May 6, 2026 • 29 mins
On this episode of The Latest with Loren LoRosa, Loren gets real about recognition, purpose, and what impact truly looks like in today’s media landscape.
Fresh off landing on Complex’s 2026 Hip Hop Media Power Players list, Loren reflects on what the moment means—not just as a personal win, but as a reminder that the work speaks louder than the ranking. From breaking news and staying consistent to navigating a space that’s constantly evolving, she shares the mindset it takes to stay grounded while leveling up.
Beyond the list, Loren dives into the state of hip hop media, highlighting key voices shaping the culture and unpacking what’s missing in today’s conversations. She also opens up about protecting her peace, being honest with herself, and why growth requires accountability—not just celebration.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
I'm a homegrowl that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody. You don't know if you don't lie about that. Right, Hey, y'all,
what's up. It's Laura Rosa and this is another episode
of The Latest with Laura Rosa. This is you really
dig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news, and all
of the conversation that shape the room. Baby Now, as
(00:23):
you guys know, we love a good check in behind
the scenes of the grind. Here at The Latest with
Laura Rosa, we are counting down until it is Mother's
Day and I will be with my family. We do
a traditional mother daughter sleepover that I'm really excited about
every year when we do it because I just love
getting together with family. So that'll go down this weekend.
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So I'm basically preparing myself to be able to just
be relieved of all duties for the weekend, to really
enjoy my family, kind of not be at work. Ish.
It's a little hard for me because I still we
want to, you know, watch what's going on, but to
really just enjoy. I've been having a lot of conversations
about like peace. I'm reading this book. We did an
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interview at the Breakfast Club, which is already live with
Tim Raws, who is a former pastor, former comedian, podcaster, author,
and Tim Raws wrote a book called The Missing Piece.
So I was reading that book in preparation for the interview.
Didn't finish it before the interview, but planning to finish it.
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And in this book, it's like it's a work through
kind of like self help guide, but it's not your
traditional self help book where it feels like all the
fingers are pointing at you, you know what I mean.
Like sometimes you can read a self help book and
it's like, dang, Like this book makes me feel like
I'm the only person in the world going through this,
Like not even an author understands what I'm experiencing. So
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I love self help books that don't make you feel
that way. I feel like the last one I read
that was kind of like that. Even though it's not
self help, I guess it is self help. It's advice
because she just ranked in Amazon's you know, top and
number one in apparenting and Advice Colin on Amazon. Just
hilarious is to Death Dewey Parent, which was very much
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like it was. She was telling stories, but it made
you you know, be able to like set a list
of priorities and things you want to do better. And
I don't even have kids, but this book is like that.
So through stories about his life, Tim Ross is teaching
us how to really understand, like really protecting peace. I
think we always talk about I'm protecting my piece. I'm
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protecting my piece, honey, if it deserves my piece, it
ain't for me, And we ain't protecting nothing at all.
And I think the reason why I can admit that
that all of this time that I thought I was
protecting peace, I wasn't really protecting anything was because I
really didn't understand what was driving me to a place
of no peace, and I didn't understand that sometimes I
was the point of no peace. So what am I
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protecting if I'm causing the storm like I you know,
and in turn, if I'm causing a storm, I'm living
in a storm. So yeah, that has been something that
I have been just kind of sitting with and reading
and thinking through. So I'm in a really good space
after doing so, and after speaking with him. Please go
check out his interview on The Breakfast Club. I think
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it will give you a hug. I love interviews, I
felt like a hug. I always said that about Anjie
Martinez his interviews. But I also think the interview that
he did on The Breakfast Club, combined with his book
will help you be really, really honest with yourself. And
that is my goal this year is to get better
at being honest with myself, and when I'm honest with myself,
to get better at actually executing the things that I
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don't like when I'm fine and I'm honest about myself,
and to big myself up about the things I do
like and I do love when I'm honest with myself.
So let's get on into the latest speaking of bigging
up Okay, honey, okay in conversations and conversation starters. Complex
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themagazine Orcomplex dot com the outlet, however you remember them
or referenced them as, has dropped their official twenty twenty
six Power Players lists. Now. This list is a list
of the most powerful people in the media game right
now in hip hop media. So it's the hip Hop
Media Power Ranking List Now. This is their fourth annual
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hip Hop Power Ranking list and the tagline of the
list is in a year with no dominant stars and
no breakout moments, the people shaping rap conversations matter more
than ever. And guess who was on the list? Your girl,
I am on the list. I came in at number
twenty two, which is honestly amazing because twenty two is
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my favorite number. Eleven and twenty two. I feel like
those numbers are just like perfect numbers, and whenever something
in my life signals those numbers, I feel like it's
like a It's a reminder that I'm on the right path,
kind of like I was gonna say in a ten thing,
not an attention thing, like an alignment thing, like I'm
doing what I'm supposed to be doing because I'm running
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into it. You know how people say, like your angel numbers,
I feel like eleven and twenty two are that for me.
Even numbers all together make me feel good, like twenty two.
But yeah, so I made the list and for me,
one of the big things and like, you know, anything
that I do is I want people to talk about
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the work, and I want them to talk about it
in a real way. So it was fire to me
to be placed on this list because the way that
I was ranked had everything to do with the work
that I do. Every single day, and you know, I
think that it's dope. And a lot of times when
you're in it and you're working and you're figuring things out,
especially if you're new in a space, it's like you
never want to you always want to remain teachable and
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you never want to be like you know, like you
know those people who are just like things are going
well for themselves, so they're too full of themselves and
it's like, yo, bro, relax, Like what goes up can
also come down. You never want to be one of
those people. So that's like my goal is to never
be that. But I you know, I told myself, like
you gotta be Okay, We'll celebrating yourself as well too.
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So my description on the list they listed last year,
I was not on the list because I wasn't And
I remember Charlemagne and Nila having a conversation about this
list and him mentioning that me and Nila should have
been listed on this list when the list what I'm
known for. On Complex dot com they say I'm known
for on the ground reporting, balancing out the Breakfast club
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with some stone cold facts and there's like a small
like almost like a forward speaking of books, written by
Jordan Rose, who was one of the Who's one of
the personalities over at Complex. It says, in a hip
hop media landscape cluttered with clickbait, long the Rose that
is doing the legwork. Her role on the Breakfast Club
is to inform the audience and her co host about
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current events. She got to start at TMZ and her
commitment to getting a story has taken her the biggest stage,
bringing the same intensity to Slate rumors will Drake pop
up with Bad Bunny at the super Bowl at Clockett?
