January 16, 2026 • 21 mins
Loren LoRosa takes us behind the scenes of her real life and the real headlines. From sitting in the hospital with her mother — a stage-four lung and brain cancer survivor — to breaking down the internet’s obsession with Cam Newton’s viral “eclectic” moment. She also dives into ASAP Rocky’s long-awaited album, his growth as a father and partner to Rihanna, and the deeper layers of his ongoing tension with Drake. Loren also reflects on rap longevity, accountability, and why we don’t give Black artists enough room to evolve.
Plus, she unpacks NBA YoungBoy’s cultural influence, Verizon’s nationwide outage, and what it all says about how much we depend on our phones — and each other.
This episode is heartfelt, sharp, funny, and grounded in truth — proving once again why Loren LoRosa’s voice hits different.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You know, if you don't lie about that, right, tell
y'all what's up.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
It's Laura Rosa and this is the latest with Laura l. Rosa.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
This is your deadly dig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news,
and all of the conversations that shake the room. Baby
now today checking in behind the scenes of the grind.
It's a pretty hectic, you know, ending of the week.
I've been talking to you guys and give you updates
all week long on uh, you know, just this caretaker
side of life. You guys will probably hear in my
(00:37):
surroundings the city of New York because I'm currently sitting
in the car. We are doing my mom's three months
three month checking scan. So my mom is a stage
four lung and brain cancer survivor, so every three months
she has to check in on herself, so she checks
in with her doctors here in New York. They scan
(00:59):
her full body just to make sure that nothing is
growing since the last time they've seen her, and that
nothing new, no new masses of potential cancer pop up
anywhere in her body. And we've been doing that successfully
for over a year now and things have been good,
but coming here today was a bit drastic because you guys,
(01:20):
remember I had this planned. Whenever she does her scans,
whether it's a family member that brings her up, you know,
like my brother or my cousins, any of my cousins
or whoever I can get to help me, I always
try and plan for it to be on a day where, like,
you know, work is not as like, work is not
as heavy. So we did that last time. I planned
(01:42):
the skins on a day where I actually didn't have
to work at all. And then we found out that
some of her insurances, like certain things with her insurances,
had been canceled, and that's been a whole thing. But
and you guys know about this because we've talked about it.
We had Mimi Brown from the Black and Information Network,
who handles you know, world news, politics, community things, talk
(02:05):
to us about what the Trump administration is doing when
it comes to medicaid, Medicare and lack thereof and how
people are affected. And you know, the news got real
for me because I was a person that was on
the other end of it having to deal with that.
Fast forward, we are here, she's able to get her skins.
Everything is looking good so far, but they forgot to
(02:26):
do a brain scan and I wouldn't let her leave
without them doing it, So we are waiting for that now.
But I wanted to make sure we got this additional
pieces of the podcast and for today.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
So here we go. So that's you know, my checking
behind the scenes of the grind.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And I'm a little frantic today just because I've been
doing so much before pressing record. But y'all know we're
gonna bring y'all the latest either way. Now getting on
into the latest new music. So we got new music
from acet Rocky. He finally dropped his long awaited project,
Don't be dumb. This project has had several released time
(03:02):
periods and dates which did not happen. So you know,
fans is fans are going off about it. They're excited
to finally get it. He is, he's had so much
to talk about, you know, the last time we got
an album from acet Rocky.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Within that amount of time, he's had kids.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
He is now a devoted I would say husband, even
if they're not married, because him and Rihanna at this
point they married.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
But that is not me confirming anything.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Guys, I'm jokingly saying that this being is so devoted
to Rihanna that they might as well be married.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I gotta clarify that now at this this eraror in
my life. But yeah, so he's you know, him and
Rihanna are very much in love. They have their three babies.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
He is, you know, such a devoted father and we
see it so much. He's also graced so many different
magazine covers. He's become the face of brands. You know,
his career, everything is just grown. We just saw him
and Highest to Lowest the Spike Lee movie with Denzel
Washington and you know, being a lead man, and that
(04:06):
he's had a lot going on. The gun case which
he was able to walk away from, which we saw
him hop over that bitch when they read that not
guilty verdict into Rihanna's arms. There's a lot to talk
about here. So the album is out now. He sat
down with podcast, which is a podcast it's like a
cultural podcast that the New York Times does, and he
(04:28):
was talking to the guys over there about the project
and he confirmed that like eighty five percent of this
project is new music. Because there were like little leaks
and fake leaks so people were leaking like real things
from the project. But then there were like there was
like music created that wasn't even really the music from
the project that people would leak and say that it
(04:48):
was music from the project.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
According to a set Rocky, so this is all new music.
