Breezy Says was born in Brazil, but raised in Deerfield Beach, FL. Later she re-located to Tampa, FL. Breezy Says is a well-known female in the indie industry today. Working to make a name for herself and her affiliates, as well as picking up many followers on the way.
When did you start the whole Breezy Says persona?
BreezySays: Breezy itself started when I was like 13 years old. I needed a nickname for a band. That's how it all got started. It was a longer nickname but as I got older, a little cooler, it got shortened down to Breezy. That's how the name started. The persona I guess came with the name. As I grew up and got smarter and a little more attitude was added to me, the name went with it.
As I read your bio, it states that you started blogging to keep yourself out of trouble. Now tell me a little bit about the life you had before you went full force with Music.
BreezySays: Before I just worked and then I went to school. Then on the weekends it was club 24/7 Like Thursday thru Saturday. Give me a club night and I was there. I wasn't doing anything else but school, work, and clubbing. Every once in awhile I threw church in there, and that was the life I was living. Before I decided that, I need to cut some things out, and do some better stuff with myself you know? I was gettin older and learning about life more, just trying to be a more mature person.
What do you have going on for the artists you work with?
BreezySays: Well currently I work with Triple P, and I also work with an entertainment group called Get Money Entertainment. I took them on. So a lot of people are not familiar with them yet, but there is an artist and he goes by the name of Dolla (that's his stage name). There is also a producer in their called Billy Cutlass. As far as my main artists which is Triple P and Dolla.. Basically I blast their mixtapes and songs makin ringtones. They have both been featured off of mixtapes in Germany as well as the US, Tampa, Miami, and New York. They are in rotation in a couple of Internet stations as well as some mainstream stations in NY. You know and this is what I do. I just started the business basically 2 months ago.
Tell me about your radio station. I know you have a bunch of them. Is it now an every day of the week show, right?
BreezySays: Well yea the way it works is it's a Breezy Says radio station, but we have different shows. And the reason why I brought more people in is because we now have a show every day of the week and I have a son so I can't be on the radio everyday. My girl's have jobs and they can't be on air everyday and I don't want to put that strain on them. And then Mimi who is VP of Breezy Says does live events in the surrounding areas so sometimes she can't even be on air. She has to be at different shows and venues. So what I did was I brought Aych and Wally Clark in. Basically Aych said how he wanted to try Internet radio so I asked him if he wanted to try out a slot. And his reaction was like "Hell Yeah!" Rosie, who is IP Music Group who is affiliated with Cool Running DJ's and Kingpin and all them, wanted to do a show on Saturday nights giving advice to indie artists. So I let her have that slot because I didn't want to do a show on the weekends because that's my time with my family. We also added a Jokes and Jams on Sunday which is run by a local comedian called Uncle Rod. What he does, is he plays a lot of oldies and he just jokes. If you never heard his show its just funny from beginning to end. And of course Tuesday thru Thursday it's Mimi, Poochi, and me. And our show, a lot of people that tune in say, "well you guys just talk" and I try to tell people that we are a blog talk radio. The other people like Aych; he plays a lot of music on his show. And that's probably the one show out the week where you're going to hear the most music. My show, we're a talk show. Like when we bring an artist we are going to talk to them unless it's a listening party like what we did for J'Nelle. We mostly try to interview the artists and get the most information out to the audience, in that 2 hr time frame and also play some of there music.
Let me know about the motivation behind you. When you were working with AZ1 Promotions, he did a piece called The Venus Spectrum and you were able to give a little insight on being a woman in a pre-dominantly based male environment. Tell me where does your motivation come from in being just a Jane of all trades?
BreezySays: Well the way I do it is basically I wasn't even supposed to get involved with the whole promo thing. Basically I show love to the people that show love to me and Suga Shack and Tripe P showed mad love to me and the girls, blastin us on their Hood Magazine database. Well he showed us the most love out of everyone else. So I said imma start blastin his stuff too. And it just so happened that he was lookin for someone who does what I do but on a legit basis. So I accepted the offer. As far as the business side I don't really advertise what I do. My thing is I just work. And if you see something that I do then that shows you that I'm doing my job. So that's how that started. A lot of people started hitting me up and some purchase small packages and others purchase big packages or continuous packages. Basically I just keep on pushin.
