The Breakfast Club - Best of full interview: Lola Brooke Talks 'iight bet!,' Career + Artist Growth, New York Roots, Pressures of Success + More

Episode Date: January 6, 2026

The Breakfast Club BEST OF  - Lola Brooke Talks 'iight bet!,' Career + Artist Growth, New York Roots, Pressures of Success , Recorded 2025. Listen For More!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@...BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. Hold on. Every day I wake up. Wake your ass up. The breakfast club. You're all finished or y'all's done? Morning, everybody.
Starting point is 00:00:12 It's DJMV. J. J. Jolari and the guy. We are the breakfast club. La Rosa is here. And we got a special guest in the building. Big Lola. Lola, bro.
Starting point is 00:00:22 Welcome. Uh-uh, uh-uh. How you feeling? I feel good. I can't complain. Y'all like it early. It's a breakfast club I know
Starting point is 00:00:32 I know What's up New project out Yes new project out How's it feel? It feels good Oh my God I feel like
Starting point is 00:00:40 I just feel like a new person Why Because The last project I put out Y'all I'm not gonna hold you It just My mom wasn't there
Starting point is 00:00:51 Like I wasn't there Mentally Why not What was going on? Like I say Success Once you get you don't know how to navigate it like when you get when you first get there so it took me some
Starting point is 00:01:08 time to like really enjoy my moment um be grateful for my talent and just celebrate myself so mentally i wasn't there that's why with dennis project dinn's daughter project i i was so vulnerable because i started thinking about what happened before my moment and I couldn't tap in But now I'm like I bet I got it Like I'm sure So you didn't enjoy the moment
Starting point is 00:01:37 When you released your first album No No And I just sitting there Pretending like I remember the last time I was with you I was like I'm good now No I was not
Starting point is 00:01:46 I was just trying to trick myself Into thinking that I was okay But I wasn't I saw you talk about And I when I heard you say this So I was like I felt it It resonated with me You were talking about how
Starting point is 00:01:58 That feeling but also feeling like, wait, is this really happening? Am I supposed to be here? Is it all going to be going to be going to be? Yeah, like, it was freaking you out. Like, you didn't know what one day after the other was going to play. Yes, that's exactly how I was feeling. And then you don't know what that feeling is.
Starting point is 00:02:13 Like, you know you're feeling something, but you don't know how to explain it. And you don't want people to look at you like, you're crazy. But you know you're going through something. And then I don't vent to everybody about things. Like, I'm not that person that'd be like, oh, I'm going through this and I'm sad. Nah. You could be sensitive. You could be sensitive alone.
Starting point is 00:02:29 I mean, I guess. I guess. I like that, though, because, you know, you rap with such a big voice, that big Brooklyn energy, but what's something in your life you still feel small about? Like, something you're scared to admit you're still working on. Is that in confidence? My confidence is there. It's not about having a confidence.
Starting point is 00:02:49 It's about being confident enough to not care to show my confidence. Because you think about other people before yourself. Like, I think about stepping on people told. before I'm my 100% me and you shouldn't do that because that's that means you holding back so that's what it be it's like I know I can do this I know I can do that but then with this person feel away if I start filling myself a little bit more and it's like so what right exactly you should but I was going to ask with this project do you ever chase try to chase the first project because you had successful records big records you ever say I got to stay on top
Starting point is 00:03:26 does that bring you to pressure no see the pressure was doing the last project this time around it's like no I'm having fun like I got to remember that I'm rapping because I enjoy doing it so no pressure like people underestimate you because of your size
Starting point is 00:03:42 yeah that's why I'd be rapping like I'm six foot two I've never seen nobody have a security guard that has to put you he puts you on his shoulders to get you in and out of spot like that is the craziest thing I've ever seen yeah and I'd be like we
Starting point is 00:03:58 Do you like proving people wrong, though? I used to like proving people wrong, but not no more because I realized that that's a dead end. Like, you can't waste your time trying to prove people wrong. You got to prove yourself right. On this project, I bet from the first song, what's up with it? It seems like it's like a temperature check. So that's not proving people wrong, what temperature are you checking?
