Club Shay Shay - Club Shay Shay - Angela Simmons Part 2

Episode Date: June 24, 2026

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So, there have been a lot of talk, stipends. Do you believe a man should give his girlfriend stipend? I've seen that conversation going around. It depends on the level of your relationship, but I don't see nothing wrong with a man taking care of a woman. Like, I think a woman can go out and get hers, but I think a provider is a provider. Right.

I believe in the era of men being providers. So you're like, your guy, Angela, go get your hair done. I got that. Go get your nail done. I got that. You like that. Yeah. Why not?

I mean, is this a monthly thing? How often, I mean, is this like, okay. I think if I'm with you, you're like, my man, monthly for sure. Monthly? Yeah. Why not? I think like it like I live the life I live without a man. Okay. So it's like, so he got to maintain the life that I have. Why not? We doing this together and we're going to build an empire together too. So it's like I think why not? But the people don't need you to do it. You don't have to do it. People don't see all these people that you walk in and that, you know, we keep cutting and they doing your hair and doing your makeup and the matter of your stuff.

Stop, leave your hair alone. Leave your hair alone. But it takes a village. People don't see what it takes to maintain and do what you do behind the scene. So it's like you and your man, when you come together, like, I'm supposed to do that together. But how do you have, I'm just trying to figure out how do you have this conversation? Because I know like some things that you just do naturally. Like, babe, you know what?

Hey, you've been working hard. Hey, go get your nails done. Go get your hair done. Go get this. X, Y, and Z. we're going out tonight. But I don't know, I don't, because I'm working so hard, sometimes I would lose track and I'm not even really thinking about it. I'm like, damn, she's been working hard too and I haven't done some of the things that I probably need to do.

So how does, I mean, do you remind him? I mean, is that something that he should be reminded of his own? I think if you're in locked in long-term relationship marriage or whatever it is, like, babe, here's, this is what I'm going to give you per month. Like, do do what you want to do with it. I think it's the truth. I think like, hey, babe, this is... Are you on cash? You on credit card. However you want to do it.

God. However you want to do it, I don't see nothing wrong with it. Like, especially when you, like, a woman, like a boss that goes out and gets her own and does it anyway, like, that's like dope. Like, your man providing and you can do it yourself too? Let me ask you a question. You do for your man? Yeah, I love doing for my man. Like going, getting things and surprises and things and remembering stuff he likes.

Yeah. I like stuff like that. So, dude, when you go out when you, when you were dating, did you ever, did you ever treat the man? Did you like, baby, put that the way I got it. If they allow me. Like, I don't think a lot of the times they're not going to let me just take the bill. It's not going to happen. Like, I wouldn't even dare.

It's like almost rude for me to take my. But I would. Sometimes I just want to see, I just want to see you go. I just want to see someone going that person like, I don't, I almost, I'm like, I'm, I'm pretend. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The awkward moment. Yeah.

Even even even even. Just the inching over. Even if the car is going to get declined. Just try. I just want to see you do it. Yeah. For the more time than not, I'm probably already taking care of it. I'm already ahead of it. Yeah.

Let me just see that you try. That's it. I like when people try. Try effort. Effort is important. I get effort. Oh, my girl, Young Miami, I had her own hair and she was unbelievable. She said a man needs a minimum net worth of 100 million to date her.

I don't see that one. A hundred? Hey, she go and she get her own stuff. And if that's what works for her, that's what works for her. Angela, do you know, do you know of 8 billion people? Do you know how many men in the world have a net worth of a hundred million? But they're out there. Yet, but here's the thing.

You do realize when you start saying, okay, I want a man six foot tall. I want a man that's educated. I want a man that likes to travel. Okay, we start not like this here. It gets smaller. So guess, so guess. So guess what? When you get all the way down to $100 million after all those others that you want, it's like this right here.

But all the while, that man that has all those qualities that you want, guess what he has to want? What? You. It's a fit. I mean, you got to want each other. See? Me? I mean, I mean, I wish you got, you're thinking guys like that.

Like, you know what? Woman got to have a net worth of like a hundred, a 50 meal. She didn't see me. She didn't want to travel. she'd need to want to be on the balcony. Are men that specific? Are you that specific? No, men are being a different.

So what's there? They're more simple? Yes. A man, man are more times than not men are in the look. Because a man, a man can find a nice looking woman. She can be at the bus stop. He's going to pull aside her and try the mall at her. Really?

Women ain't, you could be six foot four, chiseled up, a model, Tyson Beckford. I saw this night looking guy at the bus stop, child, but he on the bus stop. Not who. And pulled right on. Pull right by him. He stepped on the game to make sure she didn't start. Yeah.

Straight by. Since, see, your mom and people, your mom and your grandma, they ain't think like y'all. See, y'all haven't changed the game, Angela. But the game has changed. No, the game ain't changed the game. Yes, it has. Love is still the game. Love, I got a love, love, love.

Yeah, I don't know. It's getting weird out here. It's getting weird. It's just different. Times have changed. So what's changed about? Okay, let me tell you what there. From,

from work now, which you're dating now to when you were dating, say, 20 years ago. Oh, Jesus. That was a child.

That was a long time ago. So from now. I just feel like people were, it was just different. Like, when you think of like love from like my parents era. Yeah.

It was more like Marvin Gay. Like, let's stay together. Like now it's like, I just people, people give up quicker. Yes. Um,

You know why? Why? Too many options. That's terrible. But all the options are not better than the last one. I know that. Yeah. I know that.

But you got to realize your parents didn't have, they didn't be able to stroll and see what's going on the mic. And it would have to go out and figure it out. And it would have took a while because you can't just. Yes. Yes. You didn't know what the women looked like in Miami unless you were in Miami. You didn't know what the women looked like in New York or California or Vegas or Arizona unless you're in those places.

Whole other country. Social media had you connected. God, man. South Africa got the bags over there. And we off. On a plane. Yes. Now we touch it down in Joe Bird.

Yeah, that's true. That is, the social media has it where you can meet anyone. And everybody is a plane ride or a car drive away. It used to be like, this was never your wildest dream. You'd not meet them. Yeah, that's crazy. I'm still old school. Is that a good or bad thing?

I mean, some people have met there forever like that. They did. But it just makes it just makes dating more difficult. Idious. Could a guy slide in your DMs? Do you take him serious? I could think about it. I would have to go to their page and go down a rabbit hole and figure out what they?

