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That Girl Lay Lay Talks New Single "Breezy" Featuring Young Dolph | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Mar 11, 2021
That Girl Lay Lay is the youngest female rapper to sign a deal when she linked up with Empire Records. Her debut single "Go Lay Lay Go" amassed over 20 million views on YouTube and now she introduces her latest single "Breezy" featuring Young Dolph on Sway In The Morning.
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That Girl Lay Lay Talks New Single "Breezy" Featuring Young Dolph | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
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y'all i wasn't gonna do a freestyle
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friday today because i'm kind of in my
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feelings but
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it's whatever shout out black pyramid
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for this
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fresh trip and shout out to finesse for
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this week
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let's get into it oh and also i'm not
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using no one else
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[Music]
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[Music]
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don't walk across the floor
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[Music]
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yeah man that was one of the first times
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i heard this young lady this young
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hyenas tracy t we got a young hyena on
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the line with us right now
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do you know i'm here for it cabo man
1:03
this is the queen in the making i'm
1:05
watching her star just rise and rise the
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youngest artist to ever
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sign a record deal she signed an overall
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production deal with nickelodeon she's
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ambassador
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hundreds and millions of views with her
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videos
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i love her i love the video stop playing
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i love it when she's acting in it i love
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her new single breezy with young dolph
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he's here with us today
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a young lady in charge give it up for
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the one and only layla
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hey hey
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[Applause]
1:37
hey layla how you doing welcome to sway
1:40
in the morning
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i'm doing pretty well how are y'all
1:44
tracy you want to talk
1:46
yes i'm wonderful i'm so excited to get
1:49
to know you more leila you are such a
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shining star my girl
1:53
thank you i'm so excited to be here i've
1:55
been trying to get on sway for a very
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very very long time
2:00
you know what you know lele i follow you
2:02
i watch when you would post these
2:04
these um freestyles and i was like yo we
2:06
got to get her on the show she's a young
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hyena
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and i was so impressed with your rap
2:12
style
2:12
and your skill set um at your
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age you know it takes people 10 years to
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become
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who they are today who was how did you
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develop your rap style
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like how did you start writing so
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my dad he's an artist as well um he used
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to make music a lot especially when i
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was little
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and he used to always take me to the
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studio with him when he would make
2:36
music and i would be paying attention to
2:38
him he never really thought i was
2:39
listening or even
2:40
or either watching or anything but i
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picked up on it when i was little
2:44
and then as i grew older i started
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writing for myself and then i started
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doing those freestyles and then
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the rest was history the rest is history
2:52
it's more to it than just your rapping
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though because i feel like you got a
2:55
tremendous business sense of mind but
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i'm curious to
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the rapping part who in your in your
3:01
opinion who are your top five
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who do you like most your top five
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rappers i wanna hear this
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my top five robbers my dad is first um
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second is lil wayne okay
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third is
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[Music]
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and this is
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wow you are an old soul my girl i'm also
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i'm also a bit surprised that you didn't
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mention any women on there
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well you know um
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i don't know it's like i i listened to
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the female music so if i had to list
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females i would definitely say like flo
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millie uh megan
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[Music]
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who is low cam okay
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mickey
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yeah those are like my top four right
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there which i've been trying to get some
4:18
some songs with female artists but it's
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been very hard
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yeah i saw you talking with hitmaker on
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on instagram live and
