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Professional Troublemaker with Luvvie Ajayi Jones

Step Toward Your Destiny (with Tiwa Savage)

Professional Troublemaker with Luvvie Ajayi Jones

Luvvie Ajayi Jones

Pop Culture, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Luvvie Ajayi Jones, Luvvie Ajayi, Humor, Social Media, Luvvie, Self-improvement, Education, Business, Entrepreneurship, Politics, Lifestyle

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This week on Rants & Randomness, Luvvie is talking to Tiwa Savage - Nigeria's female pop star Afrobeats queen. Luvvie and Tiwa talk about her more than two decades in the music industry and her new album, Celia, and since the album is named after her mom, we talk about the importance of her mom's voice in her life and in her career. We talk about the ups and downs in the music world, how motherhood has affected her music and how moving from Nigeria to London as a child changed her entire life.

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0:00.0

My people, welcome to Randomness. I'm your host, Levy and Jai Jones.

0:05.6

New York Town's best sound author, speaker and professional troublemaker.

0:09.0

And I'm here to share dope conversations that'll give you something to think about,

0:12.4

help you smile and feel empowered to do the thing that feels hard.

0:17.0

So, let's get into it.

0:19.5

Today I'm talking to T.Y. Savage. If you don't know T.Y.,

0:22.4

you're a butterfly in love with her and her music.

0:24.4

In addition to her amazing studio albums,

0:26.8

she co-wrote and sang Keys to the Kingdom from The Lion King, The Gift,

0:30.8

and Black as King. Y'all saw her in that visual album.

0:33.6

And her fourth studio album, Sylia, just dropped last Friday, August 28th,

0:38.1

and it's amazing. During our conversation,

0:41.5

we talk about the importance of her mom's voice in her life and her career.

0:47.4

We talk about how tough the music industry is.

0:51.2

We have a conversation about how she moved to London

0:56.2

and basically how that changed her life.

1:00.6

Before we jump into this interview, I want to make sure the Ransfam knows

1:04.0

that my new book, Professional Trouble Maker,

1:06.3

the Fear Fighter Manual comes out March 2nd, 2021,

1:09.8

and it's available for pre-order right now.

1:12.4

I wrote this book because I realized everything great in my life has come

1:15.5

as a result of me choosing to be a professional troublemaker.

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