[MUSIC PLAYING]
Your number one show at late night,
nothing but illustrious guests.
Mero, who do we have in the building tonight?
Yo, we got illustrious songstress, artist,
song writer, entertainer of the year, in my opinion,
you know what I'm saying, our opinion-- the number
one show in late night--
Saweetie in the house, y'all.
You know what I'm saying?
Make some muthafucking noise.
Saweetie in the building.
Saweetie, how's it going today?
It's going good.
How are you guys feeling?
- We're feeling good. - Good.
- Feeling good. - Good.
Feeling good.
Just chatting up, talking to you.
You're kind of hot out here in the streets right now.
You out here resonating your songs.
Your songs are getting a lot of play.
Very TikTok friendly.
And you got "Tap In."
[MUSIC - SAWEETIE, "TAP IN"]
(RAPPING) Tap, tap, tap in.
M-O-B, icy gang, nigga tap in.
We are old hip hop heads.
So did you get any hate from old hip
hop heads for sampling their illust--
Because you know how people get about their songs.
They're like yo, you can not sample this.
This is a disgrace.
You are going against--
you're disrespecting the elders of rap.
Did you get any of that from it?
Or are you just like, I don't care.
I'm doing me?
What's crazy is the older heads show me love.
It's like the young people who be like, oh my gosh,
here she goes with another sample, et cetera, et cetera.
But sampling is my specialty.
Hip hop is built off sampling.
So when they come for me, I'm just like,
y'all just picking on me.
So it's whatever.
Too Short loved it.
A lot of old heads loved it.
So it's whatever.
I love it.
So I'm happy it's taken off the way it's taken off.
Word.
Sampling is a part of hip hop, y'all.
You wouldn't say that to DJ Premier.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm about to start break dancing in my chair.
Yo, but you are very connected.
Well, first of all, let me back it up.
You started doing covers.
What made you say, yo, I'm going to start doing my own shit?
Like, I'm tired of doing covers.
You know what I mean?
I'm going to start writing my own stuff.
Honestly, what's crazy about that is I was doing
covers because it was just a social media thing to do.
But it just so happens that my covers, which
were getting picked up or being played at radio,
were the songs that were the most streams.
So I was like I can't what people like.
So yes, people-- some people feel a way about sampling.
But people love it.
So--
Right, they're bops.
They ring off.
You can't get mad at that.
That's all that matter.
At the end of the day, if it's a bop, it's a bop, it's a bop.
You got a lot of--
your family tree is all over the place.
Your grandfather played for the 49ers.
Gab Union is a cousin.
Over there and over there.
How does that play into you getting into the business?
Did they help you?
Or were you like-- you're like, yo, nah, nah, nah, I'm good.
I got this.
They were all kind of upset at me
because they heard "My Type."
They were like, we didn't know you was doing music.
What you doing over there?
[LAUGHTER]
Oh, wow.
For me like, I have so much pride.
I believe in being self made and trying
to figure things out on my own.
So I appreciated that they reached out and was
like, we see what you're doing.
Our friends keep talking about you.
We see you.
And if you need our help, please let us know.
So I appreciate the support.
But for me, I've always been self-motivated.
So instead of asking for help, I just wanted to see
if I could do it on my own.
Facts.
And you're part of this new wave of women in rap.
You know what I'm saying?
How does it feel to be part of that wave?
Like you, Flo Milli, Rico Nasty.
Everybody got their own style, their own flavor.
And y'all holding your own thing and being successful.
I'm super grateful to be alive at this point in time
in history because I definitely feel like it's
a golden age for women hip hop because we've never
seen so many dope women who's out there
with diversity, with looks, with skin tones,
with flavors, with delivery.
So it's like--
I think it's important because there's so many different types
of women in the world.
So it's not just being one or two.
There's like multiple that women can identify and turn up.
You know turn a little.
So I'm just excited for me and my peers.
We are literally creating history in real time.
Bah!
When we getting Pretty Bitch music?
Y'all will get Pretty Bitch music real soon.
Has COVID affected its release or anything?
Or like, are you still able to just do your thing?
I would say it's--
COVID has actually, and being in quarantine,
has helped me get back to my creative roots.
I'm like mood boards all day.
I've actually redid a lot of the project due to COVID
because I'm just sitting here.