4:26
you wanted to work with bia and some
4:29
others that you named but also watched
4:30
when you met cardi b
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on backstage at a concert and i'm sure
4:35
what
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what inspires you about cardi b what do
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you like about cardi
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i just like that she's herself i like
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that she's real i like that when she got
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popular she didn't change
4:45
she stayed who she was that's what's up
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yeah y'all know lele i see you more on
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social media i see you on youtube i see
4:54
you
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you know on the you know ellen degeneres
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show i see you doing
4:58
you know i see you doing all of these
4:59
big things when do you go to school
5:02
all right so i do my online school so
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actually right now
5:07
i'm on break right now from set to do
5:09
this interview but right when i'm done
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i'm going back on set and then after say
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i'm gonna
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do my school or usually i'll do it
5:15
before i
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like work because i don't like to i like
5:19
to focus on one thing at the time so
5:21
say i have like a long day on say i'm
5:23
gonna do school the day before so i know
5:25
not to forget and know to do it
5:28
okay this one got a schedule
5:31
this is lele y'all follow her at that
5:33
girl lele
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lele sounded like she could teach a
5:36
course let alone
5:38
be the student in the course lele so now
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i'm curious
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as to how um your peers i'm not
5:44
necessarily talking about in the
5:46
industry i'm talking about just like
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neighborhood friends you know what i'm
5:49
saying like kids that are your
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age have you seen like a difference in
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the way you are treated or the
5:57
perception because you have all this
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attention
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or is it roughly the same uh
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no i've actually uh i get a lot of um
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different especially when it comes to
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friends
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i mean they're not really the same since
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i'm getting so much attention
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it's a little difficult but uh yeah it's
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not the same
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huh but i don't worry anyway because
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i'm focused on my career so i can't
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really care less
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[Applause]
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what's your sign young woman oh oh my
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sign is aquarius
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uh my right i i'm a aquarius leon
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gemini so you know i'm a little crazy in
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the head
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nah this is someone who is not afraid of
6:43
the spotlight with that combo
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oh my gosh this is yo
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so let me ask you this because you know
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one of my favorite videos is the um stop
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playing videos and i'll tell you why i
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love the
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acting in it i love you know
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prior to the choreography and the dance
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scenes all the acting you do so
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do you take lessons in acting and how do
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you weigh out acting as serious as you
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do music
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so when i i started doing acting before
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i was doing music i always knew that was
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something i wanted to do i definitely
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wanted to be an
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actress and a model and i did want to do
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music but i did want to say acting more
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serious than rapping
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but i started like loving rapping kind
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of more and that just kind of took off
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but right now
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since i just recently signed with
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nickelodeon we're now
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getting ready for my tv show i'm now
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getting ready to film for that
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so um i do take acting lessons i take
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dancing lessons
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so yeah so when i i think uh
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of your tv show um i looked at people
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like
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uh raven simone you know what i mean
7:51
victoria jackson
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you love raven is is raven an
7:54
inspiration how is you know
7:56
what raven has done with her success
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starting off as a childhood
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actress and then becoming who she is
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this media mogul
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is she one of those people you look at
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and go home i could take cues from her
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yes most definitely she was like four
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when she started and she had all the
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personality in the world