That was my exclusive when I shut that down completely, No,
that was not happening period and serious stories, as seen
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in her insightful coverage of the Diddy trial. Now, they
did ask me some questions. They asked two questions. They said,
what is one thing that I like about rap right now?
I talked about the fact that I love that women
are running rap, Like when you think about some of
your favorite summer anthems, even some of your favorite songs
with the guy rappers like Luthor with Kendrick Lamar, you
think of Sizza, Doci is out here, Lotto Cardi, b Gorilla.
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I still play old city girls. To be honest with you,
like I was just listening to that the other day
and I saw the baby who is you know he
has a song pop that that is climbing the charts.
He went got Goorrilla and Krisha Young Miami are the
supergirls of the Supergirls O the City Girls. Like the
women are there where it's at, and not only are
where it's at, but they're making the music that makes
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you feel good. Like I think we sometimes can get
so into this like beef mentality of like the back
and forth between like the drink and the kindricks and
things of that nature, and forget that, like sometimes people
just want to have a good time. Like I feel
like at one point in time in music, the goal
used to be who's going to have the song of
the summer. I don't even know if people care about
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that anymore. Like it's eighty degrees outside right now, and
I don't know what we're putting on when we get
in the car unless we putting on one of the girls.
And it's nothing wrong with that. I'm happy for all
of the ladies in rap, but I'm saying, like the
new songs that are big, that are breaking, like it's
very few far in between it and Complex actually acknowledges
this in the opening of you Know This List and
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kind of explaining how they were able to compile the
list as well too. The second question that asked me
is what's one thing you hate about rap? Right now?
I said, how low the barrier of entry is. I'm
a social media girlly, so basically like, I'm not knocking
social media, don't get me wrong, but and I live
and thrive there, and I'm thankful to God that we
no longer have to wait on the machines to power
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us up. Most of the stories that I break, I
break them first on social media. Twitter is my like,
that's a huge platform for me in breaking news and Instagram,
and then I take it to hear the podcast The
Ladus with Lona Rosa in the Breakfast Club right, and
then it picks up by other outlets like Complex. Shout
out to them for always picking up my content, Shape Room,
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Hollywood a Lot, Billboard, Shoot. Even TMZ has picked up
a few of my stories. Yeah, y'all know how that go.
But I say, I continue. But I do believe there
should be artists development and not just the tracking of
an artist or their talents via social media. Numbers or
engagement for a moment is what I meant. The writing
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of this is all over the place. You gotta have
to have them edit day. But yeah, so I'm excited.
I'm excited to be on this list. And we're gonna
talk a little bit about the list and just some
of the people that I watch a lot for what
I do in news that I big up, or my
friends who made the list that I'm excited to see now.
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I told you guys that Complex talks a lot about
the fact that there isn't really like a a like
people that are making narratives in hip hop right now,
so it's so important to have, you know, talking heads
who actually do that. Complex makes the point that the
storylines of the past years have gone cold. There's no
new dominant star and no big singles or albums with
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true staying power. To make this list, a platform or
a person has to regularly address issues and topics related
to hip hop. They have to be a place where
news gets broken. Okay, I love to be known as that,
or where rappers want to appear. It's the conversation you're causing.
And to me, this is important because I feel like
that was always the goal. Like I have a platform
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called Brown Girl Grinding all common spelling, and we are
like the group chat on Instagram and I'm going to
expand it to so many other places. But the tagline
of the brand is by Black Women for the World,
Causing conversations that shake the room. That is the tagline
of the podcast if you guys have not noticed as well,
because that I think when you're able to cause conversation,
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conversation carries. It can carry from friend to friend, family
member to family member, generation and generation, man to women,
but it lasts. It's not something that's like a flash
in a bucket. If it's a conversation that is like good,
it's engaging and it does what it needs to do.
So speaking of people who do that, I do want
to take a second to actually highlight some people from
the list in all particular order. Honestly, I started from
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the bottom of the list and just scrolled down. So
Rob Markman, who is listed at number thirty five, he
is last on the list. I definitely think he should
have been higher. They list his features as genius just
my Thoughts, which is his own platform where he talks
straight to camera just about some things in hip hop
that are going on and giving his thoughts, providing very
thoughtful information and insight a lot of street insiders as
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well too. Wayno is also a person who does similar
content like this that didn't make this list but should
have and then best interview ever and they say that
he's known for top notch interview skills and integrity as
a pundit. Now when Rob Martmin does any of his
sit down like breakdowns, like he's a person for me
in a time right now where a lot of hip
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hop personalities And I was going to say journalists, but
like I'm trying to think, like who I consider an
actual Oh, probably Frasier who's on this list. It's probably
someone I actually consider a hip hop journalist. Like I
think when I think of hip hop journalists, I think
of like a B Die. I think of you know
what b Elliott Wilson used to do with rap Radar,
Like that is a very serious like title, and it's
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a very like I'm a journalist, but I can spend
across various genres, not just hip hop. A hip hop journalist,
I feel like those are the people who they create
lists that actually like make sense or make you think
they're very deeply embedded into culture, into lyric, into song
and to they're like the I'm a fashion girl, so
us fashion girls. We love archive pieces because they're hard
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to get. No one knows much about them. You know
everything about them, so there's a chance to educate. But
they're also normally like very rare, they look good, they last,
it's just they're very sought after. Hip Hop journalists are
like the archive archivists. I don't even know if that's
the word, but they archive what is our culture of
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hip hop. They make sure that we're able to find
these pieces in these artifacts that matter, that are one
of one that needs them explaining, that educate that really,
really really matter. And there's not a lot of people
who even understand enough about hip hop and its history
from the origin to where we are now to do that.
And that's why I said, I don't know who I
would even think of in that category outside of like
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maybe very few people, but yeah, shout out to Rob
Markman whenever I'm trying to break down something deeply deeply
hip hop embedded. Rob Markman and beat Out are people
that I look to see the conversations that they're having
as like research and things that I might not understand,
or I'll reach out to them and ask questions. And
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he says one thing he hates about right right now
is the way hip hop has been infiltrated with paid
agitators who run up fake streams and hues bots to
give the illusion of something real. I hate the toxic
side of stand culture and fans who pick their favorite
artists against hip hop as a whole. Next one of
this is Elliott Wilson at number thirty two. Last year
he was number seventeen. He dropped on the list. He
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just hasn't been around. I did an interview with Elliott
Wilson last year sometime and he was telling me how
he was getting back into the things. And I was
telling him in the interview, like your strong point is this,
it's having the real conversations one of them with the
artists you and beat out, wered us, stoppable for us.
