 What they gon' do with me now? I'm still a twerk of the town. All the sisters, I'm hoakin' them down. Reachin' the smiles and the frowns. Gang hop out, then we clarin' the frowns. Hey, hey, guys. We're in a new episode of Talk of the Town. Today, we have a special guest, Scarlet. Hey. How you feelin'? I'm feelin' real good today. I see you booked in, like, busy. Girl, I'm tired. So what you got planned for 420? You smoke? Yeah. Yeah. But you about to get a little 420? Are we gettin' lit? I'm sad. And they ain't performin' at the gumbo thing. Yeah. How'd you get added to that? It was like, oh, what's up? I was like, what's poppin'? And then one from there. All right, so I'm playin' in my, I'm askin' you a question. Just say the first thing that comes to mind. OK. What's your sign? Sag. Favorite color? Gray. What's your favorite power couple? Beyoncé and Jay-Z. OK. Straighten on the island, what's three things you need? What's three things I need? I need water, I need God, and I need music. One artist you want to collaborate with? Cardi B. One rapper you would not let date your daughter if you had one. A rapper I would not let date my daughter if I had one. It would be a rapper that would not let date my daughter. What rapper be fuckin' all the bitches? Most of them. I'm tryin' to think, but what rapper be like? What rapper got mad kids? Don't you disrespect Nick Cannon. But you know what? NBA Youngboy cannot date my motherfuckin' daughter. I love his music, but he can't date my daughter. OK, one sentence reacts. Suck my dick and get the fuck out of New York because you're not welcomed anymore. Last thing you spend money on? Some food. What's the last thing I just bought? I just bought like some drinks. OK, what's your favorite meal to cook? My favorite meal to cook would be, I don't even cook. That's the crazy part. I just eat ramen a lot. I don't cook. But you don't cook. What's your favorite meal to eat and don't stay ramen? My favorite meal to eat. Besides ramen. Yes. Dunkin', I love Dunkin' Donuts. I love the ice coffees and the sandwiches. You need some real foodie in life. I know. You don't cook for me? I don't be cookin' either, but I definitely like home cooked food, though. But all right, most underrated artists? Scarlet. No, you know what? Let me take myself out of the equation. Underrated, right? Motherfuckin' now, that I listen to every day. That's underrated. I don't know what to read. Is this girl named Blue? She's five. I love her. Blue. Her name is Blue. Her name is Blue Runtz. She's so hard. She from New York? Yeah, I think she do. I forgot to check that out. You mean our TikTok? I be going to TikTok a lot. What's your favorite TikTok sound right now? It will have to be the, I just got another flight. Apple bottom, make them another bite. OK, and what's the worst food? The worst food. Chitlins, my grandma, man, she torments me. She used to torment me. Every time I wake up on a certain day, it's some stinky ass Sunday. It's some stinky ass Chitlins smelling like somebody took her crazy shit. So you don't like Chitlins? I don't like Chitlins. OK. What's your biggest pet peeve? My biggest pet peeve is leaving a bathroom door open. Close that door. Like when nobody's in it, just close it. Just even when people's in it, close the toilet bowl and close the door. OK. That's not random. All right. What world record do you think you could break? What do you think you could break? Possibly. I think I could break the world record of most albums sold, most streamed. I think I could break the world record. I think I could break the record of the most movies sold. Movies going against action? Let me get into everything while I'm still here. God willing. OK. So how you got into like music? I got into music. When I was a young girl, I always was into poetry. You know, I always had a passion for poetry. I used to go to school and my ELA teacher would tell me, girl, you could write, I used to write poems all the time. And then at a certain age, you know, I grew up around uncles and shit that wrapped and stuff like that. And I was really inspired by DMX. So I said, one day I said, let me write a song. And I wrote it, no, not a song, a freestyle. I wrote a freestyle. I get chills right now, think about it. I wrote a freestyle and posted it. This was around 2018, and it went viral. And that's when I knew it was for me. But the crazy thing is, I used to have notebooks full of just written poetry. So before you posted a freestyle, did you ever go to the studio yet or no? No, just on a regular camera. So when did you go to the studio to lay down in first chart? My first time going to the studio was I was still in foster care. I went to the studio, but it was a back door, it was not a studio. I searched online for a studio. And it was like, yeah, we got a studio. I went there, it was somebody cribbed. They had me in an attic, bro. Like no cap. And I don't know what the fuck it was. I thought they were shot back door and be like, take my money. But I got the fuck up out of there, man. It was crazy. That was the first time. And then I told, it wasn't really a studio, but that's the first time I actually attempted to. But then the first time we'd gone