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Discover the untold story behind LL Cool J's hit "Doing It" in this exclusive interview on Sway In The Morning! Join us as we dive into the fascinating journey of Le’Shaun Will, the original artist whose 1988 track "Wild Thang" inspired LL Cool J’s iconic remake. Le’Shaun shares her rich history in the music industry, her unexpected meeting with LL Cool J, and the behind-the-scenes details of creating "Doing It." Beyond music, Le’Shaun reveals her life as a bodywork practitioner, her commitment to health and wellness, and her vibrant vegan lifestyle. Don’t miss this heartfelt conversation that spans decades of hip-hop culture and personal resilience. Subscribe for more exclusive interviews and visit her website at www.LeShaunWill.com for more inspiring content! #LLCoolJ #SwayInTheMorning #LeShaunWill #HipHop #ExclusiveInterview #SwaysUniverse
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Introduction
1:32 - Le’Shaun Will Tells Her Story of How She Got Started in Music
7:01 - Heather B and Le’Shaun Will Discuss the Original “Wild Thing” Song
10:48 - Leschea’s Experience with the Music Industry and Tommy Boy Records
12:11 - How Le’Shaun Will Linked Up with LL Cool J for “Doin’ It”
17:55 - Why Le’Shaun Will Wasn’t in the “Doin’ It” Music Video
21:10 - How Le’Shaun Will and LL Cool J Resolved Their Differences
22:40 - DIY Queen: Health, Wellness, Vegan Lifestyle
24:30 - How Le’Shaun Will Ended Up In Mexico
27:58 - Le’Shaun Will’s Goals Now: Future Plans and Projects
31:50 - Did Grace Jones Ever Listen To Your Song
32:30 - Outro
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a lot of people heard this person U for
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the first time when she appeared with LL
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cooj on doing it well but she actually
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started a career way before that song
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came out years prior Heather be uh she
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started uh her career I remember when
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the song came out being in Northern
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California called wild Fang right and
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the reason why I knew this song Because
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ton L was a good friend of mine and he
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was signed a delicious vinyl records
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over there with Young MC and uh Young MC
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used to write a lot of music for tone
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so did De Jeff who was from Jersey I
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believe was signed to delicious vinyl
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records I'm going deep into my repto
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right now cuz I've been around a long
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time take us I've been around a long
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time that was back in 1988 I believe
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when that when that came out then maybe
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four or five years later it seemed as re
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something resurfaced right mhm okay and
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and the rest I'mma let her tell her
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history but it's interesting about this
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culture cuz you it's so many people that
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you see and you're able to see the end
1:03
results of their work and you're able to
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kind of assess their career because of
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it but we always say for as many people
1:09
as you see in front of the scene there's
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hundreds behind the scenes that are
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making a great career for themselves
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making a living uh maybe not at the uh
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with the visibility of some of the Stars
1:20
You' seen but people have sustained I
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told you about a song she made in
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1988 it's
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2024 and she's still shining I want to
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welcome her to the show ladies and
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gentlemen give it up for the one and
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only lesan will she's here she's here
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she here and she's doing it well she
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doing it doing it doing it
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well what's up guys thanks s thank
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everybody oh my God I'm so excited to be
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here it's good to have you yes I'm so
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excited to be here um this actually came
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about I just have to like shout out one
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of my co-stars from my YouTube channel
