WNTTLK (We Need To Talk)
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WNTTLK (We Need To Talk)
Jozzy Talks Family Support, Spirituality in Fame, Independent Path, & Latest R&B Single "Don’t Feel Sorry For Me"!
What happens when "low vibrational" moments turn into powerful lessons of self-discovery? Join us for a heartwarming conversation with the incredibly talented Jazzy as she opens up about her past, her journey to improved self-esteem, and the unforgettable memories that have shaped her music career. We reminisce about our virtual interview during the pandemic and celebrate her latest single, "Don't Feel Sorry For Me." Jazzy’s track “Belongs to You” is set to become a timeless R&B classic, reminiscent of Usher’s B-side hits.
Witness the revival of album artistry in today’s music industry. We spotlight groundbreaking artists like Doja Cat and Victoria Monet, who are redefining the importance of cohesive albums. Jazzy and I also reflect on the increasing recognition female artists like Rhapsody receive, the emotional weight it carries, and the exciting potential for future collaborations. Personal stories and industry insights reveal the significance of staying true to one's moral compass and spirituality amidst the chaotic tides of fame and change.
Get ready for an unfiltered talk about the realities of fame and the power of authentic fan support. Jazzy reveals how she turns challenges into lessons, emphasizing the critical role of a supportive network. We discuss the advantages of taking an independent path in the music business and the essential role DJs play in promoting new talent. Jazzy’s new single, available at GoTeamSportcom, is a testament to the crucial financial backing independent artists need. Tune in to feel the deep communal and spiritual roots that make Memphis a powerhouse of musical heritage.
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I can't believe I actually blanked when I was younger. Ha ha Nah. What was the last? What just triggered that last?
Speaker 2:That was crazy. I can't believe I actually data shot it when I was younger.
Speaker 1:Okay, why Because?
Speaker 2:Low frequencies, Low frequencies, low vibrations. It just makes you look in the mirror and be like damn, was I. Low vibrational.
Speaker 1:I would just say me, and my homegirl refers to those as our low self-esteem heroes.
Speaker 2:What's happening? I'm Jazzy. My new single, Don't Feel Sorry For Me, is out right now. Go team sportcom and yo, Nailah, we need to talk.
Speaker 1:What's up, guys? It's another episode of we Need To Talk. I am Nailah Simone. I got a very special guest in the building. I got my sister.
Speaker 2:Jazzy here.
Speaker 1:Oh man, what's up? Jaz hey glad to have you back on the pod. Actually, I never had you on the pod. We did Zoom, we did Zoom. Yeah, yeah, yeah, pandemic. It was ghetto that shit rocked.
Speaker 2:Though that shit was hard, though I love it, and you've always been supportive man. You've been nothing but more supportive than like.
Speaker 1:What? Yeah, I'm a fan of talent, you know, so, like, keep pouring into me with your music and then it just comes full circle, you know. Thank you, man. I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying Actually on my Top 25 Most Played.
Speaker 2:It's Belongs to you. That's crazy. That's so good. I fucking love that record. That's so good.
Speaker 1:Girls go crazy over that record when it belongs to you. What that shit? It just got like a, I don't know. It got soul to it. It's sexy and what is that? I don't know what instrument that is If it's a piano or something that's going crazy. At the end it's like a. That was a sax, that's like trumpets, whatever the hell it is.
Speaker 2:That shit right there. Yeah, that's a classic R&B song. It is Classic R&B song. I really feel like a few years later, like give this 10 years, five to 10 years, people are going to come back and be like yo, this is my jam, Like for real, I think so too, I think it's a B-side.
Speaker 1:You know, it's like Usher's Confessions with Bad Girl yeah on God, like everybody was fucking with yeah, but really everybody was fucking with Bad Girl. That's how I feel that one is.
Speaker 2:Exactly man or Caught Up. You know what I'm saying. So, yeah, it's definitely that I love B-side. As a writer and a person who loves albums, I've never really liked a single that artists drop. I be hating why they drop this shit. You know what I'm saying. But them B-cut. Those are the songs that I like.
