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00:00105 on the Browns Detroit, still back for your Poppin' R&B.
00:03It's your boy Showtime, the czar.
00:04Special guest in the studio with me today.
00:06She goes by the name of Candy Girl.
00:08What up, though? Welcome to the show.
00:09What's going on, Showtime?
00:11Thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here.
00:13What's up, Detroit?
00:14Pistons play today, so that's why everybody probably got on their Pistons gear.
00:17So you said you was a Pistons fan, man?
00:19Oh, my goodness. I love the Pistons.
00:21So I grew up watching them.
00:22I started watching them when I was, like, 13.
00:25So we're talking about Richard Hamilton's my favorite player.
00:28Nice, mine too.
00:29Yeah, nice. It was, like, the dream team we had.
00:31Tayshaun Prince, Ben Wallace.
00:33Yeah, yeah, good 0-4 championship team.
00:35All right.
00:36So, yeah, big Pistons fan.
00:38I'm excited at their wins this year.
00:41They're doing excellent.
00:42I actually got to go to the one versus the 76ers last month.
00:46So, yeah, big fan here.
00:49All right, so how far you think we're going?
00:51Championship or just, like, Eastern Conference Finals?
00:53What you thinking?
00:54I'm going to say let's go all the way, baby.
00:56We're going to the Finals.
00:57Yeah, let's do the Finals, yes.
00:58Because I watched the last game they played last season.
01:02I'm not going to lie.
01:03A little tear fell from my eye because we came so close.
01:06I was proud of them.
01:07But, yeah, this year they're a lot better.
01:09That was the tough air we took.
01:10So, yeah, I'm with you on that one.
01:11I was at that game six.
01:13That was rough.
01:14But that's all right.
01:15Must-beck season, man.
01:16They're balling this year.
01:17So they ready to go.
01:17Amazing.
01:18So, first, where are you from originally?
01:21Okay, so I'm, like, from the east side of Macomb County.
01:24I went to Roseville schools just a few miles away from the east side of Detroit.
01:31Probably most of my life on that side.
01:34I'm still in the area.
01:35I moved a few times, you know, adulting.
01:38Gotcha.
01:39But, yeah.
01:40Where did the name Candy Girl come from?
01:41How did you get that name?
01:42So, Candy Girl.
01:43So this is an interesting story.
01:46I love when people ask me it.
01:47So I started writing music really young.
01:50By the time I got into junior high school, they call it middle school now.
01:54But when I was in junior high school, I had to come up with a way to make some money.
01:59I wanted to go to the studio.
02:00I knew music is what I wanted to do.
02:02I was good at it.
02:03So I came up with the idea.
02:04I always saw, like, candy bars and chocolates at the store on sale all the time when I would go with my mom.
02:11I'm like, ooh, maybe I could buy and sell at school.
02:14So that's what I did.
02:15And before you know it, I'm in the hallways in between the bell ringing and everyone's like, Candy Girl, what do you got today?
02:22So I earned my name.
02:23She was hustling candy bars.
02:25Yes.
02:25I love people to hear that story because I didn't just give myself this name.
02:30Right.
02:30So, yeah.
02:31So Soul Candy got into my first studio with Mo Nitti.
02:35He was the first producer I ever worked with in East Point.
02:38And it just went up from there.
02:40You said you was writing music at a young age.
02:43You said middle school?
02:44Oh, no.
02:44I started writing music when I was, like, eight, nine years old.
02:48Elementary school.
02:49But I started recording.
02:51You was writing music at eight?
02:52I started writing music when I was, like, eight and nine.
02:55Love songs, poetry.
02:57I had the tape player.
02:58I had the spoon for the beat.
03:00If my mom was here, she'd tell it.
03:02That's crazy.
03:03Yes.
03:04And then, so, okay, well, that leads me into my next question.
03:07You said you recorded it at what age?
03:10My first recorded song is called In It to Win It.
03:14That's true.
03:14I believe I was 13.
03:16And you just kept writing, kept creating music.
03:18What was the inspiration for you to just keep continuing to do music?
03:21Because you started at such a young age.
03:22Yes.
03:23You know, some people, they do it, stop, you know what I mean, come back to it.
03:26Why did you keep, what made you want to keep writing music and keep going?
03:28The inspiration, wanting to inspire people with a positive message in my music.