But I mean, I guess that's over. Get back to this,
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cause there was like trolling going on at one point,
and I'm like, you know, I was being honest with
I'm like, you're too old to be doing that, Like
you're too respected and coveted and you should look at
yourself that way. And then he just kind of like disappeared.
But I know he was going through some things in
his personal life that they shared with me off the record,
and then I saw on this list. I did not
know he announced he had twins and it's not what
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the person he had been married to for a very
long time, So that kind of explains the absence. Elliott,
take your time, get your real life where it needs
to be, and we will see you soon. Next on
the list is DJ Head and Gena Views. I am
so proud of Gina Views. The Head is my bro,
always looking out, always a phone call away. But Gena
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Views and not Butt because it's not a butt. These
two come together in a package. Joe period. Gena Views. However,
me and her kind of left our roles at our
last situations. She was at No Jumper, I was at
TMZ around the same time. And I feel like we've undirectly,
like you know, I wasn't calling her when I was
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going through things, she wasn't calling me. But as you
were getting through with and like you know, hitting different
notches on the bell and being able to like put
different you know, points on the board, we were cheering
each other on because I think we just really understood
what each other we're going through. And I think number one,
we're just really good at what we do. If I
do say so myself, and y'all know, I don't really
I don't even get into all of the talking too
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much about myself. But when I think about us, I
think about what kind of helped us and is still
helping us as we navigate this space. Is that we're
really good at what we do, but we also really care,
like we're really passionate, We really live and breathe what
our genres are. Gina is a hip hop girly. She
is going to talk you through lyrics and you know,
all of the things. I can get into it, but
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that is not my ministry. And she is so good
at what she does for real, for real. But I'm
really proud of her too, because I think that there
are not a lot of women in the space who
are as brutally honest as she is while also being
able to have such a dope personality that people want
to come and talk to you, they want to hang
out with you, like she's fun, she's the homegirl, she's sexy,
she's sassy, but like she's not with the bullshit, and
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she's not afraid to tell you and she's not afraid
to be honest. And I think that disruptor that we
see in her is what I want to see in
a lot of the other younger girls in that space doing,
because it is a very male dominated talk space. DJ Head,
who sits next to her, is you know, amazing at
just being supportive but also made amazing and it's very
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obvious in like her rise, very amazing at like being
a supportive He's like, he's supportive and he's chill, but
he's a force, very well connected, not afraid to put
his people on, not afraid to put her on. But
I think he understood that, like they were better together
and a lot of the opportunities that we saw him
get over this last year or two is all. He's
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always centered the two of them and not just himself.
But he's also really good at what he does too,
his understanding of music, especially you know, being ingrained in
a lot of West Coast culture which people were paying
so much attention to at one point. I think he
used that in a really smart way to build something
that last beyond the Ken drink drig beef moment, So
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shout out to them. Effective immediately available everywhere. Go watch them.
It's one of my favorite shows to watch as well
when I'm preparing, you know, for my artist interviews, because
they really get into the shits. Jim Jones on the list.
Jim Jones, I want to mention He's number twenty six
on the list and was not on last year's list,
but I want to mention him because I think with
the Less Wrap about the podcast and artists to artists,
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with the platforms that he has and what he's doing,
people like to drag him and like to troll with him,
and like to you know, come for him and dispute
his takes when he talks about how relevant he is
and who he thinks he's bigger than the music. But
one thing that I will say is that quietly he's
building an empire in the media world off of that.
He got tired of just being on someone else's platform
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responding to things, or on Instagram responding to things, and
he made it something like the rest the less Wrap
about the podcast they're carving out there only still very
much growing, but it's working for them. They have an
audience over there, artists, artists. He has an audience over there,
and he's building out more. And I think one of
the things I respect is that he took what he
watched a lot of people do and he didn't say, oh,
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everybody's doing this, or because I'm not the first to
do it, I don't want to do it. He would
probably argue he was first in the space some way, somehow,
because that's just what Jim do. But he wasn't afraid
to say, I'm gonna do it now. I don't care
who's already doing it, and I'm gonna do it my
way because if I build it, they will come. And
I think that that's what this genre of like, that's
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what you see a common thread in and a lot
of the people on this new list, it's like new media,
like things are changing. You then got Nori Noriega Drink
Chimps number twenty five. I love nor He's such a
sweet person. Every time I run into him, he always
talks about how he gets his news from me, which
is a lot of pressure when people tell me that,
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but I fuck with it because I know Norri has
experienced so many generations of like personality media talent journalists,
hip hop music culture. He's also dominating in the space.
And another person who's building business very smart in the space.
He just launched rock Solid, which is Memphis Bleak's podcast
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under his Drink Champs like network Flagship that he's building
as well too. And I love to see people who
are in hip hop understand the business and build the
business because it sustained you longer than anything else. And
he's been able to be relevant like think about it,
Noori the Rapper, Noorri Drink Champs, now Noorri the Rapper,
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Drink Champs and businessmen in podcasts. Flagship up next, we
have a Gillian Wallow at number eighteen, and I think
you just put Gillian Walla on his list, not like
just like it's nothing. But they're consistent. You know what
you're getting from them. People loved them. People love to
sit down and talk about them. I will say though,
this year, I feel like I haven't seen their stuff
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circulate as much online and I don't know why. I
don't know if it's because they're quiet quietly building other things,
so like they're still dropping, they're still doing interviews. I
know they did Pushisi's first interview when he came home.
But I don't know, they've just been very like it's
been like they're dropping and they're consistent and then they
like theay out the way and normally with people as
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ambitious as them, we've seen their rise to you know, everything,
that they're doing million dollars worth of game. That means
that they're working on something. So I'm excited to see
what is going to come next from them. But do God,
if you've got a list of people in the space
that are impactful, it actually means something. Gillian Wallo have
to be on the list because first of all, they're
focused and what they actually care about and their why
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of why they're doing it, like really wanting to help
people who are coming behind them understand who they are
so they're not throwing their lives away. That's always gonna
get them placed on any list in my opinion, and
they are actually I mean, it's Gillia Wallow there entertaining
as fuck as well, Like let's just get that to them.
