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Speaker 1: and this is the latest with Lauren Rosa. This is

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Speaker 1: your deliding on all things pop culture, entertainment, news, and

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Speaker 1: all of the conversations that shake the room. Baby. Now

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Speaker 1: today we are checking in behind the Grind. I literally

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Speaker 1: an interview for that. And now my roles are turning about,

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Speaker 1: the scenes of the Grind, my low riders, how y'all doing,

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Speaker 1: how y'all feeling what's going on out there? I know

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Speaker 1: the podcast and the latest can be just that, because

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Speaker 1: today we are talking about all good news the left.

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Speaker 1: Get on into the latest. So I just actually got

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Speaker 1: off the phone with Tyler Perry's rep, So Chantal, who

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Speaker 1: local out of Atlanta that Tyler Perry's team in the

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Speaker 1: not at hereby by Tyler Perry and you know, wolves

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Speaker 1: just around getting monetary things to TFA agents. Now, I

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Speaker 1: the weekend, Tyler Perry and team went to the Atlanta

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Speaker 1: refresh memory. About a week ago, Tyler Perry's team went

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Speaker 1: some retroactive paychecks. But from the report that I've seen,

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Speaker 1: there now. In other good news, Oh my Gobe, Brandy,

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Speaker 2: Then I was just a little girl with a big dream,

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Speaker 2: Fame lit something in me. It made me believe. It

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Speaker 1: Let me tell y'all something, okay, Moesha literally was one

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Speaker 1: by the Brokast Club and I was telling her you

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Speaker 1: on television Brandy, Gabrielle Union, like y'all were the girls,

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Speaker 1: especially Brandy and Megan Good. Brandy, I'm trying to tell you, guys,

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Speaker 1: Molasha when it came in. I wanted to be Moisha.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to live in California. I wanted to go

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Speaker 1: Brandy has literally been a living testament of representation matters.

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Speaker 1: Before that was like the cool thing is that? Literally

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Speaker 1: so fitting for Easter Ray to speak because when you

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Speaker 1: think about representation and television and doing things your own

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Speaker 4: The first time I saw Brandy, I had no idea

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Speaker 4: how much I needed to see Brandy. I was in

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Speaker 4: And when the Broken Hearted remix came out on the

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Speaker 4: I was singing it and I was sitting next to

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Speaker 4: And I was like Brandy proudly, and he was like,

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Speaker 4: then let her sing it. So that was my first heartbreak.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Brandy, and so much for that. Brandy is

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Speaker 4: acting was a game changer. While her first official role

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Speaker 4: was Asta's daughter and Thea, it was really Moesha that

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Speaker 4: made me understand what was possible. It was the first

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Speaker 4: show that I'd ever seen told from an ordinary black

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Speaker 4: that same year it premiered. Brandy made Mosha someone I

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Speaker 4: wanted to befriend, the girl I wanted to be. At

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Speaker 4: a time when beauty standards on television looked nothing like us,

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Speaker 4: Brandy was the standard.

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Speaker 1: And then of course Babyface had to pull up. Okay,

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Speaker 1: because don't ever forget that my girl is the vocal

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Speaker 1: Bible period. And if you have ever heard Brandy live

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Speaker 1: on a stage, you understand why they call her that.

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Speaker 1: You understand it not live, but seeing Brandy perform live

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Speaker 1: remember watching her on that stage being like and it's

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Speaker 1: so effortless, Like you know sometimes the singers you see

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Speaker 1: you know, they hang it. You can see, you can

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Speaker 1: feel it. Brandy be hanging down and literally just be

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Speaker 1: like jokingly like belting out of tune real quick. It's

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Speaker 1: like what we I don't I don't know a lot

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Speaker 1: of things come back around. I don't know whoever gets

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Speaker 1: there again. It was just a different time, man, Like

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Speaker 1: Brandy was acting singing Broadway like, I don't know where

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Speaker 1: we get back there. Let's take a listen to Babyface.

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Speaker 1: You gotta commend the music with Brady.

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Speaker 3: I'm so honored to be here and speak for you.

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Speaker 3: When I think of the first time I met you,

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Speaker 3: I think it was somewhere in nineteen ninety five, we

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Speaker 3: you had already been here before. And when I finally

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Speaker 3: when Whitney and I sat down, we went over a

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Speaker 3: list of who we wanted to be on the album,

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Speaker 3: and yours was the first name that came up that

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Speaker 3: she said, I want Brandy on it. And she said because,

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Speaker 3: and she said because you had one of the best

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Speaker 3: of the best voices I've ever heard. You give one

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Speaker 3: in your voice, The way you move your voice, You're

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Speaker 3: like an athlete. The way you can move your voice.

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Speaker 3: No one can do it the way you do it.

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Speaker 3: Nobody can.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Brandy, if you're listening I've been saying it forever.

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Speaker 1: I need to play you the biopic. Okay, hey Swin,

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Speaker 1: congrats win so incited for her. Oh my god. It

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Speaker 1: is a goal of mine as well too. And people

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Speaker 1: it's paid for and normally it's paid for by something,

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Speaker 1: so like people do it when like they have movies

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Speaker 1: I know Brandy had Brooks my East. Brandy has her

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Speaker 1: it gets the people going vid bringing needing that right,

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Speaker 1: but it just puts you top of mind in the media,

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Speaker 1: just it looks great, it feels great. It's a moment

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Speaker 1: great press moment. It's so positive. People didn't remember, you know,

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Speaker 1: and now she has a Walker fan star, and say, God,

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Speaker 1: they didn't eleborate. They get nowhere near that market. I'm

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