JT stopped by Genius to discuss her new song “No Bars,” which has been streamed over three million times on Spotify to date! The BrizzyOnDaBeat & Noc produced song is the first official solo single since she dropped “JT First Day Out” back in 2019. On today’s epsiode of Verified, find out why the City Girl is so excited to grace the yellow background!
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00:00 In the peak of our career, like, "Act Up" and "Twerk" and all of those songs and my
00:03 feelings, I was like in jail, so I never had a chance to really do "Genius" on a yellow
00:07 screen.
00:08 I'm excited to be here.
00:09 It's a blessing.
00:10 This is probably the most excited thing that happened in my career this year, being on
00:16 this yellow screen.
00:26 When I first completed the record or whatever, like two days later, I had sent it to Nikki
00:30 and she like, "What the fuck?
00:33 People need to hear you like this.
00:34 You can rap like this.
00:35 You need to put this out."
00:36 So I was holding on to it, holding on to it, and then I had wound up putting out the snippet.
00:41 And when I put out the snippet, it just went viral.
00:44 I love a jacket.
01:00 I'm not gonna lie.
01:01 I just love a jacket.
01:02 I love to be layered up.
01:03 I like to kind of hide my sexy and keep my sexy a mystique.
01:07 You know, so when I like finally get undressed, it always blow my man away.
01:11 He always be like, "Oh my God, you so fine.
01:12 You so fine.
01:13 You so fine.
01:14 You so fine."
01:15 And plus, oh, this another reason.
01:16 I have a birthmark on my arm, right?
01:19 And since I was a little girl, I was embarrassed that it's a birthmark.
01:21 So even in the hottest weather, I would wear a jacket because like boys used to tease me
01:27 and say, "You got burnt."
01:29 Jay-Z don't do anything.
01:42 She don't have nothing.
01:43 She don't have, "Where's Hersey?
01:44 Where's Herdy?
01:45 Where is it?"
01:46 And bitch, I'm at home relaxing.
01:48 Oh, where Jay-Z have a ... She don't have anything going on.
01:52 Okay, like that is not a requirement.
01:54 You do not have to have nothing going on to live.
01:57 I promise you.
01:58 If you want to just be a princess, you want to just be at home doing absolutely nothing
02:03 and getting taken care of, that's on you.
02:05 As long as you know how to turn it off and turn it on, and I think that's my gift.
02:09 I know how to turn it off and turn it on.
02:10 Because when I get around my man, bitch, I don't do nothing.
02:12 I lay there in my bonnet and it's like, "Oh, I can't do anything.
02:15 Can you get that for me?"
02:16 Yeah.
02:17 I used to scam, and I really scammed.
02:36 And I don't scam no more.
02:37 Like, yeah.
02:38 I'm here.
02:39 I'm at Genius.
02:40 I'm at Genius, and I'm like, "I don't remember where I came from."
02:42 And I just can't stand when a bitch get on Twitter and be like, "Don't forget where you
02:45 came from."
02:46 Like, who the fuck want to remember bad times?
02:50 Don't tell me to remember where I came from, because baby, I'm a long way from there.
02:53 Okay?
02:54 I just wanted to, like, out loud give transgender women their flowers.
03:04 They titties be sitting up.
03:06 Their face are beautiful.
03:08 The makeup ideas and how hard they go for their beauty.
03:11 You know?
03:12 I love it.
03:13 Like, when I show up, motherfuckers get intimidated.
03:24 You know that Sagittarius energy is just so strong, so a motherfucker just get scared
03:29 when they see a Sagittarius come through.
03:30 Like, "Yeah, it's me.
03:31 Hi."
03:33 You know Kelly Price, right?
03:44 I got a secret.
03:47 It's here in my heart.
03:49 Or, he proposed to me.
03:52 Or, it will rain.
03:54 Okay, I could go on and on.
03:56 I love Kelly Price.
03:57 So, I was like, "The price on this, Kelly, say I'm hella paid."
04:01 Kelly is a Hermes bag.
04:03 Hermes bag.
04:04 Alright?
04:05 And, the price on it is kinda high, so when you see it, you're gonna be like, "Damn,
04:09 she hella paid."
04:10 But, at the same time, Kelly Price.
04:12 Get it?
04:13 (laughs)
04:42 The City Girls is such a movement.
04:44 You know what I'm trying to say?
04:45 Our slang, our lingo, where we came from, where we started, the culture.
04:51 Even when you think it's not City Girls shit, it's City Girls shit.
04:53 The way y'all hoes walk and talk, that's City Girls shit.
04:55 But we ain't gonna get on that.
05:08 When I first really started doing my Rick thing or whatever, bitches was like, "Ew,
05:13 that's ugly.
05:14 She look stupid.
05:15 Uzi need to stop dressing her.
05:17 She look a mess."
05:18 And it was every time I posted a picture.
05:20 I'm hood as fuck.
05:21 I don't give a fuck what I got on.
05:22 Do not let it fool you.
05:24 I promise you, I am hood as fuck.
05:27 Ghetto rock star.
05:28 Run away.
05:29 Now, I'm stepping in some runway.
05:31 Bitch, you can't fuck with me on your birthday.
05:33 I could not run away from my dad's house because he did not play that shit, but once I moved
05:37 in with my aunts, I used to run away if I didn't get my way.
05:41 So I was a runaway, literally a runaway.
05:44 I hope y'all kids don't run away no more.
05:46 Do the new generation run away?
05:47 Coralink and JPay is a system that we use in prison.
05:55 I used to use it.
05:56 You send out emails, you do video visits on there.
05:58 JPay is where you get your money.
06:00 You could also use JPay for text messaging and stuff.
06:02 I'm low key, bitches fuck with my anxiety.
06:05 I'm prayed up and I'm waiting on my rivalry.
06:07 I'm the hype.
06:08 Nah, y'all ain't gotta hype me.
06:10 I'm that bitch.
06:11 Give a fuck who don't like me.
06:12 That's my biggest op.
06:13 I'm not gonna lie.
06:14 Anxiety is my biggest op.
06:16 In prison, you always waiting on something.
06:18 You always counting something.
06:19 You always looking forward to something.
06:20 So you always anxious.
06:21 You always anxious, anxious, anxious.
06:22 And then when I got out, it was like I never lost that feeling.
06:27 So now I have a program.
06:31 It's NoBarsReform.com, which helps people with resources, women especially, with resources
06:38 for housing, jobs, therapy, like anything you can imagine just getting out of that thing.
06:45 Because I feel like once we get out of that system, we honestly, it's never the same anymore.
06:49 It's like you never, you would never go back to that person you was before you went to
06:54 jail.
06:55 It's grind time, no flossing.
06:56 Let's get it.
06:57 Baby, I came out the gate saying dark skin and I'm stuck up because it was like, people
07:07 used to be like, "Oh, she acting light skin."
07:09 Bitch, dark skin girls are stuck up too.
07:11 I'm stuck up as hell.
07:13 Yeah.
07:14 I'm really from the trenches.
07:21 Pretty ass lips make these bitches cop syringes.
07:24 No bars.
07:25 I done been around some shit where it's shots and I ain't talk about the needles in y'all
07:31 face.
07:32 Some people just got pretty ass lips that make people cop syringes and some people just
07:35 got booty lips.
07:37 I mean, to each his own.
07:39 I'm for everybody.
07:40 Oh, and then I be like, "No bars."
07:43 So I felt like I ate that like, "Oof."
07:46 I was full that day.
07:49 I have not heard from my op shit.
07:51 They have not said a thing.
07:53 And even when they talking, it's like I still don't hear them.