Episode 324 w/ Patti LaBelle

Published Jul 29, 2022, 9:50 AM

N.O.R.E. & DJ EFN are the Drink Champs. In this episode we chop it up with the legendary Patti LaBelle! 

The Godmother of Soul joins us for a historic episode in Drink Champs history as she shares stories of her iconic career. 

We pulled out the red carpet for Ms Patti LaBelle as she shares stories of her relationship with Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross, and much much more!

Drink Champs Army - fill your cups up, grab a slice of Patti’s Sweet Potato Pie and get ready for this legendary episode! 

Lots of great stories that you don’t want to miss!!

Make some noise for one and only Patti LaBelle!!! πŸ’πŸ’πŸ’πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†

 

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Welcome to Drink Champs, the production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio and it's Drink Chess, motherfucking podcast. He's a legendary queen's rapper. He's agree, that's your boy in O R He's a Miami hip hop pioneer d J e f N. Together they drinking up with some of the biggest players in the most professional, unprofessional podcast and yet number one sort for drunk drin is New year Z Time Drinking Champs. Drink Up. Would good be hoping? This is what it should be. This is your boy in O R E. What's good as d J e f N. And this is Drink Champs. Yappy our make some especially special now who we're about to introduce. When me and you started this show, we always everyone that you know, give it to legends. We wanted our platform because in this game, when when people are season and they have ten years or more, or fifteen years or more, or or me I just hit twenty five years in this game, and people try to say you washed up and it's over for you. But this is very few who could maintain that relevance, who could maintain that substance, and that people always look to them and say, this is the people we want to be like. So the person that we're talking about, it's not only a queen, not only a legend as an icon, She's dominated in so many different fields. We we was just listening to her hits and god damn, it just kept going more and more and more. It's movies all and then she came with the sweeper Tato Pope because for those that don't know, when you're black, we sweep Tato Pope and not another ship Punky when I'm not. So in case you don't know who we're talking about, we're talking about queen motherfucker's soul. Thank you. Now, I've been studying you. I've been studying you, right, and I've been studying all your interviews. This is a very awkward question, but I need to start with this. Did you get rid of that flip phone? No, I have an Android. You'd wait, it's still a flip It's still wait wait wait, it's lavender. I got it last week and it made me mad enough to almost throw that one away. It's a little flip. Since my nails are so much, I try to press those things so that my my my friend Edward said let's get you an Android that you just have to touch a name and the number pops up. Well, I touched and the number didn't come up, and so I got angry. So I really think I'm going to get rid of that one too. I wanted to get a smartphone, but I can get in trouble because people can hear you if you're talking about them when they hangs up and you or something like that. But I don't know none about phone. So let's okay, okay, okay, look time on every flo Okay, I don't anything, but this is my little purple baby before now, okay, okay, so let's get that done with. I'm a flipper though, okay, okay, man, So let's can I say something Last Monday or I think it was Sunday, my son said, Zori, my son, Um, they want you to do that show? So I said, what's show? He said, drink chance, that's what it's called. I said, who? Because I know how about you guys? So I said, what I gotta do? Smoke reef? I don't smoked cigarette, I said, But I don't want them or stuff. What they do, I don't shots. I don't do nothing about I said, I'm honored. And then you had a red carpet for me when I got off your beautiful con. I mean, you're treating me like a queen. And I'm saying I am not hip hop, but i am. I'm not this, but i am. Yes, I'm seven, held them seventy eight and i am so, I'm every woman, I'm everything. But to be here, I'm honored to hold up. Okay, yes, because that's what you do right here. We got glass cup today too, and I'm glass okay yo, so flow you got your own glass. Yeah, I've had it for like twenty years. Really, this is my great You're supposed to drink champagne out of this, but I drink wine and beer out of it. Okay, but don't stop doing anything you do if you want to puff, smoke reef, I don't care. It's not for the money, you know. Okay, everything. The more thing I want to say before I forget what what? What? I love that? I love it, I love it, I love it. I love it. Here. I am to celebrate what you guys. Hold on. Yeah, I have to join you. I have to join you on this. Oh my god, this is so wonderful. I'm so proud of this moment right now, solo, I can't. Oh good, thank you guys, Oh wow that what? What? What? Okay, So here's the funny thing, right, let's get let's get the flowers right now. Okay, that's right. That's our show is about, you know, giving people their flowers while they're here and they face you know, I always say, it doesn't take anything away from me to pick up someone else and me just start of you. You, I could tell you like that, So off top before we even do anything, we want to give you your flowers. We want to want to give physically play the flowers a fabulous flower. Thank you, honey, so yes, thank you so much, so thank you, no problem, no, thank you for being here. So listen, let me ask me take you off top. Right. We've been doing this show and I always like to hear people's drink orders. You want to hit people drink orders, like what would you like just drink when we sit down. And when I spoke to Charles and he said camus at opus one, I thought he was playing with me because that's my favorite one. That's my favorite, especially wedding one, birthday, I'm said timber six. I'm Burglar, I m my wife eight personality, and I clicked up. I love your mother and your wife. That's so old to you know me. And Charles is closed. He knew me since I was a child, literally, and so when he Charles to saying that, I'm thinking he's he's like bottering me up. So then I wait, and I'm wat telling your interviews and you really are Camus? Well he was Opus? Really know it's really Camus first, really Cams. I'll tell you why after the show. Okay, okay, but I like Opus two. Okay, but things happened that make him like something even more. Okay, I got reasons, you got reasons, okay, But I love them both, love them both. Okay, I ain't gonna lie. I picked if it's a little bit more, if I had to choose, if you had to choose open okay, yes, okay. And they're both great wines, you know. Um, and I had my own mind coming out soon. Okay. Let you want to support that head. I'll let you know when long long overdo, Long Over do. Okay, who want let me getting my notes, Patty, I got notes now, okay, let's get on this topic. Um. They said that you and Aretha at the White House, and then Aretha walked by you, and that was the time that people started to say because in hip hop, I started to think that the girls can't get along right, and I'm and it's it's like, it's notable when hippa. So I never thought that this was happening in your world back then, and when I researched it and then and that's like one of the first things that came up. Well, let me say something. I watched Snoop's interview on your show, the things that they were saying about him and Pine Diddy that it wasn't good, but it was good. Me and a wreath, we were good. Okay. The time when she did the White House, she was not feeling great. Okay, after the White House, we spoke on the phone. She called me because she was very interested in having her items in Walmart. We talked about food, we talked about recording together. This is after the White House. She always loved me at the time. I don't think she was feeling great. No telling how I would be if I wasn't feeling my best and somebody walked by me and said hey, and I didn't speak, It must have been for a real reason, because I did her the White House of the thing, you know, the honors, the legend, the honors, uh uh nath Kennedy, Kennedy Honors. When she's sitting up in the wave top boot, I sang Ain't no Way because she warned me to do at Essence U, the TV show Essence along with Susan Taylor. Aretha wanted me to sing Ain't no Way, and I did and it was a standing ovation. She called me to her seat afterwards done and said you did okay, And I said it's okay, baby. I mean, she loved me. It wasn't a love hate. It was a love. And when I'm not feeling well, you might get the other side of Aretha. So that's all it was, you guys. I never took it to heart. She's my number one hero, always has been, always will be. And I wanted to clear this up on this wonderful show because people think sometimes when you're like I feel, Jasmine Sullivan hated me. Let me say something. Last week she made my heart pald hard. She called me, we're the same gentleman um Mark Keys who made this outfit and the outfit that I wore for essence the last couple of weeks ago. He's good friends with Jasmine and so, he said, Jasmine and I always just to talk about who's coming to Patty Labelle's party first, you or me. So she's always had this love for me. But whatever I would see her, she shy, and I would give her all these props and stuff. I said, Baby, they're alone like me. My feelings were hurt until last week when we talked on the phone. She said, Patti Lapelle, you're my everything. She said, I love you so much. I get shy when I'm around you. So you see how things are misunderstood. This business, so ugly business. Sometimes people want to make us hate each other and say, oh, she don't like her. Well, Jason and I are recording, so you know, I'm I'm after fifteen years, I haven't recorded R and B. So I'm doing stuff with her in a bunch of other sweeties. And I just wanted to clarify that for me because I was holding this thing that she didn't like me. She loved at Patti LaBelle. Okay, so thank you Jasslle, right right, talk about the real honey. Don't let people think negative all the time. Bust that up. And I believe in telling the truth to a fault. I can trouble sometimes because you talk too much. I say too many things. And he said, why did you say that? As citizens on my heart? Let next that were wonderful that's what Angel was supposed to be called before. Yes, something happened, Yes, great great relationship we had. Yes, yes, so this is something that struck me crazy. Look the Vanjo's got put on by selling you clothes, How don't hen steal on them? I was gonna line that no money, but he was so interested in Patty LaBelle on the Bluebells. We're at the Apollo Theater and the doorman came up to my room and said, there's a Luther Andrews who said he wants to be your fan club president, who wants to come in and give you clothes. I said, shoot, anybody given us. We were buying stuff from five and dime. We didn't have no money for for costumes. He came up with these beautiful pink and gray apple Let's wait, m it's so many stories I have? Yeah, yeah, okay, so this so then gray and Pink afthletes came out of this bag that Luther board four. It was all for the ladies and we went on stage the next show with these great They were a little big, but I didn't care they were new because they'll always like to wear new clothes. And so he gave us these clothes and he said, I would like to be your fan club president. I said, but who are you? Boot great to be our fan club president? And actually sorry, but I just want you to get all these stories. And so Luther said, at that time, could I be your fan club president? So I'm saying and Sarah, no, no, no no, we're saying who are you? He said, I'm Luther Andros I'm a singer. And I just took him for his word. I said, I bet he didn't blow And after that we found out who he was. But meanwhile, he's our president of our family. We didn't have a fan club, so he was the first ever president for who we call them, Patty LaBelle and the Bluebells Labell No, no, we were Patty Labell. Yes, but he willed it. He wheeled himself into the weekend and what a man. And after that, when he got money, he bought me diamonds. Lalik, I have some of his birds, birds that he Barton gave to me when he died. His mother gave me some other items he wanted me in the halt. He was a patty baby. I love him so much. Yeah, I got some stories for you. Yeah I didn't. I didn't know the Luther depart. I thought I knew a lot of people the Luther