Speaker 1: You're back with another episode, and I am very excited,
Speaker 1: very honored to have this beautiful, talented young lady on
Speaker 1: my couch here tonight on Private Talk. Welcome Paloma Ford.
Speaker 1: What's up you boy? Hello? Lex? Hello, how are you welcome?
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for.
Speaker 2: Being here, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: How are you doing tonight?
Speaker 2: I am I'm vibing. I'm good vibing.
Speaker 1: I'd like to hear that so here at Private Talk podcast.
Speaker 1: It's a new podcast. It's a way for me to
Speaker 1: talk to people to make you feel comfortable. Feel this
Speaker 1: is like the private place that you can talk to
Speaker 1: Phil like we're homies. But we're not homies now. But
Speaker 1: at the end of this concession, we're gonna be with
Speaker 1: guys for sure. So thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 1: Let my Private Talk listeners out there, Let them know
Speaker 1: who you are, let them know your background, let them
Speaker 1: know what you're all about, Miss Paloma for what's up guys?
Speaker 2: This is Paloma. I am a musician from Long Beach, California. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so you know, I'm a native here and getting ready
Speaker 2: to drop some new music that's exciting.
Speaker 1: Yes, So when are you gonna drop it? What is it?
Speaker 1: Is it by yourself solo? Are you featuring somebody? Tell
Speaker 1: us what it's all about.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's it's my second project. We are going to
Speaker 2: drop the first single December first, so be looking for
Speaker 2: Chasing Waterfalls.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, you heard it here so long. Thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you everybody, thank you? All right,
Speaker 1: thank you guys. Yeah, so Private Talk podcast you heard
Speaker 1: that first. You're just going to be releasing. So how
Speaker 1: does that feel? This is your second project? Is it
Speaker 1: more exciting than the first? Like? Tell us how you
Speaker 1: how are you feeling right now because it isn't released yet.
Speaker 1: Are you in those nerves or you like passionate yourself.
Speaker 2: All the way in those nerves. It's been going on
Speaker 2: three years since my first project. I've featured on other
Speaker 2: things since then, but this will be, yeah, my first
Speaker 2: release in quite some time. So I'm very very nervous,
Speaker 2: and compared to the first one, I feel like I'm
Speaker 2: more nervous because, you know, you set the bar and
Speaker 2: then people are like, wait, they want more, and you know,
Speaker 2: and then time goes by so they're like okay, what.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well I think that you know, it's one
Speaker 1: of those things that you have to be your your
Speaker 1: own fan. And I feel like, you know, we're all
Speaker 1: artists in our own ways, and you've worked so hard
Speaker 1: on all these things, and I know it's gonna be great,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a hit, and I'm excited for you to.
Speaker 1: It's like a second birth of a baby. Like it's
Speaker 1: like it's it's you put so much work and passion
Speaker 1: into you like your craft, and it's like it's you
Speaker 1: don't know where it's gonna go, right, but the only
Speaker 1: way it's gonna go is up for sure. So with
Speaker 1: that being said, like where did you get your start
Speaker 1: from as far as music goes.
Speaker 2: The first time I ever did something on a on
Speaker 2: a major level was I was doing backgrounds for Macy Gray.
Speaker 2: So that was kind of my introduction to the industry.
Speaker 2: I was like eighteen years old. Nineteen Was that intimidating?
Speaker 1: Were you just like all in because it's a gamble
Speaker 1: with you know, the art, the industry. You know, you
Speaker 1: don't know you.
Speaker 2: Just like I was just so naive to the industry,
Speaker 2: So I was just kind of like happy to be
Speaker 2: there at that time. You know, she was working with
Speaker 2: everybody from like justin Timberlake to where I am. So
Speaker 2: they were in the studio every night with us, and
Speaker 2: like I said, yeah, I was just happy to be there.
Speaker 2: I had no idea you know what steps I would take?
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. So you doing all this stuff, you're you're
Speaker 1: an independent artist, You're not with the label. Like, how
Speaker 1: does that feel? And what is the differences? Do you
Speaker 1: like being independent? Do you want to be signed to
Speaker 1: a label? Like? What is the feelings? And you know
Speaker 1: things that you go through, all the nervous stuff is it? What?
