November 16, 2024 • 8 mins
In a heartwarming show of loyalty and friendship, Latto recently surprised her long-time friend and DJ, Pup Dawg, during her tour. Despite feeling under the weather, the talented rapper made sure to carve out time to connect with her friend and reminisce about their journey together.The interview, filled with laughter and heartfelt moments, took viewers back to the pandemic era when Latto and Pup Dawg often collaborated on live streams. They discussed how her life has dramatically changed since the release of her hit song, "Big Energy," and how she's embraced her newfound global fame.The duo also touched on a personal note, addressing Mariah the Scientist's temporary hiatus from the tour to support her boyfriend's recent release from prison. They expressed understanding and support for her decision, highlighting the importance of prioritizing relationships, even amidst a demanding tour schedule.This genuine and heartfelt interview offers a glimpse into the personal side of Latto and her close-knit circle. It's a reminder that even amidst fame and fortune, true friendships remain a constant source of joy and support.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yes, straight from Pakistan to La to Boston. My friend
is finally in the studio. The Queen of the South
is here.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Lot on sup.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
All these years through the pandemic and you're finally in
the studio.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I promised you. I keep my promises. And I'm sick
as a doll right now.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
No, man, I'm on tour.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
But but Lloyd said, pop Dog, I said, yeah, I got.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
You're the best. Thank you, and we're gonna keep this quake.
I just want to let people know you're here tonight
MGR Music Hall. It's an amazing venue. I know you've
done a couple of spots out here, but you're gonna
have fun tonight. Yes.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
So I'm excited. I haven't been in Boston in a minute.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
And last time you're out here was turned two.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Man, Boston be showing us. I'm like, daddy, I'm far
from home. I ain't think I knew a girlfriend's south
out here, right.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
And now you're here. You sold out the Barclays bro. Like,
how was that feeling?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Man? I'm still staking it all in Like I haven't
even posted about it yet, Like, oh no, I'm still
staking it in here. I'm so grateful for everybody buying
tickets like first day, first day, laught right, that ain't
in attended and if they ain't, they watching it from
the ground.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Oh man, right, sugar honey, ice te.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
We did a nice listening party with you that that
day when I ran into you with your whole team,
you were just in such a good space musically, mind everything.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
How has it been with this album?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Man?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Thank you so much. It's one thing like when you're
making a plan, but like to see the plan execute
it like exactly how you wanted it to be. It's
just overwhelming. Like I think I was really in the
mind space to like manifest everything the way I wanted
it to be, and it happened like literally to a t.
But that's old news. I'm working Are.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
You working on that? Because I don't want to, you
know what, I don't want to ask you that. That's great,
you're good.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I didn't want to ask you that because people are
so quick to like what you Literally you dropped the
album and I saw some of your comments.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Oh my god, lod of that was amazing. When's the
next one?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I know they gonna have to they gonna have to,
you know, sit with this. We still on the Sugar
Icy Tour and stuff. Right, but I.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Got I got and you got records on this man.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
And I'm gonna make sure they all get their attention
to like just let's not listen. You definitely right in
saying that, like, let's not skip over this classic album. Baby.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Now, okay, Now you come from this new world of
things are just coming out so fast, but there are
like you know, shoutouts to me.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
There she go.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
You got some club records, You've expanded as an artist.
I mean, you got records that are in the billions.
So now you got a voice too as a role model.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
How is that?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Oh my gosh, it comes witty, it comes with it.
I'm taking it. I'm taking it all in. You know.
You girl ain't number twenty five. I'm learning as I
go too, but it come witty and yeah, I got
a foundation. Now I'm getting ready for my fourth annual
Christmas and collect Oh that's where I'm from. And we
do this like big Christmas toy drive nice.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Okay, community, we.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Take care of the mom's and a days and take
care of the whole community.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
And you know what, I love that you do these things.
But the world we live in right now. There's always
gonna be that fifty percent that love what you do.
