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Grammy-winning songwriter and artist Bee B joins the show to discuss her transition from behind the scenes to center stage with her new album, *Villain Origin Story*. In this revealing conversation, she opens up about her Compton roots, the nostalgia of swap meet culture, and the specific reasons behind her decision regarding Top Dawg Entertainment. She shares the honest truth about why she chose independence over a label deal despite conversations with Punch. Brittany also provides unique insights into Chris Brown's work ethic, her songwriting process for hits by Summer Walker and John Legend, and the hilarity of dating men who lack basic home amenities. The interview culminates with an impressive display of her "flow state" as she creates a song live on air.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Introduction and Welcome
01:22 - Defining the Bee B Brand Identity
03:50 - Compton Culture and Swap Meets
08:47 - Writing Hits for Rihanna
12:45 - Songwriter Identity Crisis and Artistry
17:12 - Collaborating with Chris Brown
19:40 - Auditioning as an Established Artist
22:02 - Kendrick Lamar's Impact on Compton
23:58 - Choosing Independence vs TDE Label
25:00 - Entering the Creative Flow State
26:53 - Music Publishing and Royalties Explained
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And one more dance. Can we get one more
0:03
shot tonight?
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>> Yeah.
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>> Yeah, that's what we've been saying all
0:08
this week. Shoot your shot, y'all. You
0:11
got to shoot your shot. Let me take my
0:14
time with this one. Heather B. Let me
0:16
take my time with this one.
0:18
>> Let me take my time. Let me take my
0:21
time. Citizens,
0:23
if you know her, call up. If you don't
0:25
know her, I'mma audition uh for you to
0:29
call up. based on her experiences.
0:31
>> If you tune in to our show, we know
0:33
you're committed. We know you're
0:35
dedicated to culture,
0:37
u real talented artists, um people in
0:40
general. You're dedicated to humanity.
0:42
You ain't got to be an artist to be
0:43
interesting when you come on this
0:45
platform. But this particular person in
0:48
my opinion is more than just an artist.
0:51
>> She provides network. She provides
0:53
economy. She puts people in position to
0:56
put their kids through school. based on
0:59
her magic IP. What comes out of that
1:02
psyche of hers, what her brain, what her
1:05
mind is able to generate has really
1:08
permeated on people all over the world.
1:10
She create vibrations, Tracy G, with her
1:13
melodies.
1:13
>> That's right.
1:14
>> Right. She creates reactions and
1:16
emotions with her words. That's right.
1:19
>> She creates people's calmness
1:22
with her voice. Let me name some of the
1:25
things she's done. Heather B. She's a
1:28
multiple Grammy Award winner as a
1:31
contributing songwriter on Black Radio
1:33
3, which won best R&B album at the
1:36
Grammy Awards. Songwriting credits um
1:39
including multi-platinum and chart
1:41
topping artist Letty, John Legend, Queen
1:45
Niga, Eric Bellinger, Summer Walker,
1:50
>> and Chris Brown. She's a contributing
1:53
Grammy nominated uh songwriter um with
1:57
projects including Legacy Let Rule,
2:00
former ANR executive at Warner Brothers
2:03
Music. Uh she's recognized as an
2:05
industry mentor and educator. Uh
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television exposure and cultural
2:10
presence through music centered media
2:12
platforms and industry features. Uh
2:14
she's a beloved queen who resides in
2:17
Compton, California.
2:19
>> She's uh the core. She's at the nucleus
2:22
of the scene that's this thriving scene
2:25
that you will find in LA right now. Um,
2:27
from R&B vocals to pop hits, she's done
2:30
it all. If you don't believe me, ask
2:32
Kenny Latimore.
2:34
>> Oo, Kenny.
2:35
>> If you don't believe me, ask John
2:37
Legend.
2:37
>> John Legend.
2:38
>> Okay. If you don't believe me, ask Bad
2:41
Baby.
2:42
>> Bad Baby.
2:43
>> You don't believe me? Ask Cash Doll.
2:46
>> Cash.
2:46
>> If you don't believe me, ask Raheem
2:48
Devon and J Ivy.
2:49
>> Hello. Woo!
2:51
>> They'll tell you who she is. If you
2:54
don't believe me, go on our platform. Go
2:56
on Sway's Universe and look at the
2:58
garage series where she was featured.
3:00
Welcome her back to SiriusXM. Give it up
3:02
for the one and only BB is in the
3:04
building.
3:06
>> Sway said, "If you don't believe me, ask
3:07
me."
3:09
>> Oh man, that was that was
3:12
>> Come on.
3:12
>> That was a incredible intro right there.
3:14
I just was brought me to tears, man.
3:16
Yeah, I saw you over there getting misty
3:18
eyed from Compton.
3:21
>> Uh, you know, well, you know, I just be
3:22
like, "God is good." Amen.
3:23
>> Yeah. Come on.
3:24
>> God is good
3:25
>> all the time.
3:26
>> Amen.
3:26
>> When you're building your legacy.
3:28
>> Yeah. You know. Yeah, man. And you know,
3:30
we we we had this uh conversation with
3:33
the the great But first of all, welcome
3:35
to the show, B.
3:36
>> Thank you. Hey y'all.
3:37
>> What's up? What's up? What's up?
3:38
>> In the house.
3:39
>> In the house. All right. You know what
3:41
I'm saying? West side. Yay. Yay. All
3:43
that good stuff.
3:44
>> Yeah. Yay. Yay. Yay. cutting that gang
3:46
>> throwing up the W.
3:47
>> Throwing up a W.
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>> You mean there I'm
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>> out. You mean there snakes on the plane?
3:52
>> Did you grow up um shopping for your
3:54
clothes in the swap meat?
3:55
>> I sure did. I went to the swam me.
3:57
That's where I got my forces and I used
3:59
to work at the McDonald's on Rose Cran
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and Long Beach Boulevard.
4:03
>> Oh snap.
4:03
>> And so I would get my check and I would
4:05
just walk right down to the swap meet.
4:06
>> Really?
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>> Y'all have to explain to a East Coaster
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>> what?
4:10
>> Born and raised. Well, I've been hearing
4:13
about a swap meat like all through the
4:17
What the hell is it?
4:17
>> We got to take You ain't been to sloth
4:19
and swap meat?
4:19
>> Absolutely not.
4:20
>> Or Damo?
4:21
>> No. I went to the Buddha market to try
4:23
to find some turkey wings over in Crunch
4:25
and Slawson, but that didn't happen.
4:27
Nah, we talking about a swap meet.
4:30
>> That sounds what it is.
4:32
>> Is it an outside mall? What?
4:33
>> It's like a mall, but it's inside, but
4:36
some stuff sometimes stuff be outside,
4:38
but mostly it's inside. It look just
4:40
like a mall, but it's all little like
4:43
like stores and kiosk next to each
4:45
other, but they're separated by like
4:49
>> curtains or like like they they kind of
4:51
have like their own kiosk. It's like a
4:53
indoor kind of flea market kind of
4:54
situation.
4:56
>> But
4:57
>> they selling all the goods. So you could
4:59
>> Got it, Torch.
5:00
>> You could go You said what?
5:02
>> Mart 125. Okay, that's
5:03
>> Where is that torch?
5:05
>> It was a I guess like a swap meet in
5:07
Harlem or whatever. And it's like a
5:09
Okay. So, y'all got something like that.
5:10
>> And it was divided by let's say let's
5:13
say cubicles for existence like
5:14
>> Yeah. Like cubicles and kiosk and stuff
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and
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>> kiosk.
5:17
>> Yep. And the one in Compton it was like
5:19
by letters. So it's like row A B C like
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I
5:24
>> And you So I would go get my slough
5:25
socks.
5:26
>> I would go get like you sloth is like
5:29
the only swab me you can go get your
5:31
tires. You can get some tires.
5:32
>> Tires.
5:32
>> You can get some air forces and you can
5:34
go get a tattoo and get your hair
5:36
>> done all at once. didn't buy plants all
5:38
in one.
5:39
>> Wow.
5:40
>> So the Air Force is all legit, too.
5:42
Everything.
5:42
>> Well, okay. Swag.
5:45
>> They come on.
5:46
>> They was legit to me.
5:47
>> Oh, okay. All right.
5:49
>> They was N.
5:51
>> You got to use your magic.
5:52
>> They was They didn't have no air. They
5:54
>> They WAS JUST FORCES.
5:56
>> NO, NO. The stuff is legit.
5:58
>> The stuff is legit. That's what they
6:00
told at the swap meet.
