The S.H.I.T.T.S Podcast
The S.H.I.T.T.S Podcast
Black Love, Real Talk, And Artistry
The mic opens on a check-in and turns into a masterclass on presence. Che' Afrique—singer, songwriter, and teacher—joins us to talk about becoming a better mother, paying attention to kids in a loud world, and why “being there” beats any illusion of balance. We dig into the moments parents miss, the power of boundaries, and how structure saves more futures than speeches ever will.
From Boston classrooms to Chicago memories, Shea breaks down how education and edge shaped her voice. She takes us back to her first performances, the shaky hands that came with stage fright, and the mindset shift that turned critique into confidence. Then we get into the heart of craft: creativity, authorship, and the debate around ghostwriters. Che take is bold—give the pen its flowers, not just the face on the cover. Credit the creators, expand who gets seen, and let authenticity lead the sound.
The standout story lands with “Not The One,” a heartbreak track born on New Year’s Day, written through tears and recorded as a freestyle. That song became proof that vulnerability travels: men and women heard their own lives in it. We talk fame versus privacy, choosing fortune over endless cameras, and how artists can share truth without selling their peace. Along the way, we call out book bans, defend critical thinking, and map how to teach kids to question with respect. We close with property goals, an EP on deck, and a simple vow: keep pushing Black love—patient, purposeful, and present.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yo. What the deal? Y'all know what it is. Y'all not in tune with the shits podcast. I'm your host, DJ Monsoon's the Raw, the dopest DJ, the dopest host you've heard thus far. And you are chilling with the Shits Podcast, where we either shooting the shit, starting some shit, or picking up what shit left off. Yo. So like I tell y'all, every week, man, I'll be blessed. Every week I'll be blessed to find interesting people and special people to talk to on the podcast. And this week is no exception. So this week's guest to the podcast, she is a fabulous singer and songwriter and a teacher. So um, with no further ado, I want to introduce y'all to the one, the only. And I'm I'm hopefully I'm saying this right. I've been practicing for a minute. Shea Afrika.
SPEAKER_01:To the tongue roll, to the arm roll.
SPEAKER_09:I did it right. I did it right. How you feeling?
SPEAKER_01:I'm feeling good. I'm glad you were able to meet up with me tonight. Thank you.
SPEAKER_09:No problem, no problem. Sorry for that. Sorry for the tardiness. Um, but I'm glad you was able to be flexible about it. Um, yes. So on the podcast, we like to do a check-in with the guest, and um, I always like to ask the question, um, what are you working on? And so um, a lot of times when I ask that question to artists, such as yourself, um, they tend to talk about a project that they're working on. But I say it in a way of what are you working on um mentally? What are you working on emotionally? What are you working on internally? So, what are you working on this week?
SPEAKER_01:You know what? This this year and the years to come, I'm working on being a better mother. Oh, oh yeah, being a better parent. Oh yeah. Um, I feel like I'm always trying to be a better everything, be a better teacher, be a better singer, you know, be a better artist. And we don't really think about the relationships with our family members, our friends, take those for granted, and um, those relationships are very important. So, you know, I I reflect on it all the time because you know what? Are you a parent?
SPEAKER_09:Yes, I have three kids. Okay, I have three kids, one dog, three cats.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, oh wow, your house is full. Okay, well, I mean, I don't know about you, but I'm like, I wanted to, I didn't want to be my parents, and I feel like I'm turning into my parents.
SPEAKER_09:Oh, you know what I'm saying? Elaborate on that. Yeah, hold on for one second. What's up, Jojo?
SPEAKER_05:I was gonna say you put it on a little bit.
SPEAKER_09:Okay, give me a minute, all right. All right, take take Smokey back up. See, this is me. This is being a parent.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, is he black? Smokey's all black, huh?
SPEAKER_09:No, no, no, he no, he's not he's he's just get get get him. God dogged it. I mean, but uh you know what? Okay, you're doing too much, you doing way too much. There you go. All right, but uh okay, yeah, I'll come get him. Sorry about that. Um, that's you said uh you don't you don't wanna you don't wanna be your parents. That's what you're saying. Yes, okay, elaborate on that.
SPEAKER_01:Well, I mean, you know, not calling everybody out per se, but I feel like for my mother example, who I love and idolize, she is my role model, she's everything I want to be in a lot of ways, but because of our circumstances, she worked a lot, went to school a lot, and there wasn't a lot of time for her and I, right? And I saw her interact with colleagues and friends, and and you just couldn't help but to wonder like, what about me? You know what I mean? And life can get really busy. I know people say life is life in all the time, but you have to stop and cherish and appreciate the moments with your family, especially when you have children and what either they're young, you know, every month is important, every year is important, and you don't want to miss things, you know, being busy, you know what I mean? So definitely that's number one priority for sure.
SPEAKER_09:I agree with that. Um, that was the first time I've ever heard um, that was the first time I ever heard a guest give their response. Um and it makes sense. So, like for me, um my my dad wasn't around when I was a kid, so that was one of the things that I wanted to make sure I didn't do to my kids. Um, so I can I can I I can definitely understand where you come from with the bit of a um of an app of an absence, if that makes sense. Yes, yes, and uh just understanding that uh family is everything, you know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, I mean I don't I don't have another way to put it. Like, family is everything to me. And I feel like uh they didn't ask to be here, so it's uh it's our our job to make sure that that they cool, you know what I'm saying? Um, so I definitely understand that part, definitely understand that part, and I appreciate that uh their response.
SPEAKER_01:Two, we have to invest in our children. I know it's cliche to say, you know, children are the future. No, literally they are, but they are okay, and if you don't invest in them, right? If you don't invest in them mentally, right, physically, their good health, yeah, like spiritually, right?
SPEAKER_09:Some type of connection to the most high, to the earth, to to the universe, to something other than themselves, yeah, right, and then you're just they're gonna be a liability, and and and I think uh not to sound too harsh, I think that that a prime example of that is when we see other people's kids being fuck ups. You see what I'm saying? It's kind of like understanding that obviously at some point in time, somebody didn't do everything that they should, somebody didn't do everything that they could have done. Like people could come up with a thousand and one excuses, you know. I was dead, I was good mom, I was good dad, and woo-woo. Uh they just I don't ever believe that.
SPEAKER_01:I don't I don't ever believe that here's the thing there's levels of good and bad, and people don't even know that trying to be good can be bad. Like, for example, coddling and spoiling, right? Pacifying, ignoring behaviors, not wanting to tell you no, right? Not wanting to tell them no. I don't want to tell them no. Well, you're doing them a disservice, right? Right, you're disabling a child by not setting structure so people can think they're doing well wholeheartedly and and not, right?