Speaker 1: How do you feel about all those things?
Speaker 2: I love being independent. I kind of fell into it
Speaker 2: on accident, but once I saw, you know, just how
Speaker 2: much I like having control because I know everything that
Speaker 2: I want to put out, you know, content wise, visually, sonically.
Speaker 2: So like I said, my first project, I kind of
Speaker 2: fell into it.
Speaker 1: It was it was just.
Speaker 2: Me trying something out and I really really like it.
Speaker 2: And now I'm unofficially hopefully going to be signing to
Speaker 2: myself for my new project and citing partnering up. Thank you.
Speaker 1: That's a big thing. I don't I love women that
Speaker 1: you know, we're entrepreneurs. This is a you know, time
Speaker 1: wards female empowerment and doing those things that's a big
Speaker 1: step for you know, signing with nobody to signing to yourself. Like,
Speaker 1: tell us a little bit more about that, Like, what
Speaker 1: are the steps with that's going on.
Speaker 2: Well, I've been really really patient with this project. I
Speaker 2: started recording two years ago. I mean really like after
Speaker 2: kind of the end of me putting my first project out,
Speaker 2: you know, I was I was constantly recording, So it's
Speaker 2: been a long time coming and just me being a
Speaker 2: business woman and you know, always trying to learn. I
Speaker 2: kind of like saw what things I lacked, you know
Speaker 2: in the first project and why you know, songs only
Speaker 2: reached a certain limit, and you know, what things I
Speaker 2: would need to do to really you know, step it
Speaker 2: up for the next time. And and part of that
Speaker 2: was just like having a really strong team. And so
Speaker 2: I kind of just promised myself like I know, the
Speaker 2: music that I make deserves to be supported in a
Speaker 2: certain way. And so I was very very patient and
Speaker 2: just waited until I found, you know, the people to
Speaker 2: kind of put the puzzle together together.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's like, you know, that's a hard thing
Speaker 1: to find people that were cohesively you all work together,
Speaker 1: your idea comes across in the way that you wanted
Speaker 1: to because being an artist, you know, people don't understand
Speaker 1: what that means. They know what it seems like from
Speaker 1: the outside looking in, but you know, the hard work
Speaker 1: that we put on whatever our industry. You know, mine included,
Speaker 1: yours included the things. It's like, you know, it's a
Speaker 1: creative and it's it comes from a place of where
Speaker 1: you may not know where that is blossoming too, but
Speaker 1: it's so much like who you become as a person
Speaker 1: and where that it transpires. Like with you, you know,
Speaker 1: if music, it's like you said, you've strategically made your
Speaker 1: decision and that's really big to not just sign a
Speaker 1: deal with the label or not do this whatever and
Speaker 1: continue to be independent because a lot of people just
Speaker 1: you know, come into the quick money or the quick
Speaker 1: things because.
Speaker 2: The independent route is very difficult, like it's but the hard.
Speaker 1: Work pays off, you know what I mean. And myself included.
Speaker 1: I'm an entrepreneur and you know, I'm an independent contractor
Speaker 1: and I've always had my own say in my own business.
Speaker 1: And so there's steps along those ways that you feel like, man,
Speaker 1: is this the right idea whatever? And sometimes it is
Speaker 1: and sometimes it's not. But the only way you're gonna
Speaker 1: know is if you try it, and you know, so
Speaker 1: congratulations to you making those steps and lik, you know,
Speaker 1: assign yourself. That sounds weird to some people, but that's
Speaker 1: such a big honor to like do those and like,
Speaker 1: I you know, that's that's amazing dream come true. That's
Speaker 1: really awesome. Yes, So what other projects do you have
Speaker 1: going on besides you know, your your new single coming
Speaker 1: out you know in a month or so.