I'm going to the studio more.
So I'm switching out songs every day.
If something hits you in the middle of nowhere,
you're just sitting there eating lunch, having a sandwich, boom.
You've got a hook in your head?
Is this somewhere in your crib you can go and--
I feel like my best bars come from me.
I have to be multitasking.
So working out, driving, cleaning up,
I like listening to beats while I'm doing something
because it gets my mind going.
I don't know what that's called.
I'm pretty sure that there's like a term for it.
But it's like I want something and that's
when it helps me write and it helps stimulate my brain.
So I have to ask this question because my sister's a nurse.
And one of her nurse friends was like be sure to bring
up that you're half Filipino.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, so she said to rep the Filipino guy.
Filipino gang.
What was it like growing up bi-racial?
Well, I'm tri-racial.
DESUS: Tri-racial, excuse me.
She's Chinese, Filipino.
So it's like Asian and then black.
But honestly, it was difficult because it's like the cultures
are night and day.
My mom, excuse me, was an immigrant.
So it's like her values are very traditional Filipino.
They're night and day from my African-American side.
So-- but it helped me.
It was difficult because it's two
different types of cultures.
But the respect was in both families.
They both have morals and values.
But it taught me, and it helped me learn at a young age
that no two groups are the people.
But you got to respect what's going on.
Facts.
That's very insightful.
So listen, I'm going to be honest here.
I am a hater when I see people enjoying
themselves and having fun.
I like to say mean things and not enjoy it.
Usually when I see celebrity couples,
I be sitting there like, nah, nah, I don't like them.
I don't like them.
Nah, fuck them.
But y'all, listen, you and Quavo, it's a touching moment.
It is--
You know what I'm saying?
Seeing y'all together, there's real energy there.
If Tumblr was still lit--
if Tumblr was still popping, popping like that,
there would be so many like, yo, goals.
Goals.
Goals, goals, peeps.
I don't feel popping though.
I just revamped to check that out.
OK.
Go check that out.
Well, yeah, like you guys--
What's that like, though, having such a public--
you know what I mean?
Because it's very-- y'all both very famous, you know
what I'm saying, and young.
Well, I mean, it does get a little nerve wracking sometimes
because I feel like, when we go out,
like everyone watches our every single move.
Ain't no more paparrazi.
Everybody the paparrazi because of social media.
So it's like, I always feel like I have to be
mindful of what I'm doing.
That's facts.
That sounds stressful as hell.
- You know what I'm saying? - That does not sound fun.
You might sneeze at dinner.
And then it's like, boom, somebody took a picture.
They arguing.
They got beef.
Did you see?
She about to stuff him because she
got her hand over her mouth.
You see she mad? - Right, right.
You know what I mean?
And then they spin their whole little story
out of you sneezing at dinner.
Right, but me and him, like we're both hella private.
But because we go out together, it ain't
no secret anymore, obviously.
But we really enjoy--
I enjoy him.
We inspire one another.
And we're both working on our albums.
So y'all can look forward to that new
Migos and that new Saweetie.
Aye, that's right.
That's always cool when two artists are together and using
each other to kind of just make their work go
further, to make better music and things like that.
So he inspires you, and you aspire him, right?
Definitely, but I feel like because I
come in with new swagger.
I have my own ideas, so he kind of be like watching
me do my mood boards.
And he'll be like, oh, what's that?
And I'll be putting him on.
And he's just so seasoned.
And he has so much experience.
So it makes me want to go hard in the studio
because he'll tell me if something's weak.
So like I feel like I always got to come with it.
He inspires me to be better.
Right, I was going to say, like,
being that y'all both in the same lane, do you use each
other like as a sounding board?
Like, yo, listen to this shit.
Is it hitting right, or--
Yeah because what's beautiful about a relationship
is you get a woman's perspective and a male's perspective.
So I'm always like, OK, babe, does this sound cool?
And he's like, do you think the ladies and the girls
would like this?
So it's just like bounce in the wall off of one
another type of thing.
Right, right, a little yin-and-yang flow.
So you have a million talents.
Let's talk about yet another one.
Apparently, you can throw down in the kitchen.
I was raised by my auntie, my grandma, my mom.
And they can all cook.
