The Breakfast Club - INTERVIEW: Lola Brooke Speaks On Becoming A Rapper, Industry Relationships, Upbringing Hardships + More

Episode Date: November 10, 2023

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Yeah, it's been a little crazy, but I ain't complaining. I enjoy it. You're getting money. No, I'm making money. Okay, you're making money. You're getting money now i'm making money new album dennis daughter is out right now explain that title dennis daughter okay so i'm the only child raised by a single parent my mom but i used to hang out with my father here and in here pick me up from school and and everybody would always say, Little D. They would call me Little D when they see me with my father or Dennis' daughter or whatever fits. They would always just add him into my nickname,

and I loved it so much. So now I get to, like, relive it because my father's deceased now, so I can't get those moments back, but I'm, like, creating new moments, and I still feel like he's still around. Was that, like, the inspiration behind the song vacant heart as well vacant heart was me just venting I I felt empty pockets empty heart empty your soul feel empty sometimes I just don't know but I gotta be a old record because your pockets is not empty. You in her pockets heavy today now. Jesus. I like to see people doing good. But is it an older record

though? Because it sounds like it was a time before now. Honestly, I did that record this year so basically this whole entire project is me just reflecting on my life as I'm coming up. So I finally felt comfortable enough to finally just talk about my true feelings

and what I was going through. So Vacant Heart is pretty new. Was that a tough song to record? It was so fast. Probably like 15, 30 minutes straight through. But that's just how you record. Because I've been in the studio with you. You take like five minutes, then go lay it, and then you're done.

And it's crazy because after I was taking long, I'm like, Dad, Nyla ain't here. She probably like, girl, you still not finished yet? No, you're a beast with that. Emotionally, was it tough, though? I wasn't in the room. See, when I'm recording, I don't really be in the room with a lot of people.

So I'm very much comfortable. And whoever's in the room, I probably done been in a vulnerable space around them already so it doesn't matter cool and then the engineer I don't see the engineer like let's start from the beginning so for people that don't know Lola Brooke where did you where did you get your start from why did you start rapping and how did you get your deal okay so honestly speaking the people's chose whoa I always say rap chose me. I didn't choose rap.

It was just always there. And the people's, like the citizens of New York City was just like, yo, look, listen. You nice. I know this is a hobby for you, but you should take it serious. So what were you doing between that? Because you said it was a hobby. So what else were you doing? Just working a nine to five.

Like, I was always a nine-to-five girl as soon as I turned 18 the first thing I did was go get a job what was your first job little caesars yeah so uh I would just go to the studio just for a hobby I started taking it serious God sends a human man I'm ready Yeah so I would just go to the studio Just for a hobby I started taking it serious It's another artist from Brooklyn

His name Bleazy He wanted to do a song with me So I featured a song on him I went to the studio I ended up bumping into his team Team 80 My mentor 80 I met him

And then just being around knowing like oh okay this how music videos go uh this is how the studio process go like you get to like relax because when I was going to the studio two hours that's it it was like 40 an hour I got 80 and that's it but with them they was just so relaxed and everybody was just so creative and I fell in love with it and I was like, so this really is my destiny. So now when you got your deal, so I remember, shout out to Sav, I went to college with Sav. He called early on and was like, I got this artist. She's dope.

And he was calling everybody that he knew. So how did you get with Sav and how did you finally get that deal? Sav stalked me. Now Sav, of course, like I went to college. Fat Man Scoop's brother as well, for people that don't know. He used to work for Def Jam. You didn't know that? I hate you youngins sometimes. Sometimes I really

despise you youngins. He used to work at Def Jam with the Jeezy and work for Ross for a while. I don't know who Simba is. I know who Fat Man Scoop is and I know who Sav is. That's crazy. I knew that regular. I don't even know. I was in South Carolina and knew that for some reason. When you was in South Carolina, I was 10, but go ahead. Whatever. Damn.

I still knew that, though. You know what I mean? But go ahead. Yeah, he stalked me. So Sav stalked you. He was playing A&R. He was like, yo, what's going on, man? You dope.

