That's my best friend. She she want me b B B in there.
Boys want from the West, want to go downstairs from the Beta sacrament.
I want to wait. That's locale West Coast for hellove them my best dress.
Next thing up grass some icy wifey hey dos want to fight me?
Never been no longer r p up on a whifey figure. That's my type.
You can race with us when it ain't dan d damn girl, Yeah
he ain. Let's play the new single too. Now, let's get to
it. Another one, another one. It's not stop intro by d J
feud. I did swaying that thirty yelling, Who's gonna stop me? Sweeties?
Nanny is out now, Ladies in Jones. The video is crazy.
It's not how out like in person. It's out on all digital streaming platforms.
Man shout out to DJ Fuse for that intro as well. Thank you,
DJ Hughes. It's crazy right and that's me. That's mommy, mommy,
mommy, mommy. Yeah some would say that, would you agree?
Like what you mean? Did you a mommy? Mommy? Mommy, mommy?
What's the mommy mommy? I know that's right, I think so oh,
thank you cut so that's right. That's a nice second. Here she
is looking like life size right there. That's all you. Jackie had a
question about the Yeah, I'm like, how long is the hair? The
hair is that long? I'm like how long? How many feet is like?
I think? To be honest, I don't know. But shout out
to Kim Kimball because she made the wag for me. But look at grown.
People thought it was photoshop. Oh no, that's that's really is.
It's a real wagon. Yeah, look at that looks great. You look
great. Congratulations, Thank you, you look great. You sound great.
Are you in a good place? I hope so you need to be,
you should be. I am. Yeah, that's right. Sweetie's here running
it. I love it. Nannie is a single. The video is crazy
congressulations. It's great. Thank you. It's been like I've been up here
for like five years though, right, it's been about five years now,
right, And we've seen you at numerous iHeart events. You're always here.
You were just up here playing some some some new music. You got some
records on the way though. Crazy. We're in docs office. We sang
heavy Birthday to him and DJ Leslie in the office. But it's crazy because
I feel like y'all are my friends now. It's love, man. To
that point, we could ask you anything, right, and you'll ask you
no no to that point, no, no, what you mean? No
no, no, no, no, no no. But I just think
that, you know, it's always special coming up to like California radio stations
because you know we're all from here. So yeah, it's not happy to
be here. And people you grew up listening to iHeart Radio on your way
to school, You're listening to the iHeart Radio coming home. The radio has
always been a part of your life. It's always been in the background for
every moment, I believe right absolutely. Streaming yeah, yo, for and
radio pays more than streaming, I'll be honest with you, Yes it does.
They haven't told you that radio as Brendan, I love me a good
radio and end of the life. I probably did radio. Yeah, that'd
be crazy. That's my radio name. I think it's Sweetie. I think
I can't be Nanny on your radio. I think it's the Icy Guinea Twinkie.
Okay, okay, we do then at noon? At noon? Is
it allowed? Like? What's doing over time? Noons? Garcia, You're
about Yes, you seem kind of weird to me, But I guess there's
why is it? I don't know. Noon we got something to do,
we got jobs. I find it strange that you asked, like is that
allowed? Because I feel like you're someone that doesn't really follow the rules.
You'd like to push envelope. Is that what it is? Are you a
rule breaker? Because that's the superstars not But listen, she grew up with
strict parents. Her parents were strict. That's more of a reason why to
be a rebel. They were on you right, true, very true.
The ones that grow up with strict parents are always so wild when they grow
up. No, but I had like cool like my dad he was strict,
but he gave me a lot of game, so it like balanced me
out like he wasn't strict and then sheltered me. I feel like it's the
kids who are sheltered with strict parents, those are the ones who are wilding
out. That's a fact. That's the fact. Did they apologize for like
trauma that they caused in your life? That's what does that feel like?
Well? I don't ever see my parents apologizing for nothing they did to me.
You know, I'm grateful for those conversations. But I think because I
didn't let it, let it like affect how I I treated them As I
got older, what I've learned is that our parents are just people as well.
You know, they're still learning. Your mom was just a girl and
my dad was what just a boy? Just a boy, you know,
growing up trying to like through that trauma. I think it made me a
really strong woman with thick skin. So it's like, I don't know if
they would have raised me differently. I don't know if I would have been
able to like stick in this game as long as I have, because to
be in this music ship, you gotta have thick skin. Yeah, yeah,
you do, because you're met with a lot of obstacles. It's not
it's not all just that right there. Well, no, it looks like
which is beautiful, right, There's a lot of ugliness that comes with this
business. I was raised by like some two real real people, So shout
out to my parents. That's right, keeping a gangster, that's right.
