July 16, 2026 • 19 mins
Loren opens up about a recent Bible study that challenged one of the most common sayings in faith: "What's meant for you is for you." She reflects on career growth, learning to trust God's direction, overcoming a scarcity mindset, and why not every opportunity is meant to be accepted.
Then, she brings exclusive updates from Jay-Z's historic Yankee Stadium run, confirming whether the delayed final show will result in fines after thousands of fans rushed the gates. Plus, she breaks down the massive streaming surge for Reasonable Doubt and The Blueprint, and explains why Jay-Z's run may not be over just yet.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
George. I'm a homegrowd that knows a little bit about
everything and everybody. You know, if you don't lie about that,
right Lauri, Hey, y'all, what's up as Lauren Rosa? And
this is another episode of the Latest with Laura l Rosa.
This is your daily dial on all things pop culture, entertaiment, news,
and all of the conversations that shake the room. Baby.
(00:25):
So today and every day here at the Latest with
Lona Rosa, we are going to kick off with checking
in behind the scenes of the Grind. So uh, checking
in behind the scenes of the Grind today. I actually
did a Bible study. Virtually, it's called a Bible study.
(00:48):
But my pastor, Pastor Jerome Lewis, who is at Seeds
of Greatness Church in Delaware, all the sermons and the
classing about to talk to you guys about our livestream
so you can watch it on YouTube. Even if you
have never been to Delaware, don't plan to go. I
suggested great church, great past or great leadership. But I
(01:12):
was actually watching a part of the sermon or the class,
I don't know they call it sermon class. It was
like it was it was titled it was talking about
like personal development, and they were having a conversation about
the saying what God has for you is for you,
(01:35):
and my pastor always says, and he's the first person
that I've ever heard say this, that that saying isn't true.
That you can miss what God has for you. And
there are like different ways that that can happen, like
I will bring it to you, but there are things
that you can be doing, whether it's like you're around
the wrong people. Tonight he talked a lot about like,
(01:55):
you know, just like you're posturing, like you know, not
being too prideful, not becoming too like basically not becoming
bigger than the program where you're not able to see
where God is leading you. And I tweeted out something
from the sermon. He said, not every opportunity to increase
is God's will for you, And that stuck out to
(02:17):
me so much. I think right now in real life,
everything day to day for me is really about making
decisions and how those decisions go into my discipline and
how that discipline brings forth like fruit of seeds that
I'm planting daily literally and a lot of times, you know,
(02:43):
as I'm figuring out team and figuring out you know,
I'm walking into so many new doors, new rooms, meeting people,
doing all these things that I've continued, like I've literally
been doing uh these things for so long. But now
things are a bit different. I mean there's a lot
more eyes, there are a lot more doors that are open,
(03:05):
you know that I could potentially walk through, and just
a lot more coming at me, more faster. And I'm
always praying that like God is ordering my steps and
that I'm making the right decisions. One of my biggest fears,
and I've been trying to figure out if this is
trauma or is this me just being really in tune
(03:27):
with like wanting to make sure that like I'm being
led by God and not led by like my own
wants and you know and needs as a human, you know,
like they how to talk about of the flesh, right,
My biggest fear is that I make one decision, whether
it's taking an opportunity or whatever the case may be,
(03:49):
like just that there's just one decision that once I
take it, once it's done, once it happens, that it
just changes everything that I I am always thinking about
that constantly. It's like such an anxiety point for me.
And yeah, I've been trying to figure out like whether
(04:09):
that's like a scarcity mindset thing of feeling like, you know, opportunities. Well,
first of all, like you know what I'm doing every
single day. I'm literally getting up every single day and
wanting to leave and not wanting but I'm actively living
one of my wildest dreams. So because of that, sometimes
I wake up and I'm like, Yo, it's no way
(04:31):
that like all of this worked out like this, like
and continues to like, Man, when I tell y'all, God
is so good, I actually need to sit down and
kind of like map out what I want my next
six months to look like, my next year to look like,
my next five years to look like. Because a lot
(04:53):
of things that I wanted to accomplish the last time
I sat down and did that whole five year plan,
I've been able to do within these last night two years.
