Kevin Costner was out and about in Las Vegas cozied up to two unidentified women hours before his wife Christine went to court to file for divorce, RadarOnline.com has learned.
A photo posted on social media showed Costner posing with two women inside a Sin City restaurant on Monday. One of the women appears to work at the establishment.
"It's really knocked a hole in their family life," a source said about Costner being off filming in Montana while she was in Los Angeles.
Kevin was previously married to a woman named Cindy Silva which ended after rumors surfaced that the actor had an affair with a Hulu dancer Michele Amaral on the set of his blockbuster Waterworld.
The ShowySources told us in October that Christine was sick of Costner being away from the children for months while filming the hit Paramount series in Montana, and her patience was starting to fray.
"It's really knocked a hole in their family life," spilled a friend at the time.
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Costner married Christine in 2004, making her his second wife. He plays John Dutton on the hit show, but fans are unclear if he's taking off his Yellowstonehat forever.
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The move to send military units to the southern border is designed to ease some of the pressure on Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials, who are preparing for a sharp increase in crossings once they can no longer expel migrants under Title 42, the public health restriction first enacted in March 2020. The policy is set to end on May 11, once the national COVID-19 public health emergency expires.
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Kevin Costner's personal life is unraveling on the heels of his Yellowstone drama. His wife, Christine Baumgartner, filed for divorce on Monday, ending their nearly two-decade-long marriage, documents obtained by RadarOnline.com show.
ROME—Police in Italy, Germany and Belgium arrested 200 people linked to the ‘Ndrangheta crime syndicate, in the most sweeping, cross-border operation to date against
The early Wednesday raids were the result of an international investigation that spanned 10 countries and several years. The police operation deals a major blow to the ‘Ndrangheta, which emerged from Italy’s impoverished south to become a dominant player in the global cocaine trade.
“This shows that we can and must work together,” said Giovanni Bombardieri, the Italian prosecutor who oversaw the Italian part of the mafia investigation. “Efforts to contrast it must happen on an international level.”
Italian authorities on Wednesday said police confiscated 23 tons of cocaine with an estimated retail value of around €2.5 billion during the operation.
Belgian officials held a press conference in Brussels on Wednesday to discuss the mafia raids.
PHOTO: BENOIT DOPPAGNE/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGESMost of the arrests took place in Calabria, the ‘Ndrangheta’s home region in southern Italy. Those rounded up were mainly families originally from the Calabrian town of San Luca, clans that have long cultivated international ties, particularly with South American drug cartels. Authorities in Belgium arrested 15 people and Germany, 24 people.
Those held in pretrial detention face charges that include drug trafficking, arms smuggling and money laundering.
Law-enforcement authorities in Portugal, Germany and elsewhere seized businesses they say were used to launder cash for the mob, including restaurants, ice-cream parlors and carwashes.
The operation reveals the “international power” of the ‘Ndrangheta, said Antonio Nicaso, an ‘Ndrangheta expert and professor at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. “There’s no doubt the mafia was born in Italy but it has established roots in many countries all over the world. It’s everyone’s problem, not just Italy’s.”
In recent decades, the ‘Ndrangheta has eclipsed the Sicilian mafia to become one of the world’s most powerful criminal organizations. While Italian authorities in the 1990s focused on cracking down on Sicily’s Cosa Nostra, the ‘Ndrangheta took on a bigger role in the global drug trade. From Calabria, it extended its reach across Italy and beyond, from Europe, to the Americas to Australia.
Police officers during the raid in Saarlouis, Germany.
PHOTO: BECKERBREDEL/DPA/ASSOCIATED PRESSItalian investigators estimate the ‘Ndrangheta controls around 80% of Europe’s cocaine trade, with annual revenues of around $55 billion. The group uses various European ports to receive drug shipments, often working closely with the Albanian mafia.
Sky News can reveal that an "urgent" referendum could be held "as early as 2024", which means Jamaica could become independent of the British monarchy and have its own president by next year, according to Marlene Malahoo Forte, Jamaica's minister for legal and constitutional affairs.
"While the United Kingdom is celebrating the coronation of the King, that is for the United Kingdom," she said.