And they asked him about some shots that he took
at Drake.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Let's say a listen, see the Internet's gonna decide who
you're talking about on that.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I think we all know you're going to say it's Drake.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I mean, that's a man who was with you in
those early days too, brought you on tour. Where do
things go wrong in that relationship?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I mean, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
I just I just started just seeing people who just
started out as friends and just became foes. Seemed like
they was unhappy for you, and you know, just started
sending shots. And I think that's what led to any
of our misunderstandings or whatever the case is.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
It's really ain't smoke.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Does it feel resolvable to you or you think it's.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
No, they don't even need to be like for what
but you're.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Like no secret like that songs that songs for him?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Now, I don't really or it's for anyone.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
It's you feel like it's about them, say like or
let me just say that. Drake said Rocky have been
beefing for some time now, and it's like they throw
all these shots at each other. Now. A said Rocky
didn't have an album out, but he had been featured
on you know, a few different projects or songs throughout
(06:06):
the year where he did take some shots back at Drake.
Drake has been throwing shots his ways as well too.
I don't know if this is a beef that will
ever actually, like like we can reconcile at this point
because you know, aseb Rocky and a lot of people
have the conversation about Drake and drake'sim and the swag,
and you know, I know him and Travis Scott were
(06:29):
also into it at one point because the style comparisons
or whatever. But I think deeper than rap, Rihanna is
at the core of this. We just heard aset Rocky
say it in the song. Rihanna is at the core
of this. Not that she's like pulling the puppet strings,
but obviously there's an issue about the fact that Drake
was interested in Rihanna dating or whatever they were doing
(06:50):
at one point, and that acet Rocky is the one
who ended up with her now as a Rocky. On
the podcast with The New York Times, he also talked
a lot of about, you know, just taking accountability in
this new era of his life. With that gun trial
he went through taught him He's in a whole different
space and I'm so happy to see it.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Let's take listen.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Were you thinking, like how did I get myself back
in another of these situations?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Absolutely, because every time you're in a situation like that,
never never again, And when it happens again, you're like.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
What the fuck is this?
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Oh God, man, Like here we all yet again. You know,
I know you're gonna get me out of it somehow.
But there's a lesson to be learned in this, and
sometimes some lessons are hard lessons, even if you're not
in the wrong necessarily. Guy, is a funny way, in
my opinion, of like just you know, humbling you or
(07:46):
just showing you.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Let me tell you something, Okay, this is this is
what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I love to see the evolution of us, whether it's men, women.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Love to see the evolution.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
But I really do like to see the evil of rappers,
especially the male rappers, because a lot of times, especially
if you come from it and mind you aset Rocky
is not you not like a gangster rapper, but like
you know, you're not gonna play with them. But a
lot of what Aset Rocky stands on the stands for
it's about you know, loyalty, morals, integrity. But it's the
(08:19):
it's the get fly of it all, it's the talk
slick of it all. It's the I'm going to exposure
to a life that you ain't never seen before because
you down with the aset mob of it all. And
that's what Aset rocket The aset Mob used to embody
across Tumblr and then you know, across other social media
sites and of course in their music. But a lot
of times I feel like with our rap artists, and honestly,
(08:40):
I'm not even just gonna say the male rap artists,
but I feel like with our black talent, I don't know,
I feel like we don't get the chance to and
not a lot of that has changed in my opinion
more recently, because you see, like I was gonna say,
the female rap artists don't get the chance to evolve
and be mothers and lean into career. They stay in
(09:00):
one box with that has completely changed Beyonce, Cardi b Sierra.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
On the music side, like the girls are doing it all.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
And on the rap side, you know, unfortunately, we see
a lot of our male rap artists lose their lives
or you know, drugs are in question and that happens
with the male and female rappers as well, or we
just don't support them and seeing them the way that
we should, so their careers die out, money drives up.
You know, we're just not seeing them the longevity of
(09:31):
their lives, their careers and their legacies are not what
they should be in my opinion, and that's why I
love to hear and see artists in the space that
Asap Rocky is in diversifying the hell out of his portfolio.
But he started that way and it's just getting even better.
And I love to hear that he knows that having
a good woman by his side only makes that better.
(09:52):
The music is back now him being a father and
showing the world that is such a thing as well.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Like I just love to see it.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Let's cause it's inn asad Rocket just talking about you
know what Rihanna has been in his life and just
how all of that like, I feel like that like
just glows you up in a way that you just
don't understand until you do it.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Let's takeul before I had my children, it was like
being with my girl took a blind fold off and
things that she couldn't make me, you know, visibly see.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Or optical too.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
God, like I said, had a funny way of showing me.
