October 2, 2026 • 22 mins
Loren LoRosa loves a good underdog story, and this time Yung Miami has her attention. After facing heavy criticism while finding her sound as a solo artist, Yung Miami is opening up about the pressure, self-doubt, depression, and determination behind her upcoming album—and how she kept pushing even when it felt like the whole world was against her.
Loren gets into Yung Miami’s journey from the backlash surrounding her earlier releases to finding new momentum with “Spin That,” while also reflecting on what it’s like to build, grow, and perfect your craft in front of the world. Plus, Loren gets personal about criticism, imposter syndrome, empathy, and learning how to keep going when everybody has an opinion.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's get, let's get, let's get to it, time to
do it.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody. You hear that exclusive? You know she don't
lie about that, right? Lauren came in hot. Hey, y'all,
what's up? It's Lauren LaRosa, and this is another episode
of The Latest with Lauren LaRosa. This is your daily
dig on all things pop culture, entertainment news, and all
of the conversations that shake the room, baby. Now, y'all
(00:24):
know we always kick off The Latest with Lauren LaRosa
with the behind the scenes of the grind check-in. And
that is the segment where we really, really check in
while on the grind. I don't know about y'all, but
I dang sure don't stop to check in on myself.
I will literally burn myself to the ground. Well, the
old me would have burnt myself to the ground. Actually,
I have physically burnt myself down to the ground to
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the point where I was fainting in the club, y'all.
So I built this segment into the podcast because since
it's just me and y'all, I figured why not start
checking in on myself and making that a habit and
you guys holding me accountable.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
So.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Let's get on into behind the scenes of The Grind.
Let's do it.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Back on The Grind.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
It is Friday. Finally. How am I feeling? I'm, you know,
getting to the end of the week is always a
joy for me. I don't think I am still used
to getting up early in the morning, which is crazy because...
I didn't just start getting up in the morning early
for breakfast club. When I worked at TMZ, we worked
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on New York time because that's just how a lot
of like businesses and especially news here in the U.S. works.
A lot of the clocks and everything are set by
New York. A lot of the print and newspapers print
at a certain time and, you know, things are based
off of New York. So I would have to be
up and on my way to work in L.A. around
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like 5 a.m. My first meeting what happened at 6 a.m.
at TMZ. So you guys ever watch TMZ and, you know,
that Circle Up show? So there's two shows. There's the
daytime show where people are just sitting at their desk
and like they're talking one-on-one straight to the camera. And
then Harvey and Charles are on this like elevated platform.
And then there's a second show where everybody in the
(02:06):
room is all in one big circle. So that everybody
in the room, one big circle show is based off
of the actual meetings, producer meetings that we had every morning.
So at 6 a.m., Or, like, 5... I would try to,
you know, need to get there by, like, 5.30. At
5.30 a.m., you would get there, and that was, like,
your actual clock in time. If you were later than that,
you were late for work. Because if you come in
(02:27):
late and that meeting started, baby, you get the dirtiest
looks of the dirtiest look. Okay? But, yeah, you would
get there around 5.15, 5.30, and you would just search
the Internet. And a lot... Searching the Internet more so,
to be honest with you guys, was more about what
was trending that morning. For the most part, you would
be watching... just headlines and blogs and Twitter and, you know,
(02:52):
however news was coming your way the day before. So
as soon as you leave work, you would be, you know,
keeping up with things until, you know, time to go
to bed, wake up the next morning and go back
into work. So that morning, you know, internet surge and
was trending across X or Google or wherever. It's just
to know what happened kind of while you were sleeping.
We would make our list and then we would go
(03:12):
into the producer meetings and everybody would go around and
talk about, you know, what stories they were working on
for the day. what angles they were coming from. You know,
if I could help you figure out your pitch, you
help me figure out my pitch as far as, like,
different angles or different resources we needed to break a story,
we would do that. Breakfast Club is a bit different, though.
Coming in in the morning, it's like you already have
everybody else, like, you know, Jess, Envy, Char, they're on air,
(03:34):
top of the show. The producers are cutting audio. We
do a lot of our reconvening the night before, me
and the producers that I work with on the latest
with Lauren LaRosa within the Breakfast Club. Um, but the
timing is still, and we talk a lot throughout the
day too, but the timing is still early for me.
And I told myself that even though I am not
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really a morning person, I've, it's like God wants me
to be his strongest morning soldier. Okay. I don't know
what it is about me getting these morning jobs, but
I keep getting them. So I think that it's, you know,
it's in preparation for something. Um, So I'm just learning
to get up in the mornings. But Fridays are always
my favorite days and weekends are always my favorite when
I'm not ripping and running too crazy because you get
(04:18):
to sleep. At this era of my life, I am working,
I am sleeping, and if I am outside enjoying my
time and reclaiming my time, it is planned and it
has to be worth it. I don't know if that's
an age thing or if that is a because I
get up so early in the morning for work thing,
but whatever it is, that is where I am at.
I also realized, too, like behind the scenes this week,
(04:40):
I've been thinking a lot about the fact that me
and my friends, like, we're really, like, y'all, we are adults, right?
