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Get ready for an exclusive interview with Snoop Dogg's protégé Jane Handcock on Sway In The Morning! 🎤 Jane dives deep into the legacy of Death Row Records, her journey to becoming the label's first lady under Snoop's leadership, and how her Bay Area roots shaped her artistry. From sharing heartfelt stories about her church upbringing to breaking down the inspiration behind her latest album, "It's Me, Not You," Jane brings authenticity and soul to the conversation.
Watch as Jane opens up about working with legends like Raphael Saadiq and Anderson .Paak, her experiences with rejection in the music industry, and why staying true to herself has been the key to her success. Plus, don’t miss her fiery freestyle that proves she’s a force to be reckoned with in hip-hop and R&B.
Tune in for insights on Snoop Dogg's vision for Death Row Records and the untold stories behind Jane’s rise in the industry. This episode is packed with inspiration, laughs, and real talk from one of music’s brightest stars. Hit subscribe for more exclusive interviews and authentic conversations on Sway’s Universe! 🔥
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
02:34 - Jane Handcock Biography
12:14 - Snoop Dogg Insights
16:40 - Overcoming Industry Obstacles
20:00 - Collaborating with AP
25:00 - Using Negative Energy for Art
32:30 - Best Female Vocalists
35:10 - Raphael Saadiq & LurRav Call In
39:10 - Jane’s Dad Calls In
41:10 - Jane Handcock Freestyle
46:24 - Future Plans for Jane
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Yo, big round of applause from right there. And my man Snoop has been doing this for
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decades. He's the biggest well-known artist to ever come out of rapping
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in the history of the rap business. And we've been communicating for a long time
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now. One thing that I love about Snoop is he loves music and what he's doing with Death Row
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Records is um impeccable. It hasn't been done yet. you know, we haven't seen the full potential of what Death Row Records
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can be, right? You know, we know what it was in the 90s, and I could speak on it um because I was there. But when you
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think of this amazing roster that Death Row has had, the legacy of Death Row u
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from the Tupac Shakors to the Dog Pound to the Dr. Dres to the Snoop Dog to the Lady of Rays, the Sam Sneeze, the RBX,
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and the list goes on and on and on. For Snoop to say this is the first lady of death row, that's a huge stamp for
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Raphael Sadi to come out and produce a whole project. Um, truth explains a lot.
1:03
You know, truth be told, being a part of that, that's a huge stamp. These are very accomplished individuals, highly
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respected in the music business. to be back in this amazing Grammy nominated,
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Emmy-winning singer, songwriter, and producer, Heather B, who's worked with everybody from Kelly Roland to Raphael
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Sadique to Adrien Marcel to BJ the Chicago Kid, and the list goes on and on
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to be debuting at number 29 on the Billboard's adult R&B chart with the Stani. She got her new album out
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for the one and only Jane hand is in the building. Hey, happy to have you here, sis.
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So, wow, Jane, take me on the road.
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What you going to do? Yeah. Here you go. Being on everybody features, bro. Jane needs me
1:59
to do just what I did every night. Jane, who's going to introduce you? James Brown had a great person to
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introduce him. Ladies and gentlemen, come on. Who's going to introduce Charles did?
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Charles did, too. Who's going to introduce uh There you go.
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I don't like it. Because if you doing that, how you going to be here? I'm not carrying all of
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that. Tracy got this, man. Y'all been doing this 14 years. He don't need me. Sounds like a HR problem. Let me talk to
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somebody. [ __ ] I ain't doing It's me, not you. Jane, welcome to the show. Give Jane Hancock is here, ladies
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and gentlemen. Yep. Welcome to the show. Yeah. Thank you. Wow. Ma'am, get up on that mic for me,
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Jane. A lot of folks um don't know your story. I know your story. My uh family member
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uh Laura Rab first introduced me to your music u some years ago, but I I had heard it, you know, cuz um you know,
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there's a there's a school in Oakland that um really has produced it's kind of
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like our fame school. Okay. Mhm. What's that school they got out? LaGuardia. That's in New York.
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Yeah. I know. So, I'm in LA now. All right. So, LaGuardia, New York, and it's the
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Oakland School of Arts of the Arts. I know. Um Jay Walt went there.
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Yep. And he he got a new album out, too. Shout out Jay Walt. Adrien Marcel has gone there, right? Um
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Jane Hancock went there. Yes. Right. And uh how important was that school, would you say, to your development?
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everything. I think it it did wonders for my confidence.
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It made me like know at an early age I was doing this. Whatever this was,
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I knew I wanted to do it. So church though, but you grew up in a church, right? Yeah. Yeah. Talk about
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I love church. You and church got a special
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relationship? Absolutely. Speak to that. Me and God got a special relationship.
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Amen. you know, um, church is where I just developed early, um, without even knowing that it
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was development, you know, just singing in a great choir. I was blessed to have a a good choir at
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the church. You know, all churches ain't Yeah. ain't able. But, you know, we had a great a great
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choir and um just to get that just to see that feeling and like my mom
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shouting and the mothers crying out and whatever that was, I I knew I wanted to
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do that forever. Yeah. Wanted to be a performer. St. John Missionary Baptist Church. Is that it?