Butlet keV also on the list. Another outlet I watch
a lot when I'm preparing for interviews, the guys from
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the podcast podcast The New York Times podcast. I don't
know how to say their names, so I'm probably gonna
get this wrong. John Karen Monica, and Joe Cassakrell. I
like their interviews. I like their interviews because I feel
like they're always very well researched. They have a very
good rapport with a lot of the artists that they
report on because they've been working in this space for
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so long, so this is not their first time meeting
or reporting on or talking to the artists. But they're
just they're very well researched a lot, and they're not
afraid to ask questions and to be honest with y'all.
A lot of people that are white in the hip
hop space that are doing these interviews and all those things,
a lot of times I feel like they're like either
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trying very hard, super disconnected, or they their type of
content is like it might be good to watch, but
it's not something I'm using to research because I don't know,
Like it's a lot that's just going over their head.
They're really fucking good at what they do, and it's
very calm. There's no gotcha moments. It's not an attack.
It's like easy conversation to watch, but it's very well researched.
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Fraser Tharp writer journalist for overall like actually a still
a writer, So big up to him, especially for the
jay Z interview that he did, which was everywhere. It
was a very well put together interview. Again, very well researched.
This is what I mean when I say like hip
hop journalists, like there's like a specialty, Like that's like
an art or gift because you have to like remember
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so much information different years, different drops, different releases, lyrics
like and be able to like effortlessly recite it and
you know, turn it into questions. Like I don't think
people understand that that ain't for everybody. Everybody can't do that,
but he does it very well, as we saw on
display this year with that jay Z interview. Ky Sanna
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is on the list, and I saw some people arguing
when the list drop that Kay Sanat hasn't turned on
his camera all year, so why is he on the list.
I don't ever want you all to mistake his power
and his impact with the fact that he has chosen
to not play around with it and take a break
and focus and figure out how he really wants to impact.
Ky Sannat reached the pinnacle that a lot of streamers
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are still fighting to get to today, to the point
where he was able to do what he's doing. Now
he's taking a break, he stepped away, and when he
chooses to come back and turn that camera on in
whatever way he chooses to ya, we will listen, we
will listen. And I think the beauty of it is
is that he actually cared for something deeper, Like it's
not just about the streams, the w's in the trat,
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the subscribers, the money, Like it's actually something deeper for him,
and he's out right now trying to discover what that
is so that he doesn't miss that. And I think
people who have purpose in their journey, the impact is
that's legacy. He's out of here and then they you know,
we get to the top five. On the top five,
of course, Joe Budden, Charlomagne, this little man that works
on the show called the Breakfast Club, Jada Kids, Fat Joe. Yeah,
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like it's I think there's a lot of people on
this list. I ain't even gonna hold you that. I
don't even know who they are whatsoever. Academics is number
one on the list. I don't think that Academics should
be number one on the list, and no it's not
because we had our little scriptfuffle on Twitter. I really
could care less about that at this point in my life.
Of nothing against them, I always say I respect them
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out of what he's built. I just don't agree on
how he goes about things a lot of the times.
But I don't think he should be number one. I
think and this is not because I work with him.
I think Charlemagne is number one. They have DJ Academics
as number one, Joe Budden as number two, Blad as
number three, Fat John Jayakiss is number four, and Charlemagne
as number five. I will put Charlemagne as number one
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just because not only is his voice impactful and it
impacts inside and outside of hip hop, and that's important
for hip hop. But that might go over some people's heads.
But the business that he's built, in the way that
he's been able to hire and employ and just change
the lives of so many other people through hip hop
and through a microphone, that's like nobody in the top
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five of this list is doing that the way that
he's doing it. I would then put Joe Budden at
number two just because I think when you talk about
elder statesmen and impact voice wise, that is him as well.
And he's able to do a lot of the you know,
the callbacks, the lyrics and the conversation, like he really
does this for real as well. I would put if
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I'm choosing just from the top five, I would probably Yeah,
I would probably put Academics as number three only because
I feel like I feel like he I'm a hate
that I'm saying is he's louder, Like I would put
Joe and Jada there, but I feel like their stuff
isn't It's not at the forefront as much, and I
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think that that matters with the people that I'm like
how I think about things like the disruptor, like there
are things don't disrupt as much. They did have the
moment where they revealed that we were gonna get the
Thud Coal Birthday mixtape, and when they did it, you
see how crazy it went. But they don't do that often.
But we love them because you get you get a
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piece of hip hop history in real time and look
back on things in a way that you just don't
get it from other people because because of who you're
talking about, like that Joe's one of the best storytellers ever,
and Jada Kisses just so well respecting it has experienced
so much that you put them together and it's cold.
But yeah, I think I would. I would flop that,
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And honestly, the only reason why I wish that there
was another option for top five, Like, is there somebody
else I will actually take out to put I honestly
might I don't know. I would put the popcast guys
a little higher, and I being honest, I put myself
a little higher too, not top five. Though Cameron is
on this list. I don't know if I will put
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him top five though, but I do respect the way
that he's been able to build a business model for
himself as well too. I think once he settles in
all of the business that he's building is going to
be up there like top five. But I see what
he's doing with Revolt, and I know how much they
respect them him because I dealt with them so much
during all that Dane Dash is he chairman of Revolt?
Is he not? Conversation? But yeah, I don't know. I'm
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not mad at me putting academics at number three. I
just feel like a lot of times he's loud, but
it's for the wrong reasons, and I think that there
I think anybody in the top five of a hip
hop list like this where you're balancing out impact, virality, substance,
but also like who do people care to listen to?
People do care to listen to him, but I feel
like impact also, it impact matters as far as like
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what you're choosing a platform, and I feel like sometimes
the things that he chooses a platform is still not
like I think that he could be. He could be
doing so much more with the platform that he's built.
But he's built the platform, and he did it early
on before a lot of the streamers and things like
that were being respected. And that's why I'm not mad
at him in the top five whatsoever. Take a look
at the list. It's on Complex dot com. Let me
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know what you guys think about it. I am honored
to be on the list. I know we will be
like I don't care about lists, I don't care about awards.
It feels good to be recognized by your peers and
to know that you know your work is not going overlooked.