So much has happened for me within these last couple
of years. It's been kind of like scary. Not that
it's been easy at all. There's a lot of hard work.
There's a lot of long days, long nights, sacrifice, you know,
(05:14):
not spending as much time with family, and just different things.
So it's not that it's come too easy, and that's
why I think like that, it's just like I really
sit and just look at things sometimes when I'm like,
there's no way, like this is crazy. And I don't
even just mean career opportunities and things that I'm getting
to experience. I mean like there are sometimes things with
(05:37):
like my family, like just you know, people will literally
ask me all the time, how's your mom, how's your grandmother?
Because I kind of document it well with my mom,
not with my grandmother, but with my mom. I was
documenting so much of her hell journey that there are
a lot of people that you know, because of that
feel connected to it, and I talk about it a lot,
and I talk about them a lot, but there are
(05:58):
sometimes where I sit with them and I'm just like, God,
there's no way, like you delivered us from so much,
Like they have been through so much that they have
had to continuously be very strong through, persevere through, and
have like a very like fighter mentality and spirit. Because
there were times where, like you know, especially when my
(06:19):
mom's going through a cancer journey, where I was just like, man,
I don't know what's about to happen, And now I
look back on those times, and I'm like, the way
that I look at my faith in God and what
he's able to do and what he's able to walk
me through is like so unmatched. And so when I'm
(06:39):
looking at opportunities and looking at different things that have
happened in my life and things that I've gotten through
and just how you know, I mean things, I'm even
scared to say it right now. That's why I keep saying,
like I want I'm trying to figure out if this
is trauma. I'm scared to say when I look at
how good things are right now, sometimes I'm just like
I'm scared to acknowledge it. I'm scared to talk about it,
(07:00):
get to lean into it because I don't want anything
to jeopardize it, like at all. So I just I
enjoy it and I live it like I experience it
in real life and I'm in it and I'm experiencing
the joy in real life, like I'm not running from that.
But like I don't even like talking about it sometimes
because I'm like, y'all, what if I'm gonna wake up
(07:21):
to myrow this is all gonna be different? Like I
am so used to fighting to survive that, Like, I
am really trying to like talk myself into being okay
with now living and not surviving. So when my pastor
said this today, not every opportunity to increase is God's
will for you, it really put me at ease a bit.
(07:42):
There's a lot of decisions that I'm making, you know,
personally on a day to day where sometimes you feel like,
you know, if you walk away from something or if
you you know, not even just walk away, but if
certain things are not even presented to you because and
you feel like you should be getting them, that it's
going to change that trajectory that you're on. It's gonna
take away from that happiness or that life is good
(08:06):
feeling that you're on. And when he said that today,
I was like, that was God talking to me about
not making decisions and worry and fret and a scarcity.
You know, I fight or flight mole like I've always
been having to do, like especially career wise, but just
knowing and resting in what I feel and what my
(08:28):
gut is telling me to do and doing it and
being okay with it. So I really, you know, if
you guys are looking to go and hear that sermon
and hear some of it going over sees the Greatness
three or two sees the Greatness Church on YouTube and
take a list to the passage Jerome Lewis. The sermon
(08:50):
was Wednesday to Lie fifteenth. It was the personal development class.
I don't know I was that has been sitting on me,
so I wanted to share with you guys. And now
we can get on into the Latest because speaking of
making decisions, jay Z made a decision with that Yankee
(09:11):
Stadium show Sunday night, the last show, the Extra Inning show.
He decided to not start the show until as many
people as possible were able to get into the stadium.
After thousands of fans rushed the doors, a lot of
them without tickets, you know, people that just were there
(09:33):
trying to see the sights and got into the show
for free, but pushed the show back three to four hours.
