 What they gonna do with me now? I'm still a talk of the town. Tell me the sisters, I'm hooking them down. Hey, what's up, y'all? It's Koli. We're on a new episode of Talk of the Town. Today, we got a special guest. It's Koli. Period. So, we're gonna play a game. I'm gonna ask you a question and just say the first thing that comes to mind. Okay. Okay. Favorite artist outside of hip hop? Anita Baker. Best thing about Memphis? Food. Favorite app on your phone? My bank apps. Last thing you spent money on? Food. Last song you listened to? My song that I have unreleased, Carbon Freestyle too. Okay. An artist that should be performing that isn't? Dage Loan. Yeah. I mean, she just did Roll On Miami, I think. Oh, she did? Yeah. I'll be missing Dage Loan. Yeah. She back outside a little bit now. Outside, okay, Dage. A conspiracy theory you think is real? First of all, I know aliens are real. Okay. All right, celebrity crush? You're amazing. Kate Carbon. Okay, okay, okay. Most underrated? Somebody that you feel like the city's sleeping on. Somebody I need some more love out here. Yikes, yikes, yikes. Who need more love? Who need more love? Who need more love? I can't think. It could be a girl or a boy. Is somebody upcoming? It was happening. Okay, excuse, excuse. Can I get a pass? Okay, okay, okay. Okay. A song you know everywhere too. Aside from yours. Pusha Icy back in blue. Okay, Dream Car? Tesla. No. Lamborghini. Lamborghini. All right, craziest DM you ever got? Oh, this girl, she be texting me. She's so crazy. She be like, I'ma come around your show. I'ma snitch your chain. I was like, what? What's wrong? Wow. Okay. Take a chill pill. Okay. And then you're building a collab for females. Who you putting? Oh, come on now. Glorilla, Glossom, Slamaroni, and Lisa Kacaba. You knew that. Period. All right, so getting into music. How did you get started? I always been able to rap. I always rap when I was a little girl. Like always been lyrical. Never played with my opinion. Okay. So was he writing poems? Was he just writing? You know what? Nobody ever asked me that. I actually could write poetry. I had did a really good poem for scholarship years back. And I want to find it so bad because I want to do a video with it because it was so good. So you got the scholarship and then you went to college? Girl, here now. They look right over their poems. I want them to know I'm a rapper now and you want the scholarship. Wow. Okay. Did you go to college? Yes, I went to college. I went to a community college in Memphis. Okay. What was your major? Business, maybe? What was my major? I think I had like a... A college? I don't remember. It's cool. It's cool. Okay. So was your family always into what the music to? Yeah. Okay. They always supported me. They still supported me. All right. Did you... Was you playing the music before you laid it down or like how did they know? I was always rapping like family reunions. Like I was always rapping even just on a regular day. Like in my folks, like I was rapping. Okay. So was the hair business was taken off and then you was slowed down on rapping? Or was it the same time? So, no. I had one song right in Memphis that had a good buzz. Like it got a million views. Probably more than that. I haven't checked on it. And that was my first... That was my first music buzz, right? But I never took music series. So after that I was back in school. Like I was like 16. I was in school when I did the song. So I was back in school. My goal was always to finish school, right? Right. I wanted to go to college. I wanted to finish school. So when I got to college, that's when I started with the hair. So the hair business was booming ever since it popped. Like I never had a dead moment until now. Until like I've been on the road. I've been out of town. That was like my first dead moment. But it was my hair business was booming and it was popping. And it kind of slowed down. And then rap picked up at the Shabuya and all that. Everything. Yeah. Okay. So how is it managing both right now? Music and hair? Super difficult. Overwhelming. No sleep. How are you keeping peace right now? Two businesses. Two brands. You got a brand to keep up. I make sure I get my sleep. Like I'd be telling my... Like I'd give myself a bedtime. I'd be like, look I'm not finna be up to two, three in the morning. Talking about what I'm finna do for my hair business. I'm going to sleep at 2 a.m. 30 today. Even if I don't go to sleep. I'm finna watch TV till I go to sleep. Like I get my risk. Cause I wake up super early. Like no matter what, my body gonna get up early. Like 9 a.m. or like 7 a.m. early. It depends. Cause you're traveling now. I would say 8 a.m. is like always getting up around 8. For real. Okay. Getting up around 8. So how did you meet Glossup? Really? How did you meet everybody? So Glossup always was invested