depart when he shook me up, especially how he did it, because everyone has the beginning, but to see how humble that beginning was, like, yeah, like damnit stylist to like the number one pop singer in the world and the world, and did you see that in him when you first let him in the room? Didn't see anything but I see those boys all I so was free, free cut, sunny. So No, I just saw a great man. Ever knew he had that talent. Yeah you have, You have these these great stories. Like there's a piano guy that you you was working with in London named Reginald Wright, Reginald Right. Let me see if I got the story correct. So Reginald Right was playing back up for you, and I think he wanted to quit because at this time, because people were homosexuals weren't being accepted at that time you told him you keep going. You speak to Reginald White. Couple of years later, you asked Reginald White, um, he actually, can you come out to a show? And you said, well, who are you being a show for? And he said, it's me. I'm Elton Jaws. That's the way it happened that I didn't even have to tell you the story. So he was at the Spectrum and fill it up here. And so, uh, I got this call from I'm saying, Hi, Patty, it's Reggie. I said, I Hey, Reggie, what's up? He said, I'm at the Spectrum to light. I said, who's opening? I mean, who's closing the show? He said, I'm opening to the show. I'm Elton john Now, I said, you pump. You made it before me said I'm sorry. I did give me my tubleware back his group they were called Bluesology, I think, and I fed them every night after the show because nobody had any pounds, they didn't have any money, and I always cooked. So I gave him and his band food to take home and tubleware. And so I'm a tubleware shopping bag queen. If I gave you a beautiful shopping bag or a beautiful piece of tubberware. I wanted back. So when I saw him the next time, we recorded at Caesar's with the red piano show that he was doing, and we did a duet. Um what was that song? We did Zuri your song on my album and it was beautiful. And after he finished, he left his ring on the piano. I said, Elton, here's your ring. He said that show us for the Tupperwar dialing. I have that ring today. It's a beautiful diamond cross and I know it post more than five dollars. I got my ring, Yes, and I got a good friend. Do you know how legendary story? But did you know he was You had heard John the name before he told told me it was happen. Yes. I was shocked, and I said, you made it before me, boo, And he did and he's still making it and I'm so happy for him. Here's here. Yeah. One of my famous uh stories on drink Champ period has always been a Prince story because we know we'll never get to meet Prince. A lot of people don't know how hardcore right Michael to Yeah, we're going both. But something that's interesting is Prince at the our senior horse. Oh god, I was shocked. First of all, we recorded in many and how do you say? You can't say that word? Wherever I was there for me be a month. And so what he did for me was like treating me like I was his mom. And so he had clothes, you know, he had that shop of the tailor's right the other premises. He took me to the clothing place, had four outfits made for me. Then he took me to his house in the alphabet car and had me cooked for him. I cooked everything. You know what, he ate a freaking biscuit And I had the brisket, the fried chicken, the corn over tomatoes, everything, and all he wanted was a biscuit. He wanted to see me cook. I said, what's up? So I cooked real fast. I cooked everything like well four hours with the brisket. I put that on early and everything else, and he watched me eat. So I set the table and so I said, okay, let's eat. I said, what's wrong with you? He said this all I want? I said, okay, I love you anyway. So then after that we played pool in his house with my musical director Bud Ellison, who's no longer hear, and he said that everything he earned and music was from my musical director, Bud Ellison. Now Bud was phenomenally a hight. It was just one of the best compliments everybody can anybody can give you. So then we went to a club and we danced. We were dancing. He had on his pumps and I had on my pumps, and we were throwing down. Because he likes to be tall and I love him. He was all right, let's go with that. I'm just going with that. I'm just going with the same height. We were dancing. Damn, you know you can dance and I can't. But I pretended like I was like doing something. So then we went to the disco. Then after that he took me back to my hotel and then he called me. About four months later, Arsenio Hall called me and said, Arsenia said, Patty, what are you doing? I think it was in three days. I said, cooking, just so. I ain't got no no jobs, so I'm chilling. He said, could you come to my show? I said, I just said your show not so long ago. Why he said, because Prince won't do it unless you do it with it. So I said Why what am I gonna do saying with him? He said, no, he just wants your presence on on the days where we were sitting in the chairs, I get things mix up. So I went on and I said and printed a little talking, and our senior kept looking at me, said, Patty, you on energet No, I don't know what to say, held my hand and it was such an honor that he wanted me to be there with him as a comfort blanket. It's just so many great things that happened to me in this business. I have so many showbusiness daughters, so many showbusiness sons, so many nieces and nephews, and I'm mother of everybody. My son, natural son, Zory, my baby. He has about fifty million sisters and brothers, you know. And and he didn't mind, you know, do you Jory? My mom? Don't forgetting Hey man, I've been doing my dude, just to make sure I'm bouncing around a little bit. But let's just let's just how did we even start to think? Because what was the internet guy that that? I think he ate the pie and everyone. James James James uh from Chanelle White from l A. He's my best friend. Now we didn't know him, but at the time we were in London performing and got this video of this guy doing this video. That's well, that's sweet. Thank god. The pies had already been selling, you know, so when he did that, they sold even more. Yeah, you know, he's one of my better friends. And um, I think some people are saying, let's get it real that I didn't take care of him. Okay, it wasn't planned. And I did take care of him, Okay. Me and Zori we make sure we make sure people are you know, not used or abused. So ins that we did for James and he appreciated. But people have the chit chat and talk like I should have brought him a mansion or something. You know, what's that kind of pro It was organic, you know. So I always wanted to hit that story straight. And we're friends, we talk, He comes and stays with me and coax for me because he's a great chef. So that story is a phenomenal story. Yea, even already already and doing quite well, but he just put that extra kid to it. I love him for that. I do. Do we make some moise for him? Huh? Do we make I mean, why not always give props where props are. Do you know I never use anybody or abuse anyone. That's my baby. So let's just think about this. What happened. Someone is at the house and they're eating this peepotator poe. I say, we gotta sell us, Like, how did this happen? Like it happened because of my um my there and grandmother's recipe, and I added a little something to it. And I think people know me not as just a singer, but as a cook. And I cook all the time. So why shouldn't my pie be good? Tell me why? So it happened just because it's a good pie. It's no better than your grandmother's or your mother's, but it's a Patti pie, you know. And like I said, I know I don't make the best pie in the world. I know that I don't make the best macaroni in the world. But this happened to hit and people really enjoyed Patty's pipe, the little baby fifty cent ones and all the little little goodies. What was the first product that that that won't go off? And someone said we have to start selling it? What was the first product? I think it was a pie. It was a sweepotato pie. Right, it was a sweepetato pie because like, because you do white people able to eat, they eat pie. But we have a pumpkin pie coming out. That's taste everybody, right, right, right, everybody, I see, so I can give you a pie. You're a pier. Everybody get a pie. I'll see y'all suit with the motherfucker Sarah. Yeah, it's it's uh sugar free serups, all types of serups. So I'm a diabetic, so I have to use the sugar free and it's so darn good. I promise you. I don't put my name on anything unless it's phenomenal. I can tell you. I can tell just going through your disciography and just everything. I can tell you. Hands on with everything I have to be. If there was a time when I was hands on with some stuff back in the day that I hated M like, can I tell the truth? Yeah, you want another drink? I'm good. No, No, there were some things back in the day. I had a line on hsen, don't talk about that again. I had a line of perfume might not tell the truth. I just didn't like it, but I did sell it. But I told people when they bought it, I said, I'm not crazy about it. I have to be honest. That's the only thing I can say that that happened to have happened in my life, that it just wasn't so loving about Zorry gonna beat me later, I see. Sometimes I get in trouble. As you said, I'm a Jim and I so we sometimes say things that we wish we hadn't. But it's hot, it's honest. I don't mind being honest, but so so now we're getting in the breakfast. In the breakfast, yes, I love that. We got pancakes, waffles, waffles, Yes, And my little grand babies that are in the back of boxes. I think cute. And there's a peanut butter and jelly um pancake. There's wall full sears, all kind of stuff. And then I have my dry mix coming out that you can make yourself, and it's awesome. I swear to you. Pine okay, add water, Yes, you don't even have to add milk. Okay, But they're so good you're gonna slap yourself. Your mother's gonna love, your wife's gonna love. Do you have any kids, Yes, Yes, they're gonna love. Yes, I'm serious, mom, okay, And and and the stupid tati pie. I've read somewhere. I heard you say somewhere that you sometimes don't even heat it up. No, you can eat just like on great out the box. And this was is the buttermilk pie. Slap yourself. I can't move with this. Go ahead, get the peach goblin. Oh the dumble beach cob was devil cross one too. Yes, what the macaroni? Have you had? That? Have you had my greens, my my kale greens, my black eyed beast, all that you could the whole day, My corner for tomatoes, my corn bread, Jesus, my bis and my chicken sauce. Take my chicken stuff. I got a bunch of stuff for you, wonderful people. So let me ask you when you go out to eat, what's your favorite type of food? To eat? Good food? Anything good like soul full to Italian, I make soul fool all the time. So I love great Italian. I love Japanese food, and I love uh el mc gary uh you know the a sushi but nothing wrong just to cook yell the smoke deal. And I just like I like good food. I like a good Smashburger, Hamburg. Still like that, You'll still go to cheeseburger. Baby, we've been there. What's that? Piece is a little here's a little a little little tiny cheese. It's a fantastic. Oh yeah, yeah, it's fantastic. I'm not a fancy like rosemary and time and all that stuff for my plate. Don't put nothing like that on my food because when I go to restaurants, people think I'm fancy. So the plate comes out dressed up rosemary and time garnishes, and I don't want to crags. I eat that. I don't do good. I don't know. I don't know why they're doing that. We don't like that. Give me basic food. Yes, but do you ever ate a carbone? No, we're gonna get you that car. We're gonna get bone tonight. That is like the most popular restaurant, yes out here? Yeah, must scoo, yes, yes, yes, yes, we're gonna make sure the red carpet codes with you. Just give me a part. I love you so much. When you was an artist, what did you like more making the music or performing the music? Or that was because she is Yeah, yeah that's right. I mean I look at myself I love them both equally. Although the making of the music, you can do one song and make a hundred takes out of it and they end up using the first take you did, you know. So I've always said to the producers, how many more times you're gonna have me say that word on? Like what I did on my own honey. The producer made me say, now you have to say one. I said, I want to say one I say on my own, and he made me so mad I threw the song away until Richard uh and Carl barrs Sarah came um back around, came and said, Patty, please, do