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Balancing Fame and Family: Nilla Allin's Insight

July 19, 2024 Gina Views
Balancing Fame and Family: Nilla Allin's Insight
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Balancing Fame and Family: Nilla Allin's Insight
Jul 19, 2024
Gina Views

What if a spontaneous TikTok moment could catapult your career? In this episode, we sit down with Los Angeles' viral sensation Nilla, the mastermind behind the catchy anthem  Booty Braids." Nilla opens up about how a playful moment while getting her hair done turned into a runaway hit, complete with a nostalgic music video that has taken social media by storm. From her early beginnings at Gardena's Swag Boutique at just 17 to navigating today's influencer landscape, Nilla shares her incredible journey and the importance of authenticity in an industry often driven by clout.

Discover the balancing act of maintaining personal integrity while breaking into the male-dominated music industry. Nilla offers candid insights into the necessity of setting boundaries and choosing self-respect over fleeting fame. Tune in to learn how she seamlessly integrates family life with her career, making content creation a natural part of her daily experiences. We also touch on the complexities of being in a public relationship, referencing well-known influencer couples and sharing strategies for managing public scrutiny.

As we wrap up, Nilla reflects on her transition from Instagram to TikTok, embracing a fresh start and a new persona that led to viral success. Listen as she discusses growing up in a traditional household and how these family dynamics influenced her career path. We finish with a fun Q&A segment, providing a glimpse into Nilla's personality and values. Don't miss out on this inspiring and candid conversation that highlights the importance of following your passions, maintaining authenticity, and balancing personal happiness with professional success.

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What if a spontaneous TikTok moment could catapult your career? In this episode, we sit down with Los Angeles' viral sensation Nilla, the mastermind behind the catchy anthem  Booty Braids." Nilla opens up about how a playful moment while getting her hair done turned into a runaway hit, complete with a nostalgic music video that has taken social media by storm. From her early beginnings at Gardena's Swag Boutique at just 17 to navigating today's influencer landscape, Nilla shares her incredible journey and the importance of authenticity in an industry often driven by clout.

Discover the balancing act of maintaining personal integrity while breaking into the male-dominated music industry. Nilla offers candid insights into the necessity of setting boundaries and choosing self-respect over fleeting fame. Tune in to learn how she seamlessly integrates family life with her career, making content creation a natural part of her daily experiences. We also touch on the complexities of being in a public relationship, referencing well-known influencer couples and sharing strategies for managing public scrutiny.

As we wrap up, Nilla reflects on her transition from Instagram to TikTok, embracing a fresh start and a new persona that led to viral success. Listen as she discusses growing up in a traditional household and how these family dynamics influenced her career path. We finish with a fun Q&A segment, providing a glimpse into Nilla's personality and values. Don't miss out on this inspiring and candid conversation that highlights the importance of following your passions, maintaining authenticity, and balancing personal happiness with professional success.

Support the Show.

Thank you for listening to this episode. Follow @hoefessionspod on X and Instagram!

Speaker 1:

What up world. It's your favorite homegirl, gina Views. Welcome back to Whole Fessions, the home of unfiltered conversations about intimate experiences. And I got a queen in the building. Very, very viral, very, very important to the city of Los Angeles. Down to the booty break. Down to the booty break, nilla, how you doing, hey girl.

Speaker 2:

Hey girl, hey, you done stole my dog. Well, you see how he's just over here chilling. This is crazy to me. I pet him once and he just don't know how to act. Y'all.

Speaker 1:

Damn, don't know how to act. Thank you so much for pulling up on me. I really appreciate you.

Speaker 2:

Of course. Thank you for having me.

Speaker 1:

I'm so happy to finally be here, right, I right, I feel like we should just on some LA shit we should have linked a long time ago a long ass time ago, but we making it happen now yes, congratulations on everything we like to.

Speaker 1:

Now I do digging people business, but before I get messy and nosy and whatnot, I gotta celebrate you. I appreciate that. Oh, oh oh. This episode is sponsored by High Roller. Oh, okay, shout out to High, high rollers another amazing black woman out the city. Oh, thank you, boogie, what we got up in here.

Speaker 2:

Oh girl, what is it? Oh yeah, yeah, no, this is my type of gift I got me my passy, my passy this way, uh-huh.

Speaker 1:

And then I'm also shout out to my bank tender for the sexy sangrias. These are cute and just so you know she's never made a drink this cute for any other guest it is so fire and it is so good it looks so good I don't even want to drink it let.