into her rap career. Like since I've known her. When I met Glossup, she paid me for a feature. But keep in mind, I was selling her and she didn't see me. They're really what I wanted to do. Okay. I ended up... Well no, she ended up continuously supporting me. She was buying lashes for me. She was buying her for me. One day I pulled up over her house to drop her off some lashes. And Glossup's there. Right. And I remember Glossup because she performed at my brother's birthday. She performed at Pooh's birthday. Okay. And I was like, oh yeah, I know you. Like you Glossup. And she was like, man, we need to do a song. Like we was just talking. Yeah. We ended up doing it for real. We ended up doing like two or three songs before we ended up linking with Slamarani and Lisa. Yeah. And a showcase that she hosted. It's called Thoreen. Okay. We ended up linking with them. And he was also at the showcase. We ended up linking with them. And ever since then it's been up for us. Ever since. Okay. So how do y'all, I guess, keep each other motivated? I feel like y'all all be on each other's estate. We be honest with each other. Like if we bullshitting, we going to get on that group FaceTime. And we going to be like, bitch, you bullshitting. Okay. This is how it goes. Me and Glow always been the outspoken one. And at first Gloss just used to be like, it's whatever. I don't care. Like there was no personality. And then Slam and the Lisa, the sensitive ones. Like they don't really speak up how we do. They speak up. But if they see something, they probably just going to be like, I mean, y'all bullshitting, whatever. But we going to be like, bitch. We outspoken. We outspoken. They how we get on each other. Like, you know, we talk. We get on the group FaceTime. We talk. We link up a lot in person. We see each other a lot in person way more than they may seem. So we talk in person. Yeah. I mean, that's good. And then everybody's still working on their own career. I think that's really good. Oh yeah. And we support the shit out of each other individually too. Because we all are still individual artists at the end of the day. Right. So in Memphis, was it a lot of girls coming up at that time? Let me think. Yes, no. Possibly. That's messy. I'm sorry. I can't say what I'm thinking. Shout out to all the girls. Yeah, I know I fought with y'all. I fought with y'all. Like it was a lot of girls. It meant that they reached out to me, paid me for features. Shout out to Ember Rex. Shout out to Jay Chanel. Shout out to Lil Q Legendary. Shout out to Autumn Girls. They reached out to me and paid me for features. But them other girls, they, they was hate. I mean, I guess they was rapping, but it was like. Okay. Yeah. Cause like in New York, I feel like people like be dissing each other trying to get lit. You feel me? Yeah. But they never gave. We was finna rap with you. Yeah, right. But the reason I asked that was because everybody I interviewed from Memphis brought you up as like one of the girls that's rapping in the city. So yeah, I sat down with big homie G wants to be fat. Oh, I fuck with you. Yeah. So they don't mention you as like one of the girls that's rapping in the city. So, um, so yeah, do you feel like you got a lot of love from the city? Yes, and no, before this shit before this blowing up shit, bro, I feel like everybody like excuse my language was on my dick. And then when I started coming up, it was like, I was receiving hate that I never seen before. I guess cause they thought I wasn't gonna clap back. But I think so. You see it. You say something if you feel like it. You know what I'm saying? But you're super busy now. Right. Right. So like, you know, you're doing stuff. Of course, getting back to your city. Did the gift back? Yeah. I still love my city, but they got weird. They got super weird. Is it that they think you are more Hollywood now? No. Cause I still be in the hood. I still pull up at the beauty supply. Like where my hair in the hood? I still pull up. Like, you still see me out in Memphis a lot. Cause I still heard. So it's super hard like not to be out in the back. And I don't think I ever stopped it. I could be an alias to celebrity. I think I'm still being my hood. I guess I just gotta get a lot of security. I mean, I feel like go there when necessary. Once you like lit lit. But you know, so, okay. So like doing the hair thing, right? Right. You have a salon out there or a shop out there? I'm inside of a beauty supply store. And then I do like the online stuff. But I really, my goal is to do a shop one day. But what's been hesitating me. Running it every day. I don't know if I want to do it in Memphis. No, running it every day won't be a problem. Cause of course I'm a hire employee. Yeah. But you don't know if you want it in Memphis. Right. What would you put it at? It's not there. It gotta be