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um and she said Heather be was looking
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for you and so I was like okay let me
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hit up Mandy my manager and Mandy was
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like me and Heather real cool she hit up
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Heather two weeks later here I am here
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you are right here I am Heather spoke
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highly too well it was important we were
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doing a woman tooman Wednesday and uh we
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were having this conversation Tracy me
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DB torch everybody um that particular
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Wednesday I don't know if Mike Mike may
2:26
have been in the room as well we were
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talking about songs and how a lot of
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times people are hearing songs and don't
2:32
realize their remakes or versions of
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songs that were out already and your
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name came up and I I told the history of
2:41
your song and I was like she needs to be
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featured on the sway and Morning Show
2:45
like it's great that we have these other
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platforms but people need to see your
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face and people need to know that it's
2:52
you I don't know the reason why you
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weren't in the video I read that you
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were pregnant possibly at the time when
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El was doing the video but it was back
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then videos were so big that everybody
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knew everybody from the video and to me
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I had met you years before but it's not
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the same as being in the video for the
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song you know that that you're on and I
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I think it's now time for people to know
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your history knew that you had a career
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prior to even getting on that song and
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all the cool things that you're doing
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now like um it's just amazing we just
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wanted to give you your flowers thank
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you so much for real SE oh my God you
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got make me cry you know you you well
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let's hear your story can you tell the
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story like when before 1988 who were you
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um I was uh the S the W the dou e t add
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another L and another double e i was
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sweet Lee you know um from the time I
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was about eight years old my cousin
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miles um rest in peace my cousin miles
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uh used to rap and my brothers used to
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DJ BL parties y'all remember block
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parties yeah come on y I'm dating myself
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but you we used to do block parties and
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my cousin thought it was really like it
4:03
would be really cool to have this little
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girl rapping so he wrote this little rap
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for me and I was sweet Lee how did it go
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it went well they loved me well say the
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burst he WR I don't even remember what
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you got bars all I remember it's the S
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the w i was sweet Le and then um my
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cousin would like you know just put me
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out there so that was my first taste of
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you know rapping and and rhyming um and
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then as I got a little bit older I I'm
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I'm an artist and I just use different
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mediums to express my art so um it was
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poetry that I started doing in junior
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high school so I was writing poetry I
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was you know writing love letters for
4:46
people in school she know you was there
