The Breakfast Club - R&B Money: Trina

Episode Date: December 27, 2024

The Black Effect Presents... R&B Money! On this week's episode of The R&B Money Podcast, Tank and J Valentine welcome the Baddest, the Legendary Trina. From her early days in Miami to becoming a trailblazing icon in the rap game, Trina shares her incredible journey with the R&B Money crew. She discusses the importance of having a strong business acumen in the music industry and how she's been able to maintain her success for over two decades. Trina also opens up about the women who inspired her growing up, the unexpected way she got her start in music, and the moment she realized she was destined to be a star. She shares stories about her early tours with Trick Daddy and Ludacris, and how she used those experiences to launch her solo career. Trina drops gems about the importance of staying true to yourself, understanding the business side of music, and embracing the next generation of artists, and shows us why she is one of the most influential women in hip-hop history. From her boss mentality to her infectious personality, Trina shows why she's been a force in the game for so long. Trina is Now on The R&B Money Podcast!   Extended Episodes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/RnBMoneyPodcast Follow The Podcast: Tank: @therealtank   J Valentine: @JValentine Podcast: @RnbMoneyPodcast  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We up! Take. R&B Money! We are Tank, J Valentine. We are the authorities on all things R&B. Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Tank. I'm J Valentine. And this is the R&B Money podcast, The Authority. Yeah, tell them. On all things R&B Money podcast, The Authority, on all things R&B, the Miami edition. You come to Miami.

You better pull over. Whoa, why you pulling over? Because I have to. Listen, you got to tap in with the soil, the originator. Yeah, where it all begins. Where it all begins. Y'all talking that shit now. She been talking that shit.

Give it up for Trina and the crowd. Yeah. Been talking it. Hey, guys. You been doing this. Been doing this. Been done that. How does that feel, like, watching, you know,

watching this new generation just kind of, like, pick up the pieces that you've just kind of inspired and just run with it in such a way, and be recognized in such a way, because you were a standalone, you were by yourself talking like this. And now it's like, it's common, it's what you're supposed to do now. Yeah.

Yeah. It's just like, I just look back and I just see all the new artists, the girls and stuff, and I can see like the form of inspiration, or like the drive, the hunger, like the sassiness, the I want to be the boss, I want to get my money up, my bags, I see all that, you know? And you know, every day, it's just constantly, it's a new generation of it growing every single day. It's wild. Do you get those calls and get those DMs and like,

you inspire me to do this, and you are the reason? I get it all the time, I get it all the time. Yeah, I get some of that, but it's like the way they start to sing is like, unk. I'm like, uh? Uh! I thought you embraced unk at this point. No, I embraced it now, but in the beginning

it was like, OG, unk. You'd have liked it. You know what I'm saying? I was like, man, I'm still coloring my hair. You know what I'm saying? With the rewind, with the rewind of time, I'm still trying to, I'm at the pool park, and they're like, hey, how'd you get in here?

Like who? Who? Oh shit. I bought a table. I bought a table. Oh, Kansas. The older section is, you know. Hello.

First of all, thank you so much. Thank you so much for coming. We appreciate and value your time for you are still cooking in these streets as we are on a show later on this week together. Yes, yes. And it's dope to be on the show with you. I wanna ask you about the beginning.

I wanna ask you about the beginning of Trina and you being in this Miami space and coming to terms with the fact that I have a gift, I have something to offer, and let me show you what that is. When did you identify that? In the beginning, before even you guys knew me, I knew that.

I just kinda came up like that. I came up around a lot of women that were entrepreneurs, hardworking, successful women. My aunt owned a bank. Your aunt owned a bank? Yeah. Oh shit. Yeah, my aunt's sister, she owns a bank.

So she passed away. This was years ago. I was real young. So I just kinda grew up in the surroundings of just women always leveling up, you know? Businesses, just seeing women be really profound, like taking care of themselves always. I didn't see like, you know, I need, I didn't see like that, I didn't see like, you know, I need,

I didn't see like the women I grew up around, I didn't really see them sit around and wait for anything. They didn't have a handout. No, they were the hands, they were the hands that was handing out, you know? They was the bosses, they was the, you know, the women in the nice cars with the nice business, the nice home, this is the stuff I saw growing up,

all the time, all around me. So all my friends, this is what we, we aspire to be like these women. How can we have our own money? I want my own car, my own, like this is the stuff that I, you know, wanted to see. So I always, that was before I even became, you guys know me, like, I mean, I'm from Miami.

This is a big place, so everybody already knew who I was just because of my upbringing. And then when I decided to do music, it just made it like, you know it like 10 times even more intense. But I already had that vision. When I started doing music, I fell in love with the women that were like, oh my God, you make me happy or that song you did, it got me through my heartbreak and I wanted to just kill my husband and I just listened to you.

And I just, so much of that, and I used to be like, wow, my husband cheated, and I gave him a chance. I'm not giving him more chances. So I was the one that was like, wow, more power, the strength, the hugs, the love, and the energy, the attitude, the determination to be able to walk and stand on your own.

