January 21, 2026 • 30 mins
In this behind-the-scenes check-in, Loren LoRosa gets real about feeling off her pivot — not unsure of her talent, but challenged by growth, pressure, and stepping into a new level of responsibility. She opens up about learning the power of organization, trusting faith when control feels limited, and understanding that new levels demand new versions of yourself.
Then, Loren breaks down NBA YoungBoy’s Complex interview — from the Michael Jackson comparisons to his quiet dominance in touring, his relationship with fame, and the political questions surrounding his pardon. With honesty, humor, and cultural clarity, Loren dissects what the interview really revealed and why NBA YoungBoy’s influence can’t be ignored.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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and everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You know, if you don't lie about that. Right, Hey,
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
That shake the room.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Baby checking in behind the scenes of the grind, which
is where we get on in behind scenes of just
kind of like the day to day's happening was not
happening all of the things, y'all. Today was such a
day at work. I'm feeling so unsure of myself. Oh,
I just had to get that out. I recorded a
(00:42):
video coming here and this, you know what's so crazy.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
It's like.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
It's not sure I'm as sure of my capabilities. I
think I'm trying to figure out like when missteps happened,
I'm trying to figure out.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Like what the root causes, Like what is it?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
What's happening within my mind and in my brain and
are making me feel like I'm not owning my space
to what it I should be. I think we talked
a little bit about that, you know before a few
days ago when we checked it behind the scenes of
the ground, and that's just been like a constant thing
for me this week and a little bit of last
week as well too. I'd be so honest with y'all.
I get on here and just like treat y'all like
(01:20):
y'all are like my diary or something. So low riders
don't ever say I don't give y'all nothing, because I'd
be giving y'all all the inside scoop. But yeah, I
think it's just I don't know, there's just been a
I mean, there is an added pressure. Not really though,
but I guess so ish. I think that's a self
(01:42):
proclamation though, Like I think when things start to feel
like they're at a pressure, they only are if you
treat life or whatever the situation is like, there is
added pressure. So I don't even want to give into
that because that's not what I'm feeling. Maybe it's a
it's not overwhelming.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I don't know, y'all. Can you can't describe it, can't
explain it. But I'm just off my pivot a little bit.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I'm aware though, as you guys see, because I'm telling
you guys so trying to just hone in on what
it is. One of the things that I did this
week that I prioritize this week was organization. And I
think organization didn't really matter as much when I was
(02:24):
coming from a place where like, I don't know, it.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Just not even that organization.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
It's not that it didn't matter, Organization just wasn't It's
never been a priority for me. Like I've always thought
it's cool. I'm good because I can operate in chaos.
And I do think now that I am caring more
about when I'm putting out into the world, how I'm
putting it out with the conversations I'm having are because
(02:50):
you know, I think when your name is on the line,
there's just a lot more on the line.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Organization is just like so much. It means so much to.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Me because the more organized I am, I think, the
better I'm able to understand the what, the why, and
the relevancy behind anything I'm talking about. But also like
even if I'm on an island strained it by myself,
and I don't mean physically, I mean like just mentally, right, Like,
if I'm on this island all alone and I have
(03:17):
to debate my way out of anything, I always think
about this, Like if I'm in a courtroom and I'm
the only person that believes that this person is innocent
in this courtroom, the only thing that is going to
save me is factual information, but not just that, the
organization of it and how it's presented. So I think
that's one of the things behind the scenes of the
grind that like I'm really trying to sharpen. I've never
(03:38):
really been a person that has been the most organized.
I think most leaders that are creators have a central
organization because you're delegating and stuff like that. But I
think there with more responsibility just comes heavy as the
head that words the crown. Like the more responsible, the
more responsibility requires a different level of you. So I
(04:02):
don't know if maybe like that's what's happening, Like I'm
being pushed to like this next level of like okay, delegate, Okay,
open your mouth when things are not right, Okay the girl,
Like I think that's where I'm being pushed to. So
today has been like a tug of war for me,
just like mentally, because it's a battle when.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Like you naturally like eat, sleep.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
And breathe certain things and then things are not a
hundred things are not moving out one hundred percent as
if you do that, like, and that's what like freaks
me out about this, this whole you know, feeling of.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Like unsure of myself.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I've never been a person that's ever been unsure about
myself and unsure about myself in anything. So so it's
two things. It's the fact that I'm not in a
new space, Like it's not like I'm walking into a
new career path and I'm having to figure out do
(05:03):
I like it here? Why am I even here? How
does my you know, skill set, my capability even progress
me in the space that I am in? That is
not it, because this is what I've been doing. I've
in a new space physically, but this is the lane
of things that I've been doing for some time. So
I'm like, what the heck, Like what's happening? Like why
(05:24):
is my ag game off?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Like what is going on?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
And then secondly, it's you know, feeling unsure about yourself
is just a very it's a very hard concept to
grassom you've never been through that, But I try to.
Like one of the things I told myself today was
that I'm not giving that too much light, Like I'm
gonna sit in the feeling of how I feel today,
I'm gonna talk about it. I'm gonna get it out,
and once I do that, you not getting much else
(05:50):
from me on that whatsoever, because I think it's I
feel like the feeling of being unsure lends to like
the feeling of like faith. And for me, whenever I
don't know what's about to happen in one of these
like nightmare spots in life where you can't control what's
going on, and like, you know, things just feel so
(06:11):
heavy whatever. Not like workwise, but just like in life
in general, Like whenever I'm in like a very crazy,
weird space where like you really can't control much of anything.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
The only thing that I control.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Is the amount of faith that I have in God
to like just allow me to do what I naturally
do in situations we talked the other day. If you
missed that podcast episode, make sure you go back and
listen to it. But in situations I always am trusting
God that I will figure it out, and I do
in situations where I've learned that it is not my
(06:46):
job to figure things out. I can't solve everyone's issues.
