 What they gonna do with me now? I'm still a twerk of the town. Baby, the sisters, I'm hooking them down. Reaching the smiles and the frowns. Game hop out, then we clearing them. Hey, guys, we're on a new episode of Talk of the Town. Today, we got a special guest, Mama Million. Hey, guys. How you feeling? I'm feeling good. How are you? I'm good. New York, how has it been for you? It's been good. Really just person-run a lot of other interviews and stuff. I need some good food spots, for real. What you looking for? I was just telling them. What you looking for? I don't know. Like, it don't matter. It just gotta be good. Yeah, I was just telling them, like, you can go to McGrill if you want, like, Caribbean food. We don't really have, in the South, y'all gotta seafood for, like, we don't really got good seafood spots. Unless you go to, like, City Island or something, which is not far. Oh, no, I'm not from the South. Oh, you think I'm from the South? My accent. To me, anything, like, under, like, you know, that's down. Yeah, must. Okay. You know what I'm saying? Like, not like... Yeah, I get it. I get it. All right, so I'm gonna ask you a couple questions to say the first thing that comes to mind. What's your favorite color? Pink and black. Favorite food? Not wings. First album you heard start to finish? Chris Brown, heartbreak on the full moon. Um, last movie you saw? The Blackness. Okay, Celebrity Crush. Drake. What's the one song you know word for word that's not yours? Dang. Honestly, I don't even know. I'm having brain freeze right now. Okay, last thing you send money on? Clothes. Favorite music video of yours? Uh, Hershey Kisses with me and Mella Books. And what's one conspiracy theory you think is real? The Earth is below. The Earth is below? Below, yeah. Not round. Yeah, flat. Flat, yeah. Okay, so what goes... I mean, tell us a little bit about your rap name. How did you get the name Mama Millions? Well, originally, my whole life, I've been called Mama ever since I was a baby. And then one of my brother's closest friends, my brother, you know when you grow up, and people become family. He kind of like my brother too. He gave... I always been like an entertainer, and I told him I wanted to rap, and I used to just rap for them and stuff like that. And one day he just came to me like, Mama, your rap name should be Mama Millions. And I'm like, okay, cool, you know? Because I was just sticking to Mama, so I'm like, okay, cool. And I was like a shorty, like I was real young. And that just stuck with me from there. I'm like... I mean, y'all still cool to this day? That's good, that's good. So how is he feeling about your success now? Oh, they're proud of me. They're super proud of me. I love my brothers. Okay, was family always supportive of the music dreams? Yes. My family's super supportive. I think now it's just more serious. Because when I was younger, they didn't take me serious for real. They were like, what are you going to rap about? You know, like... Yeah, you had to make sure you really wanted it. Okay, so if he wasn't getting into music though, what was he getting into? Like hair, makeup? What was he getting into besides the music? Maybe a dance choreographer. Because I started out dancing. And then I transitioned into music. Okay, when did you know music? What's your thing now? When I got inspired by Michael Jackson. So I wanted to be a dancer. I was already dancing. I've been dancing since I was two years old. And I started writing music at five. But Michael Jackson inspired me to write music. Because I'm like, if I want to be a superstar, I got to have a whole bag. You know, like I don't want to be no background dancer. I want to be the spotlight. So they just encouraged me to write music. Okay. Alright, so what was your first studio session? The first time you went in the studio, lay the song down? The first time I went in the studio was with my uncle. He over there. The first time I went in the studio was with my uncle. I had just went viral on Facebook. Wrapping with my best friend or whatever the case may be. And then we had got called to the studio to do this song or whatever the case may be. That was my first time rapping. And my uncle met us there. And then we left that studio. My uncle had a studio built in his garage. And we left there. And then I went in there and recorded like ten songs. Ten songs for a session? Yes, like one take. Because I had so much music just sitting. Because that was something I really wanted to do. But I didn't have a studio or anything like that. That was just stuff that I was just writing. And then from then my uncle been locked in here. That's fine. Okay, so on the music tip what made you, what motivated you to keep going with it? What pushes you everyday to keep doing it? My family, the people that support me. And I feel like I just came too far to give up. And also my team. That motivated me and pushed me to go harder. So you from Chicago? Yes. Okay, so just come over. People move there and stuff like that. So being from Chicago, how do you feel about the music team, especially for the girls right now? Oh, we put it on. I feel like we the hottest out right now. Uh-huh. Yeah. Yes, Melo doing her thing. Who else are you listening to out there? Fendi. Melo, Fendi. Y'all listen to Cashmere. Other female artists out there. Sizi. Uh-huh. Sizi coming up next. Oh my God, it's