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Speaker 1 (00:02):
I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You know, if you don't lie about that. Right, Hey, y'all,
what's up.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
It's Laura le Rosa and this is the Latest with
Laura le Rosa. This is your daily dig on all
things pop culture, entertainment, news and all of the conversations
that shake the room.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Babies.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Now we are coming to you guys live, well not
like live live, but I'm recording here in Las Vegas.
Me and the iHeart team, the Breakfast Club team. We
are here for the iHeart Music Festival twenty twenty five.
I am really excited. This is my first iHeart Radio
Music festival. You know, it's something big that they do
every year. And we'll get into what to expect and
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also where you can watch me host you guys and
take you into the festival live this evening. But first
and foremost, we gotta get on into the latest. So
let's get into it. So Parti B has a Fish
dropped her sophomore album, Manness has been.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
A long time coming.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
People have been having conversations about Cardi B. This album,
whether the album would come, whether the album would not come,
when it would come, how well she would do, how
well she would not do, what the subject matter would be,
what the flow would be, the type of music would be.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Forever.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
It has been seven plus years since Cardi B has
dropped an album, and a lot of people thought she
was gonna do.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Her Lauren Hill.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
A lot of people thought that Cardi B would drop
one album and continue to do features and other things,
but never drop an official full body of music. And
the first album that she dropped was Invasion of Privacy.
And now we are back again with him either Drama
Now listen crazy news to the point where when I
saw it on my timeline, I was.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Like, there is no way this is real. I was like,
what that fast?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
But then I had to think about the singles that
Cardi B released prior to the album that she added
on the album. Because the RIAA, which is the Recording
Industry Association of America, just announced that Cardi B's am
I the Drama album is already certified platinum on release day.
The album came out today, y'all, and before the end
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of the day, she is already certified platinum. But that
is because she added those songs that people There were
people that were upset about it. She added Up, which
is five times platinum already on its own, and then
she added Wop with med thea Stallion, which was already
nine times platinum on its own. And because of those
records and you know, people downloading and listening to the
other songs newly, she today is already certified platinum on
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her release day and is given's only up from here now?
In hearing this, because again, when I saw it, I
was like, is this even real? And then I saw
a Billboard article. And when I saw the Billboard article,
I'm like, oh, this is real.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Billboard would not do an article. They would know whether
this is real or not.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
And when I saw the Billboard article, I was like, Okay,
I can kind of understand why people would be upset
about her adding Up and Wop to the album, because
it's like, she gets it. Things like this happened because
those records were such big records. But at the same time,
who are we to tell her that she can't. Artists
do it all the time. It's actually, I mean, it's
kind of smart strategy wise, but I understand why people
would feel like it's cheating the system, because first they
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drop people are still checking for those songs. Don't get
me wrong, but first they drop. The full project itself
is not giving. Oh it's been out for these amount
of hours and now it's platinum.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
It's because of the work that.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Those songs have done all of this time up until now,
from the day that they were released. So I get
it and again, and we talked about this in the
last episode. Carti said that she added these records because
her fans always ask her to put the songs somewhere
that they can listen to it collectively. And also, she
says she taught of not being able to submit them
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for the Grammy. She didn't submit it for the Grammys.
These songs wop and up when they first dropped because
she was worried about what people would think because she
didn't have a full project out.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Now she has.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
A full project out and she's like, whatever, I really
want to know how y'all feel about that, especially the
music heads, like the hip hop heads.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Let me know how y'all feel.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Do y'all feel like SIS is cheating the code and
it's unfair, or do y'all feel like all of fair
in love and war get outside in the streets and
the tweets for the tweets be outside, we outside, we
outside outside of tweet every other page. I'm Laura la
Rosa everywhere l O r e N l O r
O s A. Let's have a conversation about it. I personally, again,
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I don't think that I have a strong feeling on
either side, but I do understand why now people were
upset when she announced that she would be putting those
songs on this album.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I completely get it, But also too, I think it's
like one of those things where it's like, don't get
her wrong. Cardi B is a huge star, a huge
music star. People were going to consume this album in
crazy magnitudes because she hasn't dropped in so long and
people well attached to everything she does. So it's not
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like it's like an artist who like, you know, people
don't listen to people not checking for it, and they
do this the cheat, you know, as a cheico, like
it's it's Cardi B.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Y'all.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Now some of the marketing we you know, I talked
about the door Dash situation here with you know Carti
has you know, am I the drama, the physical copies
being delivered by door dash. But one of the things
I also thought she did was smart well. She included
Walmart and Walmart deliveries in this rollout, because if you
know anything about Cardi B, you know how much the
everyday person appeals to her and feel like they're connected
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with her. But also she still speaks to them even
in her rollout, just setting her phone up and going
live and talking about things. But she's, yeah, she's working
with Walmart to roll out this album and make it
where people can buy physical copies, and it's been doing
so well.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Cardi Aren't her doing her thing, y'all. I listen.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I just I think nowadays in twenty twenty five, it's like, Okay,
you got the music, and how good is that? How
good is the product you also have? How good is
the marketing, the roll out, the visuals and all the things.
But the strategy, this strategy was so smart. It was
like bring it right to your front door, period, which
is very symbolic of Cardi B and what she's been
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her whole career. Instead of us having to wait for
media outlets to get statements and things of that nature,
Cardi B just hops on live or Twitter spaces. She's
always straight at you. It's like direct to consumer. That
is where she leans in you know best, and she
makes it fly. So the incredibly smart of her. One
of the things I will say, we talked to her
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in the Breakfast club. Make sure you guys gonna check
out that full interview, and I had asked her about,
you know, her coming at bea on pretty and Pettious Fuck,
which is one of the songs on the album, and
why now here's what she had to say, Pretty impettious fuck,
you come out the.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Gate, I'll be gave a bea yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
At this point though, like I mean, so that reignites
everything because I remember y'all were going back and forth.