I'm 34 years old and every now and then it
hits me like you are a real adult. Like this
thing is here, baby girl. It is happening. One of
my friends, his girlfriend, she's a dermatologist, black woman dermatologist.
(05:05):
Shout out to my girl, Jabria Dreams. She's working down
in Georgia. But yeah, I FaceTimed her the other day.
She had one of her like student assistants with her. And,
you know, I know her as Jabria and I know
she's a doctor, but it's different seeing people at work
and then seeing how other people see them as well.
(05:27):
So they were having conversations about how they all start
their day before work. And, you know, Jabria and Dr.
James and the rest of her team are talking about
different songs and motivational songs and things they listen to
on their way in. And one of her medical assistants
was like, you know what? I listened to the latest
with Lauren La Rosa on my way in to work.
(05:48):
It motivates me because of her story. It keeps me going.
But also like she's filling me in on what's going
on as well, too, and give me like real good
background context. So my one of my guy best friends,
like a brother to me, this is his girlfriend who
is Dr.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
James.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
And she had asked him if I could FaceTime and
just talk to the student for a little bit. Because, man,
medical school in any sort of way ain't no joke.
That girl was in school forever. And he will be
in school for some time, too. So just something to
keep him motivated. So I FaceTimed and I'm talking to
him and he says something, something, something, Dr.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
James.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
And it hit me. I'm like, oh, shoot. Like the
way that I look at doctors, like my doctors, they
got a friend or a homegirl that look at them
as like, girl, that's crazy. You really somebody doctor. The
cycle of life is insane. Like, we are really grown
adults with all this responsibility right now. And I think,
if I'm being completely honest with myself, I always known
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that I was going to have a big old, serious
old job. But when you get to certain ages, it
doesn't feel like what you imagined it to feel like.
I thought by 34 years old, I was going to
be married. I was going to have kids. I was
going to be living in a home that I owned.
And I just pictured my life being... I have a
lot of responsibility. I was going to say having a
(07:05):
lot of responsibility, but I do have a lot of responsibility.
I pictured my life older when I was younger thinking
about the age I am now. But now in that age,
I feel so young. Like I feel like I am
barely scratching the surface of so many things. Like even
the thought of having children, I know I'm going to
do it, want to do it, you know, being married,
(07:28):
going to happen and all of this, you know, soon,
relatively soon. But, like, even a thought of that, sometimes
I'm like, I'm really going to be somebody's mama. Like,
I just wonder if that feeling ever goes away. Do
you ever? I'm always trying to figure out when am
I going to get over that hump of, dang, I'm
(07:50):
really the new adult too. No, I'm the adult here.
You know how your parents used to be like, I'm
the adult in this house. I brought you in this world.
I'll take you out. I don't know if y'all parents
told y'all that, but my mom used to always be like,
this is my house. You can get out. I brought
you in this world. I'll take you out of it. Like,
I'm the adult in this house. I wonder when my
I'm the adult in this house is going to kick in. Like,
is that something that only happens once you get to your, like, dang,
(08:13):
I got all these babies in this house stage? Y'all
let me know. Find me on social and let me know.
When did your.
Feeling of being an adult go from oh my god
i'm really an adult to i'm the only adult in
this house i'm lorna rosa everywhere l-o-r-e-n l-o-r-o-s-a let's talk
about growing and mature and realizing that like you are
(08:37):
grown and did that sink in ladies i would love
to know like is that something that sinks in once
you get to that like maternal point in your life
where like the babies are here And that maternal instinct
kicks in. Fellas, for you, did it kick in when
you were responsible for a family? When you became a husband? Or,
you know, was it a certain job? Like, when does
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that shift? Is shift even a real thing? Because older people,
like my grandmother, talks to me about feeling old and
being old. So there's a shift that happens somewhere. What
is that shift? Let's get on into the latest. Speaking
of shifts, Young Miami. I love a good underdog story, baby.
But let me tell y'all something. It's weird because I
(09:20):
feel so, I relate so much to Young Miami's come
up story and not having to convince people, but having
to remind herself of who she was so that the
world felt it too story. But I don't think of
her as an underdog. I never thought of Young Miami
as an underdog, but I do know that the people
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was on her. I do that. I know that for
a fact, like, They throw every which and word at
Young Miami and the City Girls when they were together
as a group, her and JT. People just love to,
when you up and you moving, people love to throw
things your way. But there have been a few records
that she released since telling us she was coming with
her debut album. Now, one of the, there was, there's
(10:02):
actually three. It was Newsflash, which is where she talks about,
you know, just being the center of media and conversation
and headlines. There was T-Time, which is when you see
the two fingers, clock it, that had that hook on it.
Those two songs were not revered well by her audience
and by the masses. They weren't. But she then fought back, okay?
(10:22):
And that's why I love this story. I do think, though,
that being a solo artist and having to find your
sound outside of a group is a process. And we're
learning in real time and in front of the world,
a lot of us that are doing things on these platforms.