Starting point is 00:04:20 Because it seems like you're like, oh, y'all was looking for me, I'm here. I was checking everybody body temperature. Like, because my. Little is so hard, yo, lowless so hard. I'm checking everybody's body temperature. I'll check everybody body temperature because it's like my body different. Like I'm a hard body over here. Like, what's up with it?
Starting point is 00:04:37 Like, this ain't no play, play. I'm for real. So let's get into it. What do you feel like has been like the biggest, I guess, things that have been thrown at you from opposition that you felt like you had to let people know like I'm not worried about. I see it, but I'm not worried about y'all because that's kind of what that song gives me. It's like you were dressing some things or. Being a female artist in the rap business,
Starting point is 00:05:01 I feel like they put so much pressure on you. It's like unnecessary pressure. And then you'll get tricked, like you'll get tricked out your spot. So I'm like, basically I'm saying you ain't going to trick me out my spot. What's up with it? The chat saying, fix your shirt. Oh, the chat, oh, the poobies, you know I ain't really got nothing,
Starting point is 00:05:21 but it's looking good, why not? But, yeah, they give you unnecessary. I'm good now? This is it She good, chat Is she good? They said Areola is all on display
Starting point is 00:05:33 No y'all is not You can see her nip out I wasn't paying no attention No wasn't it I just think they saw the top of your bra Yeah it was the top It's new It's a new
Starting point is 00:05:40 You know the chat in disrespect We don't look at the chat One niggas like shit We like it Don't feel But you know they put But you know They put
Starting point is 00:05:50 Unnecessary pressure on you So it's like At a point yeah I did feel like My back was against the wall and I'm like, no, I'm not going out like that. So what's up with it? What's something about the rap game
Starting point is 00:06:01 that's way nasty than you expect? It's really a game you've got to play and you've got to learn to play it. It's like everybody is not your friend for sure. This is a business. And if you do create some friends along the way, it's a great thing, but keep it to a minimum. Yeah, I heard on the album you,
Starting point is 00:06:23 you was talking about people that was fronting on you, but you gave A. Bougy a lot of problems. Yes, I did Yeah, because he took me on my first tour And he set me up clean Like my set was on his set In the middle of his set So the crowd is already warmed up
Starting point is 00:06:38 You know what I'm saying And then I come in And then I'm like, ah, y'all ready for Boogie again And they're like, yeah So he set me up right Can you talk about how So it was A Boogie I remember I came and saw you a while ago
Starting point is 00:06:51 Future was at the Barclay And they loved you there And they gave you so much love there How impactful and important was it for people like that that wrapped their arms around you But do it in a very authentic way That gave you the best platform Put you in the right place on the shows
Starting point is 00:07:04 And things like that Yeah, it just It allowed people to accept me More a little more faster But it wasn't forced It was just like, dang, why we ain't see this girl before You know what I'm saying? Do people ever say that you to New York
Starting point is 00:07:20 And they try to make you cut New York down a little bit? No No. If anything, they asked me to be more New York. Like, can I hear your exit? They'd be like, can I hear your exit? I agree. Can I, can I hear some lingoes? And I'll be like, I don't, just talk to me. You are New York. I was saying this morning, New York, but I was like, it would be ill.
Starting point is 00:07:42 She was almost like DMX on some type of shit. I love DMX. Because of how you look aesthetically. Well, she kind of is, though. She is. She is. She is. You got the dog in the video.
Starting point is 00:07:51 That's kind of symbiote. I mean, I'm in Florence. I was going to put. on some Tim's, but I was going to put it on the hills. Okay. I was, but I was like, all right, girl, pack the butter's up. Like, you always sweating up on. But I'm very much influenced by DMX, though.
Starting point is 00:08:05 It's a song called What, on a project? And, oh, it gives, it gives Norrie, too. And it's very New York. You mentioned people switching up on you, too, once you got your first plaque. Yeah. Was it family? Was it other artists? What was it?
