Doja Cat Is Doing Great While Eating Spicy Wings

It was really hurting for a second and now it just hurts a little bit and I'm doing great Hey, what's going on? Everybody for first we feast. I'm Sean Evans and you're watching hot ones It's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings and today we're joined by doja cat She's a grammy award-winning artist and certified hit maker with close to a dozen Billboard top tens over the years and she's likely to add to that total with the release of her fourth studio album scarlet set to Drop on September 22nd attention demons and paint the town red the latest singles doja cat. Welcome to the show. Hi What's going through your head as you prepare to take on the hot ones gauntlet? Are you at all nervous going into this? No, not really. I'm kind of but can I curse? Yeah, let it fly I'm kind of a pussy, but I'm not like I don't know. I'm I'll do it to myself one time I'm the right. Mm-hmm Mm-hmm. Thank you Thank you. I'm hungry And that was great. It's great. It's fantastic Amazing. We'll take that You know, I understand that the working title previously was hell mouth I'm curious Can you pull back the curtain on the internal? Calculus that goes into naming an album like is it something that you labor over for a long time? Or is it more spontaneous the first shirt? Yeah, definitely It's something where like I I don't care about The meaning being so deep as much as the word being a cool word I like, you know, I I just like I like good words. I thought hell mouth was cool Because it it meant something I forgot what it meant if we Google it we can it's like the mouth of hell Yeah, it's like it's like a gate. It's like the gates of hell, but that felt so aggressive to me After a while and I like I don't know if I even like it anymore and I changed my mind constantly and scarlet felt like the right thing to do because It's kind of an ode to hot pink I did a name of a color, but it's not really it's sort of like you don't think of scarlet You think of it as like someone's first name and not as a color But that was kind of the twist to it and also red is just a passionate shade of you know color Yeah, that makes sense to me. All right, Doja Cat are you ready to move on here to sauce number two? Yes, I'm leaking. I know and then just be careful. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? I know cross pollination issues It's been it's been awful for this this last week. I yeah, I my eyes been leaking a lot Good thing you're here on the show today. It's extra terrible So this one a blistered shishito and garlic, that's fire Whoa, I don't want to be like a monster on camera But I might be there you go. Just just dash. It's good Just dive in What role did bananas and Leimert Park play and shaping you as a young performer? And then how would you describe a typical show for then teenage Doja Cat? Oh my god bananas bananas Bananas It's just a blessing to be able to perform for no matter how big or small the crowd is Bananas gave me that opportunity to express myself And I've had some shows that will haunt me for the rest of my days and not for like any other reason other than like my wig was always sliding off the back of my head and like I remember that and I like like used to cut my wigs myself and Is there toothpicks? Oh, yeah, we got we got everything covered over here. You have everything covered Any sort of hurdle someone has hit on this show. We try to problem-solve in the future, you know I love that back in the day. It was just you know it was all about the music and I didn't you know have the means to You know Have a great glam team that I have today. So You know look at you now, yeah, thank you no wig at all This is really good. I have a meal plan I kind of I like to sort of tweak on days and you know go back to my plan, but this is great This is our cheat meal. This is my cheat meal. Yeah So it feels fitting that you're making your triumphant return to bars in 2023 and I was really interested in a quote that you had in a 2019 interview with Elle where you said we need people are open to doing something with theme something with a cartoonish twist What do you see as the role of cartoonishness in rap music? I think the correct words The words that I could have used that would have been better were like campiness. I think like When I don't know rap back in the day was just a lot more I don't I don't even think it's it's better now or better than it's just like I I get very excited when I see rappers who are interested in their visuals in a way where they're ready to kind of do something new and Twist things and do something camp. I feel like Busta was a pioneer his fashion back in the day was just Ridiculously good and cool. I don't know if he knows He's cool. Yeah, and I feel like Missy is another big one Um, who else Left eye is a big one. I mean really I feel like everybody was doing it really really well back in the day So, I mean those are just a few that I can name off the top of my head. It's good It kind of tastes like a delicious foot You know when things are smoky or have yeah, yeah, yeah a little earthy little yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Have you ever smelled cumin? Just like alone. Yeah. Yeah, it kind of smells like a foot her pure foot It smells like body odor, but there's something kind of it's fine. I want it in my food You know What's the key to a good vocal fry in your opinion like from a sound engineering perspective? Is there anything special that goes into making that unique? Doja Cat airy sound I feel like Raspiness when talking is frowned upon But unless you're Joey Diaz Good reference when it's in Music, it's great. I think it's