My mom at the time was my manager.

And so she calls me and she's like, hey, I met this producer and he knows exactly who you are and blah, blah, blah.

He wants to meet you.

I'm like, mom, I told you I'm done.

Like, not interested.

She's like, one more time.

Like, let's just see, maybe if you do it your own way and you're not under this idea of who you need to be because they were trying to very much mold me into this version of who they wanted me to be that would be successful.

I was just like, I don't know. I was like, all right, I'll take a meeting. So the guy calls me

and he's like, hey, I'm going to pick you up. We'll do a studio test. Like average stuff, I've done it a thousand times with other producers.

Okay, cool, no problem.

He picks me up.

I get in the car.

We start talking instantaneously, my body's like, whoa.

And I had never felt that before.

Intuition was just like lighting up.

And I'm like, the person that I've been taught to be in entertainment is like,

be agreeable. Don't be hard. Don't be crazy. Don't be difficult. So it's like, it's fine. It's fine.

Okay. Breathe. It's fine. He keeps talking. We're driving. Comes up again. Like, it's fine. It's fine.

Like, it's fine. Be agreeable, be agreeable. All of a sudden,

we're driving through the Midtown Tunnel. We end up in Newark, New Jersey. I am very clear

that I have no idea where we're at right now. Very clear, we're driving into a really bad

neighborhood. And I'm like, okay, now all my survival stuff is coming on. Like, okay, what do I do? How do I survive this?

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