Down in the Valley Season 1 Episode 4
Down in the Valley Season 1 Episode 4
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00:00You
00:19Hey, what up y'all it's your man Nico on it your favorite uncle
00:25This
00:28Right here is that real-life dirty Delta and we about to give y'all that grip down in the valley. It is what it is
00:49And that's how you do it down in the valley
00:54All right, all right, all right
01:04Y'all we bout to take you from the juke to the jump
01:08Cuz we going down in the valley for all the sounds that make life
01:13worth living
01:17I'm talking about that drum line at the game
01:21That tailgating life
01:24Oh
01:27Bikes on Beale Street
01:32And touch on Sunday
01:39I'm talking about music and Memphis, Tennessee got it all the legendary blues. That's all
01:52That's right
01:55Memphis is home to some badass musicians
01:58So, you know, we had to recruit them alongside other southern artists to create the P Valley soundtrack
02:04And you can't talk about that soundtrack without talking about the artists behind that theme song
02:11Miss juicy fruit now in Memphis
02:15Shunt is a person place or thing. So let's stop in this little junk and chop it up with juice a
02:21She got that juicy. Hey, she got that you say
02:27Come here. I cannot believe
02:35First of all, let's talk about this body. You know, I ain't be trying you ain't right you doing you down south you get one
02:42I'm saying I do
02:46Juicy fruit
02:49Everything
02:50First of all, we are so connected on something. That's so freaking major. I've been hearing your name
02:55I've been hearing your voice forever and ever and ever, you know say and the world has been hearing your voice
03:06My name is Terica Alexander also known as juicy fruit
03:11I come from a very very musical family and my uncle Bucci had a very big influence on me
03:17He played by ear. He taught me how to play by ear. I
03:22Grew up in a church. It brought some out of me and spent a lot of time in the church a lot of choir
03:27Practices for sure my mom and them did they made sure they put me up in night. I heard my voice
03:32I got my first solo and it was
03:35magic from then on
03:37As an independent artist juicy got her start by spitting her own bars and uploading them to social media
03:44It was just like voice recordings in my phone or videos
03:46That's how I used to make my music like I can't go to the studio. I'm gonna make a video hear me when I say
03:52Every young artist needs a mentor and for juicy fruit. That was an emcee that went by the name of fly boys Z
04:00That is my idol
04:02Ted right here. I met him when I was 16 Z influenced and changed my career. He got me in the studio
04:10And the story of fly boys Z was a part of a string of losses for juicy
04:18Experiences that she channels into her creativity
04:23Everybody took a loss whether it be life money a child a mother a father you don't say
04:32It's always the main goal to make music that people can relate to
04:37Like let it be no day. Yeah, I went through this too. It's okay to go through this you get one saying
04:48Yeah, we get what you saying baby girl it is what it is
04:54You are from the heart of Memphis after all
04:58Memphis music is strong
05:01It's aggressive. It's powerful. It's excited. It's braggadocious
05:07It's black as hell black as heaven
05:13Meet this little junk right here. Miss Taliba Safiya. I am a
05:19vocalist a songwriter a
05:21If you don't know you bout to find out cuz to Libra is a rising star
05:27Her pin game and gutsy performance make her an indispensable member of the Pea Valley song camp and the camp gathers
05:35songwriters
05:36producers and other southern artists to create the music for people to listen to
05:40She's a singer-songwriter
05:42She's a singer-songwriter
05:44She's a singer-songwriter
05:46She's a singer-songwriter
05:48And other southern artists to create the music for Pea Valley before the show even starts shooting
05:54I'm deep within survival. So Taliba also happens to be connected to a man. You might know as
06:01Wody the quirky laid-back and sometimes gangster manager of low murder
06:07But in real life, he's the homie my brother Bertram Williams jr
06:12An actor farmer husband and yes still music manager
06:18I'm ready to retire. It is hard work cuz these artists