So I've always been into like seasoning and spices.
But during quarantine, I've actually had time to cook.
So I do what I can.
Because I saw--
I did see one time when you were cooking some gumbo.
And I was like, yo, she's for real.
It's for real.
So gumbo, I'm not going to lie,
I need my grandma's supervision because I don't want
ingredients to go to waste.
And...
But when it comes to my kitchen, I
love like beef and pasta, some squids, scallops mussels,
clams, a little razzle dazzle.
I hear it.
A meat.
I love steak.
I like thin meat.
Oh, actually, it kind of depends.
But the meat, because Quavo loves it.
I made some seafood macaroni and cheese.
Oh, wow.
OK--
All right, I'm going to get a Lactaid.
I'll be right back.
That was-- it was a task.
But it was-- oh my gosh, the lobster.
I think it was lobster, shrimp.
I think it was lobster and shrimp.
That shit hit.
Oh my gosh, and make that noise.
It was good.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
[LAUGHTER]
We know the noise.
No, we know the noise.
Yo, that's the new single, lobster, mac and cheese.
Oh, I like that.
Is there any food you would never eat?
Honestly, I eat everything.
And Quay be like, you trippin'.
But one food that I am dying to taste is escargot.
Yes?
That's good.
I've actually had it.
It's weird.
Really?
Yeah, it's weird.
I've had a seafood slug that was boiled.
But I'm going to try that raw escargot.
That's what I'm saying.
You got to be ready for it.
Or, if you're drunk, that makes it a little easier, too.
The only reason it's stopping me
is like I feel I have to try it in Paris.
Because that's like a European delicacy.
But if I try it, I got to try it the right way.
Yeah, It's not the same as eating es cargo
in like Delaware or something.
It don't hit the same.
The shit is in the window at Starbucks.
You're like, yo, let me get that escargot
right there in the window.
Throw it in the microwave.
But yes.
Oh, man.
So yo, you cook old school, or you cook new school?
Because old school way is like yo, I just-- it's all eyes.
You know what I'm saying?
And then the new school is like I have a quarter
teaspoon of cardamom, and a--
I taste as I go.
So I think that's old school.
But the problem for me, because every time I like--
I might cook my favorite seafood pasta.
But it tastes different every time because I taste as I go.
I mean, it's still bomb.
But you feel me.
I always taste as I go.
You got to just eye it.
I wish I could create a recipe.
But I'm more like of a taste-as-I-go type of cook.
That's lit.
That's nice. let me taste.
I feel like someone's about to get a cooking show.
Am I wrong here?
Is that next?
Y'all better call Ayesha.
That's my girl.
I'm trying to do a little collabing.
I know she be throwing down.
And we be talking sometimes.,
OK, you heard it here first.
Listen, when you drop the pots and pans holla at your boy.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm always in the market.
Pots and pans real quick.
Here we go.
Shit.
We'll be in the ad for it with you.
Yo, Saweetie, thank you for taking time to talk to us.
We know you're probably super busy.
You got things to do.
Or you might be in quarantine.
Or you might be about to just chef up
a pot of chicken or something.
I don't know.
But listen, everyone that comes on our show
is an illustrious guest.
And every illustrious guest gets a neon sign.
What would you like your neon sign to say?
I would like PBM, and then underneath it, say Saweetie.
Simple, Pretty Bitch Music.
So we got the best graphics team in the business.
They got to hook it up for you, all right.
Yo, Pretty Bitch Music going to be in stores soon.
Be sure to check it out.
You know what I'm saying?
Go cop that.
You got the Icy Lips in stores.
Be sure to check that out.
Before I leave, you know, my generation,
the generation's to be, I know we've seen on social media.
But every vote does count.
So please go out there tap in and make
a difference for our country that's getting real crazy.
And we need to get somebody out of office, you feel me?
That's right.
Talk to them. Talk to them.
All right--
Message.
Talk to them.
As a woman of color, you talking like a black woman.
So we got to talk to the youth.
It's not all giltz and glamor.
Let's focus on politics.
And let's tap in to make a difference
so that our community can see the benefits that come from it.
So let's really step up this year.
There you go.
Tap in and vote out here.
- There you go. - Saweetie--
Salute the young queen.
Hah!
Tap in y'all.