Society vs. Nomadic Lifestyles

Hey, everybody. It's Ashly Valenzuela or legal queen La. And we're back with another episode of the Royalty Room podcast. And today we're talking about some things that you may or may not really even know what it's about. Today we have a special guest named Lee Adrian. Hey, what's happening? What's up? How you feeling today? Right. I'm living. Good. I'm super glad to hear that. What exactly are we here to talk about today? Hopefully everything. Mental health. Yes, for sure. My lifestyle, the nomadic lifestyle, music, entertainment, and everything in between. I love that. It sounds like, honestly, the perfect guest for this show. When I started, I didn't really know that there was going to be a mental health focus at all. And with the guests that I've had and the reaction or responses that I've had, it kind of just took its own course and led me to the next guest who wants to talk about this specific area of mental health or a person with these type of life skills that can help us on our mental health journey. So I'm really happy for you to be here. Appreciate you. Thanks for actually, I met Lee Adrian at his own festival, the nomadics mini fest here in Los Angeles. It was in North Hollywood. Right? And I actually made a little recap clip of my own because we had such an amazing time. Royalty Room was there, and at the next nomadics mini fest, we'll be there again, interviewing the amazing artist and the creator himself, Sol. Can we see that? So that is a very brief snippet of the day. What made you want to create this nomadics mini fest? Are we diving right in? Yeah. All right, so it's two reasons. First, I wanted something as an artist, we always do these open mics, or we're on other people platforms, and granted, I do have other people on this platform, but I hopefully am teaching people to create their own situations. You know what I mean? I've been performing for years, almost ten years now. I'm probably on my th year. I think March of next year will be my th year. Wow. Congratulations. Thank you. I appreciate it. That's big. I professionally yeah. Wait, I do recall you opened up for someone pretty important to me. Yeah, go ahead, talk. Yeah, so I have opened up for a couple of artists. Lil baby. Gunna is one of them. Savage is another. Wow. So shout out to my alma mater, Clark, Atlanta, for kind of, like, helping with those situations, which is pretty dope. But when I moved to La about a year ago, I started doing open mics around the city, and I just got tired. I'm like, man, bro, you've been doing these open mics for forever. You've been going on other people's platforms. What can you do that is outside of a normal open mic? And then the idea of a festival popped in my head, which goes into my second point. It's a guy that I know. We're about to get real deep. His name is Gavin. Well, his name was Gavin. Rest in peace, Gavin Peretti. He was a friend of mine, actually, my roommate, and we talked about this, putting this festival together. Wow. Just because it wasn't no idea. Mental health wasn't even a factor. But me being a part of his life, I saw the mental issues that he was going through, and it really affected him to the point where he battled with alcoholism. He was going back and forth to jail, just randomly. And he was a great singer, too. He had a whole community behind him. But unfortunately, all the things that he was battling with took a toll on him, and so he chose to take his own life. Wow. So sorry. That's all good. In April of this year. This year. Oh, my gosh. I'm so sorry. Good. He was my roommate, too, so it put me in a perspective, and to find someone in that particular setting and having to see him and hear his last breath was deep. So it took a toll on me for about a month and a half, two months. And this is in order for me to get myself back. Right. I started researching mental health. It was something I've always thought about, something I've always heard and researched and seen people talk about, but never really took it as serious until it happened to me, you know what I'm saying? And depression is real. So, long story short, I said, if I do this festival, I'm going to do it in his name, and I'm going to continue to do it. And we're going to continue to talk about mental health, and we're going to continue to bring awareness to it more and more and more, because that's what a lot of people, % of people, especially men, and especially black men, are battling with that. So that's why I put on festival. I just got chills. I had no idea there was such a powerful story behind the festival. I just knew you're a great artist. Thank you. And you wanted to do something. It was in exchange. Not in exchange, in conjunction with the vegan exchange. And everything that we heard from all of the artists was about positivity know, being yourself and having fun. And Big Mike, the virgo, I remember one of his songs. It just got everybody up. What did it say? I just want to live my life. It was a really feel good day. I got there and I felt good. I stayed there and I felt good. I left feeling good. So thank you for that. And to know that it comes from such a place deep within your heart and your friend's battle with mental health, that makes it even more special. Thank you. I'm proud of you. Thank you. Appreciate you. I can't wait for the next one. Yeah, it's going