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00:00 I think that I'm a pretty good artist that people don't know about.
00:15 My name is Teedra Moses.
00:17 I am a singer and songwriter and I've written songs for artists such as Mary J. Lodge, Raphael
00:27 Dee, Kelly Rowland, and Trina, and maybe quite a few people.
00:33 On the album, I talk about grown-up stuff that I'm dealing with.
00:40 In my life, I've had a chance to love, I've had a chance to lose love, but I haven't had
00:44 a chance to gain it again, and that's been kind of a focus of mine for the past couple
00:48 years.
00:49 So I discuss what it would be like when I do, you know, meeting somebody and falling
00:55 in love again.
00:56 I try to remember that feeling because it's so far away, you know.
01:01 And I also discuss things like the fact that life is what you make it.
01:06 You know, these are things I'm telling myself, I'm reiterating in my brain.
01:09 You know, "Teedra, life is what you make it.
01:11 You can't let a record label, you can't let a guy, you can't let, you know, dictate what
01:15 your life is going to be.
01:16 Life is what you make it, so go ahead and get it.
01:18 Whatever it is you want, set your mind to it and get it."
01:21 I also speak on a song I wrote, it's called "I Told You," and it just kind of deals with
01:27 what I went through coming out of a relationship with my children's father and how I felt kind
01:35 of helpless trying to figure out how I was going to take care of the kids and everything.
01:39 But in the end, I did it.
01:41 You know, and I told this person, "You're going to have to respect me.
01:44 You're going to have to respect that, you know, I'm someone you should have loved correctly."
01:49 And I'm not mad.
01:50 I'm really not.
01:51 I just needed to say that, you know.
01:52 But just different grown-up topics, topics like that.
01:53 I did take a step back from writing for other artists because of this project, but a lot
01:54 of times it just builds over, you continue doing it because there are certain clients,
02:03 you know, and labels that you feel the obligation, no matter what you're doing, to continue working.
02:09 And I also still shop songs that are in my catalog because there's so many.
02:14 There's no need for me to not go out and shop.
02:17 But for the most part, I've taken like about the last past year and a half to really focus
02:22 on myself because I have a bit of ADD.
02:25 And when I'm offering myself to other people, I feel like I'm shaving bits of myself off
02:30 so I'm not really putting attention on what I want to do and how I feel.
02:35 I've been shaving myself off and passing it out to people.
02:36 So I took the time to stop doing that so I could really focus in on what I want to say
02:43 and what kind of album I want to make.
02:44 At this point in my career, I'm extremely focused on people knowing Tegelosis is the