- Wassup it's your girl Brittany B and I blew a bag.
(hip hop music)
So, once upon a time there was a girl named Brittany B
and honey, she as working a nine to five.
I was working at a massage therapy company.
So I was a Customer Service Rep and I worked in
Quality Assurance, because of course I mean I'm quality so,
(laughs) you gotta make sure it's quality right.
I got a phone call from the VP of Warner Music Group.
And he's like, "Yo, I got a record that you did that I
"want to cut on one of my artist can you come down
"and vocal produce them?"
And I'm like, hell yeah right so (laughs).
I tell him, he's like, "Can you be here in an hour?"
Now mind you, I worked a shift it was like 7:00 a.m to 4:00.
He called me at like two.
So he technically wanted me to be there at three.
So your girl is sitting there like,
"How I'm gonna get out of work?"--
Let me tell you something.
I took the longest bathroom break you could ever take.
I was like "Yo I gotta go to the bathroom boss."
And I never came back.
End of story.
Honey I flushed the job and the toilet down the drain
as I headed up out of there to go work and get that
real check okay.
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So I knew I wanted to do music for a really long time.
I been singing since I was about seven years old.
Singing at recess and my friends was like wow you have
a good voice and things like that.
I'm from Compton, California so you know, it's really
not much out there in my city except for like gangs,
violence, drugs.
You know, and for me music was like my gift
and it was something that kept me focused.
I always had a nine to five, always worked like
call center jobs, admin jobs.
I worked at 24 Hour Fitness the graveyard shift.
I went door to door I mean yo' girl was just working.
But at night time I would go to the studio.
And so I remember getting a call from one of the VP's of
the label and they were like, "Come to the studio you can
"use the studio from like 8:00 p.m to like 3:00 a.m."
So I would go in and I would cut hooks I would cut songs
and pretty much they just kept calling me back you know
what I mean like they loved the records that I was doing.
So eventually, they had some artists that they wanted
to place their records on.
And that's when I got that call like, while I was working
my job during my shift like, "Yo, you think you can come
"up to the studio and you know, vocal produce a record
"for somebody?"
And I was like hell yeah so that's what I did.
So I got a call from one of my homies and he was like,
"Yo, can you roll out with me to Palm Springs to go
"work with this artist?"
And I was like, sure like yeah I'll roll with you.
Cause at the time I was like, hitting the studio at night,
singing my background gigs throughout the city,
throughout LA, R&B live different stuff like getting
a 100 dollars here, 50 dollars there.
But it wasn't really cutting it, you know what I mean so.
Anyway, me and my homeboy we pack our little bags,
and we about to do a turnaround trip to Palm Springs.
So we get in the car and I'm like "Yo who's the artist that
"we going to like drive so far for to work on a record?"
And he's like, "It's a new artist name, Theophilus London."
And I'm like, okay cool, I never really heard of him
or whatever but he was like really talented.
So we get there, we arrive kind of like at night.
And I just remember meeting this really cool guy
from like the East Coast and working on a bunch of records
that night right, I'm singing, I'm writing, I'm just
doing what Brittany B does.
And we end up turning back around and coming back,
and then I kept working my job like, working my little
7:00 a.m to 1:00 p.m.
Selling his insurance you know picking up the phones,
"Hello?" You know all that stuff and so then,
I remember maybe a couple of months later,
I get a call from my homeboy.
The same dude that I went out to Palm Springs with.
And he was like "Yo, congratulations we got a placement."
And I was like huh, what you mean?
'Cause we really didn't do that much work together,
besides a couple of sessions and that one trip.
So I'm like all right cool, tell me what the information is.
And he like, yeah you got a record with Kanye West on it.
And I'm like, Kanye West?
And he like yeah so I'm like all right who's the record
so who's like "It's Theophilus London featuring Kanye West
and you're on the record singing backgrounds on the record
and they taking us to the (mumbles)
I'm like, what?
So, at this point in the game, I'm just like a new
songwriter, no publishing deal, no real management,
just hustling on my own.
I remember I started getting approached by publishing
companies and I ended up doing a publishing deal.
So I was super geeked because they vetted me out,
they went to the studio, they heard all my records
all that stuff.
So we go through all the paperwork.
Lawyer looks it over all that great stuff.
Sign today, slice the cake, take the little pictures,
you know, all that good stuff.
So my lawyer tells me, "Britt, you gon' get a deposit in
"yo' bank account."
And I'm like all right cool and she like
"You know, your deal was for this much."
I'm like all right.
I wake up, I remember specifically I was living in a
two bedroom apartment, and I was still working my job
and I had like maybe 200 dollars in my account.
I woke up on Thursday morning, and it was,
100 thousand dollars plus the 200 in my bank account.
And I was like, oh my god first of all I thought the
Heavens was gonna open up I was like (singing).
Like this money, like wow you know I'm looking at my
account like is this a mistake like, I don't know.
So the first thing I did was, 'cause I'm from the hood,
I went to the grocery store.