You know, you're putting your art out there and your
creativity out there for people to have conversation about. It
is not the easiest thing. So she talks about that
whole experience and, you know, the people coming for her
(10:44):
and changing their minds, baby, with Spin That and that
becoming a song of the summer. Let's take a listen.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
If Complex were to do a list of where all
the female rappers rate, Carisha, you would be last on
the list.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Young Miami put out a snippet of a song, and
the fans are not loving it. I just left the studio.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
It's 6.30, 7 a.m.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
These last few days ain't been good for me.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I had a mental breakdown. The other day, I was
dropping my son off.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
He said, you okay, Mommy?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I said, y'all have a depress. That moment right there.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
My son seeing me hurt, I said, this is going
to be my last time I'm crying. It took me
two years to make this album. I don't know how
some days I built the courage to go in the
studio to even record a song, but I remember putting
all of my emotions into this album. I remember crying,
questioning myself. Even when I felt like it was the
whole world versus me, I ain't let none of that
s * * * stop me. I ain't let nothing
get in my way.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Love it. Love it. Y'all hear me in the trailer.
They did use a clip from The Breakfast Club where
we were talking about the Clock It record. Let's take
a listen to that full segment, actually. Let's take a listen.
The people want the City Girls back. Young Miami put
out a snippet of a song and the fans are
not loving it. Let's take a listen to the snippet
of the song.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
You know it's tea when you see them two fingers touching.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
I'm just some real fine s * * *.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Are you?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Let's get it to 17. How do you judge that?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
It sounds like somebody recorded it off a phone or something.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
She was on the live.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
She was on the live. And she previewed it for Santana.
But is that the only snippet? I mean, the beat
didn't drop yet. We didn't get into a verse or nothing.
That's all we got. That's all she posted. Now, she
did go live following this because the comments got crazy. Like, people,
once blogs picked this up, people were in the comments
and on X. There was one person I saw that
told her go get her CDLs, like, to give it up.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
So.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Don't play with Young Miami. Don't laugh at Young Miami.
I know she's listening. Good morning, Young Miami. Don't play
with Young Miami. Don't play with Young Miami. Don't drive trucks, man.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Goddamn.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
That's dumb. They was on her body, y'all.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Damn.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
That bad. Leave Young Miami alone.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
It was bad.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
But they love to poke at Young Miami and her
rap abilities, right?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Leave Carisha alone.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
But she went live and she responded because it was
on her so bad. Let's take a listen to her response.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I've been seeing all y'all videos.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
And the thing about it is what's gagging me the
most about this whole thing is it's like y'all just
literally y'all didn't hear the whole song. Like y'all literally
got me so hyped and a good hype.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I'm not mad. I'm literally like laughing with y'all.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Like I be keen with y'all.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
But y'all got me so hyped. Like I'm so excited
because it's like... I'm really coming.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I'm going to f * * * what y'all talking about.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
I'm going to f * * * what y'all talking
about in the comments. I'm going to f * * *
what y'all talking about on Twitter.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I'm going to f * * * what.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Y'all talking about on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
When I drop my f * * * ing tape,
y'all f * * * ing want to.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Owe me a pie.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
No, y'all, because the people were coming for her. Like,
go get your CDLs. It's crazy. But I'm going to
tell y'all something right now. As a person that gets
a lot of... I get both sides of the coin. Like,
there are a lot of people who support me. who,
you know, love to see me figuring things out and
finding my way and all of this. And there are
a lot of people who are very critical of me.
Every um, every ah, every, you know... For some reason,
(13:57):
when my mind is going and I'm thinking too much, I, mm, or, uh, uh,
a lot.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Or I.
Shoot.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
There were some days I was coming in here and
I was stumbling through my words just trying to get
through because my mind is all over the place and
I'm thinking about people and the pressure. And if I'm
getting it right and if I'm doing it right, does
the room like the story? Is this even the right
story to be doing? It's a lot that goes into
perfecting your craft and it's a lot that goes into
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it pressure-wise when you're doing it in front of the world.
So I feel her. And I've always... big city girl
fan over here I've always revered their resilience because I
know what it's like you know coming from like really
trying to figure something out like they they come from
literally building their lives like the lives that they're living
right now they've built from nothing I totally understand that
(14:49):
I love an underdog story even though weirdly enough I
don't look at them as underdogs because I feel like
they're here they've been here like a lot of the
the words that we say the period you know, not
a woman's menstrual cycle, but you know, we'd be like, yep, girl, period.
That's the city girls, like their lingo, their influence. It's
here and has been for some time, but I don't
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know what it is about when you are, you know,
at the top of things and having to figure it out.
People don't give you the same grace that they give
you while you coming up and while you building. And
even then people are critical, but I think it gets
even worse once you've already acclaimed some success. And I
think a lot of it is like, I think the
race to, not even the finish line, because once you
(15:31):
get to that end-all, be-all goal, there's always more to do.
But the race to getting over that hump or over
that hill where you feel like you're smooth sailing, it
can feel so bumpy at times. It definitely can feel
bumpy at times. And it can feel like people are
supporting you on your way up, and once you're there,
they want you to come on down. But It's a race.
