Hella Chisme Podcast
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Hella Chisme Podcast
Artist we Love to Love
Welcome back to another episode of the Hella Chisme Podcast.
In this weeks episode welcome back Logan. We discussed cracked manicures, a humid week, and suddenly we’re knee-deep in the albums that raised us. One memory leads to another and the soundtrack writes itself: Ashanti’s first two records blaring through late-night drives; Keisha Cole’s confessions that made us bold; the lush, lived-in worlds of Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, and India Arie where interludes mattered and sequencing told a story. These aren’t just songs—they’re rooms we can still walk into.
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SPEAKER_10:Oh, hey. How's it coming?
SPEAKER_01:I mean, you're making some appearances this time around, huh?
SPEAKER_08:I know, right? Uh here I am, back to back.
SPEAKER_01:I love it. I love it. Um, well, not back to back to the people, but back to back for us because we are recording. Uh, we're doing some bulk recording right now. So we're trying to get the content ready and together for you folks so I don't miss a day.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Um, well, happy Thursday. Uh, it is the towards the end of the week. What has been going on? How are things been going? What's the tea?
SPEAKER_08:I mean, it's the end of the week for you. However, you know, via my retail uh life, it is not the end of the week. Um, but no, she had two great days off yesterday. I came back to work today, and I'm already ready for another day off. Um, it's gonna be a busy, busy weekend, lots of gas, lots of driving, lots of work, lots of back and forth, but I am excited.
SPEAKER_01:Um what did we have going on this weekend?
SPEAKER_08:Uh let's see. Tomorrow I work, and then I'm gonna leave early. We're supposed to be going to Cash Creek.
SPEAKER_01:Why?
SPEAKER_08:I don't know why they want to go there. Well, one of my friends gets free rooms there, and they all like to gamble. I'm not a gambler, I'll go to the bar and you know, have a cocktail or three, but it was just I'm just going just to go the rooms are free. Why not? Like, what else am I gonna do on a Friday night if all my friends are there and I'm not? Um and then I'm gonna drive back Saturday morning because I close that day so I go to work, and then I'll be at home Saturday night, and then Sunday I'm going to Apple Hill with some other friends. What's that? It's like this cool like fall theme. They have like pumpkin patches, they have like all these desserts that they do with like apples, and you can do like apple picking, I think. It's like a whole thing, I'll send it to you. But that's in Placerville. So you know Placerville is right outside of Tahoe.
SPEAKER_01:Y'all gonna Tahoe.
SPEAKER_08:No, we're going outside of Tahoe before they finish the mountains, basically. It's like before the mountains.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, wait, y'all gonna be in Placerville? Oh, yes, that's right. Apple, yes, yes. I remember we would pass through there damn near to get to uh Tahoe. I think you think about strawberry. Am I thinking about strawberry? But we would see the signs for Apple.
SPEAKER_08:Oh, I've never seen the signs for Apple Hill, but I know the sign for strawberry because that's that's one of my markers when we're going through the mountains.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, well, y'all be careful out there.
SPEAKER_08:Oh girl, that's I mean, the people they've gone before. I gave them so much shit about I'm gonna send it to you, about not inviting me the last time, and then last year we didn't make it. So we're going this year, but I think it'll be fine.
SPEAKER_01:And you guys are gonna stay the night.
SPEAKER_08:No, it's just for the day, yeah, the day thing.
SPEAKER_01:You somehow you end up with friends every time that love to do some driving, that will go on some trip, some day trips, and drive back home. That is not for your kid, your boy.
SPEAKER_08:I can't I'm just trying to decide if I'ma drive or if I'm gonna ride with them. Sometimes I'm like, oh mama got to go. Y'all y'all driving too slow, y'all making too many stops. You know, I like to get up and go.
SPEAKER_01:And how many of you is it gonna be? Just three of us. Oh, I mean, that's not bad. Yeah. You can rally those people.
SPEAKER_08:Oh yeah, no, I it's not about the rally. I'm just like, you know, I don't know, you know. We'll see. Stay tuned.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, yes, yes. Well, that sounds like a good time. So you're gonna uh work all week the rest of the week, and then you're off the weekend, or you're not off the weekend, you're working through the weekend too, and you're about to be out being social at the same time.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, you know.
SPEAKER_01:I love that for you.
SPEAKER_08:What's the tea with you? What is going on?
SPEAKER_01:Um, well, it's been a rough week. Um, I started the week off. I went and got my nails done last weekend, as one does, um, as I try and, you know, make a monthly a monthly thing out of it because I get dip. I don't need to go as frequent. And, you know, however, um nails growing. Yes, they do. They grow pretty fast.
SPEAKER_08:The baby growing, and I'm like, girl, I mean, I guess I am coming up on the month, but the amount of new girls that I have right now is insane.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, so I had so I got them done last month. The girl I got them done with was not the usual guy I got them done with, which is Steven. Uh, she had put the dip on so thick, which was great, because that meant it lasts a long time. So I actually it could held out for a whole month. So then last weekend I went and got them done, and um Steven was there and he did them. Uh and I, you know, caught myself getting a cat's eye because I was like, oh, I want to try something fall.
SPEAKER_08:Oh, the cat eye has been really popular.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, so I got a cat's eye, focus camera. Uh and um, so I got that. I go home, I don't know what I'm doing, and I crack one of my my pointer fingernail. I call and I said, yo, like my nail is cracked. You need to, we need to get this fixed. Um, and so I go back on Monday morning and get it fixed. I don't know what I'm doing when I get home. I come home, it cracks again. So now I'm the same finger. Now I'm missing the tip of my nail. Oh. Yeah. So I cut it down. Yeah. So I cut it down. So the next day I'm putt pulling growth, I'm pulling uh laundry out of the dryer for Paris because he asked me to pull the laundry out. I crack another fingernail and it breaks, and then it breaks, and it not only does it break, it's bleeding. Oh. So you know I'm pissed. So Steven's on my shit list, and so is Peacock Nails right now. Um I will for sure be having a full-on conversation next time I go back to talk to Steven. But I'm it's been an uphill battle or up and down, you know, with the this new nail place I go to, not new, but with Peacock, with beauty lounge that I used to go to. I'm at the point to where I'm like, I might just have to find a person that like privately owned and like, you know, she does it, or they do it uh at a studio or something like that.
SPEAKER_08:Because are they just like busy and rushing or yes, yes.
SPEAKER_01:That's the that's the that's the top part of the issue is that they're busy and rushing. I and it was on a Friday um when I went and got them done. So for sure they were busy and rushing. Um, and then it's just all the extra drilling, which they're doing because they're busy and rushing. And I'm in my, I'm like, you don't need to drill all of it, just soak it off. Like if you if you need to start another client while you're doing that, then go do that.
SPEAKER_08:Right.
