WATCH: Vibe Check With Monaelo

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00:00What's up, SNSGU?

00:02This is MonaLeo with VibeCheck.

00:06If my journey into motherhood was a mixtape,

00:09the title would be, ooh child, the ghetto.

00:16My opening bar would be, I love my baby

00:23more than anything in the world.

00:26Hopefully one day I have a baby girl

00:30because I want to have a girl as well.

00:32I need a, I just, let me not say a mini me

00:35because it actually be pissing me off

00:36when people be like, oh my, my, my daughter,

00:39she's my mini me.

00:40I want her to be herself, obviously.

00:43I would, I want her to be herself,

00:44but I just excited to share the pink,

00:48the pink vibes with my, with a little girl.

00:52So, but I love my son so much.

00:55My most out of pocket lyric.

00:58To this day, I still be thinking,

00:59maybe I shouldn't have said that.

01:02Is definitely, you gonna be with Tupac

01:05when I come shoot up that studio.

01:07I should have thought twice about that.

01:09I don't know why I said that.

01:11Like I said earlier, I was on the Don Julio.

01:14I was just in the studio, mad, tripping.

01:18You know, it's a bar though.

01:20Don't, you know, I don't really like to remig on the bars

01:23because the bars are the bars for sure.

01:25But you know, it's just one of those things that,

01:31maybe that was, eh, I could have said something else

01:34right there for sure.

01:36What I think, what I wanted to say,

01:37and this is what I almost changed the lyric to,

01:39but I just, I hate going back and changing lyrics

01:41because it's like, it changes the feel

01:43and authenticity for me.

01:45What I was thinking about saying was,

01:46you gonna be with your grandma

01:48when I come shoot up that studio.

01:49But it didn't, it didn't hit the same.

01:55Let's move on.

01:56A sound or a genre that I low-key want to get into

02:03that people wouldn't expect would definitely be country.

02:08I feel like maybe people expect that

02:09because I'm from Texas.

02:10I'm super down South, super just country, everything.

02:12But it would definitely be country.

02:14And I really, really, really love indie music.

02:18I love indie music, but, and I also love rock music.

02:23I also love pop.

02:24I just feel like anything that's not hip-hop and R&B,

02:29because you know how people get,

02:31I feel like I'm interested in.

02:33And I feel like people, they always be like,

02:35well, why is she getting into this?

02:37Why is she, but I just want to preface everybody

02:39and let them know I'm interested in all the things.

02:42So you never know what the hell I might do.

02:44I'm in wedding planning mode right now.

02:48So the song that I'm going to walk down the aisle to

02:51is going to be Beyonce one plus one.

02:54I've always, I knew I was going to walk down the aisle to that song

02:58when I was in middle school, high school, when I loved that song.

03:01So I know I'm going to walk down the aisle to that.

03:04And then my first dance, we're still trying to figure it out.

03:08We're still trying to figure out what the first dance song is going to be.

03:12But I know it's going to be a lot of Beyonce at the wedding.

03:14First of all, I didn't even realize how much Beyonce is going to be at this wedding.

03:18Me and my dad, we've already picked our father-daughter dance song

03:22and it's Protector by Beyonce from Calvary Carter.

03:26It's such a beautiful song and it makes my dad so emotional,

03:30because I know that's how he feels about his children as well.

03:32So that's the song that we unanimously decided was going to be our father-daughter dance song.

03:37So it's going to be real emotional out there.

03:41We are going to be crying, including Essence.

03:43A song that I feel like I have that taught me something in the process of me writing it.

03:48I have a song called Sober Mind.

03:50And when I was writing the song, I had an idea in mind as to what I wanted the song to sound like.

03:56But I remember in the midst of me writing it, I was getting so choked up

03:59because I was talking to my supporters and I'm trying to motivate my supporters.

04:04But in the midst of that, I feel like I was talking to myself.

04:08And I feel like that about a lot of the songs that I write.

04:11But specifically in the second verse of that song, it's just very motivational

04:17and it's just reminding myself that I am exactly who I think I am

04:22and to continue going at my own pace.

04:25Besides yourself, who is your Femme C Big Three and who is your dream collaboration?

04:36My Femme C Big Three.

04:41Big Three, by the way.

04:43Femme C.

04:44Okay, I'm going with Nicki Minaj, obviously.

04:48Megan Thee Stallion, obviously.

04:50And it might be controversial.

04:55Beyonce.

04:56Beyonce be low-key rapping.

04:58And I need y'all to put some respect on Beyonce's pin.

05:02And on her little rap singing board, she's actually been doing a double-time shit for a really long time.

05:07So Beyonce is one of those artists that she's good.

05:12She's good.

05:13If Beyonce ever wanted to just straight-up rap, a lot of us would be scared.

05:17That's my Femme C Big Three.

05:20And my dream collaboration, of course, is Beyonce.

05:24I feel like she is the pinnacle of music.

05:27She is the standard.

05:29She's the one.

05:30I would love to work with Beyonce one day in music.

05:35And I may be a little biased because I'm from Mo City.

05:39But I feel like the Mo City Dying Freestyle is the Houston song, for me anyway.

05:45I'm a Ridgemont baby.

05:46I'm a Ridgemont four girl.

05:48Like, that's my jam.

05:50That's my anthem.

05:53Mona Leo with Vibe Check.

05:55And I'll see y'all next time.

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