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Great music and great food--that was basically the best of Eric Bellinger's ESSENCE Festival 2016 experience. The Eventually singer stopped through the NOLA Takeover of ESSENCE Live to talk about all the fun of the weekend.
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00:00Look at this one, Eric Belanger, he's telling me about all the good food he's eating here in New Orleans, Louisiana.
00:11We are live on SSLive. How are you?
00:12Yes, I'm amazing. I'm happy to be here.
00:15So many beautiful women is just everywhere.
00:18You got good music, you got good food.
00:21What more could a fella ask?
00:22Let's talk about the food. Let's talk about the food for a minute.
00:24What you been eating?
00:26Oh, you know, I had a little shrimp at Tufay.
00:28I'm looking for some gumbo.
00:30I'm looking for some shrimp and grits.
00:33I had some noodles.
00:34That crystal sauce. Shout out to the crystal sauce.
00:36Crystal sauce is the truth. I tell everybody about that.
00:39I'm from Louisiana. I live in Brooklyn, and my mama sends me crystal sauce.
00:43The crystals is crazy.
00:44Me and my boy was like, where the Louisiana sauce? Where the Louisiana sauce?
00:47We got that crystals.
00:49And there's another one called Slap Your Mama.
00:51That's what it's called?
00:52It's good.
00:53We're going to need some Slap Your Mama.
00:54We're going to need some Slap Your Mama.
00:55We're going to be slapping no mamas.
00:59Yeah, just in case they record this and try to put it out and say I'm slapping mamas.
01:04Now, wait, wait. You got to clear it up for social media.
01:06Clear it up for social media.
01:06He did not say.
01:08He did not say to do that.
01:10Who are you looking forward to seeing this weekend?
01:12Oh, man.
01:13It's so many people on the thing.
01:14It's like you got Kendrick.
01:16Shout out to Kendrick.
01:17I'm watching New Edition right now in between interviewing.
01:19You can hear him in the back.
01:20That's the soundtrack to this interview.
01:22So I'm just happy to be here.
01:23Man, Mariah Carey, Maxwell.
01:25It's a beautiful situation out here.
01:27Do you have a little New Edition choreography?
01:30Man, do you know the thing about it?
01:32Oh, oh.
01:33Yeah, you know, it's a little something.
01:34He had a little something.
01:35If they needed me, if they wanted to do the Sixth Man.
01:38Oh, you can go in.
01:40If he.
01:41Shout out to Bobby.
01:41Okay.
01:42Shout out to Bobby.
01:42But I'm ready.
01:43Just a second.
01:44But if they needed somebody.
01:45Holla at me.
01:46Holla at you.
01:47Where can your fans find you the rest of the weekend?
01:49May.
01:50Oh, oh, just out here.
01:51I'm just going to be around.
01:52Because that's really all that I had to do as far as, like, fulfilling obligations.
01:55So I just wanted to stay and just check it out.
01:58Check out the other performers and just soak it all up.
02:00This is my first time coming out here to Essence.
02:01My first time being in New Orleans.
02:03So I'm just enjoying it all.
02:04You know, the vibe out here is really, you know, a positive vibe.
02:08And I'm all about the positive vibes.
02:10And you started to tell me about some of your upcoming projects.
02:12Who do you have?
02:13Yes.
02:13Oh, man, you got Eventually.
02:15I just dropped that on iTunes.
02:16Make sure you go grab, eventually, 12 songs, all original songs, no features, just me.
02:22I wanted to get, you know, everybody get a chance to know me and see what, you know, it is.
02:26Just rocking with me for an hour.
02:27So it's a story.
02:29All the songs relate, you know.
02:30So check out Eventually.
02:31All right.
02:31Thank you so much.
02:32Enjoy the rest of the show.
02:33Right now, you can catch Estelle.
02:35She's at the Walmart Super Lounge.
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