I can't be you know, like I can't be the
crutch for everybody, like I just can't. I trust God,
and I have faith in God to give me that
like intuition of like no, Lauren is you gotta say no, No, Lauren,
you gotta put your foot down. No Lauren is see something,
(07:06):
say something, you know what I mean. So my faith
is like unshaken. But I just need to apply that
to all aspects of my life right now, Like and
maybe that's it too, Like I haven't had a lot
of time to just kind of like sit down in
the spirit, like just really sit down have some conversations
(07:27):
with God. I don't even think I need to have
conversations with God. I think I need to be quiet
and listen. So I think that's it. I think that,
you know, that is kind of you know, this uncertainty
and this feeling that I've been feeling. It's a very
new feeling for me. I've never experienced this type of
feeling in my life. But I'm also although I'm not
(07:48):
in a new career field, I'm physically in a new
space and I'm physically at a different point in my life,
in different level of my life. So you know, maybe, hey,
that's that's maybe that is what it is. Like maybe
it's it's you know, it's not a it's not a
new like I didn't wake up and go decide to
become a freaking Dennist And I'm like, girl, what are
(08:11):
you doing here? But things are different, Like, man, the
podcast will be one in March.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Oh, I gotta start planning something for that.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I don't want to just have like a party to celebrate,
Like I don't mind doing that like on like you know,
but I want to do something that is like very
impactful to celebrate the first year of the podcast because
I feel like this podcast like it's literally like my baby,
Like it's grown physically, like in its appearance.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And its sound.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
It's grown and the thoughts and the conversations that we
have here because I've gotten more comfortable just talking to
you guys. But it's also just like really grown me
just you know, being responsible for a podcast and a
show and working with a team of people. It makes
you like, really, this is what I'm talking about on
(09:04):
the other entity of my life, Like I thought I
had it all figure out as far as like you know,
how this whole thing of like life and being an
adult and grown up.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
This works is grown up. This's a word. No, grown up,
this is not a word. But I thought I had
it all figured out.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
And then you know, you enter new levels of your
life and it's like, no, that this new level requires
a different version of you. You cannot use the old
version of yourself, the old corners that you were cutting.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
You know, you can't do it. You just can't.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
So I really want to make sure that one year
is like, you know, a thing. But I say all
that to say within this year, within the podcast about
to be one years old, I think about just all
of the things that we've been through here together on
the podcast. That sounds weird because I'm sitting here talking
to y'all and I can't see anybody. That still freaks
(09:58):
me out, too, Like that still freaks me out that
I can't see none of the low riders, but y'all
can see and hear me. But I know y'all out
there though, because we be talking on Twitter, we'll be
talking on Instagram, all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
When I se yall in person, we talk about the podcast.
But yeah, I just.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
There's maybe it's a transition period and we've been through
it together, so you guys know from the very beginning.
But what I'm realizing as this podcast it's a year,
and you know, this time has partaken. I think the
biggest thing is new levels require like new versions of yourself.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
So I think that's what I'm walking into right now.
And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Maybe I was fighting that a little bit and just
thinking I can hindle everything and I got it, and
I'm like, you know, I'm brown girl grinding like I
got it. No, not at all, So readjusting some things,
just you know, personally, but also professionally in the way.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
That I do, you know, things day to day.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
I think that's the reoccurring lesson that I've been getting
over this last like five days. And maybe I just
REALI that in talking it out, and that's why I
be talking to y'all even though I can't see or
hear you guys.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
You help me.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
All right, y'all, let's get on into the latest. Enough
about my problems that's getting to somebody else's. So NBA
Young Boy sat down with Complex. He sat down with
Jordan Roles. Now, I just want to say shout out
to Jordan Rolls over a Complex because NBA Young Boy is.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Not an easy interview okay.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
And I don't mean he's not an easy interview because
like he was rude, He just doesn't really say much.
And the little bit that you do get out of him,
I think that there is I mean with any interview.
I think of interviews like playing spades. There is like
such a dance to the conversation between you and another person.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
It's really your dance when you do it with multiple people.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
So when it's like you and a team interviewing someone,
but when it's just you in that person, the dance
is a lot different. Because if I'm playing spades and
I have a team member, my team member knows you
know all right, follow suit, know what I'm cutting, You
know what I'm saying, like you kind of know where
(12:09):
to go. We watching the board, We know how to
play together. But when you're interviewing somebody, y'all aren't prepping together.
So that person, you know, it's not like it's a
like a malicious battle in an interview whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And this interview didn't feel like that either. Jordan Roads
is an amazing job, but.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
That person's coming from a whole different place in mental space,
with a whole different objective than you are. So trying
to figure out the best way to meet in the
middle and have that conversation. Only a great to do it,
and Jordan Rolls I've been watching him on Complex. I
feel like Complex is doing a good job of building
him as talent Speedy Mormon, who, like you know, is
(12:47):
the face of Complex and has been for a long time.
Is I feel like I was telling a friend this.
I feel like Speedy is kind of like they're like,
he's out of here.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
He's doing the bigger.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Interviews, He's traveling for the interviews. You know, he has
a lot going on, and the brand is smart to
keep branding him and building three sixty with Speedy in
the way that they are. But they're also really smart
in getting a person like Jordan Rose who can be
a little bit more readily available for all things, for
all talent, is you know in New York a bit
(13:21):
more it seems to Speedy. I don't know, it just
seems like it because Speedy's all over doing his interviews.
But you know, I'm sure because of the success of
three sixty with Speedy on Complex, Complex has gotten the
influx of people wanted to host conversations because Speedy's conversations
are so great. Jordan Rolls is in that vein of things,
and I think Complex was so smart about the branding
(13:43):
in the way that they chose their talent to lean into.
Because Jordan Rolls isn't three sixty, night and Day from Speedy.
There are two very different people, two very different interview
styles for sure. Another thing that I about what's smart
with Complex, Jordan Rose is a lot younger, so you know,
(14:04):
I think the things that he's able to care about
or just a little bit different than you know, the
conversations that Speedy or have it and you need both,
Like Speedy's still young.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I think how old to Speedy.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
If you guys don't know who I'm talking about, I'm like,
I don't know what rock you live under because here
at the Latest, like you got to know the people.
But Speedy Mormon is a correspondent for Complex. He's been
there for a very very long time. And to be
honest with you, I feel like Speedy has built Complex's
interview platform to become a space where artists like artists
(14:36):
and talent you gotta go through Complex Like that is
a It's like how you got to side at the Directorce Club.
When you go to New York, you gotta talk to
Complex when you're rolling something out, whether you're a music artist,
you know, an actress, actor, whatever the case may be.