you want to do this song? I said no, I'm not going to talk about the producer, not with him. I said, but I love the song. He said, would you like to do it as a duet? So I said, sets an answer. He said, who do you like? I said, I love Michael McDonald And so they got Michael and he did his uh somewhere and I did mine somewhere. We did our videos. I was in Brooklyn and he was in Malibu when we did though on my own video. When we first met was on Johnny Carson. That's when we first met. After doing the song together. I'm so happy to throw that away. I love that song, yes, and I love Michael McDonald. You know, it's crazy the new people now that use this record. It's two things. As soon as you hear he's like, oh, I know he doesn't broke up Instagram up first this first posting three thousand pictures together and love you see what happens. You know, it's crazy that both couples individually boasted songs separately. So it's like one of those songs. I mean, it's just one of my favorite songs to've seen and I've done it with so many different duet partners. Uh, you know, and well, I just love it. I love right about Michael. Your interactions with Michael, I had not many because we didn't record together, we didn't video together. We did Johnny Carson together and that was all we wrote after that. I did see him at another performance, but we never really talked. Talk but I'm almost sure he's laid back and quiet. Yeah, because I'm shy, and I think he is shy a little. So I'm not a great conversationalist. I don't talk too much when I see people one on one. Are you that way? Yea. Sometimes, yeah, I shy away from people a lot, unless a crown, and then it's on. Yes, yes, yes, because because I was acting that earlier. Because this is when you go google see you on YouTube? Is the famous Patty kick? Will you kick your shoes off? Do you know about that? It's a whole I know about it, and thank god I started kicking them off because my corns were hurting, and I said, this shoe was killing my foot and it has to come off. And so sometimes they stick to your feet unless you have vasiline on your feet something, the shoe slides off. I didn't have vasoline this night, and that suckers stayed on. Like when I did Dance with the Stars, I had a part where I kicked the shoe off. It wouldn't come off. I was saw embarrassed. It was live and the shoe was stuck with my freaking foot. I said, no, not to night boot, but I'm known for kicking that. I still kick him off. You still, oh, yes, okay, that's that's a signature move. The baby fantasious she started kicking hers. I said, fantasie your way through a fourth song, because that half of will go out there and kick him up on the first. That's my first. So many baby girls. Yeah, she's a kicker. I don't know anybody who's met Patty and said that they don't love you really like I haven't met him like. I don't know if they exist. I bet they do. They do. I've seen you talk about these such people like Coline talk about them too dy, but I don't see it. But I've never seen it, thank god. And when I did, I confronted it. And she's in love with Patty what I told you about? Okay, Yeah, because I've seen you on the Breakface Club you were talking about. You've seen somebody at Awards show. Oh girl, she'll name name, she'll remain nameless. I can never tell you who she is, but I'll never make friends with her. I can tell you that already. She needs Jesus. Oh yeah she does. I know, well you might, but you'll never hear from my mouth. Never. Never. I mean her mother was loving on me and she wasn't. I said, okay, did I do something to you? I'm bad on her? Years old? I know I couldn't go through about two. Are you hating on me like this little girl? But it's Okay, I'm still loving myself. You do you feel like you feel like because um, it's different from male has like ego, sometimes women if it was like they're threatened by another woman. Do you feel like you still threatened like these young snacks out here? No, I don't. I shouldn't. I mean, I really should not. But if they take it like that, then I take that as a high compliment. They might by yeah, I'm saying that, but I wish they were not, because I'm I am gonna talk to you because I've been where they're going. So all I'm here is is I'm a teacher and I'm gonna tell you every little downfall you might run into that I ran into and I got out of it somehow. So here I am to give you info, not to hate on them, and don't hate on me if you don't really know me. But then again, I take that to as a compliment. You always have to take the high road in life, though, and don't always think that something negative is going to bother you. I was talking to my friend today ship here. My hairstylas as fine as she is and beautiful, people are still trying to make her feel less than who she is. You can't let that bother you. Take it as a compliment. That's what I do. You also cooked for the Rolling Stones? Oh, I cooked for the Rolling Stones Richard Pryor? Um? What what? I don't think you ever had a Richard Pryor story on drinks? I think I don't ever anything. You're just messing me up. I don't really Wait a minute, it's the best story. Okay, which version of Richard Pryor we're talking? This is after he burned, before before bay. Yeah, so you're with Richard and um, he always thought that he wasn't paying me enough money. Uh. On the tour, he said, you're too damn good to be out here getting what I'm giving you. I said, it's good, I'm good, right, he said, no. So we were in Detroit and it was a Sunday. No, it wasn't. It was a Saturday. And he took me to a car dealership and said that he wanted me to pick out a car for his aunt. So I said, oh, how old is he's about sixty something. I said, what colors her hair? She said? He said gray. So I saw a soft blue, beautiful car. I don't even know. It was a Cadillac or I don't know what because I don't drive. I don't know what cars are. I was in that fierce car this mor now I knew that, but I had cars, but I don't know about cars. So he said, turn the ignition on. I said, how, I don't drive. He said, let me come in there. So Richie came in and turned the car on and said, this is your car. I said, oh no, my husband won't kill me. I said, oh no, it ain't that kind of party. Or he said, no, I love you. I'm gonna pay you more. I want to give you more. And so I said, okay, let's go to We went to Benigan's and I said, Richard called my husband. Yeah, Benigans right in Detroit. We went to Bennigan's and I said, call him, I said, Arms said, somebody wants to talk to you. So Richard got on the phrase. He said, man, I just want your wife a car. I'm saying like that. Just say I don't like her like that, I just want her car. So we just said, man, I just love her. I don't, well, I don't love her like you love her. I said, okay. So Arms said said, well, thank you sir, and so the car went to Philly. I met while I can't dry, we had a car. So that was the Riches story. And then he sent me a song into my house. Then he brought me loads of diamond bracelets. He said, you can't get enough money out here for your town, which was a high compliment. And that was that was the Richer prior story with me. And when he was leaving not so well and getting ready to pass um, he said some messages to me. You know, I love him so much. But we did a lot of stuff together. I mean, I don't know how long we toured, but he did that Sunset Boulevard thing, and I think my name is on credits as Patti LaBelle being a performer that night. So I performed that night, and uh, I had the sax player, white guy. He said, I can't say what he said to me. He said, I said, Richard, what you said? He said, how to play like that? But so many things he would say to me. He loved my shoes, every pair of pumps. Let me see those plumps. I said, what's up, bo Okay, I'll let him see the shoes. But it was just such a wonderful relationship, just a good one. Yeah, Richard, I had I had stopped you because you said, Richard, but what else you cook? Before you said? The rolling stones? Um throwing stones were in Philly. Uh, Mick called and said, Patty, we're in Philly. Could you make us everybody knows that cook. Could you make us some food? So I said, as long as it's out there for you know, when you have the set up for all the groups to eat, as long as mine, says Patty LaBelle, and not the caterers of the spectrum that evening. So I made everything and they ate and they publicized it. And was they were so happy that I cooked for everybody? I mean, so it was them. It was so who back in the day because we opened the show for them and I made sure they ate. Yeah, I get a room with my hot plate. I have like two hot plates and I plug them up. Ble and my friend Norma, my friends who used to perform Who's do My Hair? Norma? She would go to the farmer's market and get all the grub. And I cooked for everybody in my band and crew. Never got got angry. I come already branding it better. Whe he didn't take credit for my food. No would you cooking for us for that you that you thought you wouldn't and that that that that Nina Simone, Nina Simone was near her end. We were at the hotel in New York, the Um the oh god, what was it? Palace? Yes, and we were doing Carnee hallwood Sting with album was on that show a bunch of people, and so Sting's wife what's her name? Called me? What is it? Truly? Called me right and said Mr the Bad? Could you do as a favor? So I said, what do you want? Girlfriend? So she said, Nina loves show so much. Could you tell her to wood pants tonight not as good because she sits with her days open on stage. That's it? Would I said? Okay? I said, I'm maneuvered somehow. So Nina wanted me. I was in the hotel cooking my lunch. I had. I love those hot sauceage right, so I got them from the farmer's market, so hot that nobody can't eat them but me. So she said what Then they're called what are you doing? Patty? I said, girl, I'm cooking lunch. She said, what are you making? I can't I can't talk like her. What are you making? Patty. I said, hot sausage. How mean at your God? I said, I have four, bring me to swear it up. So me and Norma went up to her room, knocked on her door, and she said, no, normal you can whatever. She didn't know normals, and you can't come in. It's just Patty. So when I went in, she was lying. I went back to lying on the bed and she showed me her hair and she said, you know what I got. It was so hard heartfelt. And then she showed me her press and she said, I love you so much. I share things with you. Like she saw me at Carnegie rehearsal drinking wine out of a plastic cup. Never they give you crystal a nothing at all. I suppose she was beating me up for not knowing better. That said, girlfriend, I just wanted some wine, So she said, no, only in crystal. So we did the I changed my glass, and then when I finished with her up in her room, she said, you have another sausage. They were so hot. I sit and Nina, how can you eat that? So then she would have me call her every two weeks to see if I found a friend for her, and y'all became friends, right, oh, best friends friends. I did her memorial. I mean, that was a lady that not many people had a privilege to me. I had the privilege. And we talked on the phone all the time. And when she left, her daughter called me and told me some nice things that she felt about me. I think I've been with everybody, um, just wonderful people. Yeah. Yeah, it's an array of people that you just mentioned just in I mean, I had so much fun googling you because you know, they always say you know related names too, and when when your your related names is so like so much of the elliest people in the world, like from Elton John Prince, and it's just like why, I like, eventually they our names will be related to you. We got we got God, thank you. It's so many things, uh, in my life that I'm so proud to have been a part of, like being the first black women to play the Metropolitan Opera House, you know, with Sarah and Sarah Dash baby Sarah Dash is no longer with us, whose memory will never be forgotten, and Nona, we're still hanging in there, and then we're still doing things and and what made you stay in Philadelphia? I have pictured you like being in Hollywood somewhere people did. Philadelphia is quiet enough for me. See, I don't like a lot of Yeah, I don't like a lot of stuff, like New York is too fast for me, so as l A at times. So I'm a Philadelphia girl who still lives there and I'm never leaving. Did you ever move to Hollywood? At one point? I had to when I was doing Out All Night. I did two sitcoms here. So I lived not here in l a uh for for a long too long for me, because I don't like l a you know, I don't like the mentality that