Indie Artist Music Hustle
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Indie Artist Music Hustle
What Happens When A Strong Woman Refuses To Dim Her Light
Welcome to the replay of Blonde Intelligence. I am your host Ms. Roni and I always seek to give you exquisite cranial repertoire. A talkative kid who got in trouble for speaking too much grew into a host, actress, and certified TV producer who gets paid to use her voice. We sit down with Mz. Sipp to map out how she built a multi-hyphenate career across radio, reality TV, film, and music—and why saying no can be the sharpest tool in your kit. From choir stands and gospel roots to opening for legends and landing on major TV sets, she shows how to test ideas, raise your standards, and scale your platform without waiting for permission.
We go deep on the realities women face in entertainment: the split between business and flirtation, the cost of distraction, and the quiet power of a boundary. Mz. Sipp doesn’t sugarcoat it—strong women aren’t hard to work with; they’re hard to derail. She breaks down why some men respect strength and others run, how upbringing shapes partnership, and how to refocus on outcomes that actually pay. Her anthem “Superwoman Not Today” becomes a framework for burnout prevention: take a day, reset, and return better. Add her management playbook—find leaders who match your pace, assign by strengths, and cross-train—and you’ve got a system for sustainable growth.
We also explore Sip On Radio’s soul-first curation and the decision to get certified in television production after gatekeepers said no. Along the way, she offers a nuanced take on how women are portrayed in music—what’s changed, what hasn’t, and why social media makes it louder. If you’re building a creative career, leading a team, or just learning to protect your energy, this conversation delivers practical steps and a mindset you can use today.
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Hello everyone. Welcome to this week's Blonde Intelligence. This week we have a very special guest. We got Miss Sip from Silph On Radio, straight out of Atlanta. And when I say this lady got personality, she got personality. Hey, Miss Sip, how are you doing? What's up? What's up? What's going on, sis? Nothing at all. Nothing at all. Just trying to trying to make it, trying to make it. Ain't nothing wrong with that. Okay, we're gonna start off. I appreciate it. Thank you for having me. Appreciate it, huh? Thank you for coming. We're gonna start off with you telling everybody a little bit about your background and radio. Okay. Well, basically I'm a radio host. Uh, like she said, Miss Sip with Simpo Radio. Uh, I've been doing radio now for like seven years, but I also have a reality show called Living Your Drinks with Rosita. You know, and basically I've been doing that for like nine years. And it's it's awesome. You know, I love interviews. I don't too much uh let people interview me. So this is like special right here, you know, uh that you know you at, you know, I can't come on people. So, but I'm I'm so used to interviewing people, you know, to whereas when people ask to interview me, I'd be like, okay, let me give back with you and but I'm cool, though. Um I act mall sing, I write movies, stage plays, I'm a certified television producer, and I just became the uh president slash CMO of a record label. So that's a record label of Month Platinum Media. All right. I remember, I can't remember who said it, but they were talking about that there were not many black female radio disc jockeys to help pave the way for I guess females now. How well how and what, not how who and how influenced you in radio and paved the way for you? Well, um didn't nobody really influence me in radio for inspiring me to do it. It's like uh as a little girl, I was the kid that got in trouble for talking all the time. And it was just one thing that I knew that I wanted to do was being radio and television, you know. So uh it just came along. Now, first me for doing music and stuff, it was like family members. My mom and dad, they travel the same gospel. You know, my dad was a preacher, and so looking at that and other family members that is famous in my family for music and stuff, uh just that inspired me to be in entertainment. Okay. Uh me just being a talker inspired me to want to get paid to talk. I feel you on that one too. So, what has been the hardest struggle for you as a woman, not just as a black woman, but as a woman in the entertainment business? A woman in the entertainment business, you have to go through the people that plan and the people that really want to work. So there's guys that, you know, and I hate to say this on the show, but think with their big head instead of their smile. I mean think with their smile instead of big. So they're not. I don't just say they don't know how to keep it business. And there's, and I've said this so many times on my Facebook page and as well as my show, that us women, we are so powerful at what we do. We're so talented. And a lot of people admit that getting that strong woman to being in their corner, you know, that they really need, you know, it's men out here that's really talented too. But that's you know, as