Kaught Up With Kreoliciouz & Mya - A Night With The Girls At The Hotel!KA: Hello everyone, we are here with Mya, who stopped through the Windy City to
show us some love and she is doing some big things. You have an album coming getting
ready to drop?
Mya: Yes, its slated for October 23rd and its called Liberation.
KA: Who can we expect on the album?
Mya: Collaboration wise I worked with Charli Baltimore.
KA: Wow
Mya: (Laughs) Yes we have a girls anthem called "I Am". Lil Wayne, we have a song
called "Lock U Down" and Snoop and I did a record together called "Walka Not A Talka".
KA: I'm already excited.
Mya: On the production side I worked with Brian Michael Cox, Tricky Stewart, Scott
Storch, and some real upcoming new producers that no one has ever heard before.
KA: That's great, giving some upcoming producers their start. How is your selection
process when it comes to producers?
Mya: Just getting in the studio first and seeing how things come out production
wise, and how quick the turn around time is. You usually want a producer that can
create from scratch with you, so that's usually how I select and then there's usually
a financial issue at the end of the day. (laughs)
KA: Why Liberation as the name of the album?
Mya: That's where I am and I feel really free and comfortable in making decisions
and in being a woman. A lot of pieces in my life have been gelled together. My father
was out of my life for a long time. now he' s back in my life and my career. It's
a big deal to have a man around and set examples of what it's suppose to be. I'm
single and I've learn to just live with myself.
KA: Uh oh I know that got the fells attention and you may be single, but I know
a lot of the guys consider you a sex symbol. We have seen you grow before us, and
when you graced the cover of King Magazine, they was like whoa!
Mya: I feel it's a dimension of my personality but it's not who I am. Every woman
has a sexual side to her or a sexy side and that seems to get a lot of attention
for some reason. But I do a little bit here and there from The Rugrats to King
Magazine. (laughs)
KA: You have been on the scene for a long time. What have you been doing for past
few months, and since your last album?
Mya: I have been in the gym, but I've also been stuffing my face. I have to eat,
that's one thing I don't do, but I do go to the gym. I love to eat.
KA: What is one of your favorite dish?
Mya: Everything, the only thing I cut out is pork. Pastas are my weakness, Crispy
Creams, any junk food. I do like fruits and vegetables, which is good, cause I eat
those. But fish, grilled chicken, and all that but my favorite is probably pasta.
KA: (laughs) Ok, so what else have you been up too?
Mya: I just finished teaching kids. I hold a summer program in my hometown of D.C.
and they had this grand [dance] finale at Duke Ellington high school and it worked
out. They did there thing, it was there first time on stage, they're young. It was
fun.
KA: How did that come about?
Mya: Well I moved from D.C. to LA, and I've always wanted to work with kids. I started
working with kids when I was 15 years old, that was my first job. I missed it a
lot, being on the road, I was removed from it, so I got back into it and created
a program for the arts and I wanted to give back to my hometown.
KA: Can we expect a tour?
Mya: Well actually we're in rehearsal when we get back to D.C. and we're going to
be doing some performing and hopefully a tour after the 3rd single.
KA: What is the next single?
Mya: I'm actually going to let the fans decide . They chose "Ridin", so I'd like
it to be a follow up song and I have a couple options.
KA: How do you go about letting the fans chose?
Mya: MySpace
KA: What is your MySpace page, so my readers know how to contact you and stay updated
with you?
Mya:
www.myspace.com/therealmya[http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=6eroefcab.0.bwxghfcab.ujiukzbab.3195&ts=S0288&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myspace.com%2Ftherealmya]
KA: Do you check your own MySpace?
Mya: I don't check it recently because my laptop is in the shop right now, but I
do. I add my friends and answer as many messages as I can.
KA: What do you think of MySpace?
Mya: It's convenient, it's your own promo site to the general public, and networking.
It's very handy and hands on.
KA: What advice do you have for upcoming artists in the music industry trying to
get out there?
Mya: Focus on the whole package. There's a lot of pretty girls, there's a lot of
rappers out there and musicians and producers that look at the whole package and
what you can bring to the table differently. Rather its your lyrics, rather it's
the way you play your guitar, you have to have a trademark. The first opportunity,
you have to nail it as much as possible. You can also be hands on, after that be
self sufficient as much as possible. Pick up a industry book if you don't have
people around to learn about the business so that you are not walking in the door
cold. Realize that you may get no's more than you get yes's, but stay focus. Stay
Focus and get accustomed to what everyone else is doing. Go where you need to go,
walk in the studio, go to industry events, and invest your money within yourself
and equipment because you can do it in your bedroom. Perfect your craft, get your
equipment, put a percentage of your paycheck aside and invest in equipment and learn
how to do it because its so easy, you can do it on your laptop. Experiment, and
if you already have product out there, get a MySpace page and start networking and
going this person site and that persons site, put your music out, blog, newsletters,
establish e-mail addresses, it's a whole lot of work that you can get together and
love what you do at the end of the day.
KA: What is the day in the life of Mya like?
Mya: Inconsistent, its different everyday. Yesterday was a very easy day, compared
to the week before. I was in new York and every day there was radio at 6am for a
couple house and then go to TV stations, to fittings, to this event, back to the
hotel, change, new event, fashion show, change in the car, eat something, I mean
it's different. Then the next day, we was in Dayton, landed the Black College Tour
with BET, got on stage for like 20 minutes, and then headed to the airport. So it
was just different, then yesterday me and my friend went shopping in the mall and
saw a movie in Charlotte.
KA: What movie did you see?
Mya: Mr. Woodcock with Billy Bob Thorton
KA: Do you get to see movies often with a complex schedule? I know for me, until
this year, I hadn't had time to go see any movie in a few years.
Mya: What? In the theatre? Wow, what is a day in the life of Kreoliciouz like? (laughs)
KA: (laughs) So a lot of your fans remember you from The Game's video "Dreams",
which led people to believe that you are The Game were an item, can you touch on
that?
Mya: You can't take everything literal in this business. I was a label mate on
Interscope
when I agreed to do the appearance in the video as a fantasy sequence of him dreaming
about me.
KA: See everyone it was just a fantasy. (laughs) I think people took the lyrics
the wrong way when it came to the subject of you.
Mya: It depends on how you look at it. Every man has a dream of doing something
with a woman, I think. It's all the way in how you voice it and the complex of the
views is a different story and you can either say yes or nor or go back and forth.
But I was label mate on Interscope, it was a favor to Dre and that's about it. I've
heard some things said by other folks in the music industry in the years and it
was clearly a diss and clearly untrue.
KA: Well you can clear it up.
Mya: Well I have addresses it so many times and they got the point. I don't need
to address it, its 2007 about to be 2008 and I addressed it in 2006. (laughs) But
it happens to all girls, rather their in middle school, high school, entertainment
business or not. When you're a female in this world, rather you chose to be or not,
you are a sex symbol and it depends on the degree that you want to have focused
on you as that. So like I said all people are multi-dimensional and its not just
that for me, it's apart of it because this is show business, but I that its just
acting. Some of the songs reflect my real life and some of it is jumping into character
and wiling out with your girls. But you wouldn't act that way in front of your family
on Sunday morning. (laughs) I'm comfortable about being honest and telling folks
about some of the relationships that I have had, some of the things that I have
experienced, and some of its too much information for people to handle. But there's
going to be criticism either way in whatever you do, so as long as your happy at
the end of the day, that's liberation to me.
KA: Well thanks so much for hanging out with us. Make sure everyone cop the album
Liberation on October 23rd.
Heavy on the unless.