It's like, how the hell did I end up in
this situation? This is ironic, this is something And that's
why my temperament about it was always so like relaxed,
because I knew, you know what I'm saying. It's just like,
all right, this the circus, y'all gonna let this play out,
all right, I'll sit back done yet, you know what
(10:45):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Like, it's just that's what it was for me.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
I looked at it like as soon as you get
with a girl, she'll tell you like, that's not your friend,
that's that's your friend.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
But that one they can see it more clearly from
a different name. And to be clear, you didn't just
get with any girl.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yeah, I know, I got with a very special woman.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
You know what I mean, and I'm thankful that, you know,
she was putting my life at that time, because I
think anytime prior to that, you know, I don't think
I was.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Ready for something like that.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
You know, I don't think she.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Was either more s now other new music I know,
NBA Young Boy also dropped new music as well, Slime Crowded.
Y'all know, baby, the kids don't play about NBA Young Boy.
But I also saw a few days ago that NBA
Young Boy has a new production deal with a production
company that he started, which will be showcasing like a
docuseriies of his full tour, which I love to see
(11:42):
artists do as well too, because again, that's diversifying that portfolio,
that is, you know, making other streams of income off
of one set talent. But I also just love storytelling, Like,
if I'm being honest, I just love storytelling and I
love to watch people's journeys. But it's also going to
talk a lot about his influence on youth culture, culture
and music in general. And I think a lot of
(12:03):
people because NBA Young Boy has had some like you know,
issues with the law, and you know, I feel like
the conversation around him is always about the beefs he's
in and the court cases and the charge and the
things that he's going through.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
But this year or.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Last year, actually in twenty twenty five, because he was
in twenty twenty five, because he was on this tour
which sold out crazy, like sold out insane, I think
a lot of people really got to experience the NBA
Young Boy effect. Now it's a lot of them shines
things and you know, all the things, but at the
core essence of it, it's influence. It's being able to
(12:39):
get people up out of their homes and into seats
and fully dedicated to your music, singing word for word,
having energy, making me arena feel like it's shaken because
of the energy in the room, a lot of artists
aren't doing.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
At whatsoever at all.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
NBA Young Boy has such a hand on a youth culture,
and a lot of people talk about the fact that he's,
you know, numbers wise, he's always been streaming crazy, like
his numbers go crazy. And a lot of it happens
without radio play because a lot of his songs are
just not the songs that you're going to hear replayed
all the time on the radio.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
So I'm looking forward to that as well too.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
But I know, speaking of artists dropping new music, Chris
Brown just hopped on Gunner's w WGFT as well. So
there's a lot of new things lately to listen to.
So let's get the latest on this word. There's a
word in colectic. Okay, that is not really a word, y'all,
(13:34):
but Kim Newton on the Funky Friday podcast told us
that it was so. Kim Newton was seated with Lady London,
fire lyricists female rapper Lady London.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
She is not the one to play word.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Games with at all, okay, because Lady London's specialty is wordplay.
She started, you know, early on after graduating from Howard
University writing poetry was turned into music.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
And they were sitting.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Down in conversation, and his conversations are always very wide arranging,
and they get to the when we're we're talking about
his personal style, and she asked him to describe his
personal style.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
And here's what he had to say.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
But how would you describe your style in one word
that's an adjective?
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Can I use the word that I've already used, inclectic?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Say it again?
Speaker 6 (14:21):
In colectic?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
It's eclectic?
Speaker 6 (14:24):
Well, the heavy on the end because there's no internet. No, no, no, no,
it's my word.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Oh, let's unpack this. Okay, got it? Sure, word and
spell it for me.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
N C L E C t A okay, in colectic,
in collectic? Do you want to know what the end
stand for?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Niggatree am I right?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Okay, that's excellent.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
You see where I was going?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Yeah, okay, Now this made me start thinking because everywhere
I was looking, people were joking using the word inclectic,
because this is another moment where you know, Cam Newton,
just for a moment, doesn't look fully in control of
his conversation. And you know, the gist of a lot
of Cam Newton's conversations is that he is fully in control.
(15:13):
Whenever it is your interview, you are supposed to be
fully in control. So I think, you know, people, people
are so crazy. People enjoy seeing the tables flipped where
a person doesn't appear as smart as they think they are,
or doesn't appear as in control as they think they are,
or whatever. You know, people want to lean into. But
this was a very funny moment.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
I saw the word.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Being used everywhere jokingly, and I'm like, I wonder what
this moment and what those numbers are doing on Google
because it's been used so much.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
So according to So, I looked it up.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
So Google has a Google trend like area where you
can look up trending everything, topics, words, phrases, searches, all
of the above. Now I normally use this when I'm
looking up stories to see what the world is talking about,
how much you're talking about it, to be able to
prioritize stories for Breakfast Club and for the podcast here
the Latest with Waur on the Rosa. But I do
(16:10):
know that you can use it for words as well.