Speaker 1:What made you an album type of girly? Because I feel like we're not even in the climate of albums anymore. Everybody's chasing a single.
Speaker 2:But I think it's coming back, though. Okay, I really do feel like it has to come back. I hope so, because a lot of things have been overly like saturated man, everything is like boring now. So, like I think people want to slow down and listen to projects now again. That's why I think, um, that's why Doja Cat last album was so cold like, and I just I just feel like, uh, people are really taking even because I'm in sessions with artists and they're really taking their time on their albums. It's different now, like it ain't like how it used to be, like Niggas just want singles. When did you see the turn? What do you think the turning point was? Man, just Recently.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was just recently.
Speaker 2:I just think people are really starting to see real artistry because you see women like Victoria Monet. Yes, deserves everything, but she started as a writer, so she gets sequenced and she gets playlist, tracklisting and all of that Presentation, Even the fact that she dropped the All Right music video just now.
Speaker 1:I'm like, thank God, because that was a B-side record. I didn't even think we were going to get visuals for that. Yes, man.
Speaker 2:Yeah. No, it's about to be a resurgence, the renaissance of good music and just good albums, because niggas will drop a hit and then their albums don't do shit because their albums weren't good. You know what I'm saying? Labels is losing money, so labels is like yo we need good albums.
Speaker 1:Figure it out. You know it's funny. You say that, Speaking of good albums, Rhapsody A great album, right?
Speaker 2:Phenomenal album. Shout out to Rhapsody for shouting me out on their la leaker crazy, make your girl go jazzy. I was like wait, I was a adjective, like what make your girl go jazzy nasty word.
Speaker 1:When you first heard that, did you know that she's gonna shut you out? No, no.
Speaker 2:I didn't even know rhapsody knew I was that like girl go jazzy. I didn't even know Rhapsody knew I was that like girl go jazzy type. I didn't even know.
Speaker 1:Rhapsody don't know nothing about me unless she knows something about me Right right, right, but I love her.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying? I'm a fan of hers, and so when she said it like somebody sent Brianna. She was like yo, she really said your name. We kept trying to make sure she said it.
Speaker 1:No, she said that shit yes.
Speaker 2:It's crazy man, but that was beautiful because I think everybody should just do what they want. If you want to go jazzy, go jazzy.
Speaker 1:Not you being the new standard. The bar for that? That means you're the bar bro. You got dropped in a Rhapsody. I'm at the bar for that. That means you're at the bar bro. You got dropped in a Rhapsody.
Speaker 2:That's wild, that's crazy, and you know we don't, and I think that's so cool because rap guys do it to rap niggas and ballers all the time. You know what I'm saying, but we never really have like-.
Speaker 1:Women doing it. Yeah, I know, I know that's hard, so that's lit Super, super dope. Are you guys going to collaborate at some point?
Speaker 2:Yeah, a hundred percent. We need that A hundred percent. We will definitely collaborate. Okay, beautiful, that's going to happen.
Speaker 1:That's on my wish list. Come on, Nyla. I can't even imagine what the hell that's going to sound like. Can I call you New York LA? Yeah, good All right, cool, you know, there is an artist named. That's my girl. Yeah, she's cute. She's cute, she makes alternative.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she's a star.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:She a star.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm excited to see where she takes it. But all right, speaking of where people are taking things, jazzy, we've talked about it a little bit off camera, yeah, but you have been taking things to new heights, whether with your pen and with your artistry. Just so for those who aren't familiar, I'm just put it out there her resume. She's written hits for SZA, mary J Blige, all types of people, and then she's also written hits for herself, as you guys heard me talk about earlier. Some of my favorite records in my top 25 most played this year. So talk to me about where are you taking it now? I know you were a former Love Records artist and now you know, with everything going on in the climate of hip hop right now, you gotta make some changes and pivot. First and foremost, how are you feeling? How are you feeling?