So you go to that page and you're like, let me see. This is exactly what I'm doing. I'm sending to a couple friends. You know who this is? Do you know anyone who knows this person? Has he been in your DMs? Has he been in anybody's in. I didn't know everything.

My team, we can. got, you know, we do our own investigating figure out who's who, who you know. I saw that. They say women are better investigators than the CIA. So y'all could, hey, y'all. All the president had to do is how y'all, y'all have been a guy, been ladd.

Y'all have been ladd by 20 years ago. We are, we, yeah, I try not to be. It just comes to me. India Love says he doesn't like when men complain about the price of things, want things to be cheaper. Are you the same? I don't think there's a reason to discuss the price.

Why would anyone complain? Man, can y'all be warned? You come here with YSL, YSL on the heels? Stop, that what you mean? But that's okay. If you're worse it, like, you know what I mean? Like, when you are a woman of high value and you add value? I got Kate Spade.

Okay, well. Kate Spade and Coach? There are options. I think Coach has great, you know, there are things. There are options. Yes. Everyone is in certain. But you're at a level now.

I just don't see a situation, Angela, where someone and as much as you might love that person, you've established a level. I don't see you moon walking backwards. Because like you said, you can do for yourself. I can't have a man that do less for me than I do for myself. Yeah, but I love love too. So like it depends. Like I need to meet a man that is highly ambitious on his way somewhere,

doing something with his life. Like, I'm very like... He's on the way to the piece of parlor. Did that count? I'm just, I'm open. I like, I like great people. You know what, Angie? You're doing all to talk about, I'm open to great people.

You don't believe me? I do. I like great people. But I'm looking at your dating pool. What did you see? The guys are, they might be great people, but they got great pockets. Well, you know, we're ambitious, equally ambitious. We both are hustlers.

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I am Rapaport podcast. Could you date a man that make less money than you? But you love it. Man, he loves everything. He's God-fearing. You know, he looks- But is he insecure? Because a lot of the times that breeds insecurity.

So if I said yes and you make less to me, now you're insecure. And now you're dealing with a man that is angry and then they're dealing with you a certain way. depends on who you're dealing with. I don't want that. So, and then they're like always questioning, oh, why are you with me then? Bro, I don't have time for this. So like- But that's what y'all do?

Y'all do that to us. No, we're going to ask you why are you in it. Exactly. What? See? Out of you. No, I'm saying that. You must be, it's something you ignite.

Obviously, but women's ask you why you with me. Sometimes for me, I'll speak for myself. I'm just, I just, I like to ask a lot of questions. Why are you? I'm a Virgo and ask a lot of questions. I hate, I love answers. You could be with. anybody why oh oh i want to ask dad but i'll just be like babe why are you with me why do you love me

i want to know if you didn't already tell me i just want to know and then tell me again remind me because i'm going to remind you i love you yeah i know you not what why i got why do i have to remind you reminders are good he's not reminded you he with you and i remind everything he wakes up with you that's nice but if we've been together years and i just want to know like hey why you love me do. I don't like, and it's not like... Because you haven't asked me for one of those expensive vacations in a long time. No. With the pre-nup. Oh yeah. You're like, okay, yours is yours. What we accumulate together. Okay, we divide that up. But you see a lot of times that that sometimes the one waits until the umpteenth minute and try to put pressure on the wedding is a week away.

We still haven't agreed to anything. And the wedding gets called. off it gets postponed. Yeah. So, so what are your thoughts? I mean, I think those conversations are important in the beginning.

Like, you know, you want to walk into a marriage. What do you, you know, I feel like asking your partner, like, what do you think about the pre-nup?

How do you want to do it? And if y'all don't agree, that's kind of, it's important. Then what are we doing? Yeah. Because aren't you, I mean, I would assume now,

Angela, you're dating with their tent. I mean, I could be wrong. And if I'm wrong, correct me. But I think at this juncture, I think a lot of times you're probably dating with intent to be married. 100%.

I have no time for games. Okay. Date to marry. Yeah. So see, if they, if they ain't coming correct, you're like, okay, you ain't been to wait. We wasting time. We're wasting time.

I would just say forget it. No point. Like, we have to be on the same page. Whatever that is. And I also believe in meeting in the middle, like, okay, what is your middle? What's my middle? Where are we comfortable with? We love each other as much.

We want to do it. Like, what is it? So it's just figuring out what that looks like. I'm going to figure it out kind of like, gal. Oh, you'll figure it out on the movie? we're going to figure now before we go any further we can figure it out right no we need to figure out we're not going to wait till later and then I'm too far in but we're figuring it out no no no we can't figure it I can't figure that let's move it out not I and G let's figure it out

we figure it out we figure it out we're we figured we figured it out we ain't stationary all right well I ain't going to be able to write this time to sign the papers don't change your mind whatever we decided on is what we decided on okay how soon before someone gets to meet your dad I like to tell my dad, like when I really feel like, oh, no, I'm falling in love. Let me go ahead and tell my dad I'm falling for this person or I like them or loved them already. Then I give it a little time. It depends. Like, if I'm already in the relationship with you, two months, three months, four months,

it depends how serious it is. Like, or if you were somebody that's been around, my dad kind of knows about, then I'll be like, look, dad, like, I'm feeling him. Like, I'll just like let him know. and then, you know, when time permits. Have your dad, have you ever been a relationship? Your dad, like, I ain't really feeling him like that, baby. Ah, like, my dad's so cool.

Like, he always is like... He'll let you figure it out, huh? Or he'll ask me about the person, and I'll give him information, or I'll ask him his opinion on stuff, but he's never, like, push me away from what I want. He's like, his biggest thing, and my dad will write me to some many times, are you happy?

Like, you know what I mean? Like, that's his biggest thing is making sure that I'm happy. So if I'm happy in it and he feels like I'm good, then there's nothing else that he wants more than, Do you think your dad has a favorite of the ex you dated? He doesn't, he hasn't quite said, but I, I'm sure. You have an indication. I'm sure everyone has their favorites.

Right. Would you shoot a shot at a man? Or the man has to come to you? What kind of shot? I mean, you're trying to, I mean, you let it be known that you're trying to holl at it. Or does it, or are you old school like, hey, no, now, you come to me? I'm not against non-traditional ways of having a conversation of, I think the guy's interesting and I like him. I may like give hints.