SPEAKER_09:Um, but yeah, the the um the ignore behaviors part stood out the most to me about that state, you know, just like you you you see they doing bullshit. You see what I'm saying? Like you can clearly see it, and sometimes, especially in this day and age, sometimes you don't see it, but the internet sees it. You see what I'm saying? So it that'd be like the craziest shit to me that you will have a person, and it's like my kid wasn't like that, my kid wasn't in the streets like that. If you check this motherfucker's Facebook page, hmm, it looked like that pistols, you know.
SPEAKER_01:So obviously, he was in the salary, and kids do behave differently with family members. Like as an educator, I hear it all the time. Whether they're better behave with me and not so well behaved at home, there's a they live different lives, they live different lives, so different people might say, Oh, not so-and-so, so-and-so's always good with me. Oh no, so-and-so knows who to who to behave with, yeah. So, so you know, I will I will get, but again, that does still lead into parents not being attentive, right? So you still got you know, you oh, I didn't know, and you may not have known, but how the hell you don't know? That means you're not paying attention.
SPEAKER_09:That's what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_01:That means you're not paying attention. Maybe you're too like I said, maybe you're too busy, right? And then you have to look up, you have to look up and and start raising your children because honestly, it's it's so easy to let the world raise your children. People it's so easy to let television raise your children, iPad raise your children, and you have it takes work to take that away and really parent, yeah, like people parents, you know what I mean.
SPEAKER_09:The the one of the one of the most uh powerful statements that I heard uh someone say was, and this when I first became a parent, um you are a parent 24 hours a day. There is no there is no time off. Well effectively, effectively, you know what I'm saying? You are a parent 24 hours of the day, you know what I'm saying? Like you don't you don't clock in and clock out that you know um so um I I kind of did my research, kind of I just want to make sure that I got it right. So you you reside in Boston, right? Yes, yep, right now Roxbury.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I don't live in Roxbury right now, but I'm from Roxbury, Roxbury, okay.
SPEAKER_09:And that's from where Nordition was from, right?
SPEAKER_01:That's where everything that's where Malcolm X was born and raised and started. You understand? Yes, I we his house is still there, his nephew owns it and occupies it, but no one can bother him and the property. But yes, the house is still there. This is where this is when he was Malcolm Little, yeah. Oh, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, on the streets, okay, messing with his white women. Right. He read the book, he told me about his uh autobiography. I was like, I gotta read that, I gotta read that. I haven't even really fully really read that. Um, but um, yeah, this is where Farrakhan started his ministry. I know in Boston, yes, I met Farrakhan out here. I'm you know, I used to live in Chicago, you know.
SPEAKER_09:I know that.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I used to live. I used to live down the street from one of Farrakhan's houses. It was on um Woodlawn. 50th and Woodlawn or something like that. So you was over east in High Park in the south side. South side.
SPEAKER_09:You know what? That's and and that's that's what I meant to ask. So you lived in Chicago for six years, right?
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_09:So always ask this question of people that's from Chicago, um, uh from Chicago, ever lived in Chicago, whatever. What what what are the four sides of Chicago? The four sides. The four sides of Chicago.
SPEAKER_01:Listen, I know where I'm I know I was on the south side, right? Nah, I live on the south side.
SPEAKER_09:Okay, you live on the south side, but it's it's four sides, like I'm in north, south, east, and west.
SPEAKER_01:I'm assuming.
SPEAKER_09:Nah, nah, no, okay, east, west, but that's the thing. So that's the thing about this podcast. We like to educate, we like to educate people. So for those you still got my bullshirt. I try to represent. I see, I see, I see, I see. But here's the thing though. Here's the thing though. You would you would have represented even better if you hadn't known the four sides. Okay, you know what I'm saying? So for those who don't know, the four sides of Chicago are out south, out west, up north, that's so funny. Yeah, like you mean, like when you're from Chicago and people ask you, like, hey, so where you from? Like they don't say I'm from, like they they really say the south side.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I hear that all the time. I'm like, damn, how big is the south side? Everybody from the south side.
SPEAKER_09:I'm from outside, or from out west. Um, but the tricky one is over east, you know what I'm saying? But like some people be like, I'm from the east side. We're gonna call it the east side, it's over east. You know what I'm saying? So I I I think I thought that um that the area you're talking about, it's out south, out south.
SPEAKER_01:Um, yeah, um, let me tell you right now, I went to the William Ray School. I got my I got my yearbook right here in the living room, too. I went to the William Ray School, okay, and I went to uh Kenwood Academy.
SPEAKER_09:Oh, you went to Kenwood?
SPEAKER_01:I sure did. I gave it, I gave it, I gave it two years and then I left and I went to Aurora, Illinois.
SPEAKER_09:Okay, so you gang like Kelly's stories?
SPEAKER_01:Listen, I be telling people all the time, yes, he was there. Have I seen him physically? No, but I've seen that limo too often, right? And being a being an innocent Bostonian, I'm not from here, right? I'm I'm I'm from a small city. We don't have a lot of celebrities like that, right? Right? So for a celebrity to be at this high school, I'm from my small town city, I'm literally innocently like, why it is there is there an event? Is there a festival? I'm like, is there a basketball game? What is going on? It's Wednesday. Why is this rich nigga outside the hood at our school? Right? It just never made sense to me. I always thought it must be something extravagant going down for this limo to be here again. Yeah, what is what is here? You keep coming to school, is he getting his GED? Never understood it, right? But it's always a thing that if you're lucky, you might get to go on his limo, you might get to go off for him. Really? Yes, and then you get the PED if you're lucky, if you're lucky, because obviously that's a lucky thing for a 14-year-old, you know what I mean? You could say you could say uh Tyrese was there. We're gonna say, Oh my god, like it's a celebrity, yeah.
SPEAKER_09:But ain't nobody really checking for black ass Tyrese like that, though. I'm just saying that's so funny, not 14-year-olds, more like 35-year-olds or something like that. No, nothing, not the nigga from the Coca-Cola commercial. That's not fair.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, later on, we was like, Okay, Tyrese, yeah, yeah. Oh, okay, I see you.
SPEAKER_09:He kind of redeemed himself with the Fast and Furious series. Um, you know, that's so fun. He got his little black card back as on you, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um how do you think? Um how do you think Boston has shaped you and molded you into the adult, into the adult you you've become?
SPEAKER_01:Um, definitely, first and foremost, the education. You know, a lot of people come to Boston for college, college and education, and definitely I felt like I chose the right career path.
SPEAKER_05:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:You know, being a teacher is one, but the educational journey, the classes that you took, the trips around the world that you took, like the things that I've experienced and learned because I went to college in Boston. I did, you know, thought about how it would be if I went to an HBCU. You know what I mean? Because I'm very much pro-black, and you know, there was something about it that was like, I'm an educator, and Boston is the city for education.