Speaker 2:A lot of emotions. You know what I'm saying. A lot of emotions, you know, because at the end of the day you have to do what's morally correct. You know what I'm saying, you know, at the end of the day, that's just it Like a lot. You know, at the end of the day, that's just it, like a lot of emotions. But at the end of the day you have to. Sometimes you have to put everything aside, like what you want as far as a career, yeah, and just go with what's right in your soul.
Speaker 2:So right now I'm saying Reflect, but I ain't going to lie, prayer has helped me out so much, literally. I've always been a religious spiritual person. But yeah, that's really what I'm doing. I try to talk to my friends and if my friends give me really good sound advice, then I talk to my niggas in Memphis. They give me horrible advice and then I be like okay, shit.
Speaker 1:The middle.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying. So I be having to just get in my bag in my own bubble and pray and meditate, and you know what I'm saying. But it's really been like like seeing the love and support I think has really helped me out to just know that. Yeah, like it's going to be okay.
Speaker 1:I was happy to see you. When I saw you the other day, I'm like Jazzy, you're outside.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we missed you, man, we missed you. No, ivy man. Shout out to my sis, ivy, because she's like she just keeps me afloat Seeing her wins. It's just like all of us came together through music and now we're really family, you know what I'm saying. So I had to pull up for Ivy's event and when I saw you I was like this is perfect timing, because I'm dropping a song and I'm dropping it independently on my site. This is different for me, you know. And I'm dropping it independently, yep, on my site. So you know, this is different for me. You know what I'm saying. But, man, there's like you, you think you, you think you got a plan in life no, god laughs at our plans, yo our plans is crazy like, yeah, man don't even try to write down a plan, bro, just go, just go.
Speaker 2:No, for real, go with the flow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I do want to say to your point about just feeling a range of emotions. I think, culturally, for people who are really fans and not just people who are trolls we all feel a lot of ways. You know what I'm saying, so that's why when I saw you, I just wanted to love on you Like yo. Jazzy, it's good to see you and I'm glad you back outside, yeah.
Speaker 2:I receive that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I receive that tremendously.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:And I like how you're addressing it with your new record. I think it was a bold move. I'm not going to lie.
Speaker 2:I'm like, oh, she's ready to talk about this. Well, I'm not addressing anything that ain't got nothing to do with me, I know I know, you, you and this, that and the third, yeah, I feel like um Young Bird, specifically.
Speaker 2:You know he like he mentioned my name on the Joe Budden podcast, but you know, like he ain't text me, you ain't check up on me, so so what do you really? Do you really feel sorry for me? Or are you just mad that you, like you said so many congratulations to me and you probably didn't. You never said congratulations to me, but you've seen all the wins. This one really like you, like this. So that's what made me like I ain't never had a man speak on me and like I just feel like you know what I'm saying. It's very gay, you know, it is what it is, but, um, it happens all the time, though honestly, yeah, it like but it put a battery pack.
Speaker 2:It put a battery pack on behind behind me that he did it because it wasn't about nobody but me. I just wanted to let people know don't feel sorry for me, bro, this is an L, but an L is a lesson. Bro, I'm good, I'm great. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, we good, I just got a Grammy in February.
Speaker 1:Relax, i'ma be okay, wait, and that's not your first one. Nah, it's not your first one, it's not my first one.
Speaker 2:So let's just relax. You know what I'm saying. If you really cared about me, you could've hit me up If you really cared about me, so yeah, but that's what that song is about. I just think.
Speaker 1:You know it's funny because times like this they always say, when you hit a bottom you really get to realize who's for you and who's not for you. So have you been, I guess, having that process in your real life, in your immediate circle, and stuff like that?
Speaker 2:Everybody's been there for me, man. I got a great support system. That's good. Nobody has been weird. Everybody has been dope, except that one person who shouted me out. But I don't know.
