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00:00i did not say that i'm pretty sure that's what you said orlando wow
00:07no no what i no see first of all don't start it like that
00:12what i said was i said you do you eating all these kale popsicles and everything like every
00:19time i see you cook something it's got barley and tree bark and all this other food she's in there
00:25working out all crazy so you know i'm like yo she's got her physical she's about her her thing
00:31you know yeah yeah tis the season well i mean why are you going so hard what you doing you
00:37you're trying to get an olympics which what you doing no i'm i'm you know i'm i'm 29 and i want
00:43to be in the best shape of my life and feel the best right now like no time like right now you
00:49know what i'm saying so i just it feels i was in such a good momentum also before lockdown so
00:54i'm just trying to keep it going while we're in here so trying to eat a lot of vegetables
00:5825 25 is what you said on your birthday yeah
01:02all right so now what's the state of the union with joe right now how you feeling oh
01:08i'm feeling good um doing this promo tour from home but um i'm just excited for
01:17forward motion you know what i mean i'm feeling i'm feeling pretty good
01:21i mean you know your face orlando i've known you forever i know exactly people been ragging
01:29me they're like man you're a number one fan i'm like absolutely but she's fam you know so anytime
01:33i'm always a fan of your voice and and what you do with music because i mean you know i've sat there
01:39and just i i was i'll be i'll tell everybody i was in the studio with jojo and she sang like a run
01:45that she probably does a hundred times and you you're supposed to be quiet in the studio and i
01:51was in the room like oh damn everybody was like did you shut the hell up i was like oh my bad sorry
01:58so i'm a fan you know but but uh but more so than that i know you've been through a lot
02:05and i know how you appreciate this now like now you're free
02:09you look like you're about to get church
02:12no i mean i i feel like i'm uh i gotta be among the most grateful people in the industry because
02:21i i know i'm i've just seen it from so many different angles so many different vantage points
02:28you know just like to be able to live this kind of life where we get to make music and people want
02:34to hear it and we get to travel the world that is so unbelievable that is unbelievable we get to do
02:42this so for real i'm having more fun with it than i ever have you know yeah people i mean people out
02:49there pouring concrete and teaching schools and doing all these jobs and you're like i get to make music
02:54uh yes yeah people you know on the front lines are wearing medical masks and it's like making
02:59imprints on their faces like we're chilling this is amazing so i'm i'm incredibly i love what i do
03:06obviously now tell me about this new music because like man first of all is a bop and the video the
03:15video is dope because it's kind of a girl power girls away i mean was that like a trip y'all took or
03:20was that just for the video because it looked like y'all was comfortable and in there kicking it
03:24no we just rented this awesome place it's pretty much my dream house it has hella acres and it was
03:29just like this glass house with all these ill sound bowls inside and stuff and we were just
03:35drinking wine hanging out and um like the original treatments that i was getting for this video you
03:42know i i sent out a blurb of what the song means to me which is basically saying um it's about finding
03:50that confidence and comfort on your own whereas i as you know have been in relationships from you
03:57know when i started dating until now and i really needed to like take this time to um learn to love
04:04myself so that's what the song is about basically saying i dig myself as a woman and it's really going
04:12to take um somebody really damn special to because i like the self-partnership basically i'm having fun
04:20with my girlfriends blah blah blah so yeah so some of the treatments i was getting was like
04:24me like with a man and blah blah blah i'm like no no no it's so basically i'm just like skirt let me just
04:30call some of my girlfriends and let's drink wine and have a good time dance that's funny i saw one of the
04:36things online it was talking about a lot of your videos the treatments put you in a window
04:40and i'm like i know she ain't gonna be at a glass window like
04:43just looking out the window that's you in every video i know i know what is that it's so weird
04:53that is hilarious though all right now now you know what's funny too is people have to get
05:00their math their mind around the fact that you're 29 now i mean you know this is because like you did
05:05marvin's room remix and i was like oh man joe cussing and then this one damn i need to find me
05:12a fucking man i'm like yo like joe is really putting out records just like letting you know
05:17i'm a grown goddamn woman i just i think it's so clear now though i i don't know i it's not that
05:24i'm trying to like overdo it with the curse words it's that i'm from boston i'm trash
05:28no so i just i don't know it's just uh i've as much as i'm not a product of my environment i'm
05:41still a product of my environment but it's real it's natural it's real it's not forced it's not
05:46nothing like that you know i mean but it's like i when i posted it up i'm like we're gonna ask her
05:50by her potty mouth because it's like i'm like you know it is really something but it's dope