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yeah that's my road dog from from public
4:52
school actually and then um The Poetry
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uh went into me meeting uh producer
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Jerry k
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okay and Jerry had the basement Studio
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you know how that is and um went to
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Jerry's house and started putting those
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poems to songs and to beats and then
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making songs and that's how it all came
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about well you with I Brad you were with
5:17
a group too much or something too much
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was me and my DJ shortcut Lisa DJ
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shortcut shortcut yeah my little um my
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little homie uh uh she lived in my
5:27
building and we became really good
5:29
friends and she couldn't rap to save her
5:32
life so I was like well why don't you be
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my DJ and so Jerry started teaching her
5:37
how to DJ so she would go over do her
5:40
lessons and everything she became really
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good actually yeah so shout out to
5:44
shortcut so then then so short you was
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at the group too much DJ shortcut
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there's a DJ shortcut too by the way
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from the bay area too um um young man um
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excellent turn tabless so when I I knew
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it wasn't that shortcut when I saw
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shortcut
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uh and then you write this song when did
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you write the song Wild Thing and was
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that a response to Tony ton Lo no
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actually okay tone Lo and my song came
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out at the same like right around the
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same time okay um so I had no idea who
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he was it's just like when his song came
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out I was like what the you know like I
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was like you thought somebody heard your
6:23
song exactly so I thought he bit off of
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me he probably thought I bit off of him
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I don't know but you know he had the he
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had the backing and he was a male so you
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know hip hop has always been a
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male-dominated industry and so his Wild
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Thing blew up you know went crazy
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meanwhile I was more underground you
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know so but you know I liked his song
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but it was just two different things two
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things yeah East Coast West Coast male
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female in a male dominated industry
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backing lack of backing this is true all
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of those different things we're going to
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play your Wild Thing the original okay
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all right here it is
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1988 uhhuh and I was fresh out of Virgin
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Hood oh you just got fresh out of Virgin
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is that a school where's that campus
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everybody got to leave that hood who
7:19
else lived in that yeah exactly was the
7:21
rent sheep in that hood so funny like I
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barely had any experience so I think it
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just came from um growing up in an era
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where you know we had the sexy R&B songs
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and listening to that music it just kind
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of resonated with me in a way but I
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didn't have all that much experience but
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I fooled a lot of people man you sold
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the hell out of that yeah you know you
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sold it so well LL wanted to remake it
7:52
it was so funny because I remember when
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the song came out to me lean it was like
7:56
the first of its kind like your voice in
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the only your voice and I remember what