Because Speedy's interviews have been they've done so well and
they pick up so well for talent. So now Complex
is developing, you know, this other talent.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
And I don't know if Jordan.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Rolls was on the platform prior to but if he was,
they're positioning him a lot better now. If he wasn't,
don't even matter because he is killing it right now.
I just wanted to show them that love because I
watched their stuff a lot and it's really really good
to watch. But I also just know how important it
is the big up the people in the seats that
are doing the work, especially the people that are on
their grind and coming up because we all have days,
(15:22):
Like I told you guys, I was feeling today and
in these last like honestly, it's been since last week
where you're not always on you know, a hundred, you're
not always you know, averaging the best numbers from the court,
but you're still doing a great job. So I want
to make sure. I don't know if they ever will
hear this, But if so, I want to be the
one to tell you doing a great job. But getting
(15:44):
into the interview, So NBA Young Boy sat down with
Jordan Rose and oh my god, y'all like he barely talks. Okay,
So I just want to give y'all an example of
him barely talking.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I want you guys to take a listen to to Jordan.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Rolls asking NBA Young Boy about the massive tour, which
is the Make America Slimican Tour that NBA Young Boy
did very successful tour. We'll get into that, and the
fact that Birdman was there, like every tour stop.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I Birdman talked a lot about the tour. When he
was at verses, he.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Just kept yelling and kept me yelling and kept me
yelling about this tour. But this is a perfect example
of basically what the interaction for the most part was
like in the interview. Let's take a listen.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Birdman was also on the tour, like basically every stop.
What was his role on the road with you? She's chilling.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Being unk, being unk.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
You got like a favorite memory on the road with
him every moment, every moment. Yeah, Yeah, that's somebody that's
been with you since you were about sixteen? What does
he mean to you?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I think he should hake him. Didn't want to get
some fresh and you.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Want to take a look only if you promised that
we could come back me maybe A handshake of a
maybe is still a pretty solid handshake, would you agree.
I'm gonna hold you to it the maybe.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
So.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I don't think NBA Young Boy mean any harm. He
did say when they first came back in, like I'm
not the best with words, and I was like, that's ironic,
NBA Young Boy not the best with words? Like your
music goes so crazy though, like how like okay, but
you know, interview artist, an artist in an interview is
different than an artist in the studio making music in
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a setting that is his own that he can own.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
I get it. But they got into some things.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
So they talked about this whole Michael Jackson NBA Young
Boy comparison, because one of the things that gets thrown
on NBA Young Boy is that he is the Michael
Jackson of his generation because of how crazy his fans
go for him, like his level of celebrity is insane.
I thought his answer was actually very mature, like he
(18:06):
won't say too many words, but I thought these words
made a lot of sense.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
A sick a listen, I don't know nothing about Michael Jackson.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
What yo, why be you got a song called Dirty
Diana sampling Dirty Diana, But.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I don't understand the star.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
I don't, okay, power because you was we wasn't like
really alive at his peak when like women was like
passing out.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I feel like certain should be over exaggerated sometime, and
you gotta think about it.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
They over exaggerate about me sometime. But how though, like
how like that statement that you know Michael Jackson, that's
like going too well?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
First of all, NBA, young boy, very on point. I mean,
I don't know what it was like when Michael Jackson
was alive.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I wasn't. I mean, that's not true.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I was alive and I was aware of things when
Michael Jackson was alive, but I was so young. I
wasn't like the age I am now sitting in the
seat I'm sitting in now.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
When did Michael Jackson die? Let's look this up.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Yeah, so Michael Jackson died in two thousand and nine.
So on two thousand and nine, I was, I was
in high school. I graduated from high school in twenty ten.
He died June twenty fifth, two thousand and nine. Right, So, yes,
I was in high school. That problem, that was my
I was my junior year of high school. So it's
like you, of course, you know Michael Jackson. You understand
(19:25):
the celebrity of Michael Jackson, but I was. It wasn't
like I was like attending Michael Jackson concerts or like
paying enough attention to like really have felt the celebrity
of Michael Jackson.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
So I think an NBA young boy is younger than me.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
NBA young boy, he has to be around Jordan Rose's
age because Jordan Rose, Jordan Rose made a like a
kind of like a comment about them being around the
Saint MAT's. Yes, NBA young boy's twenty six years old. Okay,
so if.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I'm thirty four, NBA young boy, it's twenty six years old. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
He I'm telling y'all, I've I've got a chance to
like see it from the TV screen, and I don't
even really fully understand the impact of Michael Jackson. Not
that I don't understand it, but I just, you know,
how like you have to see some things up close
and personal to really.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Like, oh shoot, I ain't get a chance to do that.
So if I haven't gotten a chance to do that, NBA.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Young Boy, it's he wasn't even like yo, he's twenty
six years old. I think a lot of people in
his position could have used a question like that in
a moment like that to lean into the hype, because
he knew it was gonna go viral. I mean, it's
NBA Young Boy, It's gonna go viral regardless. But he
could use that to lean into the hype, but he didn't.
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He answered it in a way that was like smart.
And I think that people talk about NBA Young Boy
as if he's this like because I mean they're you know,
there's the cases and the charges and.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
The baby mamas, and you know, the drugs and like
there's a lot of things that be going on over
there allegedly, right.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
But I think people have conversations about NBA Young Boy
as if he's like so unaware of what's happening outside
of his bubble. And I think sometimes he does lean
into that, and we're gonna get into a moment where
he did that during this interview, But he's very well
aware of culturally, his influence, his touch on his people
and his fans, and just kind of where he sits
(21:24):
in the hierarchy of like the greats because people put
him literally next to Michael Jackson, which a lot of
people take its to it. Now, let's okay, So I
told you guys that there was a moment in this
complex interview with NBA Young Boy in Jordan Roles where
NBA Young Boy plays very like, y'all don't know what
you're talking about. So Jordan Rose brings up the name
(21:45):
of the tour, masa make America slime again. Obviously it's
to play on Trump's maga make America great again. Now,
this NBA Young Boy Tour was a huge success. It
sold over five hundred thousand tickets. It grows over seventy
five million dollars across across forty two to forty five
sold out arena dates each day sold out, making it
(22:06):
one of the highest grossing raptors within reports, indicating roughly
around one point five million dollars per show. Okay, at
a time where people are having issues selling tickets and
getting people into seats, this man sold out forty two
to forty five arenas. One point five million dollars a show.
