __ ] i was stuck i was stuck
30:52
postpartum was really heavy
30:54
and um
30:55
it highlights how i had this person
30:58
championing me through all of it and and
31:01
every time that i didn't believe in
31:03
myself or have the strength to do
31:05
anything or believe in me
31:08
he did it for me
31:10
so
31:11
it's that story insecure is that story
31:13
it's that story you posted that on your
31:14
ig too right you talked about it on your
31:16
eye trailer yeah what kind of what kind
31:19
of um response did you get from oh my
31:21
goodness
31:22
yeah you would never think
31:24
this is how you know that
31:26
your story is not just for you
31:28
it's for other people because when i
31:31
posted that the the love the dms the
31:34
comments of how many postpartum mommies
31:36
and and and just people who are dealing
31:38
with mental illness and mental stresses
31:41
on a daily basis
31:43
i
31:44
in that moment i was like okay
31:46
i can't be shy to share these
31:49
insecurities because it's for them too
31:51
they need this a lot of people ain't
31:53
telling stories no more man that's true
31:56
and and a lot of the music no disrespect
31:58
to any of the current bops i say this
31:59
all the time but there's no substance
32:02
anymore
32:03
the [ __ ] that that's that's
32:05
current right now we can't play that
32:07
[ __ ] our kids can't play that at the
32:08
family cookouts 10 years from now
32:10
they're not even gonna remember the damn
32:12
words to the song best thing
32:15
is one of those records that is gonna
32:17
live on forever when i'm gone that song
32:20
is still gonna be in rotation because
32:22
it's a true story if you can identify
32:25
with it and directly relate to the music
32:27
it's timeless
32:29
man i got it get up give her a big round
32:31
of applause you know it's funny um right
32:35
after you we got a woman by the name of
32:36
jen green street who's gonna come on and
32:38
she has a documentary about just like
32:40
you anxiety and depression wow that's
32:42
aaron thursday on september 8th so you
32:45
write in tomorrow tomorrow right so
32:47
we're right in queue shout out to her
32:50
shout out to her absolutely shout out to
32:52
you to you thank you
32:54
thank you come on man we did that [ __ ]
32:57
yo
32:59
[ __ ]
33:00
[Laughter]
33:04
we did that
33:05
yeah it came back full circle and you
33:08
two ladies are amazing thank you all so
33:10
much for having me reflecting you both
33:12
thank you all so much go out and stay
33:14
great i ain't gonna let y'all down i
33:16
promise don't worry you can't let us
33:18
down
33:19
we got you when you are operating on
33:21
high vibrations
33:22
all right her name is anaya get to know
33:25
her follow her um her new projects is
33:28
out the 23rd of this month it's called
33:31
insecure give her her social sway it's i
33:34
n a y a h
33:36
i
33:50
[ __ ] sway
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