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[Music] watch out oh make it it's [Applause] rain I ran out I always run out real quick on one yay what's up what the hell how you doing how the hell you doing good to see you oh my gosh in the house we made it made it we made it through
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the rain this the first chance we had to kick it live on bean I'm excited to have you in here it's crazy do this if you want oh God no I don't want to do I don't want to mess up my ears we can turn them down for you lizo it's great to see you welcome to beats1
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La I'm happy to be here want to put their headphones on oh yeah [Music] baby turn it up here to one of those I'm a thick chick I need Tempo get up to the tempo what is wrong with these people nobody's moving we're having like a dance party
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up in here my God just us how' it happen how' you and Missy connect okay so I connected with Missy like a couple years ago cuz I was in Atlanta working on my album and they got me woo they got me in the studio with her and really honestly
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she was just throwing Beats at me and was like Freestyle freestyle I want to see you freestyle I want to see what your mind is like and I was like all so I just sat in there with some tequila and just freestyle the countless beats for countless beats this song wasn't we
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didn't make this song back then she was just like I just want to see what you about and I played her my music she was like this is fire this fire and I even did a who she think she is in one of the songs and I looked at her I was like I'm
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so sorry You're the Inspiration of my life I wouldn't I'm sorry for taking your line little thinly thin venea was in front of you fell away immediately oh my God I was so embarrassed but she love it if you're fan I guess she liked it
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because when I when we did Tempo I was like we got to get Missy on it it's obvious it's like it needed to happen and so you reached out to her I mean there's that moment and I don't think anyone should ever underestimate that moment when you're about to send
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something to someone that you know or even if you you know them well there's that nerves that you send it like is she going to respond is she going to get she going to like it like it's one of the most vulnerable parts of the process
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she's in the Songwriter's Hall of Fame exactly so bloop how long did it take for her to get back um she responded that she would do it pretty quickly but to get the track yeah I was just S I was just you know what I put it in the back of my mind so that when it did come to
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me it was like a huge like birthday cake that I forgot about just waiting in thege when it arrive did it arrive on email so no I want to hear the story she sent me I was sitting on my couch in my living room by myself and she sent me a
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text of a Emoji of her face in her Studio singing along to W so you knew it was in process yeah and she was just like it was just her big old head her little fake cartoon head singing along to it and she was like yeah it kind of bobbed at the end of it and I was like
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wait wait wait and I played it on my speakers I hooked up my Bluetooth and just played the little text on my speakers and I just sat there but there was no one else around I couldn't scream I couldn't cry you know when you alone
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you you either have more agency to scream or you just kind of quiet and I sat there just silently looking at my phone like oh my God what you're listening to right now everybody is is the human existence in its real purest form I mean this is genuine this is
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genuine Joy this is like these moments happen rare in life this is what you visualize for it's what you try to achieve these kind of moments in life I mean my entire life I've looked up to like my entire life I've looked up to Missy Elliott like as an artist what was
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it about her when you were growing up um she represented what I felt like was me like I felt very seen like she was a brown skin she wasn't like the archetype of what your body should be like as a pop star she was weird she said weird
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stuff she made weird sounds with her mouth she wrapped and she sang and she was good at both she produced she was musical she was nerdy she was cool she this was the song This was a song that made it okay for me to be fat and a freak o you're the best
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understand I don't want no man lizo in a house we in a house we in earrings back on face not sweaty let's go let's go congratulations on everything that is rolling your way man man you know I just feel so blessed I've been working so hard you've known me for
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so long since good as hell it's like I said at the very beginning of the show it's like why is it taking the risk of the world to catch up and my friends say thank God they have now it is happening it is happening that's beautiful that's
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how I feel that's my I'm never salty I never feel impatient God has a plan for me and I've definitely been walking in that plan I feel like everything that's happened to me has been for a reason every lesson I've learned has gone into
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the music I'm not doing this to be popping or famous I'm doing this to help people so I have to go through life help to help people like I don't know I help myself so now I can help the world how did you know you got a ride on this forthcoming album what what was
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different this time not that you didn't before but the confidence is different the confidence is different um you know I have no idea why I feel it it's this thing that I really can't describe but I know the place I was at when I wrote
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lizo bangers I know the place I was at when I wrote big girl small world even coconut oil to me is a Triumph but coconut oil is a sampler platter of the the different styles lizo can do searching yeah this though cuz I love you is like it's like a lizo every song
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is a lizo song every song is my style my genre every song gets to the point every song is special a moment every song is me and I think that that is why I feel so confident because it's myself it's who I am I don't have to change who I am
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on the album that to the person that I am on stage it's the same bit sorry for cussing all right before you go I got to ask you some factual questions for fans who want to know this right they want to know stuff what they want to know they
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want to know like do we know who exactly is on the album at this point in terms of collaborators and anything of that nature cuz we've been good to you we given you juice and donut we gave you like a money spraying machine like we've had some lws we've showered you with
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compliments yeah there's one other feature and I just it just came through and you will not be disappointed let's manifest that Destiny right now and share it with the people and make it make it the album's coming in like two
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weeks I do have another feature I'm so excited about it it's unexpected male or female I'm going to give you that I'm going to say it's male it's a male oh yeah rapper or singer ooh rapper rapper East Coast or West Coast I'm not giving you that and actually
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neither oh oh is yeah come on who's on the record come on who's the feature it's a male it's a rapper it's a rapper it's not from the either Coast it hasn't we got it is the song isn't mastered yet so there's always a chance that it might
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not happen yeah so I don't want to get people too excited but oh I'm excited I'm excited I'm so excited I'm just giving you the giving you the you know the rhetoric Jak do me a favor open the door so that everyone can hear everybody
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out there giving you a round of applause for being such an amazing guest you really are best I've never had a whole room of people just ready to go I always be like sitting in the waiting room twiddling my thumbs they be like you can come in now like a doctor's
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office W I came in hot with the donuts and the guns and the money and the juice Temple cuz we were waiting for this one we been waiting turn it up slow if a skinny house you're the best everybody's a thick when this song comes on by the way