to be a banger. It's going to be bigger and better. I'm surprised, to be honest with you, that shout out to Jessica and shout out to Vegan Exchange La. Because they're a very big part of what we're doing. And so they bring in people that I haven't even touched, you know what I mean? And she allowed me to be in control of the music production part, you know what I'm saying? And it's like, now, I could put that on my resumes. Like, I've always knew how to do it, but now I'm able to do it to an extent that nobody's doing it the way I'm doing it. So this next one, don't go crazy. I love it. Well, Royalty Room will be there. We will be there live, enjoying the show. Also behind the scenes, talking, interviewing the artists. We'll definitely be there. Whatever you need me or us for, I'm happy to help. Thank you. What about the other piece of the festival, this nomadic lifestyle that we're here talking about? What is that about? Shout out to my boy Press Play and Terzelle, by the way, but they are my partners in this. Yeah. My So in Atlanta. So a lot of people don't know. Before I came to La. Before I moved to La. I was in Atlanta for about shot of Clark Atlanta for nine years. Wow. Yeah. So I kept my second year in college. I couldn't afford room and board, so they literally kind of evicted me from that situation. And so from that moment on, I moved in with my ex girlfriend at the time, and from to , I was couch to couch. I had my own place, which is. Something that HBCUs really need to do better with. Why are we evicting kids trying to get a college education? Right? They didn't care at all. No, they kicked me out, made room for somebody else who had the money, whatever. You know what I mean? So I did on campus housing for, like, two months. And at that time, this brings in the whole mental health aspect. I was depressed, you know what I mean? But I never showed it. You catch me on campus, I was, hey, what's up, man? What's happening? I'm dancing. I was the dancer on campus. I was the entertainer, along with my other friends. But I was moving for the very last time, moving into my own apartment, my own situation. And a friend of mine beat up Beats. He was like, Bro, you like a nomad. And I was just moving my stuff, and I was just like and then it just clicked. I'm a big fan of DJ Drama. When Drama dropped the tapes with Wayne, he was like, dramatics, dramatics, dramatics. And I was just, like, nomadic. That's what I want to do. Nomadic. And just the term of being a nomad is a person that moves from place to place and never really settle. And I feel like that's everyone in. The world, especially in La. And I'm not even talking about your physical being in a home. I'm talking about your career, anything in life aspect. Like, we all don't want to settle for just this. We want more and more, you know what I mean? Like, every day we wake up wanting more. That's just life in general. We want more. We don't want to settle, you know what I'm saying? At all. When you get a husband, you want kids, and then you may want more, you know what I'm saying? Then you get older, then, okay, now I want grandchildren, you know what I'm saying? So it's like, every chance you get, you want more. So I feel like being a nomad is literally just a lifestyle. Everyone lives it, period. That's it. Nobody wants to settle. You don't want to settle for anything if you do. I don't think that's possible, in my opinion. Yeah, I've never thought about it like that, but you're % correct. My dad, he's a very much one set version of success, one set version of stability. You have to do this or else you're not doing life right, you're not successful, et cetera. So it's always been, when can we buy a house? You need to buy a house. Are you going to stay in La? Are you going to come back? Because if you come back home, we can buy a house. And I'm just like, the idea of buying a house somewhere that I'm going to be stuck with forever is so overwhelming. I don't know. I said a year ago, I'm like, I got to go. La. Is too much. I want to go back home, or I want to go to a new I just I possibly cannot imagine staying in one place forever. I guess I am nomadic. I didn't even know. You're already a part of the lifestyle. You don't know it, you know what I'm saying? My cousins back at the crib, some of them never left Houston at all. Hometown? Yeah, I went back and I was like, Bro, have y'all ever like, it's a world out there. It's a world out so I have these two incredible shorties in Houston. They're like, our cousins from our hometown, and we're from two towns that are right next to each other that are almost exactly the same, but they're like the Houston version of me and my sister out here in La. Like, changing things for our family and doing all these fun things and their mama and their grandma came to visit them. And I don't know if it's the first time that mom had gone, but it was the first time their grandmother had ever been on a plane to leave the state of Pennsylvania. And I was just like, that right there is beautiful. Like, you're changing not only the future generations, but you're changing the older generations who haven't got to experience anything that we're experiencing because we're able to just get up and go. We got a lot more access to a lot of things, too. Right? You know what I mean? So it's a different world to yeah. We're going to have