6:01
>> And you know what else I used to get? I
6:03
never forget this. We was talking about
6:04
this uh the other day. Remember them
6:06
name belts?
6:07
>> Of course I had and the Listen and my
6:11
name
6:14
>> $3 a less.
6:15
>> Oh my gosh. And your name is Britney,
6:18
man. You
6:19
>> It's eight letters. I said you told ME
6:21
TO DROP.
6:21
>> I SAID, "MAMA, let me get Let me GET IT
6:24
FOR 20. You know, let me get a deal cuz
6:27
I mean my name was all the way across."
6:29
Okay. And I had the little light up
6:30
thing.
6:31
>> Yes.
6:32
>> But you could cut deals in the swap me
6:34
road, right? You can cut deals. Yeah.
6:36
>> Yeah. I I went there to the one on what
6:38
is it? Slawson and um what was it? What
6:40
is it?
6:41
>> Yeah. The slo Yeah. Saw swap meet. Yeah.
6:42
>> Yeah. We went there with MTV once
6:45
and um that was a busy day.
6:48
>> So swap meets aren't in Oakland. It's
6:51
just a LA thing.
6:52
>> They I mean in Oakland we got flea
6:54
markets, you know, uh when I was growing
6:56
up.
6:57
>> But we got flea market out there.
6:58
>> So that's different from a swap
6:59
>> like black on the block. That's a that's
7:01
a basically a open air market. You know
7:03
what I mean? All it's founded by black
7:05
women and it's all African-American
7:08
small businesses and they do that like
7:10
you know what I'm saying once a month.
7:11
So that's uh it's flea markets are the
7:13
ones that are like open and outside.
7:16
>> We have those. I know what a flea market
7:17
is.
7:17
>> Swap meat. Yeah. Swap meat.
7:19
>> Swap meat. You know and and do you got
7:22
to think about what you wear at a swap
7:24
meet?
7:26
>> Depending on what swap meet you at.
7:28
>> If you do
7:30
Yeah. There go the superm you feel me?
7:32
Look. So, see how it's like separated
7:34
like this?
7:35
>> So, I normally my my essentials
7:38
>> here's here's BB's essentials. Okay.
7:40
Swap me. I got to go get my slouch
7:42
socks. Okay.
7:43
>> Okay.
7:43
>> Okay. They usually sell packs of socks
7:45
like three for 10, two for 10. Yeah, I'm
7:47
in there. You know what I mean? I'm in
7:48
that.
7:48
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know what I'm
7:49
saying? For, you know, you get the big
7:51
pack of black socks.
7:52
>> Yeah. Of course.
7:53
>> Right. And get you so then I always go
7:55
get some wife beaters.
7:57
>> Okay. Okay.
7:58
>> Right. And you know, that's not, you
8:00
know, politically correct now. You can't
8:02
call them wife.
8:03
>> Okay. So, I go get my uh shirts. My crop
8:06
my Yeah, tank tops. My tank tops. Go get
8:09
my tank tops. You feel me? And then I go
8:12
get um
8:14
>> braid hair. Right. Right.
8:16
>> Get me some braid hair. And you got to
8:18
go to the beauty supply up in there
8:21
>> and get you some lip gloss,
8:22
>> get you some bonnets, some hat, you know
8:24
what I'm saying? Some scarves, all that.
8:26
>> Do you Do you buy your underwear from
8:28
the swap meet?
8:29
>> No.
8:30
>> Okay. Why not? Savage Fenty girl.
8:33
>> Yes.
8:34
>> Shout out to Riri. Look, I'm
8:36
>> you Savage Fenty.
8:37
>> Yeah, I like Savage Fenty. I ain't going
8:39
to hold you. Look,
8:39
>> I'm going to make sure you good with
8:40
some lip gloss. I got a lip gloss line.
8:43
It's called Billy Talk. I got you, sis.
8:44
I'll send you the whole line.
8:46
>> Okay. Thank you.
8:47
>> Now, have you written for Riri?
8:49
>> No, I not yet.
8:51
>> I want her to come back. I want her to
8:52
bring this bring her album out so bad.
8:54
>> Why is that?
8:55
>> Because she's the coolest. She's the
8:57
coolest. There will there will never be
8:59
another Rihanna. She sets a trend every
9:02
time. You know what I mean? She sets the
9:03
tone and she changes music culture every
9:06
time she like forward, you know, every
9:08
time she drops something. So, I really
9:10
want her to come out. And
9:11
>> so, Baby, as a writer, like just say
9:14
you're you're not working on a project,
9:16
but you have an idea in mind. Just say
9:19
like we're talking about Riri. Is is
9:21
would you go off and write songs in mind
9:24
for her? Like
9:25
>> Yeah. Okay.
9:26
>> Yeah. Yeah. I um I I wake up every day
9:29
and try to you know I always say one
9:31
song a day,
9:33
>> you know, one song a day. So each year I
9:36
have a folder like each year has at
9:37
least 300 400 songs for the year that
9:40
I've just written because I'll try to do
9:41
at least one song, one idea a day, you
9:44
know, and sometimes it's with someone in
9:46
mind.
9:47
>> Sometimes it's just a thought that came
9:48
in my head or I heard a a phrase or
9:51
somebody say something, you know,
9:53
>> and then I'll think of a melody or
9:54
something like that. And yeah. Did you
9:56
have a song written for someone and then
9:59
someone else ended up doing it?
10:01
>> That happens all the time.
10:03
>> Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um,
10:05
let me think. Let me think. A song that
10:08
I have
10:08
>> if you're comfortable with sharing, you
10:09
know. No, no. Sometimes that could get a
10:11
little crazy.
10:11
>> No, no, no, no, no. Uh, I feel like when
10:16
you write with intention, sometimes it
10:18
never turns out that way. You always
10:20
have to just focus on writing the best
10:22
song. Mhm.
10:23
>> So definitely for me, I feel like uh for
10:27
example, the record that I did for
10:28
Summer Walker and Cash Doll,
10:31
>> um
10:32
>> that record was a record that I wrote
10:33
for my album.
10:35
>> Okay.
10:35
>> Oh, it was your song.
10:36
>> Yeah. And it was like maybe the second
10:38
time that I met up with Cash Doll and I
10:42
was just playing her maybe it might have
10:43
been the first time that we met up um to
10:45
do a session
10:47
>> and I was just playing her music and I
10:50
was like you know I write and I sing and
10:51
I rap and she's like okay you know and I
10:54
was playing her records and I happened
10:56
to play her that record.
10:58
>> What song was it?
11:00
>> It's called Lame
11:02
[ __ ]
11:03
>> Okay. Lame [ __ ] It's called Lame
11:04
[ __ ] But you said it so easily once I
11:06
give you
11:07
>> the green light.
11:07
>> Man, that [ __ ] Damn, man. Slow down.
11:09
Slow down, BB.
11:11
>> My gosh.
11:11
>> You could wait to say it after you said.
11:13
>> My gosh. Okay.
11:14
>> It's called lame [ __ ]
11:16
>> BB, get that for me. All right. Wow.
11:19
>> That's crazy. All right. Go ahead.
11:20
>> No, but
11:23
you stupid.
11:24
>> Once again, we No, I'm just No, but um
11:28
and and Cash was so I mean, she's
11:30
incredible, right? She keeps it all the
11:31
way. She's dope. So I was like, "All
11:33
right, I want to want to play something
11:35
for her to hear me singing, right, in a
11:37
kind of a melodic tone." And so I played
11:40
that record at the time and it was just
11:43
something for my project. And I told
11:45
her, I was like, "Oh, this is from, you
11:46
know, this from my project or whatever,
11:47
but this is showcase like how I sing or
11:49
whatever." And she was like, "Okay, I
11:51
play the record."
11:52
>> And she was like, "Yo, this [ __ ] dope."
11:54
Like,
11:55
>> you know, and she's like, "You mind if
11:58
like we work on like, you know what I
11:59
mean?" And I'm like,
12:01
>> "Nah." like yeah let's let's you know
12:02
what I mean like I'm that's cool it's
12:04
cool with me because I'm never married
12:05
to a record either you know um
12:08
>> even if it's for you you know
12:10
>> that was the intent that was the
12:11
intention right um with with writing the
12:14
record but I didn't necessarily it
12:17
wasn't finished it was just you know
12:18
like a verse a hook things like that so
12:20
I played it for but when she said like
12:22
oh can I you know do you mind if I was
12:24
like yeah sure because sometimes that's
12:26
what
12:27
>> God intended it for come on
12:30
>> y Right.