Speaker 1:That's not my friend, he don't owe me nothing, but I think it speaks to your character and your work ethic, because we all have genuine relationships with you. I feel like it's similar to like me and hell the content I'm shooting. You know what I'm saying. At first, when I met you, I was working with Amazon. Then I'm working with Power, but you're willing to come and pull up on me on my own. You know what I'm saying on my accord. But it's just because you know my heart. You know where I'm at with it.
Speaker 2:You are the voice of the new generation of music. Thanks what I think you're influential to what we do. I have to Just like DJs, fuck a playlist, man. Djs, bro, y'all play my shit in the club. Bro, y'all play it at the hookah spots. I want tangible, it's like real estate. I don't want stock. I want tangible, it's like real estate. I don't want stock, I want to see my shit Feel that.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying Is this why you're going the indie route and putting out your own music your own way, not even on the DSPs. You can't find this on Apple right now or Spotify. I like seeing artists do that, because it's almost kind of like selling your mixtape out your trunk.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it is like selling your mixtape out your trunk. You know, I just think right now, I just want, I just think I don't know if whatever label wants to come in and really whatever, but I just think, for me, I just need to just be by myself. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. I just need to be by myself. You know what I'm saying. I just be by myself. You know what I'm saying. Whatever that means, you know what I'm saying, so yeah, it's a process.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I feel like you need a good shroom trip. I don't know if you do shrooms.
Speaker 2:Man, I do man, oh God, but I'm not doing that one, the one I don't know what that is, I'm just saying, I just found something cool.
Speaker 1:I don't know about that one, I just found something cool.
Speaker 2:Yo that one a wave.
Speaker 1:Hey yo, I don't know what you mean. All right, all right, all right, you ain't even talking, we just looking at each other. Man, I know I'm always hesitant about man-made, synthetic shit.
Speaker 2:Nah nothing. Synthetic sonny.
Speaker 1:I know, I know it's something. Maybe her yes, hello, okay, but Nah, yo, I can't have Jazzy up here. This shit is jokes, but all right. So you're going indie. You're selling mixtapes out the trunk. You gave us this single. Where do you see yourself taking the rest of this year? Do you think you're just going to take the time off, or are you?
Speaker 2:ready to come back with hits. I'm ready to drop, man. Yeah, I'm ready to drop. I'm ready to drop. I'm ready to drop. I have so many amazing songs. Me and Zaytoven got a project in the rap that I'm so ready to drop.
Speaker 1:An R&B project produced by Zaytoven.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because the first album you did was a new album. Yes, produced by. Zaytoven, yeah, because you know we did Usher's A album together With the peace sign and all of that Birthday Gucci shop with Gunna.
Speaker 1:Those was all me Fire. I did not know that. Wait, Usher's last album.
Speaker 2:No, it was the mixtape before. It was like a peace sign on. It Got it Okay cold Tough, so yeah, so like me, and Zay got one in the tuck.
Speaker 1:You know what. That actually makes a lot of sense, not to say it was a youthful album for Usher, but it was a youthful album for Usher. It was, and I think it put him back in a good space too, because he's indie as well, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, nah.
Speaker 2:Peace Sign by Usher. And I'm like, yeah, like that means a lot to me that people say that, because like, literally like when me and Zay that was like our first time working and when me and Zay got in the studio it just felt like Zaytoven's beats sound like summertime Atlanta, like the South, and I'm from Memphis, so like.
Speaker 1:Similar culture, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:We got, we got, we got Buck, they got Crunk.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying? Yeah, so yeah, talk to me about being the only R&B artist coming out of Memphis. Right now, memphis is on fire. I feel like the whole world is eating up Memphis culture. Yeah, but why is it that everybody is going rap? Why is nobody else on the R&B and Everybody is?