What do you think you get from your daddy? What do you think you
get from your mom? They're kind of like the same person, really,
Yeah, they are, like they take their word very serious. They take.
They don't play around. Everything is just black and white, and I
think that they, you know, just handle their business. Sweetie. You've
been in this business now for a while, right, there's there there had
to been some stuff that you've heard and seen, right, and you don't
have to like talk about it. But I'm sure that you've been at a
party and opened the door and had to close it right away because you saw
some weird shit going on. Right Honestly, thankfully, I've never saw no
weird shit. No, never saw nowhere your business. I'm in my business,
you know what. I pay attention to energy. Okay, if shit
starts to feel weird, I'm out. You're out. I'm out. I
love that, not the curious cat. It's that instinct that it's just like,
all right, I'm not I'm not supposed to be here. So only
sometimes you leave too early and you hear that something popped off, and you're
like, damn, it happened exactly how it was supposed to happen. You
never miss anything, but there's tea that you left behind. No, but
I mean, you know, I've said, witnessed people doing some weird things,
but I've never were like open no doors and saw anything like crazy to
where you know, I had to close the door. So thank god for
that. Thank goodness, yeah, for your mental health, because Lord knows
there's a lot out there dog that'll that that's ready to hurt us. I
guess right. I mean, it's the entertainment industry. Its wild, it's
wild. Is it everything you've ever wanted? M I didn't know that it
came with all this. Yeah, most don't, you know, don't.
Right As a little girl, you think it's all great. You're on the
stage and people are going crazy and your fans love you. No, it
costs. It costs a lot. It costs all and I think if you
have morals and values, it takes you longer. I agree, absolutely,
I agree. Yeah, same shitting radio. Wow. Yeah. I feel
like the entertainment industry though, Like we all go through our things. So
I feel like whether you're a celebrity or not, whether you're on screen or
not, because there's people who are, like the production people who go through
their own things. So I just like being around good people because we work
so hard, why not be around good energy. Yeah. Yeah, you
have to surround yourself with the people you need to be around, right,
that's why you keep coming back to the cruise show. Don't lie. You
got me has hot ramen, hot cheetos. Last time it was special flowers.
Remember Jamaican food the other time too. Yeah, that's just making food.
Was hella good smacking and was fire. I never had your making food
like that. Yeah, look at me, I'm Mexican. What's your favorite
food? Doing Mexican food? After a few weeks, is there any plans
on going on a vacation lot getaway of so? What's the plan with the
You Deserve destination? I'm trying to go on tour trying like that. We're
trying to get back to work from work to work. What kind of tour
you're trying to do? Oh? I want to do like a really lit,
fun or fun summer or fall tour. I want to open up for
someone, you know. I feel like I'm reading urging back into the game.
I feel like it would be good to just brushing up on my skill
set, open up for somebody, bond my own ship. Okay, who's
like the like top three that you would open up for again? Pause again,
sorry, yeah, never mind, never mind that. Honestly, I
just want to get out there, I really do. Something about you is
different this time around. I feel like, what is the legend? I
don't know what is it? Do you feel like you're not a redemption?
Era? But like is it that I told you so? Era? I
don't know what. I feel like it's like you got something to prove.
Absolutely I feel it, and I think he's gonna do it. M Like
you're moving hella different now and I and it's a good thing. It's a
good thing. It just feels like there's this like different different aura of something
happened, what happened or something click? I mean, listen, listen.
There's there's like there's meditation right, and there's rebirdens and there's there's reflection,
you know what, you know, what's good about like people? You know,
because I was down. There was a time where I was being constantly
disrespected on social media and I felt like a lot of people publicly and privately
took it as a chance to like treat me in a you know, a
real horrible way. And it's crazy because I find that the people that you
help the most hurt you the most. And after going through like what I
went through, there's a saying like, I mean, the world may have
not felt it, but I felt like I was at the bottom. When
you have nowhere else to go but up, you feel like invincible because it's
just like, bitchy'all try to kill me. You know, I'm still here,
and I'm still here, and I feel like I've seen so many crazy
things about me. I done went through so many things publicly and privately.
It's just kind of like, bitch, I'm here to stay, Like nothing
can hurt me now because it's just like already been hurt. You know,
he got the wounds, you know. So it's just when you really I
feel like the beautiful thing of being like a feeling like you have nothing.
It's just like you're not afraid of anything anymore. For a good block of
time, I mean, there was a sweetie rumor every day. Yes,
every day there was a new sweety room. You know. It's crazy.