(22:27):
The music is streaming crazy, his numbers go crazy, and
in this interview he said he still owns his masters.
He know a little something, but he acted like he
didn't though. When it came to Trump, Let's take a listen.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
What is that message make America Slim Again? Like what
does that title mean to you? And then following them
with Trump applying follow whatever? Trump applying yeah or what?
And what way?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Like in every way?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Well, you know, Trump pardoned, you got you off house arrest.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I don't know about that. What you need.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Did you ever speak to him about like, did you ever.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Have a right?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Okay, but the album's named Make America Slim Again. The
tours named make America slam Again.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
It was the name was like, it's just the voice whatever,
Trump applying that's it.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Have you ever met Trump?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Cause you like you got me thinking right now? Why dude?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Like okay, So this is obviously him playing a little stupid.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I can't confirm whether he's met Trump or not.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
I did reach out to the White House to see
if that conversation had happened, because I don't know where
else I'll get it.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I'm gonna try and work it out another way as
well too.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
But in twenty twenty four or NBA Young Boy was
sentenced by a federal judge in Utah after he admitted
to possessing weapons despite the fact that he was a
convicted felon.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
So he reached this.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Agreement that he would get that basically took care for
state charges. So they resolved to state charges against them,
and then it settled two sets of federal charges against them,
one that carried a twenty three month sentence and then
the other ordered five years of probation in a two
hundred thousand dollars fine. And he was given a pardon
(24:31):
on these charges, on these gun charges and was released
and able to go home. The pardon even made it
where his probation terms including like drug testing and all
of that. We're out of here now. At the time,
he released a statement thinking Trump. He says, I want
to thank President Trump for granting me a pardon and
giving me the opportunity to keep building as a man,
as a father, and as an artist. But there's been
(24:52):
no confirmation of like the meeting or anything like that
since this time.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
President Trump gave NBA Young Boy another shot at not
sitting behind bars, career, family, all the things right, all
the things I noticed, all the things I get it.
So I'm not knocking him for his answer. Let me
back that up. I'm not knocking him for acknowledging well
(25:19):
he didn't even acknowledge it. I'm not knocking him for
obviously being grateful for Trump for doing that, which is,
in my opinion whatever right. Politically, I don't know him.
I don't know enough. We haven't heard enough, you know,
politically to understand how NBA Young Young Boy would have
arrived at being a Trump supporter if he had not
(25:40):
gotten a party, not enough in recent not enough consistently.
I think with some I mean Nicki Minaja the same way,
I would have never thought that Nicki Minajo end up
a Trump supporter. It makes sense with NBA Young Boy, though,
because this man was literally parton. He was about to
go to jail, was about to be behind bars, it
was about to be you know, two years of sitting
down solid and then another sitting down at home. Right,
(26:04):
So I understand that.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
I just wish that.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
He wasn't pushing the whole mega regime thing because obviously
NBA Young Boy is very influential and very impactful. He
is like the leader of you, one of the leaders
of youth culture, if not honestly, I'm saying NBA Young
Boy is the leader of youth culture at this point.
Youth culture is basically like the Puschreisty's. The youngin is
like the people. Look, I'm thirty four years old. I
(26:34):
gotta it's not me anymore, but like the thirty one
in under like that, I would say, Indy, I mean,
the kids love NBA Young Boy. Y'all remember seeing those
tour videos and hearing the crowd and just seeing how
crazy they were going. That man say jump, they say
how high? So I think politically and again I haven't
heard him speak much on politics or say this indefinitely,
(26:56):
but I don't know if he understands where he's leading
the people, especially like you know, I know that there
are some music artists who, although you know, come from
underserved communities and blah blah, all that stuff you know
that goes along with it, still feel like or felt
like President Trump was the answer. But if you look
at things that have happened more recently, I don't understand
(27:17):
why anyone would think that or push that, and I
just don't know if NBA Young Boy, as smart as
he is, I don't know if he understands how his
blind loyalty ends people up longer term. And honestly, I
mean maybe he does. Maybe I'm completely wrong. Maybe we'll
(27:40):
get that in another interview, but I would rather hear that, like, okay,
like why push whatever Trump is pushing? Why yes, he
pardoned you. I totally understand that, but like I mean,
Fetti Wop was recently released and he wasn't pardoned, but
the First Step Act, which you know, got through the
(28:04):
under the Trump administration, is the reason why he was
able to come home.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
But he's not out here.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I want you to be magg again, baby, Yeah, I
want you. You know, I'm not even saying that because
I want nobody to clip that younger. What I'm saying though,
all right now listen obviously at this point, if y'all
can't tell, I am a converted NBA Young Boy fan,
I never was against NBA Young Boy.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I've always liked his music.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
I just think I wasn't really in tune with like
the only thing I knew about him was the thing
that hit the headlines and y'all know my end of it.
Sometimes that's just the that's the cattiness of it all.
That's the baby Mama drama. That's the you know, the arrests,
the runner from the police, the all of that stuff.
But his tour and watching each tour stop in the crowd.
I didn't go to the tour, but just I wanted
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to go. That's how much watching the tour influence me.
I wanted to go to the tour, just experience the
energy of it in real life, but didn't end up
making it. But he says that he's gonna go back
on tour again. He's gonna his plans or to take
it international hopefully. I stand in the fact that he's
been able to do all this with feeling black ball
by the industry, with also not having like a lot
(29:07):
of like mainstream support, Like he's not played all over
the radio, he's not sitting down for a bunch of
interviews a lot of the times when the outlets are
talking about him. It is the drama, but people love
his music. It goes crazy. I'm all against people going
against the regime. I don't support the MAGA stuff, but
I mean I support get pay Young man get paid.
You know what I'm saying. So yeah, but shout out
(29:29):
to Complex for this interview. This was my breakdown of it.
You guys want more episodes like this?
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Let me know.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
I enjoy talking through interviews with you guys because I
think we really get a chance to dissect not only
the conversation that is being talked about and like the
headline of it all, but the actual real conversation, like
the how is this impassing us?
Speaker 2 (29:54):
What does this really mean? That doesn't really mean anything, because
sometimes these interviews would just be like this could have
been a tweet. You need to see the inner newa.
