 up, y'all. It's Bri Renee, straight from the A. I'm with 85 South with Backwoods, Backstage, one music fest, and I'm sitting here with Josie. How you feeling? Man, I feel great, man. Man, if y'all don't know, Josie is a phenomenal songwriter, artist now, and you work with some of the biggest in the game, like Mary, Summer Walker, Lotto, a little bit, like her pen is crazy. Yeah. But now you... But right now, let's talk about this R&B that I'm bringing back. You know what I'm saying? Good R&B. I'm so happy to be on this stage, man. My first festival in the A. That's what I was about to say. Now you on a stage being an artist. Absolutely. How do I feel to see that transition in your career? It's so dope because I just feel like the people that support me, like they really, like, grassroots fans, I'm really building people that's seen the evolution of Josie. When I used to have big hair, I used to be a little chubby, you know what I'm saying? They seen all, since I was a jit, you know what I'm saying? So to really be here, actually building my fan base from the ground up and seeing the stage. That's shit amazing, you know what I'm saying? Because ain't nothing been given to me. All of this is like, I've been having to get everything out the mud. So it feels better when you get it out the mud. Right. I'm like, now you're hitting the stage at one music level. Thank you. Shout out to 85 South and Beckwoods. No, but now you're hitting the stage at a huge festival in Atlanta, a major city. Huge. Like, how did that crowd feel when you touched, like, what that moment felt like when you first touched the stage? No, they really, they were showing me so much love. And then when I, when I, when I sing it belong to you on Diddy's album, Love Album, they just were singing it, like, back to me. Just, just to get the interaction with everybody. It was dope. I really was trying to like, you know what I'm saying? Stay focused. I want to try and look at nobody's eyes. As soon as you look at the wrong person, ah, you be like, ah. It throw you out. You be like, the nigga ain't clapping. Like, damn, bro, clap. Yeah, it's like smile, bop, bop. Yeah, like what? So I was trying to just keep everything just like, like, everybody just, you know what I'm saying? Taking it all in. Yeah. That's lit. And you definitely, like, your music is a vibe. You sent the vibe. I know you said it on stage and you create that vibe. How do you create the vibe for you to even provide that vibe before going on stage? I don't even know what's so funny. Like, I be having so many, like, sisters and homies, they're everywhere I go. And they, they just be wanting to, like, be around me before the show. And like, I be needing, I be needing, like, 30 minutes to buy my, to myself. Like, I'm such a people person, but I'm, I'm really a, I'm really an introvert. You know what I'm saying? So I be needing, like, give me 30 minutes, 35 minutes to be to myself. Let me talk to myself. Let me talk to Jesus. Like, let me get my life. You know what I'm saying? Let me, let me, let me, you know what I'm saying? Let me get right. And then I can, like, go out and, like, pour, but I need to pour it to me for a minute. Absolutely. So I be needing a moment to get away from niggas. I ain't gonna lie to you. So I'm learning, like, I need about 35. Right. Give me 35 right now. 35. Good. Yeah. That's all I need. During that time, do you like, you know, pull up or roll up? No, I don't smoke before I sing. Okay. No, that's out the window. Now I'm about to blow. After was right. I need some backwoods. 85 south. I ain't playing with y'all. So you said, after you done hit the stage tour, though, then you come backstage. Now you like, I can vibe out with my people. I can pull, I can roll up. I can get in the mood. Now I'm looking for the parties tonight. You hear? Oh, yeah. Well, you know, we got it right here. You know, we got a party right here. But you know, it's gonna be a lot of dope artists out here this weekend. You looking forward to seeing anybody? Janet Jackson. Absolutely. Right. Like, all these, all the artists is like my peers. I love them. You know what I'm saying? Tink, I never met Tink. We've been texting. So I can't wait to like, actually look at her face and be like, thank you for everything that you've done for R&B. I can't wait to have that one on one with Tink. That's dope. Because that woman is special. She's been special. She ain't never not been special. Niggas just waking up. So like Tink, but Janet Jackson, I ain't got a lot to you, bro. The dream performer, I would like to see him perform because I just love the dream. You know what I'm saying? How he, how he went from a songwriter to an artist. You know, he like