12:31
>> It was for me to get the idea out and be
12:33
my purest self and making it for it to
12:35
be for somebody else.
12:37
>> BB is here. You can follow her at
12:38
Britney B Music 8887423345
12:42
Triggering New York.
12:43
>> Yeah, BB I'm so happy to see you my boo.
12:46
I'm wondering hey
12:47
>> if you have experienced or perhaps if
12:49
this is an experience that many other
12:51
songwriters have spoken to you about
12:54
where
12:55
>> when you are creating so much for other
12:58
people can there be like an identity
13:01
crisis that happens at all where maybe
13:04
songwriters are not even aware of what
13:07
their own perspective is because you're
13:10
dressing up as so many people and
13:12
writing from their POV. Is that
13:14
something that you've experienced?
13:16
>> Absolutely. And I'm so glad that you
13:18
brought that up. Absolutely. I felt like
13:21
I don't feel like this anymore, but I I
13:24
definitely feel like that's sometimes
13:26
the plight of being uh uh someone who
13:30
like writes a creative, a multi-hite
13:33
creative, because you do uh have to
13:35
embody and kind of take on other
13:37
people's like, you know, POV and things
13:39
like that in order to write the records.
13:41
And so for me, I immerse myself in in
13:45
that person's world. So if I'm listen if
13:46
I'm writing working on rap records, I'm
13:49
literally listening to rap
13:50
>> every single day,
13:52
>> you know? I'm like it's you might even
13:54
see me in some baggy clothes like my
13:55
whole kind of like
13:57
>> personality for that week kind of
13:58
changes. And then, you know, it's also
14:01
this, you know, and then kind of, you
14:02
know, when I'm doing pop or whatever the
14:04
case may be, even from what I watch on
14:06
television, you know, and so what I've
14:09
learned now is
14:11
>> you got to keep some of your sauce for
14:13
yourself.
14:14
>> You got to keep some of the sauce for
14:15
Let me write that down. That's one of my
14:17
quotes. You got to keep some of the
14:19
sauce for yourself.
14:20
>> Such a bit.
14:22
>> And you got to know who you are. You got
14:24
to know who you are, what your voice is,
14:26
right? What your purest voice is. And
14:29
another thing is when I'm working on
14:32
things for myself now, I am not working
14:34
on things for other people.
14:35
>> Okay. No multitasking.
14:37
>> Mhm.
14:37
>> I can't multi I can't do like rap on
14:40
Monday and pop on Tuesday and I can't
14:42
like it's just
14:45
>> And that's for me. That's for me, you
14:46
know.
14:46
>> When did you learn that?
14:48
>> Oh my god. This maybe like a couple of
14:49
years ago. I was like, you know what?
14:51
because you end up
14:54
subconsciously, you know, um
14:57
>> meshing it all together sometimes,
14:59
>> you know, and you can't do that. And so
15:02
now as an, you know, now that people
15:04
like, oh, when you're writing for
15:05
yourself as an artist, I'm like, yeah, I
15:07
specifically am intentionally going into
15:09
the studio, like these are my thoughts.
15:11
This is what I want to say. This is what
15:12
I want to leave for my legacy, and
15:14
that's that, you know? And then if it's
15:16
for
15:17
>> another artist that I'm pitching for,
15:18
say like a Cardi B or whomever, right?
15:21
Then I'm like, "Okay, I'm going into the
15:23
studio with the intention of giving
15:25
Cardi B the best song, right?" You know,
15:27
if if that, you know, if if it were her,
15:29
you know, so
15:30
>> it will be her.
15:31
>> Yeah.
15:32
>> You just put it out there.
15:33
>> Yeah.
15:33
>> You have
15:35
love Cardi B.
15:36
>> Yeah. Cardi. Uh and always great when we
15:39
have her on the show,
15:40
>> you know, Cardi B. Well, she just shows
15:42
up as her authentic self, so you can't
15:44
ever be mad at that, you know?
15:47
>> Yeah. I would love to work with her.
15:48
She's incredible. I mean, she's
15:50
>> to me,
15:51
>> she is one of the most authentic artists
15:54
that we have of this generation in
15:56
hip-hop, honestly.
15:58
>> And we need more of that.
15:59
>> You know who I feel that way about, too,
16:01
cuz I, you know, when I I've been in the
16:04
studio a couple times with Chris,
16:06
>> right? And and um
16:09
>> I never saw that kind of work ethic. I
16:11
didn't know that people could do music
16:13
like he did like in that process that he
16:16
has. Right. And in that studio I wasn't
16:19
even there that long.
16:22
>> Right. And I saw
16:23
>> How long was you there?
16:25
>> Hour maybe.
16:27
>> Uhhuh.
16:27
>> And I I saw him go through maybe about
16:30
four songs.
16:31
>> Wow.
16:31
>> Mhm.
16:32
>> Wow.
16:33
>> Like I'm I might be underelling it.
16:35
>> Flow state. flow state.
16:37
>> I kid you not, Tracy. And here's the
16:40
thing,
16:41
>> everyone was banging.
16:44
>> Like everyone could be a hit for
16:46
somebody else. I felt like,
16:47
>> wait a minute.
16:47
>> Like, and I looked at him cuz I had
16:49
known him from years since he was a kid.
16:51
Got pictures, used to come to the house
16:52
in the valley, play ball, MTV stuff,
16:56
>> but I had never seen him
16:58
>> like working in that way.
17:00
>> And I was blown away. And I walked out
17:02
and said, "That dude is different. I get
17:04
it." That was years ago, right? And
17:06
since then, imagine how much music he's
17:08
put out, how many billions of streams he
17:11
has.
17:12
>> Um, you worked with Chris?
17:14
>> Yes. Yes. I didn't work with Chris in
17:16
the studio for the record that we did.
17:17
>> Okay.
17:18
>> But, um, I've met him a couple of times.
17:19
Shout out to Eric Binger for introducing
17:21
us.
17:22
>> Um, that's our guy,
17:25
too. Yeah.
17:26
>> Yeah. Um but yes like uh the record that
17:29
I did was with um another great friend
17:31
of mine Aaron Lamont who did Heat
17:35
>> Co Heat for um Chris you know Dream got
17:38
you in heat like you know what I mean?
17:39
So so him and I work really really well
17:41
together
17:42
>> and
17:44
uh I had been honestly wanting to
17:46
collaborate on something for Chris for a
17:48
really long time. He was somebody that
17:50
was like on my bucket list and just
17:52
because I mean he's Chris Brown.
17:53
>> Yeah man. Yeah. He's one of the
17:55
greatest, if not the greatest R&B male
17:58
R&B artist of our, you know, generation.
18:01
And I'm just like, okay. So, um, getting
18:03
to be able to even get any music to him
18:06
was just incredible. Uh, and meeting him
18:09
as well, I was like, oh my god. Like,
18:10
he's just dope. He's just cool.
18:12
>> Yeah.
18:12
>> You know what I mean? He's just cool.
18:14
And going back to what you were saying
18:16
in terms of like
18:18
um flow state and like how creatives
18:22
work, that's where we are now.
18:25
>> Flow state. So that's a process. Is that
18:27
a mindset? What does that mean? What's
18:28
that terminology?
18:29
>> It's like where you're just in constant
18:31
flow of ideas and energy and frequency
18:33
and you're just kind of moving through
18:35
things. And so I do the same thing in
18:37
the studio. Like if I do a session,
18:39
maybe like a six-hour session or
18:40
something. I've done maybe about at
18:42
least five records.
18:43
>> Mhm.
18:44
>> Goodness.
18:44
>> In a six-hour session.
18:46
>> Yeah.
18:46
>> Wow.
18:47
>> Did you Did you have to prove like did
18:49
you How long did you have to prove
18:51
yourself before they start letting you
18:52
in?
18:53
>> Man, I'm still proving myself, man. What
18:55
you talking about?
18:56
>> Really?
18:56
>> I feel like it.
18:57
>> You How many Grammys you have? You
18:59
always remind me. We were on the phone
19:01
the other day. We were on the phone. I I
19:03
brought up something and she was like,
19:05
"Well, Sway, when I won my was it my
19:07
third?" No, my second Grammy.
19:10
>> You and you always you always say,
19:12
"Which number Grammy?" Like that. Every
19:14
Grammy has its own lifetime, Tracy. It's
19:16
like, "Well, when I won my fifth Grammy,
19:21
it's how you see your kids.
19:23
>> They're your babies, right?"
