ZM's Bree & Clint - ZM's Bree & Clint Podcast - Chilli from TLC Unedited

Episode Date: November 4, 2022

Welcome to a special edition of the Bree & Clint Podcast where we present unedited, in all its glory, the FULL interview with Chilli from TLC. She'll be Friday Jams Live, Nov 13th. Will you?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The ZM Podcast Network. I gotta get my O's back together. We're all good. What's going on right here? Hold on guys. Okay, we'll wait. Uh, alright. Uh, okay.

There we go. There we go. There we go. There we go. Okay, everybody ready? I sound really southern, don't I? I keep forgetting I'm the one with the accent right now. You guys, and I feel like it's not me, and you guys have the best accent.

Do we need subtitles? Can you understand us? Yeah, I can understand. Okay, good. Some people can't understand New Zealand accents and Australian accents. Yeah. Oh, no, no, no. I can.

I think I can. Can you understand this, Chili? Oh, this interview is about to be ridgy-jidge true blue, mate. Ridgy-jidge true blue, mate. Whatever that was. I reckon we're already up and running, but let's give her the official intro anyway. On Sunday, 13th of November, TLC will take the stage at Friday Jams Live, and we are joined by the one, the only,

Chilli on the show right now! Are you waving? I'm waving. We are not worthy. How are you, Chilli? It's so good to connect with you and have some time to talk to you. Yes, it is. I'm happy to be here, finally. It's been a long time. It's been, what, how many years has it been? 2016 you were here last, Chilli, I believe. Ooh.

So it's been a little while and we're so excited to have you guys back. Are you pumped to get back to New Zealand? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, we're ready. What do you know about New Zealand? We're right down here at the bottom of the world. I don't think we cross people's radars too often. What do know what do you when you think about New Zealand what do you think about

well when I think about New Zealand I think about well first of all it is absolutely beautiful thank you it's so pretty and I remember everything kind of shutting down like around six ish seven And I was like, huh. You know, but for somebody like me, you know, I don't like to hang out and all that. I kept thinking about family, you know. You get to go home and eat dinner with your kids or whatever, you know what I'm saying, before it gets all late.

So I thought that was really cool that you guys shut down a little. Well, we've got a special curfew leave pass for Friday Jams Live. So we're allowed to stay out until midnight for that one. So we'll be there. Don't you worry about it. It's going to be a late one. Midnight. Look out.

Hey, I've got a question for you, and I've always wondered this. Do you ever get sick of people tagging your music every time they visit a waterfall? No. I don't because they're actually i actually think it's it's so sweet and um it just amazes me that people will even think about us like that or just people you know you never know who knows you and and what impact you've had on them on their lives at whatever point in time. And so I always love those little moments like that, you know. It makes sense to me. Well, it happens a lot here.

You just have to see a waterfall and then you should start doing a dance too. You know, you have to do everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a lot of waterfalls here around New Zealand, so it happens a lot. It's one of my life goals, yeah, to visit a waterfall and recreate the dance, which I'm getting there slowly. You guys have such good dance moves that I'm struggling at the minute.

It's pretty easy. It's just a shoulder bounce. Yeah, you know, just kind of like lean to the sides. I've got to learn the shoulder bounce. Hey, Chilly, I saw, I mean, Halloween's just happened and it's massive in the States, obviously. Did you happen to see that Kim Kardashian's daughter, Chili, I saw, I mean, Halloween's just happened and it's massive in the States, obviously. Did you happen to see that Kim Kardashian's daughter, North West, dressed up as you guys for Halloween?

Yeah, I actually posted because Kim tagged us. I think she tagged Tion too. And, yeah, and I posted it and it was so cute. And then I DM'd her. We started DMing each other and then North left me this sweetest little message. She wants to come to a TLC concert and she wants front row seats. Is that crazy? Is that crazy that this whole new generation, these kids, are getting the music?

That's cool, right? That's got to be awesome. Yeah, it is. I mean, I think it's such a blessing when you have a catalog that can you know timeless like that yeah i mean and you don't know until years go by yeah it tells you if that's gonna be like that you know so we're very blessed speaking of time it's been 20 years this year since the world lost uh lisa left eye lopez how do How do you guys incorporate her into your live shows? Or do you?