And I filled up my (laughs), I remember filling up my
refrigerator with everything I mean, I had cakes and cookies
and soda and juice and water.
I booked the premium top suite at the SLS (laughs).
I'm eating sushi, I booked liked a, I think it was like a
seven day trip to Vegas 'cause your girl had never been
to Vegas before.
So, I get this 100 thousand dollars in my account,
quit my job the next day and,
first of all when you sign a publishing deal,
there's actually a time frame on the deal and then
there's also obligations of course that's how to use the
money right.
So my deal was like, I don't know, couple years, like a
two year deal so, that money supposed to last me for two
years, guess how long it lasted me?
Six months.
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So the most money that I ever spent in one day.
I'd have to say I spent about, 50 thousand dollars
in 10 minutes, maybe 15 minutes.
I'll tell you how I did that.
I had a client who was an artist of mine.
And they wanted to start, build their own studio.
And they enlisted me of course, Brittany B, Boss Britt.
To build out their studio.
I had at that point never seen a black car.
(laughs)
So I'm like all right cool,
lemme see what I can do with this.
So I go ahead and I go into the guitar center honey
and I want a mug, I'm grabbin' monitors 'scuse me
lemme get two of those, lemme get three of them mics over
there, I need a U 87 mic for the back, I need uh--
You know what I'm saying I'm grabbing all the music
equipment you can think of okay and I'm like, charge it.
(laughs)
I'm tryin' to make her sound like Mariah Carey,
Whitney Houston so we don't need no cheap equipment
over here all right so I end up, literally going into
the guitar center and I walk in alone and I walk out
with five men behind me carrying big ol' bags honey
and we did spend, it's five men, and it's ten grand in
each of their hands okay we done spend 50k for the day.
And that's the most money I ever spent.
I think they got commission so they was real happy
they were trying to feed me and everything,
they was like "You need anything, water?"
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I would say like, being an African American woman in the
music industry, I'm kind of sort of a unicorn if that makes
any sense because I write, I sing, I rap, I produce and I
A&R as well for a label so, I wear a lot of hats.
And what I notice is, that often times I am overworked
and definitely underpaid.
(sighs)
All I'mma say is I'm single and I'm ready to mingle.
(laughs)
I don't think it's necessarily hard to date,
I think that men who can handle a woman like myself
a very strong-minded, motivated, classy, young, attractive,
sassy, boss-bitch like myself it's hard to find a man like
that it is, they gotta, they got to step it up.
I'm tryna go, you know what I'm saying, to catch.
I'm trying to go to something nice.
Okay there are two rules that Brittany B lives by.
One, I don't let friends live with me.
And two, I don't let friends loan money.
Okay, don't loan them no money, don't let them stay with me.
And I'mma tell you why.
Those are the two ways to end y'all friendships okay because
I don't play about my money and I don't play about where
I live and where I lay my head.
All right I need peace, and positivity.
And I need my peace and my penny.
Okay I need my peace and my paycheck.
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Oh my god, now that I have like, you know a little bit
more money, little bit more status in my life,
which I'm extremely grateful for.
I feel like, my momma, she think I'm rich.
Like, she think I'm rich rich y'all.
She be like, it's crazy 'cause I'm like on a t.v show now
you know I'm doing television and of course I've done some
touring and things like that and I got three gold records
and I hit billboards--
Oh shit damn, I might yeah, she might think I'm rich 'cause
of all that, I don't know.
No seriously, she thinks I'm rich and it's crazy because
when we talk on the phone I can tell because the
conversation be like, that like I think you rich
conversation.
So you know I'll be like yeah I went to the jacuzzi today,
and she be like, jacuzzi?
And I'll be like yeah I went to the jacuzzi today at my
house and you know I just needed to relax, I was on my
feet all day and she's like wow like, jacuzzi.
Because my mother like, she still lives in Los Angeles,
South Los Angeles, and I live in Northern Los Angeles,
Hollywood, and so she's just like, she'll ask me questions
like you know she's like oh you know, what did you watch
today and I'll be like oh yeah I was watching this on t.v
and she like, oh you watching the game, oh you got the NBA
package, you got the premium package?
I'm like ma, it's just an extra 29.99.
Like you know what I mean it's not that much.
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I am the newest star on Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood.
I am Brittany B, the Bossed Up Britt, the B stands for
bags, okay and that's exactly what I'm about to be getting.
I am super grateful happy to be on Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood
I think it's an amazing franchise, I think it's an amazing
platform if you use it the way that you're supposed to use
it and get your bag like, don't get caught up in the drama
girl, like I said if it don't affect your pay
it don't affect your day.
(hip hop music)
Be on the lookout for me, just a lot more music, a lot
more placements I'm working with a lot of great people
Kash Doll, Summer Walker, I'm working on The Fast and
Furious soundtrack right now, I'm working on of course
Love & Hip Hop, I'm still A&R for all your hottest artists
at the label and more television, more me,
more Brittany B, that's it, look out for it, the end.