Speaker 2:

Let me tell you and this is my type of stuff, because I don't do like the real heavy shots and I need the cute stuff. You know, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're ratcheting over here. Thank you for telling me that Girl. How are you? I'm good, I've just been busy. Yes, I see, yeah, busy, yeah, girl I've been busy you know content music, but I've been good, I've been good, we gotta get into this single. Okay, let's get into it, let's get into it.

Speaker 1:

You made an anthem for the girls indeed accidentally too.

Speaker 2:

How did it happen, girl? Because, okay, so you know I'm goofy as hell. So I was just going to get my hair done and, uh, mind you, me and my braider, we've been locked in for a couple years now. She squeezed me in the first time I got my hair done when I was going on a trip to to jamaica and you've been locked in, and I've been locked in since and because you know how these LA hair stylists they wanted to cancel last minute and stuff, so I had to hit up the home. Girl, I was like I need you to squeeze me in before this jamaica flight because it was my birthday. So, fast forward, two years later, I'm going to Bahamas.

Speaker 2:

It happened. I'm like, okay, girl, you got to come and do this head. And so we, um, I'm in the chair and I'm doing a tiktok, and so I'm just I'm getting my down to the booties, because she's like what we doing? Down to the booty. So she already know I want my down to the booty. She already know I always need it when you know, when vacay come, I need it down to the booty. So I'm getting my hair done and I just say this little single and I'm like down to the booty braids, down to the booty braids, and you know, I posted, I posted across all platforms and YouTube, tiktok, it just started going crazy and they're like make that a song, make that a song, make that a song. So I was like bet.

Speaker 1:

I said okay, I'm gonna finish it out, I'm gonna make finish it out, I'm going to make it a song.

Speaker 2:

It's so crazy because I went on YouTube to look for a beat Like the one that I picked. That one that I picked and it was a producer that I worked with before, but I never heard none of that from him, and so I'm like oh he been holding out, but the exact one I picked.

Speaker 1:

I was like, yeah, this is it, this is going to be the one Wow and now we got a hit record for the girl and then your video. You on the beauty squad, you see me doing my thing. I love the nostalgia.

Speaker 2:

Yes, that's exactly what I was trying to get. And then getting back to the point where the music videos match the song. You know what I'm saying? That Murder Inc era, yes, yes exactly.

Speaker 1:

Okay. So now we got this hit single. Uh-huh. You're also very, very um heavy in the influencer world facts. You're an influencer. Yeah, you are one of the. You and heather sanders are the two people that I look up to on the the content level love you and I'm just going through the tikt. I'm seeing this stuff on Instagram. How did you now? Did you become an influencer when everybody else did like during COVID?

Speaker 2:

No, so I've actually been influencing since I was like 17. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm and it's all started. So in Gardena I used to go to this boutique, swag Boutique, the Swag Boutique.

Speaker 2:

I know, swag Boutique, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yep. So that was my spot. I'm cool with the owner and everything, and so I was going there, you know. And then, you know, I cause, you know, high school is when you really start getting into your figure and stuff. So I'm like, okay, I want to get some new clothes, so I will always shop there.

Speaker 2:

And, um, in high school too, is when I started building a following and you know, I was kind of just getting well known around LA curly girl with the big booty, you know. So everybody was fine, everybody was finding my page. We had um, um, it was like this big Instagram, but oh, the curly beauties, and they was reposting, like you know, all the curly head girls. So I got my pictures on there. They have reposted me and my pictures were going viral. So that's how I got a lot of my followers in um in high school. And then, once I started working with swag boutique, they would give me discounts at first, and then they started, you know, know, sliding me some clothes and I was like yeah, you know, I posted.

Speaker 2:

Once I got to college. I was like, yeah, I'll post it, and it really all started like you know that, that kind of high school going into college, because that's when social media really started to get it going and I never knew like the momentum that could have came from that to me. I was just like, shit, I need me some for clothes. You know, I need me some new clothes. So, okay, okay. So that's how that started. And then in college, uh, more brands started reaching out Victoria's Secret, pink, and you know the more. I just started posting because I just I've always been on social media yeah, you know, I'm a social media girl, for sure?

Speaker 1:

so what was your major in college?

Speaker 2:

human developmental sciences, with a specialization in equity and diversity. What the is that, yep, exactly. So basically, it's like the saucy way to say human development, okay, or like um, and it's kind of like a bridge of psychology, okay, yeah, along those lines. Psychology, sociology, okay, okay, yeah, the study of the mind, um and the body what, um what kind of job would someone with that major get? So typically a lot of people say like well, first thought they say hr, but um that's what I was thinking, but I didn't want to be ignorant.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, no, no, first thought yeah, yeah yeah, first thought they say um hr.