05:54because it's natural it's in natural conversation and like you joe joe dice clay or nothing like you
05:59just doing it too much you know oh man i just realized a few years ago that uh i just much
06:07enjoy i much prefer being myself than trying to do something yolo man fuck we live one just be
06:16yourself just be yourself just be joe people who are gonna love it gonna love it and then
06:23everybody else can go love what they love like it's all good no you getting love on here because
06:28i'm watching people on the thing saying yo she's even prettier how did that happen joe is crazy i
06:34love joe i'm like damn these people really feeling you so you know you got it you got to know that
06:39people been riding with you for a while and they know your whole your whole thing what what would
06:44you say now stands out differently about this process after all of the craziness is over and
06:48now you're creating again what's different about this process um i think the like being able to live
06:58in the moment and and knowing how like i said like not to be corny but how amazing it is to be able to be
07:07in this position to have the longevity that i've had in my career and to not even be
07:1130 like i have girls that are my age telling me that i inspired them to start singing and you know
07:19what i mean it's we i don't know it's just it's trippy to be in in this position so i think it gives me a
07:25um also i just think making music in 2020
07:32pandemic aside is like probably the illest time to be an artist genres matter less
07:39you know there there's no one way to get to the the place that you want which is ultimately we want
07:45you know people to hear our music and we want them to love it hopefully and you know be able to
07:50consume it and like you don't need to necessarily do it through a major label even though i'm partnered
07:54with warner i have my joint venture and everything but like i just love the freedom and i just want
07:59to play like to be an artist in 2020 is dope it's i mean it's also fire because there's a lot of like
08:06there was a time where you stood out because nobody was singing like singing singing you know i mean like
08:12you your voice is a beast and it's been a beast and now you have so many people i was talking about
08:18it earlier on the on the ig saying she has friends that are amazing vocalists like you look
08:24at alessia you look at you know uh tory you look at you know all of these people you i mean uh
08:30shinead uh hartnett yeah uh you look at you know leah you know i mean just come on i mean it's just a
08:37lot of people so it's kind of a synergy of a bunch of that great talent that's out there kind of striving
08:43and pushing everybody on like you guys are in a race together yeah and i have shifted my perspective
08:50from feeling like it's any type of a race to if this is a marathon you know rest in peace
08:57nipsey this is a this is a marathon and like it's it's not about looking to the left and right and
09:03seeing what other people are doing because that can freak you out let me tell you oh yeah absolutely
09:08looking at everybody else like you looking this way you lose it if you're looking at everybody else
09:12you got to stay focused and keep moving that's right and i think that that's a lesson for all of us in
09:17in this quarantine as well it's just like you know um seeing how we can
09:22keep our blinders on and and hone in on what's important to us and uh and come out of this
09:31growing so yeah yeah yeah um now let me ask you um about because when you were preparing for this
09:38video i don't know if this was preparing for video if this was joe 2.0 but you were taking these
09:43strip you were taking these pole classes and and and heels and all that stuff was that for the video
09:48was that just for personal joe space that's just for personal joe space it's just um really yeah i
09:54actually my my pole just got to my house so i need to i i don't know where i'm gonna put it because
10:00my mom is here with me now she's i know and i'm like she ain't gonna be having no pole up in the
10:04place you're putting up you and put that pole somewhere mama d yeah mama d she's with it so i'm
10:13i gotta figure out like where i can actually spin around in my in my heels but um i just love being
10:19a woman in 2020 because like if anybody tries to slut shame me like you're wrong you know what i'm
10:26saying like i feel divinely feminine in um like i i just love i love it i'm really enjoying it and i
10:35don't feel any weirdness about it so you know but you shouldn't though i mean but i'm just saying like
10:40when i saw the choreography of the video it fit and it looked like if they didn't write it towards the
10:46pole dance and the stuff that you were into it looked like it matched that because the choreography
10:51and like you crawling and doing the whole thing it was a sensuality to it yeah that was really dope
10:56i love that's kind of a theme in my life um i i realized that it i don't know it's hard to think
11:02about like what you'd be doing if you weren't doing what you're doing you know what i mean so for
11:05me um i'm like damn what would i do if i wasn't singing but it would be something whether it would be
11:13something sensual cooking or um yoga or maybe i'd be a dancer you know on a pole i i don't know what
11:22i'd be doing but i'm just saying um i i do love all those things that kind of speak to my senses
11:28now i like now now i was watching uh you know because everybody's been watching movies like