to the studio after that was around 2018. I dropped my first song called Therapy. That was more of an emotional story. It was about me being sexually abused as a younger girl and stuff like that. So that was the first time I ever been in a studio. I see that you're like open and up talking about that more. Are you like past it or like probably? Yeah, I'm healing past it. OK. And that took time. It took a very long time. Do you feel like you was going through something mentally with that or? I was going through mental problems, PTSD, a lot of trauma. And it was just a lot of heaviness I was holding. OK. And how did you overcome that? Did you go to workshops and stuff? I'll pray. I used to pray a lot. Had a deep, deep relationship with God. And just over the years, just meeting new people and learning to trust people again and creating my own family and music as well. So all of that played a part in me getting myself out of that dark place. OK. OK. And do you still sweet to your family at all? Man, I'm like, let's go get the fuck out of New York. OK. Because you know you're getting lit right now. So I can see people spinning the block like, I'm so sorry. They better stay with it up. OK. All right. So did anybody specific help you get through it, I guess? Like you need a friend or like someone to help you along the way get through it? I mean, I had pastors. And I had a lot of, I had my godmom, you know, like a lot of mentors in my life. Friends, really, they didn't really understand me with that shit because I never really was open to voicing with them. You know, I first shared my story in community. So in that space, they didn't know anything about what I was going through. We were linking up to smoke weed and escape that shit. You know what I'm saying? OK. And do you feel like you use like drugs as escape? Well, not drugs, like weed or something? Or liquor or something? I used to pop perks. I used to abuse it. When I got prescribed it and shit, I used to use perks a lot. I used to drink a lot. And you know, I used to always tell myself I'm not going to be a drunk because my aunt was a drunk growing up, you know what I mean? But then I was just like, I kind of understood why some people result to drugs. It's hard. It's really hard. So I was just popping pills and shit, but I really got out of that. You know what I'm saying? Really got out of that phase of my life. So music kind of helped with all that stuff. Music is the reason I feel like I'm still here. OK, so what's the poetry thing? Do you have a favorite poet, though? DMX. Oh, Maya Angelo and I'm like, but I get it. There's a lot of poets in the world. But DMX was my biggest inspiration. OK. So when he passed away, was that devastating? That shit was crazy. That shit was like, what the fuck? My goal was to meet him. My goal was to meet DMX. When he passed away, yo, could I tell you something? You know, it's so fucking mind blowing, guys. DMX passed away, right? DMX was my biggest, biggest, biggest in the world inspiration. Swiss Beats produced for DMX. Do you know that Swiss Beats works with me now? And I'm his executive producer? No, he's my executive producer. You definitely would have met him. So how did you meet Swiss? Swiss seen my video of me rapping about one of my traumatic experiences. And he reposted it for me. And I was very grateful. So then I took the initiative to text him. And I said, hey, Swiss, thank you for reposting my video. I see that you used to produce for DMX. And DMX is a big inspiration to me. Do you think we could work? You feel me? I'm going to. You got the whole pitch ready. Yeah, I was like, let me try to slide in. And he was like, keep doing your thing. I was like, all right, I respect it. I respect it. Then next week, and the week go by, he text me, we need to work. And I said, there we go. OK, but you definitely put it out there. OK, and then he was in the studio busting rhymes. Everybody's feeling that. How did he get on that? He just texted me. So people hit EMDMs like this. You wouldn't believe it. OK. He texted me. And he was giving me my props. And I appreciate him. And I said, how you feel about it? How you feel about getting into that? He said, let's do it. Off the strength, he didn't charge me. Off the strength, he did that. That's crazy, right? Yeah, you have a lot of OG supporters, a lot of older people that support your music. Do you want to tap into more of the youth? Oh, that's already in progress. That's already in motion. OK. So what does music wise to? Music wise to? What are you talking about happening to you? So when I see you posted, I see a lot of OGs comment and support and reposting you. I don't see a lot of younger people, I guess. They on TikTok. They on TikTok. I'm on TikTok all the time. OK, got you, got you, got you. You know me, but I'm working on transforming that into. On Instagram, I see all the OGs or that posting. So the kids is talking with you on TikTok. They fuck with me on TikTok. OK, so do so. Are you, you be dancing on TikTok? What you be doing on TikTok? Wrapping the same thing. Wrapping, I'm more of a more of a personality on TikTok. And I like make funny videos and, you know, just be parlaying around. OK. And