women, we we think of all angles how to make it look good and be good at the same time, you know. It's a little bit different. It's a whole lot different. So therefore, it's like we put that touch on everything that we do, you know, not just being good at it, but making it everything worse, looking at all angles and stuff. And and um a lot of women miss out on opportunities. Well, I'm gonna say you miss, but at the same time, like you know, I grew up in church and stuff, and they said there's no missed opportunities, just God send you up for something else. But at the same time, in this industry, and then you're just looking at things one way, it's like opportunities come all the time, but we can't take advantage of those opportunities because the man be focused on trying to get us in the bed instead of focusing on what we actually are there for. Right. And he realized that he will accomplish a whole lot more if he stays focused on what we're there for. You know, stop making women uncomfortable and start staying focused on it if you really like her, help her make some money because that's what we're trying to do, provide for our families and stuff. We we want things and stuff. We're trying to make money, so stay focused on what the purpose is at hand instead of trying to get us in the bedroom and stuff, because you can get a whole lot more out of us and accomplish for yourself if they actually stay focused on what we're there for, right? So that brings me to my next question. How do you feel? Because I've seen this over and over again, that it will be a woman that is good to a man, the man knows that the woman likes him and everything, and he will do everything in his willpower to dog her out, but he'll go and show respect to these thoughts out here in these courts in the streets. That's what they respect go to, not to the, I guess I would say the woman that you could bring home to your mama. So, what are your thoughts on that? Well, the thing is, uh I I don't never really use the word thought, but since you used it, I'm gonna say a thought attracts thoughts. Uh therefore, even though you don't let a nice woman, you gotta look at his character and he likes what he is, basically. It's like the thug chick, even though we can get classy, we still like the undercover thug man. You say the gangster chick, even though we're classy and we know how to handle business, we can be the business one, but at the same time, that chick that don't play, we want that boss dude that doesn't play but still dress up and look good and have class. You see what I'm saying? So people tell me this then. Why do men say they want a strong woman that can bounce up, but when she has to put him in his place, he has an issue with it. Because he don't really want that. What do you want then? He wants somebody he can run over. That's just what he thinks he wants because he sees it working for somebody else. See, he sees his friends and stuff with the strong woman, but his friend is actually a strong man. So a strong man can handle a strong woman, a weak man can't. And he don't know how weak he is until he actually gets with a strong one. Well, a lot of them can't handle it. They become they become runners. Exactly. Because he can't handle it. But the thing is, I'm gonna tell you something. That's why I like the men that actually got the strong mothers. A lot of men that had got strong mothers and stuff, and they used to a woman popping a certain kind of way, but they can tell that it's out of love, then they won't be intimidated by it. See, a lot of women they start babying these men, these little boys, and they'll raise them up to be men, and they still they grown boys now. You see what I'm saying? So they get intimidated, but intimidated by strong women, and so a woman uh with a certain tone is like in turning their feathers. So tell me this then. I wrote a blog on black women and how society always expects the black woman to be strong even when she can't. So, what type of advice would you give to other black women when you're feeling down? Okay, I have a song called Superwoman Not Today, and basically it's letting people know in at the beginning of the song, actually talking a little bit, and it explained that uh women, we are expected to be strong. You know, we hold a household together and everything. But in all in the song, it's explaining that the reason why I named it superwoman, not today, is because I'm letting people know it's okay to be weak sometimes. We all fall weak. You know what I'm saying? Don't get discouraged to the point that you're gonna give up. Take a day out for yourself. We as women, we go from day to day to 365 days of a year, and we and the song is explaining it's okay to say no, it's okay to say this is my day. And recoup and then start it back up tomorrow. But like I said, everybody's gonna get weak sometimes. We get tired and rest when you get tired. You know what I'm saying? Don't try to keep going because people expect for you to be a supermarket. I know that I'm a strong woman, but it's days that as much as I do, I'm gonna take a day out for myself. And like I tell folks, I don't care if I'm sitting around twirling my thumbs. That's what I want to do for that day.