Starting point is 00:08:20 It was a lot of people, man. Like, ugh. And you know. the thing is for me it's like I didn't even pay no much attention to it because I'm not I'm not a person that's into drama
Starting point is 00:08:34 so I know when you feed into drama then you don't feed into yourself so yeah switched up like you know but that's what that's what comes with it you know what I'm saying at least that part I kind of already knew
Starting point is 00:08:50 but it's different when you go through it you know what I'm saying on this album you got a Mary G. large sample. Yes. Is that a sample or does she actually sing it? It's a sample. It's a sample.
Starting point is 00:08:59 It sounds like she's singing it. How difficult was it to get to Mary to clear that? Was it difficult? Okay. No, it wasn't. No, I mean, no, was it difficult? No. I had to wait.
Starting point is 00:09:10 I had to wait, you know? Like, you know, I gave, I was patient because I knew she was on tour and I wanted her to do her thing and didn't she get back to me, you know, and I was just, I was waiting. But, um, it's a producer, his name. name is esdot and he'd be on the road with her so he you know he helped out a lot with that got you do you feel like female rappers get boxed into things like they want you to either be sexy or gangstar just do club records like they don't know what they want us to do you got to know
Starting point is 00:09:42 what you want to do because it's like whatever you think that's not what it is this is whatever I'm giving you is what you get you got to be confident you have to have way more confidence than the male artists for sure. Which land do you think people wrongly try to put you in? Drill? They tried to, but I cleaned that up. It's your energy, but then you came with the Bryson-Tiller situation, which I love that for you because I feel like so many people got to meet you as an artist
Starting point is 00:10:14 because the song was so big, but it's the energy of your music that feels like Drew. Yeah, that's, but I'm not going to front, yeah, because I love pop smoke. You know what I'm saying? I love his energy. I might get on the drill beat, but I might talk about different things, but my tempo in my pocket and my energy is going to be high.
Starting point is 00:10:35 Do selling records mean a lot to you or do you just like the music you put out? Because you just talked about the Bryson Tilla bracket. Like there's like plaques and the fact that you... They're really about to start hanging on you now. No, no, they're really about to start hating on you now.
Starting point is 00:10:52 To the mic. To the mic. To the mic. Hold on, hold on, I'm going to turn this mic on. Turn my mic on. Turn my mic on. On behalf. Y'all got champagne.
Starting point is 00:11:03 Girl. On behalf of Team 80 and Aris the record, we want to congratulate you on a gold plaque. Oh, my God. Thank you. Wow. You didn't mean a lot for me. What does that mean to you?
Starting point is 00:11:19 This means that I'm... That's the most big as you, Lois. See, that's the most big as you, Lo. I don't know. on hills. Let me see. Let me see. Let me see. If they switched up on you before, they're going to switch up on you now. Yeah. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Big going single. Okay. I'm going to bet with this.
Starting point is 00:11:37 You should. I'm laid in bed with you, girl. You're sexy. You know why? I think I love that for you because I feel like when that record hit and it really hit, it was at a time where people were trying to figure out if you would be able to do everything you did. Don't play with it and do it again, and you did it bigger. I don't slap you. I can't believe this. How much I can call my mom's? Yo,
Starting point is 00:12:01 oh, man, yeah, because, listen, they people was doubting me before I got my first one. Like, they was doubting me all around the board, and then it's like, sheesh, I got to do it again.
Starting point is 00:12:14 Yeah. Okay, cool. And then you do it again, but, you know, you still get slept on. You know what I'm saying? You still get slept on. But it's cool.