Your whole thing was you felt like you just doing
this because you want my platform, you want attention. I'm
gonna give it to you, and then I'm done with it.
This reignites it all. Like why even addresser again on
the album.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Because you mentioned my kids trying to be cute. There's
gonna be times that like people throw shots at you,
or like there's gonna be times like you know, like
when she did her little this and it was trash.
But it's like everything on social media is gonna be
seen So when my kids grow up one day and
they see that you mentioned them, and then they and
they're gonna ask me, like, so what you said?
Speaker 4 (07:21):
What you did?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I'm not gonna tell my kids, Like, you know, I
just felt like she took the high road because she
lost because people wasn't on her side. And now I'm
not saying that to my kids. You know what it is.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
I feel like last year every artist was like.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Beefing girl, Like every every artist was beefing And I thought,
and I think she was gonna get a moment out
of that because she thought that I was copying her.
And I had a conversation with her. First we was
cursing each other out. Then I had a real conversation
with her and I was like, listen, I'm not copying you.
I don't even look at you like You're not a
person that I look at or i'm inspired by.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
And the conversation ended.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Then she kept going because of a music video and
it's like, oh girl, you're definitely not on the moon board.
Then this bitch right, it being a lot of funny
shit behind the scenes. It really be a lot of
funny shit behind the scenes. This producer that was working
with like my eggs. He was telling he was going
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around saying that I was messing with a guy tape
or something right now, yes, And I was like, what me,
Hell no, it was a lie and it was ridiculous
and a bitch can say no demn so farm because
I got messages when I first started talking to him,
and I was like, I have to get to the
bottom of who's saying that she was trying to plant
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a seed that I was cheating on this guy with
a blood nigga?
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Make you think that I'm I'm.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
You not from the hood, so to you because I'm blood,
you think that I'm like, oh, I'm pressed for mess with.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
That's nothing to me. That's like being around Dominicans or
something like this like that don't mean nothing to me.
Everybody's everybody, this everybody and.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Then and then this is New York. One thing about
a New York person or anybody. They're gonna talk and
it's like and I know it was confirmed that it
was her that was going around with that rumor, because
when she did hear this, she kept saying.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Like, oh, why say how you how you like a
cheat or something like that.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I forgot what she was saying, but it was like, so,
say say who I was, Say who I was dealing with?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Say it.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Oh, you just made that up. You just made that up.
You just made that up. You was being messy, and
there's an eye bitch.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Now I got a web belt for you, and you
ain't even gonna know when it's coming.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Have you ever got hit with a web belt?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
And I tried to get her to name some of
the other rap girls that she might be coming at
on this album, because there have been, you know, rumors
and reports that she was coming for the girls. She
wouldn't name them, but once the album dropped, because I
listened to the album before the interview to prepare for it,
and I caught some of the shit talking, but I
didn't catch directly who I did think, And I wanted
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to ask her this, but I didn't get to it
the whole first rap bitch to cover Vogue.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Sorry for the vulgar language, guys, that's just the line
in the song.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Carti b mentions that in a song that she has
called imaginary players, and a lot of people believe that
that was, you know, shade towards Nicki Minaj, because Nicki
Minaj has been in Vogue, but she just recently dig
Us Vogue and I wanted to ask her about that
but then get a chance to But I did not
know that she was coming at j T, who was
another rap artist formerly from the group The City Girls.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
That went over my head.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
But she had said something in our interview that made
me kind of think that that's what she was talking about.
She had talked about rap girls, and you know, it
get weird with rap girls because they'll be friends and
she'll reach out and be friends with them and try
to build them up. But the minute they got to
turn on her for somebody else, they do. Now I
get it. I'm like, oh, she was talking about JT
because she's had back and forth with JT, and somehow
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the Nicki Minaj conversation came into that back and forth
because JT has, you know, went on the road with
Nicki Minaj and all the things.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
And I'm like, oh, oh, so she.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Was really coming at the Girls' album. Y'all it is.
It's here. But speaking of music, I mentioned to you
guys in the beginning of this episode that I am
here in Vegas. We are doing the iHeart Music Festival.
It's my first i Heeart Music Festival, and of course
I'm taking you guys with me. I'm really excited for
you know, there's tons of performances. They have Bailly Zimmerman,
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Big Exa Plug. I'm really excited to see Big Exa
Plug perform. I am a fan Brian Adams, Diplow at Sharon.
I'm a fan of dip blowing as Sharon as well,
Gorilla Jelly Roll, Justice, Ello Cool J, Mariah Carey, y'all,
I'm going to cry when I see Mariah Carey at
the stage and she better do my songs like I
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love old school Mariah Carey when she was leaning into
her rat bag and she wanted to get gritty and
she was working with Jermaine dupri and you know, all
the conversations that people have about like what revived her
career those songs in that moment. That's what I want
to see tonight. I'm excited for that. They also have
more Room five performing Sammy Hagar, Tate McCrae, the offspring
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to McGraw, and there's a lot more people. I will
be taking you guys behind the scenes and into the
festival with me via the Breakfast Club Twitch and their
TikTok live account, so it's the Breakfast Club on TikTok
and on Twitch.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Follow there.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I'll be taking you guys literally into the festival with
me starting tonight at seven thirty pm Eastern Standard time
today September nineteenth, and then tomorrow September twentieth as well,
and follow me on socials. I' Laura la Rosa everywhere
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I'll be posting all of my experience there. At the
end of the day, you guys could be anywhere with
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anybody talking about all of these things, but y'all choose
to be right here with me. I am always so
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Speaker 2 (13:02):
See you guys soon.