useful. I think if you have Not not everybody's voice has to be buttery smooth and and perfect for whatever that means But um, I don't know. I've been able to make use of my vocal fry I also pick and choose when to when to use it. I think my voice like right now I don't think I have any vocal fry, but there's moments there's days where I'm just like up here. Um You know an old lady Another thing that happens is if I have headphones on and I hear myself I can kind of take control of my voice better I think I'm trying to be quieter when I hear myself in my own ears And so then my voice kind of goes here and you get that little bit of like a fry When I when I go lower and lower and but yeah, since I'm talking up here, you don't get any fry We're halfway through. I'm very proud of me You should be and you oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah the first one First one if I say fuck you, I don't mean it like that It's alright. I've been I've been cursed out by some of the most famous people in the world, you know And I've become accepting of it, you know, like I get it. I understand it, you know Come on, but still going in still going back for it though. Yeah That's fine. That doesn't faze me. I'm just scared for the next maybe the The next next this one was kind of jarring up front, you know, it does have that that layer to it, you know yeah, the violence I forgot What in your opinion is the golden era of music videos and if you look through the tea leaves? What do you see as the future of making them? I think you know what? It would be nice to explore pulling back a little bit because I know I I put myself Through a lot of stuff when it comes to my visuals Like attention for instance I'm wearing jeans and a t-shirt and a jacket and some jewelry and my makeup's not I don't have prosthetics I don't have a wig. I'm just me. I'm very comfortable in that video and that was Such a nice break from kind of the hell of having to wear plastic bras and like Seven-inch platform, you know what I mean? So that was really refreshing. So I think you know what as far as like the future of my videos I do want to pull back a little bit But not be lazy in that sense I'm crying I know that's the show and it's just and it's just my left eye and And it's on this day had to have it on this day. It's not the wings, too I know it's always how it lines up. There's no way I know Um Maybe just tissues is there to yeah amazing. We got it all I'll keep the mirror and I'll bring it back to you. We're done Motherfucker Whiskey smoked ghost To be fair. Yeah, there's an even dispersal. There's a very even dispersal. Yeah Yeah, we care about the little big things here. You know, I remember back in the day It used to be They'd dab it on there and like a little there'd be a little puddle of the sauce in the center of a bear wing They used to hurt my soul. I'm glad that you guys have a ball this far Wow So you're like back back way back. Yeah Yeah, I've been watching this. I'm addicted to the internet. You're right. Yeah. Yeah, what's like your weirdest YouTube rabbit hole? Um, oh Man, I love this question. I also hate it because I can't think there's so many things I was on a Steve Wilkos out of the legend vendor YouTube poop has a lot of interesting YouTube poop. So do you know what YouTube poop? No, no, no, no idea. So yeah it's a subgenre of YouTube comedy and it involves taking what I like it most when it's a talk show and You go in and edit it to make it sound like someone's saying something that's like super like crass and like crazy and like Like there's some dr. Phil YouTube poops out there that are some of the best ones and I keep going back to them, but it's a very deep rabbit hole and there's a lot of bad ones that aren't funny at all That's good, it's chill It's about the hate. Yeah, so hard. Yeah, that's the thing Sometimes is you talk about them and it's almost like they hear you. Yep Yeah How's my lipstick? Is it? Okay, it's not doing that build up on the inside of the lips All right Fuck we here at first we feast We're really excited to read at a 2021 cover story that you did with Rolling Stone that you dream doing a cooking show in the vein of action Bronson's fuck That's delicious. Do you have an elevator pitch because you know, you have a home here if you still need one Um, I really wanted to do a cooking show, but I got so much shit going on I know I know I got him. I want to make music like I let I love to cook Love to cook they make fun of me all the time when I cook because the way I cook I cook like a cartoon character And like I'm kind of extra But Yeah, I wanted to do a show cuz I was making these sandwiches It was like like Wagyu and Gruyere and so yo, yeah. Okay. So yeah, so people know about it I was making these sandwiches and they're really good. They're really rich, but it's kind of the only amazing thing I know how to make All right, Doja Cat. This is the moment when you walked in you were like is the bomb here? Yeah, there's a reputation that Precedes And it is that time Yeah, don't say are you gonna bite into it? Yeah, I'm just gonna dive in this is the kind this is there's a there's a Threshold and I'm not stalling. There's a threshold like where where pepper is Like a delicious flavor. Mm-hmm Each pepper is unique and has an amazing new flavor to it And then there's the peppers that all taste the same because they all taste like hot dirt Yeah, well, I think this one might exclusively use hot dirt I don't even need to bite do I have to bite into this it kind of I don't even need to bite into this I'm already there Bye. Bye There we go, there we go game face on Penis pussy and the party has started That's good It doesn't get