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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
2:00 - How Do You Define Success
6:38 - Sexually Liberated
11:24 - Janet Jackson Influence
14:00 - Caller Love
16:16 - Nasty or Nah
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our next um guest here Tracy g yep
0:05
2014 10 years 10 years bro and she might
0:08
have been 10 at the time I don't know
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she was definitely a child I remember
0:12
this like why they got this this child
0:14
working like this U but uh she came on
0:17
our show and she was promoting the
0:19
project
0:20
Aquarius and I recall looking at this
0:23
young lady thinking this is a person who
0:26
has a multitude of talent she doesn't
0:28
just do one thing
0:30
but I also recall thinking and this is
0:33
the beginning for her I can't wait to
0:35
see how she evolves what she evolves and
0:38
two and then how the industry
0:41
circumstances and additives and nuances
0:44
and all of the headlines and all of
0:46
these things what role will they play in
0:49
her development cuz some of those things
0:51
are strictly distractions yes you know
0:54
but they're necessary distractions you
0:56
go through these things the journey you
0:58
got to go through Journey record label
1:00
chaos you got to deal with management
1:04
you know people around you family
1:06
members that work with you relationships
1:08
evolve personal relationships becoming
1:10
headline news you don't want to talk
1:12
about that [ __ ] you know but it all
1:14
plays a part in it right yeah 10 years
1:17
later 10 years later she is now an
1:21
independent artist and easily is
1:24
embarking on the biggest single of her
1:26
career yes one that she wrote that's all
1:30
about her designed curated by her and
1:33
we're here to talk about it ladies and
1:34
gentlemen welcome her back to the show
1:37
give it up for the boss t
1:41
t thank you hey yes
1:44
ma' I'm so happy to be here I'm happy to
1:47
have you come on no we done done this a
1:49
ton of times right how's your pops he's
1:51
good the family is good everyone is well
1:54
tell them I said what up man we would
1:56
always Bond when I would see your P but
1:57
that question we started with was if you
2:00
recall you probably don't we were having
2:02
Alicia Keys on the show that morning
2:04
after a question for her for Alicia Keys
2:07
and play that question back DB and and
2:10
this was the question that I I solicited
2:12
tashe to ask Alicia that sounds like
2:15
something I would
2:16
say after you release an album your
2:19
first album cuz I just want this inside
2:20
of perspective when you release your
2:22
first album how do you know or Define it
2:25
as a success like what makes it a
2:27
success for you that's so wild wow oh
2:30
that's so cute that's great now that you
2:33
released albums exact I want to reverse
2:35
that question to you I was so young and
2:37
green uhuh yeah wow it's amazing how
2:40
would I define success now I think it's
2:42
just being able to do what I'd like to
2:44
do and create the art that I want to
2:47
create and make the shows that I want to
2:49
create I think having access to you know
2:52
the tools necessary to build those
2:54
things and to see your vision come to
2:55
light has become the most fulfilling
2:57
part of my journey for me I think in
3:00
terms of like accolades and stats and
3:02
chart positions and stuff that's not
3:04
something that's really been in the
3:06
Forefront of a priority for me and I
3:08
think it creates it opens the space for
3:11
me to create better art and to really
3:13
kind of just focus on being a a pure
3:16
creative and I think all of those you
3:18
know steps in order to kind of gain that
3:21
perspective has led me to where I am now
3:23
which is now seeing this kind of like
3:25
chart success and seeing this kind of su
3:27
success it's really a really amazing
3:29
moment but it's you
3:31
know not necessarily what was was the
3:33
goal right right right right and to have
3:36
this success be done independently I
3:39
know is a whole different level of
3:41
gratification it so much it does
3:43
especially cu the first time that we had
3:44
you here you were with a label and it
3:46
makes me curious tashe what skills did
3:50
you maybe have to gain or lean further
3:53
into as an independent artist that you
3:55
didn't necessarily need to you know f on
4:00
with a label I think it's just
4:02
about my sense of self I think building
4:05
that self-confidence building that um
4:09
inner knowing that my ideas are good
4:11
ideas and that the direction that I want
4:14
to take is the direction I should take
4:16
um I think that that's been the biggest
4:19
piece of growth for me as a creative I
4:22
think I came into this industry
4:24
obviously wanting to be successful and
4:26
you know you take a lot of advice here
4:28
and there and it's
4:30
over the years I felt like I was
4:32