You know how you could that feeling. Sometimes it's your boss,
like yo, this could have been an email. We didn't
need a meeting. But I love it. Nonetheless, this is
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
That shake the room.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Baby checking in behind the scenes of the grind, which
is where we get on in behind scenes of just
kind of like the day to day's happening was not
happening all of the things, y'all. Today was such a
day at work. I'm feeling so unsure of myself. Oh,
I just had to get that out. I recorded a
(00:42):
video coming here and this, you know what's so crazy.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
It's like.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
It's not sure I'm as sure of my capabilities. I
think I'm trying to figure out like when missteps happened,
I'm trying to figure out.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Like what the root causes, Like what is it?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
What's happening within my mind and in my brain and
are making me feel like I'm not owning my space
to what it I should be. I think we talked
a little bit about that, you know before a few
days ago when we checked it behind the scenes of
the ground, and that's just been like a constant thing
for me this week and a little bit of last
week as well too. I'd be so honest with y'all.
I get on here and just like treat y'all like
(01:20):
y'all are like my diary or something. So low riders
don't ever say I don't give y'all nothing, because I'd
be giving y'all all the inside scoop. But yeah, I
think it's just I don't know, there's just been a
I mean, there is an added pressure. Not really though,
but I guess so ish. I think that's a self
(01:42):
proclamation though, Like I think when things start to feel
like they're at a pressure, they only are if you
treat life or whatever the situation is like, there is
added pressure. So I don't even want to give into
that because that's not what I'm feeling. Maybe it's a
it's not overwhelming.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I don't know, y'all. Can you can't describe it, can't
explain it. But I'm just off my pivot a little bit.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I'm aware though, as you guys see, because I'm telling
you guys so trying to just hone in on what
it is. One of the things that I did this
week that I prioritize this week was organization. And I
think organization didn't really matter as much when I was
(02:24):
coming from a place where like, I don't know, it.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Just not even that organization.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
It's not that it didn't matter, Organization just wasn't It's
never been a priority for me. Like I've always thought
it's cool. I'm good because I can operate in chaos.
And I do think now that I am caring more
about when I'm putting out into the world, how I'm
putting it out with the conversations I'm having are because
(02:50):
you know, I think when your name is on the line,
there's just a lot more on the line.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Organization is just like so much. It means so much to.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Me because the more organized I am, I think, the
better I'm able to understand the what, the why, and
the relevancy behind anything I'm talking about. But also like
even if I'm on an island strained it by myself,
and I don't mean physically, I mean like just mentally, right, Like,
if I'm on this island all alone and I have
(03:17):
to debate my way out of anything, I always think
about this, Like if I'm in a courtroom and I'm
the only person that believes that this person is innocent
in this courtroom, the only thing that is going to
save me is factual information, but not just that, the
organization of it and how it's presented. So I think
that's one of the things behind the scenes of the
grind that like I'm really trying to sharpen. I've never
(03:38):
really been a person that has been the most organized.
I think most leaders that are creators have a central
organization because you're delegating and stuff like that. But I
think there with more responsibility just comes heavy as the
head that words the crown. Like the more responsible, the
more responsibility requires a different level of you. So I
(04:02):
don't know if maybe like that's what's happening, Like I'm
being pushed to like this next level of like okay, delegate, Okay,
open your mouth when things are not right, Okay the girl,
Like I think that's where I'm being pushed to. So
today has been like a tug of war for me,
just like mentally, because it's a battle when.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Like you naturally like eat, sleep.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
And breathe certain things and then things are not a
hundred things are not moving out one hundred percent as
if you do that, like, and that's what like freaks
me out about this, this whole you know, feeling of.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Like unsure of myself.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I've never been a person that's ever been unsure about
myself and unsure about myself in anything. So so it's
two things. It's the fact that I'm not in a
new space, Like it's not like I'm walking into a
new career path and I'm having to figure out do
(05:03):
I like it here? Why am I even here? How
does my you know, skill set, my capability even progress
me in the space that I am in? That is
not it, because this is what I've been doing. I've
in a new space physically, but this is the lane
of things that I've been doing for some time. So
I'm like, what the heck, Like what's happening? Like why
(05:24):
is my ag game off?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Like what is going on?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
And then secondly, it's you know, feeling unsure about yourself
is just a very it's a very hard concept to
grassom you've never been through that, But I try to.
Like one of the things I told myself today was
that I'm not giving that too much light, Like I'm
gonna sit in the feeling of how I feel today,
I'm gonna talk about it. I'm gonna get it out,
and once I do that, you not getting much else
(05:50):
from me on that whatsoever, because I think it's I
feel like the feeling of being unsure lends to like
the feeling of like faith. And for me, whenever I
don't know what's about to happen in one of these
like nightmare spots in life where you can't control what's
going on, and like, you know, things just feel so
(06:11):
heavy whatever. Not like workwise, but just like in life
in general, Like whenever I'm in like a very crazy,
weird space where like you really can't control much of anything.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
The only thing that I control.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Is the amount of faith that I have in God
to like just allow me to do what I naturally
do in situations we talked the other day. If you
missed that podcast episode, make sure you go back and
listen to it. But in situations I always am trusting
God that I will figure it out, and I do
in situations where I've learned that it is not my
(06:46):
job to figure things out. I can't solve everyone's issues.
