Natalie Nunn Talks Baddies, Growing Music Career & More

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The queen of all the baddies. She's here. >> Natalie Natalie Nun literally decided to push up on me.

And and and this is her first time at Hot 1079. >> It is my first time. So, we got to turn it up.

>> We have to. >> Yeah. Batty Batty Shot of CL.

>> Ain't got no alcohol. Y ain't got no alcohol. Anybody?

A It's all good. You got something? Hey, he got me.

He got me. He got me. You can pass it this way whenever you get ready.

So on a scale from 1 to 10, mentally, spiritually, emotionally, how is Natalie Nun? >> Well, wow. Nobody ever asks that.

It seems like it's just like go, go, go, go, go, batty, batty, baddy. New season. Um, mentally, I'm okay, though.

You know, I'm I mean, the girls drive me crazy. I won't lie about that. You know, they call about 20 times a day.

I get a baddy or a bad boy or baddy's going wild girl calling. But other than that, like, you know, being a baddie out here running [ __ ] >> Absolutely. cuz you've been writing [ __ ] for a while cuz you know we met you as a girl that was running LA.

Period. >> It was the roll of the 60s and then it was you. You know what I'm saying?

We met you as the girl that was running LA. But one thing that I just really love and I respect just about you and your brand. You didn't just allow yourself to just stay complacent.

You know, you took whatever you needed from the Bad Girls Club, turn it into a brand, and now you're like your own conglomerate. >> Yeah. >> So, like what made you want to do that in the first place?

>> Well, it was already kind of like the thing I was going to do, you know? I was going to own the Batty lane. Back in the day, everybody was like turning their cheek to it.

All the networks, the traditional television besides Oxygen where it was on, they were like scared. They were like trying to close the door. >> They weren't trying to hear it.

No, those girls are just ratchet girls on TV. >> Um, but I just stuck with it and said, I'm going to own this lane. >> Not just the reality TV lane, but the baddy, the villain, the one everybody loves to hate but keeps watching.

>> And um, yeah, take the brand and flip it. And that's what I did. So, anybody who saying baddy, you got it from the queen bee.

>> That's what it is. I mean, from a from a mental standpoint, how were you able to really take that on? Because it's like >> being willing to be it's like if we talk about superheroes, it's like, okay, you're saying you want to be the Joker.

Most people want to be Batman, but you know. >> Yeah. Well, you know, it was tough.

Like I said, like it it didn't happen overnight. So, I've been in the game for a long time. 17 years now.

So, my season of Bad Girls Club was 17 years ago. >> And so many doors have closed. There's been so many people like, "No, we're not working with Natalie or, you know, any of the girls from Bad Girls Club back in the day.

" And I just feel like I kept going and stuck with it and didn't really take no for an answer. >> And um that that mentality is really what allows me right now to sit on top. >> Um I'm having my way.

It's my way or no way. >> And um >> you know, people know my name. Uh uh so at this point it's clickbait and I understand that and then my you know I'm doing the music stuff now and everything's just kind of going hand in hand because I've just been here too long so there's no way I'm not going to win.

Like that's just kind of what it is. >> Yeah, that's what it is. I love that for you and I can respect it because it's like you know we watch you know the fights and the arguments and stuff like that but meeting you for the first time you're very sweet.

You are very nice. You know what I mean? It's like I'm trying to it's >> you know I I think it's also on and off switch.

A lot of these reality girls come in the game and they are who they are and and I am who I am, too. But, you know, I'm able to um ruffle feathers and then I'm able to go sit in rooms with billionaires and at tables with people and make it make sense where I think some girls just don't know how to turn it off and like, you know, it just it it works for me. >> Yeah.

I love that. I love it. So, would you say cuz you know, you said some girls can do this, some girls can do that.

Is there like a fakeness within the reality? >> Not on baddies. This [ __ ] is just turned up.

These girls are coming to mark their spot um to be remembered to be the baddest baddie and whatever their like view of being a baddie is. Me my view is being a boss and an entrepreneur and you know somebody that calls the shots and uh pays the tab and >> you know where there's other girls who are like yeah no I want to be ratchet loud ghetto. Yeah, >> I want to be the fighter.

or I, you know, I knock people's teeth out or I do this or or I'm a rapper or whatever they are trying to showcase as their view of a baddy. But for me, it's the boss. >> Yeah.

>> Yeah. I want to run the house. I want to call the shots.