starting to kind of just lose the sense
4:34
of what I wanted to do and to really
4:36
kind of gain back that control and to
4:38
make everything 100% feels like it comes
4:40
from me I think the the fans can tell
4:42
the difference the audience can tell the
4:44
difference and you know it's created
4:46
better art I believe MH what are the new
4:49
responsibilities you feel like you have
4:51
on your plate now I mean you have to
4:53
figure out how you're going to fund
4:55
everything you've got to figure out
4:58
how I mean that's
5:00
yeah that's like a big question mark a
5:02
lot of the times because we have these
5:04
big visions and you know you want to be
5:06
competitive in the market but you're
5:08
like okay how do I do this with like
5:10
half the budget let's get creative um
5:12
but being creative is like part of the
5:14
whole thing um I think that I think
5:17
running your own business and managing
5:18
your own business is also a big aspect
5:21
of it um and then I
5:24
think I guess just the responsibility to
5:27
kind of continue to create and keep that
5:31
at the Forefront of you know what
5:33
everybody's focused on do you balance
5:35
life differently like I know uh when I
5:39
always liking it to me even though
5:41
tanase and I you know we have similar
5:43
careers in case y'all didn't know it but
5:45
it took me a long time to balance career
5:47
in life I just grinded grinded for
5:50
decades totally and I feel like I missed
5:52
out on so much by doing so you in a
5:54
different place now even though you're
5:55
independent you don't have the same
5:57
machine backing you but how important is
6:00
that life work Balan to you now yeah I
6:02
mean I think that my family keeps me
6:04
really grounded and that's something
6:05
that I always kind of come back to I
6:07
think feeling like you have a home home
6:10
base and being able to always reconnect
6:12
with that and reconnect with yourself
6:14
and I record a lot of my music at home
6:15
so I think that that also creates that
6:17
sense of like safety when it comes to my
6:19
creative because when I feel like I'm
6:22
just kind of in my own space and that
6:24
I'm not you know trying to be
6:26
performative or put anything on I think
6:28
that that's when you know the music
6:30
you know is better and so I just think
6:32
that being home and having home having
6:33
family having a tight circle around you
6:35
I think that's super important yeah
6:38
personally T is here I love it man this
6:40
is we've just taken in this game because
6:42
you got a hit record congratulations on
6:45
that give her a big round of
6:47
applause on that and you wrote this song
6:50
yes she wrote it was this the first
6:53
title you came up with yeah yeah yeah I
6:56
was I was driving in my car and most of
6:59
it it was kind of like a freestyle that
7:00
I just kind of like recorded and like
7:02
listened back to it and was like yeah
7:04
that that's there's something there so
7:06
you sound like a concerned father or
7:08
something
7:09
like I am a father I do have a daughter
7:13
they remind me of each other I get it I
7:15
get it I get it right right were you
7:17
always this sexually liberated like when
7:19
we first met you or did you have to
7:21
develop into you you know what's
7:22
interesting I feel like I I use my music
7:26
as like a tool for that because I feel
7:28
like in my my life like I'm pretty like
7:31
laidback kind of quiet type and I think
7:34
that my music and my Artistry and like
7:35
being on stage and stuff gives me kind
7:37
of like an outlet like a platform to
7:39
kind of like tap into this side of me
7:42
and and that like feminine energy and I
7:44
and I like the power of it and I like
7:46
you know making songs that feel like
7:48
that and I like when people listen to
7:49
songs that feel like that yeah so that
7:51
was kind of just the intention is just
7:53
it's feel to me it feels like powerful
7:54
and uplifting to own own your sexuality
7:57
I guess okay I'm not mad at it the DMS
7:59
fly open too I'm sure you got a lot of
8:01
DM I got a lot of DMS but I don't know
8:05
tell tell me about not interesting ones
8:07
no okay then don't tell
8:10
me Moving
8:12
on but tell tell me about your sexuality
8:14
so you said just to be able to express
8:16
your sexuality how has that evolved in
8:19
the past 10 years oh I think um I think
8:22
it's just a sense of confidence it's
8:23
kind of like expressing myself through
8:25
my music through everything I think when
8:27
you grow up as a woman you start to kind
8:28
of really come into your confidence and
8:31
so I think that that's across the board
8:33
from like how I approach songwriting how
8:34
I approach performances how you know I
8:37
approach relationships I think all of
8:39
those things is just coming from a a a
8:41
deeper sense of confidence at the end of
8:44
the day I love it man I love this smile
8:46
the the the EP match my freak yes oh
8:50
that one's fun match my freak match my
8:52
freak