(15:54):
And honestly, I look at it now that I'm building
something publicly on a major platform. I understand that it's
a marathon. Like, I totally understand what Nipsey Hussle meant
when he said that. And what I'm hearing through Young
Miami in this trailer for Watch This. And, you know,
I know she has her song. F you coming out
(16:17):
this Friday, October 2nd. What I'm hearing is that you like,
she took everything that was being thrown at her and
use it to kind of make her stronger, but she
didn't run away from what she was feeling. Like she
didn't run away from the fact that she was feeling depressed,
that she was, you know, that there was a little
bit of an imposter syndrome and like, am I even
good enough? And y'all know, I talked to y'all a
lot about that here on the latest with Lauren La
(16:38):
Rosa and the crazy feeling of experiencing that at a
time where you know, you, like, I've always felt like
imposter syndrome was something I conquered a long time ago.
But having to reconquer it differently and so publicly has
been a journey. And that's why I talk about it
out loud because I think a lot of people want
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people to feel like that just doesn't happen and that's
not true. And y'all know what else I learned from
this Young Miami situation too? Like, watching this trailer, it
really made, like, oh my God, it really made me
think about platform and the use of it and because
I mean look and what we do and what I
do you do have to be honest about certain things
(17:20):
like I didn't the tea time record I was like
okay I love city girls I'm down for the movement
but like this ain't it the newsflash record I listened
to it but honestly it didn't have replay value spin
that The first time I heard it, I was like, okay,
this is a vibe. But I don't even think I
really understood it. I went out with my homegirls. Not
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even that I didn't understand it, but it didn't hit
me yet. You know how sometimes you need to go
out to the club, you need to really live it
in real life, like really feel it in real life?
I went out one weekend when my friends came to
New York. We played Spin That all weekend. And I
was like, yes, like this, like you need, as a girl, you,
the lady's going to know what I'm saying. I mean,
(18:00):
even fellas, like there are certain records that like when
you play them, the life experience coupled with it makes
a song even better. But like being out running around
in the summertime, seeing what the song was doing, really
getting a chance to feel it, helped. But it was
also a really great record. Like, the hook, you know,
it was melodic. It was all the things it was
supposed to be to just be fun and make you
(18:20):
think of a good time, but, you know, make you
think of, like, all the things you want to do. Like,
who don't just want to go buy a Goyard bag?
And that's what I think the city girls have been
best at is like creating this lifestyle culture movement of
young girls who were just, you know, living these aspirational lives.
And what's not what they don't have. They talk about
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it in a way that makes you like them. I
wish I could talk about it like that. I wish
I could say that. But it also made me think about, though,
you know, having to critique somebody and talk about the
things that you don't like where my empathy comes in.
Because I know what it's like to be talked about
and be talked about to a point where you're like, yo,
I just want to see you. Like, pull up. Like,
(19:03):
what's up? And we didn't do that. We didn't do that.
But I'm just thinking about the fact that, like, in
real life, she's driving in the car with her son,
potentially listening to The Breakfast Club, going through depression. And
then she's hearing us then talk about her and add
it on to that. And I never want to be
the person that's burdening somebody in that way. Like, it's
(19:24):
finding the balance of, like, empathy and honesty charlamagne actually
just talked about this on a pivot and i thought
that that was like a really good point um takeaway
point and a pillar point for me as i grow
in my career you know of talking about people and
talking to people at the same time let's take a
listen to him on the.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Pivot the good stuff that bad stuff people cuss you
out tell you stupid and all that stuff but the
good stuff too a lot of people do enjoy the
encouragement and enjoy the upping of themselves That don't do
nothing for you?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Nah, man.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
My daddy instilled in me a long time ago, you're
never as good as they say you are and you're
never as bad as they say you are. And I
always just operate in that space. And a great mentor
of mine in radio, his name is Cadillac Jack, he
always told me about the rule of ten. He said
out of ten people, three people are going to like it,
Three people are not going to like it. Four people
don't even know what the hell is going on. And
(20:13):
that's just literally how I carry it. I don't get
too high off the praise. I definitely don't get too
low off the booze. It's just like I just stay
like this. That's another reason I don't like to feed
off social media so much because social media is that
crowd thing. that will gas you up, you know? And
it'll make you feel like you have to comment on everything.
(20:35):
You ever see people starting videos? You know, all of
y'all been waiting, all of y'all been asking my opinion
on this. Ain't nobody ask you nothing. You just wanted
to give your opinion, and that's fine.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
But don't start it off like that.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
You know, a lot of people been hitting me up.
Nobody hits you up about nothing. But the internet will
make you feel like you got to have an opinion
about everything. That's why so many... half-baked ideas out there.
That's why so many things that if people had any
real integrity, they probably would walk back because they realize, like, oh, shoot,
I was wrong about that. Nobody ever admits when they wrong.
(21:09):
I've admitted publicly when I'm wrong a million times. I've
apologized to people on the air a million times when
I feel like I got it wrong. You don't ever
see anybody do that that much.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Like I was saying... Girl, keep going. I know it's rough, though.
I literally have been there. I go in and out
of there. I'm a frequent visitor of there, of that place.
Keep talking about it. Keep writing things down while you're
in it. Recording yourself while you're in it so that
you can look back on and remember the feeling of
(21:42):
being in it so you know what you never want
to get back to again. You got this, though. We
all going to be out here spinning that and shaking
that when the music drop. This has been another episode
of The Latest with Lauren LaRosa. I tell you guys,
every single episode, y'all could be anywhere with any old body,
but you guys choose to be right here with me,
my lowriders. I appreciate y'all, and I'll catch you in
my next one.