I want to make the money. I want to, you know, and I want to keep putting my girls on and I want to elevate them. Like that's really a big thing for me.

I want to see them all win even if I don't like them. It's like, girl, this platform is too big. Everybody should be eating.

>> Wow. Okay. No, that's it's good to hear that.

Yeah. Period. >> Cuz you know, like when we're watching the auditions, we see the fights, we see the drinks get flown, we see the How do you prepare?

I'm just curious like >> I never know what's going to happen at the audition. I promise you. It's always the craziest thing.

I'm like, "Hey, now that was not like I did not expect that to go down today. " >> It's always something crazy every single time >> because I recently remember it's like, you know, Cash Doll became a hole meme. Like she became a hole.

>> Yeah, Cash Doll. >> Um, you know, we we've done the dolls up there. auditions with me.

We've done other we had Sashi Santana. I feel like they help me in their eyes see what a baddie is. So Karisha will be like, "Oh, hell no.

She didn't," you know, whatever it is. And I'm like, "Oh, wow. That's her view.

" So, it's important for me to hear everybody's perspective cuz the whole world is watching baddies right now. Not as real. >> So, you know, I would only be casting a bunch of bad [ __ ] that are about their money, businesses, and everybody doesn't want to see that.

They want to see Eaters or they want to see the rappers. They want to see girls that can fight. >> They want to see Scotty with the bodies.

They want to see, you know, the body girls, whatever. >> Yeah. >> So, it is what it is.

So many different baddies. >> Yeah. No, I ain't going to lie.

Like, as a man, as a black straight man, I'm just getting a different perspective. You know what I mean? >> What are you watching for?

>> I mean, I ain't going to lie. >> If you've watched it ever, >> I mean, yes. Like, so I'm going just keep it all the way.

Of course, the fights, you know, I'm not like I have to keep it, like I've ironically, I had Diamond of Body up here not too long ago, right? And I just had to keep it real with her. Like I've never watched a full episode of Bad Girls ever.

Bad Girls Club. Yeah, I have cuz it's like it was so popping back then. But it's like the fights, the drama, but now that I'm talking to you.

You're obviously more than just that. >> Oh, for sure. >> Yeah.

I mean, I'm the I'm the CEO, >> so I mean I created this. I um >> So with that, you're willing to take what comes with it. >> Yes.

Oh, I deal with it every day. >> Yeah. So So talk to us about >> Yeah.

It's always something. Like I said, the girls call me 20. It could be any of them.

My phone rings all day long. Um, >> I'm always available for my girls. Um, >> it could be just them asking questions like, "Hey, Nat, I need a publicist.

Hey, Nat, can you help me do this? " Or they call me from jail. I'd be like, "How the hell do you know my number out of all numbers when you just got locked up?

" And I'm the first one you called. Like, it's like, >> and that's a recent story. We won't say any names, but >> yeah, it's always something.

We just say that. And I be just there for the girls as much as I can, even behind the scenes. Like, I know everybody wants me to be the villain, and that's fine.

I'll I'll be the [ __ ] Or, you know, the one that lets them know about themselves. >> Yeah. >> Um or the messy one.

Call them out. You know, house meetings, let's get to the bottom of this. >> You know, I know what the people want to see.

I've been in the game a long time. The reality TV space >> is my space, respectfully. So, I know exactly what the people want to see.

>> Absolutely. Okay. So, now, so by breaking that down, I'm really starting to tap in to like your business mind.

So, as a businesswoman like yourself, how do you feel about how you might be perceived? Because, you know, we we see what people say like, uh, we have this show where it's just girls fighting, it's this stupid stuff. >> How do you respond to that?

>> Well, I have tried my hardest to give a balance. Like, you know, I I'll show episodes of us doing other things and >> you know, those episodes of no fights don't do us well, and the numbers don't lie. I'm a numbers girl, you know.

Uh um I went to college and graduated with a business degree and a communications degree. So I look at things and I'm like it has to make sense and it's clear as day what they want to see when they watch baddies. So if you're not into the fights and the girls being messy and catty, it's not your show.

>> But there's an audience there because we have 15 million people watching every Sunday. So it is what it is. So it's like I get it.

Maybe you don't like it. But, you know, I do try to find a balance as much as I can, but it's it's clear as day what they're tuning in to watch when they watch baddies. >> Totally.

>> Yeah. It's not the Good Girls Club. It's not the Good Girls, you know?