Speaker 2:

Now I was, I don't know. I'm kind like I feel like degrees don't really matter at this point, as long as you've got a degree like they'll train you on a job. You know what I'm saying. So, like with engineering, although my degree was in human development, I was working straight out of college at an engineering company. Girl, yeah, at an engineering firm. Well, engineering company and engineering. And since I had a strong background in math and science, they was like, okay, well, you got your degree so you could get up in here. What engineer gone rapper girl I love it okay.

Speaker 1:

So now, while you're in college, all these brands are reaching out to you, did you ever? Like feel in your mind like is it even necessary for me to go get a job, being that I'm already financially? I mean? I don't. I don't know what she was making, but that's kind of like the dream.

Speaker 2:

You know what's so crazy? It never crossed my mind because even in college and also to in college, it was kind of like it was here and there, it was money here and there, and I've also you know, my family is very much go to school, get your job and then you die there, you know. So it's like I didn't know anything else. In my head I'm going to college and I'm going to get my job and anything else is just a distraction. Anything else is on the side. Like even with the influencing, influencing thing, all that was just stuff I was doing on the side. I never planned to, you know, drop out of college, never planned to take it, you know, seriously full-time. When things kind of just started happening, I was like, okay, this is cool, but the focus is still graduating college. So I didn't even it didn't even cross my mind. It wasn't until after I graduated college and I started working and I was like, oh, yeah, like I need to change.

Speaker 2:

then that's when I'm like, okay, so yeah, let's see what that full term is talking about. Are you already viral at your job, girl? Yes, so I was viral, and it was getting to the point where there were people here and there that were, um, actually, you know, they spotted me at the job. At this point, what did save me is that I worked with a lot of older men, a lot of older white men, so a lot of people didn't even know who I was when it came to, you know, the people I was working directly with. But all the black people, they knew who I was. All the people who worked there at the job with me that were black, they knew who I was and they all talked, you know, to each other. So they were showing my Instagram, you know, outside of work and stuff.

Speaker 2:

And then, girl, it was. It's even been times where I've been in meetings and after the meeting, somebody would say something and it was just so uncomfortable. Yeah, it was really uncomfortable. That also, too, is when I was like I got to get up out of here because, also, too, I'm coming in meetings and people aren't taking me seriously because of what they're seeing on social media, and it's like you know they'll tell me like this is like a whole, completely different person at the job, like you know like.

Speaker 1:

yes, yes, you know the corporate. You know the corporate. Yes, girl professional shit.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you know the corporate, you know the corporate. That's my last email, yes, yes. And then they see your line up Down to the booty man. How long were you there? I was there for three years.

Speaker 1:

Okay, okay. So what was the moment where you were like I'm submitting my two-week notice and I'm going to go full rapper entrepreneur.

Speaker 2:

Okay. So it was a couple, it was a couple moments. It was a couple moments in time. Now, first of all, I had gotten this long term deal, this long term partnership with Instagram. Now it's money, and I was looking at it and I was like, I'm like, if I can make this from social media, you know, do I really? Yeah, do I really need this job? And at that time, I was dealing with a lot of sexual harassment in the workplace too, Like a lot of men, and they did not know how to talk to me, they did not know how to act, and so I worked directly with this man, um, and he man he says something crazy to me, that and I was already having a bad day and he says something crazy. I went to HR and I said this is my last day, but I'm not coming back, girl, I was on a flight to Cancun the next day.

Speaker 1:

I was on a flight to Cancun the next day, wow so how's that?

Speaker 2:

transition been um, honestly amazing. Um, I was. I. I knew I kind of had planned for this and I'm glad that I planned. So I started working there 2019.

Speaker 2:

And I already knew I didn't want to be an engineer my whole life. This was kind of just like and this is straight out of college, you know like I just need me a little job so I could stack my savings, and that's exactly what it was. So I was smart with it, I was stacking my savings and I was really disciplined and I said I did have a goal in mind that I wanted to have in my savings before I left. But once that day came and he had said something to me and I just did not sit right in my spirit I was like you know what? I don't even care because it's not even worth. You know, whatever? Whatever I'm getting at an hourly rate right now don't even care because it's not even worth. You know, whatever I'm getting at an hourly rate right now ain't even enough for me to sit here and listen to the disrespect. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2:

So I was just like I'm over it, I'll figure it out. Yeah, and, and it's been. I mean, I definitely figured it out. It's been cool, of course, with the influencing and the music. It's up and down, because that's another thing. Being an independent artist is hella fucking expensive. You know, thank god I'm an influencer first, but it's been a real smooth transition, honestly what um?