But I just didn't know how to read the data
because the grass are not like laid out in like
a way where you can just like quote a percentage
of increase or anything like that easily unless you know
what you're looking at. So I reached out to the
Google Trends team after looking at the public trends site
because I saw a spike not only in the words,
(16:31):
I saw a spike in the word eclectic, which is
the real word that cam Newton meant. And let's look
up eclectic's definition. Now I'm add into the Google searches,
so eclectic the real definition of the real word eclectic
is deriving idea style, or taste from a broad and
diverse range of sources. So I'm looking at these charts,
(16:53):
I'm looking at these grass and I'm like, I'm seeing
a spike, but I don't understand, like numerically, like I
don't I'm if I'm going to quantify this.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
I don't know what I'm looking at.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
So I talked to the team over at Google Trends
and they tell me so search interest in the word
eclectic over the past week for Kim New in eclectic
and enclectic or breakout searches. So breakout searches across Google
Trends are basically searches that like, aren't commonly searched, that
just break out and stand out and search trends because
(17:25):
of something that happened. So the interview happened. Now people
are searching Kim New in eclectic and enclectic. I'm told
by the Google Public Trends site and confirmed by their
team with whom I spoke with, that there was over
a five hundred thousand percent increase in searches for cam
New in eclectic and enclectic. Insane, I'll y'all out out here,
(17:49):
trying to use this word. It is not a word, y'all.
Like one thing we're gonna do is kacko kikey, and
we gonna let something go, but it is not a
real word. Leave it alone, and please don't play with
Lady London in her words. Now in wrapping up, I
don't know how many of our low riders have Verizon Wireless,
but boy, were y'all going through it this week. So
(18:11):
Verizon Wireless, the phone carrier, had a blackout of service
across like the United States.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Like it was insane.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
You could not if you were trying to call someone
with Verizon, you literally could not call through to their phone.
They couldn't call out to you. It was, and it
was for some time. It was probably for about a
good like almost up to an hour. I would say,
I know my brother has Verizon and I was trying
to get in contact with him about you know, my
grandmother and.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Just couldn't, like literally, you just they just couldn't call out.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
And so Verizon's you know, they apologize. They were keeping
us updated via Twitter, telling us that they were going
to be fixing the issues and that there will be
a credit to affected customers. To you know to apply
to their accounts. So people have an issue now because
Verizon is only twenty dollars. Cell phone bills are about
a good one fift seventy five a month. Okay, twenty dollars.
(19:07):
Look in this economy, I'll take it. But still it's
almost it's a joke. So Verizon posted late last night
to their Verizon News account yesterday we did not meet
the standard of excellence you expect and that we expect
of ourselves. To help provide some relief to those effected,
we will give you a twenty dollars account credit that
(19:27):
you can easily redeem by logging into my Verizon app.
You will receive a text message when the credit is
available on averages covers multiple days of service. Business customers
will be contacted directly about their credits. This credit isn't
meant to make up for what happened. No credit really can,
but it's a way of acknowledging your time and showing
you that this matters to us. Now, I appreciate a
(19:48):
company acknowledging your time, acknowledging the time they took from you,
the time they wasted your money, all of that, But
I do think that they could do a little bit more.
I also think that it's kind of unfair that you
have to log into the app apply it. I think
on average, like you know, people are busy, so taking
the time to do that, I think a lot of
people are going to miss out on the credit.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Also, I'm thinking about.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Like older people who have Verizon who are not going
to know how to do all of that. Also, I
just think that there's going to be a fall off in,
you know, once this marketing maneuver pushes out to their audience,
the amount of people that are actually able to get
across the finish line. I think it should have been
something that was applied instantly to the account in my opinion,
But hey, we are not Verizon over here, even though
(20:32):
it's a Verizon. I do have Horizons Wi Fi though,
but yeah, not Verison over here. So personally I have
nothing to complain about. But just looking at it from
of yours perspective, I think they should have made that
a bit easier for their customers one hundred percent because
of the inconvenience that it costs so many people. And
you don't realize how much you rely on your cell
phone with no landline until you can't rely on your
(20:56):
cell phone. I was trying to get in contact with
some of my aunts because my you know, some things
that were happening in emergency with my grandmother this week
during the time it was outed, and couldn't call my aunt.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
She had to call me from her house phone.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
And I'm like, it made me think, like, Wow, should
we keep housephones in the crib just for back up?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Something to think about here y'all.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Now, at the end of the day, you guys could
be anywhere with anybody talking about all of the things,
all of these things my lowriders, But you guys choose
to be right here with me, and for that I
appreciate you guys.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
I'll catch you all in the next episode.