Okay, what kind of hit you give it? I mean, considering, I mean, you try to shoot shot because you've been bothered this hair all day. No. Yeah. You've been bothered this hair all day. So what kind of, I mean, you're like, you go? Like suggestions, like, maybe we should go do dinner or something.

Or maybe we should meet up or let's, you know, connect or something. You hear that guy? And so if you say, hey, maybe we should do something. I keep it light. Because like, if you're not, if you're not feeling it cool, I'm impressed. move on. But I'm not also not, I prefer not to. I would rather the man be the man, but I'm not against like if I think that the guy's like, you know, interesting. I think there might be something to it. Yeah, like let's, let's meet up because maybe we meet up

and I don't even like you. But, but you do know, like sometimes like you are Angela Simmons. And sometimes guys might be intimidated by who you are. Really? I've heard this stuff. Yeah. So what? Like, it's not, I mean, I don't think it's as easy as people think. I mean, everybody's like, well, I just you, nah, I mean, sometimes you're like, hey, Damn. I mean, what, what, hey, what, what, what? What, you know, get out my face. You know my name, Angela.

Let's talk about what's your name. Sometimes I pulled it, act like they don't know who I am. And you're like, oh. And that's okay. I mean, I'm, if you don't know me, you don't know me. I don't necessarily think everyone knows me. I don't walk around like, you must know who I am. You might not.

So, but do you play along with it like, oh, I'm Angela. How are you doing? Yeah, I'm always introduced myself. Right. Yeah. But I always do that anyway. And people like, oh. We know.

Exactly. You're like, but I just tell you my name just in case you don't know. I'm not arrogant enough to believe that everybody does know who I am. I'm going to tell you my name. Yes. Every time. See, I like that. The truth.

I read somewhere that I think it's like maybe it was 50, 65 percent that women in a relationship still have a backup man or a backup plan. I don't always have a backup plan. I don't think that's always true. I have heard of that. I think in the back of some women's mind, they like, if this don't work, I might go. Well, it ain't going to work.

You already think about it. It ain't going to work. But for me, like, when I'm in, baby, I'm in. All in. Locked in. Not even looking left or right. I don't even think nobody cute. I don't want to,

I'm just going to stay right here so that I'm focused on my wish. You're all about your man then, huh? Huh? You're all about your man at that point. 100%. I'm locked in. Okay. I like that.

If you date, were you on dating men with kids? You cool with that? No? I don't, I'm not against it. I'm a woman with a child too. You know what I mean? Like,

but I never been against it. Even like prior to having kids, if somebody had a kid, I was not like, no. I'm just big on as long as everything's and, you know, good in your area and life. So you're worried about the baby mama,

how'd be you? I don't want drama. Too old for drama. Yeah. Keep it away. Right. If you got a baby mom and I think she's your girlfriend still

or whatever, you're, uh-uh, let's not. But, but no, baby, it's not like that.

I've tried to tell her like we've moved on. We've got to raise this child together. And somehow she, you know, why she not getting the memo though? But I mean, you know, it's not just baby mama.

Excuse me. It's just not the women co-parent because I don't want to be, you know, because yeah, you say. But sometimes, you know, it's hard when you love somebody,

when you love somebody, you know, it's hard to let go. Even, even when they say, I don't want to be in this relationship anymore. See, relationships are easy to end if you're the one that's easy ending the relationship. It's never easy for the person that's getting broken up with.

That could be true. So, you know, somebody's like, I want to move in a different direction. I don't like. Yeah, and they still hold. It's hard. And then I got this, I know for one thousand percent certain. I've got this attachment with you forever, but I know I'm going to be in your life for the next 18 years. I know that 1,000%

That's a real thing with the kids, yeah. So. But it's got to be healthy. Like, there's still ways to handle it. Like, even if your partner still wants to be with you, it's like, what's the healthy way to make sure that even if they have their thing, like, you still got to handle them a certain way so that they understand I'm not playing. I don't let you see the kid.

Huh? I don't let you see the kid. That's all deep. You either see me? You see me? You can't do that. This court. Okay.

Take it to the kids. The thing is about court, court are very lenient when it comes to women. Sometimes. They, the guy, they knock fire from you. The ladies, oh, we don't want to, we don't want to take the child from its mother. We don't want the child to see his mother being locked up. What about dad? You don't want the child, you want to decide to see dad locked up?

No, this is, it's too deep. That's too deep. It can't go. I don't know. I just don't like drama. To me, had that in order. You got to figure out the order. You can't.

So coming from, before they even step to, hey, make sure baby mom, anything, your co-parent, make sure it's, it's co-parenting you doing what's in the best interest for the child, and there ain't no situation where you're going over there spending the night. And she's under the, she's under the impression that there is a chance or a likelihood you two can get back together. There can't be no impression. That's crazy. You can't date me and still have your baby mom thinking just an impression that we're about to be together. That does not make sense. No. Then you should just be alone or figure out somebody.

who's cool with that. I wouldn't do that. Okay. Did you see Nikki Glazier? She was on a caller daddy. Hmm? Nicky Glazier. The comedian? No, I didn't see it. She said, uh, she liked to see her a man have sex with other women. If long as there's not an emotional connection,

don't be sitting there talking about, you know, blah, blah, blah, getting emotionally connected. But, you know, you want to. That sounds crazy. I just said. I don't know about that. She said it. I don't know. Hey. But some people

Have that type of relationship That's far out for me I don't know about that Oh you're still on the traditional It's me and you baby Told you old school romance over here I mean That's crazy

If somebody would have said that she was like that I wouldn't have believed it But hearing it come out of her own mouth It's different I was like why And when you hear people like Oh they're like that They you know they blow and this

And you know, you're like, man, ain't nobody really like, ain't nobody fit to let their wife or their husband engage in something. And they watch. I say, ain't nobody doing that. But to hear it. People into different type of stuff, though. I mean, and you got to find your person that's into a witchie. Yeah, yeah.

I don't get too weird, no. That's wild. Again, you say, your son, how long are you in a relationship before someone actually get an opportunity to meet your son, y'all go to dinner, y'all go to Dave and Busters, or you do something fun like that. How long are you into that relationship? I mean, I don't, I've realized that I don't think it's always a specific time. It's more about where I'm at with the person, right? Yes.

If my son sees me on the phone 24-7 with this person, FaceTime, and flying out to see where you go? And he's at the answer. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You fly? Yeah, get on a plane. Damn! If I'm in a relationship? Damn! If I'm in a relationship?