They they want to see people call each other out. Some of the people that watch also want to live by curiously through us. They're like, I could never just stand up for myself.

And so, they're learning things, too. There's girls out there that come up to me all the time and say, I love watching the show. You're you're you you're you're outspoken.

You guys march to the beat of your own drum. Like they love the baddies. Like >> we're like unapologetically like ourselves and we don't give a [ __ ] >> Yeah.

>> And there's a lot of people out there that are are scared to be that. >> Like true. Shy people, quiet, and they watch the show and they're like, "Okay, next time someone says something to me, I'm going to do what Satiki did and or Croissant yelled at, you know, stood up for myself like Scotty finally is doing.

" Like that's what people they watch for all different types of reasons. >> I get it. >> Daddy.

>> That's what it is. That's what it is. So, as a baddie, as the CEO, as the boss, we don't we don't want to come off bias, but I'm curious.

Out of all the baddies that came through, who's like your favorite one? >> Oh crap. Um, a favorite.

Okay, so I, like I said, I've always been the villain, so I see things different. Like when I watched the episode, it be the people that everyone at home's like, "I can't stand the big three. Lex, Dolly, and Summer.

They're so annoying. " And I'm like, >> "Bro, this episode would be would have been trash without them. " Like, they are like the instigators, the ones calling people out.

And then they get in the paint and they're fighting. They don't care. >> That's baddies.

This is a a house full of like villains. It's not, >> you get what I'm saying? So when I watch, I see them as like the stars >> cuz the other, you know, other people fall flat on these shows.

Yeah, >> they get quiet. They come in loud and and then they die off. So, I mean, they stand the whole season.

Those the big three don't give crap. Like, they're coming at you every episode. But as a viewer, people be like, "Gh, >> why them?

Why are they back? They be mad. I love them.

" >> No, I'm here for it. I'm here for it. >> Yeah.

Summer said it. We were all thinking it. >> Totally.

I love that. I love that. Along with being a boss, along with being a CEO, Queen Baddy, you're also a wife.

Mhm. >> You're also married. Yes.

>> How do you balance your personal life with your business life? Like, how do you do it? >> Yeah.

No, so that is always super challenging because I'm always working, >> you know. So, um >> it's just I've been doing it so long. So, there's kind of like a like just a flow now.

Like I come home and it's like three days at home and then my daughter's homeschooled, so she'll travel sometimes with me um with her teacher. So, I just try to find a balance to juggle being at home and then when I'm not at home, you know, still being able like right now my whole way over here to the station, I was watching Journey's homeschool class today. >> Oh, wow.

>> So, you know, where she was doing her math and her reading and I just try to find a balance cuz I'm I'm definitely a working mother. >> Yeah. >> So, mama being a mama, >> mama being co all the baddies.

This girl started rapping, y'all. This girl started rapping. >> It's so fun.

>> Yeah. That is like so it's crazy cuz like really like I'm tell like as a DJ if it's trash I'm >> okay >> do it what I want. >> You like it?

>> Yes. Hey hey hey I hey hey hey you you you did something with this one. >> Listen because I I love the reality TV lane.

But I started saying like hey >> we're on tour. We're rapping. We're on shows.

They keep giving me the mic at all these bookings. >> I'm on the I'm like guys what? Okay.

Batty Batty Shot: Clock was like a thing and it's still a thing. But I'm like, "All right, what else are we doing up here on at these bookings? " Cuz we're literally booked.

I'm booked like five days a week. >> I'm like, I didn't even know people partied on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. I'm like, "Okay, this is crazy.

" So, I decided, you know what? Let's let's get in the studio and just see. So, I started with the outside remix with Bee King, then the scared remix with Bee King, >> and then the pose for me remix.

And I was like, let cuz I just wanted to jump on people's thing like songs first. I didn't want to just come out the gate like dropping music. >> So those songs did really well.

They went viral and and it was like my part. So I felt like all right, maybe I could do this. So then I dropped >> I dropped an EP which is hilarious to me because it's doing so well and so is doing what I want and I love it.

But again, like I said, I didn't I didn't come into the game to be a rapper at first. >> Well, you're not. Damn it.

>> I see. And the labels keep calling. >> Oh.

You're a mom. You're a boss. You're a successful independent artist.

Strap it up. Clamp it up. You're a successful independent artist.

That's what's handing. That's what's handing. Hey.

