00:00And I'm here with Jordan Sparks.
00:07Hey.
00:08Hello.
00:09How's it going?
00:10I'm going to ask you to hold the mic just a little bit up, the mic.
00:13Oh, sorry.
00:14I'm usually used to it when I'm singing, so it's different, but okay.
00:18Love it.
00:19I love the septum ring.
00:21If you can see it, it's really discreet and cute.
00:22She's really under, underneath my nose, and...
00:24I like it small.
00:25Jordan, can I dare say that you're, like, there's this new, like, fierceness that I
00:32maybe didn't see, like, three years ago.
00:35Is it just getting, like, more into your, you know, getting older, or...?
00:39I think it's a mix of different things.
00:40I think it's a mix of, like, the experiences I've had in the past couple years, and also
00:44I feel like, you know, I just turned 25, I'm really...
00:48I feel like I'm coming into my own, I guess, like, it's that time to come into my own and
00:53really figure out who I am and what I stand for.
00:55And I just...
00:56I feel really good.
00:57Yes.
00:58Yeah.
00:59So tonight we're celebrating 45 years of Essence magazine.
01:00Wow!
01:01Congratulations!
01:02That's amazing!
01:03And also all these decades of black women in music.
01:05Yeah.
01:06So I'm going to ask you, who do you think are the most influential black women in music
01:09for the last 45 years?
01:11Ooh.
01:12I know.
01:13Jeez.
01:14Dun, dun, dun, dun.
01:15I would definitely have to say Diana Ross, Shaka Khan, who's on the carpet.
01:19Yes.
01:20Every time I see her, I just...
01:21I lose my breath.
01:22Yes.
01:23Diana, Whitney definitely was one of them.
01:26Mariah Carey, Brandy, Monica, Destiny's Child as a whole and separately.
01:36Goodness, there's tons.
01:37There's tons.
01:38And it's Jill, of course, who's being honored tonight.
01:40So...
01:41Yeah.
01:42There's a lot of them.
01:43So we're going to...
01:44You're going to have fun tonight.
01:45And we're going to have fun.
01:46Because, I mean, the show, Shaka Khan, all the three people you named are up there on
01:48that stage tonight.
01:49Oh, really?
01:50Yeah.
01:51Nice.
01:53Well, thank you so much, Jordan.
01:55I appreciate it.
01:56Bye bye.
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