so many. So many. That's what I'm saying. But they hard dumb. That's a lot. That's a lot. But they hard dumb. It's a lot. So what do you think makes you stand out as a female artist from Chicago, so hot right now? Hot, what stands you out from everybody else? How are you different? Um, really just being in my own lane. Tunnel vision. If you watch previous interviews, um, that's just me. That's my aura. That's my persona. Like that's who I am. I stand firm in it. Tunnel vision, um, just focused on me. I'm not trying to be the head. I don't want to be number one. I don't put myself superior to nobody, nor inferior. Uh, I'm just me, you know? I'm just doing it because this is what I love to do. Other people love that I do it. And like, I probably make other people a day when I do it. That's all that matters, you know? Yes. Yeah, so that's what I'm doing. Okay, so if someone didn't listen to your music, what song would you want them to hear first? Other songs that's out. Because I know you got so many unreleased. Oh, okay. So out of what's out, if a person never heard of Mama Million, what would be the first song to play them? For male and female? Male and female, yes. Uh, a song I would want them to listen to right now would be... Like, what's your vibes? What you want them to hear? Why are you so indecisive? Because I'm like, I've got so much music. I don't know. Out of these songs, that's out, yeah. I would say my recent probably, um... Nah. Maybe Mama Sita. Okay. Because it's just like super uptempo. It's like it make you want to dance and make you feel it. Okay. So when making music, being that you used to dance, when making music, are you making sure you can dance to all your songs or like... Before, no. But now, yeah, for sure. I always say it like, can y'all twerk? Can y'all dance? Okay. Now when I'm making it. Okay, okay, okay. And do you feel like your music is, you try to kid it to the girls or the guys? Right. So really, my main focus is really the women, because I was so like leaned over the side to like boys were so attracted. So I started making stuff. The boys just hot out there, yeah. So I had to make stuff more relatable to the women, too. So really the women now. So, um, so who, I guess, who are some artists you were listening to growing up? Michael Jackson, of course. Of course he is. From my time, I mean from my city, Chief Keith, I grew up listening to her, Lil Durk, I listened to Chris Brown, Beyonce, Drake. Like, I grew up listening to a lot of different artists. I don't have like a favorite artist. I love music. So if you make some hot music, I fuck with it. Yeah, definitely, definitely, definitely. Okay, so being a female, you know, music industry is super male dominated. Walk us through some like pros and cons. You feel like about being a female industry right now? Pros and cons. Some of the good stuff and some of the bad stuff. I think bad because everybody, you have, I don't, everybody don't have the same asset. It's me coming from my perspective. So everybody look at it as competition, which to the labels and everybody else it is. Yeah. But I don't really look at it in that way. So I feel like it just create like a lot of negativity in a way too. You know, because it's like, oh, I don't eff with you, you know, blah, blah, blah. It's like so much fake love in a mix of it. You get what I'm saying? And I feel like the pro about it is that like we shine, like we winning, like we shining right now. Right. And that's good to see because once before it was the males time. Yeah. The girls definitely got it right now. So, um, so being so with that, so you of course taking label meetings. Yes. Right. So like what are you kind of looking forward to move forward if you want to do a label? Like what do you kind of expect them looking forward to looking for really anything that makes sense? Okay. It just has to make sense. I don't want to like say too much, but anything that makes sense makes sense. How do you feel about the whole independent route though? I feel like that's the best way to go also. Um, just being, having that freedom. Yeah. Owning your stuff. You know, I feel like that's the best route to go. Definitely. Definitely. If you can, if you can do that for as long as you could, I would say be independent. Okay. So what inspired the Hershey Kidz record with Mellow? Um, honestly I had been made the song. Mm-hmm. When I first met Mellow, she'd be like, yeah, she'll send me a song. But around that time I was focused on like building my brand. You know, putting myself in one pocket. And I wanted to make it like pretty, but a little savage girl music. You get what I'm saying? And that's what I was focused on. So Hershey Kidz was like one of my beginning, beginning songs that I've ever made. It was, it was really old song. How old was that song? Probably like the beginning of this year. You're old. Like six months old. Yeah. Um, and I had made it because I felt like that was pretty girl. Hey, who ever with me? Chocolate Hershey. You know, like I feel like it was super pretty. I can hear girls getting ready to that song. Making videos too, you know. And that really inspired that. And I had sent Mellow like three, four songs. And that was one of them that she picked. And I'm like, that was so freaking perfect because like we both chocolate women. You know what I'm saying? That's what I was saying. Like