When all this was going on, I was in my most vulnerable state.
I had like cut my hair off. I was like doing my spiritual journey
and I'm just like, whyuck with me right now? I'm away here trying
to mind my business. I literally sometimes it'd be funny when the tweets be
like sweety summer over eating like cheetos and macaroni and cheese and like a vanilla,
like a crazy food concoction. I really be minding my business eating what
I be eating. I'd be on my Twitter. It'd be like sweety popping
up. I'm like, oh my goodness, Like I didn't even know that
I was living this. I'd be out the way, not for real.
I see the merch. Merch, yes me, yeah, that's it?
Is it available? I must send you? Sure, I'll put it on
please crop top. I've lost nineteen pounds. I might I might be able
to squeeze one. That's right, I slam squeeze into one. Okay,
you know number ten on YouTube trending right now? Number nine now, yeah,
we're moving with the fat jack another. You've literally been jumping all day,
respect the grind two hours ago that I checked, so relax. Probably
at number six now let me probably number one, number five, number five?
My service? You got no service? What kind of service I got
at seven? You need to say your WiFi? Brandon said seven. But
I want to talk about the music video because that choreo sequence. I want
to know is it actually hard, like to learn choreo, like it was
the hardest. Yeah, and you know, the budget only gave me three
days rehearse, so I was so I've never been so focused and determined and
rehearsal because I was like, this is I'm literally like relentless. I want
to like I feel like I have something to prove. I'm ambitious, and
I was like, I have three days to learn this dance. I was
like, lord, please, that's lots of massages, lots of Ebsence soft
baths. I was sore, but we pushed through and shout out to Courtland
for the Koreak for the choreography, and I had amazing, amazing dancers.
When you have three days to memorize all that right and to get it right,
does that does everything else shut off? Yes? Yeah, phones off,
everything is just leave me alone because I have to focus. I'm checking
my phone a little bit right, Like you're not all the way off,
but you got to be focused, right, very focused, And it's just
like afterwards, you're so tired you can't do anything else. And it's the
first time in rehearsals where everything on me was drenched. Oh yes, but
I was so proud I was so proud because normally I'll break a sweat if
I'm like, you know, wait training, if I'm running a mile or
something. But the fact that I was drenched after rehearsal, I'm like,
Okay, yeah, bitch, you want it. That's right. We sweating
for this. Yeah yeah, sweetie. When you were up here a few
weeks ago when you were playing new music, I don't want to say too
much, but those records are crazy, right. We have an EP,
we have an album, we have an album. We have an album.
It's ready to go. It's ready to go now. Yeah, I feel
like in this new day and a day Agent eraor you kind of like roll
out your singles and you see like what builds up because I feel like I'm
still crafting my story and after I solidify you know that, sweeties back,
that's when I like can put out my album. So I feel like I'm
I'm re entering the game. Absolutely. Yeah. I think that's a that's
a good position to be in, right, because it's like, yo,
it's it's it's an opportunity to reintroduce yourself absolutely and to drop and like shake
the world up again for real. What are some new accomplishments, accomplishments or
existing accomplishments that you're looking forward to achieving this year. Really seen this album
and just being consistent. That's my that's my biggest thing. I have goals,
I have this and that, but I want my I want to be
consistent, you know, with dropping music because music is the platform and after
that it's solidified, I can do everything else I want to do. How
do you document those goals? Is it? Is it a vision board?
Is it on your notes? Is it a journals? It's constant thoughts,
but I have notes, and then I also have a whiteboard in my living
room. There you go, there you go. So it's in your in
your living space, so you see it. What's on the board, the
name of my songs. And then like four projects that I'm working on.
Whoa mm hmmm. Four. It's a lot not a lot of pressure on
yourself. You know, you have to learn how to Like I've always worked
well under pressure though, Like pressure just makes me move. Like I'm a
big procrastinator, so if there's a lot of things going on, it actually
makes me focus more. So when there's like a lot of laundry, you
just you'll take a nap before were folding it. I got made. I
know. I'm really thankful that I'm able to even do that because at the
beginning of my career, my house used to be so messy. I never
had time to clean. And then it's just like there's clothes everywhere, the
dishes in the sink, and I'm like, I ain't no dirty bitch.
Damn you sound like my wife. There's laundry, there's dishes, there's got
to do all of this. I'm like, well, yeah, we got
to do it right, you got to do it. That's crazy. I
help, that's crazy, you know. On the music video, I feel
like there's so there's like I don't know how many, like seven different probably
outfit changes. What's your favorite era of like fashion? My favorite era?
