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Speaker 1 (00:01):
George.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody, you know, if.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
You don't lie about that, right, Lauren came in hot. Okay,
let's get it going. I have sound effects, y'all. Yes,
we are here. Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
This is the first episode of the Latest with Lauren
the Rosa, which is a podcast where we are doing
all the things. So I'll be here, as you guys
have heard in the trailer, and me talk about every
day Monday through Friday, breaking down the latest, the hottest,
the trending, uh in exclusive celebrity news and pop culture news. Also,
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I'll be bringing you guys exclusives here, so it'll be
like a here here first, talk about it here.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
First thing.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
We'll be doing an extension of what you will also
be seeing me do weekdays on the Breakfast Club right here. Okay,
So this very first episode, you know, I just wanted
to open it up with something very you know, personal
and near and deer in the headlines. If you guys
are listening to this, you're like, oh wow, I'm so
excited for her. I've been watching her, or you're tuned
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in because you've recently just I don't know, begin to
learn to hate me or whatever the case may be,
because you think I sold just as job. So we
are going to talk about it right here, right now.
For the first time ever in my life, I wasn't
reaching out to break the story. I wasn't detelling the story.
I wasn't regurgitating a story. I was a story. And
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in me talking about this today, it's not to conjure
up anything or stir up anything. Because when I tell
y'all me and just are good, we're good. And when
I tell y'all ass, things come because it's a team
of four very opinionated people, and it will.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
We're gonna always, We're gonna be good. We're gonna figure
it out.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I think that this and a lot of the other
things that led up to this have helped us really
understand you know, what communications should look like.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
And you know what we're good.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
But I wanted to talk about just kind of like
what my point of view, in my perspective and just my.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Experience was there.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
And the biggest thing I kept telling myself is like, dang, Lauren,
I'm so proud of you because Lauren a year ago,
Lauren two years ago, Lauren three years ago, would not
have been able to kind of remove herself and be empathetic,
you know, to a woman who just had a baby
trying to figure things out on a platform with eight
to nine million you know, listeners and all these homes
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and all these markets, and you know you have social media.
But even stepping outside of her and just bringing it
to myself me a few years ago, wouldn't have been
able to You don't just see everything that I had
worked for and everything that I had on the table,
and how important that was, and how important maintaining a
certain composure, a certain level of professionalism, and just knowing, like,
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girl is rough and this ain't what you imagined, you
know what I mean. And you coming in here and
you have no ill will or no ill intention, but
it's not about you. There's so many other things that
are bigger right now that are above you. You got
to sit back, do your thing, put your head down,
do the work, and let it stay above you, and
you know, just stays true to what your intentions are.
And I think nothing could have prepared me for that
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more than my relationship with God that I have right now.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
And I was raised in the church. I've always had
a relationship with God.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
That's you know, my family and all of that, Like
that's just how I was raised. But I think when
you're grown and you established that relationship yourself, it is
so different. And like a year ago, when I decided
to like get my apartment in New York and I
was trying to figure everything out, one of the things
that I did was I was like, you know what,
I'm gonna get my life to God again. When I
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did that, though, I knew that it was a conscious decision,
and I told myself. I told myself then that I
was like farming myself for everything that I was going
to need to go to this like next level of things.
And when I tell y'all, I had no idea everything
that was going to happen. And this is not about
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like the just Instagram live, I mean like everything. I
just mean, like, you know, me being blessed with the opportunities.
And when I created my production company, Brown gir Grinding,
when I decided to lead TMC, it was a big
that was my like folkus. It was like, Okay, I
want to cass create conversation that matters, but that really
shakes the room for real. So when I got on
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the other side of that, and now the conversation that's
shaking the room is about me.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Following Jessico on live on Instagram, I.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Was like, oh shit, this is crazy. Behind the scenes,
I knew that like, things weren't perfect. I knew she
wasn't the most happiest person. But I think in my role,
I can only speak for myself. I was trying to
do as much as I could to make sure that
things worked out well enough where she could at least
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show up and do her job comfortable, like that was
my job and it wasn't about me as talent at
that point. It was like, okay, me and my producer role,
the the show has to work like this full product
has the product, and how can I make that happen?
So I was doing everything I could, but I think
it was obvious that, you know, she wasn't happy, and
she was, you know, trying to figure things out, and
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I had to learn that there was nothing Again, it
was so much of me learning Lauren, that's above you
like that had nothing to do with me or her.
I mean a lot of it is something that you know,
and I can't speak to her experience, and I don't
want to.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I think she'll We've talked about it on air.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I don't know if she'll revisit this or not, but
a lot of her figuring out her voice in that
space is a her thing. But coming in I wanted
things to work so well that, you know, I was
just like, Okay, if I gotta lean, if I gotta bend,
if I gotta get off air, for whatever I gotta do,
It's like, okay, Beck, I'm with I'm down for the team,
Like this is home team, Like let's do it. So
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to see it not work out the way that I
wanted it to and then to see the big explosion
on Instagram Live, I was like all right, like woo,
you know, and this is me and Jess have talked
about this, but I think my biggest point was just.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Like, whoa hold on, It's not us versus you.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
We all and is trying to figure this shit out
as crazy as this is going to see. When I
came into this, I remember feeling like, all right, it's
us against the world because you've never seen this. You've
never seen two black women on a mainstream platform that
picks up across so many different you know what I mean.
I mean Fox shave rooms seeing it TMZ Hollywood and
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locked all of the things right. But and you've never
seen it. It's like number one, we don't really have.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Like a guide. We're figuring it out.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
But number two, so many people are going to like
want to put their hand in it, stir it up.