"Jamaica is looking to write a new constitution... which will sever ties with the monarch as our head of state."
She added: "Time has come. Jamaica in Jamaican hands. We have to get it done, especially with the transition in the monarchy. My government is saying we have to do it now.
"Time to say goodbye!"
Ms Malahoo Forte has described her timeline as "ambitious", as it requires public consultations and a bill being brought to parliament - which she hopes to introduce this month, after the coronation.
Passing the bill could take up to nine months, which would subsequently need to be passed by the people in a referendum - effectively "a general election".
Why now?
The former attorney general said: "A lot of Jamaicans had warm affection and identified with Queen Elizabeth II. When Jamaica became independent, Queen Elizabeth was already on the throne.
"But they do not identify with King Charles. He is as foreign as it gets to us. Plain and simple."
Ms Malahoo Forte told Sky News that her government's desire for Jamaican self-determination has, in part, been influenced by the royal family's "own set of issues internally".
"Issues," she added, "which have been playing out in the news. Jamaicans are saying this is a time for Jamaica to sort itself out - and doing so means we want another form of government."
An apology - or lack of - for the slave trade
Jamaica has a "complex" relationship with the United Kingdom, Ms Malahoo Forte said.
"[Republicanism] is about us saying goodbye to a form of government that is linked to a painful past of colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade."
According to the National Library of Jamaica, during the transatlantic slave trade, around 600,000 captive Africans were forcibly sent to Jamaica - making Britain one of the largest slave traders in the Atlantic in the 18th century.
This historic event is still a major issue in the present.
Last year, during the Prince and Princess of Wales's controversial tour to the Caribbean, Prince William acknowledged the issue but fell short of an apology.
In his speech, he lamented that "slavery was abhorrent" and that "it should never have happened".
However, for the descendants of those once enslaved, his words were simply not good enough.
"A step in the right direction, but not far enough at all," Ms Malahoo Forte told Sky News."
If you acknowledge that it is wrong… I wonder, why not a full apology? It is because you may have to give back the wealth of the monarchy, taken from the people? Taken from the places that were colonised? Taken from the places where the people were enslaved?"
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Charlie Chaplin, byname of Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, (born April 16, 1889, London, England—died December 25, 1977, Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland), British comedian, producer, writer, director, and composer who is widely regarded as the greatest comic artist of the screen and one of the most important figures in motion-picture history.
Early life and career
Chaplin was named after his father, a British music-hall entertainer. He spent his early childhood with his mother, the singer Hannah Hall, after she and his father separated, and he made his own stage debut at age five, filling in for his mother. The mentally unstable Hall was later confined to an asylum. Charlie and his half brother Sydney were sent to a series of bleak workhouses and residential schools.
Using his mother’s show-business contacts, Charlie became a professional entertainer in 1897 when he joined the Eight Lancashire Lads, a clog-dancing act. His subsequent stage credits include a small role in William Gillette’s Sherlock Holmes (1899) and a stint with the vaudeville act Casey’s Court Circus. In 1908 he joined the Fred Karno pantomime troupe, quickly rising to star status as The Drunk in the ensemble sketch A Night in an English Music Hall.
While touring America with the Karno company in 1913, Chaplin was signed to appear in Mack Sennett’s Keystone comedy films. Though his first Keystone one-reeler, Making a Living (1914), was not the failure that historians have claimed, Chaplin’s initial screen character, a mercenary dandy, did not show him to best advantage. Ordered by Sennett to come up with a more-workable screen image, Chaplin improvised an outfit consisting of a too-small coat, too-large pants, floppy shoes, and a battered derby. As a finishing touch, he pasted on a postage-stamp mustache and adopted a cane as an all-purpose prop. It was in his second Keystone film, Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914), that Chaplin’s immortal screen alter ego, “the Little Tramp,” was born.