Speaker 1:

so what was it like for you dealing with because people ask me this question all the time with um men being inappropriate in the workplace, being that the music industry is male dominant Right For the most part, I don't experience it, but I know that it does exist and that women do go through it. Was that your only situation, or have you experienced it more and more being in music and being an influencer?

Speaker 2:

So that was really my only, um, my only big experience. Because, when it comes to the music industry, yes, it's male dominating. Yes, yes, you know niggas be tripping, but, um, since I am an influencer and I'm running my own business, it's like I don't tolerate like a lot of bullshit and I also don't. I don't collaborate with a lot of people either, because I'm not going to be in a situation where I feel uncomfortable you know what?

Speaker 2:

I'm saying. So it's like I'm also too. It's like if I don't, if I'm not going to be in a situation where I feel uncomfortable you know what I'm saying. So it's like I'm also too. It's like if I don't, if I'm not having fun, if I don't feel comfortable, then you know it's cool. I don't care who you are, I don't care what type of clout you got, cause I got my own shit going over here and you know I'm cool too. So it's just like too much of that, because I don't even want to put myself in those types of situations and it's like. You know I left corporate to get out of those types of situations, so I'm not going to, you know, um, switch industries and then put myself, you know, in the same type of disrespectful scenarios when I know that I have a platform and I can, you know, kind of do my own thing in the meantime and if it's right, then it's going to be right and you're going to respect me and that's just is what it is, okay.

Speaker 1:

Do you have reservations on collabing with people? Or you just haven't got to it yet?

Speaker 2:

um, I do have reservations and I also, too, haven't got to it both. I think also like there's a lot of people in the music industry who are so hyper focused on blowing up and I've just been so hyper focused on living life. So it's like I'm you know, cause I'm I'm an influencer too, so it's just like I'm making, I'm making the money and it's like I'm not going to wait till I'm 30 to live life, or 40 or 50. You know, if I want to travel, I'm going to do it now. If I want to you know what I'm saying Spend time with family, I'm going to do it now.

Speaker 2:

So it's like I work, but I also play a lot, and since I do a lot of play, it keeps, you know, I I'm not collaborating and working with a lot of people that, um, that I want to, but I know that it will come when it comes, and, um, and I'm just like, yeah, I'm just like I'm having fun and I also don't force things. I kind of just, you know, let things happen, yeah, yeah and uh, but I do.

Speaker 1:

I do have reservations for collabs yeah, um, how do you juggle family with being an influencer and doing music?

Speaker 2:

that's a great question. So there was actually a point in time where, um, I felt like I was getting way too hyper-focused on the career, because I really am, I'm a big family girl. I'm a big family girl and, um, I had to realize, you know what. I have a platform, and the reason why I am building my platform the way that I'm building it is so that whatever I post, you know my community, they don't fuck with it, cause they, you know, they know me, they go, they fuck with me. So they don't know whether it's music, whether it's comedy, whether it's this.

Speaker 2:

So I actually started tailoring you know my content a little bit to be, you know, around family and, um, I'll make relatable, relatable content, um, from my own experiences, and that'll be the shit that's most viral, cause they like seeing mom, they like seeing dad, they like seeing you know, they like seeing um, that other, that familial side of me too. And so I guess it's just also to um me strategically building my platform this way so that I can have my platform kind of portray my lifestyle, and my lifestyle is just, you know, this is just the way that I want to live, this is just the way how I live. This is just you know, so it's like my audience is really just viewing my every day and I hang out with family.

Speaker 2:

I hang out with you know, just like anything else, just like studio, just like this family. I hang out with you, know, just like anything else, just like studio, just like this. And people tell me all the time, um, they appreciate that, they get to see, you know the behind the scenes and and everything like that. But, um, I'm just, I love content, like, my passion is social media and content creation. So a lot of time, that's that's my motivation. So it'll be like um, you know, if I'm hanging out with family or something, I'll be like oh yeah, I want to put together, you know, a dope vlog or so you know what I'm saying and put it on youtube and in that way, it's like I'm still working. I don't feel like I'm taking time, um, you know too much time for play. I'm still getting work done and I get to simultaneously kick it with the fam I like that.

Speaker 1:

What about being in a relationship like is it? Do you ever think like, okay, maybe I need, I forget, I forget their, uh, the couple name, that does the youtube channel uh, I'm like there's so many of them they broke up, there was some ghetto shit, oh oh, um.

Speaker 2:

Was it ace fam? Is it ace family? I don't know.

Speaker 1:

There's so many of them no, it was like I don't freaking know, but cj.

Speaker 2:

So cool. What's the girl?

Speaker 1:

royal royalty, yeah, yeah I don't know who I'm talking about yeah yeah, yeah, it was like a youtube couple. They was together and then they broke up and then she went and got a new dude and then they was the new youtube couple. I'll be watching ghetto. Shit.

