International Talk Ep.12 LIBIANCA!

DJ Norie sits down with Libianca for an honest conversation about her new music, her upcoming show in New York, her weight loss and workout routine, and where she is mentally at this stage of her journey. Don’t miss this exclusive interview.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:06

International talk, give her shooter DJ the number and have Libyanca in the building. Yes. Woo! Hey baby.

SPEAKER_03 0:15

Lavina flesh. Lavina flash in the entire room.

SPEAKER_02 0:19

Now he's talking about it. Like hello.

SPEAKER_03 0:24

What up, girlfriend? Yeah, bro. I'm chilling. Looking a lot better, feeling better, doing better, you know?

SPEAKER_02 0:31

Nah, I never. I don't know if you always look better. I think you always look great in general.

SPEAKER_03 0:36

Yes, but now I do grita. Grita! Yes.

SPEAKER_02 0:41

I get I get I get it. Sometimes we need a little refresh.

SPEAKER_03 0:44

Yeah, yeah, 100%.

SPEAKER_02 0:46

Like for me, I started going back to the gym heavy. So I feel like that's like my little activity now, going to the gym.

SPEAKER_03 0:53

I'm with you because I've been obsessed with like Pilates and Hotworks. We're working out in the sauna. What do I get out of Pilates? Like, I I don't see like let me break it down. First of all, I'm getting abs. Okay. I'm on my way to getting abs, super toned. Everything is slipping, slimming down. Maybe I have. Body calm.

SPEAKER_02 1:13

Maybe I asked the question wrong.

SPEAKER_03 1:15

Big Nash, small waist, toned arms, good looking guy. Do I need to keep going? Do I need to keep going?

unknown 1:25

No.

SPEAKER_02 1:27

What you gotta mommy makeover?

SPEAKER_03 1:31

I'm getting everything out of it. I'm getting everything out of it. I told my man, I'm like, let's go to a Pilates class. He was like, no, I don't want to have a fat ass. I'm like, it's not gonna give you a fat ass, but you know, let's go. So we end up in there. He goes through the class, he's like, mmm, I want to do this like once a month. I'm like, yeah, exactly. How many times do you go? Three times a week. And if I am able to, damn near every day.

SPEAKER_02 1:54

So so how long is the Pilates?

SPEAKER_03 1:56

It's like 40 minutes. 40 minutes and then like 10 minutes of structural.

SPEAKER_02 2:01

So it's like a full is it like a full body workout? Full body. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:05

Oh it's team. A lot of men in that class, like Pilates? A lot of men do it. Rarely. But I do see them in there every now and then.

SPEAKER_02 2:18

So it's not like a yoga thing, like people do yoga.

SPEAKER_03 2:20

Nah, it's definitely not yoga. It's not yoga. Yoga does not have you sweating the way Pilates got me sweating, bro. Mm mm.

SPEAKER_02 2:27

So, like, you know, Jim, like you, so so for me, you know, we would chest one day, arm one day, legs one day, and just rotate just like that. Yeah. But you was like one whole body.

SPEAKER_03 2:36

It's whole body. You're more bad. It's whole body. And sometimes they'll focus more on abs, sometimes focus more on the legs. Three times a week. Yeah, bro.

SPEAKER_02 2:43

Lucky gave me two. Yeah, it was a whole body workout. Yeah. You can't do nothing after that.

SPEAKER_03 2:49

I'll go to the sauna after that.

SPEAKER_02 2:52

Sauna's a good move.

SPEAKER_03 2:53

You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:55

Sauna's a good move. I could definitely do a nice nice, but I can't let 30 minutes to me is good enough.

SPEAKER_03 3:01

Right. Like, let's not do too much.

SPEAKER_02 3:04

Like, I ain't got that much in the docs.

SPEAKER_03 3:07

So, what do you be doing? You be lifting?

SPEAKER_02 3:09

Yeah. I'm listening to like just strength training. Like creating back a better physique.

SPEAKER_03 3:16

Yes, okay.

SPEAKER_02 3:17

I think that's more. That's that's what really brings you guys and helps you. Yeah. Like I got this new thing where I'm getting up early in the morning going to the gym. Nice. You know what I'm saying? That's a good way to start your day. Yeah, it is, it is. Like, but I OD sometimes I realize like, why am I up six o'clock in the morning? And then after that, the problem when you get up early, your day finishes fast. So it's like at one o'clock, I'm like, what? I'm going to bed.

SPEAKER_03 3:43

Right, be ready to sleep quick. I told you, bro. For ready to go about bed.