SPEAKER_05:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:Right? Just like if it's the city for medicine and science, right? With MIT or whatever, just like different states, that's the city for football. That's the city for that's the city for stardom. This is the city for science and math and and and medical and education. Okay, you know, um, so that's number one. Um, number two, uh, you know, I'm not I wasn't really in the streets, but I'm I'm a hood. I'm I'm you can sense it, you can hear it, just you know, there's some intellect, there's hood in there. I appreciate that. I appreciate just having that enough hood, enough street smarts.
SPEAKER_09:You need it, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_01:Exactly.
SPEAKER_09:And I'm the edge. You need the edge. You need to be that kind of person that, in my opinion, you need to be that kind of person that I can educate you on some shit, but I still check the fuck out. You see what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_01:Like you know, you know, me at work, they used to listen. I get the job done, but I often hear, oh, you know, you can be intimidating, good, good, because it's respect behind that, and nobody's playing with me, right? Right, and real quick, I'll tell them, okay, I'll go from Mrs. So-and-so to Shay real quick. You know what I'm saying? You to see Shay, you don't even know Shay, Shay's after work, right? But I'll tell them real quick, listen, there's a fine line, right? But no, um, it's very much needed in survival to be to be tough, to be brave, to be direct, right? And um, I feel like Boston gave me just enough hood and intellect, you know, a nice little balance. Yeah, you got a nice, you got a nice balance, yeah, definitely.
SPEAKER_09:That's what's up. Um, so you sang your first performance was at 19 years old, yes, at my college, like a little talent show.
SPEAKER_01:I did Mary J. Bly, I'm Going Down. Uh-huh. I killed that one. Okay, okay. That one. Um what what what made you choose that song? So I love Mary J. Bly. I'm I'm I'm I love a lot of 90s, 80s, 70s. I love a lot of old music. And my my cousin, particularly, my cousin Lolita, she may or may not be watching, but my cousin Lolita, she loves Mary J. Blies. And I'm a freshman in college, my family's coming to watch me sing. I wanted to choose a song that I know my aunt would be proud of. She'll, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. And you know, Mary's not the original writer of that song. Obviously, that's a do you know the original? I know, I knew she was the original writer, but I don't know the original uh writer, right? But I love um, I love songs like that, those timeless songs that you know, old and people have resung it. I just knew I would win my family's heart by doing that song, and plus, plus, and that was a song that really exercised my vocals, you know what I'm saying? As a singer, you have to know don't do this song, do this song. Yeah, right. Oh, you you can't sing, like who who can I? So, Mary, Mary does have those songs that hit way too high for me sometimes, right? But that was one song that I was comfortable doing. I knew my aunt would love, and um it was right there in the pocket, yeah.
SPEAKER_09:Yeah, it was right there in the pocket. Um, what do you think is the difference in the mindset you had at 19 when it comes to music compared to now?
SPEAKER_01:Oh, the the mindset. Yeah. Um, well, for me, it was the fear. I had a big um stage fright. Oh my gosh, I'm talking about hands shaking, hearts beating, and then I'm like, why did I agree to do this? Why? Why am I putting myself? So for me, it took some years to get over that. And just watching different first of all, no disrespect, right? But there's so many people who cannot sing. That's not that's not just people who can't dress that I have got all the confidence in the world. And I'm like, dang, if I could just be confident like that, that's the only thing stopping me mentally. And people would tell me, like, you sound great, you sound awesome, you sound amazing, but I didn't believe it. I could hear what I messed up at, and I had to get over that. That was from 19 till now. I know I sing great, I know I sing great on a bad day, on a good day, on a raspy day, on a flu, on a five blunts. I can sing good, so there's no need to ever be afraid anymore. All right, you know what I'm saying? I've I've sung and told people and told myself, Oh, I know they heard that mistake, and no one's heard it. Nobody hears it, nobody, you know, we're our biggest critics as artists. Nobody's hearing what you think you thought they heard. No, and yeah, I learned to let it go.
SPEAKER_09:Um as far as making mistakes, I think it was ice tea. Uh ice T said that uh when he would fuck up his lyrics uh on stage, he would just start um he would just start mouthing the words on purpose. Like when nothing would come out of his mouth.
SPEAKER_05:He would just start mouthing, he would start like the mic is messed up, right?
SPEAKER_09:He would just start mouthing the words and then like kind of like hit the mic like okay, that's a good one. Yeah, that was like oh that was dope. Hey, nobody knows that you just fucking forgot that you forgot your fucking lyrics, you know what I'm saying? I thought that was dope as fuck. Um to you, um what characteristics make a good songwriter?
SPEAKER_01:Um I mean, creativity, obviously, because you don't want the same sounds songs sounding the same. Um, I think it's very it can be tricky to create music that each of them has a different sound, different vibe. And I feel like you know, being able to embody that and give you give give people something different every time is um is definitely needed. Um, and obviously to be able to just write your own lyrics, to be able to write your own lyrics. I mean, people sometimes need help and assistance, but I'm not feeling this ghostwriter thing. It it's like you're half an artist. I'm not gonna hold you. You have you're half you can't get all the comp you cannot get all the praise if you didn't write that stuff.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, because you know what?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, when I hear music, my first thing is who wrote that? Who wrote that that part where you said this and the melody and that hook? Who wrote it? I don't care who's right in front of you presenting it because you're gonna put any little bitty in front of it and lip sing it. I want to know who wrote it because I feel like that's as a real artist, you got to be able to write your own stuff. I don't care how hard it is, how long it takes, yeah, just come from you. You have somebody featured a little bit, but you know, all this ghostwriter stuff, I don't know. I don't I don't like that. Just build the artists, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_09:That's interesting coming from um coming coming from a singer, and the reason why I say that is because to me it always seemed like with RB, uh like it was acceptable to sing somebody else's stuff. You see what I'm saying? And I think like compared to like hip-hop, uh rap, trap, you can't, well, the rule was you you were supposed to write your own shit. I don't think I don't think that's the rule nowadays, because it seems like everybody got fucking ghostwriters. But it's interesting that you said what you said as as a uh as an RB uh vocalist. That's that's very interesting.