to go to Houston. But we already knew that. I've never been. I've never been. Listen, y'all go to Houston with a camera. Which camera? Go to Houston. Turkey leg. Hut. I don't get paid to tell y'all this at all. Trust me. Believe me when I say it with Turkey Leg Hut. I just know. I'm telling you, make sure you get everything. I'm not even going to hold you. I've heard about this. Turkey leg. Hut. Listen, I'm not going to play that. And all of the super cheap, gigantic, mini mansions. Oh, yeah, those are like the top two things. I hear. You get a full bedroom for like , ,. It's different from living in La. It just all depends on what you want to do. You know what? You know, I definitely will have a house in Houston. Yeah. Always going to have something to come back to. I love my stumping grounds. So in this nomadic lifestyle, I'm sure you have a lot going on. Being just an artist in general, you have a lot going on. But how does this lifestyle contribute to your creative process or your artistry experience? Yeah, without experience, I have nothing to write about. If I don't experience, I have nothing. Even the situation with my friend Gavin, I would have never thought that, like, for instance, what was his name? Eric Bellinger. Shout to Eric Bellinger. For sure. He had this competition on Instagram where you write bars or whatever. And if the situation didn't happen with Gavin, I wouldn't have wrote the bars that I wrote, the verse that I wrote that matches the song that nobody would have ever thought about writing. When I looked at other people and he reposted it, he posted me on his page and reposted, and everybody's like, Yo, that's crazy. Whatever. It's experience. You have to write something. I feel like music is the cornerstone of everything. You cannot movies have music. When you're walking in the store, there's music playing, you know what I'm saying? When you're in your car, music runs the world, and it does influence a lot. You know what I mean? I definitely agree. I saw this post and nothing ever made more sense. It said, if art takes up space, you decorate with art to take up space. Music takes up. Music is there to take up time or decorate time. That's dope. That's dope. And I was just like, music is there to decorate time. Music been here since the beginning of time. It is. And I said the other day, I said, I think music is the oldest, most powerful tool that there is. Timeless. That's why I love timeless music, you know what I mean? It just goes back to the time of me just talking about experience. I have to write about things that I've experienced, you know what I mean? Some people write about things they haven't experienced, but they capping the rap, you know what I'm saying? But it is what it is, you know what I mean? But that's how I move in general. I don't know, it's a magical experience because a lot of people ask me about how your process, what your process is. I say, Bro, sometimes I'm in the studio and I'll play a beat and I will literally just fall asleep. I will play a beat and I will fall asleep. And the whole time, though, as I'm sleeping and the music is playing, I'm writing a song in my head. I don't have to be up and conscious to do that. That's really good. Yeah, that's part of pressure. Do you think that pain makes the best art? Yes, I feel like it does. Depending on yeah, it does. Because you listen to songs like Michael Jackson, you're Not Alone. Point period, mic drop. We were just talking about this Beyonce Irreplaceable. It's a powerful song, you know what I mean? Like Whitney Houston, I will always love you. You know what I mean? And I'm mentioning these people because this is timeless music that I'm talking about. And it's all fueled by pain and. All fueled by pain, you know what I mean? So whoever wrote it, and I'm saying that they ones who wrote this song, but they gave it to us with their voice. So they're part of history. Just like the person who actually wrote the song and wherever place that person was coming from, they wanted people to feel exactly what they felt. That's what I feel like music is. If you don't feel it, it's not good. It kind of brought me back kind of full circle to one of my earliest episodes, talking about Mishell A okay. And how she was one of the first and biggest voices for females and it was all out of her. Oh, come on now, this is deep. Come on. That's what we were talking about earlier. I'm tired of mentioning all these artists, but this is real. Drake you know how I used to say, used to be draking, you know what I'm saying? You're riding. No more draking and driving. No more draking and driving. You can't turn around and go see eggs. You feel me? You know what I mean? So it's real. Music is pain and it's happiness. Too. All types of not. It's not just pain. No, honestly, some songs, even some songs that are quote, unquote sad, I'll listen to them and they make me happy. It depends. It depends on whatever situation, and it's powerful. I just told you I'm a big part of you know, because his music changed my life. It saves my life, really. And I got the opportunity at one of Drake's events thank you, Drake, to shake hands with the man that made this music that he probably had no idea would ever even get off of this piece of paper that he wrote it on. And it changed my life so much that I owe it to him and he's like, oh, thank you. Let me see