Starting point is 00:12:22 Like, If you're not strong enough to be in this game, then the success ain't going to come. But talk about what that means for you, right? The fact that you're selling records, this one is gold. My heart. What does that mean seeing that plaque and all your hard work coming through with these sales? It just means that all my dreams are coming true, and it means that when I was saying to my mom, like, I just feel like I'm somebody in this world,
Starting point is 00:12:49 somebody important, that I wasn't tripping. It was true. Yeah. like I really felt it and it just shows that I'm gonna be able to take him off your mom I got you baby I'm gonna continue paying no bills
Starting point is 00:13:02 Is your mom your biggest fan because that's the first thing you said I need to call my mom is that your biggest fan Yeah my mom is the reason I resign for my job to pursue a music career so I will always have her back because she always have moms
Starting point is 00:13:16 You got a record card it was all a dream and you mentioned that survival's remorse held you back from celebrating your wins. Are you going to celebrate this? Yes, I'm going to celebrate that. I promise. This is a different time.
Starting point is 00:13:28 I'm going to celebrate that win. I promise you that. So you've reached a place now where you can celebrate those. Yes. Like, I feel like, dang, I should be happy for myself. And I shouldn't feel like because I went and found this success that I got to worry about where you are at in the level of success of your life. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:13:48 Like yours is going to come. I waited for minds. I've been on a. bench for a very long time. I sat on the bench and I watched the game. Now that I'm in the court. Like, dang, can you cheer for me? Let me bar. So what were you feeling survival's remorse about? Exactly.
Starting point is 00:14:03 Like, just with everything, the littlest things, like being able to pay my bills on time and I still know people that that's not able to do so. You know what I'm saying? Like the littlest things was holding me back that I felt bad and it's like, why would you feel bad when it's your
Starting point is 00:14:18 time and you got to keep going so that these people could be in your position too right so at what point in your success did you realize it was okay to help yourself first um when nobody was there when i was going through it in my room by myself when i was like i was depressed and nobody was there and i'm not saying that nobody didn't want to be there um i just dealt with it by myself but i got through it so i'm like okay now you got to start putting yourself first you do know though that you got to take care of yourself and family first because a lot of times that happens to a lot of people
Starting point is 00:14:55 and they take care everybody else. And they go broke and then they go broke on when something happens. That's right. That's tough. Then that's part. I'm serious. You do understand that part of it though. Yes.
Starting point is 00:15:07 What was that downpoint depression like caused from? Is it one thing? Was it like a music industry thing? Was it personal life? It was everything. It was it was so much that I couldn't, I couldn't think. Like I was.
Starting point is 00:15:22 overthinking like it was clashing so that's why again i was telling y'all when i did dinn's daughter i couldn't think about my moment and what my future was was gonna look like i kept thinking about what was going on before i'm like oh i came so far but i was just so i was just still trying to get over trauma i want to ask you know she mentioned the drill music before i feel like new york music is not flowing like it used to like that boom bap that record so do you stay focused on that as well and say I'm going to do this I'm going to be that type of artist regardless and let it catch up with me or do you say you know what I'm going to have to you know transform a little bit and do what other rappers are doing and make sure I stay relevant I've always
Starting point is 00:16:03 been like different so I stay focused on doing that and I always say like I don't want to be responsible for saving certain parts of the the music industry like I don't want to be responsible for that because that's a lot of pressure I don't want I only deal with pressure that I know I could deal with I feel like your money is a little, like, it's still the low, low, low, high energy, but it got a little bit of that boom bap in it somewhere. Yeah? Yeah, a little bit. I think
Starting point is 00:16:30 it's maybe it's the, the beat that kind of You're from Delaware, you don't know what real boom bap is. Boom bap. I told you it's going to be this one right here. I only say that because I think your flow in it, it reminds me of, like, the storytelling that would happen over those type of beats. Yeah, I feel like
Starting point is 00:16:46 get money is like, what's not with you doing push-ups? Yeah, I always tell people I am not competitive When it comes to Competing with other artists But when it comes to being athletic Yeah, I will challenge you
Starting point is 00:17:01 You know when you're working out with somebody They're like, yeah, get money Yeah, I know She's never worked out a day in her life That's right I've seen people do it Can you do 10 pushups? No
Starting point is 00:17:10 You can do 10 push-up You can do 10 push-up I bet you you could complete 10 push-ups Before Amy can complete 10 Let's do, let's go Damn, now you've got to show her. That was this reason. Can you do it?
