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 “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
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.
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 “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
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.
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.