No, I'm saying. So let's just say he's a guy. California and y'all y'all talking blah blah blah but you're not in the relationship yet you hop on you you hop on a plane to go see you we already I mean if we're not in relationship but we're dating we're talking yeah we're talking like hey hey why why don't you let's just say somebody comes in town you're out with your girls yeah and he pull it you's a guy pull up at the spot like hey how you doing such and such my name is my name is uh Bruce let's go with Bruce Bruce okay Bruce hey you know My name is Bruce. What you do, Bruce? What, you know, I'm in, uh, I'm in technology, so forth and so on. I'm in Silicon Valley, blah, blah, blah.

Um, what's your name? Oh, I'm your name. What's your name? Angela. Angela. Hey, what do you do, Angela? I'm a fashion designer. Oh, you're fashion designer. You have any kids? I have one. Oh, okay. I like you. I like you smile. Thank you. I'd like to get to know you better. I'm only in time for a couple of days, but I was wondering if you'd be interested in coming to Cal and howl at your boy. No, we can start here. You gotta play that quick. No. But I'm talking.

Bruce, you tripping. No, Andrew, I'm talking. But I can't, we're not going to talk the whole night. I want to get to know you back. Bruce, you better fly back to Miami first and take me out here. And then I'll decide if I'm comfortable enough to decide to do it, to go anywhere else with you. So he needs to come back, take you out. Y'all go out to a nice dinner.

You go out to, uh, prime. Is that live? Is it live a prime? What's the nice place here that can people be going? I've been to prime. I've been dumb. We can do... We come to level.

We're going to come to a level. You want to come to 11? That's a club, though. We got to start a restaurant. No, no, we got to go to a restaurant. We got to go nice, because I got to be able to hear you. I can't be... Hey, hey, you like this place?

How long you lived? I can't be yelling and screaming. Okay. We can do a Casa, Nueva. There's still a lot of places. Okay, there are a nice places. We go to a really nice restaurant. Okay, we go to a really nice restaurant.

Is I sitting across from you or are you sitting next to me? You should definitely sit across me. I don't know you. Okay. Okay. Bruce got to sit across. I just met Bruce. Okay. Damn. Bruce, mm-mm. Damn.

This ain't going quite the way Bruce ain't help. It's okay, big, big Bruce. Sit over there. Bruce got to sit across. Okay, I'm sitting across from you. I'm getting to say, you know what? I really like, I really enjoy talking to you. I think we have a lot in common.

I think it would be really nice if, you know, I came back to see you. I really like for you to come see me, see me in my natural habitat, as I saw you and yours and see if this is something that, you know, we both can be amenable to and see where it goes from there. Right. So, Bruce, I think we should continue to talk on the phone and stuff and see, like, what the vibes are. This dinner's been great and all, but I'm not sure that I want to fly to California yet.

Eventually, though, but just maybe not yet. God, dang. What's wrong? The dinner's just begun. No, but I just, I flew out here last week. Now, granted, I happened to, there was happenstance that I ran into you with the girls. But then I turned around and flew back the very following week from California to come back on a very special trip just to see Angela. Bruce, you got to go with the flow.

You're doing too much, Bruce. Okay, okay, okay. So how many times would Bruce need to come back to convince you to make you feel comfortable? And then, does Bruce need to get you a hotel or are you staying with him? I'm staying where I live. You don't live in Cali, do you? Oh, you mean when I pull up there? No, I'm hotel for sure.

Okay, okay, okay. Yeah, I'm not coming to the house, Bruce. Okay, okay. Bruce got to put me, I'm in a hotel. Okay. For sure. Okay, okay, okay, I'm just checking. Do you ever get nervous of meeting stalkers or people?

Had stalkers. You've had them? Mm-hmm, pull up, show up to my house. Like, years ago, like it was like one guy just kept showing up. It was pretty creepy, actually. I tried to get a restraining order on them. There's weird people. in the world. Really? Yeah. I mean, when you, when you hear stuff like that of like people showing up and you saw this

situation with Rihanna and ASAP or you see people like and you hear of like people trying to jump the fence and you Chris Brown having stuff. I'm like people really sick. I had something like that happened even in Florida one time. I was on a beach and there's a guy who always writes in my DMs to me and that day just happened to be a random day. I was like running on the beach and I'm like that looked like the dude. I'm like far down the beach. And I see them and it's the dude from my Instagram on the beach. Did he know you were there? I didn't even post. I was there that day at all.

And he started walking up on me. I had to go get with a stranger, go to the cops. Like, it was a whole thing. But it happens and it's happened more than once to me before. It's definitely an interesting, scary thing. Close your eyes. And you can hear the entire world come alive. 2026 FIFA World Cup is on.

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podcasts. This is Michael Rappaport and my podcast, the I I am Rapaport's stereo podcast is unlike anyone you've ever heard. We're a variety show. And if you're looking for strong opinions, funny opinions about sports, entertainment, politics, pop culture, and whatever else catches my attention, then subscribe now. This kid, Jafar Jackson, is as good as Rami Malik as Freddie Mercury. And it's as good as Timothy Shamaulay as Bob Dylan. And I say that with love and respect for both of those actors.

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I don't see, the thing is, like, if I'm that in love, I really, it could be an intimate moment. It can be a big moment. In my fairy tale head, like, I like big, like, pooh on the sky and, like, I want it big. You know what I mean? Of course, I would want my family to know my dad to be. a part of knowing that you're... No, I'm going to ask your dad. But he ain't going to be there.

That's going to bring me a... Bruce! I'm just saying, I've already got this blessing. Okay, so you got the blessing. I got the blessing. But I would say, like, I just... I would be, like, ideally, I love the beach. Okay.

And I like roses, so rose petals and fireworks and... Would you want your son to be there? Oh, that would be cute. See? I would be open to it. I'm really like not just the idea of being proposed to like by someone I love to me like this like more than enough. Like so like however they do it like. So just let's say for the thing.

And then the wedding can be fired. Say for the sake of argument, you guys at the beach, you know. And your son is dressed like him. Aw. Got a little linen pants rolled up. He's grew up. Got a little linen shirt on. Yeah.

And he walks out. He's like, hey, like what are you doing here? hey mom and you know just a little chit-chat and then all of a sudden he's down on one new I cry I'm cry baby when it comes stuff like that romance dot com it's so cute especially involving my son that's important to me like my son being a part of it and yeah whoever I'm with being like a part of my son's life that's like very important to me did you see the man the random man proposing the Kiki Palmer have you have you have you ever been I mean Have you ever been proposed to and said no?

