I Don’t Wanna Leave

Summary

Pour Minds Podcast Summary: Episode "I Don’t Wanna Leave"

Release Date: July 18, 2025
Hosts: Drea Nicole and Lex P
Produced by: The Black Effect and iHeartPodcasts

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Introduction to the BET Awards Experience

Timestamp: [03:36] - [12:00]

In this episode, Drea Nicole and Lex P share their exhilarating experience attending the BET Awards 2025, marking their second appearance after attending last year's event. They express how the 25th anniversary made this year's awards particularly memorable.

• Drea Nicole reflects, “…this one blew the one from last year off the park.”

• Ryan Seacrest (likely a co-host or guest) narrates moments from the red carpet, including interactions with renowned personalities like Free and Mariah the Scientist.

• Notable Moment: When Free approached Ryan Seacrest, praising him and expressing admiration, highlighting the meaningful connections formed at such events. At [05:30], Ryan shares, “…I know we always say, you never know who is watching.”

The hosts emphasize the inspiring performances and the sense of community, mentioning standout artists such as Kirk Franklin, Jamie Foxx, Mariah Carey, and Snoop Dogg.

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Navigating Career Advancement and Ethical Boundaries

Timestamp: [16:00] - [22:10]

The conversation transitions to a deep dive into career advancement, sparked by their observations at the BET Awards. They discuss the balance between ambition and maintaining ethical standards.

• Ryan Seacrest poses a thought-provoking question: “What are you willing to do to get ahead in your career today? How far is too far?”

• Drea Nicole responds with conviction, “I feel like when it comes to being successful, I think that’s what separates people that become really successful from people that don’t. You have to be willing to go to extreme measures…”

• They explore the idea that while ambition is vital, it's essential to stay within personal moral boundaries. Ryan adds, “I look at like, oh, it's competition. I'm going for it. But I don't necessarily think I have to cross people.”

The hosts agree on the importance of surrounding themselves with like-minded individuals who share similar values and vision, ensuring that success does not come at the expense of personal integrity.

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Personal Journeys: Overcoming Loss and Self-Reliance

Timestamp: [53:33] - [76:07]

A significant portion of the episode delves into personal stories of loss and the realization that self-reliance is crucial for personal and professional growth.

• Ryan Seacrest shares his motivational "why," stemming from the birth of his nephew and the desire to provide a better future. He states, “I want everybody around me to feel success. Another one was when I moved to Atlanta… I don’t want nobody to buy that for me. I want to do that myself.”

• Drea Nicole opens up about her father's passing during the COVID-19 pandemic, explaining how it served as a wake-up call to take her career more seriously. She mentions, “…when he passed away, it just really shifted my perspective… nobody's coming to save you.”

• Lex P discusses her parents' divorce and her mother's subsequent passing, highlighting the struggle of being the oldest sibling and the responsibility it placed on her shoulders. She notes, “…I gotta put on a cape and save everybody. So I gotta make sure everyone has anything they need.”

Both hosts emphasize the importance of building their own support systems and the realization that success and happiness must be self-driven. They encourage listeners to take charge of their destinies, drawing from their own experiences of overcoming personal tragedies.

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Relationships and Setting Standards

Timestamp: [78:06] - [98:44]

The hosts transition into discussing romantic relationships, focusing on setting boundaries and maintaining self-respect.

• Ryan Seacrest advises on recognizing red flags in relationships: “…if you got this, imagine what I'm finna get.”

• Drea Nicole shares insights on moving past unhealthy relationships and the importance of self-worth, stating, “…I have always been a person who just be feeling like you definitely need people… but I'm also not out here trying to be friends with everybody just because we’re in the same space.”

• They explore the concept of "Murder Pussy," a term coined to describe the challenges and manipulations faced when dating individuals struggling financially. Ryan humorously defines it: “Murder pussy is when you have a vagina that men tend to slide in and something happens to them.”

The conversation underscores the necessity of communication, self-reliance, and maintaining high standards in romantic endeavors. They advocate for dating partners who are financially stable and emotionally mature, emphasizing that dependence on others can lead to unfavorable situations.

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Supporting Each Other and Building a Strong Team

Timestamp: [98:02] - [117:00]

Drea Nicole and Lex P discuss the importance of teamwork and having a reliable support system in both personal and professional spheres.

• Drea Nicole highlights their podcast team's strength: “We have a great team. We have cultivated a really dope team.”

• Ryan Seacrest emphasizes the value of working with people who may not always align personally but can collaborate professionally: “I learned at a very young age to work very closely with people I cannot stand. I learned to turn it on and turn it off.”

They stress that building a dedicated team is essential for sustaining their podcast and personal growth. The hosts celebrate their team's contributions and the collaborative effort that drives the success of the "Pour Minds Podcast."

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Listener Q&A: "Pour Your Heart Out"

Timestamp: [125:00] - [140:00]

Towards the end of the episode, Drea and Lex engage with listener-submitted questions, offering advice and personal anecdotes.

• First Listener Question: A listener shares her experience of an ex-boyfriend passing away shortly after their breakup, seeking clarity on whether she's overanalyzing his death and asking for an explanation of the term "murder pussy." The hosts provide comforting advice, emphasizing that the listener should not blame herself and encourage her to focus on healing and personal growth.

• Second Listener Question: A 35-year-old woman discusses red flags in her long-term relationship, questioning whether she should expect the same love and care she gives or move on from the podcast altogether. The hosts advise open communication, suggesting she address her concerns directly with her partner to understand his perspective and assess the health of the relationship.

The "Pour Your Heart Out" segment showcases the hosts' commitment to supporting their listeners through personal challenges, offering both empathy and practical advice grounded in their own experiences.

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Highlights and Notable Quotes

• Drea Nicole: “You have to make sure you have the same values with whoever you're aligning with.”

• Ryan Seacrest: “There is nothing better than making shit happen for yourself and following your own dreams.”

• Lex P: “We are very much business. Business as business.”

• Drea Nicole: “If somebody somehow found a way to hack our social media pages, it's going the fuck down, bitch. Nobody is safe.”

• Ryan Seacrest: “Pride is what you had, baby girl, not what you have.”

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Conclusion

In "I Don’t Wanna Leave," Drea Nicole and Lex P offer listeners a candid and heartfelt exploration of their personal journeys, career ambitions, and relationship dynamics. Through sharing their triumphs and struggles, they inspire others to take control of their lives, set high standards, and build strong support systems. The episode reinforces the podcast's core message of empowerment, self-reliance, and authentic conversation, making it a valuable listen for anyone navigating similar life challenges.

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For more episodes and insightful discussions, tune into Pour Minds Podcast every Monday at 10 AM.

Transcript

[Lex P]

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[Drea Nicole]

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[Drea Nicole]

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[Ryan Seacrest]

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[Ryan Seacrest]

If a dick can come inside of me and make me not care that you don't have a home, I don't want it. These niggas are putting dick inside of women in 2025 that are making them forget that they're homeless. I'm telling you, it's an epidemic and it's going on.

[Drea Nicole]

You ain't gotta tell me. I see.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Oh my gosh So I be saying it. Sex is. I won't say it's better because I don't know. I don't have sex with homeless men or men who don't have things going on financially. But they got. I know they got good dick. Homeless men have great dick. They do.

[Drea Nicole]

I've never had sex with a homeless man. Shay, please.

[Ryan Seacrest]

And when I say homeless, we not talking about, like, under the bridge homeless. We talking about niggas that be like, yeah, I'm in between. They staying with they homeboy on the couch.

[Drea Nicole]

Okay, but what if he in between blessings?

[Ryan Seacrest]

He got some good dicks in between blessings. You can be in between blessings, but you don't have a home. That's fine. But I'm saying, you laying down that pipe.

[Drea Nicole]

Look, I ain't. I feel like sex ain't never better. Like, sex. It's. No way sex could be good. It was when he broke.

[Ryan Seacrest]

What's up, y'? All? It's your girl Lex P. And it's.

[Drea Nicole]

Your girl Dre and Nicole.

[Ryan Seacrest]

And you are tuned in to another episode of Poor Mind, where a drunk.

[Drea Nicole]

Mind speaks sober thought.

[Ryan Seacrest]

We ain't got no guests today.

[Drea Nicole]

We ain't got no guests today.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Whoo. Child, we are back in town. Back to work.

[Drea Nicole]

You know, back again, back to back.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Mayfax, period. We just came from la. We had the BET Awards this past weekend. And y' all know I have a new hairstyle. Shout out to Dee Dee. Rich, look, hair, you know, go get y' all a little curly unit, straight unit. Whatever you need. Hook me up.

[Drea Nicole]

They were saying, you look like Meg thee Stallion.

[Ryan Seacrest]

They were saying Meg thee Stallion, Pam Grier. It's crazy because, like, my inspiration, like, mood board that I had look, I was going for was a little mix of Meg Thee Stallion and Pam Grier.

[Drea Nicole]

Hey.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You know what I'm saying?

[Drea Nicole]

So you executed.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You know what I'm saying? So, yeah, we had a good weekend. It was interesting. The BET Awards was so good this year.

[Drea Nicole]

Oh, my God. It was so good because, I mean, you know, we went last year, so this is our second BET Awards. And I don't know, I just feel like this one blew the one from last year off the park.

[Ryan Seacrest]

It did.

[Drea Nicole]

Maybe because it was the 25th anniversary of the awards, and then the 25th anniversary of 106 in park, too, right? And I don't know, y'. All. They just had everybody perform, and it was like, every time somebody new came out, me and Lex was like, oh.

[Ryan Seacrest]

My God, we was having a ball. So let Me tell y' all the highlight of my entire weekend, right? So we're. We got in and we're, like, walking the red carpet, mingling.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I look up free from 106 and park the legendary Free. She points at me. She said, I love you. She was like, I am such a big fan. And I had to turn around. I was like, me. I was like, me. She was like, you. I love you. I was like, free. Oh, my God. I was like, please come on the show. She was like, absolutely. Like, her publicist was, like, trying to pull her along. Cause she was like. I was like, oh, my God.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Because I always talk about, like, when I was young, like when I got in college, how I always say how I fell in love with Nina Parker. And like, she was like, oh, my gosh. I looked at her career, like Wendy Williams career. But, like, I grew up watching Free. And I was like, I wanna do that.

[Drea Nicole]

Like, if you need some free shit.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Oh, my gosh. So to have Free look at me and be like, I love you. I know, I'm good. We doing a good job.

[Drea Nicole]

We are. And that's how I felt, too. Cause I seen Mariah the Scientist on the red carpet, too, and she was like, girl, I love you. And I was like, I did the same thing. I was like, me.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

She was like, yes, girl, I love you so much. She was like, y' all are so funny.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

And I was like, period. Girl, come on the show. She was like, imma come. I' ma come.

[Ryan Seacrest]

It's so crazy because.

[Drea Nicole]

Shout out to Mariah and Free.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, Period. And it made me realize, like, I know we always say, you never know who is watching.

[Drea Nicole]

And G herbo said he listened to the show, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I tried to. One thing about me, I repeat an outfit, but I also repeat a joke. I try to repeat a joke. He said, I knew you was gonna say that.

[Drea Nicole]

I said, oh, he did say that.

[Ryan Seacrest]

He ate me up. He said, I knew you was gonna sing that note. I watched the show. I said, God damn it.

[Drea Nicole]

He's a real. That mean he really watched the show.

[Ryan Seacrest]

For real.

[Drea Nicole]

Shout out to G herbo. Me and Lynn love him down. We always say he's so funny.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, he was cool. He was cool. Oh, my gosh. And I wanna talk about this, too, so.

[Drea Nicole]

Oh, and you seen Miles? Yes, from center.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Somebody take me in your arms tonight.

[Drea Nicole]

We was having a time.

[Ryan Seacrest]

And you know what I love? I love super down to Earth people. Cause we saw him at the media house, but then when we saw him at the BET Awards, he was like, hey, y'.

[Drea Nicole]

All.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Like, you are so sweet.

[Drea Nicole]

He's my little cousin.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yes. That's little nephew. You know, they all my nephew. That's my ne. But you know what? So I've been seeing a lot of backlash about what, you know, I'm getting my love Lexp bag and talk about the mess and the tea. Yes, go ahead.

[Drea Nicole]

And real quick too Shout out to dc. Cause he did an amazing job.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yes, he did.

[Drea Nicole]

He, like, presented a bunch of awards and he was on stage a few different times. And then for the Kirk Franklin performance, shout out to D.C. he was doing his thing.

[Ryan Seacrest]

So the things that I like to look at, the reviews of, you know how people are feeling after award shows, I like to tap in. So a lot of people have been, like, confused. They're like, why are streamers there? Why are influencers there? Why are these people there? But honestly, I think it shows to the times that we're in, you know what I'm saying? It's possible to make that crossover into tv. And I thought everybody did an amazing job. Kaisanak Drewski, Zoe Spencer. We met her. She was there. I like to see people make that transfer to TV into doing major things. But I will say now. So there was a moment where, like, Kasanet ran into Wale. He didn't know his name. He was like, Wally. And he was. But listen, that wasn't the only time that that happened, right? He ran into Robin Thicke. Robin Thicke saw him. Like, he was like, oh, you know, I'm a fan. I love what you do. Kyle was like, thank you. Thank you. So he walks over to Taleel, who was another streamer, and he was looking at his phone. He was like, do you know who Robert. I mean, Robin Thicke is. And Tal is like, yes, I know who Robin Thicke is. And Kai was like, who is that? There was another moment. The Bratz PR walks up to him and he was like, hey, do you know the Brat? He was like, who is that, Kai? You gonna have to you a tiny tot. You gotta learn who these people are, though, just to be like, you know.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah. Just because you in the spaces and places now, you know, I feel like you gotta do a little bit of your research.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But I also not even research, but it needs to be somebody on his team, like, brief him real quick. Hey, this is such and such. Just say hey real quick. You know what I'm saying? Just say hey real quick.

[Drea Nicole]

It just go to show you how young people are, like, so Young. I definitely. Like, we know he's what, like 22, 23?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, he's young.

[Drea Nicole]

He pretty young. But I'm still like, I feel like you should know who the brat tat tat is. Come on now.

[Ryan Seacrest]

The brat tat tat a whole lot.

[Drea Nicole]

Of what you want. Like, I just feel like, yes, you should know who the. Now Robbie thinks. I guess maybe I can understand a little bit. No. Come for their generation. For their generation. Yeah. But I don't know. I feel like you should know who the brat is. You should know who. Wale.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Come on, Wale. Come on, bro.

[Drea Nicole]

Wale Wale had a legendary ring.

[Ryan Seacrest]

A legendary. But I will say I'm not. But he carries himself well. So he's not rude. That's one thing I do like about him.

[Drea Nicole]

Like, no, he's not rude. He's very nice.

[Ryan Seacrest]

He carries it very well. But I'm like. I think that's why a lot of people get aggravated when like, people like us or like influencers and stuff are in this space. Cause they feel like we should know who these people are. I guess. And I'm not saying, like, celebrities are human too, you know. But I will say it's like, come on now. The brat. You didn't know who the brat was? The brat.

[Drea Nicole]

I love the brat. Shout out to the brat.

[Ryan Seacrest]

And they. I didn't see that moment. But they said that it was the same thing. Like he had seen Lisa Ray and didn't know who Lisa Ray was either. And like I said, I get.