19:25
>> Yeah.
19:26
>> Little reminders.
19:27
>> Did you name your Grammys?
19:28
>> No. No, I did not. No, I did not. No, I
19:32
did not.
19:33
>> Sway, you Sway picking on teasing me
19:36
right now.
19:37
>> Sway teasing me right now. No. What was
19:40
the question?
19:42
>> But you Why are you still auditioning?
19:45
Like, you know what I mean?
19:46
>> I don't feel like I'm auditioning and
19:47
I'm going be I'm a very humble person,
19:50
you know, humility, right? Because what
19:53
can be given to you can be easily taken
19:54
away, right? So, I'm always keeping it
19:57
at the forefront of my mind. But yes, I
20:01
feel like there is I have come to a
20:03
place now where
20:06
where you I' I've proven myself. I've
20:09
proven myself, you know, um I can stand
20:12
I belong. I can stand with the with the
20:14
best of them, you know, and but there is
20:17
always
20:19
>> another artist, a new project, something
20:21
that you have to do to continue to build
20:23
upon. And also going back to being
20:26
humble, everybody don't know you.
20:27
Everybody doesn't know your your story
20:29
or your history. And
20:31
>> another thing that I realized is that
20:33
people meet you in different
20:35
>> facets of your life, different pockets
20:36
of your life. There's some people who
20:38
met me when I was on Love and Hip Hop.
20:41
>> So they they have a pre, you know,
20:44
>> kind of judgment of where that who idea
20:46
of who I am from then. But then there's
20:48
people who've met me in rooms, right?
20:50
Like you said, like at at in studios and
20:52
they're like, "Man, that's BB. She was
20:54
engineering. She was mixing the record.
20:56
she was da da and then there's people
20:58
who have met me um you know mentoring
21:00
and teaching at you know 1500 sound
21:03
academy or you know girls make beats and
21:05
they're like man that's BB she was so
21:07
inspire so depending on you know how
21:10
people view you and how people see you
21:12
may still have to kind of like show them
21:13
what you got and that's okay with that
21:15
yeah give it up for man I'm okay with
21:18
that you know
21:18
>> come on new album is villain origin
21:20
story um is out now
21:25
You would have saw her on the carpet,
21:27
the Grammys. You would have saw her
21:30
draped out in cocaine white.
21:34
>> Yes.
21:34
>> I'm in love with the co.
21:37
>> Hey, there you go.
21:38
>> There you go. Look at her. There she
21:40
goes. That's a beautiful dress. Um, did
21:43
you get that from the swap me?
21:45
>> No, I did not. You know what?
21:48
I'm just saying.
21:49
>> Grammy gown.
21:50
>> She says she shops and that's No, that
21:53
is custom. That is from uh House of CV
21:55
London. London House. Yes. Thank you so
21:57
much.
21:58
>> You look amazing. Geez. My gosh.
22:01
>> Go ahead, BB. All right. What was it
22:03
like um being from Compton just watching
22:06
that talented young man Kendrick Lamar
22:09
receive his accolades and these awards?
22:12
And what does that mean for Compton in
22:15
your opinion?
22:16
>> For Compton it means everything.
22:19
>> Yeah.
22:21
>> Everything. I mean, he
22:24
he is the most awarded
22:28
rapper in Grammy history.
22:30
>> He's also the only rapper to have a
22:32
pulit a Nobel Peace Prize.
22:34
>> Yeah, man.
22:35
>> They're talking about like
22:39
a peot now because not just the Emmy,
22:42
the Grammy, the Oscar, the Tony, now
22:44
with the Pulitzer. Yeah.
22:45
>> You know, Will Peots.
22:47
>> Yeah. Yeah. The P. And I feel like
22:51
they're not giving him enough of his
22:52
flowers. I mean, for me, just seeing
22:55
him, what Punch has done, what Musa has
22:58
done, what TD has done as a whole.
23:01
>> Um, Siza, everyone, I just I'm
23:04
incredibly in awe of ever of like it
23:08
all.
23:09
>> Um, the versatility, his poise, how
23:12
intelligent he is, how emotionally
23:14
intelligent he is, right? Um, I mean,
23:17
and also like from the battle, you know,
23:20
you don't want to go up against him on
23:22
no bars, right?
23:23
>> Yeah. Well, we witnessed that.
23:24
>> You know what I mean? We witnessed that.
23:25
You know what I mean? I mean, I feel
23:26
like I just Yeah. I was just so
23:27
incredibly inspired. I mean, I I can't
23:30
>> It just makes me feel um proud because
23:34
everybody from our city is incredible.
23:37
>> Yeah.
23:38
>> There's something in the water.
23:39
>> There's something in the water. You know
23:41
what I mean? I was with Jason Martin
23:44
yesterday who uh who's actually coming
23:46
up here today for some other reason. Um
23:48
y'all know him as Problem and we were
23:50
>> having that conversation. Him, Mike and
23:52
Keys.
23:53
>> Yes.
23:53
>> And me. I know these all your people.
23:55
Yeah.
23:57
I'm just set tripping right now.
23:59
>> Wow.
23:59
>> But I look at your project and it's on
24:01
Creative Music Group, right? That's an
24:03
independent distributor, correct?
24:04
>> That's on Create.
24:05
>> Uh-huh. On Create, right? Create Music
24:07
Group. Why Why not TDE? Has that ever
24:10
been a conversation? It has been a
24:11
conversation. I've I've I've had the
24:14
conversation with Punch about um going
24:16
to TDE. You know what's interesting
24:18
about that? I don't think any of the
24:20
women are from LA on TD. Okay.
24:23
>> Right.
24:24
>> Um and we we discussed that before and
24:27
I've discussed that a lot with like in
24:29
general about West Coast artists.
24:31
>> Um I feel like for me
24:33
>> I wanted to remain independent and sign
24:36
myself to me.
24:39
I wanted to be able to do it on my own
24:42
with my own company as a businesswoman
24:45
and really thrive. And
24:47
>> you know, it's no like it would be a,
24:50
you know, dream come true to
24:52
collaborate, collaborate with other um
24:54
labels, but I wanted to have my own. I
24:56
wanted to be signed to me,
24:58
>> you know, and make that dream come true
25:00
for myself.
25:00
>> It's already in it's already here,
25:02
right? Villain Origin story is here.
25:05
>> I want to open up the phone line.
25:06
citizen says, "I'mma play a song and you
25:09
tell her how you feel about the song."
25:10
>> Yes.
25:11
>> But I also want to see if we could get
25:13
into a flow state.
25:15
>> Yeah.
25:15
>> And uh
25:18
you know what I mean? HB, let's write
25:20
some words down for her.
25:21
>> I'm not writing nothing. She's a writer.
25:23
>> I'm just saying words that she could
25:25
feed off of and maybe BB could come up
25:28
with something while we're playing the
25:29
music
25:30
>> and then see what she come. I did this
25:32
with Nas.
25:33
>> Oh, now you trying to put guilt trip on
25:34
her. She got to drink more tea. Nas did
25:37
it. Why can't you do it, BB?
25:39
>> Look how she looking.
25:40
>> I'm ready to have some fun. Why not?
25:42
>> Hold on, man.
25:43
>> You ain't going to get him to do a flow
25:44
state. Look, he got the ready.
25:47
>> What song we going to play?
25:49
>> Oh, no. I'm just I'mma play amenities
25:50
from her album right now. Okay.
25:52
>> But, um, I want to give her notepad. Do
25:55
you Do you off the top? I mean, maybe
25:57
you could write something while we have
25:59
this song playing or do you need a beat
26:01
or how how does that work for you? How
26:03
do you know? How do your How does it
26:05
happen?
26:06
>> Add to your flow state.
26:07
>> Okay. Yeah. I'mma play your song
26:09
Amenity, but I want I want to see if you
26:11
if we can Would it be What could you
26:14
write in the Now?
26:15
>> What could I write in the Now? You could
26:17
You could always play a beat and I could
26:18
always just
26:19
>> Okay, let's play Amenity
26:20
>> first.
26:21
>> First amenities first. This is her song
26:24
off of her album, Villain Origin Story.
26:26
We'll get some beats ready. Okay.
26:28
>> Play them and see which ones you vibe
26:29
off of. Okay. are they not going to be
26:32
like you know you know what maybe what
26:34
you're used to in the in the Chris Brown
26:36
studio they're going to be good you know
26:39
um and we're going to come back and see
26:40
how this works 8887423345
26:44
we got BB in the studio we do shade 45
26:47
song was villain this song is amenities
26:52
let me ask you something we got BB here
26:55
u the artist from Compton multi- Grammy
26:58
award winner she's paying heads for
27:00
everybody from Queen Nigel to Eric
27:02
Bellinger to Summer Walker, John Legend,
27:04
Legacy, Chris Brown, just to name a few.