Oh girl, I don't know. It depends I'm moody, like my say.
It depends on my move for sure, Nineties fashion. I think it's
top tier still to this day. I think that's a lot of it comes
back for a reason. Like the big baggy jeans, yeah right, you're
giving right now is like brats doll vibes for me. I feel like that's
like the nanty vibe. Yeah, but then there's times where it's like fashion
Week and like I have a whole bunch of like vintage fashion books, and
I just think, like the Parisian fashion era, especially like in the nineteen
twenties, thirties and forties, Like I loved how big the skirts score,
how the corsets was in you know, like that's why I'm in my fashion
bag. But when I'm chilling, like I like this, like oversized sweatshirts
and sweatpants. I love me a monochromatic set vibe. Yeah, what is
that? At the same time, you know, like my friend blue bottom,
I don't know, like single colored. Yeah, there you go,
you're getting Latin roots. Get to the room, sweety. I think a
lot of times I think you've been misunderstood, you know, for whatever reason.
When it's all said and done, what do you want to be remembered
for. I think I'm misunderstood because I don't speak on a lot of things,
which is why I've been more vocal on Twitter these days you're in charge
of And I'm glad you brought it up because it says don't bring up Twitter
in the notes. I'm kidding respectfully though, No, But yeah, like
you're misunderstood, because yeah, a lot of times you're like, I don't
have to respond to that, But there's times where you have to clear your
name, right, there's times where you have to stick up for yourself.
Yes, and note, because there's times where something is so outrageous, I
won't speak on it because I know that the blogs will make so much money
off my response and I'm not getting a cut from that. Okay, That's
how I feel like, if something is so outrighteous, I'm like, all
right, bitch, you know, I getting a word for me because y'all
not cutting me into that. That's right, because if I know if I
speak, you're gonna make a lot of money off of that, a lot
of money, and you see nothing. You also see nothing. Yeah,
that's crazy, any of the like that because I know, I mean,
that can happen from times, especially when it's really bad. Yeah, you
know, earlier in my career, I used to get really really like mad,
But now it's just like unless if it as long as it don't affect
like my bag and my business relationships, then probably not for sure for sure?
Album tour are we are? We one day? Looking forward to being
a mother? Oh my big Boy just asked me that. Yeah, well
you're glowing. You know, she's in her different era mode. You know,
the baby comes out to nannies is also I feel like it's main character
energy. Yeah for sure, that's what you said the other day, but
I knew not it was something. Now what it is? It means a
lot of things, what you want, you wanted to be. I feel
like, like you said, it's redemption, it's time. It's time to
get back in the nine era. Yeah, fair enough. It's the name
of my single, So that's the era, man. That's right. Recently,
you're part of the Cowboys rollout schedule for NFL season. What is it
like? And you were the token forty nine Ers fan? How does it
feel being known as like the token forty nine Ers fan for that type of
stuff? I love it. I love it. Are we getting another forty
nine Ers anthem this year? I think that me and I love what me
and Pilo did. I wish it would have came out earlier in this season.
I want to shoot like a music video for it. Maybe we can
get like E forty to remix it. Yeah, let's call that's right.
Who is your team? I'm not really a football guy like that his charges.
I root for the charges for Garcia. What about you? My best
friend Chippy likes the Packers. Saw I root for the Packers, and I
look like a Raiders fan, but I'm not. I worked at Buffalo Wings
and we used to do fucking NFL Sundays every week, and so I kind
of over for a Buffalo Wild Wings. Well, I worked there for like
two weeks. Nah, let it work too. I do want to know.
That's the way that's over here. Yeah twenty for our fitness. Yeah,
yeah, that's when you worked there? Were you a server? I
worked there for two weeks? Did you get fired? No? I left
because I was working at the strip club being a waitress, and I was
working making way more money over there. I had just decided to try a
different waitressing job, and I was like, I'm not making them. There's
so many like sometimes going back to the strip club in a waitress thing.
Waitress waitresses and strip clubs there're sometimes finer than the actual strippers one hundred percent.
And there's more than imagination too. It's something just what strip club did
you work at? Can you say? I worked at Dames and Games?
I know and throw your name at the door. Am I good? Am?
I am I in? I had a different name. Shoot, you
have a stage name now. I just was like I didn't want no one
to know that I was working at the strip clubs. My name was Carmen.
That's right, Carmen. But you look. I just thought it was
like it just felt like a sexy name, a powerful second. You know,
I do. I do get that because like I have like this like
other name that when like I was single, like would ask me like,
oh, what's your name? And I give him Nicoll okay, Nicole.