We didn't leave that show until two thirty three am
in the morning. And there has been some conversations, I mean,
even here in the Latest with Lona Rosa. We've been
trying to figure out was jay Z going to be
fine for this because normally there's noise ordinances in the city,
(09:56):
so you know, like certain noises can't go past a
certain time, and that's why concerts and at a certain
time stadium, you know, events and at certain times, and
y'all know how that goes, like clubs shut down at
a certain time, especially because Yankee Stadium is in a
residential areas in the Bronx, like you walk across the street,
his houses, its people, you know. But I was actually
(10:18):
told officially by a rep for the Yankee Stadium that
there has been no agency that has reached out to
Yankee Stadium about any fines or penalties for the amount
of time that that show went over its original ending
time on Sunday, July twelfth, So we can put this
to rest. I've been seeing a lot of reporting around
(10:40):
like people honestly are just doing reports right now asking
the question, will he even be fine? I saw some
loose reporting that there was no fines earlier in the
week after the show happened. But now I can officially
tell you, guys, according to reps at Yankee Stadium, as
of right now, no, and probably won't happen now. I
(11:01):
did follow back up or circle back to that rep
that I was speaking to to asks why just to
you know, clarify what I'd been able to find just
in my research on Google, because according to Google, you know,
New York City doesn't set a hard legal stop time,
but outdoor events at the stadium Yankee Stadium are generally
(11:24):
expected to wrap up by or just before midnight. Now
mind you guys, Friday and Saturday night with jay Z's concerts,
he did that, so it's expected to wrap around or
before midnight out of courtesy to the surround the neighborhood. Because
I told y'all, like Yankee Stadium for those of you
guys who've never been here to New York or have
never been to Bronx, where Yankee Stadium is in a
(11:46):
solid stadium and where it sits tons of houses a
residential area around the stadium. However, there was an exception
obviously made for this concert. So what I'm trying to
get more information on is how that exception was communicated
to jay Z. We know that they were dealing with
deser Ray Perez, who is you know, one of the
(12:09):
lead CEOs of Rock Nation. I told you guys the story,
and go back and listen to a previous episode about
Deav's literally being outside on the ground and being the
person that was leading the charge a lot in working
with NYPD Brass, which is the Yankee Stadium's highest level
of security, to get everybody in as many people as
(12:29):
they could to keep everybody safe. So yeah, as of
right now, that that is the official report. There are
some reports too by Billboard right now that jay Z's
Reasonable Doubt and Blueprint albums have seen an immense increase
in streams following these shows, and I'm sure it's because
(12:52):
you know, everybody's listening to it getting ready. According to Lumine,
which is a portfolio that does a lot of the
like New Merrick data collection across music platforms, they're saying
that Reasonable Doubt, which was jay Z's debut album, it's
up ninety four percent, putting it at two point zero
seventy five million official streams over the first four days
(13:15):
of that weekend that he did so, from July tenth
to July thirteenth, the streams for a Reasonable Doubt jumped
ninety four percent. Now, according to Billboard and lumin It,
they're saying that this accounts for all three sold out
nights of jay z Yankee Stadium. And of course we
know that he dedicated. Each night did something different. So
(13:36):
the first night was dedicated to reasonable doubt, second night
was dedicated to the blueprint, the third night was extra
in it. So you got a little bit of both
and a little bit of things that had nothing to
do with either. Too. Now for the Blueprint, according to Luminant,
as reported by Billboard, they're saying that the week of
July tenth through thirteenth, or that weekend, which was jay
(13:57):
Z weekend here in New York, streams catapulted. They went crazy.
They went up one hundred and eighteen percent, So that
is over two point four million official streams in three days.
And my job, jay Z still has shows in Paris, London,
in LA So more music is going to go crazy.
(14:19):
There's gonna be a lot more news to come from
all of this, because I think the fact that Beyonce
dropped that Morning Dude Dunk song officially on July fourth,
and hit the stage with jay Z twice during this
past weekend in New York, and they're headed to Paris,
which is a very special place for them. They talk about,
you know, how Blue Ivy was conceived, and you know
(14:42):
all these things, right, I don't know. I think We're
about to see something with them, potentially, that's my prediction.