Speaker 2:going rap. Why is nobody else on the R&B? And you know, memphis is so music Like Stax Records. My mama used to be with High Records, like she was an artist of Jenner and the Jays with Willie Mitchell. So like, no, you are really legacy man. Yes, bruh, that's crazy. Yes, bruh, you know what I'm saying. But like, so, like Memphis is, I don't know, I just what it is is, you know, like how Atlanta had the hood but then they had outcasts, right, so it was a good contrast. Nobody out of Memphis has come out. That's been weird.
Speaker 2:But we got a lot of niggas like me, it's a lot of weirdo cool kids, artistic kids. I was like one of the first ones. I ain't gonna lie, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, of the first ones, I ain't gonna lie, you know what I'm saying. But all my niggas, my nigga pro, all my niggas, is them type of cool kids that be just outside? I've always been that backpack route from school. Be to Pat, that was our shit. I don't know, man, I just feel like Memphis is just such a hard city.
Speaker 1:Everybody knows each other. It's a big community, yeah.
Speaker 2:And I always say if you survive Memphis City Schools, man, you can make it anywhere. Not Memphis City Schools, oh God, if you survive Memphis, I ain't going to lie. And so, because you got to move a certain way, you got to have tough skin, because all we do is check each other.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying saying, so I just think it just made folks like.
Speaker 2:It made people tough. But like one thing like I love about Memphis is we very religious and spiritual, like even Glorilla, like she prays, she sings gospel, she like and that's really who we are. It's like six degrees of separation. Like one of our cousins play in the church, everybody. Like if you don't go to church, your grandma go to church. One of your cousins play an instrument. Yeah, it's somebody.
Speaker 1:That's a degree of separation from like you know, memphis has a healthy balance of righteous and ratchet.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but it just depends on which way you want to go. Man, that's hilarious. Like real talk. And I just I wanted to go the other way because my brother went that way. I Like real talk and I just I wanted to go the other way because my brother went that way. I didn't that way, just I was like oh yeah, nah, I don't hell.
Speaker 1:nah, I'm straight. That makes sense. All right, we're about to play a game called questions that need answers. All you have to do is fill in the blank. Oh gosh, Don't worry, it's easy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what she say All right, the older I get, the less I blink who. The older I get, the less I panic. Good, why is that? Because you learn patience. You learn like this too shall pass. Yeah, because I ain't gonna lie like I don't know. If I was probably a little bit younger, I don't know I could have handled a lot of this stuff, and that's why I think I'm so grateful that God just gave it to me in increments. I'm glad I didn't get all of it at one time, at one time, yeah, you know what I'm saying, because I probably would have imploded fool.
Speaker 1:So yeah, man, that's real, that's very real, for sure. I can't believe I actually blanked when I was younger. Ha Uh Nah. What was the last? What just?
Speaker 2:triggered that last. That was crazy. I can't believe I actually data shot it when I was younger. I can't believe I actually data shot it when I was younger. Okay, why? Because Low frequencies, low frequencies, low vibrations. I get it. It just makes you look in the mirror and be like damn, was I low vibrational.
Speaker 1:Don't feel bad. We all got one that we had to.
Speaker 2:Honestly, I call those she gonna say I wouldn't let her know who it is. It's the crazy part if she see this.
Speaker 1:You think so. I don't know, probably not, probably not, probably not, but I would just say me and my homegirl refers to those as our low self esteem here it's like it was just like a low self esteem.
Speaker 2:Ls like LS. We gotta make a song called that LSE, lse, low self esteem. Yeah, that's hard. I may have to you got, I may have to you got what that's a low LSE.
Speaker 1:Send it to me so I can play it, so I can be like yeah.
Speaker 2:We got to put you on the interlude.
Speaker 1:Yes, let's do it. That's hard, okay, I'm a little embarrassed by the fact that I know so little about blank.
Speaker 2:I don't know, man. I like to think that I know a lot about everything. Man, I ain't know man. I like to think that I know a lot about everything. Man, I ain't going to lie. What's your sign? I'm Aquarius, the best sign there is.