SPEAKER_02:Right.
SPEAKER_01:You get what I'm saying? So every woman needs that day for themselves to just relax, and they realize how much just being relaxed and taking and powering themselves and loving on themselves and dating themselves, and you know uh how much it would actually help out. Standing in the mirror, standing in the mirror, standing in the mirror saying, bit you, my boo. Exactly. Sure. What? That ain't gonna ever happen. We might as well break her right now, Potton. Right, right, right. Singer, tell me a little bit about your music because I know you sang for me. I want everybody to know she has a beautiful, beautiful voice. I want to say she sung Selena to me over the phone. Was it Selena? Was it Selena? Okay. So tell me a little bit about the music. Well, uh, I've been singing since I was a little girl. Like I said, sitting up watching my mom and dad sing and being that little girl sitting on the front row. And so um, my first Tylena song in the choir, I was six years old. Then I got in the school choir, and in the ninth grade, I end up being the first freshman to get into this group that traveled and uh competed with the choir. You know, six six girls that they choose at the choir to travel and compete. So I'm the first freshman of that school, Hollis Friends High School, to get in that um choir. And this is just something I always wanted to do. Like I said, inspired by my mom and dad and people in my family and stuff, my granddad, and you know, just yeah. You have any any projects out? Have you released any projects? No, but I actually performed. I have let here stuff, but then I pulled it back. Like the Super Woman Night Today, I um put it on YouTube. Just I wanted to hear people's reaction to it. So it was people sharing it saying new best art and that, you know, and all this stuff, but I knew I recorded it myself. So it wasn't professional because I'm not a producer, I just knew to get it recorded. That I put it in and I just wanted to hear the responses and stuff, and it was awesome responses, radio stations will send me up on play it, but I actually want my stuff professionally done. But I do have music that I perform, so I do open up for celebrities. I you know, I have you open for hi. Who have you opened for? Uh Denise LaSalle. Um, I opened, well, actually, I got stage plays where my song, my gospel song was the theme song for stage plays twice. Uh singing, Tony Terry, other people that was, you know, performing and stuff, but it's good that, you know, I'm honored that my song was the theme song. And like I said, that's been two different topics. And I got an RB song for um that's on the soundtrack of a movie, and I'm the lead ex in that. Uh it's a lot, it's a lot. Um you already moved into my next question. Because I when you meant you mentioned that you were an actress too. So I know that you mentioned to me earlier some of the roles that you have played in, but let people know some of the roles that you played in. Well, I've been on Hell on Earth. I'm the lead actress in that. I'm actually an assassin and G Warrior. So that I'm the police. Uh I'm a police officer on the have and have not. Um police officer multiple times on uh Black Lightning. Um I'm a correctional officer in another project I can't mention right now, but it's uh like a major project, uh kind of like on the level of Black Lightning and all that stuff. It's here, you know. So just it's not out, I can't mention it right now. And um I'm actually a choir singer for another big project that getting ready to come out. I can't mention it. Okay. Because the virus shut down a whole bunch of stuff that was going on. Right. So I'm in making major projects that I cannot mention their name, you know, because of the contracts and stuff, but you know, so just be looking at me. So out of all the roles that you have played, what has been your favorite? Um police officer. Well, a lot of people calling me for the police roles and stuff. Because they say I've been looking like, you know, uh one of my other friends, he called me for um a detective role. Well, I'm actually over the detectives. I'm getting ready to shoot another movie where uh actually Selena Johnson Mug is supposed to play my mother. Okay. Um is playing my boss, but I'm like the female, it's like in a prison, and I'm the female in charge over the prisons, and so I'm over all the you know the guards. Oh, okay. Okay. Well so you like playing a police officer. What role that you haven't played that you would love to play that you haven't had the chance to do yet? Oh, I was getting ready to say it, but then I don't know if I should say it because it's gonna be a triple. Is that what it is? Uh uh. Hey, actually, in a movie that that's gonna come out, it is like um uh Snoop from uh Love and Hip Hop, um Mama Jones. It's a lot of folks in this movie, but I'm playing the female that's over the stripers in the strip club. So I'm like them. You're playing the madam. I heard that. I heard that now from a previous conversation that we've had, you told me that you start writing early in life. So what are some of your early projects that you still have from that time that you have not released yet that you plan on releasing? Oh, talking about as far as songs, as far as anything that you have ever done. You know how they redo somebody's song and stuff? Um well when I was younger, when I first started writing raps and songs and stuff, L hit that I need love, and I actually rewrote it. You got the female version to I need love, yeah, yeah. It's kind of different, but I was going by that that beat and that feel, you know. And we work for a record label, right? Yeah, so it's a lot of folks that yeah, yeah. Yeah, definitely. So so so are we gonna be looking at some some some future projects and music now? Oh yes, definitely, because we can ready to work on my music. Um manager, he's on point. Because you know we gotta uh have the right person with us because sometimes managers when you're doing a lot of things, and I'm gonna say like multi-talent and different actions.