Speaker 2:

I'm like that happened so many times literally there's so many couples on youtube that be doing the ghetto shit though.

Speaker 1:

So are you like, are you into like doing the whole like couple?

Speaker 2:

Not really, not really, not really, because I feel like also to whatever you put out there for the like you also to like you got to protect a lot of you know, like not everything is for the Internet, and the same thing with my family, like you know, there's certain things that I post, certain things that I'll cut out, or certain things that I, you know, only show what I, what I want to show integrity, yeah, because some things aren't for the internet, right, you know, and um, definitely with with like, something like my relationship, like I put, like I really respect and value it. So I also don't shove it in everybody's face because you don't, you know, once you open that up to the world and then it's just like all you know, yeah, it's just it don't be conducive to hosting your man for real, hosting your man while you're viral can literally open up hell's gates yeah, because you're viral and then it's like well, what's?

Speaker 2:

up with her right, right, right. And the thing is, and we've done content together- and you know he's been viral like multiple times on my account and I remember there was one. It was one video I did specifically. It was like an instagram train and I had blurred out his name. They was in the comments, mad because I wanted to find him bad. I'm like nope, nanny, nanny, boo, boo, you're't know. Final crowd. They was looking because they be nosing?

Speaker 1:

is he involved in social media or um? Is he just like lucky?

Speaker 2:

he's lucky.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, he's hella lucky yes, so you post your boo, he goes viral uh-huh they want the username they want the username.

Speaker 2:

They ain't getting no username. They ain't getting no. But they be lurking through the comments trying to you know. Yeah, he be telling me. Oh, yeah, a couple of your fans follow me today because you know it'll always say following official nilla.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, they be nosy girl how do you, how do you feel, though, just like on some girl shit, when you're going through the comments and you're reading all these females on your boo? Oh, I don't really give a fuck, it don't even matter.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, nah.

Speaker 1:

I'll start arguing with a nigga. You ever got into it with your boo because of something you dreamed about?

Speaker 2:

Yes, I wasn't even there. Yeah, I woke up up on the wrong.

Speaker 1:

Like I before, I for sure have woken up on the wrong side of the bed looking at this nigga sideways while he's sleeping how do you handle things like um, because you being the star and him being like, like you said, like a low-key person on social media, he has to allow you to be the star in public and I would prefer that the guy that I date will hold my purse on the red carpet not on I don't know weenie shit or nothing like that, but just let me take my pictures and stuff rather than a guy who wants to hop in the picture and you get what I'm saying. So how do you? Is there like a ever a conversation? Do you guys just automatically? Just, are y'all just on the same?

Speaker 2:

no, we're on the same wavelength. That's beautiful yeah, that's beautiful yeah that's beautiful we always on the same same wavelength uh-huh so he knows, do you remember your first viral moment?

Speaker 2:

oh, I do low-key, um because, okay, because I didn't really start going viral till TikTok, because you know, okay, instagram didn't have reels right, yeah, and they didn't have video right and so I remember like it was a point, because back then, like my pictures were, would go viral um every now, and it was hard for a picture to go viral on Instagram, though, but every now and then I put post like a curly hair photo that'll get a lot of likes. But it got to a point where my page was not growing and I couldn't figure out how to grow my damn Instagram and it was making me mad. And then TikTok comes along and I was like you know what, just have fun on TikTok, it's a new app. And then TikTok comes along and I was like you know what, just have fun on TikTok, it's a new app.

Speaker 2:

So I really just went on there trying to have fun because Instagram was so you know serious yeah, oh, this has to be Instagram worthy and you know it was just such a big pressure thing and with TikTok it was more fun, and so I got on there, just started showing my ass for real, really just just started showing my personality and, um, I really liked doing the skits. I started, you know, I would see um on my for you page like all these skits, and I thought they were so funny so I would recreate the skits. And it just took off like instantly. It was a skit Cause everybody was talking about my facial expressions.

Speaker 1:

That was the one thing were those like the um voiceovers of other people audios yeah, yeah, yeah exactly um when did you know? I have a great social media personality. I have a great social media presence. Um I can do this for real probably, probably when.

Speaker 2:

Okay, now, let me tell you. So now, no, this is when I knew. This is when I knew. So I was, um, I used to do YouTube with my two best friends in college, okay, and we had BTK beauty, um, and we started a channel. Boom, we got popping around LA. We grew our channel to maybe 80,000 subscribers before we stopped posting videos for them. So we stopped posting videos and in my heart I was like, damn, I still want to post, I still you know, and so I was like, okay, I'm going to make my own channel.

