 doesn't miss none other than Miss Money Long. Congratulations on all your success. Thank you. Thank you. You know as a newer artist for you to be finding success in these venues like early that's so dope and much respect to you especially in this music climate where people have to go online and download and streams is crazy and for you to be getting that type of love it's just dope and you stand so humble. I'm super grateful. Super. And to be helping bring R&B back you revive one of the artists that's really reviving true R&B bringing back love songs bringing up feels. You know what it's always been a dream of mine to sort of like breathe life into the industry period because I've been doing this for almost 15 years and it was it's a lot different today than it was in 2008 2007. So I always said like I want to save music like you know I want to be doing this until I'm 70 years old but at the rate it's going and it may not be around you know what I'm saying at the level that I'm used to and that we like to consume music at it just ain't it ain't the math ain't math. So I'm starting in R&B and hopefully I can you know maneuver and move over to some other genres but right now I'm sitting pretty comfortable you know serving my people giving you all this music talking about things that we go through. Yeah it's been fun. Yeah what what other genre music or maybe even hip hop that you would like to like tap into. I would love to tap into rap and you know I feel like I'm not a rapper but the way that you do that is to like collaborate with rappers and give them like those R&B mainstream pop hits you know like how we used to have in the early 2000s 90s where it was a rapper and a singer. Yeah pop music obviously that's where I started in this game writing pop songs for other artists. Country music I've also done that had a lot of success there I got a number one in country music with Carrie Underwood and Miranda Lambert. Hold on hold on a number one country music. Yeah that's dope. Come on now we can't just act like we didn't hear you say that. Gotta give it up for that. Yeah so you know I mean I would do rock I love rock. That would be dope. I love classical music I just love music. Right let me ask you this for you to be doing music almost 15 years and to still be considered a new artist. How do you take that. I'm grateful. I'm grateful because it's billions of people in the world right. So I feel like I'm gonna be working until I'm done like until I die to make sure that my music and my creations touch every piece of the earth. You know it's certain people in certain countries that don't have a TV they don't have a radio and they give music through word of mouth. Still today. So you know it's never no ego. It ain't never like you don't know who I am like and I learned that from Mariah Carey. She walked into a room and people would be like hi I'm Mariah. She introduced herself like we don't know who she is right. Yeah so you never know man if it's people that still don't know who Beyonce is I got a lot of work to do. Yeah but what do you say like being in a game for 15 years and like you said still kind of being introduced to a lot of audiences. What do you say to like new artists or people that's just tapping in or even the next generation that think everything is like overnight success quick. You know all you need is one hit. Yeah that's an issue but I don't think it's just with the newer generation because like even my mom my dad my uncle's my aunties people who are used to doing things a certain way they quit so easy like when they encounter the first little piece of resistance. They be like oh you know they throw their hands up and it's like no you got to keep pushing you gotta keep moving it doesn't matter that person that told you no or that standing in your way that doesn't mean that you're not great that just means that they don't have the capacity to help you. Yeah so you just got to keep grinding until those people you know notice you or you're amplified to the to the point where they can't ignore you. Right now you got one of those songs I won't say one but you know exactly the song I'm referring to that gives that that soulful black love feeling and it's like how do you capture that moment when people hear you and it's like it's the same effect it's like how soulful Anthony Hamilton is or it's like that jammer with Jill Scott it's like you found that pocket where it's like oh this that good clean up the house whether I'm you know I mean like I can make love to this I could clean up serendipity. I could cook to this like it feels like loving. Yeah what is money longs ingredients to doing something like that. I don't know just being real like I'm I'm a lover I don't want to fight you I will run you over with my car if you hit me but I prefer love I prefer you know treat everybody like family like we all cook you know and so I just put my true feelings in the song I think maybe that's what resonated with people just the authenticity and it's a lot of conversations about relationships and what can I curse on you you can say whatever the fuck you want to what niggas ain't doing shit like it's so much of that toxic conversation and I feel like the only people who talk like that are people who never experienced real love and also I'm a little delulu so like it don't matter how mad I am with my husband I'm still at the end of the day I want my fairy tale and so if I want my fairy tale I gotta create it I have to create the space for it you know people ask me all the time how you get married so young I was behaving like a wife when I was single and it's a lot of people that ain't gonna do that you know I'm saying also marriage ain't all that's cracked up to be that's what it's work it's not just oh my god you love me so much you got me roses