SPEAKER_01:The thing is, I'm approaching this music world innocently, meaning I don't know the rules. People be like, though, that's not how you're supposed to do it. I don't I don't know shit about that. I don't even care, right? Coming in purely as someone who is appreciative of art and artistry. I know what I hear when I like it, I know what I see when I like it, right? And coming into music, I'm like, yeah, if if we're all doing this music thing, isn't it important to create your own stuff? Can you imagine, right? If I colored a page out of a coloring book and said that I'm a fame and I became a famous painter, and people are buying my shit for millions of dollars. That's crazy work because I'm filling in the blanks with colors, and someone else built the frame. So that's you're not a complete genius there. You're not, yeah. How much so? Are you just really good at pretending? Because this actors, actors have played artists and movies, that is true, right? And they can't sing, right? They can't dance, or they maybe they can dance for that clip, you know, because you can do something real quick in five minutes and repeat it. Going on tour is and learning different choreography and remembering it is a different story.
SPEAKER_09:I would think that take a lot, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:So there's a lot of this is a lot of this is pretending. We know this though. We know the we know this is all smoke and mirrors and stuff like that, but I'm in the music just purely because I love it. That's really it. You know, I'm not here for the extra, you know, rules and stuff. I'm supposed to look like this and sound like that. I'm supposed to put out the EP before this, and you're supposed to do it. Like I do what I want, and y'all still gonna love it. That's it. Music is art, art is timeless. Music is timeless. I could be 70 years old, and you still gonna love the same track. Ask Lauren Hill. Y'all still singing that, y'all still do that, right? You still singing the Zion or whatever. Yeah, that's my ax Michael Jackson, ask Prince. Well, it's not gonna get old.
SPEAKER_09:Well, we can't ask them anything.
SPEAKER_01:Well, get old, and I tend not to think about those things. I just really be like, Well, you didn't write them, she wrote it. Oh, you really good at singing her shit. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_05:Like, that's my thing.
SPEAKER_01:A lot of people that can write can also sing, right? Yeah, like Neo. Right, right. But my thing is, I feel like the lot of the ghostwriters don't have the physical appearance that the mainstream media wants to put out there, yeah. So, you know, Beyonce's writer looks like this person, and that's not who we want to market. But other I would rather see who's really behind the curtain. That's me. I mean, look like me or look like my uncle, that's even dope. Yeah, like oh my god, he wrote that shit. Oh my god, this white boy with glasses, it just makes us not all feel like we have to fit into that bubble. Good. I can wear my afro because look, the famous writer Beyonce looks like me. I don't have to dress up like this and that. I don't know. We following this, you know, European beauty standard, we can't let it go. So a lot of these ghostwriters have to hide, right? You know what I'm saying? Because they don't look the part or whatever.
SPEAKER_09:No, I get that. I get I get that, I understand that. And I ain't gonna lie to you. I'll also think about would uh would Beyonce's irreplaceable hit as hard if it was sung by Precious from Oh Girl from the movie.
SPEAKER_01:Well, if Precious could sing like Beyonce, yes, right, right. Do we need to go down a big girl list of singers? No, the boys sing the slim boys, and they went back to big, so we don't know who's who around here.
SPEAKER_09:That is true. That is true.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, look at Lizzo. Lizzo's she's less smaller than me. I'm like, wait, that's that's crazy work.
SPEAKER_09:That is crazy work, right there.
SPEAKER_01:Men are becoming women and shit. You can look, I you can look like anything, yeah.
SPEAKER_09:You know what? We're not gonna even go down that rabbit hole because I ain't trying to get a whole other show.
SPEAKER_01:But my thing is, why can't we just really be artists and really come at come as we are? They were so mad at Lizzo, like, dang, big girl can't sing and dance and play the flute. They were really mad because she's big, bro. They were angry with her. And my thing is, I'm like good because you you make me feel better about myself, right? I'm not skinny like that, as big as you are, as talented as you are, and confident as you are. Shit, if Lizzo can do it, I can do it. And that's the whole point. You know what I'm saying? Seeing average looking people makes you feel like what if they can do it, I can do it, you know. And I think we need a little bit more of that, you know. So that's why I thank God for YouTube because we don't have to look like anything, just post people. Come as you are, yes, you are, like, and they shall come.
SPEAKER_09:That's how we are. As a as an artist, um, how do you just how do you decide how vulnerable to be in your songwriting?
SPEAKER_01:Ooh, that's a good question because I really didn't like to be vulnerable, at least on a side tip, right? I'm saying I like to be vulnerable with love. I'll tell you I love somebody, I can't stop thinking about them. They're everything in my world. Yeah, but to tell you that somebody broke my heart and I'm down bad and stuff, it was hard because people listen to that and they obviously think that's your story, right? Um, and to be honest, everything I write is about somebody, it is about somebody or somebody's and um so someone like me, if I wrote something, you're gonna poke. Who's that about? Right? And I didn't want that. I didn't want that. I didn't have it set up where people are like, okay, she sings all kind of stuff. It's not about I already put it out there that my songs are about me, and I just was like, if I sing sad, then they know a player was down. Like, I don't know, you know, but I did I did give up too. I gave up a sad song. Um, it's in my SoundCloud, it's an old joint that I will I want to remix. And then I gave up another sad one with not the one recently. Um, so I I just get I just gave it up because the song was dope. I'm like, you know what? If Summer Walker can talk about her business, if Cardi can talk about her business, and they Cardi is talking about her. They lay that shit out there, Cardi Living Singh, and I'm not even really like a fan of these female rappers or whatever, but watching Cardi turn her her sorrows into success. I mean, damn, isn't that what the music is?
SPEAKER_09:I think that's art that's being an artist, though.
SPEAKER_01:Like it might be a little embarrassing, but since they already know, you might as well make a dope track out of it.
SPEAKER_09:Right, right. I mean, like, and and to me, that's like that's that's life, and that's saying that you are um that that's you're human. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Like, and I to me, I feel like that's that's where hip hop is going. Well, that's what hip-hop kind of needs to get better at because it's like with hip-hop, it wants to maintain this. I'm just tough. That's it. You know what I'm saying? That's that's all it is to me, is just I'm just fucking tough. Everything about me is tough, nigga. I'm tough. I wake up, tough.
SPEAKER_01:I ain't never scared.
SPEAKER_09:Right, I take a shit. Tough, nigga. You know what I'm saying? It's like, nah, but that's that's not realistic. And I and and and for me, I feel like that's why there's so much, there's so much talk of uh well plug this. I think that's the reason why people try to put an age limit on hip hop, is because that's the only that's the main thing that we portray is tough. We just tough, we just tough, nigga. We tough. Like, oh nigga, we grown. You see what I'm saying? Like, make those kind of songs. That's why I think like somebody like Mary J. Blige can evolve and be in the business for 20 plus years because she's shown that I hurt nigga. Like this skinny ass nigga from Jolice, he hurt me. Listen, literally, like physically and emotionally, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_01:I'm not gonna hold you. Like, I can't, like, I tell people all the time, I will take the fortune, you can leave the fame. I do not want to make I do not want my life so that I can't go to the grocery store, I can't go like people taking my pictures, people bothering my child. I wouldn't be able to, I can't, I don't know how they do it. I don't know how I don't know how they do it. Um just that alone, it's just like I could, I could, I could leave that, you know what I'm saying? I I don't know how to handle all that.