06:24If I wasn't married to her I would have quit two three years ago
06:32But to know miss Taliba Safiya is to know this beautiful
06:36Alien black woman and she is the kind of young fresh talent that can traverse any genre
06:42My sound is like a real blend of different types of black music
06:47so I would be the child of blues that met hip-hop listening to some jazz growing up and
06:54Starts spitting some stuff in the studio
06:58after getting their heart broken
07:01So it's like deeply emotional and expressive but it's fun, too
07:07Not just because to leave and virtual my rising stars don't mean that they've been living that indie artist life
07:13And you know, that's a whole lot of sacrifice
07:17but that sacrifice gets results and
07:20Taliba has written enough songs for her first EP and trust and believe when that EP drops Memphis gonna get a show
07:28So, you know, I wanted to drop in for a little taste before I jump off. Hey
07:33What is going on? Come on now, brother. I'm in your hometown
07:38Give it to me family
07:41It's great to see you Bertram. Look at you and your wife
07:48I
07:50Love it. I love it. I love yeah, look what I had to come down to the valley and you know in the valley
07:54We got to hit them. Yeah, I'm saying now I don't want to show so I just had to come and see what it is
07:59And I'm hearing a couple of things
08:07You'll give me a little peek we've been working on the track called delicious and I know you appreciate the safer thing
08:13I do so we'll let you hear a little bit of it then. I want your honest opinion. Okay, okay
08:43Oh
08:54Yes, I love it, it's like
09:00What's Memphis energy about that that's that's all that's that gospel that's that grown and six come on all combined
09:08The things up and give the people a nice little meal
09:12And this meal has been a long time in the making this is your first EP it is my first EP
09:20I've released a lot of singles and I did a live album earlier this year
09:24But this is my first time doing a short form piece. That's like really themed like this
09:30You have a title. It's called black magic black magic. What's that about? Well shit
09:36I feel like it's kind of self-explanatory
09:39But I want to put it in your words, I don't want I don't want to assume well
09:43There is a track called black magic on the project
09:45But also for me like black culture is so infectious that it feels
09:52magical
09:54She's an artist that is
09:57always
09:58pushing
09:59Boundaries like the sister be writing
10:03Okay, can you rewind me like to the top of that verse and our girl wrote her way all the way into the archives of
10:10the University of Memphis
10:12her collaborator on the black magic EP
10:15The University of Memphis hit me up and asked me to reinterpret some of the music that's in there
10:20Archives when I'm doing like remakes of some hill country blues vibes
10:25It's so Memphis is so black is so southern and it's the blues
10:30Meets the moment meets the now
10:34But meeting the now means standing on all the things that built you and
10:39It sure makes it easier when you rockin with that one that one that's got a playlist made just for you
10:47What's the first?
10:49Song you think you heard when you first met your husband cuz y'all met in high school
10:54Yes, it was Robin Thicke. I used to love lost without you
11:00Can't help myself
11:03But there was another song on that album that was like I can do better and make love to you
11:10And they made me bust it open for the first time
11:25On the river
11:30Our first kiss was in the right wing of Overton High School's theater and oh my god
11:37like I
11:39Literally, I feel like every time we kiss now, it's like the dessert of that first one cuz I will never
11:45forget that it was
11:48Fucking hot, you know, I was just a kid
11:51Now my man Bertram soundtrack to the era was a little different. Yo, got it. That's what's up
11:58It's like Memphis's City Anthem, but also to a lot of young Jeezy because you can't ban a snowman
12:04You know what? I mean? We were like, yeah, let's say
12:12But we never sold any but Bertram wasn't the only one with some fast ideas
12:16I was like in the fifth grade the first time I was twerking and it was too many fresh
12:22Was a song get up
12:25With the pimped out Gucci. I was twerking
12:28At Hanley Elementary School on our field day. Why?
