WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:01.700 My name is Bri Steves. 2 00:00:01.700 --> 00:00:03.730 I am recording artist, 3 00:00:03.730 --> 00:00:06.690 so I'm currently signed to Atlantic Records. 4 00:00:06.690 --> 00:00:08.900 line:15% Last year, I came out 5 00:00:08.900 --> 00:00:12.520 line:15% during Kendrick Lamar's Made In America set. 6 00:00:12.520 --> 00:00:14.490 line:15% That was actually really great. 7 00:00:14.490 --> 00:00:16.430 line:15% This year, I performed at the Staples Center 8 00:00:16.430 --> 00:00:18.710 line:15% for the first time for BET, 9 00:00:18.710 --> 00:00:21.920 so I was on the stage with Mary J Blige, H.E.R., 10 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:23.373 Summer Walker, Queen Naija. 11 00:00:24.690 --> 00:00:27.240 line:15% I've traveled to a bunch of cities for tours, 12 00:00:27.240 --> 00:00:31.100 line:15% Houston, Nashville, sold out rooms, you name it. 13 00:00:31.100 --> 00:00:32.280 line:15% I've performed at the TLA. 14 00:00:32.280 --> 00:00:36.320 line:15% I've opened up for Freeway, Dave East. 15 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:38.470 I like to clear the room 16 00:00:38.470 --> 00:00:39.780 and I like to just sing 17 00:00:39.780 --> 00:00:42.100 and warm up my vocal chords. 18 00:00:42.100 --> 00:00:45.600 Maybe drink some tea, drink a whole bunch of water before. 19 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:49.920 But besides that, I'm comfortable at this point 20 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:50.980 being just around people. 21 00:00:50.980 --> 00:00:53.700 I don't let the nerves get to me too crazy anymore. 22 00:00:53.700 --> 00:00:56.500 So, you're gonna have a sound check, 23 00:00:56.500 --> 00:01:00.500 so that's gonna be maybe three hours or so 24 00:01:00.500 --> 00:01:02.563 before the actual show goes on. 25 00:01:04.060 --> 00:01:06.530 line:15% Then later, you have to get changed, 26 00:01:06.530 --> 00:01:08.460 line:15% so you have your own dressing room. 27 00:01:08.460 --> 00:01:09.730 line:15% Maybe have an hour or two. 28 00:01:09.730 --> 00:01:13.390 line:15% There's always food maybe in a common area, 29 00:01:13.390 --> 00:01:15.883 so everybody's there mingling before. 30 00:01:17.020 --> 00:01:18.020 You go back to your dressing room. 31 00:01:18.020 --> 00:01:18.853 You get ready. 32 00:01:18.853 --> 00:01:20.420 Usually people are coming back and forth 33 00:01:20.420 --> 00:01:21.887 to tell you how much time you have left. 34 00:01:21.887 --> 00:01:24.130 "Okay, count down, you have 30 minutes left" 35 00:01:24.130 --> 00:01:26.520 or "you have 15 minutes left." 36 00:01:26.520 --> 00:01:28.850 There's probably gonna be some interviews done. 37 00:01:28.850 --> 00:01:32.480 I know BET came in, interviewing me before, 38 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:33.810 right before I hit the stage. 39 00:01:33.810 --> 00:01:37.360 And when they're like, "okay, five minutes," 40 00:01:37.360 --> 00:01:39.150 so it's kind of this whole rush thing 41 00:01:39.150 --> 00:01:41.090 and everybody's walking you to the stage 42 00:01:41.090 --> 00:01:44.670 and it's this big entourage-looking thing 43 00:01:44.670 --> 00:01:45.650 and then you go on! 44 00:01:45.650 --> 00:01:48.010 line:15% There's some producers and writers 45 00:01:48.010 --> 00:01:49.430 line:15% that love to work in the nighttime. 46 00:01:49.430 --> 00:01:52.540 line:15% They like to book their sessions from 10 o'clock 47 00:01:52.540 --> 00:01:53.620 line:15% and they like to work all the way 48 00:01:53.620 --> 00:01:55.350 line:15% until six o'clock in the morning. 49 00:01:55.350 --> 00:01:56.790 I'm not one of those people. 50 00:01:56.790 --> 00:01:58.800 I am one of the people that like to start work 51 00:01:58.800 --> 00:02:00.660 at maybe one p.m. 52 00:02:00.660 --> 00:02:03.660 I get to order some lunch and be out of the studio before 10 53 00:02:03.660 --> 00:02:05.450 so I can go to sleep. 54 00:02:05.450 --> 00:02:06.980 But sometimes it clashes, 55 00:02:06.980 --> 00:02:09.120 but sometimes it's not about me 56 00:02:09.120 --> 00:02:13.470 and if I'm gonna be in with somebody I really admire, 57 00:02:13.470 --> 00:02:15.650 I'm gonna start at 10 o'clock. (chuckles) 58 00:02:15.650 --> 00:02:18.120 So I mean, really, it actually depends on 59 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:21.120 which producer or which writers you're working with. 60 00:02:21.120 --> 00:02:25.350 line:15% Sometimes I've been in with Hitmaka, Berg, 61 00:02:25.350 --> 00:02:26.910 line:15% he's a really great producer 62 00:02:26.910 --> 00:02:30.300 line:15% but he likes to have a really great party 63 00:02:30.300 --> 00:02:31.530 line:15% and the atmosphere going on. 64 00:02:31.530 --> 00:02:35.760 So you'll go in with him and Ty Dolla $ign will be there 65 00:02:35.760 --> 00:02:38.240 and Wiz Khalifa and Nelly is here 66 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:42.200 and oh there goes 2 Chainz over there, you know what I mean? 67 00:02:42.200 --> 00:02:45.180 It's kind of like a really great environment, 68 00:02:45.180 --> 00:02:46.900 a party kind of scene. 69 00:02:46.900 --> 00:02:49.010 And then people like Pharrell, 70 00:02:49.010 --> 00:02:54.010 he likes to have a bunch of writers, 71 00:02:54.260 --> 00:02:56.600 line:15% a bunch of creative people are working in this room 72 00:02:56.600 --> 00:02:58.900 line:15% and it's like a whole machine-thing going on. 73 00:02:58.900 --> 00:03:00.900 line:15% So every session is kind of different. 74 00:03:00.900 --> 00:03:02.270 line:15% There are some where you just work 75 00:03:02.270 --> 00:03:06.070 line:15% with a producer or an engineer just one-on-one 76 00:03:06.070 --> 00:03:08.700 and it's just nobody but me and the engineer 77 00:03:08.700 --> 00:03:10.320 and the producer in the room 78 00:03:10.320 --> 00:03:12.850 and we're just vibing back and forth. 79 00:03:12.850 --> 00:03:15.013 It's really, honestly, different every time.