Let's get, let's get, let's get to it, time to
do it.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody. You hear that exclusive? You know she don't
lie about that, right? Lauren came in hot. Hey, y'all,
what's up? It's Lauren LaRosa, and this is another episode
of The Latest with Lauren LaRosa. This is your daily
dig on all things pop culture, entertainment news, and all
of the conversations that shake the room, baby. Now, y'all
(00:24):
know we always kick off The Latest with Lauren LaRosa
with the behind the scenes of the grind check-in. And
that is the segment where we really, really check in
while on the grind. I don't know about y'all, but
I dang sure don't stop to check in on myself.
I will literally burn myself to the ground. Well, the
old me would have burnt myself to the ground. Actually,
I have physically burnt myself down to the ground to
(00:44):
the point where I was fainting in the club, y'all.
So I built this segment into the podcast because since
it's just me and y'all, I figured why not start
checking in on myself and making that a habit and
you guys holding me accountable.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
So.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Let's get on into behind the scenes of The Grind.
Let's do it.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Back on The Grind.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
It is Friday. Finally. How am I feeling? I'm, you know,
getting to the end of the week is always a
joy for me. I don't think I am still used
to getting up early in the morning, which is crazy because...
I didn't just start getting up in the morning early
for breakfast club. When I worked at TMZ, we worked
(01:24):
on New York time because that's just how a lot
of like businesses and especially news here in the U.S. works.
A lot of the clocks and everything are set by
New York. A lot of the print and newspapers print
at a certain time and, you know, things are based
off of New York. So I would have to be
up and on my way to work in L.A. around
(01:45):
like 5 a.m. My first meeting what happened at 6 a.m.
at TMZ. So you guys ever watch TMZ and, you know,
that Circle Up show? So there's two shows. There's the
daytime show where people are just sitting at their desk
and like they're talking one-on-one straight to the camera. And
then Harvey and Charles are on this like elevated platform.
And then there's a second show where everybody in the
(02:06):
room is all in one big circle. So that everybody
in the room, one big circle show is based off
of the actual meetings, producer meetings that we had every morning.
So at 6 a.m., Or, like, 5... I would try to,
you know, need to get there by, like, 5.30. At
5.30 a.m., you would get there, and that was, like,
your actual clock in time. If you were later than that,
you were late for work. Because if you come in
(02:27):
late and that meeting started, baby, you get the dirtiest
looks of the dirtiest look. Okay? But, yeah, you would
get there around 5.15, 5.30, and you would just search
the Internet. And a lot... Searching the Internet more so,
to be honest with you guys, was more about what
was trending that morning. For the most part, you would
be watching... just headlines and blogs and Twitter and, you know,
(02:52):
however news was coming your way the day before. So
as soon as you leave work, you would be, you know,
keeping up with things until, you know, time to go
to bed, wake up the next morning and go back
into work. So that morning, you know, internet surge and
was trending across X or Google or wherever. It's just
to know what happened kind of while you were sleeping.
We would make our list and then we would go
(03:12):
into the producer meetings and everybody would go around and
talk about, you know, what stories they were working on
for the day. what angles they were coming from. You know,
if I could help you figure out your pitch, you
help me figure out my pitch as far as, like,
different angles or different resources we needed to break a story,
we would do that. Breakfast Club is a bit different, though.
Coming in in the morning, it's like you already have
everybody else, like, you know, Jess, Envy, Char, they're on air,
(03:34):
top of the show. The producers are cutting audio. We
do a lot of our reconvening the night before, me
and the producers that I work with on the latest
with Lauren LaRosa within the Breakfast Club. Um, but the
timing is still, and we talk a lot throughout the
day too, but the timing is still early for me.
And I told myself that even though I am not
(03:54):
really a morning person, I've, it's like God wants me
to be his strongest morning soldier. Okay. I don't know
what it is about me getting these morning jobs, but
I keep getting them. So I think that it's, you know,
it's in preparation for something. Um, So I'm just learning
to get up in the mornings. But Fridays are always
my favorite days and weekends are always my favorite when
I'm not ripping and running too crazy because you get
(04:18):
to sleep. At this era of my life, I am working,
I am sleeping, and if I am outside enjoying my
time and reclaiming my time, it is planned and it
has to be worth it. I don't know if that's
an age thing or if that is a because I
get up so early in the morning for work thing,
but whatever it is, that is where I am at.
I also realized, too, like behind the scenes this week,
(04:40):
I've been thinking a lot about the fact that me
and my friends, like, we're really, like, y'all, we are adults, right?
I'm 34 years old and every now and then it
hits me like you are a real adult. Like this
thing is here, baby girl. It is happening. One of
my friends, his girlfriend, she's a dermatologist, black woman dermatologist.
(05:05):
Shout out to my girl, Jabria Dreams. She's working down
in Georgia. But yeah, I FaceTimed her the other day.