SPEAKER_01:But don't rush on my shit.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah. And it also could be because you just have you're just getting the dip on top of you, that just goes on top of your regular nail, right? Right. So you could because I have been I tried dip once and I did not like it. And then I was still doing jail, but like you know all the shit stuff I'd be doing, like, so they would break, um, which I can't stand a broken nail because that just gets me like the highest one of high blood pressure. Um, but then like sometimes the jail would start to peel and lift off, or it's it's also just like no. Um, so this time around, I tried they call it it's like a builder gel. Yeah, so yeah, so this is what I'm trying. So far, it's lasted, it's lasted a month. I did crack the edge of like my I don't know where the camera is. I cracked the edge of like the thumb right there. I don't know if you can see it. Yeah, but like they have withheld through shipment, drawers, laundry. Um so so far I like it. So I just did and I didn't get like my normal colors and stuff. I just did um the plain, this plain like nude color, and then she put a little sparkle to it, but then when I go back, I'll get a feel because you see all that new girl. Um but I'll just get a feel and then I can just get like my normal stuff that I normally put on, like the chrome and all the colors and stuff. But I would say give that a shot. I'm gonna do it probably the next couple of months, and then in the beginning of the year, I'll see how my nails are because I have pretty good nails. And if I feel like it's wearing my nails down, then I was like, okay, this is gonna be a every once in a while thing.
SPEAKER_01:Well, I mean, I've I've tried hard gel before. The only thing I didn't like about hard gel was the um huh? How thick it is. I don't think it was the thickness. I don't remember. I think it was just because it was too, it was like hot and it heated up. It was like heating up really, really warm. I don't remember. Um, but I have tried it to say the least. I have I don't remember it was like because when you put it in that UV light, it just you know it starts to curing, you can feel it curing. Yeah, girl. Yeah, I will be able to feel it. I'd be like, mm-mm. But the thing is about the reason I like dip is because it's better on your natural nails. Because it's like putting on acrylic, and you really don't uh have to go get it done as often. Um and it's like putting a whole nother layer of fingernail on top of your nail. And uh it kind of keeps your nail semi-healthy uh while being underneath if they soak it off correctly and not rushing, and that was the problem. He was rushing, he drilled all that shit off and drilled my nail down, and then like I knew I knew it when he was fouling it because he was fouling it from the top, and I'm like, and he wasn't putting enough dip on there, which I always tell him put at least three layers, because that creates enough safeguard so you can, you know, do what you gotta do. Um, and he didn't do none of that, so I'm pissed, needless to say. Um, yeah, so now I'm running around here looking home, looking crazy, and it also doesn't help that I feel like he didn't put as much polish on there and he didn't do the the cats are good. So I don't know, Steven, but Steven has been having issues, he's been in and out. Some days he don't show up for work, one day he quit, then he came back the next day. I wonder. And I'm just like I'm like, Steven, maybe this isn't for you anymore, but I understand you need to make your money, but come on now. Right, please get it together. You need to get it together, my friend. Um, but other than that, the work week was has been work weekend. Um yeah, I had an event today, and I had yesterday I was in the office, and then it's been storming down here and hot and humid, and I'm just like it's hot.
SPEAKER_08:It was today, it was hot and humid today, and it was like gloomy, but there was no rain, and I wish it would rain.
SPEAKER_01:It's just so ghetto. I'm just like, why? Why do we need to do this?
SPEAKER_08:You know what I just realized? Can y'all can you see my government name on your side?
SPEAKER_01:No, it's not gonna record your name, I don't think.
SPEAKER_08:Uh-huh. But Lord GC people are gonna come find me. Okay. What was the event for today?
SPEAKER_01:Uh today we were cleaning up the bay. So today was um uh what is it called? That's my bay. And we were cleaning up um we were cleaning up the little pond area over um over up yonder in Imperial Beach. That's the area I was in. But um, there was different people in different parts of San Diego or whatever. Um but yeah, this this humidity, this shit is getting on my nerves. I'm over it. It's like either you're gonna be hot or you're gonna be cold or it's gonna rain. I'm over that. I'm like, it's just been sticky and icky, and I'm just like, mm-mm. I don't know, I'm not here for none of that. I'm over it.
SPEAKER_08:That's fair.
SPEAKER_01:Um, but yes, so we have a full-on conversation and episode going on today. Um, we're gonna take a little bit of a trip back down memory lane talking about artists we used to love, or artists, I guess it's not really artists that we used to love, more so artists that we were that were that we that are some still popular.
SPEAKER_08:Probably like grew up listening to.
SPEAKER_01:Grew up listening to, that's what it is. Um, you know, and so we're gonna, you know, get into some of that, and um I think it'll be a fun little combo. And we are back. So as I mentioned, we are going to get into a little bit of a a little conversation about um the 2000s and the two early 2010s. Um, and I guess not necessarily specifically in that era, because it's probably gonna bounce around. Um, but you know, I just wanted to, I want I thought it would be fun for us to have a conversation about like the artists we love to love is what I called it. Um, because I think, I mean, to this day, some of the artists that we're gonna talk about are artists that I know that we still listen to or that I will revisit. Um so I just, you know, was like, let's talk about it, let's get down to the nitty-gritty of it all and reminisce a little bit.
SPEAKER_06:Have you tried these?
SPEAKER_08:Oh my god, I love those things, they're so good.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, if you're watching on camera, okay. This is the sparkling black tea peach beverage from Trader Joe's, baby.
SPEAKER_08:They're so good, they have another flavor too.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, the pineapple green tea.
SPEAKER_08:Yes, yes. They're all those are good, and then they have like their version of like sodas, which are also like the sparkling waters. No, it's like a soda, but that strawberry one, girl, it is giving me. Oh, I've never tried it all the way, it is so good.
SPEAKER_01:Um, oh, go ahead.
SPEAKER_08:Oh, no, no, no. I was just gonna say it's good. You need to try it.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, I so I call myself going, I was grocery shopping one day and I was just in Trader Joe's, and I was like, oh, um, I was gonna buy I had bought a box of their sparkling waters because I do like their sparkling waters as well. Um, and then I saw these and I was like, oh, this is green tea. Let me try this. You know, this could be a good cocktail mixer, and then I tried it and I was like, I mean, yes, it could be a good cocktail mixer mixer, but this is also good for like a mocktail.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, no, so good.
SPEAKER_01:Now, what I want to do one day is put a little shot of Hennessy in the black tea.
SPEAKER_08:You know, I don't do no hitting possible, mama can't do that.