SPEAKER_09:Nothing, you know what I mean.
SPEAKER_01:I don't I don't I don't want people in your business so much so that they regurgion it back to you, yeah. You know what I'm saying? And we've all had that, right? We've all had somebody online saying something like what you don't know me, but um yeah, right? Yeah, you tried you online in front of the world. I take highly offense. I've I've cut off friends who try to go online and talk our business instead of talking to me.
SPEAKER_05:I hate that. Becoming rich, yeah, just because not change that.
SPEAKER_01:Becoming rich would not change that. I'll still be pissed that you taking pictures and taking it, and that's what they say. They signed up for that.
SPEAKER_09:I mean, I guess if you I mean I had a um I had a well, I guess, a Facebook friend that I accepted, and um I put up a post about my daughter one time, and some some some little boy had pushed her. Long story short, some little boy had pushed her. She snapped the shit out of me, cried. And I was like, shit, high five, baby.
SPEAKER_01:And the motherfucker was like, You're a bad parent.
SPEAKER_09:Like motherfucker wrote, you're a bad parent in the in the fucking comments. Like, first of all, bitch ass nigga. Um don't call the comments with with the shit, but I didn't even respond to that. I literally called this motherfucker on Facebook messenger, like, hey bro, that's sound like so.
SPEAKER_01:What's your sign? That sounds like something I would do. I'm a Gemini.
SPEAKER_09:I feel like I don't do that, bro.
SPEAKER_01:I'm a Taurus, yeah. So we might deal with that. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_09:I'll uh I'm I'll play that kind of bro. Uh okay, so hard question. Hard question. You got somebody that you really, really connect with, love him, you know what I'm saying? It's like you like being around him, he gets you, you feel like he understands. Like you know, you wrote like numerous songs about this motherfucker, right? Here's the thing though he a bucket boy. What's that? That's some Chicago. What's that?
SPEAKER_05:Some bucket boy. What's that?
SPEAKER_09:The dude that'd be on the side of the uh side of the road playing the buckets for money. Oh yeah, that's that's like that's his only job. That's his only job. Could you stay with him?
SPEAKER_01:Okay, ooh, I know I know a couple of my girls would be upset because um at this time of my life, at this age in my life, a lot of my friends are trying to make me see the importance of men being able to provide, and but it is important, it is important, it is important. So for me, money never been an issue, okay. But dating and growing older, it's become an issue, right? You know what I'm saying? And I don't, I really just want to date for love, I just want to marry for love, okay. But because because the cash rules everything around me, get the money. I mean, so for example, so I'm gonna answer your question with a scenario with a scenario. Say I do say I do take him in, okay, right? I have my own place, some stay with me, right? Do your bucket thing, right? I'll invest in you, or you know, or whatever. I'm I'm probably gotta feed you, probably riding around, got the car, whatever. My thing is, most men, females having that financial power starts being a problem, right? They think that we make it a problem, and there's some women who make it a problem. Oh, nigga, I took them shoes back. I bought you. There's some women who can make it a problem, but there's a lot of men who make it a problem because you're insecure because your female has to give you money, right? Maybe she's doing this with a smile and just trying to be the best female, but you feel away. Because in my experience, real niggas feel away. Real men don't want their females paying for stuff, they don't want that type of life out. They're depressed when they're in that state and they can't think of dating somebody, let alone if they did, they would feel away of that not being able to give her the life she deserved. So I could try. If you're asking me if I'm a type of female to travel, I would try. My girls tell me I'm crazy. If he's fine enough, okay. If he's fine enough, if he's fine enough, baby, we're gonna try, okay. But if all fails, you can take your ass right back to Canal Street, you know, whatever. Like that's it. What's you know? It don't see. I'm a I'm a Taurus, I'm a stubborn Taurus. It never hurts to try. That's my motto. It never hurts to try. Even if you get a little salty, you if it fails, now you know, right? But honestly, I might this time be a good friend to this brother. I'm telling you, because them days, them days are like seeing potential and trying to. But I realize because I'm a I I love my black men, I love my black men. This is not about lust, you know. I would want to help that brother be his friend anyway. I know people I'll find you a job, and I know a lot of desperate women. Maybe I'll plug you into their asses because I'm not the one with you, you know what I'm saying? But no, I know, yeah, I might try.
SPEAKER_09:Right.
SPEAKER_01:You want to be on a bad day? Catch me on a bad day. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_09:I mean, I I I I appreciate the um I appreciate the.
SPEAKER_01:No, no, no, uh, he gotta buy me it. No, no, I want love. Like for real. Hello, cool J.
SPEAKER_09:You know, honestly, and and I do I like the fact that you pointed out that sometimes men get insecure about their being taken care of. Like you do have you do have some guys out there that that kind of brag on the gear, man. She buy me everything, man. I'm just buying me this, and woo woo woo woo. But then you have some dudes that feel like that don't sit well with me. You know what I'm saying? Because it's kind of like if that's the case, she might as well claim me on her W2s on taxes.
SPEAKER_01:Think about it. You better think about how much money you spent on that man that year. Right, that fiscal year. You better claim that man.
SPEAKER_09:Right. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, hey, nah, yeah. But then but but I I I appreciate being a teacher. Being a teacher, I think that's super super dope. Because we definitely need more African-American uh teachers. We definitely need more people that look like us teaching us to be to be greater than us. You know what I'm saying? Um what are your concerns profession-wise when it comes to education and the Trump administration?
SPEAKER_01:I mean, I'm not particularly following Trump directly. I'm hearing about him in social media like most of the world. Um, I'm hearing that, you know, he's trying to erase a lot of black history, and obviously I'm not for that.
SPEAKER_05:Right.