worse than that. What are you talking about? That's all right So, you know one of my great favorite simple pleasures in life is running a frozen eucalyptus towel over my head Oh my goodness You've had the bomb before yeah Fucking you up. Yeah every time the discomfort that you feel The discomfort that you're going through I catch it every single time, you know What is the question? Okay? One of the great simple pleasures in my life is running a frozen eucalyptus towel Over my head after a long workout and I really kind of pity people who will never know the feeling What to use so far has been the most welcome benefit of going bald So I Like what I like most about it is I can focus on what I'm wearing and less about my hair. Mm-hmm so I've been able to like I Don't know. It's just like hair is another It's a whole other world There's a whole other Situation. It's like you got a braid it and piggies hails and shit like that It's like fuck that I could just do a cute outfit and be bald like there's a hell of bad bitches that are bald in this world Like why would I have to do hair all the time? This is not so bad after all right once you kind of settle into it and uh I don't know if you're catching it. Mm-hmm, but I can get kind of a weightlessness Sort of head high. Mm-hmm that I think is So now pretty much every single episode I get high Yeah, you know what? I know you're I know you're talking about out. I know what you're talking about cuz It was really hurting for a second. Now. It just hurts a little bit and um, I'm doing great I put three. I'm only one man. Yeah Double fist in I don't know what I want right Sophie's choice here. Yeah So I know that you game and flex that a Nintendo where you shouted out everything from Spyro to Mortal Kombat Super Smash Bros and even had the GameCube startup music on loop You just seem like the right person to ask which video game do you think has the best original music? Ah, okay, so I got two well Well, I like Crash Bandicoot soundtrack music My favorite is Barbie on GameCube. I Sampled it one time and it's a genie Barbie the genie game on GameCube It's so good But like I think you're a mermaid for some of it you're on a carpet and you're flying And it's so fucking dope and that yeah, the music is amazing and it's all that 8-bit sound but it's like these amazing Ensembles of 8-bit Gleeked a little bit 8-bit Sound and it's it's amazing. Let's play one's gotta go cult classic game edition Okay, okay fusion frenzy oddworld Abe's Oddysee earthworm Jim, what about it? I want all of those games I know but you got to kick one out I'm kicking out fusion frenzy just cuz it makes me upset That game is very hard the the computer like the the NPCs are too smart. Like they're too good I think they fucked up in that game Okay, yes, I'm just gonna do it I respect it That's smart. That's smart. That's smart Little puddle is it that it's that crazy. Oh, so it is hot. I'm just hedging. I'm just had you I miss the 10th one, you know Cheers, what a ride And there it goes Did you lie? It has a little bit of a timer on it. You lied hitting right now. I get right now That's fair going through us like a wave. It's gonna it makes the show, you know cool fun to watch and You are crushing it still on your feet both of us right now slaying a hot sauce beast from within which is actually a rather Poetic segue to this last hurdle because in an interview that you did last year with days You revealed another hyphenate to your many hyphens as an entertainer when you said I love to paint monsters That's my favorite thing. So I'll doodle a monster and then put it on a big canvas. It's been an interesting process So with that in mind, I realized that this is kind of a tall ask Given where we are in the show, but we have a little sketch pad and a pencil Oh, what so honored if you would maybe give us a monster doodle inspired by your experience with the wings of death today Oh my god, this is fun Thanks. It's the least we can do. Yeah, I can do some Yeah That's not as bad as to Bob is still really fucking terrible It sucks. Yeah, I know I get it. I guess I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. It's a show. I have to apologize Oh my god. No, I mean, it's a brilliant show How long do you want me to take with this? Do I just take ten minutes? Do I five minutes you take it wherever you want to go? Because you know, we got a little fate crossfade in the edit, you know, it'll move take your time Do whatever you got to do with it love that You're gonna like this. I can tell I know already. I don't know you very well, but I think you'll like this All right, this is my monster no actually fuck that here I'm gonna actually make it scary I'm gonna cover colors eyes in I Think that's what it needed That's dope I think he's cute a Masterpiece if I've ever seen one hang it in the Louvre and look at you Doja Cat taking on the wings of death and living to tell the tale and now there's nothing left to do but roll out the Red carpet for you this camera this camera this camera. Let the people know what you have going on in your life I got a tour coming up. It's called the scarlet tour I Got the scarlet tour coming up and I got what else do I got going on? I got my album coming out on the 22nd of September is it this month? Is it September yet? Mm-hmm. Okay, and and That's basically it Hey what's going on hot ones fans This is Sean Evans And if you would like to get your hands on the season 22 hot ones hot sauce lineup at this point You know the drill heatness calm heatness calm That's heatness calm to get your hands on the hot ones season 22 hot sauce lineup ice cream not included Be careful around the eyes. Don't say I didn't warn you