She's celebrating twenty five years of B Day, which was,
you know, one of her legacy albums. He's celebrating thirty
years of Reasonable Without, twenty five years of the Blue.
I think something to cooking, y'all. A cooking Who I
(15:04):
sound like a country aunt? A cooking ya. I am
exhausted by the day off, y'all cannot tell like I
literally barely have a voice. I have not yet to
even recover from the freaking Yankee Stadium shows. Okay, now
that has been another episode of the Latest with Lauren
the Rosa, the podcast. I wanted to just bring you
(15:24):
guys that quick update. Y'all know, I get y'all things
first because the Latest, the podcast, the Low Riders, y'all
are so important to me. Make sure I'm hearing from
you guys on a line. Okay, I'm Laura the Rosa.
Everywhere l O R E N l O R O
s A get outside in the streets, in the tweets
(15:44):
for the outside, we outside, we outside every other. I
saw a video going viral from Yankee Stadium of days
outside of the concert manning look man in the ground,
like I told y'all, but I also saw a lot
of on the ground reporters out there as well too,
(16:06):
reporting things, doing different interviews with people because everybody was
stuck outside. Celebrities, journalists, people just there for the concert.
Everybody was stuck outside. And I think that's why we're
getting so much content still. I mean, what we are
now almost two to three days out from the concert,
and still we're getting so much content from it. I
(16:27):
think that's why. Because you had a ton of people,
we had hours, we had time. I saw Gail King
talk about how late she was to work that day.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Thousands of fans had to wait for hours for the
show to start last night because people bum rushed the
door very bad, but the excitement stayed very high during
the delay. I de scided, you know, I would check
in with other concert goers to see what they were thinking.
Very close to midnight.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Why are we still here?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I wish if I knew, I would tell you I
could off what I have.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Okay, Shemira, is this show gonna happen?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
And he said, heaven they had? I had, man, We've
been waiting out here for hours.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
We got the beautiful.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Surround on the audience, hoties, people in your hands, you
don't tasty.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Even just ready to go starting night and you say, what.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Right here, I've been waiting all day. It's gonna happen.
It's now eleven thirty eight.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Yes, okay, what are you thinking? I'm just saying this history.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yeah, I've got to look at it the positive everything, and.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
This is history. This is so legendary. There's so much love.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Everybody want to come see this show?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
This is the third night. Did you come back? I
seen you last night? Right, yes, I was here last night.
Energy last night. Yes, I got cooked on jay Z
because of will you know that song? Gave me that sweet,
that gooscy stuff. He was playing it at nine. I go,
what are you listening to? You can't listen to that?
Fast forward to me and Will Diamond's up give me that.
Me and Will side by side. Will knows every song
(17:55):
he said, go into the concert made him feel like
he was in middle school. Will is lovely wife, look
at that please? And Kirby's best friend Erica. Then Officer
Smith was someone who was escorting me around when we
were walking through the venue, and I said, I can't
believe that I'm still here. Either either were uh dedicated
or crazy, he goes, but maybe you're a little bit
of both. I think that's true. A lot of famous
(18:16):
people in the crowd yesterday that showed up because they
wanted to support jay Z. Look, there's Carl Anthony town
Tatum's partner, Camille, Okay.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
That one.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
There's Travis Travis Scott. It was but Pete were dragging
me or ragging on me saying Gail, no. Not everybody
had a good time. Some people left early, very few
people Alvin Patrick.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Talking to Alvin Patrick, who works here at CBS, got
very few people left early.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Most people stayed because you're thinking, you've invested all this time,
and you kept hearing he's coming, he's coming, He's coming.
What time did you did you say? I'm embarrassed to
tell you.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Yeah, it's the ladyest y'all. I tell y'all every single episode,
y'all could be any where with anybody talking about all
of these things. But the fact that y'all choose to
be right here with me, my lowriders, y'all know, I
appreciate it. I'll catch you guys in my next episode.