I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You know, if you don't lie about that, right, tell
y'all what's up.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
It's Laura Rosa and this is the latest with Laura l. Rosa.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
This is your deadly dig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news,
and all of the conversations that shake the room. Baby
now today checking in behind the scenes of the grind.
It's a pretty hectic, you know, ending of the week.
I've been talking to you guys and give you updates
all week long on uh, you know, just this caretaker
side of life. You guys will probably hear in my
(00:37):
surroundings the city of New York because I'm currently sitting
in the car. We are doing my mom's three months
three month checking scan. So my mom is a stage
four lung and brain cancer survivor, so every three months
she has to check in on herself, so she checks
in with her doctors here in New York. They scan
(00:59):
her full body just to make sure that nothing is
growing since the last time they've seen her, and that
nothing new, no new masses of potential cancer pop up
anywhere in her body. And we've been doing that successfully
for over a year now and things have been good,
but coming here today was a bit drastic because you guys,
(01:20):
remember I had this planned. Whenever she does her scans,
whether it's a family member that brings her up, you know,
like my brother or my cousins, any of my cousins
or whoever I can get to help me, I always
try and plan for it to be on a day where, like,
you know, work is not as like, work is not
as heavy. So we did that last time. I planned
(01:42):
the skins on a day where I actually didn't have
to work at all. And then we found out that
some of her insurances, like certain things with her insurances,
had been canceled, and that's been a whole thing. But
and you guys know about this because we've talked about it.
We had Mimi Brown from the Black and Information Network,
who handles you know, world news, politics, community things, talk
(02:05):
to us about what the Trump administration is doing when
it comes to medicaid, Medicare and lack thereof and how
people are affected. And you know, the news got real
for me because I was a person that was on
the other end of it having to deal with that.
Fast forward, we are here, she's able to get her skins.
Everything is looking good so far, but they forgot to
(02:26):
do a brain scan and I wouldn't let her leave
without them doing it, So we are waiting for that now.
But I wanted to make sure we got this additional
pieces of the podcast and for today.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
So here we go. So that's you know, my checking
behind the scenes of the grind.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And I'm a little frantic today just because I've been
doing so much before pressing record. But y'all know we're
gonna bring y'all the latest either way. Now getting on
into the latest new music. So we got new music
from acet Rocky. He finally dropped his long awaited project,
Don't be dumb. This project has had several released time
(03:02):
periods and dates which did not happen. So you know,
fans is fans are going off about it. They're excited
to finally get it. He is, he's had so much
to talk about, you know, the last time we got
an album from acet Rocky.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Within that amount of time, he's had kids.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
He is now a devoted I would say husband, even
if they're not married, because him and Rihanna at this
point they married.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
But that is not me confirming anything.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Guys, I'm jokingly saying that this being is so devoted
to Rihanna that they might as well be married.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I gotta clarify that now at this this eraror in
my life. But yeah, so he's you know, him and
Rihanna are very much in love. They have their three babies.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
He is, you know, such a devoted father and we
see it so much. He's also graced so many different
magazine covers. He's become the face of brands. You know,
his career, everything is just grown. We just saw him
and Highest to Lowest the Spike Lee movie with Denzel
Washington and you know, being a lead man, and that
(04:06):
he's had a lot going on. The gun case which
he was able to walk away from, which we saw
him hop over that bitch when they read that not
guilty verdict into Rihanna's arms. There's a lot to talk
about here. So the album is out now. He sat
down with podcast, which is a podcast it's like a
cultural podcast that the New York Times does, and he
(04:28):
was talking to the guys over there about the project
and he confirmed that like eighty five percent of this
project is new music. Because there were like little leaks
and fake leaks so people were leaking like real things
from the project. But then there were like there was
like music created that wasn't even really the music from
the project that people would leak and say that it
(04:48):
was music from the project.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
According to a set Rocky, so this is all new music.