I'm one of the ROSA. This has been another episode
of the latest with more on the ROSA and I
tell you, guys, every single episode, y'all could be anywhere
with any old body, but y'all choose to be right
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here with me, my Lowriders. I appreciate you, guys. I'll
patch you in my next episode.
I'm a homegrowl that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody. You don't know if you don't lie about that. Right, Hey, y'all,
what's up. It's Laura Rosa and this is another episode
of The Latest with Laura Rosa. This is you really
dig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news, and all
of the conversation that shape the room. Baby Now, as
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you guys know, we love a good check in behind
the scenes of the grind. Here at The Latest with
Laura Rosa, we are counting down until it is Mother's
Day and I will be with my family. We do
a traditional mother daughter sleepover that I'm really excited about
every year when we do it because I just love
getting together with family. So that'll go down this weekend.
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So I'm basically preparing myself to be able to just
be relieved of all duties for the weekend, to really
enjoy my family, kind of not be at work. Ish.
It's a little hard for me because I still we
want to, you know, watch what's going on, but to
really just enjoy. I've been having a lot of conversations
about like peace. I'm reading this book. We did an
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interview at the Breakfast Club, which is already live with
Tim Raws, who is a former pastor, former comedian, podcaster, author,
and Tim Raws wrote a book called The Missing Piece.
So I was reading that book in preparation for the interview.
Didn't finish it before the interview, but planning to finish it.
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And in this book, it's like it's a work through
kind of like self help guide, but it's not your
traditional self help book where it feels like all the
fingers are pointing at you, you know what I mean.
Like sometimes you can read a self help book and
it's like, dang, Like this book makes me feel like
I'm the only person in the world going through this,
Like not even an author understands what I'm experiencing. So
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I love self help books that don't make you feel
that way. I feel like the last one I read
that was kind of like that. Even though it's not
self help, I guess it is self help. It's advice
because she just ranked in Amazon's you know, top and
number one in apparenting and Advice Colin on Amazon. Just
hilarious is to Death Dewey Parent, which was very much
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like it was. She was telling stories, but it made
you you know, be able to like set a list
of priorities and things you want to do better. And
I don't even have kids, but this book is like that.
So through stories about his life, Tim Ross is teaching
us how to really understand, like really protecting peace. I
think we always talk about I'm protecting my piece. I'm
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protecting my piece, honey, if it deserves my piece, it
ain't for me, And we ain't protecting nothing at all.
And I think the reason why I can admit that
that all of this time that I thought I was
protecting peace, I wasn't really protecting anything was because I
really didn't understand what was driving me to a place
of no peace, and I didn't understand that sometimes I
was the point of no peace. So what am I
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protecting if I'm causing the storm like I you know,
and in turn, if I'm causing a storm, I'm living
in a storm. So yeah, that has been something that
I have been just kind of sitting with and reading
and thinking through. So I'm in a really good space
after doing so, and after speaking with him. Please go
check out his interview on The Breakfast Club. I think
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it will give you a hug. I love interviews, I
felt like a hug. I always said that about Anjie
Martinez his interviews. But I also think the interview that
he did on The Breakfast Club, combined with his book
will help you be really, really honest with yourself. And
that is my goal this year is to get better
at being honest with myself, and when I'm honest with myself,
to get better at actually executing the things that I
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don't like when I'm fine and I'm honest about myself,
and to big myself up about the things I do
like and I do love when I'm honest with myself.
So let's get on into the latest speaking of bigging
up Okay, honey, okay in conversations and conversation starters. Complex
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themagazine Orcomplex dot com the outlet, however you remember them
or referenced them as, has dropped their official twenty twenty
six Power Players lists. Now. This list is a list
of the most powerful people in the media game right
now in hip hop media. So it's the hip Hop
Media Power Ranking List Now. This is their fourth annual
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hip Hop Power Ranking list and the tagline of the
list is in a year with no dominant stars and
no breakout moments, the people shaping rap conversations matter more
than ever. And guess who was on the list? Your girl,
I am on the list. I came in at number
twenty two, which is honestly amazing because twenty two is
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my favorite number. Eleven and twenty two. I feel like
those numbers are just like perfect numbers, and whenever something
in my life signals those numbers, I feel like it's
like a It's a reminder that I'm on the right path,
kind of like I was gonna say in a ten thing,
not an attention thing, like an alignment thing, like I'm
doing what I'm supposed to be doing because I'm running
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into it. You know how people say, like your angel numbers,
I feel like eleven and twenty two are that for me.
Even numbers all together make me feel good, like twenty two.
But yeah, so I made the list and for me,
one of the big things and like, you know, anything
that I do is I want people to talk about
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the work, and I want them to talk about it
in a real way. So it was fire to me
to be placed on this list because the way that
I was ranked had everything to do with the work
that I do. Every single day, and you know, I
think that it's dope. And a lot of times when
you're in it and you're working and you're figuring things out,
especially if you're new in a space, it's like you
never want to you always want to remain teachable and
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you never want to be like you know, like you
know those people who are just like things are going
well for themselves, so they're too full of themselves and
it's like, yo, bro, relax, Like what goes up can
also come down. You never want to be one of
those people. So that's like my goal is to never
be that. But I you know, I told myself, like
you gotta be Okay, We'll celebrating yourself as well too.
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So my description on the list they listed last year,
I was not on the list because I wasn't And
I remember Charlemagne and Nila having a conversation about this
list and him mentioning that me and Nila should have
been listed on this list when the list what I'm
known for. On Complex dot com they say I'm known
for on the ground reporting, balancing out the Breakfast club
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with some stone cold facts and there's like a small
like almost like a forward speaking of books, written by
Jordan Rose, who was one of the Who's one of
the personalities over at Complex. It says, in a hip
hop media landscape cluttered with clickbait, long the Rose that
is doing the legwork. Her role on the Breakfast Club
is to inform the audience and her co host about
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current events. She got to start at TMZ and her
commitment to getting a story has taken her the biggest stage,
bringing the same intensity to Slate rumors will Drake pop
up with Bad Bunny at the super Bowl at Clockett?
That was my exclusive when I shut that down completely, No,
that was not happening period and serious stories, as seen
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in her insightful coverage of the Diddy trial. Now, they
did ask me some questions. They asked two questions. They said,
what is one thing that I like about rap right now?