27:07
>> Yeah.
27:07
>> Got your publishing in order, right?
27:09
>> Oh, yeah. I got that.
27:10
>> Let me turn your mic on for you.
27:12
>> Oh, there we go.
27:13
>> Go ahead. You got your publishing in
27:14
order?
27:14
>> Oh, yes, of course. Now,
27:16
>> you learned that early or did you learn
27:18
that by default?
27:19
>> I actually have a master's degree in
27:20
ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS.
27:21
>> Y'ALL BETTER HEAR HER OUT.
27:23
>> I had I went to school. I had to learn
27:25
that. I had to learn Yeah. I had to um I
27:29
felt like it was important to know
27:30
because I was like, "Okay, I know that
27:32
God gave me a gift to sing, but if and
27:35
when the opportunity presented presents
27:36
itself, I want to be able to know what
27:39
these contracts are like." And so, I
27:40
went to school and
27:43
>> Yeah. I made I make sure that, you know,
27:45
they always say, "You don't get what you
27:47
deserve, you get what you negotiate."
27:48
>> Yeah. Right. You get what you negotiate.
27:50
Y.
27:51
>> So you if you had not been a performer
27:55
>> Mhm.
27:56
>> just a singer song just a songwriter.
27:58
>> Yeah.
27:59
>> You would be able to make a living.
28:01
You're making a living.
28:02
>> Yes.
28:02
>> Yeah. You're probably making a better
28:04
living than the people we see up front.
28:07
>> Sometimes. Yeah. Sometimes. Yeah.
28:09
>> Uh-huh. So it's many lanes in this
28:12
industry.
28:12
>> Oh yeah.
28:13
>> You don't always have to be the person
28:14
up front. You just so happened to be the
28:16
person upfront and your person
28:19
>> behind
28:20
>> behind the scenes.
28:20
>> Behind the boot.
28:21
>> Yeah. Which also explains why you didn't
28:22
sign with anybody either. I mean, your
28:24
independence now knowing your history,
28:26
your background, your education, that
28:28
speaks volumes, you know.
28:29
>> Yeah.
28:30
>> But it's a longer road. I'm not going to
28:31
I'm going to be honest. It's not like
28:33
all like cookies and cream. It's it's a
28:35
longer harder road. You know, you're
28:37
using your own money.
28:39
>> You know, the money that I get from my
28:40
publishing goes back into my artistry.
28:42
It goes back into my businesses. It's a
28:45
grind, you know, and and the artists who
28:48
are signed to labels or do have that
28:50
big, you know, marketing budget behind
28:52
them, those are the ones that you see,
28:53
you know, sometimes more than the
28:55
independent artists, you know.
28:58
>> Yeah. Go ahead, SW.
28:59
>> I was going to say, you mentioned your
29:00
businesses. How many how many uh streams
29:03
do you have?
29:04
>> Um,
29:06
>> revenue streams.
29:07
>> Revenue streams. Well, I feel like, you
29:09
know, when you're when you have as a as
29:12
a creative,
29:13
you are the revenue stream.
29:15
>> Yeah.
29:16
>> You are, you know, from merch, right, to
29:18
your writing to performances to speaking
29:22
engagements to, you know, whatever. You
29:24
know, that you're you are the revenue
29:26
stream. So, that's kind of Yeah. I mean,
29:28
>> you're doing your thing. I'm
29:29
>> doing my thing.
29:30
>> It's a very vague answer. Get out my
29:32
pocket swag.
29:33
>> Basically, what you said, right? Like,
29:35
okay, that's some Compton [ __ ] And what
29:36
I was going to add to it, BB, I think
29:38
some of the artists that we do see that
29:40
may have the big budgets, a lot of times
29:43
they don't realize you're paying for
29:44
that anyway, too.
29:46
>> Yeah.
29:46
>> You know, at a crazy rate,
29:48
>> you know.
29:49
>> Yeah.
29:49
>> And you Oh, yeah. Yeah. You wish you
29:51
would have had your own little budget to
29:53
do it yourself because at least it's
29:55
yours. It'll take you
29:57
>> It's like a a loan for a mortgage or a
29:59
house, you know? It'll take It's a big
30:00
loan.
30:01
>> It's a big loan. It'll take you 30 years
30:03
to to pay back. You done paid back
30:06
$400,000 on a $50,000 loan. You know
30:09
what I mean? Crazy. And then bought the
30:11
house.
30:11
>> And then you Yeah. You
30:12
>> Or you stuck in a deal for like 10
30:14
albums. Absolutely. You know, or a
30:16
publishing deal for you know, years
30:18
because you took a bunch of bread up
30:21
front
30:21
>> and you know, you got the name and they
30:23
gave you a nice chain and they gave you
30:25
a nice car and they gave you this and
30:27
then you like you looking back like,
30:28
"Okay, well I'm still
30:31
>> Yeah.
30:31
>> They used to call them.
30:32
>> I got two more albums, right?" like it's
30:34
like you know um I yeah for me and
30:37
that's and taking your masters right and
30:38
I mean that's not as
30:41
>> like prevalent now right because a lot
30:43
of people are uh independent I think the
30:45
the statistics are like maybe 40% now or
30:48
something like that maybe 40 60 a
30:50
percent of the artists that you see on
30:51
Billboard Hot 100 are independent
30:53
artists and they're just like licensing
30:55
you know the records out
30:57
>> but
30:58
>> even those artists on a grander scale uh
31:01
the ones that are larger and are on the
31:03
charts like that. They're pouring a lot
31:05
of their own money into
31:07
>> their records, right?
31:08
>> Their records. Yeah. You know, which is
31:10
commendable, but it's but it's hard.
31:12
>> You retain a proprietorship, but you
31:14
know, you pay the price. It takes a lot
31:16
longer, but I think in the end it's
31:18
worth it. If you're serious, yeah, you
31:20
going to stick to it. This song,
31:21
Amenities, you talk about your home,
31:24
your surroundings, your environment. You
31:26
love being at home. You love being in
31:29
your bed. Your house is clean and
31:31
pristine. And it's almost as if you're
31:34
implying that the the subject matter,
31:37
the guy in the in the song house is
31:40
dirty and it's not. And that's
31:42
metaphorical, too. But I was curious,
31:44
too. Do men often in your past or in
31:48
your experience have messy homes?
31:51
>> I feel like men don't have
31:56
>> I feel like men don't have homes that
31:58
are conducive for women to come over.
32:01
>> Okay. Like the the home is not women
32:03
friendly. You know what I mean? Like
32:05
y'all got one ply tissue.
32:08
>> Y'all got
32:10
>> a difference.
32:10
>> Y'all ain't got no wipes. You know what
32:12
I'm saying?
32:13
>> Yeah.
32:14
>> The lotion is watery. Like
32:17
>> you know you ain't got no candles. Like
32:20
come on, homie.
32:21
>> I need some amenities. Y'all just got
32:23
Nintendo and
32:25
>> Nintendo? Who you dating? Kindergarters.
32:28
You dating high schoolers?
32:29
>> Absolutely not. Absolutely not. But you
32:30
know what I They just, you know what I
32:31
mean?
32:32
>> She's got Netflix and that's it. Netflix
32:34
and chips. Like the cheap sheets.
32:36
>> Yeah,
32:36
>> that's that's a turn off.
32:38
>> Dang. Yeah,
32:39
>> that's is that what this is about? So
32:41
>> they don't know what a duvet is.
32:43
>> You know,
32:46
>> look at like what do you know what that
32:49
is? PB John. You know what that is?
32:51
>> Uh I'm struggling. What is that?
32:53
>> Tell us. Tell us sis. Tell us sis.
32:55
>> Sway. No, I'm don't. You can't. It's
32:58
going to be a long story for him. I try
32:59
to make sure his bedding is really nice.
33:01
Just on a sister level. These are the
33:03
things that we discussed. It feel like
33:04
you're in the living room with us right
33:06
now. And he he fights to argue with me
33:09
sometimes. I
33:11
>> do. I not in New York and out here.
33:13
>> Yo, you did buy me some nice bedding.
33:16
Yes,
33:16
>> I made sure he was straight. You need
33:18
more than two pillows.