Even with the album, I remember something went down and
like people that don't know you, like I know you,
I've known you. I know your records don't mean a
certain way, but people all will do that.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
How do you live with that world?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Oh my gosh, how do I I'm still trying to
figure that on my own. But it's like it's like
what you said, like you know fifty percent, like you
fifty percent. And I catered to the people that do
though you know what I'm saying, like when I'm posting,
when I'm talking, like that's for the people that get it,
So the people who don't get it, they don't cruss
my mind.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
That's so good that you can do that, because I'm
one of those guys. I could rock a thousand people
in the club. One person says that it sucking. It
gets to me like that comment just sticks out so bad.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I used to be like that. I would be like,
oh my gosh, like but FM, like, especially when I'm
on tour, it is so easy to like not pay
attention to that because I'm like, girl, y'all watching from
the internet. Them six thousand people that was in that room, right,
they know that was rocking.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
They were definitely rocking. Lot those in here.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
She's gonna be rocking. MGM Music call tonight real quick.
When we were at your show, I want to ask you.
You know I come from I grew up in La,
So there's a way of moving around sometimes in La.
We came to your show. There was a carnival happening
across the street. Your show is about to go down,
and something popped off at the carnival. Okay, So when
you hear gunshots coming from where you come from and
(04:06):
where I come from, what's your first instinct to do?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Is it run? Also, yeah, we're going and you gotta
get down on.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I did the duck and I got into a little
corner because I don't know where the shots are coming from.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I'm not running into the shot.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
You can't just stand up and just run free willing.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
So I was with your whole crew and everybody just
takes off running and then I'm not with them.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
They're like, you don't work. What happened to?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
No? I duck down in the corner. When was this?
And oh my gosh? At the carnval in Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yeah, you got to show right across the street from it.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah, at the fair in Atlanta, they go down and
then that ain't my top party. I got so much
to lose.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Oh man, all right? So okay, so you're your thing
is duck and still run though.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah cross get out of there, but stay.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Long, stay all right.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
So we've been playing putting it on the floor, big Mama,
Brokie Sunday Service, all from this new album.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
We've done all that. What's what's the record that we
should be going to right now?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Okay, you know what, probably because I'm on tour right
now with her, But I'm loving look what you did
more and more every day.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Listen, let's do it. It's your, it's your, it's Lotto's time.
Right now, let's go going to introduce for everybody being.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Shout out to my girl right right. She had to
take a take a step back. She at home with
her me and her man, her man, Mariah, We miss you,
make sure you come back.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Bo.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
This is look what you did and got a Timmy
tour crazy.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Let's go right there, a lotos in her right now,
perfect segue to this little thing I got. It's not
don Julio. I know, I know even sitting on that
Julio too, but he need to give.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Me off the LEAs.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Here's a little something for you.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Also, I don't know if I'm going to see you
and Laurie during Christmasing way is it literally something personal
for my like later something crazy?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
It's just see how sweet forget you? Well you real
recognize real you always got myself out that bad.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
You always showed me so much love. Lori's had my
back for so long.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Man, So.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Yeah right now, but I really appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I know you're a little under the weather, you got
a show tonight, but I appreciate you taking the time
and coming and hanging out with me.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Man, anytime I'm in Boston, I'm pulling up on pup
You tell them, anytime I'm in Boston, I'm pulling up
on my family pupped out.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
There it is man, Sugar Honey, Icy is out. Go
check out that album. It's so dope. Man, if you
haven't sat with that, definitely gonna say with that there
she go. I love that you shout it out.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I walked in.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, the shout out to yourself is so important right now,
where you don't get that, so that that's a motivation
for everybody.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, sometimes you gotta, you know, just look at yourself
in the mirror and just remind yourself.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
You know what I'm saying, and you're just getting started.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I'm just getting started. Like I'm really gonna be calling
you in a minute to come here this this new stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Were always ready for some Lado Man, how much did
your life change after Big Energy? You were already doing
it in our world and then it became like this.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, it just it just took everything to like a
global level. Like that's when I got like all my
international bookings and just like it just left not only
the South, but just like the country. Right.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
And they always say you got to have that catalog
in the back ready to go, because you never know
what that record.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
My grandkid is gonna be like, thank you granted for
making up yep.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
And I love the fact that you know where your
shows are because I remember you did, like Ted take
your clipping one of the shows.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
That we were at. You know, your audience were to
do what records?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I really be like down to the to the set list,
like choosing which songs I want to do in what city? Like,
I'm very hands on nice.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Well, I love it.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I can't wait to see you tonight. And then I
know you're heading back. Feel better, get some rest, got
you some tea, got you.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Some handy like what, I'm good?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
What do you wanna tells? What do you want to tell?