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Yep. Richmond, California. Heather be. I got family out there. You know, you just all validating yourself for
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this tour. Uh, I just want people to know I belong. Yeah, cuz somehow you just keep
4:49
associating yourself on the sway does rhyme with bae. U, but
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I think church is like when you think of some of the greatest singers of all time from the Artha Franklin to the Whitney
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Houston, some of the greatest performers always um had church as a foundation,
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right? Yeah. And you need that because when you get into this business, you going to be challenged by a lot of things that
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aren't godly, man. Right. For real. Yeah. Um, have you had those kind of
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challenges? Have you faced those type of crossroads where it was, hm, if I do
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this, that's going against this? Um, yeah. I think I can't really pinpoint a
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thing, but I just think I'm just big on I'm I'm glad timing like
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timing is everything and I'm glad that everything is happening for me as it is right now because I know who I am.
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Yeah. And I always say like you got to come into a field like this knowing who you are versus wanting to be
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somebody, you know? So, who are you, man? Who's Jane Hancock?
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I'm an extraordinary little lady. There you go. Come on, man.
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How long did it take for you to realize that? Man,
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that's a great question. I think up until recently, if I'm being real
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with you, it's like, you know, you always know and you know, I have these little spurt moments. But up until
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recently, I realized my responsibility and and and
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knowing that this isn't just about being in the camera and you know that's cool, but I
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touch people. So when people start messaging me like real deal,
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like real deal stories and messages, I don't take that
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lightly, right? Because you got to be the light too. Yeah, you got to be the light too. And the camera for sure. I I think about
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your what Snoop said about you and the development. And I don't know, like I
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said to Sway earlier before we had you on, I don't know how you popped up on my timeline. Literally, all I have on my
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timeline is food and inspirational quotes. And somehow the with the algorithm, you popped up. I was like,
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"Yo, who is this? She's dope." Like, she's dope. and I just started following
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you and just watching and just seeing little clips over and over. How has that
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been? Because I'm sure you also like dreaming and wanting to be in these space, you know, in this space of making
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it, whatever that means. Uh you have you been surprised about some people who have said, "I'm watching your music or I
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follow you or I I saw you work." How how's those moments been for you? It's been great. It's honestly um
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man, it's been it's been dope. I think I've learned to not like be so uh swayed by
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validation, but it does make me feel good when people
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that I, you know, when a Heather be does follow me and I'm like, "Dang, Heather,
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you just follow me for real." like, you know, she put the little fire flame. Just to know people that I think I
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respect and I I look at to a certain regard is like are looking and watching
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it means a lot. Like Queen Latifah reached out and was just like I'm all in like word,
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you know, like those type of messages make me know I'm doing it right. Yeah.
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You have you're doing the work, you know, and I know sometimes for us as artists, it it feels it can be draining.
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It could be all the things you talked about and you start questioning every but you're doing the work and I think we
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never know how our work can impact people but you're doing the work and I think you've responded beautifully you
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know um it's so good to see you sis and I'm so glad you're here. Just welcome to the show.
8:54
Give a round of applause. Welcome to the show Jane Hancock. Welcome to the show. We here.
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I was thinking you know Raphael's been a very big supporter of yours. Yes. You
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know, Ray, Ray, you could walk outside this building and me and Ray, you'll see us sipping on coffee any day of the
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night. Literally, that's him. That's him. You know, we Tuesdays and Thursday, um, his nephew does a Bible
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um, we we all get on the Zoom. Bible study. Bible study. He, you know what, he did say that as of
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like recently, he was talking about Bible study and I was just like, "Okay." Yeah. All right.
9:29
Yeah, it's real. I'm on there. Yeah, it's very real. I sit on there. It's dope. a group of me and Fuzzy, I got to
9:35
get you on it. You know what I mean? It's a Fuzzy need a little Jesus, man. Are you kidding me? If you knew
9:40
what I know, Me and Fuzzy go back, man. But Raphael,
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um I want to say it was on the project Truth Be Told, um at the end of the project, um and he's really
9:56
really pouring into you and talking about who you are and asking you, are you ready? You know, Jane, are you
10:03
ready? He said, "You write the songs that make the community cry and you write the songs that make them laugh."
10:10
Is that your purpose in this? Yeah. I want to do stuff that make people feel, period.
10:16
So, you might not agree with my view or my point of view on like certain things
10:22
or my perspective, but at least you felt something, you know, enough to analyze
10:28
and maybe look at yourself, maybe look at life. Okay, we we we played the song Can't Low Let Go from the new album It's
10:36
Me Not You. All right. And break down that song for me. That one been really resting on me. I've been singing it for
10:42
about four days. I think I sent you a text, too, about the lyrics. Talk about writing that song cuz I want to get into
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your writing process. The beat spoke to me first. And I don't
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know, making It's Me Not You. I wanted to just expand musically and obviously I started singing first um
11:03
before rap and um Snoop was very like big on no you going
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to sing, you ain't rapping. No, you you I want people to hear you sing because that's a
11:17
different feeling that you give. And um that was one of the records where I'm like, "Okay, you want to hear me
11:23
sing? Fine." And I did that. It was just it's one of them things. I'll be in the
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in the in the room by myself starting off. I record all my ideas and then I'll
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bring other people in. So yeah, it was one of them things where he was like, "She rapping. Nah, nah, we
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don't need that." And I'm like, you know what what what is it? What is
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it? And then I did that record and I remember being just very very proud about it cuz I'm like this is like that
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was one of the first ones I did for the project. So I was like this is the standard. I wanted to be funky. I wanted
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to slap cuz that's where I'm from. I'm from the Bay. We got to make the drums hit and um I wanted to sound like some soul.