something, him and Missy like the two people that I looked up to, how they did it. So yeah. Absolutely. I think the dream performance is going to be lit too. I can't wait to see that. You know what's on it before? I got to check the schedule. It's so many people. I'm trying to keep up with all y'all. I got you. You know, I was headed over there to your stage right before you went on. I ain't make it. I'm like trying to get over there, you know? Oh my God. I was supposed to bring you out. Oh, your homegirl by now. Shout out to my son to bring you out. I love you. Shout out to Black Girl Stuff. Black Girl Stuff, I love y'all. So what you bump into now? Like what's your favorite song right now? Besides, of course, one of your songs off of songs for women and free games for Niggas. My favorite song right now? What's your favorite song right now? Uh, let me look, let me look. I mean, I ain't going to front. I mean, what I've really been listening to, I ain't going to front. Like my favorite song right now, can it be, can it be old? Because I've been playing. It can. Whatever you've been listening to. I've been playing a lot of old shit. Like I just found this song on Ugg. I just found this joint, Ugg. This joint called, it's called Round and Round by Hot Tech. But it was a song that was on How High. Okay. I really don't know what you came in for. Round and round you go. Yes. Like I found it one time. I was like, yo, this shit crazy. And I started, I started playing it. No one stopped. So I've been playing Hot Tech, Round and Round, like no one stopped. You know what I'm saying? Because I just found it. So that's a good, but that's what I love about music and hip hop. It's like, no matter how old or how far back a song may be from, you could still fall in love with it anytime, if it's good music. That's, I used to love, I used to love How High. But I never knew what that song was. It just played a little bit in the, in the joint. And I found it, it just was on the, I was like, oh, this shit crazy. So yeah, I'm listening to that. Speaking of, it's 50 years of hip hop and it's 50 years of backwoods too. Damn. Backwoods been out that long? Backwoods been out 50 years. We've been rolling for a long time now. But in that time, what are some of your favorite moments with hip hop or backwoods? Hey, you want me to tell you some funny about backwoods? I didn't know none about woods until I, until like 2013, when I moved to Miami. Okay. Florida nigga put me on, on woods, because I'm from Memphis. And we smoke swishers and we smoke white owls. Okay. We wasn't on backwood. Backwoods is new for Memphis niggas. And if niggas want to tell you something different, it's cow. You like they lying? They lying. Niggas is not, I ain't know no niggas in Memphis smoking backwoods. Niggas are smoking white owls and swishers, bro. So I learned, or back, or blacking them out. Well, we got to come to Memphis to put them on here. No, we on now. Okay. I don't know. Everybody smoking woods now. But like, when I went to, when I went to Miami, I was with Timberlake. I was, I remember we was in, I was on the tour bus with Timberlake. I had just met Missy Elliott that night. And literally my boy Mizzle, he was Timberlake's producer. He rolling up a wood and I was like, and I smoked. And I was like, damn, what is this? I promise you. And I'm, I'm gonna forever remember that story. 2013, my first wood. Seriously? Yeah. Funny. I love it. That's your first wood. That's my first wood. My first wood? Yeah. You got any favorite moments, say hip hop or memories of hip hop? Man, oh my gosh. I think just watching music videos as a kid, like music, like one or six in a park, like watching music videos. Yeah. That's, that's like, I just really, I remember the first time I saw Lupe Fiasco kick push video. And like, I remember that was so different from me because being from Memphis, I ain't never seen no black skaters, like skateboarders. Right. Like that was not, and watching that kick push video. And I was like, oh, this is hard. And it introduced me to another sound of music that wasn't so like, you know, like gutter. So, you know what I'm saying? It was like, I guess backpack music. I don't know what it called it, but like, I remember like Lupe Fiasco kick pushing then after that, I fell in love with like, like the cool album and then Slum Village. I was really like a different kid. I was trying to listen to the shit that if it wasn't Three Shots Mafia, I was listening to stuff that was like different. Like Slum Village, like Kanye, like. That Kanye vibe that, like you said, backpack, hip hop. But that's what I love about hip hop. It really reaches us as black people, wherever we are on whatever your