And they asked him about some shots that he took
at Drake.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Let's say a listen, see the Internet's gonna decide who
you're talking about on that.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I think we all know you're going to say it's Drake.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I mean, that's a man who was with you in
those early days too, brought you on tour. Where do
things go wrong in that relationship?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I mean, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
I just I just started just seeing people who just
started out as friends and just became foes. Seemed like
they was unhappy for you, and you know, just started
sending shots. And I think that's what led to any
of our misunderstandings or whatever the case is.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
It's really ain't smoke.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Does it feel resolvable to you or you think it's.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
No, they don't even need to be like for what
but you're.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Like no secret like that songs that songs for him?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Now, I don't really or it's for anyone.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
It's you feel like it's about them, say like or
let me just say that. Drake said Rocky have been
beefing for some time now, and it's like they throw
all these shots at each other. Now. A said Rocky
didn't have an album out, but he had been featured
on you know, a few different projects or songs throughout
(06:06):
the year where he did take some shots back at Drake.
Drake has been throwing shots his ways as well too.
I don't know if this is a beef that will
ever actually, like like we can reconcile at this point
because you know, aseb Rocky and a lot of people
have the conversation about Drake and drake'sim and the swag,
and you know, I know him and Travis Scott were
(06:29):
also into it at one point because the style comparisons
or whatever. But I think deeper than rap, Rihanna is
at the core of this. We just heard aset Rocky
say it in the song. Rihanna is at the core
of this. Not that she's like pulling the puppet strings,
but obviously there's an issue about the fact that Drake
was interested in Rihanna dating or whatever they were doing
(06:50):
at one point, and that acet Rocky is the one
who ended up with her now as a Rocky. On
the podcast with The New York Times, he also talked
a lot of about, you know, just taking accountability in
this new era of his life. With that gun trial
he went through taught him He's in a whole different
space and I'm so happy to see it.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Let's take listen.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Were you thinking, like how did I get myself back
in another of these situations?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Absolutely, because every time you're in a situation like that,
never never again, And when it happens again, you're like.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
What the fuck is this?
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Oh God, man, Like here we all yet again. You know,
I know you're gonna get me out of it somehow.
But there's a lesson to be learned in this, and
sometimes some lessons are hard lessons, even if you're not
in the wrong necessarily. Guy, is a funny way, in
my opinion, of like just you know, humbling you or
(07:46):
just showing you.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Let me tell you something, Okay, this is this is
what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I love to see the evolution of us, whether it's men, women.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Love to see the evolution.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
But I really do like to see the evil of rappers,
especially the male rappers, because a lot of times, especially
if you come from it and mind you aset Rocky
is not you not like a gangster rapper, but like
you know, you're not gonna play with them. But a
lot of what Aset Rocky stands on the stands for
it's about you know, loyalty, morals, integrity. But it's the
(08:19):
it's the get fly of it all, it's the talk
slick of it all. It's the I'm going to exposure
to a life that you ain't never seen before because
you down with the aset mob of it all. And
that's what Aset rocket The aset Mob used to embody
across Tumblr and then you know, across other social media
sites and of course in their music. But a lot
of times I feel like with our rap artists, and honestly,
(08:40):
I'm not even just gonna say the male rap artists,
but I feel like with our black talent, I don't know,
I feel like we don't get the chance to and
not a lot of that has changed in my opinion
more recently, because you see, like I was gonna say,
the female rap artists don't get the chance to evolve
and be mothers and lean into career. They stay in
(09:00):
one box with that has completely changed Beyonce, Cardi b Sierra.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
On the music side, like the girls are doing it all.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
And on the rap side, you know, unfortunately, we see
a lot of our male rap artists lose their lives
or you know, drugs are in question and that happens
with the male and female rappers as well, or we
just don't support them and seeing them the way that
we should, so their careers die out, money drives up.
You know, we're just not seeing them the longevity of
(09:31):
their lives, their careers and their legacies are not what
they should be in my opinion, and that's why I
love to hear and see artists in the space that
Asap Rocky is in diversifying the hell out of his portfolio.
But he started that way and it's just getting even better.
And I love to hear that he knows that having
a good woman by his side only makes that better.
(09:52):
The music is back now him being a father and
showing the world that is such a thing as well.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Like I just love to see it.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Let's cause it's inn asad Rocket just talking about you
know what Rihanna has been in his life and just
how all of that like, I feel like that like
just glows you up in a way that you just
don't understand until you do it.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Let's takeul before I had my children, it was like
being with my girl took a blind fold off and
things that she couldn't make me, you know, visibly see.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Or optical too.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
God, like I said, had a funny way of showing me.