[Drea Nicole]

He ain't never seen Players Club.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Come on now.

[Drea Nicole]

That's like a rite of passage in the black period.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yes, yes. But I will say I loved seeing like, him, Drew Ski and Kevin Hart up on stage.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Like, to me, like I said, it's inspiring for me. Like, I was so inspired this weekend. Like, and two, I wanna say we met Ciara.

[Drea Nicole]

We did.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Oh, my God. And when I said, this is the difference that you can see between, like, superstars and like, celebrities. Like, Ciara has a aura that I just cannot explain.

[Drea Nicole]

Like, she's really, really sweet.

[Ryan Seacrest]

She's really sweet. She's really pretty. But she just has this glow about her. It's just the way she talks, her movements. It's just like, this is a superstar. Like, this ain't just somebody who dropped a few songs. Like, this is Ciara. So you really kind of understand what people say when they talk about, like, aura. And some people have that it factor. I was like, okay, I feel it, I see it, I get it. Like, she. She was so sweet, though.

[Drea Nicole]

She was so nice.

[Ryan Seacrest]

She was so cute. Yes. Skin was popping. I was like, you know when people got money. Cause I know she done had some laser treatments or something that I ain't never heard of. She using some type of cream that you can only get, and it's at the bottom of the Nile river, and somebody got a scuba dive to get.

[Drea Nicole]

That chick all the exfoliant.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You know what I'm saying? It's something different about that skin.

[Drea Nicole]

I agree. But, yeah, we had a time.

[Ryan Seacrest]

We did have a good time.

[Drea Nicole]

Okay, we. We can take our shots.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Oh, Lord have mercy, Jesus.

[Drea Nicole]

Cheers to us. Cheers to us. And a great second BET Award.

[Ryan Seacrest]

We gonna host it one year.

[Drea Nicole]

I feel like we're gonna host it soon. I feel like next year we definitely gonna present an award.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Oh, yeah, we gonna.

[Drea Nicole]

I'm manifesting.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, we gonna present an award next year, but we have to host it one year. I was thinking loud.

[Drea Nicole]

That would be so funny.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I was writing my ideas for our opening.

[Drea Nicole]

Okay.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You know how I write everything? Write in my journal.

[Drea Nicole]

I do, too. That's so funny. But that's how you make stuff happen, though. I feel like you have to write it down. Like, I'm big on that. If I want to do something and I want to accomplish something, I write it down so that when I do accomplish it, I can go back and look at it and be like, bitch, you wrote this shit. See, a year ago. You wrote this six months ago.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Cheers.

[Drea Nicole]

Ooh, that was smooth, though. Because, you know, I be drinking a different tequila now, and it's real clean, and it tastes like water. Okay, okay.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Sorry.

[Drea Nicole]

I feel like you was about to say something inappropriate.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I was, you know, but I decided to clean it up. Oh, real quick. Before we get into these topics, y' all love. Lexp is now available on audio. So wherever you listen to all your podcasts, it's on Spotify, Apple podcasts, all that good stuff. So we have converted. Cause y' all were blowing me up like Lex. I want to listen in my car. I want to listen at work on my AirPods and this and that. So, yes, it is now available on audio. So y' all make sure y' all tune in. Love LEXP. Every Monday, 10am Period.

[Drea Nicole]

Period. Boo.

[Ryan Seacrest]

We got any other updates?

[Drea Nicole]

Join our Patreon. Make sure y' all lock in with our Patreon. That's good.

[Ryan Seacrest]

It tastes like lemonade.

[Drea Nicole]

It tastes like strawberry lemonade.

[Ryan Seacrest]

It tastes like candy. Oh, I can feel it when you're walking, even when you talk, it takes over me. That was good.

[Drea Nicole]

That was actually.

[Ryan Seacrest]

This is good.

[Drea Nicole]

If he ever needs somebody to, like, do his vocals, if he lose his voice, I feel like you're a great replacement.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I'm telling you. I'm not kidding. You know what I'm doing for my birthday this year, right? What? We're going to the Stu.

[Drea Nicole]

Oh, you did say that. Yeah. I can't wait.

[Ryan Seacrest]

We're hands down going to the studio.

[Drea Nicole]

Cause I told you I'm not writing my verse. And you was like, I feel like you should write it. And I feel like I'm just gonna go off the dome acapella.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Because off the dome is crazy.

[Drea Nicole]

I'm from Houston. That's what we do.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Okay.

[Drea Nicole]

We the freestyle Kings and kings.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I'm gonna write my verse. Cause I want some, like. I wanna get in the booth. Like Ludacris.

[Drea Nicole]

Oh, shout out to little Chris, too. Cause he ate us.

[Ryan Seacrest]

What?

[Drea Nicole]

He ate us.

[Ryan Seacrest]

He said I was something before Queen Elsa. I'm the frozen one. I said same. I'm icy in this, bitch. I felt that when he said that. I felt it. I said, me, too.

[Drea Nicole]

I'm only laughing because you really did do that, though, when he said. And you was like, oh. And I was like, licking what Blue Ivy did to Jay Z and Beyonce.

[Ryan Seacrest]

She was like, when I tell y'. All. Calm down, bitch. I was cutting up so bad. And we was, like, right in the front row.

[Drea Nicole]

We was in the front row. And I was like, ooh. We was right there.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You know how people be at, like, the freestyle things in New York, they.

[Drea Nicole]

Call it the cyphers.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, that was definitely me.

[Drea Nicole]

And then, you know, bet. Don't they do us? Well, not all. That's the Hip Hop Awards for the Cipher. They need to have us do the decipher for the Hip Hop Awards.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I know I got some now for.

[Drea Nicole]

That, I'm gonna get a ghostwriter.

[Ryan Seacrest]

See? See? Cause you gotta. You cannot fuck up on the Cipher for that.

[Drea Nicole]

I'm gonna get a ghostwriter. I'm gonna hit up. I don't know, somebody. Houston rapper.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah. Cause they got them bars.

[Drea Nicole]

I'm gonna hit up Slim Thug. Can you write me a verse?

[Ryan Seacrest]

He gonna have you going, huh?

[Drea Nicole]

Now, when you gonna give me some?

[Ryan Seacrest]

He definitely gonna ask some for some pussy in exchange. I mean, all righty.

[Drea Nicole]

But this. You gonna give me some?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Slim is not giving up that first.

[Drea Nicole]

Until you giving up that booty.

[Ryan Seacrest]

And he gonna want his payment first.

[Drea Nicole]

Oh, my God.

[Ryan Seacrest]

He gonna want that payment first up front.

[Drea Nicole]

I'm so weak.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Okay. All right, let's get into this topic. Okay, so topic one is, what are you willing to do to get ahead in your career today? There is such an emphasis on chasing the bag and achieving your goals, which is a good thing. But how far is too far to advance your career? Now, I think this is a good topic since we're talking about the BET Awards. Cause, like, you know, when you go to these events, you see so many people that have reached a. Like, a height in their career. Like, we saw Jamie Foxx get the Ultimate Icon award. We're watching Mariah Carey, Kirk Franklin, Snoop Dogg. And it's like, you know, I want that for myself. You know what I'm saying? Like, I want to do that, but it's like, to get there, those people had to work their asses off. But there's probably a lot of things behind the scenes that, you know, a lot of people don't want to. So how far is too far? Like, how far are you willing to go?

[Drea Nicole]

Very far.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Same.

[Drea Nicole]

What did you say?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Cause it's not. I mean.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah, I mean, I think there's. Within boundaries.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yes, yes.

[Drea Nicole]

Within boundaries. Like, I'm not willing to just do anything, but I'mma definitely do what I gotta do.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

I feel like when it comes to being successful, I think that that's what separate people that become really successful from people that don't. You have to be willing to go to extreme measures, chase your dreams, and to make your dreams happen. Now, personally, I'm a firm believer in, you know, treating people right.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Right.

[Drea Nicole]

And doing right by people. However, sometimes where I feel like I'm a little conflicted and we're not there yet, so it's not a problem that I have currently, but I feel like people that are extremely wealthy have done some wild shit to get to where they at. Like, I feel like you probably done did some little sheep in the background, done crossed a few people.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

Did some questionable things. Like. And I'm talking about extremely wealthy people, y'. All. Like, I'm not talking about. I'm not downplaying being worth $10 million, because that's a lot of money. But I'm. When I say extremely wealthy, I'm talking about people that are like 500 million billionaires. Like, I. I don't think you amass that kind of wealth, being a good person all the time to everybody.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah. So I think for me, I don't necessarily. I'm not gonna cross anybody, but it's like, I don't care who You Are we up for the same part or up for the same hosting gig or something like that? Like, stuff like that. I look at like, oh, it's competition. I'm going for it. You know what I'm saying? But I don't necessarily think I have to cross people. But there are people that I know for a fact that I don't favor their views. I don't agree with the things that they talk about. But I will be willing to sit on the couch with them or shake hands and mingle with people I necessarily don't like. You know what I'm saying? To get to where I need to go.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah, I believe that's fair.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Cause I'm not gonna lie.

[Drea Nicole]

It gotta be somebody that could really change your life though. Cause I'm just a little too strict for this shit. I don't be with that fake shit. Get the fuck away from me and my family. Because I just feel like. Like when it comes to the space that we're in, it could be somebody that I don't like that has opportunity on the table for me, but then it also could be somebody that I do like that I vibe a little bit more with and it's the same opportunity or that person is actually higher up. I would rather gravitate towards the people that I naturally fuck with and align with and make money with them than to make money with people that like, we don't necessarily align or have the same views. Because I feel like if you already showing me certain character traits and you already showing me that you a fucked up individual at this level, what would stop you from crossing me as we continue to grow?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Right.

[Drea Nicole]

You know, and that's always my reservation.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I always just feel like too. It's like. But there's like, I said certain things.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Like if you're a person, especially a, you like online talking shady about black people, specifically black women and something like that, I really couldn't do it. But if it's more so, like, it's personal things and I really don't feel you like that. And it's just like, I may not agree with, like, maybe you have misogynistic views or I don't agree. Like. And when it comes to personal feelings, I can put a lot of personal stuff to the side. But it's like morally corrupt things. Like, there's certain things that's just like. It's black and white where shit be right and wrong. You know what I'm saying? So it's certain lines that I won't cross. But it's certain lines that I will.

[Drea Nicole]

For me it be more. I feel like I'm good at putting my feelings to the side for business and stuff too. But for me it more so just be an aggravation thing. Go away from me with this Apollo.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Go away with me this Apollo.

[Drea Nicole]

Yes. Just get away from me with this like you irritating and I don't even wanna deal with you. I would rather go seek another opportunity. Opportunity. Now one thing I will say for sure about me, I won't cross people cuz that's just not the type of person that I am. I feel like I'm really good at just letting go and letting it be what it is. But I will cut anybody off.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, I think you have to though.

[Drea Nicole]

Especially when it comes to like my career. And if I feel like you somebody who you taking up space, you got bad vibes, you got negative energy, you jealous, you weird. Oh you can go any like anybody can go actually.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But I really, I don't think you have to play dirty in this game either.

[Drea Nicole]

I think you do.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You think so?

[Drea Nicole]

I think when you get to a certain level, you know, God forbid, I feel like hopefully, knock on wood, we ain't never really gotta be like that. But I think, but I also think we're still at a very like low level.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah. In the grand scheme of things.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. In the grand scheme of things. Like not to undermine or downplay what we've done and what we've accomplished, but I think in the grand scheme of things. Yeah. We're still at a pretty low level.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

So it's a lot of shit we haven't seen. It's a lot of things that haven't been on the table yet. I feel like people, you never really know what awaits you.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I know that's what's scary about it. Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

And it's like no blueprint to life. You just gotta always hope that you making the best decisions. But you never know if you making the best decisions. You just gotta make the best decision for you.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah. See my biggest thing that I've seen that's like oh my God. Like back in the day I used to steal people table.

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[Ryan Seacrest]

What you mean when I was bartending, steal their tables. They sit down and you don't greet them quick enough. I'm going to get that table, bitch. You should agree.

[Drea Nicole]

Oh, I used to do that too. That's just cutthroat.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, I was very cutthroat.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah, I was.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I'm taking the table, bitch.

[Drea Nicole]

I used to do that too. Cause why you not paying?

[Ryan Seacrest]

You get a hot two minutes, Ty. Cause why you haven't greeted them yet? You don't want that money. I do. I'm going get your motherfucking table. They used to be mad at me at Friday.

[Drea Nicole]

I'll say this. Okay, you know what? Now think about it. I'll say this too. Cause I definitely used to be selling bottles to other people. Clients. Oh, yes.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I definitely was doing that. I'm sorry.

[Drea Nicole]

I definitely used to sell bottles to other people's clients.

[Ryan Seacrest]

If you taking too long, if somebody at your table and they been sitting there and they walk up to me. Oh, your bad.

[Drea Nicole]

Yes. If you have a table and then your client walk up to me and they like, oh, I've been trying to get a bottle for the last 15 minutes. I don't know where my waitress is at. Yeah, oh, I can sell you a bottle.

[Ryan Seacrest]

And I'm getting there before you. They drank half the bottle by the time you came and greeted them again, Sparklers and all. And then. And let me tell y' all something. I like to give advice.

[Drea Nicole]

Damn.

[Ryan Seacrest]

When y' all drop these bottles off, the reason y' all not making no money is because y' all drop them off and walk away. You supposed to pour em big shots so they can run through that bottle. Mm, I used to pour some big ass shots so they can order. Absolutely, man. Get them toe up so they can order another one and another one. It was light work for me to sell three, four bottles to one table of like, not a lot of people.

[Drea Nicole]

I think it's easy to maneuver like that though, when you not trying to really make friends. Yeah, I feel like both of us are like that.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Fuck y' all like.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah, we have our. It's not that I don't think you or me are not. I don't think we're not open to making friends. Come.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I'm not.

[Drea Nicole]

Lex is a little less. I'm definitely the friend out of me and her who got a new friend every year. Like I still got my core group of friends that I've been friends with since I was like 18, 15, early 20s. But I'm always open to meeting new people and like I'm always introducing licks to somebody new. I'm like, this is my.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I'm like, how you doing?

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah, let's definitely don't be with that. But I said that to say I think it's easy, easier to maneuver like that in this world and in this industry when you're not really trying to be friends with people. It's like business is business. And one thing about us, we're very much businesses. Business ass.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

If I meet somebody and I happen to really like vibe and connect with you, of course we can become friends. Like I'm open to that. But I'm also not out here trying to be friends with everybody just because we in the same space and doing the same because. Just because we might have a lot of commonality in that area.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That don't mean commonality.

[Drea Nicole]

That doesn't mean that you're a good person.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

That doesn't mean that our values align. And I don't really just care. I don't know. I always just been a person too who just be feeling like you definitely need people. Like you need a good team. For example, with us with poor minds. Where will we be without our team?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Where would I be without you?

[Drea Nicole]

Where would we be without our team? We have a great team. We have cultivated a really dope team.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You cutting up with these words slow the fuck down now.

[Drea Nicole]

But I feel like we have a great team. Like we have Ty, we have Craig, we have Kyla, now we have awol. D, Shay, Ryan, we doing our big one.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

So I mean you definitely need a team. But I've also always been the type of person I don't feel like I need people. Like I don't need to be cool with somebody or attach myself to somebody to make it. Especially if you a weirdo and you be doing lame shit. I don't need to be cool with you. Why are you laughing?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Cause you funny. Cause you really just be like fuck everybody when it comes to like. But I'll say that once you do.