SPEAKER_00:This is Marlett with Classic Glam by Marlette. Well, classic never goes out of style. We're based here in Palm Bluff, Arkansas, but you can reach us on our website at classicglamgirl.com or Facebook and Instagram at Classic Glam by Marlette.
SPEAKER_01:Angles and stuff. You need a manager that can keep up with you or know how to place people to where this person is gonna take care of this, this person is gonna take care of that, and we're good, you know, we all working as a team to make sure that all angles is okay. Um, I have had inexperienced managers funds, what I'm trying to do, because they was used to simplify and just dealing with one thing. So I had So you have to find management that thinks on your level. Exactly. So talking to him, it was like bouncing ideas off each other's head and stuff, and he was like, So I'm like, okay, since you're gonna have me do this thing, why not be my manager? I need somebody like you that think like me, you know what I'm saying, and can keep up with what I'm doing because he's just as hyper as I am. Tell me about the personality, Miss Sip, and how is Miss Sip separate from Rosita? Well, actually, you always get Miss Sip. You never turn off Miss Sip. I am Miss Sip. The thing is, I didn't just pick that name for the radio. That's what people have been calling me like for years. You know, uh, I'm from Mississippi, you know what I'm saying? So Mississippi, I'm from Arkansas. Um, when I moved to Memphis at 19, the people in Memphis, they was like, What's up, Miss Sip? What's up, Miss Sip? You know, and then I'm from Mississippi. Okay, I get you.
SPEAKER_00:Exactly.
SPEAKER_01:All right, but Miss Sipp. I'm so slow today. I got you, Mim. So tell me about the actual siphone radio. What do you do there? I mean, how what what type of people do you have on? I mean, what do you do there? Symphon radio, I I like I will play any type of music. But everybody knows I like soul and blues and stuff. I like gospel soul blues. For the most part, on the show I play like old school, legendary, soul and blues. Um, but you know, I have a uh rap artist that's a guest and stuff. I play their music. I throw something in there according to the topic, and then you know, throw the song in there that fits the topic and stuff. But for the most part, I like my old school. And um, I interviewed like like um one guy, Robbie Wells. I interviewed him. He was uh presidential candidate. Um I interviewed congressmen, um, Hall of Famers, Walk of Famers, Wall of Famers, Multi Planum Grammy Award winners, and I also went interviewed Upcoming, you know, as well. And I do the same thing for my reality show as well. So that's what I was gonna get into next. I want you to tell us about the reality show. And I know that you said that the radio station came after the reality show. So, what made you make a transition? Not a transition, I would say um expand your platform to radio. Okay, well, like I said, as a little girl, I always wanted to do radio anyway. That was one thing I knew that it the thing is, I had a list when I was younger of my goals, everything that I wanted to do. You know, and uh so that everything that I'm doing is a part of that list. You know, uh it's like setting the goal reaching it, setting a higher one, reaching that. And me getting in the industry, I realized how important it was to accomplish everything that was on that list. Because everything is one umbrella, if you really look at it, you know, because I know that like me uh managing artists, me uh as a performer, me as an artist, and what better way than have my own radio shop? Yeah, that's true too. You see what I'm saying? Uh being into television, uh, I went by the radio, I mean the television station multiple times for years, trying to get somebody to help me for it like uh producing my television shows. Uh couldn't get nobody to do it because everybody too busy. You know what I'm saying? The uh producer was too busy. So guess what I did? Get got certified to be a television producer. Now I work at the state, I can produce my own shows as well as help other people that's trying to produce shows. So my dad always taught me there's a will, there's a way. So what you do is learn how to cut out the middleman that's trying to stop and block you from achieving certain things and learn how to get it done yourself. That's what I always say. So if you don't want to do it or don't have time to do it, but I can supervise the hell out of you, on it. Exactly. Right. So if I know if I got you putting in a shower and I know that you need to be putting these kinds of screws and using those