In truth, Chaplin did not always portray a tramp; in many of his films his character was employed as a waiter, store clerk, stagehand, fireman, and the like. His character might be better described as the quintessential misfit—shunned by polite society, unlucky in love, jack-of-all-trades but master of none. He was also a survivor, forever leaving past sorrows behind, jauntily shuffling off to new adventures. The Tramp’s appeal was universal: audiences loved his cheekiness, his deflation of pomposity, his casual savagery, his unexpected gallantry, and his resilience in the face of adversity. Some historians have traced the Tramp’s origins to Chaplin’s Dickensian childhood, while others have suggested that the character had its roots in the motto of Chaplin’s mentor, Fred Karno: “Keep it wistful, gentlemen, keep it wistful.” Whatever the case, within months after his movie debut, Chaplin was the screen’s biggest star.
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His 35 Keystone comedies can be regarded as the Tramp’s gestation period, during which a caricature became a character. The films improved steadily once Chaplin became his own director. In 1915 he left Sennett to accept a $1,250-weekly contract at Essanay Studios. It was there that he began to inject elements of pathos into his comedy, notably in such shorts as The Tramp (1915) and Burlesque on Carmen (1915). He moved on to an even more lucrative job ($670,000 per year) at the Mutual Company Film Corporation. There, during an 18-month period, he made the 12 two-reelers that many regard as his finest films, among them such gems as One A.M. (1916), The Rink (1916), The Vagabond (1916), and Easy Street (1917). It was then, in 1917, that Chaplin found himself attacked for the first (though hardly the last) time by the press. He was criticized for not enlisting to fight in World War I. To aid the war effort, Chaplin raised funds for the troops via bond drives.
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Paul Foreman (Peter Ash) took drastic action in Coronation Street when he decided to blackmail Damon Hay (Ciaran Griffiths), but could he have put himself in grave danger?
Paul has been trying desperately to earn some extra cash following his motor neurone disease diagnosis, determined not to leave Billy Mayhew (Daniel Brocklebank) in debt.
Recent Corrie scenes saw Paul researching his condition, and the sorts of mobility aids he would need when it progresses. He was left horrified to learn that a wheelchair alone would set him back by over £10,000.
Desperate, Paul accepted another job from Niall, the contact Damon had given him, however, his conscience got the better of him and he found himself unable to go through with the scam.
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No - Damon will give him the money
He headed over to the Bistro where he confronted Damon, demanding that he give him £25,000 in exchange for his silence.
Though Damon was sure he was bluffing, Paul demanded he get him the money by the following day, or he would tell the police everything.
After telling Paul he wouldn’t be able to get his hands on that amount of money in such a short space of time, Damon picked up a call from Niall.
Though he assured Niall over the phone that he didn’t believe Paul would really grass, he agreed with his boss that Paul needed to be given a clear message to shut him down.
Is Damon set to kill Paul in order to keep him quiet?
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The remains of a missing Australian fisherman have been found inside two crocodiles, Queensland Police say.
The remains were discovered when the two reptiles were euthanised by Department of Environment and Science (DES) wildlife officers following a search for the man.
Police said they believe the remains belong to a missing fisherman, aged 65, from rural Queensland town Laura, pending the formal identification process.
The man has been named by local media as publican Kevin Darmody, who had disappeared while fishing on the Kennedy River at Rinyirru National Park in Far North Queensland on Saturday afternoon.
The man’s friend, who was nearby, told DES that he was fishing on the banks of the river when “there were splashing noises and he disappeared”.
John Peiti told Cape York Weekly that he rushed to see the commotion within half a minute, but there was no sign of his friend - only his flip flops were left on the bank.
“There was just no sign of him – no fishing rod, no hat,” Mr Peiti said.
Officers believe the two crocodiles - 4.1m and 2.8m long - were involved in an incident with the fisherman and were located upstream from where he was last seenSearch and rescue operations have been discontinued.
“Queensland Police will prepare a report for the coroner after human remains were located within two crocodiles euthanised by Department of Environment and Science (DES) wildlife officers,” the force said in a statement on Wednesday.
The national park where the man was last seen fishing is “known croc country”, the DES said, as it urged locals to report any crocodile sightings.
Crocodiles are a “common occurrence” in northern Queensland waterways. No waterway in the area “can ever be considered crocodile-free”, official Government advice warns.