And I just, that was how I set myself up. Everything I did, I wanted to do it. I wanted to make sure that my affairs was in order, I had everything that I needed, I had my own everything, and my business was organized. Like I just, from the start. Like, you know, from the start, like, I mean, it's music, it's fun, we travel and we perform, but that's still a business.

Like, I never got so caught up in the fun till I didn't understand the business. That's why 20 plus years later, I'm here because I understood the business from the beginning. And I tell a lot of girls now, like, you know, they ask me for advice and stuff. I tell them that, like, it's all fun. You go out, you know, you got your wands,

you in the club, you popping bottles, you having a good time. And you're supposed to have a good time. You young, you living life, and we only get one life. But you need to be really precise, ideal, and strategic about your business. Making sure that you are setting the ground for yourself, making sure you have for yourself,

making sure you don't run into a brick wall and everything, the door is closing. You're like, what all happened? The whole star went away. No, you gotta understand that this is still a business, even though for us, it's a craft, it's art, and people adore it, you know? And you do it for as long as you feel

until you say, I don't want to do it no more. And that's still like running a business. I work for self, Di is self-employed, Di must get up for self and run and handle her business. So that's just how I kind of started. So as you talk this boss talk, Yeah, I love it. I love it. which is very exciting, you had the foresight in terms of

understanding to make sure the business was taken care of, to be on top of your business. But I feel like also you understood all levels of the music business even before you even kind of embarked on it. So choosing to be a rapper was definitely a concise choice because coming from these boss inspirations who owned, you could have easily chose management or just be part of a label or just be, like you could have chosen all those things. What made you choose to be in front of the microphone too?

Because I felt like I was a star. I mean to be in front of the microphone. Yeah, talk that shit. This is the main stage. This is not the preview. This is the main stage. So yes, I just I always felt like that, you know, like I was just always the leader of the pack even with all my friends, my girls,

I'm the person in charge. I'm making sure everybody outfits look a certain way. We going to this spot, we gonna sit in this section. Everybody got, that was me, organized, organization. All the girls gotta be looking this way, like that was my thing. So I knew when I started doing music, I was gonna like run everybody crazy

because I knew exactly what I wanted. Are you, do you go as far as like, yeah, yeah, you're not going to be able to sit with us with that on, that's not going on. Oh yeah, no, look, you know what, tonight this is not that my weird like all black affair. You're going to have to change. No, it's respect, like I just want you to look right. I don't want you to look crazy.

Everybody knows that about me. Maybe you should wear something else. Like what's the other option? Or you look beautiful. This is it. Like that's just me. Everybody was all black affair, everybody's going black. Don't come in here with your sob story

about why you have one yellow, we're not accepting that. Don't come in here with your sob story. It's organization, like formation. Yeah, we're not doing that. So I just kind of structure like that because I just like to be organized and just this whole little thing. There's a, listen, there is a certain sexiness to order.

You understand what I'm saying? And when it looks a certain way, because we can speak from the God's perspective, when we look at the section and the section is curated the right way, we wanna send some flowers and maybe a couple bottles to that section, hey you tell them

that they doing the right shit over there. That's a good section. That's a good section right there. You never wanna have to tell one of the homies, you know you gotta take one for the team. You see the one in that yellow? That's you wrong with that. With the sob story, you gotta take one

for the team in that dog. Nah man, you don't wanna do your homies like that. Jacob we need you man to take one for the team tonight, dog. No, man, you don't want to do your homies like that. Jacob, we need you, man. The one in the yellow. The one in the yellow, that's you. We're going to focus on the all black. We're going to focus on the all black. So let's get to these records.

Let's get to these records. So you're curating your section and the homies, and y'all move in a certain way. And then, Nyan Nigger. Oh my god. So Nyan. The way you just even come in on the record. Is that the first rap song you record, or are you already? No, that was the first rap song I record.

That was kind of like me doing a favor for Trick. It wasn't really, like, it turned into a record, but that's not initially what it started out as. It started out as, you know, before I even heard the record, Trick was like kind of on the phone, kind of like just talking, rapping, whatever he was gonna say on the- Hold on, can I go back to you and Trick getting on the phone?

How do y'all meet? Is this a long- I met Trick when I was in school, like way younger, we was in school, but Trick ended up going to jail. So I've never seen him no more until he was out of jail, he was growing, but this was way years later. And I think like six, seven years after.

And then he always will say he wanted to music. He wanted to rap so bad. And like all of our girls, he would always be rapping and stuff. We used to be like, okay, already, go shop a deal. We're not a record label, like already. And so once he got out of jail, he really like all the raps that he was rapping in jail or he really, like, all the raps

that he was rapping in jail or whatever, he brought it all out and he went directly to Luke to go do music. And he did a song, he did his whole thing over there, and then after that he got signed to Slip N Slide Records. And then it was like, okay, you elevate, you move from one thing to the next, and then he had put out an album on Slip N Slide, so we just are in them, so we always would support him.

Go to the videos, you know, me and my girls just hang out and just go show him love, because he really got out of jail and did it. Like said, I wanted to do music. And then, so now it's the second album time. And then he just called me one day, it was me and my friends in the car, we was on our way, I think to the flea market

or something like that. And he was just like, hey, I want you guys to come by the studio. And we was like, no, it's gonna be a whole bunch of want you guys to come by the studio. And we was like, no. There's gonna be a whole bunch of people over there. Like, no, what for? He was like, no, no, no. It's just gonna be me.

