00:00 (chimes)
00:02 - Talking about practice.
00:04 - Hi.
00:07 - Can I take it off?
00:08 - You can take it off.
00:10 You're the artist.
00:10 - Hello.
00:11 - Awesome, so I'm gonna open up the bar right there.
00:15 Hi there.
00:18 Oh, sorry, over here.
00:19 - I just found my glasses.
00:20 Let me, let me.
00:21 - Okay, hi, Jonathan Gordon with TikTok.
00:23 - Hi.
00:23 - First of all, congratulations on everything.
00:25 - Thank you.
00:26 - I just wanna say first off,
00:26 "Hotter Now," best song by far in my opinion.
00:29 Was that inspired in any way by "Stronger"
00:32 from Kelly Clarkson?
00:34 - It actually wasn't.
00:35 Shout out Kelly Clarkson though.
00:38 But it was kind of like, that's a famous phrase.
00:41 And we were like, how do you like revamp the phrase
00:43 and make it different?
00:44 I think we've heard the "Stronger" one like over and over,
00:47 which is fire.
00:48 But I was like, I'm hotter.
00:50 I'm a pretty girl, airy girl.
00:51 So we're gonna be hotter now.
00:52 And I think when we hit that, it felt like really neat.
00:56 And we wrote that song.
00:57 - Thank you.
00:58 - No problem.
00:59 - Thank you.
01:00 - Hey Lou, Howard Druckman from So Can.
01:01 Nice to see you again.
01:02 - Hi.
01:03 - I just wanted to ask, I mean,
01:04 you are really coming into your own right now
01:08 and a lot of stuff is happening.
01:10 And I know that it's only gonna inspire you to do more
01:15 and to do more and to go further and to go further.
01:17 Can you talk a little bit about that sort of
01:18 relentless ambition that you have?
01:20 - I have to keep working.
01:22 Like I have no choice than,
01:24 it'd be nice if the ride was easy,
01:27 but you know, I'm a black woman.
01:28 I make pop music.
01:29 There's not a lot of me out there,
01:31 especially making like mainstream pop music.
01:33 But you know, the journey has been really cool
01:36 and it just shows me how much I want it
01:38 because I keep going no matter what hurdles come in my way.
01:42 - Thank you.
01:44 - No problem.
01:45 - Right there.
01:45 - Hi there.
01:46 My name is Hilary LeBlanc.
01:47 I'm with Black Planet Media.
01:49 Obviously you just performed your song, Pretty Girl, Airy,
01:51 which is just, you know,
01:51 chair chopping and doing amazing.
01:53 And I see you as, you know, black woman, body confident,
01:56 all of this radiant positivity.
01:58 And you're stunning.
01:59 What do you think the next era is for Pretty Girl era?
02:03 What do you think the next thing is going to be that women,
02:05 black women reclaim as their own?
02:07 - Ooh, that's a deep question.
02:10 Well,
02:12 Beyonce,
02:13 I love that she's having a very new,
02:16 amazing moment right now.
02:17 And she just dropped country music.
02:19 And I don't know if you saw her post,
02:20 but it spoke about wanting to live in a time where
02:23 black people can drop whatever kind of music
02:25 and be whatever genre they want to be.
02:28 And it's not like a whole thing because you're a black and
02:31 you're in a genre and a space that a lot of times the gates
02:33 have been closed.
02:35 So I don't know.
02:36 I think like our next era is us getting to just be
02:39 ourselves and not having to fight to live up to the whole
02:43 community. Of course I want all of us to win.
02:44 Like, don't get that wrong.
02:46 I want all of us to win,
02:47 but it'd be nice for me to be up here as just Lukala.
02:49 But right now I feel like I'm up here as Lukala and every
02:53 black artist that wants to do something outside of the box.
02:57 I hope I explained it a little bit.
02:58 - Absolutely. Amen. Thank you.
02:59 - Thank you.
03:00 - Hello, Rudy Blair Entertainment Media,
03:04 Rudy Blair media.com.
03:06 - Oh, hi Rudy.
03:07 - How you doing?
03:08 - Good, how are you?
03:09 - I am good.
03:10 - One of my first interviewers.
03:12 - And we had a deep conversation,
03:14 which was at Legacy Awards.
03:15 - Yes.
03:16 - And you were honored there.
03:18 - I was.