I need to know, like, who, like, where the squad at? I need to speak to them and let's figure this out. It just felt so natural, though. Meeting with Sav and Arista, they didn't want to change me or my team or what I brought to the table. They thought that it was just a good idea to just keep everything the same. So me just being me and I don't have to change nothing about me. That was like a relief for me. Did you have any fear? Because, you know, they always say a woman artist, woman rapper can't pop unless she got like a big male cosign. Especially from another male rapper. See, that's not my case.

But if it was, so be it. And we're also not in that era. Listen, the ladies is doing their thing. Ladies is doing their thing. That is true. This era doesn't really have that as much as past eras. That's true. But back to meeting with Sav, I will say.

Sav. Sav. Damn. I'm so sorry, Sav. Didn't know you were Fat Man's cool brother. Don't know his name. Wow, Nyla. Meet with Sav.

This is crazy. This respect for the OGs in this game is disgusting. Uh-oh. All right. All I wanted to know was, because you were saying how he called everybody he knew, and he kept saying, like, this record, don't play with it. I know it's old, but I know it's a big record.

Were you against repushing the record? Because I feel like artists kind of be over and on to the next. Like, were you excited about the push, or, like, how did that go? I was excited because who going to say not to, what what it didn't matter how long it took or how old it was it's new to somebody it's new to somebody and this was my real chance so i wasn't gonna turn my chance down i waited this i waited for this moment all my life and you got such a big voice is that something that's natural or something you practice because you know you you are smaller so you wanted to sound big i mean when I'm mad I talk like this.

It's my mad voice, my rap voice is my mad voice. So it's still me. Are you talking to Charlamagne? Yo. You wanna go back to Lil' Ceasar? Let's talk Lil' Ceasar. What? Let's talk more Lil' Ceasar. No.

Yo, back to your rap voice The ad-lib Because I feel like your ad-lib is infamous The uh uh uh uh How did you come up with that? I always wanted a stamp I always wanted a stamp to I'm small

So I always want to be heard So I was thinking to myself like I need to find out a way To be heard without being seen Or my presence is not in the room. And I sat with it for a very long time. So it started off as, uh-huh, I do uh-huh, uh-huh. Then with Don't Play With It, when I listened to the beat,

it just came out, uh-uh, uh-uh. I'm like, just stutter it or something. And it felt good, so. And then now it's uh-uh, uh-uh. That's like my Batman call. Regardless of the voice, you still have a big personality. Like, when you walk in the room, you can feel your presence.

When did you first become aware of that presence? School? My mom been telling me that since I came out the womb. Like, leave my child alone. Like, they act like they, I will go any, my mom would take me on trips, and people would be so fascinated with me, and my mom would be so confused.

Like, why they keep walking up to you, like, why do you keep walking up to you? Like just asking you random questions or just attachment. Like people have attachment to me when I walk in a room with my presence. But I just I've never thought anything of it. I just was being myself. And little did I know I was a whole artist. Did you have relationships with a lot of the Brooklyn artists beforehand? Because when the record started to pop, I started seeing so many artists bringing you out on their

sets whether it was Kim or whoever it may be did you have those relationships beforehand um no music broke me into these relationships uh see me I was so more I was more focused on my craft I wouldn't like hang out so much I was always in the studio, literally sleeping, waking up in the studio. So I didn't really get to mangle as much as other artists did. I was just working on my craft. So when I finally felt like I had a good body of work to put out, then that's when I was going outside and then Don't Play With It started taking off and I started building my relationship.

What artist supported you the most when you first started popping? Before or? Right when Don't Play With It came out. relationship what artist supported you the most when you first started popping um but before or right when don't play what it came out it's a mixture of a it's i don't i can't even call that what i can say is meek called it out from jump like 2017 meek was like my first cosign ever so just a tweet like he just tweeted or something you say? Yeah, like he would comment on my stuff. He would post me. His peoples would post me as well. He would say it in his stories or just anything like that.

Any way to be supportive within social media. Yeah, he was. Did he try to sign you too? Yeah. But you was already signed at the time? Um Yeah It was like When the talks really came down to it

It was like It's already done It's already done bro Damn Yeah On Vacant Heart You said you was heartbroken When your mom left for Atlanta

Yes Why didn't you go with her? Or did you? I don't know Because that was I felt like that was That was My moment to grow i wanted to have some

type of growth i wanted her to trust me i wanted her to feel safe to what do what makes her happy because i can't stop my mom from this is this was one of her dreams you know a new york always go to get a house in atlanta this was part of my mom's dream. And even if I didn't understand it, that wasn't my place to, like, not give her the support. So I just was like, you know what? When she left, I cried like a baby.

