Lucky Daye chats with THR at the 2025 BET Awards and dishes on making new music in Los Angeles, saying he's "bringing New Orleans to L.A." Plus, he remembers Sly Stone at the BET Awards saying "may he rest in paradise today."
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00:00How you feeling? I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good. I got some sleep or not. I don't know if it's delirium or excitement, but I'm in there. I'm locked.
00:09You're not performing. You just get to have fun?
00:12Crazy. You know what's crazy? I don't know what type of hunting you're doing when it comes to trying to know stuff, but I'm going to keep my mouth closed.
00:19And if you're right, she said it first.
00:22Okay, that's fair. That's fair. Well, I do want to ask, you know, we also have just learned the passing of Sly Stone.
00:32You know, what would you say people should know about him and what he's meant to music?
00:36Man, it's so much that people borrow from Sly. Like, back then, it wasn't nobody to just say, oh, look, he took that. Post that. He stole that.
00:45They just took it. So, like, to know that, and he played instruments. He played everything.
00:50And his voice, the way he's switching, he's incredible. You can hear tones of it in, like, Stevie Wonder.
00:55You can hear tones of it in all the greatest artists. That's how great he was.
00:59So, yeah, man, he rests in paradise today.
01:02Now, are you touring right now, or are you getting a little break?
01:05I'm on a little break. I've been working on my album, so I was, you know, I got to be focused. I got to be focused.
01:11I'm on that right now.
01:12You recording here in L.A.? Going back to New Orleans? How are you?
01:16I'm bringing the New Orleans to L.A. Yeah, I keep a little bubble in L.A. where I can just keep it.
01:20Super, you know, yeah.
01:23I'm excited to see you perform.
01:26No, I'm kidding.
01:27But I hope...
01:28We do have four icon trippies.
01:32I know, you did it.
01:35But I do want to ask of the four icon, you know, Kirk, Mariah, Snoop, Jamie.
01:41Who has most influenced you artistically?
01:43I would say Jamie Foxx.
01:45Jamie Foxx, he's influenced me so much.
01:48I'm goofy, so I always saw myself in him.
01:51He can sing.
01:52I always saw myself in that.
01:54And the way he channeled other people, whether it be like music or acting, that's literally how I create music.
02:00So, like, just seeing how he did it, it gave me so much, like, fuel.
02:05So, I want to see him get all the flowers, all of it.
02:08Are you going to be acting?
02:10How you know?
02:11You know what's crazy, girl?
02:13You don't have to keep your mouth closed.
02:17I ain't listening.
02:18I ain't going to say nothing until I lock in, but I'm in there.
02:21Okay.
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