>> But no, doing what I want was fun. It's like a It was a It was like really That's what I'm doing right now. That's So that's where how it kind of came about.

I'm just doing what I want. >> I'm out here. I'm like, where do the baddies want to go?

Oh, Baddies USA. I'm doing what I want. Yeah.

>> You know, I'm just kind of like bring back Bad Boys. Why not? I'm doing what I want.

>> Yeah. >> Bad Boys is coming back. Yeah, >> daddy's going wild.

Doing what I want. >> I love that. >> Literally, >> being here in this space with all your success, what would you say is probably the biggest lesson that you've learned so far?

Wow, that's a uh I would say like, you know, I think earlier on in my career, I could have been like a girl that allowed the industry to dictate um the future with like so many opportunities that were like taken from me. >> Whe whether it was like, oh, I'm going to get my own show on Wii and being discouraged once the network said, hey, no, we're not going in this direction anymore. or Oxygen decided to uh go in a new direction and Bad Girls Club was not airing on Oxygen.

>> And I think like at a a couple points in my career, I was like, you know, hey, that's not fair. Why does this girl get to, you know, why are the housewives still going and no one wants to work with the baddies and and th those kind of things? And I I feel like, you know, you should never um allow the network or the industry to determine like what your success is going to be >> cuz at one point I really felt like nobody had the baddies back or the bad girls, you know, like everybody was like cringing to work with us and it was like a thing.

Ratchet TV was like these girls are just we're done. we watch them on a season next next group like kind of thing. >> And so, um, there was a point when I was like, you know what, maybe this, maybe TV is just not it.

Maybe I got on the wrong show cuz I already knew I was smart and I had a lot of drive and I'm a hustler at heart. Um, so that's just one big thing. Like I'm not now at this point I'm so happy I never really let anybody determine or the networks or music execs or anything be like, "Oh, we're not interested.

" Oh, no. But we pass. You know, I didn't want I like I don't I'm happy I never really let them get to me.

>> There was a point, you know, >> when people were like, "Big chin Natalie, she's not cute. " >> You know, BBL's were in and breasts and li and you know, I really would be like, >> "So, should I go get a BBL, too? Is that what you know, like >> the industry will make you think that?

" But I never really allowed it to like >> change me and stop me from doing what I really wanted to do. But that could be >> Hollywood ain't no joke, you know. >> You got Yeah.

I'm saying 17 years now. I'm still here. I'm on top having my way.

>> I'm really running Hollywood now. Like doing whatever I want. >> I have a lot of money.

My chin is still big. >> And I'm really that [ __ ] >> There we go. We going to drop some balls right there, y'all.

We going to drop some balls right there. I love that for you. I love that for you.

So, yeah. I mean, it's 2025. We are slowly making our way into a new year.

Slowly but surely. What else can we expect from you? >> Oh, more music for sure.

Definitely albums. >> Do you have any dream features? >> Yeah, I do.

>> Who you want to work with? >> A few people. You know, I the thing about the rap uh female game right now is I don't I don't want to get So, you know, we already got enough beef always in the batty world.

So, I don't ever want to get into no beef in the rap industry with the females. But, you know, I would love to um see like a Nikki on one of my songs or a Cardi or a Lotto or Glow or JT, >> you know. Um I think that would be I think that would be a great uh pivot in my career just to prove that, you know, someone from the reality TV space that people really just were trying to like shut out is like still here making noise.

>> And it wasn't like a sprint for me. This has been a marathon, you know, this is like been a long time. >> So, I just think that that would be like a okay stamp.

>> Yeah. >> Cuz I I got a lot of stamps right now. But that would be something to really solidify my music stuff.

>> Yeah. >> Yeah. So, my songs are going viral.

Hopefully, one of these girls is like, you know what? [ __ ] it. >> You know, what's Nat doing?

Let me go over there and jump on some with her. >> We going to speak that. We going to speed.

We going to say Cardi B going to get her Do what I want remix. She came from reality TV. >> Who do you hear on that?

>> Uh oh, man. cuz I keep getting they the the fans made a took the song and took Nikki's um lyrics from one of her songs and put it on there and it [ __ ] sound fire. >> I ain't going to lie.

>> Whoa. >> Out of all the females I I could hear Nikki on there. I could hear a lot though.

>> They say JT too. >> J I'll say JT for sure cuz you know she from Florida. So that Florida sauce.