03:33I hear a lot of negative music out there, and I wanted to be one of those artists that
03:38just poured into people, relatable music.
03:42I wrote about my life, about what I was seeing as a kid, or, like, what I thought could change
03:46in the world.
03:47And music, for me, has always come from a pure place.
03:51And I always put God in the center of my life and try to allow Him to guide me so that I'm
03:56not putting out a negative, you know, message.
03:59I'm putting out a positive message.
04:00Or, you know, I have uplifting music, fun music, like I said, relatable music, breakup,
04:06a little bit of everything.
04:07But with keeping the message, you know, with that pure space when I was young, it just,
04:15music has always driven me and motivated me.
04:18Nice.
04:18So I'm about to hit you with, like, a two-part question.
04:21So, not only are you a female rapper, you're a white female rapper, in a predominantly black
04:28male industry.
04:30Does that bother you at all?
04:31Does that, like, make you feel like, you know, it's a lot more challenging than I thought
04:36it was going to intimidate you at all?
04:39Like I said, it's predominantly males.
04:41Yeah.
04:41Even though I think right now, females are going crazy in the hip-hop space.
04:44Now they are.
04:45Yeah, yeah.
04:45When I was starting out, there wasn't a lot of female emcees.
04:49Right, yeah.
04:50But I would say it's funny, because the last podcaster asked me the same question.
04:54Because I started so young, I never looked at race being a problem.
04:58I just felt like God gave me this talent.
05:00And I also sing.
05:01I don't just rap.
05:02So, I sing and I rap.
05:04And I always treat everybody with the same respect.
05:10I never really looked at color being a boundary.
05:14And also, I worked with so many people in the hip-hop industry.
05:19Like you said, it is very much male.
05:22Mm-hmm.
05:22But I started doing shows when I was in high school.
05:26Right.
05:26So, I met a lot of people.
05:27Learned how to network early.
05:29Met Jigsaw, Worldwide SSP.
05:31And they brought me in and treated me like family.
05:34I always could tell the good vibes versus the bad vibes.
05:37So, I would try to stick around people I knew was supporting me and helping me grow.
05:41Because I was young.
05:42I was still in high school, middle school at that time.
05:45So, I would say no.
05:46I wasn't really intimidated.
05:47There's always going to be hate.
05:48There's always going to be somebody who wants you to stop on my way here.
05:52I won't say who.
05:53But I had opposition on my way here.
05:55I got a text message telling me I should quit my music.
05:57But that's part of the journey.
05:59That's part of the story.
06:00You keep going and you keep rising no matter the opposition you have.
06:04Do you ever feel like people don't take you serious?
06:08No.
06:08I think, well, I definitely, I don't know.
06:14It depends because I've been doing this a long time.
06:16I used to make CDs with my mom, sell them out at shows.
06:19I do have history behind me.
06:22I do have, you know, people know that this is what I do.
06:25I think that a lot of times people see someone shining.
06:28And if they don't have a good personality.
06:30They try to dim your light.
06:31Yeah.
06:31They try to dim the light.
06:33I think sometimes it's envy.
06:35And unfortunately, we live in a world where not everybody is good.
06:39So I used to let things like that bother me.
06:42Now I just let it, you know, fuel the fire for me to keep going.
06:46Right.
06:47I hear you speak about your mom.
06:49And we spoke one time.
06:51You said you lost your mom and your brother like seven months apart.
06:54First of all, sorry, condolences.
06:56I appreciate it.
06:57How did that affect you as an artist?
07:00Well, I didn't see it coming.
07:02I didn't get to say bye to my mom.
07:04I didn't get to say, sorry.
07:07No, you're good.
07:08You're good.
07:09When I first lost my mom, it was my brother calling my cell phone crying.
07:14You got to get here.
07:15Right.
07:16And my brother battled drug addiction.
07:20And so when she passed, I tried to be there for him, for me, for all of us.
07:25I tried to tell him, look, if you, if you quit, if you can quit the drugs, let God guide you.
07:30You could help people.
07:31So, and, but, you know, I tried it, but seven months later, he passed away and, and I got
07:38a phone call for that too.
07:39I didn't get to say bye to him either.
07:41So, um, I would say a lot of depression and sadness hit me all at once.
07:48And, uh, I just, I didn't know what, I didn't even know what to do, what to think.
07:54Even my dad said to me, cause he took me out to breakfast the next morning.