Fishermen are warned to stand at least five metres back from the water’s edge and to place unused bait and fish scraps in a bin.
Darmody was an experienced fisherman, friend Bron Jones told Cape York Weekly.
“If anyone knew Kev they’d know that he was always one to give advice to tourists about being careful. He knew the risks and he wasn’t one to take risks,” she said.
In 2021 British tourist Amelie Osborn-Smith said she was “very, very lucky” to have survived a crocodile attack while on holiday in Zambia.
Meanwhile in 2017 a woman died after falling into the enclosure of her pet crocodile, which had been kept illegally at the farm where she worked in Indonesia.
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Human limbs were found in the belly of a huge crocodile after a man went missing in Borneo, Indonesian police said.
The body of 36-year-old Andi Aso Erang was discovered floating in a river in Kalimantan on Thursday.
His body was found missing an arm and a leg which were later discovered inside the 20-foot-long beast.
The giant reptile was shot and killed on the riverbank near the palm oil plantation where Mr Erang had gone missing, only his shoes and motorbike were found at the site.
Police said they spotted the crocodile near the lake and killed it.
“Inside the crocodile's stomach, we found the left arm and a leg that we believe belonged to the victim,” local police chief Teddy Ristiawan told AFP.
Mr Erang had allegedly left home to hunt for clams for his family to eat.
Human-animal conflicts are an ongoing issue in parts of Indonesia in areas where rainforest is being cleared to make way for palm oil plantations.
Knocking down trees causes animals to be displaced from their natural habitats.
Earlier in the month a 66-year-old woman was mauled to death by a huge crocodile on the island of Sumantra.
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Waves filled with sargassum continue washing up on beaches in the Caribbean Sea and southern Florida and the stacks of seaweed are expected to get worse in the weeks ahead.
A record abundance of the seaweed was seen on satellite images in the Caribbean in April, the University of South Florida's Optical Oceanography Lab said in a monthly update released this week.
The seaweed set a record in the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt in March, but the university said the overall quantity in the belt − which stretches from west Africa to the Gulf of Mexico − remained roughly the same in April, probably because of persistent clouds.
Sargassum drifts westward in the Atlantic with prevailing winds and currents, floating in the water into the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. Since 2011, the sargassum has reached epic proportions each summer, fluctuating from year to year and place to place.
Sargassum likely to worsen
The total quantity of the floating masses of seaweed is "expected to increase over the next few months, withimpacts of beaching events in the (Caribbean) and (Gulf) worsening accordingly," the University reported.
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WESH OrlandoWaves filled with sargassum continue washing up on beaches in the Caribbean Sea and southern Florida and the stacks of seaweed are expected to get worse in the weeks ahead.
A record abundance of the seaweed was seen on satellite images in the Caribbean in April, the University of South Florida's Optical Oceanography Lab said in a monthly update released this week.
The seaweed set a record in the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt in March, but the university said the overall quantity in the belt − which stretches from west Africa to the Gulf of Mexico − remained roughly the same in April, probably because of persistent clouds.
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Sargassum drifts westward in the Atlantic with prevailing winds and currents, floating in the water into the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. Since 2011, the sargassum has reached epic proportions each summer, fluctuating from year to year and place to place.
Sargassum likely to worsen
The total quantity of the floating masses of seaweed is "expected to increase over the next few months, withimpacts of beaching events in the (Caribbean) and (Gulf) worsening accordingly," the University reported.
In March, the University's researchers said it's likely this year's sargassum bloom will be the largest ever recorded, with major impacts in the months ahead. Typically the blooms peak in June or July.
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April, concentrations of sargassum in the Gulf of Mexico, where the
mats float with the loop current, were comparable to those seen in April
during other major bloom years.
In March, the University's researchers said it's likely this year's sargassum bloom will be the largest ever recorded, with major impacts in the months ahead. Typically the blooms peak in June or July.
In April, concentrations of sargassum in the Gulf of Mexico, where the mats float with the loop current, were comparable to those seen in April during other major bloom years.
