My guest today is a hitmaker, a visionary, and one of my oldest friends.

We've been tight since we were kids.

We came up on True Jackson VP together, and now she's a Grammy-nominated songwriter for the biggest artist in the world,

from Arianna Grande to Janelle Monet and Panic

at the disco. And she just executive produced my album, Just Kiki. I'm talking about the one and only

Taylor Parks. Baby, this is Kiki Palmer. No matter what we're doing in the car, just chilling,

popo, Amazon music, sit back and listen. Life, love, sex, science, covering it all, especially the backers' money always involved. No matter what it is, we gonna make it make sense. Nothing else will do but kick it with the homies and key. So grab you a drink and a snack you enjoy and get into the vibe that only one gets to go. You know it's your girls. Baby, this is, this is Kiki. Baby, this is Kiki, Poma, yeah.

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Taylor, Taylor Parks and the House. Yo, it's so funny because you were just talking about,

like, it is very weird that we're here in this, you know, hosting, you know, guest show type thing because damn, girl, I know you for 22 years.

Yeah, I literally came into the building and was like, oh, oh, what's up?

Oh, man, we're out here.

We ain't in Altadena and Pomona no more. Oh, my gosh. Yes, Altadena 626, Pasadena, we love you. And Pomona, 909, what's good. Oh, my gosh, I remember those drives when we'd be going out there to have the cookouts. Y'all coming over there, Larry cooking. Yes. I was going over there, Damon and Teresa cooking. Yeah, yeah.

It is so amazing to see how far we've come.

Sometimes I feel like I have to pinch myself because, wow. Yeah. And it's not to see these moments where you get with somebody who's literally been with you through all of them. They're just like, oh, this is crazy. It is so crazy. We're about to get into all that. But first I got to get it to your pre-show, pull-up questions, because I'm trying to see where your headspace is at.

So today I'm giving country with a side of... Which is you all day, every day, Texas, girly, but then also because you live in Nashville now, which was so crazy to me. I mean, you live in a lot of places, but Nashville is like you really started to make it your main home, home. So that country is definitely coming through.

Absolutely.

Today's mood in one word, as always, silly. What did you listen to on the ride here? Olivia Dean. Yes, so good. And then who's this nice to each other? Oh, that's the name of the song. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So Olivia Dean, I'm actually not familiar with her.

Really, really dope.

Killing it. Check out the project. Well, each project. What type of genre is it? I would say that it's like, it's R&B. It's very like, sometimes she has like uptempo moments, but I feel like it's more like a low-fi R&B vibes.

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