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a lot of people call me a young raven
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simone okay that's a compliment i like
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that layla here they lay's here
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okay okay now so what i want to do
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is you know we were talking about you
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earlier before you called in and i told
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folks you know you're an inspiration and
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if they got
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people who are young and it's trying to
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break into the game maybe they could
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you know do a little performance for you
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and get some feedback from you are you
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cool with that
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yeah i'm definitely fine with that okay
8:42
cool layla is here and listen she got
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her new single it's called breezy
8:45
featuring young dolph is out now
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um she's coming off that for me single
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as well
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i love her music i feel good every time
8:53
i see your videos
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and so we're gonna let you get back a
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little bit today so who we got
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uh first we got um andrew from colorado
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what's up
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hey andrew hey hey what's going on
9:06
i got through yes you did bro make it
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count
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is somebody about to perform for us um
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no not me uh my son my son he's a 15
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year old native american rapper
9:19
he's really talented he's got a nice
9:21
deep voice to me he kind of sounds like
9:23
the baby he does a little sinking on
9:26
there
9:27
but it's mostly just rapping um i
9:30
dropped him off at school
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oh okay right before i heard you say if
9:35
you had any family
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young talent in your family and i
9:38
already dropped him off at school he's a
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uh
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she's a sophomore in high school and i
9:44
just wanted to plug his music and
9:46
you just started up his clothing line
9:48
called novik music clothing
9:50
okay so andrew do you have a question
9:52
for lele that she could maybe give some
9:54
advice to your son
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right yes um how uh-huh
9:59
see i'm excited for his manager too so i
10:02
try to um
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i'm trying to get him into at least his
10:05
music
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heard you know known more than locally
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uh so how how did you go about extending
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your music out
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past past your town and your city and
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state
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okay so how did you get your music out
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lele beyond
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being a local uh a local artist how did
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it go
10:25
how did it go national and go viral for
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you
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um to be honest i really started off
10:33
with those freestyles and from the
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freestyles in the car you know
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i just was recording them and putting
10:38
them on instagram and
10:39
usually they'll go wow you know if you
10:41
really spit in bars you're most
10:43
definitely going to go viral on
10:44
instagram and then
10:45
so with that i started making real music
10:47
in the studio and put that out and from
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the freestyle
10:50
everybody knew me from africa to la and
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so yeah
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okay from africa to l.a i love it all
10:57
right man hey andrew thanks for your
10:59
call you a citizen
11:00
i swear in the morning
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[Applause]
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hey layla so are you are you the type of
11:07
mc if
11:08
if i was to say yo go spit right now you
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got something
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yeah of course i want to hear something
11:15
we got a young hyena up in here
11:17
in the morning save four or five we got
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that girl lele right here you ready to
11:22
spin some bars go acapella for us
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all right y'all ready yep all right
11:29
layla girl i'm back yet with another one
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oh yeah
11:32
h time yeah that's where i get my
11:34
husband from oh i'm not stopping to your
11:37
mama's mama's mother come
11:38
on watch me blow up and pop just like
11:41
some bubble gum
11:42
dripping till opponent comes no i did
11:44
not start a nun
11:45
dripping like some buttery buns or some
11:47
melted butter pecan
11:48
but dary give me the run watch me get on
11:51
the run oh they trying to give me their
11:53
sons uh please don't give them no guns
11:55
ah
11:55
please don't call me no hoochie yeah
11:57
yeah skin like karuchi huh
11:59
yeah my life is gucci um and you like
12:01
suzuki uh
12:02
just give me a beat ooh and i make
12:04
everything groovy on my daddy listen to
12:06
juvia
12:07
i belong in the movie yeah i belong with
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them divas ooh
12:10
yeah swiping them visas yeah go in the
12:12
box with me cause yeah
12:13
you wanna box my pizzas yeah hop out the
12:15
box to greet you
12:16
yeah it was nice to meet you yeah spasm
12:19
like procedures yeah telling me give me
12:20
a feature um
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yeah give me a feature
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[Applause]
12:33
she got bars yeah she does she got a
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flow on her
12:37
yeah she does stop playing
12:43
yo sign up for her course
12:45
[Applause]
12:48
yo i love it lele i i definitely want to
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continue having conversations with you
12:53
if you don't mind because we got to do
12:54
something on zoom or
12:56
where are you right now you in texas
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atlanta where are you