Speaker 2: Yes, I am working on an independent film. It's called
Speaker 2: g Code. It's an LA based film written by Meg
Speaker 2: the Og. Shout out to Meg. She's also somebody that
Speaker 2: interviewed me in some podcasts in the past and we
Speaker 2: kind of stayed in touch and she she wrote the
Speaker 2: script and reached out to me and I was like,
Speaker 2: let's do it.
Speaker 1: So was that the first film you've ever done before?
Speaker 2: I've done very very small parts and a few other
Speaker 2: independent films, so this one is like a lead role.
Speaker 2: And we've kind of been like working on it and
Speaker 2: I've been helping her produce it as well. So that's
Speaker 2: pretty exciting. That's something that I'm working on.
Speaker 1: That's really cool. Do you see yourself doing more of that?
Speaker 1: Kind of stuff like acting stuff and going more with
Speaker 1: that routely or behind the scenes or in front of
Speaker 1: the camera.
Speaker 2: How do you know, I definitely want to get more
Speaker 2: heavily into acting in the upcoming.
Speaker 1: Year. Being from you know, LA, is that something that
Speaker 1: you just saw and you always wanted to be that
Speaker 1: or did it just kind of come and, like you said,
Speaker 1: fell into your lap and you kind of just like, hey,
Speaker 1: now I want to do this.
Speaker 2: No, I always wanted to.
Speaker 1: You always wanted to. What was like the first thing
Speaker 1: you saw that you were like you knew, You're like, no,
Speaker 1: I can do this, and I want to do it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean just from an early age, I was watching
Speaker 2: Michael Jackson like obsessively, and I never I thought that
Speaker 2: it was kind of normal because it was like me
Speaker 2: and my cousins and we would watch Michael all the time.
Speaker 2: Moon you watch her udo everything, everything, And like I said,
Speaker 2: I always thought that was normal until I have a
Speaker 2: son and he is like so completely uninterested in that,
Speaker 2: and so I was like, Okay, well this, you know,
Speaker 2: it makes sense now.
Speaker 1: Your passions of it. It shows true colors of what you
Speaker 1: really want to Yeah, and you just don't identify with it.
Speaker 1: Until later on exactly. So you say, Michael, what other
Speaker 1: influences have you had throughout your career to make you
Speaker 1: be who exactly who you are today?
Speaker 2: Shaw Day, for sure, she's probably like Michael was first.
Speaker 2: Shaw Day was next because I was somebody that my
Speaker 2: mom always played in our house. And so singing Michael
Speaker 2: and Janet songs, if you listen to you know, the
Speaker 2: way they sing Shade has like a very similar tone
Speaker 2: to Janet more so. But uh yeah, so Sha Da
Speaker 2: would be next. And then and then as I got
Speaker 2: into like junior high, Tupac was like a super huge
Speaker 2: influence too.
Speaker 1: What would you say to this day that's been your biggest,
Speaker 1: you know, piece of work that you're proud of that
Speaker 1: you've like put out there. You said, you you know,
Speaker 1: obviously we were. You know the number two is going
Speaker 1: to be there too, but what from you know, the
Speaker 1: first and maybe if it's been with your first body
Speaker 1: work or people that you've worked with that you just
Speaker 1: stand out that you know, it's your number one.
Speaker 2: Definitely, my song called what it's probably probably my biggest song.
Speaker 2: And I will say I have two songs that I
Speaker 2: have wet and then I have the song called Jada.
Speaker 2: But what was like start and finished by me with
Speaker 2: my producer, and it kind of took a life of
Speaker 2: its own, not only in uh streaming and music world,
Speaker 2: but in dance.
Speaker 1: And I never thought that it would go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I never saw that happening when I made it
Speaker 2: because it's so slow, So yeah, I would definitely say
Speaker 2: what all right?
Speaker 1: So with that being said, like how did that make
Speaker 1: you feel? And it finally like when that and it's
Speaker 1: like again it takes you by storm. You never know
Speaker 1: what project because every project to us are like really
Speaker 1: intimate to us and you never know which one and
Speaker 1: you know, we like others here or there. But when
Speaker 1: that happened and like it started going by storm and
Speaker 1: it was dancing and this, like how did that make
Speaker 1: you feel? Like do you feel because especially being from La, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know it's very kind of normal. You probably have
Speaker 1: a lot of friends and this or whatever, Like how
Speaker 1: did that make you feel inside? And like finally be like, man,
Speaker 1: that's that's mine. We're listening to my ship.