kinds of screws, I'm like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Exactly. And see, I don't just want to do a few things and stuff. My point, I want to build an empire. And so me learning everything is it's just like me working on a job, a corporate job. I was always supervisor and manager and uh lead on jobs and stuff ever since I was 16 years old. And I was the person, and plus I was the safety manager in the part of trainer, you know, the person that certified people. You just do it all, you just do it all. So what I would do was I realized that a lot of people get comfortable on the jobs and and they feel as though that, you know, well, they hide and stuff, and they just there. There's a lot of people on the assembly lines that's very hard workers and need to be on another level, but don't get to the next level. Well, I was that person that since I was in a position to choose who I want to work on my team because I'm running my own department, then why not watch the people that's doing a good job and dedicated and on time and working hard every single day? I'm gonna tap them on their shoulder and say, Hey, you want to learn how to drive a forklift? You know, uh, you want to be in inventory? Because most of the time I'm an inventory specialist, so I'm running the inventory department. You know, uh, I'm gonna teach you how to drive the forklift, you know. And I give them in my department and stuff, so giving them people that you see have potential, you want to give them advancement within the power that you have. Because some people try to keep other people down because that makes them feel up exactly, exactly. And I like to cross-train too. So I'm one of those people that will start somebody off that don't know how to do anything and teach them everything. What do you think about the message that's being sent out to the world about women in music, particularly hip hop? About what in music women, how women are portrayed in music. What do you think about that? Well, the thing is, for the most part, they're not really uh uh well, some people are being guided to do certain things and stuff, but um it is what it is, you know what I'm saying? That is what I Well I I I say it like that because I would say when I was coming up, the the women were clean Latifa, MC Light, uh Lauren Hill. I mean, I just I mean, there I know that talent evolves, time evolves, clothes evolve, and everything, but I mean, I don't think that the respect is evolving. So, I mean, even like with older people, young when I was in school, we learned that older people were to be respected, that you uh revere them. You know what I'm saying? They're special to the society. But it's like these days it's not the same respect anymore. And I don't think it's the same respect as far as in the music either. So what do you think about that? Well, it's a lot of things that they're doing now that they did. Back in the day, it's just uh we got social media is seeing so much of the stuff. Yeah, I know the drugs and everything. The drugs has always been there. I mean, they just it's just a new drug of choice now. Exactly. But I know it's we're talking about the women and how they're dressing and stuff like that. No, no, no, not how the women are dressing, how are they being portrayed? So, say for instance, you listen to a song, and I'm not gonna say what artist it is, but he was like, Yeah, you know, the beautiful and the light-skinned girl with the such and such and such. And that was the way that he described it in the video, and I don't think that he meant any harm by it, but basically, you're you know, it's already a stigmatism with dark-skinned women. So I'm just saying that as a whole, how do you think that it's being portrayed? And that's what I was saying. That the same thing that is going on now with back then, it's just more social media to whereas we're seeing it. You see what I'm saying? Even more. Um, the songs that they did back in the day, if you listen to a lot of songs, the women was nasty. You listen to them blues, girl, you be listening to them. I listen to blues. And some women saying that some stuff, you'll be like, oh my god, if you could tell that woman sounds like she's about 50 something. You know what I'm saying? So, where's that 50 to have a 13, 14, 20-something kid back in the day? Okay, like the song standing. I'm gonna leave it in the closet, I'm gonna leave it in the closet. You see what I'm saying? Like that song stand up in it. See, the thing is, they're using certain words now that they didn't use back then. Back in the day, they were saying the same thing they really