I talked about the fact that I love that women
are running rap, Like when you think about some of
your favorite summer anthems, even some of your favorite songs
with the guy rappers like Luthor with Kendrick Lamar, you
think of Sizza, Doci is out here, Lotto Cardi, b Gorilla.
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I still play old city girls. To be honest with you,
like I was just listening to that the other day
and I saw the baby who is you know he
has a song pop that that is climbing the charts.
He went got Goorrilla and Krisha Young Miami are the
supergirls of the Supergirls O the City Girls. Like the
women are there where it's at, and not only are
where it's at, but they're making the music that makes
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you feel good. Like I think we sometimes can get
so into this like beef mentality of like the back
and forth between like the drink and the kindricks and
things of that nature, and forget that, like sometimes people
just want to have a good time. Like I feel
like at one point in time in music, the goal
used to be who's going to have the song of
the summer. I don't even know if people care about
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that anymore. Like it's eighty degrees outside right now, and
I don't know what we're putting on when we get
in the car unless we putting on one of the girls.
And it's nothing wrong with that. I'm happy for all
of the ladies in rap, but I'm saying, like the
new songs that are big, that are breaking, like it's
very few far in between it and Complex actually acknowledges
this in the opening of you Know This List and
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kind of explaining how they were able to compile the
list as well too. The second question that asked me
is what's one thing you hate about rap? Right now?
I said, how low the barrier of entry is. I'm
a social media girlly, so basically like, I'm not knocking
social media, don't get me wrong, but and I live
and thrive there, and I'm thankful to God that we
no longer have to wait on the machines to power
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us up. Most of the stories that I break, I
break them first on social media. Twitter is my like,
that's a huge platform for me in breaking news and Instagram,
and then I take it to hear the podcast The
Ladus with Lona Rosa in the Breakfast Club right, and
then it picks up by other outlets like Complex. Shout
out to them for always picking up my content, Shape Room,
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Hollywood a Lot, Billboard, Shoot. Even TMZ has picked up
a few of my stories. Yeah, y'all know how that go.
But I say, I continue. But I do believe there
should be artists development and not just the tracking of
an artist or their talents via social media. Numbers or
engagement for a moment is what I meant. The writing
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of this is all over the place. You gotta have
to have them edit day. But yeah, so I'm excited.
I'm excited to be on this list. And we're gonna
talk a little bit about the list and just some
of the people that I watch a lot for what
I do in news that I big up, or my
friends who made the list that I'm excited to see now.
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I told you guys that Complex talks a lot about
the fact that there isn't really like a a like
people that are making narratives in hip hop right now,
so it's so important to have, you know, talking heads
who actually do that. Complex makes the point that the
storylines of the past years have gone cold. There's no
new dominant star and no big singles or albums with
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true staying power. To make this list, a platform or
a person has to regularly address issues and topics related
to hip hop. They have to be a place where
news gets broken. Okay, I love to be known as that,
or where rappers want to appear. It's the conversation you're causing.
And to me, this is important because I feel like
that was always the goal. Like I have a platform
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called Brown Girl Grinding all common spelling, and we are
like the group chat on Instagram and I'm going to
expand it to so many other places. But the tagline
of the brand is by Black Women for the World,
Causing conversations that shake the room. That is the tagline
of the podcast if you guys have not noticed as well,
because that I think when you're able to cause conversation,
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conversation carries. It can carry from friend to friend, family
member to family member, generation and generation, man to women,
but it lasts. It's not something that's like a flash
in a bucket. If it's a conversation that is like good,
it's engaging and it does what it needs to do.
So speaking of people who do that, I do want
to take a second to actually highlight some people from
the list in all particular order. Honestly, I started from
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the bottom of the list and just scrolled down. So
Rob Markman, who is listed at number thirty five, he
is last on the list. I definitely think he should
have been higher. They list his features as genius just
my Thoughts, which is his own platform where he talks
straight to camera just about some things in hip hop
that are going on and giving his thoughts, providing very
thoughtful information and insight a lot of street insiders as
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well too. Wayno is also a person who does similar
content like this that didn't make this list but should
have and then best interview ever and they say that
he's known for top notch interview skills and integrity as
a pundit. Now when Rob Martmin does any of his
sit down like breakdowns, like he's a person for me
in a time right now where a lot of hip
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hop personalities And I was going to say journalists, but
like I'm trying to think, like who I consider an
actual Oh, probably Frasier who's on this list. It's probably
someone I actually consider a hip hop journalist. Like I
think when I think of hip hop journalists, I think
of like a B Die. I think of you know
what b Elliott Wilson used to do with rap Radar,
Like that is a very serious like title, and it's
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a very like I'm a journalist, but I can spend
across various genres, not just hip hop. A hip hop journalist,
I feel like those are the people who they create
lists that actually like make sense or make you think
they're very deeply embedded into culture, into lyric, into song
and to they're like the I'm a fashion girl, so
us fashion girls. We love archive pieces because they're hard
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to get. No one knows much about them. You know
everything about them, so there's a chance to educate. But
they're also normally like very rare, they look good, they last,
it's just they're very sought after. Hip Hop journalists are
like the archive archivists. I don't even know if that's
the word, but they archive what is our culture of
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hip hop. They make sure that we're able to find
these pieces in these artifacts that matter, that are one
of one that needs them explaining, that educate that really,
really really matter. And there's not a lot of people
who even understand enough about hip hop and its history
from the origin to where we are now to do that.
And that's why I said, I don't know who I
would even think of in that category outside of like
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maybe very few people, but yeah, shout out to Rob
Markman whenever I'm trying to break down something deeply deeply
hip hop embedded. Rob Markman and beat Out are people
that I look to see the conversations that they're having
as like research and things that I might not understand,
or I'll reach out to them and ask questions. And
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he says one thing he hates about right right now
is the way hip hop has been infiltrated with paid
agitators who run up fake streams and hues bots to
give the illusion of something real. I hate the toxic
side of stand culture and fans who pick their favorite
artists against hip hop as a whole. Next one of
this is Elliott Wilson at number thirty two. Last year
he was number seventeen. He dropped on the list. He
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just hasn't been around. I did an interview with Elliott
Wilson last year sometime and he was telling me how
he was getting back into the things. And I was
telling him in the interview, like your strong point is this,
it's having the real conversations one of them with the
artists you and beat out, wered us, stoppable for us.