I can't be you know, like I can't be the
crutch for everybody, like I just can't. I trust God,
and I have faith in God to give me that
like intuition of like no, Lauren is you gotta say no, No, Lauren,
you gotta put your foot down. No Lauren is see something,
(07:06):
say something, you know what I mean. So my faith
is like unshaken. But I just need to apply that
to all aspects of my life right now, Like and
maybe that's it too, Like I haven't had a lot
of time to just kind of like sit down in
the spirit, like just really sit down have some conversations
(07:27):
with God. I don't even think I need to have
conversations with God. I think I need to be quiet
and listen. So I think that's it. I think that,
you know, that is kind of you know, this uncertainty
and this feeling that I've been feeling. It's a very
new feeling for me. I've never experienced this type of
feeling in my life. But I'm also although I'm not
(07:48):
in a new career field, I'm physically in a new
space and I'm physically at a different point in my life,
in different level of my life. So you know, maybe, hey,
that's that's maybe that is what it is. Like maybe
it's it's you know, it's not a it's not a
new like I didn't wake up and go decide to
become a freaking Dennist And I'm like, girl, what are
(08:11):
you doing here? But things are different, Like, man, the
podcast will be one in March.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Oh, I gotta start planning something for that.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I don't want to just have like a party to celebrate,
Like I don't mind doing that like on like you know,
but I want to do something that is like very
impactful to celebrate the first year of the podcast because
I feel like this podcast like it's literally like my baby,
Like it's grown physically, like in its appearance.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And its sound.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
It's grown and the thoughts and the conversations that we
have here because I've gotten more comfortable just talking to
you guys. But it's also just like really grown me
just you know, being responsible for a podcast and a
show and working with a team of people. It makes
you like, really, this is what I'm talking about on
(09:04):
the other entity of my life, Like I thought I
had it all figure out as far as like you know,
how this whole thing of like life and being an
adult and grown up.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
This works is grown up. This's a word. No, grown up,
this is not a word. But I thought I had
it all figured out.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
And then you know, you enter new levels of your
life and it's like, no, that this new level requires
a different version of you. You cannot use the old
version of yourself, the old corners that you were cutting.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
You know, you can't do it. You just can't.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
So I really want to make sure that one year
is like, you know, a thing. But I say all
that to say within this year, within the podcast about
to be one years old, I think about just all
of the things that we've been through here together on
the podcast. That sounds weird because I'm sitting here talking
to y'all and I can't see anybody. That still freaks
(09:58):
me out, too, Like that still freaks me out that
I can't see none of the low riders, but y'all
can see and hear me. But I know y'all out
there though, because we be talking on Twitter, we'll be
talking on Instagram, all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
When I se yall in person, we talk about the podcast.
But yeah, I just.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
There's maybe it's a transition period and we've been through
it together, so you guys know from the very beginning.
But what I'm realizing as this podcast it's a year,
and you know, this time has partaken. I think the
biggest thing is new levels require like new versions of yourself.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
So I think that's what I'm walking into right now.
And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Maybe I was fighting that a little bit and just
thinking I can hindle everything and I got it, and
I'm like, you know, I'm brown girl grinding like I
got it. No, not at all, So readjusting some things,
just you know, personally, but also professionally in the way.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
That I do, you know, things day to day.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
I think that's the reoccurring lesson that I've been getting
over this last like five days. And maybe I just
REALI that in talking it out, and that's why I
be talking to y'all even though I can't see or
hear you guys.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
You help me.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
All right, y'all, let's get on into the latest. Enough
about my problems that's getting to somebody else's. So NBA
Young Boy sat down with Complex. He sat down with
Jordan Roles. Now, I just want to say shout out
to Jordan Rolls over a Complex because NBA Young Boy is.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Not an easy interview okay.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
And I don't mean he's not an easy interview because
like he was rude, He just doesn't really say much.
And the little bit that you do get out of him,
I think that there is I mean with any interview.
I think of interviews like playing spades. There is like
such a dance to the conversation between you and another person.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
It's really your dance when you do it with multiple people.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
So when it's like you and a team interviewing someone,
but when it's just you in that person, the dance
is a lot different. Because if I'm playing spades and
I have a team member, my team member knows you
know all right, follow suit, know what I'm cutting, You
know what I'm saying, like you kind of know where
(12:09):
to go. We watching the board, We know how to
play together. But when you're interviewing somebody, y'all aren't prepping together.
So that person, you know, it's not like it's a
like a malicious battle in an interview whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And this interview didn't feel like that either. Jordan Roads
is an amazing job, but.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
That person's coming from a whole different place in mental space,
with a whole different objective than you are. So trying
to figure out the best way to meet in the
middle and have that conversation. Only a great to do it,
and Jordan Rolls I've been watching him on Complex. I
feel like Complex is doing a good job of building
him as talent Speedy Mormon, who, like you know, is
(12:47):
the face of Complex and has been for a long time.
Is I feel like I was telling a friend this.
I feel like Speedy is kind of like they're like,
he's out of here.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
He's doing the bigger.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Interviews, He's traveling for the interviews. You know, he has
a lot going on, and the brand is smart to
keep branding him and building three sixty with Speedy in
the way that they are. But they're also really smart
in getting a person like Jordan Rose who can be
a little bit more readily available for all things, for
all talent, is you know in New York a bit
(13:21):
more it seems to Speedy. I don't know, it just
seems like it because Speedy's all over doing his interviews.
But you know, I'm sure because of the success of
three sixty with Speedy on Complex, Complex has gotten the
influx of people wanted to host conversations because Speedy's conversations
are so great. Jordan Rolls is in that vein of things,
and I think Complex was so smart about the branding
(13:43):
in the way that they chose their talent to lean into.
Because Jordan Rolls isn't three sixty, night and Day from Speedy.
There are two very different people, two very different interview
styles for sure. Another thing that I about what's smart
with Complex, Jordan Rose is a lot younger, so you know,
(14:04):
I think the things that he's able to care about
or just a little bit different than you know, the
conversations that Speedy or have it and you need both,
Like Speedy's still young.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I think how old to Speedy.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
If you guys don't know who I'm talking about, I'm like,
I don't know what rock you live under because here
at the Latest, like you got to know the people.
But Speedy Mormon is a correspondent for Complex. He's been
there for a very very long time. And to be
honest with you, I feel like Speedy has built Complex's
interview platform to become a space where artists like artists
(14:36):
and talent you gotta go through Complex Like that is
a It's like how you got to side at the Directorce Club.
When you go to New York, you gotta talk to
Complex when you're rolling something out, whether you're a music artist,
you know, an actress, actor, whatever the case may be.
Because Speedy's interviews have been they've done so well and
they pick up so well for talent. So now Complex
is developing, you know, this other talent.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
And I don't know if Jordan.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Rolls was on the platform prior to but if he was,
they're positioning him a lot better now. If he wasn't,
don't even matter because he is killing it right now.