SPEAKER_02 3:48

Yes, 100%. Yo. But but for you now, I'm guessing like your workout, do sauna, probably take a nap and then start writing music all over again or something.

SPEAKER_03 3:58

Yeah, I write when the music calls. Meaning when I start hearing stuff in my head, whatever I'm doing, I'm stopping. I'm getting on my phone, voice memo. When I get home, I can, you know, finish it up and whatnot.

SPEAKER_02 4:11

But it's not a force thing for you. No. It's like a dust.

SPEAKER_03 4:15

Yeah, no, I'll be on the phone with my mom, and then I'm hearing something. I'm like, hold on, mom, I'll call you back. And then I go record what I need to record, call her back.

SPEAKER_02 4:23

It was like a little while ago, you was humming the users, and I'm like, what are you doing? Yeah, what are you doing?

SPEAKER_00 4:28

You're like, is it something new?

SPEAKER_02 4:29

Like, nah, just some random shit.

SPEAKER_03 4:31

She was like, man, creativity is constant, bro. Constant, constant.

SPEAKER_02 4:39

So basically, you just walk in and then a certain breeze hits you. And it's a song.

SPEAKER_03 4:45

Sometimes, it be that quick, bro. I'm not gonna lie. Sometimes, bro, I'll just be sitting, you know, you just look at something and you get like the whole song.

SPEAKER_02 4:54

You're like, damn, this is a hit, bro.

SPEAKER_03 5:01

Yes, bro, a hundred percent. Anything can inspire a song. It'd be like that, bro. It'd be like that.

SPEAKER_02 5:14

Have you worked with any other producers lately, or just everything has been you?

SPEAKER_03 5:18

Nah, uh, my production team is in-house now. So I haven't really been working with anyone outside of the producers that are like tight end with me. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:29

So how many producers do you have in the team?

SPEAKER_03 5:32

Like three, four.

SPEAKER_02 5:34

That's a lot. That's a good thing.

SPEAKER_03 5:36

Five. I think three three is fine. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:41

But like so as as a production team now, is it like this one kind of like has an army sound, this one has a sound, yes.

SPEAKER_03 5:50

Yes, like they are all very very, very important because we need that diversity to be able to create music from different places, especially since I'm I'm so multifaceted. Yes, so it's very, very important. We definitely have one that is more like the uh RB soul kind of vibe, and he's very bluesy. Like we will just sit down, he starts on the piano and he's just playing stuff, and I just start singing like we just be going crazy, and we haven't even started working. Bluesy, yeah, bluesy, bro. She's making a word tickling you.

SPEAKER_02 6:32

So we got the RB sounding. Yes, so who who gives you the who gives you the the the the afro sound?

SPEAKER_03 6:39

Is that you or basically all of them can come together and do that as well. So each of them can do more than one genre. So then, you know, whoever's available to link, we link, we get things done. Makes sense, and yeah, so sometimes I'll come with a song I've written on a guitar and I want to just expand on it, and they'll just work with me and finish that up. Or um I'll just hear something with nothing to it, and I'm like, okay, guys, well, so here's my voice. Let's figure something out. Let's figure something out. Um, most of the time they'll throw beats at me and I'm like, mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm, okay, cool. Get me on the mic, I get on the mic, I spit something out, and they're like, mmm, I'm like, mmm, yeah. This is gonna be part of the vault for sure. A bunch of mmm. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A whole bunch of mmms in the studio, man.

SPEAKER_02 7:25

But that's always a good vibe where you have people that understand who you are and and know, you know, what's your capability.

SPEAKER_03 7:34

Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 7:35

Because I feel like a lot of time people just do songs like, yeah, you need to just they don't know how to bring you like out. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? They need to bring that in a thing.

SPEAKER_03 7:45

And for me, it's like I gotta be comfortable around you. I have to trust your character. Like, I gotta be cool with you. You know what I'm saying? Like, you can't come up in there killing the vibe. You kill the vibe, you're gonna turn around. I've already done an Irish goodbye, bro. I'm already where's Libby? Libby is locked up in the room, and then Metro gonna come be like, baby, what's going on? I'm like, yeah, wrap it up.

SPEAKER_02 8:10

Wrap it up. Wrap it up. We'll try next time. Okay, guys. So we're gonna. Yeah, yeah, we're gonna wrap it up, bro. Okay, guys, we're gonna everybody just goo.

SPEAKER_03 8:23

Yeah, we'll try again tomorrow. The vibes gotta be right because that's where the best music comes from, you know.