that is work it is a relationship you know I'm saying like you ain't gonna always like your boss but your boss sign your check so you got to behave in a certain way if you want to get that you know I'm saying yeah how do you manage them time like you said when you might not always like each other but you love each other so you like just go to your corner just like fam I'm over here leave me alone I'm watching my movie and then when you get hungry a what you trying to eat you know I'm saying just like sometimes you might argue with your sister your brother might can't stand your mama might can't stand your daddy but that's still my family yeah so my husband is my family no matter what like if we stay together or not that's my family you know I'm saying so sometimes I can't stand him sometimes he do get on my nerves sometimes he walk up behind me when I'm brushing my teeth and scares the living daylights out of me it made me want to punch him you know I'm saying but it's just like this is the person who I'm going to break up with and make up with for the rest of my life you know I'm saying and I think a lot of people won't agree with that a lot of people might say oh I don't know if it's possible for women to be simps but to be sent you know I'm saying like you got a fight for what you want you got to work for what you want you got to work for the good like nothing is free nothing don't come easy and I think like a lot of people have this like delusional idea of what relationships are period like not just romantic but friendship work relationship your relationship between you and God like they not really putting into work well you know back to the music I wanted to talk about cuz you were talking about venturing into other genres but we backstage right now we're backwards behind one one music fest live here in Atlanta are there any artists here that you hoping to maybe like run into or possibly want to collab with work within the future I don't be wanting to run into nobody because if you shave me and you start acting funny in person I'm oh you like it's on site oh you oh you don't know me now okay period so I don't be wanting to run into nobody like they hear the word y'all do y'all think but I do want to see cut out okay I want to see me I want to see Janet I've never seen her live and then tomorrow of course it's a lot of dope artists performing as well that I want to see anybody you would look to or like to collab with on some work I would love to collab with anybody who's on my same frequency like if we in alignment if it's meant to be let's do it let's create some music that's gonna change the world but I'm not trying to force nothing like I'm in this space right now of just complete authenticity if it's meant for me it's meant for me if it's not saying or how she said that like she easy to get in touch with like you are money long right no it doesn't matter like I just made a post about this on my Instagram like people be price gouging you know it's all kiki ha ha oh hey girl in your face but then it you know and it could be like the management the lawyers but I don't be with all that I do you want to do it or not that's the hell of an attitude to take I mean because I'm straight I know where my help come from guy gonna make sure I'm straight so whether you get on the boat and enjoy me and my success I'm still gonna be good you know I was gonna ask that as an artist like would you want to work with another artist just cuz you know y'all can make a hit or do you feel like you gotta really vibe with them on a real level first I feel like energy is first so I don't got to be best friends with you but you can sit down with somebody for two minutes and just exchange a few words and know where that person is vibrationally if they talk about other people gossiping hating like alright this might not go that far cuz I don't be on it you know I'm saying I remember one time I had a moment in the studio where J. Cole was there and I was just having a bad day that day and I started just talking trash I was talking to my other friend to Ron Rock City who's also an artist and songwriter and Cole came in the room and within two minutes he did not even he like sat down he heard what we were talking about he got up and left and I just remember being like damn what we say why did you do that but then I realized like my frequent we wouldn't on the same frequency he not on that you know complaining and like man why these niggas always trying to play us and you know who they think they is that kind of conversation does not circulate in higher level rooms so you know that he got up and left though and just like didn't even try to interject but just immediately protected judge me he didn't say nothing bad he sat there he listened for like a minute and then he got up and left yeah cuz I'll be if I sometimes when I'm in them situations I'd be like trying to bring the frequency up like okay let me but no just leave because what happens is when you're high vibrational like that most likely those people are gonna bring you down you're not gonna be able to bring them up you know I'm saying and if you do you're gonna expend so much energy trying to bring those people up to your frequency that you won't have any more energy so eventually you it's like it's almost like a battery like you have a limited amount until you refresh it right yeah so like I'm not gonna sit up here and argue with y'all because all it's gonna do is deplete me of my high frequency and then I'm gonna end up having a charge up on yours which is low yeah you got it all figured out not everything well a lot of it like the first part I got a little bit not a lot yeah so like you were talking about marriage earlier how is it difficult to maneuver through the industry as a wife no it's actually better