No, I've been proposed to, like, and I did not say no. It was really cute. Would you say no? I hope I don't have to. I mean, I hope whoever's trying to marry me know that I want to marry them if I don't. I don't, let's not get there. I don't want to be the one to be like, ah, let's discuss later. Unfortunately, and you can say, no, you don't want to talk about this,

but you've been in a relationship that were abusive. how do how do how do you know and it's easy to say just leave the man yeah the man put his hands on you leave the first time how difficult is it to be in a relationship that's not beneficial that's become verbally physically abusive and to just leave after the first because I've heard women say that's the first time I did something I provoked it and I've never seen that side of him again and I don't expect to see it again and then whether it's a week A year, a month, or however long it's been, it happens again. I think you just wind up in, like, that situation.

It's something that you can't, you just don't know. Like, you look up and starts maybe slow, and then it kind of progressively gets, like, becomes more and more and more. And it's a scary place to be in, I think, for a woman, I think, I know, for a woman, because a man, the man that you trust, and then the idea of them either hitting you, throwing things at you, yelling at you, it's a very scary place to be. dealing with that and going through that and have been through that my life was I was like this feels like surreal like I can't even imagine like how I'm dealing with it but it changes you and it it's just so much about that like I think I've done so much therapy behind that stuff that I probably don't even the way I process it now is so different right because I went through it and then I came through it and I had conversations with therapist in life and it helped me process what was going on and, you know, not to blame myself and like just, there's so many like

things you have to go through to get through what that even feels like. But I think what happens with women is you don't want to leave the person. You love the person, right? So you're like, but that's just a different side to them maybe. And you hope it doesn't come back out like you said. And sometimes it does. And then you're like, okay, it's the second time and it's third time. And at some point you have to say, you know what? And enough and enough and I have to get out of this. And it's not healthy for me. I think sometimes women say because they, have kids or they don't have a way out or they don't have the means or finances to get out. So they stay, but it's, it's a very tough place to be.

And yeah. Are there signs that you've been in an abusive relationship before? Are they signs that you look for and say, yeah, I see what this is going now. I'm out of here. Yeah, I mean, sometimes the men are over controlling or, I think the first time, like, a man gets out of control, like, his anger. When a man can't control his anger, that's when, you know like it can get to that point or get to that level, you know.

So, but I feel like you see the red flags or you see the signs and maybe you may ignore them until you get to that moment and you're like, you know what, I knew this could happen. But you know what? Women have attacked you on social media. How do you learn not to let their comments get to you? Because it's tough because you're like, bro, I would like to think that we're in the same, we're in the same, but we're women. We should probably be stick together. We should probably be united in one front, but probably more women attack you than me.

It's so disgusting, actually, but I have learned to just not care. I don't. It's such a strong I don't care. And I learned it early on because I dealt with so many people's opinions for so long that I got to a point where it used to bother me when I was young and got to think because I was 17 going on TV. Yeah. That was the era of the paparazzi.

So they're catching all the bad angles of you. They're posting it. And everyone had their opinions then. And I was like, this is affecting me. You know what I mean? But I just started to gain the confidence to say, you know what? I don't care. Right.

And I just stand by it. I let people say what they say. And I'm like, block, delete, shut up. You don't, you know what I mean? Like to me, you're not, you don't matter to me. Right. You know. What is it about that people think, I mean, and I don't think people would say if they saw you on the street.

I think the people that post comments, I don't think they would say that to you if they saw you in person because a lot of comments that I get Yeah, you know, everybody have courage, have Twitter muscles And big strong thumbs Literally It's just hard for me to believe that some of the things that get said to me On social media

That if they saw me in person they would say to my face They ain't gonna say it most of the time they won't And I'm just like you don't even know me I mean and you know and sometimes I think they're like They want to get a response They're kind of rage bait or they're trying to get other people on their side. They're trying to like, okay. Yeah.

Like I don't, I honestly am a blocker and a deleter. That's what I do. I see a common distance. Sometimes I want to respond, but I'm like, it's not even worth it. You are a waste of my time. Like I have better things to be doing than to responding to negative, negativity. Right. You've been a situation.

You've been in the public eye for a very, very long time now. Yeah. And you haven't had any surgeries and based on comics, because there, I mean, like I said, social media, who. A beast. You, you're fat, you ugly, you need to do this, you need to do that. And then people sometimes succumb to that. And the first thing they say, I don't know why you got surgery.

After you was probably the one in my comments talking about, you need to go nip and tuck dad or you need to do, like, you told me to go do this. And now I did it and you like, that was dumb. Yeah. Should have left it alone. How have you been able to like drown out all that noise and like, I love me? You might not love me, might love me or how I look or how. how I'm shaped or whatever the case may be, but I love me, and I'm not going to let what you have

to say influence what I'm going to do with my body. Yeah, to me, it's my world and you're living in it if you're on my page. Right. Like, you're following what I'm doing, then that means you're here, but I'm me and I love me and I know what I'm doing with me, but you don't like it, but that don't matter to me. Correct. You know what I mean, you hear today gone tomorrow. If I was gone tomorrow, then it's, oh, what a good person. You know me, so it's like, it don't matter what comes out of someone else's mouth to me. Like if it's negative, y'all can have that. I know I am strongly sure of who I am. Right. So I don't need them to tell me who I am or tell me what I look like, yeah, if I gain weight, I know I gain weight. If I lost weight, I know I lost weight. If I put on

muscle, I know I got muscle. You know, like, so it's like, you don't have to tell me nothing. I don't, I don't, I don't, just don't engage in it. You ain't going to do that Zimpic, it? Huh? You ain't going to do that Zimpic, early? You talk about Zimpe? Yeah. I mean, I had done GPL ones before. What? Because I wanted to. Because I wanted to see like how much weight I would lose.

And I wanted... Did you lose as much as you thought? Or more? Like 20 pounds in like two or three months. 20? Yeah, it was at least 20. Good God. And then I was like, okay, I want my thickness back.

I was like, no, because I work out a lot, right? Yeah. I want to be to be able to keep muscle mass and stuff. And I was realizing I'm working out and lifting weights, but I'm not seeing the results I want. You do realize that being a vegan is not going to help you eat muscle because you need protein, animal protein, to build density. I don't want it.