How old were you? Yeah, how long has it been? I don't know, but this was like three years ago, three, four years ago. But as a rapper... I thought she was going to say like 10 years ago. No, it Three years ago Three four years ago But as I'm saying As a rapper I thought she was gonna say Like ten years ago No it was like

Three four years ago No it was like Three four years ago But as a rapper Atlanta's like the mecca Of hip hop right now So you didn't wanna You know what

Maybe I should go to Atlanta too And see what's up Yeah but I'm the only child You gotta understand My mom treats me like She's gonna treat me Like a baby forever

And I had to stand On my two feet And figure it out So I didn't know My mom treats me like, she's going to treat me like a baby forever. And I had to stand on my two feet and figure it out. So I didn't know what I was going to do. She was telling me, like, she left the apartment for me. We was on Section 8. I ended up being on Section 8. So I still couldn't even really, like, pay my rent. But I was telling her, like, I'm good.

Like, I got an income. Like, I'm straight. Like, you could go. And she was like, okay. But it was by yourself yeah damn and actually need no more pocket street it definitely is an adjustment when you leave home or when home leaves you. I think people sleep on that, but it definitely pushes you. When my parents left me for college, they moved me in and left, it didn't really resonate like, oh, y'all are leaving? I got to stay here and do everything myself. Yes.

You're never too old for that reality check. It's like the little things that I peep with my moms that she wouldn't think that I know how to cook. And I had to show her like one Thanksgiving, I like cook Thanksgiving meal. Like, no, I know how to cook. So that right there was me thinking to myself, oh, she don't like, she think I'm still her baby. Like, she don't know that I'm grown and I can take care of myself. That was like, yo, you know what? Just leave, ma. I don't want you to you to but you got to stand at a stool stand on a stool at the stove or is it yo

ask him if he got to stand up he got to do the same you know She taller She is taller She is taller You know how I do it So what'd you do With your first check When you got your first check Cause you was on Section 8 What did you do When you got your first check

Where did it go My first check I let go Section 8 I let go Section 8 And I got an apartment And I saved up I saved my money Like I didn't go splurging

Or anything like that I gave my mom A couple dollars too, of course. And that was it. What was your first check off? Was it a show? Was it screaming?

What was it? I was getting, it was like brown paper bags. You know, like, go coastings and stuff like that. Yeah.

My last question off of Vacant Heart, because I know we keep talking about this record, but I feel like it was just the most vulnerable. But you said, dealing with a man who ain't chipping in with the bills.

I feel like a lot of women can relate to that at some point. You know what I mean? Yeah. I mean, everybody go through their circumstances, and I don't judge. But if I'm going through it, and you're going through it with me, and I feel like there's no changes, I could do bad by myself.

So I'm working with you. I don't judge. I feel like you got potentials, but obviously you don't see it ain't for yourself. So I just got to walk away from it. And your experience is different because you went through it. You was on section eight. Yes.

You hustled. You got some bread, got off section that went through it. You was on Section 8. Yes. You hustled. You got some bread. Got off Section 8. You want to see people take those steps. Yeah, but I was on Section 8 while, I was on Section 8 and I'm telling y'all I didn't even pay my rent. And then I'm dealing with somebody that's like, they not a bad person. They actually a good person, but they trying to figure themselves out.

And as they trying to figure themselves out, it's dulling me down as well too because i'm trying to figure it out but so maybe we need a break from each other and we need to go our separate ways to figure out what can we do in life to like motivate us but i i can't i can't keep doing this because the growth is not it's it's not slowing you down yeah did you run into men who tried to suppress your rise? Like they saw you growing, they saw you becoming who you are? Did they try to stifle that? Uh... Yeah.