12:33Why I don't know. Where were the adults? I'm not sure but I know I was throwing baby ass
12:41One day you throwing baby ass and the next day you ready to be a boss and an independent woman I
12:47left Memphis because I
12:51wasn't particularly
12:54Excited about being in the city and I left and went to New York. I
13:00Guess every bird gotta fly the nest at some point, but when and why they come back
13:05Well, that's another part of the story
13:10And while Taliba was out here spreading her wings
13:13Juicy fruit was dropping mixtapes with her signature catchy hooks and hard hitting beats
13:20But she was also dealing with the reality of the violence of the city
13:25Police say a soldier wound up dead outside
13:27Hi was shot and killed when he and his girlfriend were walking down 4th Street. That girlfriend was juicy
13:34My second son father had basically he got shot in front of me. It really went straight past me. I had I froze
13:43Nothing touched me
13:45Bully ricocheted off the ground. He hit me in his back. He got shot like I'm gonna say like six more times after that
13:51I ain't know what to do
13:54Not long after the father of her child was murdered her beloved mentor flyboy Z was also shot and killed
14:01loses he was
14:04It was very traumatic now you it makes me you I
14:09Ain't want to believe it was true
14:11period like I
14:13Just sat there and I cried and
14:16it hurt a lot and
14:18Sometimes the heart gets even harder. I'll go on to the pressure
14:28I'll go to the prison. I had took a bad pill
14:32And I woke up. I woke up in the back of an ambulance. I know where I was
14:37It was scary. It was it was scary, but it was like God gave me a second chance. Wow
14:44Somehow
14:46Juicy knew that there wasn't nothing else to do but to turn that pain into something folks can connect with and it was that magic
14:53That drew the creator of P Valley Katori Hall to Juicy's sound
14:57So tell me how did you and P Valley come together?
15:02How did you like get to making this huge hit song?
15:06Okay, Katori hit me up. It was her husband that put her on me
15:09Mm-hmm, and then you know, she heard shake that ass and I was like, I do you one better went home knocked out two songs
15:14She then she was like, I want you to do the intro and she was like
15:17You heard the nursery rhyme down in the valley with the hanky-panky
15:21From the bank. You know what I'm saying? But it wasn't our people on there. And I was like, that's correct. So I was like
15:26How can I make these racks?
15:31One two break them three four break them so
15:35Katori heard it within seconds. She takes back and she was like, that's it
15:41She came in my life at the right time and man
15:44She changed my life bro, and then the first season wind up dropping on my birthday first episode came on
15:51I'm like, he's your mama
15:54So then after the intro go off I'm like go upstairs, you know, we just went from there but that's how they got lined up
16:00though, I
16:02Feel like I'm in a better place
16:05Mentally
16:07Physically now, I'm still getting together. You know, I ain't hurt. You know, I'm saying but like I
16:13Certain times I want I want to sit down, but it's like nah, I gotta keep going
16:19So, yeah, I am I am I am way better than I was years ago
16:26Only thing is I don't know what's coming. That's the scary, but that's the exciting part about it
16:33In my eyes music he saved me in so many different ways. I can't even describe
16:47Music can save but can also remind us of who we are and to leave her
16:52Well, she got to figuring that it was time to leave New York and bring it back on down to the valley
16:57Home and I think I got to a space where I wanted to be somewhere where I felt more grounded
17:02so home starts to feel more aligned for me and also I just felt like the land and my family was like
17:08Come on back here. We got something for you. And that's something put a ring on it y'all
17:16So y'all got a real real real connection we really do and it's it's definitely husband and wife is definitely like
17:23physical but it's also
17:25deeply
17:26spiritual and timeless
17:31And if these two are timeless, well, it seems that you could find them in any era
17:37So go ahead
17:39Put a quarter in the jukebox
17:46Down in the valley we had a juke joint they called the blue
17:51And this junk go all the way back to a time when a long days work in the fields might have you looking for salvation
17:57and 25 cents a moonshine
18:00Might have you dancing all your troubles and sorrows away
18:06Who hey, they getting hot up in here ain't they?
