00:00Hey, hey, Essence Live. I'm your girl Dana Blair. In case you're just tuning in, we're live from the Superdome for the 2016 Essence Festival Backstage VIP. Standing next to me is Mr. French Montana. How you doing?
00:15What's up, baby? How you doing?
00:18Thank you so much for taking the time to come and chat with us. Is this your first Essence Festival?
00:23Yeah, actually it's my first one.
00:24And you're about to take the stage. How you feeling?
00:26Man, I feel great, man. Look at the people, man. It's my first time even performing at the Dome, too. So it's beautiful, especially doing it with my big brother.
00:35Have you had a chance to experience anything that New Orleans has to offer?
00:39Gumbo. Some fried oysters. I got a chance to go to a couple of different places. I had the grenade.
00:48Oh, of course.
00:49Yeah.
00:50You have to hit up the grenades while you're here in New Orleans. But what about the heat, though? I mean, come on.
00:54Oh, no. Yeah, it's crazy. But I love it, though. I love the heat. So, you know, I love it.
00:58So what can we expect from your performance coming up?
01:01Turn up, shorty.
01:03Turn up all the way?
01:05Yeah, yeah. We're all the way turned up. You'll see it.
01:07And what do you have coming up next for your fans? Can you share that with Essence Live?
01:10Yeah. My album, Mac and Cheese 4, MC4, come out August 19th. It's on pre-order right now. Go pre-order it.
01:16You get the song with me, Kanye and Nas, and you get a lot of Joe with me and Kodak Black. It's on iTunes right now. Go get that.
01:23My movie come out on Christmas. But right now, it's just about the album.
01:28Awesome. Thank you so much. Congratulations. Thank you for taking the time. I know you're about to take the stage. You're going to kill it.
01:33Thank you so much, everyone at Essence Live. It's been a wonderful, wonderful past three days.
01:38Super lounges, the convention center, the Superdome, French Montana, all of the stars.
01:43Whew. I am exhausted. Right now, I want you to enjoy a new edition.
01:47Everybody did the choreography. They brought us on back into time, and they brought us on home.
01:53I'm saying goodbye. This is Dana Blair from the Superdome, Day 3, 2016 Essence Festival.
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