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Speaker 1 (00:02):
I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You know, if you don't lie about that.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Right, Hey, y'all, what's up. It's Lauren lo Rosa and
this is the latest with Laura l Rosa. This is
your DELI dig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news,
and all of the conversations that shake the room. Baby.
All right, y'all, we are gonna get right on into it.
I mean, I guess we do. We gotta check in
behind the scenes of the grind. For all of my
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Lowriders that have been here, all of my Lowriders are
our listeners, you guys know, behind the scenes of the grind.
The check in is where we really check in and
just see how we feeling a little ketchup on like
what our days been, like all of the things. And
for all of my new listeners, welcome to the low
Rider squad. You are now family. Welcome to the community.
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So checking in behind the scenes of the grime. I
told y'all I'm gonna count down until Christmas break. So
I am feeling good. I am you know, get it
on through the week. Today is actually a very eventful day.
I am slated to go and see Candy from Real
Housewives of Atlanta on Broadway. I am just praying that
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I make it on time, because if you guys don't
live in New York or if you've never been to
a Broadway show, they don't play. They start on time. Okay,
do you hear me? They start on time. So I'm
praying that I make it on time because I want
to bring all of the details, all of the details
back to you guys. Y'all see what I did, their
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te tails back to you guys on just the play
and the experience in general and seeing her on Broadway.
I know when Othello was on Broadway, I wanted to
go to that play so bad. And I know she
wasn't in the play, but just because she was a
part of it. Of course, Denzel was a part of
the play as well. It was something that I wanted
to do so bad but didn't make it. So I'm
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excited to go get to see it to be able
to talk about it. So I'll be bringing you guys
back that you know, exclusive look into a Broadway night
with Candy. Birds here on the Latest with Laura La
Rosa the podcast. But let's go on into some News
because we are some things that are literally breaking today
that I want to talk about. So we are talking
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about Sean Combs The Reckoning, which is number one on Netflix,
and it's reportedly number one on Netflix in forty nine countries. Okay,
So there are a lot of people talking about this
documentary and we've been breaking exclusives around it here on
the Latest with Laura La Rosa, the podcast, but also
on the Latest with Lona Rosa on The Breakfast Club
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weekday mornings on Power one oh five one here in
New York or anywhere you know. We've syndicated to so
many different places, also via the iHeart app. Now, let's
talk about a story that broke today via Rolling Stone.
So Rolling Stone posted a statement and to be honest,
this story broke today. But this is a story that
we talked about on The Breakfast Club. I want to
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say almost so we could go when the documentary first
came out, and I want to say it might have
even been the day that they released the trailer of
the Netflix documentary. And the reason why I'm pointing that
out is because in this documentary, for those who have
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not seen it, and for the low riders who have
seen it, you guys know, and those who have not
seen it do not know. There is new footage exclusively
that fifty cent in his production team obtained, which the
documentary's seen centers itself around. Now. This new footage is
like day to day, almost like vlog style content of
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Sean Diddy Coombs recording himself the last couple of weeks
before he actually was taken into custody. So you're getting
to see everything from private lawyer and attorney phone calls.
You're getting to see, you know, conversations between him and
very close friends and family just as things drop, So
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as Don Richard's lawsuit dropped and he's reaching out to
Khaleena Harper to have her make statements on his behalf,
him instructing you know, his oldest son justin comes, you know,
as he's helping him figure things out, which a lot
of people honestly did not take well to seeing. People
felt like it was pretty insane to see him instructing
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his son to you know, take so much honest and
leadership and figuring out Diddy's mess because it wasn't his
son's mess to figure out. But I mean, look that
conversation to me, I think is one that you'll never
have a fair back and forth about because when it
comes to Diddy's children in the role that they should
or should not play, because at the end of the day,
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this is their father, and for some of his kids,
he's literally all he has left. So you know, they're
fighting tooth and nail to have their dad, the same
way he's fighting tooth and nail to be able to
be with his kids and to you know, be able
to get back to his life. But Rolling Stone posted
a statement from the videographer who was Diddy's dated day videographer. Now,
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a few weeks ago, I told you guys that this
videographer in question and it was not on the record
statement that there was a videographer and question who was
Diddy's day to day like main videographer, that he had
proper paperwork and contract, like you know, certain things set
up with right. And because when I saw this exclusive footage,
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I'm like, how does a man as famous and as
business savvy and as business successful as Sean Diddy comb's
not paperwork up any videographer, photographer, just anybody in his
presence recording such you know, private moments. And I was
told then that he has a main person who follows
him around and was following him around because he was
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in a conversation with the Netflix himself to do his
own documentary, but that fell through the conversation with Netflix,
and the main videographer who normally records him was out
of town for some days, so they sent a third
party to record. Now, at the time, Diddy's legal team
did not know if the third party had been properly paid,
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and you know, there was a lot of things up
in the air that they were still trying to figure out.