I was with you when you was on Section 8. The way I brand new down. Yo, honestly, it's not a lot of guys that could... No, uh-uh. I don't play them type of games. Growing up, my mom didn't have me around a lot of guys that could, no. I don't play them type of games. Like growing up, my mom didn't have me around a lot of men. And if I was around someone, they was doing something for me and her. So, no, I didn't really have, I don't really have those stories with a lot of guys saying,

I did this for you. I was very independent, very independent. And not saying that I don't want no help, but I'm not, not begging for no help though how are you navigating through the industry we hear all these horror stories of women trying to do things and men trying to take advantage of that have you had any of those horror stories no i'm around so many men like men men don't get the chance to touch me i'm like really well protected and i'm very much blessed to even have that experience because I don't know what I would do if I was in the industry and people was like hitting off me for business or anything like that but I've been well protected so shout outs to shout outs to my team in the bros hey man we love

that well we know you got angels obviously um and in there Dennis you're talking about having a conversation with one of them which is your dad When was the last time he visited you in like a dream or something like that? That's why I'm like, what's up with him? It's been a little it's been a little minute. Like, I can't even. You think you just have too much going on so you can't receive it? Yeah, it might be that. But sometimes I think to myself, maybe he feel like you got it, like you don't need me yet.

Like I come when I feel like you need some type of reinsurance. Those would be the worst ones. Like I've had, like my grandmother passed in 06, and I had like two dreams about it. I'd be feeling the same way, like what's up? Where you at? See? You know what I'm saying?

Don't show me that you still here, but then, you know, don't come around. Yes, it'd be like certain signs that you feel, but you like, I need to see you and feel you a little bit more like where you at but it's been a little minute but i still feel him though like i like it's days where i'll be i'll stop and i'll be like all right i got you you ever talk to a medium no you ever thought about it? No. No. No. No, man.

Hold on. Was that you? Yeah. I actually spoke to a medium once by accident. Somebody just came up to me and started volunteering information. That happened to me. Okay. And then another time, I actually scheduled an appointment with one.

Much later in my life. No, I'm too nervous to do that. I'm with you. So what happened when they walked up on you? Where were you at? About to do the BET cypher. Oh, wow. Yes.

It was in New York? LA. He was telling me about myself, but then after a while I was getting a little scared Cause it was just What did he walk up to you Was he in the store Or hotel No he was in

Like in I don't know if he was part of He told me who He was too And I just It's part of the BET cypher No He part of BET

I don't even remember Was he right about some things Did he Yeah he was right about Some things About myself And then after a while He was going a little too crazy for me Like

I was just like uh uh Like he would say things like You're very nurturing And You take care of people Like if your mom If you're their mom And

You're worried about more of them Than yourself And it was so true So I was like Oh Damn That's kind of vague not right now i gotta get this yeah i'm like mister i'm about to do a freestyle you talking about i do not feel like

crying on that stage you don't got nobody to rescue you from situations like that though this is what i'm saying y'all need a cold or something. Blink your eyes three times or something. My eyes started, like, oh, here we go. But he was, honestly, it felt kind of genuine in a sense, though. So I didn't really trip. I was more of being a listener than, like, trying to brush him off. But then after a while, I was like, okay, I'm not here to be emotional.

I'm here to put my feet on the gate right now. There it is. So what is the hardest part about being a new artist? The hardest part about being a new artist is when all in reality, you really are an old artist. So it's like what you feel like you've been putting out, a lot of people don't know so you have to like cross that bridge and know that it's a billion people in the world that don't know your story and you

have to retell it retell it every time and don't be annoyed by it because people are learning you so how's the tour been going i know you went on a little HBCU run. It's been lit. College kids? What? Man, they show you so much love. And then on top of that, it just feels so good because I always wanted to go away for college,

but I didn't get the chance to. I went to college, but... What school? MacGyver's. Is MacGyver's a HBCU? I argue with somebody I don't think it is somebody told me this already was I read it was I dropped out 20 all right so I graduated high school 2012 I took a year off and I went

2014 and it was just over and that was over rap yeah I had to sit down my mom I Graduated high school 2012. I took a year off and I went 2014. And then it was just over. And that was over right after that. Yeah, I had to sit down with my mom. I was like, look, listen. This ain't for me? I don't think this is my destiny, ma. I don't know.