11:34crazy being hunkered down and there's one movie there's two movies that i always watch this pursuit
11:39of happiness will smith or jojo i mean uh j-lo uh selena uh because every time i see that movie i get
11:47caught up in that movie and i knew i was talking oh that's a good that's fire but i mean like well
11:54when i think about it i remember when joanna you were talking about the act you mentioned the acting
11:58a little bit when you were talking about like people yeah exactly so now we gotta ask did you
12:06just decide not to do that anymore because like i said with you being so chiseled and doing this whole
12:12thing and being actually joe you got the skills to be cast and stuff so are you turning these down
12:19because you want to concentrate on music or what it's not like that it's it's that when i was uh
12:25i was in a really dark place for a while and when i was like in the loss in a lawsuit with my label for
12:32like six years on and off i was not taking acting seriously i was deeply depressed and i don't know
12:40it's an out of sight out of mind thing so when i do get things that come my way now they're they're
12:47not something that i'm necessarily like super juiced about so i don't want to just
12:55i don't want to be hype and say yes to something that doesn't feel right um and i haven't i haven't
13:01like done the dude like i'm friends with some really amazing actors i live in la so i see people
13:07who take this really really seriously and are great at what they do and take it as seriously
13:11as i take music so i wanna i dig it i really do like acting a lot but uh i'm not in a rush to do
13:20something random you know what i mean yeah and you don't have to rush but it just can't it popped in
13:25my head yesterday because i'm like yo she mentioned that so i'm gonna ask her because i know people
13:29want to know it's certainly not like i'm turning things down left and right by any means like i'm
13:33i've gone out on some auditions i've come close blah blah blah but yeah just it hasn't
13:41the timing isn't right i guess so but what's good is that my passion like it's not like i feel like
13:48i'm deprived of anything because my passion has always been music number one so yeah no i get that
13:54now now um i know because i'm knowing you i've known you through stages and stuff and i know when we
14:00mentioned mama d which if she anywhere around you tell her give her my love because i love that
14:04of course i will you know she would love to see yeah she's on a hike yeah but like the the thing is
14:11when you were young and every and i and i learned from our relationship because now i got the 10 and
14:1712 year old getting ready to be 11 and 13. wow that must be so trippy crazy absolutely crazy so
14:24but seeing the relationship evolve between where you were when you were that rebellious kid trying
14:31to fight against the system to now you're this woman that's like blossoming with your mom right
14:36there beside you like when i saw the live album with pj morton and mama d was right there with you
14:41i personally my heart was full because i'm like that's that's what i want to see and and and so i want to
14:47ask you like people who are bringing up kids in this world in this hollywood pressure of acting or
14:54singing or whatever what one thing let's do a do and a don't what's one thing you would say that is a do
15:02and one thing that that is a don't when you're dealing with your child from your child's perspective
15:07because you you witnessed it from that side you mean yeah yeah yeah i got deep on
15:14so from me being a child in this and then now having some like perspective perspective being
15:22able to be older with it um wow you know i just actually apologized to my mom the other day and i
15:28deeply meant it because i was able to like as i was going through from like zero to now i was just like
15:38you are amazing for for being able to to do this so i do i don't know hold on how do i how do i put
15:45this into into words um i would say
15:53something my mom did that i appreciate her for so much now is that she was my mom she was not my
16:01friend we're friends now she was not my friend she was not trying to be cool she didn't care
16:07she gave zero bucks she was like bitch you're a child and i actually heard her say that before
16:19and i respect that i didn't like it then i was like i keep the lights on in here because when you
16:24come from a very humble background and then you have all this stuff it's very easy to get an inflated
16:31sense of self right so that's just natural and i i get it now but and i would say a don't um is
16:40uh don't let your kid
16:44uh i i don't know i i would just say that was such an important do um i don't know like it kind of
16:54speaks to both sides that's a do and a don't like don't let your kid pop off talking about they keep the
16:59lights on i don't know it was yeah we we both did the best we could and i'm so grateful for our
17:06relationship now but like from your vantage point because you've seen a lot of young artists and stuff
17:10to come come in and out and you know have different experiences what do you think is a don't
17:17i mean honestly i think the don't is just kind of like the what i what i learned is her keeping you in
17:22that space like don't let them grow up too fast because you you i told people i'm like you've sung
17:29happy birthday to girlfriends of mine you've given me advice about relationships when you were like 15
17:35you know i'm saying when i'm like i'm like bugging you call me and i'm like yo this chick is tripping