But they had told me then that you know, this
is what happened, and they're still, to be honest with you,
trying to figure out where the legal liability lies. Is
it with Netflix? Because Netflix, you know, when I released
the story, gave me a statement saying they obtained everything
legally and anything outside of that is just a false
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narrative that they're not basically, they're not going to feed
it to And I'll read you guys a Netflix a
statement so that I'm not summing it up that it's exact.
But today the videographer and question put a statement out
on the record, on the record, meaning he attached his
name and his identity to it. So he says, for
over two years, we have been working on a project
profiling Sean Diddy Combs. The footage in question was not
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released by me or anyone authorized to handle Sean colmbsterials.
It was by a third party who covered for me
for three days while I was out of state. This
incident had nothing to do with any feed dispute or
contract issue. The actions of the parties involved reflect the
lack of integrity every storyteller should have hold. Taking footage
intended for our project to advance a narrative that was
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not our own is both unethical and unacceptable. Michael, his
name is Michael Arberleze or Michael Arbalized, and he gave
that statement to Rolling Stone, but and then Diddy's team
sent it out wide. Right again, this is something that
I told the world about a week or so ago.
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The only difference is that now he's going on the record,
which I will say. The reason why you know, I
think this is being disgusted again, even though we've already
had this conversation, is because now when you go on
record and you put someone else in front of this
statement besides Diddy or Diddy's publicist. It's like, Okay, somebody
else is willing to stand in front of the gun
and take the bullet, regardless if you feel like he's
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being pushed to, you know, allegedly by Diddy's team or whatever,
if you think this is a PR cleanup or whatever.
It's just different when someone is willing to stand on
what is being said. I will tell you, guys, I
did reach back out to Netflix and I said, hey,
I know I reached out to you guys some time
ago on this statement. But he's now come out on
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the record and he's standing on it, and he's doubling down,
and I want to read you, guys the statement that
Netflix gave me. So. Netflix gave me this statement on
December third, So they said the claims being made about
Sean Combs the reckoning are false. The project has no
ties to any past conversations between Seawan Combs and Netflix.
The footage of Colmes leading up to his indictment and
arrests were legally obtained. This is not a hit piece
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or an act of retribution. Curtis Jackson is an executive producer,
but does not have creative control. No one was paid
to participate, you know, and moving forward again. I reached
out to Netflix and see if there was anything that
they wanted to update and say in response, you know,
since this is back out there again and haven't heard
anything back yet. And I called Diddy's team back and
I said, you know, I understand that, you know, re
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releasing a statement and having you know, now this videographer
who's willing to put his face and his name out
there on it. I understand that right now you guys
are basically attempting to poke holes and the legality of
what they obtained because you want to take legal action
of your own to ask them. I said, you know,
are you guys planning legal action? And so what does
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that look like? Toma? I was told that there are
conversations about a lawsuit, which we know though because they
sent a cease and desist, but to be able to say,
because you can send a seat to desist and have
some conversations and then back off, right. But when I
saw this statement, I said, oh, conversations behind the scenes
between Netflix and Diddy's team must not be going well
or they're not happening at all. So I'm like, are
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you guys planning a lawsuit? Still? At this point, and
they said there are conversations about potential lawsuits because at
this point Netflix has not responded at all to their
seats and desists. There has been no conversation since the
cease and desist was since between Diddy's team and Netflix.
Diddy team, of course, is doubling down on their allegation
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that the filmmaker did not obtain the footage legally. So
what they're saying is that Netflix can claim that they
obtained the footage legally in how they went about it
from the filmmaker who had it, but Diddy team is
saying that filmmaker didn't have legal right to even license
or sell it to Netflix in the first place. But
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I would be very surprised if an organization as big
dealing with as much media content and licensing as they do,
you know, I'm assuming daily as a Netflix, I would
be very surprised if they went about this the wrong
way legally. I think Diddy's team is fighting a very
uphill battle here. I mean, it's not impossible, right because
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you would also think that someone like a Sean Colmes
would have, you know, dotted his eyes and crossed his
t's when it came to especially knowing what this footage
is and how sensitive it is and how sensitive of
a time legally in his life this is for him.