interests are, whether it's alternative R&B or backpack rap or, you know what I mean? Pimpin' music. It's some, it's a sub genre for everybody, anybody. And you are like one of the, I would say leaders in alternative R&B right now. Thank you. And who has like influenced you in that genre of hip hop? Of hip hop or R&B? Of alternative R&B. Missy Elliott? Missy Elliott is an influential Mary J. Blige because she was hip hop soul. Like she brought, she brought it to R&B. So it was like. She did. She brought it straight to R&B. She brought it straight to R&B and in a sexy way too. Jodecy, you know, like I ain't go front also immature. I love immature. Like IMX, like I was a kid listening to immature. And like I don't care like Batman and Romeo, little drama, LDB, like they was cool. They was weird. They was very like damn they're gay, but like straight. Like they was very girly girl, you know what I'm saying? Like perms and like, you know what I'm saying? Right. But they was cool hip hop and then B2K, like all of that stuff was kind of hip hop, but still R&B. Like all that. They were singing, but it was hip hop. It was still cool. Yeah. So I love all that shot of this. She was part of me. Now speaking of them, like, you know, blurring the lines of the genre, you know, with R&B. I like your little hand movement. You know what I'm saying? You, your new EP songs for women and free games for niggas. What's some of the free game you dropping on the album, on the EP? Some of the free game. I think I told y'all one of the free games that's really important. Another free game is just being able to listen. Just listening. I think it sounds easy. That's the hardest thing to really do when you upset. Or when you like busy, it's listening to your girl, listening to her. And even like paying attention to her little, you know, like paying attention to her energy. Her little ways. Like every time she think of her tupac, like that she made. Like, you know, know what's up. Yeah. And she say, and she say nothing wrong. Something's wrong. Like get it out of her. Like don't let it, don't let it fester up overnight. You know what I'm saying? That's good. What's a good way? What free game would you give to the fellas about apologizing? Because like you said, if she mad, don't let it fester. You got to try to make it right. Yeah. I was just talking to my homies. I hate apologies. Okay. I think don't apologize to me, bro. I hate apologies. Like niggas, find a solution. Like don't. Just fix it. Don't fix it. Like, like before you even, before I even mess, if I mess up, if I mess up on somehow with somebody or with a girl, like, I'm not going to apologize to that girl. I'm sorry. I'm not going to give her. I'm sorry. You're not going to tell her you're sorry for her? I'm going to fix it. Are you just going to fix it? I'm going to find a solution. Like, oh, I missed something. I'm not, I'm sorry. I missed your, no. All right. All right. Here's what tomorrow we, I, I, I, I, like, you know what I'm saying? Damn. We're going to fix it. Like, I hate apologize. Don't apologize to me. Like when, like, when girls try to apologize to me, I'll be like, I don't need that. Like, I, like, what is that, what does that do? Don't, don't, don't be sorry. Be careful. Don't be sorry. Be careful. Be careful. Yeah, just, yeah. Like if a dude did something dirty to you or something bad, not dirty. Something bad to you. I feel like if he was to rectify with something, I used a T.I. Or rectify. Yeah. But if he was to fix it, I feel like you wouldn't even, you wouldn't even be thinking about it no more. You'd be like, what am I mad at? Yeah. Because it's done. It's nothing else to talk about. But let's, let's find a solution. Let's be solution-based. Like, I hate, like, ugh. Okay. That's free game for the fellas. Be solution-based when you mess up. Solution-based. Yeah. Solution-based. Figure it out. But before you go, let's play a little Backwoods trivia game. You know what I'm saying? Backwoods. See how much you know about Backwoods. What you know about Backwoods. I know a lot about Backwoods. You just smoke it. I do. Can you roll? I can roll too. Damn, you like skating and you can roll. I'm like skating. What likes to get people can't roll? I mean, you know, pretty girls be, y'all, you know, y'all. Pretty girls, no. I don't, I don't do a lot. You right. So, I know how to roll. But I do prefer if whoever I'm smoking will roll up for me. That's just the pretty girl privilege. That's what I know. You know what I'm saying? But let's get into the game. So, how many flavors of Backwoods are there? Oh my God. I think about. Look at my nigga fade. Like, all right. They just added the song. I think about four or five. But