that tattoo. That's really nice. Thank you. Yeah, he put his phone up, like, looking at my and I was just like, no, sir, thank you. Not for it. I didn't do anything. But you molded. I think it was like my high school period, my transition from high school to college, even. And that's a big point in your life, you know what I mean? It's a defining moment and it influenced you, man. Shout out to Cole, man. I met Cole one time randomly. I don't think he want me to tell him where I met him at, so I'm going to keep that. But that's when I was coming up and I gave him my music and shout out to him for sure. We definitely going to meet again. Absolutely. Same. I'm not going to work. But speaking of changing my life through music, what do you feel about your music that can help others dealing with similar mental health struggles or struggles in life in general? Honestly, I would never know unless you come and tell me. It's true. I would never know unless you come tell me. Like the last show, my music cut off. I don't know if you remember that. I do. My music just cut, automatic, boom, cut off, no music, you feel me? But I was able to wrap the rest of my songs and everybody just walked. Of course, they couldn't hear me, so they walked. But after I got off stage, people kept telling me, man, we need more people like you the type of music that you make, you know what I mean? I'm not trying to be a conscious rapper. I'm just conscious about the I don't. Think conscious rappers choose to be conscious exactly. You know what I'm saying? It's not a thing, but I talk about a lot of topics and I try to hit on whatever I'm feeling at that moment, you know what I'm saying? It's going to touch somebody, you know what I mean? There's a fan base. I like to say this is a fan base for everybody. No matter where you're starting at in music, it's a fan base for everybody. So I wouldn't know unless you come tell me. Like, yo, this is how your music affect me. I had people DM me. I was like, Yo, bro, I got this one song called Melody Therapy, and it's basically about an artist again, artist struggling and he uses music as being therapeutic. It's called Melody therapy. You know what I mean? I make some beautiful music. I'm not going to sit up here and hold you like, I don't I love it. I'm not gonna sit up here. I hate when people are like, I'm using. No, no. Better I make some dope music. You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm not even going to flex. Speaking of Sol, I think we have a song to play. Facts shout out to my man Lex Maker. I haven't heard this one either. Forever I want your love blood stains are harder to scrub the pain explained like R B videos when they single to that window pane they told me to stay in my lane but I never listened you know, when I saw you, I had to switch it up. You know that smooth talking, smooth walking, smooth criminal? Yeah, that's him. The type you never seen before. Look, I don't bullshit the mutt. Rosie, can you tell me when you lit about that hood? Juke rose? It oh, it's a vibe. You get it from all sides. Ironically, outside, I want to be all sides. There's a field of view mountaintops, can we live in truth? If we lie in hue the colors that will change we can never be the same when there's a struggle and trust get it right the first time baby, tell me what's up hey, tell me what's up can we ascend to higher heights when the path get rough? Can I expect you not to trip when I'm gone for months? Baby, tell me what's up. Can I. Tell you what's up? Look. Expound by leaps and soul to reap our souls to keep we walk on souls our souls are tied we're so in line you're so divine your lows are mine we're floating high and if you have some time if not decline but if so at night your soul I take you like the way you like the way you taste you just said that life is good I'm stuck singing life is great as long as you by my side. Miss pretty brown eyes with that synonym complexion. You were blessed. The bar is set to signal strong. Who really want to be your loan because a drop on me, baby, that's a lot. All right. I did not know I was going to be getting in my feelings. I try to keep that part of me outside. Shit. Yeah. I love it. I love it. Did you perform this one? I did perform that's when the music cut off. So that was perfect. I'm glad we played that one. Yeah, that song is left Eye is one of my favorite female artists. Really? So when she did this song with Tell me what's Up, can we ascend to higher heights when the path get rough? A lot of people don't know. That's where I got that from. Wow. But it's a song about my struggle with hip hop. Sometimes I take mental breaks because you want to be somewhere so bad. I feel like I should be with the Drakes and the Coles, you know what I mean? But that's just my feelings. But God tells me it's like, when it's your time, it's your time, you know what I mean? I was kicking it with some folks, some celebrities the other day, and for me to be there and I was in the room, and I was just kicking it, I'm like all I could tell myself was, wait your turn. Wait your turn. And with that particular song, it's kind of like my apology to hip hop. Can you tell me what's up? Can we extend the higher heights when the path get rough? Can I expect you not to trip when I'm gone for months? Can you tell me what's up? You know what I mean? So I'm always come back