33:20
>> I only got two pillows, dude. Hey,
33:22
listen. Y'all bugging.
33:23
>> And this is the this fight that we have.
33:26
This is a fight that we would. What I
33:27
need all that for, HB. You know what I'm
33:29
saying? It's
33:30
>> so
33:32
You need some pillows on your couch. You
33:33
need some throw pillow. You need a throw
33:35
blanket.
33:35
>> I do way too many pillows, though. Like,
33:38
women have too many.
33:39
>> I got a minimum of six on my bed.
33:41
>> Oh my god.
33:42
>> I have six pillows on my bed, too.
33:44
>> Yeah. How many you got, Tracy?
33:45
>> Six.
33:48
>> Six pillows.
33:49
>> Why do y'all have so many pillows?
33:51
>> Because you got to lean and then you got
33:53
to lay. You got to be able to like,
33:57
>> you know, you got
33:59
>> Yeah,
33:59
>> we had a conversation.
34:01
>> Decorative pillows, too.
34:03
>> We had a conversation, sis. I promise
34:06
you,
34:06
>> yesterday in the car going to dinner
34:09
about bedding.
34:10
>> We did.
34:11
>> Kid you not about mattresses and
34:12
bedding.
34:14
>> Yes,
34:15
>> I told you.
34:15
>> How you going to want a beautiful woman
34:17
to lay with you and she ain't got any
34:18
lay on?
34:19
>> She got that sheet. That sheet there.
34:21
That sheet there is correct.
34:23
>> Prison.
34:25
She is there.
34:26
>> And it's and it was scratchy before I
34:28
got like two hots in a cot like
34:30
>> Yeah. And we don't like all that fluffy
34:32
toilet paper.
34:34
>> All that fluffy toilet paper. It's just
34:36
dry. It dries you up.
34:38
>> You need some dude wipes. You need some
34:40
You need some women wipes. And you need
34:43
some tissue.
34:44
>> You want your booty?
34:45
>> My dishes are
34:47
>> right. What you saying?
34:49
>> It's too dry.
34:51
>> He said too dry IS CRAZY.
34:54
WHAT? YOU GOT ONE OF THEM LITTLE THINGS
34:55
THAT come up in your toilet that go up
34:57
>> a day
34:57
>> of a day.
34:58
>> Nah, I just, you know, I don't even want
35:00
to go into this. All right. But all I'm
35:03
saying is
35:04
>> amenities.
35:05
>> You listen. A guy hit me and say, "Hey,
35:08
you know what I'm saying? Come to the
35:09
crib." D. And I'm like, "So, you want me
35:12
to get up out of my bed,
35:14
put on my good clothes, put on my good
35:16
makeup,
35:17
>> get in my car, use my gas to drive over
35:20
to your house, which has no amenities,
35:22
>> nothing."
35:24
>> So, that's a thing.
35:25
>> Look my best, your worst.
35:27
>> You She made a whole song about it.
35:30
>> It's real.
35:31
>> No, absolutely. We're not next to
35:33
Netflixing and chilling like that.
35:34
Absolutely not.
35:35
>> So, you made a song called Shoot Your
35:37
Shot.
35:38
>> Yes.
35:39
>> Right. And that's about if you see me
35:41
here, you know, take a chance, jump out,
35:43
shoot your shot.
35:44
>> Yes. Yeah.
35:45
>> The guy shoots his shot, invites you to
35:47
his house, and then you make a song
35:49
called Amenities. I don't know, man.
35:51
It's a lot of I don't know, man.
35:53
>> The most important part of that.
35:55
>> What's that?
35:56
>> Dates.
35:57
>> Dates. Oh, that's right.
35:59
>> Be on a date.
36:00
>> Okay. What's a good date?
36:01
>> What's a great date? Okay. A great date
36:03
for me is a place where I can be myself,
36:06
have fun with you. I can get to know you
36:08
and talk to you without it being super
36:10
loud. Uh and it is safe for us. It's
36:13
well lit.
36:14
>> Um
36:16
>> I can put on a heel
36:18
>> there. Right. Okay.
36:20
>> Uh and where we just have a good time.
36:22
It could be dinner. You know what I
36:24
mean? Uh got to be a nice dinner. I also
36:26
like to bowl.
36:28
>> Oh wow.
36:28
>> I told you was a bowler.
36:30
>> I like to bowl.
36:31
>> Ain't that crazy?
36:31
>> So I don't mind a casual date.
36:34
>> I don't mind a casual date. I need to
36:35
introduce you to my friend Jam.
36:41
>> I like the bowler. I'm a pretty good
36:42
bowler. Yeah. So, I like
36:43
>> your average probably
36:45
>> perfect.
36:46
>> Damn it.
36:48
>> Jamal has like that John.
36:50
>> I heard Jamad has met his match. About
36:54
to go bowling.
36:55
>> I want to tell her you in the bowling
36:56
league.
36:56
>> Nah, she don't need to know that.
36:58
>> Okay. Well, you got to Yeah. BB's bowler
37:00
ramen. You got to come on out.
37:01
>> You bowl? Yeah.
37:02
>> Really? You bowl?
37:03
>> I was trying to bowl like once a month.
37:04
Yeah, for real.
37:05
>> Nice. My bowl is Yeah, I'll be bowling.
37:07
What do you
37:08
>> We bowling like Lucky Strike or
37:10
something.
37:10
>> The one on Highland.
37:11
>> Yeah, we go. Yeah.
37:13
>> Yeah.
37:14
>> Okay.
37:14
>> That's
37:16
the Roosevelt or the Roosevelt?
37:18
>> The Roosevelt got a bowling alley.
37:19
>> Yeah.
37:20
>> The hotel.
37:20
>> Two lanes. Yeah, they got the two lanes
37:22
upstairs.
37:23
>> Oh, that's for the VIP.
37:25
>> Okay.
37:25
>> I don't know what the Roosevelt is.
37:27
>> You know, they the Beverly Center got a
37:28
nice bowling alley, too.
37:30
>> Really?
37:30
>> That's not Lucky Strike there. It's a uh
37:33
it's another lucky strike.
37:34
>> Okay. Okay. Okay. He doesn't like
37:36
recreational bowling. He goes to
37:38
regulation with the leagues, the
37:40
professionals. Yeah.
37:41
>> Yeah.
37:41
>> Just so you That's Jamad over there.
37:43
Yeah. Okay.
37:44
>> When I bowl, I'm Jama. I use my other
37:46
name, Jam.
37:48
>> I don't use swipe, baby. I use Jamad. I
37:52
got
37:52
>> Okay. Coming up, we have Jam.
37:54
>> That's me. That's me.
37:55
>> All right. So, look, we got we got uh BB
37:57
is here and she got a brilliant album,
38:00
Villain Origin Story, that she put
38:02
together herself. Who are some of the
38:03
musicians on this project?
38:05
>> Oh, man.
38:05
>> Shout them out.
38:06
>> Listen, T Nava, Ronavant from Free
38:09
Nationals. Uh we got um let me go
38:13
through Ray Kumba who's uh produced for
38:16
everybody from Tiana Taylor to just I
38:18
mean he's incredible. Um we have now you
38:22
got me going through thinking about all
38:23
the people that's on my album. Um, I got
38:26
Ben Riley on the album who's an
38:28
incredible rapper and artist from
38:29
Atlanta.
38:30
>> We got Jeremiah on the album.
38:32
>> Jeremiah. Yes. Y'all got a nice track,
38:34
too. Yeah.
38:35
>> Um, we got Jeremiah on the album. We
38:37
also have uh a new artist who has been
38:42
really like he's been doing his thing.
38:44
He's incredible. His voice is crazy. Um,
38:46
Z France.
38:48
>> Z France.
38:49
>> Yeah.
38:49
>> Okay. I saw that name.
38:51
>> Yeah. He's fire. He's super fire. Um,
38:54
and I worked with I'm trying to think
38:56
who else is on the album.
38:58
>> Everybody.
38:59
>> As you think of that, and I know we're
39:00
getting ready to hear something from you
39:02
that you're going to create for us live
39:03
here. I don't want to overwhelm any
39:06
independent artists, but you just spoke
39:08
about musicians, right? And you spoke
39:10
about being independent.
39:12
>> Is that you putting together and
39:14
reaching out and contacting musicians as
39:16
well and paying for them their session
39:18
fees? Uh, do you handle all of that as
39:21
well? Uh I do have like a team. I do
39:24
have management and I have a team that
39:25
like help. But for the most part, yeah,
39:27
I mean it's it's it's part love and it's
39:30
part, you know, business, right? So
39:32
these are my peers and friends that we
39:34
work and collaborate together.