8:55
EP yep that's my freak anybody went the
9:00
old yeah match my
9:02
freak cuz you know what I would does
9:04
that mean match my freak though you know
9:06
my grandma texted me and she asked me
9:08
that she was like what does match my
9:10
freak mean what does that mean I was
9:11
like Grandma it's like matching your
9:12
matching my energy it's like matching
9:14
your energy like wherever you're at on
9:17
the freak scale okay you got to match it
9:19
so you got the Octagon you know somebody
9:22
needs to match that kind of you
9:24
know but the freak can also be a
9:26
metaphor it doesn't have to be taken
9:28
literally yeah can be however you feel
9:31
you know you know what I would worry
9:33
about though T Tanasha in the back of my
9:35
mind if I'm single yeah I'm like okay if
9:38
a dude is interested in me is he going
9:41
to think that I'm just going to be like
9:42
the sexual you know what I mean like
9:46
buffet for him but maybe I'm not ready
9:49
for that yeah no sure surely do you ever
9:52
feel like the perception like some dudes
9:55
who are interested in you take it too
9:58
far
10:01
um you know I haven't really had that
10:04
kind of experience personally I feel
10:08
like no not really okay but I understand
10:12
where you're coming from like I
10:13
understand the the fear like the thought
10:15
like I think when I initially put this
10:16
song out I definitely wanted it to come
10:19
across as like I think I said to you
10:21
know my team like I really don't want
10:22
this to come across as like just like an
10:25
out there nasty ironically song
10:29
like you know lyrics again you know like
10:32
there's but to me there's something like
10:34
powerful about it there's something like
10:35
confident about it and like fun about it
10:37
and it's not like as literal and like
10:40
inyour face as you know I hope people
10:43
don't interpret it as like vulgar by any
10:45
means you know n you it's classy the
10:48
video is classy 1.7 billion Global
10:52
stream yeah that's that's crazy you got
10:56
1.7
10:57
billion let's talk about a lot of nasty
10:59
folks out there come on listen it speaks
11:02
to people it speaks to
11:05
people have you ever had a song do that
11:08
um uh you know maybe two on over the
11:11
course of 10 years yeah two yeah but two
11:13
on that was your first you know that
11:15
your first one absolutely yeah this song
11:16
is definitely doing something that a lot
11:18
of the you know songs that I've put out
11:20
recently have not so that's super fun
11:23
super exciting I'm very thankful didn't
11:25
Janet Jackson on her tour yes she mixed
11:28
it in yeah is so cool that's like my
11:30
idol so to see Janet like a not only
11:33
acknowledge my song but like my vocals
11:35
are in her show Miss Jackson if you
11:37
nasty that's original literally okay
11:39
kind of Full Circle that's kind of where
11:41
this all came from oh because makes
11:44
sense because I started calling myself
11:46
Nasha if you're nasty because of her
11:49
Miss Jackson if you're nasty exactly and
11:52
then I just kind of started going like
11:54
nasty nache became like a Persona that I
11:57
kind of was playing with and then and I
12:00
just decided okay I want to kind of play
12:03
into this energy with some songs that
12:05
I'm working on and then I got this
12:06
necklace made that says nasty just like
12:08
for fun and then I was like I had just
12:11
made this necklace I was driving down
12:12
the street and I was like I should just
12:14
make a song called Nasty that makes
12:15
sense and so that it's literally was
12:18
that simple that's your era that's it
12:20
nasty nasty Nash is a play on nasty n
12:24
too come on I see what you did with that
12:26
cross come on I love it man let's do
12:29
this let's let's define nasty we'll come
12:32
back and Define nasty cuz you giving me
12:34
a whole different interpretation of
12:36
nasty all right tase is here let's
12:39
celebrate with this young lady 888 742
12:42
334 Let's Play It Again DB let's play it
12:44
again it run back 742
12:48
3345
12:50
nasty that was hard DV I like that tase
12:53
is here yes you know when I when I first
12:56
met Janet you know what I said to her
12:58
what' you say h Miss Jackson hi Miss
13:01
Jackson oh my
13:04
God
13:06
SW uh but tanas is here man we're
13:09
celebrating all of her success she's
13:10
independent she's her own boss she is
13:13
she's showing you that it can be done
13:15
yes if you have belief in yourself
13:17
totally hard work like an un an
13:23
unwavering desire to create that works I
13:27
really think that it that's what it
13:28
takes because there's there's so many
13:29
obstacles there's so many ups and downs
13:31
it's such a roller coaster it's not
13:33
always going to be rainbows and
13:35
butterflies by any means so it's like
13:37
interesting when people are like should
13:38
I do I feel like when people ask if this
13:41
is like a good career choice it's like
13:44