You just said you want. But I don't want the meat. How are you going to get the... I've ate meat before and I stood in head, so it's okay. I mean... You do realize is that the texture of your muscle, the density, the oom of your muscle comes from eating. You know, that's when humans really started to evolve when it started eating meat.

Protein, yeah. Yeah. You realize that, right? I do. And, you know, animal protein is different than plant-based protein. I know. It's two different things. Yes.

But I just like how I eat right now. But you just said you wanted your thickness and you're hurt. No, I got it. I'm good. I'm back. I'm about this. Business. What are you learned about business?

You've been a business woman, like you said, since you was 17, 18. Very few people are in business as long as you've been in business. Yeah. I would say it's forever evolving, like, and that. for me, I've just, I've learned so much from the first business my sister and I started to the ones that I've started to what I've seen. It's just for every evolving. And it's important to stay up to date with what's happening and be around people that know more than you. My biggest thing is like, I like getting information from people who have successfully done things. Like, okay, so what can I do

here? Like when it comes to even like resources in my family, does this make sense? How do I do this? How do I pivot? Does this not make sense? Like, but also being okay with not, you know, some people think you get into business tomorrow, this is going to be how you want it to be. It don't work like that. You got to stay in that thing. You got to push. You got to keep moving. So being your number one biggest fan, right, and pushing it because everyone's not going to believe in you every day.

And you obviously having the right crew around you that will uplift you. But you got to believe in yourself and push yourself. What advice did you wish you had or knew before you even got into business? What advice? I think what I would have wanted to know is the difference between licensing and owning in the beginning when it came to that world. I didn't know because I was so young,

but I learned and I'm like, okay, now I know the difference between owning something outright and I was so young at the time and a license deal. Like to someone else. Exactly. You did business with a slutty vegan, Pinky Cole, and obviously she had a little hard time, seemingly she's getting back on her feet.

What did you learn from that situation? From which part was situation? Her. Yeah, her, you know, I mean, because at the peak, like, during COVID, her restaurants, man, I mean, what did she have? She expanded very quickly. That's what you think of whether she expanded too quickly?

I don't think nothing's too quickly. I think it's just about, you know, sometimes it could be team. It can be who you have around. It can be how it's being managed. There's so many things that go into running a business. And I think that she's still successfully, like, is moving and doing what she needs to do.

Some people, you know, that may happen, they'd be like, they give up, they stop. And then that's the problem, never give up to keep going. And Pinky is a businesswoman, and she's still pushing, moving, got her stuff going. I mean, I think she's learning as she goes like everyone else. An IR Radio Experience, weekend gold tickets to Ilson Inc. One, two, three, everybody just scream. In Montreal with Dom Dalla, Chris Lakin friends, Woolley, Dead Mouse, Above and Beyond, Beyond, sub-focus and more with flights from Porter Airlines three nights at

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I took an elbow. to my head, which cracked my skull. It is an American game. The Brazilians don't like hearing that, though. Are they the only ones that don't like that? Nobody likes that. As we get ready for the Men's World Cup this summer, listen to American Football as part of the My Coutura Podcast Network,

available on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You said to me, yo, you know, keep at it, because you let me rap for you. It was magical for all of us. We made it. We made it. Yeah, I'm like, we? You know, I'm like, I know these guys, but who are you? I'm MC Jen, and this is laugh but not least.

I'll be chatting with guests from all walks of life about the power of humor when it comes to facing difficult times, like the co-founder of Rough Riders, Darren D. Dean. Talking about as a kid, do you remember that we met even way before that? Let me think, did you walk up to the gate? That was me, Dee. That was you? That was me.

The day we found out that you and the whole crew was at Hit Factory, the mission was to get me to go to the gate. gate, start freestyling, and see if I could get in the studio. I'm rapping, and then suddenly I hear a voice, hey, open the gate, let him in. The gate slowly went, come, come, come, come, come. They all, they're watching this, and they watch me walk into there, and that is a moment that I will remember for the rest of my life. Listen, and laugh but not least with MC Jen on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever

you get your podcast. Here's something that should not be as complicated as it is, getting a racist statue removed, And here's something that should be a whole lot easier than it is, getting a new one put up in its place. As long as there's a politics of race in America, there's going to be a politics of remembering the Civil War. To get to school, I had to go down Robert Ely Boulevard. Get to the grocery store, I had to go down Jefferson Davis Parkway. If you're an historian and you leave out half of what the history is, you're not doing your job. I'm Akila Hughes, and Rebel Spirit Season 2 goes deep on both of those things.

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this kid jafar jackson is as good as rami malick as freddie mercury and it's as good as timothy shamanelay as bob dillon and i say that with love and respect for both of those actors and I don't know how many Oscar nominations they give out. I don't know if it's five, six for Best Actor. 150% this kid Jafar Jackson should absolutely positively get nominated for his portrayal as Michael Jackson. Listen to I Am Rap Report on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. I am Rapidport podcast. What about the Oriole bathtub situation?

I mean, or are you like, yeah, we cool. with it. I mean, everybody, but what, I'm trying to figure out, wouldn't it, wouldn't the people come so invested in other people's lives? Was it always like, maybe, I was just promoting my cakes, Angela's cakes. So I didn't understand, you know, what the big deal. I mean, I was, I guess it was interesting. I was in a tub with Oreos. Yeah. But, how many bags of Oreos was it? That's a real good question. Cleo how many bags was it? You remember. 40, 50? You remember. And first of all, it was heavy. Like, I was

actually in Oreos. Yeah. And I was like stood up. It was a whole thing. I was like, help me up. It's got to be more. I was going to say, yeah. And we might have only not used 10, like eight or 10 of them.

I was in there. Our fried Oreos with slutty vegan, yeah. You like fried Oreos? I do actually. Yeah, I do. The first time I had them was at Prime in Miami, actually. Really? Yeah.

They're good. Ooh. They're really good. My mom used to work at Nabisco. So, yeah. So I didn't ate so many chips, a hoy. Oreos. You cookieed out.

Yes. Ritz crackers. Stop. Big Newton's. Oh, you had it all. That's kind of cool. Yeah. But I like pride or.

But were you surprised at the backlash that you received for that? Oh. Or are you not surprised at anything now, I think you're to, are you to the point now that whatever you do, you realize that, you know what? 50s said something very interesting. He said, look, no matter what you feel about something, somebody is going to be vehemently opposed to how you feel about that. It's true, though. I think people have their own opinions, and I've learned to just, like, let it ride. Like, that's how you feel.