How did you get started with Aych? You were out here in Tampa at one point weren't you?
BreezySays: Yea I used to live in Tampa for about 8 years and I met Aych at Full Moon. I used to go to Full Moon all the time and he would host it. We weren't really cool because I was going thru my bitch stage at that time. (Laughs) And I kinda thought he was real cocky and standoffish. But we were really cordial and said Hi to one another. If I look like I got an attitude then maybe people wouldn't ask me stupid questions. (Laughs)
What made you pack up and move to a different continent?
BreezySays: I got in trouble with the law. Well it wasn't like I packed up and said I wanna move. It was more like Bitch you need to go. It's not cool and I was kinda pissed but I aint trippin it allowed me to get to where I am today. Luckily we already had houses and cars over here so it wasn't like I re-located to nothing. I went into a much better situation.
How do you feel about working from out there and expanding to out here? A lot of people want to be where you're at with expanding their reach to different countries, even just different states. You had done that so quickly and to be able to maintain that level of following you have is amazing. Of course that comes with a lot of jealousy and hatin but tell me how that has worked for you.
BreezySays: I like it. To be honest, I don't know if you remember but we (Muneca and Breezy) had a conversation on BBM about how far spread my reach is and I'm not there so I don't see it. And my girls like Mimi and Poochi aren't in Florida. We are everywhere and none of us really pay attention to what people say about Breezy Says. And I know I may have some people that really don't like me. But I don't have time to sit and worry about what they are saying. Cause like I said I have made contacts with people out in Germany and out in France. I also made contact with your boy out in Thailand. (Ant Jenkins aka EKORB) So it's like I just push. I knock on some doors and some doors just close right in my face and I keep it moving. I don't sit there and say well you a bitch cause you don't wanna fuck wit me.. NOOO I just keep knocking cause someone is going to open.
What's next for Miss Breezy Says?
BreezySays: My online radio station is now going to be 24/7. We also have the Music Money Mixtape Brazil coming with DJ Bankrupt. He was actually the one who gave me a 24 spot and basically just said I can say whatever I want and talk to whatever artist I want. I can't say no to that.
My artists are doing their thing too making new videos and shows. It's lookin like the end of this year beginning of next year a lot of things is going to happen.
I don't want to invest in anymore Tampa artists. I want to grow and have artists in different areas. It's just about growing.
What is this aintshit.biz?
BreezySays: Aintshit.biz is basically models management, but for normal women who are pretty. It's not just the thick models and the skinny models. It's the thick madams and the plus size. The everyday girl that just has that spark about her. I want to showcase that everyone is beautiful and you don't have to have that 44-inch ass to a 30-inch waist ratio. I got tired of people saying that so and so aint shit or that this girl aint shit. So YEA you right we aint shit, we aintshit.biz. And that's how that got started.
What would you say to those who are trying to push against the norm to be as recognized as you?
BreezySays: What I say to everyone that is trying to make it in this game is if you enjoy it and it doesn't feel like work to you then keep at it. Don't worry about the person that doesn't like you, don't worry about the no's and the cants, don't worry about doors closing, if they close knock on ten more, don't worry about location.. cause shit look where I'm at. Once you cut out all the BS a lot more doors will open. I don't know my reach. I don't know if I have more supporters or haters but I don't care. I like what I do. I wake up in the morning thinking I gotta update my blog. I gotta push my artist and I gotta call this DJ and hit up this person. At the end of the day I feel like I got a few more steps ahead and tomorrow we gon push a few more steps ahead. I say just keep pushing.
LINKS: BreezySays.com | AintShit.biz
Editors Note: Since the interview Breezy Says has now started representing Mr. Magic, formerly of No Limit Records.
She has also started to compile and distribute a mixtape series entitled Queen of Connections and Breakin Borders.