[Drea Nicole]

Something to make me feel some type of way, absolutely. I don't give a fuck about who you know. I don't care what connections you have. I don't care who the fuck you think you are. You can go because I'm gonna do what I'M gonna do regardless. Cause it's God ordained and I'm anointed.

[Ryan Seacrest]

So I feel like for me, it's more so, like. I learned at a very young age to work very closely with people I cannot stand. Because I was always, like, in manager roles at a young age. So I learned how to. You know what? I don't like her, but that's my personal feelings. But she knows how to work. So I've learned to turn it on and turn it off. It sounds horrible as hell, but yes. Do I know how to be fake? I do. I really do. And I do that shit so well, it's frightening. That's not.

[Drea Nicole]

No, you're good at it.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I need to sell a course on how to lie.

[Drea Nicole]

No, you're good at it.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I would have y' all out here doing y' all. Big one.

[Drea Nicole]

Well, I don't like bitches. They know what's up.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You will literally never know what's up. They will lie. You would never know. Because I just feel like I have learned how to play the game very well at a young age. And I can work very closely with people I don't like. Cause it don't gotta be all that. Get this motherfucking work done. You know what I'm saying?

[Drea Nicole]

You know? No shade, but, like, none of the bitches that I like, we don't be in the same rooms, no way. So I just kind of be feeling like. I just be feeling like that's fair, you know?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Well, I'm a hater, so I like.

[Drea Nicole]

I don't.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I. I dislike people I don't even know.

[Drea Nicole]

Well, no, what I'm saying is I get your perspective. I get your perspective. And that's a fair perspective to have. I'm just saying, like, to me, a lot of the people that I feel like, I've been like, oh, fuck you. We don't need to be cool no more. We ain't gonna. We not going to the same boat.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But what I'm saying, the people that.

[Drea Nicole]

You dislike, they haven't stopped nothing.

[Ryan Seacrest]

The people that you dislike, you actually know.

[Drea Nicole]

Oh, they did something.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's what I'm saying. I be disliking people just because I don't even know you and I don't like you. Cause I'm a hater. That's what I'm saying. So I'm coming from a point of view. I'm a hater. I seen you on a show. I really don't like you. I don't like the way you made that joke it didn't hit me like it was supposed to hit. I don't like you.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah, when I be honest, it be personal.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, it be personal. I just. I don't like people. Because you said something about beans. How dare you. So now I'm your opp because you said something about Bush's baked beans. It's up forever.

[Drea Nicole]

Okay.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But I can work with you in a close space.

[Drea Nicole]

Girl.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Girl the fuck up. No, it's a lot of people. I just don't. I don't.

[Drea Nicole]

No, you don't be liking people.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I mean, I just don't. I. I'm a hater.

[Drea Nicole]

It's in me though, if like me and Lex always say, just know if somebody somehow found a way to hack.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Our social media pages, it's going the fuck down, bitch.

[Drea Nicole]

Going the fuck down, bitch.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Oh, my God.

[Drea Nicole]

Cause we be talking about everybody.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Nobody is safe, I promise. We done talked about your grandma. We done talked about your son. We talked about you. You a pill popping animal, bitch. We a pill popping animal. Cause you said that.

[Drea Nicole]

You said that. Cause that lady we was talking about earlier today, you tried.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Look at that belly. I know. They been sipping syrup.

[Drea Nicole]

She be sitting up. She be high as a cake.

[Ryan Seacrest]

She high right now.

[Drea Nicole]

She is high right now.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I feel it. Ty, have you ever done something at your job that you felt like, this is a little grimy, but I'm gonna do it anyway. Cause that's. I gotta get to the bag.

[Lex P]

I don't really do a lot of grimy stuff. I can't say grimy, but I will do what I need to do for me.

[Drea Nicole]

But I agree.

[Lex P]

I don't. I don't necessarily try to step over people or like crabs in a barrel type thing. I'm not gonna be shiesty to you, but I'm gonna do what I need to do for me. But I've never like, harmed anyone or been malicious.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah. Like, I've never taken food out nobody mouth.

[Lex P]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

Taking that table is taking food out somebody mouth. If you stole somebody's table, that's absolutely taking food out of my mouth.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I had to feed my baby.

[Drea Nicole]

You don't have to.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I had a dog. I had a dog. I did. His name was Gizmo. Rip. See, See, Rip.

[Drea Nicole]

Gizmo.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's what I'm saying. So I took food.

[Drea Nicole]

And the rest of y' all falling.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Soldiers, I took food out they mouth. But they was taking food out that customer's mouth. Cause they was hungry.

[Lex P]

And that's like you said, that's friendly competition.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

[Lex P]

You don't know these people. Now, for the whites at work, y' all could get whatever I spew out.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You know what I'm saying?

[Drea Nicole]

I really don't care.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Hey, no, really don't. Reparations. Okay.

[Lex P]

Now, my sisters, my brothers, I try my best not to.

[Drea Nicole]

Like, yeah, I agree for sure.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But I feel like too, like if somebody came to me, like, oh, I found out about like this audition hosting for this like, game show or something like that, I'm gonna be like, oh, well, give me the info. Cause I wanna audition too. Like, I'm gonna tell you I'm finna but you gonna give me that information, bitch. Or I'm gonna. If you don't wanna tell me, I'm gonna find it.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. You don't even gotta tell me. I'm gonna just find it.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, but I like competition. Like, I like that shit. It makes me feel like if you can do this, I know I can. So I think competition is a good thing though. I think like friendly competition, like we can keep it cute. You know what I'm saying? But I don't know.

[Drea Nicole]

I don't.

[Ryan Seacrest]

What? Nothing.

[Drea Nicole]

Competition be cool. I guess.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Why you say it like that?

[Drea Nicole]

Cause I just don't really even be seeing none.

[Ryan Seacrest]

No, I mean, when I say competition, I mean more so like if we were up for something versus somebody else, like, okay, there's two podcasts that we want to host the BET Awards. Cause what if they do a theme one year that's like an influencer theme, you know, and they're like, everybody, you know, so they're like, okay, we have to have one podcast that presents this. And it's like, I'm up.

[Drea Nicole]

Oh, we gonna get it.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I'm up for a little friendly competition. Cause I'm like, okay, but will you.

[Lex P]

Support them if y' all don't get it? You know what I mean?

[Drea Nicole]

Like, for sure.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I'm be like this.

[Lex P]

Okay, but you go when the camera pans.

[Ryan Seacrest]

And then I'm gonna be like, girl.

[Drea Nicole]

I'm gonna be happy for them. Cause I'mma just feel like something bigger come in. That's. I always look at stuff like I feel like my mindset is always. If we up for something against other people. Real. To be honest, this is how I look at it. I always feel like me and Lex going to win.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Cuz you're.

[Drea Nicole]

But if we don't, I don't even really get mad because I just. God is so good.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yes.

[Drea Nicole]

Like, he has been so good to us. So even when we don't get stuff and we're against other people, I just be looking at it like, well, that mean God about to do his bitch big one.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

It's something bigger on the horizon. It's something bigger and better coming if we didn't get this opportunity. So I feel like because of that, I be happy for other people.

[Ryan Seacrest]

And I also.

[Drea Nicole]

But to be fair, nobody ever got nothing over this when we was. So I'm speaking from a place of, you know, maybe I will be like, le. Maybe y' all feel me?

[Ryan Seacrest]

No, but I will say I do know how to clap for other people. Cause I do agree with you on that. Yeah. I do not mind clapping for people. Cause I'm like, if you got this, imagine what I'm finna get. You know what I'm saying? And not being like, oh, if you got this, it's just like, okay. That means it's coming for me as well. Because I can do this. Like, honestly, like, watching Kevin Hart on stage is so inspirational. Cause I'm like, I can do this. Like, we can do this. Like, everybody that I'm seeing, I'm like, even with Jessie Wu, it was like a full circle moment. Like we was on TV getting interviewed on the red carpet with Jessie Woo. Like, my girl, I've watched her grind and come up and do this. So it's inspirational for me. I'd be like, we can all do this. This is very, very, very. When you be in the room with Jamie Foxx, you realize, like, this shit is possible.

[Drea Nicole]

And like I said, even with dc, it's like, that's our brother. We literally are all working together all the time. And just to even see him doing all of the things he was doing at the BET Awards, you definitely like that. And you like, it's possible. If they could do it, I could do it too. It don't be no reason to hate.

[Lex P]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

Cuz we can all work together. Together supporting each other.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Black brother, I love you.

[Drea Nicole]

I would never try to hurt you. I want you to know that I'm here for you. Not no matter what, though.

[Ryan Seacrest]

No.

[Drea Nicole]

Damn, I'm.

[Ryan Seacrest]

We was feeling it too. He said, oh, Bo.

[Drea Nicole]

Shout out to Angie. Shout out to Rip Angie song.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Angie Stone. Rip my girl. So, Ty, what are we drinking today? Cause this is good.

[Lex P]

Well, you know, congratulations to y'.

[Ryan Seacrest]

All.

[Lex P]

Thank you for everything that you've accomplished. Y' all are so inspiring to me and so Many others. So I'm so happy to work alongside y' all this journey.

[Ryan Seacrest]

We love you.

[Lex P]

This one is gonna be called the Red Carpet Rollout. Okay. And it's red in color, too, so you can have whatever spirit of choice you'd like. We have some. Some Monin watermelon. No, we have some Monin pineberry syrup, some watermelon lemonade inside of it. And then we topped it off with a watermelon sparkling water. So that's kind of given that, like, now and later flavor. And then we garnish it with some strawberry slices that I just kind of mix between the ice in there, just to kind of give it something different, something cute. Nice springy summer. We are in the summer. The girls are outside.

[Drea Nicole]

We are.

[Lex P]

All right, but this is to y'.

[Ryan Seacrest]

All.

[Lex P]

Red Carpet Rollout. Cheers.

[Drea Nicole]

And I said lemonade.

[Lex P]

You did say lemonade.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Let me get a lemonade.

[Drea Nicole]

Absolutely. I would like a shot.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Two things. First of all, let me give my girl her things. Cause honestly, I'm not lying. Best dressed at the awards. Who? You. You had that. Oh, me, top tier. Draya had that shit on. I said, yeah, my girl is stepping.

[Drea Nicole]

Thank you. First of all, bitch, you looked good as fuck, too, though.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I mean, we looked good as a unit.

[Drea Nicole]

We did. And we was kind of. It's so funny. Cause we was. She was kind of matching a little bit because you had all of the gold accents. And then my dress. And my dress was gold. And I feel like we just. We were coordinated perfectly.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Somebody asked us if we were like, who styled y'? All?

[Drea Nicole]

Us.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah. And one more thing before we move on. I wanna give a shout out to Keke Palmer, because there was a moment, and I really. When it happened, I was, like, focused on her. Cause I was like, let me see how she gets through this. She was about to do the thing. I'm watching her. They're getting ready. The teleprompter stopped working, and she just started vibing and started, like, improv ing. And when I tell you, y' all don't understand how hard it is to, like, get in front of a camera and just make it work. And then you got all eyes on you.

[Drea Nicole]

Yup.

[Ryan Seacrest]

And I was like, I know Keke Palmer is at a level of skill that is just, like. It's natural. You can't learn that. And I'm like, I don't care what y' all say about Keke Palmer. The talent is immaculate.

[Drea Nicole]

But what do they be saying?

[Ryan Seacrest]

I just, you know.

[Drea Nicole]

Cause I don't ever. I Told you.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I've been seeing a lot of TikToks lately. I be trying to plug in. And, you know, like I said, I'm learning times are changing right now, so I really be tuned in. Cause I'm like, what do the people want to see?

[Drea Nicole]

What do you mean changing in what way?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Like, the streaming and stuff, what people want to consume and how they're consuming content. I told you back in the day, remember when we first moved to Atlanta and I told the guy I was dating, this is not going to work because of this and xyz. And he didn't listen to me, and it didn't work because he didn't listen to me. And then he told us to be seen and not be heard. And then only for him to be behind the cameras begging for an interview.

[Drea Nicole]

At the BET Awards Weekend, 2025. Hey, boo.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Oh, yeah. But anyways, we saw you. But anyway, I've always studied what the consumers want to see and what they want to. So right now there's like, just a little thing of, like, it's not going to work because people gotta. No, I'm talking about against Keke Palmer.

[Drea Nicole]

No, I was just thinking about something. Go ahead. It was something else.

[Ryan Seacrest]

So a lot of people don't realize there is a huge, huge difference between online and in real life. So these people that y' all bully online in real life, they are loved. They're getting a lot of accolades. They're getting bombarded by paparazzi cameras. Popularity online is so different from in real life. And I learn that every single time, because a lot of times, it's like, for me, it's like, okay, all these people, I'm like, people gonna know Leck P. They're like, excuse me, ma'. Am. Back up, bitch. I'm like, God damn. You know what I'm saying? But I say all that to say because I like to be tuned in to what people are saying. So the reason I'm talking about Keke is because there's, like, thing right now where people are just online making fun of Keke Palmer for being so loud. I talked about this on the episode with Kids, and I'm like, y' all have to realize she's different. That's her niche. This is what got her to where she is. Y' all sit up here and complain about how, oh, everybody's aesthetic is the same, everybody looks the same, everybody acts the same. But as soon as somebody does something different, y' all wanna complain about it. But let me tell y', all, at the End of the day, you can say what you wanna say, but the skill is there and the skill cannot be touched. You can't teach that. What she sat up there and did. Y' all are looking like, oh, it was just a little fumble. You get in front of a camera and do that, right.

[Drea Nicole]

You can't.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Literally, you can't.

[Drea Nicole]

People can't really get in front of the camera.

[Ryan Seacrest]

If somebody told me to read something and they're like, oh, the teleprompter's gonna work, and it stopped working, I think I could do it, but I don't know. You just never know.

[Lex P]

See, I could.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You know, I'm good with that.

[Lex P]

I can, like, roll off a cuff.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, me too.

[Drea Nicole]

I feel like I could, too. I mean. Cause honestly, that's what Poor Minds is.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yes.

[Drea Nicole]

We don't be reading off no teleprompter.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I mean, I know, but if some.

[Drea Nicole]

Shit went down, we gonna still make it happen.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But what I'm saying is it's just a different. When you in bt, it's awards, it's live. People are literally. She's in the middle of the crowd. It's the audience, and everybody's like this. And the teleprompter not working.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

It's just a level of skill that is different. So I say there's a reason that Keke Palmer is there, and there's a reason that you just being on TikTok, being mean. Yeah, let's just stop being mean and give people their things, their flowers, where it's due. Because a lot of times y' all have all the critique for people, but you couldn't do it. You couldn't do it.

[Drea Nicole]

That be sounding good, but them people ain't about to stop being mean. They just mean.

[Lex P]

People are just mean.

[Drea Nicole]

People are mean.

[Ryan Seacrest]

We just talked about this.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah.

[Lex P]

About cocktails a couple weeks ago and this.

[Drea Nicole]

Oh, my God. Yes, we talk about that. That weird ass.

[Ryan Seacrest]

We never talked about it on the show.