She had one of her like student assistants with her. And,
you know, I know her as Jabria and I know
she's a doctor, but it's different seeing people at work
and then seeing how other people see them as well.
(05:27):
So they were having conversations about how they all start
their day before work. And, you know, Jabria and Dr.
James and the rest of her team are talking about
different songs and motivational songs and things they listen to
on their way in. And one of her medical assistants
was like, you know what? I listened to the latest
with Lauren La Rosa on my way in to work.
(05:48):
It motivates me because of her story. It keeps me going.
But also like she's filling me in on what's going
on as well, too, and give me like real good
background context. So my one of my guy best friends,
like a brother to me, this is his girlfriend who
is Dr.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
James.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
And she had asked him if I could FaceTime and
just talk to the student for a little bit. Because, man,
medical school in any sort of way ain't no joke.
That girl was in school forever. And he will be
in school for some time, too. So just something to
keep him motivated. So I FaceTimed and I'm talking to
him and he says something, something, something, Dr.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
James.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
And it hit me. I'm like, oh, shoot. Like the
way that I look at doctors, like my doctors, they
got a friend or a homegirl that look at them
as like, girl, that's crazy. You really somebody doctor. The
cycle of life is insane. Like, we are really grown
adults with all this responsibility right now. And I think,
if I'm being completely honest with myself, I always known
(06:44):
that I was going to have a big old, serious
old job. But when you get to certain ages, it
doesn't feel like what you imagined it to feel like.
I thought by 34 years old, I was going to
be married. I was going to have kids. I was
going to be living in a home that I owned.
And I just pictured my life being... I have a
lot of responsibility. I was going to say having a
(07:05):
lot of responsibility, but I do have a lot of responsibility.
I pictured my life older when I was younger thinking
about the age I am now. But now in that age,
I feel so young. Like I feel like I am
barely scratching the surface of so many things. Like even
the thought of having children, I know I'm going to
do it, want to do it, you know, being married,
(07:28):
going to happen and all of this, you know, soon,
relatively soon. But, like, even a thought of that, sometimes
I'm like, I'm really going to be somebody's mama. Like,
I just wonder if that feeling ever goes away. Do
you ever? I'm always trying to figure out when am
I going to get over that hump of, dang, I'm
(07:50):
really the new adult too. No, I'm the adult here.
You know how your parents used to be like, I'm
the adult in this house. I brought you in this world.
I'll take you out. I don't know if y'all parents
told y'all that, but my mom used to always be like,
this is my house. You can get out. I brought
you in this world. I'll take you out of it. Like,
I'm the adult in this house. I wonder when my
I'm the adult in this house is going to kick in. Like,
is that something that only happens once you get to your, like, dang,
(08:13):
I got all these babies in this house stage? Y'all
let me know. Find me on social and let me know.
When did your.
Feeling of being an adult go from oh my god
i'm really an adult to i'm the only adult in
this house i'm lorna rosa everywhere l-o-r-e-n l-o-r-o-s-a let's talk
about growing and mature and realizing that like you are
(08:37):
grown and did that sink in ladies i would love
to know like is that something that sinks in once
you get to that like maternal point in your life
where like the babies are here And that maternal instinct
kicks in. Fellas, for you, did it kick in when
you were responsible for a family? When you became a husband? Or,
you know, was it a certain job? Like, when does
(08:57):
that shift? Is shift even a real thing? Because older people,
like my grandmother, talks to me about feeling old and
being old. So there's a shift that happens somewhere. What
is that shift? Let's get on into the latest. Speaking
of shifts, Young Miami. I love a good underdog story, baby.
But let me tell y'all something. It's weird because I
(09:20):
feel so, I relate so much to Young Miami's come
up story and not having to convince people, but having
to remind herself of who she was so that the
world felt it too story. But I don't think of
her as an underdog. I never thought of Young Miami
as an underdog, but I do know that the people
(09:40):
was on her. I do that. I know that for
a fact, like, They throw every which and word at
Young Miami and the City Girls when they were together
as a group, her and JT. People just love to,
when you up and you moving, people love to throw
things your way. But there have been a few records
that she released since telling us she was coming with
her debut album. Now, one of the, there was, there's
(10:02):
actually three. It was Newsflash, which is where she talks about,
you know, just being the center of media and conversation
and headlines. There was T-Time, which is when you see
the two fingers, clock it, that had that hook on it.
Those two songs were not revered well by her audience
and by the masses. They weren't. But she then fought back, okay?
(10:22):
And that's why I love this story. I do think, though,
that being a solo artist and having to find your
sound outside of a group is a process. And we're
learning in real time and in front of the world,
a lot of us that are doing things on these platforms.
You know, you're putting your art out there and your
creativity out there for people to have conversation about. It
is not the easiest thing. So she talks about that
whole experience and, you know, the people coming for her
(10:44):
and changing their minds, baby, with Spin That and that
becoming a song of the summer. Let's take a listen.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
If Complex were to do a list of where all
the female rappers rate, Carisha, you would be last on
the list.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Young Miami put out a snippet of a song, and
the fans are not loving it. I just left the studio.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
It's 6.30, 7 a.m.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
These last few days ain't been good for me.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I had a mental breakdown. The other day, I was
dropping my son off.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
He said, you okay, Mommy?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I said, y'all have a depress. That moment right there.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
My son seeing me hurt, I said, this is going
to be my last time I'm crying. It took me
two years to make this album. I don't know how
some days I built the courage to go in the
studio to even record a song, but I remember putting
all of my emotions into this album. I remember crying,
questioning myself. Even when I felt like it was the
whole world versus me, I ain't let none of that
s * * * stop me. I ain't let nothing
get in my way.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Love it. Love it. Y'all hear me in the trailer.