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So yeah. Dope. That's what it is man. We got Jane Hancock is here with us. Big round of
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applause. Um, Snoop. Let's talk about Snoop. He has a huge vision for Death
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Row Records, but he's Snoop, you know, and Snoop has made a slew of hit records
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throughout his career. In every era, Snoop has delivered a hit record.
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Um, what what what is it like working with Snoop? What can you tell us that we don't know? Like folks don't necessarily
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acknowledge his musical prowess, what he knows in the studio, what he knows as a producer.
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Yeah. his vision in the same way we acknowledge a Barry Gordy or you know what I mean can you speak to that
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his ear is crazy you know Snoop I always be like joking around saying my playlist
12:57
is better than Snoops but it's not his playlist is so expansive and like his
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ear is crazy so he'll just like name a song out of nowhere like you should listen to that and like you know kind of
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like get into that groove and I'll be like I didn't even like he just came out of the cuts with like a a a a bsider but
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that but like that's him and and his ear I
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think you know he's really what you see is what you get. His energy is infectious you know
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but his ear is crazy. His ear is crazy. Right. Snoop. You you
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gravitated towards Snoop. I want to shout out Adrien cuz was it Adrien Marcel who introduced you to Raphael
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Sadique? Yes. Yes. So it was Adrien Marcel. Wow. From the Bay. Incredible singer. Adrian.
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Same school. Same school. Adrian did the national anthem for us when we did the track meet
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up in the Bay. I did a track meet. My brother and I did a track meet. Adrian came up and sang the uh the national
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anthem. This is the level of talent we have coming out the bay. HB. This is the new Mottown.
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Shout out my friend. Hey friend. Okay, so Adrian introduced you to Raphael. Was it Raphael that took you to
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Snoop? Yes, it was. Um, it was just a weird time. It was around
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like 2021. I was getting calls left and right to have like label meetings
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and I really didn't understand. I'm like I didn't have the numbers. I'm like where was the energy coming from? Why at
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that particular time? I don't even know. It was weird. I I I literally don't know. I remember
14:39
getting dumped on a Tuesday, getting a call on a Wednesday saying, "Dry that
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up. You need to come down to LA. You need to meet with this person, that person, that person."
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And Raphael Sadiq. I'm like, "Okay." And then I met with Ray. I met with all of
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the other labels. He said, "Don't sign none of that. Don't do none of that. I'mma walk you in to some rooms." And I
15:03
got you. Wow. Wow. And he walked me into some rooms. Wow. And And you got I beg your part.
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You say you got dumped that Tuesday. See, that's what sway her. He was going back to that. I do. No. No. I really
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like Who dumped you? Somebody dumped you, man. They kicking
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themselves right now. No, that's that's music coming from me at those places though.
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I remember that because I just was like crying and like in my bed and then I'm just getting a call like pack your bags.
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You got to go to LA. And I'm like tears. Yeah. So I I'll never forget that cuz the timing of it was crazy. I don't even
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know how everybody just at the same time wanted to meet.
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I I I can't tell you what that was about. But it was great. I needed it. It
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changed my life. It's crazy, Jane, because yesterday we were talking about when you let certain things go and let
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God it it was just like your God calling like that that block and I don't know
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this person, but I'm just saying it seems like that blocking left your life. You let that go and God just stepped in.
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Clock it. Know we on a different something else right
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there. Has he tried to call you back the person?
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Not as of recently. I think everybody kind of looking like, "Let me leave her alone. Let me leave her alone. I I ain't even I
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ain't even got nothing for her for real." Yeah. Ain't got nothing for her. Can't
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move her forward. Can't move her upward. What am I doing? And your And your momentum is up. And God is real. You
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talk about um you know, labels and people um not not
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align with your look, right? How how how much did that happen? What what was happening with that? What
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were people saying to you? Um that I just didn't fit the mold, you
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know, I didn't have people say, "You need to lose weight. You need to do this. You need to do that." And um
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I was signed for a hot second somewhere else. Um and shout out Snoop. he, you
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know, got me off and he's like, "No, you coming to death row." But I like I'll never forget
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um hearing what was being said about me exiting and
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um Yeah. What what was being said? What do you mean? What were they saying?
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Yeah. Like good luck to that, you know. Good luck to her going there, you know. Um you know, she's not a Beyonce and she
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doesn't look like she doesn't look like that. So good luck. And I'm just like, okay.
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I think that stuff fuels me though, like in a good way. I can't let it dagger into me too long. I gotta, you
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know, got to Yeah. use it as fuel. Mhm. You know, Jane, I had that too, man. You
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know. Wow. More tour support. Okay. What happened, Sway? [Music]
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Jane, just just take a listen cuz he's going to be working with you every day. What happened, Sway? You know, when I went to MTV, Jane, I
18:10
used to my I was rocking my locks. like, you know what I mean? We Bay Are they
18:15
with it yet? You know, I was shaking them before 40 made the record, right? And they look at me and say, "Uh, you
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don't look like you from Oakland or you don't sound like all this different stuff. Look at us now." That was 25
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years ago. Give me Jane a round of applause, man. You know what? It's It's crazy though.
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No. to help to, you know, it's one thing when other people say it
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that's not from our history and our ethnicity and our culture, but when it
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comes from our own brothers, the sisters, that [ __ ] is painful. Yeah.
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Because, bro, I look like your your sister, your cousin,
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you know, I I'm I'm I'm from that lineage of your aunties and your mom. Yeah. Like, how dare you?
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Yeah. How dare you, [ __ ] Like that's that's you know you can't let that person come out. But it I get it from other people.