Does she feature in TLC live performances at all? Well, what we do, we don't mute all of her raps or anything like that. And the fans love that because they love to rap along with her, you know, and the songs and stuff. So, you know, we definitely make sure that we keep her spirit alive. You know, like when you come to a TLC concert, it's not just T-Voz and myself. I mean, you feel the energy of, you know, it's the three of us always.

We'll always represent for our sister, always. We're the only ones that can do it. Yeah, exactly right. I love that, and I love how you guys have, yeah, kind of, I don't know, kept her spirit alive throughout your shows. You can really tell. And something I wanted to ask you, what do you guys do to prepare before a show like this?

Is there any kind of traditions that you do before you go out on the stage? Not really traditions, but i definitely make sure you know hydration is very important it is it's all that singing and dancing i mean you know i'm always jumping around on the stage i mean that's just my thing i love it uh when i can't do that anymore i'm done i will have to retire. Okay. Okay. And, you know, just make sure we rest, get enough rest. But hydration is the most important thing because you have to have those cords nicely lubricated. It's good for everything else.

Water, you know, I am an H2O queen. I need to take some advice from you. Drink some more water. We're talking to Chili from TLC. She's coming to be one of the headline artists at Friday Jams Live on Sunday, the 13th of November. I really hope I'm not overstepping the mark here with this question, but I probably won't get another chance to speak to you ever again.

I don't know if I'm going to get this opportunity. Growing up for me, one of my favorite albums, not even growing up, to this day one of my favorite albums of all time is Usher Confessions. And in preparing for this interview, I did a little bit of research. I spent my entire youth believing that that album was written about you and that Confessions the album was written about you and that confessions, the song was written about you and that you are the woman that he did the dirty on in that whole album.

And I've had my mind blown today where it turns out that might not be the case. So Chili from TLC, can I please ask you straight up face to face? Did Asha cheat on you? Okay. Well, first of of all the album is not about me at all uh when we were together and he was recording i was with him i would say 80 of the time when he was recording those experiences were about jermaine dupri who actually wrote the songs with, oh my gosh, I can't think of the other writer's name. Oh,

Brian, Michael B. Cox. I get Brian from him. Anyways, yeah, so Michael B. Cox, they wrote the song and Usher, you know, he sang the record. So, and I was there. But you're sad. Honestly, it's sad because the reason people think or thought that will still think I'm sure somebody does that the album was about our relationship is because we had already broken up before the album had come out. Yeah. And we didn't break up because of any cheating, anything, because I was not aware of that. But I didn't take him back because I found out some things. Right. Okay. Talking about that, it was just one of those days I was, you know,

on the radio station that I just felt like talking. And I remember telling him, I said, you know what? You need to either write me a check or send something because that album sold because people thought that it was about us. Where's my cut? A hundred percent. It was like, it was like Shakespearean,

this, this betrayal and the, and the, but it was not, but it was, you know what? You've actually altered. You've actually altered my perception of my entire youth with that information.

You, I found that, I found that out today. I've been listening to that album since the early 2000s i found that information out today chili that's unbelievable you're like today years old i'm literally today that's incredible well we appreciate the honesty you have such a can i just say like you have such an amazing energy and you are literally the soundtrack of my youth and I know Clint's youth and we're actually genuinely so pumped to have you here. So thank you so much for taking the time. Of course Thank you so much. Are you guys going to be at the show? Of course. Absolutely We're going to hype you up. We're going to try and be there to bring you out on stage with Fat Man Scoop

Oh, that would be awesome. So we'll get to meet you up. We're going to try and be there to bring you out on stage with Fat Man Scoop. Oh, that would be awesome. So we'll get to meet you. Yeah, hopefully. We would love that. Yeah. I would be fabulous. And he will make it happen. And he will make it happen.

No, it's going to happen. We'll meet. Let's do it. Let's do it. We'll meet. That's Chili from TLC. Don't miss it. You need to get your tickets to be at Friday Jams Live as soon as possible.

As soon as possible. We'll see you in a few possible. As soon as possible. We'll see you in a few days. Love you. Yes. Oh, Jason, what a boss. Please stick to the rules and the legs that you use.