Speaker 2: I'm going to be honest with you. Because of the
Speaker 2: pressure that I put on myself, I feel like with
Speaker 2: my first project, I never really celebrated myself or time
Speaker 2: to like stop and like realize, you know, what I
Speaker 2: had accomplished on my own. So I can't really answer
Speaker 2: that for real, but that's something that I'm definitely more
Speaker 2: aware of for this project. And I've you know, I've
Speaker 2: done this project like really on my own, and I
Speaker 2: have a really heavy hand in writing, even more so
Speaker 2: than my first project. So I'm definitely going to like
Speaker 2: try to take those moments.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Well, I'm looking forward to listening to it.
Speaker 1: I'm sure my listener's out there at their private talk
Speaker 1: podcasts are listening to it as well. I hope you
Speaker 1: guys are subscribing, liking. I hope you guys are enjoying
Speaker 1: our conversation. I appreciate you for being here and your
Speaker 1: honesty and just letting my listeners know a little bit
Speaker 1: of more about you. So thank you, Palama, Thank you.
Speaker 1: I hope you're feeling so comfortable with me. You know again,
Speaker 1: we're just we're meeting each other. But I feel like
Speaker 1: it's it's one of those things, is we're in such
Speaker 1: an industry now where social media and all these things
Speaker 1: where there's so many similarities but so many polar opposites
Speaker 1: of each other, what you're a fan base with all
Speaker 1: these things are going on, So it's like you hear names,
Speaker 1: but you haven't like met somebody, right the fact that like,
Speaker 1: I love this opportunity to sit here and like have
Speaker 1: you on my couch and just getting to know who
Speaker 1: you really are and like getting your side of you
Speaker 1: know who you are? Right, So let everybody out there
Speaker 1: at private talk know where we can follow you, where
Speaker 1: we can hear your single coming out? Where could they
Speaker 1: go to your people website? Let us know all about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so all of my social handles is my name
Speaker 2: Paloma Ford. You can find all my music on iTunes
Speaker 2: and anywhere you can find music. It's available on all platforms.
Speaker 2: And yeah, that's about it. Everything is at Paloma Ford.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, you heard her. You better go over
Speaker 1: there and follow her and listen to her shit. Because
Speaker 1: I have a feeling this is going to be a
Speaker 1: hot one. Number two is like you know, my lucky
Speaker 1: number is too, So I you know, I'm a big
Speaker 1: about energy. I'm a big about like believing in all
Speaker 1: those like energy and things like that. So I have
Speaker 1: a feeling this is going to be a big one.
Speaker 1: So I can't wait for you and to do all
Speaker 1: those things. So with all of that beings said, you
Speaker 1: have your music coming out, you're doing, you're a major
Speaker 1: player in this big movie role. If you had to
Speaker 1: pick between one of the two, what would you do?
Speaker 2: I mean, music is without question, that's just kind of
Speaker 2: like I always have music in my head, so I
Speaker 2: think that if I ever abandoned it, I would probably
Speaker 2: go crazy.
Speaker 1: So there are certain things that you just kind of
Speaker 1: run away from, you know what I mean, it just
Speaker 1: stays true to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why when when I see artists say like,
Speaker 2: I quit music, I'm like, no, you don't.
Speaker 1: I feel the same way in my.
Speaker 2: Even if you just did it for yourself at home,
Speaker 2: you're never quitting music, So don't be so dramatic.