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you were saying and but the beat too it
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just everything went together I mean you
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think about what people have said now in
8:08
music that's nothing compared that seems
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like it's harmless but at that time it
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was like yo it was ahead of it time kind
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radal you heard this song you heard this
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song and your tone was perfect on it
8:20
perfect thank you yeah it was definitely
8:22
ahead of its time like like you said
8:24
right now like it sounds it's mild
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compared to what you would hear on the
8:28
radio now but
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at that time there was no one nobody did
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that nobody did that so this was preim
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this is pre Trina um all all of that
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beat with Char Baltimore Charlie
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Baltimore with problems holes
8:44
with attit remember those all those
8:46
groups that was before all of that so
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was there any critique because I'm
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thinking about how cardi and Meg um it's
8:54
been the yeah the came out like a
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few years ago and they were reflecting
8:59
back on it and all of the Uproar that
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song and the visual sparked no I think
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people just didn't even care that much I
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think they kind of looked at it as you
9:09
know she's not going to go anywhere
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that's not going to do anything and so
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it didn't make it that far for I would
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say you know we obviously we didn't have
9:20
Instagram and Tik Tok and YouTube like
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that back then for people to even chime
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in the way that they can chime in now
9:28
within second of a song Dropping but um
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for the most part it was probably I
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would say the label push back yeah more
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than anything um the label pushed back
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against your single yeah the label
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pushed back it was like it might be too
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much you know and then but I'm like
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right that was the name of my group like
9:51
too much um but it was more so one and
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then once I got signed to Tommy Boy
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Tommy Boy wanted me to do more pop type
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songs um what did they consider pop Well
10:04
Radio like radio friendly know they
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usually say Do songs like so and so um
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they wanted me to do songs like Mo love
10:16
you know okay and um they wanted it to
10:19
be little bit more singy
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songy and you know like you can play it
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on any day part you know like morning
10:29
drive afternoon Drive yeah that was big
10:32
back then but that wasn't it wasn't me
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and I've never been that kind of a
10:37
person to I don't want to say like sell
10:41
out but I have a really hard time trying
10:43
to be someone that I'm not you know it's
10:47
like that's not me and at the time you
10:49
know growing up in Brooklyn being the
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youngest of seven boys I have a very
10:56
yeah I have a lot of male energy and so
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um I was just like a thug I mean that's
11:03
why me and Apache rest his soul like
11:05
Apache was my boy you know like we a
11:08
gangsta and I was in the video
11:10
with a AK-47 that was you y I was in
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apache's
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video so what's crazy I first I knew her
11:18
music but I met LESA in Jersey City
11:21
right down the street Latifa Omar EPS um
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they all lived in we all they all lived
11:28
in this one build I live down the block
11:30
and so LESA would be over there was
11:32
Flavor Unit it was the whole thing so we
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would see each other I met her out on
11:36
the corner one day with an Apache Nicki
11:38
D shout out to all of them you know we
11:40
will all be in the same circles at on
11:43
the corner wow yeah cuz I was signed to
11:45
flavor un you was sign who signed you
11:47
the shakim shout out to shakim to shakim
11:52
Queen Latifa yeah that was my whole crew
11:56
naughty venrock all of them so was was L
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ever with violator or he he was he was