I mighta get some rest. Finally, I'm gonna get some rest.
I'll be back tomorrow. We'll get into some other things.
(19:16):
I appreciate y'all.
George. I'm a homegrowd that knows a little bit about
everything and everybody. You know, if you don't lie about that,
right Lauri, Hey, y'all, what's up as Lauren Rosa? And
this is another episode of the Latest with Laura l Rosa.
This is your daily dial on all things pop culture, entertaiment, news,
and all of the conversations that shake the room. Baby.
(00:25):
So today and every day here at the Latest with
Lona Rosa, we are going to kick off with checking
in behind the scenes of the Grind. So uh, checking
in behind the scenes of the Grind today. I actually
did a Bible study. Virtually, it's called a Bible study.
(00:48):
But my pastor, Pastor Jerome Lewis, who is at Seeds
of Greatness Church in Delaware, all the sermons and the
classing about to talk to you guys about our livestream
so you can watch it on YouTube. Even if you
have never been to Delaware, don't plan to go. I
suggested great church, great past or great leadership. But I
(01:12):
was actually watching a part of the sermon or the class,
I don't know they call it sermon class. It was
like it was it was titled it was talking about
like personal development, and they were having a conversation about
the saying what God has for you is for you,
(01:35):
and my pastor always says, and he's the first person
that I've ever heard say this, that that saying isn't true.
That you can miss what God has for you. And
there are like different ways that that can happen, like
I will bring it to you, but there are things
that you can be doing, whether it's like you're around
the wrong people. Tonight he talked a lot about like,
(01:55):
you know, just like you're posturing, like you know, not
being too prideful, not becoming too like basically not becoming
bigger than the program where you're not able to see
where God is leading you. And I tweeted out something
from the sermon. He said, not every opportunity to increase
is God's will for you, And that stuck out to
(02:17):
me so much. I think right now in real life,
everything day to day for me is really about making
decisions and how those decisions go into my discipline and
how that discipline brings forth like fruit of seeds that
I'm planting daily literally and a lot of times, you know,
(02:43):
as I'm figuring out team and figuring out you know,
I'm walking into so many new doors, new rooms, meeting people,
doing all these things that I've continued, like I've literally
been doing uh these things for so long. But now
things are a bit different. I mean there's a lot
more eyes, there are a lot more doors that are open,
(03:05):
you know that I could potentially walk through, and just
a lot more coming at me, more faster. And I'm
always praying that like God is ordering my steps and
that I'm making the right decisions. One of my biggest fears,
and I've been trying to figure out if this is
trauma or is this me just being really in tune
(03:27):
with like wanting to make sure that like I'm being
led by God and not led by like my own
wants and you know and needs as a human, you know,
like they how to talk about of the flesh, right,
My biggest fear is that I make one decision, whether
it's taking an opportunity or whatever the case may be,
(03:49):
like just that there's just one decision that once I
take it, once it's done, once it happens, that it
just changes everything that I I am always thinking about
that constantly. It's like such an anxiety point for me.
And yeah, I've been trying to figure out like whether
(04:09):
that's like a scarcity mindset thing of feeling like, you know, opportunities. Well,
first of all, like you know what I'm doing every
single day. I'm literally getting up every single day and
wanting to leave and not wanting but I'm actively living
one of my wildest dreams. So because of that, sometimes
I wake up and I'm like, Yo, it's no way
(04:31):
that like all of this worked out like this, like
and continues to like, Man, when I tell y'all, God
is so good, I actually need to sit down and
kind of like map out what I want my next
six months to look like, my next year to look like,
my next five years to look like. Because a lot
(04:53):
of things that I wanted to accomplish the last time
I sat down and did that whole five year plan,
I've been able to do within these last night two years.
So much has happened for me within these last couple
of years. It's been kind of like scary. Not that
it's been easy at all. There's a lot of hard work.
