- I'm chewing, honey, I'm chewing.
That means I'm eating it up.
Yes, baby, do you see this?
Oh my God, I'm not even hungry but I'm chewing honey!
[low-fi hiphop]
Hey, what's up guys?
I'm getting my feet done right now.
I'm doing my nails next, just got my hair dyed.
It's looking good, thanks to Jan.
We're getting ready for the shoot tomorrow
and I'm really excited.
The moment I realized
that I wanted to be like an entertainer.
I just grew up watching a bunch of music videos,
crazy music videos, Busta Rhymes, Ludacris.
I just was always so intrigued by the colors
and the design, the clothes, everything.
I'm just like, yo, I wanna do this.
I didn't know how I was gonna do it, but I knew
that I wanted to be a part of something like that.
Usually when I'm writing a song, I can't finish a song
unless I start to form a vision in my head.
Luckily I have a friendship, a relationship
with people who you look up to,
you can text them and they'll, you'll do real advice.
It's not watered down, it's specific advice, for me, so.
[phone ringing]
- [Nail Tech] Oh my God, I can hear Erykah.
- Honey, you busy?
- [Erykah] No, what's up?
- I was getting my nails and everything done
and we preparing because I got a shoot with Vogue tomorrow,
we doing seven different looks.
So I'm just getting ready, I'm getting ready for tomorrow.
- [Erykah] Oh yeah, I forgot y'all gotta start early.
- [laughing] Yeah, we got seven looks.
I'm tired already.
- [Erykah] Okay, make sure you show me everything.
- Okay I will.
- [Erykah] Peace.
- All right.
- [Erykah] Bye.
- [Everyone] Bye.
- Erykah Badu, she was ahead of her time,
so long ago she was doing stuff
that everybody's just doing now.
She's just always inspiring me to just keep pushing forward
and doing me, pushing the envelope.
I just want the freedom to just be me.
And I don't want to be put in a box.
I just wanna do whatever I wanna do whenever I wanna do it.
That's all I want.
Okay guys, got my hair done, got my nails done,
got my toes done.
Had to get me feet beat cause it was looking a mess,
but I'm going to go to bed right now
because I have a really long day tomorrow, 12 hour shift.
See you later!
[upbeat music]
9:00 AM, I'm tired, I'm not a morning person,
I need a smoothie.
Once I get that though, I'll be ready to go.
Excited for the day, it's gonna be a long one, peace.
Adobe chose me to do their latest ad.
And the ad is just basically about creativity.
So we gave the fans a chance to design for me.
It's just kind of cool to just see a design
on my Photoshop and then put on to like actual fabric.
This is fire, oh my God. - I know right?
Isn't it good?
I love it!
Tierra is always fun, it's always great.
She's got such a great imagination, she's so creative.
- [Tierra] Keep going!
- She's so talented and she's so I think the more outside
of the box, it is the better with her.
We can go as crazy and as wild and as imaginative as we want
and it's so much more exciting.
[upbeat music]
- Okay guys, I got my makeup, got my hair done.
Glam is good, now we gotta get into the clothes
that are kinda uncomfortable but they look really good.
Beauty is pain, I'm ready.
I'll see you guys in a minute.
- [Shirley] Oh no!
- You can keep that, I don't care, you can keep it.
She's a running, she's gonna take off.
Okay guys, so my wig slid off, this is a real moment,
it's real intense.
I'm really out of breath.
We're about to do two more looks.
This is one of my favorites.
They all were so good but all eyes on me, I love it.
I'm out of breath still, I need some water.
[upbeat music]
I'm feeling pretty good.
When we started the morning started a slow start
because everyone was trying to figure it out,
you know what I mean?
But yeah, like mid day I'm like,
okay we're getting on with our groove.
And I feel better and better and better and better
and better and better and better and better and better.
When I'm stressed, I complain to everyone.
I'm getting better though because, yeah,
you can't control everything and life is gonna be life.
Life is gonna be itself and things happen in life
you can't control and you just gotta go with the flow.
Oh hey Vogue, I'm just on my way to the top.
Anyway, I had a really good day with you guys today
and I really appreciate you coming,
24 hours of fun, Tierra Whack, peace.