Lemonade

There's no way to tour your music.

And so Richie and I were getting creative and thinking like, how can we share this music meaningfully? And we were inspired by Lemonade, Beyonce's visual album.

We smuggled it into prison.

We did a whole workshop on it, let me tell you.

We watched Beyoncé's Lemonade and then had a whole workshop inside the chapel with all these just very macho men.

It was so interesting to see.

And we talked about feminism and black feminism and patriarchy and things like that and what we thought she was trying to communicate.

Right.

If Iyanla didn't write it in the book, how would I have found it? If Beyonce didn't do Lemonade, I wouldn't have found Oshun specifically, outside of Hoodoo, but as an Oshun priest.

I wasn't necessarily thinking much about working with the Orisha until I saw Lemonade.

And I saw people on Facebook when Lemonade came out saying that Beyonce was a demon worshiper and she was portraying this deity and all this other stuff.

And I was like, ooh, she is? Let me see.

And that's how I found Oshun.

I

think B-Day is.

16 carriages.

I love the Lemonade album, okay? I love it.

After that, I think, [yawns] sorry, it's the week.

That's what happens when you...

If there are three teaspoons in a tablespoon, how many teaspoons are in three tablespoons? Nine.

What was the name of the female artist who released the album Lemonade in 2016? Oh,

gosh.

Who released Lemonade?

Beyonce.

Which fruit is used to make a traditional Black Forest cake? Force cake.

Right.

I think, uh, I was talking about, um, Lemonade, like Lemonade, the album by Beyoncé.

I was like, bro, to, for me, I feel like, I feel like, I was, I was in high school.

My freshman year I think in high school is when she dropped her solo album.

You fucked up.

You missed out." You know what I'm saying? Um, even on the debut album, I think it was Me, Myself and I, was like that, was like that record, like, "This nigga fucked up." Right? Um, even like Smash is like Single Ladies, was almost like, "Nigga, if you, if you wanted it, you should've put a ring on it." She had To The Left, you know what I'm saying? Irreplaceable.

So with Lemonade, it felt like all those other records just felt like, all right, this is what you gotta put on a R&B album.

You have to provide something that's about breakups and shit like that.

And,

Tonight winning this kind of feels full circle and like a bit of me has come back to myself but I can't possibly accept this award and I'm very humbled and I'm very grateful and gracious but my artist of my life is Beyonce and this album for me, the Lemonade album was just so monumental.

Beyonce was so monumental and so well thought out.

and so beautiful and soul-bearing and we all got to see another side to you that you don't always let us see and we appreciate that and all us artists here we adore you you are our light

Um, so anyway, we, she and I, you know, joined forces, and we started this podcast.

And the idea behind Lemonada was, like, lemons, lemonade out of lemons, but, like, it was right when Beyonce [laughs] released her Lemonade album, so, like, obviously we couldn't step on those toes.

Um, so my partner was, uh, half Italian, so she was like, "Lemonada is, like, the Italian..." And then for me, I was like, "Lemons nada.

No more lemons." And so we were like, Lemonada.

But during this time, like right now, Beyonce has been breadcrumbing us.

So she released a 10-year anniversary Sir Davis cocktail mixer for the 10-year anniversary of Lemonade, which I was going to drink on my birthday, but Joe and I drink other things and it didn't touch it.

So I still have that to drink.

And then she did a lot for the 20-year anniversary of B-Day.