But I mean, I guess that's over. Get back to this,
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cause there was like trolling going on at one point,
and I'm like, you know, I was being honest with
I'm like, you're too old to be doing that, Like
you're too respected and coveted and you should look at
yourself that way. And then he just kind of like disappeared.
But I know he was going through some things in
his personal life that they shared with me off the record,
and then I saw on this list. I did not
know he announced he had twins and it's not what
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the person he had been married to for a very
long time, So that kind of explains the absence. Elliott,
take your time, get your real life where it needs
to be, and we will see you soon. Next on
the list is DJ Head and Gena Views. I am
so proud of Gina Views. The Head is my bro,
always looking out, always a phone call away. But Gena
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Views and not Butt because it's not a butt. These
two come together in a package. Joe period. Gena Views. However,
me and her kind of left our roles at our
last situations. She was at No Jumper, I was at
TMZ around the same time. And I feel like we've undirectly,
like you know, I wasn't calling her when I was
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going through things, she wasn't calling me. But as you
were getting through with and like you know, hitting different
notches on the bell and being able to like put
different you know, points on the board, we were cheering
each other on because I think we just really understood
what each other we're going through. And I think number one,
we're just really good at what we do. If I
do say so myself, and y'all know, I don't really
I don't even get into all of the talking too
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much about myself. But when I think about us, I
think about what kind of helped us and is still
helping us as we navigate this space. Is that we're
really good at what we do, but we also really care,
like we're really passionate, We really live and breathe what
our genres are. Gina is a hip hop girly. She
is going to talk you through lyrics and you know,
all of the things. I can get into it, but
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that is not my ministry. And she is so good
at what she does for real, for real. But I'm
really proud of her too, because I think that there
are not a lot of women in the space who
are as brutally honest as she is while also being
able to have such a dope personality that people want
to come and talk to you, they want to hang
out with you, like she's fun, she's the homegirl, she's sexy,
she's sassy, but like she's not with the bullshit, and
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she's not afraid to tell you and she's not afraid
to be honest. And I think that disruptor that we
see in her is what I want to see in
a lot of the other younger girls in that space doing,
because it is a very male dominated talk space. DJ Head,
who sits next to her, is you know, amazing at
just being supportive but also made amazing and it's very
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obvious in like her rise, very amazing at like being
a supportive He's like, he's supportive and he's chill, but
he's a force, very well connected, not afraid to put
his people on, not afraid to put her on. But
I think he understood that, like they were better together
and a lot of the opportunities that we saw him
get over this last year or two is all. He's
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always centered the two of them and not just himself.
But he's also really good at what he does too,
his understanding of music, especially you know, being ingrained in
a lot of West Coast culture which people were paying
so much attention to at one point. I think he
used that in a really smart way to build something
that last beyond the Ken drink drig beef moment, So
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shout out to them. Effective immediately available everywhere. Go watch them.
It's one of my favorite shows to watch as well
when I'm preparing, you know, for my artist interviews, because
they really get into the shits. Jim Jones on the list.
Jim Jones, I want to mention He's number twenty six
on the list and was not on last year's list,
but I want to mention him because I think with
the Less Wrap about the podcast and artists to artists,
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with the platforms that he has and what he's doing,
people like to drag him and like to troll with him,
and like to you know, come for him and dispute
his takes when he talks about how relevant he is
and who he thinks he's bigger than the music. But
one thing that I will say is that quietly he's
building an empire in the media world off of that.
He got tired of just being on someone else's platform
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responding to things, or on Instagram responding to things, and
he made it something like the rest the less Wrap
about the podcast they're carving out there only still very
much growing, but it's working for them. They have an
audience over there, artists, artists. He has an audience over there,
and he's building out more. And I think one of
the things I respect is that he took what he
watched a lot of people do and he didn't say, oh,
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everybody's doing this, or because I'm not the first to
do it, I don't want to do it. He would
probably argue he was first in the space some way, somehow,
because that's just what Jim do. But he wasn't afraid
to say, I'm gonna do it now. I don't care
who's already doing it, and I'm gonna do it my
way because if I build it, they will come. And
I think that that's what this genre of like, that's
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what you see a common thread in and a lot
of the people on this new list, it's like new media,
like things are changing. You then got Nori Noriega Drink
Chimps number twenty five. I love nor He's such a
sweet person. Every time I run into him, he always
talks about how he gets his news from me, which
is a lot of pressure when people tell me that,
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but I fuck with it because I know Norri has
experienced so many generations of like personality media talent journalists,
hip hop music culture. He's also dominating in the space.
And another person who's building business very smart in the space.
He just launched rock Solid, which is Memphis Bleak's podcast
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under his Drink Champs like network Flagship that he's building
as well too. And I love to see people who
are in hip hop understand the business and build the
business because it sustained you longer than anything else. And
he's been able to be relevant like think about it,
Noori the Rapper, Noorri Drink Champs, now Noorri the Rapper,
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Drink Champs and businessmen in podcasts. Flagship up next, we
have a Gillian Wallow at number eighteen, and I think
you just put Gillian Walla on his list, not like
just like it's nothing. But they're consistent. You know what
you're getting from them. People loved them. People love to
sit down and talk about them. I will say though,
this year, I feel like I haven't seen their stuff
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circulate as much online and I don't know why. I
don't know if it's because they're quiet quietly building other things,
so like they're still dropping, they're still doing interviews. I
know they did Pushisi's first interview when he came home.
But I don't know, they've just been very like it's
been like they're dropping and they're consistent and then they
like theay out the way and normally with people as
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ambitious as them, we've seen their rise to you know, everything,
that they're doing million dollars worth of game. That means
that they're working on something. So I'm excited to see
what is going to come next from them. But do God,
if you've got a list of people in the space
that are impactful, it actually means something. Gillian Wallo have
to be on the list because first of all, they're
focused and what they actually care about and their why
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of why they're doing it, like really wanting to help
people who are coming behind them understand who they are
so they're not throwing their lives away. That's always gonna
get them placed on any list in my opinion, and
they are actually I mean, it's Gillia Wallow there entertaining
as fuck as well, Like let's just get that to them.