07:58He goes, you look so depressed.
08:00You're making me depressed.
08:01I don't, but I just couldn't help it.
08:03Right.
08:03I was so sad that I had lost my mom.
08:05Right.
08:05And then my brother after that.
08:07And I really had to lean on God and prayer and, uh, a few people from the church that
08:11I go to just to like help me not go down a bad, you know, spiral.
08:18Yeah.
08:18Yeah.
08:18It was tough, but, um, it made me realize, man, life can be so short.
08:26I need to get this album out that I planned on doing.
08:29I need to stop procrastinating and I need to live my life to the fullest.
08:33And it, it just hit me hard.
08:36It hit me hard.
08:37And after that, I just went harder.
08:40Right.
08:40I'm glad you didn't, um, quit music, but you never contemplated like y'all don't want to
08:43do this no more.
08:44Oh, no.
08:45That, that's never, I've never wanted to quit, but I have had little breaks.
08:50Right.
08:51Um, in between for different reasons, I, I lost, I lost a friend, uh, back in like 2019.
08:59Um, and, uh, you know, the, the loss of my brother, my, my mom, uh, toxic relationships.
09:08I'm just going to keep it 100.
09:10There were certain things in my life that either drained me mentally or people that were around
09:15me that discouraged me.
09:16Gotcha.
09:16But I kept climbing out of that every single time.
09:19You can ask my producer Rondada because when I came back to his studio about a year, year
09:24and a half ago, he was like, Oh my gosh, you're really doing this now.
09:27Like you're really locked in.
09:29And I was like, yeah, I, I have to, like after I lost my mom, it just all hit me.
09:35Like go after what you want in life.
09:37Don't let anybody stop you.
09:40And so that's been what, that's what I've been on.
09:44Uh, wow.
09:45Um, I wasn't expecting it to be, but that was, that's an amazing story.
09:48And I'm glad that you was able to, I guess, overcome it.
09:51Like you said, you went to churches.
09:53Did you ever seek therapy for that situation?
09:55Or was it just like, you just kept a positive energy around you?
09:58So therapy, therapy was God for me and it was boxing.
10:02I got into boxing.
10:03Got you.
10:04Okay.
10:04I just hitting that bag and just, I wanted to cry.
10:08Yeah.
10:09And, but they took me in like family, um, Macomb boxing club.
10:13They took me in like family.
10:14I told them what I was going through.
10:16Um, so the boxing helped me prayer, helped me.
10:21And I asked God to comfort me.
10:24And that's really all I could do.
10:26I didn't want to go to counseling because I know that counseling might be good for some
10:30people, but personally, for me, I feel like I didn't want to dwell on the situation.
10:34I don't, and not all people are perfect.
10:37You never know what kind of counselor you're going to get.
10:39So I said, let me rely on God, rely on God, my physical fitness, you know, and those are
10:44the things that helped me cope.
10:45So let me jump back into the music real quick.
10:48You got a project out called Candyland.
10:50Oh my goodness.
10:51Now that based off the game, I seen the album cover and the art cover and everything like
10:55that.
10:55Why, why did you title your project Candyland?
10:57I mean, obviously cause your name, but like.
10:59Exactly.
10:59So Candyland is all about me, who I represent as a person, as an artist.
11:06The person that did my artwork found me on Instagram.
11:10You know how there's a lot of people want to do your artwork on Instagram.
11:14I gave this guy a chance.
11:15He did exactly what I asked him to do.
11:17He brought to life this vision of like, you know, the candy, the sweetness, the had a jersey
11:24on that represented who I was.
11:26Um, and the, the album is really a compilation of like, who I am, who I've become my journey.
11:37If you listen to the whole album, it's, it's just nine tracks, but it's full of different
11:42parts of me and different experiences.
11:46How I got my name is in one of the songs.
11:48Why you only do now?
11:49Well, I already have another project in the works.
11:55The next project is going to be a lot of emotional pieces.
12:00Um, it's just intentional or it just kind of happened.
12:03It's, it's going to be intentional and because it naturally happened because of the major loss
12:08I faced.
12:09Gotcha.
12:09So I want to talk about the things I've been through, um, how I've come out of different
12:14situations.
12:15And so that'll be the next album, but the Candyland album, I encourage everybody go
12:19online and get it.
12:20It's everywhere online.