Either I'm sorry for you or great, we both are agreed. Investments. I mean, everybody says, you know what, the best investment now is better than the S&P is Ermes bags. Oh, Hermes, yes. You're Irmars, girl? I like Hermes. We love Hermes. We do? Oh, you do? We, me. The girls, me. Women, we love Irma, yeah. Okay.

Yeah. But how many is enough? I mean, it's like owning property. And you watch and look at all your property in your closet. So, obviously, you probably started out and you got what? They got the little mini Kelly now. I think they got a, what, a Kelly 30? I've seen you had something, Hermes when I walked in hand. Whoa, whoa, this ain't about me. I ain't in a interview. I'm a little bit of you.

Don't worry about what I got on you. I'm like, you know about them bags. But I'm saying you got a little mini, you got a little mini, I'm talking about a little mini like this here. The Minnie Kelly's. Mini Kelly. Now what, they got a 25, 30? The 25, the, don't give me the line all the sizes, but.

But I mean, now, and so you look at it like, you try to get the Himalaya? I have one of them Himalayas, yeah. You got one? Yeah, well, yeah. B. God, dang. You stop. You got an Amalaya?

Yeah, I posted it. I got it for my birthday. But not under the glasses looking at me. I know he's still in the picture. I know he's going to. Ain't no way. We forever till they'll do our part. I've been street four on a file.

Ain't nobody going nowhere. I'm sleeping on the couch, baby. You have a bedroom until we figured this out. That's what we figured out. Yeah, man. That kind of money, Angela. You say you got it for, you said you got it, which means you not with the person.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, Lord. Not you falling out. Oh, I'm sick. Ah, Angela. Really, Angela? Yeah. You can leave somebody that got you that kind of gift. And if he got you that kind of gift,

I hate to see. I can just imagine the kind of gifts that he got led up to that. You're too funny. Angela, you better go get it back. Don't you let nobody get that bad? That man buying him a last. Not looking around like that You don't think that's odd?

What? What's odd? And he got you in Himalian That ain't the first Birken he bought I know a thing or two about me Well When they get When they go to that level

They get to that level right there's There's a step How many steps are they in between? They're probably about Shre or four Shre or four To you get to that one? Get to that one He started the

Yeah, yeah, yeah you probably start the plane the, uh, Kelly. Yeah, the Kelly. And then, you know,

you got a little men in, then you go to the 30, and then you start getting to the skin. Maybe it's ostrich, maybe it's crop. Uh-huh. But then when you get to the big boy, that's when you step into the Howard,

both beat. I mean, yeah, they're great bags. Yeah. Going to get him back. That's, you're going to get it back.

Mm-hmm. It won't be long. Hey, bro. What is going on? No, stop. What should be, no? Nobody's going to get that bad back. Ain't nobody how they're going to do.

You're going to be better than him to you getting all that stuff. And Burke and so that, I mean, he doesn't brought jewelry. He don't, because for you, like, earlier we were talking about, you know, you're like flower, you know, you like, you know. Thoughtfulness. Yeah. Yeah, we like thoughtfulness. He thoughtful. Yeah.

Really in depth. I could see that. I can see. No, no, no, you saw that. He would see it. You saw it. I can see it. You saw it.

You are crazy. Acting. Yeah. You're an episode of The Game with Lauren London. Oh, you saw that. Okay. Love it. Is that what you want to do?

You like to do acting? I like acting. I can act, yeah. Acting is, um, I did, I actually filmed something. I did a cameo this year that should be coming out. I like acting. And naturally, like, it just, it's just, it's, It's in me. You want to do more? You want to do more acting?

I definitely want to do more acting. Have you turned down any opportunities? No, I don't turn down opportunities to act, not at all. I have a coach, and, you know, when I do something, I like to do it. All the way. Do it, right? Right. Yeah.

This video with you box and Brandy. What's your relationship with Brandy? Because she's back, she's back, I mean, I mean, she just wrote a memoir and, you know, I haven't read it. I'm looking, I'm on, I'm on, I'm on, I'm on, I'm on, I'm on, I'm on, I'm on, look, through what I want to see. Look, we grew up with Brandy. Yeah.

She burst on the scene. I think he was like 15, 16 years of age. And here she has this, you know, had this unbelievable career. And she said some things. I think, you know, people are kind of upset with what she said. But that's her life. That's her experience. Right.

How do you get to tell somebody what they experienced or what they didn't experience when you didn't go through that experience? Yeah. I mean, I think everyone's story is their own, like, story and it's their unique story or what everybody's been through. Yeah. Brandy, I met a while back. And we actually did bond over boxing in.

New York and we started she would come and box with me in New York and I was so long ago like we used to actually box together so I was fun my hairstylist Nick um actually does her hair as well so it's a small world right what do people get wrong about Brandy because like you have a very intimate relationship you have a very different relationship with her well I wouldn't say we're super close right now but I've I've been around her numerous times yeah now you're into the music business yeah are you going to to be in front of the microphone, you want to be producer, you want to be, so what do, what, what, what, what, I am a woman that wears many hats, but um, I am signed to rough riders

actually. Okay. And the single I just put out, we, I did a deal with them. So I will be writing. I will be creating. I will be producing, but I also am bringing on, I, I like to bring on the team that can help me like navigate everything. Right. I believe in creative vision, but I have some really dope, incredible people behind me, down to the producers and everything that I'm working on. I don't know if you noticed, but you were in a situation where you had a guy, he had a little music company. A what? He had a music company.

I'm not about play with you. I'm just saying. But I am me, too, and I've been doing these things, and I'm born into music as well. I know you are. Yeah. But, I mean, you had a guy one of the hardest, I mean... Are you trying to put me back with him? I ain't trying to do nothing.

I'm minding my black business. Not my black business. That's what I do. I'm yeah y'all gonna be back together watch what is this am I is this a joke I give it through the April

next five sit month where you get this number from it's an arbitrary number but I just feel it that's what you feel for me sitting here because I met him one time I made him when I sat down with glow I like we go together yeah

I mean look I've had peanut butter sandwiches I've had jelly sandwiches, but I think they're just better together. You know butter and jelly. That's what we're going with. Belila, save me. Nope. Nope.