Speaker 1: I feel the same way. In my industry. There's so
Speaker 1: many people that said, oh, I retire, and then they
Speaker 1: come back a month later. It's like, why even say
Speaker 1: that if you're not going to do it. Just live
Speaker 1: in your truth or don't anything. People get so caught
Speaker 1: up in the social media world they feel like I
Speaker 1: I have to say something that I'm just like, you
Speaker 1: know what, if you need to take a break, just
Speaker 1: take a break. Right, No one needs an explanation, no
Speaker 1: one needs to like anything like nobody all of those
Speaker 1: being said. So with that seguay being said, like, you know,
Speaker 1: we are very opposite industries that the said, But I
Speaker 1: feel like I have this one thing where people have
Speaker 1: fake profiles set up and they're like me, like myself,
Speaker 1: and they try to emulate my, my persona, my brand,
Speaker 1: and they speak for you and a lot of fans
Speaker 1: are regardless. If you speak about it loudly and you
Speaker 1: make a video about it or whatever, they still tell
Speaker 1: you and they're going to coments like hey, why did
Speaker 1: you do this to me? Like why did you do da? Da?
Speaker 1: And like you feel like man like I already have.
Speaker 1: I've done so many things to make you feel not
Speaker 1: that way, and we like know, hey this is the
Speaker 1: real me, right is do you have that same issue
Speaker 1: in your industry as well?
Speaker 2: For sure? You know I'm an overall like just private
Speaker 2: person and I'm not like super I'm very laid back
Speaker 2: and you know, I think a lot of people we'll
Speaker 2: take that and make it to be anything else but that.
Speaker 2: But when you meet me in person, I'm like the
Speaker 2: sweetest person because I really love people. I love humans
Speaker 2: I love, you know, giving and and you know, just
Speaker 2: being and so yeah.
Speaker 1: I identify with that because I feel like as much
Speaker 1: as like in certain like social media aspects, you want
Speaker 1: it like less is more, But the less that you
Speaker 1: say sometimes the more, like like curiosity and ideas that
Speaker 1: people have already formed in their head are like already
Speaker 1: about you that they think that you're doing sure, like
Speaker 1: you're escorting or you're dealing like something that called Google
Speaker 1: hangouts that don't even have one, but people apparently say
Speaker 1: that I speak to them on like all these platforms
Speaker 1: that you're just like if you don't and you're not
Speaker 1: a true fan of me, And I've already said all
Speaker 1: these things like how do you not know what's real
Speaker 1: or not?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Like do you have people approach you like that? And
Speaker 1: how do you handle that? Or do you just ignore it?
Speaker 1: Because it's one of those things that you could do
Speaker 1: all three it's a big, a big spectrum.
Speaker 2: For the most part, I ignore it. You know, some days, some.
Speaker 1: Days I have a little feeling out.
Speaker 2: Feel yeah, some days I have time, and you know,
Speaker 2: I might let the motherfucker know. But for the most part,
Speaker 2: I just ignore that shit because you know, like we
Speaker 2: just said, like, at the end of the day, as
Speaker 2: real as social media, you know is, to people, it's
Speaker 2: really not real. So you know, unless you know that
Speaker 2: person personally, it's like, I can't really get mad at you.
Speaker 2: You don't know, you don't know anything.
Speaker 1: But that's usually what I've also to you when you
Speaker 1: chime in, is when they're like, oh, but i'd love you.
Speaker 1: I just want you to say something to me. So
Speaker 1: that's why for me, again I ignore most of the time.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you have those day too. But that's also
Speaker 1: why for me, I've never really spoken out a lot
Speaker 1: of times. It's because it can get be misconstrued a
Speaker 1: lot of ways, and they will.
Speaker 2: Matter for me.
Speaker 1: Is why this is all about what private talk is about.
Speaker 1: I wanted to have you know the control of my
Speaker 1: conversation and what my truth really is and know that
Speaker 1: there's way more to me than just what a Laxis
Speaker 1: Texas is, just because what I've to do at one
Speaker 1: point doesn't define me as a person. It's just a
Speaker 1: part of who I am, But there's so much more
Speaker 1: to me. And that's what I want my listeners and
Speaker 1: everyone to out there to really like, feel and appeal
Speaker 1: with everyone and see that as we go on with
Speaker 1: every show. So I fuck with that. Oh yes, let's
Speaker 1: applause us. So I have a question with you. It's
Speaker 1: so you're from LA, but you moved out when you're
Speaker 1: younger to Ohio, I believe, right, correct? So how old
Speaker 1: were you when you moved to Ohio?