people are so grand Hollywood. If you don't have a song out or a movie out, you're nobody, you know, that kind of stuff. So but I had to live there to do the shows that I I did with VIVIDA Fox and Mars Chestnut, the one Out All Night, And then I did another sitcom, Um Different World. I did at times, Chipmunk's Mother, Oh god was it. I've been around you did Empire Horror Story too? Oh, yeah, hard story. They cut my throat. Yeah, and her story story wasn't watched. He never watched, he never watched it. Yeah, I've been in a few things. I am too. I am truly blessed. It's like you have a multiple careers. You have like a movie career, you have like a food career, music career, like you can just turn around, throw darts in anyway whichever you land. It's great. It's it's a good, good feeling. Um. You know, there were times when I thought I wouldn't make it and and uh, to me, I have not really really really made it yet. But I'm still gonna make it. You know. I still have things to do that white women do that I the same caliber. Yeah, and I sell too stuff like that, like if you ask me to with with Selene singing, dian Her singing self. Um, I did the first. But it was one of those things in life you have to wait your turn, you know. And I'm seventy eight and I'm not tired of waiting. I'm not right yet, you know, because it's still coming. Things are still going to happen, and they're happening. I'm here. We had Tank on here right and Tank said that he said that, Um, sometimes it's not black violence, that's that's that's other people are scared of. He said, it's black love. People are scared of you know what I'm saying. That's it, that's true, and why I don't know. If we all love each other, then this world will be. It's a better it would be, you know. But all that stuff has made me just work harder. I'm the hardest working woman in show business as far as I'm concerned. I never stopped because there's never something in my mind saying you're not worthy. I'm worthy, so I know I'm gonna make it. You know, how do you find an energy to to continue on? How do you find the energy? I just do because there's younger people that don't have any energy to do all the stuff you're doing. Yeah, I'm blessed with energy, you know. And I I'm not trying things, you know, Like I'm still doing crip wall that okay. My son is California, So whenever that comes on, I do my pretend crip wall, okay, and I did it on stage with Essence, but I've been doing it for the last two years on stage with my younger people in the band. I asked somebody, but now google Essence last week okay, okay, what you okay? Okay? They gave me thirty minutes and I wore that thirty minutes, although my beautiful suit was falling off me because I just had it made and I lost weight, so the pants were almost on my knees by the time my finished cript walk. It's okay, but I was throwing down my old girlfriend, the one who sayings that we just had on her chunks or some kind of sneakers, and she was holding her dress doing the kip. I don't do it like they do it. I pretend love that song. I love any gangster music. I love gangster rap. On Dance with the Stars. My son was fifty set the club. That's what I do know. Y'all got to find somebody and let him tell you if they didn't do it great, but I did it good. Is that how you stayed so young? I love music, I love hip hop. I love gangster rap. Some rewards they sell. And one song I was dancing to and not realizing what the boy was talking about. I can't tell you what son was. It was your I'm only joking it was somebody's son. I don't know, but I loved it so much and I was into it, and I think my son was in the car and he heard me jamming. I guess he said, my mom don't even know what she's listening to. But I love that. I'm seven to eight, but I ain't old. But let me ask you. Ever hear CARDI being Megan the Stallion, W Yeah, I heard it. I said. The girls, Oh my god, they said it. They do it, I mean, and that's what they do and people love it. You know. I don't think your day of making music they ever be Yeah. Never, everybody glass name would be out there. Don't get it twisted. I love those girls from what they do. We love this city girls. They all got their own thing. Everybody is doing what they do. I took pictures with City girls two weeks ago, and as I mean, I know what's happening. So when you guys try and hide the blunts and the reefers and stuff for me, don't hide you don't. Don't ever stop your lifestyle for Patty Bell because I think you know what's crazy and I respect the respect I do, but don't stop. Okay, I might just like two hits hot, but I'm not doing it. But I don't mind you're doing. We giving you what's your earliest memories of like hip hop? Be interacting with hip hop. I guess it was too pop. That was the earliest for you. I think so that was that was my earliest. What it was big there he came because we sang together. But it feels like another one. Yeah, it was Daddy came right, Thank you for telling me it was Daddy came. Um. But I started moving to California love. That's when I started learning a crypt walk. Did you beat Park? No? Never? Isn't that a sin? No? I love him so much? About be Smalls, Yeah, no, one never met Bay did I Zory? No? But Biggie had a song about Patty? Oh yeah, oh yeah, can I get he? Sure did? I was shocked, but yeah, he sure did have a son. The younger men are still attracted to you. I mean they're attracted to you like this. I'm just happy and you you you you know, I'm a lucky woman. I am to be seventy eight and still have people looking. You know, that's a blessing, right, your virus really think? Yes, I love what I do, I love who I am, and I love who I know. Yes, I just people. I can just tell from your relationship with Aretha that you always called her queen you always, even when times might have not seem shaky, but you kept your classiness. Like I'm looking through this this stuff, um, and I'm like wow, Like you really a classy You're you're the definition of class act. Like you know what I mean, Like we all got that in us, like by being pushed too much, where we're gonna get to the edge, and it seems like you ain't nowhere near the age. Know that pushes me to the top. You go to the opposite word. When the bottom tries to get me to the bottom, it puts me higher up because then I know I'm somebody that they might be threatened by, which is an awful thing to feel as though you're a threat to certain people. But when it happens to me, I go way high, way high because you can't bring me down. You just can't. And you had a cooking show too. Oh yeah, I had a few, really, but they sure put me off why, I don't know. It didn't last very long. I had a few. I can't really say why things happen the way they happened to me or maybe other black women or black men. But you roll with it as long as you have it. Don't ever stop rolling, you know, and I'm still I'll have another one. I have a few mores. You could create your own network, I think, I am. What'd you say? You could create your own network? Your own network? Yeah, well, oh why not? Because we see of so crazy. One day someone asked you. They said, um, patty, so we can't get um no more uh no, no more pies. And you said, because they add of potatoes. So I had to call Oprah se potatoes. I was like, wait a minute. By the way, I was just like, oh, like I literally was like, wait a minute. That was so that was supplies. She just like, yeah, I can call open to see Pope got potatoes because there's no more potatoes in America. I said, wait, the first of all, even know like that, and then I'll tell you just running the potato and this is better. You're singing poes like paplo. Let's just be clear. Let's just so I could. By the way, I know this gonna sound crazy. Come on, I didn't know sweetpotato pie came from potatoes? What from sweet? Are you serious? I didn't know you swept. I was like, sweeptato, But I didn't put doing two together for years. I never did. It's it's very honest. So how it happens you had to call open for potatoes? Okay because you said that playing sometimes Okay, okay, okay, I just like to talk, okay, but we're tight. Yeah, she's one of my better friends. I did her first show in Baltimore before she became who she is. And she called my friend Cassie Johnson, who does my wardrobe for me in styling uh, and said, do you think Patti Labell would do my show? So Cassie called me, I said who is she? She said her name is Oprah. I said I'll do it, and I did it, not knowing of course who opened one for you was? But she she always thanks me for that for doing her first show. There's not a lot of people in this world, and say, Oprah, O me. I know, but but no, no, she doesn't know me. I don't know what I mean what I say? What makes you do? People things like that? Like you know what I mean? Like um, like like someone unknown asked you for a favorite. Here's here's a Patty Labell moment. I love people. I love fans. I don't care who they are. Twenty years ago, hugged a gentleman with aids because he was dying, and my security had a fit because that my little moment was going to make his last moment a little better because he was a big Patty fan. My security got so mad. I was pim slapping my security. I said, move, move away, let me hug this person. That's who I am. So I didn't care who Oprah was or anybody is, because I love people. I'm a people per and if somebody comes to me like they did a lot of essence for photos that my security try to stop me, I get very sick. I get angry because those are the people who make me without family. Who am I don't important to protection? And protection is fine, but I know who's not gonna hurt me. I mean, I swear to you, I am so well rounded with knowing people and what they might do and what they might not do. Let me have the freedom make somebody's day, because they show you make mine every damn day. So let me hug them. So you know, and I have the best security people in the world, But let me be Patty for a moment, that's all. What do you call your fans? Then nothing? You don't call like everything like like Lincki, Mina's got the bar Beyonce got the Beehives. We gotta leave your fans because I name him love Yeah, my love folks. They love on me like crazy. And when I see the housekeepers in the hallway, I'll stop him and they'll look at me because I'm all beat up and cute. I say, Hi, would you like a photo? They said, are you patty? Stuff like that. It makes their day. So call my my fans love bugs, love bugs. Unless you get a better name, you got inspired you. I used to listen to Dakoda State and Gloria Lyne, Nina Simone, James Moody back in the day when my brother was living with me. That was his music. So I I started out loving jazz and listening to jazz and influenced by my mother, who never sang, but her spirit was a sung to me. Just wonderful woman. She didn't have to sing. But I was influenced by the love of my my mother. My sister is my sisters who are no longer here, Jackie Barbera Vivian and now my niece Stacy and my nephew Billy. The only family I have left. You know, blood from my from my mom. I have my son, thank God, and his wife Lona, and my three babies, my three grand babies, so I have. I'm influenced by the little thing my little baby did this morning. Uh, he tried to pull my wig off. I said, baby, no, just ain't your mama. No, his mama got long the fearest black hair. This ain't mine. Everybody know this ain't my hair. Okay. The baby tried to pull my hair, he said, And I was influenced by that. It just made me feel good. They know that I have something that he wants, but he didn't have it. But seeing little things just makes my day. Little things and I love you. Well, don't get mad at me. Will was my security. Okay, next, but we heard you have famous things giving party. I do. In fact, one of these parties you had. You had just had your living room done and you let no one in there. That's right, and you let the people smoke. We feel by outside and they've smoked by the pool. No body is gonna give me no contact. I don't get a contact. I didn't know why. I'll be high sometimes and I said, oh, they blue smoke in my face or something. But no, you can smoke outside, right, but don't go to the new living room. The living room, don't go to the basement. What was so special about this new living It was new and phenomenal, just child. It wasn't a Patty living room, just beautiful and it was white. So I don't want anybody do no red wine smoked, no cigarettes in there, Daniel, nothing, no nothing. Yes, so I kept it closed. Yes, I let him peek in it, but don't walk, because that's something you ever get into, like a terrier designing. Yes, I love it. That be hard. That's what I do. And my