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I get that cuz y'all just don't know. But when it's us and it's other and the women too it's
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like bro it it's it's crazy. So it hits different. It hits different Jane. It definitely is
19:18
different. So kudos to you like Sway said for overcoming that and seeing it through. And kudos to you Sway for for
19:24
making it through on your locks with your locks on Instagram. You stood on business and you stood you stood on business. Yeah I see you. Um, there was
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no I never take these people seriously anyway.
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I like that you said something to me earlier. You said, "I don't care about they." Yeah. And I love that.
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Yeah. Taking that. Yeah. Take that. Who they? Who are they? [ __ ] they. No, for real. They they'll keep you in a
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box for real. And make you think it's something wrong with who you are. Yep. And I'm glad you took that Bay Area
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ingenuity and rose above that because we ain't we ain't we about this is who I am coming from the bay. We are we
20:03
coming in the door knowing. We coming in the door knowing. Right. Um who from the bay? Are you working?
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Anybody on the from the bay on this album? You know what? Shout out Brian C. Simmons. Um he's a good friend of mine.
20:16
He did Smile. Okay. And um yeah, for just for this album, I I've worked with
20:22
a few people, but they didn't make this first album, but yeah, it's it's it's a lot more to come.
20:29
It's a lot more to come. It's a lot more to come. Shout out Brian C. Simmons. He's from the Bay.
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Hey, Bay Area, stand up. 8887423345. Anderson Pack.
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Mhm. That's our guy, Anderson. Indeed. Hey, AP. Yeah, AP. before he signed his big deal,
20:46
we used to have him come on the show and really push him. A good friend of mine was working with him um at that time. My partner King Tech
20:53
from the Bay and I um years ago maybe in 2016 17
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long time ago we did a unplugged and we had a couple rising stars that people
21:05
weren't familiar with play on it. Anderson played drums for us while we had other artists come and freestyle and
21:11
sing. And so to see his growth, we knew then, you know, I remember he performed in the Bay one time. I flew from New
21:18
York to the Bay just to see him perform. Wow. Right. And so talk about your relationship with Anderson.
21:24
Shout out Apeshit. Sorry for the cursing. No, that's the name.
21:30
I got to say sorry to St. John Missionary Baptist, not us.
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Did you see her on pastor? Did you see her on sway? She got up into
21:42
the world now. Started cussing. Um yeah, shout out to him. Um shout out
21:50
to Crystal. Honestly, it was just a kind of linked situation with management and um he was
21:59
the last song on the album and everybody was just like, "You need one more. You need that record. You need
22:06
that one record." And to be honest, I was like, "I'm done. like I'm done with it, you know?
22:12
And they were like, "No, you're going to do this session with AP." And I'm like, "All right." So all
22:18
weekend like I'm thinking like, "What am I going to do? What am I going to do? Cuz I want to go in there knowing what I
22:24
want to do so we ain't got to be sitting up in there, you know?" Yeah. Wasting time. And I was just like,
22:32
I heard Funkin for Jamaica. And I was like, everybody love that song. No. young, old, male. Period.
22:44
Okay. So, you heard this and then and I just was like he, you know, we went into the studio and he was like,
22:51
"What do you want to do?" I was like, "I want to do something like Funkin for Jamaica." He was like, "Let's do it."
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Sure. and we with that pretty smile and we just you
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know he he shout out to him and his crew J Mo JS
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I was in awe. That was the first time I seen that cuz usually it's me with a beat
23:16
and I'm got my earphones on in a room secluded. So to see that I was just like whoa.
23:23
Wow. Y'all did that on the spot like that? That's crazy. That's the first time you ever saw that? Yeah. Wow. Mhm.
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And they came up with the the basis for Stare at Me or Yeah, he he him and I wrote it together,
23:36
but he definitely, you know, came up with the hook. I ain't even going to hold you. Yeah, I ain't going to hold you. That was the first That's one of the first times this
23:43
album period was like I was big for the first time on like collaboration. Okay.
23:48
I've never let people write for me or Yeah. And I was never that type of person that was like, "No, I write all my stuff. I'm
23:55
like, "Please help me." like please help. Um, so it was cool just to see him write
24:02
something from my perspective and being like, "Nah, do this." But I, you know, I I definitely pinned my verse.
24:08
You pinned your verse? Yeah. After he did his, he inspired me to do mine. And And so how did the management
24:14
situation happen? Like, does he work with your management now? Does it seem Yeah. Yeah. Well, so I'm actually signed
24:20
to his management label. Label. Okay. Yeah. Wow. Crystal did that. Yep. Crystal the boss. Look at Look at
24:27
the boss, right? You see her purse, Heather? Ow. PB, get her purse. I'm just joking. I'm just joking. Let's play this song and
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we're going to open up the phone lines. 888742 3345. This is Jane Hancock. Stare at me.
24:40
Get to know Jane Hancock. 8887423345. Real music lovers only, not the fake
24:47
ones. Call up now. That sounds so That sound great. Yo, open your windows. Just let the
24:53
fresh air in. Kind of cooking in the kitchen, jamming in the car, walking down the
24:58
street, feeling your own vibe music. I love it. I love it, too. U Tracy, you want to
25:03
jump in here? Oh my gosh. Absolutely. Jane, you first of all are incredibly talented. And
25:10
second of all, what really touches me is your ability to not absorb any negative
25:15
opinions or negative decisions from others because it can be very easy to do that. Some people don't even realize
25:22
they're wearing those opinions like second skin. But beyond that, your
25:27
ability to use that energy um as a muse for your art, like that type of alchemy
25:34
is such a gift. And it makes me wonder when you are in the studio because you spoke about how for the most part you
25:41
like for it to be um a very solo experience, just you pen, paper, and
25:47
your heart. Um, when writing these these songs, are you thinking about is it
25:54
based off of things that you're presently going through or are you usually pulling from like lived
26:00
experiences experiences that already have like a beginning, middle, and an end?