Speaker 2:

And my mom always told me I will never forget she was like, well, just take over the BTK Beauty channel, you know why? Create a whole nother YouTube channel. You already have 80,000 subscribers with the BTK Beauty and I was like no, I'll get famous again Like this is Brene.

Speaker 1:

I want to start Nilla.

Speaker 2:

Like this is a whole new persona, this is a rapper, yeah. And my mom was like that doesn't make sense, like you have an audience of 80,000 people In my head, though I was like like that's the old persona, like that was bernie. That was when I was in college. That was with my two best friends, yeah you know like I'm a whole new individual. It didn't even you know back and looking back I'm like damn, I really should have took that page and converted it.

Speaker 1:

You know, instead of starting, you have the login I do have the login.

Speaker 2:

I do have the login. I just feel like so login. I just feel like there's so many inactive users you know now Just make it a couple, jenna? No, I'm kidding, I could make it a little. I could make it a little couple or a blog channel or something. No, honestly, I really could. But yeah, my mom was like you need to take that and just flip it, and I was like no, like I don't want to take over. You know that thing, that's because people still look at those videos.

Speaker 2:

People still come back and watch that and they want to see. You know all three of us. So I'm going to leave that alone. I'm going to make my own channel, I'm going to start a whole new persona and we just going to get Nilla popping, and I mean, it's just like in my head, it's just like there was no doubt about that.

Speaker 2:

I just knew that like it would work, because every time I'm on it's just like. It became so effortless. Yeah, where it's like I will post and you know, friends would tell me that they're going, that they're trying to get into the content stuff and they've been posting for how long and how long, and we all talking about it and me and my friends started doing content around the same time. But it was just the personality and the way that I edit.

Speaker 2:

everything just started taking off, so also just looking at the numbers and um just how quickly everything was moving yeah, I was like I think I could do this yeah because this is moving are they still influencers?

Speaker 1:

no, no, okay. Okay. So you're raising this um household, not gonna say strict, but more so like traditional strict, okay we could say that strict household yeah traditional go to college, get a job, die at the job. How did your family receive you being like y'all that?

Speaker 2:

part.

Speaker 1:

I'm going to do influencer shit. I'm going to be a rapper. How did they feel about that?

Speaker 2:

so my dad's side kind of dad's side kind of got a problem with my dad definitely had a problem with it. Um, my, my family, though, it's like they're strict but they're all they're supportive. They're strict and they're supportive. And the way that my mom is, it's like whatever I want to do, my really my mom is gonna support me, as long as I ain't doing nothing crazy. Yeah, like my mom will support me your mom's cute she was doing the booty the booty braids dance yeah, yeah, she crazy.

Speaker 2:

So, um, she will, she will support me, um, and and that's what she did. She was like, look, if this is what you want to do, just make sure you have a plan, and you know, I'm all for it. My dad, he was like I don't think it's a good idea. You know there's no stability in that and I'm just you know a lot, a lot of a lot of doubt.

Speaker 1:

But my daddy said the same thing yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2:

And he's like you know, because my dad likes to call him so practical. Yeah, you know, realistic Gosh. Hey, I'm not practical at all. I don't want to be practical, I don't want to be practical. No, I want to dream and't want to be practical. I don't want to be practical. No, I want to dream and I want to create. And I yeah, I told him, I mean, shoot, I'm just telling you what.

Speaker 1:

I'm going to do yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2:

Like it really wasn't me. Um, and it's crazy, because growing up like my parents, um, validation meant so much to me. But once I became an adult, once I got into that job and once I saw what I was doing on social media and how the numbers were moving because I also too I didn't just quit my job and hope that something was going to happen, like I left my job because the numbers were doing what they needed to do yeah, you know, you did it when it made sense, when it made sense exactly so I kind of told my dad, like this is what I'm doing, you know, and of course he was going to give his opinion, but that was just all outside noise, because looking at those numbers I'm like, yeah, I could do this.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, were you this entertaining in like high school?

Speaker 2:

growing up. You know what's so funny? I was, but only with the people, only with my friends.

Speaker 1:

Okay, so you weren't like a class clown.

Speaker 2:

I wasn't a class clown, but it's like now that what I'm doing, everybody who knows me, everyone in high school, is like this makes so much sense okay because it's like I've always um, because I was kind of like, you know, the popular girl around campus and it wasn't really me being goofy, though it was more so with the. I was a super nice person and I was so, you know, very pretty and very you know the popular girl, but typically they're used to the popular girls being rude yeah.

Speaker 2:

I was um popular, more so because I was a good person and. I was nice and I was also popular, but I like making other people feel good too yeah so it was just like I was also.