friend, she care crazy and she's doing her house now I'm helping her with her house. Yes, here's another show on the network show I want. Yeah, you go and decorated. Let's do it. We do something anyway with your food, like god damn it. Food. That's okay because come the King of Pold anytime. Anybody hip hop, R and B, so jazz, if you've got anything to do with food, you must go to Patty LaBelle. She is live my dren. She is the guard mother. And that's just it's no negotiating that. You gotta dry her back. You gotta go check into Patty say, let me take you some you come on to mind, bring the I just got cos I just don't want you all to know we got and the bag is coming to for sure. And I heard someone asked you before what was more lucrative for you? Your music or the food? But that was like five years ago. I want to ask you that same question because I feel like you're gonna say food right now. I'm gonna say both both, okay, because your warrior teth still crazy, I'm gonna say both. I'm truly blessed. Yes, Yes, I am blessed, Yes coming back, I'm o manure. I just love your spirit. I just love how you know, Like I said, I was studying you for so long because once you must be locked into that. And I'm trying to look for a floor in you, like I'm trying to not not just to see you know, so almost see that you're human and you're like an angel. Oh yeah, like I kid you not Like I'm like I'm looking and I'm like, okay, like I think you're sent here to make us to know what love is like yeah, because like like like I said, like you could have had judgment on people and you just don't you just sit there and you're still just And like I said, I was looking for it. I'm going through it. And I got other people who work here and I had them go through it, and I'm like, no, she she doesn't have one. I just love. I love my blessings. I could not be where I am today. I don't have to be sitting here with you guys, which is an honor. And I didn't have to do certain shows that I've done, or movies or whatever. I've been touched by angels. And when my sisters all left me mm hmm, they they laid this thing on me if they never had and I have because I always say, why didn't I die at fifty like they did? And I'm seventy eight. I'm still standing strong. I'm not sick. They were also sick, and I think I think they left some time. Keep on rocks, sorry, I can keep on rising. And tears are great. I don't mind crying because they they were the best sisters you could ever have, and they left so early. And I I around. I surround myself with nothing but positive people, you know, Kim, Charles, Lona, my niece, Stacy, Billy positive, my son's jury is the best son that a woman could have. He's negged back in the day whenever his docks eyes, the shoes would have holes, and limousines will come for me to take me to the show. He wanted to ride in the luggage fan. He never tells promoters he's my son. What a blessing. He's not a Hattie Labelle's son. He's a son and all of that love that he's given me in all these years when he saw me really sick. There was the time I thought I was gonna give up singing because I had lost my voice. I know I lost it, but he said, no, you didn't, Mom. I said, yes I did. They're gonna start throwing eggs at me. And I was on toward Frankie, Beverly and the o J's, and they would all come to my trail and say bring me flowers. Of Frankie would bring me flowers, said are you okay today? And I would look at him and say no. I was evil. I went through a six month period of something trying to take over me, and my son stood there. He cried with me. He stayed with me, and he kept promoting me, saying, mom, You're great, you know. Head kept holding me up and I and I love telling this story. I don't think a lot of people would. But I thought I lost my livelihood, my voice, my personality. I was staying and look at the audience and wouldn't say one word. The next day radio stage, you say we're praying for Patty because I'm human, and I don't know what was wrong with me, but I went through. And I'm standing here now here on the station, on your show and feeling like a queen, and just knowing that I've done much more in my life than most people expected me to. Because there are people in my life who said, you're never gonna make it. Okay, now you're never gonna make it. Shut up. We got quick time and we'll do the shots. What does that mean? Yesterday's make it quick? Okay? Okay? Where is that? I don't see it? You see it? Oh No, I don't think you said it to him? Yeah, you see it to us? Okay, guys, when number is that? Maybe maybe all service anyone? Yeah, you got your you got I don't know. Maybe my service is nervous. Your even hold the death. I get it, I got it. You want to explain the rules. So we should have Sunny come in Sunny Stone. I was gonna no, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, because we're gonna sit. We're gonna sit. I we're gonna sit because she's not taking shots. So we're explain explained you could it could be say so you want to explain it. We asked you a question. It it's two names. You pick one or the other. If you say the politically correct answer, then we take a shot. Okay, so it's either both are neither. That's the politically correct answer. Shot if you pick more, Yeah, you don't have to at all. If you don't want you, we gonna have my friend right, d say his name is Sunny DBT. I'll take a shot. Yes, yes, you gave dance. That's right, the dance. Okay, come on, come on right? Are you right? Word to stay for it? Stay relaxed, cool, I'll set up the first one. M J or Prince Michael Jackson or Prince God Prince Prince okay, okay, Gerald Leavert or Luther Vandros Oh my lord, both them for different reasons? Can I say both? Yeah? Take a shop for you? You take this job for you drunk the work take away one, I'll take a swea yeah, okay, okay, you get the next one? All right? You said right? Aretha Franklin or Diana Ross Area Franklin podcast or radio podcast? Okay? Sam Cooker Oldist ready? Both both of them? Who is that? When he left over at Sam Cooking oldist ready? Keep going? You got the next one? No, go ahead, go to the next one. Our green or Teddy Pendergrass. Are so many things in my life that I could think of right now to say Teddy Pendergrass. Yes, Smokey Robinson or Marvin Gaye. I love when they do that. Okay, well, okay, I love you Smoky okay. James Ella Fitzgerald, James Rocket Label style Epic or m c A. Which one was on? A and Epic? Right? Both? Okay? Can I say book? Yeah? Yeah? Both? Adele or Mariah Mariah Carry my god daughter, Yes, I forget. One of our people in the crew said, the last time they've seen to was in the amphitheater. Out here. We're a seventeen year old Mariah Carry introduced to you. Do you remember who? What did your grandma? To say? James? That is true? Yeah, I don't remember yesterday, but I know that's true. That's true. Yes, it's crazy. You just have just amazing stories, like like rarely touching the service anything about it was a classic. You turned around like you know, but if you play this like whoa, it's Farrell or Kanye West. I did record with Kanye with it. His mother, Donna, took me to a session and it was I think it was a rose that we're saying, and Kanye said, Mr Vell, would you please seeing this with me? It's Kanye. It's Kanye Kanye. Although for Rel was doing housekeeping at the studio with Teddy Riley back in the day in Virginia when I recorded there and I cooked for them, and when I saw Farrell the last time, he said that food shore was good it. I said, yeah, you were scrubbing then look at your dad. Yes, yes, thank you, honey. This is fun. You got it? Oh? No, okay. Tina Turner, Gladys Knight, Gladys Knight, Quincy Jones, or Rick James. I got Rick James stories too. You know, back in the day he had a song of a LaBelle song or something I recorded with Rick way way back in the day. He was so high he couldn't even talk. But that was my mad I love Rick James. I love him because of who he was not afraid to be here free. I love him for that. So who was the other one? Quincy Jones? I love Quincy, but give me Rick alright, Bobby Brown or I'll be sure. I'll be sure. God I got stuff with them too, I'll be sure. It came to my house a long time ago. I think with Diana Williams of days back in the day, and wanted me to cook back in the day. And I didn't know who he was. And uh, Bobby Brown and I we have history. Bobby Amy wine House or Celine Dion both both Amy know what Amy did. We were in the Bahamas. She was doing the show somewhere and I was on the show and I had my security guy E, and so she came over. She said, I hear your name is BIGI. He said, yes, man, He just said, couldn't have some of what you in Janiki, so he don't bang drinking behind people. She took that glass and killed his wine and said, Patty LaBelle, I grew up listening to Patti LaBelle and the Bluebells back and then we had Yeah, we had history. I had so she drank out of his glass and he had a fit because he had the dream can write after her because he didn't want to hurt her feelings. Go ahead, baby Face or Stevie, wonder both, God both, I did waiting to exhale with Baby and I. Stevie always wants to write new songs and he did old band up your hard phone me and let me in. Stevie wrote that for me fifty years ago. Yes, so I have history with both of those wonderful man. Yeah, I keep going. I know somebody who's seen Stevie wanted to drive And you think it's a real shot up. No way peoplecause Shock said he see him in the elevator and Stevie prest But you know what, it's possible, possible. It's a funny story. We need check to make it true or not. Alicia Keys or Erica I do ah, both of them for different reasons. How many so far? Sunny Huh, You're gonna need some Patty Pie the next one? Nina Simon or Billy Holiday, Oh god, Nina, okay, new edition of Jackson five? Oh, for so many reasons, Boat come on, drink up. That bottle is almost gone. Keep going. Oh I'm scared of you already? Did one? Do we do it? Keep doing? W B or trc. Oh wow, so many history moments with both of those groups. Both drink up, drink up, tupac a Biggie clock californing wonder if I have what I love Biggie two both, let's go, come on, drink un, come on, didn't take a baby sweater. It's all good. It's all good. Don't worry. He loves it. So shoes on or shoes off? Right now? Off because they hurt? But I have them on, but they should come off. You see, I got minds on, but I have mine. Yeah, right now they're on on for beauty. Yes, and then when the corn started hurting, kick it off? Yeah, okay, yes, I think it. Yes, And it's still ask a question last one for this for this game, okay, and everyone thinks it's a trick question, And honestly we never think it is. No at it's loyalty or respect, loyalty. We want to know what I'm gonna expand on that, because loyalty, if you're very loyal, I know respect is in there. I do know it, and I have so many friends of mine who work with me, not for me. We're so loyal I know to be that loyal, it's total respect for Patty the Bell. So I say loyalty first, respect follows. It's in the same category. What do you say, Well, usually it's both just say yeah. I was gonna say it, but I don't want to be common. But I feel that if someone is loyal to you respect. We have people in different perspectives and feel that they don't need the loyalty, they want the respect. All right, you out of the show now, sir, we are done with you. You show has been already. You might as well pull up. I'm serious. Gets a fun question? Oh man, we have fun. We have I'm gonna get back in, said one nose. Excuse but the most question. Yes, then we can go to the anytime part of the show us. Okay, come on, Wow, if only they knew what we just did. Yeah, So you recently said that Whinney Houston's his song I Will Always Love You, which was written and sang by Dolly Parton, was written for you. To No, it wasn't written for me, but Dolly wanted me to record it. After she did. Because we were managed by Sandy gall and the same manager for both of us, and so we had a lot of communicating with with with each other. I did Dolly Show and we wore the same dress and guess what, we were the same size with everything Boob's waste and but I said, wow, Dolly, I got you one of those moments. So we were friend friends. And she said, Patty, why don't you record this song again? And I said, I love this, I will always love you. I was going to do it, but then a bodyguard amount and thank god, Whitney got it. It was a wonder wonderful way she performed that that song and I'm still gonna do it. I just don't know where, right, Yeah, And they said that you had one of the most iconic Super Bowl performed halftime performances of all time. Get out of Here was so