DM: You and Nkosi have four kids right? How has motherhood changed
you?
LB: Yes… It’s taught me to believe in self-directed
learning. I try to let them dictate their own path. It’s
hard, you know you put them in school, they were only in public
school for a year but I found that they were picking up these
habits and ideas that were forcing them to think certain ways.
I had to pull them out of the elementary school they were in and
put them in an independent school and it was so much better for
them.
DM: Are they musical as well?
LB: It’s funny because my parents were musicians, but of
the three of us I was the only one to really pursue that, but
my kids… oh definitely. I brought the kids to band rehearsal—I
have a dope band – they’re called Dark Matter. So
when we finished my kids just jumped in there. One of my sons
jumped on the drums and started playing this incredible beat and
my younger son grabbed the mic and started singing this dope song
about midnight… It was so good – he must’ve
made it up before or something but I know I hadn’t picked
up on it before. They are so fearless and innocent and pure. Everything
they do is just beautiful to me. My youngest, he’s three,
he has this thing right now where we will be in the most inappropriate
places and he will say his favorite word—which is Booty.
We were out to dinner and he just grins and goes Boooooty.
DM: (laughing) So it goes without saying that if they want to
go into music you will support them?
LB: Yes I will support them in whatever they want to be.
DM: I wanted to ask you what was up with the insect names for
you and the rest of the group and why did you decide to stick
with Ladybug Mecca, I noticed Butterfly changed it up to Cherrywine
for his solo project?
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