SPEAKER_01:Um you know, I just think it would be good. That's a mouse bottom. You know, I love to drink some Hennessy during the winter time. No hammer hennes, some whiskey. Oh, not loose and goose. Loose and goosey loose off the goose. Um, so but yeah, so we're gonna get into a couple conversations about some artists. Um, I think the first thing that you know I like to think of is when I think of those times in artists is Ashanti. Um, we all love Ashanti, and we know Ashanti is is back. I well okay, let me be clear. Ashanti is back in the media. I don't know music-wise if she's necessarily 100% back. Um one of the last time she put out a song. Well, I mean, the last Ashanti album I listened to, I think was Concrete Rose.
SPEAKER_08:That's a lie. Is it yes? Uh the Declaration.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, the Declaration. Oh, yes, that's right. The Declaration.
SPEAKER_09:Yes. It's killing me to think that you don't want it no more.
SPEAKER_06:I shouldn't have learned my lesson when you did before you said one thing. Something to like this thing, it's over.
SPEAKER_08:But that first and second album ain't nothing gonna top that first and second album.
SPEAKER_01:That's right, the declaration. It's so funny.
SPEAKER_08:I started to text you. It was like a couple of weeks ago, I was listening to it, and it brought back all the memories of the Acura, the blue one with the bead in it.
SPEAKER_01:The blue acira.
SPEAKER_08:Your friends.
SPEAKER_01:Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_08:That was my immediate, like as soon as the I swear it was like two or three weeks ago, I was listening to it. And as soon as that and the uh what was the one after that?
SPEAKER_06:So over you, yes, I'm so over you.
SPEAKER_10:Yes, over you, over you, oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, good, good. This is when she was um is this yeah, this is what I think it is. Yeah, good good was when she was uh supposed to be breaking up with Nellie or at the end of their relationship because they broke up shortly after that.
SPEAKER_08:Or were they dating in that time? Yeah, I had no idea. Like, I I don't, I mean, I probably was just so young that I was just was not, you know.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, this is like peak their dating era. Got it. Um, because they had started dating like well, it was like alleged they had started dating like early 2000s and then 2000 or earlier 2000s, and then 2008 um was about like when it had been clear that they were dating and they were together and all of that. Yeah. Um and then we huh?
SPEAKER_08:I said she definitely had a moment, and then she did release her last album that came out was Braveheart in 2014. I don't know that there's anything on here that I ever actually listened to though.
SPEAKER_01:Did you know she re-released uh Ashanti and made it a deluxe in 2024? I mean the same stuff is still on here. Um Apple Music? Um, I'm on I'm on Spotify.
SPEAKER_08:Oh, isn't on Apple Music? You know how to film on Spotify. Although their shuffle playlists do be better. I can't hear anything.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, you can't?
SPEAKER_08:No.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, that sucks. The phone is upside down, mama. I'm just kidding. I was like, no, it's not. Um no, it's funny. This guy on TikTok, that you know that little skinny, the skinny white boy with the braces with the glasses, he'd be in his the warehouse dancing. Do you see him? Oh my gosh, he'd be dancing to all these songs randomly, and he was dancing to movies by Ashanti.
SPEAKER_08:Oh, movies was one for the books. I love that song. In the skits, yes, the skit on that album fight was good, and then the one she used to have with Shea, her sister, especially the one on that second album.
SPEAKER_01:You know what's wrong? You stopped playing, or you stopped trying. She was like, When you done you call, I come running.
SPEAKER_08:Right. And then that second album had Rain on Me, which they played the hell out of Rain on Me.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, on 106 in Park.
SPEAKER_08:Yes, Rain On Me, um, oh baby, ooh, baby. That one too. My two favorite songs on my album, which I feel like did not get enough respect for, was Ooh Ah and I don't mind Baby.
SPEAKER_00:Baby. She put her foot in both of those. I don't like Ooh Ah. What?
SPEAKER_09:How do you not like that? How do you not like that song? Yeah, I guess uh girl.
SPEAKER_06:What? How about that?
SPEAKER_01:I mean, it's I don't know. I think at that point when Ashanti brought put out that second album, uh the second album was good because Breakup to Makeup I like.
SPEAKER_00:I remember this song. And it rained on me.
SPEAKER_01:The same person we're talking about used to love this song. Then you gone. Oh my god, used to play the shit out of that song.
SPEAKER_08:You know what this album reminds me of? It is like I mean, very vivid memories in the truck, in Tahoe, listening to the show. Like I was, yeah, yeah. I mean, very vivid memories. Like, there are some albums that just give me like flashbacks to like certain things. This is one. Whenever we listen to like um what's that whisper album, storybook or whatever?
SPEAKER_01:I think so, yeah.
SPEAKER_08:The red van, mama pissed because daddy was supposed to be home six hours ago, and we barely were gonna go to Tahoe at nine o'clock at night, and he's been drinking all day.
SPEAKER_01:We've been at Red Van Smash him flying up into Tahoe flying to Tahoe to them dark ass mountains at 10, 11 o'clock at night, and waking up everybody in the neighborhood because we need help to unload the damn car. And he's mad because nobody wanted to get up.
SPEAKER_08:Nobody wanna get up, right?
SPEAKER_01:I'm like, you late. It's an everybody vacation. I think how that's part of how that all started. Like, what are we doing?
SPEAKER_07:That's well, go ahead.
SPEAKER_01:No, I was like, and then um, and then Grammy wanted everybody to clean up, right?
SPEAKER_08:That was that's how that started. She wanted everybody to clean up.
SPEAKER_01:Um, well, let's take a quick break, and then we will go and we'll finish talking about Ashanti, and then we're gonna uh tie in a little Keisha Cull because Oh, let me tell you what popped up on my shuffle too when we get back. Yes, yes, we are back. Um so yes, Ashanti had herself a night uh a good era. Now, I think that you know she still goes on tour. I know she goes on tour, she performs. In fact, I think she just I I don't know if she did, but I know Nellie had a concert, and I assumed she performed while uh he was uh performing, but who knows? Um, but even when if he if it's when she was not with him yet or was in public yet, um, I know she had did have a concert because you know Kiki loves Ashanti. You remember her from Banana Republic?
SPEAKER_09:Oh yes.
SPEAKER_01:Literally every con every time, every time I see her going to a concert, it's either Ashanti or Beyonce. She don't skip a beat. She don't skip a beat. Um, so our girl Keisha Cole, right? So Keisha Cole.
SPEAKER_08:Let me tell you. Let me tell you. What was that? Sixth grade. I should have cheated. I'm tired of the what'd she say?
SPEAKER_06:Um do I think. I'm tired of the bullshit.
SPEAKER_08:Competing with each other, chicks. You don't know what to do with it, you and something that's a guess what? Guess what, nigga. Yeah, do I need my keys? Some guilt, yes, don't haven't gone through it, but I blame it on your parents. They have your parents have me brokenhearted since I was born.
SPEAKER_01:Why did they have you brokenhearted?