Starting point is 00:17:24 You are not dressed for 10 push-ups, Lola. I'm like, get it. I'm like, get right. The fact that she sized you up and don't think you can do 10 push-ups is crazy. Because he came at heart and you know, I got to make sure she's right. Can you do 10 push-ups? No, I could do like three. I'm not.
Starting point is 00:17:40 Okay, so you're going to do something? All right, yeah, come on. I'm going to get money to it. You do it too? You do it? You do it. I got to take my shoes off. Everybody get money.
Starting point is 00:17:46 I'm not crazy. Are you ready? I'm going to get money. All right. You ready? You ready? Ready? We count it?
Starting point is 00:17:53 Yeah, go. We count. One, two, three. Oh, step. One, two, three, four, five. I'm out. No. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:18:08 He's Charlotte. Come on, let's go. What are you are. 14. Oh, my God. 15. Come on. 60.
Starting point is 00:18:15 Come on. 17. Come on. 17. Come on. 19, come on. I'm at 40. My chance.
Starting point is 00:18:23 You're like, that's because he a little slow. I thought you all worked out. I did a little quick 50 clip. He's going to pass. Yes. I did a quick little 50 clip. I thought you're getting money.
Starting point is 00:18:35 You all told me y'all getting money. Yeah, no forms working. This is where I, come on. Y'all told me. That's your breakfast. She just did five push-ups. You got to celebrate the wins. And now she's doing Casamie Gals.
Starting point is 00:18:47 W-Z. in the chat y'all i just went hey i'm surprised lola did 20 no problems no she do push-ups all over her instagram in the video no i did five okay but you did five yeah it was like okay so you said you could do three so five i'm proud of god he is good and my church just text me
Starting point is 00:19:04 five push-ups congratulations on your plaques thank you i do want to ask you lola what did you learn in the process of releasing your first album that made things easier this time um just continue to be yourself like the only way to sell music
Starting point is 00:19:23 is if you being yourself so when I'm making music now I only make songs that I know I could sell so after that everything just be easy not well I'm not going to say it gets rough sometimes
Starting point is 00:19:39 but it's not as hard as the last time when you're writing what emotion do you tap into first is it hunger is it pain Is it confidence or something else We don't even know about It just depends on What the day looking like for me
Starting point is 00:19:52 Like Or sometimes I could be going through it With family or whatever But when I get in the studio I make a record like get money You know what I'm saying Like I don't make a song Dwelling on my feelings
Starting point is 00:20:08 Of feeling pain Or anything like that I just be like I'm in the gym doing pushups get money like I'm straight but on pain though right pain is about you going through something but you flip it
Starting point is 00:20:24 into like I'm a it's a confidence yeah like stop playing with me I'm a remind you to stop playing with me so what inspired the pain record okay so okay so shout out to Mary because she cleared that but the pain record was basically
Starting point is 00:20:38 me saying I bet you want to you want to play with me I got you whole that thought Because I'm really that girl I shouldn't be the girl that you playing with I literally told you not to play with it And that's not just to a man either That could be for anybody
Starting point is 00:20:56 So if you have some drama in your life That you want to clean up You listen to pain and be like Listen I'm cleaning house But how is your love life during being an artist Right? Because Does somebody get it? The fact that you're in the studio
Starting point is 00:21:09 The fact that you're on the road The fact that you can't be there Like a normal person would be So Get a little of some napkins No, you're sweating. Oh, no, I'm sweating because I was profusely jerked. You're going to be sweating in the middle with that Casamigos and that hoodie on.
Starting point is 00:21:24 So how do you deal with that? Oh, you said, oh, with my relationship? Oh, I mean, when you have somebody that's like your soulmate and they love you, when somebody love you, they're willing to work whatever out. He understands the industry part. He understands, yeah. He understands being in the studio and being on the road. Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 00:21:44 He understands. He's supported. So why you don't lean into the more in love records Like most artists No, I don't, no, I am I just had to get my shit off Like, I had to get it off It's been a minute
Starting point is 00:21:57 I was taught, I was popping it That's why it's like I bet You know, it's been a minute since I was popping It so it's like I bet Hold that thought Let me go crazy and then Y'all not gonna be surprised Yeah
Starting point is 00:22:12 Because you y'all are You're super in love all over the normally but I did realize that you took a little break from like the posting and all that and it's just you now. Who is y'all? It's dope boy, right? Yeah. Yes.