39:35
>> You can barter and exchange.
39:37
>> Yeah. So they, you know, they show up
39:39
for me in a real way, you know, and I
39:41
appreciate that. So it's a little bit of
39:42
both, but I want to make sure always to
39:44
respect my friends. So I'm always like,
39:46
you know, making sure that they taken
39:48
care of in that way.
39:49
>> Yeah. It it's and it's important because
39:50
our even meeting you through the garage
39:52
series and watching you interact um
39:55
relationships are so important and I
39:57
think people don't realize that like
39:58
even no matter what stage people meet
40:00
you like you mentioned whether it's
40:01
loving hip hop or mentoring or being an
40:03
artist or writer your relationships are
40:05
so important how nurture those
40:07
relationships because you never know oh
40:09
you know what I met a cool engineer I
40:11
met a beat maker I met a singer back you
40:13
know all of that is important as well.
40:16
Yeah, absolutely. Um, and like even for
40:18
the record that I did called Tell You
40:20
About It
40:21
>> um, on my project that was produced by
40:24
Black Odyssey
40:25
>> and I flew to Austin, Texas to work with
40:29
Black Odyssey. Like I just I took my own
40:31
money. I got, you know, I booked my own
40:33
ticket. I got my own hotel and um went
40:36
to the studio. He actually, you know,
40:37
had a studio out there and I worked with
40:39
him and his band and they, you know,
40:41
produced everything live, right? But I
40:43
took that time out of my own, you know,
40:45
my own time, my own budget to do that
40:46
because it was important to me for my
40:48
album. And, you know, I just feel like
40:49
that's a testament to a lot of
40:51
independent artists. We're all doing
40:52
that, you know, investing in ourselves.
40:55
>> I love it. BB is here. You can find her
40:57
at Britney Busic Citizens.
41:00
>> I wanted to try something, man. Um, you
41:02
mentioned Girls Make Beats and I met
41:05
Tiffany Miranda because of BB,
41:08
>> right? and BB introduced her to me and
41:10
said, "Hey, my friend, she has an
41:12
organization. She's dealing with
41:13
creatives, a lot of young women in
41:15
there, Girls Make Beats." Yeah. And in
41:17
that moment,
41:19
>> she brought Tiffany up
41:20
>> and I said, "I'd love to have you on the
41:22
show."
41:23
>> Last two weeks, they came on the show.
41:26
>> Now, we stole Sparkle from Girls Make
41:29
Beats and she's interning here once a
41:31
week with us so far.
41:33
>> And Sparkle plays some beats. She and DJ
41:36
Avi Love play beats. couple weeks ago.
41:38
16 years old, right, Sparkle?
41:40
>> Crazy. Yes, sir.
41:41
>> Okay. And I was wondering, can you
41:44
demonstrate
41:45
>> uh what do we call it? A a flow. What do
41:47
you call it? Flow state. Flow state.
41:49
>> A flow state. I gave her some some
41:52
terminology, some names. Tracy and I was
41:55
hoping she could make a story of a of a
41:58
with these words of our show and sing
42:02
something make it into whatever that
42:05
comes out
42:06
>> with a beat by Sparkle
42:07
>> that Sparkle made a beat.
42:09
>> Okay,
42:10
>> she's going to do this on the spot. We
42:12
don't know how this is going to turn
42:13
out.
42:14
>> She may or may not succeed at it. Who
42:16
knows?
42:16
>> I faith.
42:17
>> I think she will.
42:19
>> And she's going to write. And don't
42:20
worry about the time right now. We got a
42:22
few minutes.
42:23
Take your time. We'll play the beat
42:24
while you're writing and coming up with
42:26
something. Heather and Tracy and I all
42:28
made conversation. Won't interrupt you.
42:29
I'm right. It won't interfere.
42:30
>> No, no, you're good.
42:31
>> Okay. No interruptions.
42:33
>> Okay.
42:33
>> Get it? Interruptions. Oh god.
42:35
>> That was just some songs she worked on.
42:37
Anyway,
42:39
>> a mess. See, he already he flow state.
42:42
>> I'm in my flow. Come on. You need me to
42:44
I might Here, let me get my I gave her
42:45
my pin.
42:46
>> Exactly.
42:46
>> John, play that beat. The beat is by
42:49
Sparkle.
42:50
>> Okay. Ooh. M. This is pretty sparkle.
42:54
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
43:02
This morning we going to sway.
43:06
We going to sway. Let the right and the
43:10
sway.
43:13
We going sway. Yeah. Today we going to
43:17
sway.
43:19
Yeah. Yeah. Lay my hands left to right
43:22
and my bed for the right. Yeah. Yeah.
43:24
Yeah. This is just free. I don't know.
43:26
>> Yeah. That's good.
43:27
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
43:30
I'm with my sisters. I'm with my
43:33
brothers. Heather B. Tracy G.
43:37
We going to love one another cuz people
43:41
love prosperity. Oh. Oh. We all rooted
43:45
in God being dope. Who we are. Yeah. We
43:48
fly. We stars.
43:51
Yeah. We rooted in love. That's who we
43:53
are. We some stars. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
43:56
Yeah. And today I'm going to sway
44:01
left and right. Feeling right. It's a
44:04
vibe. Yeah. I'm going to sway. Yeah.
44:06
Yeah. Huh. On sways universe.
44:11
Baby, baby, I'm going to sway.
44:14
Oh. Left to right. Feeling right in my
44:17
vibe. Yeah. I'm going going to sway.
44:19
Yeah. Yeah. Like my brother sway.
44:23
>> Callaway. Oh. Oh.
44:26
>> Yeah. Brittany B aka
44:30
BB. Follow Britney B MUSIC.
44:33
>> WE GOT A HIT. WE FINALLY GOING TO MAKE
44:35
THE BILLBOARD CHART, Y'ALL. WE ABOUT TO
44:37
HIT THE BILLBOARD.
44:39
We made it.
44:40
>> Tracy, we made it.
44:41
>> We made it. That was
44:43
>> WE MADE IT.
44:46
WE GOT TO DO NOW. YOU GOT TO DO WAIT,
44:47
PLAY THE BEAT ONE MORE TIME. PLAY THE
44:48
SPEED one more time. Play one more time.
44:50
>> Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. All right.
44:51
All right.
44:52
>> We got to do this now.
44:53
>> Okay. Come on. Throw that beat.
44:54
>> Look. Oh, we got to sold Let me go right
44:59
into it now.
45:00
>> Sway.
45:03
Left to right. Feeling right. Oh. Oh. We
45:06
going to sway
45:10
left to right. Feeling right this
45:13
morning. We going to sway. Yeah. Yeah.
45:15
Yeah.
45:16
>> Uh-huh. Okay.
45:17
>> We going to sway. Yeah. Yeah.
45:19
>> Come on. Get on that
45:20
>> one more time. Sway
45:24
left to right. Feeling right in a vibe.
45:26
Yeah. Yeah. We going to sway. Yeah.
45:28
Yeah. Oh, we going to sway.
45:35
All right. Yeah. That's what I'm saying.
45:37
>> I like that.
45:38
>> That's That's the year we going to sway.
45:40
You feel me?
45:40
>> Man, that's how you better close out the
45:42
show every day. our sister sledge. We
45:44
know
45:44
>> we don't need sister sleds no more.
45:46
>> Nuhuh.
45:47
>> Yeah.
45:47
>> CAN YOU COME TO NAPA VALLEY?
45:49
>> YES.
45:51
>> Come with us. We We going to have the
45:52
whole stage universe doing the swing.
45:55
>> You got to sway in the vines, bro.
45:57
>> Yes.
45:59
Universe.
46:00
>> For real, BB. What you doing Thursday?
46:02
>> I'm coming. I'm coming with you. Come.
46:04
Yeah. Come on.
46:05
>> Huh? Let's talk about real ass, y'all.
46:08
For real.
46:09
>> For real. Wow.
46:10
>> You're incredible.
46:11
>> Thank you, man. Incredible.
46:13
>> Soon as somebody start humming, you
46:15
could kind of tell.
46:16
>> Yeah.
46:17
>> Cuz everybody can't hum.
46:18
>> Yeah.
46:20
>> Like when people start hum cuz it could
46:23
go you be like, "Oh no, man."
46:27
I'm like,
46:27
>> "Yeah."
46:29
>> When Tiffany started humming, Tiffany
46:31
Miranda started humming.