SPEAKER_08:I mean, because as far as I can remember, she was my best friend who slept with my man. Okay, like you know, so I had Kelly in my ear about her best man who slept with her friend. I had Deborah in love because nobody was supposed to be here. All these crying, whining old man groups we used to listen to, the whispers. Uh what's some other ones?
SPEAKER_01:Uh the OJ, OJs, Lovert.
SPEAKER_08:Oh, nasty Lovert. Oh, but I can tell you how much I'll be listening to the album, though.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, I'm sure.
SPEAKER_08:I be in my rotation, honey. I've been feeling like somebody Uncle Grandy Pimp Daddy. I mean, and then you know it'd be loud. Is this that G album? Yeah, yeah. You know it'd be loud.
SPEAKER_01:Oh MG. Yeah. Why? Um, hold on. Let me find Gerald LeVert. Okay, I'm gonna need you to make it so the people can hear it. Uh, I don't know how to take it. Well, I mean, I'm not gonna I can't play it because uh for copyright issues. Oh, okay. But um yes. Um, but yes, calling me, calling me was the one. You can't give me oh, there we go. Yeah, they can hear it, I'm sure. Um mine was a different was nasty. This this reminds me of Sacramento.
SPEAKER_08:Yes, that was a hundred percent a Sacramento album first.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, like that last that last hour we were driving, because it's an hour and four minutes. I always felt like the last hour where we was either going or coming back, we was listening to this nasty ass album.
SPEAKER_02:Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_10:It didn't have yes, mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_01:And then uh it hurts too much to say is on this album, too.
SPEAKER_08:That was the one with him and Kelly.
SPEAKER_05:Yes, gorgeous kill your girl, gorgeous kill your girl.
SPEAKER_09:Come on now, don't do this now. Come on now, don't do this now. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_08:You know what else? You know, I I was going on about my Kelly Price endeavor, man. You know who else had me was Tony.
SPEAKER_02:Uh yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_08:You know, I loved me some. He wasn't mad enough for me. And um, you just be a man about it, baby, baby. I've been ready to break up with a nigga all my life. Maybe this is why I can't find him in. I was set up for failure.
SPEAKER_01:Girl, you've been ready to break up with him and ain't even met him yet.
SPEAKER_08:Hello?
SPEAKER_01:Over it. We are already going through it.
SPEAKER_08:Already. I got the heartbreak hotel playlist ready.
SPEAKER_01:Oh my gosh. I think you know, when you think about um all of that music, and then nowadays with TikTok, like it all just resurfaces because in some way, shape, or form, somebody's listening to it, somebody's playing it, somebody is uh creating some sort of trend to it, um, or making it a New Orleans bounce style song.
SPEAKER_08:Girl, they want to bounce on everything.
SPEAKER_01:Girl, needy, that New Orleans Bounce Needy uh remix is my shit though. Which one? The Needy New Orleans Bounce Remix. Needy by like Oriana Grande needy? Yes, please tell me you've seen those videos. No, oh my gosh, you have, I bet you.
SPEAKER_08:I was about to go on a rant about how like not only is it making a comeback, but now I'm starting to realize that like I'm talking to people that are younger than me and they don't even know that it's a remake or like it's the original song from something else, and I'm just like, hmm, I'm sorry, I'm at that age, I guess.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah. You are actually at the age. I'm about to send this to you right now.
SPEAKER_08:I did not know there was a bounce version of needing, girl.
SPEAKER_01:It's like a whole trend, and I'm like trying my hardest not to get on it.
SPEAKER_07:Wait, what?
SPEAKER_01:I'm like, because I'm about to set up my tripod and do a whole little a little setup. I just sent it to you on TikTok. Um, but yes, uh, you know, Deborah Cox, Tony Braxton, Jerry Levert, and um, I mean the OJs. I it's just in I think you know, in the early nine the late 90s, early 90s, all the way to the 2000s, I mean it really didn't matter. We just kept shit on rotation.
SPEAKER_08:Um, like I would go for an old album.
SPEAKER_01:Yes.
SPEAKER_08:Like I was just down a whole Aaliyah rabbit hole, like literally two days ago. And I mean, I took it all the way back. I've been like Brandy has been that second album of Brandy has been in rotation for about three weeks now. I think it's like my top situation in my iTunes at this current moment.
SPEAKER_01:I don't know what it is, but that um learn the hard way has just been let me pull up Brandy's discography because I have to tell you that I um I mean there's a lot of stranger albums in there that I'm like, I don't know what this is. Well, so obviously we listened to Brandy. I've never listened, I can't tell you if I listen to Never Say Never.
SPEAKER_08:I mean, you definitely know a few songs.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, I do know that song. Which one is that? Angel in Disguise.
SPEAKER_07:Oh, yes. Yes.
SPEAKER_01:Learn the hard way of the song you're talking about?
SPEAKER_07:Yes.
SPEAKER_01:And then I know Almost Doesn't Count.
SPEAKER_08:Top of the world. The boy is mine. Have you ever?
SPEAKER_06:Oh maybe.
SPEAKER_00:You know what? I might listen to this on the way to work tomorrow. I don't know what that is.
SPEAKER_01:Happy One Boys Tomorrow.
SPEAKER_08:I don't know the rest of those, but I mean just like the first, you know.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Um, I mean, I used to wear out Afrodisiac though. Girl.
SPEAKER_08:Thank you. You know what my favorite song was on that album? You probably know that you should probably get on your nerves listening to it. Um, I tried.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, this was a good one. I like I tried.
SPEAKER_08:I fucking love that song. Especially the part where she'd be like, I'm singing on a context.
SPEAKER_10:I can let a baby.
SPEAKER_09:I think I wanna hear some complaints, especially in that song when it went say. Did I try to know I didn't, but you said it.
SPEAKER_10:I know about jumping.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, I try with a straight up bop. I did not listen to human. I didn't even like the single from human, but that 211 that came after that.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, that I wore that out too.
SPEAKER_08:She put her foot into 211, okay? Wore it out. Sure did. I mean, from beginning to end.
SPEAKER_01:Wildest Dreams was one of the last songs that she had on 106 and park before they went off air.
SPEAKER_08:What was Wildest Dreams?
SPEAKER_04:Never in my wildest dreams.
SPEAKER_08:Oh, yes, it's just was there a video for that?
SPEAKER_01:It sure was.
SPEAKER_04:Um maybe never uh and then put it down.
SPEAKER_01:She had two videos for.
SPEAKER_08:I remember Put It Down. My favorite song on that album was Wish Your Love Away. Baby.
SPEAKER_01:That was written by, I think that was the one written by um uh what's that boy's name? Frank Ocean.
SPEAKER_08:I think so. I love Wish Your Love Away. Like, oh, it gives me chifts.