12:59
i'm in atlanta right now okay and
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so being in atlanta are you bumping into
13:05
a lot of atlanta artists like uzi
13:07
you know uh you know uh gucci are you
13:10
are you bumping into a lot of atlanta
13:11
artists
13:12
i ran into a little baby okay so how was
13:16
that well did he know you
13:18
yeah he actually did know me which i was
13:20
very surprised
13:21
i ran into quavo he knew me as well i
13:24
think he actually was trying to assign
13:26
me but at the time i had already gotten
13:28
signed
13:29
so yeah okay what is it like being
13:32
famous for you
13:33
is it you know a lot of folks it's
13:35
difficult for a lot of folks lately that
13:37
fame be
13:37
you know that sometimes that fame be
13:39
messing them up in the head
13:41
how has it been for you i mean yeah
13:44
i i kind of like it but on the other
13:47
side i
13:47
don't because i'm so used to like just
13:50
getting up
13:50
and going wherever i want to go and it's
13:52
like now i have to watch where i go
13:54
because i'm like i'm known and i always
13:56
forget that i'm known and so i go places
13:58
and it's like
13:59
40 people asking for pictures and videos
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and i'm like this is why i don't come
14:03
out
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so i'm now like kind of anti-social i
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don't know
14:06
anymore boundaries hey lele are you
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familiar with
14:11
young devon young devon
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is sounds familiar yeah
14:18
let me see is he on instagram young
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devin is a gal
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and young devon is maybe just a few
14:24
years older than you
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um and i feel like we really introduced
14:28
her on a big level
14:30
on swing in the morning and she's an
14:32
astounding
14:33
lyricist who i feel like would really
14:35
mesh well with you she's trinidadian
14:37
she's from brooklyn she has a lot of
14:39
heat she's someone will be so easy for
14:41
me to put my money on her
14:43
whenever she has a mic in her hand yeah
14:46
she seems
14:46
like she looks like she'd be going crazy
14:48
i can just see her drip
14:52
god lele i rock with you bro
14:55
not but honestly layla i really feel
14:57
like you should look into her music
14:59
can't you see that sway you see that
15:01
vibin
15:02
yeah you guys got the quality lyrics
15:04
it's on devin is young
15:06
d-e-v-y-n that would be great if and she
15:08
just signed a deal too so she's doing
15:10
well that would be great because i like
15:12
to see this generation of
15:13
upcoming artists you know networking and
15:16
bond together
15:17
you know and so that would be great we
15:19
got terence on the line lele from
15:21
mississippi grand rises terence hey
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[Music]
15:24
terrance
15:26
[Applause]
15:40
and um when i pulled off myself and
15:42
kicked me i'm like
15:43
who was this you know going in i'm like
15:46
wow
15:47
i had to get ad calling you props all
15:49
right no no
15:55
that's enough hey terence get our new
15:57
single go ahead and stream it it's
15:59
called breezy featuring young dolph now
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how did you and young dolph come
16:02
together
16:04
so really i was just looking for people
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people's
16:07
people to do songs with and
16:10
uh young dog was one of them because
16:12
he's also assigned to empire and i was
16:14
like well i think we should do a song
16:16
because i had a song everything is
16:18
breezy
16:18
and i was like well let's see who is
16:20
going to go on there so i was like maybe
16:22
young dogs maybe gunna maybe a little
16:24
baby
16:25
and i was like let me go young dog
16:27
because he's been in the game for a very
16:29
long time and everybody knows him
16:31
and so i didn't think he was actually
16:32
going to do a song for me but he did and
16:34
i was very surprised because
16:36
a lot of people say they're going to do
16:37
songs of me and then you know when it
16:39
comes time to do a song
16:40
or it comes time to release it all of a
16:42
sudden it's cricket
16:44
so that's how we came along to do a song
16:48
okay where are your parents at i want to
16:51
give your parents a hug they seem like
16:53
they're really cool because you have so
16:55
much go ahead my dad is actually flying
16:58
in from puerto rico right now you know
17:00
i'm kind of like my own ceo so i you
17:02
know like handle everything
17:05
[Applause]
17:07
wow so do you understand what
17:10
the business partner right you know the
17:13
financials
17:15
oh yes huh so
17:18
so when you sign a contract with empire
17:21
and they're distributing your music or
17:23
you just did this um
17:25
the deal with this overall deal with
17:26
nickelodeon they they read the contracts
17:29
to you and break down what everything
17:31
means
17:31
right and then you have a dis you have a
17:33
final decision on what you're going to
17:35
do
17:37
yes okay that's incredible lele
17:40
i just made sure that um i have creative
17:43
control
17:44
and that they're not trying to turn make
17:46
me be someone else because i'm
17:48
layla and that's what i'm gonna forever
17:50
be and i'll make sure that they're not
17:52
trying to
17:53
you know keep me forever because you
17:55
know
17:56
like when i get older i have my own
17:58
labels called fresh rebel music
18:00
so right now i'm just with other labels
18:02
doing distribution deals
18:03
but i have my own that i'm trying to as
18:05
well
18:07
lele you know how as a kid a lot of
18:09
times when it comes to the holidays or
18:11
our birthdays we're so excited to see
18:13
what our parents can afford
18:15
to give us right i feel like holidays
18:18
now are a bit different
18:20
where you can afford to get your parents
18:22
something have you been hooking them up
18:24
with some gifts
18:24
at all oh yes ma'am let me hear what
18:27
that is
18:29
so well like for christmas sweet okay
18:32
you know i got a little change but i'm
18:35
still bawling on a budget
18:37
so with that being said for christmas
18:40
you know i didn't want to spend all my
18:42
money
18:42
so you know they got the hookups at ross
18:45
and marshalls
18:46
right really good stuff for like ten
18:48
dollars so you know i just bought like a
18:49
bunch of little
18:50
patty mac things and you know he ended
18:52
up loving it but you know once i get a
18:54
little bit more money
18:55
i plan to you know get some more stuff i
18:57
want to buy myself some land
18:59
because i'm ready to get out of here i'm
19:01
getting me some land across the country
19:03
because i cannot deal with america
19:05
[Laughter]
19:06
he already done with america i am i'm
19:09
truly done with the united states
19:12
okay well is it the country or just the
19:14
behavior of some of the people in the
19:16
country
19:16
right well i mean you know it's not
19:19
really the country it's just everyone is
19:21
crazy
19:25
don't get me wrong you know that's where
19:27
i live but you know i do want to
19:28
you know move somewhere like jamaica you
19:30
know i want to expand don't get me wrong
19:32
i love the usa now
19:34
you know nothing why
19:37
well that's why i said that i'm on your
19:39
team
19:42
[Applause]
19:43
you just celebrated a birthday well yes
19:46
i did
19:46
in january right so how old are you now
19:50