ugly, it was so over. No, I didn't like my super Bowl performance. I know it was snakes and stuff down there. They were doing that up what's that man's uh? Somebody one of those characters where they had the snakes Uh, Indiana Jones a segment for Indiana Jones. They had real snakes that didn't bother me because they weren't close to me, but they were under me somewhere anybody. I didn't like my song, I didn't like the little one second they gave me. I was there, though I can't say that I was. I think it was one Nonah Judd and and her sister Ashley Judd, who's no longer with us. Kind of costs anyway, God blessing, But I did. I did halftime. So let me say thank you Jesus for that half time that I didn't know people ever do half a time show? I know? Is that a blessing? Yes? Yes, so let me stop. Let me take that back. I'm so happy to have done that. And he did that, and I did. I did that. Wow, I love the show. I didn't know I was gonna love it this month, but I do. I'm wearing his shoes. You're gonna meet the next Kanye West model. I'd hold, but these are Kanye shoes. He makes up, he makes well, makes me something. Yeah, we got you. Keep going. So did You'll really have beef for the Supremes? Yeah? Damn Like it wasn't the Supremes. It was the Iena and myself Back in the day because we did the Apollo together the Supremes, Patty Labell and the Blue Bells or where were we Little Bell I don't know who we were, but we were on who Blue Bells Patty Blue blue Bells versus the Supremes and other acts. I think the Four Tops one on Temptations because it's like five acts at those shows and used like four shows a day. And that's when I had to save my hot dogs on the light bulbs because I didn't have any for DM. You know, we we were poor, and every time between shows, I wur playing cards with the Four Tops and whoever was on the show and lose my money. So I always made sure I had my hot dog on the light bulb so I did have food after my money is going. And then the hot items. You know, people used to come to the Apollo Theory and sell hot clothes, Gucci and all that stuff for two dollars and when it was worth thousands, I bought all the clothes and all that stuff. So I had moments with the Supremes at the show. We would to walf Walmart or wal Greens or one of those cheap stores and buy gold outfits and so the next day the day we wore them. The next day, the Supremes had on the single things, so they were biting my style. No for real, I mean biting big. That's a girl when you've got no money. It's only after we have and so we both have on the same outfits. But it was after they saw ours. Somebody want to buy it. And we had issues up until we did the Legends ball Oprah when Freeze Legends and Diana and I were at the same table. Thank god, we made up because I love her. I mean, there's no more ever, There's never gonna be Supremes or Diana Rawson's the phenomenal group. I said, why can't we get along? I'm I'm just wearing my clothes, you know, and doing whatever I do. But it was something that was always bubbling under with she and I and oh oh, I forgot Jesus, the main thing. Oh, Cindy bird Song was Patty LaBelle was sarad Ash, Nona Hendricks, Cindy bird Song and Patti LaBelle. We're in Cleveland. Oh my lord, I forgot this real story. We're in Cleveland, ready to go on. There are only three Patty LaBelle members Cindy bird Song had gone to Dake Florence Vallard's place with the Supremes. They had been rehearsing her for months, and that night she left us, Oh, left us to go with the Subtreeme. She jumped ship bittime. I forgot to tell that story, Okay. So the thing was, after it all settled in my bones, I said, thank god, she's making more money with them than she was with me. So I was it was a blessing for her, but do it the right freaking way, and Diane, don't come stealing my chicks in the night. So she stole Cindy bird Song from me. I forgot about that. Yeah, that was a no no, that would be a no no, baby, But that happened. That's that's why we had issues. And so when Cindy went with the Uh Supremes, all I could do was bless her and say, you know, I'm praying for you to climb. And then something happened that she's no longer with them. Diana left and left her without a blue bell or a paddle. Those things hurt me because they took her for the right reasons for them, but the wrong reason in the end, so yeah, that's why we have issues. Yeah, and but guess what we are now? We're friends now. Yeah, because it's so much stuff in this business you go through that you forgot you went through. I forgot all about until somebody just mentioned it and that was big. Yeah. So but we're friends. You weren't glad to snipe. Been friends when you before I did Versus. Forever we've been. I was with her when her son died. She was with me. My sisters g we're always together. We call each other all the time. She's my Gemini sister. And when we did Versus Sunday, who first of all, baby Girl said, Patty, I didn't know what Versus was. I said, well, I happened to have seen a few uh shows, so I knew what it was. And uh, we did Versus and just had fun. My lyrics were messed up on the durn thing teleprompted I couldn't sing my songs. I said, we're the rest of the song. And then it was so many funny things that happened. And then my son remind me, Mom, the song is only going to be like thirty seconds, not three minutes. So the little lyrics they put up there. I didn't know those baby lyrics, so I just played myself and said, I don't don't see my lyrics. But it was so much fun. And then I got to chair dance gone, I was feeling it wasn't it was it? It was like right out, Oh it was during the pandemic. Yeah, I don't remember many things. It was during the pandemic. We have fun. I have fun singing background for her, and she was singing background for me. See we're two best friends. We're not pretend friends, and that makes them big different. We're not trying to outdo each other. Never. Yeah, we celebrate because we're on tour still together, she and I. So she goes on first. Sometimes sometimes I go on first. I like to go on first. A lot of people like the closing show. Give me the first spot in the day. I don't give me some food. I don't want to wait for the accidents on this midnight or one in the morning when I'm getting out, ain't no restaurants open. Let me go first. I love first because I don't never like closing the show. Never you keep with your shoes on versus too. I sure did. Sitting down, I said, they got it because they were hurting. Yes, but I just love what I love what I do. I don't care for standing, sitting, or whatever. It won't be swimming because I can't swim. It won't be driving because I can't drive, so all those things. Like I don't smoke, so it won't be smoking. But you gotta smoke if you want smoke, smoke smokes? Do it? Um? Do you still enjoy performance? What? More than anything? I'm off for for a whole month. People want me to take vacations. I said, why, I want to sing. I'd rather go on on a tour any day than than than a vacation. I don't like sun, sand or water, so I stay at home on my vacation and play cards with all my buddies and eat crabs hardshell crabs from Baltimore and hard hardy male not female. Those little girls ain't got no meat. Jumbo extra jumbo, honey. I get that paper laid out and eat crabs all day. Yes I do. So you said you don't like the son. I hate the son. I don't like the water, and I don't like sand. So I'm I'm indoors a girl. So no Hawaii, no, no, no, really No, no bato some Miami, Miami, because you're here. You know. I don't like that kind of like. No, I like a casino. Okay, yeah, I played black Chat Okay, I couldn't put you playing Sego. What's that? That's that's the holy game. Oh no, but I played a c doocey in between in between the ace and the dudes. It's it's good. No, it's a card and I played five hundres Jim Rummy, that's it? And are you planning to go back on tour? What excuse me? Gotta stay on tour? You better ask somebody. I stayed on sheet. I tore eleven months out of a year. That's more than wrestling. And that's where the right, that's what I'm doing was crazy because I just try to try to calculate, like, let me give it up for my band. I have the best band and singers ever and crew, and so we're gonna be all for a month and that's gonna hurt me, you know, yes, but no, I love touring. I have the best people. You're see no son this month, No, no son inside my house. Vacation, Well that's whatever it is, vacation. It's what I love watch some i D Channel mysteries and all that stuff and just cooking and playing card. You're watching I D I D and Oxygen those murder mystery channels her to kill them, kill girl. What shows you in too? Right now? I D the Oxygen Channel, the Timer and Hall shows when she talks about murder. Her sister was murdered, So she has a lot of those shows. And I look at anything spooky. I gotta put you on the Frame team. Documentary. What's that? It's a great documentary about like these these boys from Queens that came out. It's a true story. I want that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so you actually like true crimes everything. Okay, you gotta watch that. You gotta watch um Mafia City from us on Netflix. It's about the mafia integrating. Very good. I know I probably saw that. Did you see the Ted Bundy Files. Yeah, a little creepy, little creepy. Yeah. Out of the people. The other I think it was, oh yeah, cooking folks, not like how Patty cooking. No, and that's not good. Give me anything you have ye like that? I'm a Does your wife watch them? She watches some of them with me? Yeah, she wanting someone, but she's like, yeah, she watches them with me. Yea, you like those? Yeah? Yeah, And I like that And I'm good And I'm a movie lover too, like like dumb movies. I like The Jerk with Steve Martin. Oh yeah, that's dumb as hell. I watched that the other day. He's so ignorant. Mama, God, I love that movie. But you like dumb movies. I like dumb movies, like what um um dumb and dumb is a good one for me. Dumb. You ever see part of the Old Virgin? Yes? I did. That's something about something about Mary. I'll wait some about Mary one. Yeah, with her hair when I put that stuff on you too much? To a point, daddy, her hair is yeah, about three months ago. I love it. Yeah, so you really are. I like stuff working. If I'm not working, I'm watching. Okay, what's your favorite place to travel to? No place, Damn, I don't. I don't have a favorite. Yeah, I don't. I mean I love DC in Baltimore. I mean, those are my peeps all there. But I don't like traveling. But Canada sometimes, Okay, nice people there. I'm not gonna lie. I don't know. I don't have a favorite place about How about what do you eat when you go to d C? You said that's one of your favorite. When I go to d C, I use the cook because I bring my electro frypans and my pots and stuff because I don't I don't know if any places in DC to eat your utensils travel with you. It's a big trunk with all of my utensils, my pots pans, all of my spices, all of my stuff. And when I get to a hotel and sit that, I'm not sure if I'm going to eat something. We go to the farmer's market and I cook for everybody. Yeah, I can't wait to see that. You're gonna see it because that's what I do. Yes, I already see another show. Thanksgiving with Patty every year that whatever, every day Thanksgiving with every day? That's perfect though, And like every day is Christmas because people get all hypes on Christmas. What am I gonna buy her? Nothing? Every day should be Christmas? Okay, don't make that a special. What next? On Thanksgiving? Do you fry your turkey or you know my sun story fries and and I put it in the oven. I do a capon like, yes, a capon I put in my pot on top, and he puts, see a fried turkey in the fried turkey pot whatever that is. I never fried. I probably fried my wig. So I'm taking no chance with no frid damn turkey. No, I don't do that. But do you eat fried turkey? I love it? Do you make it? No? I can't? I burn cereal? Can you cook? Are you married? Kind of? We're not married, but I could cook. I could do something. I call it inventions because I grow with a single mother and we have much food in the cover. So she's like, I'm making invention, made whatever was in the cover. That makes sense. Yeah, Well, I'll come for both of you guys to one day and your mom and your wife, Patty, Patty, I'm gonna we're gonna be talking you now. We're gonna we're gonna. You're looking with your rip ball that pulling up. Just put your number. We got to do? Really, I really? Is that something that you know? Um, when people make it in life, the simple things that make them happy. That's one of the simple things that make you happy. Just cooking