because I don't care about no nigga right no and my confidence is such that because I have somebody that can bounce things off of him because I know I got my partner at home like no matter what happens we might not even been having a good day that day together but if I come we are united against you know outside forces so it doesn't matter what anybody thinks about me I don't care any male can't tell me shit cuz the only person that I'm listening to is my husband and God you can't tell me nothing you know that I'm saying yeah it just it just makes my confidence level so high so that's cuz you have that person in your corner that you know like it's gonna be there and have your best interest at heart I'm not trying to impress none of y'all right if you don't like it okay like I can admit when I don't look the best when I got outfit when my hair don't look right my makeup I can admit all of that like cuz it don't matter I got somebody that like it that's good though I think that that's something you really need like us I think every artist or creative should have a solid foundation you know even if it's not before marriage if it's your homie or your friends or your lover or just your mama you need that so when the comments or everybody hating the shade room or whatever you know I mean you know how crazy you can get you got that solid foundation in the yeah and I also think if I if I was out here single I would be so distracted because I love love so if somebody want to take me on a date I'm a go and somebody want to fly me out I'm a go and you know it's like girl you need to be working on your music you need to be rehearsing I'm like oh but you know I'm in Dubai you know that you're trying to find love yeah I'm glad that I have that checked off that is dope what more can we expect from money loan from from this day going into the future what can we expect I'm gonna be a lot more vocal you know sharing my personality sharing the knowledge that I have I just started doing it actually yesterday on Instagram just sharing like I realized a lot of people have no clue how this whole shit works but they be trying to participate right and so it gets frustrating cuz it's like you don't know what you talking about oh my god you know so instead of complaining about that I'm gonna be the change and start sharing what I know and then I have a song out right now called May for Me's Plano radio stations all over the US produced by Jermaine Dupree Brian McCox and a young producer named Jordan XL and so I'm promoting that right now and I think it's in the top 15 at radio so it's doing pretty well I got lots more music I'm gonna drop an album at the top of next year tour I ain't going nowhere I'm about to be in your face what's the title can we get the title the title of the album yeah oh can I give him the title of the album to go she's not Shaka said yeah okay Shaka Zulu if this don't go right is your fault the title of the album is called everything is a game everything is a game everything is a game I like that yeah so that's exclusive I never told nobody that okay we got it cuz it's rules to everything every everything is a game I feel like I used to wait to write it so being the club you know that was like a game that I felt like I had to learn and then once I graduated from the club and went to the entertainment industry I realized this damn did the same game hey what's up it's your name Carlos Miller the winter is here so make sure you keep in the fireplace warm by putting a log on it you know I'm saying with blue two blue two can increase your performance and give you that extra confidence in the bedroom the process is simple you just sign up at bluetooth.com and consult with one of their licensed medical providers and once you approve you will receive your prescription within days bluetooth wants to help you have better sex discover your options at bluetooth.com just chew it and do it and we've got a special deal for our listeners try bluetooth for free when you use promo code 85 lounge at checkout you just pay for the shipping that's $5 that's 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was gonna ask the next question is named before it's in it's like some honey okay regular original backwood okay um young it great yeah great well it's Barry but we'll be okay Barry and shoot like cream it's like some cream okay how many backwood is coming a pack three four four five five actually it's three and five and sometimes one I've seen a one single as well yeah I was talking about a traditional but you can answer it all okay and what flavor of backwood do you see the most like when you out original because the real smoker don't want no flavor they want to taste the weed there you go period there you go you know you're telling them myself I'm working on some things over there with backwoods where we trying to get like some backwoods reparations yeah for the ones that got broken in transit we try to negotiate what that number looks like us as a consumer against them as the company but it's real friendly right now not be so mad when you buy a pack of backwoods and it be dry yeah I'll be mad when you buy the pack and they only give you one dog skin backwood and the rest of I never like my meat yeah yeah cuz the dog was burned longer oh my gosh is that Keith Lee I love him Keith Lee I'm a huge fan oh my god Keith Lee what's up we back to critic Keith Lee come over here we'll do an interview with Keith Lee he's amazing money long we appreciate you stopping through the 85 south listen I'm a huge fan of the show you don't come on the show have me come back will you come on the show I will we're gonna get your people info so you can come on the show thank you so much for stopping my backwards backstage one music fest it's lit money long thank you we out of here