in Memphis. That's where I started like. But if not in Memphis, Atlanta. Atlanta? I know you're gonna say that. Yeah, I feel like Memphis and Atlanta kind of like. Atlanta. I feel like Atlanta is more so the market that I always wanted to be. Like I always wanted to be luxury. Like I used to get dragged in Memphis for my prices at first. Okay. But I didn't know what I wanted. It was an expensive period. Right. But you know in Memphis we kind of behind, we kind of delay to a lot of help stuff. Like you know waves hit us kind of late. And I didn't even notice it until I started traveling right down. Traveling. We kind of get help to stuff a little later than everybody else. Okay. So I used to get dragged for my prices at first. But then the people who was dragging me, them I didn't even, they didn't even the market I wanted to tap into anyway. I always knew the standard. I always knew how I wanted my brand to be. And I feel like that's why it was so successful. Because I tapped in with those people that I wanted. I mean, yeah. People want to buy designer. It costs a lot. You're going to get it. Thank you. So if you want to wear, if you want to wear a rainbow. And if you want your hair to last, I feel like you got to spin. Thank you. So right. If you want to wear a rainbow, of course you're going to try to drag Gucci for that price. Right. Y'all two different people, two different markets. Y'all got two different interests. So yeah. So what are some of the, I guess pros and cons. Being a female in the industry right now. Because the girls kind of got it right now on the music tip. Pros. Yeah. Pros. I feel like we finally getting a chance to like get our way. Like long overdue, long overdue. Cons. I feel like it's getting very over-saturated. I feel like a lot of people jump on it and do it because they see it's lit. But I don't think they be having like that deep passion for it. They just do it because they see it's lit. You know. Many people they never rap before just drop a song at the blue and it be like. Okay. Yeah. And it be like, you know, it's just because of the way. This is my dream. Right. It's just because of the way. Right. How do you feel about the, a lot of guys I feel like be hating when the girls talk, the pussy talk or the sex talk. What you got to say about that? They talk the dick talk. Do they not? Right. Money talk, whatever. All right. So, but I feel like you're pretty versatile. I feel like you talk that and then you be talking and shit. Yeah. And then you be like, fuck these niggas. Awesome. So what's, what's dating life right now? Girl, what is my dating life? Like I got my little year, but that's my little boo. Like he gone forever be around. Okay. So this is like a long time love, but it's like something kind of new. Yeah. This is my little high school. Okay. So that's like. No matter who I put, we, I feel like he probably forever be around because it's like we watched each other grow up. And so he know me, know me. Like he not going to be like no new niggas just getting around. Okay. Carbon because of K carbon. Like he know me, know me. So it's, it's crazy. But you know, other than that, I really don't be sunny niggas right now. Cause I got to, I got to get these money. Money. Money. Okay. Okay. But you've been in tune with like cool Shafti and stuff. Yeah. Showing you love. Okay. What's the Shafti mask? A thing in Memphis? Or like he made that pop. He started it. He started it. He made it go worldwide. Like I feel like everywhere. I didn't even know that they called it Shafti's until this year. I didn't even know. I never knew that. Yeah. I never knew that. That's the thing in New York right now. I never knew who started that until recently. He started traveling more. Yeah. The kids always got Shafti out here. That's like the thing right now. And I remember the niggas bro. He used to have them got down. You know what Autobahn is? Autobahn. Nah, put me on. It's like a go-kart place in Memphis and they give you the ski mask. Oh yeah. It's like a go-kart racing company. He said he got the Autobahn mask inside out. He used to be wearing it. Like they didn't even been doing the skis. That's cool. Yeah. He definitely started a whole wave with that one though. He did. Okay. So coming up in the industry you're meeting a whole bunch of different people. Uh huh. Who's some people that give you some good advice? Gangsta Boo. Long live Gangsta Boo. We met Chris Brown. For real? Yeah. Right before Shabuya, he was like very, very down to earth. Cool as hell. Uh huh. And he was like he wanted to hear our music. He was telling us like play some of y'all's shit. Uh huh. And he was just telling us like keep going. Y'all got it. Like he said that he was like man y'all keep going. Y'all got it. And you know he talked some words of encouragement. Shared a little bit of his story with