saying right now in a lot of ways, but it's the way they worded it. Now it's the B word, the the W, the the, you know, the you know. But that's what I'm saying. The way that they worded it was more respectful. You had to sit down and think about what they were saying. They wasn't just blatantly put it out there the way that they do it now. I had an interview with an artist, and he was like, Well, I think it's acceptable because that's what sales. But the same thing, like I said, it's the same thing. It wasn't more respectable, it was just that. It was chemical, it was chemical. We even went out like that. We didn't have, I didn't get a beep until I was 14, 13, 14. Did you say a beeper? Did you say a beeper? Oh, you know, we didn't have cell phones. We started off with the beepers. You get what I'm saying? I had a cell phone, but I didn't use it. Look, I had a cell, I had a cell phone. I just didn't use it because it was the big block phone, and you only got like 30 minutes of use, and you could do after nine, and then the and maybe the weekend if you pay the extra$50 and all that. So I had a cell phone, just to say I had a cell phone, but I used my house phone. I had one later, but in 13, 14, just turning 14, I had a beeper. You see what I'm saying? So therefore, we I couldn't get a beeper until I got older because my mama thought that beepers was for drug dealers. My mama was a missionary. And see, but see, at the same time, at 12 years old, I had a computer. A lot of my friends didn't have computers. My dad brought me and my brothers a computer. I was 12. You know, a lot of kids in the neighborhood didn't have computers and stuff. There's a lot of kids in the neighborhood don't have computers now because that's the issue that's going on with this with the school stuff, and they doing like partial days at home, and and then what they did was, and I don't mean to cut you off, but what they did was gave computers to the kids that didn't have them at home. Not thinking about if you don't have a computer at home, then you probably let probably don't have Wi-Fi either. These are the four kids. Yeah, I'm not even gonna ask you about the educational system. We're just gonna leave all of that in the closet. Because um let's just not, let's just go back to the music, honey. So tell me, is there anything else that you want anybody to know about Miss Sip? Any new projects that Miss Sip can talk about? Where you can find Miss Sip on social media, how does she follow you, how to follow you, anything, Miss Sip. Well, you can Google me. No, just like Google. We can Google you. No, I'm on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, everything. Rosita Cooper, R-O-S-I-T-A, C O O P-E-R-R, uh, M, Kevin M, Small Z, period. S-S-I-P-P. That's Miss Simps, simple on radio. Living your dreams to Rosita. So if you just look up those things, Rosita Cooper. I'm I'm basically on a lot of social media sites and stuff. I try to make myself available on different sites, meet different people, and basically artists, that's what you need to do. Uh network, network, network. Um, wherever you get it. Yeah, she be everywhere too. If you just look at her Instagram page, when I say this lady is everywhere, this lady be everywhere. Even with COVID. With the mask on, with the mask on. Living your dreams and Rosina mask. Yeah, I like talking to Ms. Cooper because when you talk to Miss Cooper, you always leave the conversation with more than you came in with. That's the reason why I really enjoy talking to her. She is really an extraordinary person. And if you don't follow her, follow her. You y'all heard that. Follow me. All right, thank you for coming. I love talking to you. Um it's been awesome, and this is an awesome lady right here. Like I said, I don't do too many interviews at all. I got like a lot of people. But we interview on the phone all the time. I know. I tell my certain people, if people that know me know I love business and stuff, but for us, people that I consider as a friend, and people that I actually talk to besides the business, is very few. Uh right, because you can't trust people. Yeah, she's one of those people that actually would talk to, and we can talk for hours, laughing, talking, business. And I be laughing too. But I thank you for coming. I really, really do. I enjoyed it, and I look to hope to look to see you in some stuff that you couldn't tell us about, but we're gonna be looking out for it. Thank you. Thank you so much. I appreciate you having me. All right, I really appreciate it, sir. All right, bye-bye. 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