Starting point is 00:22:24 That's my boyfriend. Oh, I know. So, but and that's what, see, that's because I, we have this thing where we, we're not hiding. Yeah. But we still private. You know what I'm saying? It's not a secret, but it's private. The last time I saw you was the media room, actually.
Starting point is 00:22:44 I thought it was a future concert. Remember I sat down with y'all at the media room it was me See that's what I'm saying I'm not clue uh self and uh ivy Yes that's what I'm like I could have sworn I sat down in the middle of that conversation and you were talking about being ready to have kids No wait hold on they tricked me wait wait wait hold on wait that okay well I'm not going to see here act like I I yes yes I yes I do yes I do Yeah speaking into existence yeah because I look at it like this right as a female
Starting point is 00:23:12 when you give life that's not something that you put a hold on like you playing with god saying you know what i'm saying if you if you have someone that you're in love with and you sit here and you say no not right now not right now what is what why y'all together especially if y'all doing things yeah like you're actually bumping you know right you know you know if you're bump it ugly yes you're bumping i'm seeing if the head boy rocking damn then what's going But there's people that want to get married first, though they want the ring first. I mean, yeah, that's cool. But what I'm saying is to sit there and try to put a hold on it purposely.
Starting point is 00:23:52 Like, I don't believe in that. At first, I used to. So how does he feel about bars? Like, your man left racks on my nightstand and still left with no sex? He loved it because he's like, oh, you ain't give it up, boo. Uh-huh. So you're talking past tense before him. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:08 He's like, yeah, that's what I'm talking about. You ain't give it up. you ain't easy You ain't easy Get the money back Get the money back for what Times are hard economically Money back for what
Starting point is 00:24:20 Then he shouldn't have never tried He should have never tried to link me Damn You know you pay something for something You know what I'm saying I'm stingy I'm so stingy So he definitely not getting that money back
Starting point is 00:24:33 The Lola boys go deep with him I'm stingy I'm stinger ain't you It go up and down I'm not going for it up and down How do you think you've evolved as an artist? It's your last album. Speaking besides, like, the music as a person,
Starting point is 00:24:50 I grew with just allowing myself to live. You know what I'm saying? I feel like that's the most important thing because when I'm doing music because it helps express, I express myself really well when I do it. So now it's like when you don't hold yourself back, when you be yourself, when you live in your mom,
Starting point is 00:25:10 moments when you be yourself just that's the best growth that you can have and I'm not perfect I take accountability a lot you know what I'm saying so when you make mistakes and you correct them it's the best thing you can do for yourself I like I like I can hear it on record like invest with a Gilly's daughter yes New York L.A yes yes because you say ask if I want bags no I said a house but you said I said a house
Starting point is 00:25:38 when I respond yeah plus a baby Yeah, but I can go on and on Because you say you want somebody that you can build a foundation with Yes, because, okay, being financially stable, of course I want that In a relationship But just because a man got money don't mean he's going to treat you, right? You know what I'm saying? Like
Starting point is 00:25:58 Yeah The chat keep telling her, is that the chat or sav keep telling it? Is it the chat? It's sad The chat love it, right chat? W's in the chat. chat says your bra is holding on for dear life it's, and it's over. Yeah, but you know
Starting point is 00:26:16 I had a titty. I got titty problems now. I ain't got my W. That's that happy way. It's the happy way. It's the happy way. I want to talk about your team too, because you've been with your team, of course we know Sabo, we know Team 80. Talk about how important your team is to making sure that you still is, still relevant, and making sure that all your business is right too. Yeah, they know what I
Starting point is 00:26:40 want in life and I always say when you meet someone new like a friend or a spout it take three years for you to know somebody a hundred percent they true self so I feel like even when I'm not around my team see things and they be like Lola love this and that helps me sleep at night because it's like I'm not in it by myself you know what I'm saying when I wake up I normally have a team that's laying stuff out for me and saying here just say yes or no and that's all I want I just want to say yes or no The dope thing about having a guy like