It's like, how the hell did I end up in
this situation? This is ironic, this is something And that's
why my temperament about it was always so like relaxed,
because I knew, you know what I'm saying. It's just like,
all right, this the circus, y'all gonna let this play out,
all right, I'll sit back done yet, you know what
(10:45):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Like, it's just that's what it was for me.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
I looked at it like as soon as you get
with a girl, she'll tell you like, that's not your friend,
that's that's your friend.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
But that one they can see it more clearly from
a different name. And to be clear, you didn't just
get with any girl.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yeah, I know, I got with a very special woman.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
You know what I mean, and I'm thankful that, you know,
she was putting my life at that time, because I
think anytime prior to that, you know, I don't think
I was.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Ready for something like that.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
You know, I don't think she.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Was either more s now other new music I know,
NBA Young Boy also dropped new music as well, Slime Crowded.
Y'all know, baby, the kids don't play about NBA Young Boy.
But I also saw a few days ago that NBA
Young Boy has a new production deal with a production
company that he started, which will be showcasing like a
docuseriies of his full tour, which I love to see
(11:42):
artists do as well too, because again, that's diversifying that portfolio,
that is, you know, making other streams of income off
of one set talent. But I also just love storytelling, Like,
if I'm being honest, I just love storytelling and I
love to watch people's journeys. But it's also going to
talk a lot about his influence on youth culture, culture
and music in general. And I think a lot of
(12:03):
people because NBA Young Boy has had some like you know,
issues with the law, and you know, I feel like
the conversation around him is always about the beefs he's
in and the court cases and the charge and the
things that he's going through.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
But this year or.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Last year, actually in twenty twenty five, because he was
in twenty twenty five, because he was on this tour
which sold out crazy, like sold out insane, I think
a lot of people really got to experience the NBA
Young Boy effect. Now it's a lot of them shines
things and you know, all the things, but at the
core essence of it, it's influence. It's being able to
(12:39):
get people up out of their homes and into seats
and fully dedicated to your music, singing word for word,
having energy, making me arena feel like it's shaken because
of the energy in the room, a lot of artists
aren't doing.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
At whatsoever at all.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
NBA Young Boy has such a hand on a youth culture,
and a lot of people talk about the fact that he's,
you know, numbers wise, he's always been streaming crazy, like
his numbers go crazy. And a lot of it happens
without radio play because a lot of his songs are
just not the songs that you're going to hear replayed
all the time on the radio.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
So I'm looking forward to that as well too.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
But I know, speaking of artists dropping new music, Chris
Brown just hopped on Gunner's w WGFT as well. So
there's a lot of new things lately to listen to.
So let's get the latest on this word. There's a
word in colectic. Okay, that is not really a word, y'all,
(13:34):
but Kim Newton on the Funky Friday podcast told us
that it was so. Kim Newton was seated with Lady London,
fire lyricists female rapper Lady London.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
She is not the one to play word.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Games with at all, okay, because Lady London's specialty is wordplay.
She started, you know, early on after graduating from Howard
University writing poetry was turned into music.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
And they were sitting.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Down in conversation, and his conversations are always very wide arranging,
and they get to the when we're we're talking about
his personal style, and she asked him to describe his
personal style.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
And here's what he had to say.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
But how would you describe your style in one word
that's an adjective?
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Can I use the word that I've already used, inclectic?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Say it again?
Speaker 6 (14:21):
In colectic?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
It's eclectic?
Speaker 6 (14:24):
Well, the heavy on the end because there's no internet. No, no, no, no,
it's my word.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Oh, let's unpack this. Okay, got it? Sure, word and
spell it for me.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
N C L E C t A okay, in colectic,
in collectic? Do you want to know what the end
stand for?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Niggatree am I right?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Okay, that's excellent.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
You see where I was going?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Yeah, okay, Now this made me start thinking because everywhere
I was looking, people were joking using the word inclectic,
because this is another moment where you know, Cam Newton,
just for a moment, doesn't look fully in control of
his conversation. And you know, the gist of a lot
of Cam Newton's conversations is that he is fully in control.
(15:13):
Whenever it is your interview, you are supposed to be
fully in control. So I think, you know, people, people
are so crazy. People enjoy seeing the tables flipped where
a person doesn't appear as smart as they think they are,
or doesn't appear as in control as they think they are,
or whatever. You know, people want to lean into. But
this was a very funny moment.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
I saw the word.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Being used everywhere jokingly, and I'm like, I wonder what
this moment and what those numbers are doing on Google
because it's been used so much.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
So according to So, I looked it up.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
So Google has a Google trend like area where you
can look up trending everything, topics, words, phrases, searches, all
of the above. Now I normally use this when I'm
looking up stories to see what the world is talking about,
how much you're talking about it, to be able to
prioritize stories for Breakfast Club and for the podcast here
the Latest with Waur on the Rosa. But I do
(16:10):
know that you can use it for words as well.