03:19 - How did it feel from,
03:22 cause we had a deep conversation several years ago at
03:24 Canadian Music Week.
03:25 And I remember some of the things that you were talking
03:28 about and what you wanted to achieve and where you wanted
03:31 to go.
03:32 Legacy Awards, you're honored there today with nominations
03:36 and being honored again in such an amazing way.
03:39 I mean, to be on that stage is an honor.
03:42 What do you think it was when they said, no, you said yes.
03:45 What did you do to make sure that yes became reality?
03:48 - Wow. Y'all trying to make people cry today?
03:51 (audience laughing)
03:53 Is it rude that I'm not like, sorry.
03:55 I'm looking over to ask the question.
03:57 I don't know.
04:00 I've always been really relentless and like,
04:02 I've always only focused on plan A.
04:04 Everybody else was like, don't you have a plan B?
04:06 Like, don't you want to go to college?
04:07 Nothing wrong with college, but no girl,
04:09 I'm going to make it in what I want to make it in.
04:10 And I knew if I focused on anything else that that would
04:13 take me away.
04:15 And it just feels really good to be in a space and time
04:17 right now where I am being recognized for my hard work.
04:22 Did I answer your question?
04:24 - You said your question.
04:26 - Okay, fine.
04:26 (laughing)
04:28 - Hello, girl.
04:29 Look how long.
04:30 - Hi.
04:31 - Hello.
04:32 My name is Miki from CSU 89.1 FM in Ottawa.
04:36 So basically, okay.
04:38 Just so you know, your song "Hotter Now"
04:40 is actually my alarm clock.
04:41 - Oh, I love to see it.
04:43 You wake up hotter now.
04:45 - Yeah, that's what I do.
04:47 But anyway, so I have a message from my program director,
04:53 Siti Fidelia, he's actually--
04:55 - Oh, hi, Siti.
04:56 - Say hi to you.
04:57 And also my question to you is that,
04:59 what is your best memory in this music journey?
05:02 Musical journey?
05:03 - Oh, best memory.
05:06 - Yeah.
05:07 - I think like one of my best memories is,
05:13 you know, I've been,
05:15 I think a lot of people think that this is all overnight.
05:16 It is absolutely not overnight.
05:19 I am not a plant.
05:20 I'm having to grow on this tree for a minute.
05:22 But I think one of my best memories is
05:24 being backstage at the Billboard Music Awards
05:30 and SZA literally running up to me
05:32 and singing my song to me.
05:33 She sang pretty early to me.
05:34 And that was kind of amazing
05:35 'cause it felt like there was a bridge happening
05:38 where like the people that I'm such massive fans are,
05:42 some of them know who I am.
05:43 And just like also finding out
05:45 that I had three top 10s last year on radio.
05:47 That's pretty fire.
05:48 (audience laughing)
05:49 - Woo-hoo, thank you.
05:49 And congratulations once again.
05:51 - Thank you.
05:52 - Thank you.
05:53 - Thank you.
05:53 - Hi, Amanda from Stingray Music.
05:55 - Hi.
05:56 - Congratulations on all your success this year
05:58 and your amazing collaboration.
06:01 We would like to know who would you
06:02 would like to work with next?
06:04 - Oh, I love that question.
06:06 Well, I mentioned SZA, so like, duh,
06:09 like give me the call sis.
06:11 I'm gonna hop on very quickly.
06:13 There's a lot of people I'm a fan of,
06:15 like Rihanna, I'm her number one.
06:17 I am the Navy, it's me.
06:19 So whenever she's ready to drop music,
06:21 I will be on it.
06:22 You know, Cardi B, let's do a Nicki.
06:25 Like I wanna have a good time with music.
06:27 And I think there's some other cool collaborators
06:29 I've like never really thought about
06:31 that I think would be cool.
06:32 Like there's some cool Canadian people.
06:33 I love talk, we are friends and who knows,
06:36 maybe we'll do something together.
06:37 But I'm just open to make the best music that I can.
06:39 - Ladies and gentlemen, Lou Kala.
06:42 (audience applauding)
06:45 - Awesome, let's continue watching the show.
06:50 - It's really good, like TSN right now.
06:52 (audience laughing)
06:55 - What are these questions?
06:58 - Thank you to Entel Records.
07:00 Thanks so much.
07:01 (whooshing)
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