- I'm a sporadic coffee drinker.
I'll have coffee maybe twice a week.
I like it with a little bit of cream,
and a whole lotta sugar.
The first time I actually had coffee was with my grandfather
and I was five years old, so you can imagine,
my little ass was just bouncin' off the wall
when he gave it to me,
but it was my favorite thing to do with him.
So coffee has a really sentimental beginning meaning
than it does now.
Cosigned from the interns, came into a session,
and I remember we started another song, took a break,
and then he was like, lemme play you something!
I'll never forget sayin', is this taken?
You know, you always have to ask that question first.
Sometimes people, or producers or writers do play you songs
that some people already have, which hypes you up
and then you just irritated in the end,
but this was not that case, thank god.
I recorded it, but I recorded it 10 times maybe.
Because of course Syd from The Internet wrote it.
I love Syd's ease.
Her ease on it was almost this samba kind of vibe,
mixed with this effortless cool,
and I just wanted to have that.
And every time I kept singing it, it was just so tight.
♪ I need that wake up ♪
It was just too tight.
Finally, I had a couple glasses of wine,
and just went in and sang the song, and it was so quick
and it was so easy, and I just had to remind myself
to just sing it, don't think about it,
and just have a good time with it.
'Cause that's the kind of record it is, it's a bop.
I feel like there's a effortless kind of sensuality
and confidence kinda energy you wear the rest of the day,
especially when it's good.
When it's good, it's like you got a different kind of walk,
people can't talk to you a certain way.
You know what I mean?
You're like, you don't even understand what happened to me,
and nothing bothers you.
Nothin' seems to bother you, you like in a really good mood.
Just chillin'.
It's two different cycles of work.
I need you to work in this bedroom, or work in this shower,
or work in this island in the kitchen, or work, work!
Period.
Before you get to your real job.
We grow up with all of these different personal challenges
that we might experience, whether it's trauma
or just, you know, early relationships in your life.
When somebody can love you past that pain,
that just ups the ante for the love.
My husband and I were friends first,
so I would know about all of his lil' escapades
with his lil' boo things, and I was like, oh my god,
how am I gonna measure up?
I struggled with confidence
when we first started to like each other.
I was like, oh, what the hell?
How am I gonna like,
am I 'bout to swing from this chandelier?
What am I gon' have to do to impress this guy?
And I was like, oh, I need to learn some new tricks!
But funny enough, I think he was thinking the same thing.
You know what I mean?
So I think it's important in any relationship to communicate
and tell the person how you feel, and it's like,
I don't believe in faking orgasms.
I think that when you fake orgasms,
you're setting the person up for failure.
They'll continue to fail you every time.
So you have to be honest when it comes to
what it is that you want and desire,
and not apologize for it.
Just give it all to me.
Don't hold back is what I wanted,
so put it all out, lay it all out.
Put it down like it's heavy, like wife me up,
you know what I mean?
Snatch me up, 'cause if you think it's that great,
'cause it's gonna be great, so,
put it down like it's heavy, baby.
On Saturdays and Sundays
we have our time together in the morning.
Recently, it's been to watch The Last Dance.
During the week, we're up, we're moving,
because we feel like during the week,
that's your time to really take care of business,
so he'll start the workout, I get my son up.
Even though we're in quarantine,
I still feel like you get up, you put on your clothes,
you have something to do.
You know what I mean?
I just want my son to get into a routine
to where when he gets out into this real world,
he's not just twiddling his thumbs.
That lyric actually made me think about this trip
that we took to Turks and Caicos,
and I remember in that time we would just wake up,
have breakfast, and go to the beach,
and literally be at the beach for like, eight hours,
and do nothing.
That's literally a fantasy.
Oh, how great it would be to not work,
but you still makin' money.
That lyric can maybe happen in 10, 20 years.
You know, where you're building businesses
and figuring out different stock market moves
if that's your thing, so, you know, it's just,
actually putting a lyric like that into fruition,
it's like you got to work your ass off now.
I almost missed the flight to Australia
foolin' around with my husband.
And I was to be at work as soon as I landed.
I was to be on set of The Voice, and I remember,
I was like, I gotta go!
And it's the worst to be lookin' at the clock
and you trying to have this moment, but you gotta go!
Someone just taught me how to make oxtails.
With rice and gravy, right?
And it was so good, I'm so proud of myself!
'Cause I can't cook, so, this turned out really good.
He was actually in here working, and he was like,
I sound really ridiculous when I say this,
but can you please cut the meat off the oxtails?
'Cause he just got into eating them,
but he hates to do the work.
So I was like, fine.
I literally sit in my kitchen, and I was like,
you are cutting meat off this grown man's bone
from this oxtail, but that was love!
I was like, I didn't want him, I was so proud of him
because he was just in here just workin' his ass off,
so I was like, no problem baby, I'll do that for you,
and I did it!
He literally inhaled it, so I had to do it again.
So it wasn't like I was just, oh, ha, ha.
It's like, god!
You know what I mean?
But because it made him happy, I didn't care.
I wanted to do it.
Before we head off to work,
let's definitely have us a lil' sesh.
Session.
Well you know they say that milk does a body good,
but sometimes you can switch that up.
And that's, it was just a play on that phrase.
It's milk does a body good, no, no, no, boo boo,
not all the time. (laughs)
Not if you're lactose intolerant,
sometimes that D just might set you free.
I remember in Houston, or just in the South,
people always say, y'all, man, you gon' parlay over here?
You know what I mean?
Chill.
You can just chill in the pussy.
That's it.