46:32
>> She started humming, we knew.
46:33
>> She said [ __ ] Damn.
46:34
>> Tiffany.
46:35
>> When Lettucey started humming, we knew.
46:37
It's just certain the hums. They could
46:39
tell from the hum like Nah. You could
46:42
tell I be hating.
46:44
>> You got Okay, you got a little
46:45
something. Okay, wait a minute.
46:46
>> That's all I needed you to say. B, they
46:48
be hating on me. They be hating on me.
46:51
Jill Scott, they be hating on you was
46:53
karaoke champion.
46:57
>> I had a run.
46:59
>> Took you back 11 years.
47:01
>> Trying to really feel my cat vibe on air
47:03
right now.
47:03
>> I can tell you was karaoke
47:05
allar.
47:06
>> You know my song.
47:07
>> What's your Yeah. What's your karaoke
47:09
song?
47:10
>> John Legend. Best you ever had.
47:12
>> Yes.
47:13
>> Wow.
47:14
>> Why you got to lean back when you say
47:16
certain things like that? Oakland always
47:19
got to come out.
47:20
>> He be just
47:21
>> doing the ever
47:24
thought John Legend was here for a
47:26
second.
47:26
>> I thought he didn't want to brag.
47:28
>> He said he didn't want to brag. Not last
47:30
way.
47:30
>> Oh man.
47:31
>> What's your
47:32
>> I don't want to brag.
47:34
>> What's your karaoke song?
47:36
>> Tracy.
47:37
>> Tracy. Oh, you asking me. Ohc. I think
47:39
my karaoke song it would probably be
47:42
something by no doubt honestly. Maybe a
47:45
don't speak.
47:46
>> Yeah. Don't speak. You know just what
47:50
you're saying. Yeah. I like going more
47:53
of a rock.
47:53
>> I LOVE THAT. I LOVE THAT. YES.
47:56
Because it hurts.
48:00
DON'T SPEAK.
48:01
>> THAT IS A CLASSIC. That went multiat.
48:04
I'm sorry. Listen. No doubt. We love No
48:06
doubt. Little Gwen over there.
48:10
>> Tracy, my I have a tie. Bel Biv, Devo,
48:13
Poison, and Fantasia. When I see you.
48:15
>> Oh my god.
48:15
>> Okay, start with Fantasia.
48:16
>> And then you could kind of toss it. No
48:18
more drama. By the time the drinks
48:21
start to blush when somebody says your
48:23
name in my stomach there's a pain. See
48:26
you walking my direction. I go the other
48:29
way.
48:31
>> Yes.
48:31
>> Yeah, that song is
48:34
the song. That's the song right there.
48:36
Bad. the outer hook going on that
48:38
>> when I see you.
48:39
>> When I see when I see you.
48:43
Let's see. Can we hear that real? I know
48:45
when you might walk by. So I got to be
48:48
right on time when I see you.
48:51
>> When I see you.
48:54
>> Yeah, we could we
48:57
that Fantasia
48:58
>> Fantasia love when she start humming.
49:01
She's another one.
49:02
>> Let me tell you,
49:02
>> what's a song you wish you wrote? A song
49:05
that I wish that I wrote. Um,
49:10
the song that I wish that I wrote right
49:13
now
49:14
>> is
49:19
Beyonce's Irreplaceable.
49:21
>> Irreplaceable.
49:24
>> Neo jumping up to the left. To is that
49:26
is that
49:27
>> to the left? It's goated. It's forever
49:30
goat. It's the ultimate breakup song. to
49:32
the left. To
49:34
>> to the left he said he heard his aunt
49:36
putting out her boyfriend and that's
49:38
where he got all your stuff to the left.
49:40
Get that. And
49:41
>> just like you said, when you hear
49:42
something it'll click.
49:46
>> That song is goatated.
49:49
>> Forever a classic.
49:50
>> Forever.
49:51
>> Mhm.
49:52
>> Forever a classic.
49:53
>> It's a karaoke banger, too.
49:54
>> It's a karaoke banger.
49:56
>> Yes.
49:56
>> Yes. I love that. What's your karaoke
49:58
song?
49:59
>> All of them. I'll be trying to do n I be
50:01
trying to do non- singing songs
50:02
>> cuz I feel like as a art like as a
50:05
singer
50:06
>> doing karaoke we don't be want to do
50:07
karaoke
50:09
>> cuz it be too much pressure.
50:10
>> Got it.
50:11
>> No it be pre they be like oh we know she
50:13
she about to blow. It's like I just want
50:14
to
50:16
>> sing fun. So so I do like um sir mix a
50:20
lot. I was baby got back
50:23
>> I was going to say Eddie up BY M O.
50:26
YEAH, I BE DOING
50:30
I cannot lie. You others can't deny. So
50:33
when a girl with a itty bitty waist and
50:35
a round thing in your face, you get
50:41
>> that SONG IS MY JAM. LISTEN, THE GIRLS
50:44
BE LIKE,
50:46
>> or I'll do like Right Third by Nelly.
50:49
>> Right there.
50:50
>> I like the way you do it. Right there.
50:52
Right.
50:52
>> You know the lyrics to Right Third.
50:54
>> That's okay. She going to dance all
50:57
together.
50:58
Look at that girl right there.
51:03
>> You know the lips.
51:06
>> You got to do this. You got to be like,
51:13
>> you got to HIT THAT. WE
51:14
>> got the dance.
51:16
>> That's part of the lyrics.
51:19
>> That's what the dance is.
51:20
>> Absolutely.
51:20
>> Let the let the let the verse come in.
51:22
BB. I want to see if you know the
51:23
lyrics. BB is with us.
51:27
>> Here we go. Watch this. Look at
51:32
that.
51:36
>> Yo,
51:38
come on. We got to go Thursday.
51:41
That's my sis. Yo.
51:42
>> Yo, you drink
51:45
>> tea? BB for the kids. I drink tea.
51:47
>> Okay. Okay.
51:48
>> You know, Arnold Palmer's.
51:50
>> Okay. All right. Things like that.
51:51
>> Lemon drops. Lemon drops with no drops.
51:54
>> Okay, good.
51:56
>> For the kids.
51:56
>> She's for the kids. Good. All right,
51:58
cool. You sure you want her to hang with
51:59
you?
52:00
>> All right.
52:00
>> Look, to each his own.
52:02
>> Okay. All right. Cool.
52:03
>> I'm I'm have fun. I'm not trying to
52:05
influence her. I want to stay on the
52:07
right side of the track.
52:08
>> BB, you can follow her at Britney Busic.
52:11
We didn't get into her beginnings cuz
52:13
she been doing this, you know. Um, we'll
52:16
do that part two. We wanted to keep it
52:18
in the now. Um, which I think is so
52:21
impressive. Beautiful. Um, it's an honor
52:24
to have you on. We really, we really
52:26
fell in love with you. You know,
52:28
>> I love y'all. The first Listen, from the
52:30
first day,
52:32
>> I said, "Wow, these are amazing, amazing
52:34
folk."
52:35
>> So, I appreciate y'all.
52:37
>> Thank you.
52:37
>> Thank y'all for having me.
52:38
>> And and let the let the let the music
52:40
scene know here in LA that we here for
52:42
them. Yes.
52:43
>> Let the artists, let the song singers,
52:45
songwriters, let everybody know we here.
52:47
you know, we want to add to all that LA
52:50
has to offer. We want to add to that.
52:52
>> Thank you. Thank you. And I want to say
52:54
thank you for giving singer songwriters
52:57
a platform
52:59
>> because it's very hard to transition
53:01
from being a songwriter to an artist and
53:04
people recognizing you as an artist in
53:06
your own right. So, you know, there's
53:08
been many that have come before, you
53:09
know, before me, of course, like a Neo,
53:11
right, or Carrie Hilson or um whomever.
53:14
And but like it's hard for us. Yeah. You
53:16
know, it really is hard. So, I
53:18
appreciate y'all for shining light on
53:21
creatives like myself who are, you know,
53:23
just being multihyenate in this
53:25
industry. I really do appreciate that.
53:27
>> Well, we appreciate you, man. You're
53:28
extremely talented and you have an
53:30
amazing personality.
53:32
>> Yes.
53:32
>> And you're funny. All right.
53:35
And I know you going to have a rap album
53:37
coming. You look too happy doing them
53:39
versus. All right. Y'all give it up for
53:40
BB. Uh, follow her at Britney Busic
53:43
Music. Get the new album. You're going
53:45
to love it. Villain origin story is out
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