00:00It sounds like a cookout.
00:02This jam needs bread.
00:03Your cousin, your auntie, your brother.
00:06Like it just, I just get my shoulders.
00:17This is my first time working with Raphael Sadiq.
00:20And so he produced this record.
00:22When I heard the music, I'm just like, dang,
00:25what do I talk about?
00:27It's fun, it's funky.
00:28It has personality to it so, but I still want it to be
00:31socially conscious in a funny way.
00:33When I first moved out to LA, I'm like,
00:35folks talking about a sugar, daddy, I need a sugar family.
00:38And I started naming everybody.
00:39So I was like, it hadn't been turned into a song.
00:41So I'm like, it was, it was time.
00:59I need a Mia family pack.
01:02I beg your pardon.
01:04I'm putting in my request.
01:06I'm discovering that, you know, daddy can't do this by himself.
01:08He has stretched in and packed tight.
01:09OK, so we need some assistance.
01:13Gas so high, I had to pray, just to drive my car today.
01:22Past the grids and collection plate, price of eggs damn near made me faint.
01:31Past the grids and collection plate.
01:33Like, not only do we need funds, we need to be nourished.
01:37We need some food too.
01:38Like, like, cause price of eggs.
01:40Oh my God.
01:41Are you serious?
01:42Daddy ain't enough.
01:44He need a little help.
01:47Can't do it all alone.
01:49Won't make it by itself.
01:51Where mama at?
01:52It's her sister home.
01:54Tell Uncle Reggie, get Lisa on the phone.
01:57It's a family a fan of getting my affairs in order.
02:01This is really just an act of grace, because when you understand that someone is really
02:06pushing past their limits, it's like, let me not even stress you out.
02:10So Reggie, get Lisa on the phone, OK?
02:12Cause she know how to do X, Y, and Z, OK?
02:14Cause it is a family affair to get my affairs in order, OK?
02:18Y'all see?
02:18Y'all see how he can't do this by himself?
02:31I need our hands on dick.
02:33Can't be sugar free.
02:36We need assistance from the family tree.
02:42It is very imperative that we do have community and people around us that we can lean on in
02:47times like these.
02:48And a lot of that comes from us just getting out of our own way and just saying, hey, I
02:52need help.
02:53I can't be sugar free.
02:54Like I can't be out here, not without love, not without support, not without assistance
02:59in some kind of way, especially when I have it around me.
03:01But it's because you haven't spoken up.
03:03So yeah, I'm speaking up.
03:25I know that's right.
03:27The jam is good, but we need to put it on something.
03:29Peanut butter, no jelly, ham, no burger, Kool-Aid, no sugar.
03:33It's like, you know, I'm calling out everybody.
03:35The cat and the dog, too.
03:50When I say that I'm divine, like we can think as highly of ourselves as possible.
03:56However, them bills don't give a damn.
03:58Them taxes don't give a damn.
04:00How cute y'all.
04:01They want it.
04:02Chippendales because you chipped in.
04:04Thank you for your contribution.
04:07Family meeting at the ATM.
04:10Oh, oh, oh.
04:12It's one of those things where I'm thanking you in advance.
04:15Chippendales because you chipped in.
04:16I'm going to do a little dance.
04:17OK, how are you doing?
04:19Because, yes, we having a family meeting up in here.
04:21Everybody, because y'all got your own code.
04:23That's why I said each one of y'all got a pen.
04:25I know you do.
04:27We are weak.
04:29God, we know who we are.
04:32It gets real hard.
04:34Got a lap to keep from crying just to add on.
04:39I'll take our major car and swipe on my accord so I can take a breather.
04:52I wanted to take bits and pieces from my Grammy speech and put it into the music.
04:57We are all we got, and we need to remind ourselves there's support and resources here within the community.
05:03And we got to laugh while we're crying, you know, but we're going to cry together.
05:07And also, just to reiterate all of the different ways in which I can accept payments.
05:11OK, we got Apple Pay, Zelle, Venmo, Cash, Apple.
05:17Yes, baby, I leaned on my brother, but he got bills, too.
05:21Call your mama, call your daddy, tell your sister to bring that bag.
05:25You know, daddy tried his best, but that American Express is pressed.
05:30I'm just kind of going through the different ways in which I tried, you know, I tried to lean on
05:34my family, you know, my own folks, you know, but they got their own issues.
05:38Here's what I need from here.
05:40Here's what I need from you, you know, because, listen, y'all, that American Express is pressed when it talks.
05:47So shut me up.
05:50Ow.
05:53And the neighbor can chip in two.
05:57Yeah.
06:00There is a scripture that says, you know, wine might make you merry, but money solveth all things.
06:07And so money talks, so shut me up.
06:09It's like the 2026 version of that scripture.
06:12And the neighbor can chip in, too, because, you know, a lot of times we'd be worried about what the
06:15neighbors be talking about.
06:16And they'd be having their own opinions about what's going on over at this residence where they don't pay no
06:21goddamn rent.
06:25When I got with James Fauntleroy, he started a group chat with me and Raphael.
06:31He was like, yo, man, please make this happy.
06:33He's working on this project, man.
06:34Get in there.
06:34So Raphael literally rearranged some things to make sure that we can get in the studio and the rest is
06:42is Sugar Fam.
06:43Amen.
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