Starting point is 00:27:15 Sab is like you know He cares about you as a person Yes that's the most important thing Because people do not be caring about people Yo On the song Investor What did you learn about yourself And your values
Starting point is 00:27:27 While putting a song like that together I realized that money is not everything for me I mean I wasn't raised in a household Of a lot of wealth It was a single parent so I like to be loved on and I like to give love as well so that's what I learned about myself invest in me spiritually
Starting point is 00:27:48 mentally physically so that's what investing is not just financial is all of those things not just finance right it's everything else the financial thing that's just to secure everything else but we could get that together like I'm down let's make some money baby did you tell homie that he know he knows okay okay okay okay Yeah, we talk about plans and stuff You have to have someone where you could build with
Starting point is 00:28:14 You know what I'm saying? So that when you do have kids What are you going to tell your kids? I'm just glad you don't feel like you got to put a lot of that on hold Because that is a thing for women in any industry Like you always feel like, dang, if I do it too wrong, too soon, too late Where am I going to end up? Where's my career?
Starting point is 00:28:32 Yeah, and I think that's unfair I really do think that's unfair Because it's like as women Y'all don't know what we deal with And once you get like 30, after 34, they say women most likely going to have a lot of complications with giving birth and things like that. Damn. They say that, I mean, I don't know how true it is now, but that used to be. You see it be little stuff like that.
Starting point is 00:28:55 That's messed up. After this, we could jump him. I told you that you needed to get with him. It's not envy. Yeah, I'm sorry, envy. All right. That's all good. You.
Starting point is 00:29:05 But yeah, I feel like. It's really a thought that you'd be having. It's like, dang. I work so hard for this But at the same time You do got to do this thing Over here too That's why for me
Starting point is 00:29:14 I say What do you want in life Forget what do you want for your career What do you want in life Because your career is going to support What you want in life And I want a family So I have a career
Starting point is 00:29:25 So that I could support my family And whenever I feel like that time coming I'm going Was your mindset always like that though Because I think Yes Because that's the difference Between understanding
Starting point is 00:29:36 That you're surviving Versus understanding You're living And a lot of us women who grew up with single parents All I knew how to do was survive I didn't know how to create family We were just talking about this family and stuff like that You just know how to survive
Starting point is 00:29:46 You just know how to work hard And that's all I see my mom's do Was work hard So And then they make it seem as if kids It's just gonna make things harder And it's like What's the point of living
Starting point is 00:30:00 Like this is what we hear for I feel like there's people that have shattered that stigma Like Cardi Yeah shout out to Cardi for sure Yeah because she's she still went out and did it. And she's still doing it. And she's still doing it.
Starting point is 00:30:12 I recently read that Carucci trans that she studied you to tap into her rapper bag for her new movie. Yeah, it was Fashion Week out here in New York. And she just, I was like, I was thrown off because we was talking. And she was like, yo, you know, I channeled you? And I'm like, channel me. She's like, yeah, I got a new role. And I channeled you because you're small, your voice is powerful. and I'm small too
Starting point is 00:30:38 And I was like Dazed out like what me She's like yeah girl Like it was so regular for her And I'm like it's not regular for me Like your actress telling me this When you hear stuff like that How does that make you feel
Starting point is 00:30:52 Does it make you feel like you feel like you have a real impact? Yeah I'm like girl keep going Keep going don't stop Because yeah sometimes you You can't get to see out looking in You just in looking out So sometimes you don't feel your impact somebody got to tell you sometimes too you know because you're so busy working
Starting point is 00:31:09 do you still have imposter syndrome or do you feel like no i'm a ride no i'm here god is my witness i'm here uh i'm not holding back no more because it's like holding back is saying i'm stepping on someone else's toes that's not my intentions and if that was my first intentions then that means that yeah you you tripping but that's not my intentions to be stepping don't nobody told. I'm just trying to keep winning so I can support my family and my goals, you know?
