Coco WZFX
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00:00hey how you doing
00:00yeah leave it yeah i just put got it i'm sorry something popped up on the screen it's okay
00:10how are you good how are you i'm good this is my first time doing a zoom if i'm acting weird
00:19like a zoom interview uh-huh yeah conference calls and boring things
00:24it is a pleasure to interview you today thank you for having me yeah thank you for uh giving me your
00:32time of course your new ep is out now and it is number one okay number one on the r&b soul charts
00:41on itunes and spotify what's the other one um not on spotify apple and itunes okay so you must not
00:51put spotify on your vision board because i've seen that you're big on vision board and manifesting
00:56things and you know what i just put i just put number one on there i don't know where it was
01:02okay well i see people's comments like in my like social media feeds they're always talking about
01:09your music and how you're bringing r&b back so people are definitely randomly feeling you that
01:16you don't even know like strangers out in this world thank you so much it's a blessing you have
01:22a beautiful voice though you are so talented thank you like i absolutely love your music uh we play
01:28i see you heavy thank you thank you so much for playing we get a lot of requests for it too
01:36wow that is so cool i'm sorry my phone is going off in the background um it's okay yeah it's one of
01:45those days but um you've got a lot of accolades happening in your life right now too you've got
01:51an naacp image award um you were nominated for best actress on bett for bel-air um i'm so excited
02:00about bel-air because i grew up on fresh friends so yes to see what's going on now it's like i think
02:06it's very refreshing because everybody was nervous like what they're gonna do and y'all just like
02:12really freaked it yeah thank you no it's so exciting i won naacp outstanding new artists and
02:19even to have multiple nominations in one night when it's just my life has changed so much it means
02:26the world to me to see how my dreams are coming to reality i'm so glad that i didn't give up you
02:32know when and when i wasn't sure how these things are going to happen yeah you seem very driven and
02:37focused like in all interviews and stuff i've watched of you i'm just like okay this girl is about her
02:43business i really am i mean i learned a lot from my mom she traveled with me everywhere i went and she
02:50just taught me how to really go get it and so i look up to her in that regard okay and so you started
02:57out well for one we're in fayetteville north carolina so you were born in the metro as we call it which is
03:04in our listenership columbia south carolina um but you moved to tennessee and so you kind of grew up
03:11on the nashville scene musically yeah i would say i grew up well i grew up around nashville but
03:18nobody really knows lebanon where i'd be really from so i'd say nashville but i went to nashville
03:23all the time to just figure out what i could do musically in my city and it gave me a lot of
03:28opportunity um until i just outgrew those opportunities but it really was like a great
03:35place i feel like to attempt to try to get into the industry and you were a disney kid
03:42you don't seem like a disney kid at all you just seem so i don't know like grown up
03:53i'm 25 i mean most disney kids have that stigma for a long time like through your 20s you still
04:02just can't kind of shake it and it's just like no i'm coco jones true i think also i have the the
04:09best parts of that industry like i learned a lot about work ethic what it looks like to be in the
04:14industry i got better at my craft i started at a young age i got a fan base at a young age that grew
04:21up with me so i got the good of that without having to be on a tv show where you really see me as that
04:28character for every week for years you know and i feel like i kind of got planted in people's mind but
04:36not stuck in their mind the way that you kind of are after a tv show right so you said your heart
04:44got broken in the industry in the interview like on the breakfast club i think you said you have your
04:49heart broken what what do you feel broke your heart i think you're talking about when i said i had to have
04:54my heart broken to like have life experiences to know what's even right about because when you're in
05:00the industry like that you're kind of in your own type of world it's not a normal world where kids go and
05:05like they sneak out and have fun and go to parties it's more like you waking up at five because you
05:10have press and then you're filming a tv show but you're you're 15 you know so it's not a normal world
05:15and i feel like what i said was i have to like live and have life experiences go party have fun like
05:21have great friends have fallouts have relationships and have your heart broken like the things that
05:27really make up a life i had to go live
05:30maybe you feel like you've done a lot of that by now yeah yeah absolutely i feel like even though i
05:38didn't really enjoy the low points of my life in this industry i did get to live a lot for my personal
05:44growth and development in those years looking back i'm really appreciative that i got to do that
05:49without the spotlight on me and you said you dealt with colorism in this industry which i was surprised
05:57because every time i see you i'm like she is so beautiful and chocolate like like those two things
06:02always even when i'm on the air i'm like the beautiful chocolate coco jones because i just think
06:07your color is so pretty oh my god well thank you so much i mean all shades are beautiful it just has to
06:15be taught to the world you know because technically this world has a very deep lack of understanding of
06:22black women and the more opportunities that we as black women get to tell our stories and to educate
06:28the more knowledge these brands and these media outlets have of us i think for the most part it's
06:35just they don't know us at all you know they don't know what we know about ourselves i mean the world
06:41the stories that they love the movies that they love they all reflect them you know and we like them
06:47too because those are good movies and good stories and good songs but the more we get to write the
06:51movies the more we get to send out narratives to the world the more we can just shift the perspective
06:55into more understanding and more accepting of all lifestyles and all shades and all versions of beauty
07:03instead of just the one that we've been taught to know this entire time right well i can definitely
07:10understand because we deal with a lot of that demographic being um in hip-hop radio so it's just like
07:17that demographic and it's like no there's there's a lot of versatility happening over here
07:21but so you're big on manifestation and you vision board how do you vision board like what do you use
07:29well i'll say manifesting i feel like is this thing where it's like i can do this i bring it all to me
07:35i don't feel like that because if i could bring it all to me i would have done it i feel like i more had to
07:42have deep deep faith that these things that were above me were still going to come to me and i was
07:49i was powerless i'm mad about power i ain't having a power because i would have used it multiple times
07:55i had to have faith that's all i had i didn't know what was going on you know and things did not make
08:01sense to me but i still kept walking through that confusion and that takes faith um so for me i just had
08:08to speak life into myself and i had to believe that the things that were in my heart and my desires
08:14were gonna i was gonna have them i didn't know how but i just knew i was gonna keep working and give
08:19everything that i had and i was just gonna ride to the wheels fell off and then i'd figure it out from
08:23there yeah that i don't know how that's that's the biggest part of faith and still you know doing
08:29the work because faith without work is dead so okay you are a walking vision board yourself but
08:36what advice would you give like young women coming up who want to achieve like these amazing things
08:41in life well specifically in this industry i feel like there are there's so much opportunity you can
08:47create yourself through social media i feel like there are so many people that we learn about now
08:52comedy wise music wise rap wise that have been doing this for a long time on social media
08:59and it just didn't catch yet so i feel like the best way to really put yourself in this industry
09:04is to make a seat for yourself at the table and we have the power to do that now through social media
09:09okay so you said the social media route um you you not just uh you got essences 35 under 35
09:18but you're also performing at essence this year that's exciting like real life girls trip moment
09:26are you taking your girls are you gonna do like the movie i know right um i probably want to take
09:32my family because that's just a great opportunity for everybody to have something fun to do at essence
09:38all the different my siblings i have my brother my sister we can all find something that we will
09:44all want to do together i think it's just a fun family trip so i would say that that's exciting well
09:48i'm so happy for you um i can't wait to see where your career goes like i know it's gonna be
09:54amazing because you have the work ethic on top of the talent and people forget that that's like the
09:59biggest element yeah i'm really excited thank you for just giving us your time and let me do this
10:06interview with you of course it's nice talking to you have a good rest of your day all right bye-bye
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