They did use a clip from The Breakfast Club where
we were talking about the Clock It record. Let's take
a listen to that full segment, actually. Let's take a listen.
The people want the City Girls back. Young Miami put
out a snippet of a song and the fans are
not loving it. Let's take a listen to the snippet
of the song.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
You know it's tea when you see them two fingers touching.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
I'm just some real fine s * * *.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Are you?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Let's get it to 17. How do you judge that?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
It sounds like somebody recorded it off a phone or something.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
She was on the live.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
She was on the live. And she previewed it for Santana.
But is that the only snippet? I mean, the beat
didn't drop yet. We didn't get into a verse or nothing.
That's all we got. That's all she posted. Now, she
did go live following this because the comments got crazy. Like, people,
once blogs picked this up, people were in the comments
and on X. There was one person I saw that
told her go get her CDLs, like, to give it up.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
So.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Don't play with Young Miami. Don't laugh at Young Miami.
I know she's listening. Good morning, Young Miami. Don't play
with Young Miami. Don't play with Young Miami. Don't drive trucks, man.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Goddamn.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
That's dumb. They was on her body, y'all.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Damn.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
That bad. Leave Young Miami alone.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
It was bad.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
But they love to poke at Young Miami and her
rap abilities, right?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Leave Carisha alone.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
But she went live and she responded because it was
on her so bad. Let's take a listen to her response.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I've been seeing all y'all videos.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
And the thing about it is what's gagging me the
most about this whole thing is it's like y'all just
literally y'all didn't hear the whole song. Like y'all literally
got me so hyped and a good hype.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I'm not mad. I'm literally like laughing with y'all.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Like I be keen with y'all.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
But y'all got me so hyped. Like I'm so excited
because it's like... I'm really coming.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I'm going to f * * * what y'all talking about.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
I'm going to f * * * what y'all talking
about in the comments. I'm going to f * * *
what y'all talking about on Twitter.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I'm going to f * * * what.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Y'all talking about on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
When I drop my f * * * ing tape,
y'all f * * * ing want to.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Owe me a pie.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
No, y'all, because the people were coming for her. Like,
go get your CDLs. It's crazy. But I'm going to
tell y'all something right now. As a person that gets
a lot of... I get both sides of the coin. Like,
there are a lot of people who support me. who,
you know, love to see me figuring things out and
finding my way and all of this. And there are
a lot of people who are very critical of me.
Every um, every ah, every, you know... For some reason,
(13:57):
when my mind is going and I'm thinking too much, I, mm, or, uh, uh,
a lot.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Or I.
Shoot.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
There were some days I was coming in here and
I was stumbling through my words just trying to get
through because my mind is all over the place and
I'm thinking about people and the pressure. And if I'm
getting it right and if I'm doing it right, does
the room like the story? Is this even the right
story to be doing? It's a lot that goes into
perfecting your craft and it's a lot that goes into
(14:28):
it pressure-wise when you're doing it in front of the world.
So I feel her. And I've always... big city girl
fan over here I've always revered their resilience because I
know what it's like you know coming from like really
trying to figure something out like they they come from
literally building their lives like the lives that they're living
right now they've built from nothing I totally understand that
(14:49):
I love an underdog story even though weirdly enough I
don't look at them as underdogs because I feel like
they're here they've been here like a lot of the
the words that we say the period you know, not
a woman's menstrual cycle, but you know, we'd be like, yep, girl, period.
That's the city girls, like their lingo, their influence. It's
here and has been for some time, but I don't
(15:11):
know what it is about when you are, you know,
at the top of things and having to figure it out.
People don't give you the same grace that they give
you while you coming up and while you building. And
even then people are critical, but I think it gets
even worse once you've already acclaimed some success. And I
think a lot of it is like, I think the
race to, not even the finish line, because once you
(15:31):
get to that end-all, be-all goal, there's always more to do.
But the race to getting over that hump or over
that hill where you feel like you're smooth sailing, it
can feel so bumpy at times. It definitely can feel
bumpy at times. And it can feel like people are
supporting you on your way up, and once you're there,
they want you to come on down. But It's a race.
(15:54):
And honestly, I look at it now that I'm building
something publicly on a major platform. I understand that it's
a marathon. Like, I totally understand what Nipsey Hussle meant
when he said that. And what I'm hearing through Young
Miami in this trailer for Watch This. And, you know,
I know she has her song. F you coming out
(16:17):
this Friday, October 2nd. What I'm hearing is that you like,
she took everything that was being thrown at her and
use it to kind of make her stronger, but she
didn't run away from what she was feeling. Like she
didn't run away from the fact that she was feeling depressed,
that she was, you know, that there was a little
bit of an imposter syndrome and like, am I even
good enough? And y'all know, I talked to y'all a
lot about that here on the latest with Lauren La
(16:38):
Rosa and the crazy feeling of experiencing that at a
time where you know, you, like, I've always felt like
imposter syndrome was something I conquered a long time ago.