And he was calling out the names. And we was like, because I'm the person that I always say, who are gonna be over there? That's me, I'm always there. Shoot, you him. That's me. Who's all over there? So he was kind of saying who was over there.

So it wasn't a lot. So we was like, what do you want, Trick? And then he was just like, I want you, I need you, Trena, to come talk on this song. I need you to just come get on this song. I was like, get on this song and do what? And he was like, I'ma let you hear it. And he just started saying it on the phone.

And I was like, what are you saying? You don't know Nan. He was like, Nan. And I was like, Nan mean nobody, nobody's better than you, Nan, nothing is better. And then he was like, yeah. And I was like you, man, nothing is better. And then he was like, yeah, and I was like, all right, we'll see.

So we came over, and when I got to the studio, he played the record, and I was like, what in the hell is happening here? You wasn't feeling it? It was, no, it wasn't. It was just different. It was just like, whoa, he was just talking. You know, you guys heard the record.

He was talking to talk. Crazy, yeah, crazy. And so, mind you, it's just him on the hook and just saying it, and then he was just like, whoa, he was just talking. You know, you guys heard the record. He was talking to talk. Crazy. And so Mind you, it was just him on the hook and just saying it and then he was verbally saying his verse. It wasn't done yet though. It was just kinda, so I was like, well, what the hell am I gonna be doing on the record? And then he was like, no, I just need you to go in there,

take your friends. I had my girlfriends with me, my god sister and some of my home girls and just all y'all go in the booth and just, I need you to just like talk the talk. Like I need you to just like, it's like guy versus girl. So if a guy is just kind of coming at you aggressive and you know, whatever, I need you to just go like 10 times and say that, you gonna hear what I'm gonna say,

and you just go off of that. And so I'm in there, I'm saying all kinds of stuff, and my friend's like, no, that's not nasty enough, say this. And we take his stuff away, we laugh, it was just a whole production this day in the studio. And so when it was finally done, he had left, trickle up to see this. So it was just us, myself, me and my girls and the engineer.

And so when it was done, we called him and told him it was finished. And then he came back and heard it. And then he called the label owner from the Slip N Slide Records and then he heard it. And he was like, that is not Trina. And then we was like, yes it is. And then the rest was history.

I got to deal with Atlantic Records from the song and. So you weren't even trying to. No, they were trying to sign me for a couple months, like three, four months to the label. I was like, no, I'm just doing a favor. I don't know. I was like, no. You said no at first too.

Yeah, I was like, no. I was like, I'm just doing, I just went to talk and do a favor. Like, you know, just talk my talk. Like, you know how you hear songs, and you hear a girl or somebody in the background, they arguing, she's not actually an artist. She's just somebody in the background

or somebody you know, your friend, and she just, and then they were like, no. And Atlantic Records was like, who is that? And I was like, I kept saying no, they were harassing me days and days and days. They were harassing you. Yeah, so I went to, it was Trick's birthday party right after, and they was trying to release the record, and to perform, it was Trick's birthday party right after.

And they was trying to release the record and they were out, coming to his birthday party. I was like, okay, cool, I'll come. So I go to the birthday party. I know he's going to perform and do his thing, but I'm just here in full support, me and my friends. And as we there, they played the record. He was going to perform and they start playing his records. He started playing some songs. And then I remember the record came on and they told me, well, we want you to come out on the record. I was going to perform, and they start playing his records, he start playing some songs, and then I remember the record came on,

and they told me, well, we want you to come out on the record, and I was like, absolutely not. Like, that's not gonna happen, it's just not, it's not gonna happen. And so I remember, it was like, it was a club, it wasn't a really big club, the stage was not so big, so we were like behind the stage in this little VIP area, that's where his, look, the party was at

before you get out to the main part, and he came on the stage and he started performing. So I'm in the back standing by the curtain, you know we standing up, me and my girls, we looking, we just partying out at a good time. And so they kept saying, you have to come out. I kept saying, I'm not coming out. And when the song came on,

him and one of my other friend guys, they came, they pushed the curtain open, they was like, to show the crowd, it was me. Like this is the girl. Yeah, like this is the girl who's saying it. And as soon as they did that, they were like trying to grab me to come to the stage and the girls like right when I was talking,

they were like, hold up, hold up, hold that little part. I was standing right there and the girls in the crowd like just said every word to the song. I'm talking about, I didn't open my mouth and say nothing. I was just standing there looking like, what? And it was, that's how it just started. That's exactly how it happened. Was that the bug?

Was that the thing that said that moment? Like I need to feel that again. Yeah. No, there was one more after. That's right. No, that's still one to know. That was the one thing. So then after that, Nadi invited me, this was a performance.

This was like the first performance of Trix's new album. It's at a college town in Tallahassee, FAMU. So we don't go to Tallahassee. So we all excited like, OK, we'll go. Let's go. And that was the book. That was the one because it was like this is a big venue. And that was the bug. That was the one. Because it was like, this is a big venue, it's a big stage. And I mean, the song is one vert, like one bar.