I'm going to figure it out. I'm going to come back. I told her, like, I'm going to take a year off from school and then I'm going to go to college. But, ma, I don't think, I don't know. I feel like I'm important to the world. I was like, I feel like I'm a star in some way. I don't know i feel like i'm important to the world i was like i feel like i'm a star in some way i don't know what it is but i'm gonna figure it out i'm gonna come back and tell you and she was like okay oh love that now one of my favorite records on the project so far i feel like it changes often but don't get me started with koi so fun i want to

talk about how you guys collaborated because you guys are two of the biggest in the tri-state right now okay so koi is a ball of energy just like me very petite um it's another artist on there as well um she started off as a songwriter nija i got nija on there she's from jersey as well so i wanted to do a new york crossover to holland to new jersey because it's the East Coast and just united. And then we all petite girls, so I knew it would look so good on the screen. You know, like, I didn't really see too much petite girls, me growing up.

Everybody was fat. That's what you're saying? No, like, no, petite like that. Look at that voice on you. That's my voice. That's my rap voice. No, everybody was just

I was always in the front of the line Like every time you know Lining up for the line In elementary school I was always in the front It felt good to you know Know that I could be a part Of girls that's my size

Putting on in music And confident as well Y'all did records before though right? I'm on Koi Project No Angels or something? Yep Okay okay okay got you Yeah I'm on Koi Project So y'all did records before though right y'all have i'm on koi project no angels or something yep okay okay okay got you yeah i'm on koi project so y'all been collaborating y'all been yeah yeah yeah we've done like been performing she um brought me out at rolling loud in florida so miami florida how is it to have that person that you can reach out to and talk to about things that's going on in the business the industry and they understand. We have, like, we tap in here and there,

but I be feeling like we so busy that sometimes as an artist, you don't even really get to tap in to your emotions as you work in. Like, it be just so much. And then when you do finally have the time to, like, vent, you don't even want to. You be like, man, I got it. it i'll be all right you have prep talk to yourself that's good when you say the emotions because i don't think people talk about that enough to come from basically doing you know not doing anything like like you know just trying to

figure it out the fulfilling your dream and actually having success like that's got to be a different wave of emotions. Yeah, because right now where I'm at, I just think about where I came from and saying to myself, what if I would have gave up? Because there's people that doubted me, and there's people that told me that I should stop. But something in me told me not to stop. So this is like my glory journey right now. It just told me not to stop. So, like, this is, like, my glory journey right now. It just told me not to stop.

Now, you sampled a record with Foxy, Get You Home, her song. Do you kick it with Inga? You kick it with Foxy at all or no? I kick it with Foxy. Foxy don't play. What? She be like, listen, do it and don't stop. And if you stop, I be like, I got you.

Don't even trip about it. I got you. But she's very supportive like I could text her anytime of the night she hit me randomly sometimes too

just I be needing that though because Brooklyn Anthem is one of the songs where I was let me tell you where I grew up at

yeah she put the deep voice on similar to you yeah Brooklyn Beef who want that? So I'm like, it's not wrong with how I am. I'm aggressive.

I might be petite. I'm outspoken. But I'm a Brooklyn girl. I used to be so embarrassed on how my image was as an artist because, you know, people have their opinions. Oh, she's too rough. I'm from New York City. I don't know what to tell y'all like i don't know i can't be anybody else but myself so how did you develop a relationship with fox uh she hit me up

on instagram wow yeah she was like yo where you from i'm like i'm from the stars she like oh word that's my hood i'm like yeah and then we just connected yeah we just connected from there I think she she um I feel like she she sees some of herself yes it me yeah and it makes sense because when looking at her I was like I get why I'm the way I am like she's from where I'm from what game is she giving you don't the grind don't stop. Like keep going. Don't, don't dull down. Keep working on your craft. It's very important.

Like put on for Brooklyn Girls. What about your relationship with Kim as well? Oh, it's phenomenal. She brought me out to Apollo for the first time ever. I've never been out there a day of my life. So I'm on stage like looking around observing the auditorium because I've never been there. a day of my life so i'm on stage like looking around observing the auditorium because i've never been there then i'm like oh kim right here oh i got a mic in my hand

oh it's people who go oh i'm performing um she done sent me some flowers and things like that she just embraced me she embraced me a lot and it feel good because I'm telling you, me growing up, I didn't have that much confidence in myself. I was the only child. I didn't have nobody to really speak to. Moms at work all the time doing doubles, two jobs. So it's sometimes I felt lonely. As the only child, I was feeling lonely. So these two female artists from Brooklyn.