There's a lot of long days, long nights, sacrifice, you know,
(05:14):
not spending as much time with family, and just different things.
So it's not that it's come too easy, and that's
why I think like that, it's just like I really
sit and just look at things sometimes when I'm like,
there's no way, like this is crazy. And I don't
even just mean career opportunities and things that I'm getting
to experience. I mean like there are sometimes things with
(05:37):
like my family, like just you know, people will literally
ask me all the time, how's your mom, how's your grandmother?
Because I kind of document it well with my mom,
not with my grandmother, but with my mom. I was
documenting so much of her hell journey that there are
a lot of people that you know, because of that
feel connected to it, and I talk about it a lot,
and I talk about them a lot, but there are
(05:58):
sometimes where I sit with them and I'm just like, God,
there's no way, like you delivered us from so much,
Like they have been through so much that they have
had to continuously be very strong through, persevere through, and
have like a very like fighter mentality and spirit. Because
there were times where, like you know, especially when my
(06:19):
mom's going through a cancer journey, where I was just like, man,
I don't know what's about to happen, And now I
look back on those times, and I'm like, the way
that I look at my faith in God and what
he's able to do and what he's able to walk
me through is like so unmatched. And so when I'm
(06:39):
looking at opportunities and looking at different things that have
happened in my life and things that I've gotten through
and just how you know, I mean things, I'm even
scared to say it right now. That's why I keep saying,
like I want I'm trying to figure out if this
is trauma. I'm scared to say when I look at
how good things are right now, sometimes I'm just like
I'm scared to acknowledge it. I'm scared to talk about it,
(07:00):
get to lean into it because I don't want anything
to jeopardize it, like at all. So I just I
enjoy it and I live it like I experience it
in real life and I'm in it and I'm experiencing
the joy in real life, like I'm not running from that.
But like I don't even like talking about it sometimes
because I'm like, y'all, what if I'm gonna wake up
(07:21):
to myrow this is all gonna be different? Like I
am so used to fighting to survive that, Like, I
am really trying to like talk myself into being okay
with now living and not surviving. So when my pastor
said this today, not every opportunity to increase is God's
will for you, it really put me at ease a bit.
(07:42):
There's a lot of decisions that I'm making, you know,
personally on a day to day where sometimes you feel like,
you know, if you walk away from something or if
you you know, not even just walk away, but if
certain things are not even presented to you because and
you feel like you should be getting them, that it's
going to change that trajectory that you're on. It's gonna
take away from that happiness or that life is good
(08:06):
feeling that you're on. And when he said that today,
I was like, that was God talking to me about
not making decisions and worry and fret and a scarcity.
You know, I fight or flight mole like I've always
been having to do, like especially career wise, but just
knowing and resting in what I feel and what my
(08:28):
gut is telling me to do and doing it and
being okay with it. So I really, you know, if
you guys are looking to go and hear that sermon
and hear some of it going over sees the Greatness
three or two sees the Greatness Church on YouTube and
take a list to the passage Jerome Lewis. The sermon
(08:50):
was Wednesday to Lie fifteenth. It was the personal development class.
I don't know I was that has been sitting on me,
so I wanted to share with you guys. And now
we can get on into the Latest because speaking of
making decisions, jay Z made a decision with that Yankee
(09:11):
Stadium show Sunday night, the last show, the Extra Inning show.
He decided to not start the show until as many
people as possible were able to get into the stadium.
After thousands of fans rushed the doors, a lot of
them without tickets, you know, people that just were there
(09:33):
trying to see the sights and got into the show
for free, but pushed the show back three to four hours.