[Drea Nicole]

That weird ass girl. And she really thought she ate that girl. Now you blocked from the Poor Minds page. Cause don't never come for my queen Ty.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Cause let me tell you something. First of all, everybody's like, ty's on the couch. Get Ty on the couch. Ty's on the couch every week. But let me say, I signed up for this. You know what I'm saying? Like, I signed up to be ridiculed, to be attacked. I don't got tough skin. I'mma cry through it, but I'mma get through it. But let me tell you Something people that we hire, we hire everybody for a reason.

[Drea Nicole]

Well, shut up, girl.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Shut up, girl. Shut up, girl. But let me tell y' all something. When y' all get y' alls crusty ashy ass hands to fix your fingers and talk about somebody who's literally helped us transform this fucking show, and you did it because you thought you was finna get hired and have a job tonight. Why would you make pink drinks? Because I wanted one. Bitch, you don't know what I asked for or what I requested. Shut the fuck up. And to say all of that and only to be like, y' all need to let me come on.

[Lex P]

Right?

[Drea Nicole]

And then she was talking about she was gonna make. She talking about, y' all should have had a blue motherfucker. First of all, girl, a blue motherfucker is used to be a bartender. A blue motherfucker ain't nothing but a blue Long Island. And who the hell want to sit on this hoe drinking a long island?

[Ryan Seacrest]

She thought she ate that.

[Lex P]

Yeah. A blue was so hysterical to me, I was just like, wow. People are. You have a lot of opinions.

[Drea Nicole]

She was expert and not even.

[Lex P]

And then talking about.

[Drea Nicole]

I think she.

[Lex P]

She called it a mascot mule. You talk a Moscow mule.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Oh, huh huh.

[Lex P]

Like, come on.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Ain't never even been out the country. You don't even know where Moscow at.

[Drea Nicole]

You ain't lying. What Nikki said you hoes can't even spell Prague.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But that's how I know Ty's doing an amazing job. Then they coming for Ty.

[Drea Nicole]

Now they be hating on Ty. Now I know when I seen the blue motherfucker thing, I said, okay, girl, be for real. Cause first of all, that shit nasty.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Like a nasty ass blue Long island is nasty.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah, all the is nasty, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

If you drink a Long island, that's because you got $5 left.

[Lex P]

Literally.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Trust me, that comes from a who had $5 left and used to order Long Islands. Because that's the only thing I could afford to get up.

[Drea Nicole]

And you just don't give a about nothing. Because why are you drinking all of the liquors in one drink? Hey, why are you drinking rum, vodka, gin and tequila all at one time?

[Ryan Seacrest]

And don't let it be a Texas tea.

[Drea Nicole]

Oh my God. And usually it's well too.

[Lex P]

Yeah.

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[Ryan Seacrest]

The bottom shelf.

[Drea Nicole]

I mean, we. I'm not gonna sit and act like I haven't had a long island before. When I was younger, I had my share. That's what I'm saying. I've had my share of long islands when I was younger, too. But I also used to be a bartender, so I know how you make that shit. And it was just like, girl, you did not. You ain't eating that the way you not.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You bragging.

[Drea Nicole]

Barbecue. My girl be curating finely crafted drinks every week, and we ain't had a repeat yet.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Ask Crown Royal about her.

[Lex P]

Come on now. Hey, step into the booth.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You know what I'm saying?

[Drea Nicole]

Don't play with my girl.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But, yeah, I had my days of drinking McCormick's.

[Drea Nicole]

I used to love McCormick.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I had McCormick's. Used to burn on my shelves.

[Drea Nicole]

Decor on the.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Grandma.

[Drea Nicole]

I love when a bottle. I love when a bottle double ends. The home decor.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Double ends. Cause it never doubled, bitch.

[Drea Nicole]

It did back then.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You put some flowers. Yeah, flowers in there. Or you would empty it out and take the label off, put some olives and peppers in there. The little oil. This me, I know them bottles.

[Drea Nicole]

In a McCormick bottle, you really wanna be a bottle.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But the glass bottle, I can't remember the name. But it was this cheap liquor back in the day that used to try to compete with Ciroc. So when Ciroc would come out with a flavor, they would too. But it was so thick. The drink. The drink, it was like vodka, but it was so thick because it had so much syrup in there to make it sweet. Oh, my God, it was so bad. Ty, let me ask you. This is good vodka made from potatoes or grapes?

[Lex P]

It actually varies very. Okay, so usually if it's made in France, that might be made of grapes or wheat from out there. But sometimes if it's made in America, it might be made with potatoes.

[Ryan Seacrest]

A potato.

[Lex P]

But either all three of those.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But you know what? I love potatoes. I like them fried tatered.

[Drea Nicole]

In your Tito's.

[Ryan Seacrest]

In my Titos.

[Lex P]

You like the Tito's?

[Ryan Seacrest]

I love Tito's.

[Lex P]

Yeah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You know what? Y' all gonna stop talking about me.

[Drea Nicole]

Let me see.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Vodka. Tito's. It tastes like water and it gets you there. Calories is low. How y' all think I got this thin physique? Do y' all wanna know where Naomi Campbell has been quiet since I stepped on the scene?

[Drea Nicole]

She has been quiet.

[Ryan Seacrest]

She disappeared. Cause she's like, look at. I stepped on the scene, she said.

[Drea Nicole]

Let me go raise these kids, you know?

[Ryan Seacrest]

She said, I have to get myself together. Cause look at her, you know, Vodka.

[Drea Nicole]

Just don't do it for me.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Come on.

[Drea Nicole]

In a martini, like, espresso martini, cool. In, like, a dirty martini, cool. That's really it.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I'm telling you.

[Drea Nicole]

I don't like shots, and I don't like super me mixed vodka drinks vodka.

[Ryan Seacrest]

When you get your taste buds up. That is sophistication.

[Drea Nicole]

Is it?

[Ryan Seacrest]

It is. Whiskey drinkers.

[Drea Nicole]

I feel like when you get your taste buds up, you like gin.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I feel like when you get. No, I feel like when you get your taste buds up, you into that, like, Japanese whiskey.

[Lex P]

Yes. And Scotch whiskey.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's when. A little elevated. But I feel like the new. Like when you watch Sex and the City and the girls, they're drinking those cosmos.

[Drea Nicole]

Cosmos, yeah. In a dirty martini. I love a little olive. That's why I do like a dirty martini.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I'm telling you. I went back home, I started with vodka, and I made a full circle. I took my rounds with the Hennessy, the Jack Daniels, the gin. I went to Amsterdam for a while. I was drinking the gin. We used to drink barefoot by the gallon.

[Drea Nicole]

You did.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Jesus Christ.

[Lex P]

Now Tito's is made from corn just to.

[Ryan Seacrest]

And I love corn.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah, it is.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I love corn. I like it.

[Drea Nicole]

Wow.

[Lex P]

I never knew that.

[Ryan Seacrest]

So when we talk about good vodkas, what are good, good vodkas?

[Drea Nicole]

Ooh.

[Lex P]

I would put Grey Goose. Kettle one.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Okay. I do like kettle.

[Lex P]

Definitely up there. There are some others that. That may not get as much notoriety. Like Chopin. C H O P I N. Like, those are some that are really good, but not everybody might know about those. But if you're just looking for, like, a nice premium spirit for vodka, Grey goose or kettle one?

[Drea Nicole]

For sure.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Kettle one, yeah. Holla @ me. Love legs P. Need a sponsor. All right, let's move on. You ready to move on?

[Drea Nicole]

I am ready to move on.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Okay.

[Drea Nicole]

All right, now it's time to get into topic number two. What is your why? Like, what was the moment in your life where you realized nobody was coming to save you? Like, you was really in this shit? One deep. You had to figure it out. Nobody was gonna come ride in on a horse and save you. When was your moment when did you realize that everything was in your hand? Your future, your happiness, everything.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Oh, my gosh. It's been so. It's been so many of the moments. To be honest, if I'm being real, I feel like one of my was when my nephew was born. Because I was like, I want him to have all the connections that he can do whatever he want to do. Cause this shit is hard. You know what I'm saying? Like, I don't have nobody being like, oh, Lex, you want to come on the carpet for the MTV VMAs or the Oscars and do this? Since you're my cousin, come over here and do this. I don't have that. So one of my wives is like, yeah, I want everybody around me. You finna be a Nepo, baby, A Nepo nephew, a Nepo cousin, a Nepo bartender, a Nepo, everything. Cause I'm plugging in everybody. I want to be the plug.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I want everybody around me to feel success. Another one was when I moved to Atlanta. Seeing black people ride around in G wagons. Seeing Black people buy $5 million home. I don't want nobody to buy that for me. I want to do that myself. Like, I get it. We all want a bdb, right? We all want a man that has money and has a. But to be doing it for yourself. I love the fact that I'm known for being myself. And it's not because I've attached myself to anybody. Like, I think that's always my why. Like, it's me. I can do this. And then, like, nobody's coming to save me. Because I always thought, like, okay, I look good. I'm fine. I got my bbl. My body got you so hypnotizing.

[Drea Nicole]

If I snuck up in your bedroom. Oh, my God, y', all.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Brother.

[Drea Nicole]

I' ma see if Dee can insert it in the video, but it's this page on Instagram. This girl, she be making these Roblox. It's called Roblox, right? Yeah, Roblox. She be making these Roblox parody videos of Trey Song singing all of his greatest hits. And I don't know why. I don't know if it's because the character is box shaped. I don't know if it's because his braids is stopping way up there.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Oh, my God.

[Drea Nicole]

I don't know what it is. Acapella. Because it be acapella, too. It'll be no music playing because he.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Was doing that for real.

[Drea Nicole]

But the little person is always working at you.

[Ryan Seacrest]

A little dusty one.

[Drea Nicole]

It's so funny. I'm gonna see if Dee can insert one of the videos. Let me know if it's just me. Am I corny or is it really funny? Let me know in the comments.

[Ryan Seacrest]

It's a mixture of both. It's funny, but I hate Trey songs.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah, they did one of your favorite part. I don't wanna leave it E. B, Leave it E.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I'm so glad I have never ran into Trey Songz.

[Drea Nicole]

Yes, you have.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Before I had the platform. I hate him.

[Drea Nicole]

I'm like, why would you lie like that? We definitely ran into.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But that was when I was like. We were working. We were bartending.

[Drea Nicole]

No, we was working.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, but it's like now I would love to have a sing off with him. Cause I'm gonna show you how bad you sound compared to the Queen. He's gonna.

[Drea Nicole]

What song would you sing?

[Ryan Seacrest]

We can sing his. I'll sing anything. I will do Lee be Dibbie Dee and eat him up. He can't do that. You heard that? I yodel a bit.

[Drea Nicole]

I actually think he can do that, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I would.

[Drea Nicole]

He's the original. He's the originator of the Lee Bibi.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I would eat Trey Songz up.

[Drea Nicole]

He's a OG Yodeling.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I would eat him up and I would have him crawling on his knees and begging for forgiveness. And I wish I was joking. I would eat him up in a single.

[Drea Nicole]

I don't know, though. Trey Songz, he be really feeling that shit. Them veins start popping out his neck, I don't care.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Mine can too.

[Lex P]

No.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Okay. All right.

[Drea Nicole]

Ty, you ain't got enough passion. I do have passion.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Are you kidding me?

[Drea Nicole]

The vein did not pop out. I can't tell.

[Ryan Seacrest]

This is crazy. I don't need y' all on my side, actually. Because when I come out on top, y' all are gonna realize Trey Songz cannot sing. And I would eat him up, period. And it's no questions asked. Okay? It's up. And it's stuck forever with that nigga, right? I got it out for him.

[Drea Nicole]

He sound like a real beef.

[Ryan Seacrest]

It is. It's one sided fact.

[Lex P]

Does he know about it?

[Drea Nicole]

I don't. I don't think he knows.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I don't give a fuck. Okay, let's get back to the goddamn topic before I get mad. What was I saying?

[Drea Nicole]

You say, oh, wow.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You know, a lot of times I thought, oh, I'm gonna look so good that it's gonna be easy for me. It's gonna be very easy. But it's like, it doesn't matter. You gotta get out. Nobody's coming to save you, ladies. Nobody is coming to save you. Y' all are thinking this like Prince charming that has $100 million. An athlete. Y' all be on TikTok too much, seeing these people doing this and doing that and thinking that y' all are. Can it happen? For some people, yes, Absolutely. But get it on your own. There is nothing better than making shit happen for yourself and following your own dreams. Cause imagine if you meet a man who's following his dreams, you following yourself. Imagine what y' all can do if y' all came together. Why don't you know what I'm saying? Why do you wanna be saved? I used to wanna be saved, but then I got saved.

[Drea Nicole]

She don't wanna be saved.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Hey, you know what I'm saying?

[Drea Nicole]

I did, though.

[Ryan Seacrest]

What? What?

[Drea Nicole]

When J. Cole said that on that song, don't save her. She don't wanna be. I said I did, though.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I mean, I get that. But guess what?

[Drea Nicole]

Back in the day.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Back in the day. But you saved yourself. You did. Oh, for sure. That's what I'm saying. It's so much my. Why is like, I gotta do this for me. I wanna be that person. I like. People are so fickle.

[Drea Nicole]

You better say that.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You can't depend on nobody. Do it for yourself. There's nothing better than laying my head down at night knowing can't nobody take.

[Drea Nicole]

Shit from me, knowing that them lights gonna be on when you wake up. Cause you paid to be.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Come on, now. You can't stop this. You cannot stop what the fuck I got going on.

[Drea Nicole]

I agree.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You know what's your why?

[Drea Nicole]

I feel like when my dad died.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

That's when I realized that it was like, a tough pill to swallow. Because I feel like me and my dad was always really, really close. I mean, and obviously, y' all know I still have my mom, and my mom and my dad were married my whole life. But my dad, my mom was always a little bit more of, like, a tough love type of person. My dad, he just would give me whatever I want.

[Ryan Seacrest]

People hate that about you, too. What they be like? I can tell this bitch ain't got no daddy. First of all, parents were married.

[Lex P]

What do you mean?

[Drea Nicole]

They hate what about me?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Like, when you say stuff and people be like, I can tell she ain't had no daddy. They hate that you had a supportive father.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

They be trying to eat you up with that.

[Drea Nicole]

Every time I see those comments, I be like, that's hilarious. Cause like, literally, my dad was there since birth, until I was 29.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Never.

[Drea Nicole]

He died.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yes.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But.