if this feels like something you can't
13:46
not do then I would say that's a good
13:48
career choice did you did you ever
13:51
Ponder the thought of walking away from
13:53
it no absolutely not wow wow never yeah
13:56
the PO has always been there she's
13:58
devoted you got some callers here JD and
14:00
Cleveland what's up JD J J D what's up
14:04
man
14:05
yo JD you there that's jerine
14:10
JD hey man is that uh John that's it no
14:14
JD John he's there he fell asleep or
14:17
something J probably got caught by his
14:19
Brandon you in Virginia Brandon Brandon
14:22
yo yo what up okay there we go B what's
14:24
up what up
14:26
man man not too much man s you know how
14:29
hey how you doing T like you know
14:32
sometimes you run across people and you
14:34
don't get to say what you want to say to
14:36
them
14:37
yes man I I seen Tas yesterday man I got
14:40
to speak to her at the airport but I
14:42
ain't get to ask her out out to eat
14:45
where did you st me at the
14:49
airport nashille yes I was at the
14:51
airport in Nashville
14:53
yesterday I came up and spoke to you
14:56
introduced myself wow well that's right
14:58
well good to this he where where where
15:00
where you at see I saw I saw you on on
15:03
on on the radio show I said man it's
15:04
time to call that's so funny this was a
15:07
sign but but what's beautiful about this
15:09
is you bumped into Tanashi at an airport
15:12
where was it in in nashille Nashville
15:15
and what y'all had in common was this
15:17
show wow and then the dude calls up and
15:19
actually get online that's freaking what
15:22
do you want to say to her you got one
15:23
thing to say to her say it now take your
15:26
chance Hey listen man I just love what
15:29
you're doing I've always followed your
15:30
career I thought you was a very
15:31
intelligent beautiful smart young lady
15:33
and you know if you got some time for me
15:35
I'll make some time for you I appreciate
15:37
that thank you so much where do you
15:39
live I me I'm in between Virginia and
15:42
New Jersey right now so I got a farm and
15:44
I coach football so all right F all
15:46
right got a farm y'all we can eat all
15:48
the time
15:49
tonight good produce too not you
15:54
know all right man well yeah hit hit her
15:57
up T talking to you you take a picture
15:59
tag her all right no we a take a pick we
16:03
know she was kind of lowkey I want to
16:05
everybody was asking all right well B
16:08
hey we appreciate you man you know how
16:10
you can support her stream her music
16:11
brother all right you super citizen all
16:14
right Tracy what we going to do listen
16:17
tashe because nasty is subjective yeah
16:22
it's also a hit record yeah period it's
16:25
also one that has so many different
16:28
definitions for people we thought it
16:30
would be dope to do a game okay where we
16:34
have you decide if something is a nasty
16:37
yes or a nasty nah okay and so we
16:41
collected there definitely two different
16:42
types there's two different types honey
16:44
and so we collected different scenarios
16:46
from our listeners and we going to run
16:49
them by you one by one they're all up in
16:51
this bag nasty yes or nasty n n yeah
16:55
there's about like seven or eight so
16:58
choose read it out loud and give us a n
17:01
first one says listening to your own
17:05
music while having
17:08
sex um wow I haven't I haven't that in a
17:13
really long
17:14
time
17:17
um I say yes that's a nasty yes okay
17:21
take it out take it out you don't really
17:23
got to talk in his ear just like the
17:26
needed to be said I guess the background
17:28
listen to the listen to the background I
17:30
don't know like G you up a little bit
17:31
maybe make me feel awkward one of the
17:33
two unclear okay
17:36
um dating someone 10 years older or
17:39
younger than
17:41
you T don't leave the room man she
17:44
said 10 10 is 10 is on the cusp I say 10
17:48
is to me like as far as I would go okay
17:52
that's your maximum yeah okay either way
17:55
10 years younger than me I would not
17:56
date some 10 years younger than me right
17:58
now 12 yeah no no
18:02
no how many more she got she got a
18:04
couple more
18:05
keep listeners are listening okay got
18:08
you um get paid getting paid six figures
18:12
as a master roach exterminator oh
18:14
definitely no nasty not but you getting
18:18
paid six
18:19
figures no no a enough she got she got
18:22
1.7 for a second I thought about it for
18:24
a second but n n we got to find a
18:27
different route okay talking to your
18:30
parents about your sex life yeah that's
18:32
a no for me that's a nasty for me unless
18:35
it's like unless it's like sexual health
18:39
related yeah yeah then maybe like yeah
18:42
because like that's important let them
18:44
know let them know that's important you
18:46
were cre but just you know just your
18:47
escapades just general like escapades
18:50
that's not like my never guessed what I
18:51
did last night
18:52
Mom you know Janet Jackson had a song