17:40you're like orlando listen you gotta find somebody and i'm like you're 15 like you don't say but but but
17:47it was so funny because like it's just you were mature and you were you were you had this mind
17:53state of of doing these songs and doing them in riffs where you were well above your years but you
17:58still had to stay in pocket and your mom was really adamant about that i remember we were at what like
18:03magic mountain for the video shoot and you were like trying to do this and mad or you was like i mean
18:08you were in artist mode yeah and mom was like no no no and she came over next to me she's like listen
18:13she can be mad all she wants to but this is the best thing and i'm like my keeps depressing like
18:19but she was right you know what i mean so or when the mtv awards you were like youngest nominated ever
18:24and couldn't go out and she's like 13 where you going and of course i couldn't see it then because
18:33i was just embarrassed to be so young you know what i mean but anyway i'm so thankful she didn't
18:37play and she didn't let me travel by myself until i was 18 so when i was 18 i was like
18:43now not now uh also you got a birthday coming up i just gotta you know your birthday is going to be
18:51a big one so where we celebrate where we celebrate now it kind of depends doesn't it
19:00i don't know i gotta start thinking about it this is a big one and i'm just telling you
19:05december 20th is on a sunday this year and when football comes when when football comes back tb
19:1312 is down here with us now so if you would like to come down and see your former quarterback
19:19come on you can come on down and watch the game or whatever you know we got you
19:27my man cam hit me he's like you talking to jojo at one o'clock he's like dog i got 50 yard line
19:31see teller i got him he's like i'm loving her from the jumps oh man yo i mean that sounds fun
19:38why not you know i'm just it's gonna be a big celebration wherever you party and i'm gonna make
19:43sure i come through to buy you a bottle you gotta be there absolutely be clear now uh everybody out
19:49there i want them to watch the video cop the music because joe is is back on her on her on her
19:56shit and it's just you know it's a good look may 1st good to know that's the album i want everybody
20:04to go stream it you know ingest it into your bloodstream yes yes yes could you i mean because
20:13honestly you talking to women and i it's really hard for people to understand you a 30 year old
20:18woman getting ready to be a 30 year old woman is put don't you age me 29 that's what i'm saying
20:24yeah 25 but like you are warming now talking about woman issues and so women got to see you in that
20:30space not just the voice but i got a mind i got a mind behind this that is a woman who's been through
20:36stuff and i love the fact that this music is telling that story even joanna in that that form when you
20:42dropped it and i was like i i hit you and i was like yo i'm with the label they just played it for me
20:48you know what i'm saying like so it's just it's it's an honesty there that a lot of artists don't
20:52get to get to until they until it's too late you know what i mean yeah i i feel i feel really lucky
21:00yeah gang gang gang hey mama d hey
21:07how are you what's up yeah yes we are you gonna come back no no no everybody that's mama d right there
21:15you just hi hi we're just having a love fest about you how great you myself oh geez i just got
21:23gouged they tried to gouge me at the um mechanic and i i left she said nope not today wait way too much
21:31you did you didn't go for it because most women would be like no i didn't go for it i've lived i
21:38i can't go for it i wasn't born yesterday as you know she needs to be staying her ass at home but
21:44that's a whole nother story i said i'm out of here get that mask you better have a mask on if you're
21:51out there oh i did i did i did yeah yeah i did i was scared i was scared i don't like going anywhere
21:57now where are you that's smart though i'm good i'm i'm in taboo oh nice yeah this is an interview
22:10all right uh let's see uh may 1st that's the album make sure everybody go down and support that
22:16and uh anything else you want to tell everybody i'm going on tour we just uh we just rescheduled the
22:22dates so it was going to be like this spring and summer but now it's going to be fall pretty much
22:29fall and winter so come see me there and um um yeah i'm just i'm just so excited to put the show
22:36together and you know continue on and we and we got to say grammy family because say so got a grammy
22:46yay rmb song of the year come on how how proper is that because like people say rb song of the year
22:53pj morton yeah jojo isn't that crazy that's amazing i'm so thankful i love pj and i just like i love
23:04that song and it's cool because there was no label politics involved in it it wasn't like oh you know
23:09would be hot of this like no this was just something that happened because we love music
23:16we love the song that that album and that studio session i was talking about with uh you and the
23:23walsh group and everybody with that
23:28feet who's an incredible singer um yes there was a lot of just ill talent in that room stevie mackie
23:35uh see you be known yeah you know about honestly oh no i'm just saying so i'm proud of you and i
23:41wanted to make sure that i got everybody to do and make you thank you so love you joe i love you oh
23:46thank you so much all right everybody go out there and support joe jizzle and uh go get your mama
23:54okay yeah just go get her a new car