00:00And with me, right now, I got Miss Nikki of Brownstone, executive producer, R&B Divas,
00:12and from the bottom up, how you doing, girl?
00:15I'm good, how are you?
00:16I'm good.
00:16Not everybody dances with me the way you dance with me.
00:19What brings you back and back to Essence Festival year after year?
00:22Essence, my birthday's July 8th, so this is a birthday present for me, an advanced birthday present.
00:26One of my best friends in the world, Faced, performed tonight.
00:29Killed it.
00:30I'm ready for new edition.
00:30I'm just here because it's beautiful.
00:32The people are beautiful.
00:33You're beautiful.
00:34Your hair is beautiful.
00:35Lance is beautiful.
00:35Everybody's beautiful.
00:36I love it when people compliment my bangs, girl.
00:38I love when they compliment my bangs.
00:40So what did you do earlier today?
00:41Did you check out the convention center?
00:43Yes, I did.
00:43I actually did a panel on women in reality with Janelle Snowden and Michelle Thornton from BET Centric.
00:49And we talked about the stereotypes amongst women of color in reality television and how we are working to change that, honey.
00:56Definitely.
00:56And you also have a new show coming out on BET from the bottom up.
00:59Yes, from the bottom up.
01:00It's an amazing show.
01:01It follows the journey of women who have been at the top of their game and something happened and they fell to the bottom.
01:08And we so often see women start at the top and fall at the bottom on television.
01:12This time we want to show women starting at the bottom and not at here.
01:16Yes, ma'am.
01:17And can we expect any new music from you, Miss Thing?
01:20You know something?
01:21Maxie.
01:22I got my Maxie tattoo.
01:23Yes, we're working on a Brownstone Forever project, which will have the original members that are still here among us and some new material.
01:32So, yeah, eventually down the line, I would say in the next 12 months, we should hear some new music.
01:37And you're going to come back to Essence Live and share that?
01:39Honey, look, can I get the main stage?
01:42That's asking a lot.
01:43We'll start off small and then we'll get to the top.
01:46You got to put it out there.
01:47You got to put it out there.
01:47Thank you so much, Nikki, for stopping by.
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