So by the time Trick, he had like, he didn't really do a lot of songs from like the previous project. He had did a couple of songs from that and maybe it was like a 30 minute set. So this song now particularly was the last song that he do. And when it came on, you could just see the crowd

just inflaming, everybody's going nuts. And now it's time for me to come out. And then you just hear the girls, everybody just screaming. I could hear them in the back, I'm looking, peeking. And so by the time I came back, and this time I had came with my friends, some dancers, everybody, a whole full production. And then we came out and my friends, some dancers, everybody, a whole full production. And then we came out and I did the song and I don't know,

I was like, what is going on? Like, what did I create? I'm talking, I mean, I literally didn't have to say nothing. They said the whole song. Like I couldn't even, I was like, I was starstruck, like looking at them like, what? And then that was it. And you still don't have a deal yet?

Or at this point, do you have the deal? Um, I- Have you given in and actually did your deal? I didn't think I had the deal at the Tallahassee thing. I think right after Tallahassee, I did the deal. I did the deal. I did the deal. I did the deal.

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I be the deal. I be the deal. I be the deal. I be the deal. I be the deal. I be the deal. I be the deal. I be the deal. I be the deal. I be the deal. I be the deal. I be the deal. We talked about the early days of the Beasties, thinking for records around the globe, and how he makes music these days

in a cabin in the mountains. Oh, and this jewel. I was trying to start a band in the 90s called the Nasal Tongues. Me and Q-Tip and MC Milk and Be Real. Listen to Questlove Supreme on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. -♪

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Yeah, right after that. So now you have this hit record that's out. You kind of playing cat and mouse with the label. Are you able to create a bidding war or do you say I'm still going this way though? Well, it wasn't a bidding war, it was just Atlantic. They just came through with that pressure. Like this is what they wanna do,

this is the deal they gonna merge with Slip N Slide, this is the deal coming through this trick and train a record, XYZ, and it was a great deal. And we just, I did it. And then immediately, well, cause this was in 98, then the record came out and then we went on like all these different tours, like right after for the whole straight year, but in the midst

of that whole year of touring off this record, that's when I was creating my album. So it came out in 2000, right directly, right after the record. So it went from that to that and it just started. Cause it's like you were just having a good time. Yeah. You're just having fun and stumbled on.

And you were able to, in a sense, practice with a hit record. Yeah, cause nobody gets to do that. Usually people go out there, don't nobody know them, they don't know your songs. Oh yeah, and then I had, in the midst of that, another thing, cause right when we did Nia, I had did, what's your fantasy remix with Ludacris? So that record was blown, so I had two records.

Oh shit. And so I would go on the road with Ludacris, go on the road with Trixie. Oh you was cooking. Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Oh you was hot. Yeah, it just had kinda of happened real real quick. All this is before I put out my first single on my album.

So I had both of those records like out the gate. And it just happened. Are you doing any shows by yourself? Or are you just like, okay, I'm gonna just do their shows with you? No, I just did the shows with them. I didn't do no shows by myself until my album came out. Okay.

Because then it was all me. Okay. Yeah. So you waited. Yeah. Because I was, and why I was doing that, I had just got the deal signed and then Atlantic was like requesting

I put the album out like right away. Like they want my album done now. Catch that momentum, catch that wave, yeah, yeah. Yes, and so I did it within the year while I was on the road working with them. So when you do your deal, as we like to ask, you get your check. Get your check, I know you got your check.

What'd you buy? What'd you buy? I didn't buy anything actually. You didn't buy nothing. Mm-mm. No, I actually, this is just funny. I didn't buy nothing. I gave the check to my mom actually.

And my mom, well, I had introduced my mom into like buying properties, buying stuff, flipping it in, you know, buying, selling, whatever. And so when I first got the check or whatever, it was like, I was already working and I was good. I was making money so I didn't really need the check. Yeah. So I just gave it to her.

And here I go, my album came out the first year. We worked on the album, I'm doing videos, I'm traveling, touring, whatever. The second year came, I'm still in the world, I'm working, but I'm creating my second album at the same time. And by the time the second album at the same time and By time the second album had dropped and came out. I believe it was like When the album came out I want to say like right after like I had like an album release party or something or whatever And then my mom gave me to check back, but it was double the money She just took she just doubled it like whatever she was

So I did I just really had I didn't have a use for like. So you invested it? Yeah, I didn't have a use to like get nothing. Cause I kinda had everything. Like I had three cars, I had a house, I had everything I wanted. Like I was just young, traveling the world, doing what I wanted to do.

I didn't, you know what I mean? I didn't really need nothing like that. Except what's just to live life, wake up. And get the album done. I'm glad you didn't buy rims like Tank. Rims? Oh yeah, you gotta buy rims like Tank. Rims? Well yeah, you gotta buy rims. Rims for your car, right?

She said rims. Car with no rims on it? I had some rims probably on the car. They come with rims, bro. They come with rims. First of all, I'm in LA, you know what I'm saying? And in LA, if you got a rim. She was in Miami.