18:15All right
18:18Now the blue front cafe ain't just a place in some steamy imaginations
18:26It's a real spot all the way out here in Bentonia, Mississippi
18:32Population 319
18:38And they've been rocking out here for three quarters of a century
18:42This juke junk is run by mr. Jimmy Holmes who everyone calls duck
18:48But he ain't here to tell you why
18:57Jimmy's parents opened the blue back in 1948 and served all kinds of food and bootleg whiskey to folks work in the cotton fields
19:11So tell me about like the beginnings of
19:13The blue front like, you know
19:15Your parents own this place when you went back in time and we'll paint the picture for me
19:19Or what it was like here at the blue front people can be packed in here like sardines
19:24dancing pardon
19:26drinking liquor shoe crap
19:34That off the dome
19:36That's just off the head no was that for everything I sang about either I've experienced I know somebody way
19:42They say that you are a Grammy nominated whatever that mean. I appreciate it being nominated
19:47Mm-hmm don't mean nothing to me. What's my heart? You know, what means a whole lot to me more than anything
19:54People people come out of holler at the old man come out of see them out of my heart. Mm-hmm
19:59I'll get you on that. Now. Guess what? I got all kind of war keeping the blues alive
20:05Keeping the blues alive. It's not me is you're all that keeping it blues alive
20:16Keeping the blues alive is about legacy
20:20And the thing about legacy is that it always has a way of showing up in the future. I
20:28Just saw some bass
20:30I know you do. I'm gonna send it to you and
20:34Miss Taliba sure is the future. We bout to see about this black magic EP y'all
20:42It's bluesy it's funky it's
20:46Storytelling it's a lot of bass a little bit of shit talking a little bit of gospel a little bit of heartbreak like
20:54You know, that's just my vibe. And so I think that people are going to really feel a timeless
21:01relationship to black music when they
21:04experience this piece of work
21:07timeless
21:08black
21:09Music is what?
21:11901 is all about and to leave her she ready ready. Hmm
21:18Whole squad ready and like any good manager
21:22My man Bertram was sorting out all the details tonight right down to the signature cocktail
21:27So y'all know I got to get my drink on for my two-step what is all this that you're doing
21:31I feel like I should be helping you. This is called a black magic. There's some elderberry syrup
21:36We got some wildflower honey this man. I grew myself sir. You know, you'd be doing all this earthy stuff
21:43For real, it's not a game. Of course. We got a good authentic organic cognac. Come on cognac
21:48He's so black always got to have the juices and berries
21:51You know what they say about the bear the black of the berry the sweeter the juice
21:55You know, they say I'm real sweet I think I could put folks in a diabetic coma, okay
22:10You do everything that's what you do when you're from the m-town did you do one shot or two shots?
22:15Don't worry about it. You'll find out in a minute. Let's go. So come on. Cheers like match black magic to black magic
22:22Come on all the blessings
22:28This is strong, you know what this tastes like? Hmm. Well, I don't know what it tastes like for you
22:33but for me it tastes like a
22:37What you're scared for don't be scared it ain't for you though, it ain't for you though
22:41It's on the other side of the tracks, but bruh, it do taste like some melanin in the moonlight
22:48I'm here for it
22:51No, right now to leave about to bring that juice
23:11Put your hands together I want you to put your sides together. I want you to put your booty cheeks together
23:20The incomparable
23:31Y'all ready
23:41We come from a black
23:50Oh
24:00Feel the Sun on our back
24:14What the fuck is up Memphis, I love y'all so much Wow Wow
24:21I
24:37Always wanted to make every form of black music because every form of black music has made me
24:51People who are curators and writers of music are spell casters
24:56Music can affect how you think about the world how you think about yourself how you experience each moment
25:03To me, it's like the art form that helps kind of shape how we experience life
25:21You
25:24Now about all the sounds that make life worth living
25:29Well down here in the valley. They about joy and the pain
25:33They about surviving and living
25:36About making you feel rich when you broke and bad when you beautiful
25:43About expressing from the bottom of your soul
25:46And in the end, that's the story of black magic from the juke to the jump
25:54You welcome
26:16Say
26:20Got no paper
26:23But I'm faithful
26:26so this
26:28Must be
26:45You
26:51Let me tell you about some who do
26:54Most people don't know what it is who do has always been a best-kept secret kind of situation. Oh, that's something hard
27:01That's Hollywood version