12:22And also I will be selling hard copies at tracks and wax in St.
12:26Claire shores off Harper in 2026.
12:29So.
12:30All right.
12:30A couple more questions.
12:31I'm going to let you get up out of here.
12:32Um, you got your producer here, Ron, uh, come to the mic real quick for me, brother.
12:35All right.
12:35How long you been working with candy girl, man, man?
12:38And we, what was it?
12:402015?
12:41I was probably like 16 years old out of high school.
12:44I met uncle ill and uncle ill introduced me to Ron.
12:47Right, right, right.
12:47So, uh, no, it was like 2006.
12:53What was it about her?
12:54She was like, all right, this is the artist.
12:56Her stage presence was like super dope.
12:59Uh, I think the club that we was, uh, that I saw her at, it was a lot of people there,
13:04man, and she was like one of the standouts that was performing and she just was just
13:09raw.
13:10It was just raw performance.
13:12And I was like, wow.
13:14And so my homie ill, who connected with her, you know, he kind of brought us all together.
13:22And I think we started working on some tracks together, some music, and then we just kind
13:26of built that relationship off of that.
13:29Great producer.
13:31Great guy.
13:31So y'all been working with like 12, 13, 14 years?
13:35Well, on and off.
13:36Yeah.
13:36Got you.
13:37Cause I did have my time where I kind of went away a little bit, had some things I was dealing
13:41with, you know, the, I raised two baby girls.
13:45So like there was time away, but we kept coming back together and working.
13:50Um, so solid, solid producer, great guy, just like family.
13:55You produce her Candy Girl album, that's you entirely or no?
13:58I got one track on the album.
14:00Okay.
14:00But I kind of recorded it and kind of massaged some of the, uh, other tracks that appear
14:07on the record.
14:08So the, the song Candy Land, listen to the instrumental, right?
14:13That's Rondada.
14:15Um, he actually surprised me with that some years back.
14:18I finally wrote to it and we're going to do the music video, uh, this coming new year.
14:23Nice.
14:23All right.
14:25So last thing I want both of y'all to tell people what y'all got coming up next.
14:29Um, what should they be on the lookout for?
14:31Or also shout y'all Instagrams out so they can find y'all and everything like that.
14:34So, you know, they can keep up with y'all.
14:36Yeah.
14:37All right.
14:37Showtime, thank you for having me on 105.1 The Bounce.
14:41I just want to tell everyone, thank you.
14:42I want you to go ahead and look up Candy Girl, Candy Land, the album.
14:47That's what we're pushing right now.
14:50Um, be inspired.
14:51I have a workout song on there.
14:53I have a breakup song.
14:54I have a song about my upcoming.
14:56Something for everybody.
14:56Yeah, something for everybody.
14:58Motivational song.
14:59Um, so, uh, what you have to look forward to is we're going to start putting out music
15:04videos, um, when the new year comes.
15:06Nice.
15:06Um, so that we have some visuals, something to work with.
15:09And, um, I want to also perform at the Pistons game.
15:14So I'm trying to reach out to somebody.
15:15If you hear this, I've been trying to hit different people up.
15:19I'm kind of getting the runaround, but I would love to perform my song, Stand Up.
15:23It's a great anthem, and I love the Pistons.
15:25Nice.
15:26Go Pistons.
15:27What's up?
15:28All right, I want to let everybody know what you got going on, man.
15:29Well, you know, you can catch me, uh, Monday, this coming Monday at, uh, the Northwest Activity
15:34Center.
15:35Detroit is having a Film Detroit event.
15:38Nice.
15:38Like she, uh, said, I am a film director as well.
15:41And I'll be at that event from five to seven.
15:45Five to, yeah, I think it's five to eight.
15:47From five to eight.
15:48Okay.
15:48It's going to be a, it's like a mixer.
15:50They're going to have free food, uh, live DJ.
15:53So, you know, you can come out if you can get out that way and, uh, politic and run
15:56into me and shake my hand and say, what's up?
15:58That's cool.
15:59And I'm on, um, IG, Ron Dada, 2002.
16:03Oh, yep.
16:03And I'm IG Detroit's Candy Girl.
16:07All right.
16:08Ron Dada, Candy Girl.
16:09Appreciate you both for coming in.
16:11Thank you so much.
16:12Um, you know, come back anytime, man.
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