If you got a, I know the business culture was If you got a, listen the culture was different. No it's not, they got the donks. See I wasn't into that, that was more like the guys thing, the donks and all that down here. That's a big thing for us but. As a boy I had to show up with that shit on my car. And when they gave me my first check, no I didn't have nowhere to live.

Absolutely not. So you didn't double yours? No, I didn't double mine. But I doubled up on them rims, I promise you that. I put them low and hard LD1s on that GS300 black on black platinum edition. And they saw me. Go ahead, look at the camera and say,

hey kids, I wasted mine. Yes, kids, please don't buy rims. No. Because, you know, you go through. Because they come with rims. You go through a tire a month and don't go to all the strip clubs. Pick one.

Just pick one. We try to be an informative part. We try to be an informative part. But I had fun. Shout out to the Nexus Gold Club, shout out to Legs, shout out to Michelle XXX and Trish. I'm just, shout out to Peanuts. Hey man, all right man, get outta there, man.

Okay, anyway, so give me your, give me just your disposition and how you're feeling going from, okay, yes, I'm just jumping on stage with Trick, I'm just jumping on stage with Luda, now it's now it's just your name on the marquee. It's just you. How are you feeling at this point? Because you all you from what you've said, you've already felt bossy, right? But now this has to take your boss level to a whole new level. I was out of control. I was out of control. I just felt, I really, it just really separated me

from what I was already doing to what I just already wanted to do myself. I'm in charge, the ticket is about me. So everything that I'm bringing to this show and to this platform, I'm doing it on my own. I'm calling the shots. I want the sound to sound like this. I want the stages like this.

I want dancers. I want, you know, like Trick ain't really have dancing stuff. He was just a guy. He's just a good damn rap. I wanted a production. So I want to turn it different. And yeah, it was different. It definitely.

So did you hire from within, like as far as from Miami or did you like do the whole who's the biggest choreographer? Or did you do it? Well, you know what? I did it kind of here first. Cause we have a lot of like, we have a lot of great dancers. A lot of great dancers, they travel, they dance here,

they dance Atlanta, they dance California, like all the artists, videos, and tours and stuff. So I already came in with that. Miami is a big, known place for dance teams and dancers. Yeah, yeah. So that was easy to find, that was easy to get that. So yeah, I kind of constructed that, that's like right here. That's dope.

I love that. And your first solo tour is with who? Myself, it was myself. But you didn't have to really, so, you didn't have to do the promo run though. Promo with like Ridley on the Side? She did the promo run with, I mean, as far as, like, yeah, but you did that with,

with Traykin, with Ludac, I'm saying once your project came, you were already getting paid to do shows. Yeah, but I still did promo though. You still did it though? I still did a lot of promo, yeah. Come on, speak to the kids that don't want to do promo these days. No, no, no. You, promo, definitely, I definitely did promo,

I definitely did those radio dates, I definitely did those, you know, go to the radio station, show love, whatever they needed, I did that also, because then again, when it was my album, and then, you know, I did did those, you know, go to the radio station, show love, whatever they needed, I did that also. Because then again, when it was my album, and then, you know, I did my single, and then I had my single with Kelly Rowland. And so it was definitely mandatory for promo.

It was definitely like a marketing strategy behind it. And I definitely had to still take like, it was dates that I would be booked, it was for me to like perform, but I would take radio dates in with that also, I had to. And I mean, I didn't care, because sometimes I would do two shows in a day. Sometimes, so I would do two shows in one city,

or two shows in one city, another show, or after party somewhere else, or a show here and a show somewhere else, fly here or drive here, so it was kinda like every day. So I added promo into that with Radio Lycanda on the run. I didn't have a problem with that though. I think like when we were talking about just younger artists and artists who've kind of in this new generation

have more subscribed to online promo versus in-person promo. There's a difference in touching the people. Huge difference. And those artists who've actually gone to all those B and C markets and left their mark there because I can tell I know for a fact you can go anywhere down south and get a full you can go anywhere and get a bag and that is a result of those promo runs man Just going to touch the people, doing those luncheons.

Showing up, listen, I done shown up to, what are you doing, to the hair salon. I did this, we had in Chattanooga, no, wasn't that Chattanooga, Charleston, South Carolina. Fill up your tank with tank. And I was pumping the gas. This was six in the morning. But it's a line as far as I can see.

And I am pumping gas. I'm shaking hands and there's no babies this early morning. But I'm shaking hands and giving hugs at the gas station. And I think, you know, for us coming up in those times, I think that's been a saving grace in the difference in us being able to stand the test of time because we're connected to people. We're not just connected online,

but then you add the fact that you have legendary music and you have legendary persona, which I think these new young female artists are snatching pieces of and trying to, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, no, I love the way that you've embraced all the newer artists too that have come along. You know what I mean? Because everybody isn't always receptive of what's coming, but I feel like it's done nothing

but continue to push you higher up because you just move in such grace. It's really cool to watch and really cool to see and see all the artists that have come after you celebrate you. I'm watching it. Like in real time, as soon as they start talking, they're like, and Trina.