12:02
with Viator Chris lady yeah Chris that's
12:05
how I met L was through Chris again
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rested so I that was my boy that's where
12:11
I wanted to get to so through Chris
12:13
Lighty and violat is how you and l l got
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together yes Chris called me up one
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night and he was like yo um we in the
12:20
studio I'm in the studio with L and um
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we want to do you know a re a not a
12:27
remix um because it's a different song
12:31
but they wanted to use the essence of my
12:33
song which was doing it so what did you
12:36
think when he said this I was like stop
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playing
12:41
Chris like Chris stop playing he was
12:44
like no we G to send a car for you yo I
12:46
said okay you know cuz back in the day
12:48
they sent a car for you you know wow
12:50
nowadays they don't care they just like
12:52
you get there how you get there you got
12:53
Uber mhm get a get a uber but um yeah he
12:56
was like we're going to send a car for
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you okay so I think it was like maybe
12:59
the next day or whatever cuz things
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happen fast once you know in the
13:03
industry when they make a decision they
13:04
going to do something they just like we
13:06
need to make it happen we what we need
13:08
to do get you on a flight we need to get
13:10
you you know so next thing I know I was
13:12
in the studio with L we sitting there we
13:15
talking we rapping we you know looking
13:17
at lyrics going back and forth and then
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um I get in the booth I spent my verse
13:25
next thing I know they turn around
13:27
that's it so the first verse the first
13:29
time I went in that booth and spit is
13:32
what you hear you did a first take
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that's it one take one one
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take
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yes but what was let's go back to
13:44
writing with l l were y'all sitting
13:46
across from each other we were sitting
13:48
across from each other he was like L
13:50
pretty much had an idea of what he
13:52
wanted so it was really kind of me just
13:55
chiming in you know like okay what about
13:57
this he would ask you know
14:00
how you feel about this what if we do
14:01
this and but he pretty much had the
14:03
whole thing set and you know I can't
14:06
take credit for like you know completely
14:09
writing my verses cuz that was like
14:11
mostly all out okay but then you know we
14:13
went in did all of that um and the most
14:17
famous part of the song The adbs at the
14:20
end if I have to
14:23
say the ad lives at the end swear about
14:27
to ask for a demo can do it and put Sway
14:30
in the morning at the end of
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it sway after dark
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sway
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yes you're wel he wet it's time to go
14:47
home all rightly off over there but yeah
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that was all that was all me yeah Tod
14:54
was just like don't look at me that's it
14:57
that's it don't look at me don't look at
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can you look at me and say my name oh
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wow me can you look at me can you look
15:06
at me he said don't say I'mma need
15:08
everybody to leave the
15:12
studio this way for a minute thank you
15:15
yeah you guys leave all and so the song
15:18
was made right did you get writers
15:20
credit for what you did write on the
15:22
song yeah okay so you do get some
15:23
residual I do get some residuals but you
15:25
know everybody else got rich yeah off of
15:28
doing it and that's why always say like
15:29
everybody got rich off of me because
15:31
that song came from something that I
15:35
birthed you know Jerry Kender and I and
15:38
everybody else made money off of that
15:40
song and I'm like yeah but um hello like
15:44
I'm still working a regular job I'm
15:46
still out here doing my thing you know
15:49
um other people have done the song over
15:52
like Nikki did the song twice you know
15:54
she did her version of doing it um I
15:58
believe she did with fabulous and the
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other one she did with
16:01
jus and so this was when she was like
16:04
underground just coming out okay uh so
16:07
Nikki has her versions of it as well but
16:10
not once have I ever gotten a shout out
16:13
or anything like that so it's like it's
16:15
different because like Heather was
16:17
saying we could run into each other back
16:20
in the day and and want want the best
16:24
for each other you know like Queen
16:26
Latifa didn't look at me and and say no
16:29
she's competition or you know I don't
16:32
want it was like no Latifa wanted to
16:34
pull me up she wanted to pull Mo up she
16:36
wanted to you know whatever like if I
16:38
saw a light if I ran into somebody it
16:40
was completely different in the '90s
16:42
like the women we actually wanted the
16:46
best for each other we wanted to see
16:48
because it to me back then it was us
16:51
against the guys not the women against
16:53
the women it was like we was trying to
16:55
make our voices heard you know so yes
16:58
def Ely different nowadays what what do
17:00
you think when you see that it's a lot
17:02
of it's guys against guys obviously but
17:04
there's a lot of women against women now
17:06
too I you know I don't like it um
17:09