We didn't leave that show until two thirty three am
in the morning. And there has been some conversations, I mean,
even here in the Latest with Lona Rosa. We've been
trying to figure out was jay Z going to be
fine for this because normally there's noise ordinances in the city,
(09:56):
so you know, like certain noises can't go past a
certain time, and that's why concerts and at a certain
time stadium, you know, events and at certain times, and
y'all know how that goes, like clubs shut down at
a certain time, especially because Yankee Stadium is in a
residential areas in the Bronx, like you walk across the street,
his houses, its people, you know. But I was actually
(10:18):
told officially by a rep for the Yankee Stadium that
there has been no agency that has reached out to
Yankee Stadium about any fines or penalties for the amount
of time that that show went over its original ending
time on Sunday, July twelfth, So we can put this
to rest. I've been seeing a lot of reporting around
(10:40):
like people honestly are just doing reports right now asking
the question, will he even be fine? I saw some
loose reporting that there was no fines earlier in the
week after the show happened. But now I can officially
tell you, guys, according to reps at Yankee Stadium, as
of right now, no, and probably won't happen now. I
(11:01):
did follow back up or circle back to that rep
that I was speaking to to asks why just to
you know, clarify what I'd been able to find just
in my research on Google, because according to Google, you know,
New York City doesn't set a hard legal stop time,
but outdoor events at the stadium Yankee Stadium are generally
(11:24):
expected to wrap up by or just before midnight. Now
mind you guys, Friday and Saturday night with jay Z's concerts,
he did that, so it's expected to wrap around or
before midnight out of courtesy to the surround the neighborhood. Because
I told y'all, like Yankee Stadium for those of you
guys who've never been here to New York or have
never been to Bronx, where Yankee Stadium is in a
(11:46):
solid stadium and where it sits tons of houses a
residential area around the stadium. However, there was an exception
obviously made for this concert. So what I'm trying to
get more information on is how that exception was communicated
to jay Z. We know that they were dealing with
deser Ray Perez, who is you know, one of the
(12:09):
lead CEOs of Rock Nation. I told you guys the story,
and go back and listen to a previous episode about
Deav's literally being outside on the ground and being the
person that was leading the charge a lot in working
with NYPD Brass, which is the Yankee Stadium's highest level
of security, to get everybody in as many people as
(12:29):
they could to keep everybody safe. So yeah, as of
right now, that that is the official report. There are
some reports too by Billboard right now that jay Z's
Reasonable Doubt and Blueprint albums have seen an immense increase
in streams following these shows, and I'm sure it's because
(12:52):
you know, everybody's listening to it getting ready. According to Lumine,
which is a portfolio that does a lot of the
like New Merrick data collection across music platforms, they're saying
that Reasonable Doubt, which was jay Z's debut album, it's
up ninety four percent, putting it at two point zero
seventy five million official streams over the first four days
(13:15):
of that weekend that he did so, from July tenth
to July thirteenth, the streams for a Reasonable Doubt jumped
ninety four percent. Now, according to Billboard and lumin It,
they're saying that this accounts for all three sold out
nights of jay z Yankee Stadium. And of course we
know that he dedicated. Each night did something different. So
(13:36):
the first night was dedicated to reasonable doubt, second night
was dedicated to the blueprint, the third night was extra
in it. So you got a little bit of both
and a little bit of things that had nothing to
do with either. Too. Now for the Blueprint, according to Luminant,
as reported by Billboard, they're saying that the week of
July tenth through thirteenth, or that weekend, which was jay
(13:57):
Z weekend here in New York, streams catapulted. They went crazy.
They went up one hundred and eighteen percent, So that
is over two point four million official streams in three days.
And my job, jay Z still has shows in Paris, London,
in LA So more music is going to go crazy.
(14:19):
There's gonna be a lot more news to come from
all of this, because I think the fact that Beyonce
dropped that Morning Dude Dunk song officially on July fourth,
and hit the stage with jay Z twice during this
past weekend in New York, and they're headed to Paris,
which is a very special place for them. They talk about,
you know, how Blue Ivy was conceived, and you know
(14:42):
all these things, right, I don't know. I think We're
about to see something with them, potentially, that's my prediction.
She's celebrating twenty five years of B Day, which was,
you know, one of her legacy albums. He's celebrating thirty
years of Reasonable Without, twenty five years of the Blue.