She can't. Please. You said in the music thing, you wear many hats. You like to write, you like produce, you like to, you know, sing. Well, I'm not singing. I am actually, I would say, doing spoken words. Spoken word. Oh.

Did you have you heard my song? I haven't. We need to play that in here. We in the club. I'm going to go listen to it. So you're a spoken word type of gal. We should play that for you. We need to play it.

Let me get my phone. I'm gonna let you hear a little bit of it. You gotta hear what I'm doing. You can't even properly ask me. We had a, you ain't see my video or nothing. No, how long have it been out? March 13. Oh, you gotta hear it.

You feel like it put out for like years. So here it is. It's me. Okay, that's you. And we're gonna give you a little tester right on here. Ready, you go, you need a place to wrap. So that's Reza. Next.

You ain't gonna get our, this show copyrighted are you? It's you right. It's mine. Okay, because we have to get the clearing and then you take my whole, you know. We're going to clear it. Okay. I'm just giving you a flavor. I ain't going to play the whole thing, but it's time to come up out of that.

And I don't should fall run to Jada kiss his part. I got Jada on the song. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, so you got some hair. Happy He was on. Yeah. Oh, okay.

Yeah. We're doing doing music. Let me ask you this. How did you decide to get into the music? I went in the studio one day, like two years ago. I actually have 12 songs I've already recorded and I'm working on my music project. But I just felt led to go into the studio. And when I went in there, I went with what the feeling and how I felt.

And like, I've been a fan of music since I was a little girl. Obviously, growing up around it has impacted me. that has impacted me and I just love music. I don't do nothing without music. Like I like to listen in the morning, night. So when you cook, you listen to music. Oh, yeah. You're taking the shower, you listen to music.

I love it. Yeah. You clean and you're cleaning. You know, you want to women. I mean, I like people to help me clean. But when I'm lightly cleaning, I listen to music. But I do like, I like, I love music. Like music is like a part of everything that I do. So when I went into the studio, I just went with the vibes and I was like,

okay, this is what it is. When your dad would, Did your dad rap around the house? No, but I do remember, like, going in the basement and seeing, like, his turntables, his gold robes. Like, he would always have, like, the merch around the house. Like, I could think back, like, to the run-in-ins. He still got those fat chains. No, big gold, you know, those big gold. No, I haven't seen those, but I used to see them and put them around my neck and play with them.

Why would you, like, why would I do that? Like, I didn't even realize how cool that was. Women, who's your favorite woman rapper? Ooh, who I listen to the most? Oh, Rella. I do love glow. Of course I love glow. Yeah, glow.

But I listen to so many rappers. I feel like when I look at who's my last, you make me think now. I like to pull up E-Exa. I have Lotto's new song on here. Big Mama. Yeah, like her. Your mom about to be out of commission. You might have a baby.

That's so cute. I love that. But I love Cardi. Cardi. I love me some Cardi B. I need to get Cardi on the show. You watch it, come sit down with your boy. Cardi's dope.

I love Cardi, but you can't make me hit Cardi. She's so dope. I love the way she's so animated. She's so real. I just love the way she talks. She's a boss. She's a mom. Like, she's just so many amazing things.

But I really like Cardi. And I heard a concert. She's been doing really well. I'm trying to go. I think she's coming this week here. Oh, really? I think so. The 14th or something.

Who's your favorite R&B artist? Ooh, that's tough. I love R&B. Yes. I'm on LMA on repeat right now. Really? Her lover. Her album is so like, it's like love.

I just love love. You were viral for wearing a Yankees 50 k corset. Lord. Are you surprised now? I just didn't think it was that deep. I'm into fashion. So like, you know, the stylist Mickey boom. And I was like, I want to look.

I want this New York, like, nostalgic feeling when I shot the video, the music video for a run to. And I was like, let's think like Tim's hats. And like, he came and he's like, what about if we do this? And I was like, I love it. I didn't think it was, like, crazy that there was two hats. Like, I just thought it was cool. Right. Because I'm creative, so I didn't, no, I didn't think it was a viral moment.

When you wear an outfit and you see said same outfit on the internet when somebody else is wearing it, how do you feel? You're like, yeah, I ain't wearing this no more. No, I don't mind inspiring, like, culture or being a part of, like, fashion moments. And I'm not, like, looking to do it. I'm just like naturally being me. You know what I mean? Like I'm just like, cool. Like that's dope.

Like if I can inspire somebody else, I think it's cool. You mentioned, what made you decide to sign to Rough Riders? So there's a lot of family history and legacy there. And Wa is family. Janine is family. And I literally went to them with my record, spoke to them. And it was history from there. Your brother, Diggy.

And a lot of people thought like, you know what? It just runs in the family. He's going to be great. He kind of put it down for a minute. Some says, hey, he might have been Drake. We never know. Why do you think he stopped rapping? I think everything is season by season, choice by choice,

and everyone has the right to evolve to whoever they want to be. So I wouldn't want to speak for him. I just think it's just where he wants to be right now. He's going to be on your album? I don't know. It's a good question. When is it dropping? I don't have a date yet on that.

Okay, who's some of the people that's going to be on there. You mentioned Jada. Who else is going to be on there with it? So right now I'm still working on the project, and so I don't have anyone necessarily confirmed, but there are definitely a lot of people I'm in talks with that should be a part of it, will be a part of it. Is there any surprise guess? So you don't want to talk about it just yet until it happened?

Because I don't have the definite like confirmed locked in. I don't want nobody like, I ain't say that. The Oreo campaign. There was a lot of backlash, but there was a lot of support. Not only from Oreo, who obviously loved it, but there were a lot of supporters that, like, bro, this is great. We love what you did. Well, the good part is, is actually Angela's cakes right the second.

It's actually sold out and we're reing up our inventory. So we're doing extremely well. So it did what it was supposed to do. Yes. Everyone got to taste the cake. Yep. Yeah. Yeah.

Wow. Ms. Angela Simmons. Thank you. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Y'all know who it is. It's your favorite on. And I want to thank 11 night club for having us.

We could not have done this without you. So I appreciate the last three days and what you've been able to done. We want to thank your staff. We're going to thank everybody that was a part of this that made this possible, the wonderful Marissa that brought us the drinks every day that we came out.

So everybody at 11 night club, thank you so much for your hospitality. And everybody at club, Shea, wants to thank you because none of this is possible without you. So thank you guys. We really, really appreciate it. And we look forward to coming back down here and shooting again with you guys soon.

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