SPEAKER_01:You know, different states have different level types of education. I would like to think that Boston, that Massachusetts has one of the best education, public educations in the country. I don't have the stats to look that up, but I say that to say that there's more room to be liberal in our education, unlike other states who've completely shut black history down, Native American, this and that, they still teaching about Columbus, discovered America in Boston. We've canceled Columbus, we've did this and that, and it's still work to be done, right? But I feel like the biggest thing that he's done, that's a biggest problem, is trying to erase black history. They've been trying to erase black history, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's like it's as much as you can. Beethoven, he's not white, Shakespeare, he's not white, Jesus, he's not white, right? Right, they're already trying to but already been trying to erase black history, but now you have him adamantly saying, We're gonna ban these books, we're gonna cancel this curriculum, we're not gonna talk about slavery, we're gonna shut down these museums. You're tripping, right? But that really still relies on us teaching our youth these this history, these stories, right? Because we should can't rely on rely on them anyway. My family particular, I know a lot of family history because my elders told my aunts and them, my uncles and them, and my uncles and them told us. So we all know the stories right now. If they die and I don't continue, and my cousins continue, that's on us. Yeah, we don't need Trump to not to tell us about first of all our personal family lineage, and then second of all, our ancestors, right? Who you know paved the way and and brought us to freedom and things like that. But listen, don't get me started on Trump because if we ain't talking about no Epstein files, we talk about no Trump. Okay, I ain't gonna do that. So unless you're about I know you about the shits, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_09:But that's it. That's that's it's it's crazy. And and the thing, and to me, the the the thing that's so concerning about that is the range of of motherfuckers involved in that shit. Your favorite thing the the the the range of motherfuckers involved in it and what people will do to not have those names come out, you know what I'm saying? How many how how much shit they would do to distract you from knowing about that, you know what I'm saying? Like that's nuts to me, you know.
SPEAKER_01:Oh well, he's here's the thing though, what there's a lot of people who don't want it to come out because they were active participants and things, right? That's what I'm saying, you know what I'm saying? But then you got people who are just they just I know I'm a I'm a cousin and like you know, you affiliate, yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like, for example, like say my sister went on, I don't have a sister, say my sister was on the file. You think I want them to get that back to me just that I know her ass, right? You know what I'm trying to just ever this everything, right? But um, the rabbit hole runs deep. I was I was talking to a brother one time, he was telling me something. I was like, it boils down to this in this time. You gotta know one thing about being woke, you just gotta know one thing, right? To never trust nothing, you know what I'm saying? That's the key thing. The shit first of all, nothing you nothing you see on this screen right here, you can't trust, right? Because how do you know I'm not some young Filipino boy, you know what I'm saying? Sitting on a railroad track right now, right? With my digicell phone, like you like so never trust what you see on the screen, right? But you know, that's really all it boils down to. I know people think you're crazy. Our president, we wouldn't do that. The government, no uh, we wouldn't do that.
SPEAKER_09:You'd be like, listen, no one I don't push it past anybody. I don't push shit past anybody. We was just uh I was just talking to a co-worker um uh yesterday about the importance of critical thinking and how it's not critical thinking, is not is it's rarely taught, even by us, even but even by black people, we don't really teach critical thinking to our children. You see what I'm saying? We don't could because we look at it as I need you to obey, I need you to just listen. Yeah, I I need you to just fucking listen to what the fuck I said. You get what I'm saying? Don't touch that shit because I said don't fucking touch it. You know what I'm saying? Don't don't eat the cupcake before you eat your fucking asparagus, cuz I just get what I'm saying, and and it can come from it can come from us not having a complete knowledge of of the shit that we're talking about, for one. You see what I'm saying? But I think that we don't think that we don't teach critical thinking.
SPEAKER_01:Like, I think sometimes like motherfuckers are scared of it, you know, but but oh look, every everybody in history, past, present, everyone who's a critical thinker gets scrutinized, ostracized, abandoned, abused, and all of that, right?
SPEAKER_09:And when it comes to religion, they they call you a heathen when you question shit. They call you a heathen. What the fuck did you ask the questions about boy be gonna sit your ass down to put that 20 in that in that plate? You know what I'm saying? Shut the fuck up. So I I think like it's it's just how we're taught. We're not we're not taught to think, we're taught to do. You see what I'm saying? Like as a society, we're not, I don't think we're taught to create. That's why I appreciate creators, yeah. Um, because we're not taught to create, like they used to have it in the school system. I don't have that shit in the school system no more, not like that. Uh, that's encouraging motherfuckers to be creators, whether you're creating music, whether you're creating products, whether you're creating uh programs and all types of shit, you know, you're trained to do, yeah, do just do, nigga.
SPEAKER_01:Just do. This is why I said in the beginning, my one of my goals is to be a better mother because I realize I've been doing that, right? Our family was like, you do what I said because I told you to.
SPEAKER_09:Right.
SPEAKER_01:I'm in charge, and all this stuff that is bullyish and is very authoritative. And I'm like, as much as I do believe you respect your elders, especially those feeding you and taking care of you, yeah. At the same time, if you feel like you need to question your mother or correct your father or tell him he's wrong, you know, right? Right? I got my son the back. I was like, Mom, you're speeding. Right? And I'm like, first of all, you don't know the road. He knows you can go a little bit past, he too, he's too busy looking at the sign, too busy looking at my dash. I'm like, relax, right? But at first, I was like, Don't question me, right? I'm an adult, this is my car, I do what I want. Then after a while, I was like, nah, he could save my life one day. He could save my life. I am going too fast, I am going a little too fast, all right, right? And I can imagine so many of us would get popped just by questioning uh grandma, whoever, you know what I'm saying? But a lot of children are very small, all the children are very smart, very intuitive, and children are the closest thing to God, right? A lot when children tell you something, yeah. When they tell you something, you listen to that shit. You don't know what who's speaking through them to send you a message, to slow down, to relax, to calm down, and just just just stop for a minute. You know what I'm saying? But yeah, I didn't want to, you know, all like I said, there's a fine line between you do what I'm asking you, do what I'm telling you, because there is a need for that. I feel like I tell for my thing, is like if it's a survival stuff, if I tell you come with me, be quiet, shh, just shh, right? It's a burglar in the house, you can get us killed.
SPEAKER_09:Right. That is true. You know what I'm trying to think?
SPEAKER_01:And there is a time where you just do and you just react to your mother, to your father, to the leader, to the people taking care of you. You just trust it, right? Right. But as an educator, and I know better, I know that children need the ability to question life, and it may look like questioning adults. What are you doing? Where do you go? Right? You could say, uh, that's my business, don't worry about it.
SPEAKER_05:Right.
SPEAKER_01:Or you could say, Hey, you know, this is what I'm doing, right? This is why I do this. This is why because some of that knowledge is important for kids to know the truth about life, right? Sometimes I'm like, listen, I was keeping you from it, but let me tell you, this is what I go through.
SPEAKER_09:I'm gonna, you know, I'm I'm I'm gonna tell you, I'm gonna tell you how much I feel you need to know. That's how I'm telling you.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_09:At this age, yeah, some shit you just some shit you just don't understand. You don't don't, you know, like I'm not gonna fully explain to you why you know the the the panties is over here. You know all that, you know. Like, no, that's that's not wasting my cup or something. I don't know. Yeah, man. Don't no, I'm not gonna explain all that to you. I do. Well, what is it? Don't worry about it, right? We'll talk about that later. Yeah, you just don't drink. It's not good for me. Um talk about this single. Um, not the one.