i'm 14. damn it damn she making
19:54
14 how you smarter than me at 14 what
19:56
did i do wrong
19:59
um i'm joking don't answer that lately
20:01
don't answer that girl
20:02
we were going good afternoon what's your
20:05
sign
20:06
cancer okay okay
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okay yeah and what you think about that
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layla what do you think about kansas
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i love cancers good people right
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sensitive yeah good people great people
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yeah lead with their heart
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yeah yeah don't get on my bad side
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though
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you know you know that is very true
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that's the same thing with aquarius you
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don't want to get on our bad side you
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know we forgive about 100 times but we
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never forget
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damn okay layla is here that girl layla
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we got a couple of people on the line
20:38
real quick samantha from rhode island
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grand rises
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how are you doing hey sam it's amazing
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yourself
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hey guys how are you doing welcome
20:51
hey how are you doing i just wanted to
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let you know that my four-year-old
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daughter loves you her name is catalaya
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and we call her lele so she be jamming
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out to that
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golly lego
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i was just listening to you and you were
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so cute on the radio
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i said you know what this is my first
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time calling in and i said i have to
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call for my baby girl
21:16
there you go oh thank you thanks for
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supporting
21:20
me samantha when when she gets home play
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her back
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on demand we're going to put this
21:25
interview on demand later on
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siriusxm.com forward slash on demand and
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then she'll be able to hear lele shout
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her out
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okay i definitely will and hopefully
21:35
soon when this world open backs up and
21:37
you go into concert
21:38
i can have you know we can be there
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together with you
21:42
oh yes we're definitely about to turn up
21:44
in a few
21:45
you already know keep on going girl push
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up
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thank you your citizen samantha that's
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sweet in the morning
21:53
scuzzy in ohio you want to say what up
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to lele
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yo what's up man what's up play what up
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family
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hey lele listen little girl for 14 years
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old
22:06
you got bars you guys thank you
22:10
talent the energy i'm feeling from this
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from this interview
22:14
and and that freestyle you just did man
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that was
22:18
crazy man you're going places i'm
22:20
telling you don't let anyone tell you
22:22
different
22:23
i'm serious you're so much you're going
22:25
places
22:26
sway tracy heather b long time listener
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first time caller y'all i love what
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y'all do
22:33
i've been listening to y'all for about
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three four years now man and i
22:36
absolutely love you all absolutely
22:38
thank you hey scuzzy love you too
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brother you a citizen man
22:42
appreciate it in the morning come on let
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me get one more caller skulls you have a
22:45
great day james is in cleveland
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james what's popping yo james going no
22:50
he's going all this way i want to lately
22:53
her props
22:54
i'm from cleveland man i'm just sitting
22:55
here ryan listening on the radio
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check their instagram off she she fired
22:59
off the show definitely keep going
23:01
never let nobody steal your joy for sure
23:06
james thank you brother you're a citizen
23:07
that's way in the morning
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yeah y'all follow lele at that girl lele
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and then on
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on instagram and that girl layla
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underscore on twitter
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listen so i want to ask you officially
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on air can we talk again sometime soon
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oh most definitely i want to come you
23:24
know record freestyle on play
23:26
in video okay we got to get that man we
23:29
got to get you in the studio and put you
23:31
to the test
23:32
you know oh yeah this is the first time
23:34
we hung out so you know i'ma go easy on
23:36
you because i i
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i like when people kick their first
23:39
verse but everybody got one good verse
23:42
i want to see if you got two or three
23:44
good verses so when we get in the studio
23:47
we gonna rock out okay okay
23:51
love you tell your parents
23:52
congratulations they're amazing
23:54
and you are amazing and we're going to
23:57
keep our eye on you and we're going to
23:58
definitely support you okay
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yes layla thank you thank you thank
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y'all for allowing me to come on in
24:04
oh every time every time you have a good
24:06
day at work
24:08
you do okay thank you man let's play her
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single breezy featuring young dolphins
24:13
sway in the morning shave four or five
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[Music]
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you
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