A Day in My Life | Performing at the Rodeo

Do you know what today is? It's mommy's birthday. Did you say happy birthday? No happy birthday? The shade! Wow. Well guess what else? It's a big day because I'm performing at the Houston Livestock Show right now! Can I get a high five? Right. I get more love on a Wednesday. High five. Ooh, that was lazy. Hopefully you'll be more excited tonight. Where do I even begin? I gotta warm up. I think I have to sew a button on my show jacket. I need to get some tea. Get my hair done. I need to get the slip things for my shoes because I don't know what the stage is gonna be like and we can't trick it off. It's a big day. Mommy? Yes? Can we go skate? Not today, honey. We're not gonna go skate. Mommy has to perform in front of 75,000 people. We'll roll a skate on another day. Wow, thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we are 11 hours from showtime and I haven't even gotten out of bed to get my hair done. I'm gonna be late for soundcheck. Thank you. Hair's did. So we can scratch that off the list and now I'm headed to soundcheck. I might be. I might be an hour late. Actually, I'm just not saying anything. I'm happy to be here. I'm gonna get there. I got all my things and I'm ready to soundcheck. And then I have to get back to the house, get the kids, get my clothes, head back up to the venue and stay there until showtime. It's 1231. I ain't had nothing to eat. Lord help I don't pass out on this stage. I just can't afford to do that. Not for all these people. That would just be embarrassing. That would be quite embarrassing. I hope this tea is spilling. Although it's not at all. I want some drips. That is so great. What's hitting you? It's hitting me in little spurts. Oh, wait a minute. I don't know. I just gave a ticket to my sis so she could come and see me perform at the rodeo. You know? I went on field trips to the rodeo, brah. To say you're doing a rodeo? Like Janet Jackson performed at the rodeo. Let me just put it in perspective. Beyonce performed at the rodeo. Legends that hit this stage. You know? My last time going, I saw Maroon 5. And I was like, yo, this is like big. The sound's great. It just felt big. Once you hit the rodeo stage, you've made it. You know what I mean? You've done it. This is how I found out What are your birthday plans? Hey, bro, trying to figure that out now. Just moved back to Houston. Would you like to perform with us at the rodeo on my birthday? I said, OMG, that would be awesome! That's how I got asked in a DM. Oh my God, there he is! It's the NRJ! Girl! Wait, do I make a left or a right at Carvey? No, no, no. Don't turn on Carvey. Oh, straight? Yeah, turn left on Lake 16 Drive. Oh, stop me! Stop! If I was doing, like, Regret or something, this would be easy, but like I'm too vulnerable. Oh, you're doing so good! Look at all the cowboys! Yeehaw! I had to get it out. Come on, rodeo! Yeehaw! There it is! You know I saw that the show is sold out. The stadium holds 70,000 people. On the radio, Bundy said they sold 71,000 tickets. How in the heck? What in the heck is happening? Where are we? Hello, how are you? Good, I'm here to transport you wherever you need to go. Okay, I'm here for soundcheck. Okay, perfect. I'm Toya, by the way. ... We're good! We're good, we're good. I only got that far with you. What do you mean? We're good, we're not slowing it down. We just started, just watch. Are you crying? If I cry, my throat gonna swell, I can't. This is my brother, Gavin. He also does my found production and all that. It's going down. I'm more afraid to sing Happy Birthday to my mom directly to her than I am in front of a big crowd. I am more nervous to sing in front of my family than I am a wide group of people that I'll probably never see again. Because it's personal, it's like family. These are people that, I mean, I think you think, which we shouldn't think, but sometimes when we're using our gift, especially singing, you're being so, you're being judged. People are so critical about singing and who can sing and so you're being criticized. It's probably one of the hardest gifts to share. Is everything okay? We're still trying to figure that out now. Are y'all all ready? No! It's 4.50 and y'all not ready. Y'all supposed to be here no later than 4, like 4.45. Here's the thing. I have a full-blown dressing room. I can, if you FaceTime me right now, I can instruct you where everything is for my outfit for tonight. Y'all come half ready. Okay. That's good. Come finish getting dressed here in this part or y'all are not making it here. Okay. It's all good. Okay, so turn around. Everything is on that rack. Everything is on the rack. Grab the pink box. You'll see a pink box of boots. There's a plastic bag with a white suit. Yes, that's it. Right there. Grab that. Go into the bathroom. There's my makeup bag. It's in a plastic bag. It don't look like nothing. I want you to grab my perfume and like some deodorant and wax. Okay. You see that tin? You see that? Yeah. Yep. You got the perfume. Yep. You got the oil. Yep. Hey, I owe you. Come on. No, you didn't. Oh my God. What? Thank you. I'm really out here. Bruh. I am... It's hitting me that this is getting real. This is so real. My makeup is almost done. We're hours and change from show time. And here's a funny little you didn't know fact. Fun fact here. I'm an asthmatic. And I'm allergic to horses. Although I love the rodeo, I'm full blown allergic to horse standard. And I guess because they're loading the horses in right now, my chest is starting to tighten up a bit. And I'm already nervous. But now I'm taking these big deep breaths. I'm like, yeah, just hope I don't have an asthma attack on stage. You're still not dressed for the show. Huh? Talking about wardrobe. I'm still not dressed because my clothes aren't here. I was supposed to go home and get dressed. But down check ran over a bit. And it was a bigger risk for me to try and go home and get clothes. So I stayed here. On all sides. Holy macaroni and cheese. Holy mac and cheese. Do you understand? Period. In Jesus name. Oh my gosh We're an hour away from show time. My babies are here. My clothes are here. My mama's here. My sister. My brother. It's all good. Just waiting to go on. He's excited. Tyson's excited. DeeDee's excited. You can see some horses? You can see horses? What do you mean far? She's like, girl, stop. Everything's coming together. I got it. I just need my boots now. I'm all over the place mentally. Because it is in my hometown, of course everybody's going, hey, where my this? Hey, help me with that. Hey, I ain't got my tickets. What you wearing? Can I borrow a shirt? Nervous child. Excited. Ready to kill it. That's what's actually bringing the joy and the peace. Because it's like, my kids are going to be out there. And no matter what, I don't care what I sound like, I'm still mommy. And they're still going to be proud. That's what's wonderful about it. But it's also like, I want to give them my best because of them. That was amazing. It's done. It was a success. Even through all the craziness. Now it's time to put the kids to bed. And it officially feels like night.