Boson for tonight, Boston.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I can't wait to see y'all tonight. I haven't been
here in a minute, So let's walk out. Keep streaming,
Sugar Honey, iced tea, right,
Yes, straight from Pakistan to La to Boston. My friend
is finally in the studio. The Queen of the South
is here.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Lot on sup.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
All these years through the pandemic and you're finally in
the studio.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I promised you. I keep my promises. And I'm sick
as a doll right now.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
No, man, I'm on tour.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
But but Lloyd said, pop Dog, I said, yeah, I got.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
You're the best. Thank you, and we're gonna keep this quake.
I just want to let people know you're here tonight
MGR Music Hall. It's an amazing venue. I know you've
done a couple of spots out here, but you're gonna
have fun tonight. Yes.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
So I'm excited. I haven't been in Boston in a minute.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
And last time you're out here was turned two.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Man, Boston be showing us. I'm like, daddy, I'm far
from home. I ain't think I knew a girlfriend's south
out here, right.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
And now you're here. You sold out the Barclays bro. Like,
how was that feeling?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Man? I'm still staking it all in Like I haven't
even posted about it yet, Like, oh no, I'm still
staking it in here. I'm so grateful for everybody buying
tickets like first day, first day, laught right, that ain't
in attended and if they ain't, they watching it from
the ground.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Oh man, right, sugar honey, ice te.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
We did a nice listening party with you that that
day when I ran into you with your whole team,
you were just in such a good space musically, mind everything.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
How has it been with this album?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Man?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Thank you so much. It's one thing like when you're
making a plan, but like to see the plan execute
it like exactly how you wanted it to be. It's
just overwhelming. Like I think I was really in the
mind space to like manifest everything the way I wanted
it to be, and it happened like literally to a t.
But that's old news. I'm working Are.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
You working on that? Because I don't want to, you
know what, I don't want to ask you that. That's great,
you're good.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I didn't want to ask you that because people are
so quick to like what you Literally you dropped the
album and I saw some of your comments.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Oh my god, lod of that was amazing. When's the
next one?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I know they gonna have to they gonna have to,
you know, sit with this. We still on the Sugar
Icy Tour and stuff. Right, but I.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Got I got and you got records on this man.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
And I'm gonna make sure they all get their attention
to like just let's not listen. You definitely right in
saying that, like, let's not skip over this classic album. Baby.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Now, okay, Now you come from this new world of
things are just coming out so fast, but there are
like you know, shoutouts to me.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
There she go.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
You got some club records, You've expanded as an artist.
I mean, you got records that are in the billions.
So now you got a voice too as a role model.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
How is that?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Oh my gosh, it comes witty, it comes with it.
I'm taking it. I'm taking it all in. You know.
You girl ain't number twenty five. I'm learning as I
go too, but it come witty and yeah, I got
a foundation. Now I'm getting ready for my fourth annual
Christmas and collect Oh that's where I'm from. And we
do this like big Christmas toy drive nice.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Okay, community, we.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Take care of the mom's and a days and take
care of the whole community.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
And you know what, I love that you do these things.
But the world we live in right now. There's always
gonna be that fifty percent that love what you do.
Even with the album, I remember something went down and
like people that don't know you, like I know you,
I've known you. I know your records don't mean a
certain way, but people all will do that.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
How do you live with that world?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Oh my gosh, how do I I'm still trying to
figure that on my own. But it's like it's like
what you said, like you know fifty percent, like you
fifty percent. And I catered to the people that do
though you know what I'm saying, like when I'm posting,
when I'm talking, like that's for the people that get it,
So the people who don't get it, they don't cruss
my mind.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
That's so good that you can do that, because I'm
one of those guys. I could rock a thousand people
in the club. One person says that it sucking. It
gets to me like that comment just sticks out so bad.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I used to be like that. I would be like,
oh my gosh, like but FM, like, especially when I'm
on tour, it is so easy to like not pay
attention to that because I'm like, girl, y'all watching from
the internet. Them six thousand people that was in that room, right,
they know that was rocking.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
They were definitely rocking. Lot those in here.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
She's gonna be rocking. MGM Music call tonight real quick.