[Drea Nicole]

But yeah. So I feel like my dad, he was just never a tough love type of person. Like, no matter what I was going through, if I needed anything, I always knew I could call him and he would make sure that I got whatever I needed. Like, even if I would talk to my mom and she would kind of be like, I don't know. Like, this is a lesson I feel like you need to figure out on your own. I hit my daddy up, and he'll be like, I'm gonna send it to you. I'm gonna send it to you from another account.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

Like, you know what I mean? Like, my dad was just always that person for me who I know I could depend on. So I think when he passed away, I was like, wow. Like, life is really hard.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

And I don't have one of my biggest support systems here anymore. Like, I really gotta figure out how to get this out the mud. Plus, you. You almost 30. You really need to get it together and figure out what you want to do with your life. And, like, at the time, we were doing Poor minds already for what, like a year and a half, I think, before my dad passed away. So it's like we was already working on it, but I think that that really, like, put that battery in my back. Like, you need to really take this way more serious. You need to make happen.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

Because nobody is coming to save you. Like, it's about you. I think it's. It was between that and then going through, like, the kind of breakup situation that I was going through at the time where the person was, like, doing so much for me. And it just made me realize, like, no, you. Like you said, people be fickle as soon as somebody mad at you or they not with you or y' all not seeing eye to eye why I ain't gonna pay your rent this month. You know what I mean? Like, that. And luckily for me, I've always been, like, a heavy saver. I've always been big on saving my money. Y' all could. Could probably have had way more than I have now if I was, like, just going buy every time somebody gave me some money. But I used to always save my money because I knew that, like, men be fickle. You piss them off, you rub them the wrong way. All that that they doing for you going to go out the window, and then you going to be left to have to figure it out yourself. And if you ain't got your Own. You ain't got your own two legs to stand on. What the you going to do? But you also don't want the shit you have to be dependent on on men either. So for me, that was my. Why. Because I think naturally, I always kind of depended on men just cause I had my dad there my whole life. He was always somebody I could depend on. So when he passed away, it just really shifted my perspective, you know, it.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Was a nobody's coming to save you moment for me now that I'm glad that we woke the fuck up. No shade, y'. All. I don't wanna get ate up for this, but I know y' all probably gonna clip this and talk about me. So when I was, like, working at the clubs and the bars when I was younger, it was like the Instagram girl era. Instagram girls were winning, baby. They was on the trips, they was on the yachts, they was on the In Chanel. They was in. There is not one Ig girly I see right now, 10 years later, that's like, damn, she did her big one.

[Drea Nicole]

All they got is them Chanels.

[Ryan Seacrest]

And when I tell you it is like, no amex, no savings account. I mean, I be seeing, like. And this is no shade to none of the IG girlies. Like, to me, I always say this, and I want to give a shout out to her if I can say it. We might if we want to edit it out.

[Drea Nicole]

I love how you ask for my permission.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah. Cause I know. But I love, like, Miracle Watts, for me is, like, the only IG girly I see that. She made that crossover into, like, the beauty industry and creating content that's like, okay, girl, you made that crossover successfully, and you're doing a good job with it.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah, I like Miracle.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, I like Miracle. Like, but, like, I feel like a lot of girls from that era is just kind of like, it don't.

[Drea Nicole]

Why are you coughing?

[Ryan Seacrest]

I choked on my Tito's.

[Drea Nicole]

Is it cause I smiled?

[Ryan Seacrest]

I don't know what that was, but I. And this is. And like I said, it's no shade. But that comes from centering men and depending on men to give you a lifestyle. You know what I'm saying? It's like, you have to focus on yourself. The proof is in the pudding. Nobody came to save him. It was temporary. You really got to get it on your own. You know what I'm saying? So to me, that was like, the realization, like, nobody is coming to save nobody.

[Drea Nicole]

Cause it's like, I can't remember if we talked about this recently or not. But it was one point in time where if you was fine as hell. Like, if you was like pretty in the face, you had a nice body, you were an anomaly, if that makes sense. You didn't really have to have much going on because you were an anomaly. You had a nice body, you had a pretty face. Men obviously are naturally attracted to that now. Everybody look good.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

Everybody has the same aesthetic. Everybody has the same body type. Everybody has. When it has surgery or work, they ass off in the gym to get it. Like, everybody has a similar personality to a certain extent. I feel like with how they try to show they self online, not us, but I'm talking about, like, just in general. Like, I feel like a lot of people have a similar aesthetic and it's so easily accessible to hype yourself up and look better if that's what you want to do. All you got to go do is get surgery. All you got to go do is get some fillers and stuff like that. So it's easy. So I think a lot of the girls from back in the day who relied heavily on their looks, now you can't really rely on that no more because everybody look good. And that don't phase these men no more because they, like, it's a you every five blocks. Like, I don't gotta go far. It's another you everywhere I go, literally. And some of them are easier to get along with and they cheaper and they cheaper. They just gonna sit there and eat their food and just be happy to be in proximity.

[Ryan Seacrest]

All they want is to go a little steak 48 and a little hookah. Yeah, man.

[Drea Nicole]

That's what I'm saying. So even with that too, because back then I feel like the girls was really on there, like, gotta spend it type shit to. With them. And you could be absolutely, um. But now it's just not so much of a requirement anymore because there's so many girls who look the same way who is going for less.

[Ryan Seacrest]

And honestly, I thought you said going for legs. I was like, now why am I.

[Drea Nicole]

I said going for legs.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But I will say. And the niggas not green no more.

[Drea Nicole]

They not. They don't be spending like, they don't be wanting to spend it like that.

[Ryan Seacrest]

They not green no more.

[Drea Nicole]

That's what I be hearing. You know, I ain't been in the streets in a minute.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah. I mean. And honestly, I've been locked down and. But not only that, if you. It's just we're in a different. I've always been the type of girl like I can't be bought. Well back in the day, probably, yeah. But I'm talking about like now it's more so like I have my own. So the things that you have to do to impress me is beyond money. Cause I've learned that money comes and goes and I feel like, whew, being in this position, it feels good. Cause I get to walk away from situations that don't serve me emotionally and spiritually.

[Drea Nicole]

That's my favorite thing to do.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah. Yeah. Walk away, walk away. Cause finances. I got my own finances and that was like a real reason for me. That's like, that is my why I want to support myself.

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[Drea Nicole]

Whatever a man do and as, as somebody who I just feel like gifts and like romance is my love language.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

So I'm gonna naturally always want those things. Like I think I'm always gonna want to date a man who like buys stuff for me. I like pays for things. But it feel hella good to not need a need.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You're talking about wants.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah. Well now we still want. I feel like when I was younger it was more of a need.

[Ryan Seacrest]

No, well, gifts weren't a need.

[Drea Nicole]

No, I'm. I'm just saying like doing things.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Okay. Okay.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So like now it's a want. Like I want to be with somebody who's thoughtful. I want to be with somebody who's chivalrous. I want to be with somebody who's romantic and spontaneous that you just plan surprise dates and surprise trips or surprise me with a gift. Like I want that but it's, I don't have to depend or I want a man who's gonna pay bills. You know what I mean? But like at the end of the day, if that's not what you own, you can go. Cause bills still gonna get paid.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Still gone.

[Lex P]

Amen.

[Ryan Seacrest]

When I look at a lot of old situations I used to be in, I know that I was there just because like, he was held financially.

[Drea Nicole]

The money, your money was funny.

[Ryan Seacrest]

My money was laughing harder than a bitch sitting front row at an Eddie Murphy show. Bitch money was just funny as fuck, you know what I'm saying?

[Drea Nicole]

I know what you saying. My money used to be a little.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Funny too, but wasn't shit funny, you know? Ty, what's your. Why?

[Lex P]

Okay, so I will say when my mom died, but before she passed, my parents were going through a divorce and I was an adult. And I think that was probably surprisingly harder than you would think. Like comparing that to being a kid and your parents get divorced. Because I grew up with this Cosby family style lifestyle and the way that my father kind of just literally black and white switched up on our entire family was just heart wrenching. Like leaving my mom to take care of all these kids when she passed, he did not help take care of my siblings whatsoever. And I'm the oldest, everyone was younger than me, still in college, high school, elementary school. So for me it was just. That was my biggest wake up. Like, damn, people will really switch. Like you said, will really switch up on you after decades of being married or being your parent. And so from that moment it was like, okay, well, I'm literally on my own. I don't have. My mom is completely gone and then my dad is not being a father to anyone. So I gotta put on a cape and save everybody. So I gotta make sure everyone has anything that they need. They can get through school or they have a place to stay, all of those things. But that was just my biggest wake up call. And then a couple years after my mom died, I got fired from my corporate job. And then from there it was like, well, I know I don't wanna work for anybody without having my own as backup. Like, I would never just be left out in the cold like that. So those are the two biggest things.

[Ryan Seacrest]

And I think that's a good point that you made. Like you realize when somebody passes away, people don't really care. They feel like that's your trauma to deal with in the beginning. Everybody's like, oh my God, what can I do to be here?

[Drea Nicole]

Nobody check on you after the first few months.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, after that month it's kinda like. But you're still grieving and going through this, man, when I tell you, cause.

[Drea Nicole]

Bitch, this is my new reality.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, this is my reality. And that's what I'm saying. I'm glad that you brought that up because I usually be like, let me not put my personal business out there. But like, I really don't care. Just because it was just so crazy to me. Cause we're talking about your why and why you gotta keep going and when you realize nobody's coming to save you and how people will use you. Like, I watched my mom be there for like my first cousin. His entire. I mean, literally whenever him and his mom wasn't getting into it, you know, he moved in my house literally like two, three months before she passed. He was at her house facetiming me with his girlfriend. She was like, oh, I listen to the show. I love you. Like, just literally being a support system for him. Only for when my mom passed. Didn't text me, didn't show up to the memorial. Still to this day, my mom's been gone for almost what it's been three years now. Still hasn't said a word to me. And that really makes me realize even you can do everything for people and show up. It don't matter. You know, you have to change the pattern and be that solid thing. You know what I'm saying?

[Drea Nicole]

For sure.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Nobody coming to save you. I saw that happen. People gonna take everything from you.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah, I saw that happen with my dad, when my dad passed away too. Cause like, my dad, he was like kind of. He just used to be in his own little world, like kind of stayed offish and stuff. But my mom has always been very giving. She will give you the clothes off of her back. I kind of feel like that's where I get it from. Because I'm kind of like that too when it comes to people that I really care about. And so I've just my whole life seen my mom like, give, give, give to people in our family. It was so many people who just didn't even say nothing when my dad passed away. They didn't send a text, they didn't send a card, they didn't send no floral arrangement. They didn't show up to the funeral. And then at the time too. Cause you know, my dad passed away during like the height of COVID too. So it was already a lot of people that couldn't come to the funeral just. Cause it was a certain amount of people that we could have there and stuff. But even still, like no text, no nothing.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

And my mom, her feelings were so hurt by like. I remember two specific people in our family who just didn't even reach out.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's hurtful. Yeah, yeah, it's fucking hurtful, like. Cause that's why I said my mom is the same, was the same way. And like, I said I feel like out of everybody, like, he should have been there. Like, you really got some motherfucking nerve. I will never speak to that man for the rest of my life. Like, ever. You don't have nothing to say to me, like, ever.

[Drea Nicole]

That's how I be feeling ever, ever, ever. I feel you.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But we gonna move on and real. And just real quick, I wanna give a shout out to my Auntie Lane. Cause I will say, we love Honey Lane. We love us in Money Lane. Cause she always shows up for me. You know what I'm saying?

[Drea Nicole]

Two turn at the premiere party.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Two turn at the mall. My girl be having a ball.

[Drea Nicole]

Child laughing. Cause she know Elaine was turned at the party.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Be having a ball. That's my girl, period. And Uncle Freddie shows up. Baby, he has a ball.

[Drea Nicole]

He's showing up too.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yes. Okay, so now it's time to get into the bit bow the beat a bow the bit a bow. Bail.

[Drea Nicole]

Bail bell bail.

[Ryan Seacrest]

So today, this is a very controversial topic. Okay? Is sex better when guys are struggling financially? Now, let me tell you why.

[Drea Nicole]

Why this topic about to piss me off?

[Ryan Seacrest]

I know. But let me tell y' all something. Men who are homeless are a different breed.

[Lex P]

They are.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Are a different type of romantic. They are a different type of manipulative. They are a different type of gaslighters. And I'm not speaking from experience. I'm speaking from, like. I'm seeing. I see things that go on. I don't want to say too much, but when I tell you homeless men in 2025, the homeless, like, not homeless. The broke men I used to deal with back in the day when I was in college. Cause I was broke too. You know, we used to just be like, hey, you know what? I'll order the Pizza Hut today. Hey, I'll get the tacos from Taco Bell today. Now, the homeless men, they are demanding. They want your car when they drop. They want to drop you off at work and take your car. They wanna move in.

[Drea Nicole]

Jody was doing it in baby boy back in 2001.

[Ryan Seacrest]

They wanna move in.

[Drea Nicole]

N been doing it, but they wanna move in.

[Ryan Seacrest]

And they're gonna bring their kids with them.

[Lex P]

Hell no.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Their kids are hitting you up. Hey, can I have some onion? Oh, the. But they laying that dick down. They're dipmatizing on another level. They're giving the type of dick that I never want.

[Drea Nicole]

Mm, mm.

[Ryan Seacrest]

If a dick gets put inside of this vagina and makes me lose money. Oh, my bad facts. He got something going on. But if a dick can come Inside of me and make me not care that you don't have a home. I don't want it. These niggas are putting dick inside of women in 2025 that are making them forget that they're homeless. I'm telling you, it's an epidemic. And it's going on.

[Drea Nicole]

And you ain't gotta tell me. I see.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Oh, my gosh. So.

[Drea Nicole]

So I be skinny.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Sex is. I won't say it's better because I don't know. I don't have sex with homeless men or men who don't have things going on financially. But they got. I know. They got good dick. Homeless men have great dick. They do.

[Drea Nicole]

I've never had sex with a homeless man. Shay, please.

[Ryan Seacrest]

And when I say homeless, we not talking about, like, under the bridge homeless. We talking about niggas that be like, yeah, I'm in between. They staying with they homeboy on the couch.

[Drea Nicole]

Okay, but what if he in between blessings?

[Ryan Seacrest]

He. He. He got some good dicks in between blessings. You can be in between blessings, but you don't have a home. That's fine. But I'm saying, you laying down that pipe.

[Drea Nicole]

Look, I ain't. I feel like sex ain't never better. Like, sex, it's. No way sex could be good. When he broke.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Come on.

[Drea Nicole]

How do yo coochie get wet?

[Lex P]

What else does he have to do?

[Drea Nicole]

Like, what else do he have to bet?

[Lex P]

He giving you everything he gave got? He say, I'm doing what I. I'm.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Doing the best I can with what I got.

[Drea Nicole]

But what I'm saying is, like, how do you even get turned on by that nigga? Like, in hindsight, right? In hindsight, I get it, okay? You end up having sex with a dude, it's good. He doing all of the right things. Then you find out that he's homeless, he don't have a job, he's broke. He hates the feeling. He has a lot of stuff going on.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Right? Let me tell you, he out on bond. Ooh.

[Drea Nicole]

That's why I say. Cause me and the feeling don't really matter. Cause it's a whole bunch of rich feelings they got. They. No, it is.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I know you know you don't you. Babe, you don't have to convince me. I know you would know. It's a rich feeling.

[Drea Nicole]

That was like, me in the past.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I know, but I'm saying that was.

[Drea Nicole]

Me, and that was me a long time ago. Yes. I used to love me a reformed good that went legit. But now I just.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Shut up, girl.

[Drea Nicole]

But now I just date legitimate businessmen. Businessmen. Exactly. I have elevated. I have grown from that space. We is not gonna bring up the past, but the point that I was making is like, he in between blessings, whatever. He got a lot going on. How do you even get turned on to keep fucking him after you know about all of these things going on, like, the first time. Cool. You don't know. You might not know what he got going on. Once you find out what the tea is. How are you still fucking this man? How is your pussy still getting Wet?