26:07
First of all, thank you. Um, I definitely write based on I I I just
26:15
be feeling like my life is one insecure, long insecure season.
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So I I just be right. The the the TV show in Isa
26:27
the TV show. The TV show. The TV show. Yeah. Like Yeah. No, for real. Like I feel like
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it's that because I mean we go through stuff as as young women as you know we
26:39
go through things. A young black girl navigating life, finances,
26:46
love, family, all of that. So, I think I put all of that in my music and then like for me that is therapy because
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I think that's the only way I can actually fully say what I want to say without getting the eye or getting a cuz
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I'm like a reader of the room and it's chronic for me. So, like I like to be by
27:08
myself and just say what I really really want to say. Gotcha. I read a I read an
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article once where you said I think it was an article or I saw a clip where you say I say what I'm afraid to say at
27:21
times when it comes to your writing. Mhm. Yeah. Definitely. Yeah. So you could say what you in your
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writing what you can't say just sitting here verbally. Absolutely. Well, you know what? I think
27:34
I've grown okay a lot from it. Um but I know like that
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clip God is real. Mhm. That was stuff I never could just say. I could never tell my aunts how I felt.
27:46
So, you know, like little little things like that. It's like, you know, I know I might get in trouble,
27:52
you know, or not even trouble, but it could again make people feel away, but
27:57
it made you feel. And then that's something for you to process and analyze. But I think um now I'm a bit
28:05
more I'm just like, all right, I ain't that timid no more. But I used to be timid
28:11
and yeah, I used to be to where it was like I don't really, you know, I don't want to shake the room
28:17
and then I'll go on the mic and say something wild. But like now
28:24
and that's how we get blessed. Heather like that part. You wake up to in the Harriet Tubman,
28:30
homie. Wake her up liter like literally. And
28:36
you know, now I'm more no, I'm going just say what I I feel. And now everything is like a soundtrack to my
28:42
life. Like I was telling I literally was telling Snoop, I'm like, yo, I'm ready for season two. Like that's the next
28:48
album, season two. We we in a different season because I am in a different season. Like it's me, not
28:54
you. really was me just trying to navigate who I was and my life changing from catching the bus every day to like
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you got your own apartment, you got your own this, you got your own that. You I'm navigating a whole new lifestyle and um
29:10
doing it with grace, doing it to where I'm not crashing out and any of that. So
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now I'm in a different season to where I'm a little bit more seasoned in that and you know, yeah, I'm making music for
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that. So yeah, I love that. J Hancock. Little less insecure. Yeah, for sure.
29:27
Yeah. Season two. Sway. Season two. A little less insecure. Yo, you ever get
29:33
into a uh a smoke session with Snoop? That's why I'm I'm coughing and and
29:40
clear my throat now, y'all. This early.
29:45
You know what? Snoop literally
29:50
did not pass the DARE program back in the day.
29:55
The DARE program. He is absolutely a bad influence. Hit this. Hit this. And it be
30:03
Yeah, I'mma hit it like Snoop Dog been faster to me. What?
30:10
I feel like a little rapid raspiness though helps I think with your presence. It does. I think it gave my voice
30:16
character. No, but but but I would imaging with Snoop is like playing golf with Tiger
30:22
Woods. Yes. Right. Yes. Absolutely. And I'll be thinking I can hang. I'll be
30:27
trying to smoke all cute and everything like And I'll just be coughing and everything
30:34
like, "All right, I'm done with this." I'll be passing it to like my friend like here.
30:39
But in the cipher is when some of the best stories come out. But I remember sitting with
30:45
Snoop in um I want to say might have been Denver. He was on tour and it was
30:52
Corrupt was in the room. Dash was there and Snoop asked him to leave the room. He went to talk to me about something
30:58
personal and I was like, "Oh [ __ ] what's this Snoop?" And then Snoop lit up and he was trying to hand me the
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I'm not going to say if I hit it or not. You made Jay answer.
31:10
This is her interview, not mine. Hey, but not you. It's me. It's me, not you.
31:17
Hey. Hey. But I I felt I felt what you felt like, oh my god, Snoop is asking me
31:23
to hit the blunt. That's like MJ passing me the ball and saying, "Take the shot."
31:29
Literally. But what came out of it was some amazing stories. Have you heard some amazing death row
31:35
stories or Oh, yeah. He gives me just game in life. I remember him asking me what I wanted
31:42
out of this and me telling him like I want to do what you do. You do a little bit of everything
31:48
and um he's guided me to go there and to take it on one like
31:54
that. So every time we sit it's just game whether it's a story. Him and Raphael
32:00
got the best stories for real. Raphael going to sit and tell you a story that have you stuck like like you
32:07
watching behind the music like Right. Right. Like I'm sad. So yeah. Yeah. You're very fortunate, man. I'm
32:13
I'm really happy for you. Give it up for Jane Hancock. And I'm really pushing for this lettucey guap
32:20
bae. Keani. Jane Hancock. Bae. Right. Her
32:25
bae. Kamaya. Um I I I see that concert. Somebody some
32:31
promoter some the black promoter BP coalition
32:36
need to make that happen. I would love to. That's a man. I I talked to Lety
32:41
last week and just dope. She's so dope. Yeah, man. She's so dope. The Heather author says Jersey has the
32:48
best collective of female MC's in the c in the world in the country. I said the world. I'll say that the Bay the Bay the Bay
32:56
Area has the best collective of R&B female vocalists, singers, performers
33:03
in the world right now. In Vogue from the Bay. In Vogue is from the Bay. Wow.