obviously because I'm I'm like first of
17:12
all you're not the one making all the
17:14
money off of this beef you know the
17:15
labels are the ones out there making all
17:17
this money off off of these different
17:20
beefs that you got going and you're
17:23
making yourself look less than ladylike
17:27
I should say you know you're making look
17:29
stupid I'm not going to say no names but
17:30
there's been a lot of females out here
17:33
making themselves look absolutely stupid
17:35
and it's like you know what girl you
17:37
making your money get your coin and keep
17:39
it moving why do you care but the labels
17:42
they love it because they're making
17:44
money off of it the minute somebody has
17:46
a beef it's like okay they start up in
17:49
the ante they start pushing it and
17:51
pushing it and pushing it and it's like
17:53
yeah y'all out here looking real stupid
17:55
but I don't we didn't do that you know
17:58
like yo-yo if I I just ran into yo-yo
18:01
last year and I was at one of the uh hip
18:04
hop 50th anniversaries out in Cancun cuz
18:07
I live in Mexico now I don't know if
18:08
yall know that I know that I saw you I
18:10
saw I saw you decorate your house when
18:12
you got it I saw that and I ran into
18:14
yoyo at one of the things and it was
18:16
just like huge you know love hugs you
18:19
know tears the whole nine cuz I hadn't
18:21
seen her in so long but I don't know
18:24
what's going on with these females I
18:27
have no idea cuz for like that good for
18:30
you Mike m you want to jump in yeah I'm
18:32
curious about your relationship to the
18:34
song doing it now like when you hear it
18:35
are you frustrated are you
18:38
disappointed um are you happy or are you
18:41
what's your relationship to no I I I'm
18:44
proud of of the song I think it's a good
18:47
song it's still a good song You Know
18:49
back in the 90s it went triple platinum
18:52
so Lord only knows what it is now
18:55
because of streaming and all of that so
18:58
no I I'm proud of the song so so what
19:02
happened with the video right why
19:04
weren't you in a video um I was pregnant
19:07
with my daughter Briana and um there was
19:12
some some issues now I will say
19:16
that I could have done the video but I
19:19
could not have done the video and
19:21
delivered the type of sex appeal that
19:23
they were looking for okay in the video
19:26
because I was fullon pregn
19:29
okay you know I had the big nose and
19:31
everything you know uh pregnancy acne
19:34
like but I looking back on it I feel
19:38
like there could have been
19:40
situations I have seen sorry I've seen
19:42
situations where they have brought
19:45
people into something and they not
19:47
necessarily play that role so I feel
19:50
like I could have been in the video as
19:52
something else like I could have been
19:53
the limo driver I could have been
19:55
something else and they could have beat
19:56
my face to you know hide that acne or
19:59
whatever but I definitely would not have
20:02
been happy being in the video trying to
20:05
flex like I was the sex symbol yeah like
20:08
no I was totally pregnant but I could
20:11
have been in a video so that I could
20:12
have at least gotten something where
20:15
people would have said nah that's not
20:16
her right there but that's her right
20:18
there that's her you know she's the
20:20
bartender she's the limo driver she's
20:22
you know whatever it is at least I would
20:24
have gotten some props and I got no
20:26
props so even 20 years later people are
20:29
like yo that's you like I I had no idea
20:31
that was you I never knew what you look
20:33
like and it's like yeah that that part
20:36
Mike that's irritating okay like Heather
20:38
said that part is frustrating because
20:41
people have no idea what I look like and
20:44
so I didn't get my props when it came to
20:46
that and so that part is frustrating
20:49
well do me a favor look at what camera
20:50
should she look at look at that camera
20:52
right there this amazing phenomenal uh
20:56
you see her this beautiful woman right
20:58
in front front of you guys this is lesan
21:00
this is the voice on the doed song by LL
21:04
coj that went multiplatinum and salute
21:07
to LL yeah salute to you guys been cool
21:10
ever since right yeah we like we worked
21:12
out our differences um thanks to his
21:15
wife Simone shout out to Simone out she
21:18
got that jewelry line I everywhere man
21:21
and uh because you know we how did y'all
21:23
work it out y'all sat down no Simone
21:25
went to him and you know because she had
21:28
been pregnant and she understood the
21:30
whole situation and so from a woman's
21:32
perspective she had to talk to her
21:34
husband and she said to him like this is
21:37
not cool you know and I don't know
21:40
exactly what her words were but when
21:42
Todd called me he told me it was Simone
21:46
who talked to him and made him
21:48
understand you know how that could make
21:50
me feel nowadays that would be a
21:53
completely different situation you know
21:54
you can't say some of the things that
21:56
they said to us back in the day yeah
21:58
that' be a me too mov yeah exactly yeah
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you immediately cancelled so yeah but um
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after we got past that I actually ended
22:09
up going on tour with L my daughter was
22:12
little she went out on the road with us
22:15
so you know I have to give him his props
22:17
at for that because a lot of people
22:19
would not allow you to bring your child
22:21
out on tour but yeah my daughter was out
22:24
on tour she was you know just constantly
22:27
backstage they loved her though yeah so
22:30
everybody gravitated towards her the
22:32
dancers security like everybody loved
22:34
her wow lesan is here I'm loving your
22:36
story yep thank you so you do so much