I just wanted to show them that love because I
watched their stuff a lot and it's really really good
to watch. But I also just know how important it
is the big up the people in the seats that
are doing the work, especially the people that are on
their grind and coming up because we all have days,
(15:22):
Like I told you guys, I was feeling today and
in these last like honestly, it's been since last week
where you're not always on you know, a hundred, you're
not always you know, averaging the best numbers from the court,
but you're still doing a great job. So I want
to make sure. I don't know if they ever will
hear this, But if so, I want to be the
one to tell you doing a great job. But getting
(15:44):
into the interview, So NBA Young Boy sat down with
Jordan Rose and oh my god, y'all like he barely talks. Okay,
So I just want to give y'all an example of
him barely talking.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I want you guys to take a listen to to Jordan.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Rolls asking NBA Young Boy about the massive tour, which
is the Make America Slimican Tour that NBA Young Boy
did very successful tour. We'll get into that, and the
fact that Birdman was there, like every tour stop.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I Birdman talked a lot about the tour. When he
was at verses, he.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Just kept yelling and kept me yelling and kept me
yelling about this tour. But this is a perfect example
of basically what the interaction for the most part was
like in the interview. Let's take a listen.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Birdman was also on the tour, like basically every stop.
What was his role on the road with you? She's chilling.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Being unk, being unk.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
You got like a favorite memory on the road with
him every moment, every moment. Yeah, Yeah, that's somebody that's
been with you since you were about sixteen? What does
he mean to you?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I think he should hake him. Didn't want to get
some fresh and you.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Want to take a look only if you promised that
we could come back me maybe A handshake of a
maybe is still a pretty solid handshake, would you agree.
I'm gonna hold you to it the maybe.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
So.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I don't think NBA Young Boy mean any harm. He
did say when they first came back in, like I'm
not the best with words, and I was like, that's ironic,
NBA Young Boy not the best with words? Like your
music goes so crazy though, like how like okay, but
you know, interview artist, an artist in an interview is
different than an artist in the studio making music in
(17:39):
a setting that is his own that he can own.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
I get it. But they got into some things.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
So they talked about this whole Michael Jackson NBA Young
Boy comparison, because one of the things that gets thrown
on NBA Young Boy is that he is the Michael
Jackson of his generation because of how crazy his fans
go for him, like his level of celebrity is insane.
I thought his answer was actually very mature, like he
(18:06):
won't say too many words, but I thought these words
made a lot of sense.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
A sick a listen, I don't know nothing about Michael Jackson.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
What yo, why be you got a song called Dirty
Diana sampling Dirty Diana, But.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I don't understand the star.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
I don't, okay, power because you was we wasn't like
really alive at his peak when like women was like
passing out.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I feel like certain should be over exaggerated sometime, and
you gotta think about it.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
They over exaggerate about me sometime. But how though, like
how like that statement that you know Michael Jackson, that's
like going too well?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
First of all, NBA, young boy, very on point. I mean,
I don't know what it was like when Michael Jackson
was alive.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I wasn't. I mean, that's not true.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I was alive and I was aware of things when
Michael Jackson was alive, but I was so young. I
wasn't like the age I am now sitting in the
seat I'm sitting in now.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
When did Michael Jackson die? Let's look this up.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Yeah, so Michael Jackson died in two thousand and nine.
So on two thousand and nine, I was, I was
in high school. I graduated from high school in twenty ten.
He died June twenty fifth, two thousand and nine. Right, So, yes,
I was in high school. That problem, that was my
I was my junior year of high school. So it's
like you, of course, you know Michael Jackson. You understand
(19:25):
the celebrity of Michael Jackson, but I was. It wasn't
like I was like attending Michael Jackson concerts or like
paying enough attention to like really have felt the celebrity
of Michael Jackson.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
So I think an NBA young boy is younger than me.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
NBA young boy, he has to be around Jordan Rose's
age because Jordan Rose, Jordan Rose made a like a
kind of like a comment about them being around the
Saint MAT's. Yes, NBA young boy's twenty six years old. Okay,
so if.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I'm thirty four, NBA young boy, it's twenty six years old. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
He I'm telling y'all, I've I've got a chance to
like see it from the TV screen, and I don't
even really fully understand the impact of Michael Jackson. Not
that I don't understand it, but I just, you know,
how like you have to see some things up close
and personal to really.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Like, oh shoot, I ain't get a chance to do that.
So if I haven't gotten a chance to do that, NBA.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Young Boy, it's he wasn't even like yo, he's twenty
six years old. I think a lot of people in
his position could have used a question like that in
a moment like that to lean into the hype, because
he knew it was gonna go viral. I mean, it's
NBA Young Boy, It's gonna go viral regardless. But he
could use that to lean into the hype, but he didn't.
(20:39):
He answered it in a way that was like smart.
And I think that people talk about NBA Young Boy
as if he's this like because I mean they're you know,
there's the cases and the charges and.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
The baby mamas, and you know, the drugs and like
there's a lot of things that be going on over
there allegedly, right.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
But I think people have conversations about NBA Young Boy
as if he's like so unaware of what's happening outside
of his bubble. And I think sometimes he does lean
into that, and we're gonna get into a moment where
he did that during this interview, But he's very well
aware of culturally, his influence, his touch on his people
and his fans, and just kind of where he sits
(21:24):
in the hierarchy of like the greats because people put
him literally next to Michael Jackson, which a lot of
people take its to it. Now, let's okay, So I
told you guys that there was a moment in this
complex interview with NBA Young Boy in Jordan Roles where
NBA Young Boy plays very like, y'all don't know what
you're talking about. So Jordan Rose brings up the name
(21:45):
of the tour, masa make America slime again. Obviously it's
to play on Trump's maga make America great again. Now,
this NBA Young Boy Tour was a huge success. It
sold over five hundred thousand tickets. It grows over seventy
five million dollars across across forty two to forty five
sold out arena dates each day sold out, making it
(22:06):
one of the highest grossing raptors within reports, indicating roughly
around one point five million dollars per show. Okay, at
a time where people are having issues selling tickets and
getting people into seats, this man sold out forty two
to forty five arenas. One point five million dollars a show.
(22:27):
The music is streaming crazy, his numbers go crazy, and
in this interview he said he still owns his masters.
He know a little something, but he acted like he
didn't though. When it came to Trump, Let's take a listen.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
What is that message make America Slim Again? Like what
does that title mean to you? And then following them
with Trump applying follow whatever? Trump applying yeah or what?