But having to reconquer it differently and so publicly has
been a journey. And that's why I talk about it
out loud because I think a lot of people want
(16:58):
people to feel like that just doesn't happen and that's
not true. And y'all know what else I learned from
this Young Miami situation too? Like, watching this trailer, it
really made, like, oh my God, it really made me
think about platform and the use of it and because
I mean look and what we do and what I
do you do have to be honest about certain things
(17:20):
like I didn't the tea time record I was like
okay I love city girls I'm down for the movement
but like this ain't it the newsflash record I listened
to it but honestly it didn't have replay value spin
that The first time I heard it, I was like, okay,
this is a vibe. But I don't even think I
really understood it. I went out with my homegirls. Not
(17:40):
even that I didn't understand it, but it didn't hit
me yet. You know how sometimes you need to go
out to the club, you need to really live it
in real life, like really feel it in real life?
I went out one weekend when my friends came to
New York. We played Spin That all weekend. And I
was like, yes, like this, like you need, as a girl, you,
the lady's going to know what I'm saying. I mean,
(18:00):
even fellas, like there are certain records that like when
you play them, the life experience coupled with it makes
a song even better. But like being out running around
in the summertime, seeing what the song was doing, really
getting a chance to feel it, helped. But it was
also a really great record. Like, the hook, you know,
it was melodic. It was all the things it was
supposed to be to just be fun and make you
(18:20):
think of a good time, but, you know, make you
think of, like, all the things you want to do. Like,
who don't just want to go buy a Goyard bag?
And that's what I think the city girls have been
best at is like creating this lifestyle culture movement of
young girls who were just, you know, living these aspirational lives.
And what's not what they don't have. They talk about
(18:42):
it in a way that makes you like them. I
wish I could talk about it like that. I wish
I could say that. But it also made me think about, though,
you know, having to critique somebody and talk about the
things that you don't like where my empathy comes in.
Because I know what it's like to be talked about
and be talked about to a point where you're like, yo,
I just want to see you. Like, pull up. Like,
(19:03):
what's up? And we didn't do that. We didn't do that.
But I'm just thinking about the fact that, like, in
real life, she's driving in the car with her son,
potentially listening to The Breakfast Club, going through depression. And
then she's hearing us then talk about her and add
it on to that. And I never want to be
the person that's burdening somebody in that way. Like, it's
(19:24):
finding the balance of, like, empathy and honesty charlamagne actually
just talked about this on a pivot and i thought
that that was like a really good point um takeaway
point and a pillar point for me as i grow
in my career you know of talking about people and
talking to people at the same time let's take a
listen to him on the.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Pivot the good stuff that bad stuff people cuss you
out tell you stupid and all that stuff but the
good stuff too a lot of people do enjoy the
encouragement and enjoy the upping of themselves That don't do
nothing for you?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Nah, man.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
My daddy instilled in me a long time ago, you're
never as good as they say you are and you're
never as bad as they say you are. And I
always just operate in that space. And a great mentor
of mine in radio, his name is Cadillac Jack, he
always told me about the rule of ten. He said
out of ten people, three people are going to like it,
Three people are not going to like it. Four people
don't even know what the hell is going on. And
(20:13):
that's just literally how I carry it. I don't get
too high off the praise. I definitely don't get too
low off the booze. It's just like I just stay
like this. That's another reason I don't like to feed
off social media so much because social media is that
crowd thing. that will gas you up, you know? And
it'll make you feel like you have to comment on everything.
(20:35):
You ever see people starting videos? You know, all of
y'all been waiting, all of y'all been asking my opinion
on this. Ain't nobody ask you nothing. You just wanted
to give your opinion, and that's fine.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
But don't start it off like that.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
You know, a lot of people been hitting me up.
Nobody hits you up about nothing. But the internet will
make you feel like you got to have an opinion
about everything. That's why so many... half-baked ideas out there.
That's why so many things that if people had any
real integrity, they probably would walk back because they realize, like, oh, shoot,
I was wrong about that. Nobody ever admits when they wrong.
(21:09):
I've admitted publicly when I'm wrong a million times. I've
apologized to people on the air a million times when
I feel like I got it wrong. You don't ever
see anybody do that that much.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Like I was saying... Girl, keep going. I know it's rough, though.
I literally have been there. I go in and out
of there. I'm a frequent visitor of there, of that place.
Keep talking about it. Keep writing things down while you're
in it. Recording yourself while you're in it so that
you can look back on and remember the feeling of
(21:42):
being in it so you know what you never want
to get back to again. You got this, though. We
all going to be out here spinning that and shaking
that when the music drop. This has been another episode
of The Latest with Lauren LaRosa. I tell you guys,
every single episode, y'all could be anywhere with any old body,
but you guys choose to be right here with me,
my lowriders. I appreciate y'all, and I'll catch you in
my next one.
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