us. And I think that's an experience that I'll never forget. Anybody on your bucket list that you want to meet that you haven't yet? Yes. I love Mick. I love Mick. And I love, um, Tim. Girl boy? Boy. Um, like that. Older, younger, singer, army? I don't even know no boy that right now off the top of my head. But Mick for sure. Like I love Mick. Yeah. I feel like y'all give similar vibes. Cause she a Houston girl. And I always feel like Houston and Memphis girls was like they had them bars like this. Yeah. Them bars like that. So do you like, how do you push your pen? Like do you like read the dictionary? Read book slot? Like how you push your pen? No. I don't know. I don't know. Just based on prior knowledge. She was real smart in school. Okay. So this is the old stuff you've been learning. Yeah. And then they go to college. So I mean, yeah. Right. So I guess just based on life experience. Is like lyricism really important to you? Yeah. Or are you more so about the feeling and stuff? I think I'm too lyrical. Like I think too hard sometimes. Like if I'm in the studio and then I be writing something and then I don't like it, I be like, I'm more lyrical. Okay. So you kind of hard on yourself, you feel like? A lot. Okay. So like how do you like, I don't know how do you bring yourself up when you like overthinking? Look at my success. All right. Like I look at the stuff I didn't do. Like Shabu Yaw was a very successful record. So I would like chill. Like you are. Look at this. Do you feel pressured being at Shabu Yaw so much? No. I feel like I still got it. Yeah. I feel like it just set the tone for the direction that we going in. I don't feel like it's no pressure because I know what I'm capable of. And I just know as soon as the world get on my wave, like, and they listen to my stuff and they be like, oh, shit. Like outside of these group projects, like individually. Yeah. And when they get on the wave and they tune in, they're going to be like, oh, shit. Like this shit lyrical. Cause like, like we were saying, like I'm more so bar, bar, bar type of. Period. Okay. Cool. So Shabu Yaw was so many tiktoks. Y'all had tiktok on the show. Cole, what was some of your favorite viral videos on tiktok? Jeniah. When her son was like, bitch, I'm becoming, she was like, don't, don't say that. What she saying? She was like, don't say that. Yeah. He was like, that's my song. And she said, no, this is not your song. That's their song. That was so funny to me. I swear to God. Yeah. And it was like this two little white girls I seen when they were singing. Yeah. That was so funny. And Laquilla had me tripping when she got on there. And she was like, bitch, y'all make copy. When she was singing for this, she was so funny. I was like, fuck though, these folks are crazy. So what advice would you give to a girl that's coming up in the industry right now? Stay true to yourself. Stay true to your grind. Stay true to your music. Don't let no wave change you. Don't let people change you. Because a lot of people don't know what they be talking about. And don't go with the first thing that presents itself. Period. All right. So we're going to play this or that. I'm going to give you two options. You just pick which one. Okay. Wigs or ponytails? Wigs. Okay. Flights or road trips? Flights. Reality TV or regular TV shows? Regular TV shows. Okay. Would you a rich man that's, but what? A rich man that's boring or a funny man that's broke? Rich, boring man. Okay. Comedy movie or horror movie? Ooh, this is hard. Okay. I got to say, I got to say comedy. Comedy. Okay. Okay. Ship club or regular club? Regular club. Okay. Okay. Smoke or drink? Smoke or drink. Can you not answer that? See, I smoke every day, but I'm not finna drink every day. So smoke. Straight hair or curlier? Ooh. I like my curves. Okay. Curly. Okay. Period. Okay. Tour or video shoots? Like performing on tour or like video shoots? Video shoots. Video shoots? Are you an early bird or a night owl? Both. Okay. Okay. Length or girth? What does it mean? Girth. Y'all talking about dick? Yes, girl. Okay. Length or what? Length or girth. Like how thick it is or how long it is? Girth. Okay. Christmas or Thanksgiving? Christmas. Set the tone or hot potato? Set the tone. Big flex or chain talk? Big flex. Tattoos or piercings? Tattoos. Cascade or trap museum? Trap museum. Wax or shave? Wax. Future amigos? Damn, that's hard. Hard? Tired up? Future. Future? Prada or Louis Vuitton? Prada. Okay. My wife and kids are Martin? Martin. Walmart or Target? Walmart. And front tools or closures? Frontals. You get frontals. I was like every time she got a front to hold. Oh, you've grown up for sure. Okay, so tell people to find you. How could they tune in with you? So, Instagram, K-Carbon with two underscores. I'm K-Carbon on YouTube. 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