SPEAKER_01:Let me see, where is it? It has piece on credits. Mario, oh Mario Wynans. There was one written by Frank Ocean. Mario Wynins, Brandon Roman Johnson. Only name I recognize there is Mario Wynans. Oh, wait, was it slower? Maybe. I know there was also one on here that was written by a seven.
SPEAKER_08:Oh now that is one who does not get the credit she deserves because I'm just like girl.
SPEAKER_01:But do you think do you think she does part of it to herself though? Who seven?
SPEAKER_08:I don't know. I feel like I don't know much about her. Like, I know she writes a lot of music, and I don't know if she wants to more so be a writer, like if that's like her thing, or if she actually enjoys putting out her own work. Like, I don't know.
SPEAKER_10:Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_08:I feel like I don't feel like she disappears, she comes back, she'll drop some music, then she'll disappear again, and then you know, but I can honestly say that she never put on an album that I didn't like.
SPEAKER_01:No, yeah, for sure. There's nothing that she's put out at every hour. What the last album that she put out was that one um where she was like in the glass room or in the mirrors or something.
SPEAKER_08:It was like um like um seven, it wasn't that long ago because I was already living out here when it came out 2022. Drunken Words, Sober Thoughts, yeah, yes, that was good, Girl Disrupted was good, but that call me crazy, but that first album, our EP, baby. Baby, I mean, where do we start? Sex on the ceiling, bands, which if you guys do not know, bands stands for bitch ass niggas. Um, of course, it won't stop. Everybody knows that one, but that bands and sex on the ceiling was cool.
SPEAKER_01:Should have been there. Part one was good. I wish she would have done a part two, but um, yeah, that was a good little, that was a good era. Yeah, uh, she does have a um, I guess that's what she's been doing this whole promo for. She has a single out called Assumptions.
SPEAKER_08:Yes, because I think um, because she's on that new show, and she was like on her Instagram, I think she was like premium music that she had wrote, and she's like, which one should I keep? What should I like give up to like other people or whatever? And I think different one just people voted to keep, so she released it.
SPEAKER_01:Nice.
SPEAKER_08:Um, but I haven't listened to it yet.
SPEAKER_01:No, me neither. I haven't listened to it.
SPEAKER_08:It's something about the blonde mullet that's syntaxing. I'll get there, I'll get through it though.
SPEAKER_01:Um, so let's talk about uh uh some of our other girlies, uh, some of our Neil Soul girlies. Um, I don't know that you're ever really been a Jill Scott or Erica Badu fan.
SPEAKER_08:I mean, they definitely had, you know, what's so funny is I saw that on the list, you said, and I was like, I don't know nobody, no Neil, no soul. Um, but Jill Scott definitely had some bops, okay? Because, you know, let me go look at my Jill Scott catalog. And so did Erica. But you were like very indulged in it, especially the other girl. Lettice? No, uh, Lettice had a few good ones too. I mean, honestly, all the people you listened to, I can say that they had, you know, one or two here. I didn't want to hear it as much as you played it, but they had some good ones. Um, that one with that deep voice, Michelle Naninja Cello.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, Michelle and Diggia Cello.
SPEAKER_08:Yes, we used to play the hell out of her.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, I loved her. That whole bitter album. That's how I think me and Paris decided that we was in love, was because we love Michelle and Digia Cello. He there was an album that she had released that uh she did a bunch of covers for um that was that was good. But her tiny death was not good.
SPEAKER_07:Oh, I didn't know she did one.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, she did. Um, she did a tiny death, and it was not that great. I did not enjoy it. Um, but you know, I love a Jill Scott. That Who is Jill Scott album will forever and always be a gem in my eyes. Um I mean the whole thing from start to finish.
SPEAKER_08:There was a song that had on repeat right after she passed. I'm trying to figure out what song that was.
SPEAKER_02:Who?
SPEAKER_08:Who passed? Am I mixing her up with the other one? What's I'm thinking of Angie still? Oh my god, edit that out, Dana. Edit it out, please.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, uh oh my god, it's gonna be fine.
SPEAKER_08:No, oh my god, that is terrible. You gotta cut it. Okay, let me tell us Angie.
SPEAKER_01:Angie Stone um is definitely not the same as Joe Scott, and thank God Joe Scott is on the earth. Yes, I'm so sorry. Oh my god. Angie Stone. I mean, Angie Stone is another one though, too. She is uh also you do know Neo Soul Queen because Angie Stone is a Neo Stone Queen.
SPEAKER_08:Yes, and I that's who I was um it was yes, that was that's what I was thinking. I was thinking of Angie Stone, wish I didn't miss you.
SPEAKER_01:Wish I didn't miss you.
SPEAKER_08:Oh, I know you know that song.
unknown:Hold on.
SPEAKER_10:Same old story back again, yes.
SPEAKER_01:They did a whole little dance routine for that. Oh, yes, I sung that.
SPEAKER_05:I think that's was that the one no, I sang will you loan me$20 until I give my check next week, and said I only got$20, and me and my babies got to eat.
SPEAKER_01:I sang that at the uh beginning of one of the episodes when she passed.
SPEAKER_08:Oh um and then Jill Scott, though, like because Jill Scott is Raheem, right?
SPEAKER_01:Right, okay, okay, there we go. Yes, yes, yes, yes. I did that intro for one of the episodes too. I love Jill Scott.
SPEAKER_08:I don't think I ever really got into uh Jill Scott like that. Like, honest obviously, like I know some of her songs, but like I don't think I ever really, you know.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, I think for Jill, the thing like Who's Jill Scott is was a good album. Beautifully Human was good. I I didn't I didn't I didn't really listen to the entire song, I mean album.
SPEAKER_00:But there's some good ones.
SPEAKER_01:I always loved her interlude, so she had some good interludes.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, she put her foot in an interlude quick. The whole foot.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yes, the whole foot.
SPEAKER_08:I'm like homegirl can do an interlude out. Um I love a good interlude.
SPEAKER_01:I mean there's there are some people who can do them very well.
SPEAKER_08:You know who else does them is um this is so random and a completely different category of genre, but Trey Songs does an amazing interlude.
SPEAKER_01:Oh yeah, yes. Uh on that pleasure, pain, yeah, that was the one.
SPEAKER_08:That one and the one right before that with Inventive Sex on it.
SPEAKER_01:Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. He had like some two back-to-back good albums. Yeah, yeah, trade songs.
SPEAKER_08:He was good, he was good until he got to um chapter five, and after that, damn you lost me. That's Joe Scout, right?
SPEAKER_01:No, I mean, well, yes, that was her melody, but um yeah, he had he had it was passion, pain, and pleasure. And ready, ready was a good one too. Yes, I think that was the what about did we listen to Trigger?
SPEAKER_08:Yes, that was good. Uh Trigger had the bops.
SPEAKER_01:The whole I mean it had Nana, which I mean they played out. They did foreign, it had foreign, which they played out, touching Lovin' with Nikki, disrespectful.