Ni. We're so crazy. It's whenever I tell people about Dames and Games,
no one knows about it to me, know, but that's so looking.
I feel like it's not popular. No, it's not. I intentionally
went there because it's not popular, like in the black community. And I
don't want nobody from like my family or my friends of my family seeing me
work at the strip club because you know, like the customers there like it's
very specified games. Yes, it's a certain type of customer over there.
Hold on, I was gonna ask you if you could speak some Spanish to
Carmen. No, no, I can, It's better get us, which,
of course, you know, they'll let me bring you down. You're
looking at you unders I'm trying to get there going that way. Yes,
that's going on. That's a compliment. That's what'd you say? What you
guys have never heard that? Say? Get no, never mind no,
say no. The internet will get it. They'll get it. The internet,
we'll get the internet will get it, and we might cut this out.
Want that it's not that bad. I don't want to look crazy.
No, it's not bad. Man in something about Brad. Yeah, it's
just saying it's kind of like that's a that's the early bird against the worm.
Like what time you stepping out so I can so I can follow.
You know what I'm saying to see you outside? Look at that? Not
nice, it's not nice, but it makes more sense, you know,
you know, I know that's right. Let you that's right. Ladies and
gentlemen. Give it up for a Carmen crazy man. But she learned a
lot working at the stripes. Yeah, j for a while at noon,
the toughest shift when I lived in Palm Springs many years ago, and it
was it's you learn a lot. You learn a lot about people, about
women, about money. There's a lot. I have never been to life.
Really. Yeah. The guys want to take me, but we want
to take her so bad. You got to go. We'll go to Dames
and Games. Yeah, yeah, because it's like a strip club and then
it's like a sports bar. I go to the sports bar more. I
like, By the way, sweetie, if I get a Damon Games endorsement,
are you going to read a commercial with me? That'd be great.
That would that would help me out to full, sir, full circles.
That much money I'm making would be charity. It would be charity for you.
What's the biggest check you've gotten from a brand? Not to say number,
but like what brand has paid you the most for a campaign or collab?
I would say it would be with sween, mac and McDonald's. Oh
yeah, two big giants both start with m's. That's right, that's right.
Yeah, it's Nannie's a summer vibe, man, that's right. What
I love about Nanny It reminds me of like that two thousand and fourteen of
twenty and sixteen era of La Yes, where it was just colorful and everyone
was outside Fairfax was popping, like, oh my god, I'm so happy
I was able to witness that. Yeah, full it through that for sure.
Vibes, good vibes, good vibe. Yeah. Phones weren't necessarily that
important, right you feel me? And it was just like hanging with your
friends, grabbing some pizza or some you know, a talcover two and just
vibing, hanging out the car window, hanging out the jeep. Yeah.
Year, that's a good era. Yeah yeah, And this is this is
giving exactly that it's giving. Man. You know, we appreciate you and
love you here. I appreciate you, thank you for continuing to show radio
love as well. Of course we appreciate the wise. Radio so important.
I feel like we're all humans and we all need to talk to each other.
And it's just like you guys are other direct that's to the people,
you know, like the everyday people. I feel it keeps us tapped in
connected. Yeah. And then I also like coming up here, I know,
come up here, man. We need to get you a key card
so that we could just come in whenever you want. All. I actually
have my own show you want to do Sundays from three to seven. No,
I've been trying to give away that shift, like shifting away at radio
hour would be crazy. But then also Sundays, no sweety Saturday Saturday because
that's outside. Yeah. But then also like I have to we as artists
have to respect y'all passion too. No, and we appreciate that, thank
you, just like you guys love being here. No, we do,
and I love coming up. That's right, that's the problem. But we're
more than down to give up a weekend for you. You know what I
mean. Solo Saturday airtime. Yeah, we talked to Doc Winter about that,
Like they keep playing Sweetie hours hours the album not stop. No,
you know what Snoopy, that's right, Garcia Snoop. You used to have
a radio show. Garcia was the producer. Yeah, he would play Snoop
stuff. He played a ton of unreleaseduff he doesn't played well yeah, whatever
the fun he likes. He played so different, man, how long?
He do that for a lot of years and then he like syndicated it too
and everything like he was just it was just great to be around and catch
a bible what he's all about because he would play things that were important to
him. You know that sounds a lot about a person, right, absolutely,
do it? Man? The ladies, Sweet Saturday, isn't broadcasting in
your background? Huh? Isn't broadcast for it? You? Okay you,
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