18:55
called escapades
18:56
just jet is the blue okay one more do
19:00
one more I think we got two more okay
19:04
Tracy taking a shower every other day
19:08
that's a NW that's a nasty n well you
19:11
like once a
19:12
[Music]
19:13
week every day every day okayer cele
19:18
they feel differently okay what lot of
19:20
celebrities don't shower every day yeah
19:22
and have said that on who said that a
19:24
lot of people actually yeah yeah stop
19:27
didn't um um can't
19:29
remember yeah there you go I kind of
19:32
remember that all right is this the last
19:34
one Trac I think there's there's there's
19:36
four
19:38
more wait there's three more there's
19:39
three more got a lot of nasty listeners
19:41
on gosh let's see finding out the love
19:43
of your life has a humiliation Kink how
19:47
deep are we talking because like the
19:49
humiliation kink like stuff on balls and
19:52
like yeah like in private like I could I
19:55
could may
19:56
like maybe yeah but like in public like
20:00
are we talking like public humiliation
20:01
because no that's too far not like dog
20:04
walking or nothing you know like nothing
20:05
like
20:06
crazy public you gave an example early
20:09
on what did you say a humiliation Kink
20:11
what did you say so there's different
20:12
types of uh humiliation Kinks and some
20:15
go as far as like literally being like
20:16
abused and [ __ ] like that you know being
20:18
talked to like you ain't [ __ ] and [ __ ]
20:20
you and you know kicking him and stuff
20:21
like that and then there's like a more
20:22
mild maybe not violence maybe not the
20:24
violence but I could do a little like
20:26
[ __ ] talking yeah you could your man
20:29
like dress you in whatever type of way
20:32
wait is that the opposite way around it
20:35
is I want to be humiliated she wants to
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step on way dominat yeah I was talking
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like Dom dominatrix Vibes DB just out of
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curiosity how does that make you feel
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with the humiliation King nothing I've
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ever done but okay sound like it that's
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all I'm sorry to not say you had to
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bring that up for me sound like you sex
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on the first date I think I mean
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if you want to go for it yeah nasty yeah
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all right nasty yeah yeah if you're
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feeling The Vibes go for you're feeling
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The Vibes cover up right first timer
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dating a freaky ass [ __ ] who is a 69
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God you tonight that ain't a question
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that'll be a nasty no I'm sorry I can't
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do that I can't do that run for your
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life
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no all right all right give it up for T
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we out of there all right man so we got
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a good idea with nasty yes yes listen
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that was fun I like that was fun all
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right well look uh we want to say
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congratulations to you thank you come
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back see us I want to see you perform
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the Performing you are always been an
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adamant performer you know you're a
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great Entertainer you know as well and
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with great music great entertainment
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thank you man you got a long career
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ahead of you thank you you know I'm very
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thankful to be here so it's really nice
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talking to y'all and hopefully I'll come
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back soon yeah hope absolutely T give it
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up for T especially you're nasty all
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right
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