Butlet keV also on the list. Another outlet I watch
a lot when I'm preparing for interviews, the guys from
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the podcast podcast The New York Times podcast. I don't
know how to say their names, so I'm probably gonna
get this wrong. John Karen Monica, and Joe Cassakrell. I
like their interviews. I like their interviews because I feel
like they're always very well researched. They have a very
good rapport with a lot of the artists that they
report on because they've been working in this space for
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so long, so this is not their first time meeting
or reporting on or talking to the artists. But they're
just they're very well researched a lot, and they're not
afraid to ask questions and to be honest with y'all.
A lot of people that are white in the hip
hop space that are doing these interviews and all those things,
a lot of times I feel like they're like either
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trying very hard, super disconnected, or they their type of
content is like it might be good to watch, but
it's not something I'm using to research because I don't know,
Like it's a lot that's just going over their head.
They're really fucking good at what they do, and it's
very calm. There's no gotcha moments. It's not an attack.
It's like easy conversation to watch, but it's very well researched.
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Fraser Tharp writer journalist for overall like actually a still
a writer, So big up to him, especially for the
jay Z interview that he did, which was everywhere. It
was a very well put together interview. Again, very well researched.
This is what I mean when I say like hip
hop journalists, like there's like a specialty, Like that's like
an art or gift because you have to like remember
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so much information different years, different drops, different releases, lyrics
like and be able to like effortlessly recite it and
you know, turn it into questions. Like I don't think
people understand that that ain't for everybody. Everybody can't do that,
but he does it very well, as we saw on
display this year with that jay Z interview. Ky Sanna
(23:48):
is on the list, and I saw some people arguing
when the list drop that Kay Sanat hasn't turned on
his camera all year, so why is he on the list.
I don't ever want you all to mistake his power
and his impact with the fact that he has chosen
to not play around with it and take a break
and focus and figure out how he really wants to impact.
Ky Sannat reached the pinnacle that a lot of streamers
(24:10):
are still fighting to get to today, to the point
where he was able to do what he's doing. Now
he's taking a break, he stepped away, and when he
chooses to come back and turn that camera on in
whatever way he chooses to ya, we will listen, we
will listen. And I think the beauty of it is
is that he actually cared for something deeper, Like it's
not just about the streams, the w's in the trat,
(24:32):
the subscribers, the money, Like it's actually something deeper for him,
and he's out right now trying to discover what that
is so that he doesn't miss that. And I think
people who have purpose in their journey, the impact is
that's legacy. He's out of here and then they you know,
we get to the top five. On the top five,
of course, Joe Budden, Charlomagne, this little man that works
on the show called the Breakfast Club, Jada Kids, Fat Joe. Yeah,
(24:58):
like it's I think there's a lot of people on
this list. I ain't even gonna hold you that. I
don't even know who they are whatsoever. Academics is number
one on the list. I don't think that Academics should
be number one on the list, and no it's not
because we had our little scriptfuffle on Twitter. I really
could care less about that at this point in my life.
Of nothing against them, I always say I respect them
(25:18):
out of what he's built. I just don't agree on
how he goes about things a lot of the times.
But I don't think he should be number one. I
think and this is not because I work with him.
I think Charlemagne is number one. They have DJ Academics
as number one, Joe Budden as number two, Blad as
number three, Fat John Jayakiss is number four, and Charlemagne
as number five. I will put Charlemagne as number one
(25:41):
just because not only is his voice impactful and it
impacts inside and outside of hip hop, and that's important
for hip hop. But that might go over some people's heads.
But the business that he's built, in the way that
he's been able to hire and employ and just change
the lives of so many other people through hip hop
and through a microphone, that's like nobody in the top
(26:03):
five of this list is doing that the way that
he's doing it. I would then put Joe Budden at
number two just because I think when you talk about
elder statesmen and impact voice wise, that is him as well.
And he's able to do a lot of the you know,
the callbacks, the lyrics and the conversation, like he really
does this for real as well. I would put if
(26:24):
I'm choosing just from the top five, I would probably Yeah,
I would probably put Academics as number three only because
I feel like I feel like he I'm a hate
that I'm saying is he's louder, Like I would put
Joe and Jada there, but I feel like their stuff
isn't It's not at the forefront as much, and I
(26:48):
think that that matters with the people that I'm like
how I think about things like the disruptor, like there
are things don't disrupt as much. They did have the
moment where they revealed that we were gonna get the
Thud Coal Birthday mixtape, and when they did it, you
see how crazy it went. But they don't do that often.
But we love them because you get you get a
(27:10):
piece of hip hop history in real time and look
back on things in a way that you just don't
get it from other people because because of who you're
talking about, like that Joe's one of the best storytellers ever,
and Jada Kisses just so well respecting it has experienced
so much that you put them together and it's cold.
But yeah, I think I would. I would flop that,
(27:30):
And honestly, the only reason why I wish that there
was another option for top five, Like, is there somebody
else I will actually take out to put I honestly
might I don't know. I would put the popcast guys
a little higher, and I being honest, I put myself
a little higher too, not top five. Though Cameron is
on this list. I don't know if I will put
(27:51):
him top five though, but I do respect the way
that he's been able to build a business model for
himself as well too. I think once he settles in
all of the business that he's building is going to
be up there like top five. But I see what
he's doing with Revolt, and I know how much they
respect them him because I dealt with them so much
during all that Dane Dash is he chairman of Revolt?
Is he not? Conversation? But yeah, I don't know. I'm
(28:14):
not mad at me putting academics at number three. I
just feel like a lot of times he's loud, but
it's for the wrong reasons, and I think that there
I think anybody in the top five of a hip
hop list like this where you're balancing out impact, virality, substance,
but also like who do people care to listen to?
People do care to listen to him, but I feel
like impact also, it impact matters as far as like
(28:36):
what you're choosing a platform, and I feel like sometimes
the things that he chooses a platform is still not
like I think that he could be. He could be
doing so much more with the platform that he's built.
But he's built the platform, and he did it early
on before a lot of the streamers and things like
that were being respected. And that's why I'm not mad
at him in the top five whatsoever. Take a look
at the list. It's on Complex dot com. Let me
(28:58):
know what you guys think about it. I am honored
to be on the list. I know we will be
like I don't care about lists, I don't care about awards.
It feels good to be recognized by your peers and
to know that you know your work is not going overlooked.
I'm one of the ROSA. This has been another episode
of the latest with more on the ROSA and I
tell you, guys, every single episode, y'all could be anywhere
with any old body, but y'all choose to be right
(29:19):
here with me, my Lowriders. I appreciate you, guys. I'll
patch you in my next episode.
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