what's so perfect? Yeah, it was, it was perfect. It was perfect that she picked that. Yeah. So, um, so also I feel like another one that's really moving right now is Mama Cita. What inspired that record? Honestly, I was just in the studio drunk. And I heard the beat. And I'm like, yeah, you need to go do that. Go do that. And then after that, I just took it from there. Like, I'm Mama Millie, but my call me Mama Cita because my name Mama, you know Mama Cita. Yeah, you know. And I was just putting it together and they like this shit hard. Okay, okay, okay. So, um, so the Hershey Kids record is awesome. Like how do you feel about, you know, like working with more girlies in the industry? I'm definitely looking forward to it. Yes, girl. It's good for now. Yeah. I like, I love it. You know, I love, you know, I like genuine vibes. I love like, like we got it right now and I'm so excited for everybody, you know, and I'm waiting my turn in the crowd giving others their flowers, you know, clapping and applauding and waiting my turn to be on stage, you know, like, I'm supporting it 100%. For sure. And I mean, you know, as a girl, we go through different things as guys. So how do you, how are you balancing like your personal life with your music career? Honestly, I'm balancing it good. I'm not in a relationship. I'm not, you know, worried about that stuff. I'm just really focused on having fun and making music, you know, achieving my goal because I'm getting older and I don't have no job, you know, like this is what I do for a living. So, ain't no time to waste. This is what I got to do. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, because, you know, I feel like when girls are going up, it's always a guy that always wants to come into the mix and be in a role. How do you feel about like personal relationships, like public relationships? I mean, I don't know. I would never go public again. It's a wrap. You're going to be like Lotto, nobody know you mean it, but they know you got one. Yeah, definitely. Ain't nobody going to know my man. You ain't even going to know what his kneecap look like. It's over with. Okay, okay, okay. So going into, you know, it's fourth quarter. We ended up the year. What else are you going to do this year? Hopefully, I'll be able to drop a project by the end of this year. Yeah, that's the goal. I don't have plans on it. I have enough music for it, but having really made plans, you know, I'm just going to love right now. You got all these records. How are you going about what song gets released versus what song you hold? Like, how are you going about that? Timing. Okay. If the timing makes sense, me and my team go over it, you know, it's kind of hard too because it's so much music. Right. That's what I'm saying. So. So, okay. Then I'm in the studio a lot too. So it's like, I might make harder stuff than the stuff that I have. So it's like that throws it off too. It's just super hard. Like, it's just hard. So when picking a song, is it you and your team in there? Is it you and your team and your friends? Y'all in the studio, y'all trying to pick through the songs? Yeah. Me and my team. Group effort kind of. Yeah. Okay. That's cool. That's cool. How'd you meet your team? Well, of course, I've been down, but like how'd you meet everybody? Through my family, through my family, my family like introduced and that's how that happened. Okay. So, um, yeah, so definitely a project. You want to drop a project this year. Okay. Got a title or not? My turn. My turn? Yeah. You already got a title? Yeah. My turn. If I drop a project right now, it's going to be my turn. Okay. Period. That's going to be the name of it. Before the year ends. Right. Yeah. So maybe dash dash two three. My turn. Okay. Let's see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. Yeah. Put pressure on her. All right. So, um, it's time for music. Do you want to get to acting? Yes. Anything else? Any different revenues and stuff? Do you have a favorite actor? Honestly, I don't be knowing the active name. Okay. A movie? Favorite movie. Twilight. All the twilight. Okay. I'm not really, Yeah. Or like thrillers. I don't really like the hood movies and stuff. I'm sorry. I can't watch it. It's too corny for me. I just can't do it. Okay. Okay. All right. So, um, what else should we be looking forward to this year? Project. How are you feeling with some of your goals moving forward? My project is one of them, um, to keep working with different artists upcoming and, uh, local and hopefully, hopefully go global too. I'm sorry. Yeah. My words out to hopefully go global too. Why would I say it again? But y'all get what I'm saying. But yeah, that, um, In New York, you worked with anybody out here yet? Um, she's not from New York, but me and Asian doll just linked up. Okay. Uh, last night and we did some stuff. Yeah. Any other features on the way? Or like still working it out? No, I'm still working it out. Okay. All right. So definitely looking forward to more. Tell the people where to find you. How can they tune in? Oh, you guys can tune in with me on Instagram at M-A-M-A dot M-I-L-L-I-O-N underscore. Yeah. Oh, YouTube, my million. Go check my videos out. His subscribe, like, you know, drop a comment. And that's the talk of the town. Make sure you like, comment, and subscribe and make sure you check out our website at www.talkofthetownshow.com.