33:08
Stop playing with us. Wow. Right now I put that out there. Anybody I know. Talk about it. Who got a better
33:15
collective? Especially adding with Jane with Jane Hancock here. Female vocalist. Female vocalist and performers in the
33:21
Bay. I love that you say that because I always have these conversations where I'm like, shout out to rap because we
33:28
have these conversations a lot to where it's like I love the I'm a hy baby. So I was in
33:35
the age of we skipping school. Of course I would tell my mom. Hi mom. Like we
33:42
a lot of secrets coming out today. I you know like we skip school like you
33:48
know there's going to be an organized sideshow going on. We're we're out of here. We're going to go to that. Like
33:54
that's where we you know I come from. We come from like doing donuts and just being you know wild. and our our I
34:02
feel like the hy movement is like the um new age like hippie movement in a sense
34:08
but there's also deep rich soul that comes from the bay
34:14
and I I want to I want to amplify that you know I'm not I I can't do the hypey
34:20
dances I love it I like to go to the parties but like I want to I want to amplify the soul because we got a lot of
34:26
soul coming the same way you said Artha Franklin did yes right Patty Leel has done.
34:31
Yes. But it also seems as if Raphael, who y'all refer to as Rey, has been an encourager of that and
34:38
someone who's bringing that forth, a conduit if you will, of these beautiful, amazing female vocalists.
34:44
You know, bringing y'all forth because his name has been attached, as we find out later more and more about this
34:50
extensive resume, to so many songs and so many female artists. It's dope that
34:56
he's doing that. Just amazing. I'm so glad that you have him in your corner as well. Oh, that's dope, sis. Hey, you you you spoke them up. You
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mentioned Raph. We got Lur Rav from No Vultures on the line right now. Rab, what up, man?
35:07
Yo, what's happening? You say my name like Candyman and I appear. [Laughter]
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Happy birthday, Rab. Rab just celebrated a birthday. Wow. Happy birthday.
35:20
Thank you. Thank you. Go ahead, Rab. you you know rap I I was
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I was telling Jane how you you first really start championing her uh cuz rap
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uh has been my ear to the streets in the in the Bay Area and I remember she was one of the first
35:36
people when I said rap who's next you were one of the first names you were the first name that he named uh Rab you
35:44
want to chime in yeah man I just want to say man I'm so proud of Jane you know this is my sister
35:50
we you know we talk about the ups and the downs the good and the bad of the industry. And uh Jane is a fighter, man.
35:57
Like Jane is a fighter, a true spirit, like a vintage spirit, like the auntie mother spirit that we don't really see a
36:04
lot now, you know, cuz they they make our women look a certain kind of way intentionally. But Jane is like that
36:10
vintage, that cloth, you know, that one you want to call to make you feel better, the one that want to, you know,
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give you some good advice and also just have a great conversation with. So I just want to say I'm super proud of
36:20
Jane, man. You know that's what's up. Thank you. Shout out Raph. Shout out
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Phil Jackson. Um they really man you know.
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Yeah. Like hey Jane Jane has been Huh?
36:38
You known Jane a long time. Um when she got that first call um to go down to see
36:44
some labels. She said somebody dumped her on Tuesday. Who is that? Raph. Wow. just switching his back.
36:52
Woo! Hey, my secret. Rav don't be knowing that cuz he like
36:59
all all of my guy like I love the men that that pour into me and that affirm
37:04
me. They be like, "Don't worry about him. He ain't nothing." Yeah, he ain't. Where is he now? [ __ ]
37:10
He ain't nothing. Look at him. He listening to you right now. Think about why that number changed. Brad, what can you tell the world about
37:17
Jane? Um, I definitely want to tell Jane I
37:22
have to tell the world about Jane that she's she's the one. Like, she's the one. If if
37:27
we've been looking for the one, she's the one. Like, Jane can do everything. I always tell her this and I always
37:33
encourage her to rap more, too, because as much of a singer as she is, she's a MC. Like, a musician, period. Just she's
37:41
just music. Jane can do everything. So, one thing I want the world to know about Jane is if you looking for any form of
37:48
musical entertainment, you can find it through Jane. There's nothing that she can't do. If you listen to like the song
37:54
with Anderson Pack that just went off, you see that can be soul music. She can go to I like my weed. She can go to some
38:01
MC [ __ ] coming out of the Mac Arthur Maze camp. So, like I just love Jay. She know it. She know I'll do anything for
38:08
her. That's what's up, man. Appreciate you, Lord. Rap. Hold on the line. Rap. Hold
38:13
on the line. Shout out to MacArthur Maze, Champ Green, and the whole crew. Shout out to my brothers, man.
38:18
Yeah, they dope, too. You a part of MacArthur Mazize? Yes. They I mean, they're a part of the
38:24
guys that affirmed me. Um they they gave me the confidence to rap because I
38:31
I was just such a fan of hip-hop. I've always been just such a fan of hip-hop, but you know, I was a singer, so I had
38:40
to find my tone. I had to find everything. And they were the ones that were like, "Yeah, write this verse."
38:45
Like, "Get on this. Hop on this." And that like got my pen up for real. So, put your headphones on.