22:39
more too now and whenever y'all hear
22:42
that doing the song now you know what
22:43
she looks like but I I watch a YouTube
22:45
channel yeah and you're very funny I saw
22:48
when you got your apart you got your
22:50
place in U Mexico and it was very empty
22:53
yes and then you did a design yeah so is
22:56
design one of your niches too yeah I do
22:59
a lot of uh home decor um DIY I am
23:05
mcgyver queen are you familiar with the
23:09
show I amili with mcgyver the mcgyver
23:12
queen I will look at something and go
23:15
that people like like for instance my
23:17
last couple videos a trash can and
23:19
someone see a trash can I go no that's a
23:21
lamp and then I like turned it into a
23:23
light fixture I took uh Amazon boxes
23:26
that I had and turned them into
23:28
nightstands and so I'm it's not so much
23:32
that I can't afford to buy it but I
23:35
think my brain is wired in a way that I
23:37
look at something and I go no that's not
23:40
that that's that and so I have to Tinker
23:43
with it and so yeah I'm DIY all day long
23:47
it's what I love to do I got all the
23:50
power tools and um it's funny when I was
23:53
married the garage was my man cave so to
23:57
speak uhuh neighbor walks by one day and
24:00
he go he says to my husband you're my
24:02
ex-husband now he said um oh I I like
24:05
your I like your garage you got all he
24:07
looked at him he was like that ain't
24:09
mine that's my wife's stuff so it's like
24:13
I've always been that way like I love
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tools I love building things design
24:17
Decor I actually went to school for um
24:20
design I started out in fashion design
24:22
and then I switched over to Interior
24:24
Design so wow Lesean will that's her you
24:27
that's your YouTube
24:31
L how did you end up INX because I think
24:35
a lot of times for artists who stop
24:38
performing and rapping fulltime and you
24:40
figuring out what's next you know um
24:43
some people don't move some people do
24:45
the last place I would think about is
24:47
out the country so how did you end up in
24:51
Mexico well I originally wanted to leave
24:54
the country back in 2019
24:59
and then we had the panty damy right so
25:03
once that happened I needed to do
25:05
something to keep myself busy so I
25:08
actually ended up flying to Texas I
25:10
bought a toy hauler and I had it shipped
25:14
back to Las Vegas where I was living and
25:17
then I converted it I converted that toy
25:19
hauler into a tiny home so that's where
25:22
I I really wanted to leave the country I
25:25
couldn't I was going to move to Portugal
25:27
but then I I was like okay they start
25:29
shutting everything down I needed
25:30
something to do so I converted my my toy
25:34
hauler into a tiny home so that was the
25:36
first one um that was uh juwel so when I
25:40
got finished with juwel I ended up doing
25:43
another one I bought another Park Model
25:47
RV which is like a house on Wheels but
25:49
they're small and I converted that one
25:51
and that was dream so and that one I
25:54
actually named after dream Hampton you
25:56
know dream yes journalistic
25:58
yes yes that was my girl so I named her
26:01
after dream and with the small D and
26:05
everything um and uh so I ended up
26:08
flipping both of them yeah but I enjoyed
26:10
the tiny house living I enjoyed just
26:13
having my space um and I would have
26:17
stayed in dream but I was having issues
26:20
finding land where would be legal to
26:23
park her and live and it just was
26:26
getting to be too much in Los Vegas Las
26:28
Vegas is pretty much like New York
26:31
there's a lot of um distraction and like
26:35
mentally you're just kind of like always
26:38
on and at my big age I'm kind of like no
26:42
I need to like calm down a little bit I
26:44
don't want to be always on so looking
26:47
for a piece of land somewhere I kept
26:49
running into issues with bureaucracy
26:51
with laws with this with that and it was
26:53
just like it can't be on Wheels it got
26:55
to be this big it got to be this I said
26:58
said f it I'm like I'm out so I ended up
27:02
traveling back and forth to Mexico so I
27:05
live in Meda Mexico now which is very
27:08
safe compared to like a lot of things
27:10
you hear about Mexico okay I was
27:11
concerned about that part Meda is
27:13
actually the second safest city in all
27:16
of North America with Quebec yeah second
27:19
and Quebec Canada is first and so medida
27:22
is really safe but the problem with
27:24
medida is that a lot of people now know
27:26
about medida so there's a huge black
27:29
xack community I to say I know a lot of
27:31
people have moved there yep huge but the
27:34
problem is that now there's so many
27:37
people um migrating to medida medida
27:41
can't handle it flux no so we've been
27:44
having a lot of like power outages and
27:46
things like that so trust me I'm so
27:48
happy to be here in New York right now
27:51
with the cool air because yeah they're
27:54
just not set up for it so stop moving to
27:56
Meda stop moving man we just I love that
27:59
and I I saw you put a post up about the
28:02
power outages and what to do and what
28:04
not to do the mistakes you made during
28:05
the power outage like what what kind of
28:07
mistakes well solar is is the thing that
28:10
you want to have obviously in Mexico
28:13
solar a generator battery pack something
28:15
where you could depend on the sun
28:17
because you get plenty of it okay so um
28:20
the thing is I don't own that house I
28:22
rent that house from someone so I'm not
28:25
going to spend thousands and thousands
28:27
of dollars to put solar on
28:30
your right so I have the power station
28:33
you know I have a blue eddi Power
28:35
Station that I use that I had shipped
28:37
from America but so it it helps for me
28:41
in that sense but it's still a pain in