Yeah, yeah. And that's just, it's really, really cool, really cool to see. But the things that you've done early on too, with you and Trick Daddy had the most amazing chemistry. Like you said, with the back and forth with records like Shut Up and Take It To The House. Like, y'all got records that they still play. Right now.

Right now for sure, but even just, like get the arena going, records. How did it feel to have a record like that? Like a Take It To The House, where any football game you go to, basketball game, anything, a sporting event. Because that's not like, okay, anything, a sporting event. Because that's not like, okay, yeah, we at the club,

and it's gonna get us burned. No, this is little kids in there yelling, take us to the house. Yeah, just having fun, everybody's having a good time. That's a great feeling, you know, like we got a chance to perform that record at the halftime for the Dolphins game. Right during the before the Super Bowl.

And you know, like you said. Before the Super Bowl? Uh-huh. It's like, you know, it's just. Before the Super Bowl? Uh-huh. Oh, that's crazy. It's like, you know, it's just kids, everybody. It was just one of those records that everybody's having a good time. They just listen to the beat.

They just listening to the whole harmony and us just talking and you know, and it's just a fun record. I think that's like a universal record. It's a record you can put on the party, a barbecue. Yeah. You know, a game, a kickback, whatever you wanna put it on.

And it's just one of those records that has still been standing all these years. Yeah, you got so many hits though. Yeah. From the club to... Thank you. And it's one of those things, if you pull up on a girl and she playing Trina,

you're like, okay, is she on one of the talk shit records? Or is she on some cool shit? I don't really know. What mindset is she is she on wanted to talk shit records What did you do today What's up y'all so in a recent episode of Quest Love Supreme, my co-hosts, I'm P. Bill and Sugar Steve, and I sat down with the king at rock of the Beastie Boys. We talked about the early days of the Beasties, thinking for records around the globe, and how he makes music these days in a cabin in the mountains. Oh, and this jewel. I was trying to start a band in the 90s called the Nasal Tongues.

Me and Q-Tip and MC Milk and Be Real. Listen to Questlove Supreme on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey y'all, I'm Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, host of Therapy for Black Girls. And I'm thrilled to invite you to our January Jumpstart series for the third year running. All January, I'll be joined by inspiring guests who will help you kickstart your personal

growth with actionable ideas and real conversations. We're talking about topics like building community and creating an inner and outer glow. I always tell people that when you buy a handbag, it doesn't cover a childhood scar. You know, when you buy a jacket, it doesn't reaffirm what you love about the hair you were told not to love. So when I think about beauty, it's so emotional because it starts to go back into the archives of who we were, how we want to see ourselves, and who we know ourselves to be and who we can be. So a little bit of past, present, and future, all in one idea, soothing something from the past. And it doesn't have to be always an insecurity.

It can be something that you love. All to help you start soothing something from the past. And it doesn't have to be always an insecurity. It can be something that you love. All to help you start 2025 feeling empowered and ready. Listen to Therapy for Black Girls starting on January 1st on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Sup y'all, this is Questlove, and I'm here to tell you about a new podcast I've been working on with the Story Pirates and John Glickman called Historical Records. It's a family-friendly podcast. Yeah, you heard that right. A podcast for all ages. One you

can listen to and enjoy with your kids starting on September 27th. I'm going to toss it over to the host of Historical Records, Nimini, to tell you all about it. Make sure you check it out. Hey, y'all. Nimini here. I'm the host of a brand-new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Historical Records brings history to life through hip-hop. -♪ Flash slam, another one gone. Fast bam, another one gone.

The cracker, the bat, and another one gone. The tip of the cap, there's another one gone. Bash bam. Another one gone. The cracker, the bat, and another one gone. The tip of the cap is another one gone. Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history, like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl in Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the city bus nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. Check it.

And it began with me. Did you know, did you know? I wouldn't give up my seat. before Rosa Parks did the same thing. Check it. And it began with me. Did you know, did you know? I wouldn't give up my seat. Nine months before Rosa, he was Claudette Goldman. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records. Because in order to make history,

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And I'm Jordan or Joe Ho. And we are the Black Fat Film Podcast. A podcast where all the intersections of identity are celebrated. Oh, chat. This year we have had some of our favorite people on including Kid Fury, T.S. Madison, Amber Ruffin from the Amber and Lacey show, Angelica Ross and more. Make sure you listen to the Black Fat Femme podcast on the iHeart Radio app,

other podcasts or whatever you get your podcast, girl. Ooh, I know that's right. You know what I mean? You gotta figure out how to go. We're gonna make a Voltron. We're gonna make your super R&B artist. And you gotta put this artist together with artists dead or alive with these qualities. Who you gonna get the vocal from, the performance style from, the styling from, and the passion of the artist, the heart of the artist.

Who out of all the artists you love and know are you gonna get the vocal from to make your super artist? One vocal. When you use them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Top tier. The voice, okay.

Who are you gonna get the performance style from? The MC. Okay, well then. No doubt. If you know, you know. You know, I went to all, okay. Anyway, the styling. Who gonna put the fly shit on?

Fly shit. Man. I'm gonna go with Patti. Yeah. She gonna come through with a clean, nice, clean one. Easy. Easy, easy. My grandmama used to make me watch Patti LaBelle. You see how she, her, the hair used to be out doing the thing.