38:51
Since you see that work, I could see Jane on Broadway, too. I want to do it. Do you?
38:57
For sure. Yeah. You want to do everything? Should do Broadway. Well, listen. Since you want to do
39:02
everything and I got rap, I'mma put you all up real quick. And but before we start this, I I'm going to bring Ricky
39:08
up on the line, too. Ricky from the town. Rick, what up? Town business. Hey, how how you doing,
39:13
man? This is Rick. This her dad on the phone. Oh, boy.
39:19
Yeah, this a bad. I like that.
39:24
See how I did that? Wow. You know when you said Ricky from
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the town, I'm like, this is my dad. I died.
39:36
How proud of you? How proud of you? Yeah. I just wanted to say, "Hey, baby girl, I love you. I'm proud of you." You
39:42
know, I always knew you had it in you and your mom sitting here laughing and smiling and uh we just so happy. I'm so
39:49
proud of her cuz I knew she always had it and she is a fighter and she emotable and then all kind of music she can do.
39:56
I remember when she was a baby girl always saying that little that little flower. You remember, huh? Do you
40:01
remember that flower, right? Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So, but I I love her
40:06
and um you keep pushing. Okay. and we'll see you soon. Ricky, was she a good Was she a good
40:12
kid? Oh, she was she was an excellent she was a spoker. She was speaks up.
40:18
She was always a speaker. She always speaks up as a writer. She she always speaking
40:24
and and sharing her thoughts. We didn't want her to.
40:31
A well listen Ricky, you you you and her mom should feel proud because she's
40:37
she's up here making all of us proud. You raised an amazing daughter and uh
40:42
she's very talented. And while I got I got you and Laura Rab on the line. I'm going to have her do this with y'all
40:47
both on the line because I know she came in in here today thinking she was just going to do an interview, but she may
40:54
not had any idea that she would be visiting and walking through the valley of the hyena. All right.
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Yo, John, drop that beat on her. Oh, wow.
41:06
Turn that up a little, John. Wow. There you go.
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Yeah.
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Jane Hancock. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. area.
41:27
It's giving love. It's giving bless. It's giving me time. It's giving go hate over there. Here's the peace sign. It's
41:34
giving damn. He blew it right when I'm blow where I'mma be this time next year. I don't really know. See, I'mma laugh
41:40
when I finally make them lists and they finally start telling all the people I'm the [ __ ] By the end, I'll be rich.
41:46
Ain't that a same come up story? Why you got to be like this? When you elevating,
41:52
they don't tell you the losses. Let them folk tell it, man. They all some bosses. I be moving around so I don't be
41:58
answering often like you love or hate it. Got to respect me. You can't check me, [ __ ] You can't check me. I learned
42:06
years ago, don't let this [ __ ] affect me. See, I was watching team members put up points. I che when I put
42:13
Keep flowing. Step my foot up in the game. It was no longer we. I stepped my foot up in the
42:18
game. It was no longer we. When I was watching team members put up points, I cheered. I stepped my foot up in the
42:24
game. It was no longer we. Man, I showed them how to do it. So I'm glad they live. Got to write a check if you want
42:31
my pen. My heart big. Pray that I don't die trying to give. I told Lucius I'mma
42:36
put me first this year. Summer come around and we see what it is. You hearing this right now. I pray that you
42:43
win. Manifest the life. I ain't speaking no death. Lord protect the real [ __ ]
42:49
that's left. Lord protect the real [ __ ] that's left. Lord protect the
42:54
real [ __ ] that Yeah. manifest the life. I ain't speaking no death. Lord
42:59
protect the real [ __ ] that's left. That's real. That's Jane Hancock. Keep the music
43:06
going. Sway in the morning. J45 Bay Area's finest right here. She's
43:11
the one. You still on tour? I'm on tour right now. You like that? You like car. Thank you, man. Give it up
43:18
for Jane Hancock. Heather became the hugger, sis. Come on, man. We ain't speaking on
43:24
death. We only speaking on life. That's real. Come on. I love it, man. Yo, Ricky, you
43:30
could be proud of your daughter, brother. You did it, man. Congratulations. Cut school to get to them sideh shows. It paid off, baby.
43:36
Did you know she was cutting school, Ricky? Paid off, Ricky. She only tell She tell me everything.
43:42
She tell me all to do that. Yeah, she tell she told lie. She'll tell the truth.
43:48
And then and her mom heard her say she smoke with Snoop. Yeah, she
43:54
right here. She laughing about it, too, man. Well, well, hopefully. You heard
44:01
that? Well, hopefully one day. I'm in the town all matter of fact, I'll be in the town this weekend at Laney College. We doing a basketball. Do you know?
44:09
Shout out Laney College. I used to go there. You went to Laney College? Yes, I did. Yep. for like a couple of
44:14
semesters. Wow. Okay. And I dropped out and didn't tell my mama for like a year. She thought I was going to school.
44:20
Damn. Yeah. I thought Shout out Laney. Was this a good kid or not? Ricky
44:25
smoking with Dro. She was focusing on that music. Oh, yep.
44:30
Okay. She was smoking on that music. Rab, does she know Quasi?
44:35
I'm not sure if she know Quasi, but she definitely know the people around them. Okay. Uh, we have the real Repy crew.
44:42
But we're doing a basketball game Saturday and Sunday. Tournament 10K for the winners, but it's to bring the
44:48
community together. It'll be a lot of kids there. You know, we going have to like I want to come back home with you. We going to do
44:54
Let's do something. We make it big. Come on. All right. We'll get you involved too, R. We need you to work the grounds.