to you. Just, you got to let me experience what I need to experience so I can get back to you. That's different. That's very different. What do you think is the struggle with hip hop? To me, personally, just to me, it's something that I love to do. So I feel like I can't speak for every artist in the world, but I feel like, again, that experience for me to write about some stuff for me to life be to me, life be life, and it be certain things that go on in life where it kind of shuts you down. Like I said, when my homie Gavin shut me down literally too much. I couldn't sleep. I could barely eat, you know what I'm saying? I would have to go to the gym and work it out. Sometimes I'll be like, okay, let me get in front of the monitor and the mic and let me set myself up on Pro Tools and let me play a beat, and I'll play it, and I won't feel it. I won't feel it. So it's like, I'm sorry. It's like the old me or the old version of me that first started was hungry. You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm still hungry. I'm still hungry. Can't anybody tell me to this day with a camera? You cannot tell me to this day I'm not hungry, you know what I mean? But life be life, and the older you get, you got bills, you got things that you never worried about in college. It was easy. College, right? Take me back, you know what I'm saying? It was easy. Even though I was battling semi homelessness, you know what I'm saying? Homelessness. Basically, I was on people's couches, sleeping on people's floors, you feel me? But that made me hungry, you know what I'm saying? It's beauty in the struggle. Literally, it's beauty in the struggle. You know what I'm saying? You know what I mean? So that's real. That's the things that I've had to experience. I have so many songs that just tells you about where I was at that point in time in life, you know what I mean? And my song is structured to where I was, where I am and where I will be. Wow, that's beautiful. What do you think? Do you kind of take breaks from listening to a lot of music you would normally listen to? Is that something all the time? Yeah, all the time. I get to the point now, it's like, bro, if I don't hear it, I don't know it. I don't know. It not even got to turn off. I barely listen to other artists sometimes. As artists, it affects your music, too, because you'll start sounding like them or you want to beat like them. I don't care to know. I'm my own individual person. So you listen to your music? I listen a lot because I critique my own I should have said this. I did it this way. All right, cool. What do you feel about, like, say you're listening to a song and you don't like X, Y, or Z? Do you go back and rerecord your. Music or fix things all the time? I have this one song right now. It's called girls in Miami. Shout out to Florida. Yeah, shout out to me. I sat on it. I got the beat maybe like, three months ago. And then it took me about three weeks ago to actually start the record and then finish the record. I finished the record within two days, and then I barely finished it because I kind of did a reference copy. And then I was like, okay, let me go back to it. And I finished it. So it depends on what the record is, you know what I mean? Sometimes I could finish a record. I did a project. Body of work. Shout out to my homie bless. And I did that in seven days, actually. No, I'm sorry. I did seven songs in two days. Yeah. I'm sorry. Yeah, I did seven songs. We did a QT trip one night. I can't even do one song in seven days. We did a QT trip. I got a slushy and some hot fries and a couple of snacks. Locked in. And we locked in. We didn't leave. We slept, we showered, we went back. It was like that. And it was in my apartment. Wood wasn't even in the studio. It was in my apartment. That was dope. I feel like, with me, I don't call myself an artist because I think because I can make music, but artist to make music, I don't want to put myself in that category because that's a big thing for me. Okay, I can see what you I'm a lawyer. I'm a. Podcast host. I'm a talent manager. That's an art, though. But am I a musician? That's different. No. Artists and musicians, am I a musical artist? No. But I do love making music. Like, the first time I ever went into a studio, shout out to my boy Cruz, he said, your voice is so powerful. I feel like you should be making music. You represent talent all the time. Why don't you see what it's like for them? And I was like, Hate my voice, not go do it. He forced me to then do it and make a song that same, like, right then and there. And when I left the booth and I'm listening to the song, I'm like, yo, I never felt like this before. That was therapeutic. That was good. Yeah. I got a song called Seven one Three and it talks about me leaving this. What area code is that? That's Houston. Okay. Seven one three is called Houston. And it's from Houston. And shout out to Destiny. Mariah, she helped me with that and she's been a big help in my life. It's my everything, I'm not going to lie to you. So she's been holding it down for me, but she helped me write that. And to lead a studio and feel the way you're feeling after you record a record and you play it in your car and you're driving down the freeway, it's like it's the hottest thing on the planet. You know what I'm saying? And it may not be, but to you it is, because that's