Speaker 2:

You know, I was just kind of well known around high school, around the city or whatever. But once I started actually getting into the entertainment bag and once, you know, I kind of started um, showing my true colors on social media and and it got to, people got to know me outside of my friend group. They were like okay, yeah, this makes so much sense, like this girl's literally made for the camera oh, I love this it's so crazy how it's just everything's been yeah.

Speaker 1:

I've a lot of people from that I like grew up with. They've like been in my comments saying this is crazy seeing you do this, because you were this in high school yeah, you know, yeah.

Speaker 1:

So it always feels good to me when people that I grew up with acknowledge and are seeing it exactly, because it just speaks to how genuine and like real it is. It's not like you're doing this shit because, um, somebody has given you right, you know. You know, like, yeah, you'll probably hear sometimes a rapper say like, oh, I'm only doing this because it makes money or you know whatever, but you're doing something that's comfortable for you. You know what I'm saying absolutely, but I done got into your business enough. This is the part of the show where you can get into my business. Oh, so you have a cup of questions next to you, I have a cup of questions right here with me. Oh and um, I'm gonna ask you these questions and you have the choice to skip. Okay, you cannot answer, but the trick here is that I can't skip.

Speaker 2:

I'll have to answer okay, okay, okay, okay so you get, you can go first, I'm going first.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, okay, let's see what's your least favorite position this is a crazy first question that's a crazy first question my least favorite position is um from the back, mmm, cause I don't got a lot of meat.

Speaker 2:

No, that's crazy least favorite is from the back is crazy the follow up was crazy.

Speaker 1:

Get that motherfucker out of here. Oh, sarah, the main one to be like cut this, cut this, cut this out. Please get rolly. At a time like this.

Speaker 2:

Let me show you my favorite position.

Speaker 1:

I'm so mad that the camera can see him down there doing that. Oh, it's right there. Close the door. Close the door, it's right there. Yeah, I just saw the one at the door. All right, let's just try to get through it. Hey, show him that so he can get scared. Show him that shoe so he can get scared. He don't give a fuck. Okay, yeah, least favorite position has to be from the back I don't have a lot of meat back there and then, like those be like bigger than me and they like be like weighing me down and like they it's the arch and the whole, like I just it don't, really, it's not for me. Okay, I got you guys it's not for me okay, what's something non-sexual that turns you?

Speaker 2:

on non-sexual that. Oh, I love what a nigga tell me the truth. I love what a nigga tell me the truth bad really yeah, who lied to me? No, no, no, no, you honest, oh yeah, yeah, you honest.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah, that's all okay wait, what type of truth, though you mean? Truth like being up front with you, or truth like I like, yeah, baby, take that shit off, it'll look good. Like what type of? No, no, no, no.

Speaker 2:

I like the up front, I like the up front honesty, transparency transparency yeah okay, okay, not take that.

Speaker 1:

I mean my thing, my thing is not, take that shit I mean shit, if I had a nigga, tell me that's not your hairstyle no he did not. Yes, no, he did, and I was popping it, I'm out.

Speaker 2:

No, no, okay, so let me know. No, I like a nigga who tend with the truth when I ask yeah yeah when I ask a question yeah, no, don't be offering no damn truth if I'm actually okay, go ahead, go ahead you funny as hell. Oh, my damn. Okay, this describe what dick slash pussy tastes like I don't know what vagina tastes like.

Speaker 1:

What does dick?

Speaker 2:

taste like. China tastes like.

Speaker 1:

What does dick taste? Like it feels?

Speaker 2:

like skin, it's like on the end for me.

Speaker 1:

Because it's like just skin, but then it's like it's like stretchy skin. Oh, that's texture. It don't taste like nothing. Then, yeah, it don't taste like. Have I had balls with a little salt on them? Yes, no seasoning.

Speaker 2:

yeah, yeah, have I got a nigga boy saute before yeah yeah, yeah, yeah if you could change.

Speaker 1:

If you could change one thing about you, what would it be? If you could change one thing about you, what would it be?

Speaker 2:

Damn. I honestly don't think I would change anything about me.

Speaker 1:

That's just the honest. That's a good answer.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I wouldn't change nothing to be honest when do you most like to be kissed?

Speaker 1:

That's a trick question. Who put that in there? Ty, I guess on my lips I guess that's cute. That's boring, that's cute. Okay, yeah, like guess on my lips, I guess that's cute.

Speaker 2:

That's boring, that's cute, that's cute Okay yeah, like my nipples leaked yeah. It's cool, it's cool, it's cool.

Speaker 1:

Describe your most toxic trait.

Speaker 2:

What's my most toxic trait? Do I still have those?