Speaker 2: So my mother got remarried and she moved in elementary school,
Speaker 2: you were very young. I was very young. And then
Speaker 2: I but my father still lived here, so I kind
Speaker 2: of did the back and forth thing.
Speaker 1: For summers and kind of things. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, no, I came back out here and went to
Speaker 2: school for a couple of years as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you were back and forth all the time.
Speaker 2: I was back and forth and then I finished high
Speaker 2: school and Ohio because I, at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: like I just needed to be with my mom. But
Speaker 2: I was back in LA by seventeen, so me.
Speaker 1: Being from Texas and knowing LA is completely different. How
Speaker 1: was the change from going back from Ohio to LA,
Speaker 1: even though you went back and forth, Like how did
Speaker 1: you adapt to each situation? And like how does it
Speaker 1: affect you now as who you are as a person.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I was living in a suburb outside of Columbus,
Speaker 2: and it was predominantly white, and even though my mother
Speaker 2: is white, I was like, one of the blackest things.
Speaker 1: They're so different people they don't understand it because anybody
Speaker 1: that's just out of the norm, people are going to
Speaker 1: be like questioning.
Speaker 2: And for me, it was extra weird because I came
Speaker 2: from LA where we didn't know color at all. It's different,
Speaker 2: you know, so when I came out there, I was
Speaker 2: just as shocked as they were. I was like, wait,
Speaker 2: I'm different, Like I didn't you know, undertand vocalized.
Speaker 1: So that as a kid, did you get in fights
Speaker 1: because of that? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I got into I got into it a lot with
Speaker 2: people because even you know, there was white kids at
Speaker 2: my school in LA, but like nobody cared. I cared
Speaker 2: about it and looked at it that way. So even
Speaker 2: though I was going to school with white kids, I
Speaker 2: was like, this is this is still relatively normal, you
Speaker 2: know to me, until they.
Speaker 1: Opened their mouth. Yeah, because it's geographically is just certain things,
Speaker 1: you know, if it's because of how we're taught or
Speaker 1: what it is, it's like it's you know, it's not right.
Speaker 1: You know, people say things that are like kids are
Speaker 1: the worst things on the playgrounds and when you say whatever,
Speaker 1: it's like it's very impactful to who we are and
Speaker 1: like you know, how we move and for you being
Speaker 1: in both situations and like you just said, going from
Speaker 1: white kids in Ohio and then white kids in LA
Speaker 1: and them not saying thing because you're just who you are, right,
Speaker 1: And then it's like, hey, like why are you even
Speaker 1: questioning because I look, you know, it's yeah, different, Like
Speaker 1: so it was when you went to Ohio? Was it
Speaker 1: always just like discipline like you got because you got
Speaker 1: into fights to defend yourself. Did you ever like get
Speaker 1: to your place where hey, they knew who you were
Speaker 1: and they accepted who you were because some people it's
Speaker 1: all about change too, like we have to learn to it.
Speaker 2: I was always the thing was It wasn't like I
Speaker 2: was like an out like I was always popular. I
Speaker 2: played sports.
Speaker 1: But you're a beautiful girl who stands out like regardless,
Speaker 1: So they were just yeah, I mean it's like you're
Speaker 1: you're gonna stand out in a room regardless, especially in Ohio.
Speaker 1: Like I mean, like I would dance all over the world,
Speaker 1: and when you go into certain places and even being
Speaker 1: from a small town, it's like you stick out like
Speaker 1: a sore thumb for sure, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: And you can't help it. You're just you, and that's
Speaker 1: it's like, how do I be me without you being
Speaker 1: an asshole?
Speaker 2: But when I came back to La, I mean, I
Speaker 2: dealt with the same thing, you know, Like I dealt
Speaker 2: with racism on both sides. So that was definitely an
Speaker 2: interesting thing for me. But I'm just and I'm thankful
Speaker 2: for it. Like I've always been like super level headed,
Speaker 2: you know, so I kind of like get into my
Speaker 2: feelings a second because I'm like questioning, like why are
Speaker 2: people like this? And then I just I guess I'm
Speaker 2: always so much in my own world that it never
Speaker 2: like it.