An estimated 3 million tons was seen in the Caribbean in April, with buildups along the southern coasts of Hispaniola, Jamaica and Puerto Rico, the University said. The sargassum east of the Antilles islands and in the Caribbean is expected to continue to accumulate and move westward, while abundance in the Gulf of Mexico "will likely increase substantially."
Can experts predict when the sargassum will arrive in the US?
It's difficult to predict exact timing and location for arrival at individual beaches, the University said, although efforts are underway to improve computer models that could be used for such forecasts.
While the macroalgae can pile up in large quantities along beaches, when it's floating along the 5,000 mile sargassum belt, the density varies but is considered "rather low," researchers said.
Saltwater fisherman Marco Friedman told the Daytona Beach News-Journal in late April that the seaweed had begun to show up in the surf. “It makes it almost impossible to fish," Friedman said.
Although sargassum can be a good thing in the open ocean, providing habitat for fish, turtles and many other creatures, there can be too much of a good thing. Piles of the seagrass on the beach smell bad and can be labor-intensive and costly to remove.
In Florida or visiting? Check beach webcams for sargassum.
Contributing: Ken Willis, Daytona Beach News-Journal, contributed to this report.
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What’s a Group of Snakes Called?
Agroup is called a snake den or pit. When someone refers to a snake den, the word den is used as a collective noun. The collective noun highlights the fact that there’s more than one snake in the group. Along with den and pit, a person may use another collective noun like a snake knot or even a snake bed.
So, what do you imagine when you picture a snake den? It helps to have an idea of the number of snakes involved.
How Many Serpents Are in a Snake Den?
The answer varies depending on what type of snake you’re talking about. A snake den may contain dozens to hundreds of serpents.
The garter snake spends the winter in a group with other garter snakes. A garter snake den can contain hundreds of these snakes at one time. Alternatively, a rattlesnake den may have a few more than 20 snakes in it.
When Do Snakes Go Into a Den?
Snakes living in a temperate climate retire into a den to get away from the cold temperatures in the wintertime. These reptiles are cold-blooded animals. So, their body temperature is dictated by the environment. When the temperature outdoors goes down and there’s less sunlight, a snake isn’t able to maintain a normal body temperature. It can freeze. Alternatively, snakes living in tropical climates don’t have to retire into a den because the temperatures stay warm enough for them to function.
What Are the Benefits of Being in a Snake Den?
All of the individual serpents in a snake den benefit from the warmth generated by the group. The snakes are lying side by side or even on top of one another depending on the size of the space and the number of serpents there.
Living in a den is a great way to retain moisture as well. In arid regions, this is critical to snake survival. Another reason to live in a group is to increase the odds of getting away alive when a predator attacks.
Do the Occupants of a Snake Den Hibernate?
No. Unlike bears and other mammals, these reptiles don’t go into hibernation. Snakes go into something called brumation.
In the late summer and fall seasons, a snake starts eating more to increase its fat stores so it can nourish itself over the winter. But, before winter begins, the snake does a reversal and starts eating less. This is because it knows its digestive process is going to slow down. A snake that goes into brumation with undigested food sitting in its belly is going to die because the food will rot inside it.
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When it’s in brumation, a snake’s metabolism is very slow. Though it doesn’t eat, a snake does need to drink water during that time. This is why many serpents overwinter near a stream or creek so they can get access to water. A snake needs to conserve its energy during this cold time of year so it will be ready to reproduce in the spring when it comes out of hiding.
The big difference between brumation and hibernation is snakes in brumation don’t go to sleep.
When it came to her latest album, Baby Rose felt called on to be more expansive. On Through And Through, the singer (born Jasmine Rose Wilson) utilizes real life experiences to piece together ideals on self-reflection, finding new love, and living in the present moment. Each song on the album is marked by her earnest songwriting and backed up with delicate strings, warm bass tones, elegant piano keys and her hard-hitting vocals that push her firmly into the neo-soul lane. All of these elements make for a deeply relatable album. “When I get [in the studio], it's kind of a blank canvas and I'm reflecting on my perception of everything that I've been through,” the singer shared with BAZAAR. “A lot of the perception goes into where I'm at mentally, physically. Have I checked in with myself? Am I okay inside?”