So that West Coast meet the Florida. Um see how you are from the West Coast. I don't know how you feel about sweetie.

I think it could work. I think that could work. >> Same college.

We're from the same town. Yeah, I think Sweetie could work. >> Yeah.

>> So, yeah. But if JT is in the running, listen to the fans. Listen.

>> Yeah. No, it's it's been a lot of they're like taking the song and putting everybody on it and they're having fun on TikTok with it. >> Oh, yeah.

>> Dance and everything else, child. Like, what are we doing? >> Hey, we doing what we want.

>> Doing. >> Well, Natalie, I rock with you, man. I don't care what the folks talk about on these TV screens and these apps.

I mean, >> so is Diamond up here talking smack? I just trying to find out. >> Oh, no.

Oh, so like y'all be >> No, no. I'm I was just asking you if she was like >> Oh, I know. She want to talk us back.

She has something to say or no. >> I mean, no. I just, you know, I kept >> I just make I'm just making sure.

>> Did y'all fight? >> No, no, no. We good.

We besties, you know. That's my baddy bestie. We're best friends.

>> Cuz cuz she admitted she All right. All right. All right.

>> No, I'm just making sure she wasn't saying nothing. And yes, we did fight. >> Yeah.

Okay. Cuz I ain't going to lie, she did say. >> Oh, what' she say?

>> No, she admitted that she got beat up on the show. She did say that. Like it's on record, so I can talk about >> Oh, she was here recently.

>> Yeah. This like >> This is where she had the black eye. Uh, she didn't have Did she have a black eye?

I don't think she had a black eye with me. I don't think she did. >> I think she had a black eye.

>> Oh, wow. Was it because of you? >> I mean, my hand has been really, you know, Did I tell you that my hands been bothering me lately?

>> Oh, goodness. >> It's been real swollen, too. >> Oh, man.

>> It's crazy. >> Oh, man. Well, you know, use this in the next season.

You know what I'm saying? Go ahead and put this in there. >> We'll definitely put this in the next season cuz we being messy.

>> No, it's all good. It's all good. It's all good.

But in closing, you know, um you know, you're you're very successful. Um you're really in tune with who you are. You know what I'm saying?

You're willing to take everything that comes with that. So, I can respect that all day. So, um >> yeah, cuz a lot of people don't want to wear that hat and uh just take, you know, I guess you could say take it on the chin.

I wasn't trying to throw shade at me, but you know. >> I mean, hey, but just say the best. >> You can make a joke about yourself.

You can make a joke about yourself. >> I mean, I'm saying though, I take I wear the hat and I I own up to the messy [ __ ] House meetings. That's the favorite part of the show for everybody.

They love house meetings. And I just be like, "Does anybody have anything they want to get off their chest before we go out to the club tonight? " Cuz we're not fighting in the club.

And then we know it's going down. >> And I just be like, "People, every time people see me, they're like, "You so messy with the house meetings. " I'm like, "I know.

I know. " So I own up to it. Yeah.

I just, you know, >> Yeah. >> messiness sells. Everybody loves it.

>> Talk to that person that is scared to be their self. Yeah. >> Get to that person.

Talk to that that girl. >> Yeah. So, I I do really tell women all the time like you got to, >> you know, don't let people push over on you.

Don't allow people to dictate your future, your goals. I can't stand people that do that. And so, I always am like trying to encourage females out there to stand up for themselves.

Mhm. >> You know, it's okay to be a girl's girl and and a sweetheart, but be a boss and own it and don't let don't let people I I can't stand when people try to like, >> you know, downplay somebody. Dang.

>> Like, you can't give nobody. You can't like big somebody up, >> you know, or like that. That's what I'm on.

Especially with the baddies, they all know that. That's why the show is doing what it's doing. There's a balance.

There is a balance secretly hidden in the fights and the drama, you know, and that's me who really wants to see all these girls win and get to the top. >> Yeah. >> And that's for real.

I don't I don't ever like share all their music on my page. I I support them all. >> Yeah.

>> Even the ones I can't stand. >> Yeah. >> You know, >> well, hey, some people can't even do that.

So, good for you. >> Thanks. >> Some people can't even do that.

Well, Natalie L nun, sorry. Thank you so much for pushing up on me. Definitely appreciate you.

They gonna run this record up for sure. >> Period. Yes.

Keep it in the mix. >> Oh yes, for sure I will. So please give our listeners your social media.

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