your baby. You created it. You know what I mean? Wow. Yeah. I think even with that, though, I'll listen and listen and listen. I'm like, I hate that I want to redo this. I want to go back and everybody I've been around will tell me, don't redo it because it's never going to come out the same. It won't. You'll go back to a record and it may not. It may come out better. Okay. We love that. You know what I mean? Yeah. A lot of friends tell me that don't go to it. They come up. But sometimes, man, you just never know. You never know. That's what art is about. Throw something at the wall, paint, see what sticks. So in being, quote, unquote, nomadic, how do you maintain your mental health, like being in so many different places or situations or constant change? God. Yeah. Big god. God did. He did he done. And he always will. I love that. My friend. We can go to church right now. I'm going to tell you. My best friend, T. White, and he told me, he was like, my faith and my will is my superpower. He said, but I've never met somebody who has as much faith as you have, no matter what's going on. He said, I've never, not once in my life and without God, I would not be here. I could have left this planet a long time ago. And on plenty of occasions, plenty of occasions being shot at, being stabbed, almost drove off a bridge during an ice storm. It's a lot. I got hit by Willard, a car flipped over like three, four times. Yeah, it's a lot of times. But God, literally, without him, I would not be here. This morning. I woke up and I prayed. I made breakfast. I went back after that, I put on some gospel music, and I just sat on my bedside, and I just prayed, pray. I just thank you for everything, for allowing me to see, touch, feel, be able to walk the earth, you know what I mean? I know with you is everlasting, but for now, I'm going to do what I got to do now to get to you, you know what I mean? So I have a plan and a purpose. That's so good. That's so good. Without God, I wouldn't be able to I'm strong. Like, I'm literally strong. I'm mentally strong. I'm mentally strong. You know what I'm saying? So how do you deal with being so invested and submitted to God? Navigating throughout the music industry? Do you feel like it's conflicting? No. Don't affect you at all? No. That's great, because you make it what you make it. You make it what you make it. You don't got to be around those people that do other types of things. You don't have to, you know what I mean? You don't have to conform to that. And it's a lot of he say she say in his music, you know what I'm saying? So you never know what's real until you're actually in it. You know what I mean? But it's big guy, and God got me wherever I got to go. He's my armor. He's my shield. He's my protector. Never homeless. He's your home. He's my home. Okay. You know what I mean? I feel like we are doing this pod on a Sunday now. Yeah, the presence is here. I appreciate it. Always. Do you have any rituals or practices that you like to maintain whenever you're getting to doing your music or your projects? Well, I pray before I get in the booth. I pray before I go anywhere, before I get in the car. When I get in the car, I pray for travel, grace, and mercy. But when I get in the booth, I pray to God. I got a candle. I light a candle. Before I go to the studio, I got to have me some snacks, because while I'm making a beat, I could be snacking on something. Like, you'll catch me on some of my lives on Instagram. He's just like, what is he eating? I mean, on some chips, whatever. What's your favorite chips? Hot fries. Okay. Wait, no, not the blue bag. The yellow bag. Whoever eats the blue bag. Whoever eats the blue bag. Andy Caps created hot Fries by Chester. By Chester Chester is the man. Got to go. Chester, man. You feel what I'm saying? We don't eat the blue bag. Yellow bag. That's like a person eating ranch and blue cheese. Which person are you? Ranch. All right, cool. Then we back on the same. Are we? I'm concerned, you know what I'm saying? But yeah. So it's like, I got to get a couple of snacks, and we just vibe. Like, I vibe. I literally just vibe. Like I said, I go to sleep sometimes. I will listen to the record. I just sit back. I have to have a rocking chair. That's different. You will be the first person that I've ever in life told this to tell me side of my family. So I used to do this thing when I was younger, and I would sit on the couch, and I'll put my feet in the couch, and I would do this. To fall asleep? No, I wouldn't even fall asleep. I would just do this, and I just rock back and forth, and I'm rocking. But I got music in my ear the whole time. This is what made me fall in love with music. Wow. So I would have music, and I would just rock back and forth. So I have to have a rocking chair, some sort of chair that rocks inside of the studio, because it brings me back. Yeah, that's different. Yeah. A lot of people, personally, they thought I was crazy growing up, so I was in particular classes to see where I was at on an academic level, but I was smarter than the classes that they put me in. But, yeah, you're the first person I told her. Well, thank you. I feel special. We get all the exclusives and all the tea here on the Royalty Room, honey. But if you all got tea to spill, come right here. Oh, man. We'll be here for days, right? But what do you think about the connection