Speaker 1: Doesn't really matter.
Speaker 2: It didn't like deeply scarm me.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's on You're like you know there,
Speaker 1: but it's not like really matters. Yeah, it was just like, Okay,
Speaker 1: they're stupid.
Speaker 2: They're stupid, you know, Like I never yeah, I never
Speaker 2: took anything too much to heart unless it was like
Speaker 2: coming from somebody personally, like I said that I knew
Speaker 2: then that's when so.
Speaker 1: You saying you came back to ka La seventeen, So
Speaker 1: did you immediately jump into the music game. Did you
Speaker 1: just like, did you already have a group of friends
Speaker 1: because you came back and forth that you just like
Speaker 1: rock with? Yeah, I had musically talented Like where did
Speaker 1: when you came back at seventeen? Where did? What was
Speaker 1: your place with la?
Speaker 2: I did have my friends from junior high out here
Speaker 2: that I stayed in contact with, but I really made
Speaker 2: a whole new group of friends when I moved back.
Speaker 2: I went to like one semester of college because my
Speaker 2: parents made me. And then I dropped out and I
Speaker 2: moved out music.
Speaker 1: Yeah, prise, it's in your blood. It's okay. Hey, if
Speaker 1: that's what your truth is all I.
Speaker 2: Ever knew that I wanted to do. But yeah, I
Speaker 2: dropped out, moved out, and then like six months after
Speaker 2: I dropped out of school was when I started working
Speaker 2: with Macy Gray. So I was like, Okay, this is
Speaker 2: what it is, what it was supposed to be.
Speaker 1: Awesome. I like that. I like that a lot. So
Speaker 1: thank you for being on my couch. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: I love it. I like it, and I have a
Speaker 1: lot more questions for you. I hope you're ready. I'm ready,
Speaker 1: So you coming from you know, LA girl. Obviously it
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like even when you went to Ohio, you
Speaker 1: still wrapped LA. I hear that you're an LA Lakers fan.
Speaker 2: I bleed golden purple.
Speaker 1: I like that a lot. I like that. I'm a
Speaker 1: big sports fan. I played basketball myself. I played in
Speaker 1: junior college. I'm very competitive in those aspects. So like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was a Spurs fan. I can't I say it
Speaker 1: was in the past tense, but I still watched them whatever.
Speaker 1: It's more like the team has very much changed since I,
Speaker 1: you know, watched them and like the whole since I've
Speaker 1: been in LA for over ten years. So it's very
Speaker 1: different to watch the Spurs. It's left they're playing the
Speaker 1: LA Lakers or the Clippers. So right, so being an
Speaker 1: LA Lakers fan, explain that, like does it change of
Speaker 1: the years? Like did your your parents like teach you
Speaker 1: that you just like you knew growing up?
Speaker 2: Like you just yeah, that was that was something that
Speaker 2: that was like my bonding time with my father. He's
Speaker 2: like a man's man, so there wasn't too many things
Speaker 2: that you know.
Speaker 1: We can do. I'm a daddy's girl.
Speaker 2: I get it going into like I would say, going
Speaker 2: into junior high. So one thing that you know, I
Speaker 2: just liked early on because the games were always on.
Speaker 2: So that was that became the thing that we would
Speaker 2: do together is watch the Laker game. And then I
Speaker 2: just kind of, you know, had that in my head
Speaker 2: and and just always, you know, it just.
Speaker 1: Becomes a part of your every day, like you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, or every season, because it's not every day.
Speaker 1: So yes, yes, So what who is your favorite Laker
Speaker 1: player of all time?
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, Kobe Bryant of course.
Speaker 1: Hey, I gotta hear, I gotta ask it.
Speaker 2: Hey, but but there's a there is a but because
Speaker 2: Shaq is right behind him. Okay, I used to love
Speaker 2: Nick Manax, so I can really give you some names.
Speaker 1: But I'm not that I like it. I like it.
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