[Ryan Seacrest]

And I 100, 1,000% agree with you. Especially at this age, early 20s, I'll give them girls a pass. I'm talking about this agent. But let me tell you how I agree. Let me tell you how. Cause like I said, this has been something I'm witnessing. They approach you, they act like they got they shit together. So they lying. Oh, yeah. Because let me tell you, my house, my hair, this. I always had this.

[Drea Nicole]

I had that.

[Ryan Seacrest]

So by the time the real truth comes out, you're already deep in. And what do they tap into? A woman being a nurturer, a woman being a fixer. Especially a black woman. We love to fix. We love to nurture. We love to. Oh, I can help him. I can help him. And even though we aren't like that, the average black woman is. Cause what do they do? They turn to black women to fix things. We're fixers. So these women are getting caught up and stuck in these situations. So by the time they find out, they're like, I can help. Yeah, I can get him back on his feet. But, baby, he was never on his feet. He tricked you. He was never on his feet. He was, like, trying to portray something so he could pull you. He pulled you in, dicked you down, love bombed you, romanced you. Let me tell you, everybody says romance doesn't cost, right? Romance is free. Being a romantic man is all about being thoughtful. Romance can be. Oh, I'm headed to her house. Let me go stop by and get some flowers and get some chocolates. That's $20. Romance is very cheap. Romance can be free. Romance can be. I wake up first thing in the morning, send her a paragraph text. That's romantic romance. So he's doing all these cheap things and free things so you're wrapped in. So by the time you realize he's homeless and he don't got no money, I can help him. Let me build him up. Because this six months, he's been. He's been there, he's Been. So let me support him. It's all a mind game. And they know that.

[Drea Nicole]

Sorry.

[Ryan Seacrest]

They tricking them.

[Drea Nicole]

I be over here just thinking about stuff in my head. I be so glad people can't see my thoughts.

[Ryan Seacrest]

They be tricking.

[Drea Nicole]

Why did LL Cool J say that on their song? It just made me think about that when you was just saying. They always come up with they had. Why did he say, pride is what you had, baby girl? I'm what you had.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Cause he was homeless, LL Cool, we just. LL Cool J used to be homeless.

[Drea Nicole]

He said, bitch, you had pride, but.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You got me now, bitch. Now you got me fucking up your life.

[Drea Nicole]

Dang.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Pride is what you had, baby girl, not what you have, bitch. Ass hoe. You ain't finna have bitch any. But that's what he meant. The producer said, we gonna take this part out.

[Drea Nicole]

Oh, God.

[Ryan Seacrest]

LL Cool J said, pride is what you had, baby girl, not what you. And they edited that part out.

[Drea Nicole]

They did not edit that part out. But I feel like, yeah, on the couch we do. This is hard to say. That's me and Lex favorite. Me and Lex love that song. I want to make sure I go about this in the right way, cuz.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Lately I've been busy a lot and.

[Drea Nicole]

Know you don't feel appreciated or what not and whatnot. His hair look fly. It's slow and still in your eyes Now I talk real fast every other sentence if you make me sick. He low key was not a good person on this song.

[Ryan Seacrest]

In the song, does he have ears now? He. Well, you know, every time I see interviews with LL Cool J, his they don't they be like, oh, Lo Cool J don't have ears. Ty Google it. Google LL Cool J ears. I want to see her facial.

[Drea Nicole]

See?

[Ryan Seacrest]

See, I told you.

[Drea Nicole]

I don't think she pulled it up yet.

[Lex P]

You really did say, no, LL Cool J no ears.

[Ryan Seacrest]

See, I told you. It's a thing.

[Lex P]

He has ears. Okay, so he does take photos of his ears.

[Drea Nicole]

So it's giving Arthur.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yes.

[Lex P]

In dwarf tucks them inside his hat. So like an ongoing thing is View viewers deserve to know why LL Cool J's ears are tucked inside his hat all the time.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Okay. Oh, so it's like that is a thing. They tucked inside his hat. Yeah, he tucks them.

[Lex P]

That's strange.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I be tucking my ears under my wig sometimes.

[Drea Nicole]

For real?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah. Cause it hurt. You see under the tuck.

[Drea Nicole]

It is under there.

[Ryan Seacrest]

See?

[Lex P]

You got a TikTok about this?

[Ryan Seacrest]

My wig. My ears are TikTok.

[Drea Nicole]

That's Crazy. That's crazy. But no. Yeah. I don't know. I just feel like the girls just need to stand up. Stand up. Stop dealing with them.

[Ryan Seacrest]

If y' all still keep dealing with them with these niggas, you gonna end up like Janiyah on straw.

[Lex P]

Oh, I haven't seen it yet.

[Drea Nicole]

I haven't seen it yet either. But maybe pre janaya just come out. Not free janaya, but I also feel.

[Lex P]

Like women just be desperate sometimes. Like, they don't want to see or read into the red flags. Like, they be living in Deluland too. Because I have friends that they will, like, get with a man within the first couple weeks. And you choose to have sex with people, when you choose to have sex with whatever, that's your choice. But like, to your point, once you know the story, they come with you at all these excuses.

[Drea Nicole]

Oh, I can't go home.

[Lex P]

I gotta.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Baby.

[Lex P]

That's too much drama that I don't even wanna deal with.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yes.

[Lex P]

Get on outta here, bucka.

[Drea Nicole]

Cause where is your scooter?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, you don't even have a scooter.

[Drea Nicole]

Where is your home?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Where is your home? I just feel like at a certain age, it's unacceptable. Yes, I do feel like black people, we tend to push ourselves out the home too soon. I feel like after graduation, if you still wanna live with your parents, that's okay. But we are in our mid-30s, late-30s now. So the young girls watching. I'm not talking to you. I'm talking to my ladies who are watching, who are in their mid-30s and older, even early-30s, too. If a man doesn't have things going for himself and he's depending on you, like, it's a difference between a man who has businesses and maybe he's in a rough season, that's different. But if somebody who has never had nothing, he's never has nothing, he's got. Let me tell y', all, a red flag. Multiple baby mamas, y' all have got to stop giving. If he has more than two, three baby mamas, y' all gotta be strict.

[Drea Nicole]

Three. That's what I was about to say.

[Lex P]

Zero for me.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Well, no, if a man has one baby mama, I'll date a man with one baby mama. Yeah, but I'm talking about two, three Questions need to be asked. Questions need to be asked.

[Drea Nicole]

Cause why you ain't like none of them enough to be a family, but.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You nutting in these women like that.

[Lex P]

And I wanna talk to them.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, like I wanna know.

[Drea Nicole]

I need they perspective.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You know what I'm saying you have. What makes you so different from these four, these two, three, four other women. You're not stop thinking, oh, I got my shit together. I'm fine. You are the perfect victim. You got money, you fine, and you a dummy. He can't wait to clean you out.

[Drea Nicole]

I seen it's so funny, cuz, going back to tie point, cuz I feel like that was a really good point. Women do be desperate. And it's like we talked about this on the show before, like desperation, especially when women get to their 30s. 30s. I had seen a clip earlier on Instagram today actually. And this lady was crying. Like she was sitting in her car and she was crying because I guess her husband that she was married to, he ended up leaving her. He wiped out her whole 401k. And then he used some of the money to like, pay his child support. So I'm assuming, like back child support and stuff that he had. So I'm assuming obviously not a child that they have have together.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Right.

[Drea Nicole]

With somebody else. And like she was just in the car crying and she was just like, I just can't believe you would do this to me. And I can't believe you would be this evil when I've never done anything to you. And sometimes I just feel like in situations like that, like on very rare occasions, people do switch up and you don't expect it, you don't see it coming. But a lot of the time them red flags be there and then y' all be ignoring them until something, something insane happens. And now you looking crazy with an egg on your face because you should have been walked away a long time ago.

[Ryan Seacrest]

If you watch a man be evil to another woman, wait your turn.

[Lex P]

Exactly.

[Ryan Seacrest]

It's coming. I'm talking about evil. If you see him do something evil to somebody, bitch. Okay, I don't care.

[Drea Nicole]

Like I said, I agree.

[Ryan Seacrest]

It's coming. That's why I always pay attention too, to how men treat the mother of their children. Even if you have. I pay attention to the women way men. I used to be like, oh, yeah, girl. He don't with her. He love me down. Oh, babe. My turn came. My turn came and it smacked the out of me.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You know what I'm saying? So you have to pay attention to that. You have to pay. A person's character is going to show every time.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I watch how, even with my girlfriends, I watch how they treat their other friends, how they treat their parents, how they treat everybody around. I see how people treat their friends. I'M like oh she is a great friend. I like that. Great daughter, a great daughter, a great everything. Like you see that a person's character is gonna speak every time. So if everybody got these horror stories about you.

[Tyler]

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[Ryan Seacrest]

Okay girl. All right. I'll give you one or two horror stories because sometimes you gonna be the villain in people's stories. But if it's a lot, it's too many. Nah, nah. Not trusting it.

[Lex P]

Have you lived with a man?

[Drea Nicole]

I have.

[Lex P]

Did you move into his place or did he move into your place?

[Ryan Seacrest]

He moved into mine. I was young though. This is college so we was like both, you know, broke and stuff, but I feel like I learned a lot. But like I said, that situation was different because we were so young. We used to work at TGI Fridays together. We was both in college. But as an adult doing what I do now, I would never let a man move in with me. Never.

[Lex P]

Yeah, agreed.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Never. Like like I said, it has to be a situation to where like if we've been together for a while and I know that you got and it's like temporary or something but I just don't.

[Drea Nicole]

Mm mm.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I don't know. Cause I would never move in with a man like that. Like we gotta get something together.

[Lex P]

That's what I say too.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You know what I'm saying? We both gotta have something to lose. You can't kick me out. I see a lot of women. He bought me a house. He kicked you out though your name not well first of all, if somebody.

[Drea Nicole]

Is buying you something, that's just always been a rule of thumb for me. You not buying me unless it's paid off and it's in my name. You didn't buy it for me because if it's not paid off, you gave me a new bill. Cuz if you decide that you going to stop paying the now it's my responsibility. That's not a gift. That's what I'M saying, you didn't give that to me. You gave me a new burden. Thanks.

[Ryan Seacrest]

He bought a house and he let you move in. That's very different. So, yeah, I just feel like.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah, I don't know when it comes to, like, living with me and I just be feeling like they just be wanting to be in your business. If you want to be married, if you want us to live together. Put a ring on my finger.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I agree.

[Drea Nicole]

Make me your wife. Make me your wife. Then you can know what I'm doing all the time.

[Ryan Seacrest]

And I'm not going cuz I don't really be.

[Drea Nicole]

I mean, I don't be doing. But to me, it's just. I have had a few people that I've dated like, want me to move in with them. And it's like, why? For what?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, I feel like in my younger years, I would have.

[Drea Nicole]

I don't really see a point. Like, we can still keep doing what we doing. That's why, you know, I always advocate for like, just, you know, let him pay your rent.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Well, I'll say this. In my younger days, I would have like, if a nigga asked me to move in, yeah, I'mma move in. Cause I can stack my bread and then I can move whenever I'm ready.

[Drea Nicole]

And see, I'm a stack mine. Cause you just gonna pay my rent, right?

[Ryan Seacrest]

But I will say for me, I think at this age, men that got a lot of stuff going on too, they want you to move in. Cause they like the benefits. Yeah, you cooking, you cleaning, you taking. You're curating this vibe in the house. And like I said, I don't mind doing that. Cause I do that anyway. But honestly, it's kind of like, okay, but what's next? Cause they will get comfortable. Oh, we already. Why do we need a paper? You know, they love to do that.

[Drea Nicole]

They get too comfortable.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You, this is the girlfriend package, bitch. Yeah, you not getting too much. I'm going home. I'm going home. I love when my man walk in my house. He like, you see how you got everything over here? Where can you do that? Over here?

[Drea Nicole]

Cause if you want me over there.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That'S the wife package. Exactly, that's the wife. You want this vibe over here.

[Drea Nicole]

You gotta get creative.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You gotta get the wife package. You know what I'm saying?

[Drea Nicole]

Yep.

[Lex P]

I agree.

[Ryan Seacrest]

And the wife package. Babies too.

[Drea Nicole]

I feel like you could do a lot. Like you could do a lot for a man before y' all get married or before y' all get engaged. But I mean, Just be mindful. You know, I think you should do certain things. Cuz I think. I think when we had Kaden and Devel on the show, they made a really good point. Like, either you're with somebody who wants to serve and be a partner, or you're not. So I feel like you should definitely be serving your partner before marriage. Thank you, T. I think you should definitely be serving your partner before marriage and stuff like that. But, like, when it comes to certain stuff, y' all just be giving too.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But I will say I don't think it's silly.

[Drea Nicole]

I'm not giving all that. If you want all that, put a ring on it.

[Lex P]

Yeah, I'm dead.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But I do think it's silly when people say, like, stuff like, oh, you be cooking for him, babe. An omelet is not gonna be the reason why he doesn't. Like, you can cook for your man. I think that's okay.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah, for sure.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I do think, like, we take it a little far and they be like, I'm not cooking unless I. Girl, that little salmon is not gonna determine if he marries you or not. Like, little stuff like that is, like, not that serious. But I'm talking about, like, once you talk about. About money, bank accounts, investments, businesses, doing that with a boyfriend is crazy.

[Drea Nicole]

I just think. I don't know, Like, I just be taking notes from, like, women that I look up to. Like, I remember Beyonce did an interview years ago, like, before her and Jay Z got married. And like, they were asking her, they was like, so you know, what's your relationship status? Or whatever. She was like, well, I'm. She was like, I'm single. She was like, well, I mean, I'm not married. She was like, so I'm single or whatever. She was like, but I'm having fun. I'm in a good space. And then literally, like, maybe six months later, Jay Z proposed to her.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Cause he was like, yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

Cause he was like, you on interviews saying you single. But she kind of was. And I love that. Cause I feel like, yes, until you're married, you're single.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But it was awful.

[Drea Nicole]

And if you want to change, I mean, yeah, it is Beyonce. But I also feel like, like, still hold yourself to a certain standard.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.

[Drea Nicole]

Everybody can't be Beyonce. But you should still hold yourself to a certain standard.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I agree. I agree, like, and I agree with you, like.

[Drea Nicole]

And just cause you not her, don't mean that you shouldn't have the same standard. You're worth you worthy of whatever. I am a firm believer you're worthy of whatever you think you worthy of. That's why I think sometimes when it comes to, like, if. When it comes to, like, factors that, like people's environments and how they grow up and stuff like that, I can more so understand, like, if somebody is struggling financially, but they never have been in a position to really thrive in life, that's more understandable. But sometimes when women be in up relationships and stuff, it just sometimes, depending on what's going on, be kind of hard for me to be like, okay, yeah, because you worthy of whatever you think you worthy of. So if you're still dealing with that, I guess that's what you worthy of, cuz you could be just not deal with that nigga no more.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Hindsight is 20 20, so I 100% agree with you. When I was in it, though, you can't see it when you're in it. You cannot see it when you're in it. So I get it from both points of views, because you have somebody who has manipulated you. That's why I say that manipulative things that these men do, it can literally change your chemical imbalance in your brain. You see people get into deep depressions over relationships. I have seen. I had a friend in high school who. Her mom committed suicide.

[Drea Nicole]

He was going through a divorce.