And it's crazy because I wouldn't say that I grew up on their music, but I'm from Brooklyn, so I grew around their music, you know? It was like you had to know who Fox was. You had to know who Kim was, Biggie. You just had to know. So what gave you the confidence? Like what started instilling confidence in you as a young girl? Just I had journals. I had diaries,

just writing out how I felt, what did I do that day? What do I feel I should do better for myself? Just venting in journals. That was my thing. I would always bug my mom to get me a journal so I could just vent in them. A song like God Bless All the Rappers.

What inspired that? I'm a rapper. Like, I gotta pray harder on rappers because now that I feel I can benefit from this career, I have to speak up for my community because it's a lot going on and moments happen and the moments are forgotten literally the next following week. So I wanted to bring awareness to that.

Like, this is an ongoing thing. Like, don't forget. Did you ever feel like being a rapper was too dangerous? Like, to chase the dream, to want to actually be one? Because you sampled Jim Jones, you know, when he was talking about, you know, being a rapper is a dangerous occupation. No, I never. See, rap for me, it was just a hobby.

I never thought of any consequences from it or benefits from it. It started with me. It was therapeutic. So when I finally got into the game and now I'm around the business, I'm starting to feel like, oh, since I'm part of this community, things could get real deep really quickly.

So if you don't speak on it now, it's going to get buried under the rug. You think once you become a rapper, you should leave all the street stuff alone, though? Because even when I listen to the record, I'm like, a lot of these individuals sometimes bring that side of the game into the rap world.

It's like, yo, you a professional now. You got an occupation. You make legal money. You don't got to still be moving like you're in the street. I wouldn't say forget about the streets, though forget like not forget um but you don't have to yeah it's it's time to pack it up what's the point what's the point of pursuing this career to talk about your pain to still be living in it word like like that that just don't make no sense

so yeah i would say to better yourself but you, you know, you come back to give back. That's the only time you come back is to give back. I think, sorry to go back to don't play with it, but I just want a roughneck nigga on the tongue. It's such an infamous line now. Is that what you're looking for in a man? Like, what are the things that Lola is looking for? Because now you're in a new place.

I know you're not having a hard time finding somebody to come ask you. Then ask her the same question. Right to come ask you the same question. Right? Then ask her the same question. You want a roughneck nigga on the tongue? What does that even mean? A roughneck nigga on the tongue? Do good at...

I can tell you... Poor Jess. What does that mean? A roughneck nigga on the tongue? Oral. What you underlining and where you circling? Okay. But it sound What you underlining and what word you circling? Okay. But it sound like you giving though.

I want a roughneck nigga on the tongue. Like with his. That's not how words work. Yo, you know what? You know what? You know what? That's not how words work. I'ma break the ice today.

Okay. And I know a lot of people, but you're definitely right. That was the first idea of it. Duh. What was it? A lot of people don't know that. On the tongue means on your tongue.

Yeah. So I'm like... Wait, I'm confused. Oh my God. Now you confused. I just want a rough neck nigga on the tongue. I always thought this whole time... He just want to send me automatic with a drum.

Ask me if I'm finished. that whole line was about foreplay oh yeah ask me if i'm finished nah bitch i just begun i ain't giving out no nanny to no nigga just for fun are you dumb but that's a whole foreplay line him giving her i just her giving yeah but honestly it goes for both but the first thought of it was yeah but it goes for both it's foreplay close your mouth

close your mouth the first bars right now the first four bars is foreplay I knew it was foreplay I just I looked at it

as receiving but it's a back and forth though no ask me I just want a rough neck nigga on the tongue. He just want to send me automatic with a drum. Ask me if I'm finished.

Nah, we just begun. I ain't giving out no nannies and no nannies just for fun. Are you dumb? Like we ain't here for no reason. Got it. Got it. You got it now? You got it now?