SPEAKER_01:Golly, they want me explaining one song, and I like that's the song, that's the song that I didn't I had to be vulnerable with.
SPEAKER_09:That's why I asked you about it.
SPEAKER_01:Oh boy, so that's the song you know, baby daddy be in his films about right because it's about him, it's about us, it's about a time, right? And he's worried about his image or whatever, but I've been holding on to that song because the beauty of that song, bro. You I wrote that song 1119. So that's New Year's Day, 2019. Right? My son's just two years old, and I bought my first house, and I thought he was gonna move in with me. We was gonna be a family. I did something for us, right? And he didn't, and it's New Year's, and I'm here with my toddler for the first time by myself, not out with my girls, right? Not free, right? Not with him, you know, and it just hit me. And the only thing I could do in that moment was smoke, drink, put on a beat, and write a goddamn song, and that shit that came out as a free style. You hear me? Yeah, I still have the freestyle in my phone. It's a 1119, and it's a little the beat is different, and you can hear me sounding all sad, and you know, it's very close to the original, but I had to get my feelings out. That's how the first Heartbreak song came out. I was sad, I was smoking. I'll be telling people, I'm like, yo, smoking and music and in the vibe. Yeah, magic happens. I don't care what people say.
SPEAKER_09:Yeah, like motherfucker, that's a good thing.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it's sure too. It don't be too much of a spark until you spark, and then uh everything comes out. You be like, Golly, all the thighs, all the creative, you know, you didn't think you could do eight bars, you just did eight bars.
SPEAKER_09:Man, you guys just did 20 of the bitches.
SPEAKER_01:You didn't think you could freestyle, but no, but I literally was crying right in this stuff, crying one of and into a beat, and it was the dopest. I was happy that at least out of the breakup I could get a song, yeah. You know what I'm saying? Um, but I um I held on to it for a while. I did not want people to be like, is that about you? Is that about y'all? You know, but the fact of the matter is it's like, yeah, yeah, it is just like everybody, it's like a lot of other people, you know. And when I finally put it out, I had dudes telling me they resonated with it because there's still men who look at their child's mother and would desire to be with them, and they could be manipulating their emotions and playing tug of war and and and and they just want a family. Why can't you just be a family? You playing games, right? And um, when people started telling me they resonate with it, I'm like, okay, let down a vulnerability. You ain't the only one, right, with a baby daddy. Like, talk about how that feels, talk about what that looks like, and own your narrative and and move on, right? Um yeah, it's hard for me to hear it sometimes. I'm not gonna hold you because I'm like, yeah, I'm over that, I'm over that, right? But it is what it is, and I'm still trying to let other just let it be heard and be okay, you know. Yeah, I don't like to be looking on sad. I ain't gonna hold you, like I said, like you know, we like to be uh, we like to be on top, right? But in this instance, yeah, there was a moment of vulnerability, yeah, you know, where I wanted to be in a relationship that that was proven otherwise, and I had to learn to move on and now move on with a new addition, right? With a child, right? Learn how to be a single mother. Oh, dun dun dun, single black mother, you know what I mean? Right, one thing I didn't think I would be, right? And owning that, owning it, and right. Well, what's the best way to own it than write a song? Like I said, like that Cardi B.
SPEAKER_09:Get that shit out, get that shit out, like really just and and just really just um just embrace it.
SPEAKER_05:You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_09:Like and then and and and that's what I'm saying. Like, I wish I wish I heard more, I wish I heard more of that in hip-hop. You get what I'm saying? Like, I wish I heard more of that in hip hop, like motherfuckers really, like, really like saying, and I was hurt by that shit. You know what I'm saying? Like I was fucked with that. Yeah, right.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_09:So I that that that's why I was uh I really had to ask you about it because I felt like I thought it was dope that you uh that you did that. Like that's that's a challenge. You know what I'm saying? That's a challenge. Like, you know, everybody can't be tough 24 hours of a day and shit, you know. Um so three years from now, what do you see yourself?
SPEAKER_01:Definitely owning an owning some more properties. I own a house uh like 30 minutes outside of Boston, and I've been thinking, I'm like, you know, teaching is great, teaching is awesome, but I'm like, it's time to be an entrepreneur. Like a business person is the complete opposite of who I am. I'm in business with children and families, right? It's not a direct payment. I serve the community and I get paid later on for it, right? To be a business person and to really be like cash is the object, right? Make more money and money, you know, it's a different lifestyle, and I think it's time to start doing something else. So for me, I don't really know much about the business world. I feel like I need to keep trying to buy more properties, more two families, three families, you know, and go from there. So in three years, I definitely see me owning more than the one multi-family I have now, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, and definitely in three years, this album should be out. I'm trying to work on an EP because I have five mastered songs right now I haven't even released, man. You know what I mean? And I want to release those, to be honest, so I can move on to writing new things. It's like, yes, I can write right now, but I'm too busy trying to work on music videos and you know stuff I never did before with the stuff I have now, right? So definitely a couple years, be a better artist, be a more intentional artist, be a businesswoman for sure, and um keep being my beautiful black self. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_09:There you go. There you go. There you go. I like that. I love that. I love that. Yeah, um, so um, I always tell people that uh time is way more valuable than money because you can't get time back, you can get money back. Uh I feel like you threaten the right motherfuckers, you definitely get your money back, um, but you can't get time back. So I say all that to say I appreciate you for giving up your time. Um, and it was it was definitely nice uh conversing with you. Thank you. Thank you so much. What um what would you like to lead the people with before we get up out of here?
SPEAKER_01:What do I want to lead the people with? Listen, I got a song called Black Love, and I just want to keep pushing and promoting black love, brothers. I don't want to keep hearing you tell the world how you don't like a black woman because some ghetto woman you met at the club broke your heart. Cut the nonsense. The biggest thing we can do to destroy ourselves is to hate each other. I don't date black men, and I don't date black women. Cut that bullshit. No one understands you like a black woman, no one will love you like a black woman, and vice versa, queens. So if the last thing I could say is keep pushing black love, be patient with each other. We only know each other's struggle, we are part of the same struggle. You did that. Uh did I do that? Who did that? Ah, you didn't know that is fucking dope.
SPEAKER_09:Go ahead. I'm sorry, go ahead.
SPEAKER_01:Listen, did I do the thumbs up last time? Let me see. Because something else, see, see, I just taught you that. I just taught you that. Yeah, black love, baby.
SPEAKER_09:Yeah, it didn't work for me.
SPEAKER_01:Up on YouTube, black love. I'm pushing black love forever. 360 every year, all day, 24-7. It's nothing but black love, okay.
SPEAKER_09:I love that, I love that.
