- Welcome back, everybody.
My next guest is a four-time Grammy-winning
recording artist, that's four, okay, who encouraged
all the independent women out there to put their hands up.
Now she's a mom, has new music and she's on a mission
to raise awareness about how hard
the African-American community has been hit by COVID-19.
Let's say hi to Kelly Rowland
What's up, Kelly?
- Hello, Kelly.
I love that--
- I love you, first of all, I love your song "Kelly".
I jam to it all the time.
- Thank you
- I mean, obviously, I love your song, "Kelly", obviously,
but I'm just it's I love that song.
I'm trying to figure out a way to cover it on my show
without looking stupid but I love, I just love that song,
It's so great but I do want to get to why
you wanna talk here today.
It's important to me as well.
Actually my house manager, one of my really good friends,
Ava, we've been talking about this because she's in LA
holding our house down for us and I'm like don't go out
because it's worse for African-Americans
and where are you right now and how is quarantine
going for you though?
- The quarantine is going good and you're actually
absolutely spot on right, Kelly.
It's funny when you start to think about the ratio
and population of black people, we only make up 13%,
which, of course, makes us minority
but it's 33% of COVID patients are African-American,
and some of them were African-American,
because of course, you know, the virus comes
and it's so many different types, and I don't,
it's just so mind-blowing, but 30 that's a big number
33% of patients are African-American,
and we have to get that number down and I don't know
what's making people feel like either it can't happen
to them whether they're in African-American community
or not, but you have to take this seriously
because one thing happens like right after another,
which is oh, you go out, your friend has it,
your friend gives it to you, you give it to grandma,
then auntie, then this person, then those people give it
to someone else.
That's how it spreads so fast and we just have to take
this way more serious and you gotta think about
also the the illnesses from high blood pressure,
high cholesterol, hypertension, asthma,
so many different illnesses that have been
really generational, illnesses in
the African-American community.
- And if you have those, getting COVID makes it worse, yeah.
- Yeah, we just wanna be smart about all this
and I just really wanna encourage everyone to stay inside.
We're not quite done with this but we can be
if we really practice our social distancing and have,
I like to say kindness, because when you actually approach
this with kindness, then you'll think about the fact that
I don't want this to happen to me and let me just be kind,
stay in my home and be smart about all of this.
- And be kind to others, be respectful because maybe you
have an okay immune system and maybe you might be fine.
First of all, I do love a level of invincibility.
People think they're invincible like, they watch
and they're like oh that happens to someone else
I'm like, you could be that someone else really quick.
It's a crazy time right now but,
in quarantine for me coming back to your question
has been nuts because you know we have three kids
with us right now, our 18-year-old's in Florida
but we have a lot of kids, a lot of homework,
a lot of cooking, a lot of still working.
Its been a really hard go, I'm not gonna lie
there's not a self help book in the world that could help
my psyche last week. (laughs)
- No, not at all.
- How is yours going, is yours nuts?
- It's going good like literally you could probably hear
Titan in the back on the Zoom call with this classroom.
- My little Remi is right in there watching Mickey Mouse so.
- It's real so between that and he's the only child
I do wanna have another one so bad
but he's by himself so he expects my attention
at home all the time,
which is sometimes overwhelming and I still have work to do
and putting out music and finishing up
literally finishing up an album which I'm very excited.
I cannot wait to get out of quarantine.
I'd love to play you some records but it's just really
I feel bad for him because I also had to think about
the fact that the same way I'm trying to think about
all this and like, flushed all of these thoughts out,
so is he.
So at like the most random times of the day,
he'll just act out and then I'll hone in on him and like,
look at him and then I know like play therapy works
with him so we'll start playing with cars.
And after a while, I'm like, do you know why
you got so upset?
And then he'll tell me why and he's like,
"I miss my friends and I wanna go to school."
- That's what my kids say.
- Yeah, it's the same so they're trying to figure out
what's going on with them too is just, oh, you have
to have some patience with these babies.
- I 100% agree but let's talk about one of
your other passions and congrats on your new single "Coffee"
and then you actually have an Instagram Live Show,
called Coffee with Kelly?
- Yes, yes I do. - I love it!
I wanna talk about Coffee with Kelly
- We're so naughty on the show in a good way
because like you just said like prior of course to
like stick shifting gears, we're all bombarded
with so much Coronavirus statistics and facts
and new information everyday to where it kind of soaks up
everything that we are and consumes us
and brings forth anxiety and that's what it was doing to me.
And I was like I have to break this up
so I came up with Coffee with Kelly and it's just literally
us having like talking sex and kinky stuff and just have--
- I love it, I'm in!
- Exactly, its fun!
So, it definitely brings a light and we have
a really good time.
Yesterday we were talking about relationships
and quarantine and you know, some people came on like hard.
- It is, I keep saying this, I keep going man, there's a lot
of babies are gonna come out of this and a lot of divorces.
(chuckles)
- It's true.
- It's so hard because we're always around each other
all the time.
I love that though.
And I don't know if it's a Kelly thing but I love the fact
that you are very open or a Texas thing
but, you're very open and Rowland, really, I mean
you know, you're like, oh, we get nasty and I'm like
Sex ain't nasty, everybody has sex, everybody does--
- Yeah, everybody does have sex.
- It's like you notice the way you, approach
all those subjects and I think it's awesome.
And I think it's really important to have
not just stiff content and I think it's, you know,
to have real raw content, just real conversations.
I think it's cool, so congratulations on that, it's awesome.
- Thank you so much.
- I've always been a fan, I'm such a big fan of you
but I just want to say thank you and I want everybody
to check out Kelly's new show, Coffee with Kelly
on Instagram, as well as her new single, "Coffee".
Y'all better get that.