But obviously something went wrong somewhere. So right now we're
watching a battle between the two trying to figure out
where where the liability lies. Did Diddy mess up legally
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and not you know, contract everyone the way because at
first we thought that this was a money issue. The
videographer is now saying, no, this is not a money issue.
This is an ethic you know. And then the legality issue.
Right so Diddy seem is trying to figure out if
they do move for what a laws to right now
what they're trying to discover, but it's kind of hard
for them to get an answer to or to get
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a It's kind of hard for them to figure it
out because they're not having conversations with Netflix, Like Netflix
is not responding to them. It's who legally would they
even go after? Is it the filmmaker who was with Diddy,
like his main filmmaker who contracted the third party? Is
it the third party videoographer? Or is it Netflix? And
I'm like, well, what do you guys do? Because what
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if they just never respond to you because you don't
have to respond to a cease and desist, and they're
you know, they're like, well, then we could just move
forward legally, take it to court, and legally they would
be demanded to respond and they would have to go
from there. So we'll see how this plays out. But
in the meantime, I don't know if y'all saw, you know,
all of the means and the he he ha ha
about fifty Cent doing that ABC interview with Robin Roberts
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to roll out his project because ABC is able to
be streamed in the prisons because it's you know, they
get that like broadcast. They can watch certain broadcasts television stations, right,
So I asked about that. I'm like, look, I know,
y'all got a lot of other things to deal with,
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but I've been seeing this and I'm just wondering, what
is the validity of this, like because fifty cent just
spoke about it. So fifty cent did an interview where
he spoke about it and spoke about you know, the
fact that people were calling him petty for doing the interview,
was speaking to gold Derby.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
It did characterize it as a hit piece in the
very beginning. Is because they didn't get a chance to
watch it, you know when they were saying that, and
then after they say it, you see everyone's changed their
mind and it becomes the number one dog.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
But also someone calling it a hip piece was a
statement from Diddy's team. So I mean, what's your response
to Diddy seem of course they're going to probably have
an opinion, And then what's your opinion on people that
just say that you're petty? Are you petty?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I accept that, I'll take that out wear that I'm fine,
you know, like I have antics that I've become comfortable
on social media because of the usage of social media.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
That's just that, you.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Know what I mean. Like, but when they look at
they'll say, me deciding to go on ABC, it's petty
The Morning Shows the biggest show these people they came
they came from. It's a great opportunity to be on
that actual platform. And then but they looked at it
it further and said, it's airing in prison. So this
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would be why I would like to do that, And
it didn't come across as a reason not to. Of
course I was aware that it would be airing.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
What do you think about like a possibility of him
having some sort of comeback when he gets out of prison.
Do you think that's a possibility.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I'm not a comeback like in music.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Yeah, just I mean, w are people going to just
be over this?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Well?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I don't think he'll have a comeback with people aware
that he's behind it. I do think that his passion
for music may allow him to go back to make
music because he knows that's what he knows, right, And
you can do it and again without meeting the record company,
like the artists of meeting the audience before they meet
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the record company now, so you could do those things
and develop things of value, and when the company is interested,
you end up making the deal. But they don't know
that they did the deal with the public doesn't know
they to deal with him, you know what I'm saying.
So he would be able to do that, but I
don't see him like publicly people supporting them, and.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Diddy's team says, I can't guarantee that he watched it.
You know, he hasn't mentioned it, but yes, he could
have watched it if he wanted to. But I can't
guarantee that he did, and he didn't mention it to us.
But it's just the way that fifty cent is calculated
is like insane, Like it's really insane. But we'll be
back with more because obviously this is gonna flush yourself out.
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I'm gonna go back and get a Netflix before the
night ends, and hopefully i'll get something so I'll keep
you guys updated. I appreciate you guys for tuning in
that there's been another episode of the Latest with Lauren
l Rosa. Y'all could be anywhere with anybody talking about
all of these topics that y'all choose to be right
here with me on the Latest with Laura de Rosa,
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my Low Riders. I appreciate you guys for that, and
I'll catch you in my next episode.