SPEAKER_07:Oh, I love disrespectful.
SPEAKER_01:Oh my god, did wrong by Taiga with Taiga? I mean, oh, foreign remix with Justin Bieber. I remember that was a whole thing. Wow, what a time!
SPEAKER_08:You know how I used to feel about remixes, so I probably didn't listen to that. Um, but going back to Erica, Erica Badu definitely had some I mean, like of course, Tyrone Windows Seat was just um that first album, uh at least I think this is her first album, uh Buddhism.
SPEAKER_01:Baduism, yes, it is her very first album. Yeah, that then mama's guns was the next one after that. Um, but you can't use my phone, not the but you can't use my phone. Was that that one? That's Tyrus. No, no, no, no. But she made she did a bit you can't use my phone mixtape. Oh with like a bunch of like I think this is when she was starting her um her DJ journey because it's like uh some of her songs like mixed and chopped and screwed, kinda. Um, which you know, she was always good. So who would you rather see in a minute, wait a minute?
SPEAKER_08:And I hope this is the same genre, but we gotta talk about India I re uh do we do I have her on here?
SPEAKER_01:I don't even think I have her on here, but yes, we have to talk about I my hair, girl.
SPEAKER_08:Everything because India I re is another one that I feel like brown that you know I love you, Prince. Ready for love? Oh my god, I used to love Ready for Love. We used to wear that song out, out. That's because you know why it was on that fish tails movie or was it simple? I think it was simple that was on one of these songs was on fish tails, but simple was really good too.
SPEAKER_01:Hold on, let me which album is it? Is it on the that's acoustic soul? Oh acoustic soul.
SPEAKER_00:She had a special edition. What song did you just say? Which one?
SPEAKER_01:Oh, simple. Oh yeah, this one was on, and you know, Richard used to love this song.
SPEAKER_08:Uh-huh. That album had quite a few bots. Voyage of India.
SPEAKER_01:That one has that song from that movie. Get it together.
SPEAKER_05:One shot to your heart without breaking your skin.
SPEAKER_08:Um cannot walk with you. That was such a good song.
SPEAKER_00:Beautiful, beautiful surprise. That's one talk to her was good.
SPEAKER_01:Where is so we've talked about a couple of the gorlies. We've talked about Erica, we've talked about Brandy, we've gotten into a little bit about uh Shanti, a little bit about uh Keisha Cow. Uh we've been all over the place, but I think that that was the point. But that was the point, right? Like a lot of these artists that we've uh that we love, that we listen to, that we go back to, um, that we enjoy still to this day. Um, you know, it just it it brings up a sense of nostalgia of some of the things that we listen to and things that we used to do when we were listening to this, listening to them. Um now let's talk about the the pop girlies a little bit or the rock girlies, because you used to love Alver Levine and Kelly Clarkson, and you used to wear them girls out. And I mean, we love Danny Kane. Um still to this day, I listen to Danny King.
SPEAKER_08:Oh, I will bust out that Danny King album like any chance I get. The first and the second one. And again, when we think about like memories and what we were doing, I vividly remember sending mommy to several Walmarts to get that first Sandy Kane album. It was sold out everywhere.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_08:It was sold out everywhere. Like I I still to this day never got the chance to buy that album. Like, it's obviously we have iTunes now, so I don't need to buy it, but like I wanted that physical copy, and I never got a physical copy of that album.
SPEAKER_01:We did it, I thought we oh no, it was Welcome to the Dow House. We got the physical copy, yeah.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, the physical copy, and then you know, yes, burned the buttons one we got it, but I never got a digital copy of that album, and I wanted it so bad. I felt like I deserved it. I went through seasons of making the band. Okay, I'm like, sometimes I still make me watch clips.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, I that's hilarious to think about um peak just album, not peak album release time frames, but uh before, you know, well, during the time when people were streaming and before people were getting paid for streaming, um, because that's what the that was the whole issue with um with things like lime wire and stuff like that, was because people were losing money on the streaming on the fact that you know that you were people were buying the music, right? Um, and so that is so interesting to think about because I don't think you can find a CD anywhere today.
SPEAKER_09:Oh, no, I think they still got them.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, I don't, you mean not places like Target, yeah. Really?
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, I mean, it's definitely not as small, I mean as big as it used to be. Like the CD section is like microscopic, but I also think it's crazy, like the fact that they're making cars without a CD player now, it's just like wow to me. But I guess the people that grew up with a tape player, which we did have tape players, but I'm guessing they're really like just wow, this is just I don't have a tape player, I don't have a CD player. Like, do you have a CD player in your car? You didn't need to do that. Wait, wait, do you? Yeah, oh but your car is the same year as mine or newer than mine. I know. I mean, there are people that are still making them. I'm just joking, but yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Well, I think my card's what year is your car? 2016.
SPEAKER_01:Oh yeah, I have a 2019, yeah. Um, I don't Paris' car doesn't have a CD player. Um, but I think what year is his car?
SPEAKER_06:2016.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, his car got a CD player.
SPEAKER_06:No, it don't. What? No. Let me go Google it. Right. I'm like, it don't have no CD player.
SPEAKER_08:That's crazy though. You said 2016, right?
SPEAKER_06:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Um, I'm texting him right now.
SPEAKER_01:Um, but I I've noticed that like luxury there's some luxury, like Jags, like both of uh CDs players in them. No, see it doesn't have one, he said. Google say it's at the bottom. You're gonna have to put it in the camera. I've never seen a CD player in his car.
SPEAKER_08:That is so crazy. I've never paid attention. Because some of them look like they have a picture of it at the bottom. So, um, but yes, I mean okay, but now, okay, we need to go back to my homegirls.
SPEAKER_01:Yes. Um Rilla Been and Kelly Clarkson.
SPEAKER_08:Girl, because I was going through a time, okay.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, you were definitely going through something.
SPEAKER_08:I was, you know, just because I was hanging out with my friend, which we're still friends. I actually need to reach out to her. I haven't talked to her in a while, but you know, she was going through her little emo phase. As a kid, you know, your music changed as the people you're around, you know. So at home, I was brokenhearted. Uh you were in your neo-soul era hard, bro. Hard that or Chris Brown, uh, or and God forbid to be too quick. Uh, so you were there. That was when I was real young. Our sister was in um, I don't know what she was listening to at that time. Uh a little bit of Sherry Dennis, Megan Rochelle, which I'm gonna do. Yes, yes, yes, yes. So, you know, she was over there, and then you know, our brother always been listening to her shit. And then I had my friends who was listening to, you know, Arrow Levine, Kelly Clarkson, Nickelback, Simple Plan. Um, and I was here for it all. I mean, my playlist has always been all over the place, but just to narrow in on Arrow Levine, that Under My Skin album.