The
D.C. born and North Carolina-raised artist is known for her smoky
contralto voice that places her in a lineage with the two singers who
inspire her most: Nina Simone and Billie Holiday. Rose traces the
beginning of her relationship with music to being a gifted piano player
at the age of nine. By 13 she began recording music, “I always was more
soulful and deeper,” she said. In a previous interview she
recalls getting teased for her voice in middle school, but she always
loved how unique it was. As she matured she felt her voice getting
“stronger” and “wider,” so she embraced that. By 2017 after spending
years tweaking and reconfiguring her voice she released a three-track
playlist of songs featuring production by J. Dilla.
Since then, she’s become an in-demand artist. She was featured on Dreamville’s Grammy-nominated album Revenge of The Dreamers III in 2019 and that same year, she toured alongside Ari Lennox and released her riveting debut album To Myself. The singer/songwriter and producer displayed her masterful ability to create heart-wrenching music that moves her listeners on her debut. It’s not quite R&B because it sounds like music that belongs explicitly on vinyl. There’s a warmth that emanates from her songs through succinct background harmonies and live instruments.
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The core of Through And Through is
the notion of grappling with feelings of heart ache and pulling herself
up from low mental moments, with the project pushed forward by the
singer’s spirit of resilience. “I took a lot of time to really do a lot
of self-reflection in that time, and really got to take my time in
making the album," she says. She temporarily relocated to Long Beach,
California, started getting acupuncture, and began taking Tai Chi and
yoga classes regularly. Her mindset in making the album was not just to
reach into the depths of of her own inner distraught; it was about
crafting a healthier version of herself and meeting the woman she'd
become once on the other side.
Some songs on the album provide a close-up glimpse into her healing process. On “Stop The Bleeding,” a deeply emotional song she sings: “Pain is at my window/The storm is at my door/Your story is my weakness… You take my breathe away/You take my love away/Take all the best of me.” Rose says this track was her having a “whole breakdown.” The singer adds, “‘Stop The Bleeding’ was me pulling out all of my guts and everything and putting it on a song.” Elsewhere on the album is “I Won’t Tell” an upbeat track featuring the rapper Smino, was cooked up during a fun jam session in Los Angeles. It’s a thrilling cut that’s perfectly juxtaposed alongside Smino’s rap cadences which inject his infectious, playful flavor into the album. Baby Rose shares that this collaboration allowed her to embrace her own chaos.
Completed in Los Angeles, Through And Through serves as a colorful retelling of Rose’s internal growth over the course of the past three years. Throughout it she strips herself bare and has vulnerable moments that present her as a woman removing the training wheels of her adolescence and ushering in her adult years. By doing so she stands up for herself whilst shedding bits and pieces of herself that aren’t serving her: depression, anxiety, a breakup, and sadness. The creation of Through And Through allowed her to write her way through the dark, uninspiring periods of her life. Simultaneously, she’s left with a soulful and lyrically candid album that expounds upon the foundation that was set by the godmothers of soul who came before her. Ahead, Baby Rose talks about what it took to create Through and Through, finding balance in California, and leaning into heartbreak.
You began crafting this album at the beginning of the pandemic and here we are three years later. How did that period of time affect your recording process?
I
feel like the pandemic was very life-changing in a lot of [ways]. I
took a lot of time to really do a lot of self-reflection, and really got
to take my time in making the album, and doing things like
post-production, which I'd never done before, and really polishing music
that I really, really, really believed in. So it was good. It was what I
needed it to be.
What was it like transitioning from living in Atlanta to Long Beach, California ?
Last year especially, it felt like I was going through a really big transition. I needed a break away from Atlanta just to clear my mind, hear my own voice outside of everybody that I surrounded myself with. So for a minute, it was a period of grief, it was grieving and I had never been so still before. I would find solace just kind of sitting by the ocean, sitting with my thoughts, they had morning yoga, free yoga by the beach in the morning. So it was a couple months of just that.
Do you do anything to prepare yourself for songwriting, being in the studio and mentally getting in that vulnerable zone?