then you just did the funk flex style. Yes. How was that? Was that a lot of pressure? It was so much pressure, man. I'm around funk, flex. You know, you got to bring it. Plus it was Swiss beef beef. So I'm like, it's pressure everywhere. Angle, yup. Plus my fans, I got to do it for my fans. Yeah, you got to do it. You got to do it for New York and all of that. Do you think I did it for New York? No, you definitely did. You definitely did. I love your flow and energy. You know, you always have the energy. Is that like an alter ego? Like, what is this? I got many. I got many. So do you have names for them? Or it's like. Music, Celia. One is Scar. One is Sierra. And I haven't discovered the rest of them. But it's multiple. How many would you say you have? From my music and all of the music I've been creating so far. I'd say around. You think you have 12 alter ego? Yeah, yeah, and just to let you guys know, 12 is my favorite number. OK. All right, so could you explain to them, like, what's Scar? Like, explain to Scar. I want to make sure I get the alter egos right. Because I just did an interview and they asked me. And like, it's confusing. Like, I know Sierra is just that optimistic, outgoing girl. I hope you see this, right? Scar is more of the, you know, Sierra is the little girl. Scar is more of the star. Sierra is like me. OK. OK. I hope I did that right. Sierra was Scar. You said one was with the E-value. So what's the value, man? You mean explain? The wild one. The wild one? OK. OK, so I just bring it back to, like, I guess the funk, quick, freestyle. Who was that rapping? Was that Scar or the star? That was definitely Scar. OK. Do the other. Maybe it was Sierra. That was Sierra. OK. OK. So you're still trying to figure it out for a few. Yeah. I mean, it's early. You're going to get it. You're going to get it. So, like, so how did that happen? Like, how did you start tapping into those? Like, alter egos? They always been here. I feel like I got bipolar disorder. I got mad personalities. So I just named them each. Y'all going to see throughout my future and throughout my career all of the alter egos that I have in the songs. What are we going to see? So on the project with Swiss Beat. Who was that? The project with Swiss Beat is a mix of Sierra. OK. So we ready to hear that. How was that? Did you find out when the world found out or did you know that she was going to be on the project? Swiss Beat's project. Shit. I didn't know that. So you found out when anybody else was on it? He's like, yo, we needed to do it at a certain time. And I had to do what I had to do. OK. It was like, let me just tell you a story with a quick, quick, quick, quick story. I had two bookings. And I had two label meetings that day and two radio shows. Plus I had a book and a 12 something. So I had to do all of the bookings in the 12 AM. I had to stay there until about 2 AM. Then after 2 AM, I had to go to the studio. And I didn't get out to the studio until 6 AM. And I had to bust down that verse. And I had mad pressure. I had to go against Jada and Benny. OK. Lyrical, lyrical. And I had to, oh, I'll shine. I had to perform because I had to hold up. I had to stand up. And I loved them. But I had to hold myself. OK. Put your foot down, yeah. OK. So you confident with it? I'm confident. All right, so we got to hear that when I come out. OK. So you say you're having two label meetings. So are you signed? Did you pick which way you like him? I'm about to sign. It's just about the bag. But I went to, like, how many meetings I've been to, like, you could just hold the number more than 10. More than 10. Like, no, like, eight meetings. Like, 10 meetings. OK. We about to sign that. All right. And what is it, I guess, you're looking for? I'm looking for label. I'm looking for artist control, freedom. I'm looking for at least some ownership. I'm looking for a good bag. Looking for a good deal. Not no outstanding, crazy, moment-stopping deal where you just locked in a prison and you just, you know, because I want to make sure I protect myself at the end of the day from those type of deals. Because there's a lot of artists that got great potential. There is some fucked up deals. You know, it's all about being priority. At least have an A&R or somebody that works at the label that really care about your craft, who care about you. And that will make you priority, even if the whole label doesn't make you priority. As long as you got one A&R. Let's make you a priority. You will be set. OK. All right. And is this advice you're getting from the OGs, or is this you're doing your research, or like, how are you getting this affirmation? Yo, no. What? I don't know what. Like, only a blind man would walk into some bullshit? No, I know. But I'm saying you hanging around Busta Roms. Even though, yo, Swiss Bees and Busta Roms are great mentors for me. They are helping me 100%, giving me advice and shit. And I just appreciate everybody, even my managers. My family, my brother, and me too. I'm not a dummy. OK. You got how many siblings? I got three siblings, one died. But that was before I was born. So this isn't the brother that got you? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is the other brother. My older brother did that. OK. This is my baby brother. OK. OK, OK, OK. All right, so what's the plan? Like, when you get your big bag, what's your first purchase you plan on getting? I'm going to get me a house. OK, you want a house? I want to get me a car. I must get set my brother up with a career. I'm invested in my own business. So you want this? What kind of business? What do you want to do? I want to do, I want to have a makeup, a beauty line. OK. This is what I aspire to do. I want to have some type of beauty line. And I also want to open up a children home. Well, a woman that has been sexually assaulted and also been in a foster care system. So that's another thing that I really, really am like to do. So why makeup though? Are you into makeup? Yeah, I like beauty. OK. And plus I got a scar on my lips, so you know I want to make some beauty products. Like to embrace your, you know, embrace your scars, your beauty. Yes, yes, I think that's cool. That would be cool. So what, um, who else, I guess, makeup? I don't know, do you have a favorite makeup brand right now? Maybe it's me, baby. Not like Fenty. I like Fenty Beauty. I don't even really use it. I don't know what I use. The makeup I use is more. I've heard of more. I've been using a lot of more products. Also, is this other thing, Givana or Jatavia? It's a black-owned, it's a black-owned. Yeah, I like that too. OK, OK, so you've been doing your resets since then. OK, all right, so, you know, we in New York drill music is super hot right now. Do you feel like your sound is drill or no? Lizzie Gobble is drill. Well, I don't even think Lizzie is really more drill, but I don't think I'm drill. I just think I'm rap. OK. You don't think so? I think I just, I'm an artist. I'm not a rapper, and y'all are going to discover that soon. But right now, I'm just throwing y'all cold balls right now for me. But I ain't a drill rapper. That's just not it. But I could do drill. OK. Are you not interested in doing drill? I love drill. I'm interested in doing drill, but you got that. You know what I mean? I got a couple drills in the tub, in the tub, but. OK. So what do you think is different between your sound and drill, to you? The delivery, the flow of it, the way the beat is the difference, obviously, because I'm more given like hip hop beats, and that's more a drill beat. Like it's like the difference, I don't really know. OK, you trying to figure it out? I'm trying to figure it out, but I fuck with drill, heavy. It ain't like. No, I'm just asking because, you know, in New York, they're trying to ban drill and stuff like that. Fuck I am. But even though your sound isn't necessarily drill, it's still aggressive, you know what I'm saying? Man, they trying to ban drill, man. That shit is, why are you trying to ban drill for? These kids is expressing themselves. In any way that they express themselves, you can't control that. If they want to, if these kids want to pick up a mic and do drill to express themselves, then let them. They could be out there picking up guns. They could be out there picking up this, picking up that. But they rapping, yeah. But they rapping. Let them, like they're you. In the older ones, let them do what they feel to do. They have the freedom to do that. Ban yourself, because drill ain't going nowhere. So you are supporting a drill? Hell yeah. OK. All right, are you listening to any drill artists right now? Wawa, it's my baby. My words? I love her. I love her, yeah. What other drill artists? I like St. Trucie. OK. He's hard. He's hard. You got to focus on him. I like B Love. OK. He's lit. I like K-Flock, J-Dot, J-Dot I like a lot of them, Ron Suno. OK. You keep going. I know it's mad at them. OK, so all right, so what inspires you in music right now, though? Yeah. So whenever you're in the mood, you just write in? Yeah. And another thing is I like to step into it. So I'm a very diverse artist, right? And y'all don't know, because I haven't even know yet. But what I do is I like to step into each artist's shoes when I make a song. So if I get a Southern B or a down south B or something like a Memphis B, that means I got to step in the shoes of young dog. You know young dog? Yeah. I made a tribute song to him as well. Yeah, but it didn't drop yet. But I'll step into his shoes and be like, what would he say? Or if I get a fucking pop beat. I'm going to say, what would a pop artist do? What would fucking DMX, what would Cardi say? And I step into their shoes and I sort of become the artist. How do you find about females in hip hop right now? They running in. How about saying, because it's competition out here. Nah, I really feel like everybody doing a thing. But I thought the girls is keeping up with the guys. That's what I mean when I say competition. Yeah, these niggas got to catch up. That's what I'm saying. They got to weep, weep, woo. Yeah. Any, are you working with any female artist? I'm trying. I'm trying to get that Lola Brooke feature you high. I'm trying to get that Cardi feature you high. OK. And I got a lot of shit coming, you know. So yeah, you working on working with some girls. That's the plan. Yes. OK, cool. All right, so with your DMs going up