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00:00Paying my bills taking care of my family. I had grossed nearly a million on tour as an independent artist
00:07so
00:09Yeah, I'm not I'm not bitch
00:18What's up, it's Mike Adam
00:19This is your odyssey check-in at the Hard Rock Hotel, New York Rockstar Suite with Lizzo
00:24So happy to have you here. The new music sounds
00:28Distinctly you which is awesome. You've you've carved out your own lane, which is really cool. Thank you
00:34It took me a long time to like find
00:37My sound I think like I found my voice and I was like, yeah
00:40It took me a long time to find my voice and now the next part of that journey was like, what is your sound?
00:45So now this is like my voice with my sound. It's my I'm owning a baby. It ain't nobody else. You can't have it
00:53You know, I think I think it was 2019 you had
00:56That year where it was the year of Lizzo all we hear heard was Lizzo instant household name
01:04Chaperone had a year like that last year. I feel like you know, don't she is having that moment now
01:09This is gonna be her year. What are the pros and cons of having a year like that?
01:14I think it's like I think the con of that is like people don't see the hard work the 10 years that you
01:21Every overnight success is 10 years long and I met Dochi in
01:282020, you know at like a TDE thing and I was going hi, my name's Dochi with two eyes
01:35I was so annoying probably like in her face
01:37I was like I fuck with you and she was like really but like even at that point that was halfway through her journey
01:44She you know what I'm saying? And in Chapel, you know
01:47I've seen videos of her performing Pink Pony Club to like a small crowd
01:52outside at like like a beer dabbler festival or something and so like
01:57But then you blow up and everyone's like, uh, you where'd you come from? You're you know, like where'd you come from?
02:04It's like well like Lizzo started singing today. Hello. It's like bitch. I've been here a long time
02:09Check my records check the credentials. I've been where did I come from a long line of hard work?
02:15And I think that that's the part and it's like don't get caught up in trying to prove that to anyone just just do it
02:21Just and just like enjoy it cuz that's the pro
02:23The pro is like all that time that you've been working on writing these incredible songs
02:29Perfecting your craft becoming a performer and entertainer manifesting your dreams is happening and like don't let it don't let it pass you by
02:38So today do you love?
02:40Music now that music is your job
02:43Do you love it the same way when you were unsigned Lizzo or how is that relationship changed?
02:49Even when I was unsigned music was my job. I remember when I got fired from my last
02:56Restaurant job and I was like, you know what? I'm either just do this music shit full throttle
03:02Yeah, and so as an indie artist, I was paying my bills
03:08Taking care of my family. I had grossed nearly a million on tour as an independent artist. So
03:16Yeah
03:17I'm not bitch. Okay. Hold on now getting signed for me
03:21I told myself I would never like signed to a major label because I just was like I like being independent
03:27I like having my own fan base and but then the music I started making
03:32Became like it changed and I was like it has a bigger purpose and it's not just for
03:38This small group of people here is for the world
03:40yeah, yeah, and I see my my relationship with my label as almost like an
03:45Administrator to get my music out to as many people as possible to help them for sure
03:50I feel like says a every artist will have these moments when you know
03:55She'll blast off a tweet or whatever and be like, I'm quit and I'm gonna go off the map
04:00I'm gonna put out children's albums or whatever when your friends are having
04:04Moments like that or when you yourself are having moments like that. What what has been the best remedy that you found?
04:12Ignoring the impact that statement had like I was like I quit and everybody was like
04:18You quit and I was like, oops
04:20I didn't mean to I just was posting like how I normally post how I've been posting since
04:26The internet was invented yeah, and I think that like we don't realize or I should just speak for myself
04:32I don't realize the impact of the things that I say
04:37Sometimes it's like we all have bad days. Yeah, and I was like damn. Let me let me have a bad day rule
04:42Let me get one off real quick. And then everybody was like
04:47Yeah, yeah
04:48and I think that like I
04:51Just ignored the the wave of it and was like, yeah, but I didn't quit and I'm about to drop an album in like a year
04:58So deal with it. Yeah, you're like I'm actually in the studio right now. We're good
05:03I'm an artist and I'm sensitive about my shit as Erykah Badu said
05:06I don't even want to call this the the rapid-fire section of the interview
05:10We're gonna do a couple quick questions that just are not cohesive at all, but I really want to ask you
05:14So are you ready? Yes. What's an app on your phone that people would be surprised to know you have on
05:21I
05:22Was about to say something immediately, but I don't want no smoke. Um, so don't say that
05:26Um, what's the app on my phone that people will be surprised that I have on my phone? You could say the bad one
05:31I'm scared. They're all nodding their heads. They said it's good. I'm scared to say that one. Okay. Um, oh
05:39People wouldn't be surprised but here's a shameless plug for blue sky. Oh
05:43Yeah, shameless plug. Yes. Yes. Yes. Um, if you were gonna get married tomorrow, what would your wedding song be?
05:51What's the wedding song the one you walk down the aisle to or the one you dance to after the wedding dance to I?
05:55mean you could you could pick either or
05:58But the slow dance, come on, give me a good one for a slow dance
06:02The one that makes you feel love. Oh my god, it would I
06:07this is not like an exciting answer, but like
06:11Frank Ocean a blonde album beautiful. Yeah, I love it
06:15Um, let's do another one after this not because Frank's not exciting
06:18Yeah, no, no it puts you in the field, yeah, I put you in the field, um, let's do one more, um
06:25What's a collaboration you've done with an artist that will probably never come out?
06:30Never see the light of day. It's in a vault forever
06:33I did so many songs with Missy Elliott, but they didn't they weren't finished
06:39She just literally had me in the rap gauntlet
06:42Like I was in the booth and she would throw a beat on and I would freestyle to it
06:46Like next beat and I freestyles that she was like next beat and so all of those
06:50I mean, there's so many of those that will never come out, which is great because I freestyled them in
07:00I want to hear it though, but I know there's one that I really was excited about but I don't think that's coming out
07:07Missy has the final say, huh? Yeah, always. All right and everything and everything that I do we'll get her on the phone
07:13Lizzo, thank you so much. You're wonderful. The new music is phenomenal. Thank you so much
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