But I just didn't know how to read the data
because the grass are not like laid out in like
a way where you can just like quote a percentage
of increase or anything like that easily unless you know
what you're looking at. So I reached out to the
Google Trends team after looking at the public trends site
because I saw a spike not only in the words,
(16:31):
I saw a spike in the word eclectic, which is
the real word that cam Newton meant. And let's look
up eclectic's definition. Now I'm add into the Google searches,
so eclectic the real definition of the real word eclectic
is deriving idea style, or taste from a broad and
diverse range of sources. So I'm looking at these charts,
(16:53):
I'm looking at these grass and I'm like, I'm seeing
a spike, but I don't understand, like numerically, like I
don't I'm if I'm going to quantify this.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
I don't know what I'm looking at.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
So I talked to the team over at Google Trends
and they tell me so search interest in the word
eclectic over the past week for Kim New in eclectic
and enclectic or breakout searches. So breakout searches across Google
Trends are basically searches that like, aren't commonly searched, that
just break out and stand out and search trends because
(17:25):
of something that happened. So the interview happened. Now people
are searching Kim New in eclectic and enclectic. I'm told
by the Google Public Trends site and confirmed by their
team with whom I spoke with, that there was over
a five hundred thousand percent increase in searches for cam
New in eclectic and enclectic. Insane, I'll y'all out out here,
(17:49):
trying to use this word. It is not a word, y'all.
Like one thing we're gonna do is kacko kikey, and
we gonna let something go, but it is not a
real word. Leave it alone, and please don't play with
Lady London in her words. Now in wrapping up, I
don't know how many of our low riders have Verizon Wireless,
but boy, were y'all going through it this week. So
(18:11):
Verizon Wireless, the phone carrier, had a blackout of service
across like the United States.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Like it was insane.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
You could not if you were trying to call someone
with Verizon, you literally could not call through to their phone.
They couldn't call out to you. It was, and it
was for some time. It was probably for about a
good like almost up to an hour. I would say,
I know my brother has Verizon and I was trying
to get in contact with him about you know, my
grandmother and.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Just couldn't, like literally, you just they just couldn't call out.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
And so Verizon's you know, they apologize. They were keeping
us updated via Twitter, telling us that they were going
to be fixing the issues and that there will be
a credit to affected customers. To you know to apply
to their accounts. So people have an issue now because
Verizon is only twenty dollars. Cell phone bills are about
a good one fift seventy five a month. Okay, twenty dollars.
(19:07):
Look in this economy, I'll take it. But still it's
almost it's a joke. So Verizon posted late last night
to their Verizon News account yesterday we did not meet
the standard of excellence you expect and that we expect
of ourselves. To help provide some relief to those effected,
we will give you a twenty dollars account credit that
(19:27):
you can easily redeem by logging into my Verizon app.
You will receive a text message when the credit is
available on averages covers multiple days of service. Business customers
will be contacted directly about their credits. This credit isn't
meant to make up for what happened. No credit really can,
but it's a way of acknowledging your time and showing
you that this matters to us. Now, I appreciate a
(19:48):
company acknowledging your time, acknowledging the time they took from you,
the time they wasted your money, all of that, But
I do think that they could do a little bit more.
I also think that it's kind of unfair that you
have to log into the app apply it. I think
on average, like you know, people are busy, so taking
the time to do that, I think a lot of
people are going to miss out on the credit.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Also, I'm thinking about.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Like older people who have Verizon who are not going
to know how to do all of that. Also, I
just think that there's going to be a fall off in,
you know, once this marketing maneuver pushes out to their audience,
the amount of people that are actually able to get
across the finish line. I think it should have been
something that was applied instantly to the account in my opinion,
But hey, we are not Verizon over here, even though
(20:32):
it's a Verizon. I do have Horizons Wi Fi though,
but yeah, not Verison over here. So personally I have
nothing to complain about. But just looking at it from
of yours perspective, I think they should have made that
a bit easier for their customers one hundred percent because
of the inconvenience that it costs so many people. And
you don't realize how much you rely on your cell
phone with no landline until you can't rely on your
(20:56):
cell phone. I was trying to get in contact with
some of my aunts because my you know, some things
that were happening in emergency with my grandmother this week
during the time it was outed, and couldn't call my aunt.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
She had to call me from her house phone.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
And I'm like, it made me think, like, Wow, should
we keep housephones in the crib just for back up?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Something to think about here y'all.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Now, at the end of the day, you guys could
be anywhere with anybody talking about all of the things,
all of these things my lowriders, But you guys choose
to be right here with me, and for that I
appreciate you guys.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
I'll catch you all in the next episode.
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