When we were at your show, I want to ask you.
You know I come from I grew up in La,
So there's a way of moving around sometimes in La.
We came to your show. There was a carnival happening
across the street. Your show is about to go down,
and something popped off at the carnival. Okay, So when
you hear gunshots coming from where you come from and
(04:06):
where I come from, what's your first instinct to do?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Is it run? Also, yeah, we're going and you gotta
get down on.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I did the duck and I got into a little
corner because I don't know where the shots are coming from.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I'm not running into the shot.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
You can't just stand up and just run free willing.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
So I was with your whole crew and everybody just
takes off running and then I'm not with them.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
They're like, you don't work. What happened to?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
No? I duck down in the corner. When was this?
And oh my gosh? At the carnval in Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yeah, you got to show right across the street from it.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah, at the fair in Atlanta, they go down and
then that ain't my top party. I got so much
to lose.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Oh man, all right? So okay, so you're your thing
is duck and still run though.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah cross get out of there, but stay.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Long, stay all right.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
So we've been playing putting it on the floor, big Mama,
Brokie Sunday Service, all from this new album.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
We've done all that. What's what's the record that we
should be going to right now?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Okay, you know what, probably because I'm on tour right
now with her, But I'm loving look what you did
more and more every day.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Listen, let's do it. It's your, it's your, it's Lotto's time.
Right now, let's go going to introduce for everybody being.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Shout out to my girl right right. She had to
take a take a step back. She at home with
her me and her man, her man, Mariah, We miss you,
make sure you come back.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Bo.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
This is look what you did and got a Timmy
tour crazy.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Let's go right there, a lotos in her right now,
perfect segue to this little thing I got. It's not
don Julio. I know, I know even sitting on that
Julio too, but he need to give.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Me off the LEAs.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Here's a little something for you.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Also, I don't know if I'm going to see you
and Laurie during Christmasing way is it literally something personal
for my like later something crazy?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
It's just see how sweet forget you? Well you real
recognize real you always got myself out that bad.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
You always showed me so much love. Lori's had my
back for so long.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Man, So.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Yeah right now, but I really appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I know you're a little under the weather, you got
a show tonight, but I appreciate you taking the time
and coming and hanging out with me.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Man, anytime I'm in Boston, I'm pulling up on pup
You tell them, anytime I'm in Boston, I'm pulling up
on my family pupped out.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
There it is man, Sugar Honey, Icy is out. Go
check out that album. It's so dope. Man, if you
haven't sat with that, definitely gonna say with that there
she go. I love that you shout it out.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I walked in.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, the shout out to yourself is so important right now,
where you don't get that, so that that's a motivation
for everybody.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, sometimes you gotta, you know, just look at yourself
in the mirror and just remind yourself.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
You know what I'm saying, and you're just getting started.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I'm just getting started. Like I'm really gonna be calling
you in a minute to come here this this new stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Were always ready for some Lado Man, how much did
your life change after Big Energy? You were already doing
it in our world and then it became like this.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, it just it just took everything to like a
global level. Like that's when I got like all my
international bookings and just like it just left not only
the South, but just like the country. Right.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
And they always say you got to have that catalog
in the back ready to go, because you never know
what that record.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
My grandkid is gonna be like, thank you granted for
making up yep.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
And I love the fact that you know where your
shows are because I remember you did, like Ted take
your clipping one of the shows.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
That we were at. You know, your audience were to
do what records?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I really be like down to the to the set list,
like choosing which songs I want to do in what city? Like,
I'm very hands on nice.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Well, I love it.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I can't wait to see you tonight. And then I
know you're heading back. Feel better, get some rest, got
you some tea, got you.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Some handy like what, I'm good?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
What do you wanna tells? What do you want to tell?
Boson for tonight, Boston.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I can't wait to see y'all tonight. I haven't been
here in a minute, So let's walk out. Keep streaming,
Sugar Honey, iced tea, right,
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