SPEAKER_01:That's the one you used to wear out.
SPEAKER_08:Girl, I mean, and eventually you found a song that you did like. I do remember.
SPEAKER_01:I'm like, I don't remember what song that was. It was together, it was number two. That's the one she was yelling.
SPEAKER_09:Together! Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah. I mean, how could you not feel the emotions when the drums would play on um happy ending and like the video for nobody's home? Like, you know, the emotions, and you know, there was like an immediate. It's sadness. You love, I know I love some sad music that just came over you just like watching the video and just hearing it. I was just like, oh, speak to me. I loved it. I loved it. And then like Kelly Clarkson, baby. Again, whole foot in that breakaway album.
SPEAKER_01:The whole my god, I used to wear that album.
SPEAKER_08:Ow. I will still listen to that album. And and the same thing with that ever loving album. I will still listen to it, but I mean, it was just bop after bop. We had the opening song was breakaway, then came Since You've Been Gone, Bob, Behani's Hazel Eyes, Bob, Because of You, Bop Gone, Bob, like dude, addicted. My god, I wasn't addicted by that point. Addicted is what I was. I was an addict by that point. Like, oh my god. I just I don't know, but that breakaway out here just spoke to me on a whole nother level. And then that at the end, she ends it with beautiful disaster, and it's like a live version. I'm just like, oh my god.
SPEAKER_01:I can't begin to do. I mean, I think um for sure.
SPEAKER_08:Kelly Clark. I probably, I mean, Avila Vane was probably a little too far out there for you, but that Kelly Clarkson album, you cannot lie, girl.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, I honestly I have to go back and listen to like some of them to remind myself, but um, you know, Kelly Clarkson, she's she was quirky then, she's quirky now, but she could sing.
SPEAKER_08:I never was just about to say Kelly Clarkson has a really, really good voice.
SPEAKER_01:She has a really good voice and she still can sing. Um, I think that you know, she's one of those singers and uh singers who will, you know, be around for some time and probably will always be able to sing. I mean, she didn't she have a TV show?
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, she had like a whole talk show. I think it's still going, or maybe it's not. I don't know, but she definitely had a talk show.
SPEAKER_01:Um, well, before we finish and get into the rest of these girls, uh, let's take uh a small break and then we'll come back. Hey y'all, if you like what you heard, make sure you join the conversation. We always say to make sure to like, comment, and subscribe, and we definitely want you to do that. But also we would love if you would join in with us. There's a link in the description where you can actually send us messages. You can also make sure to tag us on social media, put up your favorite clips of the show, and then tag us, and we will repost them on our stories. That is the best way to get in communicate communication or community with us, and we would love to see y'all interact with the content. Anyway, thank you for following us and thank you for listening, and we'll see you back for the remainder of the show. Bye. And we are back so um to round this thing out and get into the gross, uh, talking about Danity Kane and the pussycat doors, and also we can't forget our girl Christina Aguilera. Because that stripped album was a snapshot in time, and when I tell you, I still remember to this day vividly when we lived in Oakland on Linden when that album came out, and we had just bought it, and the hot car had gotten hit uh right after.
SPEAKER_08:While we were listening to yeah, I remember that. Somebody hit the car. Um I yes, I remember that.
SPEAKER_01:Uh yes, that album was just and during that time, uh, that was one of the last albums where you can read the lyrics in the little book.
SPEAKER_08:Oh, I used to love reading the lyrics in the book. Oh, what a moment. And if we're her, I know it's kind of you know, I don't know where they're at in their beef. I don't think they're beefing anymore, but we gotta talk about pink because pink pink's so and I don't even know if it'll be considered R and B, but it definitely had an RB sound. But that first, I think it was her first album. Here we go. Um, here we go.
SPEAKER_09:Look at telephone just because I'm gonna go.
SPEAKER_08:Just because I let you go. There you go. Talking about oh, it's called There You Go. Talking about you pull me back, Bob and there was another one, too. Talking about you miss so I'm so you make these like a candle sit, girl. When I tell you, I'll be on my way to work. Wiggling, just wiggling, and I know you're gonna be looking at them like who is playing this old ass music because you know it'd be loud. Sunroop be open, windows down, and then they look at me and be like, I'm confused, girl. So am I?
SPEAKER_01:I'm just trying to figure it out, just like you, honey.
SPEAKER_08:Listen, shit, um, but yeah, okay, let's go back to pussy cat dollars, like because they were in that era with you know that 2004 when those the pop girlies ever levine and Kelly Clarkson. I, you know, pussy adults had some bops. Um, we all, well, you know how I feel about buttons. I don't think the people know how I feel about buttons. I fucking love buttons, okay? And I want to have my coyote ugly moment on top of a bar to buttons. I just hope one day that I'm drunk enough to actually do it because you know. But I do, I do, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:I hear that, I hear that. I think um, I think beep was that it I like beep. It's funny how a man only thinks about the he gotta do.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, beep what's good. Wait a minute. Uh oh, wait a minute was good.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, wait a minute. Um let me see.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, uh, it's funny because I finally I was telling Paris, I was like, Don't you was not originally by the Pussycat dolls, it was by a different girl. Um really, yes, and then she sold it to the pussycat dolls.
SPEAKER_08:Um I don't think the man was good too.
SPEAKER_10:I don't need a man make me happy.
SPEAKER_01:I'm gonna be a great because it was it was pussy, it was doll domination, then PCD.
SPEAKER_08:No, PCD was first, and then it was doll domination. Oh, that's right, because it was you don't care what they say. That was when I grew up, yes. When I grew up, I want to be famous, but then they had bottle pop.
SPEAKER_01:I think that's when they um when they performed at the VMA's, and that girl and that girl Melody was uh hollering on that microphone talking about bitch, I could sing too.
SPEAKER_08:Uh, you know, there was so like the few interviews that I've seen about them, like there was so much behind-the-scenes drama, like there was a lot. But I think those two were the only two that could sing.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, um, because the rest of them was essentially just dancers and were there uh as for fate as faces. Um but yes, the pussycat dolls was definitely a snapshot in time. Um and I mean it's a pussycat dolls react. You know, they tried to get back together, yeah.
SPEAKER_08:That was like maybe like something. But during the same time, who actually just their first album just popped up today. My phone died while I was at work, and I you know when you turn your when your phone turned back on, it don't be in the same spot for your music. And uh miss thing popped up on my radio, and it sent me down a spiral. It was Jojo. Oh Jojo from that first album, and you know I used to love JoJo, that first album, the first and the second one, but like uh, I was like, oh my god, I haven't heard this in so long.
SPEAKER_01:She put her foot Jojo that that go, what is that album called? That's still to this day, I'd be like, it's like a newer one though.
SPEAKER_08:Oh, I know exactly what you're talking about because that was like when she came back in um hang on.