Speaker 1:I love me an Aquarius, my best friend's an Aquarius.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, january Aquarius though February is a little shaky, now it's January too.
Speaker 1:My boy in the back like yeah did what I said in February and why you doing like that.
Speaker 2:Um, damn, I think, um dang say the question again, so I know.
Speaker 1:Uh, it was. I'm a little embarrassed, oh, by the fact I know so little about Blake. You can pass we got other ones.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know. That's horrible because I don't want to sound like a nigga that think they know everything.
Speaker 1:You can't think of it right now, it's okay, I'll put you on the spot. Sometimes I look back at my life and blank man smile.
Speaker 2:Man, I smile man. I literally am the only one in my family who did it. I'm talking about even my cousins, yeah yeah, yeah, all my cousins still in Memphis except one, like nobody left Everybody's dead except me. I'm the only one that's like so it's wild, do you have FOMO a little bit. Not at all.
Speaker 1:None no.
Speaker 2:That's good. Oh well, like going out like I, but FOMO as far as like being in the city, yeah, heck, no, no, no, no, I wouldn't be man, I would probably not be this. Yeah, because I'd be in like struggle mode, yeah, so you know what I'm saying. You do things different when you're struggling, when you're desperate, so yeah, Hell.
Speaker 1:Nah, it's funny because it's like you have to leave home to really, like, take that step forward towards a different life. But just the struggle of leaving home, you know, not having the support and comfort and stuff like that, like we didn't talk about in this interview, but just like all your pivots before la and even being in la before you actually got connected with the right people to start songwriting, like that shit is a process, man, especially as a woman.
Speaker 2:Yeah niggas start respecting you when you leave In Memphis, even though Memphis always welcomed me and loved me. Everybody in Memphis loves me. It shows me a number of love, but it's still like I had to leave. I had to go to Miami, and then they come back and then they're like oh, You're moving, yeah, you're moving. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. Now they open arms. It's beautiful.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know why it's like that, but I guess it's just the way it is.
Speaker 2:It's just our mentality, man. It's embedded in us. Ptsd, right, nigga shit we gotta do better, but alright.
Speaker 1:From time to time it's good to do blank, but all right from time to time it's good to do blank.
Speaker 2:From time to time it's good to get away and just cut your phone off, like, literally, I'm loving my space. Like the more, the older I get, I'm like introverted, extroverted. I'm becoming more of an introvert Turning on and off Easily, bro. Yeah, like just as much as I like to to be out, I really could be in my house, quiet, maybe play some Fortnite. Yeah, be by myself.
Speaker 1:I get it. Yeah, I feel like that's adulting. Adulting is doing that to us, cause I'm, I'm the same way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, um, my personality trait is blank hmm, my personality trait is just good vibes. I think that's what I like to give, is just good energy, high level, high frequencies, because that's the God way, man, confidence, and it's you, yeah, it's me, you know. So I think that's what would you say was my personality trait.
Speaker 1:I would say chill, positive. Yeah, good vibe what you said, yeah, good vibes. All right, I ain't off. Yeah, all right, all right. Yeah, for sure, cool, you have a light to you, cool, I take that so okay. So thank you for pulling up and chopping up with me, man, thank you for letting me be here man, of course it wasn't that bad.
Speaker 2:I thought I was thought you was gonna put me in the IC for real what?
Speaker 1:no, no, no, no, it's all love. Just shout out to grandma. Everybody know where they can follow you and where they can tap in to your new single yeah, so, jazzy, you can get my song GoTeamSportcom.
Speaker 2:Yeah, $3, man, solid, $3, man. Come on, you know, because at the end of the day, like you know, artists don't get paid shit off their talent. So I'm just trying to bare my soul and I'm, you know, being vulnerable. So go get it GoTeamSportcom. Yeah, we Go get it. Go to teamsportcom.
Speaker 1:We love it. We love it. Tap in guys. Talk soon, Peace.