That look like a hat. What? And the passion of the artist, the heart of the artist. Passion, passion, heart, passion, ooh. I'ma go Fantasia. Ooh. She gonna kick off them shoes and get into it. Kick the shoes off, start sweating.

Yeah, she gonna get into it. Five minutes in. She's gonna get right into it, yeah. I cried when Fantasia won American Idol. Yes, she deserved that. Cried. She deserved that, yes. Like she got, she did something to my soul that she deserved it. That just doesn't happen. I cried when we was on tour. We was on tour together. I just cried.

All right, here we go. Yeah, as you notice I have theme songs full out of this shit. Okay. I ain't saying no names. Hey! I ain this shit. OK. I ain't saying no names. Hey! I ain't saying no names. I ain't saying no names. I ain't saying no name who he was, who he was with, what you did.

Don't say shit. I ain't saying no name. Yeah. So we're here now. We're here now. We are here. Special segment of the show. It's called I Ain't Saying No Names. Will you tell us a story?

Funny or fucked up? Or funny and fucked up? The only rule to the game is you can't say no names. Okay. Okay. We are in Los Angeles, California. It is my birthday weekend and we are about to turn up. I am with the hottest chicks in the industry.

Legend, superstar, one is so big, it's just iconic, okay? Okay, I decide to go out with my friends. I'm calling everybody up. They're not answering everybody. I'm thinking like, you know, nobody's reaching back out to me, we all up here. I go shopping with my friends.

Me and my friend go shopping. We go a couple places. We go to the store. We go Rodeo Drive. We go to Melrose. We get food. We walking store, we go Rodeo Drive, we go to Melrose, we get food, we walking around, we shopping. We leave, we come back to the hotel. All my stuff is all over the bed and stuff. I'm sitting in there, a couple celebrities is in here,

my friends, and we're just here. And all of a sudden, you know, we're just getting ready, it's my birthday, so everybody's getting ready to have a good time, we got to get dressed, you know, whatever, and all of a sudden, you know, we're just getting ready. It's my birthday, so everybody's getting ready to have a good time, we got to get dressed, you know, whatever, and all of a sudden there's like a knock on the door of the hotel, and I'm like, what the hell is that? And some of my friends are, you know, they drinking,

they just vibing, they on the balcony having a good time. So I'm like, hey, somebody's at the door, somebody's at the door, and they go to the door like, hey, it's like security. I'm like, what the hell is going on? Like, you know, so I say, well, to the door like, hey, it's like security. I'm like, what the hell is going on? So I say, well, open the door. I'm in the room, I'm hiding in the room or whatever, and they come to the door.

It's like two police guys and another guy looks like the hotel owner or security or whatever. And they go, they ask me for my name. And so my friend is like, yeah, she's here. What's the problem? And so I come out the room, out the back, I come to the door, they're all for my name. And so my friend is like, yeah, she's here, what's the problem? And so I come out the room, out the back, I come to the door, they're like all standing right here, I go to the door.

And they're like, hey, are you such and such, or whatever? And I'm like, yeah, that's me. And they're like, they have this paper, it has a picture of my driver's license. And I'm like, what the fuck is going on? So we look and I'm like, yeah, this is me, what happened? And he was like, were you with someone today shopping, today out shopping? I was like, yeah, this is me, what happened? He was like, were you with someone today shopping,

today out shopping? I was like, yeah, I was shopping. He was like, were you guys shoplifting? What? I was like, shoplifting. I was like, so I got very Miami. Shoplifting, me shopping, do you know who I am? I just went crazy, like, no, no, no, no.

I got all this stuff, I have all this, I don't know. Mind you, my friends are here, they're celebrities, they're all sitting here, so I'm just, first of all, I'm embarrassed, I'm scared, the police is here, shoplifting, so I'm looking at my friend like, they was like, and she was with you, and I was like, yeah, and the guy goes, we have you on camera for stealing something out of a store.

So I'm here, the guy already came to the door, and he go, I looks at her and I go, were you stealing? And she said, and I just, and she bust out crying, and they was like, you know what, she said, and I just, and she bust out crying, and they was like, you know what, you two, you guys come with us, and they grab us up to the door, put our hands behind our back or whatever,

and at that time, as soon as my hand went behind my back, I just heard something go boom, and it was a music box pop on, and the guys with the police things, I take them off their clothes, they started dancing. So my other celebrity friends are at had the door at the door, they in the back, they on the floor in the hallway,

crying, laughing, screaming, laughing. And when they come in, I was so mad, so I couldn't even, I didn't even realize them like starting to do the strip teasing. I was so mad, I couldn't get unmad. It was like, happy birthday, and then everybody just came, and everybody's having a good, I was so mad. I was like, stealing, Rodeo Drive, what?

How did you get my ID? My friend took a picture of my ID, zoomed it in. It was a big plot, but my friend, my celebrity friend, her security was the guys that came to do it as security. I never saw her security before, so I'm thinking these big guys, these are like police and security. He's talking about it was so not funny,

but it was so funny after. I was pissed off, but I had a good time after, but boy, this group here, it was so funny after. I was pissed off, but I had a good time after. But boy, this group here, it was like one of the best birthdays ever. That's great. That's great. Yeah, I was waiting on Ashton Kutcher to pop up like being pranked.