SPEAKER_02 8:29

I'm figuring the vibes was right when you did the um the song you were just promoting the other day.

SPEAKER_03 8:38

I believe in better or let me be in your arms. Don't say sorry. Sorry. Saksamotos? Yeah, bro. I like that song. Yeah, bro. I like it.

SPEAKER_02 8:49

Like a a real, like clean energy vibe. Yes, yes. I'm not gonna-you saying it though.

SPEAKER_03 8:58

Yeah, bro. I I definitely was because it's like I wrote that kind of like imagining myself, because I always see stuff when I'm writing, and I just saw myself just running with the big bag of clothes, and I'm just like, I'm out of here. I'm gonna go find a better life. F y'all. I'm gonna go figure out what I need to because I believe that you know there is better out there for me. So, and um, fans were like, Yeah, so when you're gonna drop it, I I tease that, drop something else. They're like, Okay, girl, so where is sex and it's coming? It's coming because the team, oh my god, bro. I'm also sorry for my team sometimes because they be dealing with me. I I was like, oh yeah, I like this song, and then I ended up not liking it, and I was just like, I don't know if I want to drop it. So we're like, girl, you already teased it.

SPEAKER_02 9:45

Teaser, you see that I love that song.

SPEAKER_03 9:47

I know, I know. It's a love-hate relationship with it, but it is gonna drop. It will drop. I don't have a choice.

SPEAKER_02 9:54

Listen, when when you have a few of us that like songs, drop the song.

SPEAKER_03 9:59

Yeah, I gotta respect y'all. It drops it.

SPEAKER_02 10:01

It's like don't certain songs do not drop it. Don't gatekeep it. Yeah, you keep facts. How you gatekeeping your own song? Yo, I never seen this before. Have anybody seen that book? A person gatekeep their own song?

SPEAKER_03 10:15

Just with only a few, but no, sex and come out for sure. It will.

SPEAKER_02 10:21

I bet you somebody asked you with your concert. You better sing it.

SPEAKER_00 10:28

You better sing it. I better sing it.

SPEAKER_02 10:30

Oh my god. Yo, I'm sure you got in your phone. When you got a chance, just send it to me. At least you let me hear the full song.

SPEAKER_03 10:35

Yeah, the full song. I got you, bro.

SPEAKER_02 10:38

I keep on hearing clip, clip, clip, clip, clip.

SPEAKER_03 10:40

Like, yeah, it's like I want the full thing. I got you.

SPEAKER_02 10:43

I'll send it to you after you're getting on me right now. Like, but like, you know, like you, you, you, you know, I rock with y'all. Like, certain times you got a song, like, give me the song. Let me do what I do, bro.

SPEAKER_03 10:55

Nah, 100%, bro.

SPEAKER_02 10:56

Yeah, you can't be like that sometimes. Yeah. So you got the show in SOBs. And I see a something else coming up. I think. Was it like?

SPEAKER_03 11:06

Yeah, it's uh um show in Duluth, Minnesota.

SPEAKER_02 11:09

I see like some Dantal and Reggae.

SPEAKER_03 11:11

Oh, yeah. I think Protege. Yeah, that's the one in Duluth, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:15

Protege. Yeah, I've seen I was like, is she a Rasta now? I'm trying to figure out what's going on.

SPEAKER_03 11:20

Every now and then, you know, just Rastafara.

SPEAKER_02 11:26

I was like, maybe Proto.

SPEAKER_03 11:30

Bro, Jesse Royal. Yeah, and speaking of, I have I have been in the stew, you know, with some reggae.

SPEAKER_02 11:38

Yes. Come, we bring you, come. We welcome you.

SPEAKER_00 11:43

Yes, yes, you have to welcome me, bro.

SPEAKER_02 11:46

Yeah, what you know, tell them. We put some we got one, two, three. Let's go.

SPEAKER_03 11:51

Exactly. We family.

SPEAKER_02 11:52

Yeah, so so what what's what's our so what's the main project right now?

SPEAKER_03 11:57

Right now, I have You know we're in July, right? Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_02 12:02

Musically, you're supposed to have a song right here, bubbling for us right now, right?

SPEAKER_03 12:07

It is, I promise. It's literally dropping the end of this month, right? It's dropping the end of this month. It's called I Know. It is literally the song that everyone has been so hype about and can't wait for it to drop. Everyone that listens to it is like, yo, this is getting out of the water. So um yeah, and it's featuring my artists. Oh, you have an artist. I do, I do, I do. His name is Z Boy, and he is Ghanaian. Yes. Z Boy is so cold. Yes, welcome to the family, bro.