[Ryan Seacrest]

So it's like a lot of things that somebody can do to you can really get you in a dark, dark space. So I'm understanding at the same time, because thank God, I've never felt like I wanted to take myself out for that. But people can have that impact on you. So I will never go back to that place where men got me, like, feeling doubting myself. But I can understand how some women get there, you know what I'm saying? Cause I can only imagine, like, I love my friends way deeper than I love men.

[Lex P]

Me too.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I'm a lover, but I love my friends so much.

[Drea Nicole]

Me three.

[Ryan Seacrest]

So I imagine. Imagine if, like, I woke up one morning and Dre was like, hey, I don't wanna be your friend no more. I don't think I can do this, bro.

[Lex P]

That's heartbreak.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, I would literally probably go into a depression. So imagine if somebody feels like that about the man that's in their life, that is their best friend and their everything. So I do try to be understanding because it's easier said than done. I would never go down that path with a man again. But I've been there where a man threw me off course, you know what I'm saying? Where hindsight Is I got the last laugh.

[Drea Nicole]

For me, it just be a thought thing, though.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

I'll never say nothing. I just be thinking it.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

Cause I don't, like, like, I understand everybody is not very strong mentally, you know? Like, I think some people are just really, really, really strong mentally. And I think I'm like that.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

So I understand everybody isn't like that. So it's like, I would never say it, but sometimes when I be seeing. Seeing stuff online, I just be like, girl, leave. Leave that nigga alone. Stand up, please. He ain't even all that right.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But I just always.

[Drea Nicole]

You more raw than that nigga. Why the is you letting him make you feel that way? Look at you and look at him. Look at the things you have going on and look at what he got going on. He's blessed to have you in his life. Leave that nigga.

[Ryan Seacrest]

He's sorry he sucked, but in the same breath. That's why I said, but thank God that you have your mentality, and thank God that you don't have those struggles, you know what I'm saying, Of like, being mentally weak. But that's what they prey on, you know, Getting back to the topic of, like, the men who are financially struggling, struggling, they're not where they want to be in life. They pray they can't do that to a woman like you.

[Drea Nicole]

I just hate to see raw, like, girls who really, you could be that girl, but you just be letting a, like, bring down into the ground. Like, I hate to see that. I hate to see that women go through stuff like that.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

Because it's like, girl, you don't need that. And it's always better. It's always better. I get that. It's hard to see that, though.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah. Like I said, I see it from both sides because now I'm on the other side of it.

[Drea Nicole]

Well, that's why I just feel like even with you. I used to always tell you that, though. Like, I feel like I would listen, but I never used to just be like, oh, bitch, you stupid.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Because one thing, you got to keep going back till you really get fed up. Like, you going to wake up. And when you wake up, it's like such an awakening moment. Like when I tell you God saved me, and I thank God because I was praying. I was praying, I was praying. And when God y' all be praying to God, he'll show you. And you don't want to listen. That's your problem. I prayed to God and I listened, and I actually, I had to pick up And I was like, I gotta walk away. Cause I prayed to God. I said, God, if this is my person, please show me and let him do right by me. And literally the next day, he did the. It was like, oh, my God.

[Drea Nicole]

I was so proud of you too.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Oh, I went cold turkey.

[Drea Nicole]

I was like, that's my girl. I need it in you.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I went cold turkey. It wasn't no. Oh, let us still be. I blocked him on everything you did. And I vanished like that. He didn't know what to do.

[Lex P]

But that's a very strong prayer.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Oh, yeah.

[Lex P]

When you say that prayer, you gotta be ready. You gotta be ready for reveal. Because once you ask for that, he is gonna show you.

[Drea Nicole]

He gonna reveal it.

[Ryan Seacrest]

It's gonna punch you in the house. I said the prayer again. He got his shit together. The new one. I said, aw, shh.

[Drea Nicole]

All right. It be like that.

[Ryan Seacrest]

It be like that.

[Drea Nicole]

You definitely have to, like. You have to be ready for what you ask God for.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yes, yes. You really, really do. But I think, like I said, it goes with being mentally strong because I was doing the work on myself, though, outside of men. I had de centered men completely. And I still do. Cause I'm like, baby, I'm that girl. I'm that girl. Can't. No. Financially struggling man, mentally struggling man, spiritually struggling man. It's more than. Cause you be struggling financially. You know what? I can deal with a man struggling financially before I deal with a man who's struggling mentally or spiritually.

[Drea Nicole]

They worse.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Cause they're worse. Way motherfucking worse. You can.

[Drea Nicole]

And it make it easy. And it make it easier to stay when they got the money.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

That's why I think a lot of women stay in those type of situations.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Come on, now.

[Drea Nicole]

Cause they be like, well, I mean, he doing X, Y, and Z. I'm gonna just stay in the situation.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But mentally, I'm telling you.

[Drea Nicole]

And spiritually, he ain't right.

[Ryan Seacrest]

And like I said, no shade, no tea. That's where a lot of the IG girls are. They with men who are financially all right.

[Drea Nicole]

No, a lot of them are nowhere.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Ooh, now it's time to get into the bop.

[Drea Nicole]

Hey, the bop.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Bow.

[Drea Nicole]

The bop.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Bow, bow, bow, bow, bow. Okay, so my pop.

[Drea Nicole]

Why did you do that?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Cause that's what the girls be doing now.

[Drea Nicole]

I'm sorry, why did you. What girls? Okay. Ooh. But you. Why would you switch the topic like that when I said what I said then to say the girls be doing cold.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You brought me back.

[Drea Nicole]

Goodbye.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Okay, so My pop of the week.

[Drea Nicole]

Did you make Arya Shady a shady queen?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Did you make Arya Star your bop of the week the other week?

[Drea Nicole]

I did, but I can't remember what was it?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Aria and Wizkid.

[Drea Nicole]

I think it was.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, I think it was too. So that was one of my bops of the week. Arya Star and Wizkid. Gimme that. Arya star is a superstar. I always say that. Y', all, please go stream her music. She is absolutely amazing. That tone, the superstar. If her voice is so different. That voice is just so rich and unique. I love a unique singer. So. But staying on that track, Tyla has a song called Bliss. Tyla is a superstar.

[Drea Nicole]

She is.

[Ryan Seacrest]

She got it. That it factor. It's there. Hit after hit after hit after hit. The girls got it. And you know her song is going viral right now because in the video she's like crying and then the next scene, she's twerking. I love a multitasking queen. I done cried and twerked at the same time before too.

[Drea Nicole]

That's how I know, though, that something is wrong with me mentally. Because. Do you ever. Well, I know you do this because I don't been around you. I definitely am a person who. I will be crying in the mirror and then I'll be crying. Then I start looking at myself and be like. And I be like, oh, actually, can I tell you what am I crying for? I'll start twerking.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I was in seventh grade. Seventh grade, y'. All. I was crying over my boyfriend at the time. I was so sad. And this other boy came up to me. He was like, you so pretty when you cry. And I was like.

[Drea Nicole]

And I was like, me, that be me. I could never seriously cry, for real.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Oh, I can seriously cry. But it's when I look in the mirror and watch myself cry.

[Drea Nicole]

No, that's what I mean. Yeah. Like if I'm crying and I go look in the mirror, I be like, oh, bitch, what are you crying for?

[Ryan Seacrest]

So yeah, Tyla Bliss. I think she's a superstar. Aria star. Give me that. With Wizkid Love the girls down they got some bops for the summer Summertime is here and we're thriving.

[Drea Nicole]

That was a good song.

[Ryan Seacrest]

What song?

[Drea Nicole]

By Chris Brown. Oh, but that ain't my bop though.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Okay, what's about the week?

[Drea Nicole]

So shout out to Kiana La.

[Ryan Seacrest]

So sweet.

[Drea Nicole]

Cuz. We met her at the BET Awards and we interviewed her. She was really, really nice. Super beautiful.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Beautiful too.

[Drea Nicole]

I don't know if this have been A bop. I don't know if this is a new song. Old song. Kella La Day Natural.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Okay.

[Drea Nicole]

But she had posted it on her picture. You know how you can add the songs to your pictures? We love to do that.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, but yeah, so that's what I pattern. I had to put on that red. You did.

[Drea Nicole]

And I put black effect, cuz I'm good on any mlk. What?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Back to Kiana.

[Drea Nicole]

Oh, yeah. So she definitely posted herself in this beautiful dress from the BET Awards. And that was the song that she put on there. And I went and listen to the.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Song and I was like, oh, yeah, Keona, you gotta come sit on the couch.

[Drea Nicole]

I like that.

[Ryan Seacrest]

She is so cute, so sweet. She has her own aesthetic. I think that's what the thing the game is missing. Y' all always wanna talk about people who got the same aesthetic and be like, oh, all the girls look alike. But you know, pay attention to girls that's different. That got their own swag, they own style. She is so beautiful. Her spirit. I love her.

[Drea Nicole]

So it's actually an older song? Well, I mean, it's not that old. It came out October 1st of 2024.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's not old. That's. And that's the problem.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's not. It's not that.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But the kids gonna say that's old.

[Drea Nicole]

Right? But yeah, the song came out October 1, 2024. But I really like it. Like I said, she posted it on her page and then I was like, oh, let me go listen to these.

[Ryan Seacrest]

My song.

[Drea Nicole]

And I listen to it and I loved it.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That song she got. Yeah, that song she got with Ella May Jealous. That's my.

[Drea Nicole]

I like Jealous too. That's my song.

[Ryan Seacrest]

So shout out to her. Girl, we waiting for you to come on the cat.

[Drea Nicole]

So what was that man name that had that song?

[Ryan Seacrest]

What?

[Drea Nicole]

Man, I need to stop. I done took too many shots. Cause I said, I like that. Remember that song, that man that had that song. I like that. I like that.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I like that, girl, whoa, whoa, whoa. Turn around from the back. And I like that. That was Houston. He took his eye out.

[Drea Nicole]

I know. I was about to say that. Did he have. Was he able to put it?

[Ryan Seacrest]

No, girl, it's still gone. He giving Romeo from imx, so he just like took it out.

[Drea Nicole]

Like he pulled it from the knot. Cuz, you know your eye is attached to like.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

You sure he never put it back.

[Ryan Seacrest]

It ain't nothing to cut that off. He cut it out. He did but he was struggling mentally. And this mental. Men's mental health awareness. We joking.

[Drea Nicole]

You said Romeo. Who? Who?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Romeo. No. Imx. Brandi took his eye out. Allegedly from imx. Allegedly. She took his eye out.

[Drea Nicole]

She. Brandi be cutting up. Cause I ain't even gonna speak on this. She been on the. She was on the streak at one point. Jah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Why would you say that?

[Drea Nicole]

Cause why would she take that man out?

[Lex P]

She didn't mean to.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I think she, like, threw something at him. Obviously, she didn't know that was gonna happen.

[Drea Nicole]

Remember that song? It's like Romeo and Juliet.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Hot sex on the. Just to make you sweat. This is something that you fixed.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yup. Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

Who sing that?

[Ryan Seacrest]

It's like rope me, yo. When Juliet. Oh, my God. Ain't that sad.

[Drea Nicole]

When we be knowing a song word for word and then you don't know who sing the song?

[Ryan Seacrest]

I mean, I'm not trying to be funny, and this is no shade. But I think that that's why we gotta bring back, like, artist development and things like that. Because think about how big boots on the ground is. And a lot of people don't know his name. You know what I'm saying? But that's why Splakavelli. His name was Splacavelli. It was. I think. No, it wasn't.

[Drea Nicole]

What is words?

[Ryan Seacrest]

What was his name?

[Drea Nicole]

You just be lying with a straight face.

[Ryan Seacrest]

S, P, L, A C K A V E L L, I, E Splackavelly Baby, baby Trey Songz can't do that.

[Lex P]

His name is Pressure.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Oh, Pressure. He put that pressure on me.

[Drea Nicole]

His name was Pressure.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I thought his name was Splacav.

[Drea Nicole]

Did he have one song? Is that the. Or. He had a whole ep. Cause that's the only song we.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I mean. But everyone does need that one. Splacavelli. A brother you can call when your man ain't doing you wrong, right? I.

[Drea Nicole]

If my man ain't doing me right, I'm leaving it.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I know, but I'm not gonna lie. About four months ago, I needed a Splackavelli. I needed a. Ooh. I needed a Splakavelli so bad. We gotta bring that word back.

[Lex P]

I've never heard.

[Drea Nicole]

I feel like that was.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You never heard Splacavelli. This video is crazy so far.

[Drea Nicole]

I feel like that would be a good Halloween costume.

[Ryan Seacrest]

What? Splacavelly?

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah. You know how, like, people be showing up as Batman, Romeo, Superman. That's a superhero.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Splavelli.

[Drea Nicole]

Splackavelli outfit.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Splack a Valley. That's what happens when he lands splackavelly.

[Drea Nicole]

And then the cape just flowing in the wind?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Michael B. Jordan needs to be top Splackavelly.

[Drea Nicole]

Please. Come on.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I love Michael B. Jordan.

[Drea Nicole]

I like Michael B. Jordan too.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I'm weak.

[Drea Nicole]

Friendly competition this one. He really need that twin.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Tag team off the rope. I am weak. Okay, okay. Is this shamal? What were we talking about?

[Drea Nicole]

We was talking about our bops and then I. Oh. So real quick, Ty, one more thing. Can you look up who sing Romeo and Juliet?

[Ryan Seacrest]

It's like Romeo and Juliet.

[Drea Nicole]

I don't know. It's gonna drive me crazy to not know who sing that song.

[Ryan Seacrest]

What was the other song that we used to like? Sh. My way.

[Drea Nicole]

Look good to me now.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Would you please swing my way?

[Lex P]

Okay.

[Drea Nicole]

It's called Silk.

[Lex P]

S Y L K. S E. Fine. E period. Silky. Okay.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That sings Romeo and Juliet.

[Lex P]

It's like Romeo and Juliet.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Hot sex on a float that'll make you sweat.

[Lex P]

Yeah. And their album was called Raw Silk.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Raw Silk.

[Lex P]

S Y L K. I like that.

[Drea Nicole]

Fun fact. I used to think it was Tupac.

[Tyler]

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[Ryan Seacrest]

That sang that song.

[Drea Nicole]

Yes, he sound like him a little bit and this was like when he was still alive I think what year.

[Ryan Seacrest]

It came out or maybe it was Elsa. It don't say if it don't say.

[Lex P]

So okay 10 years ago is what the YouTube says.

[Drea Nicole]

But oh no, it's way older than that. That was a 90s song.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, that was definitely. I was I was a young Tim 1998. 1998 he was dead and gone dead. Y' all know that I was singing Justin Timberlake.

[Drea Nicole]

So as always item of the week. My item of the week is going to be Muse Beauty of course. Muse Beauty collection. Make sure you get your lip glosses, lip liners, matte liquid lipsticks, lip plumper jelly blushes. And now we also have eyeliner and mascara and I actually have the mascara on right now. Maybe I can get D to zoom in. But yeah it's giving it is real lashes don't play with it.

[Ryan Seacrest]

So I actually have a different.