Starting point is 00:31:40 When did you first recognize your voice? Like, what was the moment you said something and scared yourself? When I was mad, probably one of my old flings, they pissed me old. That was like, I, what? I can't even tell y'all what I said
Starting point is 00:31:57 because it might be a case. I said, I got it in me. Whir, I got it in me, you got it in you, girl. Hmm. You took that right to the booth from there? Yeah, well, yeah, I did. Yeah. Yeah, I did.
Starting point is 00:32:15 I'm kind of scared a little. When she thought getting to that voice, she'd be like, oh, shit. So what voice I like? No, I like the voice. I like the voice. It's so funny because it matches you. Like, you know, your aesthetic made me small,
Starting point is 00:32:28 but now I ain't nothing about you little for real. It's the calling card. Like, it's like a, you hear that? I swear. I keep talking about this. Clay Show because it was so crazy for you and I was lit. But I remember you literally did the and they went crazy. We couldn't even
Starting point is 00:32:41 see you where I would say that. Like you were so little but they just, it just I don't know, it's so big for you to be so small. I remember a future was bringing me out that night and he couldn't even get my name out. He was like, oh, oh, oh, lo, oh, okay. I went right
Starting point is 00:32:57 past normally when I run on stage, like I show love to the person bringing me out. I was like, I'm so sorry, bro. I was just so happy to be on that stage like I felt like this is my house because it is my home and I ran on it I was like I finally fucking made it and we all made it I felt like we all in that room made it you know what I'm saying when young girls from Brooklyn look at you and say I want to rap too what's the what's the realest guidance you can offer them I would say when they tell you
Starting point is 00:33:28 too aggressive be even more aggressive yeah say with your chest girl say say with your t-tas just don't show them your chat what's something you manifested for 2026 that scares you in the best of me the scariest thing the scariest thing
Starting point is 00:33:49 right now for me would be knowing that I know my worth I know my worth and that's the scariest thing when somebody know they worth they ain't taking no I ain't taking nothing from nobody
Starting point is 00:34:02 I don't care who it is I'm standing on it Like I'm 6-2 You are Because I'm 7, I'm 7-2 But today I'm 6-2 Because I'm sitting down If we hear something off the album
Starting point is 00:34:18 What you want to hear off the album And I was what 18 minutes long Is it? I don't know I just was going Yeah, like 18 minutes wrong Yeah I'll listen to Twitter in the call
Starting point is 00:34:28 Okay so I got to figure just one Why now You play two for a lot Could I bully me? Could I bully? Yeah, go ahead. I can do two. Let's do pain.
Starting point is 00:34:36 Let's do pain. And let's do get money. Yeah, because the people need to, they need to, you know. They need to hear your range, your range. Yeah, and they need to do them push-ups. My girl. Yeah, you better work on it. The next time she come up here, you better do more than one of the three.
Starting point is 00:34:53 You did good. Yeah, thank you. You know, show me some love. We was in Philly. I was on a phone hunt. I was acting like I was getting jumped by this girl. And you came out. What was you going to do?
Starting point is 00:35:01 You can't even do three push-ups. Okay. I came out there, didn't I? To watch. Bye. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, Lola Brooke,
Starting point is 00:35:10 we appreciate you for joining us the new album. I bet is out now. Yes. And congratulations on all the success. Thank you. Congratulations on a new plaque. That's right.
Starting point is 00:35:19 Yes. I don't know how I'm carrying that thing out of here. You got a bunch of men with you. I hope you don't have to carry it. But I want to carry it. I carry it. She's like a prickle. It's the breakfast club.
Starting point is 00:35:31 It's Lola Brooke. This is an I wake up Wake your ass up The breakfast club You're gonna finish or y'all done This is an I-heart podcast Guaranteed human

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