Speaker 1:

Oh, that's toxic, right there. Denial let's go with that.

Speaker 2:

We gonna go with that one.

Speaker 1:

When's the last time you had to block someone?

Speaker 2:

Um the last time you had to block someone? Um, when's the last time I had to block somebody?

Speaker 1:

I blocked the nigga this morning maybe like, maybe like two years ago, two years ago. So you don't ever like get trolls and, oh yeah, I don't give a damn. Do you read the comments?

Speaker 2:

I do well, every now and then, only like for the first, because, like when I post, I'll read, maybe like the first 10 minutes you know, engagement, try to engage with the people, but once they start going viral, nah that's it, yeah after the virality nah, don't be in there coming, okay, okay, oh, go ahead. I'm sorry, oh, have you ever fucked two times in one night? Two different people, not a threesome, oh nah nah, nah, nah uh.

Speaker 1:

Have you ever been t-pain sprung before? How did you get hooked?

Speaker 2:

um, have ever been? Yes, yeah, I've been t-pain, t-pain sprung. How did I get hooked? The dude? No, I'm just like.

Speaker 1:

That's going in the clip, the dude. I heard that. What's your favorite part about being in a relationship?

Speaker 2:

It's hella fun. This is hella fun. It's just hella fun yeah.

Speaker 1:

You're mine yeah.

Speaker 2:

It's just like a best friend that nobody can have. Yes, I like that. Okay, which zodiac sign has the best sex?

Speaker 1:

This year is Leo, I got some type of like attraction to like leo's. I don't know, if I don't know, I don't know. It's scary. Male leo's, I truly believe, are sent from down below. You know, like male, leo's are literally the worst zodiac to date, like now. Leos, we good you know, we're, we're the uh, the goddess of the jungle, you know. But no, male leos like they're like are trash humans.

Speaker 1:

Yep, but I'll hit one and he surprised me, because my dick radar has been off lately, so I thought his thing was little and he put that motherfucker out. Um, what's okay? Because you said you don't have a song like that. Okay, okay, give us three songs that are on your sex playlist.

Speaker 2:

Mmm. Private Party by Nilla All In, okay. All Night by Nilla, all In, yeah, and let's see what's a good one? Probably probably, um. Damn no, it's um. There's actually one on the top of my head that I'm thinking of.

Speaker 1:

I'll go show us what you're doing. I'm kidding.

Speaker 2:

I'm kidding, we're not gonna do that. We're gonna say Show us what you're doing. I'm kidding. I'm kidding, what's the lyrics? We're not going to do that. We're going to say can't help it, nila, all In Period.

Speaker 1:

Do you have another one, or that's it?

Speaker 2:

No, that's it. That's it Not the question Are you into butt play?

Speaker 1:

Ty, are you into butt play? Sorry, who made these questions? I don't like it. Poked, licked, spit it, spit on, touched, move motherfucker. Yeah, I don't, it's just, it creeps me out okay, okay, it's like ugh, um, what do you have coming up? What's next? What can we expect?

Speaker 2:

yes, so uh, next we have a new single coming. Come on for the singles. I love your consistency. Yes, I'm working. July, next month I'm dropping again. We got a new single, some hot shit, okay, summer vibe, okay. So that's gonna be dope. And then, of course, the content is always you know, always coming um, but I'm super excited for this new music that's gonna be coming are you doing a video for that one?

Speaker 1:

yeah, okay, so I missed the last video shoot.

Speaker 2:

I can pull up to that one. I know, okay, okay, I'll pull up to that one. I know, okay, okay, okay, I'll pull up to that one For sure, for sure, just send me, let me know. Yes, yeah, I'll come to that. Yeah, that one's going to be lit, okay, cool.

Speaker 1:

Well, thank you so much for pulling up on me, thank you for kicking it, thank you for having me tap in with you.

Speaker 2:

Yes, y'all make sure to follow me on Instagram.

Speaker 1:

Right here oh.

Speaker 2:

Hey y'all make sure to follow me on Instagram and tick tock at official dot Nilla. New content, new music, everything coming out on my Patreon, so y'all make sure to subscribe. And you can find me on YouTube at Nilla all in.

Speaker 1:

Y'all heard her. Thank you so much for tuning in to this week's episode of Whole Fashions. Make sure you share, like, subscribe and tell a friend to tell a friend, to tell their granny to their mama, to their uncle, to their nephew, to their niece, to their neighbor, to their baby daddy, to their nail tech, to their lash tech, to their beautician that a brand new episode of Whole Fashions just dropped, with Nilla and I'll see y'all next time Ay. Woo Woo. What the hell is your problem?

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