between your lifestyle, your nomadic lifestyle, your music, and things that are going on today in society? It just gives me more to talk about. Yeah, it gives me more to talk about. I watch the news. I watch The Shade Room. Like I said, it just gives me more to talk about. It's all experience. Do you see yourself doing public speaking? No, not really. I never thought about it. Why? Think about it? Yeah, I never really thought about it. Your voice is powerful, just like my boy told me. Your voice is powerful. Thank you. A lot of good things to say. Thank you. I appreciate that. Yeah, I'm going to think about that. Yeah, of course. And I feel like even maybe we had, max, five minutes to talk at your festival. Right. And I got such a light from you, like sunshine. Thank you. Almost. So I think that could be a really good thing for you. Obviously, music, it kind of goes across all genres all races, all cities, everything. But I feel like in speaking, you kind of tap into another area that maybe someone wouldn't have heard your music, but they heard what you had to say, right? I guess that's why between the sets at the show, I talk about the record or what made me write this record prior to, like, my sister battling postpartum depression before I wrote my song, Stuck on you, and dedicated to my melanated women, you know what I mean? So it's like, I guess, yeah. You know what I mean? I love talking to the kids, you know what I mean? My mom, she has a daycare, so I would teach the daycare kids. I love that. That's kind of where my heart and my passion lies is I always wanted to be a teacher, like an early childhood teacher librarian thing. But I feel like even in speaking to kids, people don't think about it a lot. Oh, they're five, they're seven, they're ten, whatever. They're not going to remember this. You never know. They will, though. It could be the most important thing that shapes the rest of their life. I can remember things from back when I was three, four or five years old that really affect the way I moved, you know what I mean? I can remember movies that I've seen that allows me to move a certain type of way. So you never know what a kid picks up. Kids pick up everything. Everything. Don't think that they don't because they watch it. So I feel like we could sit here for, like, the next hours, but the last question I want to ask you is what is next for Lea Adrian, besides the nomadics manifest? Are you going to be coming back around to it in ? ? It's going to be bigger and better than ever. What's next for me? God's plan. I only can walk. I'm walking by faith and not by sight at this point. I have things lined up. I have my plan. So, you know, it's funny to say you have a plan, but God laughs at it, you know what I'm saying? But I feel like God has put particular people in my life to allow me to move a certain way, so those situations are going to come back around, you know what I mean? So a lot of people don't know, you guys know, I am an artist, but I am an actor as well, so I use a lot of that emotion that I have inside of my acting ability. Before I got here, director hit me up and was like, hey, yo, we want you on the th and the th, you know what I mean? So it's like number God, because I literally asked God this morning, I need you to put it in my face. Wow. Put it in my face, you know what I'm saying? I know a lot of people that are my friends that are on national television, and they're doing their thing, and I'm proud of them. And sometimes you want to reap what you sow. So it's like, why am I not there yet? And I'm going to say this. It reminds me of a quote, and you probably heard it. You probably didn't hear it. If I go to a restaurant, right, and I'm sitting in the restaurant and I'm chilling out, I order my food. And then you go into the restaurant, and you sit down, and then you order your food. Your food comes out first. And then I tell the waitress or the waiter, hey, yo, what's up with my food? She got her food before me. And then the waitress tells me, well, sir, what you order takes time. So what I order with God, what I want is taking time. You probably got some chicken wings. I want a filet mignon. You feel what I'm saying? You feel what I'm saying? So it's like now I'm just walking in my purpose. Like I'm doing the manifest. I'm continuously dropping music. I'm dropping freestyles now more content on my social media platforms. And like I said, whatever God got for me, whatever he got for me, I'm willing to just I'm taking it, and I'm taking it all in. So that's where I'm at with it in life. I'm ready to build a family. You know what I'm saying? So it's up now. It's up whenever God says it's time. Come on. I love that. I'm so happy that you're here. I'm so excited for what's to come for you. And congratulations on all of your success so far. Thank you. Maybe in a year you come back and you just got your first Grammy and Oscar and everything else. I received that. Absolutely. I received that. So thank you guys once again for joining us in the Royalty Room, we can find Lee Adrian on all platforms @itsLeeAdrian. @itsLeeAdrian. So go ahead and, like, subscribe comment on this episode and then also make your way over to his page and find all his music. I follow back. You feel me? Oh, he's not LA Bougie, y'all better get him before he goes up. Talk to me. See you guys next time. Bye.