in music, I know the guys is on you right now. How is that? You know what? They haven't been on that. It's a little different. It's like they coming at me like respectful. Do you think your aggressiveness is what's scaring them? They like that, that aggressive shit, get they did talk. But I feel like they are aggressive, though. Yeah, I feel like they more so coming at me with some respectful shit. OK, so that's always good. Yeah, it's going to be some niggas that say some wild shit. But for the most part, it seemed more like a queen talk. You know them niggas, I'd be like your majesty, queen and goddess of a black woman. Such a crunchy ass. You know what you really trying to do. OK, so are you not feeling no guys right now? Or? No, I'm not. So? You're telling me. OK, so you're focusing on your music. I'm focusing on my music. And in the game, you said that you were a virgin. So you're playing on Savin' It? I'm a virgin. I really am. But I'm playing on Savin' My Virginity until like 25 or something. Until I find a true man that really loves me for me. And not just because I rap or something. Oh. All right, do you have an idea of what you want that first night to look like? Or you want it to be surprised? Or you never thought that far? You never thought that far in school? I didn't think that far. First night, I lose my virginity. I wanted to be a grown, strong, muscular diesel man with bananas drizzling down. And I want to pull a baby on you and begin to rub it down his back. And then I want him to lift me, hold me, squeeze me. And I want him to take me somewhere. And I want us to dance, sip a little bit, rock back and forth. And then I want him to do the do. I was sad. OK. Got it all planned out. Now, that's funny. So I can see why you want to get into acting, for sure. I can definitely push it up at times. Dude, what role would you play? Watching Power? Yeah, I'm going to get on Power. I'm on Power. I'm getting on Power. OK. And who role do you like? Who do you feel like you could do good as? You feel like you're Effie, more of a Diana, maybe? I'm more of one of the hottest. I'm going to be either the snake. I'm going to be either the one going against time. So you saw the last episode? No. OK, I'm not going to tell you. I'm going to either be a snake, or I'm going to be one of the next selling them drugs with them. Or like one of the London people? I want to be one of them. I want to be on it a lot. You know, I think I will feel more on the back in the day Power one. The B&M? I think I will feel more on that. Yeah, I'm more on that. OK. I think so. So you want to dress like the old school stuff and stuff? Do you have a favorite actor on there, the B&M? Or do you remember? Yo, the nigga from B&M, the son, he get me fucking mad. Bro, he always doing some silly shit. But I like the brother. Terry? Oh, not that B&M. Raising Canaan. I'm talking about. I could do Raising Canaan. OK, so it's the mouth. I don't remember their names. But yeah. OK, so the brother. OK, I don't need to run. All right, so definitely going to get into acting. I'm going to get into acting. I'm already in it. Yo, I'm about to be on Wallin' Out. OK, you did Wild Style? No, I didn't do it. I want to be on Wallin' Out. I'm getting on Wallin' Out. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, because Nick Canaan knows who you are, girl. He gave me that five bands. I was like, hey. Did you know he was going to do that? Hell no. So he just told you to come? I thought I was performing. Yeah. Performing for the Future Superstar. But that five bands was what the song? Oh, yeah. That was surprising. But you did perform that night? I did. OK, so you performed and got somebody. I don't know. So any other artist that's been showing you love lately? A lot of artists are starting to show me love now. Koala Rae followed me. Lola Brooke followed me. Ruby Rose followed me. And we was just talking about she's a bad either. What other females? So far, Koala Rae, Melo Rats. No, not Melo Rats. Melo Rats did follow me, too. Melo Bucks? Melo Bucks. Yeah. I could see how I want to remix to this new year. How the fuck with Melo Bucks OD? She's a fucking beast. Yeah. She's doing her thing right now. Yeah. Nobody, you better stop playing with her. Yeah. But yeah. OK. All right, so what's in the works? What's the plan for 2023? 2023, come see me. Listen, 2023, we got an EP dropping in the summertime. We got a new song with Swiss Beats, Jadakiss and Benny coming out. Also, a song with Shaq is in the work that we just shot a video about the drop soon. Soon, soon, soon. You know, this is New York. We're going to raise the charge crazy. You know, it's an anthem as well. And by the summertime, we're going to drop an EP exclusively produced by Swiss Beats. OK. And how long is the EP? How many songs? Three, four, five, six. Is that working on it? OK. Any features on there? Or you can't say yet? Can't say yet? OK. All right. So tell people to find you. How could they tune in? Yes, make sure you follow me on Instagram at Scar and the Squirrel Lip, especially on TikTok at Scar and the Squirrel Lip. YouTube is just Scar Lip. And Facebook is just Scar Lip. And Twitter is at Scar and the Squirrel Lip.