for other people and to see you asked for seconds. If you don't ask for seconds. I'm very mad. Yeah I'm that girl and asked to take some home. Yeah, I'm her. So you make that much more? You make extra because you want. I always cook for like twenty people. A person's vegetarian, and how about the person's vegetarian. I hook him up. Jasmine, she's vegan. I'm going to cook for her, Jasmine Seloman, she doesn't eat me. What do you cook a vegan for a vegan? I don't know, but I'm gonna find out. I just found that vegan and uh what else? OK? Colaries without the turkey in there? Vegetarian if you just vegetarian, but they got they got soy cheese too. I got her. When she comes, I said, Jasmine, don't worry. She said anything you cook me right, So I'm gonna make her some good vegan for you. That's fine. The vegans ter a vegan? Are you from Jamaican? Respect right? All right? If you don't drink, take kind of people you can. I usually steal it, said I could have it. What do you think, um, the differences you've seen in the music industry in your whole career, You've seen all different levels and the changes you think the artists are better off now than they were before. Oh honey, much better off now. Yeah, I mean it would be hard to get up any kind of recording recorded back in the day. The day people are recording in their car and their basement whereever, yes, and getting the music out and it's going to sell. So it's much better now than it was back in the day. I'm going to record for the first time in fifteen years, um all my month off for the first time. Who you recording? Who? He said, Stanceman? Who's that the white boy? To stay with me? Sam Stansman, I'm sorry, you know what you say. I'm thinking, No, I'm not recording with him. Okay, who Let me see if I could guess the person? Boy, George, boy you're from. I'm just trying to see you. Interview with both with you you were both on Andy Cohen. You see everything I told you. I was going hard, but I made you think that I'm recording those booths because because you know why, I go a lot you did. They both was like, I want to collabor with Patty and he was like, yeah, I got you, you know, but yeah, and I do want to collabor with him. But it wouldn't be on this project, but it could be in the future. Finally, yeah, yeah, I have about six different producers waiting to exhale. Thank God with me, I can't tell you yet. Okay, cool, but I call you okay, no problem. As soon as I can talk. No problems, no problems. You will hear some new music from me by the end of next year. Okay, not this year, Okay, but I promise you. I'm so long overdue. I don't even know, but think about. But you've continued touring, yes, And that's that's what You don't have to know the student for fifteen years and you can still talk eleven months of the years. I think we need to make some noise out of that, because it's these people out there. They're making one song and it lasts for a certain amount, and then you get so satisfied you buy jury and you forget that this is work that goes with this. You still gotta wake up in the morning. You still got to put on a smile one of your door. And this is a prime example that actually didn't been in the studio for fifteen years and still and that's why three years after a year and a half you're You're so right. Like I said earlier, I know I'm blessed. I know I'm touched by angels. I know that I'm still doing it because I still can do it. And the record doesn't matter to the audience who come. They don't know if I've recorded last year, two years ago. They don't care. They really just want to see a show. And whenever I'm outfair, I give, Oh God, I give a real show. No dancers, no fly by night, people behind me doing it, singing, no tracks, all music. I have a twelve piece band or something. I got something. I got four singers and eight band members or whatever. And nothing's pretend nothing. Everything you hear is live, live, live, live, And that's that's what's keeping me living during these live shows. That energy you get from that, all that energy, but they give it to you back. You can shoot the shoot verse point ki and you're talking like that, feelingly you do need a backup dancers. He's tired right now. Thank you. Have you been to one of my shows? Well you have to come to one soon after August. Oh, thank you so much. They know you right, and how do you got a drunk to let's speak? Yes, thank you so much. Thank you. So let me ask you where where um still dealing with like racism? Right? Um? Was it was? It was it like that for you coming up? What did you did you guys? Was it like? Yeah? Like how was what's the difference between now and then? Now? I can fly on the plane before we had to do the station wagon back in Oh. Look, it was so bad. We were we were touring with the Rolling Stones back in the day. So we had to arrived from Philly to l A. Uh we said, at the Hope, Hollywood and Vine hotel and they also stayed there. The tickets for that show was three dollars and fifty cents to see the Rolling Stones and we were called Patti Lavell and the Bluebells. I think we were so stressed by driving from Philly to l A. We fought me, Sarinona. We fought in the dressing room, No, in my hotel suite. So we are stopped in Detroit on the way, and I bought some clothes. We all bought some clothes with our damn but fearce little clothes. And so I'm the one who loves to dress. I'll dress going to the supermarket. You will not catch me in jeans and tights and stuff like that. I'm coming in a full suit. So we bought these clothes and I said, okay, girls, guess what they want us to do a radio show. Let's get dressed. Everybody got dressed, and after that, I said, psych honey. We started fighting and said you lie in some some names they called me. It was the right to call me those names, and I said I was only player having fun, and so they tried to fight, and so I took a bag of pecans and threw him at Sarah. It cracked the mirror and she got cut with the glass. We were so loud Mick Jagger knocked on our door. I swear to God, who said, Lergies, Lergies to show us tonight. What's wrong? I said, I was just playing, having some fun time. We had to do a radio show and you can't see us on radio, so we didn't have to get dressed. But I said, let's get you anyway, and he stopped the fight. The argument. But I'm bad, I'm very very I'm a prankster and I loved I love to play jokes on people, so that was a joke. It almost got me, but it didn't. But I said, as I say something else, what do I say? Okay, that's Patty the Bell. So racism was always bad, it's still bad. So it's it's not stopped. There's a lot of pretend people who say they're not racist anymore or at all, or ever have been. But you can feel the blood running down the neck, that red blood coming down. You see it and you know it. But you just take the high road again, so you keep keep moving. You don't let anything stop you. And that that can't hurt my feelings because you don't like my skin color. Never couldn't hurt me. I had a manager back in the day of car dealership, Howardy Robinson and Philly. That's where we first started singing. And so he always talked about my nose because I had a big nose. I had it done, Okay, I gotta be honest. So I got my nose done. And after what's done, he still saw this black, ugly woman because he said, he said, one day, you're not attractive. I said, I know. I wasn't born to be attractive. I said, I was born to be whatever I am. And so he would put the microphone hanky over the microphone, saying because I was singing and you never walk alone or something. He said, now sing and it's gonna come out, right, I said, with this handy, I said, someone to say. I said, with this hanky, really, and he said, it's gonna make you sound powerful. I said, sir, I am powerful, alot, I'm black and I'm beautiful, and this is the nose. You know. I did get my nose, son, because before it was all over the place, but it didn't take away my beauty, but I thought it did, so I had it done. And you see how you get things done because of what they think you should look like. Now I did that and I still don't see much difference in my face. But racism it was all over that mic that day. It's all over, it's everywhere. It's still and it's not gonna cease. This is the way of the world and we know it. But do you think that back then it was a little bit more out front as opposed to now, like you know, there was actually people win kukus Klan, where now these almost seem like the Clucas clan as the police. Right, it's still there, you can feel it, you can see it now. They don't have the hood or there's an invisible hood that you know, is there dangerous? Oh, it's very dangerous. Yeah, But as I said, we always have to remember who we are and knowing that we're going to be treated less no matter matter what, no matter how much money you have, no matter what, it's still the same. And I'm mad. But that's the thing about you is like you seem like you was like like like you mentioned earlier, you said you hugged somebody with a with a's um. The thing about you is like you really don't judge anybody, like like even from like like back in the days, you know Elton John telling you that he's gay, and you know you being I think you even have like a gay pride song, like the name and it's in scarface the name of place. Wait a minute, it's in the other one. Uh yeah that was Lady in Right and I had starred up in Beverly Hill Cop and New Attitude in Beverly Hill Cop. Right. But like developed not judging people. I was always because when we were first starting the Blue Bells, all of our fans were gay and people were asked, Patty, why don't you think you draw a gay audience. I'm a drag queen, you know, and ain't nothing gay about me. But I'm a drag queen. I love flamboyance. I love people being themselves. Don't hide who you are, because that that'll bring you a quick death if you hide who you are. Be yourself. Yeah, I love people period, black, white, green, I don't care. Just be good. I don't just be a good person. Yes, that's that's that's that's that's that's what like seemingly streaks out, is that, like you really are you really embedded what you just said, like black, white, whatever, you just don't care? Yeah? Really, I love, I love the world. And how does that developed? Though? Like my mother and father, I don't know if you said earlier, you said your fans, Well, yeah, let's let's take it to your mother. My mother and father were very much like that. My father was an entertainer who loved people, who love the dream, who love the gamble, who loves every part of life. And I'm a part of him. And my mother, who never or drink or smoked or anything, I'm a part of her, you know. So I think I'm blessed to have had those parents that I had and I guess I'm just whatever I am. I'm happy you like me. We talked, we talked. We we know the street, but we paid it. Spies in stores? Is everything else in stores? And if not, what day is it's gonna? Okay? So the breakfast items we're in Target and in Giant and Walmart. Well we'll talk, y'all. Okay, tell me up, tell me what Okay? This is in This is in Walmart, Target and Giant. And the syrup is coming in January, and the powder pancake makes is coming in January. And it's a it's a one for diabetics like me, one for real people like you, guys. I'm a real person. I'm just a guy off different flavors. And this butter pie is out, it's in Walmart and where else and Walmart and the sweepert Data pie is in Walmart. And their baby Sweepertata pies for fifty cent, those little baby ones and the family size and that size. And I'm not a good person to advertise my stuff, but it's all phenomenal, it's all good. The peach Cobblers, double peach Cobbler there, Waltlar, that's when you're taking right so all of my din I have the macaroni, the kale, corn over tomatoes, black eyed peas, cornbrea to cornbres, chicken stew, brisket stew, and something else. And when you say Walmart, let's be clear for the people, you're not saying Walmart. That's in Philadelphia, Walmart and over yeah, it's everywhere. Let's clap to that. Is this the first time a black woman is doing this level of business with Walmart? I mean, if it is, I don't know. Okay, they're saying over there, yes, yes, I was going to say, yes, yes, yes, it's the first time. I like I said, I'm blessed the first time that I am that lady who people look to for great food. And how does that like exactly feel when someone comes to you and say Walmart wants to carry your products? Because this is this is the top of the food chain. This is I know, everyone goes to Walmart, from Oprah to Johnny Day, everybody. Right. It was like being asked to do drink Champs. It