It's a lot of the work that I do outside of the studio, honestly, that prepares me for it. When I get in there, it's kind of a blank canvas and I'm reflecting on my perception of everything that I've been through. A lot of the perception goes into where I'm at mentally, physically. Have I checked in with myself? Am I okay inside? Am I able to look at this and honestly speak, honestly let it come out? So I found solace in a couple of things. I remember just scrolling [the internet] and finding out about acupuncture, not the one with the needles, but if you just press certain points of your body, it can release tension and send healing overall.
That led me into finding out about Tai Chi and slow movements. And so a couple of times a week I'll go to a little Tai Chi class in my neighborhood and that helps me. It's kind of like when you let things build up in your mind and just for some reason you just have this foggy [sense], and you don't know why. It helps me relieve all of that gunk that's kind of building up, that weight. I've been doing that a couple of times a week and then got back into having therapy weekly, which has been a new thing for me. This is something that I recently got into and it's helped me so much just to be able to have a stream of consciousness for 30 minutes and hear my thoughts back, really.
Did you have any musical or sonic inspirations that you were listening to when you were in album creation mode?
I did feel encouraged by certain albums that I know really went there like The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. It felt like she just left everything on the table. And there's others like, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon.
There are things that I was listening to that gave me encouragement to
push past even the boundaries of what heartbreak is and more I think
about things from a more grand scale of just humanity.
Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon – I heard that during the pandemic, it just hit, because I had never listened to Pink Floyd before, but I heard “Time” and I heard, “Great Gig in the Sky.” And then I listened to it from top to bottom and I was like, "This is crazy. This is a snapshot of what the human experience is like. Time, money, love, death, birth, and just such an objective view but psychedelic as hell. I really wanted to to tell my story, but I wanted to be the observer as well. And so it was finding that push and pull of telling my story.
Did you pull from any personal experiences or the experiences of those close to you for this album?
I feel like I'm a reflection of the people that I keep around me that are really close. We share a lot of similar experiences, but for me personally, I was writing from my own experiences and also knowing that I share them with my homegirl who's going through a breakup and other homies and shit like that. Those that feel lost or may just be going through their own transformations in life and what those look like. It's easier to give advice than it is usually to minister your own medicine to yourself. For me, I feel like I really just wanted to be very honest with where I was at the moment.
When you're creating, what allows you to feel like this is the most authentic version of yourself?
It's a feeling. It's definitely a feeling. I think I feel it first, and then I look around and the people that I trust, they feel it. I feel like it's just very sacred what I do. I'm not going to lie. Going into the studio, being able to write and make something from nothing. When I think about little me that was going to the studio at 12 years old, and that's back when you bounced the song, you had to put it on a CD. So I put in my mind, I'm leaving here with something, I'm leaving here with a complete song.
So all of that development, all of that time that went into me being able to be very, very methodical when I get into the studio, open, trusting, but also methodical, and I'm leaving here with something. I'm from around the way, having that same hunger in me. I'm moving from a place of freedom in my approach. I'm freeing people's minds, opening their minds, opening their hearts, and I'm also getting shit done.
Do you feel as if you're thoroughly apart of the R&B genre right now?
I mean, it's tricky. I do think that me being a young Black woman it's easy to just place me there. But I do think that I extend a little past that and I love those that are very true to the genre. I listen and I support and I love everybody that does that, but I also love those that expand beyond it as well. Black artists aren't a monolith, and so when we start to stretch the sonics past it, but it's just pushed back into that genre like, "Oh no, no, no, y'all are all in this box." It's a little frustrating. Not because R&B isn't beautiful and everything, but don't call something that isn't that, that.
What do you want this portion of your career to look and feel like?
I just want to be able to be present. I know that this is going to open a lot of doors for me and it already has, without me even forcing or trying anything. I [also] want to be able to maintain a sense of gratitude and balance, mainly balance. I'm always going to be grateful. As long as I got air to breathe and I'm here, I'm going to be grateful. But I think balance is something that I definitely, I want to make sure that I'm on that for sure, because it can get real quick, real fast. You never know how quickly God's going to turn up.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
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