[Drea Nicole]

All natural.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I actually have a different item of the week this week. This is not sponsored. So I actually, y' all know I'm a skincare girly. I love skincare, everything skincare. I actually ordered Khaleesa's skincare line. I got the bundle. So it's the black soap, the rosehip oil for the face and the skin food. The skin food is what everybody raves about and I used it. So this is my first initial review on it. So I'm gonna do 30 days and then come back. But my initial review is that I use a retinoid. I don't know why I can't think of the name of it all. Tretinoin. I use tretinoin. So using tretinoin, your skin is always peeling. It's very, very dry, especially in the corners of the nose. I've been peeling all weekend because I use tretinoin. I used that skin food last night, y', all and I woke up and my face was just not peeling. It was like little bitty, but not like it was like my skin was peeling so bad right here. And when I tell you it nourished my skin. And this is only one day after using it. So before you go run out and buy it, I'm gonna give y' all a 30 day review. But my initial review was like, okay, Kelis, you wasn't lying.

[Drea Nicole]

I'm about to go buy it.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

So it's my order.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, it's Bounty in full. Kelis's skincare line, it's all natural. Now, I will say the shipping was a little slow. So don't be like, this is not Amazon overnight. But I'm very patient when it comes to orders. So. Yeah, my initial review of the skin food, I really loved it. The black soap I used last night. Night, I don't know. I really, really like it. Okay, so far. So far. I used it last night, this morning. So yeah. So shout out to Kis, Bounty and fool. I really like her skin care.

[Drea Nicole]

So did you get the ultimate glow? That's the bundle, or did you get the new me with the skin and hair food bundle?

[Ryan Seacrest]

No, I don't. I don't wear my hair out.

[Drea Nicole]

Okay. I'm going to get both. I'm going to get the skin and the hair food.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, so I got the, the bundle with the, the skin food, the black soap and the oil. The face oil. That's the one. I got the bundle. Okay. Yeah. So. And Khalif has beautiful skin so she does. Okay, I need that. She has amazing, amazing skin. Beautiful skin. So I'm gonna give y' all a 30 day review after I use it. But my initial review is that she got something.

[Drea Nicole]

She got some.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I mean, my under eyes this morning, just. They were so plump. They were so plump.

[Drea Nicole]

So it's a black skin soap.

[Ryan Seacrest]

It's a black soap.

[Drea Nicole]

And is it like a oil, A.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Rose hip turmeric oil.

[Drea Nicole]

Okay.

[Ryan Seacrest]

And the skin food. That's the three ones I got. It's a bundle. Those three in it. Okay. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

Well, well, well.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I'm adding that to my skincare routine. Like I said, I do have an extensive skincare routine, but I use things in certain ways so I know what's working and what's not. So I'm gonna give y' all another review in 30 days to let y' all know how I like it. But, yeah, Kelis, my initial review is like, I woke up and I didn't have any peeling on my skin that I usually have when I wake up. And I was like, okay, you did something. Cause I use a lot of products, and when I wake up, my skin is always dry, and I woke up moisturized.

[Drea Nicole]

Well, I just placed my order.

[Lex P]

That quick.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That is not your name.

[Drea Nicole]

Why did you do that? The camera is not over here.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Okay. I was just making sure. And unplug that man name card on pause. Stupid ass. Okay, now it's time to do our favorite segment of the week. It's the pour your heart out segment. If you want your question answered on the show, make sure you email us@ask poormind. Oh, Lord, we done made this a two hour episode.

[Drea Nicole]

How long is it, Greg sitting over there like this.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Wrap this set up. Shut up, girl. You gotta say that now. You gotta let us know to wrap this up. Okay? So if you want your question answered on the show, make sure you email [e-mail] Patreon members. Make sure you put that in the headline. You get to skip the line. Rich, look. Hair on the hair. Per usual. Dre, go ahead.

[Drea Nicole]

Okay. Damn, this is so long. Okay, okay. I first emailed y' all in April, but I shortened it for y'. All. Whenever y' all be saying it, I be like, well, did you shorten it? Please keep me anonymous. Hey, lex. Andrea. I'm 23 and a newer listener. Love watching the pod while I cook and clean. I was eating dinner while watching the Sisters who kill episode when Lex mentioned murder in reference to Dre having an ex who Passed. Yes. I never heard the term before, but it hit me because I also have an ex who passed away. He was my first real boyfriend. We met when I was 18 and were together from 2020 to 2023. We went through a lot, but I can confidently say that I was the love of his life. I ended things due to the relationship becoming too toxic and exhausting. But we stayed in light contact. In early 2024 after I started casually seeing someone new and my ex came to visit me. Me. At some point, we were talking and I told him I had been with someone else. He was clearly hurt and left right after. About four weeks later, he passed away at 24 from an undiagnosed heart condition. It devastated me and I'm still healing. So now I'm wondering, am I overanalyzing his passing or do y' all think there's something deeper going on here? And also, can y' all explain more about what murder really mean? Thanks for reading and put it.

[Ryan Seacrest]

What are you laughing at?

[Drea Nicole]

Thanks for reading and put it on for black women. I love what y' all do.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Why would you. What are you laughing at? It's not funny.

[Drea Nicole]

I'm laughing because she said, can y' all explain more about what murder pussy really mean? Like, you didn't just make that shit up.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Who made it up?

[Drea Nicole]

You just made that up.

[Ryan Seacrest]

No, I didn't.

[Drea Nicole]

You did murder. You made that up. And then for me, personally speaking for myself, murder pussy. I had murdered. I had been broke up with my ex. Like, we weren't together for like five years. We. This was my high school boyfriend. This was my high school boyfriend. We broke up when I was in like, 10th grade. And then he died when I was like a junior, I think, in college. So we hadn't been together for years.

[Ryan Seacrest]

All right?

[Drea Nicole]

I had not had sex with that young man in a long time.

[Ryan Seacrest]

So this pussy I know he looking.

[Drea Nicole]

Up at y' all is not what took his life. This pussy is not what took his life. However, murder pussy is some shit Lex made up. So she can't even tell you nothing about it. Cause she don't know what it means.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Because I don't have murder pussy. The men who you do, the men who fuck this pussy go into live prosperous lives.

[Drea Nicole]

The men.

[Ryan Seacrest]

The men. I didn't say nothing about the children. You talking about a different type of murder pussy.

[Drea Nicole]

That's still murder pussy.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Mind your business.

[Drea Nicole]

I give and I know they looking down like this fucking bitch ain't even give me a chance.

[Ryan Seacrest]

So let me tell you What? Murder pussy is? Murder pussy is when you have multiple exes.

[Drea Nicole]

I only have one.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Do you?

[Drea Nicole]

Yes.

[Ryan Seacrest]

She had to think about it. I had to think about it to make sure you wasn't lying.

[Drea Nicole]

I only have one.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Okay, maybe you only got one. Maybe. I feel like you had somebody that had been shot before. They made it, but he made it. But anyway, so murder pussy is when you have a vagina that men tend to slide in and something happens to them. You know, they get out that puss, and they wet the block up. But they the ones who wet the block up. They on the floor. You all don't watch 1st 48 enough for me. So that's what murder pussy is, first of all. Second of all, it is a joke, but I will say I think you're overanalyzing it because he had a heart condition, babe. So I think what you're trying to ask me is, did he die of a broken heart? That nigga didn't go to the doctor. That's all it said.

[Drea Nicole]

Undiagnosed.

[Ryan Seacrest]

It was undiagnosed. So maybe he did go to the doctor. Don't blame yourself.

[Drea Nicole]

No, he didn't. It was undiagnosed.

[Ryan Seacrest]

So maybe he did go to the doctor and they didn't find it. Okay, sometimes people go to the doctor and they didn't find my fibroid. I had to go to Columbia, and they found it. Couldn't even get my booty done. I had to postpone my bbl, but you got it. But I went back, bitch. I took that motherfucker out and I went back.

[Drea Nicole]

I said, hey, how y' all doing? It's gone now.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Ooh, I ain't shit. But anyways, moving on. So do not blame yourself. And I know we making jokes, but you do need to heal. At the end of the day, there's one person who has the say so on how long we are on this earth, and it is God. So all jokes aside, please do not blame yourself for his death. I think you need to do some healing. Murder pussy is a joke, bitch. I said that to fuck with murder. Pussy is not real. Okay, women, it is not your fault. But now some of y' all do practice hoodoo and voodoo and all that stuff. I don't get into that. I don't know nothing about that.

[Drea Nicole]

They be cooking spaghetti.

[Ryan Seacrest]

They be doing. I don't know. And I don't. You know what I'm saying? But I will say just do the healing. I mean, it's hurtful because a lot of times death is so unexpected. So I think what you're dealing with is, like, you felt like you hurt his feelings and you didn't get your last word or your last thing to say. And this and xyz. And I think if you do believe in God and when people cross over, they have to go through a moment of forgiveness and healing in their own spiritual self. So I think that the same healing and process things that he probably went through when he crossed over is what we have to deal with on this earth. So if there are things left unsaid with somebody that you lost, the same feelings that you feel they have to go through as well, but you just have to heal and process it. You know what I'm saying? So the best advice I can give you is not to blame yourself and just move on, Chell. Just move on.

[Drea Nicole]

I always feel like people shouldn't blame theyself when somebody dies.

[Ryan Seacrest]

This heart is survival.

[Drea Nicole]

Unless you killed him.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Carole Baskin.

[Drea Nicole]

Girl.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Girl, what the fuck? Oh, my God. Shut up, girl.

[Drea Nicole]

Anyways, for real, though, I feel like, unfortunately, death is a natural part of life. Like, and at some point we're all going to, you know, get to that crossroads. I don't feel like you should blame yourself for somebody else's death, you know, unless you directly had a hint hand in it. And it doesn't seem from what you have wrote that you had a hand in his death. Like, I would not put that burden on myself. I would not put that hurt on myself, that responsibility. You still got hella life to live. Just, you know, I like to people that I care about who passed away, I like to feel like I'm living my life for them and that they're living through me. So, like, you know, just live your life, be happy, do things that will make him proud, and just live your life.

[Ryan Seacrest]

All right, last one. Hey, big mama and little Draya. First off, love y' all been rocking with poor mine since the red and black background days and I'm so proud of y'.

[Drea Nicole]

All.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Here's my situation. I'm 35. My man is 37. We've known each other since high school and reconnected last year after years of missed timing. We are super in love and even talking marriage. But lately I'm seeing some red flags. He's self. I don't ask for much, but when I do, it's met with an attitude. Meanwhile, I show up for him every time, no hesitation. The last straw, my car was down and I had an important errand. Instead of offering to help, he asked Questions. Then hopped on the PlayStation. I had to Uber. And honestly, when that car door shut, I felt like I was done. Am I wrong for expecting the same love and care I give, or should I just take this as a sign and move the food on poor crew forever?

[Drea Nicole]

I just feel like his money probably funny be mean when they money funny. We was talking about broke earlier. I just think men be, like, really mean when they don't have no money. And then men naturally don't want to let you know when they're going through things financially. So he's not going to just straight out tell you. I feel like maybe he going through a rough patch, especially since because y' all aren't married yet. So I'm sure y' all bank accounts and all of that stuff is not intertwined. Girl, you don't know. I don't know what he got going on for real financially. And I feel like he just taking it out on you a little bit.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But I also think this is why you ask questions. I think we need to express ourselves as women. So I get where you're coming from of being fed up and being aggravated. But instead of slamming that door and being done, why don't you talk to him like, hey, I had this going on, and I felt like you didn't show up for me. What's going on or why? And I think his explanation and him communicating and telling you why is gonna give you all. I can't give you an answer. Cause I don't know what he's going through. I don't know what the dynamic is. So we need to communicate. Tell him how you feel, and his reaction to how you feel is gonna say everything. If he hears you and he's like, you know what, babe, I'm really sorry. I didn't realize you didn't feel like I was showing up for you. I'm gonna do better, and I'm gonna show you better versus being. Ugh. Well, what you want me to do that's gonna give you the answer you need of you expressing yourself and actually telling him in his reaction or just.

[Drea Nicole]

Straight up ask him, are you broke right now?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Do you need some money?

[Drea Nicole]

Do you need some money?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Who said that? Said that to. On that reunion?

[Drea Nicole]

What.

[Ryan Seacrest]

What was that show? The. With toddler, Terrence Howard.

[Lex P]

Oh, my.

[Ryan Seacrest]

The best man. Remember they did the reunion, the show, and they had. He said, do you need some money?

[Drea Nicole]

Oh, yeah. And he indeed needed that money.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's what I'm saying.

[Drea Nicole]

So sometimes he did so sometimes just straight up.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Cause he Did.

[Drea Nicole]

Harper was broke. He needed that money. That book deal was not coming through yet.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Do you need some money? Ask him.

[Drea Nicole]

Ask him.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Do communication is key.

[Drea Nicole]

Yes. But don't ask if you ain't.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Damn. We got real chatty today. I hope y' all enjoyed this episode. Ooh, I tried. Make sure y' all watch Dre Nicole with three E's Vlogs weekly draw. What was that?

[Lex P]

Her popping her collar.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Okay. Now ever since I can't remember I've been up in my. We finna close it up, Ty. What you got going on where the people can find you?

[Lex P]

Ty nicoletucker on IG so mixy. 2xs on IG and crown royalty atl on IG. We crowing and glowing, baby.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah. I be seeing your events. They always on my for your page.

[Drea Nicole]

Me too.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Go, girl.

[Lex P]

I have a whole team now, y'.

[Ryan Seacrest]

All. I am proud of you. We are doing it big.

[Lex P]

The elevation.

[Ryan Seacrest]

We proud of our girl. Yes. And y' all make sure y' all tune in to Love LEXP every Monday. Now available on all audio platforms. And we'll see y' all next week. Week.

[Drea Nicole]

Ever since I can't remember I've been popping my color.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Give it to him, Drea.

[Drea Nicole]

I want to be good to you, baby oh, call me crazy But I think I found a love of my life Life, that's right have you ever felt warm on a cold, cold night.

[Ryan Seacrest]

When you least expect it and you.

[Drea Nicole]

Can'T re it that crazy little tingling.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Feeling Pain in your chest? You feel that fire? Just let it burn Cuz there's no running when it's your turn But I think I found a. Let it burn Let it, let it burn Just let it burn Let it, let it burn Call me crazy but.

[Drea Nicole]

I think I found a love of.

[Ryan Seacrest]

My life Feel it creeping in your heart oh, baby when you can feel it in your heart that's right yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

Why you sending me?

[Ryan Seacrest]

There's no use in trying I won't and I won't make the way oh, just see that fire Just let it burn there's no running oh, it is your turn. Let it burn and then we go like this. It was the harmony. Come on, let it burn Twerk when you can't get it Sorry, Jasmine. Come on the show and show us how to do it right show us how to do it right and did.

[Drea Nicole]

Not do that up.

[Ryan Seacrest]

We did.

[Drea Nicole]

It was cute, though.

[Ryan Seacrest]

We got hit hits and we got misses. I still think it was a hit.

[Drea Nicole]

You wanted to do these songs.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You it was your idea.

[Drea Nicole]

I played it and you said, yeah, let's play, let's do it.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Cuz I thought you knew it. Y' all know I don't never know the words. But guess what? Just feel I was done. I just had to get her ass off the stage. There's no running when it's your turn Just let it burn, let it burn and it's no running when it's your turn. I'm not scared of lions and tigers.

[Drea Nicole]

And bears so you didn't know the words.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I'm not scared of lions and tigers and bears. First I ate that. Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

If you ever see me if you ever see me running in the jungle Help the bell.

[Ryan Seacrest]

And one more thing. Help the bell.

[Kelis]

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[Lex P]

This is an iHeart podcast.