You should have did the genius little breakdown. i tried to keep it but you know i tried to keep it pg you know so yeah well you did a good job of that can you tell us what are you looking for man what is looking for is it just that um uh reinsurance uh i want to feel protected even if he's not around i want a gentleman and and, of course, a gangster for sure. But a former gangster, a former. A reformed gangster. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Understood. I feel like that look in Don't Play With It, the music video, was just chef's kiss. I love the bralette, the orange under eye. And that was before you had money. I feel like those those be the best looks girl i made that bra i went i went to um what is that that spot called uh m and j i think i don't know but i went to a trimming it was it's like a trimming store of just different things i brought

patches i brought some fabric glue i had a denim that bra was like a bikini uh denim bra I put the patches on it that's why I had like the taxi and state of liberty and all that on there and um and then the shorts was like pants I cut them and then it was May so you know when New York once it was cold but once once May come, New Yorkers be like, oh yeah, let me put on my summer fit. So that's why I look like I'm hot and everybody else look like they. That's your language now, she's speaking your language.

I know, I love the creativity, that's dope. Now I look like I can make clothes too. Yeah, a knit, a knit. See, I mean, I get that from my mom though. Like, I'm like, you know what, I'ma just make this from scratch. And then I'm on budget like i ain't got i got some old pins that i don't wear no more cut them up put them into you don't do that now though i still do it with the custom averex oh but see i hold on hold on hold on hold on yeah but i'm small i can't it swallows me. We like it.

We're here for it. Yeah, you know, I mean, I still, but no, like, I still, I shop anywhere and then just make it look good. Like, I'm not really caught off materialistic things for sure. I mean, I like it. Don't get me wrong. I like materialistic things, but I'm not the artist where if I don't have A particular Certain name brand To wear anything I'll come in the studio

Or come here With sweats And a white beat on And I'll be straight Are your people proud of you? Very proud Okay That's what it is

Very proud Very proud More than me Well salute Salute to your team 80 and them Cause they work hard So salute to everybody

Over there And salute to you Lola Book And salute to you, Lola Book. And salute to Lola Book. I really want that to be the new name. I like that. And it's just the beginning. That's the beauty of it.

That's right. Yes, it's just the beginning. I'm just grateful to be here. Sav ain't called me since that first record, too, by the way. He ain't called me no more. That's a lie. That's a lie. He called me every damn day.

He called me every damn day. Do I feel pressure? No, because my expectations for Don't Play With It a lot that's why he called me every damn day he called me every day do i feel pressure no because i my expectations for don't play with it wasn't what it is right now i didn't i didn't i mean i felt good about the record but i didn't know that the record was gonna be a hit i thought it was just gonna be legendary in the city of new york city but um i'm not. I've been putting out music for so long and the song went crazy the next two years. So if I put out something today

and it don't go crazy the next six months, I ain't tripping about it because I know the next two years, it could. So I got that blessing to know that is possible. So I'll be taking it easy and I just keep it as therapy for me. It's just therapeutic.

There you go. What does your mom say now? My mom's just so excited. She's, oh my God. I'd be like, Ma, okay, it's not that serious. She'd be like, girl, you crazy? You is a celebrity. You is a star.

You're talented. And I'd be like, oh man, come on, Ma. But my mom was down from the start. Like, she's the reason I resigned from my job. She's the reason I got the job. No, no, no, no. See, that was my first job. But the last job that I had before I pursued this rap career was residential aid at a shelter.

And my mom was a supervisor. Well, I'm a shelter baby. So she worked her positions in a shelter. Oh, word, word, word. And my mom was a supervisor. Well, I'm a shelter baby, so she worked her positions in the shelter. I ended up being old enough to work in the shelter. She got me a job there. And I remember coming home from studio.

I would come home from studio like six in the morning and I had to be to work at eight. So I get in six, I get ready, get shower and dress, no sleep, leave out seven, get there for eight. I had to take a bus ready get shower and dress no sleep leave out seven get there for eight

I had to take a bus to two trains job was in Queens and she would just I could tell like she felt she felt for me she like listen I don't know if you feel like you want to resign from the job you can like you got my full support and that's all I needed to hear because I'm like, listen, my mom's don't play. She got me this job, and who am I to say I don't want it no more because I want to pursue something else. Wow. But she was the reason why I resigned. But I ain't burned that bridge.

I resigned from my job. I didn't quit. I resigned. But also, too, that gives you real purpose and intention because, like you said, you was a shelter, baby. So, you know, you know what those kids are lacking and what they need now you got the resources you can go back and provide and go back and provide yes that's my plan for sure well dennis's daughter is out right now make sure y'all go get it and we appreciate you for joining us lola big lola

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