And what way?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Like in every way?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Well, you know, Trump pardoned, you got you off house arrest.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I don't know about that. What you need.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Did you ever speak to him about like, did you ever.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Have a right?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Okay, but the album's named Make America Slim Again. The
tours named make America slam Again.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
It was the name was like, it's just the voice whatever,
Trump applying that's it.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Have you ever met Trump?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Cause you like you got me thinking right now? Why dude?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Like okay, So this is obviously him playing a little stupid.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I can't confirm whether he's met Trump or not.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
I did reach out to the White House to see
if that conversation had happened, because I don't know where
else I'll get it.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I'm gonna try and work it out another way as
well too.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
But in twenty twenty four or NBA Young Boy was
sentenced by a federal judge in Utah after he admitted
to possessing weapons despite the fact that he was a
convicted felon.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
So he reached this.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Agreement that he would get that basically took care for
state charges. So they resolved to state charges against them,
and then it settled two sets of federal charges against them,
one that carried a twenty three month sentence and then
the other ordered five years of probation in a two
hundred thousand dollars fine. And he was given a pardon
(24:31):
on these charges, on these gun charges and was released
and able to go home. The pardon even made it
where his probation terms including like drug testing and all
of that. We're out of here now. At the time,
he released a statement thinking Trump. He says, I want
to thank President Trump for granting me a pardon and
giving me the opportunity to keep building as a man,
as a father, and as an artist. But there's been
(24:52):
no confirmation of like the meeting or anything like that
since this time.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
President Trump gave NBA Young Boy another shot at not
sitting behind bars, career, family, all the things right, all
the things I noticed, all the things I get it.
So I'm not knocking him for his answer. Let me
back that up. I'm not knocking him for acknowledging well
(25:19):
he didn't even acknowledge it. I'm not knocking him for
obviously being grateful for Trump for doing that, which is,
in my opinion whatever right. Politically, I don't know him.
I don't know enough. We haven't heard enough, you know,
politically to understand how NBA Young Young Boy would have
arrived at being a Trump supporter if he had not
(25:40):
gotten a party, not enough in recent not enough consistently.
I think with some I mean Nicki Minaja the same way,
I would have never thought that Nicki Minajo end up
a Trump supporter. It makes sense with NBA Young Boy, though,
because this man was literally parton. He was about to
go to jail, was about to be behind bars, it
was about to be you know, two years of sitting
down solid and then another sitting down at home. Right,
(26:04):
So I understand that.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
I just wish that.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
He wasn't pushing the whole mega regime thing because obviously
NBA Young Boy is very influential and very impactful. He
is like the leader of you, one of the leaders
of youth culture, if not honestly, I'm saying NBA Young
Boy is the leader of youth culture at this point.
Youth culture is basically like the Puschreisty's. The youngin is
like the people. Look, I'm thirty four years old. I
(26:34):
gotta it's not me anymore, but like the thirty one
in under like that, I would say, Indy, I mean,
the kids love NBA Young Boy. Y'all remember seeing those
tour videos and hearing the crowd and just seeing how
crazy they were going. That man say jump, they say
how high? So I think politically and again I haven't
heard him speak much on politics or say this indefinitely,
(26:56):
but I don't know if he understands where he's leading
the people, especially like you know, I know that there
are some music artists who, although you know, come from
underserved communities and blah blah, all that stuff you know
that goes along with it, still feel like or felt
like President Trump was the answer. But if you look
at things that have happened more recently, I don't understand
(27:17):
why anyone would think that or push that, and I
just don't know if NBA Young Boy, as smart as
he is, I don't know if he understands how his
blind loyalty ends people up longer term. And honestly, I
mean maybe he does. Maybe I'm completely wrong. Maybe we'll
(27:40):
get that in another interview, but I would rather hear that, like, okay,
like why push whatever Trump is pushing? Why yes, he
pardoned you. I totally understand that, but like I mean,
Fetti Wop was recently released and he wasn't pardoned, but
the First Step Act, which you know, got through the
(28:04):
under the Trump administration, is the reason why he was
able to come home.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
But he's not out here.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I want you to be magg again, baby, Yeah, I
want you. You know, I'm not even saying that because
I want nobody to clip that younger. What I'm saying though,
all right now listen obviously at this point, if y'all
can't tell, I am a converted NBA Young Boy fan,
I never was against NBA Young Boy.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I've always liked his music.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
I just think I wasn't really in tune with like
the only thing I knew about him was the thing
that hit the headlines and y'all know my end of it.
Sometimes that's just the that's the cattiness of it all.
That's the baby Mama drama. That's the you know, the arrests,
the runner from the police, the all of that stuff.
But his tour and watching each tour stop in the crowd.
I didn't go to the tour, but just I wanted
(28:46):
to go. That's how much watching the tour influence me.
I wanted to go to the tour, just experience the
energy of it in real life, but didn't end up
making it. But he says that he's gonna go back
on tour again. He's gonna his plans or to take
it international hopefully. I stand in the fact that he's
been able to do all this with feeling black ball
by the industry, with also not having like a lot
(29:07):
of like mainstream support, Like he's not played all over
the radio, he's not sitting down for a bunch of
interviews a lot of the times when the outlets are
talking about him. It is the drama, but people love
his music. It goes crazy. I'm all against people going
against the regime. I don't support the MAGA stuff, but
I mean I support get pay Young man get paid.
You know what I'm saying. So yeah, but shout out
(29:29):
to Complex for this interview. This was my breakdown of it.
You guys want more episodes like this?
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Let me know.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
I enjoy talking through interviews with you guys because I
think we really get a chance to dissect not only
the conversation that is being talked about and like the
headline of it all, but the actual real conversation, like
the how is this impassing us?
Speaker 2 (29:54):
What does this really mean? That doesn't really mean anything, because
sometimes these interviews would just be like this could have
been a tweet. You need to see the inner newa.
You know how you could that feeling. Sometimes it's your boss,
like yo, this could have been an email. We didn't
need a meeting. But I love it. Nonetheless, this is
the Lady so loring the Rosa.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
This is your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news,
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Speaker 2 (30:17):
I'm loring the Rosa.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
You guys could be anywhere with anybody talking about all
of the things, but you choose me right here with me,
my lowriders. I appreciate you, and I'll see you in
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