SPEAKER_01:I love that.
SPEAKER_09:Okay, but um, we're gonna talk again. We're gonna talk because you got a lot going on and shit. I might try to get some property in Boston too, goddamn it.
SPEAKER_01:Listen, I'm gonna get you a piece. Listen, I was gonna ask you too because I ain't been to Chicago since I don't know, a little while. And I need to come when it's warm outside. I can't be messing with y'all. How many degrees before I go? How many degrees is it right now before I go?
SPEAKER_09:It's about 27. Okay, okay. That's not like that.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, okay.
SPEAKER_09:Right there, that that that that may show that you are true, Chicagoan. Cause you was like, I gotta see how cold it is, my nigga, before I come back out there.
SPEAKER_01:Right now, I tell people because everybody's complaining in Boston. It's 20 degrees, it's 25. I said this for my Chicago, y'all. Ain't ready, y'all niggas ain't ready for this. But I'm like telling them like Chicago be well, it could be 10 degrees. I saw 10 when I grew up. I saw I remember that. I remember seeing it too. I was like, whoa. You know what I'm saying? So yeah, Wendy City. I'll be out there when it ain't so windy.
SPEAKER_09:I mean, I was coming from Chicago in the summer. It's fucking beautiful.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, well, listen, I really want to come back. I'm gonna hit you up. If we keep going to people's houses and stuff, y'all better cut it out and show me what's going on. I'm grown now. I want to see what a Chicago club is like. Let me uh do some footwork.
SPEAKER_09:Okay, okay, okay. Oh shit. Damn.
SPEAKER_01:Is he still alive? Is he still alive?
SPEAKER_09:I don't know. I'm not I'm not gonna say yes, I'm not gonna say no, because I don't want to be quoted on that shit. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_01:I remember all of that.
SPEAKER_09:Yeah. But yeah, we're gonna we're gonna definitely stand tone because I I I I really feel like you are a very talented singer and songwriter, and uh just the the way you approach things is is fucking awesome. We need more of that, you know what I'm saying? Like honestly, we need more of that. We need more black love, like you said. We need more black love.
SPEAKER_01:What else what else? You put an egg plan on what's more than more. You put the thumbs on, what else is gonna do?
SPEAKER_09:I have no fucking clue. Maybe it's a pro I don't fucking know. Anyway, it was awesome talking to you, and uh we will definitely keep in touch. I'm gonna send you all the info if you want, I mean, for this for that for the episode and um yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Great questions. I've been watching you, I've been checking some shit out. I love hearing black men talk about this. I love it. Keep it going, keep it going, thank you so much. Thank you very much.
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SPEAKER_08:The two of us will go out for you. Please don't bring me down. You don't kick it hurt, so frown. The two of us will go out bro.
SPEAKER_06:You're getting to be my bumpy back. You're getting to be all DJ Monsoon's to wrong.
SPEAKER_00:First of his name, dopest in the game.
SPEAKER_06:A little more love I have to give. A little more love that before that it's true.
SPEAKER_09:Shout out to my man Stevie Wonder, y'all. You ain't heard of Stevie Wonder. Go beat your own ass.
SPEAKER_06:Well, let me tell you, girl, that I think how exciting it would be. If you should discover you feel like me. If you should discover this dream is for you. Well, I'm gonna tell you girl, I gotta get up every day. Envy that you always feel this way. And read that all will forever be you.
SPEAKER_09:All I do is think about the podcast I think about you thinking about this music. It's your boy DJ Mars crossed a bar.
SPEAKER_06:I gotta get my day. And praise that you always feel this way. I'd rather keep thinking the way that I do. Once I do it, take a fine two. Oh, take it on.
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unknown:Go head go down with it.
SPEAKER_03:Go head down with it.
SPEAKER_02:Go head, get done with it.
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SPEAKER_06:Sherry, this one and only life. Ending up just another lost and lonely wife. You count up the years, and they will be filled with tea.
SPEAKER_00:DJ Monsoon's a rock, the dopest DJ you heard thus far.
SPEAKER_06:Uh-huh. Say I'm gonna eat all the time today. Not at all. It's easier said than done when you just can't break on it. You just can't break on it. I'm free. And there will be hello. Hello like my man and me.
SPEAKER_00:My man and me J my shoes are up. First of all, big Don't love me.
SPEAKER_06:It's high time now, just one racket light. Who wants to live in trouble and strike? My mind must be free to learn all I can about me. I'm allowing for the rest of my days. The babies every time they sing. Their preservation is what's really going on today. When I just like my man is out there.
SPEAKER_09:Love it.
SPEAKER_06:Don't love you. Run free.
SPEAKER_09:Run free.
SPEAKER_06:Don't never be hung up. Hung up like my man and me. My man and me. Oh yo he yourself be true.
SPEAKER_09:Be true to yourself.
SPEAKER_06:Don't be no food when you're when I tell you.
SPEAKER_09:Check out the shit's podcast, y'all.
SPEAKER_06:But don't love you.
SPEAKER_09:You can get on Apple Podcasts. Oh, yo.
SPEAKER_06:Run free.
SPEAKER_09:I'm your host.
SPEAKER_06:Y'all never become love. DJ Monsieur Bottle.
SPEAKER_09:Coming straight from the city of Chicago, y'all.
SPEAKER_06:My man.
SPEAKER_09:Y'all keep vibing with me, man. And women.
SPEAKER_06:Don't be no fool when love really does.
SPEAKER_09:To tell another friend. Check out this shit's podcast. DJ Martin was DJ you heard that's fine. I like to give a very special shout out to my guest Shay, Alfred, for stopping to and shooting the shit with us. Y'all make sure y'all check it out on Apple Music, Spotify, all streaming services. Shout out to anybody out there that's been supporting us podcast. Um shout out to, hey yo, if y'all in the Chicago area, y'all make sure y'all hit up Mel's Kitchen. Some of the dopest and most delicious food I have ever tasted. Trust me on this one. Um shout out to the pickpockets. Y'all make sure y'all look out for that album, uh, that project coming up. And uh make sure y'all check out the Shit's Podcast, um, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, any any podcast service, any streaming services. Also, y'all make sure y'all check out um what is Bryce Talking About Now and Two B's in the pot cast. It's on uh Spotify as well. Uh very good podcast. And uh man, I'm gonna leave y'all with this. Make fans, not followers, followers to get you cloud, but fans that get you work, uh, trust the process, be patient, be positive, be purposeful, uh, be passionate. And uh man, love yourself. Find yourself, and when you find yourself, stay in tune with yourself, real talk. Um, and man, y'all just keep on supporting this podcast, and um I think that's about it. I am out of here, and I will holler at y'all motherfuckers uh later.