28:44
an you know you're trying to work and
28:46
stuff like that I think you're very
28:48
brave you know to be quite honest with
28:50
you and I and I can see you you you
28:52
think without limitations you know for
28:54
people to uproot themselves and move to
28:56
a foreign country I don't know if you
28:57
have people out there if you have a
28:59
network or I have a niece that lives
29:02
there but I had already made my
29:03
decisions before I even knew she was
29:05
there just cuz she's in the military so
29:08
shout out to Maya um she's in the
29:10
military and I just happen to be writing
29:12
into a group on Facebook because I
29:16
wanted to find when I went there um the
29:19
good vegan restaurant so I was like can
29:22
anybody told me where I can get good
29:23
vegan food and then my niece saw my name
29:26
pop up and then she ends up sending me a
29:28
message on messenger she was like Auntie
29:30
like wait what and I said what are you
29:32
doing there she was like I live here I'm
29:34
like what so yeah so I have my niece
29:37
there I actually have a cousin too that
29:39
I found out that lives there as well so
29:41
wow well okay lean come on we find it
29:43
out so so so what is your what are so
29:47
what are your goals now um my goals now
29:51
are to continue to um build my YouTube
29:55
channel obviously my brand Lesean will I
29:58
have my website lesan
30:00
will.com and um hopefully at some point
30:05
get someone to notice what I'm doing
30:06
here because I swear like every time I
30:08
do something all I see in the comments
30:11
HGTV HGTV Home Depot low what you about
30:14
20,000 followers now subscribers 23
30:17
23,000 no 100,000 100,000 no no no no
30:21
it's good it's good cuz I watch I watch
30:23
those numbers grow and this is how they
30:25
grow you be there you at you a million
30:29
yeah I'm getting you're at a million you
30:30
got to fake it till you make it man
30:32
you're not faking you you got to go
30:34
through 23 and 24 before you get to a
30:36
million this is true you on your journey
30:39
so yeah I'm hoping to like at some point
30:41
um parlay that into more I'm building
30:44
the website to do blogs and show people
30:48
how they can do things themselves
30:50
especially women I have a huge following
30:53
of women um and African-American women
30:57
um and they actually the ones that are
30:59
like spearheading the whole tiny house
31:02
uh community and so that's good too I
31:04
love that I feel like if I was to come
31:07
back to America at some point which I
31:09
think that I will because I have two
31:10
grandkids and I really want to be closer
31:13
to them so if I did I I feel like um I
31:17
would end up going back into the tiny
31:19
house community and showing people how I
31:22
did what I did and then continue to do
31:24
that and maybe maybe um build a tiny
31:28
house Community somewhere which I think
31:30
would be nice I don't know my godson
31:32
shout out to Quay he just bought some
31:35
land so we doing a little bit of talking
31:37
Quay got some land now young Quay got
31:39
some land I don't remember they named
31:41
them Quay it was it was it was inspired
31:44
by sway so they Nam them Quay wow this
31:46
all is to be a part of the land and
31:48
everything I'm trying to get on that
31:49
land to that land do you want to ask
31:52
something real quick oh no I just had a
31:53
quick question cuz we had a conversation
31:54
recently about original samples and how
31:56
some artists who are who get their song
31:59
sampled can decide whether or not they
32:01
even want to allow the person to sample
32:02
it and then like you know what they
32:03
think of the song after it's done and
32:05
everything so I was just curious um did
32:07
Grace Jones ever listen to your record
32:08
and give you any feedback I never got
32:10
any feedback from Grace Jones Never I I
32:14
don't know if she liked the song didn't
32:16
like the song I would assume that she
32:19
was okay with it CU they had to run
32:21
everything through her you know she
32:24
could have easily said no shut it down
32:26
so y' sample my Jamaican guy Jama guy
32:29
for gra Jones Jones love her yeah so wow
32:33
well lesan give her a big round of
32:35
applause man you have an amazing
32:39
story my God and I hope that this opens
32:42
the doors for other platforms to bring
32:43
you on so you can continue talking about
32:45
your story I do I do because I feel like
32:48
I have a lot to show people and um women
32:53
especially like yeah so I hope it does
32:55
open the door for more things thank you
32:57
so so much for having me on absolutely
33:00
thank you Heather thank you to um my
33:02
subscriber dimples thank you so much
33:05
everybody and my manager Mandy we put
33:08
the word out we was like call Fin Sean
33:11
that's all we did set it on there sat
33:14
and I actually just opened up my um my
33:17
son was like Mom you need to turn your
33:18
Instagram back on I was like okay so
33:21
yeah so your Instagram is lesan will
33:23
yeah everything is LeSean will my
33:24
website lesan will.com YouTube is lesan
33:27
Will and my Instagram is LeSean Wells
33:29
and LeSean is spelled l e s h a u n all
33:33
right no w u
33:35
you it's so funny people be looking
33:38
right at my thing and then l h w like
33:41
okay programmed um thank you for joining
33:44
us this morning it's great to hear your
33:47
story thank you for saying my name like
33:49
[Applause]
33:51
that okay
33:54
lesan doing it well turned into D doing
33:57
it doing
34:00
it look at s he's so silly she saved you
34:04
from an
34:06
ant yes she
34:08
did yo but look that concludes our show
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thank you to the citizens for listening
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today
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