SPEAKER_02 12:40

Okay, so so is he uh coming to the show with you?

SPEAKER_03 12:44

No, no, no. He is in Ghana, so um, I'll be leaving to Ghana soon, and we're gonna be doing a whole lot of work together and getting stuff, you know what I'm saying? Until we can get his visa and everything together for him to be able to come through.

SPEAKER_02 12:58

Ghana's kind of like lenient with artists. Yes, and if he was in Nigeria, then you might have a lot of things.

SPEAKER_03 13:06

It would have yeah, a little bit tougher for sure.

SPEAKER_02 13:08

It might cost you a lot.

SPEAKER_03 13:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:12

We can't make it happen, you know. So, okay, but um, not back to Saks, but uh when we're dropping that one. Like, is that after this record you're dropping in July? Maybe August, maybe September. I I think we should drop something.

SPEAKER_03 13:30

He's not letting this go.

SPEAKER_02 13:31

I think we're gonna have a nice meeting after this and we talk about it. Nori, Nori, you'll kill me. We all have talking a while. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, let's go. Okay, fine, fine. Because this is listen. This quarter right now is July. You gotta have a song right now because something's over.

SPEAKER_03 13:50

It might end up on my album that I am currently building. Oh, okay, you know, so it's gonna be all wrapped up and ready to turn in by the end of this year, you know, when we're just gonna get everything rolling. So if you don't hear it as a single, it's gonna be on the album. They're not gonna let me not drop it.

SPEAKER_02 14:08

Well, that should be another single leading on the album, just saying.

SPEAKER_03 14:11

Yeah, one thing you're gonna do is tell me you're mine. And I love that. I do. I do, I appreciate it. That's real love, bro. That's real love. That's real love, bro.

SPEAKER_02 14:20

Yes, my gee, you know that from day one. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? And the vibe has always been good with you guys, so it's it's it's always good to support. Yes, you know what I'm saying? Like it's just every time you get along with people, so when you actually get along with some people and you see that they have your genuine vibe with you, you just yeah, you cherish it, bro. Yeah, you cherish it. You never gotta speak to them. Yeah, when you speak to them, they oh, what up?

SPEAKER_03 14:43

Yeah, yo! It's always there, the vibe's always there.

SPEAKER_02 14:47

Man, so so it's like that's why I always like whenever you're in town, I say, yo, let's sit down, let's talk. Let's chop it up, let's do something. You know, the fans want to talk to you beside TikTok. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Like the TikTok queens.

SPEAKER_03 15:03

Chronically on TikTok. I love that app. I do. I love it.

SPEAKER_02 15:08

Like I told you before, get rid of Instagram.

SPEAKER_03 15:10

Right. Yeah, I literally be telling them, like, I don't, I don't even like Instagram. Like, what's what's even going on there for real?

SPEAKER_02 15:17

Like, what's going on there for real? TikTok mama.

SPEAKER_03 15:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:21

But your fans, they love it, so you gotta you gotta just keep on going. I don't I don't see nothing that they don't embrace with you when you put on TikTok. Yeah, they're like they love it all. I just bought toilet tissue.

SPEAKER_00 15:33

They be like, hey, toilet tissue Big Mummy bought toilet tissue.

SPEAKER_03 15:39

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:40

Where did she get a toilet tissue from? I love them. I do love them too. So I know, I know we're getting ready for the show. Yeah. And um, we got the music dropping, right? Yeah, and we said working on the album.

SPEAKER_03 15:52

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 15:53

Okay. We heard everything she said so far. Yes. So when I text and say, yo, what where is this? Right. And nobody answered me. I'm gonna go on TikTok.

SPEAKER_00 16:03

We're gonna be in trouble.

SPEAKER_02 16:04

I'm gonna go on TikTok and find you.

SPEAKER_03 16:06

Oh my god, no. I don't want to be in trouble with you, Nori. I don't want to be in trouble.

SPEAKER_02 16:10

I appreciate you. I appreciate you. So, you know, good luck on the show. I know the show's gonna be a vibe. Thanks. We're all gonna be there. So we're gonna have some retakes of the show. Yeah, you're gonna see it all over TikTok, but I'm Instagram. You're gonna see it on my Instagram page. Yeah, so you know the support is always, and I appreciate you. Right? Libby's here, DJ Nori, International Talk. I appreciate you, mama. Thank you. Peace out, child.