45:00
Garage Series. Something we do. Hopefully it's day.
45:06
Oh [ __ ] Yeah, that too. Wow. I haven't done one since 2019. Oh, we going to
45:12
figure it out. All right. What? Heather co hit. He has a whole day. Like, how does the
45:18
city give somebody a day and they only celebrate it the one time the year they gave it to him?
45:24
That's so Bay Area though. That's so Bay Area. We just be like, "All right, thank y'all for that.
45:30
We got a day and that's it. February 4th day, by the way.
45:36
February 4th. That's Callaway Day. I gave it to my family. Uh Ricky, proud of
45:41
you. Congratulations. Please say the same to her mom. You both are citizens in the morning. All right. And then uh thank you, sir.
45:48
So dope. And Lord Rab as always, brother. We appreciate you, man.
45:55
Rab, where should they find you, man? Where should they find you, Rab? Y'all can find me at no vultures or Lord
46:01
Rab on any platform. Okay, Rab, have a good day. I'll see you this weekend. You coming by the game?
46:07
Okay. Of course. Okay. I'll see you this weekend, man. Give it up for Lord Rab Jane Hancock.
46:14
Listen, we didn't even get to all the songs. I want to um end with um
46:19
I think Use Me. Use Me. We're going to end the show with Use Me. But what's ahead of you right
46:27
now? Are you Are you touring the album? Where can people see you? Yes, it it it's going to happen this
46:33
year. Okay. I'm a I'm a Yeah, I'm doing something special for my fans. Doing
46:39
something special for people who really rock. Um I want to give an experience
46:45
live before the year is out. So that's happening. Okay. And then give me a drum roll, Ka. I want to make this announcement. No one
46:51
knows this about Jane. She doesn't even know to make this announcement. Um I I
46:57
got on the phone with Snoop and he wanted me to mention that Jane actually has a movie coming out that's
47:02
accompanying this project. Congratulations, Jane. Congratulations. Snoop told me to tell you.
47:07
Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you. What's the name of the movie?
47:12
It's me, not you. So, it's it's it's a film that is um based around the movie.
47:18
I mean, around the album. So, it's you. You the one. Thank you. I'm glad we did this. It's first of
47:24
many. Yes. We going to go out have some fun. All right. Fuzzy, I love you, brother. Appreciate you. Give it up for Fuzz. Get
47:30
on camera, man. If people don't see you enough, man, get up. Give up. No. Over here, Fuzz. over here. Stand next to Jane. There you go, man. Give it up for
47:36
Fuzzy Fantabulous right here, man. This dude is legendary here. And can I make one shout out? You know,
47:42
I got to I got to do my I just want to shout out somebody who believed in me cuz I know he listening
47:48
from Jump. Uncle Andre [ __ ] Kryptonite. I love you dog. Kryptonite dog. Love you. Brian.
47:56
Yes. Those two people believed in me from Jump. [ __ ] gave you the game, right? Yep.
48:01
Gave you the game, right? Yep. He taught me how to record myself. He He was an MC, too, in the town.
48:06
Yep. Yeah. He still got bars. Oh, yeah. He He Man, he writing on the project. He's writing on the project.
48:12
I made him pick his pen up. Tell him I said what up. We'll do. Okay. Tell him put put him first in his
48:17
pocket next time I see him. Yeah. All right. I'm glad you shouted him out. Give it up for Jane Hancock Citizens.
48:23
You can follow her at Miss Jane Hancock. Ms. J E H A N D C O C K. Um, and thank
48:31
you. Thank you. That freestyle was fire, too. That's why I was like, "Keep flowing." I knew I
48:36
wanted to be on the back of that one. Getting ready. Can Death Roll put that out? You know what?
48:42
Can I be a Death Row artist? All right. Uh, so we gonna end with Use Me. Tell me about that song. Man, I love this record
48:50
because just to give you um context when I'm in a situation with any male
48:57
that I, you know, I'm I'm sweet on, I'm okay with being used. Just don't
49:03
misuse me. So, I know some people are like, "What she mean use me?" It's, you know, we all here to be used and
49:09
utilized in some form. So, I'm okay with that. So, use like what? For a ride. Can I get a
49:15
ride or I mean we are here to be used for something. So it's like you could use me. I got I'm I'm resourceful. I'm I'm a
49:22
source. But don't misuse. I'm like that. But you pay bills
49:28
if nec I mean I need I need I want to use you to pay my bill. I'm short this month. Like
49:33
well well I'll pray for you. Well that's where that stopped.
49:39
She from the church. That's okay. You look I got dishes in the sink.
49:47
I wash I wash I I'm Yeah, I'm I'm a lady. So between my mom and my granny,
49:53
they taught me how to be a lady. So yeah, I'm ironing. I'm washing. Um
49:58
when I'm home, Yeah. I'll be gone now. Okay. But you you you're willing to do that.
50:04
I like that. I I love to iron. For real. For real. I love to iron. Like I will iron all my
50:09
clothes when I like sway. Say hell that got to do with me, Ev.
50:16
Cuz I don't iron. I can iron. Um Jane, I love it. Um you know, hopefully no. Don't Yeah. Use you,
50:23
but don't misuse you. Y I'm the same way. Yes. Use me, but don't misuse me. We from the
50:30
town once you misuse us. Oh man, game over. It's all bad. For real.
50:35
Okay. For real. Let's play that. Jane Hancock, love you. Give her a big round of applause.
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