SPEAKER_01:Good to know? No, is that the name of it?
SPEAKER_08:No, that's not good Hang on. I know exactly what you're talking about. Oh, it was like only like eight songs or something, right?
SPEAKER_01:Yes, it was good to know. And then she did a deluxe.
SPEAKER_08:The deluxe one had a few extra. There was only like one or two on the deluxe one that was good, but yes, good to know. Oh my god, that was good.
SPEAKER_01:Don't talk to me, don't talk me down, I mean.
SPEAKER_08:That good to know was good. Gold? Yes, gold. Um only hearts. What was the which one of these was how can I go? What song is that? Oh, that's Lonely Hearts.
SPEAKER_01:I guess they she did a remix of Demi Lovada. To Lonely Hearts? Yeah, I didn't like that.
SPEAKER_08:But don't get me wrong because first off, you know, I never really paid any attention to Demi Lovato. Hang on, wait, let's before we um get away from that good to know album by Jojo, there was something else on that deluxe one that was about. Was it the one with Tanasha? Yeah, Love Reggae with Tina uh Tina, I call it Tina She on the Good to Know Deluxe. That was I never listened to this. Oh, that was that was one of the few on the deluxe one that I really really liked. Was Love Reggae. I'm gonna have to get into that. Um, but going back to Demi, first off, like I never paid any attention to the girl. I didn't watch the show she was on on Jason channel, but I also didn't know how many songs I heard that I actually knew and just didn't know that it was her. That's about it. But I would like to say, tell me you love me. I think I know that one. You should. You should because the album was great. I think that's the only Demon Lovano album that I've ever like played and like listened to, but I mean I listened to the album front to back, but tell me you love me.
SPEAKER_00:Oh my god.
SPEAKER_08:I may have heard that one. I don't know. And while we're rounding out these Disney Channel girlings, I just would like to say that Bangers was Miley Cyrus' best album. And I know she doesn't like that era of her life, and I know, you know.
SPEAKER_01:Well, that's because the internet gave her the most shit about it.
SPEAKER_08:I know that album, Bob, front to back. I don't care what you say. That's all I need to say.
SPEAKER_01:And on that note, you know, I think that rounds up and wraps up this whole conversation. The the point was is and will always be music is good for the soul and good for the heart. Um, and listen to what you want to listen to. I think, you know, we um iPods and things that you know you used to be able to carry music on. I think one thing's for sure is that um we've always figured out, or the world has always figured out how to make sure people are always continuously connected to music, whether it's through YouTube or Spotify or iTunes. Um the point is music is important. Um, but those are the artists that we love to love. Uh, did you have one more you want to add in?
SPEAKER_08:We didn't talk about Monica.
SPEAKER_01:We didn't get into Monica yet, no. But I mean, we can sit here and do this all day.
SPEAKER_08:I mean real quick, though, real quick. We gotta give Monica her respect because Homegirl is still in the game. She can still blow.
SPEAKER_01:She's still on tour, too.
SPEAKER_08:Her and Brandy are pretty much on tour, which I wanted to go to. I actually need to look into that. Um my only problem was where they was going to.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, they weren't, they weren't like super No, I just didn't want to go to the arena.
SPEAKER_08:Um but I mean, come on, Dana, like the After the Storm album So Gone Over You.
SPEAKER_09:You yeah, new Monica.
SPEAKER_06:Let me see.
SPEAKER_08:You let the song meet on and you know how I felt about you should have known better. That you see my jam.
SPEAKER_10:Knock, knock, knock, stop knocking.
SPEAKER_01:I don't think I'm still Standing was the album I think we listened, or uh we listened to Making uh Makings of Me. I think I listened to that one.
SPEAKER_08:After the storm, I think that was the one we oh um let's rewind because makings of me was the one that had a dozen roses, psilai ho why her. Yeah, we listened to that album. Okay, listen uh every time the beat drop was on that album, yeah. Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Uh-huh. I can't help when it play my time I beat and I just I love love all over me.
SPEAKER_08:I gotta love. I mean, homegirl can blow.
SPEAKER_01:They um I remember when they when they played that out on one of six and park too. That was another one.
SPEAKER_08:One thing 106 and park was good for was playing on a song for sure.
SPEAKER_01:For sure. All right, uh, well, on that last final uh note with Monica, we are gonna take our final break and then we'll come back and close out the show. All right, and we are back to wrap this up. So, you know, at the end of the show, um, if you don't know Mark Low, we pull a card. Um, and I bought Prosperity Mantras, a modern affirmation for abundance deck, which is the second deck to the Golden Mantras deck that we use have used previously. Um, this deck is a little bit different because this one, which I wish I would have paid attention, but um, I think it's it's pretty cool. It has um a um it has like a I don't know what I would call it. It has a it has the affirmation on the back, and then it has the what the card is um what it is on the front. I think it's like I would call it a suit if it was like a deck of cards, but I have to find the word of what I would call it. Anyway, so this is the healer. Uh so it says, I give myself permission to fill my cup first without shame or resistance. And it says for the interpretation is you use work to avoid facing necessary healing, unvisited aspects of your life will manifest in ways that impact your overall success. Allocate time, energy, attention, intention, and resources to explore these areas. Confronting and addressing them will be will bring tremendous success and fulfillment. 2. Despite following a career path that aligns with societal norms, deep down you feel it doesn't resonate with your true purpose. Embrace the challenge of a different path, possibly in healing work, that aligns with your calling. It will lead to fulfillment and an expanded vision of what's possible for your community. 3. Release limiting benefit beliefs and emotional blockages that hinder your path to prosperity. Prioritize your self-care healing practices to cultivate a positive mindset and attract abundance. And the writing prompt says, What societal or cultural conditioning has influenced your resistance to filling your cup? And how can you challenge these beliefs? So, to me, it's giving you uh three different options in which this could uh be resonating with whatever you have going on. Um a person may have going on in their their life. Um so if you have been avoiding any healing processes or you've been um putting too much energy into some bullshit, this card is saying that you need to stop doing that. Right here in the pudding. The proof is right here in the pudding, and it says, release that limiting energy. Okay, stop all that uh all that negative talk. You know, if your yourself, I was reading a post the other day, and uh this guy was talking about how you know he had been talking to his therapist and clearly he's struggling with self-worth. Um and yourself is your own worst critic, right? You talk the most shit to you more than anybody can talk to shit to you. And you really have to you have to do the work to try and turn that voice down. Um, you know, imposter syndrome is a thing. I've talked about that when I came back. Um, and also just um overthinking what you think people are gonna think and everything, it it just becomes a whole thing. Um so and do what you gotta do to heal yourself, take care of yourselves. Thank y'all for listening, and we hope you enjoyed this week's episode. I will catch you next time. Bye.