I think something to cooking, y'all. A cooking Who I
(15:04):
sound like a country aunt? A cooking ya. I am
exhausted by the day off, y'all cannot tell like I
literally barely have a voice. I have not yet to
even recover from the freaking Yankee Stadium shows. Okay, now
that has been another episode of the Latest with Lauren
the Rosa, the podcast. I wanted to just bring you
(15:24):
guys that quick update. Y'all know, I get y'all things
first because the Latest, the podcast, the Low Riders, y'all
are so important to me. Make sure I'm hearing from
you guys on a line. Okay, I'm Laura the Rosa.
Everywhere l O R E N l O R O
s A get outside in the streets, in the tweets
(15:44):
for the outside, we outside, we outside every other. I
saw a video going viral from Yankee Stadium of days
outside of the concert manning look man in the ground,
like I told y'all, but I also saw a lot
of on the ground reporters out there as well too,
(16:06):
reporting things, doing different interviews with people because everybody was
stuck outside. Celebrities, journalists, people just there for the concert.
Everybody was stuck outside. And I think that's why we're
getting so much content still. I mean, what we are
now almost two to three days out from the concert,
and still we're getting so much content from it. I
(16:27):
think that's why. Because you had a ton of people,
we had hours, we had time. I saw Gail King
talk about how late she was to work that day.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Thousands of fans had to wait for hours for the
show to start last night because people bum rushed the
door very bad, but the excitement stayed very high during
the delay. I de scided, you know, I would check
in with other concert goers to see what they were thinking.
Very close to midnight.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Why are we still here?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I wish if I knew, I would tell you I
could off what I have.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Okay, Shemira, is this show gonna happen?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
And he said, heaven they had? I had, man, We've
been waiting out here for hours.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
We got the beautiful.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Surround on the audience, hoties, people in your hands, you
don't tasty.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Even just ready to go starting night and you say, what.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Right here, I've been waiting all day. It's gonna happen.
It's now eleven thirty eight.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Yes, okay, what are you thinking? I'm just saying this history.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yeah, I've got to look at it the positive everything, and.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
This is history. This is so legendary. There's so much love.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Everybody want to come see this show?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
This is the third night. Did you come back? I
seen you last night? Right, yes, I was here last night.
Energy last night. Yes, I got cooked on jay Z
because of will you know that song? Gave me that sweet,
that gooscy stuff. He was playing it at nine. I go,
what are you listening to? You can't listen to that?
Fast forward to me and Will Diamond's up give me that.
Me and Will side by side. Will knows every song
(17:55):
he said, go into the concert made him feel like
he was in middle school. Will is lovely wife, look
at that please? And Kirby's best friend Erica. Then Officer
Smith was someone who was escorting me around when we
were walking through the venue, and I said, I can't
believe that I'm still here. Either either were uh dedicated
or crazy, he goes, but maybe you're a little bit
of both. I think that's true. A lot of famous
(18:16):
people in the crowd yesterday that showed up because they
wanted to support jay Z. Look, there's Carl Anthony town
Tatum's partner, Camille, Okay.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
That one.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
There's Travis Travis Scott. It was but Pete were dragging
me or ragging on me saying Gail, no. Not everybody
had a good time. Some people left early, very few
people Alvin Patrick.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Talking to Alvin Patrick, who works here at CBS, got
very few people left early.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Most people stayed because you're thinking, you've invested all this time,
and you kept hearing he's coming, he's coming, He's coming.
What time did you did you say? I'm embarrassed to
tell you.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Yeah, it's the ladyest y'all. I tell y'all every single episode,
y'all could be any where with anybody talking about all
of these things. But the fact that y'all choose to
be right here with me, my lowriders, y'all know, I
appreciate it. I'll catch you guys in my next episode.
I mighta get some rest. Finally, I'm gonna get some rest.
I'll be back tomorrow. We'll get into some other things.
(19:16):
I appreciate y'all.
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