Like, what's happening? Like, what? Her saying yeah though really probably sent you like, you didn't have to do that motherfucker. Oh my God. Yeah, I was looking at her like, what? Stealing, like, it's my birthday weekend, like what? And she went right on over, she was like, just a shirt.

Just a shirt. I'm like just a shirt. Everybody in the room was just trying not to laugh so hard during the whole time, because I was at the door like terrified with my hands in my back and like what? And my eyes were big, I was like crying and everything and I was just so embarrassed.

And I mean when I seen seen the people at that door and when I seen them, once the guys came in, I seen my friends on the floor, I'm talking about on the hallway of this hotel floor laughing. Oh, I was too pissed off with them, but it was a good day. You didn't get to enjoy the fest. I didn't even care about the strip tease.

I was just over it. I was too mad to enjoy. I was just like, I couldn't even have fun right then because my heart was beating like shoplifting, arrested, LA, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, we have to have a miscommunication. And then, yeah, that's what happened. So that was like the little trick that happened to me.

But- I am the baddest, do you know? Shopping, stealing, what, I have all my receipts, my purse, my credit card, all my bags, like it is my birthday, like, yeah, but that was one of the things that got me. That was a great story. That is a great, that is a great incident.

Shout out to the friends, we're not gonna say their names, but shout out for y'all putting that on. Can't say their names. Shout out to the friends that said they actually stole something too. That could've turned into a fight like a monster. I know how that could've went. Trina, listen, we, I mean, your essence is legendary.

Thank you. As you continue to see these young ladies Trina, listen, we, I mean, your essence is legendary as you continue to see these young ladies with more confidence, more business acumen, and owning who they are as women. You are part of creating that legacy for us. So we appreciate you. We can't wait till, I'm gonna put a date on it, we can't wait till June.

You know. So shit. We can't wait till May. I'm just throwing, I'm just throwing months out there. You know what I'm saying? I'm not trying to apply no pressure. You know what I'm saying? I'm just praying that maybe sometime in May, June,

you know what I'm saying, new trainer. I'm just, I'm just putting that in the atmosphere. Cause we going on tour and if she wanna pop out. You know what I'm saying anytime. Anytime. And if you need us for anything man this is a home for you. Whatever you need us to say, do, promote, show up to, whatever it is. We are there.

Thank you. We are absolutely there. Thank you guys. I'm sure I'm in one of them police suits. Not that suit. You always gonna take your shirt off. Who stole some shit. Relax, y'all. That's what I do.

That's my job. Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Tank. I'm Jay Valentine. And this is the R&B Money podcast, the authority on all things R&B. And this has been Boss Talk with the Baddest. Please make some noise for Trina in the building. Thank you. R&B Money is a production of the Blood and Blood of the building. Yeah. Thank you. Don't forget to subscribe to and rate our show and you can connect with us on social media at Jay Valentine and at the real tank for the extended episode subscribe to youtube.com forward slash R&B money.

What's up y'all. So in a recent episode of Quest Love Supreme, my co-hosts, I'm P Bill and Sugar Steve and I sat down with the king at rock of the Beastie Boys. We talked about the early days of the Beasties, thinking for records around the globe, and now he makes music these days in a cabin in the mountains. Oh, and this jewel. I was trying to start a band in the 90s called the Nasal Tongues. Me and Q-Tip and MC Milk and Be Real. Listen to Questlove Supreme on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hey y'all, I'm Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, host of Therapy for Black Girls. This January, join me for our third annual January Jumpstart series. Starting January 1st, we'll have inspiring conversations to give you a hand in kickstarting your personal growth. If you've been holding back or playing small, this is your all-access pass to step fully into the possibilities of the new year. This is the therapy for Black girls starting on January 1st on the iHeartRadio app,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, y'all, Nimini here. I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Executive produced by Questlove, the Story Pirates, and John Glickman, Historical Records brings history to life through hip hop. Flash slam, another one gone Bash bam, another one gone

The cracker, the bat and another one gone The tip of the cap, cause another one. Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history, like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15 year old girl in Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the city bus nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. Check it. And it began with me, did you know, did you know,

I wouldn't give up my seat. Nine months before Rosa, it was Claudette Coleman. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records. Because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey everyone, it's John, also known as Dr. John Paul. And I'm Jordan, or Joe Ho. And we are the Black Fat Film Podcast.

A podcast where all the intersections of identity are celebrated. Woo chat, this year we have had some of our favorite people on including Kid Fury, T.S. Madison, Amber Ruffin from the Amber and Lacey show, Angela Carras and more. Make sure you listen to the Black Fat Fam podcast on the iHeart Radio app, Alpha podcast or whatever you get your podcast girl. Oh, I know that's right. From tips for healthy living to the latest medical breakthroughs, Ooh, I know that exercise is healthy. It's just that people don't know why it's healthy.

And we're struggling to try to help people help themselves and each other. Listen to WebMD Health Discovered on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.