then I went to, I went to like London and they got a blueberry one, bro. Oh, okay. Yeah, they be having different flavors. Nah, I don't have a blueberry. But I think like. Don't tell her the answer. It's the honey. It's the, it's the bourbon. It's the bourbon. It's the, okay. It's the yellow pack, brown pack, the Irish cream, the Russian cream. It's the, the smoke joint. So it's like four or five. It's actually 18. Damn. Flavors of Backwoods. All right. But I give you a credit. But in America, in America, it's four five though. It's eight, eight, two. But I'd give you credit for the flavors you just named because I was going to ask you to name some of the fight, name, five flavors that you did there. The yellow pack, the brown pack, the black pack. But you actually said the name. You said the honey. You said Russian cream. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like them two. They're my favorites. I was going to ask, what's your favorite? The honey. I love the honey. Who said Russian cream? I like that Russian cream. It's some pretty girls over here. No homo hat. Yeah. Shout out to the Backwoods girls. Backwoods girls. What's headin'? All right, Jazzy. Well, we not going to hold you up. That was the only question you had? No, you answered all three because I was going to ask you name five flavors. You did that in the first one. And I was going to ask you wet flavor. Can I ask you a question? Absolutely. All right. What's your top three albums right now that you listen to? Your top three. Top three, Doja Cat. Oh. On repeat. And I know how we feel about Doja Cat. She's amazing. She's amazing as an artist. She's a superstar. The beats are crazy. She's switchin' up the flow. She got the lines, the bars. I know how she treat her fans too because she treat them like shit. Even though she... Yeah. But no, it's... But they're made her real fans. The ones that really stay, like the ones... When she lost like a million followers and shit, they'll make her fans. Like, she's so smart. She's my control. She got my control over D-Bo. She's so smart. All right. I need this. What's up? Carlos Miller in winter is here. So make sure you're keeping that fireplace warm this year with some blue chew. 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I've been listening to... I've been back in my R&B bag. So I was definitely listening to the Diddy album, your EP. I've been having R&P, R&B kind of on re... Oh, it mixed out right now. What's your favorite song on my project? You know? Um... Yeah, I'm testing her ass. Y'all better catch this too. Yeah, she is. Oh, we gonna see if she really know my shit. Wait, wait, wait. Let me tell you. Oh, look at her phone. I'm finna go to my music. Number two. She gonna say number two. No, I'm finna go see. Number two, my favorite song. Because you know how I got you started? We're like, what you be playing the most? I got you, Brie. I'm about to pull it up. Yeah, go pull it up, Brie. There she got me. Oh! Because this the one... What's the one on Diddy album, though? It belongs to you. It belongs to you. Okay, okay. I'll take that. Yeah, that one... I had that one on repeat for show. That's your shit. That's not... I love you. It's sexy. Thank you. And that's what we need. I think I'm looking forward to music being back. Sexy and catered to women or just making you feel something. Okay. Not just negative. Because after so while listening for so long listening to the same type of hip-hop, you get bored a little bit. So that's what you think missing is, you want sexy music? More sexy music or feeling something. I wanna know if an artist... You know artists used to rap about their mama. Yeah. Niggas don't even rap about their mama no more. They grandma. Like, come on. What happened to that? Yeah, I wanna know... I wanna know something about you as an artist. I wanna know what you feeling and what you're going through. And I appreciate you guys for doing that, bringing that back to R&B. You know what I mean? No, that's love. Okay. I'm glad you just gave me a little free game of what women want in music. I need to... We wanna know the artist more on an intimate level and we wanna feel something. And not just always... Yeah. Fuck it. No, I got you. Like, it makes it sexy though. Yeah, because it belongs to you. I don't say nothing sexual in it. Yeah, but it's still... But it's just how it makes you feel. Yeah, it's the energy. That's love. All right, say a little shout out. Thank you. Yeah. Free game. Well, let me get a little drop before you get out of here. You are sitting here at 85 South at Backwoods Backstage. It's your girl, Jossie. And I'm chilling at 85 South, Backwoods Backstage, one music fest. And we hear it, man. Yeah.