The noise is gonna come. And I was always like,
all right, fuck all the outside shit, like it's us,
Like forget everything outside.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
It is us.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
And I think, like our program director, her name is
Dia Mitchell.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
One of the things she always.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Says to me is like and I had to learn it,
but y'all know, I come from TMC. I come from
like instant like this working. That's not what's the story,
what's the headline? To just let things breathe. And I
think that that is what this whole experience has taught
me on another level, is to let things breathe because
what is supposed to happen will happen. Moving forward, we
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did the Boy's Mind remake. We called it The Job
Is Mine. Just wrote the lyrics to it, we recorded it,
the whole team jumped in and just to see like
the how it's received, and it just felt good. It
felt like okay, like you know, you have an argument
with your sibling or like your mom, your dad, whoever,
or your boyfriend, your girlfriend, your whoever your partner is, however,
you identify whatever you do, and then y'all get through it,
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and it's like, Okay, I'm glad we might have needed
that because that that communication needed to happen.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
It felt good. It felt like, okay, we are through it.
It happened.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
It taught me a lot about being the actual story
and how to handle that and you know what I mean,
what to do, what not to do. I think that
people received it well because they could feel that genuinely.
We both were like, it's not a competition, like you
do what you do, I do what I do, and
you're here. Granted again, it's for people for the first
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time figuring this out together. This is my first time
ever working with any of these people. We might rub
heads again, you know what I mean, bump heads again,
but we are in a space now where we will
figure it out and make sure. I'll go check out
the job is mine and listen to the song and
let me know what you feel about it.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
But no, y'all, this.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Was not a gimmick This was not promo for the podcast,
promo for the Breakfast Club. This is me addressing that
and shutting that down. I'm debunking that story. That was
not fake djustment live. It was real, it happened. We're
moving on.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
It is done. We're in a good space, and that's it.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
That's all I want to talk to you guys about
Party B and Offset.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
So I was very disappointed.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
When I say very disappointed, I mean extremely disappointed by
what I heard over the weekend from Cardi B about offsets.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
So, Cardi B went.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
On Twitter spaces and she accused Offset of threatening to
kill her and himself, and she also said that Offset
had actually sent videos of Offset and Carti engaged in
sexual activities to the new person that Cardi was dating.
If what Carti is alleging is true, all of that
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is trash.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
That is such trash behavior from Amen Banne.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I don't know all the details of their breakup. I
don't know all the details of who did what, when
they did it, who they did it with, where they slept,
that would they slept with whatever.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I don't know any of that.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
But what I do know, and what we all do know,
is that Cardi b has children by Offset, so that
means that everything she is alleging that Offset has done,
he is doing this to the mother of his children.
These children are yes, they're babies, right, but these children
are old enough and they're human beings, so they'll feel
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what their mom is dealing with. They'll feel what their
mom is going through. And I think a lot of
times in situations like this, like men are quick to say, well,
everybody always thinks about the woman in a breakup.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Everybody always thinks about, well, what the demand did?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
What did Demand do, especially in situations like this because
also has such a history of being the cheater in
the relationship. I mean, I remember the DMS from Jay
that you know, he came out at one point and said,
we're his page was hacked up to you guys to believe.
I just think that regardless of who's doing dirt where right,
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like whether.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Wherever the blame is going to be.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I think that there's a certain level of respect that
you should carry about somebody that you once were in
love with, that you, you know what I mean, you
dealt with, you had kids with, you publicly had a
relationship with. There should be just a sort of level
of respect, and from my observation, that level of respect.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Has never been there from Offset two parties.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
At all because some of the things that we've had
to publicly hear her get online and cry about and
break down about. For her, Number one, for her to
be who she is as Cardi b right, this huge
force in entertainment, right, this celebrity, this woman that people
are looking at, that their people are seeking after, idolizing.
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There should be a level of respect for what she's
built career wise where you didn't want to do that
to her. There's the video of off Sever out the
doctor Schayanne Bryant, the screenshots of the dms, and they
teased it and people thought it was a whole thing,
when really he was reaching out trying to get I guess,
trying to get help by trying to figure out, you know,
wanted to talk to somebody relationship wise.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I think that's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I really do think that's a good idea because I
think if what we're hearing, you know, from what Cardi
is a legend is true, off Set should definitely figure
that out because not even just for the sake of
him and Cardi getting back together, that might be done
at this point.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
If I was hurt, it would be done at this point.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
But again I don't judge if not, because it's not
my business to judge. This is my business to report
about it, to talk about it. But I wouldn't go
back at this point. I think he is demonstrated where
his love of respect stands. I think his insecurities and
his respect for himself are very low. And if you
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don't love itself, he can't love you. That's what I
look at and that's what I take away from this.
But again, people got to learn on their own, according
their own time. But I think that him getting help
and really sitting down and talking to somebody Mike can
help him.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
A lot, like a whole lot. Because this is just
sad to hear. And I did post a.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Tweet and because I knew I was gonna be talking
about Cartdi being offset, I was asking, you know, the ladies, like,
as women, we take so much shit for the men
that we love. In quotation marks dot dot dot, why
ladies love music on Xcess because we understand their struggle.
We're going to continue to love on them by enemies necessary.
So she's talking, she's saying, you know, as women, we
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understand men struggle. Ezra rgr on xcess emotions the lesser
signed logic. Basically, once you get in, your emotion logic
goes out the window. And I think we've all been here.
So thank you guys again for tuning on in and
again connect with me on social media. I'm Lauren Lerosa
everywhere Twitter, Instagram.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
TikTok YouTube.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I'm also on Instagram under the Brown Girl Grinding account,
which is where we have these conversations like this as
well two in real time throughout the day. Thank you
guys for tuning in and I'll see you in the
next episode. Yes, we got through episode one.