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Nali’s emotional karaoke debut at Heather B's Happy Hour Karaoke left L.A. stunned! 🎤 Watch as the rising star pours her heart out with a soulful rendition of "Say Yes" before transitioning into her own original hits like "Crossfaded" and "Hold Me Close." From her electrifying performance to her candid discussion about personal struggles, self-expression, and her transformative hair journey, Nali keeps it real and raw. Plus, hear her reflect on the deeper meaning behind her lyrics and the power of writing your truth. This is more than music—this is a story of growth, artistry, and resilience.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro to Nali's Happy Hour Karaoke
09:15 - Inspiration Behind Nao's "Crossfaded"
11:41 - Nao's Transformation: Cutting Her Locks
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0:00
hi guys
0:02
oh my god like this is my first time
0:04
performing in LA
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oh hopefully i'm nervous she look
0:12
unimpressed
0:14
i'm like it's a lot of pressure in here
0:18
but um this first song is a song for
0:21
flowry everybody know say yes
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okay so since I'm nervous can I get some
0:27
help on the hook yeah yes ma'am
0:31
amen
0:34
[Music]
0:42
[Music]
0:51
there is only one
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okay
0:59
you have made that a partility
1:07
we could take that step to see
1:14
if this is really going to be
1:21
all you got to do is say yes all you got
1:25
to do is say yes
1:28
don't deny what you feel let me address
1:31
you babe open up your mind and just I'm
1:36
about to let you know you make me so
1:40
all you got to do is see
1:44
don't deny what you feel let me trust
1:48
you babe open up your just press i'm
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about to let you know you make me so so
1:56
so so
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so
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you make me so so so so
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so
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love you has taken time
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taking time
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but I always knew you could be mine
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i recognize
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the butterflies
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inside me
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says it's going to be made tonight
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tonight all you got to do is say yes all
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you got to do is say yes let's go don't
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deny what you feel let me undress you
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open up just rest i'm about to let you
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know you make me so so so
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[Music]
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where we at LA
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you make me so so so so
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so
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you make me so so so so so
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you make me so so so
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[Music]
3:34
clap it up for yourselves yes
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did I do that i only want your
3:40
validation okay
3:43
okay
3:45
so this next song that I have for you
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guys it's a single that I just put out
3:49
it's a little bit more upbeat still kind
3:52
of R&B Miss Ma'am okay if that's okay
3:55
with you it's called Crossfaded have we
3:59
all been crossfaded
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okay okay
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[Music]
4:10
can I see some hands
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let me get some i'm cross faded oh I
4:17
miss you thinking about your shorty call
4:19
me call me if you horny talking
4:22
to me i know you get annoying heard that
4:25
you going to Florida fly me out if you
4:28
enjoy me doing drugs and drugs and I'm
4:31
your body know you saw me talking and
4:33
I want to touch it's all attack i
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know you be
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so this time I know
4:43
how much you want me so I can't be your
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fiction no more
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so
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this time I know
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how much you want me so I can't even
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talk to you no more
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come on y'all act like you sexy in the
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club and dance act like you sexy in the
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club and
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think I want to talk to you
5:13
keep me on
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call you while I'm out yeah I'm on you
5:16
you on me you know you my baby you my
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only know you want to console me
5:23
stop acting like you do not love me call
5:26
me drunk homies you so attractive i know
5:30
you get right
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[Music]
5:33
so this time how I know
5:37
how much you want me so I can't even
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fake you no more
5:43
so
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this time I know
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how much you want me so I can't even
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talk to you
5:57
do I have any lovers in house yeah okay
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okay
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what's your social media if people want
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to follow you right now oh my social
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media is the original Nollie N A L I
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Okay in case you're interested okay we
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are but um this next song is called Hold
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Me Clothe and yeah I hope I hope you sit
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next to your loved ones so you can hold
6:23
them close but if not just hold each
6:24
other hand it's fine that's cool and
6:27
even if you don't know the person hold a
6:28
hand not over your hand i don't know you
6:31
everybody said no
6:33
find your lover right here right have
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the be karaoke night sway in the morning
6:40
get it finally good with myself
6:44
and good with you too
6:47
you never had this much peace with me
6:51
yeah I felt that too
6:55
in a happy space
6:58
i want to chase that oops
7:01
we fall in love all over again yeah i
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love you
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in place
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i can't contain these feels
7:16
every time you give me a kiss
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I feel safe in your arms again
7:23
hold me real close
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i shut my eyes and dream
7:30
that you really are the enemy
7:34
i hope we see beyond our dreams
7:38
hold me real close hold me real close i
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hope you know I hope you hold me real