was big, Okay, fabulous, Okay, let's drink that. We didn't asked to do something at Walmart? What a blessing? Yeah, I mean there were so many a second, how many of you guys? I think that's crazy. Okay, you saw part every two seconds. Yeah, and you know what, I don't want you guys to think that I don't know anything about my business. But my three business partners, Charles, Alex and my son's story, they know much more, they remember much more than I do. I know that they're on point. And I asked some questions when I forget. So that's all it is. Listen, we book artists all the time here, and we know how we know if your team is on point in twenty four seconds, I know you know, and your team is on point. The official there tight. They gave us all information we needed and information we already had. They gave us information that we didn't know. What when do you think I would come? We just we just we was scared. We just scared. This is scared. I'm happy you got unscared. Yeah. Really, because I am so honored. I bought a new suit. Yes, beautiful, hilarious. I love you guys, really, man, man, that's why we because um, it's a little bit of left over marijuana residences. While we was we was spraying this is dijon a lot of story. You know, just screed. You know, we just got it up. You know what I'm saying, make your is that to stop the red first smell? No, this is a specific ship. I'm not supposed to be praying this. I'm just trying to impress you to try to get the smell. I'm human. Yes, we gotta impress you because let me just tell you something. It's an honor for us because, like I said, when we started this show, we want to interview legends. We never thought we don't get an icon like you. We never thought that, you know, we could, We could be honored and blessed in front of your presence. You know, I writed my mom's I writed, my wife, and my son is here. My son, all my friends, he works so the set, so he works here, work right now. Yeah, I mean, you know, we've got a little here, and it's a blessing. It's an honor. Um you know because and I know I know you're gonna say, yeah, but you don't have to be this cool. You don't have to be this down to earth and still be a queen Like I remember when um uh Kanye's mother told him on the documentary she said, a giant doesn't see himself as a giant. You know what I mean? And say said, the giant looks in the mirror and sees nothing. And that's that's kind of like the definition of what I'm seeing it with you, because that's saying you don't see nothing. I know you see who you are. To know, you know who you are, but you would be as humble as you is. It teaches me a lesson, you know, as much as you know success that I'm receiving and I'm a success that I hopefully I'll continue to have, hopefully continue to stay humble, but continue to stay a king. That's what you Yes, what you embedded, that's what you do. I hope to continue to that. I hope people following your footsteps because it's true. Like you know, people make a look at it on TV and be like, man, god, he can't be that much of a good person. Yeah, man, I got to witness it. I got to see it. I got to see the respect and we just really love you man to that this is Can I come back? Yes, it's want to keep bands on for your marror. That good, it's a good one. Ye give me one to take home. And give. Yes, I'm happy to take it. So what's the extra Patty? Besides that, we talked about the studio, we talked about the base. Is there something else we ain't mentioned yet that, Yeah, you're going to space? I don't even like airplane. No, I'm not going to space. I'm just going to continue to tour and record and make products and just just love doing it and pray that I have at least seventy eight more years on this planet. That's what I want. That's what I want. You worked with Easter Rate. We got Easter Rate coming in another way? What did you We're going black Girl sketches. What was it called sketch show, the comedy black Sketch Show. I don't know if that was exactly the title. That was fun. Yeah, yeah, so she's coming in yes, yes, oh god, like that be a show to anybody loved Patty? Everybody right now? I know? Oh gosh, let me see if it's anything I have to ask you before we leave, Okay, yeah, no problem, because you would like to teach it through experience, you know that like when you when you when you talk, it's like a natural it's like it's a natural lesson like people just gravitate towards you and trying to because we all allow people here and we kind of all shut up today. Like what I wanted to ask you, when did you know this show was a success? How long have you doing? How many years? Six years? Six years? When did you know? The first episode DMX DMX I recorded with him too. Oh yeah, thank you, thank you. It was called thank you or something. When I came in the studio, it was so much readfer in that studio and so many roads. I said, is this for me? Him and his wife? They gave me this beautiful necklace said love MX list. Okay, so you started, you started six years ago. The first episode, we knew we were onto something. No, it was the DMX game. We were like the sixth episode and that's when it took us over the top where we really really knew that there's nothing stopping. I agree everything you said. I agree. For the first episode we did, I knew we had something, but it was the DMX like reaction like when we when we got because remember it wasn't all positive at first, really remember the next episode. No, the factor was positive about the DMX episode at first when we dropped that it wasn't all positive. A lot of people looked at us strange because you know, X was drawn. But then we also knew that X wouldn't have did that in front of anybody else. We knew that he would talk to talk to me because when he was one night the best year of life, I was dead with him. Yeah, I mean yeah. So so once we did that, at the time, I didn't realize, I said, because all we haven't we don't have no journalist skills. We just really just got together and just wanted to talk. And then people wanted to hear us talk and we was like, okay, wait a minute here. Yeah yeah, so it worked, Yeah, it work, It worked, and guess what it got us? We got Yeah. I a I'm sitting here told you all day. But I'm happy it went this long. I said to myself, I wonder how long are they gonna talk to because I saw Kanye's his was five hours. I love that. I just wondered how long you're gonna be with me today? And it makes me feel so blessed. Let me just say you something. Let me be clear. I was so scared right I was on this group chat. I was like, listen, I watched everyone in her interviews. She does ten minutes to thirty three minutes, and that we got to get all the questions in very bad The Opra interview, The Opra interview that was. That was a great one. When y'all sat down, had a white believe. That was the Apollo Theater doing that. That's was walking through the Memories network. And can I give Sarah Dash another my ex, my friend who sang with me for many many years with LaBelle Uh Sarah Dash. She wasn't sick, she just left. Yeah. Yeah, I cleansed myself today on this show. I said a lot of things that I probably shouldn't have, but I don't care. I said it, and I feel good about being here. What's your favorite era of music if you had to pick one? And when I said, I mean like ten years fan God, the eighties, it was the years of Marvin Gay. So that what was it? Somebody tell me what years Al Green got the grit stone on? That's Al Green? Right? Al Green? Was he in that time? Was he with the grits? I don't remember because I grew up being scared of grit because of that story. Yeah, I mean, don't grits on you got Jesus, you may not ever make your wife man, he said, no, but I love those years. I love Curtis Mayfield the time. See I'm not good with years. And what was this and what was that? I just know what I love and I love Curtis Mayfield, Al Green, Marvin Gay, Oh my God, Kim Weston, just um, a bunch of Brenda Holloway, Brenda hollow every little bit her who's saying that, bring the Holloway and who's saying that he's somewhere never sleep. So it was just some certain songs that I just love. Ain't no Way is my favorite song of all every every everything, that's that's my top. If you had one album to pick, they came down and said, listen, you got one album to pick for the rest of your life. God gotta be your favorite album. It could be yours, it could be one of yours. It could be Nippers from LaBelle Okay, Nipper Okay. Yeah. That that was very unsung. That album. A lot of our music was very unsung because when you was making it, because we're who we are. Nona Hendricks one of the best writers ever in the world, and that album was just phenomenal. Yeah, what is your favorite album you ever made? That I ever made? Oh, they're so stupid of me. I don't know. That's the one with if only you knew. I don't know the titles of albums, all of them. What's that title? What's that title? I'm in loving it? Uh, Gambles. I'm saying Kenny Jamma wrote it. Yeah, thanks baby, me and my son we have Okay, Sorry, I know that was I was just saying that Kenny Yamma had a lot to do with that, right and and oh my god, what's wrong, Patty? What's the piano? Man? Yes, Leon Huff those guys. And one of my favorite songs is if you Don't Know Me by Now by Teddy Pendergrass. That's what I do on my show. It's a whole story with that song, right, sing it, You'll never never know me? Look at look at these girls, all the things that we've been through. That has to go back at my show. Yes, when you performer, I did, I stopped for what reason? I don't know, Honey. That song, that song, it's coming back when we come back after August. That will be in my repertoire. Yes, you're going back in August. That's when we're gonna go. August. Yeah, you're gonna come and let you know where I am gonna and I want you to be in the front row. I'm paying for your everything and you'll be there. Okay, we got to see miss PATTII right. Goddamn man, I ain't gonna lie. This has been so beautiful man, thank you. I'm like, you know, yesterday I tell you the truth, you know. Um, seeing my mom's happy and seeing you know how so full of joy. It was like breaking up the next day, like it was like Christmas for me because I was like I couldn't kind of like sleep, and I was just like, you know, because I just wanted I wanted to be a good son, you know what I mean. She didn't ask me. I just all my idea and yeah, and I wanted her to I wanted her to feel good. Have you ever seen me before? My Really? Where do you live? Where do you live? How you doing? And what's your birthday? And how young are you? All? Right? Well, I'm happy to meet you really. Yeah, he said you wanted to come and your wife and thank you for me? It felt like Christmas because you know, like I said, we were just we were just starting this playing around and for this to be serious and for us to land, you know, someone like you, and for us to have fun too, this was like this was this was It wasn't just like we just sat down. It was like, you know, we had fun. Like But then you guys were saying, well, damn, we can't smoke. Reef said nothing. We don't need. We don't need you here that we need to. We need to, we need and we just want to thank you. We want to support even though yourself every part every two minutes, we still want to say every two seconds, excuse me seconds, right, that's right that they said. And then I was ready. I know I was saying that playing around, but I'm not playing around. I think everyone in the food industry one take heat of what you did and how remarkably you laid it out and stud and stuck to who you are. The only thing should take heed to that. But if they have a full product, they should actually really come to you on your team. That I nor, what's say that playing around? But I really wasn't. No. I appreciate that, and they can come to my tea. Yeah, yeah, because like you said, whatever you said. Aretha wanted to get some of her stuff, and yes she did imagine that the imagine that a reef was alive and y'all had and we'll be on the same We've been doing the same thing with food. She and I goddamn, yeahda, And I want everybody to know there was nothing but love with me and her. Godam, nothing but love. We love you, Patty, goddamn, and we love you. Lots to take pictures and some that's okay. I just got to do. You have on the master piece roll us check your watch out. Yeah, he's the way you all time. Yeah, the president of role Let's see you. Thanks for joining us for another episode of Drink Champs, hosted by Yours truly, d J e f N and n O r E. Please make sure to follow us on all our socials. 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