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close hold me real close i hope you know
7:50
I love you hold me real close hold me
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real close i hope you know i hope you
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hold me real close hold me real close i
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hope you know I love you
8:08
thank you guys wow i really appreciate
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y'all for even inviting me thank you
8:15
Sirius come on okay you're amazing i did
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good you did excellent show her some
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love thank you Mom the reason why I
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respect the the greats the Barry Whites
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the Lionel Richies the Stevie Wonders um
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Prince Luther Vanos so many of these
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artists wrote their own songs you know
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and what happens is that people may not
8:38
always come out and watch you perform
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but the fact that you could go to sleep
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at night and your music is playing
8:43
somewhere you making money while you
8:45
sleep hey listen keep writing those
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songs you never know so you could be
8:50
writing a song that's that's going to
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work 10 years from now or 5 years from
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now um but just keep writing and I
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encourage everybody to do that it
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doesn't necessarily have to be in form
8:59
song but your dreams your ideas your
9:02
plans the things that you want to do
9:04
write it down it is power in writing so
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write those dreams and visions down that
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God give you thank you yeah I will
9:12
yeah there since we're talking about
9:15
song lyrics there's a lyric in the song
9:17
RIP I wanted to ask you about oh my god
9:21
the hook the hook talks about you being
9:24
treated like a crackhead and not wanting
9:27
that treatment anymore right yeah yeah
9:30
uh what kind of treatment have you seen
9:32
crackheads receive in your day
9:35
you know they treated like fiends like h
9:39
I don't I don't the the feeling that I
9:41
was really trying to get to is like just
9:44
feeling bad about you know something you
9:46
struggle with i mean I know her drugs
9:50
for me but you know it's still it's
9:52
still a negative feeling when somebody
9:53
that you care about makes you feel like
9:58
Yeah like you you're they know you
10:00
always got to come back around yeah like
10:02
you can't beat this and you doing too
10:04
much and you're like a fiend or it's
10:05
like it's like brother chill damn it
10:08
sound like that happened yesterday
10:10
it's still on your heart no it's a real
10:13
feeling though i feel like I always run
10:15
into people that like don't smoke and I
10:18
smoke from time to time you in LA who
10:21
smoking here make some noise
10:24
you with family yeah i was like I be
10:26
made to feel a little bad about that
10:28
like I be doing too much but And you
10:30
made a song about it i did cuz it was it
10:32
was weighing on my heart that's what's
10:34
up man did that help to break the habit
10:37
like actually writing and experiencing
10:39
the catharsism of creating a song no oh
10:45
it did the opposite did it intensify no
10:48
I actually did slow down i slowed down
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but um it it wasn't cuz I wrote the song
10:53
it was really just cuz I was like "All
10:54
right girl chill." But um yeah no no it
10:59
it did let me feel better knowing that a
11:02
lot of people did relate though mhm like
11:04
just hearing like "Girl you wrote
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exactly like what I was feeling and what
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I've been going through." I was like
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"Period there you go that's what it's
11:12
about." My my aunties in the crowd and I
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I just remember growing up in the 70s
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auntie was y'all smoking weed back then
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too don't say that
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never mind Rob ignore that question
11:26
we started in the 70s right we started
11:29
in the 70s started in the 70s we started
11:32
in ancient times what are you talking
11:33
about ancient Kimmit they was smoking
11:36
weed they used to call it cha all right
11:39
nickelback all right nollie just had a
11:42
transformation you went through that I
11:44
thought was really uh very powerful and
11:47
and you shared it with the world she had
11:50
I once had locks in my hair so people
11:52
always remind remember remember me from
11:53
having 17 years of lock auntie you
11:56
remember my uh her sister my auntie
11:58
Cella rest in power was uh a devout
12:01
roster and so my locks were rooted in
12:03
spirituality not aesthetics but it did
12:06
have me looking good nllie how you put
12:08
that in there i thought that was in your
12:10
bio you read that in the bio okay but
12:12
you you recently let yours go what and
12:15
you showed the whole process of how you
12:17
unwinded your locks and what was that
12:19
about
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um I think you know changing your hair
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especially for a woman is always just
12:26
like a release of like energy especially
12:29
in lock locks you hold a lot of energy
12:31
in your hair
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and I was just I just I was thinking
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about it for a few weeks and um I was
12:39
like you know if I if I keep thinking
12:40
about this I'm just going to do it and
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it just felt like a a a freedom thing
12:45
like I was free from whatever energy
12:48
that my hair was holding
12:50
and part of me doing it myself was to
12:54
feel free but also this girl was talking
12:56
about she charging 550 base price
13:00
listen I was like girl I'm I'm going to
13:01
see why but it did take 10 hours so I
13:04
was like okay okay I get it but yeah it
13:08
was definitely a free feeling i feel
13:10
lighter not only in my head but like
13:13
just in my body and spiritually
13:15
emotionally all of that do you feel like
13:18
when you perform that you're perceived
13:20
differently or received differently
13:22
depending on what your hair looks like
13:24
oh my god yes i've gotten I feel like I
13:29
feel like before people were like "Oh
13:30
she's pretty she's pretty." But now it's
13:33
like "Oh my god I didn't know i didn't
13:35
know you." Like "Oh my god." I feel like
13:37
I'm getting more attention cuz my hair
13:39
is out which is kind of like
13:42
It's I don't know it's a weird feeling
13:44
it's like kind of feel a little a little
13:45
shady
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but you know that's just how it goes i
13:50
guess looks is a thing so it's your it's
13:53
your aura is the thing that's what's
13:56
alluring to people you have a beautiful
13:57
aura please give this one young woman a
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round of applause give it up for Nali
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y'all come on
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[Applause]
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